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Problem

On a phone, tapping chat Send while the keyboard is still composing the last word does nothing, and tapping again does nothing either. Gboard composes every word, and Korean/Japanese/Chinese keyboards keep the last syllable open, so this hits ordinary typing. It works only after a space or the keyboard's own Return.

Cause

#937 made the Send button preventDefault its pointerdown so focus stays in the message box and the keyboard stays up. With focus kept, nothing in the tap ends the composition, and Composer.send() returns early while composingRef is set (the guard from #334). Before #937 the tap's blur ended the composition first. #959 fixed the same thing in the terminal input line and noted that the chat composer needed the same treatment.

Fix

Same approach as #959 (TerminalInput.tsx):

  • A Send tapped during composition blurs and refocuses the message box inside the tap. Chrome ends the composition on the focus change and fires compositionend at once; refocusing in the same gesture keeps the keyboard up.
  • On that compositionend, the send runs a tick later (after WebKit's committing input event).
  • If the keyboard does not commit within 300 ms, the tap is withdrawn with "Finish the word, then send." ("Finishing the word…" shows while it waits). A later commit never sends on its own. Both strings already exist with translations.
  • Enter during composition is unchanged (it still never sends).

Tests

  • scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts: new phone case. It types hello , opens a real composition 안 via CDP Input.imeSetComposition, and taps Send. It expects the box to empty, focus to stay in the box, and the next syllable to start in an empty box. Fails on main (value "hello 안") and passes here.
  • bun run check fast: 3754 unit tests, typecheck and build pass.
  • Not run: the native Gboard emulator. The commit mechanism is the one fix(terminal-input): finish the composing word on Send #959 verified there on Chrome 133 + Gboard. iOS keyboard flicker from the blur/refocus is still unobserved, as in fix(terminal-input): finish the composing word on Send #959.

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On a phone, tapping chat Send while the keyboard still composes the last
word (Gboard composes every word; a Korean keyboard keeps the open
syllable) did nothing, tap after tap. #937 keeps focus in the message box
on the tap so the keyboard stays up, so nothing in the tap ends the
composition, and Composer.send() returns early while composingRef is set
(the guard from #334).

The Send button now does what #959 did for the terminal input line: a tap
during composition blurs and refocuses the box inside the gesture (Chrome
ends the composition and fires compositionend at once, and the keyboard
stays up), then sends a tick later. A keyboard that does not commit within
300 ms gets the tap withdrawn with "Finish the word, then send.", so a
later commit never sends on its own. Enter during composition is
unchanged.

composer-fit-demo-regression gains a phone case with a real CDP
composition: it fails on main (the box keeps "hello 안") and passes here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • New Features
    • On mobile, tapping Chat Send while composing with Gboard or a Korean, Japanese, or Chinese keyboard now finishes the current word and sends the message.
    • If the keyboard doesn’t finish the word, a prompt asks you to finish it before sending.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the terminal input guide to explain how Chat Send behaves during composition.

Chat Send now waits for active mobile IME composition to commit before sending. If composition does not commit within 300 ms, it displays a note asking the user to finish the word and send. The change also updates the documentation and adds a phone regression case.

Changes: Chat Send during composition

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Composition-aware send
src/components/Composer.tsx, scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts, docs/terminal-input.md, changelog.d/chat-send-during-composition.md
The Send button waits for active composition to commit, then sends the message. If composition remains active when the wait expires, it displays a finish-word note. The phone regression case checks that the message clears, focus remains in the textbox, and new composed text can be entered. The documentation and changelog describe this behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: demrom

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 21df4

The change is mergeable with a bounded test gap: the phone test could pass even if Send omits the composing word. Assert the submitted message before merging if this regression is intended to guard that behavior.

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scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts: 1

628-651: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the submitted message contains hello 안.

The test only checks that the textbox becomes empty. A send of hello can satisfy that check, retain focus, and allow the next syllable to be entered. The test must also inspect the conversation for the exact submitted text.

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         await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Send message", exact: true }).tap();
         await holds("", "Send during a composition sends the message");
+        await page.waitForFunction(async ({ paneId, text }) => {
+          const conversation = await (await fetch(`/api/pane/conversation?pane_id=${encodeURIComponent(paneId)}`)).json();
+          return conversation.turns.some((turn: { role: string; parts: { kind: string; text?: string }[] }) =>
+            turn.role === "user" && turn.parts.some((part) => part.kind === "text" && part.text === text));
+        }, { paneId: panes.api, text: "hello 안" }, { timeout: 5_000 });
         assert.equal(await box.evaluate((node) => node === document.activeElement), true, "the message box keeps focus");
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Update the Send-during-composition regression test around `withCard` to verify
the conversation contains a user text part exactly equal to “hello 안” after
tapping Send, in addition to checking that the textbox clears. Reuse the
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submitted message before continuing.

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- Around line 628-651: Update the Send-during-composition regression test around
`withCard` to verify the conversation contains a user text part exactly equal to
“hello 안” after tapping Send, in addition to checking that the textbox clears.
Reuse the existing pane identifier and conversation API pattern so the test
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devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 15, 2026
## Cause

#914 added `describe("an unknown host")` to `server/ssh.test.ts`. Its
`hostKey()` helper ran `ssh-keygen` to make an ed25519 host key and read
its fingerprint, and `learnHostKey()` in `server/ssh.ts` runs
`ssh-keygen -l` on the learned key. The self-hosted CI runner image has
no OpenSSH client, so Fast checks fail on every PR with `error:
Executable not found in $PATH: "ssh-keygen"`. The three failing tests
are "shows the fingerprint before any authenticating connection and
trusts it on yes", "trusts nothing on no" and "is not learned without
someone to ask".

Evidence: Actions run 38661729060 on #1142.

## Fix

This changes only the test; production code is unchanged.

- `hostKey()` generates the key in-process with `node:crypto`
(`generateKeyPairSync("ed25519")`). It builds the OpenSSH wire-format
blob (`string "ssh-ed25519"`, `string <32-byte key>`), the known_hosts
line `pc.example ssh-ed25519 <base64 blob>` and the fingerprint
`SHA256:<unpadded base64 of sha256(blob)>`.
- The fixture already puts a stand-in `ssh` on PATH. It now also puts a
stand-in `ssh-keygen` there, which prints `ssh-keygen -l -f
<known_hosts>` output (`256 SHA256:… <host> (ED25519)`) computed in Bun
from the file it is given. `learnHostKey()` still spawns `ssh-keygen -l`
and parses its output exactly as before.
- No test is skipped or made conditional, and the assertions are
unchanged.

I checked the stand-in once by hand: for a generated key, the in-process
fingerprint, the stand-in's line and the real `ssh-keygen -l -f` line
were byte-identical (`256 SHA256:u8eq…KsGY pc.example (ED25519)`).

## Verification

- `bun run typecheck`: exit 0
- `HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun test ./server/ssh.test.ts`: 10 pass, 0 fail
- The same test with ssh-keygen hidden
(`PATH=/tmp/no-keygen-path:~/.bun/bin`, where the shim dir symlinks
every `/usr/bin` entry except `ssh-keygen` and `command -v ssh-keygen`
finds nothing): 10 pass, 0 fail
- `bun run check fast`: exit 0, unit tests 3769 pass, 0 fail, 8 skip

No changelog fragment: this is a test-only change.
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