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feat(herdr-core): stream core terminals over the server's hc connection - #2447
Follow-up to #2442 (part of #2439). On OVIS_RUNTIME=herdr-core, every open pane ran its own hc attach process inside a PTY host (the Rust host, or Node's as the fallback). That is two processes per viewer, for a stream the server can open on the connection to hc it already holds.
This PR streams the terminal over the connection to hc the server already holds, as a terminal.attach channel:
server/herdr-core/attach-session.ts: CoreAttachSession answers the calls the server makes on a PTY session.
Keystrokes are DATA frames and a size is hc's RESIZE.
What hc attach did for its outer terminal, it now does for the viewers' xterm (ported from herdr-core attach.rs):
Once attached, it asks the viewers for their colours, cursor colour and cell size (OSC 10/11/12, CSI 16t, DA1) and turns focus reporting on.
It takes the replies and focus reports out of typed input and sends them to hc as FACTS (only when they change) and FOCUS. It asks again on focus-in, and keeps focus reporting on when the program turns it off.
Without this, a program asking for the background colour got hc's default instead of Ovis's theme.
winch() sends nothing: hc attach sends RESIZE only when its grid really changed, and a same-size RESIZE would make Ovis hc's active viewer and take the terminal's size from whoever works in it.
pause() holds back hc's flow-control credit and resume() pays it. hc's rule for a viewer that falls 4 MiB behind (drop the backlog, send a repaint) applies as it did when the PTY host paused hc attach.
Keys written before hc answers the attach are sent once it does.
kill() settles exited only once hc has answered the detach, so the registry's barrier before the next attach holds.
A failed attach logs why; hc attach used to print it in the pane.
server/herdr-core/connection.ts:
Channel.credit and a manual-credit mode.
Frames on a channel whose call has not been answered yet are kept and replayed once the answer names the channel. hc queues an attach's first paint before its reply, and its writer can send the paint first (viewers.rsattach, wire.rsOutbox).
A stream whose call already timed out is closed rather than left open on the shared connection. Its frames, and those of a detach hc never answered, are dropped.
server/herdr-core/runtime.ts: coreConnection(), the server's one HcConnection, shared by the adapter and the live terminals.
server/core/terminal-process.ts: on herdr-core, CoreAttachSession replaces the PtySession running hc attach. herdr's path is the same PtySession with the same arguments and environment; only the herdr-core branches go.
server/core/terminals.test.ts: its herdr-core case pinned the hc attach spawn (arguments, environment). It now checks that no PTY is started and that the core session gets the terminal and grid.
Second commit: live terminals where no PTY host runs
On main, a PC whose server can run no PTY host (no Rust host and no Node) mirrors its panes (attachableIdentity, server/pty/sidecar.ts). On herdr-core that mirror is drawn from pane.read, which on core is text without colours. Streaming over the server's hc connection needs no PTY host. So where this process serves herdr-core (servingCore(): startRuntime ran), the identity keeps terminal_attach. A remote bridge that only inherits OVIS_RUNTIME keeps herdr's answer.
Real server with no PTY host (PATH without Node, Rust host missing): main reports terminal_attach: false, terminal_mirror: true and its panes echo in 17-18 ms (mirrored). This branch reports terminal_attach: true and streams live, echo 0.4-2.4 ms.
Known limit: a viewer joining after the 128 KiB replay buffer filled gets no full repaint. This limit was already there for core live attaches, hc attach included (winch() sends nothing, as hc attach sent nothing). With no PTY host the trade is a colourless mirror for a live stream with colours that can miss content drawn before that tail.
Measurement
Same machine, same isolated hc 0.1.14 core, real server (startRuntime + createServer, port 0). "Before" is main at 96da06f with the release Rust PTY host (v0.4.21, bun scripts/pty-sidecar.ts install).
