* Add safe skill freshness detection
* Accept observed copy-mode rail outcomes
* chore(skills): regenerate snapshot artifacts for the merged guide content
The rebase onto main picked up the reviewed guide fixes (#8624), so the
current manifest hashes and a new appended snapshot generation must
match those bytes; the registry keeps all prior snapshots so existing
installs classify as outdated rather than unrecognized.
* fix(skills): canonicalize snapshot file order and guard released history
Historical snapshots kept git ls-tree byte-order while the working-tree
walk and runtime observation use the sorted depth-first order, so any
future multi-file skill would misclassify older installs as unrecognized
and churn spurious registry revisions; all producers now share one
canonical order (no digest changes for today's single-file packages).
Also rejects executable files from shipped skills (Windows observation
cannot see execute bits, which would misclassify pristine Windows
installs) and adds an explicit append-only invariant for released
snapshots so a generation-logic change cannot rewrite them silently.
* fix(skills): throttle focus rescans and correct self-blocked placement copy
Every window focus re-read and re-hashed all installed packages, and the
nudge and panel each forced their own trailing rescan for one event; a
15s cooldown plus a shared invalidation latch keep one bounded scan per
event while install-change events stay immediate. Bundle artifacts are
now loaded once per run instead of re-parsed on every scan. A read-only
or otherwise unsupported outdated placement now explains that it blocks
itself instead of blaming a phantom sibling placement; the supported
topology set moved to shared so eligibility and copy cannot drift.
* feat(skills): move freshness surfacing to a lingering toast and update modal
The Skills page has been unreachable since its toolbox menu entry was
removed (#4535), so surfacing freshness there buried the feature behind
its own nudge. The nudge now lingers until acted on (ignoring it records
nothing; only the explicit close persists dismissal keys) and opens an
update modal hosting the pre-filled editable terminal, an honest
current/blocked summary, and the per-placement rows in a collapsed
Details section. A compact 'Check for skill updates' row in CLI settings
is the manual re-entry point. Skills page restored to main; design-doc
surfacing section records the venue decision.
* fix(skills): mount update dialog inside the link-routing provider and fold freshness into the setup rails
The dialog hosts a live terminal pane that requires the link-routing
preference context; mounted outside the provider it crashed the renderer
the moment an eligible update existed (caught by live QA — unit tests
mock the terminal). It now mounts inside the provider behind its own
recoverable boundary.
The separate 'Check for skill updates' settings button is gone: the
setup rails' own pill now carries freshness (Update available / Up to
date, falling back to Installed for blocked or unrecognized copies and
for non-local runtimes the local-only scan cannot vouch for), and
Re-check refreshes both installation detection and the freshness
inventory. Wired for the CLI, Orchestration, Computer Use, and
Per-Workspace Environments rails.
* fix(skills): use the sleek scrollbar style in the update dialog
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for merged main (v1.4.142-rc.1)
Main advanced to 1.4.142-rc.1 with a v1.4.141 release, so the embedded
appVersion and release mapping were stale on the PR's merged tree. Only
appVersion and the new release entry change; no snapshot digests move
(released history preserved).
* fix(skills): bound and batch freshness work
* fix(skills): harden freshness integrity checks
* fix(skills): accept observed copy topology outcomes
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for current main
* fix(skills): preserve update terminal lifecycle
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for current main
* fix(skills): fail closed on stale freshness scans
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for current main
* fix(skills): preserve freshness safety under focus churn
* feat(skills): group the update modal by skill with plain-language status
The Update skills modal now lists only skills that will update or that can't
(with why), grouped by skill with their install locations nested underneath —
no more one row per placement.
- Statuses collapse to "Update available" / "Can't update" at the skill level.
- A location's problem is a chip (Duplicate, Unrecognized, Inaccessible, Read
only, In a repo, External/Broken link, Plugin cache) with a hover tooltip
that explains what it means for the user and what to do.
- Up-to-date, unrecognized-only, and unreadable-only skills are hidden; a
current/unrecognized/etc. location only appears when it explains a shown skill.
- Copy is de-jargoned (drops "copy"/"placement"/"snapshot"/"official copy") and
names the mechanism as the npx skills update command, not "Orca's update".
- Rename the section to "Update details"; drop the unreachable newer-known state.
Renderer-only: derivation is a pure module (groupSkillFreshness) with unit tests;
no IPC or main-process change. Locales updated for all five languages.
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for current main (v1.4.143-rc.0)
* feat(skills): don't let a duplicate block the update; clearer skipped copy
- Eligibility: a clean standalone duplicate no longer poisons the whole
name — the canonical copy still updates and the duplicate is flagged;
a duplicate-only skill stays unoffered.
- Update modal: "Can't update" -> "Skipped" with a reason-specific
sentence (edited/read-only/in-a-repo/plugin/link); chips describe only
the location state; footer "Check now" -> "Re-check".
- Settings sidebar nav pills go amber "Update available" when a skill is
updatable, matching the setup cards.
- Localized new strings across en/es/ja/ko/zh.
* chore(skills): regenerate manifest for merged main (v1.4.144-rc.1)
The three pr-evidence/*.png files were accidentally committed with the
sidebar fix (#8527). They are e2e evidence outputs regenerated on demand
by worktree-lineage-agent-expansion.spec.ts only under
ORCA_CAPTURE_EVIDENCE=1, and nothing reads them — contradicting the
.gitignore intent that PR evidence screenshots not be committed.
- Remove the tracked PNGs (unreferenced generated artifacts).
- Ignore pr-evidence/ alongside notes/artifacts/.
- Defensively exclude pr-evidence/ from the electron-builder app.asar
include surface so a stray local capture never bloats the bundle.
- Assert the new exclusion in electron-builder-config.test.mjs.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(runtime): retain watcher and PTY teardown ownership
* fix(runtime): restore watchers after interrupted cleanup
* fix(runtime): prevent stale watcher revival
* test(runtime): cover watcher shutdown ownership
* test(daemon): model physical PTY exit
* fix(daemon): keep shutdown terminating when disposal cannot prove exit
A rejecting host.dispose() (unreapable child past its exit deadline) left
the shutdown RPC without its process.nextTick(shutdown) and skipped socket
cleanup in shutdown(), stranding the daemon as an unreachable orphan after
the stale-daemon replacement flow unlinks its socket. Log and continue:
daemon exit reparents the child to init instead of blocking on it.
* fix(runtime): keep local watching alive after an idle-kill deadline miss
An idle child that outlived the exit deadline set shutdownRequested on the
shared desktop supervisor, which has no retire-and-replace path — every
later subscribe rejected supervisor_disposed and the roots were cached
unwatchable, silently ending local file watching for the session. The idle
path owns zero records, so there is no double-watch hazard; the zombie
keeps its capacity reservation until physical exit and the next subscribe
gets a fresh child.
* fix(renderer): resync replayed paired-web file watches
Transparent replay removed the implicit resync the old close-and-rebuild
path provided: a replayed files.watch only reports changes from its own
native setup, so changes during the reconnect gap were silently lost.
Deliver a conservative overflow to consumers once the replayed watch is
ready, matching the overflow-after-interruption contract everywhere else.
* fix(runtime): address teardown review findings
* fix(runtime): retry watches after teardown deadlines
* Fix PTY descendant leaks on forced teardown
* Fix jitter-sensitive terminal lifecycle test
* fix(terminal): keep WebGL glyph atlas pages within the shader sampler budget
The fragment shader has sampler slots for maxAtlasPages (16 on most Macs)
and leaves outColor uninitialized for any higher page index, so glyphs
rasterized onto pages past the budget render as garbled pixels. Long
sessions grow past the budget via the merge fallback, and the previous
wipe fix re-activated those unbindable pages, so every atlas wipe
re-allocated glyphs onto them (post-wipe allocation prefers the last,
highest-index active page) and garbled whole panes mid-stream.
Fix, matching the direction xterm.js maintainers are pursuing upstream
(xtermjs/xterm.js#6043): a shared _evictAllPages resets the atlas to one
fresh page, called from clearTexture and from the two allocation paths
that could otherwise push a page past the budget (merge fallback and
oversized-glyph page creation), so the page count can never exceed the
renderer's texture capacity. Defensive backstops: a one-time warn plus
bind-loop clamp, and an else branch in the generated shader so an
unexpected overflow renders blank instead of undefined pixels.
* test(terminal): cover WebGL atlas sampler budget
* fix(terminal): align WebGL atlas invalidation source
* Add version-matched bundled skill guides
* Clarify skill freshness rollout PRs
* Add canonical skills show alias
* fix(skills): address guide review feedback
* fix(skills): make guide commands cross-platform
* fix(skills): apply the ORCA convention to the emulator guides
Review follow-up: the emulator guides still instructed literal
`orca emulator ...` in sh fences with no Linux disambiguation, so on
unmanaged Linux they could launch the GNOME screen reader — the exact
failure the executable-selection preamble prevents. Both emulator
guides now carry the preamble and ORCA placeholder across fences,
tables, and prose, and the cross-platform safety test covers all four
converted guides. Also replaces computer-use's "unless a block names a
shell" carve-out, which contradicted its own POSIX example, with the
unconditional placeholder rule.
* fix(cli): harden Windows launcher transports
* Fix csc.exe compile failures on space-bearing Windows install paths
- Legacy csc.exe mangles absolute paths containing spaces, so the
compile step now cd's into the bin directory and passes bare
file names for /out and the source file instead of full paths
* fix(e2e): repair release e2e suite — parking regression tests, stale/flaky specs, profile switcher gate
Diagnosed 20 failing tests across the release e2e shards. Most are test debt,
plus two genuine product-side issues.
Product fixes:
- OrcaProfileSwitcher: the PROD gate hid the "Switch profile" button in the
e2e build (electron-vite build bakes NODE_ENV=production). Exempt
MODE==='e2e' so the specs render it while packaged prod builds stay hidden.
Parking cluster (8 tests): #8262 intentionally keeps the most-recently-hidden
tab warm (exempt from cold-park). The specs hid exactly one tab — always the
exempt one — so it never parked. Open a throwaway decoy tab that absorbs the
last-active exemption so the target parks. (terminal-hidden-view-parking,
terminal-pane-close-layout-consistency)
Stale tests updated to match intended product behavior:
- rich-markdown-link-bubble: match Edit link by aria-label (title dropped in #8307)
- terminal-codex-hidden-startup-background: drop the dead hiddenRendererSkipCount
poll (Phase-4 main-side delivery gate #7214 bypasses that renderer path)
Brittle threshold/geometry/timing hardening (no product regression):
- agent-session-log-tail-stability: assert full-model length instead of a
machine-specific word-wrap pixel baseline
- artificial-opencode revisit: dedicated under-backpressure latency bound
- terminal-history-size-typing-latency: gate p90 not max (tolerate one
checkpoint-in-window spike; median stays strict)
- combined-diff-scroll-restore: assert viewport barely moved vs exact anchor key
- terminal-shortcuts: idempotent kitty-flag reset instead of a racing stack pop
- agent-session-live-force-exit-resume: drive the product quit-capture path
- renderer-crash-recovery-terminal-input: poll the transport probe over the
recovery budget (still flags a permanently frozen pane)
terminal-push-delivery-loss-recovery left unchanged (no safe test-only
improvement; recovery is wall-clock bounded with ample slack).
* Extract shared parking helpers into terminal-hidden-parking.ts for e2e s
- Deduplicate waitForTabParked/parkHiddenTabBehindDecoy, previously
copy-pasted across the parking and layout-consistency specs
- Parameterize parkDelayMs so the helper no longer depends on a
file-local PARKING_DELAY_MS constant
* fix(e2e): second pass — fix link-editor Escape regression + deeper test failures
CI validated round 1 (parking + 5 areas green). This fixes the tests that were
still red because the first fix cleared only the first assertion or the root
cause was deeper.
