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Fixes #1526.

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On a phone (<=768px, coarse pointer), in Input line mode:

  • The terminal input line had var(--space-2) var(--space-2) 0 padding: 8 px above its field and send button and none below, so both sat on the key bar's top rule. It now splits that room as --space-1 above and below (sides unchanged). The slot's height formula is updated to match and the total is unchanged, so the grid, and with it the pty, is not resized.
  • The key bar's keys were --touch-target (44 px) tall in its 48 px row, so they had 2.5 / 1.5 px of room. In a browser tab, where safe-area-inset-bottom is 0, they met the bottom of the screen. Keys now draw at a new --key-h (--keybar-h less 3 * --space-1, 36 px), centered with 6 px above and below. They reach the 44 px touch target through an invisible ::before expander inside the bar, the pattern .segmented and the header switch already use. Width is unchanged (min-width: --touch-target). The safe-area padding below the bar is unchanged.

DESIGN.md (Terminal host, key bar and drawer) and a changelog.d fragment describe it.

Bottom of the screen at 412×915, isolated herdr-web-ui-test session:

main this PR
folded 412×915
keyboard up (visualViewport 495)
gesture bar (safe-area-inset-bottom 24)

Measured (px from the row's top / bottom):

main this PR
input field and send button 9 / 0 5 / 4
keys in the key bar 2.5 / 1.5 6.5 / 5.5

Validation

  • New scripts/terminal-input-spacing-regression.ts (checkTerminalInputSpacing, run by ui-contexts-checks.ts). It covers folded (412), unfolded (720), a 24 px gesture-bar inset, the keyboard up (visualViewport) and landscape 915×412. It checks equal room above and below the field, the send button and every key, and 44 px touch targets inside the bar. It fails on main (field 8 / 0).
  • bun run check fast passes. bun run check run bun scripts/ui-regression.ts (isolated herdr) passed 71 checks on the third of three runs. The first two timed out at two different chat "Send now" pending-message checks (desktop width, where neither the input line nor the key bar is drawn). An unmodified main passed its single run here. mobile-tabs-regression.ts and ui-contexts-regression.ts pass (94 checks).

On a phone the terminal input line had 8px above its field and send
button but none below, so both sat on the key bar's rule, and the key bar's
44px keys filled its 48px row, so in a browser tab they met the bottom of
the screen. The input line now splits that room, --space-1 above and below,
in a row of the same height (the grid and the pty keep their size), and keys
draw at a new --key-h (36px), centered in the bar with equal room above and
below, reaching their 44px touch target through an invisible expander inside
the bar. scripts/terminal-input-spacing-regression.ts, run by
ui-contexts-checks, checks it folded, unfolded, over a gesture bar, with the
keyboard up and in landscape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • Improvements
    • Improved mobile terminal-input spacing with balanced padding and separation from the key bar and screen edges.
    • Preserved the terminal grid and input height when spacing changes are applied.
    • Added safe-area support to prevent the key bar from contacting bottom-screen gesture areas.
    • Improved key positioning and sizing, including 44px touch targets for easier tapping across folded, unfolded, landscape, and keyboard-visible layouts.

Terminal input padding now preserves the input row height while balancing vertical spacing. Key visuals are vertically centered, with expanded touch areas. A regression check covers folded, unfolded, gesture-bar, keyboard-visible, and landscape layouts.

Changes: Terminal input and key-bar layout

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src/components/TerminalInput.css, src/components/KeyBar.css, DESIGN.md, changelog.d/terminal-input-spacing.md
The input row retains its height with balanced vertical padding. Keys use a calculated visual height and invisible expanders for touch targets. The design notes and changelog describe these changes.
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scripts/terminal-input-spacing-regression.ts, scripts/ui-contexts-checks.ts
The Playwright check measures input and key-bar geometry across mobile layouts. It asserts balanced spacing, centered keys, and touch targets of at least 43.5 px contained within the key bar. The UI context suite runs the check.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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The current layout retains gesture-bar padding, but its new regression check could miss a future loss of clearance. This is a bounded test gap rather than a demonstrated layout failure.

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… measuring without it

The spacing checks measure the key bar without its safe-area padding, so a
bar that lost that padding would put its keys at the screen's edge and still
pass. Assert the padding against the inset (the safe area less --space-2)
and the keys' clearance from the screen's bottom edge first.

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The "Integration tests" failure on the first run (39578955379) is one test, server/pending-input.contract.test.ts "a create request's first message > queued while the shell was still in front…", which timed out at a pending frame. That test is server-side and doesn't touch this PR's CSS or test files. The same test failed the same way at about the same time on an unrelated branch: run 39579155417 (fix/codex-short-answer, 09:43 UTC). "Integration and browser" only failed as a follow-on. I couldn't re-run the job from the fork; the follow-up commit just pushed starts a fresh CI run.

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## Change

Release 0.4.13: everything merged since 0.4.12 (136 commits, 109
changelog entries). Metadata only; no code changes in this PR.

Left out of this release on purpose (still open): #1542, #1597, #1598,
#1579, and the outside contributors' PRs not yet reviewed or held (#1427
#1442 #1516 #1520 #1521 #1527 #1528 #1530 #1540 #1560 #1629 #1632
#1634).

### Metadata
- `package.json` and `herdr-plugin.toml`: 0.4.13.
- CHANGELOG: 87 `changelog.d/` fragments folded into `[0.4.13] -
2026-10-22` by `scripts/changelog-fold.ts`, with `by @login` credits on
the 36 links of outside contributors' PRs; `changelog.d/` holds only
README.md. Docs/test-only PRs without a fragment (#1395-#1398, #1439,
#1440) are not listed, as before.
- `release-summaries.json`: 0.4.13 in en/ko/ja/zh (8 new, 6 improved, 8
fixed; equal in every language, each <= 90 chars). The first line tells
that the app is now called Ovis (#1454) and installs and updates as
before.
- `REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION` 31 -> 32: `server/` and `shared/` changed
since remote-v31.
- Telemetry: `telemetry/worker.ts` and `shared/telemetry.ts` are
unchanged since the recorded deploy, so no Worker redeploy.

