* feat(cli): OpenTUI foundation modules — theme, a11y, clipboard, keys, dialogs scaffolding
Foundation batch of the OpenTUI migration tracked in #8662. Adds the renderer-neutral foundation modules under ui/opentui: theme family, a11y (plain-text, screen-reader), clipboard, key-map, mouse hit/caret, link-click + osc8 parity, early-input, exit guard/lifecycle, kitty negotiation, event-adapter, item-projection, slash dispatch (+ command parsing), commands context/output, help content, input history, and the dialog scaffolding primitives (core/shared) with the theme dialog. Two helpers land inside ui/opentui rather than utils/ to respect the utils leaf-layer rule (#9737). Stacked on the infra batch: consumes ui/model streaming model and @opentui deps. No reachable ink code changes beyond a one-line export addition in the shared osc8 module.
* fix(cli): import originals instead of forking slash parser and dialog scope utils
* fix(cli): address R1 review findings in OpenTUI foundation modules
* fix(cli): align OpenTUI command host with the memory-file-count rename
Upstream renamed setGeminiMdFileCount to setMemoryFileCount in the command
UI contract; the rebase onto main surfaced the mismatch at build. Rename
the host interface member, the bridge wiring, the dispatch stub, and the
test mock to match.
* feat(cli): OpenTUI migration live-session and input batch
Third landing batch of the OpenTUI migration (#8662): live-session stream
fold and model, message rendering (markdown heal, MCP progressive, client
tool runs, text batching), transcript adapter with resume/session-switch,
sticky todos, the composer (input-prompt view/key/model), mouse rows and
scrollbar, unified-diff rendering, and session-compaction notice. All
additive — no reachable ink code path is touched, ink remains the default.
Carries the first consumer of the remend dependency deferred from the
infra batch, placed in devDependencies per the renderer-deps convention.
The stacked-skill completion helpers import from the relocated
ui/commands module following the upstream rename.
* fix(cli): address R2 review findings in OpenTUI foundation modules
Round-2 review fixes (17 Critical + 10 Suggestion resolved in code):
- dialogs-shared: move number-select flush out of the setState updater
(StrictMode double-fires onSelect); split setActiveIndex (ink
SET_ACTIVE_INDEX, lands on any in-range row) from highlightIndex
(arrow keys skip disabled rows) so wheel navigation never sticks
- event-adapter: chat_compressed notice mirrors ink formatCount ('~'
prefix for estimated counts); vision_bridge_notice renders
summary\nnotice; explicit projections for task_execution /
findings_list / terminal_image keep multi-MB payloads off the
transcript; retry-countdown-clear forwards isContinuation
- slash-dispatch: isSlashCommandInput drops the '?' branch (ink gate
routes ? input to the model); executeSlashCommand races the action
against the abort signal; dialog effects carry the
OpenDialogActionReturn payload; projected added-item text surfaces
alongside non-handled effects (notice); message-shaped items project
to their text; ui.history comes from env; absent sessionStats stamp
now, not epoch; telemetry parity (recordSkillInvocation /
recordAutoSkillCommandUsage / makeSlashCommandEvent)
- item-projection: model stats render per-(model,source) sections with
N/A for unpriced entries; Tool Calls line uses ASCII x like ink;
redactProxy deduplicated via systemInfoFields export
- theme: palette/syntax colors resolve through color-utils toHex before
parseColor (ink CSS names / *bright names no longer degrade to
magenta); unresolvable values stay unset
- key-map: kitty 'kpenter' normalizes to 'return'; resolveCommands
exposes ink's key fan-out (Ctrl+C fires QUIT + CLEAR_INPUT)
- a11y: hardWrap delegates to wrap-ansi (word-boundary parity with
ink's screen-reader path); markdown reducer tracks fence length,
keeps fence-like lines literal inside fences and inner backticks in
multi-backtick spans; stripAnsi delegates to strip-ansi plus a
private-parameter CSI pass (SGR mouse, DEC save/restore)
- clipboard: OSC 52 write gated on a TTY (stderr preferred), tests spy
the stream instead of writing real sequences to the runner's terminal
- exit-guard: independent per-key arm windows like ink
- dialogs-theme: diff preview pane receives syntaxStyle/filetype
* fix(cli): harden kitty probe and screen-reader writer per maintainer review
- kitty-negotiation: KITTY_REPLY_RE requires at least one flag digit