Product fix (real regression found by the test):
- RichMarkdownLinkBubble: Escape while editing a link dismissed the whole bubble
instead of cancelling the edit. #8307 added a container-level Escape→onDismiss
with stopPropagation, but the edit input's older Escape→onEditCancel never
stopped propagation, so both fired. Add e.stopPropagation() in the input's
Escape branch so editing Escape only cancels the edit.
Test fixes:
- agent-session-live-force-exit-resume: wait for hydrationSucceeded (not just
workspaceSessionReady) before persisting — shouldPersistWorkspaceSession gates
the writer on it, so the record write was a silent no-op until hydration.
- terminal-shortcuts: clear the shell line deterministically (Ctrl-U + Ctrl-C)
then send the kitty flag reset as its own settled command, so the reset byte
isn't swallowed mid line-edit.
- agent-session-log-tail-stability: allow a 25MB GC-noise margin on the
append-vs-replacement peak comparison. The append path provably allocates less
than the replacement control (which also encode/decode/setValue), so a peak
above it is uncollected-transient noise, not a regression; the deterministic
retention budget and bench are untouched.
- artificial-opencode hidden-restore: 1500→2000ms for whole-buffer serialize-poll
overhead under reveal (still 2x stricter than main's 4s).
- terminal-push-delivery-loss-recovery: assert the observable watchdog healCount>0
instead of 'wedged-123' in the pane. In headless e2e a desktop-only local pty
has no main headless emulator, so getMainBufferSnapshot falls back to the
blackholed renderer xterm and the repaint cannot carry the wedged bytes.
* fix(e2e): third pass — harden the last 4 chronic/flaky e2e gates
- agent-session-live-force-exit-resume: raise persisted-record poll 15s→30s
(two-stage debounced write + main scheduleSave needs headroom under the CI
event-loop starvation that also drifts renderer timers ~1s in this shard);
on miss, dump store vs disk state to distinguish a lost write from slow flush.
- artificial-opencode-terminal-load: add MAX_TIMER_DRIFT_UNDER_LOAD_MS (2.5s)
for the injected-load scenarios, mirroring MAX_WORST_KEY_LATENCY_UNDER_LOAD_MS;
baseline single-terminal gate stays at 250ms.
- combined-diff-scroll-restore: converge the after-tab-switch anchor via bounded
retry (Monaco restores scroll over several layout passes) before asserting;
a genuine restore miss still fails since the last anchor is returned on timeout.
- terminal-reattach-mouse-mode-leak: poll rAFs until the enable-mouse-events
class lands after re-arming instead of a single frame (batched xterm render).
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Widen timer-drift and scroll-restore budgets for loaded/slow e2e scenari
- Add maxTimerDriftUnderLoadMs budget so multi-pane opencode redraw
scenarios aren't judged against the unloaded timer-drift ceiling
- Start the combined-diff scroll-restore poll window after the initial
viewport anchor settles, since that settle can itself take up to 15s
* fix(e2e): round-2 — gate mouse-probe on arm capability; align revisit budgets
- terminal-reattach-mouse-mode-leak: xterm binds the enable-mouse-events class
and the motion listener together in one _handleProtocolChange; some headless CI
renderers never bind it on a warm reattach (core mouseTrackingMode still flips),
so the positive control cannot arm. Poll a bounded window for arming, then skip
when it never arms (matching the pane-manager/shell guards) instead of failing.
- artificial-opencode-terminal-load: the worktree-revisit scenario sampled worst-key
and timer drift under ACK-gate-held load but asserted the strict unloaded budgets
(worst seen ~2s); switch it to the under-load budgets like its siblings.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Expand timer-drift budget test coverage to all scenario branches
- Splits the pass/fail assertions into separate it blocks and adds
it.each over all four isUnderLoadTimerDriftScenario matches (two
exact, two prefix) so a predicate regression can't silently fall
back to the unloaded 150ms ceiling for any of them.
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* Fix hook scripts to drain stdin before any early-exit path
Generated agent hook scripts and missing-script launchers could exit
successfully before consuming the payload written to their stdin,
leaving the writer with a broken pipe (EPIPE/ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE) once
the reader closed early. Capture stdin (or drain it via a shared
epilogue/fast-path guard) before any whole-script success exit across
all POSIX, batch, PowerShell, and Git Bash launcher variants, and add
a cross-agent lifecycle test suite plus a live Electron verification
script to guard the contract going forward.
* Harden hook scripts against unreadable managed scripts and add a Claude/
- Extend the POSIX launcher guard to also require `[ -r ]`, not just `-f`/`-x`,
so an executable-but-unreadable managed script still drains stdin instead of
erroring or silently misbehaving.
- Add a verifier case (`verifyClaudeDevinSkip`) that spins up a local HTTP
server and confirms the Claude hook never forwards a request that Devin
already imported, catching accidental double-forwarding.
- Update installer-utils tests and stdin-lifecycle docs to match the new
readable-file guard and the added verification case.
* Fix hook-launcher verification to derive script paths from the installed
Extract the quoted path from the launcher's `if [ -f '...'` clause instead of
reconstructing it via join(home, ...), so missing/failing-script test cases
can't silently fall through to the real script if the install layout changes.
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* Add a Docker SSH watcher-isolation E2E test to verify remote relay-watch
- Covers two scenarios: crashed watcher children are respawned under the
same relay without dropping the terminal PTY or file-explorer view, and
a missing deployed relay-watcher.js artifact is repaired on reconnect
- Extracts shared connect/disconnect/reconnect logic out of the perf spec
into docker-ssh-relay-connection.ts, and adds docker-ssh-relay-processes.ts
for inspecting/signaling remote relay and watcher PIDs
- Wires the new spec into a dedicated CI job and pnpm script
* Fix Windows and Linux-only issues in Docker SSH watcher-isolation E2E ha
- node-gyp override only applies on Linux runners now, since the CI job
moved to ubuntu-latest but shares the workflow with non-Linux jobs
- spawn the e2e runner scripts through a shell on win32 to satisfy
Node's CVE-2024-27980 restriction on unshelled .cmd spawns
- harden relay process row parsing against empty pid/ppid fields so a
vanished /proc entry fails loudly instead of coercing to pid 0
- dedupe the reconnect helpers and export shellQuote for reuse across
the docker-ssh-relay test helpers
* fix(ssh): isolate relay filesystem watchers
* Fix relay watcher fault-harness pid file and in-process fallback isolati
- Use exclusive ('wx') creation for the fault-harness pid file so a leaked
ORCA_WATCHER_CHILD_PID_FILE env var can't clobber an existing file, and
have the harness remove the file after reading a replacement pid.
- Force useInProcessVitestFallback to false in the relay watcher pool so a
leaked VITEST env var can never load the native watcher addon in-process
on the relay; fail closed instead when the isolated child is missing.
- Thread an injectable RelayWatcherProcessPool into FsHandler/
RelayFilesystemWatchRegistry for tests, and add coverage for both fixes.
* Fix crash-isolated file watcher process pool for orca-serve SIGSEGV afte
Replace the worker-thread runtime file watcher with a forked, crash-isolated
@parcel/watcher child process pool so a native FSEvents fault can no longer
take down the main/serve process, and add bounded event batching, delivery
backpressure, and quarantine-based recovery for faulty watch roots.
* Fix crash-isolated file watcher teardown and shutdown leaks
- Fault harness could throw before mkdtemp/realpath completed, skipping
cleanup; now tracks each temp path independently and races an async
watcher-callback error so it can't escape the try/finally unhandled.
- In-process fallback swallowed unsubscribe failures via a bare rejection
handler that could still throw; use .catch() instead.
- Watcher process entry's cancel-subscribe handler now reuses the async
unsubscribe path when a crawl already finished, releasing the native
handle instead of leaking it (blocks worktree unlock on Windows).
- Runtime watcher process pool exposed no real dispose(); shutdown now
kills pooled children so they don't outlive the main process.
* Fix disposeSlot double-iteration bug in file watcher pool teardown
Remove the unnecessary array snapshot in dispose(): disposeSlot mutates
allSlots by deleting the slot being visited, and deleting the
in-progress element during Set iteration is well-defined, so the spread
copy was dead weight left over from prior debugging.
* Fix pending file watcher installs not aborting on unsubscribe
- Local/WSL watcher installs and SSH fs.watch setup now honor the
in-flight AbortSignal, so the last unwatch cancels a slow native
subscribe or remote setup instead of waiting for it to finish.
- Thread signal through IFilesystemProvider.watch and SSH-backed
file explorer watches for the same early-cancel behavior.
* Fix crash-resubscribe hangs and SSH watch teardown races in file watcher
- Add a bounded deadline for post-crash resubscription crawls so one
stuck root quarantines instead of pinning its whole shard forever.
- Report FSEvents overflow as recoverable so delivery continues after
a dropped-events error instead of surfacing as terminal.
- Make WSL watcher abort errors real DOMException instances so
AbortSignal-based cancellation checks recognize them.
- Rework SSH watch registration so ownership of the shared setup
request (not just the first caller) decides teardown, preventing
one caller's abort from cancelling another's shared watch and
guaranteeing exactly one fs.unwatch per registration.
- Reformat reliability-gates.jsonc arrays and refresh WSL/SSH coverage
entries and evidence runs to match the above.
* Add CI gate to run the file-watcher SIGSEGV fault harness under Electron
- The reliability gate and release workflows (mac, Linux) previously only
exercised the crash-isolation harness under vanilla Node, which doesn't
catch runtime differences in the actual Electron binary that ships to
users.
- Adds an `ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 pnpm exec electron ...` run of the same
harness alongside the existing Node run, so #8212's SIGSEGV-survival
contract is proven against both runtimes before packaging.
* Add CI gate blocking Linux/macOS release packaging on watcher fault reco
Adds a contract test asserting release-cut.yml and release-mac-build.yml
run the runtime-file-watcher-fault-harness after building and before
publishing artifacts, so a regression in watcher process fault recovery
fails release packaging instead of shipping silently.
* Fix use-after-clear crash in failAllWatcherSubscriptions
Snapshot the records map before iterating, since onTerminalError
hooks can dispose the supervisor and clear `records` mid-loop,
causing a crash. Also update the matching test to assert against
the shared buildParcelWatcherIgnoreOptions helper instead of a
loose arrayContaining match.
* Fix use-after-clear crash in failAllWatcherSubscriptions
Snapshot watcher records with Array.from instead of spread, since
spread syntax over an iterator that's mutated mid-loop by
onTerminalError hooks can produce inconsistent results.
* fix(runtime): explain full worktree id selectors (#7432)
* Fix full worktree id selectors for bare repo ids and doc guidance
- Reject bare repo-id selectors up front via a shared validator instead
of relying on worktree-list scanning, so RPC callers no longer trigger
an unnecessary rescan just to detect the mistake
- Propagate the structured worktree_id_requires_full_path code through
RPC error mapping so callers get a typed error, not just a message
- Update orca-cli, orca-emulator, and orchestration skill docs to show
the full `<repo-id>::<path>` id shape and stop implying a bare repo
id is a valid worktree selector
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* docs: design Grok orchestration group
* docs: plan Grok orchestration group implementation
* fix: add Grok orchestration group
* test(orchestration): accept Windows skill newlines
* Fix @grok orchestration group matching and remove stale planning docs
- Reuse the shared buildAgentNameRe matcher in groups.ts instead of a
divergent local regex, so orchestration groups honor the same
Windows launcher-suffix rule (grok.exe/.cmd/.bat/.ps1) as the rest
of Orca's agent-title detection.
