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A message or command sent from the chat to an omp pane that is still starting stays typed in omp's input box and never runs. omp 18.12.3 draws its input box first, then loads its slash commands, and only after that connects its submit handler (InteractiveMode.init: refreshSlashCommandState before setupEditorSubmitHandler). herdr's agent.prompt pastes the text and presses Enter 300 ms later, so an Enter in that window does nothing, and the text is still there once omp is ready.

Measured on an isolated herdr session with omp 18.12.3 (48 sends of /effort and /switch over 3 fresh starts): all 14 failures came right after omp started (the first few seconds, up to about 18 s on a cold first start); none once it was ready.

Fix (server/core/composer.ts): after agent.prompt succeeds on an omp pane, a background check reads the pane every second for up to 30 s. While omp's input box still holds exactly the sent message (whitespace aside), it presses Enter again; anything else (an empty box, a picker the message opened, other typing, no box at the screen's end) ends the check. The send itself is answered as before, so a message omp took at once costs one screen read.

Validation

• server/core/omp-submit.test.ts (new): the box reader on a capture of omp 18.12.3 still starting with /effort typed, a wrapped two-row draft, and screens with no box; and, through the real RPC client against a synthetic herdr socket, Enter pressed again while the box holds the message and none after it empties, none into a box holding something else, and no read at all for another agent.
• Real omp 18.12.3 on isolated herdr, /effort sent through createSubmitText right after omp was detected, 11 cold starts: 9 opened the thinking level picker 1.4 to 1.9 s after the send (the first Enter was lost in several and the retry delivered it). In 2, omp took the command (the box emptied) but no picker showed; the cause is not confirmed (omp's own startup or a delayed first Enter whose picker the retry's Enter closed on the current level), and no other level was set.
• bun run check fast: workflow syntax, generated files, typecheck and build pass; unit 5102 pass, 1 fail. The failure is server/conversation.test.ts "Agy native ledger through shared paging" (a timeout); it and "Devin pane identity" fail the same way on clean main on this PC.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Messages and commands sent to an OMP during startup are now reliably submitted instead of remaining in the input box.
  • Automatic retries stop when the input is cleared or changed, preventing unintended duplicate or altered submissions.
  • Submission handling now supports delayed startup readiness and reports when retry attempts time out.

After a successful prompt, OMP panes now check the visible input and retry Enter while it still matches the submitted message. The polling interval is configurable, and retries stop when the input is empty, unreadable, or changed, or after 30 seconds.

Changes: OMP submission handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Input parsing and polling option server/core/composer.ts	The composer parses visible OMP input and adds the optional ompSubmitCheckMs polling interval.
Retry integration and validation server/core/composer.ts, server/core/omp-submit.test.ts, server/fixtures/omp-input-18.12.3-starting.txt, changelog.d/omp-submit-during-startup.md	After a successful agentPrompt, OMP panes start asynchronous retries. Tests cover input parsing and retry stop conditions. The fixture provides a startup screen, and the changelog records the fix.

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The startup retry fix is bounded and low risk. Two small follow-ups are worth doing before or soon after merge: re-check authorization in the retry loop, and make the negative tests wait for the loop's decision so they can actually fail.

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server/core/omp-submit.test.ts: 1

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The negative tests assert before the background retry loop can act, so they cannot fail.

enterWhileOmpHolds is started with void after submitText returns. It sleeps ompSubmitCheckMs (5 ms) before its first read. The three negative tests do not wait for that loop:

• Line 120 checks count("pane.read") right after submitText resolves. That is before the first 5 ms sleep ends. If the resolveAgent(pane).agent === "omp" guard were removed, this test would still pass.
• Lines 105–106 and 112–113 stop waiting as soon as the mock records the pane.read request. The mock pushes the call before it answers, so the pane.send_keys that would follow the read cannot be recorded yet. If the comparison were broken and the loop pressed Enter, enters() would still be 0.

Make each test wait until the loop has finished its decision before asserting. For example, wait for the read's reply and then one more check interval. The loop is fire-and-forget, so a short fixed wait after the read is the simplest fix. It needs the // fixed wait: comment that the conventions tests expect.