3 core panes attached over /ws
before (main, Rust PTY host)
after
server child processes
7: hc connect + 3x hc attach + 3x ovis-pty-sidecar
1: hc connect
their RSS
12.5 MB (159 MB with the Node PTY host)
2.2 MB
Typing latency is unchanged. In a real browser (Playwright, headless Chromium, 1280x800), the first command typed into a freshly opened pane echoes in about 103 ms on main and 48-104 ms on this branch. A raw WebSocket client sees a ~600 ms wait on main's first key, because it never answers hc attach's startup display query. Ovis's xterm does answer it, so users do not see that wait, and I do not count it as a gain.
Validation
bun test server/herdr-core server/core/terminals.test.ts server/terminal-process.test.ts: 57 pass. bun run typecheck: pass.
New unit tests: server/herdr-core/attach-session.test.ts (10, against a fake hc connect). I broke each behaviour in turn and its test failed:
Real server, 3 attached panes: the table above. No hc process or default-session path is left afterwards.
Browser (Playwright, headless Chromium, 1280x800 and 390x844):
The core pane shows under "Other terminals", and commands typed in the browser run in its shell.
At the phone width, a reattached pane shows its earlier screen.
No hc attach process exists while attached.
A program in the pane asking for the background colour (OSC 11) gets rgb:1818/1818/1818, the same as main. Without the display facts it got hc's default rgb:2828/2c2c/3434.
bun run check fast on the final commit (both commits): pass (9204 pass, 0 fail; generated types and themes, typecheck, build, unit tests)..
Reviews:
Codex Terra (gpt-6.1-terra, xhigh), round 1: 2 HIGH, 3 MEDIUM. Fixed: a first paint sent before the attach reply was dropped; a late attach reply left an orphaned viewer; exited settled before hc answered the detach. Not changed, because the old hc attach path behaved the same: pausing lets hc drop a backlog past 4 MiB and repaint; a same-size winch() does not make hc repaint.
Codex Terra on the second commit: 2 MEDIUM. Fixed: a remote bridge that inherits OVIS_RUNTIME no longer claims a core attach (servingCore() instead of the variable). Kept as a known limit: no full repaint for a viewer joining after the replay buffer filled (see above).
Codex Terra, round 2: no regression from the old path. Its eight points each match hc attach:
The display questions sit in the replay buffer and are answered again by a later viewer; hc attach wrote them through the same PTY into the same buffer.
Replies are taken out of all typed input, at any time; so did hc attach.
FACTS/FOCUS are sent before the rest of the same input; hc attach does that in one read loop too.
A same-size winch() gives a joining viewer no full repaint; neither did hc attach.
The detach barrier ends on the close timeout; the old barrier was the hc attach process exiting, which never waited for hc at all.
Known limit: a display reply split across two input messages reaches the program. Each xterm input event arrives whole, so I did not add a carried tail, which would hold back a typed Esc until the next key.
omo-native-code-reviewer, round 1: REQUEST_CHANGES on two points, both fixed. M1: a same-size winch() RESIZE took the terminal's size from other viewers. M2: the browser's colours and cell size no longer reached hc; I reproduced it with the OSC 11 check above. It also raised four LOWs, all fixed: dropping an abandoned channel's frames, logging a failed attach, the stale core test case, and dead null checks.
omo-native-code-reviewer, round 2: APPROVE, all six resolved. It left three LOW notes, not changed:
One ask can produce up to four FACTS frames (xterm answers each query separately), and a focus-in asks every viewer again. The last frame carries every fact.
A display reply split across two input messages would reach the program; each xterm reply is one message today.
A focus report typed before hc answered the attach is dropped, until the next focus change or key.
Skipped: bun run check full; macOS (herdr-core runtime is Linux/macOS only, not run on a Mac here); Windows (the herdr-core runtime refuses to start there).
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Live terminal views now stream through the existing connection when using the herdr-core runtime, rather than starting a separate attach process for each open pane.
Terminal input, resizing, and display updates continue to work during the live session.
Other runtimes retain their existing terminal attach behavior.
