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Two findings from a security and accessibility audit, both shipped together because they are the
highest-severity items and each is small on its own.

Default-deny for an unpaired, tokenless non-loopback client (S1)

Until now, a server bound to a non-loopback address with no HERDR_WEB_TOKEN and no paired device
let any client that could reach it in as the owner: full terminal input, file reads, and the
ability to start a pairing and keep the resulting credential for a year. The startup warning was the
only gate.

decideAccess now refuses that client instead of letting it in as the owner, so the app shows the
pairing screen. It answers token_required only when a token is actually configured — a request that
gets as far as the LAN branch has none, so it is told pairing_required, which names the way in: a
code the owner starts on this PC, completed through the still-public /api/devices/pair.
HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1 restores the previous shape for anyone who meant it — the warning names it.
Loopback, a paired device, the PC's own Tailscale login and the token are all unchanged.

Pairing start also refuses a session that holds no drive rights, as defense in depth: the access gate
already answers such a session before the handler runs, so the check is the floor it holds if a path
ever lets one through rather than a path that runs today. Its test reaches it directly with a
non-owner Access and fails if the guard is removed. Entering a code still works from anywhere.

The terminal announces its pane (A1)

xterm draws the screen to a canvas, so a screen reader reaching the terminal found an unnamed
control. The host element is now a labelled role="region" (aria-roledescription="terminal")
named after the pane — "Terminal for Idempotent payments" — so a reader names the pane before its
content. No tabIndex: xterm's helper textarea takes the keyboard on attach, and a stop on the
wrapper would only be an empty one ahead of it.

scripts/p0-verify.ts is the browser evidence for the label: it serves the demo harness, attaches a
terminal and reads the accessibility tree back. The xterm screenReaderMode question is deliberately
out of scope here — the bundled xterm patch's Gboard/IME backspace guard is disabled while that mode
is on, so that needs its own investigation.

Test plan

  • HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun run check fast — 1725 tests, 0 fail; typecheck and build clean
  • server/open-access.test.ts — this PC is let in and can start a pairing; a paired watch device
    reaches nothing the terminals do not show it
  • server/access.test.ts — a LAN client with no token and no device is pairing_required, not
    token_required
  • server/devices.test.ts — a non-owner Access that reaches the pair start gets not_owner,
    and a watch device gets read_only; the first fails if the guard is removed
  • scripts/p0-verify.ts — hasRegion: true, roledescription: "terminal", label: "Terminal for …",
    no page errors; a real dist/ is moved aside and restored on both the passing and failing paths
  • CI: Fast checks, Native Windows install, Integration and browser — awaiting approval for the
    fork run; bun run check fast and bun run check full pass locally on this head

Breaking change: a server with HOST=0.0.0.0, no token and no paired device now refuses every
other client until one is paired. The changelog entry leads Unreleased and names the three ways back:
set HERDR_WEB_TOKEN, pair a device from the PC, or set HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1.

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  • Security
    • Unpaired devices connecting over a LAN or proxy must pair using a code started on this PC, unless they have a valid token. Set HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1 to restore open access until a device is paired.
    • Only an owner session with drive access can start pairing; pairing codes can still be completed remotely.
  • Accessibility
    • The terminal is a labelled region, with its pane name included when available.
  • Documentation
    • Updated remote-access and configuration guidance to reflect these access rules.

Walkthrough

Unpaired, tokenless non-local access now requires an explicit open-access setting. Pairing-code creation is limited to full-access drive sessions. The terminal host now exposes a labelled region whose name uses the pane title.

Changes

Remote Access Controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Access policy and configuration
server/access.ts, server/index.ts, server/access.test.ts, server/tailscale.test.ts, server/open-access.test.ts, INSTALL.md, docs/guide.md, CHANGELOG.md
allowOpen now controls open access for unpaired, tokenless non-local requests. Server configuration, startup messages, tests, and documentation reflect the token requirement and the HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1 opt-in.
Pairing-start authorization
server/devices.ts, server/devices.test.ts
Pairing-code creation now requires full access and the drive role. Tests cover permitted access levels and pairing completion with a valid code.

Terminal Accessibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Terminal region label and verification
src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx, src/App.tsx, src/lib/i18n.*.ts, scripts/p0-verify.ts, CHANGELOG.md
The terminal host now has region semantics and a label based on the pane title or pane ID. Translations and a Chromium check cover the label.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: devswha

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bebbd

The access and pairing changes look sound. Before merging, make the developer verification script safer for a rerun after an interruption and fix the startup warning wording; none of these affect runtime access decisions.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bebbd

The authorization changes reduce unauthenticated remote access while preserving local recovery and code-based pairing. No introduced or worsened security weakness was identified. Deployment-specific proxy trust and the complete downstream exposure remain only partially established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — Eligible open access carries drive authority, including terminal input, credential issuance and file access within the server user's permissions. The explicit opt-in therefore restores substantial machine-level exposure to reachable clients; its name does not enforce a LAN-only network restriction. This authority already existed at the PR base and is now disabled by default.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The reviewed change removes the default path from an eligible unauthenticated non-local request to full drive authority and persistent device enrollment. It does not add a new public completion route or broaden the authority obtainable from a pairing code. No introduced or worsened attack path was established within the inspected authorization and pairing scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The central authentication gate is supplemented by same-origin and application-header checks for device mutations and the new drive-owner check for pairing initiation. Local trust remains an earlier access grant. Documentation continues to warn that a reverse proxy can make external visitors appear local and therefore requires a token for that deployment; this caveat predates the PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The unchanged pairing transition maintains one process-local pending code: a new start replaces it, ten minutes or five wrong attempts invalidate it, and successful completion consumes it after persistence. Synchronous mutation and atomic file replacement preserve memory state on persistence failure, leaving completion retryable. Restart discards an unfinished code; revocation retains the closed gate. The new owner check precedes pending-code creation.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies both primary changes: default refusal for unpaired non-loopback clients and terminal pane announcements. It is specific and related to the changeset.
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The script deletes the developer's real dist/ directory.

Lines 44 and 100 run rmSync(dist, { recursive: true, force: true }) on <repo>/dist. This is the normal bun run build output. A developer who runs this script after a build loses that output. The script also leaves dist/ behind if an assertion throws before Line 100, and the server and browser stay open. The failure path then exits through process.exit(1) with the browser still open.

Use try/finally for cleanup. Refuse to run when dist/ already exists, or back it up and restore it.

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Thanks for this. The access change is small and readable, the decideAccess tests cover the new default and the opt-in, and the terminal region label is a clean a11y fix with all three translations. It merges cleanly on v0.4.0 (aca94ee) and on current main. I reviewed head 638201a.

I am leaving a comment and not an approval for two reasons. The default-deny is a behavior change the maintainer has to decide on, and the points below need fixing first.

The pair/start owner check never refuses anything

The description says POST /api/devices/pair/start "is refused with not_owner unless this is the owner's own session", and the test plan lists "server/devices.test.ts — a non-owner client gets not_owner on pair/start". Neither holds:

  • requiresAuth (server/auth.ts) exempts only /api/health, /api/auth and /api/devices/pair. /api/devices/pair/start was already behind the gate on main, so a refused client gets 401 in server/index.ts before handleDeviceRequest runs.
  • Inside handleDeviceRequest, a watch device is answered read_only two lines above the new check.
  • Every session that does reach the check is therefore level: "full", role: "drive", and ownerSession() is always true. The via: "open" case, the one where "the network" really could start a pairing on main, is allowed by design.

I confirmed it by replacing if (!ownerSession(access)) with if (false) in the worktree: devices.test.ts and open-access.test.ts still pass (12 tests). The new "is the owner's act, and never a stranger's" test only asserts 200s, and there is no not_owner assertion anywhere. So the code is unreachable, the test cannot fail for the behavior it names, and the changelog line "Starting a device pairing is now something an owner does… Before, any client that reached the address could start one" describes what the decideAccess change does, not this check. Please drop the check, the not_owner code and that changelog entry, or keep the check as defense in depth with a test that actually reaches it with a non-owner Access. Either way the description should say what changed.

token_required on a server that has no token

With no token configured and nothing paired, a LAN client now gets token_required. AccessGate.tsx then says "This server requires an access token or a pairing code." There is no token on that server, and the docs added here say "another client is asked for the token". The comment in access.ts argues that pairing_required "would be a dead end", but it is the accurate answer here. Its copy is "Pair this device with a code from the PC: Settings → Devices there, or the pair command in its terminal", which is exactly the way in: the owner starts the code on the PC, and /api/devices/pair stays public. I suggest returning pairing_required when tokenConfigured is false and updating the two doc sentences to match.

For the maintainer to decide

  • This turns a documented default ("open as it always was, the server warns") into default-deny. Anyone on HOST=0.0.0.0 with no token and no paired device is locked out of their phone after the update, until they pair from the PC or set HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1. I think the new default is right. It is still a breaking change that deserves a prominent changelog line and probably a release note.
  • via({ forwarded: true, tailscaleLogin, owner: null }) moves from open to refused. A tailscale serve install where the PC's own login could not be read (tailscale CLI missing or the daemon not answering at start) used to get in and now needs pairing from http://localhost:7317. That follows from the new default, but it is worth a sentence in the guide.

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  • CHANGELOG. The three entries are inside ## [0.3.52] (two under its ### Changed, one under ### Maintenance), a released section. They belong under ## [Unreleased].
  • One change per PR (CONTRIBUTING.md). The access gate and the terminal label are unrelated. The label is ready by itself and would merge faster alone.
  • Overlap with #570. The two PRs conflict in 10 files, including server/index.ts (both rewrite the startup warning) and an add/add on server/open-access.test.ts. Whichever lands second has to be rebased.
  • CI. Only CodeRabbit has run. Fast checks and Integration and browser are waiting for maintainer approval of the fork run, so "CI: all green" in the test plan refers to another run.
  • No contract or demo-transport change is needed: no endpoint or frame is added, and AccessRefusal is unchanged.

Smaller notes

  • allowOpenEnv() is read again for the startup warning, while the server uses options.allowOpen ?? allowOpenEnv(). That is fine for the real entrypoint. I mention it only because the two can differ under an injected option.
  • scripts/p0-verify.ts is not typechecked or run by CI (scripts/ is outside both). If it is evidence for this PR and not a kept regression script, it may not need to be committed.

Tests I ran on the head: access, devices, open-access and tailscale unit files, 47 pass.

bun run check fast (generated types, typecheck, build, unit tests) also passes on this head.

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…used, and the terminal announces its pane

Until the first device is paired, and with no HERDR_WEB_TOKEN, anything that reached a
bound non-loopback address had full control of every terminal and could pair itself a
credential that lasted a year. The gate now defaults to closed for a client that is not
this PC: it is asked for the token (token_required), and HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1 is the
owner's opt-in that puts back the old open-LAN shape. Starting a pairing became an
owner's act — this PC, the token, the PC's Tailscale login, a device already paired with
drive rights, or that opt-in — while completing one with a code stays open from anywhere,
as before. This PC itself is never behind either gate, so the local-dev path and a
locked-out owner are unchanged.

The terminal grid carries no accessible name, because xterm draws the screen to a canvas
and hides it, so a screen reader announced the pane's content with nothing naming it. The
host element is now a region with aria-roledescription "terminal" and a label derived from
the pane's title. scripts/p0-verify.ts is the browser evidence for that on the demo
transport: role region, roledescription terminal, label "Terminal for …".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t, p0-verify cleanup

A LAN client with no token and no paired device is told to pair, not asked for a
token it cannot have: decideAccess answers the token gate only when a token is
configured, so the request that reaches the LAN branch has none. The owner check
on pair/start stays as defense in depth and now has a test that reaches it with
a non-owner Access — the gate answers such a session first, so the test pins the
floor the check holds rather than a path that runs today. p0-verify moves a real
dist/ aside and restores it, and closes the browser and server from a finally so
an assertion that throws still cleans up. Changelog entries move to Unreleased.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thank you for the close read — the three points are fixed in bebbdf2.

The owner check stays, and now has a test that reaches it. I kept it as defense in depth, and added a test that calls handleDeviceRequest directly with a { level: "none" } Access past the origin guard, so it asserts not_owner rather than a 200. I confirmed it fails if the guard is flipped to if (false) — the earlier test could not. The watch device is covered in the same test as read_only, which is what answers it just above the check. The changelog entry now says what the check actually is, and drops the "before, any client could start one" claim.

pairing_required when no token is configured. You were right that the comment's "dead end" argument was backwards: the code starts on this PC, /api/devices/pair stays public, and the refusal's own copy names that path. The token gate answers at the top of decideAccess, so any request that reaches the LAN branch has no token to be asked for — it is now told to pair. The two doc sentences in docs/guide.md and INSTALL.md say the same, and I added the guide sentence about a tailscale serve install whose login could not be read (pair from http://localhost:7317; the identity is re-read on the next request once Tailscale answers, and otherwise every five minutes).

Breaking change. The changelog entry now leads the Unreleased section and names the three ways back: set the token, pair from the PC, or HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1.

Smaller points. allowOpenEnv() is read twice, but the startup warning is in the real entrypoint, outside createServer, so I left it. scripts/p0-verify.ts now moves a real dist/ aside and restores it, and closes the browser and server from a finally, so an assertion that throws still cleans up — I ran both the passing and a deliberately failing run to check the restore.

On splitting the terminal label out: it is two attributes and a translated string, and it is already reviewed here, so I have left it in. If you would rather it land separately I can split it in minutes.

The branch is rebased onto current main and merges cleanly. The CI note is fair — the fork runs are yours to approve.

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Comment thread scripts/p0-verify.ts
const dist = join(repo, "dist");
const held = `${dist}.p0-verify`;
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve an existing dist.p0-verify backup.

If a prior run stops after moving dist/, held contains that run’s original build. A later run deletes it here before it can be restored. Refuse to start when held already exists, or recover it before creating a new backup.

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await page.waitForTimeout(600);
const after = await terminalA11y(page);
assert.ok(after.label && after.label.length > 0, "the label is still set after a workspace opens");

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Verify that the label follows the pane title.

A constant nonempty aria-label passes both checks. The script also accepts a failed workspace-create request because it does not check the response. Check that creation succeeds, then assert that the selected pane’s label contains its expected title.

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Comment thread server/index.ts
`WARNING: listening on ${instance.hostname} without HERDR_WEB_TOKEN - until a device is paired (Settings → Devices, on this PC) anyone who can reach this address can type into your terminals; pair your devices, set HERDR_WEB_TOKEN=<token>, or keep HOST=127.0.0.1 and reach it through Tailscale or an SSH tunnel.`,
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if (!LOOPBACK_HOSTNAMES.has(instance.hostname)) {
if (allowOpenEnv()) {

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Check the token before warning that open access is active.

If HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1 and HERDR_WEB_TOKEN is set, this branch warns that reachable clients can control terminals without a token. decideAccess instead requires the token. Gate this warning on an empty token, or report that the token takes precedence.

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Thanks for the quick turnaround. I re-reviewed head bebbdf2 against my review of 638201a, and merged it onto current main (0d97891) locally to run it. Every point from last time is fixed. This is a comment and not an approval only because the default change is the maintainer's decision; see the last section.

Earlier findings

  • The pair/start owner check had no test that reached it: fixed. The new case in server/devices.test.ts calls handleDeviceRequest with a { level: "none" } access and asserts 403 not_owner. I repeated the mutation from last time: with if (!ownerSession(access)) replaced by if (false), devices.test.ts:168 now fails (Expected: 403, Received: 200, 12 pass 1 fail), where at 638201a everything stayed green. The comment, the changelog entry and the description now say what the check is: a floor behind the gate, not a path that runs today. That is accurate. Over HTTP the gate still answers first, as the live run below shows (401, not 403).
  • token_required on a server with no token: fixed. The LAN branch of decideAccess returns pairing_required, access.test.ts pins it, and INSTALL.md and docs/guide.md say "told to pair". On a live server the refusal reads pair this device, or use the token.
  • CHANGELOG in a released section: fixed. After merging onto main, the two ### Changed entries and the ### Maintenance entry are all under ## [Unreleased] (## [0.4.0] starts below them), and the default change leads the section.
  • Guide sentence for a tailscale serve install whose login could not be read: added. The "every five minutes" matches OWNER_TTL_MS in server/tailscale.ts.
  • Description: it matches the code now, and the CI line says the fork runs are waiting.