(\d+), so an echoed bare query \x1b[?u in PTY/CI environments no
longer resolves true and locks the renderer into kitty mode on a
terminal that never answers queries; the accumulation buffer keeps
only a 256-byte tail (bounded memory, bounded rescan under byte
floods); the settle-window drain is removed — an EventEmitter data
listener cannot consume chunks from other listeners, so late replies
flow to the renderer's input parser like any other terminal noise
- a11y-screen-reader: ScreenReaderOutputWriter sanitizes written
content (stripAnsi + drop bare C0/C1 controls, keep newlines) so the
plain-text-only contract is enforced at the writer instead of
trusting every future caller — smuggled OSC 52 clipboard writes or
title/cursor sequences cannot execute on the main screen
* fix(cli): address ytahdn independent review findings in OpenTUI foundation
All 15 findings from the independent static review verified in source and
fixed (no false positives; none deferred):
- quit effect carries QuitActionReturn.messages projected to text on a
notice field — ink renders them via QuittingDisplay and the payload was
permanently lost (Important #1)
- error and finished branches emit retry-countdown-clear like ink's
handleErrorEvent/handleFinishedEvent, so a terminal event inside the
countdown window no longer leaves a stale retry row (#2)
- projectContextUsage renders the compaction-threshold ladder and the
per-item detail sections (tools/memory/skills, ink's sort order) when
showDetails is on — /context detail transcripts no longer show strictly
less than the compact view (#3)
- projectMcpStatus honors showSchema (parameter JSON under each tool) and
showTips, so /mcp schema is distinguishable from /mcp (#4)
- SlashDispatchEnv.settings is required: the real
CommandContext.services.settings is non-null and a null surfaced as a
generic command failure on first .merged read (#5)
- dead singleColumn flag removed from the help width layout (clamp makes
it always false; ink has no single-column mode) (#6)
- truncated SS3 tail (bare ESC O) is stripped like the truncated CSI
tail, so a captured half F1-F4 no longer leaks 'O' into the composer (#7)
- readBufferRow trims cellColumns alongside text, so URLs ending at
end-of-row on a wide character hit-test on both halves of the cell (#8)
- kitty probe writes guarded: a synchronous stream throw settles the
probe (restores raw mode, removes the listener) instead of leaking (#9)
- eraseLines reuses the ansi-escapes helper (already a repo dependency)
instead of a byte-identical hand-rolled copy (#10)
- truncateText passthrough wrapper dropped; callers use the exported
truncateHelpText directly (#11)
- SkillsList truncate keeps total length n like ink, so the description
column no longer shifts by one cell when a name truncates (#12)
- model_fallback names pass through sanitizeDisplayText like ink (#13)
- selectIndex fires onHighlight before onSelect (ink dispatches
SET_ACTIVE_INDEX then SELECT_CURRENT), keeping highlight-driven
stay-open dialogs synced on mouse input (#14)
- mcp_app without fallbackText renders empty instead of JSON-dumping the
embedded HTML; projectAbout hides Base URL when selectedAuthType is
empty, matching ink's formatBaseUrl (#15)
* fix(cli): address R3 review findings in OpenTUI foundation modules
- executeSlashCommand catch checks the abort signal first: an ESC-
cancelled command (action rejects AbortError) returns handled with no
failure telemetry or error message, mirroring ink's processor — the
race promise never resolves when the signal is already aborted at
addEventListener time
- submit effect carries the full SubmitPromptActionReturn contract
(modelOverride, onComplete, refreshContextFilesOnWrite) so the
backend can honor /model <id> <prompt>, /dream's manual-run record,
and /remember's context refresh like ink instead of silently
degrading them
- closing fences cannot carry info text (CommonMark): a ```js line
inside an open block is literal body, not an early close that drops
the block and inverts parse state for the rest of the document
- info items append their linkUrl/linkText footer (ink's InfoMessage
renders it; headless/SSH users need the printed URL, e.g. /bug)
- the screen-reader sanitize keeps TAB: it separates words in
tool/model output and deleting it fused adjacent tokens
* fix(cli): address R4 review findings in OpenTUI foundation modules
- a11y-plain-text: split on all CommonMark line endings so CRLF