For herdr-core, terminal live views now use CoreAttachSession over a shared HcConnection and terminal.attach. The session handles terminal input and output, resize, stream credit, display facts, focus reports, and closure. Other runtimes continue to use PtySession.
Changes: Core terminal attach
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Channel streaming and lifecycle server/herdr-core/connection.ts
HcConnection adds manual stream credit and focus and display-facts frames. It buffers frames that arrive before a call response and handles late responses for abandoned channels.
CoreAttachSession opens terminal.attach, handles input, output, resize, pause and resume, display facts, focus reports, and closure. Tests cover these behaviors and connection stream handling.
Runtime and terminal integration server/herdr-core/runtime.ts, server/core/terminal-process.ts, server/core/terminals.test.ts, changelog.d/herdr-core-direct-attach.md
Runtime startup reuses a lazily created core connection. Terminal startup selects CoreAttachSession for herdr-core and retains PtySession for other runtimes. Tests check both paths; the changelog describes the direct attach path.
devswha/ovis#2442: This PR replaces the per-pane hc attach process introduced for herdr-core with CoreAttachSession over the shared connection.
devswha/ovis#2445: Its live contract tests exercise the terminal.attach stream and related behavior changed here.
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Merging bda7755 (lane herdr2-core, slice 2, on the maintainer's go for the core track). With OVIS_RUNTIME=herdr-core, core panes now stream over the server's own hc connection instead of an hc attach and a PTY host per pane (3 panes: 7 child processes -> 1, 12.5 MB -> 2.2 MB; typing latency unchanged in a real browser). bda7755 also lets a PC serving herdr-core offer live terminals where no PTY host can run (servingCore(), set only by startRuntime; a remote bridge that merely inherits OVIS_RUNTIME does not), checked by the merge pass and covered by a unit test. With OVIS_RUNTIME unset nothing changes. Reviewed by the merge pass: the default path is byte-identical; each terminal is its own hc channel with manual credit, so a paused or slow viewer stalls only its own channel (256 KiB window) and never the RPC channel or another terminal; channels close on WS close (bounded 10 s), on hc CLOSE and on line death; no take-over equivalent, watch-only gate unchanged, no pane.read rebuild, terminal replies stripped from viewer bytes; #2442's fixes intact; deterministic tests (69 pass). LOW noted: the pre-reply typed queue (attach-session.ts:140) and line.early (connection.ts:346) have no byte cap (bounded by hc's 10 s open deadline); focus reports are re-enabled after a program disables them (as hc attach does). CodeRabbit Minor, follow-up: takeReplies scans a large paste character by character (attach-session.ts:55); copy plain runs up to the next ESC.
…art agents, on herdr-core (#2449)
## Change
Follow-up to #2442 (part of #2439). On `OVIS_RUNTIME=herdr-core`, the
adapter refused creating and closing workspaces, tabs and panes, and
starting agents (`unsupported`). New workspace, New tab, Close and the
agent picker therefore failed on a core PC.
### Creating and closing (first commit)
- `workspace.create` / `tab.create` start a shell that hc keeps
(`terminal.run`, `keep: true`), in the folder asked for. A tab starts
where its workspace's first pane works.
- The shell is labeled `herdr.space` / `herdr.tab`, the labels the Herdr
desktop app gives its own terminals, so the app adopts it into that
space and tab (herdr-app `src/window.rs` `reconcile` / `adopt`).
- Ovis never writes the app's `herdr-app` document, where names live, so
a name typed in Ovis is kept as an `ovis.workspace` / `ovis.tab` label.
- `pane.close` / `tab.close` / `workspace.close` end every terminal
concerned at once (`terminal.kill`, then `terminal.rm`). The app then
drops its panes, as it does for any terminal that ends.
- `server/herdr-core/snapshot.ts` shows a terminal the app has not
placed (yet, or with no app running) in the space and tab its labels
name, instead of under "Other terminals":
- A labeled id that the app's document uses for something else falls
back to an id of its own, so two tabs never become one.