What I ran

On main 0d97891 plus this PR:

  • HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun test ./server/access.test.ts ./server/devices.test.ts ./server/open-access.test.ts ./server/tailscale.test.ts: 48 pass, 0 fail.
  • bun run check fast: generated types, typecheck, build and unit tests all ok; 1727 pass, 6 skip, 0 fail.
  • A live server (createServer on 0.0.0.0, a temp state dir, no herdr behind it), requested once over loopback and once over the machine's LAN address:
No token, nothing paired main this PR
loopback GET /api/devices 200 200
LAN GET /api/devices 200 401 pair this device, or use the token
LAN GET /api/fs/file 200 401
LAN POST /api/devices/pair/start 200, hands out a code 401
LAN WebSocket /ws opens refused
LAN POST /api/devices/pair with a code started on loopback 204 + cookie 204 + cookie, then 200 with it

With allowOpen: true this PR answers the LAN client exactly as main does (200, pair/start 200, /ws opens). With a token set, both answer 401 token required everywhere, loopback included. So the refusal, the opt-out and the way in all behave as described.

I did not run scripts/p0-verify.ts or a screen reader, and I did not approve the fork CI runs, so GitHub's Fast checks and Integration and browser have not run on this head.

Smaller notes, none blocking

  • Startup warning with both HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1 and a token (server/index.ts, the allowOpenEnv() branch): it prints "with no HERDR_WEB_TOKEN … anyone who can reach this address can type into your terminals", but with a token set decideAccess asks for the token first. CodeRabbit's open thread on that line is right. Checking the token before that branch fixes it.
  • scripts/p0-verify.ts: it now moves a real dist/ aside and restores it from a finally. CodeRabbit's other two open threads still apply (a leftover dist.p0-verify from an interrupted run is deleted, and the label assertion would pass for any non-empty constant). The script is outside typecheck and CI, so I would still rather it stayed out of the tree, or went into scripts/ci-browser.sh if it is meant to be kept.
  • One change per PR: the terminal label is still bundled. It is fine by itself, so I leave that to the maintainer.
  • #570 still overlaps this PR in server/index.ts and server/open-access.test.ts; whichever lands second needs a rebase.

For the maintainer: what an existing user has to do after updating

This is the part that needs a decision, because it changes a documented default.

Who is affected: anyone who runs the server on a LAN or proxied address (HOST=0.0.0.0, a LAN address, or a reverse proxy) with no token and no paired device, and opens it from a phone or another computer. Today that just works. After this update that phone or computer gets the pairing screen and nothing else until one of these is done:

  1. Pair it once. On the PC itself (http://localhost:7317), open Settings → Phone & devices, start a pairing, and type the six-digit code or scan the QR code on the phone. On a headless PC, the plugin's pair command prints the same code in its terminal. Each device does this once.
  2. Or set HERDR_WEB_TOKEN and enter the token on each device.
  3. Or set HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1 and restart, which keeps today's behavior exactly.

Not affected: the browser on the PC itself, anyone who already paired a device or set a token, and a tailscale serve install whose Tailscale login is read. A tailscale serve install where the login cannot be read (CLI missing, daemon not answering) is affected and needs option 1 from the PC.

The cost is real for the case where the PC is headless or out of reach: the user is locked out of the phone until they get to a terminal on that PC. If this ships, it needs a line at the top of the release notes and of the in-app update summary (release-summaries.json), not only the changelog entry, so that a locked-out user finds the way back in. The alternative that keeps things easy is to leave the default open and keep the startup warning.

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… gating, focus traps, token backoff (#570)

## Summary

The follow-up to #569: the rest of a security, accessibility,
reliability and consistency audit.
Every item is a small, independent fix; nothing here changes a contract
or an architecture. Split
from the access-gate change so each PR is one thing.

### Security

- **CSP.** The app now sends itself a Content-Security-Policy, so
third-party content rendered in a
chat — markdown, a pasted link's preview, math — cannot pull in scripts
or reach back to the
server. `HERDR_WEB_CSP=report-only` measures the policy without
enforcing it. `scripts/csp-violations.ts`
  drives the demo harness and reports what the browser would block.
- **OSC 52 clipboard writes are gated.** A pane can no longer write your
clipboard without the
switch in Settings → Appearance (**Clipboard from a pane**, off by
default).
- **Terminal links are checked.** A link printed in the terminal opens
only if it is an http(s)
  address, on both link paths.
- **Token rate limit.** A wrong access token is refused with a growing
wait (five tries, then a
  backoff up to a minute) instead of being retried without bound.
- **Path disclosure.** A 500 no longer repeats the system's own error
text, which carried absolute
paths and the herdr socket location; it names a short id you can quote
in a bug report.
- **Push endpoints must be https**, and a watching device can no longer
make the server subscribe
  somewhere it should not.
- **Held input expires.** Terminal input typed while disconnected is
forgotten after a day, and a
  pane left behind no longer keeps a draft alive.

### Accessibility

- Settings, the command palette, the file viewer, the file browser and
the new-workspace dialog keep
Tab inside them and give focus back to whatever opened them
(`useFocusTrap`).
- Workspace tabs name the pane region they govern; the "reconnecting"
line and the composer's
  terminal-only hint are announced when they appear.
- Agent headings in a chat no longer pose as the app's own page
structure.
- A chat locked out by the token gate, the "Last checked" line under
Settings → Updates, and the
  alerts menu item are announced and worded consistently across states.

### Reliability and consistency

- Two tabs on one pane can no longer send the same message; a failed
rename keeps the field open
with what you typed; a failed workspace reorder no longer undoes a
later, successful one; rename,
  connect and disconnect disable while their request is in flight.
- **Remove PC**'s first click is a quiet ghost button that only arms the
removal; the second is the
  destructive one.
- **Add PC**, **Reconnect PC** and **Update remote bridge** open as a
bottom sheet on a phone, and a
row menu open while the window crosses the 640 px breakpoint switches
between bottom sheet and
  menu instead of hanging in the wrong one.
- The PDF viewer's page colour, the pill radii, the tab dot and the
pairing-code size come from
  tokens, and `DESIGN.md` matches `src/styles.css`.

## Test plan

- [x] `HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun run test:unit` — 1721 tests, 0 fail
- [x] `bun run typecheck` — clean
- [x] `server/auth.test.ts` — the token backoff
- [x] `server/http.test.ts` — no system text in a 500
- [x] `server/open-access.test.ts` — a paired watch device reaches no
directory listing and no read
      outside the enums
- [x] `scripts/csp-violations.ts` — runs against the demo harness
- [x] CI: Fast checks, Native Windows install, Integration and browser —
all green

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Thank you, @radicor, for this and for the quick, careful follow-ups: every point from the earlier reviews was fixed, and the tests are good.

I'm going to close it rather than merge, as a product decision rather than a code one. herdr-web-ui puts ease of getting in ahead of hardening the default: today a fresh install on a home LAN works from a phone straight away until the first device is paired, and this PR would make every existing user who reaches the app over the LAN without a token pair a device or set HERDR_WEB_ALLOW_OPEN=1 after updating. That cost lands on exactly the users who never thought about it, and it is not one I want to impose by default.

The pieces that do not change the default are welcome on their own if you'd like to send them: for example the terminal announcing its pane, or a clear warning in the UI when the app is open to the LAN with no token and no paired device. Thanks again.

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## Summary

The terminal is the product's central surface, and it is invisible to a
screen reader: xterm draws the screen to a canvas, so a reader reaching
it found an unnamed control. Its host element is now a labelled
`role="region"` (`aria-roledescription="terminal"`) named after the pane
— **"Terminal for Idempotent payments"** — so a reader names the pane
before its content.

This is the A1 half of the 2026-10-06 audit that rode in #569, which
closed on the access-gate decision rather than this code. You asked for
the pieces that do not change the default on their own, and this is one
of them: two attributes and a translated string.

- No `tabIndex`: xterm's helper textarea takes the keyboard here on
attach, so a stop on the wrapper would only be an empty one ahead of it.
- The label falls back to the pane id while a pane has no title, and to
"Terminal" while no pane is attached.
- `screenReaderMode` stays out of scope. The bundled xterm patch's
Gboard backspace guard is disabled while that mode is on, so it is its
own investigation rather than a flag flip.

## Test plan

- [x] `HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun run check fast` on `upstream/main` —
typecheck, build and the unit suite green (1928 pass, 6 skip, 0 fail)
- [x] `src/lib/i18n.test.ts` — the new `t("Terminal for {title}")` key
is present in ko, ja and zh
- [x] Browser check on the demo harness, run as a throwaway and **kept
out of the tree** per your earlier note that `scripts/` sits outside
typecheck and CI. With the fix the host reads `hasRegion: true,
roledescription: "terminal", accessibleName: "Terminal for Idempotent
payments"`, no page errors, and the label persists across a workspace
open. Reverting only the host attributes makes the same check fail —
`hasRegion: false, label: null` — so it discriminates rather than
passing on any non-empty constant.
- [ ] CI: Fast checks, Integration and browser — awaiting approval for
the fork run

Rebased onto current `main` (v0.4.2) and merges cleanly. No endpoint,
frame or contract change.

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S1 and RL5 never landed: devswha#569 was declined as a product decision and
process-errors.ts was removed from devswha#570 before it merged. A1 shipped as
devswha#633, and the table's KaTeX claim was wrong - strict stays "ignore" on
purpose. Cites commits and PRs instead of a script that was never
committed, and dates the check so a stale row is recognisable.
radicor added a commit to radicor/herdr-web-ui that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2026
S1 and RL5 never landed: devswha#569 was declined as a product decision and
process-errors.ts was removed from devswha#570 before it merged. A1 shipped as
devswha#633, and the table's KaTeX claim was wrong - strict stays "ignore" on
purpose. Cites commits and PRs instead of a script that was never
committed, and dates the check so a stale row is recognisable.
pt-act pushed a commit to radicor/herdr-web-ui that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2026
S1 and RL5 never landed: devswha#569 was declined as a product decision and
process-errors.ts was removed from devswha#570 before it merged. A1 shipped as
devswha#633, and the table's KaTeX claim was wrong - strict stays "ignore" on
purpose. Cites commits and PRs instead of a script that was never
committed, and dates the check so a stale row is recognisable.
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…o not squash) (#13)

* chore(release): 0.4.3 (#664)

Release v0.4.3 (fixes). Stops before merge; the lead merges and
releases.

## PRs since v0.4.2
#618 #613 #614 #628 #631 #635 #634 #623 #624 #625 #627 #632 #647 #646
#648 #658, plus #661 (docs, merged in).

## Changes in this PR
- `version` 0.4.3 in package.json and herdr-plugin.toml.
- CHANGELOG: Unreleased cut into `## [0.4.3] - 2026-10-09`, compare
links updated. PR links and outside credits checked against `gh pr view
--json author`: #618 @frankjoshua, #613 @Kinetic27, #614 @Haeminway1,
#646 #658 @jiunshinn, #648 @od-studio-webagency. #627 (CI) and #647/#661
(docs) have no entry.
- release-summaries.json 0.4.3: improved 2, fixed 8 in en/ko/ja/zh. The
last fixed line tells existing installs to reinstall the plugin through
herdr to get #648's Bun discovery (also stated in its CHANGELOG entry).
- Remote bundle: `REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION` 22 -> 23.
scripts/build-remote-bundle.ts ships server/ and shared/, and 19 files
there changed since v0.4.2 (#618 #614 #628 #635 #634 #624 #625 #646
...). `remote-v23` must be published on the merge commit before the app
release.

## Checks
- `bun run check fast` locally: 2009 pass, 0 fail.

## Whole-release review
Codex (gpt-6.1-sol, xhigh) over v0.4.2..HEAD, output verified by hand.
**No release blocker.** Two findings, both left as follow-ups:

1. *High (Codex) / pre-existing:* pending-message delivery
(`dispatchPendingText`, server/index.ts ~646/652) calls
`paneSendText`/`paneSendKeys` without the write-time guard #624 added to
the WS paths. `authorizePending` runs synchronously just before, so a
disconnect, role switch or revoke during the RPC's connect still lets
the paste or Enter through. Verified: v0.4.2 had the same unguarded
calls (lines 593/599), so this release does not regress it; #624 just
did not extend to this path. Fix: pass a lease-aware guard to both RPCs,
treat a cancel before the paste as unsent and one after it as uncertain,
with tests at both connect boundaries.
2. *Medium:* a click replayed (#634) while a key RPC is queued for the
pane takes the queued `input` path, so the mouse report goes out as
literal `pane.send_text` bytes instead of through the attach. Verified
in code: the click is only replayed when xterm's mouse tracking is on
(`term.modes.mouseTrackingMode !== "none"`), so the program asked for
the mouse, and queued typing and wheel reports already took this path in
v0.4.2. #634 makes the window more common (arrows are now queued RPC
keys). Fix needs attach-path ordering for queued mouse reports plus a
click-while-key-pending regression; not small enough for a release PR.

Known and accepted, not re-reported: #662, #629, #632 M-a residual.

* test(terminal): separate latency diagnostics from delivery assertions (#678)

## Change

Closes #668.

Remove the shared-runner-sensitive 150 ms assertion while preserving
p50/p95/max latency output, bounded delivery waits, ordered autorepeat
delivery, exact burst bytes and mouse checks. This changes the CI
criterion, not terminal behavior; no user-facing changelog entry is
needed.

## Validation

On the combined verification checkout: `bun run check fast` passed
(2,034 passed, 7 skipped), and the isolated
`terminal-arrows-clicks-regression.ts` passed. Observed held-arrow p50
2.1 ms, p95 70.8 ms, max 103.0 ms; the 200-arrow burst arrived in order
in 55.1 ms. Full `ui-regression.ts` also passed. CI verifies this PR's
exact revision.

* fix(chat): refuse immediate sends over Claude input drafts (#677)

## Change

Closes #629.

Immediate Claude Chat Send reuses the queued-delivery input-box check.
Existing drafts, bash mode and clipped boxes return the existing
`input_draft` error without typing, preserving composer text. Empty
inputs and non-Claude/terminal paths are retained. The pre-read is not
atomic with herdr's paste; input typed in that interval can still race.

## Validation

On a verification checkout combining this change with #668 and
reconciled #649/#650:
- `bun run check fast`: 2,034 unit tests passed, 7 skipped; workflow
syntax, generated types, typecheck and build passed.
- Isolated `server/submit.contract.test.ts`: 34 passed.
- xterm disposal, terminal arrows/clicks, and full
`scripts/ui-regression.ts` passed.

Tests used owned temporary state and isolated herdr sessions, not user
terminals. CI on this PR verifies its own exact revision.

* fix(terminal): dispose xterm after pending render callbacks (#649)

## Change

Closes #638

- 소켓·리스너 정리와 입력 차단, 이전 DOM 분리는 즉시 수행합니다.
- renderer disposal만 이미 예약된 frame과 task 뒤로 미루고, 늦은 write callback은 ACK 후
종료된 terminal을 건드리지 않습니다.
- 실제 patched xterm 브라우저 재현을 CI에 등록합니다.

## Validation

타입·빌드·생성 타입 검사와 전체 단위 1932 통과·33 생략·0 실패. 실제 xterm의 동일한 open/reset 시나리오를
브라우저에서 실행했습니다.

```text
Immediate: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'dimensions')
Deferred: errors=[], disposed=1
```

결정론적 scheduler 테스트 4개도 통과했습니다. 테스트는 소유한 브라우저만 사용하며 사용자 terminal에 접근하지
않습니다.

모든 검증은 별도 작업 공간과 소유한 테스트/demo 환경에서 수행했습니다. 사용자의 실행 중 앱·terminal은 변경하지
않았습니다.

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* fix(codex): resolve short sessions without guessing by recency (#650)

## Change

Closes #639

- 기존 경로·열린 파일·긴 답변 매칭으로 확인되지 않는 경우에만, 프로세스 시작 이후의 유일한 interactive
thread와 전체 첫 프롬프트를 대조합니다.
- 누락된 후보도 모호성에 포함하고 cwd 최신 파일 추측이나 지속적인 잘못된 binding을 만들지 않습니다.
- 디렉터리 없는 AGENTS 주입 형식도 숨기되 유사한 사용자 문장은 유지합니다. 최신 CODEX_HOME·PID·Windows
경로 보호는 보존했습니다.