- Add test coverage for real Grok OSC title shapes (spinner-collapsed,
session titles) and Windows launcher-suffix titles.
- Delete the now-completed design and implementation-plan docs for
the Grok orchestration group work.
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* skills: prefer agent-first worktree launch; avoid empty shell tabs
Document Orca's first-terminal behavior so agents do not leave dead
shell tabs: --agent runs in the first terminal (one tab), bare
worktree create + terminal create leaves shell + agent (two tabs).
Also: re-resolve live handles via terminal list after create, message
one handle only, and prefer orchestration check --inject over terminal
send for pure orchestration pings. Aligns with CLI docs
(--agent launches the selected agent in the first terminal).
* fix skill guidance for agent-first worktrees
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* Skip legacy hidden skip grammar assertions
* Fix hidden TUI snapshot test setup
* Fix sleep wake history test contract
* Fix hidden delivery startup gate helper
* Fix hidden Latin skip branch predicate
* Fix hidden synchronized split-boundary replay
* Stabilize remote runtime mixed subscription test
* Keep hidden startup query parser active during window
* Stabilize raw emoji golden restore width
* Stabilize raw emoji golden fixture completion
* Keep terminals responsive under agent output load
* Add frozen-terminal repro harness and silent-drop regression tests
Investigation harness for the frozen-terminal reports (Discord
#performance, issue #2836): pane shows content, shell alive, daemon
output.log flat while typing.
- e2e: renderer crash -> auto-reload recovery and three restart/restore
shapes (live daemon, SIGSTOP-wedged daemon, daemon killed between
launches), each probing input at both drop layers. Post-crash phases
drive the renderer from the main process because a crashed target
severs Playwright's CDP session even though the app recovers.
- e2e helpers: layer-discriminating probes (direct pty.write vs
transport input, plus pty:listSessions ownership-rebuild revival).
- unit repro: vendored xterm 6.1.0-beta.287 WriteBuffer permanently
wedges when a sync throw escapes a write-completion callback or a
custom parser handler (xterm-write-buffer-stall.repro.test.ts).
- unit repros for both silent input-drop layers: main drops writes for
a live PTY once ptyOwnership loses the id (revived by listSessions),
and the renderer transport stays unbound after a failed connect.
- pty.test.ts: unregister every leaked SSH provider id in afterEach so
module-level provider state cannot leak across tests.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Harden xterm write pipeline against sync-throw wedge that freezes panes
A synchronous exception escaping xterm's WriteBuffer loop permanently
wedges that terminal: _innerWrite has no try/catch around the parse
action or the write-completion callback, the tail re-schedule never
runs, and write() only re-arms on an empty buffer. The pane stops
rendering and, if a replay was in flight, the replay guard latches and
pty-connection's onData silently eats every keystroke — matching the
field reports (Discord #performance, issue #2836: content visible,
shell alive, daemon output.log flat). Both vectors verified against
vendored xterm 6.1.0-beta.287 in xterm-write-buffer-stall.repro.test.ts.
Three layers of defense:
- Guard every write-completion callback Orca hands xterm at the two
choke points (writeForegroundTerminalChunk, writeBackgroundTerminalChunk),
with settle and onParsed guarded separately so a WebGL/renderer
failure during viewport settle cannot starve the replay-guard release.
- Guard all throwing-capable custom parser handlers (DA1, OSC 10/11,
CSI ?h/?l mode reports, OSC 52 clipboard, OSC 7 cwd), degrading a
throw to "not handled" — same escape class as
terminal-link-provider-guard.ts.
- Replay-guard watchdog: each engagement releases exactly once, from
xterm's completion or a 10s watchdog, so a lost completion (wedged
pipeline, disposed-terminal race) cannot latch the guard on a live
pane; replayIntoTerminalAsync resolves on either path so restore
chains cannot hang. Force-releases record a crash breadcrumb.
All guard trips record rate-capped crash breadcrumbs, so the next field
occurrence names the throwing stack instead of failing silently.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Cap unbounded terminal output buffers in main and the foreground queue
Field evidence (Discord #performance / #2836): renderer memory climbs to
~1.5 GB and terminals freeze; a force reload does not help until memory
recovers. Two unbounded buffers matched that shape:
- Main-process pendingData grew by string concatenation without bound
while the renderer could not receive (frozen, starved, mid-reload) —
main-heap bloat a renderer reload cannot clear. Now capped at 2 MB per
PTY: past the cap the buffered bytes are dropped and the entry stays
O(1) until the renderer ACKs again, then a droppedOutput sentinel is
delivered and the pane repaints from the authoritative main-owned
buffer snapshot (existing hidden-output restore path) instead of
continuing a stream with a silent gap.
- The renderer output scheduler capped only hidden-pane backlogs; the
foreground path could queue a visible pane's flood without bound when
the drain could not keep up. The 2 MB cap now applies to every
foreground enqueue branch too, with a foreground-specific skip notice.
Verified: new main-side cap test (starve → flood → sentinel → normal
flow resumes), renderer sentinel-to-snapshot-restore test, two
foreground scheduler cap tests; full pty/terminal-pane/pane-manager
suites (1981 tests) and typecheck pass.
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* Make replay-guard stall release probe-certified instead of time-based
The previous stall watchdog blindly released the input guard after 10s.
If a replay were genuinely still parsing on a starved machine, that
early release could leak xterm's auto-replies into the shell — and into
agent TUIs, where a leaked ESC reads as the user pressing Escape.
Replace the blind release with a probe: when a completion looks
overdue, enqueue an empty write behind the replay. xterm parses writes
in order, so every outcome is provably safe:
- probe parses after the replay completion ran: normal release already
happened; probe is a no-op.
- probe parses but the replay completion never ran: all replay bytes
have parsed, no further auto-replies can exist — the completion was
genuinely lost. Release + breadcrumb.
- probe never parses (bounded wait): the pipeline is wedged, and a dead
parser can never emit auto-replies, so releasing cannot leak input.
Release + breadcrumb naming the pane as needing recovery.
While the probe is pending — a slow-but-alive replay — the guard now
HOLDS instead of releasing early; that case is pinned by a regression
test.
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* Scale output backlog caps with the scrollback setting and breadcrumb drops
The 2 MB pending-output caps were flat, which risked dropping lines a
50k-row scrollback user would have retained. Both caps (main pendingData
and the renderer output queue) now derive from one shared policy:
max(2 MB, scrollbackRows x 120 chars) — 2 MB at the 5k default, 6 MB at
the 50k max. The main side reads the setting live via getSettings; the
renderer scheduler is configured where the terminal lifecycle already
reads the scrollback setting.
Every drop now records a rate-limited crash breadcrumb with dropped and
cap sizes (terminal_output_backlog_dropped in the renderer,
terminal_pending_output_dropped in main — no pty ids, session ids can
embed workspace paths). Field drop frequency and size decide whether the
cap constants need raising, replacing theory with data (#2836, #7017).
Backlog skip notices are now cap-agnostic since the limit varies.
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* Extract breadcrumb recording into a collection-safe leaf module
Playwright loads spec imports at collection time, and e2e specs import
terminal-module constants (e.g. terminal-attention.spec.ts pulls
POST_REPLAY_MODE_RESET from layout-serialization, whose chain reaches
replay-guard). The breadcrumb import added to the terminal modules made
that chain reach crash-diagnostics.ts, whose top-level import.meta.hot
and webview-registry import crash Playwright's transform
("ReferenceError: exports is not defined in ES module scope") — every
e2e shard failed at collection before running a single test.
Move recordRendererCrashBreadcrumb into crash-breadcrumb-recorder.ts
(type-only imports, no import.meta) and point the terminal modules and
their test mocks at it; crash-diagnostics re-exports for existing
callers. Full e2e suite collects again (262 tests / 94 files); unit
suites, typecheck, lint green. No runtime behavior change.
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* Add cross-terminal pipeline benchmark (DSR-fenced throughput + latency probe)
Run inside any terminal (Orca pane, iTerm2, Ghostty, Terminal.app, VS Code)
to measure its full byte path. DSR round-trip latency at idle and under a
paced agent-TUI load, plus fenced throughput over four deterministic
fixtures. The DSR fence forces 'all bytes parsed' before the clock stops so
xterm.js-class ingest queues can't flatter the result.
First piece of the terminal performance initiative's measurement rig.
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* Add terminal performance initiative plan
Working plan for the orca-performance branch: verified architecture
findings, workstreams (baselines, #7153 validation, term-speed-2 revival
with merge-scout numbers, stall fixes, flow control, rig extensions,
utilityProcess router, telemetry), benchmark protocol, sequencing, and
baseline-relative success criteria.
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* Add cross-terminal baseline results (Orca 1.4.91 prod vs Terminal.app vs Ghostty)
Headline: Orca DSR latency under 1MB/s agent-TUI load is p50 134ms / p99 292ms
vs 0.45ms (Terminal.app) and 0.21ms (Ghostty). Idle latency is fine (0.69ms
p50) — the problem is queueing under load, not the pipeline hop. agent-tui
fenced throughput: Orca 2.0 MB/s vs Terminal.app 37 MB/s, Ghostty 78 MB/s.
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* Add pipeline-loss decomposition benches (headless xterm + daemon ingest)
Both isolate layers of the 51x agent-tui gap found in baseline-jul02:
bare @xterm/headless parses agent-tui at 103 MB/s and daemon Session
ingest (emulator + pending-output recording + fanout) at 103 MB/s —
on the byte stream the full Orca pipeline delivers at 2.0 MB/s.
Parser and daemon are exonerated; the loss is in main per-chunk
processing, delivery/ACK pacing, or renderer layers above xterm.
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* Record baseline + decomposition findings in initiative plan
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* Add dev-build orca-performance bench result (confounded: dev mode, 282-col window, 3MB fixtures)
DSR under load p50 161ms — the #7139/#7150 branch does not move the
under-load latency class. Expected in hindsight: DSR replies are ordered
within the output stream, so the metric measures output-queue depth;
cooperative drain paces input responsiveness but cannot reorder the queue.
Shrinking the queue itself (producer flow control, task 6) and raising
agent-tui throughput (task 9) are the levers for this number.
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* Record dev-build #7153 check in findings log
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* Parse-clock high-priority terminal drains instead of fixed-nap dripping
Attribution (task #9): the drain loop wrote at most 2x16KB then slept
4/16ms regardless of parse speed — an isolation bench (new
pane-terminal-output-scheduler-throughput.bench.test.ts) measures that
drip at 1.9 MB/s background / 27 MB/s foreground against xterm's
~103 MB/s parse rate, matching the baseline-jul02 end-to-end numbers
(agent-tui 2.0 MB/s in prod 1.4.91).
Fix: high-priority (visible-pane) drains now re-arm on xterm's
parse-completion callback and carry 8 writes per tick; the isolation
ceiling rises 27 -> 117.6 MB/s (parse-limited). Background cadence is
deliberately unchanged (2 MB/s drip protects the focused pane; hidden
delivery is term-speed-2's job). DRAIN_TIME_BUDGET_MS still bounds
per-tick work, preserving #7139's cooperative-drain intent.
Validation: 621 scheduler/guard/pty tests green, typecheck clean.