markdown opens/closes fences correctly; private-param CSI regex
covers ECMA-48 intermediate bytes; DCS/SOS/PM/APC and unterminated
OSC sequences consumed before strip-ansi; code-span pattern mirrors
ink's INLINE_CODE_SPAN_PATTERN (non-empty content, closing-run
lookbehind)
- dialogs-shared: clearNumberBuffer called from setActiveIndex,
selectIndex, and resyncKey block so wheel/hover/click/resync can't
commit a stale numeric-flush selection the user never made
- event-adapter: tool_call_response carries visionBridgeNotice on the
tool-result event (ink ToolMessage renders the egress disclosure)
- item-projection: projectContextUsage reads memoryFiles as { path,
tokens } (ContextMemoryDetail), not { name, tokens }
- key-map: 10 kp* keypad-navigation aliases (kpleft→left, …) and
super flag folded into meta (ink Cmd+Enter = newline, not submit)
- link-click: cellColumns no longer truncated to trimmed text length
(preserves the wide-glyph right-half boundary); findUrlAtRow end
boundary is width-aware (stringWidth of the last glyph)
- slash-dispatch: submit effect carries PartListUnion content + a
textContent string for text-only consumers (image parts survive);
toggleVimEnabled and startNewSession seams wired from env; abort
race resolves immediately for an already-aborted signal
- clipboard: OSC 52 self-write removed — copyToClipboard's existing
fallback (writeOsc52 / wrapForMultiplexer) is the single source
- a11y-screen-reader: appendStatic skips clean === '\n' (ink's
hasStaticOutput guard)
* fix(cli): address #10383 R1 findings in foundation modules
- event-adapter: finished branch emits retry-countdown-clear BEFORE the
info notice so the countdown row is actually cleared (the fold only
pops when the last item is the retry row)
- item-projection: /mcp tips now include all 5 lines ink renders (added
OAuth auth tip and Ctrl+T toggle tip)
- link-click: wide-glyph end boundary uses the last code point (not
UTF-16 code unit) so non-BMP emoji are measured correctly by
stringWidth
- a11y-plain-text: CSI_SEQUENCE replaces PRIVATE_PARAM_CSI — drops the
marker requirement so any CSI (with or without private parameter
marker, with or without intermediate bytes) is fully consumed
* fix(cli): address #10383 R2 Critical findings in slash-dispatch
- abort race: already-aborted signal now skips command.action entirely
(result = undefined) instead of eagerly evaluating it as a Promise.race
argument — the action's side effects (clear, persist, addItem) must not
run on a cancelled submission
- parent command telemetry: logEvent (slash_command SUCCESS) is now
called before the early return for parent commands with subCommands
(help listing) and bare handled — matching ink's finally-block logging
* fix(cli): address #10368 R2 review findings in live-session batch
- input-prompt: convert OpenTUI display-width cursor coordinates to
code-point positions at the component boundary — the pinned
@opentui/core reports logicalCursor.col/offset and el.cursorOffset in
terminal-cell units (edit-buffer.zig), while the ported ink helpers
work in code points; wide characters previously shifted placeholder
backspace, the backslash continuation check, completion targeting,
and history edge compares
- input-prompt: bump both search sequence refs when Esc dismisses the
completion dropdown so an in-flight search resolving afterwards cannot
re-open it and hijack Enter
- live-session-model: carry the vision-bridge egress disclosure through
the tool-result fold (ink ToolMessage renders it under the result)
- messages: recognize the producers' two-L 'cancelled' summary spelling
so canceled tools get the CANCELED glyph with strikethrough instead of
the red ERROR glyph
- session-switch: wrap /resume and /branch in the telemetry swap
transaction (begin before the outgoing-session capture, commit at the
UI re-key, abort after a rolled-back swap) — restores the usage
aggregate on failed swaps and rejects concurrent switches
- tests: display-width fake editor, wide-char placeholder/continuation
witnesses, Esc invalidation, fold notice, cancelled spelling, and the
three swap-transaction lifecycle cases
* fix(cli): declare cursorOffset on the FakeEditor test interface
The display-width fake added in 656e996c9a implements a cursorOffset
getter/setter but the interface it is cast through never declared the
member, so tsc --build fails with TS2339 at the two reads in the
wide-char placeholder test. Typecheck ran before that commit's files
were staged and missed it.