### After merge
1. Push `remote-v32` on the merge commit and wait for **Remote PC
bundles** to publish it.
2. Merge nothing touching `server/`, `shared/`, `bun.lock` or `patches/`
until the Release run is done.
3. `gh workflow run release.yml --ref main -f version=0.4.13`.

## Validation
- `bun scripts/release-guards.ts`: "Release 0.4.13: remote bundle,
telemetry Worker and release metadata are in order."
- `bun scripts/release-notes.ts 0.4.13` renders the three English lists
and the folded changelog.

<details><summary>Changelog (0.4.13)</summary>


### Added
- Claude Code, grok and Antigravity messages in Chat offer Rewind in
terminal: it sends nothing,
preserves your draft and opens the pane's terminal with a hint to run
the agent's own `/rewind`.
Chat follows the native conversation when the agent records its new
branch.
  ([#1500](#1500))
- Chat sends wait while Claude Code's rewind dialog is open in the
terminal, so a message cannot
  land in the dialog's own text field.
  ([#1500](#1500))
- Sending a bare `/goal` to Claude Code from Chat now shows its goal
status (the condition and how
long it has run, or that no goal is set) in a card with Close, instead
of leaving the dialog in
  the terminal.
  ([#1450](#1450))
- Command Code (`cmd`) agent panes now show their conversation in the
web UI: transcript
resolution from `~/.commandcode/projects/`, `/tree` branch projection,
model and context
window from Command Code's catalog, permission prompts, and skill
discovery.
([#1399](#1399) by
@diegolhambi)
- An ordinary command sent from Chat says what became of it under its
bubble, from evidence only:
accepted, waiting for your answer (with a way to the card), done with
what showed it, runs in
the terminal (with Open Terminal), or no result seen. A command the
agent keeps no transcript
  turn for still shows its sent row. A terminal screen that
changed after the send folds under the chip as an unconfirmed preview,
never proof that the
command finished. Terminal-only commands instead leave one quiet row
with Ran in terminal and
Open Terminal, without outcome chips or unconfirmed previews. Hermes
informational result cards
  keep showing what the agent printed.
  ([#1450](#1450))
- Settings → Terminal → Follow herdr's focus: when herdr moves to
another pane (a click in its
window, `herdr tab focus`, a script), this device opens that pane too.
Off by default, and set per
  device, so a phone open on another pane stays there.
  ([#1432](#1432))
- Hermes `/help`, `/status`, `/version`, `/profile` and `/reload-skills`
sent from Chat show what
Hermes printed in a card closed with Dismiss, which sends nothing to the
pane.
  ([#1450](#1450))
- Chat lists the commands and skills an OpenCode v2 pane's own
background service reports for its
folder, refreshed when they change, and settles a command it sent from
that session's own events.
The service is only read, never started, and only when it is the process
its service.json names.
  ([#1489](#1489))
- An `@skill` sent from Chat to OpenCode v2, at once or queued, is typed
through OpenCode's own
autocomplete so the skill is attached; when the row does not show, the
message says the skill
  went as plain text and points to the terminal.
  ([#1489](#1489))
- An OpenCode 1.x question is a card in Chat with each option and its
description, answered from
  the card.
  ([#1489](#1489))
- Chat lists a Codex pane's skills as the running Codex daemon of that
pane's own Codex home reports
them (Codex 0.157 or later; on Linux, or when the server's Codex home is
set), and a gjc pane's
skills as the SDK broker it is bound to reports them, asked through the
gjc CLI in the background.
The daemon and the broker are never started for this; without one, the
skills read from disk stay.
  ([#1489](#1489))
- New workspace and New tab start an agent with its model, effort and
first message where the
agent's command line takes them (Claude Code and Codex: `--model` and
the effort level; Codex also
takes the message as its own argument, behind `--` so a message like
`logout` is never a command).
For Claude Code and every other agent the message is queued on the PC as
the pane's first pending
message and sent once when the agent is ready, through the page that
started it; it shows as a
pending message that can be discarded or sent now. If that page
disconnects, reloads or leaves the tab
first, the message is held, never sent on its own, until someone sends
it now or discards it. A message the PC
could not queue, or one an older PC ignores, stays in the new tab's
message box and the dialog says
so. Pending first messages are kept in memory: restarting the web UI's
server drops them. A Codex
message with a tab or a line break is sent as the first message rather
than on its command line,
and the PC refuses launch arguments with control characters, an unknown
effort level or a model
  that is not one word. Under the message, the agent's skills in the
folder are listed before it runs, each a chip that puts the skill as the
agent types it into the
message (`$name`, `/name`, or `@name` for OpenCode 2). A first message
to OpenCode attaches its
`@skill` as any Chat send does; before OpenCode has a session nothing
tells its version, so the `@`
  is sent as the plain text it is.
In a desktop window the chat's composer can show a New tab with an
agent… button that opens the
dialog on the pane's workspace; it is off until turned on in Settings →
Chat → Composer (New tab
  button), and the tab menu opens the dialog either way.
  ([#1512](#1512))
- omp's `/handoff` runs from Chat, with or without focus instructions:
while omp writes the
handoff document, Chat shows a card that cancels it, and afterwards Chat
stays on the same
  conversation, which omp compacts in place.
  ([#1450](#1450))
- omp's model picker shows in the chat as a card, as Claude Code's,
Codex's and OmO's lists do: pick
a model and it is picked for the session, the model in use named on the
card. `/model` sent from
an omp chat opens it: the chat sends it as `/switch`, because omp's own
`/model` opens its role
  hub, whose picks are saved as the default for later sessions.
([#1377](#1377) by
@evanwy0223)
- OpenCode 2.0 or later: its questions are answered from the chat's
prompt card through OpenCode's
own background service instead of keystrokes, one question at a time
with Back to change an earlier
answer, and sent together after the last. Permissions, OpenCode 1 and
other prompts keep the
  existing generic fallback card and Terminal.
([#1257](#1257) by
@bardiz12)
- HTTP requests and WebSocket handshakes now carry request IDs and write
bounded completion
records in the app's state directory, so the owner can correlate a
response with its request.
  ([#1558](#1558))
- A workspace's row menu has Earlier sessions…: the sessions each agent
kept for the workspace's
folder, read from the agent's own store on the PC, newest first with the
title, the first prompt
and the time. Resume starts the agent on that session in a new tab of
the workspace; a session a
pane already shows is opened by selecting that pane instead. Picking
`/resume` in the chat's menu
opens the same list, and the terminal command's row offers it. A PC
whose bridge cannot list
  sessions yet has no such item.
  ([#1494](#1494))
- Agent rows show what herdr plugins report on a pane, such as the Quota
plugin's usage left or a
task's progress, in a small dim line under the row. They follow the
`$name` tokens of your herdr
`[ui.sidebar.agents]` rows (every token where none are set), change
live, and say a long value
whole in the tooltip and in a phone's ⋯ sheet. A line a plugin reports
for the agent now updates
  as soon as herdr says it.
  ([#1341](#1341))
- `HERDR_WEB_TAILSCALE_HTTPS_PORT` names the HTTPS port the installer
publishes the app on with
`tailscale serve`, so 443 can stay free for something else. Settings →
Phone & devices suggests
that port too. When another service already uses it, the installer stops
and says so instead of
taking another port, which would move the address an installed app
opens.
  ([#1433](#1433))