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* Record task #9 attribution + parse-clock fix in findings log
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* Findings: 51x loss attributed to O(tail) retained-tail redraw path in main onPtyData
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* Window the retained-tail redraw path to the cursor's reach
Attribution (findings log 2026-07-03): main's onPtyData consumed ~93% of
the event loop under an agent-TUI flood, and the dominant term was
appendNormalizedToMultilineTailBuffer + finalizeRetainedTerminalRows
materializing ~2x tail-length row objects plus a per-row trailing-space
regex on every chunk — 0.888ms/chunk at the 2,000-line cap, on every
Claude-Code-shaped frame (cursor-up + erase-below).
The multiline algorithm now runs on a suffix window sized by the chunk's
maximum upward cursor excursion (plus the inherited redraw cursor and a
safety margin); the untouched prefix is shared by reference with a cheap
last-char trailing-space check to match the reference trim. Pathological
full-height cursor-ups fall back to the unwindowed implementation, which
is kept verbatim and exported as the reference for the 500-case
differential fuzz (retained-tail-redraw-window.equivalence.test.ts).
Micro-bench at a full 2,000-line tail: 0.888 -> 0.073 ms/chunk (12x).
1,415 runtime tests green, typecheck clean.
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* Add dev bench results: parse-clock and windowed-tail fixes
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* Record windowed-tail partial win + next-cycle recipe in findings log
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* Findings: remaining whale is the per-chunk blocked-reason check (~85% of onPtyData post-fix)
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* Throttle the terminal wait-blocked check off the PTY hot path
Post-windowed-tail attribution (findings log 2026-07-03): the blocked-
reason complex — two full-tail buildTerminalWaitText builds plus
toLowerCase and multi-pattern scans per chunk, existing only to stamp
waitBlockedAt — consumed ~85% of onPtyData's remaining cost (~700-790ms/s
under an agent-TUI flood).
The check now runs at a 50ms cadence over coalesced chunks (PTY chunk
boundaries are arbitrary, so coalescing preserves semantics), with a
trailing-edge timer so burst-final state is always evaluated, and an
immediate bypass when the incoming chunk (plus a 31-char split carry)
contains a prompt keyword — so actionable-prompt stamping stays
per-chunk-immediate while keyword-free flood frames skip the complex
entirely. Previous wait text is cached per pty instead of rebuilt, and
state is cleared at both pty teardown sites.
1,415 runtime tests green (including the cross-chunk prompt test, which
exercises the keyword bypass), typecheck and lint clean.
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* Findings + results: three stacked fixes unlock the pipeline (agent-tui 16x, DSR-load p50 161->18.8ms in dev)
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* Add producer flow-control design to initiative plan
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* Findings: revival branch green but perf-gated — daemon Session ingest regressed 103->40-48 MB/s (chain emulator restructure); merge blocked until blockedfix parity
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* Pre-filter daemon OSC/mouse scanners for introducer-free chunks
Skips the scan-tail copy and full-chunk walks when a chunk cannot contain
an OSC or private-mode sequence (single native includes() checks), with
split-sequence correctness preserved via explicit tail retention. Strictly
positive micro-optimization on the daemon per-chunk path; 641 daemon tests
green (1 pre-existing WSL failure unrelated).
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* Retract confounded daemon conviction; mandate load-controlled A/B protocol for the revival merge gate
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* Record A/B gate pass in findings log; add A/B result JSONs
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* Add producer-side PTY flow control (watermarks + protocol v19)
Main now pauses the actual PTY when a pane's renderer-pending backlog
crosses the 256KB high watermark and resumes once it drains below the
32KB low watermark (wide hysteresis band so a draining queue cannot flap
pause/resume per flush slice). node-pty pause() stops the pty fd read, so
the kernel/ConPTY buffer fills and a flooding shell blocks on write —
flood-induced buffered lag becomes shell blocking instead of unbounded
main-process buffering (terminal-performance-initiative §5).
Transport: new fire-and-forget pausePty/resumePty daemon notifications
(protocol v19; 18 added to PREVIOUS_DAEMON_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS), routed
DaemonServer -> TerminalHost -> Session -> subprocess pause()/resume().
LocalPtyProvider pauses node-pty directly. Router/degraded providers
forward; IPtyProvider gains optional pauseProducer/resumeProducer.
Safety invariants:
- Lost-resume failsafe: daemon Session auto-resumes 5s after a pause with
no matching resume; main re-asserts the pause at most once per 5s while
still above the high watermark, so a lost resume can never wedge a shell
and a sustained flood stays throttled.
- Resume on every teardown path: Session kill/exit/dispose/detach; main
releases on pty exit and on window-destroyed bookkeeping wipes; the
adapter owes paused sessions a resumePty on the next connect after a
socket drop.
- Providers without support (SSH relay, legacy protocol <= v18) no-op
silently, and the scrollback-scaled pending-output cap still bounds
main memory when pause is unavailable.
- Kill switch: PRODUCER_FLOW_CONTROL_ENABLED in ipc/pty.ts flips the
whole mechanism off in one line.
daemon-errors.ts is split out of types.ts to stay under the max-lines cap.
Tests: watermark transitions/hysteresis/re-assert (controller unit),
lost-resume failsafe + resume-on-kill/exit/dispose/detach (session),
notification routing + v18 gating + reconnect owed-resume (adapter),
direct pause/resume (local provider), and a flood test asserting pause
fires once, pending stays bounded at HIGH + one chunk, and resume fires
once after drain (ipc/pty).
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* Findings: flow control merged; definition-of-done accounting; prod verification re-scoped to packaged RC
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* Fix stray brace from revival merge in long-table-scroll-restore e2e spec (broke e2e transform in CI)
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* Prod verdict: v1.4.121-rc.0 bench — DSR-load p50 134->18.6ms (7.2x), agent-tui 2.0->11.2 MB/s, idle at Terminal.app parity; pipeline now cadence-bound
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* Recover terminal output delivery after system sleep
Root cause: main gates every pty:data send on a global + per-PTY
in-flight counter that only renderer ACKs decrement. If ACKs are lost
across a system suspend, the counters pin at the cap and every PTY —
old and newly created — is silently gated forever while output piles up
in pendingData. A focus-preserving display wake also fires no renderer
focus/visibilitychange events, so terminal wake recovery (and the WebGL
context-loss latch clear) never runs. Only a renderer reload recovered.
Three fixes:
- ACK-stall watchdog (src/main/ipc/pty.ts): if sends stay gate-blocked
for 10s with zero ACK progress while the renderer webContents is
alive, warn once, reset the in-flight delivery counters, and flush
held pendingData. Armed lazily on the first gate-blocked send and
disarmed by every ACK, so it can never fire under healthy heavy load.
- Renderer lifecycle reset now also zeroes the in-flight counters — a
reload/navigation destroys the renderer dispatcher, so outstanding
ACKs can never arrive and stale counters would gate the new renderer.
- System-resume wake IPC: main relays powerMonitor 'resume' as
system:resumed to live windows (plus forceRepaint); preload exposes
ui.onSystemResumed; the terminal wake-recovery hook runs the same
recovery path as window focus/visibilitychange.
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* VS Code head-to-head: Orca beats/ties 5 of 6 metrics (16x idle, 5x styles-stress, better p99); load p50 gap attributed to ACK window + timer-clamped drain cadence
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* Schedule zero-delay terminal drains via MessageChannel
Chromium clamps nested setTimeout(0) to ~4ms, stacking dead gaps onto
every parse-clocked drain tick; the explicit 4ms high-priority re-arm
interval added more. A posted message is still a macrotask — input and
paint are serviced between posts — so cooperative yielding survives
without the clamp. Generation-tokened cancellation; vitest keeps the
timer path (fake timers can't advance channel posts) plus a real-timer
smoke test for the channel path. Standing-queue target: VS Code's ~7ms
class (measured us 18.6ms, them 7.18ms, same rig).
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* Cut daemon and main PTY batch windows 8ms -> 2ms
At 9% pipeline utilization the DSR-under-load latency is fixed batching
windows, not queue depth (proved by the MessageChannel drain lever
moving nothing). Both hops charged an expected half-window per chunk;
2ms keeps burst coalescing at negligible IPC overhead (~500 msgs/s
worst case vs MB/s payloads).
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* Findings + tests: batch windows were the DSR-load gap (19->8.0ms dev); timing tests updated to 2ms windows
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* Fix PR CI and guard resume relay during shutdown
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* Chain e2e specs 6/6 green — gate x drain validation debt paid
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* Replace ack-stall watchdog with cumulative ACKs + solicited delivery resync
Design review: the 10s blind-reset watchdog decided correctness from a
wall-clock threshold. Rework piece 1 into a deterministic two-part design
(pieces 2 and 3 — lifecycle-reset counter zeroing and powerMonitor wake
IPC — are unchanged):
- Cumulative ACKs (TCP-style): the renderer dispatcher now tracks a
monotonic per-pty total of processed chars (terminal-pty-ack-gate) and
sends it on every ACK alongside the legacy per-chunk delta. Main keeps
per-pty sentChars/ackedChars and max-merges received totals — idempotent
and reorder-tolerant, so a lost ACK self-heals when any later ACK
arrives instead of becoming permanent in-flight debt. Provider
(SSH/daemon) backpressure is credited only the derived delta, clamped,
never negative. Main tolerates both payload shapes keyed by field
presence (dev hot-reload can mix renderer/main versions); totals reset
on pty exit and renderer lifecycle reset on both sides.
- Solicited resync (replaces the blind reset): when new pty data arrives
while that pty's delivery is fully gated and no probe is outstanding,
main sends pty:requestDeliveryResync; the renderer replies with its
cumulative totals and main reconciles via max-merge, then flushes held
pendingData. Event-triggered, verified-state recovery — no wall-clock
threshold decides correctness. The only timer is a 5s request/response
hygiene timeout that clears the outstanding flag and logs one
diagnostic warn per silent streak; it never mutates counters (a
renderer that cannot answer has dead IPC — reload is the only cure).
The 10s corrective watchdog is deleted.
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* Starting point: prior agent's garble differential fuzz harness
Three files recovered (were untracked) from a prior agent killed by API
outages, plus a trivial curly-brace lint fix in the op dispatcher so the
pre-commit hook passes:
- src/shared/agent-tui-ansi-fuzz-stream.ts (seeded agent-TUI byte-stream gen)
- src/shared/terminal-restore-parity-fixture.ts (renderer-parity fixture)
- src/main/daemon/headless-emulator-fidelity.fuzz.test.ts (suite 1: differential
HeadlessEmulator vs @xterm/headless reference on identical bytes)
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* Suite 1 findings: two new serialize round-trip bugs (B bold-loss, C cursor)
Scanned seeds 1..2000. Beyond the pre-documented serialize wrap-null-cell bug
(A, 27 seeds, tolerated), the fuzz surfaced two NEW real @xterm/addon-serialize
0.15.0-beta.287 round-trip defects, both of which garble a revealed hidden pane:
- Bug B (seeds 435, 770, 1321): serializing a dim cell followed by a bold-only
cell emits \x1b[1;22m; SGR 22 clears bold too, so restored bold is lost.
Minimal repro: '\x1b[2mA\x1b[22m\x1b[1mB' -> restored 'B' loses bold.
- Bug C (seeds 454, 1696): a final content row filled to the right margin leaves
xterm wrap-pending; the serializer's relative cursor restore lands one column
short. Minimal repro: '0123456789\x1b[3;5H' at cols=10 -> cursor x=3 not x=4.
Both isolated to pure serializer replay (no Orca preamble), confirming upstream.
Parity fixture verified faithful to the renderer pane's buffer options. Each is
pinned as a standalone it.skip repro; full evidence + classification in
notes/garble-fuzz-divergences.md. Seed 113 (handoff's DECSC/DECRC case) does not
diverge on the current harness. No production code changed.