Proposed fix

   it("looks once and presses nothing when omp took the message at once", async () => {
     await submitter()("w:p1", "/effort", "/effort", Date.now());
     await until("the box read", () => count("pane.read") >= 1);
+    // fixed wait: the detached retry loop answers the read before it would press Enter
+    await Bun.sleep(50);
     expect(enters()).toBe(0);
   });
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     await until("the box read", () => count("pane.read") >= 1);
+    // fixed wait: the detached retry loop answers the read before it would press Enter
+    await Bun.sleep(50);
     expect(enters()).toBe(0);
@@
     await submitter()("w:p1", "/effort", "/effort", Date.now());
+    // fixed wait: several omp check intervals (5 ms) pass without a read
+    await Bun.sleep(50);
     expect(count("pane.read")).toBe(0);

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Review comment at @server/core/omp-submit.test.ts around lines 103 - 122:
Update the three negative tests around submitter() so they wait for the detached
enterWhileOmpHolds retry loop to finish before asserting. After the pane.read
wait in the first two tests, add the convention-required fixed Bun.sleep wait;
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Review comments at @server/core/composer.ts:
- Around line 91-98: Update enterWhileOmpHolds to accept an allowed callback,
invoke it before each retry and return when authorization fails, then pass it to
paneSendKeys for the Enter action. At the submitText call site, provide a
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Merge pass: blocked (both gate reviewers)

The merge pass pushed 53eb547 for CodeRabbit's thread (an authorize guard before each repeated Enter). Both gate reviewers still block the design itself: pressing Enter again while omp's box holds the sent text cannot tell an Enter omp lost from a message omp took, refused and put back.

HIGH

1. omp puts refused text back in its box (omo; traced in omp 17.4.1's input-controller.ts, not reproduced on 18.12.3): a !cmd sent while another bash command runs, a $ code while Python runs, a failed prompt send, a failed skill command. The loop then submits it again up to 30 times; a refused !git push would run as soon as the running command ends.
2. Read and Enter are two steps (Codex, reproduced with synthetic RPC): if omp consumes the message and opens a picker, or the user types another draft, between the pane.read and the pane.send_keys, the Enter goes into that picker or submits that draft. This may explain the PR's own "taken but no picker showed" runs (2 of 11).
3. Older loops are never cancelled (Codex, reproduced): every send starts its own 30 s loop outside the per-pane send serialization; a newer send or a recalled draft can be submitted by an older loop, and identical sends stack loops.
4. No revalidation of the pane (Codex, reproduced): omp exiting or the pane switching sessions during the window still gets keys, since only the first pane.get checked the agent.
5. Retries continue after the sender disconnects (Codex, reproduced): the authorize callback checks revocation, not a closed socket (AGENTS.md: nothing is sent automatically after a disconnect).

MEDIUM: the box parser accepts any final ╭─ … ╰─ … ─╯ block, not only omp's editor; the "another agent" test cannot fail (removing the omp check keeps all tests green).

A direction that avoids keys after the send: hold the send while a just-started omp is not yet ready (a read-only check, at worst a delay) and send once, so nothing is ever pressed twice.

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Rebased onto main after #1377 merged, and addressed the review:

• Conflict with feat(chat): answer omp's /model from its session-only picker's card #1377 (server/core/composer.ts): the check now compares omp's box with what actually went to omp (sent), so a bare /model sent as /switch is retried too. New test: compares the box with what went to omp: a bare /model goes as /switch.
• Nitpick, negative tests asserting before the detached loop decides: valid. The two "presses nothing" tests now wait ten of the loop's 5 ms looks after the read (a // fixed wait: proving nothing arrives, as the conventions test allows) and also assert the look ended (one read); the other-agent test waits the same before asserting no read. With the resolveAgent(pane).agent === "omp" guard removed, "does not look at another agent's screen" now fails. The new /model test waits for the emptied box so its loop ends inside the test and reads nothing of the next test's herdr.
• bun run check fast: unit 5127 pass, 0 fail; omp-submit.test.ts with the conventions test passed 5 runs in a row.

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Merge pass: redesigned (maintainer's choice)

The merge pass pushed 8ee16a3 (pull before your next push): instead of pressing Enter again after the send, a send to a just-started omp waits until omp can take it and then sends once.