### Changed
- The chat's `/` menu lists the commands that run in the terminal apart,
last, under Terminal
commands, each with a Terminal badge, as the PC's command catalog
describes them. Pick or type
one and send it normally: once accepted, the pane's own terminal opens
over the chat, in this
browser only, while the chat stays where you were reading and the pane
stays on Chat. A head
says what ran, with Back to Chat and Keep Terminal; the header's Chat,
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+J and a
phone's Back return too, and Escape goes to the agent. On a desktop the
message box stays under
the terminal, dimmed; on a phone the key bar takes its place. Claude
Code's panels (`/config`,
`/permissions`, `/theme` and the like) can bring the chat back by
themselves when you close them,
once Claude records it; other agents' recorded screens do once their
input row is back, and the
  rest return by hand. A Ran in terminal row's
Open Terminal shows the terminal over the chat again. Busy commands stay
queued; only an
explicit Send now opens the terminal, never automatic delivery. Refused
sends keep their draft
and note. Watch-only devices never send or open it, and /resume still
opens Earlier sessions.
Commands the agent's own menu hides are not listed, but still go when
typed by hand.
  ([#1441](#1441))
- For an OpenCode pane whose skills are `@` attachments, the `@` menu
lists them under Skills
  before the files, and picking one inserts the skill's id.
  ([#1441](#1441))
- Growing OMP and Claude Code tasks now parse appended transcript
records incrementally, reducing
repeated work when long chats refresh while preserving tool results,
notices and history resets.
Live parser state shares Codex's bounded cache; earlier responses stay
unchanged as new records arrive.
([#1561](#1561) by
@Yoonwoo-Ha)
- The app is now called Ovis across the browser, install messages and
documentation, matching
the phone apps. Existing installs, settings, plugin identifiers and
update channels stay the same.
  ([#1454](#1454))
- A question card whose screen reads keep failing now says it may be out
of date ("Not updated: the
question on screen may have changed.") until a read answers again.
Answering stays safe: the
server reads the screen again first and refuses a changed question
(#1335).
([#1360](#1360) by @Noobear)
- The Earlier sessions dialog picks the agent from the same list as the
New tab and New worktree
dialogs, each agent with its icon and the chevron spaced as the app's
other controls, instead of
  a plain select whose arrow sat at the far edge.
  ([#1573](#1573))
- A finished agent opened in one browser is read in every browser of the
same server: opening it
on the phone clears its DONE dot on the desktop too, and the other way
around.
  ([#1463](#1463))
- Remove PC has a restrained red background and border before and after
its confirmation step,
retaining visible keyboard focus and the explicit second click to remove
the registration.
([#1394](#1394) by @snowykr)
- After a terminal command sent from Chat, Codex, omp, pi, gjc, OmO,
Hermes (classic CLI), Devin,
agy and Grok bring the chat back by themselves when you close the picker
or panel it opened,
once the agent's own empty input row is back on the screen. Only the
commands each agent was
recorded doing that for count (Codex's `/permissions`, omp's
`/settings`, Grok's `/resume` and
the like); print forms, toggles, editor handoffs, Codex's `/side` and
`/btw`, OpenCode and
  anything unrecorded still return by hand.
  ([#1637](#1637))