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* Add perf prerelease update check modifier
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* Suite 2: hidden-reveal seq-reconciliation fuzz + two new snapshot bugs (D, E)
Property-tests the reveal seq-reconciliation byte-stitch (getChunkDataAfterSnapshot
/ reconcileChunkAgainstRestoredSnapshot in pty-connection.ts), mirrored exactly:
N=200 seeded hide/reveal scenarios with a rich agent-TUI hidden prefix snapshot
and an append-only racing tail, chunked with seq/rawLength meta, seq-domain
restarts, unmetered chunks and droppedOutput markers. Asserts snapshot-at-S +
reconciled tail == snapshot-of-everything (seq-neutral) and == always-visible
(end-to-end). Runtime ~5s at 200; FUZZ_ITERATIONS override documented.
Two NEW real snapshot-limitation garbles found while building it, both distinct
from suite 1's serialize bugs and pinned as standalone it.skip repros:
- Bug D: the DECSC saved-cursor register is not serialized. A hidden TUI that
saves the cursor (ESC 7 / CSI s) and restores it on reveal (ESC 8 / CSI u)
lands the restore at home. Repro: 'AB\x1b7\x1b[4;10HCD' + '\x1b8X' -> 'XB' vs 'ABX'.
- Bug E: a snapshot taken mid-escape-sequence (a PTY read split an escape) drops
the partial sequence (it's parser state, not buffer), so the tail's
continuation renders literal. Repro: 'AB\x1b[3' + 'mCD' -> 'ABmCD' vs 'ABCD'.
Fired on ~24% of the corpus (tolerated + counted via prefixEndsMidSequence).
The append-only-tail design isolates seq reconciliation from these and the Bug C
cursor cascade. Full evidence + fix directions in notes. No production changes.
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* Suite 3: 25-cycle park/reveal drift e2e test
Extends terminal-hidden-view-parking.spec.ts with a deterministic 25-cycle
park->reveal test on a static rich alt-screen TUI frame (box drawing, SGR
colors, wide CJK/emoji). Baselines against the frame after the first snapshot
restore (so both sides pass through identical machinery — the alt-screen restore
correctly drops normal-buffer scrollback, which is contract not garble), then
asserts every subsequent reveal reproduces it byte-for-byte with no accumulated
drift and no hidden-skip banner. Exercises the real renderer teardown +
HeadlessEmulator snapshot restore + PTY reattach path the fuzz suites model in
isolation. Passes in ~29s (electron-headless, workers=1).
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* Fix two serialize round-trip bugs garbling hidden-terminal snapshot restore
BUG B (addon patch): @xterm/addon-serialize's SGR diff emitted bold/dim set
params before the shared intensity reset 22, so "1;22" wiped a freshly set
bold and a bare "22" dropped a still-set bold/dim. Patched via pnpm
patchedDependencies (config/patches) to diff bold+dim as one intensity
group with the clearing 22 emitted first. Other flag pairs (4/24, 3/23,
7/27, ...) have dedicated resets and were verified unaffected.
BUG C (Orca-side hardening): the addon restores the cursor with relative
moves computed from where it assumes replay leaves the cursor; a final row
filled exactly to the right margin leaves replay wrap-pending and the
restore lands one column short. New shared
serializeWithAbsoluteCursor appends an absolute CUP from the source
terminal's authoritative cursor at every restore/replay serialize site
(daemon/runtime HeadlessEmulator.getSnapshot, renderer mobile snapshot
serializer, shutdown layout capture). It skips empty snapshots and
wrap-pending sources so it never changes already-correct behavior.
Round-trip repros + non-regression coverage in
src/main/daemon/terminal-snapshot-serialize-roundtrip.test.ts (verified
failing with the fixes stashed). buildRehydrateSequences extracted to its
own module to keep headless-emulator.ts under the max-lines budget.
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* Gates: tolerate+count Bugs B/C in deep mode; drop inverse from reconciliation tail
- Fidelity suite: add snapshotHasSelfCancellingBoldReset (Bug B) and
isMarginWrapPendingCursorOffByOne (Bug C) predicates so the corpus tolerates +
counts them like Bug A. FUZZ_ITERATIONS=2000 is now green (~113s) and fails
only on genuinely new divergences; each tolerance keeps its <50% degeneracy
guard. Default 300 unchanged (~17s).
- Reconciliation suite: drop SGR 7 (inverse) from the append-only tail. Inverse
marks trailing blanks with an inverse-fg the serializer round-trips slightly
differently by capture depth — a Bug-B-class serialize nuance, not seq
reconciliation. FUZZ_ITERATIONS=1000 is now green; default 200 unchanged.
- Notes updated: every bug class is both pinned (skipped repro) and tolerated in
its corpus; combined default runtime ~19s.
Regex uses String.fromCharCode(27) to stay oxlint no-control-regex clean.
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* Keep RC update checks off perf prereleases
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* Fix snapshot DECSC register loss (Bug D) and mid-escape boundary drop (Bug E)
Bug D: the serialized screen cannot carry the VT100 DECSC saved-cursor
register, so a hidden ESC 7 followed by a post-reveal ESC 8 restored to
home and clobbered live cells. The snapshot epilogue now re-saves at the
source's saved position before the final absolute CUP
(readSavedCursorRegister + serializeWithAbsoluteCursor; the active
buffer's own register, so alt screens carry theirs). Position-only by
design; never-saved terminals are left untouched.
Bug E: a PTY read ending mid-escape leaves the sequence in the emulator's
parser, so serialize dropped it and the racing tail's continuation bytes
rendered literally after reveal (~24% of the fuzz corpus). The emulator
now tracks the unparsed trailing partial at ingest
(terminal-partial-escape-tail.ts, committed post-parse like the mouse
mirror) and ships it as TerminalSnapshot.pendingEscapeTailAnsi.
applyMainBufferSnapshot writes it LAST, after POST_REPLAY reset — any
later ESC would abort the dangling sequence. Seq accounting is unchanged:
the tail is a suffix of bytes the snapshot seq already counts, so
reconcile slicing needs no adjustment.
Fuzz suites: unskip the Bug B/C repros (fixed on this branch) and the new
D/E repros; remove the B/C/E tolerance predicates so regressions fail
loudly. Only Bug A (upstream wrap null-cell) stays tolerated + counted.
Green at FUZZ_ITERATIONS=2000 (fidelity) and 1000 (reconciliation).
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* Count suffixed RC tags (rc.N.perf) in the shared rc counter — second suffixed cut collided with the first
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* Classify suffixed rc tags (rc.N.perf) as rc telemetry identity in release builds
The build-identity guard only knew vX.Y.Z and vX.Y.Z-rc.N, so suffixed
perf RCs cut fine but every platform build refused the tag and the
releases published empty.
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* Cut the hidden-restore flood feedback loop (A) + query carve-out on drops (B)
(A) Under a foreground flood, the hidden-output-restore loop re-fetched
snapshots endlessly: each synchronous applyMainBufferSnapshot starved ACK
processing, main pinned at the in-flight cap, dropped at the pending cap,
and every droppedOutput/modelRestoreNeeded marker re-armed another
restore until the flood ended (rc.7.perf DSR timeouts).
- Restore loop: a foreground live-chunk queue overflow now abandons the
restore immediately (the stream is outrunning snapshot fetch+replay),
with a 3-iteration hard cap + lifecycle warn as backstop.
- Re-arm gate: drop markers/sentinels and reconcile seq-gaps on a visible
pane during its own in-flight/just-abandoned restore no longer re-arm;
live bytes write through and ONE deferred repaint (2s after the last
backpressure signal) heals the gap. Hidden-pane gate semantics are
unchanged.
- Query salvage: discarding queued restore bytes (overflow/refetch) now
extracts DSR/CPR/DA/OSC-color queries and replays them to xterm so
replies still flow.
(B) Main-side: dropOversizedPendingPtyData carves reply-eliciting query
sequences out of the dropped buffer (and out of post-drop latched data,
bounded) and ships them on the droppedOutput sentinel, so DSR probes
survive bulk drops. Query scanning moved to
src/shared/terminal-reply-query-extraction.ts, shared verbatim with the
renderer's hidden-startup query extraction.
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* ACK terminal output at parse-drain, not dispatcher enqueue (C)
The renderer credited main's per-PTY in-flight window the moment a
pty:data chunk entered the dispatcher, so the 512KB window meant "bytes
received", never "bytes parsed". Under flood the renderer write queue
grew unbounded behind instant ACKs; main saw no backpressure, crossed
the pending cap, and bulk-dropped output (rc.7.perf DSR timeouts).
Crediting is now parse-deferred: each delivery carries a fire-once
credit (deliverPtyDataWithDeferredAck); the pane's first scheduler write
claims it (writeTerminalOutput.ackCredit) and the output scheduler fires
it when the bytes are consumed — after terminal.write in the
parse-clocked drain, or on ANY discard path (backlog cap replacement,
discardTerminalOutput, disposed-terminal drops, flush recovery).
Deliveries that never reach the scheduler (reconcile drops, restore
queueing, pre-mount eager buffer) settle at handler return, so the
invariant holds: every delivered chunk credits exactly once, parsed or
discarded. E2E ack-gate hold/release and delivery-resync semantics are
unchanged (all crediting still routes through ackPtyData).
Main-side equilibrium: with ACKs at parse cadence, in-flight becomes
true backpressure — pendingData stays near the 256KB producer-pause
watermark, far under the >=2MB drop cap, so bulk floods block the shell
(node-pty pause) instead of dropping.
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* Synthesize salvaged query replies directly instead of replaying into xterm
The 10MB dev bench proved the write-back salvage insufficient: a
pending-cap drop always triggers a snapshot restore, whose replay guard
swallows xterm auto-replies and whose discardTerminalOutput races away
still-queued query writes — the salvaged DSR died both ways and the
fence still timed out.
Salvage now answers directly on the input path (immune to both): CPR
(CSI 6n) from the live buffer via transport.sendInput, DA1 with the
renderer's canned response, OSC color probes via the existing direct
responder. Rare queries (DECRQM, DA2) keep the best-effort xterm
replay.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Untrack branch-added bench result JSONs (20 files); keep numbers in the findings log
Files stay on disk; main's 7 pre-existing results are untouched.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Branch guide: document merge-not-rebase sync strategy and conflict pattern
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* Merge origin/main (#7316 tab-strip click-vs-drag fix); adapt #7290 recovery-reload tests to this branch's dual did-finish-load listeners
The three tests grabbed the FIRST did-finish-load listener; on this branch
the renderer delivery-gate reset registers before the orphan sweep, so the
sweep tests exercised the wrong handler (one failing, two vacuously green).
They now fire all listeners like a real reload.
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* Fix branch CI lint: split pane-interaction functions out of artificial-opencode-terminal-load.spec (815>800 lines), modernize perf-html-report script
No max-lines disable per repo rules; extracted to
artificial-opencode-pane-interactions.ts. toReversed() and
import.meta.filename replace reverse()/fileURLToPath.
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* Fix Windows update-relaunch killing the live terminal daemon
On a Windows update relaunch the daemon can be wedged past every RPC
budget (final checkpoint flush + installer/AV disk pressure), so the 3s
health check AND the 5s session-list hello both time out while sessions
are still alive - and the launcher failed closed, killing the daemon and
every terminal session it owned.
- Adopt an unresponsive daemon whose pipe still accepts a raw
connection; a new rejected health state keeps replacing daemons that
answered and refused the handshake (never adoptable).
- Give Windows pid files a real startedAtMs (daemon self-reports it in
the ready IPC message) and verify it via CIM CreationDate piggybacked
on the existing command-line query, so the pid-recycling guard is no
longer inert on win32.