## Validation

생성 타입·타입·빌드·전체 단위 검사 통과(1975 tests, 0 failures). Codex/process 관련 집중 실행은
92 통과·기존 Linux 전용 3 생략·0 실패였습니다. 임시 SQLite/rollout과 자체 프로세스·소켓으로 초/밀리초
schema, Windows cwd, 32개를 넘는 후보, unreadable 후보, exec/subagent 제외 및 화면 증거
소실을 검증했습니다. 실제 사용자 Codex나 유료 모델은 실행하지 않았습니다.

모든 검증은 별도 작업 공간과 소유한 테스트/demo 환경에서 수행했습니다. 사용자의 실행 중 앱·terminal은 변경하지
않았습니다.

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* feat(telemetry): keep the country an event came from (#663)

## What

The telemetry receiver stores the country a request came from beside
each install/update event: the two characters Cloudflare works out
(`request.cf.country`, such as `KR`), and nothing finer (no city,
region, network or address). Rows from before stay `NULL`.

The sender (`server/telemetry.ts`) and the message are unchanged.

## Wording that changed with it

- The one-time notice no longer says "Nothing else"; it says the
receiver also notes the country, never the address.
- Settings → About → Anonymous usage counts: the description says the
same, and a line under **What is sent** states that the receiver adds
the country, since it is not part of the message shown there.
- `docs/guide.md`, `telemetry/README.md`, `shared/telemetry.ts`,
`telemetry/schema.sql` and the Worker's header.
- ko / ja / zh translations for the changed and new strings.

## Decisions (maintainer)

- **The notice is not shown again.** Installs that already saw the
one-time notice keep their acknowledgement; the change is told through
the changelog, the guide and Settings → About.
- **Deploy order.** The live D1 table gets `ALTER TABLE events ADD
COLUMN country TEXT` before `wrangler deploy`; the other order makes
every INSERT fail. `telemetry/worker.test.ts` runs both orders against
SQLite.

## Review

Codex adversarial review: Tor (`T1`) and unknown (`XX`) markers are
stored as no country, the README's country query counts an install once,
the guide's opening sentence was corrected, and the receiver's tests run
against the real schema (b2fac4a).

## Checks

`bun run check fast` passes locally (2019 tests, 0 fail).
`telemetry/worker.test.ts` covers: country stored, finer `cf` fields
never stored, a missing or malformed country stored as `NULL`.

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* fix(prompt): a Claude approval is a card while background agents run (#659)

## Change

A follow-up to #614. While background agents run, Claude Code 2.1.29x
ends an approval's hint with the chord that stops them:

```
 Do you want to proceed?
   1. Yes
 ❯ 2. Yes, and don't ask again for: …
   3. No

 Esc to cancel · ctrl+x ctrl+k twice to stop background agents
```

The approval is often a subagent's (`Bash command · from the
general-purpose agent`). `parseClaudeApproval` reads it, but the tail
check takes only a bare `Esc to cancel` (#614), so the pane falls to the
numbered fallback card, which answers by typing the option's number. The
tail check now takes a hint that starts with `Esc to cancel`.

## Validation

- `server/prompt.test.ts`: a test with that screen shape; 225 pass.
- `bun run generate:types --check`, `bun run typecheck`, `bun run build`
pass. `bun run test:unit`: 1994 pass, 1 fail (`voice transcribe >
streams deltas and the done text from a split SSE answer`), which fails
the same way on `main` here.
- CHANGELOG line under `### Fixed`.

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* fix(ui): show one decimal for a size under 10 MB (#670)

## Change

Split out of #429, as asked in its review.

`formatBytes` (`src/lib/bridgeProgress.ts`) rounded megabytes to a whole
number. A 1.3 MB file read as 1 MB, and the file viewer's note for a
file cut short said "Showing the first 256 KB of 1 MB". Below 10 MB it
now keeps one decimal (`1.3 MB`). A whole number keeps none (`2 MB`),
and 10 MB and up stay whole.

The Files list (`src/components/DirectoryBrowser.tsx`) and the bridge
update's progress use the same function, so their sizes change the same
way.

## Validation

- `bun run typecheck` and `bun run build` pass.
- `bun run test:unit`: 2009 pass, 0 fail, with new cases in
`src/lib/bridgeProgress.test.ts`.

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* fix(settings): keep slow history traversal ownership (#630)

## What was wrong

Settings forgot ownership of its own history traversal after a 1000 ms
deadline. A delayed landing was then treated as the user's Back, so the
key bar editor could close during width changes. If no landing arrived,
reconciliation issued another traversal every second.

## What changed

- Keep the pending destination after the deadline and recognize its late
landing as the module's own.
- Do not automatically retry an unanswered traversal or issue another
from its unchanged source entry. Reconcile the latest requested Settings
levels when the traversal lands.
- Add deterministic stack-history and clock tests without a DOM or real
sleeps.
- Wait for Voice's status-dependent key form before measuring it. Extend
demo geometry checks to ko/ja/zh at 320px and the key bar editor. The
nearest-card comparison already existed at b82584d.

The production history change is 15 added and 7 removed lines. There is
no App listener change, contract change, new fixture, or history-module
redesign.

## Reproduction on b82584d

Before editing production code:

```text
$ HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun test ./src/lib/settingsHistory.test.ts
REPRO A: markerless popstate closes Settings; cleanup requests no traversal; Back restores depth 3
(fail) history traversal races > keeps a late width-change traversal its own after the landing deadline
  Expected: [true]
  Received: [false]
(fail) history traversal races > does not retry a traversal every second when no landing arrives
  Expected length: 1
  Received length: 11
8 pass
2 fail
```

The baseline transcript is retained locally in
`/tmp/tri-client3-564-baseline.log`. `settingsHistory.test.ts` already
existed on the baseline; the reproduction cases were added there.

## Remaining from #564

Part A is reproduced and intentionally left. `src/App.tsx:237-242`
closes Settings on every non-own markerless landing.
`src/lib/settingsHistory.ts:43-50` cannot distinguish a base entry from
another markerless entry, and reconciliation at
`src/lib/settingsHistory.ts:81-90` derives the held depth solely from
that marker. A real Back to the base and a new fragment entry therefore
carry the same observable markerless state. Ignoring all markerless
events would break normal dialog Back; stepping over all of them could
leave the app on a legitimate Back. Correct cleanup needs explicit
base/entry identity, which is the redesign excluded from this
assignment. The characterization test preserves evidence of the
unresolved behavior instead of claiming it is fixed.

For C, the original nearest-card allegation is not confirmed: it already
used `.closest(".settings-card")`. Voice readiness, localized pages and
key-bar geometry are covered by this change. No translation or demo
fixture changes are needed.

Refs #564

* fix(a11y): the terminal announces its pane (#633)

## Summary

The terminal is the product's central surface, and it is invisible to a
screen reader: xterm draws the screen to a canvas, so a reader reaching
it found an unnamed control. Its host element is now a labelled
`role="region"` (`aria-roledescription="terminal"`) named after the pane
— **"Terminal for Idempotent payments"** — so a reader names the pane
before its content.

This is the A1 half of the 2026-10-06 audit that rode in #569, which
closed on the access-gate decision rather than this code. You asked for
the pieces that do not change the default on their own, and this is one
of them: two attributes and a translated string.

- No `tabIndex`: xterm's helper textarea takes the keyboard here on
attach, so a stop on the wrapper would only be an empty one ahead of it.
- The label falls back to the pane id while a pane has no title, and to
"Terminal" while no pane is attached.
- `screenReaderMode` stays out of scope. The bundled xterm patch's
Gboard backspace guard is disabled while that mode is on, so it is its
own investigation rather than a flag flip.

## Test plan

- [x] `HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun run check fast` on `upstream/main` —
typecheck, build and the unit suite green (1928 pass, 6 skip, 0 fail)
- [x] `src/lib/i18n.test.ts` — the new `t("Terminal for {title}")` key
is present in ko, ja and zh
- [x] Browser check on the demo harness, run as a throwaway and **kept
out of the tree** per your earlier note that `scripts/` sits outside
typecheck and CI. With the fix the host reads `hasRegion: true,
roledescription: "terminal", accessibleName: "Terminal for Idempotent
payments"`, no page errors, and the label persists across a workspace
open. Reverting only the host attributes makes the same check fail —
`hasRegion: false, label: null` — so it discriminates rather than
passing on any non-empty constant.
- [ ] CI: Fast checks, Integration and browser — awaiting approval for
the fork run

Rebased onto current `main` (v0.4.2) and merges cleanly. No endpoint,
frame or contract change.

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Co-authored-by: Hako <devswha@gmail.com>

* feat(chat): fuzzy-match slash commands beyond the prefix (#617)

## Change

The composer's `/` (and `$`) list only matched the start of a command's
name, so a plugin or skill named `superpowers:brainstorming` needed its
namespace typed first. `rankSlashCommands` (`src/lib/compose.ts`) now
ranks by kind of match:

1. name starts with the query (as before)
2. a word of the name starts with it (words split on `: - _ . /`)
3. the name contains it
4. its letters appear in order (`spbr`)
5. the description contains it (query of 2+ characters)

Within a kind, the most-used commands come first, then name order. A
better kind of match always beats a more frequently used one; an empty
query still lists everything.

## Validation

- `bun run typecheck`, unit tests (`src/lib/compose.test.ts` has the new
ranking test; 811 pass on a branch that also holds #616).
- Not tried by hand in the composer; matched letters are not
highlighted.

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Co-authored-by: Hako <devswha@gmail.com>

* feat(voice): choose the dictation language, auto from the browser (#612)

## Change

Closes #611.

Dictation used to listen only in the UI language. The UI exists in
English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese, so a Hungarian or German speaker
got an English UI, and their speech was recognized as English.

- A new setting, **Settings → Voice input → Dictation language**
(`voiceLanguage`, default `auto`), appears while the microphone button
is not Off.
- **Auto** behaves as before, with one exception. When the UI language
is System and the browser's first language is not English, Korean,
Japanese or Chinese, Auto uses that tag (`navigator.languages[0]`, e.g.
`hu-HU`). In every other case it uses the UI language's locale, as
today: `ko` and `ko-KR` → `ko-KR`, `en-GB` → `en-US`, `zh-TW` → `zh-CN`,
and a UI language picked by hand. A malformed first tag (e.g. `*`) falls
back to the UI language.
- A language can also be picked from `DICTATION_LANGUAGES`, a list of 32
BCP 47 tags. Their names come from `Intl.DisplayNames` in the UI
language, sorted by name. Someone who wants `en-GB` or `zh-TW` can
choose it here.
- Browser engine: `SpeechRecognition.lang` is the resolved tag.
- Server engine: the form's `language` is the tag's two-letter subtag
(`hu`). A tag without one (`fil-PH`) sends the UI language, so
`server/voice.ts` and its `^[a-z]{2}$` check are unchanged.
- `speechLang` is replaced by `dictationLocale` and `transcribeLanguage`
(both pure, unit-tested).
- `sanitizeSettings` accepts only `auto` or a tag from the list.
- The three new UI strings have ko, ja and zh entries. I wrote them
without a native speaker's check, so please correct them if they read
wrong.
- Also updated: `docs/guide.md#voice-input` and the `CHANGELOG.md`
Unreleased section.

## Validation

- `bun run check fast`: generated types fresh, typecheck, build, and
unit tests (0 fail).
- New unit tests cover:
- `dictationLocale`: Auto keeps today's locale for every browser
language the UI is translated into, takes the browser's tag for one it
is not, and respects a hand-picked UI language and a chosen dictation
language.
  - `transcribeLanguage`.
  - `sanitizeSettings` for `voiceLanguage`.
- I compared the old and new Auto locale on `ko-KR`, `ko`, `en`,
`en-GB`, `ja`, `zh-TW`, `zh-Hant-TW` and `en-US,ko`: they are identical.
They differ only on `de-DE,ko-KR` (before `ko-KR`, now `de-DE`) and
`hu-HU`, which are the intended changes.
- I checked the UI in the demo built by `bun run build:site`, with
`navigator.languages` set to `["hu-HU", "en-US"]`. The Voice input page
shows **Dictation language** with **Auto (Hungarian (Hungary))**
selected, followed by the named list. A screenshot is in the first
comment. The row's description has been reworded since that screenshot.
- I did not run `bun run check full`, because the change touches neither
herdr nor any HTTP/WS contract. I did not test live dictation in a real
browser.

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* fix(sidebar): draw the working arc thirty times a second, not five (#622)

## Change

The sidebar's working arc turned with `steps(8, end)` over `--dur-pulse`
— a pulse's 1600 ms.
That is five 45° jumps a second, 200 ms apart. The icon is 16px across,
so the arc's radius is
6px and each jump moves its ends about 4.7px: a working agent reads as a
stutter, not as work
in progress.

The turn gets its own `--dur-spin` — a pulse period says how long a dot
takes to come back, not
how fast an arc should spin — and steps 48 times over the same 1600 ms:
33 ms and 7.5° apart,
under a pixel of travel each. The arc, its size and the length of the
turn are unchanged, and
the animation keeps `steps()`, so `src/motion.test.ts` still holds.

| before — `steps(8)` over `--dur-pulse` | after — `steps(48)` over
`--dur-spin` |
| --- | --- |
|
![before](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iwangjie/herdr-web-ui/evidence/sidebar-working-arc/pr-evidence/arc-steps8.gif)
|
![after](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iwangjie/herdr-web-ui/evidence/sidebar-working-arc/pr-evidence/arc-steps48.gif)
|

Both are 30 fps captures of the repo's own demo session — the client
`scripts/demo-build.ts`
builds, over the committed fixture transport, loopback only, with the
demo's 4500 ms timer held
so the turn stays running. They come from one page load, so the two
differ in the one
declaration under test and nothing else. The still is that session:

[`demo-still.png`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iwangjie/herdr-web-ui/evidence/sidebar-working-arc/pr-evidence/demo-still.png).
The recordings live on a branch of my fork,
`evidence/sidebar-working-arc`, not in this branch.

## Validation

- `bun run check fast`: green — generated types, typecheck, build, and
the unit suite
(1902 pass, 32 skip, 0 fail). The 3 `isolate` tests in
`scripts/check.test.ts` need a TMPDIR
whose socket path fits; this Mac's default is too long for it, and they
fail the same way on
  `main`, so I ran the suite with `TMPDIR=/tmp`.
- Frames the browser actually drew, counted with `Page.startScreencast`
over the demo session,
one page load, every variant twice and interleaved so a page that quiets
down or speeds up
  hits each of them:

  | the arc's declaration | frames the browser drew |
  | --- | --- |
  | `animation: none` (the page's own damage) | 4.8/s |
  | `steps(8)` | 8.8/s |
  | `steps(48)` | 31.0/s |

A stepped rotation draws its steps and nothing else, so this count is
the frame rate: thirty
a second, still a fraction of what the display refreshes, which is what
the rule in
  `src/motion.test.ts` protects.
- The two 30 fps recordings: 13 distinct frames per turn before, with 35
of the 48 slots
  repeating the frame before them; 47 after.
- Sampled from the built stylesheet: 0 ms 0°, 33 ms 7.5°, 100 ms 22.5°,
200 ms 45°. Before it
  was 0 ms 0°, 200 ms 45°.

## Notes

- `--dur-spin` is 1600 ms, the turn the arc always took. Only the number
of frames it is drawn
  in changed, so nothing but the smoothness moves.
- `UsageMeters.css` spins its own arc at `0.8s steps(8)`: 45° a step,
ten a second. That one is
behind a popover over a still page, so I left it alone; it has the same
shape of problem if
  you want it in a follow-up.

---------

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* feat(pwa): name the installed app with HERDR_WEB_APP_NAME (#684)

<!-- See CONTRIBUTING.md for checks, translations, contract tests and the changelog. -->

## Change

Option 1 from #476. Each PC is its own origin, so two PCs installed on one phone are two apps, and both are called "herdr".

When `HERDR_WEB_APP_NAME` is set (plugin `.env` or the environment, like the other settings), `server/static.ts` serves:

- `/manifest.webmanifest` with `name` and `short_name` set to it. Every other field stays as built, `id` included, so the app's identity does not change.
- the shell (`/`, unknown paths, `/index.html`) with `apple-mobile-web-app-title` set to it, HTML-escaped, so an iOS home-screen install gets the same label.

Unset or blank, both are served byte for byte as built. Cache headers and the CSP are unchanged, and the manifest and shell already revalidate on every load, so an installed app picks the name up at the browser's next manifest update without a reinstall.

Docs: a row in the guide's *Configuration* table, plus one sentence at the phone-install step. Changelog: one line under *Added*.