### Fixed
- The New session and History pickers show Hermes, Grok, Antigravity,
Devin and Command Code by
  their own names instead of their lowercase ids.
  ([#1543](#1543))
- The terminal attach process and its Node host no longer inherit the
server's `HERDR_WEB_TOKEN`
environment variable; they keep the socket path and the rest of their
environment.
  ([#1562](#1562))
- Choosing Jump to latest remembers bottom-follow before the virtual
list scroll completes.
Switching to Terminal immediately after that choice and returning to
Chat no longer restores
the older reading position. This fixes explicit Jump-to-latest intent,
not arbitrary upward
  restoration on long, active or reasoning-heavy tabs.
([#1346](#1346) by
@Yoonwoo-Ha)
- Remember bottom-follow without measuring rendered rows or looking up a
turn anchor; readers away
  from the end retain the existing paragraph-and-offset restoration.
([#1346](#1346) by
@Yoonwoo-Ha)
- Selecting and copying chat text now preserves the text as shown
instead of adding Markdown
syntax. Rich-text paste and the whole-answer MD and TXT copy actions
remain available.
  ([#1409](#1409))
- Chat no longer treats a command that leaves the agent waiting in a
screen Chat cannot show as an
ordinary send. Claude Code's `/usage`, `/cost`, `/status`, `/help`,
`/memory`, `/mcp` and
`/add-dir`, Codex's `/new` and `/fork` in a repository, `/cd`, `/usage`,
`/copy` and `/side`,
and the panels, pickers, confirmations and editors of omp, gjc, OmO,
Hermes, Devin,
Antigravity, OpenCode and Command Code are now Terminal commands: sent,
they open Terminal with
Back to Chat. A value typed with a picker command, such as `/fast off`
or `/export notes.md`,
  stays an ordinary send.
  ([#1596](#1596))
- A Claude Code skill or custom command named like a built-in command
(`/compact`, say) is listed
once in the composer's command menu, as the skill Claude runs, instead
of beside the built-in.
  ([#1441](#1441))
- Reconnects and unconfirmed sends can leave a bounded browser-side
diagnostic trail on this
server, without recording messages, credentials, addresses or terminal
output.
([#1357](#1357) by
@christi4nity)
- The chat and the session history now apply one rule to Codex rollouts:
a subagent's rollout (one
naming a parent thread or an agent role), an exec run's, or one whose
ids are null or contradict
its file name is no longer read as a pane's conversation or offered to
resume, while older
rollouts without those fields still are. A rollout whose first line is
longer than the chat or
  the history reads is left out instead of read unchecked.
  ([#1592](#1592))
- Two Codex panes in one folder whose answers are short each show their
own chat again with Codex
0.163, which starts a thread in the same second as its process; before,
both said the
  conversation was unavailable about as often as not.
([#1522](#1522) by
@jiaoew1991)
- A Codex pane with only short answers still finds its chat after
another pane in the same folder
runs `/new`: a thread that pane shows a long answer of under its first
prompt, is bound to, or
  that herdr reports for it no longer leaves this pane unsure.
([#1522](#1522) by
@jiaoew1991)
- Of two Codex panes in one folder with short answers, the one started
first finds its chat too
once the other shows its own first exchange, where it said the
conversation was unavailable.
([#1522](#1522) by
@jiaoew1991)
- On a phone, a composer notice's actions (such as the `/resume`
notice's Earlier sessions, Open
Terminal and Run in Terminal) wrap onto their own line, and its dismiss
button stays visible
  instead of being cut off at the edge.
  ([#1543](#1543))
- Wrapped and multiline message drafts are sized with an out-of-flow
measurement field instead of
collapsing the live input, preserving transcript spacing and the
paragraph being read (#1337).
([#1347](#1347) by
@Yoonwoo-Ha)
- The measurement field shares the live input's Korean, Japanese and
Chinese line-breaking rules,
including Korean placeholder wrapping, so localized drafts keep their
natural height.
([#1347](#1347) by
@Yoonwoo-Ha)
- Local Herdr timeouts, machine connection failures and recoveries, and
abnormal WebSocket closes
now leave timestamped, rate-limited diagnostic records without logging
input or credentials.
([#1356](#1356) by
@christi4nity)
- The browser connection trace no longer re-posts a batch the server
refuses with a 4xx status,
resumes reporting after you sign in again on the same page, and
malformed reports can no longer
  use up the server's shared report quota.
  ([#1423](#1423))
- Pairing a device, renaming or revoking one, and the web push key and
subscriptions are now
flushed to disk before they replace the previous file, so a crash or
power cut right after the
change is much less likely to bring back a revoked device or make every
phone subscribe to
alerts again. How much survives a power cut still depends on the disk
and filesystem honouring
  the flush; on Windows the folder itself is not flushed.
  ([#1568](#1568))
- File search and path lookup no longer run a repository's fsmonitor
hook, follow Git variables
the server was started with, or wait on a Git listing that never ends: a
listing past 16 MiB
  or 3 seconds, or one cut off mid-name, falls back to the folder walk.
  ([#1570](#1570))
- **Files → Changes** no longer runs a program named `false` found on
`PATH` with Git 2.35 or
older, and reads the repository asked about even when the server was
started with
  `GIT_COMMON_DIR` set.
  ([#1570](#1570))
- Keep sidebar status updates responsive after many completed turns by
caching read finishes and
bounding their in-memory history instead of repeatedly scanning browser
storage.
  ([#1536](#1536))
- A first message from New workspace or New tab no longer waits forever
when the agent started for
it quits before the message goes: it is held for Send now or Discard.
The same happens when an
agent of the same kind that the user starts later comes up instead, and
when the page that sent it
leaves the pane while it is being typed, so the pane's other queued
messages are not stuck behind it.
On native Windows the PC sees only the pane's shell, so it cannot tell
that the agent quit: there the
  message keeps waiting until you discard it.
  ([#1532](#1532))
- GJC Chat hides internal agent-to-agent IRC messages and automatic
replies, while keeping user
  messages that quote them visible.
  ([#1535](#1535))
- GJC questions using the Nerd Font selection cursor now show their
actual choices in chat
instead of only Up, Down, Enter and Esc controls. Moving the cursor
preserves the question's
  identity and uses the current selection when answering.
([#1553](#1553) by
@Kinetic27)
- GJC chats on a busy machine give cold session lookups up to five
seconds per command and
ten seconds overall instead of timing out after two seconds per command.
Session snapshots
  retain the shorter status lookup budget; failed status lookups
  are held for 30 seconds without preventing chat reads from retrying.
([#1364](#1364) by @sskys18)
- GJC chat and status reuse their verified session binding when other
sessions write heartbeats,
instead of restarting the SDK lookup for every pane. Session changes
still require SDK validation.
  ([#1343](#1343))
- Grok keeps Chat with older sessions open and uses Terminal when the
session is uncertain.
([#1352](#1352) by
@infowolfe)
- One failed health check no longer shows herdr offline or switches a
Windows PC's panes to the
terminal lens: the header says Status unknown with the last herdr it
saw, and herdr unavailable only
  after a second failure in a row.
  ([#1581](#1581))
- A malformed, oversized or misaddressed answer from herdr now fails
