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fix(terminal): run project actions after shell startup - #36352
Both review items are right and are fixed: mobile project actions went through terminal attach and client-runtime wrote the command on the first snapshot, bypassing the server queue. Delivery is now one primitive that web and mobile both use. terminal.write takes an optional afterShellStartup flag; the server holds such writes in a per-session FIFO while a shell it just started has not begun reading input (bracketed paste on, or the existing quiet fallback from the extracted readiness watcher), then types them in order in one synchronous flush. Every shell started through open or attach is watched, not only opens that carried input, so the mobile attach path and a web action run in a terminal that is still starting are both covered. Ordinary writes are never held, so a user can still answer an rc-file prompt. The queue is dropped when the shell is stopped, restarted or exits. PowerShell and cmd have no line-editor signal and are written at once. Web's project-action write and the shared session driver in packages/client-runtime (the mobile path) each add the flag to the write they already made. This replaces the previous round's initialInput on terminal.open and initialInputHandled on the snapshot, which are removed along with the client fallback branch: a server that predates the flag strips it and writes immediately, as on main. Ordering holds because a second action's write is held behind the first's in the same queue; the manager test asserts FIRST then SECOND, with a reopen of the running terminal in between. Not taken from item 2: adding initialInput to TerminalAttachInput. The attach stream is re-established with the same input after a reconnect, a server restart or restartIfNotRunning, so the server could type the action a second time; the one-shot stays in the client driver, which already guards it. The client-runtime session test now asserts the first-snapshot write carries afterShellStartup: true, and the server test asserts such a write is not typed until the shell reads input. Not exercised on a device or in a real client in this step.
On macOS with zsh startup configured to consume pending terminal input, open a project in T3 Code web or desktop and select a thread whose terminal has never been opened. Configure a Dev project action running npm run dev, then run it from the thread's project actions menu. On main, observe the command above the shell prompt without the dev server starting; manually opening the terminal and waiting before running the action avoids the failure. With this change, the fresh-terminal action should execute once after readiness. These steps were read from the issue and supplied evidence, not executed.
Evidence
Being captured: before and after in the real app. This section is filled in before the pull request can merge.
Tests
vp test run src/terminal/Manager.test.ts in apps/server: 97 passed, including the three rewritten cases (held writes delivered in order after readiness while an ordinary write passes straight through; held writes dropped for a shell that open replaced; PowerShell written at once). vp test run src/state/terminal.test.ts in packages/client-runtime: 12 passed. vp run check:changed: failed once on format only, passed after vp fmt on the changed files (format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck of 37 packages, tests in 5 files, React Compiler check on 2 files).
Not in this change
Mobile project actions still type through the attach path in packages/client-runtime/src/state/terminal.ts, which waits for the first terminal output rather than shell readiness; moving that to the server needs the same field on terminal.attach.
An action run in a terminal that was opened without input moments earlier and is still starting is written immediately, as on main; readiness is tracked only for a shell spawned by an open that carried input.
The setup script runner still writes its own command after its own readiness wait instead of going through the manager's queue, so a project action reusing a setup terminal that is still starting can precede the setup command, as on main.
The setup script runner still waits with its own readiness watcher and writes directly rather than using the held-write flag, so a project action reusing a setup terminal that is still starting can precede the setup command, as on main.
A shell with no bracketed paste and a permanent child process from its rc file never looks ready, so a held write to it is never typed; there is deliberately no time limit, because one would type the command into an unanswered fnm/nvm prompt.
Shells started by the terminal restart RPC are not watched, so a held write to one is typed at once, as on main.
Who did the work
Written by Claude Fable 5.2, in Claude Code
Reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol, in Codex, and by Claude Opus 5.5, each on its own
Proof captured by GPT-6.1 Sol and checked by Claude Opus 5.5
A project action run in a terminal that had never been opened was typed
into the PTY as soon as terminal.open returned, before the interactive
shell read input. An rc-file prompt (fnm, nvm) could consume it, so the
command sat above the prompt and never ran.
terminal.open now takes initialInput and the server types it once the
shell's line editor reads input, using the readiness watcher the setup
script runner already had. Every open that carries input is delivered by
the server through one per-terminal queue, so an action run while an
earlier one still waits lands behind it instead of overtaking it. The
client keeps its own write only for servers that predate the field.
Fixes#6337
Co-authored-by: farseenmanekhan1232 <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <[email protected]>
Mobile runs project actions through terminal attach and wrote the
command when the first snapshot arrived, so it never reached the queue
that terminal.open's initialInput fed.
Delivery is now one primitive both clients use: terminal.write takes
afterShellStartup, and the server holds such writes, in order, while a
shell it just started has not begun reading input. Every shell started
by open or attach is watched, so the web and mobile launch paths behave
the same. This replaces initialInput and initialInputHandled; a server
that predates the flag ignores it and writes at once, as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <[email protected]>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Project actions and launch input now wait for shell readiness instead of being consumed by startup prompts. The change preserves immediate interactive input and drops queued commands when their shell exits or is replaced.