• Why that is safe to wait for: omp's InteractiveMode.init connects its submit handler (setupEditorSubmitHandler) before initHooksAndCustomTools emits session_start (read in omp 17.4.1, 18.8.7 and 18.12.3's source), and herdr's omp integration reports the session (agent_session.source: "herdr:omp") from session_start.
• The rule: untilOmpReported (server/core/composer.ts): an omp pane that has not reported and whose process started less than 30 s ago is looked at every 250 ms (access and the send's deadline checked each time) until it reports, its agent changes, or the 30 s pass; then the send goes once. An omp that has run longer, or whose start time is unknown (no omp process found, no /proc or ps), is sent to at once as before: it may run without the integration. Nothing is pressed after a send, so the blocked findings (refused text resubmitted, read-then-Enter race, older loops, keys into a replaced process, keys after a disconnect) no longer apply.
• Tests (server/core/omp-submit.test.ts, synthetic herdr socket): a reported omp is sent to at once; a just-started one is not sent to until it reports, then once, with no keys; an old one at once; a revoked sender during the wait gets nothing sent; another agent never waits. Removing the wait fails two of them, removing the omp check fails another.
• Real omp 18.12.3 on an isolated herdr session, 3 cold starts each: /effort sent by agent.prompt right after herdr detected omp stayed typed in the box every time; sent through the send path, it waited for the report (4.4-6.1 s after the start) and opened the Thinking Level picker. (omp 18.8.7 reports 6-9 s after its start.)

The input-box reader and its fixture are gone with the retry.

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The merge pass pushed c7a455f for Codex's review of the redesign: an omp that quit while the send waited for it now ends the send with pending_target_changed and nothing typed, instead of falling through to the literal paste and Enter into the shell it left. New test; it fails on 8ee16a3.

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The merge pass pushed a9ed30b for Codex's next finding: the send checks access again after the wait, so a device revoked while the look that found omp's report was answered sends nothing. New test; it fails on c7a455f.

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The merge pass pushed bf002c6 for Codex's next finding: once omp's report is there the omp process is looked up again, and an omp other than the one waited on (the pane restarted into another omp meanwhile) ends the send with pending_target_changed. New test; it fails on a9ed30b.

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The merge pass pushed 1361974: the check that the omp is still the one waited on now runs however the wait ends (its report or the 30 s running out), so a pane restarted into an omp without the integration does not get the message (Codex, reproduced); a lookup that finds no omp no longer cancels the send (omo). New test; it fails on bf002c6.

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The merge pass pushed 4af285c:

• Only where herdr's omp integration is installed. Without herdr integration install omp nothing reports omp ready, so the earlier heads made every send in an omp's first 30 s wait out the window (the submit contract's /model case timed out on 1361974 for that reason). The wait now runs only when extensions/herdr-omp-agent-state.ts is in the agent directory that omp loads (ompAgentDir from its argv, environment and home); an omp without it is sent to at once, as before this PR. The contract's stand-in omp now reports its session as the integration does, so it no longer depends on the home the tests run under.
• Sender gone during the wait (Codex): not changed on purpose. The submit contract already pins that a send the user tapped finishes after the sender is gone ("still sends the Enter after the sender is gone": a phone that locks right after the tap). The wait only delays that same send; the rule about nothing being sent after a disconnect is about drafts the user has not sent.

bun run check run --build bun test server/submit.contract.test.ts: 82 pass; server/core/omp-submit.test.ts: 10 pass, and the new case fails on 1361974.

[devswha]

Merging 4af285c (redesigned by the merge pass at the maintainer's choice).

• What it does now: a send to an omp whose process started less than 30 s ago, with herdr's omp integration installed and no session reported yet, waits for that report (omp emits session_start, which the integration reports, only after connecting its submit handler) and then sends once. Nothing is pressed after a send. An omp without the integration, or one running longer, is sent to at once as before.
• Verified on real omp 18.12.3 (isolated herdr session, 3 cold starts each): /effort by agent.prompt right after detection stayed typed in the box every time; through the send path it waited for the report (4.4-6.1 s) and opened the Thinking Level picker.
• Gates: omo-native-code-reviewer PASS on the redesign and each later delta; server/submit.contract.test.ts 82 pass, server/core/omp-submit.test.ts 10 pass; required checks green. CodeRabbit reviewed only the original retry design.
• Codex's last finding, not changed on purpose: a tapped send that waits for omp still goes after the sender disconnects. The submit contract pins that a received send is finished for a sender that left ("still sends the Enter after the sender is gone"); the wait only delays it.

Remaining MEDIUM/LOW findings are in a follow-up issue.