only the request it answers,
with a clear error, instead of hanging until the timeout, growing the
server's memory or being
taken as another request's answer; event subscriptions report such a
frame and close.
  ([#1584](#1584))
- Hermes `/status` sent from Chat now shows its result card on the first
send in a new pane too, even
when the computer is busy. A send whose result was missed no longer
leaves every later `/status` in
that pane without a card for ten minutes. The same holds when another
device has the terminal
  scrolled up.
  ([#1543](#1543))
- Sending Hermes `/status` (or another informational command) from Chat
again now shows that send's
own result card each time, instead of "Runs in the terminal" once
earlier identical results fill
  the terminal.
  ([#1543](#1543))
- Slow API requests can return their result or timeout error instead of
losing the HTTP connection
  while bounded Herdr calls are still running.
([#1355](#1355) by
@christi4nity)
- The app can be installed behind a reverse proxy that signs in every
request (Authelia,
oauth2-proxy and the like): the browser now sends its cookies with the
manifest request.
([#1332](#1332) by
@ascandroli)
- Mouse wheel and phone swipes scroll terminal history on Windows and
other mirrored panes;
  read-only connections still only pan their local grid.
([#1446](#1446) by
@Davesaggio)
- A Codex started in a terminal shows its model and reasoning level
before the first message,
  from Codex's live footer, while the chat shows the terminal output.
([#1374](#1374) by
@evanwy0223)
- Before the first message, a model switched in the terminal shows in
the message box once the
supported agent draws it. omp still waits for its transcript to record
the model; the bridge
never runs `omp models`, which can refresh the CLI's OAuth credentials.
([#1374](#1374) by
@evanwy0223)
- A pane that runs OmO is now treated as OmO by the composer even while
herdr labels it Claude
(OmO's Claude child is running): sending a message no longer stops on a
Claude input-box draft
  refusal or tries to clear a Claude draft there.
  ([#1441](#1441))
- A multi-line message sent to an OmO pane that herdr has no agent label
for is now pasted as one
bracketed paste instead of line by line, so its first line is no longer
sent alone.
  ([#1441](#1441))
- An OmO pick list (an extension's select, such as the init-deep
advisor's "Run now / Skip this
time / Never…") shows in the chat as a card with its own options again,
instead of a "Waiting for
input" card offering only ↑, ↓, Enter and Esc. A pick list that counts
down in its title keeps
the same card while it ticks, so an answer tapped a second later is not
refused as stale.
([#1495](#1495) by
@nahwan-kim)
- An omp pane started with an absolute `--cwd` shows its chat when herdr
names no session file
and the directory herdr reports is not omp's own, such as the shell's or
a symlink's real path:
the session is still looked up in the directory herdr reports first,
then under that `--cwd`.
  ([#1594](#1594))
- A message or command sent from the chat to an omp that is still
starting no longer stays typed
in its input box: omp shows the box before it takes an Enter, so the
send waits until herdr's omp
integration reports the session (omp does so once it takes input), for
an omp started moments ago.
  ([#1475](#1475))
- A new OpenCode 2 pane offers your project and user skills as `@`
attachments before its first
session starts, using the OpenCode version the PC's install reports,
instead of listing them as
OpenCode 1 `/` commands. Once the pane has a session, that session's
version decides as before.
  ([#1543](#1543))
- Native question answers stay bound to the current pane, session and
form. Local service discovery
rejects stale or non-loopback endpoints, bypasses environment proxies,
and bounds slow requests.
([#1257](#1257) by
@bardiz12)
- Polling does not invalidate an unchanged question or turn an
acknowledged answer into an error.
A temporary service outage keeps an already displayed native card and
its unsent edits.
([#1257](#1257) by
@bardiz12)
- Back and question tabs preserve unsent edits, and multiselect
submissions include both checks
and custom text. Abandoned drafts are bounded and expire after 30
minutes.
([#1257](#1257) by
@bardiz12)
- OpenCode question cards keep edits and allow immediate retries after a
failed reply, and optional
questions can be skipped. Unrelated service metadata no longer resets a
form's progress.
  ([#1421](#1421))
- Answers sent from the message box show the translated warning when
OpenCode has not confirmed
delivery. Native service connections accept only the loopback addresses
127.0.0.1 and [::1].
  ([#1421](#1421))
- Subscription usage reads OpenCode 2's own credential store before the
`auth.json` OpenCode 1
wrote. OpenCode 2 keeps its provider sign-ins in `opencode.db` and
leaves that file standing with
the key it has since replaced, so the OpenCode card reported "Sign-in
expired" for a CLI that was
signed in and working. The store's active key answers first, and a store
without one (signed out of
OpenCode 2) shows no card; the file still answers beside OpenCode 1's
store, or with none.
([#1329](#1329) by
@krish-kant)
- `GET /api/pane/read` takes `lines` only as plain decimal digits from 0
to 4294967295 and refuses
any other value (blank, signed, fractional, exponent or too large) with
400 `invalid_lines`
instead of passing it to herdr; a blank value is no longer read as zero.
Every count herdr
  takes still goes through unchanged.
  ([#1571](#1571))
- A pasted or dropped PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP image is saved with the
extension of what its bytes
are, not the one its file name suggests, and a file that only claims to
be one of those images
is refused with its reason instead of being saved for the agent to read.
  ([#1599](#1599))
- The phone header's Chat/Terminal switch keeps clear of the bar's top
and bottom edges in both
densities: its options take the density's segmented height, so its track
is 34px tall in the 52px bar
and 32px in the compact density's 46px bar, which it used to nearly
touch.
([#1519](#1519) by
@adnankassem)
- On a phone, the header's Chat/Terminal switch centers its icons and no
longer touches the header's
bottom rule (in compact density it was as tall as the bar). The buttons
still take a full
  44 px tap.
([#1367](#1367) by @Noobear)
- A pi chat now shows its context ring for models pi lists in its
commandcode cache or model
  store, not only for providers defined in `models.json`.
([#1391](#1391) by
@diegolhambi)
- Model and effort pickers no longer confirm a stale choice when the
agent stops waiting for the
  answer during the final screen read.
  ([#1435](#1435))
- A Portal that stops on its own after its address was up is started
again once, on the same relay
and address, and Settings → Phone & devices says Recovering… meanwhile;
a second stop shows the
error with Portal's output instead of leaving the address down without a
word or restarting it
  again.
  ([#1587](#1587))
- When the server cannot save a shared setting or pin, Settings now says
the change is not on the
server yet, that reloading or closing the page can undo it, and offers
Retry. After three failed
saves in a row the browser resends less often (after a minute, then up
to every five minutes)
until you press Retry or the connection reopens, and edits made
meanwhile are kept. A late resend
of a refused change no longer overwrites a newer value another device
saved meanwhile, while a
setting you pick again after the refusal still wins. While the
connection is lost it waits for it