* test(cli): stub listStartingRunIds in the session-switch fake registry
The workflow-run registry gained listStartingRunIds with the workflow
tasks feature on main; backgroundWorkUtils iterates it when describing
blocking work, so the fake registry in session-switch.test.ts now
implements it (empty) to match the interface the merged code expects.
* fix(opentui): address yiliang114 review findings (4 P2 + 1 P3)
- transcript-adapter: FIFO queue for id-less tool call pairing so
tool-start and tool_result share the same minted id
- session-switch: move uiSwapped=true to right after startNewSession
(the first irreversible host mutation) preventing core/UI divergence
on mid-sequence throw; same fix for branch handler
- session-switch: add error item when /resume targets an unloadable
session instead of returning silently
- diff-render: run diff content through escapeAnsiCtrlCodes matching
the ink text-boundary convention (useTurnDiffs.ts)
- package.json: move remend from devDependencies to dependencies
(imported from production source markdown-heal.ts)
* fix(transcript): address R6 review — thinking latch, cancelled status, text join
- Replace one-shot `closed` latch with `thinkingOpen` state so
[thought, text, thought, ...] patterns emit matching thinking-end
for each burst (P2)
- Mirror live path: treat cancelled tool status as failed, not ok (P3)
- Join user text parts with newline instead of empty string (P3)
- Regenerate package-lock.json so remend is in dependencies (P2)
* fix(opentui): address review-pr bot R3 critical findings
- session-compaction: add missing COMPRESSION_FAILED_EMPTY_SUMMARY,
OUTPUT_TRUNCATED, and API_ERROR cases to match ink compression-text.ts
- live-session: distinguish cancelled from error in tool-end summary
so toolStatusMeta renders strikethrough instead of red X
- transcript-adapter: gate slash_command replay on phase=invocation to
prevent double-replay (recorder writes both invocation and result)
- input-prompt: add key.meta/key.option to DELETE_WORD_BACKWARD branch
to match the guard condition that intercepts Alt+Backspace
* fix(opentui): address round-5 review findings R2-5 R3-2 R3-12 R4-1
R2-5: update session-compaction.test.ts to assert the three new
parity texts (EMPTY_SUMMARY, OUTPUT_TRUNCATED, API_ERROR) added in
63a7f3c; the old assertion that EMPTY_SUMMARY returned '' is stale.
R3-2: transcript-adapter replay producer folded cancelled tool status
into summary 'error' (red ✕) instead of 'cancelled' (strikethrough).
Add the cancelled branch to match live-session.ts.
R3-12: hidden slash-command invocations (hiddenInvocation: true for
/auth, /help, /settings, /status, bare /effort, /btw) replayed as
visible user rows and entered composer history. Gate them on the
hiddenInvocation flag in the invocation filter.
R4-1: modelOverride was only carried on the first UserQuery send;
ToolResult continuation sends omitted it, so a per-turn model override
silently reverted to the session default after the first tool batch.
Propagate modelOverride into every continuation send.
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Acknowledgments
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