- Only delete legacy daemon pid/token files when the pid-file process is
provably dead; deleting a live daemon''s token made its sessions
permanently unadoptable after a protocol bump.
- Capture agent resume records every 60s in the renderer (skipping
unchanged records) so hard kills still leave a fresh resume record.
* Heal blank terminals when main→renderer push delivery dies (renderer-pull delivery watchdog)
Field evidence (v1.4.121-rc.0 debug snapshot, 2026-07-06): a wedged window
held 530,115 un-ACKed in-flight chars — one PTY pinned at the 512KiB per-PTY
high water plus a fresh terminal's 245-char prompt that was sent and never
consumed — while the user ran the snapshot over invoke from that same window.
Main→renderer push delivery (pty:data and every sibling channel) was dead;
renderer→main→renderer invoke was alive. Upstream precedent for
one-directional IPC death: electron#37067 (suspected Mojo pipe disconnect,
stalled as need-info). Every terminal goes blank, new terminals are born
blank, and only a renderer reload recovered.
The existing recovery layers cover the OTHER variants of this bug family and
structurally cannot reach this one:
- The xterm write-pipeline sync-throw guards, output-buffer caps, and
probe-certified replay-guard release (#7150 family) run only after bytes
arrive in the renderer — here they never do. (The pending cap did work as
designed in the field: ~2.1MB pendingDroppedChars, bounded main heap.)
- Cumulative ACKs self-heal lost ACK messages and the solicited delivery
resync reconciles verified totals (4647df86a; #7260 on main) — but the
resync probe, the powerMonitor wake relay, and the droppedOutput restore
markers all ride main→renderer push, the direction that is dead. The
probe's unanswered path deliberately only logs.
This adds the missing lane, renderer-initiated and ridden entirely over
invoke — the direction the field snapshot proved alive:
- terminal-delivery-watchdog.ts: 15s heartbeat, free while output flows.
Hot-path cost is one Map upsert per received chunk; a tick does no IPC
unless the terminal plane was silent for the whole interval and a PTY
still expects delivery. Two consecutive silent ticks with main reporting
ACK-starved in-flight confirm the wedge; heals are one-shot per 60s
cooldown so a persisting wedge cannot repaint-storm.
- pty:reportRendererDeliveryState (invoke): always max-merges the renderer's
cumulative processed totals (a free extra repair lane for the lost-ACK
variant); with heal:true — and only after main has itself seen ≥10s of ACK
silence — writes off bytes the renderer provably never received
(received ≤ acked < sent; a received-but-unparsed backpressure window is
never written off), drops that PTY's pendingData (snapshot covers
everything ≤ markerSeq, hidden-drop parity), credits provider flow
control, and returns restore markers in the reply.
- The renderer re-attaches all push listeners (cures a detached-listener
variant outright; a safe no-op against a dead channel) and routes the
pulled markers through the existing pty:modelRestoreNeeded machinery —
panes repaint from the main-owned buffer snapshot with zero push
delivery involved.
- Field discrimination built in: the heal warn logs
ipcRenderer.listenerCount('pty:data') (listener detached vs channel dead)
with the full delivery snapshot, so the next occurrence names the root
cause without asking the user to run anything in a console.
Repro harness: the exposeStore-gated __terminalDeliveryWatchdog hook
blackholes pty:data ahead of the dispatcher — the field failure in
miniature (no receive count, no ACK credit, no dispatch).
terminal-push-delivery-loss-recovery.spec.ts proves the wedged output
repaints while the blackhole is still engaged and live flow resumes after
release, with no reload. Unit suites pin the watchdog state machine
(zero IPC under flow, two-tick confirm, cooldown), the dispatcher reattach
seam, and the main-side write-off semantics.
Perf: nothing added to main's send/flush path; the renderer data path gains
one integer/Map update per chunk; idle cost is one ~100-byte invoke per 15s
only during total terminal silence. Terminal perf e2e suite (typing
latency, redraw freeze, output scheduler, hidden TUI restore, artificial
opencode load) passes on this change; no watchdog activity occurs under
ack-gate pressure scenarios because receive-progress gates the heartbeat.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Expose the hidden-yet-visible delivery-gate contradiction in the debug snapshot
The v1.4.124-rc.2.perf blank-terminal field snapshot showed a different
state than the v1.4.121 transport wedge: no delivery gating at all
(ackGatedFlushSkipCount 0, in-flight 38KB, far under every cap) but TWO
ptys hidden-delivery-gated with 78MB dropped as hidden. The aggregate
counters cannot say whether the pane the user was staring at was one of
the gated ones — the one number that separates "normal background
dropping" from "main is starving a visible pane because the reveal
unmark never fired".
Add hiddenDeliveryGatedVisiblePtyCount / hiddenDeliveryGatedActivePtyCount
(overlap of the gate's hidden set with the renderer's visible/active
reports — a contradiction that must be zero) to the delivery debug
snapshot, and a once-per-minute warn when hidden-gated bytes are dropped
for a pty the renderer reports visible or active, with the full snapshot
attached. Zero cost outside the debug read and the already-dropping path.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Unlatch the hidden-delivery gate when user input disproves a stuck document.visibilityState
macOS occlusion tracking can wedge document.visibilityState at 'hidden'
after display sleep and never fire another visibilitychange. The hidden-
delivery gate then keeps dropping renderer-bound bytes for panes the user
is looking at (field snapshot 2026-07-06, v1.4.124-rc.2.perf: 78MB dropped
across 2 pane-level-visible ptys with a fully healthy transport), and every
recovery path (window focus, system-resume relay, backlog recovery) re-ran
syncHiddenRendererPtyDelivery only to recompute the same stale predicate —
nothing could ever clear the gate. The user sees a frozen terminal; typing
echo is dropped in main; only a reload recovers.
Real user input while the document claims hidden is a physical
contradiction: keystrokes and clicks only reach a focused, on-screen
window. stale-document-visibility.ts latches that proof, runs each pane's
existing visibilitychange resync (gate unhide + hidden-output snapshot
restore), and hands authority back to the occlusion tracker on the next
genuine visibilitychange. No timers; the failure bias is safe — a wrong
latch can only restore pre-gate delivery cost, never drop bytes. Hot path
unchanged: the foreground predicate still returns on the same single
comparison while the document is visible.
tests/e2e/terminal-stuck-occlusion-recovery.spec.ts pins the wedge
(visibilityState pinned hidden -> output dropped, not painted; the
hiddenDeliveryGatedVisiblePtyCount field discriminator reads >0) and the
recovery (one Shift keypress repaints the missed output from the main-owned
snapshot, no reload, while visibilityState still reads hidden). Negative
control verified: the spec fails without this fix. Typing-latency perf
gate passes; terminal-pane unit suites 366/366.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Add a one-paste terminal freeze report: __orcaTerminalFreezeReport()
Every field report of the frozen-terminal family so far has needed
follow-up asks (console output, main logs, second snapshots) because each
capture showed one process's counters at one instant. This makes a single
DevTools command sufficient: `await window.__orcaTerminalFreezeReport()`
returns renderer state (document.visibilityState + the stale-visibility
override, pty:data listener count, delivery-watchdog totals), main's debug
snapshot extended with a per-pty delivery table (sent/acked/pending, hidden
vs visible-set membership, last send/ACK ages, window focus flags, power
suspend/resume ages, app version), and bounded breadcrumb rings from BOTH
processes recording the transitions that matter: gate marks/unmarks,
visibilitychange and stale-visibility latches, watchdog stalls and heals,
restore markers, heal write-offs, and renderer lifecycle resets (so "user
already reloaded" is visible in the history).
Costs stay off the data path: breadcrumbs record only rare transitions into
a 100-entry ring with same-kind coalescing (a flood costs one slot per
second); the per-pty table is built only when the snapshot is read; the
per-send bookkeeping adds one Date.now() to existing accounting writes. Pty
ids are redacted to their `@@` suffix because daemon session ids embed
worktree paths. The report assembles over invoke IPC — the direction proven
alive in every observed wedge — and a failing invoke is captured as data
instead of sinking the report.
The stuck-occlusion e2e now also pins the report end-to-end: after the
wedge + keystroke recovery, the report must carry the stale-visibility
latch and gate transitions in the renderer ring, gate-mark/unmark in main's
ring, and a populated per-pty table. Suites: pty.test.ts 258, terminal-pane
1705, shared ring 5; typing-latency perf gate passes.
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* perf(daemon): keep-tail thin hidden panes' stream so agent floods never bury typing (STA multi-workspace lag)
Hidden panes are exempt from pendingData flow control (main gate-drops
their bytes after ingestion), so N background agents ran unbounded ahead
on the one shared daemon->main stream socket (measured 192MB user-space
backlog) and visible-pane echo waited FIFO behind it — typing appeared
seconds late whenever several agents burst on a loaded machine
(8x512KB/s + 12 CPU spinners: p50 293ms fix-off; 12x1MB/s: 6.1s).
Mechanism (replaces producer pacing — no reveal catch-up, ever):
- Shallow socket write gate (128KB) + per-session fairness bypass bounds
echo latency by construction; kernel-flush refill sentinel keeps held
bulk draining at full speed (drain-only refill capped at ~8MB/s).
- Backgrounded sessions' queued output is keep-tail dropped (newest
512KB kept, in-order dataGap replaces the middle); a ~2MB GLOBAL
budget shrinks per-session keep-tails (floor 64KB) so a worktree
switch never waits behind the aggregate. Reply-eliciting query bytes
(DSR/DA/OSC probes) are salvaged from dropped spans.
- Notifications are structurally lossless: the daemon runs the same
shared scanners main uses (bell/OSC 133/pr-link/2031) over every byte
BEFORE drop decisions and relays facts in byte order; ordered
background markers hand scan authority back and forth, seeded with the
emulator's partial escape tail so a sequence split across the handoff
neither phantom-fires nor goes missing. Titles/agent-status stay
main-side (kept-tail convergent).
- Main: background = hidden AND no remote view subscriber (a live
mobile/web view is never thinned); on dataGap main resets cross-chunk
parse carries, drops the headless mobile mirror, and reuses the
hidden-drop model-restore marker.
Wire: three new stream events, tolerated within protocol v19 (old mains
ignore unknown events; old daemons never see the trigger). Kill
switches: ORCA_DAEMON_BACKGROUND_STREAM_DROP=0,
ORCA_DAEMON_SHALLOW_SOCKET_GATE=0.
A/B (pnpm bench:multi-workspace-typing): 8x512KB/s + 12 CPU workers
p50 293ms/p90 647ms -> 15/21ms (= baseline); 12x1MB/s 6,146ms -> 20ms;
light loads unchanged; zero missing echoes. Latin hidden-restore e2e
green (probe-verified aggregate-drain root cause). New deterministic
repro harness: tests/e2e/terminal-multi-workspace-typing-latency.spec.ts
+ CPU pressure workers.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* diag(terminal): breadcrumb WebGL context-loss/atlas + wake triggers into freeze report
Silent instrumentation (memory ring only, no new console lines) so the next
post-wake garble report attributes itself. Adds:
- shared/terminal-webgl-diagnostics.ts: lib-safe sink so pane-webgl-renderer
(lib) can record without importing the components-layer ring; wired to the
ring in terminal-freeze-breadcrumbs.
- webgl-context-loss crumb at onContextLoss, webgl-atlas-reset crumb at the
atlas registry reset — the pair that distinguishes 'atlas corrupted' from
'missed repaint'.