There is no HTTP/WS contract change and no new endpoint. Static files are not proxied for remote PCs, so the remote bundle is not affected.

Closes #476

## Validation

- `bun run check fast`: workflow syntax, generated types, typecheck and build pass. In the unit tests, 2044 pass and the same 18 fail in `server/codex-processes.test.ts` on this branch and on unmodified `main`: the fixture spawns `/bin/bash`, which this NixOS machine does not have (`ENOENT: posix_spawn '/bin/bash'`). Nothing else fails.
- New `server/static.test.ts` (4 tests). It runs against the source `public/manifest.webmanifest` and `index.html`, so it also fails if someone renames or reshapes the meta tag later. It covers: unset or blank is off; the manifest is renamed and every other field kept; the shell changes only the meta; HTML escaping, including `$&`-style replacement patterns.
- Built server, `HERDR_WEB_APP_NAME=midgard`: `/manifest.webmanifest?v=2` returned `name`/`short_name` `midgard`, `id` `/`, `Cache-Control: no-cache`, content type `application/manifest+json`. `/`, `/index.html` and an unknown path returned `content="midgard"`. `sw.js` was byte-identical.
- Built server, variable unset: the manifest and `/` were byte-identical to `dist/`.
- Not yet checked on a phone, so the rename of an app that is already installed is untested.

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* feat(sidebar): a finger reorders workspaces with a long press and a drag (#679)

## Change

On iOS (Safari and the home-screen PWA), a long press on a workspace row lifted the system's drag preview, but the HTML drag and drop it started never dropped on the page, so workspaces could not be reordered on a phone at all.

- On a touch screen (`pointer: coarse`) the row's `draggable` is off, so the misleading preview no longer appears.
- `src/lib/touchReorder.ts` handles the finger instead. A 400 ms press held within 8 px lifts the row (`.is-lifted`), it follows the finger, the list scrolls near its edges, and a 2px `--accent` line (`data-drop`) shows where it lands. Letting go uses the same `dropIndex` / `reorderWorkspace` path as the mouse drag, so worktree groups stay packed and a failed move rolls back.
- A stroke that moves before the hold is still a scroll or a drawer swipe. Once a row is lifted, its moves never reach the drawer swipe (`lib/edgeSwipe.ts`, which the window-capture listener runs before), and the lift's touchend does not click the row.
- The row's ⋯ menu gains **Move up** / **Move down**, shown only when the move is possible, with ko/ja/zh entries.
- Desktop mouse drag and Alt+↑/↓ are unchanged.
- DESIGN.md, docs/guide.md and the CHANGELOG (`Unreleased → Added`) are updated.

## Validation

- `src/lib/touchReorder.test.ts` (new, unit) covers the hold slop, hit-testing between rows and past the ends, and the edge-scroll speed.
- `scripts/workspace-touch-reorder-demo-regression.ts` (new, added to `ci-browser.sh`, with the `ci-browser.test.ts` count updated) runs the demo transport at 390×844 with `isMobile` + `hasTouch` and CDP touch events. It checks that:
  - rows are not `draggable`
  - a quick stroke lifts nothing
  - a long press + drag moves the first workspace after the third, both in the sidebar and in the server's order, with nothing left lifted and the drawer still open
  - ⋯ → Move up moves it back one step
- Passed locally on this branch (based on `main` at 0.4.3): the demo regression, the new unit tests, `i18n.test.ts`, `motion.test.ts`, `ci-browser.test.ts`, `bun run build` and `bun run typecheck`.
- The same change passed Fast checks, Integration and browser, and Native Windows install on my fork (jiunshinn/herdr-web-ui#9).
- Tested by hand on an iPhone in the home-screen PWA: long-press, drag and drop reorder workspaces, and Move up/down works.

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* feat(chat): show a task list's boxes (#669)

## Change

Split out of #429, as asked in its review: a task list in the chat.

- A list item that starts with a GitHub task box (`- [x] done`, `- [ ] open`, `- [X]`) is parsed with its state (`ListItem.checked` in `src/lib/markdown.ts`). Anything else after the bullet (`[y]`, no space) stays text.
- `src/components/Markdown.tsx` draws a checked or empty box in place of the bullet instead of the brackets:
  - The box is not clickable, because the agent's text owns the state.
  - It is a drawn `<span role="checkbox" aria-checked aria-disabled>`, labelled by the item's text, so a screen reader says "done, checkbox, checked". A disabled `<input>` would be greyed by the browser and ignore the accent.
- Styles are in `src/components/ChatView.css` (`.markdown-task*`), tokens only. `DESIGN.md` describes it.
- A file viewer's Markdown preview (#429) uses the same renderer, so it gets the boxes too once both have landed.

## Validation

- `bun run typecheck` and `bun run build` pass.
- `bun run test:unit`: 2010 pass, 0 fail. The new test in `src/lib/markdown.test.ts` covers the parse (checked, open, `[X]`, an empty item, `[y]` as text) and the rendered markup, including the box's label.

## Screenshots
<img width="1736" height="286" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3af005cd-4d25-40f8-a583-313bb7269e80" />
<img width="1736" height="286" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e2ac698a-0db2-408e-9117-eb601b0f6e5c" />

* fix(terminal): a tab you are not using lets go of the pane, so herdr's TUI shows it whole (#660)

> Builds on #658: the first commit on this branch is #658's (rebased on
today's `main`), because this change edits the focus handling #658 adds.
Please review the second commit, `74c0350`. I'll rebase this onto `main`
once #658 is in.

## Change


<img width="1707" height="1016" alt="Screenshot 2026-10-09 at 14 58 10"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/20bfbaea-0dee-4332-87f3-d3c4f267971e"
/>


**Problem.** While a desktop web UI tab has a pane open, herdr's own TUI
(in Ghostty here) shows that pane cut off at its split's edge, with the
bottom rows (the prompt box) out of reach, even after scrolling. It
lasts as long as the tab stays open. A phone does not do this.

**Cause.** The bridge keeps a `herdr terminal attach` on every pane a
tab shows. While an attach is connected, herdr 0.9.3 holds the pane at
that attach's size, and its own TUI cannot resize it
(herdrdev/herdr#5006, herdrdev/herdr#985: `direct_attach_resize_lock`).
A desktop tab left open kept the pane at the browser's size (219x72 in
my case) while the TUI's split was 51 columns. A phone hides this: it
disconnects in the background, and its grid is narrower than the split.
#658 stops a background tab from *taking* the size again, but it does
not *give it back*.

Measured in a throwaway herdr session with a real TUI client: a split
pane at 44x37 became 150x50 while an attach was connected, and returned
to 44x37 the moment the attach ended. The layout `rect` includes the
border (a 47x39 rect was a 44x37 pty), so the TUI's size cannot be
computed and handed back through the API. Ending the attach is the only
way back.

**Fix.**
- A tab out of use (window blurred or hidden) for `RELEASE_AFTER_MS` (1
s) detaches its pane. The attach ends with the pane's last client, and
herdr restores its TUI's size. The terminal lens shows "Paused while you
use another window".
- On focus, or on any pointerdown, the tab attaches again at its own
size. The screen restarts from the new attach, as on a pane switch.
- The tab keeps the pane while a message it queued waits for delivery
(that goes through its attach), and lets go once the message is out. It
never releases a mirrored pane (no attach to give back) or an embedded
page (the site's demo iframe, which has the focus only while clicked
into).
- A pane switch while released attaches nothing until the user is back.
The cleanup still detaches whichever pane is attached at the next
switch.
- `HerdrSocket.resize` sends nothing for a pane the socket is not
attached to: the server would apply it to the holder's attach.
- No protocol change. The demo transport already replays a pane's screen
on every attach.

Trade-off: a desktop window that is visible but not focused (e.g. on a
second monitor) stops updating until it is clicked.

## Validation

- `scripts/chat-size-regression.ts`
`checkBackgroundTabKeepsTerminalSize`, rewritten for the new behavior. A
window out of use sends no resize, then detaches and shows the paused
banner. A background reconnect attaches nothing. Once the phone leaves
too, no `herdr terminal attach` runs for the pane. Focus attaches again
at the window's size. It fails on the old client (no detach) and passes
with this change, as do `checkChatKeepsTerminalSize` and
`checkPaneSwitchKeepsTerminalSize` (run against a `bun run check run`
herdr).
- `src/lib/ws.test.ts`: no resize and no reconnect attach for a pane the
socket let go of.
- End to end, with a real herdr TUI client on a throwaway session, `stty
size` in the pane: TUI only `37 44` → browser tab in use `47 120` → user
back in the TUI `37 44` → back in the browser `47 120`.
- Typecheck, build and `bun run test:unit` on this branch. The only
failures are 3 `isolate` tests in `scripts/check.test.ts`, which also
fail on an unchanged `main` on my Mac (herdr socket path too long under
the macOS temp dir), and 3 `server/prompt.test.ts` timing failures under
full-suite load that pass alone (217/217, twice).
- New string translated in `i18n.ko.ts`, `i18n.ja.ts` and `i18n.zh.ts`.
`CHANGELOG.md` has an `[Unreleased]` entry, and `src/AGENTS.md` and
`server/AGENTS.md` record the attach lock.
- I have been running this from my fork (herdr 0.9.3, macOS, Ghostty)
since today: the TUI pane comes back whole a second after leaving the
browser.

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* feat(chat): show Claude Code subagents as background tasks (#527)

## What

A Claude Code pane's subagents (the `Agent` tool) were invisible in the
chat:

- **The call:** a collapsed work row whose output is only "Async agent
launched successfully…".
- **The finish:** the `<task-notification>` that carries the agent's
answer was hidden on purpose.
- **Running agents:** shown only in the terminal footer (`◯ reviewer
Review … 4m 6s · ↓ 57k tokens`).

This PR reuses OmO's background-task UI for them instead of adding new
UI:

- **Status line list:** `GET /api/pane/omo-tasks` lists a Claude pane's
subagents. Each row shows type, description, model, elapsed time, turns,
tool calls and tokens. The title falls back from the description to the
teammate name, agent type and id. The list holds the running ones, then
the newest ten that ended in the last day, the same rule as OmO's list.
An agent is `lost` once the pane no longer runs that session, or when it
was last written more than 60 s before the pane's current Claude process
started (an agent orphaned by an exit, then `--continue`).
- **Badge and count:** the pane's `background_tasks` counts the running
ones. It is set in the snapshot and pushed in a `pane-status` frame that
keeps the pane's status and sends no alert or web push.
- **Result card:** an agent's task notification becomes a `task_result`
card in the chat, showing title, agent type, status and the answer, cut
at the existing 16,000-character limit. A notification is counted once,
though Claude records it up to three times: a user entry, a
`queue-operation` and a `queued_command` attachment. A notification that
shares a user entry with a tool's result is drawn as well. Background
Bash notifications stay hidden as before.
- **Docs:** `server/AGENTS.md` described a `taskNotice` that does not
exist on main; that row now describes this code. CHANGELOG, DESIGN.md
and docs/guide.md are updated.

## Where the data comes from (Claude Code 2.1.29x)

-
`<config>/projects/<project>/<session>/subagents/agent-<id>.meta.json`:
`agentType`, `description`, `toolUseId`.
- `agent-<id>.jsonl`: the subagent's own transcript. It gives the model,
turns, tool calls and tokens. Tokens are the last entry's input + cache
+ output, which matches the `totalTokens` Claude reports for a finished
agent.
- The parent transcript: `<task-notification>` blocks (status and
result), and for a synchronous agent the `tool_result` of its call. An
"Async agent launched" acknowledgement is never taken for an answer.
- Agent-team teammates get no notification and no `toolUseId`. An agent
whose own file ends with an assistant entry that stopped with
`end_turn`, and has no user entry after it, has ended at that entry's
time. The newest of notification, answer and end of turn wins. An agent
resumed after it ended reads as running again once its own file has
newer entries.
- An agent's status, last write and start come from the last and first
64 KB of its file, outside the read budget, so a large session reads
right on the first call. What it did (model, turns, tool calls, tokens)
is filled in once its whole file has been read. An agent whose end
cannot be told yet is left out rather than shown as running.

## Cost and safety

- **Polling:** a 2 s poller reads only Claude panes, and skips a pane
whose `subagents/` mtime, parent size and the mtimes of the ended agents
it watches are unchanged.
- **Read limits:** files are read incrementally from their last offset,
with an 8 MB per-call budget. The first parent read covers its newest 16
MB window in full, so the first answer is already right. A line longer
than the budget is skipped only to its next newline. Caches evict one
entry at a time.
- **Paths:** agent ids are checked against `/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/` wherever
an id becomes a path. On a page, ids come only from parsed
notifications, never from tool output. Final-component symlinks are
refused.
- **Request time:** `/api/pane/omo-tasks` waits at most 1 s for a pane
it has not resolved yet, then answers with what it knows. The client
asks again when the count changes, and asks an empty answer again up to
three times, 3 s apart, so that agents which ended before the lookup
finished are still found.
- **Cards:** they depend only on the transcript bytes plus the meta
file, which does not change after launch. A cached page and a cold read
therefore agree.

## Tests

- **`server/claude-subagents.test.ts` (new), covering:**
  - running, completed, failed and cancelled;
  - the three carriers of one notification counted once;
- an agent resumed after its notification, and with only its own file
writing;
- synchronous answers, and a launch acknowledgement that is not an
answer;
- a teammate ended by its own `end_turn`, then messaged again, and
status from the file's tail before the whole file is read;
  - lost by session, and lost by process start (60 s slack);
  - the ten-ended and one-day limits;
- read budgets: a leftover smaller than a line, a 9 MB line, a 10 MB
line before a 7 MB notification, a starved file;
  - the 16 MB window, a 30 MB append, traversal ids, a torn meta;
  - `/clear` to a session with no agents, and pid changes.
- **`server/conversation.test.ts`:** an agent notification becomes one
card and a Bash notification stays hidden. A notification that shares an
entry with a tool's result becomes one card too. A notice quoted inside
a tool result is ignored. Cards stay the same when the subagent file
grows.
- **`server/claude-session.contract.test.ts` (live herdr):** the list
from `/api/pane/omo-tasks`, the snapshot count going 1 then 0, a
count-only `pane-status` frame with the pane's own status, and no web
push for it.

```
bun run typecheck                        ✓
bun run generate:types --check           ✓
bun scripts/ci-tests.ts unit             1518 pass, 0 fail
bun scripts/ci-tests.ts integration      226 pass, 0 fail, 6 skip (macOS)
bun scripts/ui-regression.ts             76 PASS
```

Checked on a live server (macOS, Claude Code 2.1.290):

- A real 27 MB session transcript with six subagents. The list was right
from the first read, with running and finished agents told apart, and
later reads took 0 ms.
- A pane that read nine agents as running before the end-of-turn and
tail fixes, all of them idle teammates or ended agents, now counts 0.
- A subagent started for the check made the pane's count go from 1 to 0.
Its row went from running to completed, with model, turns, tool calls
and tokens.

🤖 Assisted by
[kilhyeonjun-harness](https://github.com/kilhyeonjun/kilhyeonjun-harness)

---------

Co-authored-by: Hako <devswha@gmail.com>

* feat(chat): highlight code blocks by their language (#671)

## Change

Split out of #429, as asked in its review: syntax highlighting for code blocks in the chat. #429's file viewer is rebuilt on top of this PR.

- **Highlighter.** A fenced block is colored by role with [TanStack Highlight](https://github.com/TanStack/highlight) (`@tanstack/highlight` 1.0). `src/lib/highlight.ts` maps a fence word to one of 28 registered languages. Tokens render as React spans with no `innerHTML`. The colors are `--syntax-*` tokens for every palette (`src/styles.css`, table in `DESIGN.md`).
- **Nothing a reply holds can freeze the page.** TanStack is quadratic on some shapes: a line of dashes in YAML takes 3.8 s at 64 KB.
  - Only code up to 2 KB is highlighted while the page draws. The worst shape measured at that size takes under 5 ms.
  - Longer code is highlighted in a worker (`src/lib/highlightOffThread.ts` on `src/lib/offThread.ts`). It shows plain until the worker answers.
  - A worker that runs past 2 s is ended and replaced. Its block stays plain with "Too long to highlight" under it.
  - A block over 100 KB is not tried.
  - A block over 20 000 lines (`LINE_ELEMENT_LIMIT`) is drawn as one text, as on `main`, and not highlighted. Each line is an element of its own, and in Chromium 256 KB of line breaks (262 144 lines) held the page for 4 s.
  - While a reply grows, it keeps its colors and only its new end shows plain until highlighted.
- **Copy.** The text of the `<pre>` is the code itself: lines are inline spans joined by `\n`, so a copied selection keeps blank lines.
- **Setting.** **Settings → Chat → Highlight code** turns it off. The code is then plain, with no "too long" note.
- **Bundle.** Against `main` (gzip -6) the main script grows by 13.0 KB, from 359.8 KB to 372.8 KB. The worker chunk (11.3 KB) loads on first use.