to come back instead of resending, and a connection the browser gives up
on (for example a proxy
error while the server restarts) is opened again, so alerts and other
devices' changes no longer
  stop arriving until a reload.
  ([#1595](#1595))
- A damaged or unreadable shared preferences or read-finish file is no
longer lost to the next
change. Reading never touches it; the first change moves the damaged
file, byte for byte, to
`preferences.json.bad` or `seen.json.bad` (private to you, the latest
damaged copy only), a file
repaired by hand while the server runs is kept with the change added to
it, and a file that
cannot be read or set aside is not written over, so the change fails
instead.
  ([#1564](#1564))
- A server or remote bridge that crashed no longer blocks its restart
when its old process number
now belongs to another program: startup locks and the bridge registry
record the owner's start
  identity, and that other program is never signalled.
  ([#1567](#1567))
- Attaching to a terminal once again waits for input to be ready before
signalling completion,
preserving queued keys, clicks and text and the order of Stop followed
by a message.
  ([#1342](#1342))
- Opening a finished agent's terminal while its connection to herdr is
being restored no longer
clears its DONE dot from the screen left over from before: it clears
once the terminal shows
  current output.
  ([#1472](#1472))
- An oversized or unreadable answer from another PC's bridge is now
refused at a fixed size
instead of being held whole in memory: connecting, refreshing and the PC
proxy stop reading it,
report a short error in the user's language that repeats none of it, and
a watching device
  never gets a prompt that could not be redacted.
  ([#1588](#1588))
- Opening a pane in another tab or on a phone, or reconnecting, no
longer copies again to the
clipboard what a program in the pane copied before; its new copies still
reach the clipboard.
  ([#1600](#1600))
- Update and restart, and the header's Update, install exactly the
release they offered: a release
published in the meantime installs nothing and is shown to be checked
first, and a server whose
supervisor cannot install by revision asks for a restart instead of
installing.
  ([#1590](#1590))
- In macOS Safari, Backspace in a terminal no longer skips a press after
deleting the last letter of
a Korean syllable: 한 then four Backspaces now also deletes the character
before it.
  ([#1363](#1363))
- Chat shows only the current agent session's command results: after an
agent restarts in the same
pane, the earlier session's commands no longer appear. A `/clear`,
`/new` or resume sent from Chat
keeps its own row in the conversation it starts, without claiming that
it finished. Commands sent
before an agent's first reply stay with that agent while it keeps
running, also through a moment
in the background (Ctrl+Z on Linux and macOS); once a different agent
takes over the pane, they
are hidden, even if Chat was not open when it happened. A command sent
to a restarted agent while
the pane still shows the previous session stays once the agent's own
session appears within a
minute, unless Chat started another session after it. Within that
minute, a session change typed
in the terminal of an agent that resumed the same session can still keep
such a command. Where
Chat cannot find the agent's program at all (native Windows, or an agent
started under another
program name), such a command stays with the session that the same agent
starts in the same
terminal; a later session, another agent or terminal still hides it.
Outside Linux, an agent
restarted under the same process number cannot be told apart from the
one before it.
  ([#1543](#1543))
- SSH PC management controls now stay within narrow sidebars: the rename
field and action buttons
  reflow in place, and long labels wrap without clipping.
([#1392](#1392) by @snowykr)
- Opening a finished pane clears its DONE dot only after its answer or
terminal output is
actually visible. Covered panes, loading or failed chats, and terminal
reconnections keep
  unread finishes marked.
  ([#1342](#1342))
- Reading older chat keeps the finish unread. Jumping to the latest
answer clears it only
after the jump arrives; small scrolls above the end show the way back.
Resizing and restoring
  a short chat work without an extra scroll.
  ([#1342](#1342))
- An older answer cannot clear a newer finish. Agents whose chat cannot
prove completion keep
the dot conservatively; opening their Terminal view can acknowledge the
output.
  ([#1342](#1342))
- Read finishes stay read across pane switches and browser tabs on the
same device. Every
web-server restart or update brings read DONE dots back; read records
are not carried across
  server restarts.
  ([#1342](#1342))
- The sidebar's PC control buttons are the standard control height
again, Rename shares the name
field's row in a wide sidebar, Remove PC dims like its neighbours while
a rename or disconnect
runs, and danger buttons keep their red tint on hover everywhere in the
app.
  ([#1422](#1422))
- Documents opened through copied read links keep their own scroll area
at desktop widths,
rather than expanding beyond the window and leaving scrolling to the
page.
([#1586](#1586) by
@Kinetic27)
- A Markdown table whose separator has a one- or two-dash cell
(`|---|:-:|`) shows as a table in the
  chat, as on GitHub, instead of as its pipe-separated source.
([#1361](#1361) by @Noobear)
- Going back to the chat while a terminal command's screen is still open
(Claude Code's `/btw`
answer, a picker left up) no longer lets the next message from the
message box be typed into
that screen and do nothing, for Claude Code and the agents above (not
OpenCode): the composer
says the command is still open in the terminal, with Show terminal, and
Send (or a queued
message's Send now) keeps the message until the screen closes or you
choose Send anyway.
  ([#1637](#1637))
- Opening the app no longer flashes the dark amber default before your
saved theme: the saved light,
dark or single-mode theme (Dracula on the light side stays dark),
including System and older saved
palettes, is drawn from the first frame, and the installed app's title
bar color matches it at once.
  ([#1569](#1569))
- Settings → Updates no longer tells you to switch to main when the
server was started from an
installed update's folder instead of its source checkout: it now says to
restart the app from
  the source checkout, which is what lets updates run again.
  ([#1417](#1417))
- Typing or composing text in a wide mirrored terminal no longer pulls
the view sideways.
Windows terminal wheel panning stays in place when output arrives, and
tapping the terminal
  without scrolling no longer changes shared history.
  ([#1534](#1534))
- Loading the page no longer sends about 33 requests per workspace
folder to find its project icon:
each folder is asked once (`GET /api/fs/favicon`), and a folder without
an icon is an answer, not
a 404. A reverse proxy with a rate limit no longer answers 429 to the
burst, and the browser
console no longer fills with red 404 lines on every load. A 429 is no
longer remembered as "no
  icon" either: the folder is asked again when its row next appears.
  ([#1339](#1339))
- A dragged workspace order no longer jumps back while its moves are
still landing: a roster read
before the move, a cached roster or another PC's update cannot undo it,
and the first roster
read after the move (another browser's later order included) replaces
it. A remote PC does this
once its bridge is updated to the next release; until then it keeps the
earlier behaviour.
  ([#1593](#1593))