- A second unplaced pane of a tab sits beside the first, not over it.
- Once the app adopts a terminal into an unnamed space or tab, the name
typed in Ovis is shown, before the folder or a number.
### Starting agents (second commit)
- `server.agent_manifests` offers the agent kinds Ovis knows
(`AGENT_LABELS`, now exported from `server/agents-routes.ts`). Ovis's
own shell-started agents are still offered and started by the server
itself (`shell-agent.ts`).
- `agent.start` types `kind` and its quoted arguments into the pane's
shell, as herdr starts an agent by its kind:
- Only when hc reports the pane's own shell in front. Otherwise it
answers `agent_pane_busy`, which `agent-launch.ts` already retries while
a new shell comes up.
- The line starts with Ctrl-U, so a half-typed line is cleared rather
than run with the command after it.
- Arguments with control characters are refused.
- The pane's input turn is held for the typing only.
- It answers once the agent itself is in front: a program or script
named for the kind (`claude`, `node …/claude-code/cli.js`,
`codex-x86_64-…`). Otherwise, after at most 10 s, `agent_start_failed`.
A shell's command-not-found handler runs in front too, so "any program
in front" is not enough.
### Also: a live test of #2447's attach (third commit)
`server/herdr-core/live.test.ts` (from #2445) gets a case that streams a
real hc terminal through `CoreAttachSession`: typing, a resize (hc's
`size` event, then `terminal.get` 90x20) and the program's exit code.
The CI job `herdr-core live contract` runs it. Test-only.
Known limits:
- A person typing into the same new pane through another live view at
the same moment can interleave with the typed command.
- A nested shell in an existing pane is answered as busy.
- A wrapper script seen in front can still fail after the start was
answered.
## Validation
- `bun test server/herdr-core`: all pass, with new cases in
`snapshot.test.ts` and `adapter.test.ts`. I broke each behaviour in
turn, and its test failed:
- no labels on the new shell;
- no `rm` on close;
- one terminal ended at a time;
- no grouping by label;
- no tab-id collision guard;
- panes stacked at (0,0);
- names lost after adoption;
- unquoted arguments;
- shell-started agents offered;
- no busy-pane check;
- no control-character check;
- no start confirmation;
- exact names only;
- no Ctrl-U;
- the input turn held through the wait.
- Real server (`startRuntime` + `createServer`) on an isolated hc
0.1.14, through its HTTP routes:
- `POST /api/workspace/create` with a folder and a name: 200, and the
session shows the workspace with that name.
- `POST /api/tab/create` into it: 200, started in the workspace's
folder.
- `POST /api/pane/close` and `/api/workspace/close`: 200. Afterwards hc
has only the terminal that existed before.
- `GET /api/agents` lists the installed kinds.
- Creating a workspace with an installed agent answers `agent_started:
true` with the agent in front.
- Creating one with an agent that is not installed (`amp`):
`agent_started: false`, `agent_start_failed` after about 10 s, and the
pane shows the shell's "not found".
- No hc process or default-session path is left afterwards.
- `bun run check fast` on the final branch: pass (9219 pass, 0 fail;
generated types and themes, typecheck, build, unit tests).
- Reviews:
- Codex Terra (gpt-6.1-terra, xhigh), first commit: 1 HIGH and 3 MEDIUM,
all fixed. HIGH: a labeled tab id the app uses in another space merged
two tabs, so closing one killed both; it now gets an id of its own.
MEDIUM: closing was serial and stopped at the first failure; unplaced
panes overlapped; a typed name was lost after adoption.
- Codex Terra, second commit, round 1: 1 HIGH and 3 MEDIUM, all fixed.
HIGH: typing into a busy pane. MEDIUM: typing before the shell was
ready, success reported without an agent, control characters in
arguments. Round 2: queue held through the wait, half-typed line and
agent names, fixed. Three accepted as known limits, listed above.