## Validation

- `bun run typecheck` and `bun run build` pass. `bun install --frozen-lockfile` passes on the committed `bun.lock`.
- `bun run test:unit`: 2077 pass, 0 fail (on `main` at `3a0254e`).
  - `src/lib/highlight.test.ts` covers roles across lines, CRLF, blank lines, the sync limit and failure.
  - `src/lib/offThread.test.ts` runs real Bun workers: budget, termination and replacement, cancel, and a failed spawn.
- Browser, `bun run check run bun scripts/<script>.ts` in Chromium:
  - `file-viewer-regression`: 16 PASS. Long tasks are recorded from the first paint. It now also checks that a 30 000-line block opens with Show all as one text with no task of a second, that chat code is highlighted, keeps its blank line, that a 90 KB YAML block the highlighter is slow on stays plain with its note while the others are colored, and that Highlight code off leaves the chat plain.
  - `settings-pages-demo-regression` 7 PASS, `chat-history-browser-qa` 6 PASS, `math-browser-qa` OK, `file-viewer-mobile-regression` 16 PASS.
  - `ui-regression`: 78 PASS, then it stops at the startup prompt card ("1. Yes, continue") in my container, the same as on `main`.

## Screenshots
<img width="1640" height="664" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/17990018-7d70-4a48-a6b1-13ad2e4b75a3" />
<img width="1640" height="664" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/09581af7-d10a-4c15-9477-f8453a19e0e7" />
<img width="780" height="1688" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b97430e3-d149-4879-a543-2a1210279bd1" />

* fix(status): hold a Claude turn that ended on its background work (#534)

> Stacked on #533 (step detail), which is stacked on #531 and #527.
Please review only the last commit: **fix(status): hold a Claude turn
that ended on its background work**.

> Rebased onto #520/#521: BG is a read-only word in the composer, hidden
like every other state word since #520; in the sidebar's compact cell it
is the running arc held still, in the working colour; and the roll-up is
blocked, done, working, BG, ready, after herdr's order (#521). Sending,
queueing and Stop, #520's queue of pending messages included, still go
by the agent's own status.

## Problem

A Claude Code turn can end while work it started is still running in the
background, such as a test suite run with `run_in_background` or a
background subagent. Claude says something like "the suite is running;
I'll ship when it's done", and when the work's `<task-notification>`
arrives it starts the next turn on its own.

herdr reads the end of that turn as `idle`, or `done` while nobody has
looked. So the sidebar and the composer said **DONE** and push sent
"work finished", while the work kept going.

Seen live: a pane read DONE for about 6 minutes while its suite ran.
That suite had been started by a subagent, so its launch was only in the
subagent's transcript, and the status line counted no running subagent.

## What changes

- **Background commands are counted with subagents.** A `Bash` call
whose answer carries `toolUseResult.backgroundTaskId` is a background
command. That covers `run_in_background`, Ctrl+B, and commands moved to
the background by their timeout, whether the session or a subagent ran
them.
- It ends with its notice (in any transcript of the session) or with a
`TaskStop` answer (`KillShell` in older Claude Code). No notice follows
a `TaskStop`.
  - It is lost when it was started before the pane's Claude process.
- These commands join the status line's list (category `shell`) and the
pane's count.
- **A pane at rest whose turn's work still runs reads BG.**
- "The turn's work" means what started at or after the person's last
prompt, read from the transcript: `origin.kind: "human"`, or only a
`permissionMode` in older Claude Code. The turn that a notice starts is
not a new prompt, so the work of the original turn still counts after it
resumes. A dev server started in an earlier turn holds nothing.
- Such a pane carries `background_wait: true` on every `pane-status`
frame and in the snapshot. A missing flag means it is not waiting.
- The sidebar's workspace and agent rows, the palette and the tab dot
say **BG** instead of DONE or READY, and the composer's hidden state
word reads BG to assistive tech. The composer still uses the agent's own
status for send, queue and Stop, because Claude takes input while it
waits.
- **Alerts see a waiting pane as working.** `alertStatus` in
`shared/notify-policy.ts` applies to push, its seed and resync, the
remote-PC relay, and the browser's tab alerts and droplet.
- herdr reports the turn a notice starts as `working` about 2 s after
the work ends (live log below). Push sees `working` → `working`, so the
turn's start is kept, and the finish is alerted once, when that turn
ends, with the whole span as its length.
- **Bounds:**
- **Grace:** a pane is still held for 60 s after its turn's work ends,
in case Claude goes on with the notice.
- **Limit:** a pane is held for at most 30 min from when it came to
rest. Nothing in the transcript tells a turn waiting on its suite from
one that left a server running, so a turn that only started a server
reads BG for up to 30 min before its finish alert.
- **When a turn ends, the status event reads the pane's files first**,
while the pane is still taken for working, and sends one frame with all
of it. So no frame says the pane finished first, and work that ended
before the turn did holds nothing.

Live check that herdr reports a resumed turn: a Claude pane with `sleep
35` in the background.

```
06:45:31 working
06:45:36 done      ← the turn ended on the sleep (bg=0 before this change)
06:46:08 working   ← its notice started the next turn, ~2 s after the sleep ended
06:46:12 done
```

## Tests

- **`server/claude-subagents.test.ts`:**
  - A command found with no `subagents/` folder.
- Ends by notice (completed, failed, killed → cancelled), by `TaskStop`,
and by `KillShell`.
- A subagent's command, ended in its own file or by the session's
notice.
  - Lost with the process.
- `turnRunning` across a typed prompt, a notice's turn, an older prompt
with no `origin`, a queued prompt, another session's message and an
interruption.
  - `onChange` firing when either count changes.
- **`server/background-wait.test.ts`:**
  - Held and released by a resume.
  - The grace, the limit, and work that ended before the turn.
  - A snapshot only filling a gap.
  - `forget`.
- **`server/claude-session.contract.test.ts`** (real herdr, Claude
stand-in):
- The launch is written as the turn ends, and every frame at rest
carries the flag.
  - No alert goes out while the pane waits.
- With a "long turns only" device, exactly one "work finished" goes out
for a resume whose own turn is short, so the whole span counted.
- A wait that ends with no resume sends one frame without the flag and
one alert.
  - Breaking the alert rule in `onStatus` fails both tests.
- **Client:** `alertStatus`, `paneStatus` with the rollup, composer
words, `paneAfterStatus`.
- **`scripts/ui-regression.ts`:** a waiting pane reads BG in the
sidebar's agent row (the arc, held still) and in the composer's hidden
word, and its own status again after the wait.

```
bun run typecheck                        ✓
bun run generate:types --check           ✓
bun scripts/ci-tests.ts unit             1567 pass, 0 fail
bun scripts/ci-tests.ts integration      229 pass, 0 fail, 6 skip (macOS)
bun scripts/ui-regression.ts             79 PASS
```

Reading cost: a cold read of a real 43 MB Claude Code transcript takes
130 ms. Parent lines are parsed only when they can hold a launch, an
end, a notice or a prompt.

## Not covered

- **Monitor tasks.** Their notices are events with no status, and a
persistent monitor runs for the whole session.
- **OmO and Codex panes.** OmO counts its own tasks, and Codex does not
resume when background work ends.
- **herdr's own TUI**, which is another project.

🤖 Assisted by
[kilhyeonjun-harness](https://github.com/kilhyeonjun/kilhyeonjun-harness)

---------

Co-authored-by: Hako <devswha@gmail.com>

* fix(worktree): start a worktree asked from a linked checkout at the repository's workspace (#685)

## Problem

**New worktree** and **Open worktree…** could fail in the web UI with
herdr's own message:

> New and open worktree actions start from the repo parent workspace.

herdr starts a worktree only from the workspace on the repository's main
checkout
(`linked_worktree_source` otherwise). The sidebar hides both menu items
on a worktree row, but it
can only tell from `workspace.worktree.is_linked_worktree`, and herdr
sets that only on a workspace
whose checkout it opened itself. A plain workspace opened on a folder
that is a git worktree
carries no `worktree` info, so the row offers the actions and herdr
refuses them.

Measured on herdr 0.9.3 in an isolated session:

| workspace | `worktree` in `workspace.list` | `worktree.create` |
|---|---|---|
| on the main checkout | absent until its first worktree | created |
| plain, on a linked checkout | absent | `linked_worktree_source` |

`worktree.list` asked from the linked workspace does name the
repository's workspace in
`source.source_workspace_id` (absent when that workspace is not open).

## Fix

`POST /api/worktree/create` and `/api/worktree/open`: when herdr answers
`linked_worktree_source`, the server reads `worktree.list` for the asked
workspace and sends the
same request to `source_workspace_id`. With no such workspace open, or
when the listing fails,
herdr's original refusal is returned unchanged. The normal path makes no
extra RPC.

No wire shape changes, so `shared/protocol.ts` and the demo transport
are untouched.

## Notes

- "Start from" left empty means HEAD of the repository's main checkout,
as it does in herdr's own
  form, not the HEAD of the worktree the action was asked from.
- A remote PC answers through its own bridge, so it gets this with its
next runtime bundle.
- When the repository's main checkout is not open as a workspace, the
action still fails with
  herdr's message. Not changed here.

## Tests

- New contract test in `server/api.contract.test.ts`: a plain workspace
on a `git worktree add`
checkout gets `404 linked_worktree_source` while the repository's
workspace is closed, then
`200` for create and for open once it is open. It fails with `Expected:
200 Received: 404`
  without the server change.
- `bun run check fast` passes (2069 pass, 0 fail).

* fix(chat): keep keys typed around a slash completion (#688)

## Change

`main` CI failed at 26ccec01 ([run
37939818475](https://github.com/devswha/herdr-web-ui/actions/runs/37939818475),
Integration and browser): `scripts/settings-pages-demo-regression.ts`
timed out at 320px waiting for `release-notes` after `fill("/rln")`. The
test steps are ordinary input; the composer had two product races, both
reproduced deterministically and both user-visible.

1. **Stale caret after a completion** (`setTextAndCaret`). The caret was
placed in a `requestAnimationFrame`, so input landing before that frame
was overwritten. Playwright's `fill` selects all and inserts in two
protocol calls. When the frame fell between them, `/rln` was appended to
`/pr-comments `, and no slash menu opened (the CI failure). For a user:
typing `a` then `b` right after Tab on a busy phone gave `/pr-comments
ba`. Fix: commit with `flushSync` and place the caret in the same task.
2. **Swallowed Enter/Tab after narrowing the list.** A passive effect
clamped `selectedIndex`, and its update lands in a later render. Enter
or Tab in that window read `choices[old index]`, which is `undefined`:
the key was prevented and nothing happened. It surfaced on the rebased
tree as `"/comments"` left in the box with the menu open. Fix: derive
the clamped index during render, and step the arrows from it.

No timeout raised, no retry added.

## Validation

- Deterministic repros (throwaway, removed): before the fix,
`"/pr-comments /rln"` with no menu, `"/pr-comments ba"`, and Tab/Enter
leaving `"/comments"`. After the fix, `"/rln"` + `release-notes`,
`"/pr-comments ab"`, `"/pr-comments "`.
- Two new deterministic steps in `settings-pages-demo-regression.ts`.
With each fix reverted, its step fails (`'/pr-comments ba'` / 30 s
timeout); with the fixes, both pass.
- After the fixes: `settings-pages-demo-regression.ts` passed 10 of 10
runs on the rebased tree, the full `bun run check browser` and `bun run
check fast` exit 0, and `integration` exit 0 (before the second fix).

Remaining: the reset to row 0 on a new query is still an effect. In that
window, Enter picks `min(old index, last row)`, which matches the
behaviour before this change.

* fix(ci): gate deployment on source-bound verification (#692)

## Change
- Require reusable CI and the site build to succeed for the same SHA
before Pages publishes the website, demo, or installers. Pin checkouts,
keep deployment serialization, and fail closed on stale-main/API errors,
including manual runs.
- Strengthen existing `bun run check`: durable source-bound JSON and
command logs, source/dist invalidation, interrupted/not-run/skipped
states, shared lock for `run`, and `run --build` for browser
prerequisites.
- Retain reports on success and failure. Capture isolated failure
screenshots, bounded console errors, and optional traces without
DOM/network capture in the main UI and prompt-dock regressions.
- Typecheck six critical tooling/demo entrypoints without relaxing
strictness. Document parallel ownership, genuine-dependency-only stacks,
squash/restack validation and explicit authority.

## Validation
- `bun run check fast`: passed after lifecycle fixes; 2242 tests passed,
7 skipped, 0 failed (before the final fail-closed correction, which has
focused coverage below). Includes workflow syntax, generated types, both
typechecks and app build.
- Final focused check/report/browser-evidence/Pages/browser-runner
tests: 39 passed, 233 assertions; both typechecks passed.
- Actual CLI lifecycle smoke: success/failure logs, build provenance,
source/dist mutation invalidation, competing-run lock refusal, SIGTERM
report and subsequent lock release passed in a disposable fixture
repository with a fake herdr executable.
- Actual Playwright synthetic failure: PNG, console metadata, private
artifact modes and trace without DOM/network capture captured from an
isolated fixture.
- Independent policy, deployment/evidence and report reviews completed.
Fixed interrupt cleanup ordering, inherited-output draining,
shared-report overwrite, unavailable source/build identities, and
bounded trace teardown. Actual CLI smoke also covered stubborn
descendants, shared-report lock refusal and source-identity loss.
Required GitHub CI remains authoritative for final SHA f44e9cc.

## Repository settings and remaining credential boundary
- Added `Native Windows install` to required main checks; retained
strict checks, admin enforcement, conversation resolution and optional
approval count. Latest 30 completed CI runs had 27 Windows successes,
one cancellation, and two fork runs awaiting approval without jobs.
- This PR does not provision an agent account or GitHub App credential.
Non-admin implementation credentials require separate operator
provisioning; no claim that current administrator credentials have been
replaced.

## Coordination record
Owner: coordinating maintainer session. Scope: verification/deployment
tooling and operating documentation. Start SHA:
b87d9d50019cdb87422415f7650ad29285a832cc. Branch/worktree:
worktree/rapid-stone-f62b. Dependencies: existing ci.yml/check
entrypoints only; no stacked PR dependency. Integration and release are
explicitly authorized by the user, subject to required checks and
unresolved-review blocking.

* chore(release): prepare 0.4.4 (#694)

## Change
Prepare app release 0.4.4 from main after #692, using the existing
release process only.

- Bump package.json and herdr-plugin.toml together.
- Move the existing Unreleased entries under 0.4.4 (2026-10-09 UTC),
preserving all PR links and external contributor credits.
- Add matching English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese release highlights
(3 new, 1 improved, 4 fixed; every line <=90 characters).
- No tags are created by this PR. The existing Release workflow must
validate the exact main SHA before publishing.

## Validation and review
- `bun scripts/release-notes.ts 0.4.4`: passed, generated expected
release body.
- Release-notes tests: 27 passed, 397 assertions, 0 failures.
- `bun install --frozen-lockfile`: passed without dependency changes.
- Reviewed the release metadata diff; all prior summary entries are
unchanged. The only non-metadata change is the one-line recorder
synchronization fix documented below.
- Audited release-range PR authors and existing changelog credits;
implementation PR #692 is linked.
- Required CI must pass on this PR before squash merge; no administrator
bypass.

Owner: release coordinator (explicitly authorized by user). Start SHA:
ceae7a259fa6f0d16ece3e56abb2178e752541dd. Scope: four release metadata
files and one release-blocking contract-test synchronization line.
Branch: chore/release-0.4.4. Dependencies: merged #692; no open stack.

## Observed release blocker
Website run
[37973801948](https://github.com/devswha/herdr-web-ui/actions/runs/37973801948)
correctly skipped deployment when the existing pending-input contract
test read `barrier` before the recorder observed its final Enter. A
WebSocket receipt is not a receipt from the separate recorder process.