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A write held for shell startup did not count as input, so closeIdle saw
no activity and could close the terminal with the command still queued.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <[email protected]>
The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
the fix is written and reviewed, but proving it needs something no worker has:
Permanent blocker: macOS with zsh startup configured to consume pending terminal input is required. This worker runs Linux, and macOS host access outside the device pool is unavailable. An iOS simulator cannot provide the required macOS terminal server environment. Neither the base failure nor exactly-once execution after readiness on the head was verified.
Terminal writes can now wait for shell startup. A shared watcher detects readiness, and the terminal manager queues, discards, or replays flagged writes based on shell state.
Changes: Shell startup writes
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Summary
Startup-deferred write contract and callers packages/contracts/src/terminal.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/terminal.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/terminal.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/terminal/useThreadTerminalActions.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/useChatTerminalActions.ts
TerminalWriteInput adds the optional afterShellStartup flag. Client launch input and project action writes pass the flag. The client-runtime test checks the launch input payload.
The shared watcher detects line-editor readiness, shell quiet periods, and terminal exit or close events. Project setup scripts use the watcher instead of their runner-local readiness logic.
Terminal startup queue and replay apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts, apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.test.ts
The terminal manager queues flagged writes while a supported shell starts, then replays them in order after readiness. It clears queued writes when a process stops or a session starts. Tests cover queued writes, shell replacement, and PowerShell behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant Client as Terminal write caller
participant Manager as TerminalManager
participant Readiness as watchShellReadiness
participant PTY as Shell process
Client->>Manager: Send write with afterShellStartup
Manager->>Manager: Queue write while startup is pending
Manager->>Readiness: Wait for shell readiness
Readiness-->>Manager: Report readiness
Manager->>PTY: Replay queued writes in order
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Suggested reviewers:saphid, tonybynmp4, nateec
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 51442
A project-action command waiting for shell startup can still be discarded by idle-terminal cleanup. Protect pending startup writes and test cleanup after input has already been queued before merging.
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Title check
The title "fix(terminal): run project actions after shell startup" matches the main change: an optional afterShellStartup flag on terminal.write holds project-action writes until a newly started shell…
Description check
The description follows the repository template. It has Problem (the stuck command on a fresh terminal, with reproduction steps and environment), Change (the afterShellStartup flag, server-side FIFO q…
Linked Issues check
Issue #6337 requires a manually run project action to execute once when its terminal was not opened before. The reviewed head adds an optional afterShellStartup field to TerminalWriteInput in packages…
Out of Scope Changes check
Each changed area connects to the project-action write path for #6337. The contract adds the flag. Manager.ts adds the held-write queue, the startOpenedSession wrapper, and shellSignalsLineEditor for …
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The title "fix(terminal): run project actions after shell startup" matches the main change: an optional afterShellStartup flag on terminal.write holds project-action writes until a newly started shell is ready to read input. It is a conventional commit title in plain language and names the primary fix without file lists or vague terms.
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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem (the stuck command on a fresh terminal, with reproduction steps and environment), Change (the afterShellStartup flag, server-side FIFO queue, readiness watcher, and client updates), Scope (links issue #6337, notes it supersedes #33384, and credits the original author), and Verification (focused test counts, check:changed result, and limitations). The Evidence section is explicitly marked as pending, and the author states that the change was not exercised on a device or in a real client. The description gives a clear picture of the change and its status, so it passes. It has a gap: the template asks for before/after evidence for UI changes, and the PR is not complete until it is filled in. That is a remaining item for the author, not a missing structure.
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Issue #6337 requires a manually run project action to execute once when its terminal was not opened before. The reviewed head adds an optional afterShellStartup field to TerminalWriteInput in packages/contracts/src/terminal.ts. In apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts, startOpenedSession wraps every open and attach that starts a shell with watchShellReadiness from shellReadiness.ts. For a shell that signals a line editor, flagged writes are pushed to session.heldWrites. They are flushed in order when readiness resolves, unless the shell exited or was replaced. Ordinary writes are not held. The web action (apps/web/src/components/chat/useChatTerminalActions.ts) and the client-runtime session driver both pass the flag. Automated tests cover ordered delivery, replacement drops, PowerShell immediate writes, and the client-runtime first-snapshot write. The Manager.ts diff was read directly for this verdict. The PR reports 97 server tests and 12 client-runtime tests passing. Limits: the macOS zsh failure was not reproduced or verified on a device, and the PR comment states that no real-client proof was captured. This leaves real-world exactly-once behavior unconfirmed, but the coding requirement is implemented and covered by tests. The PR description also says mobile actions still type through the attach path, which is a stated limitation and not a failure of the web path.