### Maintenance
- Composer geometry regressions freeze the demo conversation while
keeping it idle, so turn
completion cannot change the transcript during measurements on phone and
desktop.
([#1347](#1347) by
@Yoonwoo-Ha)
- Settings and PWA draft checks target the visible input explicitly;
locale regressions cover
  native draft and placeholder heights on phone and desktop.
([#1347](#1347) by
@Yoonwoo-Ha)


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# Conflicts:
#	scripts/ui-contexts-checks.ts
The key's invisible expander (.key::before) is placed from the key's
padding box, inside its 1px border, so an inset of
(--key-h - --touch-target) / 2 gave a 42px tap area instead of 44px.
Subtract the hairline, as the command palette's filter chips and the
chat copy button already do.

The spacing regression added the declared ::before offset to the key's
border box, so it passed at 42px (and would pass with no expander at
all). It now hit-tests half a pixel inside the 44px band above and below
every key in view and requires the tap to land on the key, which fails
on the 42px expander.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@devswha

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Maintainer commits on top of 0ba0f93:

  • Merge of main. The only conflict was scripts/ui-contexts-checks.ts: the import now sits after checkDefaultView's import, and checkTerminalInputSpacing runs right after checkDefaultView. Sibling PRs add lines to the same file, so each one gets its own place.
  • 9fbffbd fix(terminal): count the key's hairline out of its touch target. .key::before is positioned from the key's padding box, inside its 1px border. An inset of (--key-h - --touch-target) / 2 therefore gave a 42px tap area instead of 44px. The inset now subtracts --hairline, the same correction CommandPalette.css's filter chips make. The regression added the declared ::before offset to the key's border box, so it passed at 42px, and it would also have passed with no expander at all. It now hit-tests half a pixel inside the 44px band above and below every key in view and requires the tap to land on the key. It fails on the 42px expander.

Checked locally: bun run check fast, terminal-input-spacing-regression.ts, key-bar-hold-repeat-regression.ts and key-bar-customization-demo-regression.ts. I also ran a phone Chat peek (#1630) at 390x844 and at 412x915 over a 24px gesture bar. There the input line has 4px above and below its field and Send button, the keys have 5.5px above and below, and a 44px tap lands on every key in view, as in the Terminal lens.

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Main's #1527 checks that the input line's field and send button have as
much room below as above. This branch puts the line's label above the
field (as the send button carries its word above its face), so the field
is measured with its label: the room above is the line's padding over the
label, which still has to match the room under the field.

Refs #1047
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Main (#1527) draws key-bar keys at --key-h and reaches the 44px target through .key::before; the demo now checks that a tap half a pixel inside that band, above and below Paste's middle, lands on it.

Refs #1047
devswha pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
Main's #1527 checks that the input line's field and send button have as
much room below as above. This branch puts the line's label above the
field (as the send button carries its word above its face), so the field
is measured with its label: the room above is the line's padding over the
label, which still has to match the room under the field.

Refs #1047
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devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
Release 0.4.14, step 1 of [Releasing](docs/development.md#releasing).
The maintainer approved it.

## What changes
- `version` 0.4.13 → 0.4.14 in `package.json` and `herdr-plugin.toml`.
- `bun scripts/changelog-fold.ts 0.4.14` moves the Unreleased notes and
the 90 `changelog.d/` fragments under `## [0.4.14] - 2026-10-25` in
CHANGELOG.md and deletes the fragments. `by @login` credits are added
for the outside contributors' PRs: #1521 @jiaoew1991, and #1527, #1530
and #1632 @adnankassem.
- `release-summaries.json` gets 0.4.14 in en, ko, ja and zh. Each
language has new 6, improved 7 and fixed 8 lines, the same count
everywhere.
- Lead items: the Rust PTY host by default, with Node now optional on
Linux and macOS; Ovis for Windows; and the signed Ovis.dmg.
- The push-notification line is left out, because its changelog entry
says alerts arrive only once the `push.ovis.sh` relay is deployed.
- `REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION` 32 → 33 in `shared/machines.ts`, as
`scripts/release-guards.ts` requires: the bundle's inputs changed since
`remote-v32` (crates/pty-sidecar, bun.lock, the server and more).
- The telemetry Worker is unchanged since `telemetry/deployed.json`, so
it needs no deploy.

## Checks
- `bun scripts/release-guards.ts --base origin/main`: "Release 0.4.14:
remote bundle, telemetry Worker and release metadata are in order."
- Release notes, release guards, changelog fold, conventions, updater,
`updateNotes` and `shared/` tests: 172 pass, 0 fail. The typecheck
passes.
- `bun run check fast`: all green (unit: 6488 pass, 0 fail).
- `bun scripts/release-notes.ts 0.4.14` renders the New features,
Improvements and Bug fixes lists.

## After merge (merge pass)
1. Push `remote-v33` on the merged commit, and wait for **Remote PC
bundles** to publish it.
2. Once main's CI on that commit is green, run `gh workflow run
release.yml --ref main -f version=0.4.14`.

Until the Release run is done, the merge pass merges nothing: no PR
touching `server/`, `shared/`, `bun.lock` or `patches/`, and no PR
adding a changelog fragment.

---------

Co-authored-by: devswha <devswha@users.noreply.github.com>
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Main (#1527) draws key-bar keys at --key-h and reaches the 44px target through .key::before; the demo now checks that a tap half a pixel inside that band, above and below Paste's middle, lands on it.

Refs #1047
devswha pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
Main's #1527 checks that the input line's field and send button have as
much room below as above. This branch puts the line's label above the
field (as the send button carries its word above its face), so the field
is measured with its label: the room above is the line's padding over the
label, which still has to match the room under the field.

Refs #1047
devswha pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
…pander

Main (#1527) draws key-bar keys at --key-h and reaches the 44px target through .key::before; the demo now checks that a tap half a pixel inside that band, above and below Paste's middle, lands on it.

Refs #1047
devswha pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
Main's #1527 checks that the input line's field and send button have as
much room below as above. This branch puts the line's label above the
field (as the send button carries its word above its face), so the field
is measured with its label: the room above is the line's padding over the
label, which still has to match the room under the field.

