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feat(agent-setup): report agent launch from the wrapper so terminals bind at boot - #7010

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Problem

A freshly launched agent pane can sit with no terminalAgentBindings row — and therefore none of the binding-gated pane controls — until its first Stop or an attach. Worst right after a session handoff: the new pane is exactly the one a user wants to chain from.

Root cause (proven empirically, not delivery): Codex 0.150.1 creates its session rollout lazily, so the native SessionStart hook registered in ~/.codex/hooks.json fires only with the first turn. An idle Codex TUI booted for 10s with --enable hooks --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust fires nothing; codex resume fires nothing at launch either. Vibe has no session hooks at all (its hooks.toml supports only before_tool/post_agent_turn). Every hook POST that did fire got a 200 — the gap is upstream of the wire.

Fix

  • Wrapper launch report (buildWrapperScript, all 12 agent wrappers, marker v3→v4): a backgrounded subshell waits 2s, checks the agent process is still alive (kill -0 on the pid that survives exec), then fires {"hook_event_name":"SessionStart"} through notify.sh. Skips --help/-h/--version/-V/-v (before --) and runs only inside Superset terminals, so version probes and fast exits never bind a pane. Server-side, SessionStart→Attached already creates the binding; harnesses with working native SessionStart still fire it and attach the real session id via upsert.
  • Store guard: an Attached for the same agent session no longer downgrades an active Start/PermissionRequest — the delayed report must not flip a working agent to idle.

Per-harness: all 12 wrapper harnesses (claude, amp, codex, gemini, mastracode, opencode, copilot, vibe, kimi, grok, cursor-agent, droid) now report at launch via the wrapper; omp/pi have no wrappers but their extensions already fire session_start at session boot. Known limits: long-running non-session subcommands (claude mcp add, codex login) bind until they exit; direct-binary launches that bypass the wrapper rely on native hooks only.

Verification

  • Both new tests proven failing before the fix. packages/agent-setup: 268/268 + tsc clean. packages/host-service: 1407/1407 + typecheck clean.
  • Real app over CDP: launching codex in a dev-app terminal produced a codex | Attached binding 2.5s after Enter, while Codex was still at its trust prompt (no session, no native hook possible); the pane tab swapped to the Codex icon (the binding-gated UI on main); /quit ended the binding as detached.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01HR6rXRzQM6p8epeyer3XqG


Summary by cubic

Agent terminals now get their agent binding at boot instead of waiting for the harness's first native hook, which Codex defers until the first turn and vibe never fires at launch.

  • All 12 agent wrappers emit a synthetic SessionStart through notify.sh 2s after launch, gated on the agent process still being alive and running inside a Superset terminal, so --help/--version probes and fast exits never bind a pane.
  • Harnesses with working native hooks still fire their real SessionStart; the host upsert keeps the duplicate harmless and attaches the real session id.
  • A delayed Attached event no longer rewrites any same-session lifecycle state — Start, PermissionRequest, Stop, or Failed — and only refreshes lastEventAt, so a late launch report can't hide a failure or erase a resume candidate.
  • Known limits: long-running non-session subcommands (claude mcp add, codex login) bind until they exit, and direct-binary launches that bypass the wrapper rely on native hooks only.
  • Verified in the dev app: launching codex produced an Attached binding 2.5s after Enter while Codex was still at its trust prompt.

Written for commit abb242f. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Added launch reporting for eligible long-running agent sessions, improving host visibility into session starts.
    • Reports are automatically skipped for help, version, short-lived commands, and unsupported environments.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved all existing session lifecycle states when an attachment event occurs, including permission requests, stops, and failures.
    • Correctly refreshed session activity during reattachment without overwriting the current lifecycle status.

…bind at boot

Codex defers its native SessionStart hook until the first turn (an idle or
resumed TUI fires nothing) and vibe has no session hooks at all, so a
freshly launched pane could sit with no terminalAgentBindings row — and no
binding-gated controls — until the first Stop or attach. Every harness
shares one launch-time signal: the Superset wrapper. It now emits a
synthetic SessionStart through notify.sh, delayed 2s and gated on the agent
process still being alive so --help/--version probes and fast exits never
bind a pane.

Host-side, an Attached event for the same agent session no longer
downgrades an active Start/PermissionRequest state, since the delayed
report can land after the first prompt.

Verified in the dev app over CDP: launching codex in a terminal produced a
codex/Attached binding 2.5s after launch (while codex was still at its
trust prompt), the pane tab swapped to the Codex icon, and /quit ended the
binding as detached.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HR6rXRzQM6p8epeyer3XqG
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The wrapper marker changes to v4 and adds conditional, delayed launch reporting. TerminalAgentStore preserves lifecycle states when delayed Attached events use the same session. Tests cover launch filtering, injection, and binding transitions.

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Agent launch state

Layer / File(s) Summary
Wrapper launch reporting
packages/agent-setup/src/agent-wrappers-common.ts, packages/agent-setup/src/agent-wrappers-launch-report.test.ts, packages/agent-setup/src/agent-wrappers.test.ts
Wrappers with an agent identity report eligible Superset launches through the managed notify hook. Reports skip help, version, fast exits, and missing context. Tests cover injection and launch filtering.
Attachment state preservation
packages/host-service/src/terminal-agents/store.ts, packages/host-service/src/terminal-agents/store.test.ts
The store preserves any lifecycle state for same-session Attached events. A new session replaces the prior state. Tests cover Start, PermissionRequest, Stop, and Failed states.

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The PR reports agent launches earlier so terminal controls become available at boot and protects active lifecycle states from delayed reports; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GeneratedWrapper
  participant ManagedNotifyHook
  participant TerminalAgentStore
  GeneratedWrapper->>ManagedNotifyHook: Delayed SessionStart payload
  ManagedNotifyHook->>TerminalAgentStore: Attached event
  TerminalAgentStore->>TerminalAgentStore: Preserve or replace binding state by session
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In `@packages/host-service/src/terminal-agents/store.ts`:
- Around line 157-158: Update the unchanged-session Attached-event handling
around prior.lastEventType so it preserves every existing lifecycle state,
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A delayed wrapper launch report landing after a fast turn's Stop (or a
Failed) would overwrite it, erasing the row's resume-candidate status or
hiding the failure. Attached now never rewrites lastEventType for an
unchanged session; it only refreshes lastEventAt.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HR6rXRzQM6p8epeyer3XqG

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