- omo-native-code-reviewer: APPROVE. Both MEDIUMs fixed: Cursor's agent
is `cursor-agent` (herdr-app `defaults/programs.json`), not the IDE's
`cursor`; closing "Other terminals" as a whole is refused, because its
jobs and agents' workers are no workspace's. Its LOWs are noted, not
changed, since Ovis's own callers cannot reach them.
- The real server caught one false success the unit tests missed:
Ubuntu's command-not-found handler counted as "a program in front". The
start now looks for the agent itself.
- Live: `OVIS_TEST_HC_BIN=<hc 0.1.14> bun test
server/herdr-core/live.test.ts`: 3 pass, two runs, no hc left.
- Skipped: `bun run check full`; macOS (the herdr-core runtime runs
there but was not tried on a Mac here); Windows (the herdr-core runtime
refuses it).
…main (#2515)
## Change
docs/guide.md's **Herdr app terminals** section described herdr-core as
it was in #2442. This brings it in line with main after the merged
herdr-core follow-ups:
- The live view streams over the server's own hc connection (#2447), not
a per-viewer `hc attach`. The `OVIS_HC_BIN` row now says the same.
- New workspace, New tab, a new terminal, New tab with agent and Close
work on herdr-core (#2449). They start labeled shells the Herdr app
adopts, and Ovis-typed names are kept as labels.
- Agents start only in a pane running a plain shell of its own (#2456).
- Renaming, moving and reordering, plus splitting, swapping, zooming and
resizing, stay unavailable and are hidden (#2451). Search and scrollback
selection, plugins and worktrees are still unavailable.
- `error` no longer counts as finished: a turn is done only when the
program reports it (#2455).
Unchanged and still true: Linux/macOS only, OSC 7501-only status, the
Chat colour caveat, remote PCs on herdr's TUI server, hc generation 1
checked with 0.1.14. #2512 (no watch on herdr-core) is still open and is
not described.
Docs only. No changelog fragment: the merged PRs already carry their own
user-facing entries.
## Validation
- Checked each sentence against `server/herdr-core/adapter.ts` (methods
answered, `agent_pane_unsupported`, Other terminals close),
`snapshot.ts` (`agentStatusOf`, name labels), `server/completion.ts`
(`reportedOnly`), `server/core/terminal-process.ts`
(`CoreAttachSession`), `runtime.ts` (platform refusal) and
`src/lib/machineContext.tsx` (`appLayoutOf`).
- `bun run check fast`: passed (workflow syntax, generated types/themes,
typecheck, build, unit tests). Nothing else ran. Ran again on the second
commit: passed.
- The architecture note (around guide.md:902) no longer says the server
"attaches with `hc attach`": it streams the live terminals over its one
`hc connect`.
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Follow-up to #2442 (part of #2439). On
OVIS_RUNTIME=herdr-core, every open pane ran its ownhc attachprocess inside a PTY host (the Rust host, or Node's as the fallback). That is two processes per viewer, for a stream the server can open on the connection to hc it already holds.This PR streams the terminal over the connection to hc the server already holds, as a
terminal.attachchannel:server/herdr-core/attach-session.ts:CoreAttachSessionanswers the calls the server makes on a PTY session.hc attachdid for its outer terminal, it now does for the viewers' xterm (ported from herdr-coreattach.rs):CSI 16t, DA1) and turns focus reporting on.winch()sends nothing:hc attachsends RESIZE only when its grid really changed, and a same-size RESIZE would make Ovis hc's active viewer and take the terminal's size from whoever works in it.pause()holds back hc's flow-control credit andresume()pays it. hc's rule for a viewer that falls 4 MiB behind (drop the backlog, send a repaint) applies as it did when the PTY host pausedhc attach.kill()settlesexitedonly once hc has answered the detach, so the registry's barrier before the next attach holds.hc attachused to print it in the pane.server/herdr-core/connection.ts:Channel.creditand a manual-credit mode.viewers.rsattach,wire.rsOutbox).server/herdr-core/runtime.ts:coreConnection(), the server's oneHcConnection, shared by the adapter and the live terminals.server/core/terminal-process.ts: on herdr-core,CoreAttachSessionreplaces thePtySessionrunninghc attach. herdr's path is the samePtySessionwith the same arguments and environment; only the herdr-core branches go.server/core/terminals.test.ts: its herdr-core case pinned thehc attachspawn (arguments, environment). It now checks that no PTY is started and that the core session gets the terminal and grid.Second commit: live terminals where no PTY host runs