Commit fe09359 adds the existing bounded `waitBytes("barrier\r")` before
the exact-byte and no-enqueue assertions, matching adjacent tests. No
production behavior, expectation, timeout, or skip condition changed.
This tiny prerequisite stays in the release PR rather than creating an
artificial release stack; it is a separate commit for review. No
changelog entry is needed for an internal test synchronization
correction.

Verification on the isolated herdr: full pending-input file **37
passed**, then the affected case **10/10 passed** with `--rerun-each
10`. Source-bound reports were preserved. Required CI is rerunning for
the new PR SHA; no failed check is bypassed or blindly rerun.

* fix(terminal): keep a tab out of use updating; pausing it is a setting (#699)

## Change

**Problem.** Since 0.4.4 (#660), a desktop tab detaches its pane one
second after the user switches to another window, so that herdr's own
TUI gets the pane's size back. The tab then stops updating until it is
clicked again. To someone who does not run herdr's TUI next to the
browser, this looks like the terminal froze. It also happens on a second
monitor where the tab stays in view.

**Change.**
- A tab that is out of use keeps its pane and its output again, as in
0.4.3. It still sends no resize and reconnects with `keep_size`. Only
the release is affected.
- **Settings → Terminal → Pause in another window** (`releasePaneAway`,
off by default) turns #660's release back on, unchanged, for people who
also work in herdr's own TUI on the same PC.
- The herdr API has no read-only way to tell whether a TUI client shows
the pane: the snapshot has no client field, and `no_foreground_client`
comes only from `client.window_title.set/clear`, which change the user's
title. So the choice stays with the user.

@jiunshinn: #660 made a desktop tab stop updating a second after the
user switches windows, and we had a report that this reads as a frozen
terminal. This PR makes that release opt-in, off by default. A follow-up
will make the setting switch the tab to a read-only `herdr terminal
session observe` stream instead of pausing. I measured on 0.9.3 that the
observer leaves herdr's TUI at its own size (44x37 stays 44x37, while an
attach makes it 150x50), so the tab keeps updating and the TUI is not
cut off. Feedback welcome.

## Validation

- `scripts/chat-size-regression.ts` against a `bun run check run
--build` herdr: 20/20 PASS. The new check (default settings, window
blurred, clock run past the 1 s release delay) confirms there is no
`detach`, no paused banner, and the pane's `pty-data` still arrives. The
existing #660 checks run with the setting on and still pass.
- `bun run check fast`: workflow syntax, generated types, typecheck,
build, unit tests all ok.
- `src/lib/settings.test.ts`: the setting is off by default and only a
boolean `true` turns it on.
- Settings → Terminal opened in a browser against the isolated test
session: the toggle shows up off, turns on, and is saved to
`herdr-web-ui:settings`. Korean, Japanese and Chinese strings were
added, and `i18n.test.ts` passes.

* feat(terminal): a tab out of use watches its pane read-only instead of pausing (#700)

## Change

**Problem.** #699 made #660's release opt-in: with the setting on, a
desktop tab out of use detaches its pane so that herdr's own TUI gets
the pane's size back, and then the tab freezes until it is clicked.
People who run herdr's TUI next to the browser had to pick one of two
problems: a frozen web terminal, or a TUI cut off at the browser's size.

**Fix.** herdr ≥ 0.7.2 has a read-only observer, `herdr terminal session
observe <pane> --cols --rows`. Unlike `terminal attach`, it does not
take ownership of the pane's size. I measured this on 0.9.3 with a real
TUI client and a split pane at 44 columns:

| state | pane size (`stty size`) |
|---|---|
| TUI only | 37 44 |
| browser tab in use (attach) | 37 145 |
| browser tab out of use, **watching** | **37 44** |
| browser back in use | 37 145 |

With the setting on, the tab now detaches as before, then watches the
pane instead of pausing. The terminal shows "View only while you use
another window · click to type". Focus or a pointerdown unwatches and
attaches again at the tab's size. A grid change starts the view again at
the new grid. A released tab that moves to another pane watches that
one.

- **Wire** (`shared/protocol.ts`, feature `"watch"`): client `watch
{pane_id, cols, rows}` / `unwatch {pane_id}`; server `watch-data
{pane_id, data}` / `watch-end {pane_id}`. A watch is not an attach:
there is no input, resize, ACK or input-ready, and it never touches
`attachments`, claims or `pane-geometry`, …
jiunshinn added a commit to jiunshinn/herdr-web-ui that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2026
…y, no file changes) (#14)

* chore(release): 0.4.3 (#664)

Release v0.4.3 (fixes). Stops before merge; the lead merges and
releases.

## PRs since v0.4.2
#618 #613 #614 #628 #631 #635 #634 #623 #624 #625 #627 #632 #647 #646
#648 #658, plus #661 (docs, merged in).

## Changes in this PR
- `version` 0.4.3 in package.json and herdr-plugin.toml.
- CHANGELOG: Unreleased cut into `## [0.4.3] - 2026-10-09`, compare
links updated. PR links and outside credits checked against `gh pr view
--json author`: #618 @frankjoshua, #613 @Kinetic27, #614 @Haeminway1,
#646 #658 @jiunshinn, #648 @od-studio-webagency. #627 (CI) and #647/#661
(docs) have no entry.
- release-summaries.json 0.4.3: improved 2, fixed 8 in en/ko/ja/zh. The
last fixed line tells existing installs to reinstall the plugin through
herdr to get #648's Bun discovery (also stated in its CHANGELOG entry).
- Remote bundle: `REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION` 22 -> 23.
scripts/build-remote-bundle.ts ships server/ and shared/, and 19 files
there changed since v0.4.2 (#618 #614 #628 #635 #634 #624 #625 #646
...). `remote-v23` must be published on the merge commit before the app
release.

## Checks
- `bun run check fast` locally: 2009 pass, 0 fail.

## Whole-release review
Codex (gpt-6.1-sol, xhigh) over v0.4.2..HEAD, output verified by hand.
**No release blocker.** Two findings, both left as follow-ups:

1. *High (Codex) / pre-existing:* pending-message delivery
(`dispatchPendingText`, server/index.ts ~646/652) calls
`paneSendText`/`paneSendKeys` without the write-time guard #624 added to
the WS paths. `authorizePending` runs synchronously just before, so a
disconnect, role switch or revoke during the RPC's connect still lets
the paste or Enter through. Verified: v0.4.2 had the same unguarded
calls (lines 593/599), so this release does not regress it; #624 just
did not extend to this path. Fix: pass a lease-aware guard to both RPCs,
treat a cancel before the paste as unsent and one after it as uncertain,
with tests at both connect boundaries.
2. *Medium:* a click replayed (#634) while a key RPC is queued for the
pane takes the queued `input` path, so the mouse report goes out as
literal `pane.send_text` bytes instead of through the attach. Verified
in code: the click is only replayed when xterm's mouse tracking is on
(`term.modes.mouseTrackingMode !== "none"`), so the program asked for
the mouse, and queued typing and wheel reports already took this path in
v0.4.2. #634 makes the window more common (arrows are now queued RPC
keys). Fix needs attach-path ordering for queued mouse reports plus a
click-while-key-pending regression; not small enough for a release PR.

Known and accepted, not re-reported: #662, #629, #632 M-a residual.

* test(terminal): separate latency diagnostics from delivery assertions (#678)

## Change

Closes #668.

Remove the shared-runner-sensitive 150 ms assertion while preserving
p50/p95/max latency output, bounded delivery waits, ordered autorepeat
delivery, exact burst bytes and mouse checks. This changes the CI
criterion, not terminal behavior; no user-facing changelog entry is
needed.

## Validation

On the combined verification checkout: `bun run check fast` passed
(2,034 passed, 7 skipped), and the isolated
`terminal-arrows-clicks-regression.ts` passed. Observed held-arrow p50
2.1 ms, p95 70.8 ms, max 103.0 ms; the 200-arrow burst arrived in order
in 55.1 ms. Full `ui-regression.ts` also passed. CI verifies this PR's
exact revision.

* fix(chat): refuse immediate sends over Claude input drafts (#677)

## Change

Closes #629.

Immediate Claude Chat Send reuses the queued-delivery input-box check.
Existing drafts, bash mode and clipped boxes return the existing
`input_draft` error without typing, preserving composer text. Empty
inputs and non-Claude/terminal paths are retained. The pre-read is not
atomic with herdr's paste; input typed in that interval can still race.

## Validation

On a verification checkout combining this change with #668 and
reconciled #649/#650:
- `bun run check fast`: 2,034 unit tests passed, 7 skipped; workflow
syntax, generated types, typecheck and build passed.
- Isolated `server/submit.contract.test.ts`: 34 passed.
- xterm disposal, terminal arrows/clicks, and full
`scripts/ui-regression.ts` passed.

Tests used owned temporary state and isolated herdr sessions, not user
terminals. CI on this PR verifies its own exact revision.

* fix(terminal): dispose xterm after pending render callbacks (#649)

## Change

Closes #638

- 소켓·리스너 정리와 입력 차단, 이전 DOM 분리는 즉시 수행합니다.
- renderer disposal만 이미 예약된 frame과 task 뒤로 미루고, 늦은 write callback은 ACK 후
종료된 terminal을 건드리지 않습니다.
- 실제 patched xterm 브라우저 재현을 CI에 등록합니다.

## Validation

타입·빌드·생성 타입 검사와 전체 단위 1932 통과·33 생략·0 실패. 실제 xterm의 동일한 open/reset 시나리오를
브라우저에서 실행했습니다.

```text
Immediate: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'dimensions')
Deferred: errors=[], disposed=1
```

결정론적 scheduler 테스트 4개도 통과했습니다. 테스트는 소유한 브라우저만 사용하며 사용자 terminal에 접근하지
않습니다.

모든 검증은 별도 작업 공간과 소유한 테스트/demo 환경에서 수행했습니다. 사용자의 실행 중 앱·terminal은 변경하지
않았습니다.

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* fix(codex): resolve short sessions without guessing by recency (#650)

## Change

Closes #639

- 기존 경로·열린 파일·긴 답변 매칭으로 확인되지 않는 경우에만, 프로세스 시작 이후의 유일한 interactive
thread와 전체 첫 프롬프트를 대조합니다.
- 누락된 후보도 모호성에 포함하고 cwd 최신 파일 추측이나 지속적인 잘못된 binding을 만들지 않습니다.
- 디렉터리 없는 AGENTS 주입 형식도 숨기되 유사한 사용자 문장은 유지합니다. 최신 CODEX_HOME·PID·Windows
경로 보호는 보존했습니다.

## Validation

생성 타입·타입·빌드·전체 단위 검사 통과(1975 tests, 0 failures). Codex/process 관련 집중 실행은
92 통과·기존 Linux 전용 3 생략·0 실패였습니다. 임시 SQLite/rollout과 자체 프로세스·소켓으로 초/밀리초
schema, Windows cwd, 32개를 넘는 후보, unreadable 후보, exec/subagent 제외 및 화면 증거
소실을 검증했습니다. 실제 사용자 Codex나 유료 모델은 실행하지 않았습니다.

모든 검증은 별도 작업 공간과 소유한 테스트/demo 환경에서 수행했습니다. 사용자의 실행 중 앱·terminal은 변경하지
않았습니다.

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* feat(telemetry): keep the country an event came from (#663)

## What

The telemetry receiver stores the country a request came from beside
each install/update event: the two characters Cloudflare works out
(`request.cf.country`, such as `KR`), and nothing finer (no city,
region, network or address). Rows from before stay `NULL`.

The sender (`server/telemetry.ts`) and the message are unchanged.

## Wording that changed with it

- The one-time notice no longer says "Nothing else"; it says the
receiver also notes the country, never the address.
- Settings → About → Anonymous usage counts: the description says the
same, and a line under **What is sent** states that the receiver adds
the country, since it is not part of the message shown there.
- `docs/guide.md`, `telemetry/README.md`, `shared/telemetry.ts`,
`telemetry/schema.sql` and the Worker's header.
- ko / ja / zh translations for the changed and new strings.

## Decisions (maintainer)

- **The notice is not shown again.** Installs that already saw the
one-time notice keep their acknowledgement; the change is told through
the changelog, the guide and Settings → About.
- **Deploy order.** The live D1 table gets `ALTER TABLE events ADD
COLUMN country TEXT` before `wrangler deploy`; the other order makes
every INSERT fail. `telemetry/worker.test.ts` runs both orders against
SQLite.

## Review

Codex adversarial review: Tor (`T1`) and unknown (`XX`) markers are
stored as no country, the README's country query counts an install once,
the guide's opening sentence was corrected, and the receiver's tests run
against the real schema (b2fac4a).

## Checks

`bun run check fast` passes locally (2019 tests, 0 fail).
`telemetry/worker.test.ts` covers: country stored, finer `cf` fields
never stored, a missing or malformed country stored as `NULL`.

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* fix(prompt): a Claude approval is a card while background agents run (#659)

## Change

A follow-up to #614. While background agents run, Claude Code 2.1.29x
ends an approval's hint with the chord that stops them:

```
 Do you want to proceed?
   1. Yes
 ❯ 2. Yes, and don't ask again for: …
   3. No

 Esc to cancel · ctrl+x ctrl+k twice to stop background agents
```

The approval is often a subagent's (`Bash command · from the
general-purpose agent`). `parseClaudeApproval` reads it, but the tail
check takes only a bare `Esc to cancel` (#614), so the pane falls to the
numbered fallback card, which answers by typing the option's number. The
tail check now takes a hint that starts with `Esc to cancel`.

## Validation

- `server/prompt.test.ts`: a test with that screen shape; 225 pass.
- `bun run generate:types --check`, `bun run typecheck`, `bun run build`
pass. `bun run test:unit`: 1994 pass, 1 fail (`voice transcribe >
streams deltas and the done text from a split SSE answer`), which fails
the same way on `main` here.
- CHANGELOG line under `### Fixed`.

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* fix(ui): show one decimal for a size under 10 MB (#670)

## Change

Split out of #429, as asked in its review.

`formatBytes` (`src/lib/bridgeProgress.ts`) rounded megabytes to a whole
number. A 1.3 MB file read as 1 MB, and the file viewer's note for a
file cut short said "Showing the first 256 KB of 1 MB". Below 10 MB it
now keeps one decimal (`1.3 MB`). A whole number keeps none (`2 MB`),
and 10 MB and up stay whole.

The Files list (`src/components/DirectoryBrowser.tsx`) and the bridge
update's progress use the same function, so their sizes change the same
way.

## Validation

- `bun run typecheck` and `bun run build` pass.
- `bun run test:unit`: 2009 pass, 0 fail, with new cases in
`src/lib/bridgeProgress.test.ts`.

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* fix(settings): keep slow history traversal ownership (#630)

## What was wrong

Settings forgot ownership of its own history traversal after a 1000 ms
deadline. A delayed landing was then treated as the user's Back, so the
key bar editor could close during width changes. If no landing arrived,
reconciliation issued another traversal every second.

## What changed

- Keep the pending destination after the deadline and recognize its late
landing as the module's own.
- Do not automatically retry an unanswered traversal or issue another
from its unchanged source entry. Reconcile the latest requested Settings
levels when the traversal lands.
- Add deterministic stack-history and clock tests without a DOM or real
sleeps.
- Wait for Voice's status-dependent key form before measuring it. Extend
demo geometry checks to ko/ja/zh at 320px and the key bar editor. The
nearest-card comparison already existed at b82584d.

The production history change is 15 added and 7 removed lines. There is
no App listener change, contract change, new fixture, or history-module
redesign.

## Reproduction on b82584d

Before editing production code:

```text
$ HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun test ./src/lib/settingsHistory.test.ts
REPRO A: markerless popstate closes Settings; cleanup requests no traversal; Back restores depth 3
(fail) history traversal races > keeps a late width-change traversal its own after the landing deadline
  Expected: [true]
  Received: [false]
(fail) history traversal races > does not retry a traversal every second when no landing arrives
  Expected length: 1
  Received length: 11
8 pass
2 fail
```

The baseline transcript is retained locally in
`/tmp/tri-client3-564-baseline.log`. `settingsHistory.test.ts` already
existed on the baseline; the reproduction cases were added there.

## Remaining from #564

Part A is reproduced and intentionally left. `src/App.tsx:237-242`
closes Settings on every non-own markerless landing.
`src/lib/settingsHistory.ts:43-50` cannot distinguish a base entry from
another markerless entry, and reconciliation at
`src/lib/settingsHistory.ts:81-90` derives the held depth solely from
that marker. A real Back to the base and a new fragment entry therefore
carry the same observable markerless state. Ignoring all markerless
events would break normal dialog Back; stepping over all of them could
leave the app on a legitimate Back. Correct cleanup needs explicit
base/entry identity, which is the redesign excluded from this
assignment. The characterization test preserves evidence of the
unresolved behavior instead of claiming it is fixed.