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Each changed area connects to the project-action write path for #6337. The contract adds the flag. Manager.ts adds the held-write queue, the startOpenedSession wrapper, and shellSignalsLineEditor for PowerShell and cmd. shellReadiness.ts holds the extracted readiness watcher. The web action and client-runtime driver pass the flag. ProjectSetupScriptRunner.ts now delegates to watchShellReadiness, which is a refactor that removes duplicate readiness logic and supports the shared path. Test changes cover the new behavior. No unrelated change was found in the diffs read. The PR description's 'Not in this change' bullets say the setup runner keeps its own readiness watcher and writes directly. The code shows that is no longer true, so those bullets are stale. This is a documentation accuracy issue and not a scope failure.
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apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts-2983-2983: 1
2983-2983: Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
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Install the hold state before publishing the running shell.
startSession sets the process to "running" and publishes "started" at Lines 2620-2648 before this assignment runs. If an existing subscriber sends a flagged write while that event is being delivered, write sees heldWrites === null and writes directly into the starting shell. A subscriber that returns the flagged write effect reproduces this without a scheduling assumption.
Initialize the queue before exposing the running process or publishing "started". Preserve that queue through startup initialization.
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Allow an idle shell with background children to become ready.
If a shell does not emit the bracketed-paste signal and keeps a background child, this wait never completes. Manager.ts, Lines 768-793, counts that child as a running subprocess even when the shell has returned to its prompt. The quiet loop then repeatedly calls onStartupPrompt and never releases the queued project action.
Use readiness evidence that distinguishes a foreground startup prompt from background children. Add a focused case for a prompt-ready shell without bracketed paste and with a persistent background child.
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- Line 3517: Update closeIdle to skip sessions that have pending heldWrites, so
queued startup input is not discarded by idle closure. Extend the existing
regression case to queue input before calling closeIdle and verify that
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Keep terminals with pending startup writes out of idle closure.
If a flagged write is queued before closeIdle starts, its increment is already included in the captured activity mark. If subprocess inspection then reports no child process, the mark remains unchanged. closeIdle closes the terminal, and stopProcess discards the queued command.
This increment protects only writes received during inspection. Make closeIdle also reject sessions with pending heldWrites. Extend the existing regression case to queue input before calling closeIdle, then confirm that readiness delivers the command.
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Update closeIdle to skip sessions that have pending heldWrites, so queued startup input is not discarded by idle closure. Extend the existing regression case to queue input before calling closeIdle and verify that readiness delivers the command; preserve the inputCount activity tracking.
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Both review items are right and are fixed: mobile project actions went through terminal attach and client-runtime wrote the command on the first snapshot, bypassing the server queue. Delivery is now one primitive that web and mobile both use.
terminal.writetakes an optionalafterShellStartupflag; the server holds such writes in a per-session FIFO while a shell it just started has not begun reading input (bracketed paste on, or the existing quiet fallback from the extracted readiness watcher), then types them in order in one synchronous flush. Every shell started through open or attach is watched, not only opens that carried input, so the mobile attach path and a web action run in a terminal that is still starting are both covered. Ordinary writes are never held, so a user can still answer an rc-file prompt. The queue is dropped when the shell is stopped, restarted or exits. PowerShell and cmd have no line-editor signal and are written at once. Web's project-action write and the shared session driver in packages/client-runtime (the mobile path) each add the flag to the write they already made. This replaces the previous round'sinitialInputon terminal.open andinitialInputHandledon the snapshot, which are removed along with the client fallback branch: a server that predates the flag strips it and writes immediately, as on main. Ordering holds because a second action's write is held behind the first's in the same queue; the manager test asserts FIRST then SECOND, with a reopen of the running terminal in between. Not taken from item 2: addinginitialInputto TerminalAttachInput. The attach stream is re-established with the same input after a reconnect, a server restart or restartIfNotRunning, so the server could type the action a second time; the one-shot stays in the client driver, which already guards it. The client-runtime session test now asserts the first-snapshot write carriesafterShellStartup: true, and the server test asserts such a write is not typed until the shell reads input. Not exercised on a device or in a real client in this step.Fixes #6337
Supersedes #33384. The change is @farseenmanekhan1232's; their commits are kept.
Reproduction on main
On macOS with zsh startup configured to consume pending terminal input, open a project in T3 Code web or desktop and select a thread whose terminal has never been opened. Configure a Dev project action running npm run dev, then run it from the thread's project actions menu. On main, observe the command above the shell prompt without the dev server starting; manually opening the terminal and waiting before running the action avoids the failure. With this change, the fresh-terminal action should execute once after readiness. These steps were read from the issue and supplied evidence, not executed.
Evidence
Being captured: before and after in the real app. This section is filled in before the pull request can merge.
Tests
vp test run src/terminal/Manager.test.tsin apps/server: 97 passed, including the three rewritten cases (held writes delivered in order after readiness while an ordinary write passes straight through; held writes dropped for a shell that open replaced; PowerShell written at once).vp test run src/state/terminal.test.tsin packages/client-runtime: 12 passed.vp run check:changed: failed once on format only, passed aftervp fmton the changed files (format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck of 37 packages, tests in 5 files, React Compiler check on 2 files).Not in this change
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