Refs #1047
devswha pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
…pander

Main (#1527) draws key-bar keys at --key-h and reaches the 44px target through .key::before; the demo now checks that a tap half a pixel inside that band, above and below Paste's middle, lands on it.

Refs #1047
devswha pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
Main's #1527 checks that the input line's field and send button have as
much room below as above. This branch puts the line's label above the
field (as the send button carries its word above its face), so the field
is measured with its label: the room above is the line's padding over the
label, which still has to match the room under the field.

Refs #1047
devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 25, 2026
…nter (#1853)

> **This PR adds a WS contract (`insert` / `insert-result`, feature
`terminal-insert`) and needs a real review before merging.**

Refs #1047.

## What it does for the user

On a phone, the terminal's key bar gets a **Paste** key, and the
terminal's input line gets an **Insert** button beside Send.

- **Paste** reads the clipboard from that tap alone and puts the text
into the input line at the caret, never into the grid. A read that
answers late is dropped when, meanwhile, the line or its caret changed,
a composition ran, the pane was put out of sight, or the pane, mode,
input lease or connection changed. A clipboard that refuses or is empty
says so and points to the keyboard's own paste. In direct typing, Paste
changes nothing and shows "Tap Input line to paste." in the key bar's
own row.
- **Insert** types one line into the terminal **without Enter**, so a
path or a flag can be put at the prompt and edited there. The line
clears only once the PC confirms that herdr has the text, and only the
part that was sent. A refusal, a dropped connection or an older PC keeps
the draft with a note, and nothing is resent automatically or through a
fallback. Insert refuses several lines (herdr reports no paste mode of
the program, so a guessed bracketed paste could run each line in a
shell) and every control character, the paste markers included.
- The input line shows its label ("Input line") and each action's word
above its round target.

Server side (`server/core/input.ts`): the server checks the text's
bounds, refuses observe connections, held or unready panes, a password
prompt on screen and stale claims, and re-checks all of these after
every wait and at the write. It then makes a single `pane.send_text`
call with herdr's guard. It sends no Enter, no keys, no focus, no resize
and no `--takeover`.

## Why

Putting text at the prompt without running it (a path to edit, a flag to
add) had no way in from a phone: the input line always sent Enter, and
direct typing has no reliable paste. No widely used coding-agent app
(the Codex and Claude apps, Paseo, T3 Code) offers a phone terminal
draft with a separate no-Enter insert. agent-of-empires' compose sheet
has Insert beside Send, but it clears its draft on a synchronous
boolean, which this design rejects: the draft clears on the bridge's
acknowledgement, as Send's does (DESIGN.md entry).

## Rebase notes

The branch was cut about 180 commits ago, so it was squashed and rebased
onto current main. Later commits on this PR are the review fixes and
test updates for main's changes:
- `insertTerminalText` moves into `src/lib/useTerminalSends.ts`, next to
`sendTerminalLine`, following main's split of `PaneTerminal.tsx` into
hooks. `pasteTarget` and the paste guidance stay in `PaneTerminal.tsx`,
which owns their refs.
- The new strings live in `src/lib/i18n/composer.*.ts` and
`terminal.*.ts`.
- The input slot's height keeps main's split padding (`2 * --space-1`)
and adds the label row. The slot is taller than on main, so in line mode
on touch screens the grid gets a little shorter.
- #1791 (a long input-line line goes to the agent as a prompt,
`server/core/composer.ts`) is untouched: Send behaves as on main.

## How it was verified

- `bun run check fast` on the rebased branch: workflow syntax, generated
files, typecheck and build pass in every run. One full run passed all
unit tests (6397 pass, 0 fail). The PC is shared by many test runs, and
later runs each failed one unrelated timing-bound test
(`install-star.test.ts` on an inotify EMFILE, `portal.test.ts` on a 2s
bound). Both pass alone, and this branch does not touch them. CI's Fast
checks are the clean run.
- `server/terminal-insert.contract.test.ts` on the isolated herdr test
session: 9/9 pass. It covers the insert frame typed with no Enter, the
refusals (several lines, escapes, a program that turned bracketed paste
off, observe, held, secret prompt, stale claim) and the write guard's
race.
- Unit tests for `ws`, `compose`, `terminalDraft`,
`shared/terminal-insert`, `i18n`, `ci-browser` and `conventions`: 181
pass. The new `ws.test.ts` case (an Insert waiting on a liveness probe
while the pane's input lease changes) fails with the fix removed.
- `scripts/terminal-paste-insert-demo-regression.ts` (enrolled in
`ci-browser.sh`) passes on the rebased branch, with 141 captures at 390
and 1440, light and dark, and Korean. On the rebase it now uses the
`ovis:*` storage keys, and it measures Paste's 44px target through the
key bar's expander from #1527. I looked at the 390 rest state, the 1440
in-flight insert (text at the prompt, no Enter) and the Korean
direct-typing guidance (one line in the key bar's row).

## Review

- A code-review agent asked for changes over one HIGH: the `Enter` key
sat in the base i18n dictionary, so `i18n.test.ts` failed. Fixed. Its
MEDIUM about a control-character refusal reading "the terminal is not
ready" is fixed with a message of its own. Its LOW about a late snapshot
answering "Update this PC" is fixed: Insert now answers
`capabilities_unknown`, as submit does.
- Codex (gpt-6-astra) found no HIGH. Two of its MEDIUMs are fixed: an
Insert that waited on a liveness probe while the pane's input lease
changed is now refused (new `ws.test.ts` case, which fails without the
fix), and a paste whose pane was put out of sight is dropped.

## Known limits (not in this PR)

- **Password prompt race.** The server's password-prompt check reads the
screen and then writes in a separate herdr call, so a prompt that
appears between the two calls is not caught. Closing that gap needs a
conditional write in herdr itself.
- **iOS Safari, unverified.** Whether the Paste callout fires a
`selectionchange`, which would drop the read, is not checked on iOS
Safari.
- **Held messages, unverified.** The server does not consult a pane's
held messages before an insert.
- `HerdrSocket.canInsert()` is used only by tests.

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Co-authored-by: mp <mp@local>
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