For C, the original nearest-card allegation is not confirmed: it already
used `.closest(".settings-card")`. Voice readiness, localized pages and
key-bar geometry are covered by this change. No translation or demo
fixture changes are needed.

Refs #564

* fix(a11y): the terminal announces its pane (#633)

## Summary

The terminal is the product's central surface, and it is invisible to a
screen reader: xterm draws the screen to a canvas, so a reader reaching
it found an unnamed control. Its host element is now a labelled
`role="region"` (`aria-roledescription="terminal"`) named after the pane
— **"Terminal for Idempotent payments"** — so a reader names the pane
before its content.

This is the A1 half of the 2026-10-06 audit that rode in #569, which
closed on the access-gate decision rather than this code. You asked for
the pieces that do not change the default on their own, and this is one
of them: two attributes and a translated string.

- No `tabIndex`: xterm's helper textarea takes the keyboard here on
attach, so a stop on the wrapper would only be an empty one ahead of it.
- The label falls back to the pane id while a pane has no title, and to
"Terminal" while no pane is attached.
- `screenReaderMode` stays out of scope. The bundled xterm patch's
Gboard backspace guard is disabled while that mode is on, so it is its
own investigation rather than a flag flip.

## Test plan

- [x] `HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun run check fast` on `upstream/main` —
typecheck, build and the unit suite green (1928 pass, 6 skip, 0 fail)
- [x] `src/lib/i18n.test.ts` — the new `t("Terminal for {title}")` key
is present in ko, ja and zh
- [x] Browser check on the demo harness, run as a throwaway and **kept
out of the tree** per your earlier note that `scripts/` sits outside
typecheck and CI. With the fix the host reads `hasRegion: true,
roledescription: "terminal", accessibleName: "Terminal for Idempotent
payments"`, no page errors, and the label persists across a workspace
open. Reverting only the host attributes makes the same check fail —
`hasRegion: false, label: null` — so it discriminates rather than
passing on any non-empty constant.
- [ ] CI: Fast checks, Integration and browser — awaiting approval for
the fork run

Rebased onto current `main` (v0.4.2) and merges cleanly. No endpoint,
frame or contract change.

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* feat(chat): fuzzy-match slash commands beyond the prefix (#617)

## Change

The composer's `/` (and `$`) list only matched the start of a command's
name, so a plugin or skill named `superpowers:brainstorming` needed its
namespace typed first. `rankSlashCommands` (`src/lib/compose.ts`) now
ranks by kind of match:

1. name starts with the query (as before)
2. a word of the name starts with it (words split on `: - _ . /`)
3. the name contains it
4. its letters appear in order (`spbr`)
5. the description contains it (query of 2+ characters)

Within a kind, the most-used commands come first, then name order. A
better kind of match always beats a more frequently used one; an empty
query still lists everything.

## Validation

- `bun run typecheck`, unit tests (`src/lib/compose.test.ts` has the new
ranking test; 811 pass on a branch that also holds #616).
- Not tried by hand in the composer; matched letters are not
highlighted.

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* feat(voice): choose the dictation language, auto from the browser (#612)

## Change

Closes #611.

Dictation used to listen only in the UI language. The UI exists in
English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese, so a Hungarian or German speaker
got an English UI, and their speech was recognized as English.

- A new setting, **Settings → Voice input → Dictation language**
(`voiceLanguage`, default `auto`), appears while the microphone button
is not Off.
- **Auto** behaves as before, with one exception. When the UI language
is System and the browser's first language is not English, Korean,
Japanese or Chinese, Auto uses that tag (`navigator.languages[0]`, e.g.
`hu-HU`). In every other case it uses the UI language's locale, as
today: `ko` and `ko-KR` → `ko-KR`, `en-GB` → `en-US`, `zh-TW` → `zh-CN`,
and a UI language picked by hand. A malformed first tag (e.g. `*`) falls
back to the UI language.
- A language can also be picked from `DICTATION_LANGUAGES`, a list of 32
BCP 47 tags. Their names come from `Intl.DisplayNames` in the UI
language, sorted by name. Someone who wants `en-GB` or `zh-TW` can
choose it here.
- Browser engine: `SpeechRecognition.lang` is the resolved tag.
- Server engine: the form's `language` is the tag's two-letter subtag
(`hu`). A tag without one (`fil-PH`) sends the UI language, so
`server/voice.ts` and its `^[a-z]{2}$` check are unchanged.
- `speechLang` is replaced by `dictationLocale` and `transcribeLanguage`
(both pure, unit-tested).
- `sanitizeSettings` accepts only `auto` or a tag from the list.
- The three new UI strings have ko, ja and zh entries. I wrote them
without a native speaker's check, so please correct them if they read
wrong.
- Also updated: `docs/guide.md#voice-input` and the `CHANGELOG.md`
Unreleased section.

## Validation

- `bun run check fast`: generated types fresh, typecheck, build, and
unit tests (0 fail).
- New unit tests cover:
- `dictationLocale`: Auto keeps today's locale for every browser
language the UI is translated into, takes the browser's tag for one it
is not, and respects a hand-picked UI language and a chosen dictation
language.
  - `transcribeLanguage`.
  - `sanitizeSettings` for `voiceLanguage`.
- I compared the old and new Auto locale on `ko-KR`, `ko`, `en`,
`en-GB`, `ja`, `zh-TW`, `zh-Hant-TW` and `en-US,ko`: they are identical.
They differ only on `de-DE,ko-KR` (before `ko-KR`, now `de-DE`) and
`hu-HU`, which are the intended changes.
- I checked the UI in the demo built by `bun run build:site`, with
`navigator.languages` set to `["hu-HU", "en-US"]`. The Voice input page
shows **Dictation language** with **Auto (Hungarian (Hungary))**
selected, followed by the named list. A screenshot is in the first
comment. The row's description has been reworded since that screenshot.
- I did not run `bun run check full`, because the change touches neither
herdr nor any HTTP/WS contract. I did not test live dictation in a real
browser.

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* fix(sidebar): draw the working arc thirty times a second, not five (#622)

## Change

The sidebar's working arc turned with `steps(8, end)` over `--dur-pulse`
— a pulse's 1600 ms.
That is five 45° jumps a second, 200 ms apart. The icon is 16px across,
so the arc's radius is
6px and each jump moves its ends about 4.7px: a working agent reads as a
stutter, not as work
in progress.

The turn gets its own `--dur-spin` — a pulse period says how long a dot
takes to come back, not
how fast an arc should spin — and steps 48 times over the same 1600 ms:
33 ms and 7.5° apart,
under a pixel of travel each. The arc, its size and the length of the
turn are unchanged, and
the animation keeps `steps()`, so `src/motion.test.ts` still holds.

| before — `steps(8)` over `--dur-pulse` | after — `steps(48)` over
`--dur-spin` |
| --- | --- |
|
![before](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iwangjie/herdr-web-ui/evidence/sidebar-working-arc/pr-evidence/arc-steps8.gif)
|
![after](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iwangjie/herdr-web-ui/evidence/sidebar-working-arc/pr-evidence/arc-steps48.gif)
|

Both are 30 fps captures of the repo's own demo session — the client
`scripts/demo-build.ts`
builds, over the committed fixture transport, loopback only, with the
demo's 4500 ms timer held
so the turn stays running. They come from one page load, so the two
differ in the one
declaration under test and nothing else. The still is that session:

[`demo-still.png`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iwangjie/herdr-web-ui/evidence/sidebar-working-arc/pr-evidence/demo-still.png).
The recordings live on a branch of my fork,
`evidence/sidebar-working-arc`, not in this branch.

## Validation

- `bun run check fast`: green — generated types, typecheck, build, and
the unit suite
(1902 pass, 32 skip, 0 fail). The 3 `isolate` tests in
`scripts/check.test.ts` need a TMPDIR
whose socket path fits; this Mac's default is too long for it, and they
fail the same way on
  `main`, so I ran the suite with `TMPDIR=/tmp`.
- Frames the browser actually drew, counted with `Page.startScreencast`
over the demo session,
one page load, every variant twice and interleaved so a page that quiets
down or speeds up
  hits each of them:

  | the arc's declaration | frames the browser drew |
  | --- | --- |
  | `animation: none` (the page's own damage) | 4.8/s |
  | `steps(8)` | 8.8/s |
  | `steps(48)` | 31.0/s |

A stepped rotation draws its steps and nothing else, so this count is
the frame rate: thirty
a second, still a fraction of what the display refreshes, which is what
the rule in
  `src/motion.test.ts` protects.
- The two 30 fps recordings: 13 distinct frames per turn before, with 35
of the 48 slots
  repeating the frame before them; 47 after.
- Sampled from the built stylesheet: 0 ms 0°, 33 ms 7.5°, 100 ms 22.5°,
200 ms 45°. Before it
  was 0 ms 0°, 200 ms 45°.

## Notes

- `--dur-spin` is 1600 ms, the turn the arc always took. Only the number
of frames it is drawn
  in changed, so nothing but the smoothness moves.
- `UsageMeters.css` spins its own arc at `0.8s steps(8)`: 45° a step,
ten a second. That one is
behind a popover over a still page, so I left it alone; it has the same
shape of problem if
  you want it in a follow-up.

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* feat(pwa): name the installed app with HERDR_WEB_APP_NAME (#684)

<!-- See CONTRIBUTING.md for checks, translations, contract tests and the changelog. -->

## Change

Option 1 from #476. Each PC is its own origin, so two PCs installed on one phone are two apps, and both are called "herdr".

When `HERDR_WEB_APP_NAME` is set (plugin `.env` or the environment, like the other settings), `server/static.ts` serves:

- `/manifest.webmanifest` with `name` and `short_name` set to it. Every other field stays as built, `id` included, so the app's identity does not change.
- the shell (`/`, unknown paths, `/index.html`) with `apple-mobile-web-app-title` set to it, HTML-escaped, so an iOS home-screen install gets the same label.

Unset or blank, both are served byte for byte as built. Cache headers and the CSP are unchanged, and the manifest and shell already revalidate on every load, so an installed app picks the name up at the browser's next manifest update without a reinstall.

Docs: a row in the guide's *Configuration* table, plus one sentence at the phone-install step. Changelog: one line under *Added*.

There is no HTTP/WS contract change and no new endpoint. Static files are not proxied for remote PCs, so the remote bundle is not affected.

Closes #476

## Validation

- `bun run check fast`: workflow syntax, generated types, typecheck and build pass. In the unit tests, 2044 pass and the same 18 fail in `server/codex-processes.test.ts` on this branch and on unmodified `main`: the fixture spawns `/bin/bash`, which this NixOS machine does not have (`ENOENT: posix_spawn '/bin/bash'`). Nothing else fails.
- New `server/static.test.ts` (4 tests). It runs against the source `public/manifest.webmanifest` and `index.html`, so it also fails if someone renames or reshapes the meta tag later. It covers: unset or blank is off; the manifest is renamed and every other field kept; the shell changes only the meta; HTML escaping, including `$&`-style replacement patterns.
- Built server, `HERDR_WEB_APP_NAME=midgard`: `/manifest.webmanifest?v=2` returned `name`/`short_name` `midgard`, `id` `/`, `Cache-Control: no-cache`, content type `application/manifest+json`. `/`, `/index.html` and an unknown path returned `content="midgard"`. `sw.js` was byte-identical.
- Built server, variable unset: the manifest and `/` were byte-identical to `dist/`.
- Not yet checked on a phone, so the rename of an app that is already installed is untested.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

https://claude.ai/code/session_01HkqShU9QB6wV4SgX8JTxQB

* feat(sidebar): a finger reorders workspaces with a long press and a drag (#679)

## Change

On iOS (Safari and the home-screen PWA), a long press on a workspace row lifted the system's drag preview, but the HTML drag and drop it started never dropped on the page, so workspaces could not be reordered on a phone at all.

- On a touch screen (`pointer: coarse`) the row's `draggable` is off, so the misleading preview no longer appears.
- `src/lib/touchReorder.ts` handles the finger instead. A 400 ms press held within 8 px lifts the row (`.is-lifted`), it follows the finger, the list scrolls near its edges, and a 2px `--accent` line (`data-drop`) shows where it lands. Letting go uses the same `dropIndex` / `reorderWorkspace` path as the mouse drag, so worktree groups stay packed and a failed move rolls back.
- A stroke that moves before the hold is still a scroll or a drawer swipe. Once a row is lifted, its moves never reach the drawer swipe (`lib/edgeSwipe.ts`, which the window-capture listener runs before), and the lift's touchend does not click the row.
- The row's ⋯ menu gains **Move up** / **Move down**, shown only when the move is possible, with ko/ja/zh entries.
- Desktop mouse drag and Alt+↑/↓ are unchanged.
- DESIGN.md, docs/guide.md and the CHANGELOG (`Unreleased → Added`) are updated.

## Validation

- `src/lib/touchReorder.test.ts` (new, unit) covers the hold slop, hit-testing between rows and past the ends, and the edge-scroll speed.
- `scripts/workspace-touch-reorder-demo-regression.ts` (new, added to `ci-browser.sh`, with the `ci-browser.test.ts` count updated) runs the demo transport at 390×844 with `isMobile` + `hasTouch` and CDP touch events. It checks that:
  - rows are not `draggable`
  - a quick stroke lifts nothing
  - a long press + drag moves the first workspace after the third, both in the sidebar and in the server's order, with nothing left lifted and the drawer still open
  - ⋯ → Move up moves it back one step
- Passed locally on this branch (based on `main` at 0.4.3): the demo regression, the new unit tests, `i18n.test.ts`, `motion.test.ts`, `ci-browser.test.ts`, `bun run build` and `bun run typecheck`.
- The same change passed Fast checks, Integration and browser, and Native Windows install on my fork (jiunshinn/herdr-web-ui#9).
- Tested by hand on an iPhone in the home-screen PWA: long-press, drag and drop reorder workspaces, and Move up/down works.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

* feat(chat): show a task list's boxes (#669)

## Change

Split out of #429, as asked in its review: a task list in the chat.

- A list item that starts with a GitHub task box (`- [x] done`, `- [ ] open`, `- [X]`) is parsed with its state (`ListItem.checked` in `src/lib/markdown.ts`). Anything else after the bullet (`[y]`, no space) stays text.
- `src/components/Markdown.tsx` draws a checked or empty box in place of the bullet instead of the brackets:
  - The box is not clickable, because the agent's text owns the state.
  - It is a drawn `<span role="checkbox" aria-checked aria-disabled>`, labelled by the item's text, so a screen reader says "done, checkbox, checked". A disabled `<input>` would be greyed by the browser and ignore the accent.
- Styles are in `src/components/ChatView.css` (`.markdown-task*`), tokens only. `DESIGN.md` describes it.
- A file viewer's Markdown preview (#429) uses the same renderer, so it gets the boxes too once both have landed.

## Validation

- `bun run typecheck` and `bun run build` pass.
- `bun run test:unit`: 2010 pass, 0 fail. The new test in `src/lib/markdown.test.ts` covers the parse (checked, open, `[X]`, an empty item, `[y]` as text) and the rendered markup, including the box's label.

## Screenshots
<img width="1736" height="286" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3af005cd-4d25-40f8-a583-313bb7269e80" />
<img width="1736" height="286" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e2ac698a-0db2-408e-9117-eb601b0f6e5c" />

* fix(terminal): a tab you are not using lets go of the pane, so herdr's TUI shows it whole (#660)

> Builds on #658: the first commit on this branch is #658's (rebased on
today's `main`), because this change edits the focus handling #658 adds.
Please review the second commit, `74c0350`. I'll rebase this onto `main`
once #658 is in.

## Change


<img width="1707" height="1016" alt="Screenshot 2026-10-09 at 14 58 10"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/20bfbaea-0dee-4332-87f3-d3c4f267971e"
/>


**Problem.** While a desktop web UI tab has a pane open, herdr's own TUI
(in Ghostty here) shows that pane cut off at its split's edge, with the
bottom rows (the prompt box) out of reach, even after scrolling. It
lasts as long as the tab stays open. A phone does not do this.