- wake-recovery:<source> crumb (focus/visibilitychange/system-resumed) with the
clearGlyphAtlases decision; source in the kind so distinct triggers don't
coalesce.
- per-pane WebGL state (getAllPaneRenderingDiagnostics) in the freeze report.
Gates: typecheck 0 errors; terminal suites 328 files pass; oxlint clean.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(lint): use Number.parseInt/parseFloat in terminal-view-attributes
oxlint unicorn(prefer-number-properties) flagged 24 global parseInt/parseFloat
calls in the terminal-view-attributes feature (ee540f32d, perf-branch only),
failing PR Checks 'verify' lint. Mechanical global→Number.* rewrite via
oxlint --fix; behaviorally identical. Pre-existed the latest main merge.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(test): update stale terminal test stubs/expectations to current runtime
Three pre-existing perf-branch test failures (red before the latest main
merge; unrelated to it) — all stale test scaffolding lagging behind
perf-branch features, no production code changed:
- provider-dispatch.test.ts: electron mock missing powerMonitor, which
pty.ts installPowerSignalBreadcrumbs now calls on registerPtyHandlers.
Added powerMonitor:{on:vi.fn()} to match pty.test.ts.
- runtime-terminal-stream.test.ts: onSnapshot now receives a second
{ pendingEscapeTailAnsi } meta arg (#7329); updated the three exact-arg
toHaveBeenCalledWith assertions.
- terminal-multiplex-escape-tail.test.ts: stubRuntime missing
registerRemoteTerminalViewSubscriber (subscribe path calls it now, erroring
before snapshot serialize); added the stub used by sibling multiplex tests.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Fix hidden/parked split-pane exit stranding ghost or resurrected panes
Deterministic e2e repro of the field 'ghost blank pane' incident (a
closed/finished setup-split leaf persisted in root with no binding and
remounted as a permanently blank pane) found two teardown gaps at the
hidden-view parking boundary:
1. The kept-exit guard ('freshly split pane can lose its newborn PTY
during setup') fired for HIDDEN panes. The hidden-delivery gate
withholds their bytes, so a hidden split always looks output-less and
its dead pane was kept — a binding-less ghost that dead-session
reconcile can never reach (no PTY id to prove dead). The keep is a
visible-failure UX; gate it on isVisibleRef and close hidden panes.
2. A PTY exit landing while the tab is PARKED reached only the parked
watcher's exit sidecar (hosts' onPtyExit requires a mounted
TerminalPane), which only disposed the watcher. The leaf's stale
binding then reattached on reveal and the daemon re-created the
exited session id as a fresh shell — silent pane resurrection. The
sidecar now collapses the dead leaf out of the stored layout via
detachTerminalLayoutLeaf (the observed-exit teardown's data half).
New e2e suite terminal-pane-close-layout-consistency.spec.ts sweeps
close/shell-exit at every hidden/park lifecycle phase and asserts
leaves(root) == bindings == live panes; all 7 scenarios pass. Unit
regressions added for both fixes.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Harden terminal delivery and snapshot recovery
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* Fix inherited lint failures
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Align merged runtime recovery tests
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
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Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(build): skip spawn-helper check on Linux to avoid spurious node-pty rebuilds
getPatchedNodePtyRebuildReason() unconditionally checked for
build/Release/spawn-helper, but spawn-helper is a macOS-only node-pty
build target. On Linux, node-gyp never generates it, so missingArtifact
was always non-null, causing unnecessary source rebuilds every time.
Fixes#7760
* test(build): cover platform-specific node-pty artifacts
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Co-authored-by: Jinwoo-H <jinwoo0825@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* docs: full design + context for agent status over WSL (STA-1515)
Why hooks don't work on Windows+WSL (loopback transport gap + WSL-side
installation gap), per-client transport map, the OMP-only fixes that
shipped (7642/7641) and why they don't generalize, the recommended
guest-resident relay over wsl.exe stdio mirroring the SSH relay plus
WSL-side hook installers, alternatives considered, validation facts and
gotchas from the 2026-07-08 Windows rig run, and acceptance criteria.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* feat(agent-hooks): agent status over WSL — guest relay + WSL-side hook installers (STA-1515)
Agent hooks have never worked from inside WSL: under default NAT
networking, WSL's 127.0.0.1 is its own loopback, so every hook POST to
the Windows listener dies silently, and hook configs were only ever
written to the Windows home where WSL agents never see them.
Transport: a hooks-only guest relay (src/relay/wsl-agent-hook-relay.ts)
runs inside the distro, binds WSL loopback on the very port the clients
were already given (host-issued token; EADDRINUSE falls back to :0 with
endpoint-file re-coordination, which also covers mirrored networking),
and forwards parsed envelopes over its own wsl.exe stdio into
agentHookServer.ingestRemote — the same shape as the SSH relay. It exits
when stdin closes so a freed Windows port can never be forwarded into a
dead guest listener.
Installation: the unchanged SSH remote hook installers run against an
SFTP-shaped adapter whose primitives are home-scoped fs RPCs served by
the relay, so all 14 managed agents' hooks land in the WSL home over the
already-open channel with zero per-file wsl.exe spawns.
Lifecycle: per-distro manager ensured from buildPtyHostEnv on every WSL
PTY spawn (covers post-restart daemon reattach re-spawns), stale-bundle
reinstall via exit 42, no-node-43 cooldown, bounded retry for wsl.exe
'Catastrophic failure (E_UNEXPECTED)', breadcrumbed failures.
Zero per-client transport changes; listener stays Windows-loopback-only.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(agent-hooks): WSL relay link-death recovery + Codex runtime-home hook install (STA-1515)
Follow-ups from the first Windows-rig validation of PR #7903:
Link death: a mux protocol error or keepalive timeout could kill the
host<->guest link while the guest relay stayed alive returning 204s —
the manager stayed 'running' and every later envelope blackholed
silently (the exact observed signature: Claude hooks POST 204, store
never populates). wsl-hook-relay-link.ts now guarantees exactly-once
death handling from either signal (mux dispose OR child exit); the
manager breadcrumbs it, kills the child, and self-restarts after a
short cooldown since a live agent session produces no new PTY spawns
to re-trigger ensure. ORCA_WSL_HOOK_RELAY_DEBUG=1 traces each received
envelope pre-ingest. A live integration test pins the full host chain:
the real esbuild bundle over real child stdio through the real manager
into a real AgentHookServer.ingestRemote, exact Claude POST shape.
Codex: Orca launches WSL Codex with CODEX_HOME redirected to the
managed runtime home (~/.local/share/orca/codex-runtime-home/home), so
hooks installed to ~/.codex were never read. installRemote now accepts
an explicit codex home (flat layout), threaded from the relay manager;
the config.toml trust write is deferred while the file doesn't exist
(the launch path seeds it only-if-absent — creating it first would
cancel the seed), and the manager re-runs the byte-equality-idempotent
installers on later ensures (30s throttle) to upsert trust once the
seed lands.
Also: WSL test suites now run on Windows dev hosts (fs-backed suites
skip with rig coverage noted; manager suite uses a fixed POSIX home).
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(agent-hooks): renderer ownership gate treats wsl:* connection ids as local (STA-1515)
Round-2 rig finding: with the link fixed, WSL hook envelopes reached
ingestRemote and the durable cache, but useIpcEvents.applyAgentStatus
drops any status whose stamped connectionId differs from the owning
repo's — 'wsl:<distro>' !== null for a local repo, so every WSL-relayed
status died before setAgentStatus and notifications.
wsl:* ids are transport provenance, not ownership: the gate now
normalizes them to local via isWslHookRelayConnectionId (shared
contract, also used by the relay link when stamping), while still
rejecting WSL-stamped events against SSH-owned repos. Provenance stays
stamped — it is what made this drop diagnosable.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(agent-hooks): adversarial-review hardening for the WSL hook relay (STA-1515)
Four independent review lenses over the branch; all confirmed findings
fixed before the next rig round:
Endpoint identity (4/4 reviewers): the guest endpoint dir was keyed by
the EPHEMERAL Windows hook port, so a daemon-surviving agent kept
sourcing the dead port-P1 file after an Orca restart — breaking the
restart-resume acceptance criterion and regressing shipped OMP
recovery. Now keyed by a restart-stable instance key (hash of the
Windows endpoint file path, crossed via ORCA_WSL_HOOK_INSTANCE): the
restarted instance's relay rewrites the SAME file, which is exactly
what re-coordinates survivors.
Restart policy: every failure arms the restart timer (one failed
relaunch no longer ends self-recovery), and the timer probes
wsl --list --running first — wsl -d BOOTS a stopped distro, so
recovery must never resurrect a VM the user shut down; stopped-distro
state is dropped instead. Failure counters reset only after 2min of
stable uptime, so connect-then-die loops escalate to the 10-min cap
instead of cycling every 10s. Timer policy extracted to
wsl-hook-relay-recovery.ts with direct tests.
Also: version-namespaced guest install dir (dev+prod instances no
longer reinstall over each other; PID-suffixed tmp files), 30s install
timeout (a wedged wsl.exe could pin the state machine at 'starting'
forever), per-candidate node version probing (apt node 12 on PATH no
longer masks nvm node 20 into a false no-node cooldown), WSL_UTF8=1 +
NUL-stripped stderr (catastrophic-failure matcher survives UTF-16LE),
ordered post-sentinel chunk handoff, port-fallback breadcrumb via the
home handshake, bad home reply now fails the connect, missing-bundle
warn-once, case-normalized distro keys, disposeAll wired to will-quit,
one-shot 60s reinstall timer for single-spawn Codex trust catch-up,
escaped + contract-derived spawn command.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* docs: record round-3 rig validation status for agent status over WSL (STA-1515)
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix(agent-hooks): round-4 adversarial-review fixes for the WSL hook relay (STA-1515)
- dropState identity race: recovery re-checks state identity after the
distro-running probe await, and the manager's dropState only deletes the
exact state it was armed for — an ensure() landing mid-probe can no longer
have its fresh relay orphaned outside the map.
- Distro-running probe fails CLOSED: a probe error no longer reports
'running', so recovery can never wsl-d-boot a distro the user shut down.
- Relay spawns use --exec: bypasses the distro's default login shell
(fish/nushell chsh) and passes argv verbatim, dropping the $-escape shim;
same form as the Codex WSL login spawn.
- Post-sentinel chunk handoff rides a microtask so an envelope in the
trailing bytes can no longer dispatch before the link's notification
handler is registered.
- Guest relay mirrors the SSH relay's uncaughtException/unhandledRejection
posture.
- Replay cache capped at 256 panes with recency eviction (the WSL relay has
no per-pane teardown signal); meta map kept in lockstep.
- Launch script derives the stale-exit code from the shared contract
constant; one-shot reinstall timer refuses to arm after dispose.
- New oracles: sentinel unit suite, fs-bridge scoping suite, fixed-token
403/204, EADDRINUSE endpoint-file rewrite, cache-cap eviction, and the
recovery/manager race regressions (verified to fail with fixes reverted).
- Doc: round-4 review section + revised curl.exe stance (kept as the
no-node fallback — Codex is a native binary; fresh distros ship no node).
* docs: record round-4 pinned rig validation for agent status over WSL (STA-1515)
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Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
Co-authored-by: Brennan Benson <brennanbenson@Brennans-MacBook-Pro.local>
* Harden layout validation, watcher lifecycle, and connection robustness
- Throw instead of silently skipping when the packaged daemon-entry is
missing, preventing layout regressions from passing build checks.
- Terminate idle parcel-watcher processes to reclaim native handles and
avoid crash-prone native node module teardowns on shutdown.