On main, a PC whose server can run no PTY host (no Rust host and no Node) mirrors its panes (
attachableIdentity,server/pty/sidecar.ts). On herdr-core that mirror is drawn frompane.read, which on core is text without colours. Streaming over the server's hc connection needs no PTY host. So where this process serves herdr-core (servingCore():startRuntimeran), the identity keepsterminal_attach. A remote bridge that only inheritsOVIS_RUNTIMEkeeps herdr's answer.terminal_attach: false, terminal_mirror: trueand its panes echo in 17-18 ms (mirrored). This branch reportsterminal_attach: trueand streams live, echo 0.4-2.4 ms.hc attachincluded (winch()sends nothing, ashc attachsent nothing). With no PTY host the trade is a colourless mirror for a live stream with colours that can miss content drawn before that tail.Measurement
Same machine, same isolated hc 0.1.14 core, real server (
startRuntime+createServer, port 0). "Before" is main at 96da06f with the release Rust PTY host (v0.4.21,bun scripts/pty-sidecar.ts install)./wshc connect+ 3xhc attach+ 3xovis-pty-sidecarhc connectTyping latency is unchanged. In a real browser (Playwright, headless Chromium, 1280x800), the first command typed into a freshly opened pane echoes in about 103 ms on main and 48-104 ms on this branch. A raw WebSocket client sees a ~600 ms wait on main's first key, because it never answers
hc attach's startup display query. Ovis's xterm does answer it, so users do not see that wait, and I do not count it as a gain.Validation
bun test server/herdr-core server/core/terminals.test.ts server/terminal-process.test.ts: 57 pass.bun run typecheck: pass.server/herdr-core/attach-session.test.ts(10, against a fakehc connect). I broke each behaviour in turn and its test failed:winch()sent a RESIZE;exitedsettled before hc answered the detach;CoreAttachSessiontyping, resizing (sizeevent, thenterminal.get90x20) and reporting the program's exit code (7). 3/3 on three runs. That case joinsserver/herdr-core/live.test.tsonce test(herdr-core): check the hc client against a real hc, in CI on a pinned hc 0.1.14 #2445 (which adds the file) merges.hc attachprocess exists while attached.rgb:1818/1818/1818, the same as main. Without the display facts it got hc's defaultrgb:2828/2c2c/3434.bun run check faston the final commit (both commits): pass (9204 pass, 0 fail; generated types and themes, typecheck, build, unit tests)..exitedsettled before hc answered the detach. Not changed, because the oldhc attachpath behaved the same: pausing lets hc drop a backlog past 4 MiB and repaint; a same-sizewinch()does not make hc repaint.OVIS_RUNTIMEno longer claims a core attach (servingCore()instead of the variable). Kept as a known limit: no full repaint for a viewer joining after the replay buffer filled (see above).hc attach:hc attachwrote them through the same PTY into the same buffer.hc attach.hc attachdoes that in one read loop too.winch()gives a joining viewer no full repaint; neither didhc attach.hc attachprocess exiting, which never waited for hc at all.winch()RESIZE took the terminal's size from other viewers. M2: the browser's colours and cell size no longer reached hc; I reproduced it with the OSC 11 check above. It also raised four LOWs, all fixed: dropping an abandoned channel's frames, logging a failed attach, the stale core test case, and dead null checks.bun run check full; macOS (herdr-core runtime is Linux/macOS only, not run on a Mac here); Windows (the herdr-core runtime refuses to start there).