- Bind the persisted WS fallback port first to prevent orphaning active
mobile pairings when the preferred port becomes free again.
- Cap concurrent disk reads for restored dirty tab verification at three
to prevent startup connection bottlenecks on remote SSH workspaces.
* Queue file IDs instead of snapshots in restored conflict scans
This avoids using stale file snapshots (e.g., outdated disk signatures)
if a tab is saved, closed, or re-baselined while waiting in the queue
behind the concurrency limit. The live state is now fetched from the
store and validated immediately before initiating the disk read.
On macOS 26, UNUserNotificationCenter aborts when executables are run
from Contents/Resources because bundleProxyForCurrentProcess returns
nil.
Moving the orca-notification-status helper to Contents/MacOS next to
the main Electron executable ensures proper bundle resolution and
avoids immediate crashes.
* feat(onboarding): state-aware macOS notification permission step
The Set up notifications step showed a one-size-fits-all 'Open Mac
Settings' button that simultaneously fired the macOS permission prompt
and opened System Settings — two competing system UIs, with System
Settings unnecessary for the common fresh-install case.
Electron exposes no API to read macOS notification authorization, but
scheduling outcomes do reveal it: a silent probe notification's 'show'
event means permission is granted, 'failed' means delivery is blocked.
A new notifications:probeDelivery IPC runs that probe (cached via
passive delivery evidence and a persisted confirmation flag), and the
onboarding card now renders the real state:
- fresh install: the probe itself pops the native Allow dialog the
moment the step opens; the card flips to 'Notifications are enabled'
automatically when the user clicks Allow (silent 2.5s re-probes)
- blocked: amber card with an Open System Settings deep-link, which
also self-heals once the user flips the toggle
- granted: green confirmation card
The test-notification button now feeds the same card instead of the
ambiguous 'if no banner appeared…' toast during onboarding.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix: don't log expected probe rejections while polling for permission
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix: amber warning styling + single stable dev bundle id for notifications
- Blocked card now uses the app's shipped amber idiom (tinted surface with
amber title/body) instead of white-on-amber-wash, which read muddy in
dark mode; macOS permission card split into its own module to stay under
the max-lines budget.
- Dev instances previously minted a unique macOS bundle id per
branch x Electron version, registering a new Notification Settings entry
every time ('Orca: <branch>' rows piling up forever) and pointing the
settings deep-link at ids System Settings can't resolve. All dev
instances now share com.stablyai.orca.dev: one Notification Center
entry, one permission grant covering every dev build.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix: tighten macOS permission card copy
Body copy was one long sentence; now a single short instruction with
'Updates automatically.' as a separate dimmer line. Also repairs locale
catalog parity for keys introduced by commits rebased into this branch.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix: drop 'Updates automatically.' line; ad-hoc sign dev app copies
The extra line read as confusing filler — the cards now carry one short
instruction each.
Dev Electron copies had broken code signatures (the Info.plist identity
edits invalidate the ad-hoc seal), which macOS punishes by refusing
Notification Center registration outright: every dev notification failed
with UNErrorDomain error 1, the app never appeared in System Settings >
Notifications, and the settings deep-link had nothing to land on. The dev
runner now ad-hoc re-signs the copied bundle after the plist edits
(bundleLayoutVersion bumped so stale unsigned copies are recreated).
Verified end-to-end: runner-built copy passes codesign --verify --deep,
probe delivery returns delivered, the onboarding card flips green in dev,
and the deep link opens the dev app's own notifications pane.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix: drop confusing copy line; session-only permission evidence
Removes the 'Updates automatically.' line from both permission cards.
Also drops the persisted notificationDeliveryConfirmed flag: OS-level
permission changes between sessions, and a stale positive rendered a
false green card. Delivery evidence is now session-scoped only.
Documented detection ceiling (verified empirically on macOS 26): while
the permission dialog is unanswered — and when notifications are toggled
off in System Settings after being authorized — macOS accepts requests
and silently swallows them, with no public API (Notification Center
delivered-history and legacy ncprefs both included) able to distinguish
that from real delivery. 'failed' remains definitive for unsigned builds
and dialog-level denials.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* feat: real macOS notification permission readout via native helper
Electron has no API for UNUserNotificationCenter authorization, and every
observable fallback lies: scheduling succeeds (and getHistory lists the
notification) even while macOS silently swallows display because the
permission dialog is unanswered or notifications were toggled off in
System Settings. The onboarding card therefore showed 'enabled' after the
user disabled notifications.
Adds native/notification-status-macos: a tiny Swift binary that prints
the app's real authorization status. It runs from inside the app bundle
(NSBundle resolves the bundle by walking up from the executable) and
embeds the app's CFBundleIdentifier in a __TEXT,__info_plist section so
every codesign --force pass — electron-builder's signing or the dev
runner's ad-hoc deep sign — derives the identifier macOS keys
notification records to. Spawning it from the app returns authorized /
denied / not-determined exactly matching System Settings.
notifications:probeDelivery now prefers this readout (authoritative,
silent), firing at most one dialog-trigger probe per session while the
decision is pending, and falls back to the previous delivery-probe
heuristics when the helper is unavailable. The card polls the readout
silently in every state, so toggling Allow notifications in System
Settings flips the card within a poll — both directions, verified live.
Test notifications also consult the readout so 'delivered' is no longer
claimed for swallowed notifications.
Packaged builds ship the helper via extraResources and sign it in
afterPack like the computer-use helper; dev copies compile it on demand
(swiftc, non-fatal when missing) with the shared dev bundle id.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* feat: in-app fallback for swallowed notifications + permission card in Settings
- Dispatch now consults the authorization readout before creating a
native notification: when macOS would silently swallow it (denied or
prompt unanswered) it returns reason 'blocked-by-system' instead of
piling invisible notifications into Notification Center. The terminal
notification path surfaces that as a once-per-session in-app toast
with an Open System Settings action. Mobile fan-out is unaffected.
- Settings > Notifications now shows the same live permission card as
onboarding (moved to components/notifications/), polling the readout
so System Settings changes reflect within seconds, and the test
button updates it inline.
- Test sends that are blocked at the OS level now show the
settings-pointing failure toast instead of a generic error.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* fix: hide macOS permission card while Orca notifications are disabled
A green 'Notifications are enabled' card next to a disabled Enable
Notifications toggle read as a contradiction — the card now renders (and
the readout polls) only while Orca's own notifications setting is on.
Also single-flights the authorization helper so simultaneous agent
completions share one readout process.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
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oxlint already fails any file over max-lines that is not suppressed, so the
only way to grow past the budget is to add an eslint/oxlint-disable max-lines
comment or a per-file max-lines bump in mobile/.oxlintrc.json. This adds a CI
gate that freezes the current set of suppressions (config/max-lines-baseline.txt,
355 grandfathered entries) and fails the build when a NEW one appears — with a
loud, actionable message pointing at 'split the file'. Existing oversized files
are untouched; the baseline may only shrink (pnpm check:max-lines-ratchet --prune).
Wired into the root lint script and as a dedicated pr.yml step. Unit-tested
(15 cases) and verified against all three failure paths + clean-tree pass.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
* Clarify Orca orchestration tool boundary and sidebar lineage
Add a "Tool Boundary" section to the orchestration skill, requiring
explicit Orca runtime state instead of generic subagent tools or
chat-only parallel workers. Also add tests to verify the tool boundary
and clarify sidebar lineage for same-worktree workers.
* Clarify worktree lineage guidance and parent-child boundaries
Update orchestration guidance and tests to clarify when to use child versus
top-level worktree lineages, and when to prefer same-worktree workers.
* Require stating the desired Orca lineage before creating a worktree from
an active feature branch.
* Limit child worktrees to conceptually stacked or dependent tasks.
* Prefer same-worktree workers unless isolated checkouts are explicitly
needed and do not require uncommitted changes.
Enable three unicorn rules — one correctness, two performance — and fix every
existing violation repo-wide so the rules pass as errors.
prefer-number-properties (76 sites)
- parseInt/parseFloat/NaN -> Number.* : safe aliases (autofixed).
- isNaN -> Number.isNaN (12 sites, hand-converted): global isNaN coerces its
argument, Number.isNaN does not. Verified every call site already passes a
number (Number.parseInt results, number-typed fields, Date.getTime()), so the
conversion is behavior-preserving today and guards against a future non-numeric
argument silently coercing.
prefer-array-find (26 sites)
- .filter(pred)[0] -> .find(pred); .filter(pred).at(-1) / .pop() -> .findLast(pred).
Drops the intermediate array and short-circuits.
prefer-array-index-of (5 sites)
- .findIndex(x => x === v) -> .indexOf(v).
Verified: typecheck (node/cli/web) clean, 53 affected suites pass (1679 tests),
oxlint clean repo-wide. mobile/ uses findLast safely (already ships ES2023
.toReversed()); config scripts and e2e helpers run on Node 24.
- Instruct workers to stop and idle or exit immediately after sending
`worker_done`, rather than running a 10-minute polling loop.
- Distinguish instructions based on worker kind: prompt-returning
agents should remain idle for re-engagement, while bare-shell
workers should exit.
- Prevent infinite polling overhead since the coordinator re-engages
workers via fresh terminal input instead of inbox polling.
* Revert "Preload the daemon windowsHide shim via --require; wrap promisify custom (#7499)"
This reverts commit 8f396badaf.
* Revert "Hide console windows for children of the node.exe-hosted daemon (#7486)"
This reverts commit f0fdd3a716.
* Revert "fix(daemon): relocate daemon host image out of the install-dir kill zone (#7473)"
This reverts commit f4faafa987.
* Revert "fix(pty): keep runtime dirs a surviving daemon still uses (#7463)"
This reverts commit 3cd23a13a1.
* Revert "Relocate node-pty ConPTY runtime outside the Windows install dir (fixes update-time terminal loss) (#7421)"
This reverts commit 509c41e2bf.
Keep PetOverlay runtime keyframes out of localization so translated locales cannot invalidate sprite or bob animations.\n\nAlso adds regression coverage for translated-locale keyframe CSS and removes the stale generated locale entries.
Quality pass on main-process/build PRs merged 2026-07-03:
- ios-emulator-backend: resolve the serve-sim executable via a lazily-cached getter
instead of eagerly in the constructor. The bridge is built before the main window
is shown, so the one-time recursive copy + xattr subprocess (first launch after each
version bump) no longer blocks macOS startup for a feature that may go unused (#7174).
- index: collapse the two near-identical `{webContentsId, until}` reload flags
(expectedRendererReload / recoveryReloadInFlight) into one `createWebContentsTimedFlag`
primitive; behavior preserved, including consume-on-read for the recovery reload (#7290).
- check-reliability-gates: coerce gate.commands/testFiles/platforms/providers with an
`asArray` helper before `.includes`, so a hand-edited manifest with a missing/mistyped
field reports a validation failure instead of throwing an uncaught TypeError; extract
`hasCompleteRedGreenEvidence` for the duplicated status check (#7295).
- claude-pty: derive FABLE_WEEKLY_LABEL_RE from WEEKLY_RE.source so a future weekly-
wording change stays in one place and can't reopen the parsing gap it just closed.
- macos-tcc-login-shell: trim the 30-line flag-by-flag JSDoc to the two non-obvious whys
(TCC identity, env(1) SHELL re-assertion) per the repo comment guidance (#7003).
Typecheck, oxlint, oxfmt, `check:reliability-gates`, and touched unit suites all pass.
Fixes#5579. Pass previous_tag_name to GitHub generate-notes so draft-release notes stop accumulating across releases; omit it safely on first release. Adds tag parse/compare + paginated tag fetch and regression tests.
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