**Cause.** The bridge keeps a `herdr terminal attach` on every pane a
tab shows. While an attach is connected, herdr 0.9.3 holds the pane at
that attach's size, and its own TUI cannot resize it
(herdrdev/herdr#5006, herdrdev/herdr#985: `direct_attach_resize_lock`).
A desktop tab left open kept the pane at the browser's size (219x72 in
my case) while the TUI's split was 51 columns. A phone hides this: it
disconnects in the background, and its grid is narrower than the split.
#658 stops a background tab from *taking* the size again, but it does
not *give it back*.

Measured in a throwaway herdr session with a real TUI client: a split
pane at 44x37 became 150x50 while an attach was connected, and returned
to 44x37 the moment the attach ended. The layout `rect` includes the
border (a 47x39 rect was a 44x37 pty), so the TUI's size cannot be
computed and handed back through the API. Ending the attach is the only
way back.

**Fix.**
- A tab out of use (window blurred or hidden) for `RELEASE_AFTER_MS` (1
s) detaches its pane. The attach ends with the pane's last client, and
herdr restores its TUI's size. The terminal lens shows "Paused while you
use another window".
- On focus, or on any pointerdown, the tab attaches again at its own
size. The screen restarts from the new attach, as on a pane switch.
- The tab keeps the pane while a message it queued waits for delivery
(that goes through its attach), and lets go once the message is out. It
never releases a mirrored pane (no attach to give back) or an embedded
page (the site's demo iframe, which has the focus only while clicked
into).
- A pane switch while released attaches nothing until the user is back.
The cleanup still detaches whichever pane is attached at the next
switch.
- `HerdrSocket.resize` sends nothing for a pane the socket is not
attached to: the server would apply it to the holder's attach.
- No protocol change. The demo transport already replays a pane's screen
on every attach.

Trade-off: a desktop window that is visible but not focused (e.g. on a
second monitor) stops updating until it is clicked.

## Validation

- `scripts/chat-size-regression.ts`
`checkBackgroundTabKeepsTerminalSize`, rewritten for the new behavior. A
window out of use sends no resize, then detaches and shows the paused
banner. A background reconnect attaches nothing. Once the phone leaves
too, no `herdr terminal attach` runs for the pane. Focus attaches again
at the window's size. It fails on the old client (no detach) and passes
with this change, as do `checkChatKeepsTerminalSize` and
`checkPaneSwitchKeepsTerminalSize` (run against a `bun run check run`
herdr).
- `src/lib/ws.test.ts`: no resize and no reconnect attach for a pane the
socket let go of.
- End to end, with a real herdr TUI client on a throwaway session, `stty
size` in the pane: TUI only `37 44` → browser tab in use `47 120` → user
back in the TUI `37 44` → back in the browser `47 120`.
- Typecheck, build and `bun run test:unit` on this branch. The only
failures are 3 `isolate` tests in `scripts/check.test.ts`, which also
fail on an unchanged `main` on my Mac (herdr socket path too long under
the macOS temp dir), and 3 `server/prompt.test.ts` timing failures under
full-suite load that pass alone (217/217, twice).
- New string translated in `i18n.ko.ts`, `i18n.ja.ts` and `i18n.zh.ts`.
`CHANGELOG.md` has an `[Unreleased]` entry, and `src/AGENTS.md` and
`server/AGENTS.md` record the attach lock.
- I have been running this from my fork (herdr 0.9.3, macOS, Ghostty)
since today: the TUI pane comes back whole a second after leaving the
browser.

---------

Co-authored-by: Hako <devswha@gmail.com>

* feat(chat): show Claude Code subagents as background tasks (#527)

## What

A Claude Code pane's subagents (the `Agent` tool) were invisible in the
chat:

- **The call:** a collapsed work row whose output is only "Async agent
launched successfully…".
- **The finish:** the `<task-notification>` that carries the agent's
answer was hidden on purpose.
- **Running agents:** shown only in the terminal footer (`◯ reviewer
Review … 4m 6s · ↓ 57k tokens`).

This PR reuses OmO's background-task UI for them instead of adding new
UI:

- **Status line list:** `GET /api/pane/omo-tasks` lists a Claude pane's
subagents. Each row shows type, description, model, elapsed time, turns,
tool calls and tokens. The title falls back from the description to the
teammate name, agent type and id. The list holds the running ones, then
the newest ten that ended in the last day, the same rule as OmO's list.
An agent is `lost` once the pane no longer runs that session, or when it
was last written more than 60 s before the pane's current Claude process
started (an agent orphaned by an exit, then `--continue`).
- **Badge and count:** the pane's `background_tasks` counts the running
ones. It is set in the snapshot and pushed in a `pane-status` frame that
keeps the pane's status and sends no alert or web push.
- **Result card:** an agent's task notification becomes a `task_result`
card in the chat, showing title, agent type, status and the answer, cut
at the existing 16,000-character limit. A notification is counted once,
though Claude records it up to three times: a user entry, a
`queue-operation` and a `queued_command` attachment. A notification that
shares a user entry with a tool's result is drawn as well. Background
Bash notifications stay hidden as before.
- **Docs:** `server/AGENTS.md` described a `taskNotice` that does not
exist on main; that row now describes this code. CHANGELOG, DESIGN.md
and docs/guide.md are updated.

## Where the data comes from (Claude Code 2.1.29x)

-
`<config>/projects/<project>/<session>/subagents/agent-<id>.meta.json`:
`agentType`, `description`, `toolUseId`.
- `agent-<id>.jsonl`: the subagent's own transcript. It gives the model,
turns, tool calls and tokens. Tokens are the last entry's input + cache
+ output, which matches the `totalTokens` Claude reports for a finished
agent.
- The parent transcript: `<task-notification>` blocks (status and
result), and for a synchronous agent the `tool_result` of its call. An
"Async agent launched" acknowledgement is never taken for an answer.
- Agent-team teammates get no notification and no `toolUseId`. An agent
whose own file ends with an assistant entry that stopped with
`end_turn`, and has no user entry after it, has ended at that entry's
time. The newest of notification, answer and end of turn wins. An agent
resumed after it ended reads as running again once its own file has
newer entries.
- An agent's status, last write and start come from the last and first
64 KB of its file, outside the read budget, so a large session reads
right on the first call. What it did (model, turns, tool calls, tokens)
is filled in once its whole file has been read. An agent whose end
cannot be told yet is left out rather than shown as running.

## Cost and safety

- **Polling:** a 2 s poller reads only Claude panes, and skips a pane
whose `subagents/` mtime, parent size and the mtimes of the ended agents
it watches are unchanged.
- **Read limits:** files are read incrementally from their last offset,
with an 8 MB per-call budget. The first parent read covers its newest 16
MB window in full, so the first answer is already right. A line longer
than the budget is skipped only to its next newline. Caches evict one
entry at a time.
- **Paths:** agent ids are checked against `/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/` wherever
an id becomes a path. On a page, ids come only from parsed
notifications, never from tool output. Final-component symlinks are
refused.
- **Request time:** `/api/pane/omo-tasks` waits at most 1 s for a pane
it has not resolved yet, then answers with what it knows. The client
asks again when the count changes, and asks an empty answer again up to
three times, 3 s apart, so that agents which ended before the lookup
finished are still found.
- **Cards:** they depend only on the transcript bytes plus the meta
file, which does not change after launch. A cached page and a cold read
therefore agree.

## Tests

- **`server/claude-subagents.test.ts` (new), covering:**
  - running, completed, failed and cancelled;
  - the three carriers of one notification counted once;
- an agent resumed after its notification, and with only its own file
writing;
- synchronous answers, and a launch acknowledgement that is not an
answer;
- a teammate ended by its own `end_turn`, then messaged again, and
status from the file's tail before the whole file is read;
  - lost by session, and lost by process start (60 s slack);
  - the ten-ended and one-day limits;
- read budgets: a leftover smaller than a line, a 9 MB line, a 10 MB
line before a 7 MB notification, a starved file;
  - the 16 MB window, a 30 MB append, traversal ids, a torn meta;
  - `/clear` to a session with no agents, and pid changes.
- **`server/conversation.test.ts`:** an agent notification becomes one
card and a Bash notification stays hidden. A notification that shares an
entry with a tool's result becomes one card too. A notice quoted inside
a tool result is ignored. Cards stay the same when the subagent file
grows.
- **`server/claude-session.contract.test.ts` (live herdr):** the list
from `/api/pane/omo-tasks`, the snapshot count going 1 then 0, a
count-only `pane-status` frame with the pane's own status, and no web
push for it.

```
bun run typecheck                        ✓
bun run generate:types --check           ✓
bun scripts/ci-tests.ts unit             1518 pass, 0 fail
bun scripts/ci-tests.ts integration      226 pass, 0 fail, 6 skip (macOS)
bun scripts/ui-regression.ts             76 PASS
```

Checked on a live server (macOS, Claude Code 2.1.290):

- A real 27 MB session transcript with six subagents. The list was right
from the first read, with running and finished agents told apart, and
later reads took 0 ms.
- A pane that read nine agents as running before the end-of-turn and
tail fixes, all of them idle teammates or ended agents, now counts 0.
- A subagent started for the check made the pane's count go from 1 to 0.
Its row went from running to completed, with model, turns, tool calls
and tokens.

🤖 Assisted by
[kilhyeonjun-harness](https://github.com/kilhyeonjun/kilhyeonjun-harness)

---------

Co-authored-by: Hako <devswha@gmail.com>

* feat(chat): highlight code blocks by their language (#671)

## Change

Split out of #429, as asked in its review: syntax highlighting for code blocks in the chat. #429's file viewer is rebuilt on top of this PR.

- **Highlighter.** A fenced block is colored by role with [TanStack Highlight](https://github.com/TanStack/highlight) (`@tanstack/highlight` 1.0). `src/lib/highlight.ts` maps a fence word to one of 28 registered languages. Tokens render as React spans with no `innerHTML`. The colors are `--syntax-*` tokens for every palette (`src/styles.css`, table in `DESIGN.md`).
- **Nothing a reply holds can freeze the page.** TanStack is quadratic on some shapes: a line of dashes in YAML takes 3.8 s at 64 KB.
  - Only code up to 2 KB is highlighted while the page draws. The worst shape measured at that size takes under 5 ms.
  - Longer code is highlighted in a worker (`src/lib/highlightOffThread.ts` on `src/lib/offThread.ts`). It shows plain until the worker answers.
  - A worker that runs past 2 s is ended and replaced. Its block stays plain with "Too long to highlight" under it.
  - A block over 100 KB is not tried.
  - A block over 20 000 lines (`LINE_ELEMENT_LIMIT`) is drawn as one text, as on `main`, and not highlighted. Each line is an element of its own, and in Chromium 256 KB of line breaks (262 144 lines) held the page for 4 s.
  - While a reply grows, it keeps its colors and only its new end shows plain until highlighted.
- **Copy.** The text of the `<pre>` is the code itself: lines are inline spans joined by `\n`, so a copied selection keeps blank lines.
- **Setting.** **Settings → Chat → Highlight code** turns it off. The code is then plain, with no "too long" note.
- **Bundle.** Against `main` (gzip -6) the main script grows by 13.0 KB, from 359.8 KB to 372.8 KB. The worker chunk (11.3 KB) loads on first use.

## Validation

- `bun run typecheck` and `bun run build` pass. `bun install --frozen-lockfile` passes on the committed `bun.lock`.
- `bun run test:unit`: 2077 pass, 0 fail (on `main` at `3a0254e`).
  - `src/lib/highlight.test.ts` covers roles across lines, CRLF, blank lines, the sync limit and failure.
  - `src/lib/offThread.test.ts` runs real Bun workers: budget, termination and replacement, cancel, and a failed spawn.
- Browser, `bun run check run bun scripts/<script>.ts` in Chromium:
  - `file-viewer-regression`: 16 PASS. Long tasks are recorded from the first paint. It now also checks that a 30 000-line block opens with Show all as one text with no task of a second, that chat code is highlighted, keeps its blank line, that a 90 KB YAML block the highlighter is slow on stays plain with its note while the others are colored, and that Highlight code off leaves the chat plain.
  - `settings-pages-demo-regression` 7 PASS, `chat-history-browser-qa` 6 PASS, `math-browser-qa` OK, `file-viewer-mobile-regression` 16 PASS.
  - `ui-regression`: 78 PASS, then it stops at the startup prompt card ("1. Yes, continue") in my container, the same as on `main`.

## Screenshots
<img width="1640" height="664" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/17990018-7d70-4a48-a6b1-13ad2e4b75a3" />
<img width="1640" height="664" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/09581af7-d10a-4c15-9477-f8453a19e0e7" />
<img width="780" height="1688" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b97430e3-d149-4879-a543-2a1210279bd1" />

* fix(status): hold a Claude turn that ended on its background work (#534)

> Stacked on #533 (step detail), which is stacked on #531 and #527.
Please review only the last commit: **fix(status): hold a Claude turn
that ended on its background work**.

> Rebased onto #520/#521: BG is a read-only word in the composer, hidden
like every other state word since #520; in the sidebar's compact cell it
is the running arc held still, in the working colour; and the roll-up is
blocked, done, working, BG, ready, after herdr's order (#521). Sending,
queueing and Stop, #520's queue of pending messages included, still go
by the agent's own status.

## Problem

A Claude Code turn can end while work it started is still running in the
background, such as a test suite run with `run_in_background` or a
background subagent. Claude says something like "the suite is running;
I'll ship when it's done", and when the work's `<task-notification>`
arrives it starts the next turn on its own.

herdr reads the end of that turn as `idle`, or `done` while nobody has
looked. So the sidebar and the composer said **DONE** and push sent
"work finished", while the work kept going.

Seen live: a pane read DONE for about 6 minutes while its suite ran.
That suite had been started by a subagent, so its launch was only in the
subagent's transcript, and the status line counted no running subagent.

## What changes

- **Background commands are counted with subagents.** A `Bash` call
whose answer carries `toolUseResult.backgroundTaskId` is a background
command. That covers `run_in_background`, Ctrl+B, and commands moved to
the background by their timeout, whether the session or a subagent ran
them.
- It ends with its notice (in any transcript of the session) or with a
`TaskStop` answer (`KillShell` in older Claude Code). No notice follows
a `TaskStop`.
  - It is lost when it was started before the pane's Claude process.
- These commands join the status line's list (category `shell`) and the
pane's count.
- **A pane at rest whose turn's work still runs reads BG.**
- "The turn's work" means what started at or after the person's last
prompt, read from the transcript: `origin.kind: "human"`, or only a
`permissionMode` in older Claude Code. The turn that a notice starts is
not a new prompt, so the work of the original turn still counts after it
resumes. A dev server started in an earlier turn holds nothing.
- Such a pane carries `background_wait: true` on every `pane-status`
frame and in the snapshot. A missing flag means it is not waiting.
- The sidebar's workspace and agent rows, the palette and the tab dot
say **BG** instead of DONE or READY, and the composer's hidden state
word reads BG to assistive tech. The composer still uses the agent's own
status for send, queue and Stop, because Claude takes input while it
waits.
- **Alerts see a waiting pane as working.** `alertStatus` in
`shared/notify-policy.ts` applies to push, its seed and resync, the
remote-PC relay, and the browser's tab alerts and droplet.
- herdr reports the turn a notice starts as `working` about 2 s after
the work ends (live log below). Push sees `working` → `working`, so the
turn's start is kept, and the finish is alerted once, when that turn
ends, with the whole span as its length.
- **Bounds:**
- **Grace:** a pane is still held for 60 s after its turn's work ends,
in case Claude goes on with the notice.
- **Limit:** a pane is held for at most 30 min from when it came to
rest. Nothing in the transcript tells a turn waiting on its suite from
one that left a server running, so a turn that only started a server
reads BG for up to 30 min before its finish alert.
- **When a turn ends, the status event reads the pane's files first**,
while the pane is still taken for working, and sends one frame with all
of it. So no frame says the pane finished first, and work that ended
before the turn did holds nothing.

Live check that herdr reports a resumed turn: a Claude pane with `sleep
35` in the background.

```
06:45:31 working
06:45:36 done      ← the turn ended on the sleep (bg=0 before this change)
06:46:08 working   ← its notice started the next turn, ~2 s after the sleep ended
06:46:12 done
```

## Tests

- **`server/claude-subagents.test.ts`:**
  - A command found with no `subagents/` folder.
- Ends by notice (completed, failed, killed → cancelled), by `TaskStop`,
and by `KillShell`.
- A subagent's command, ended in its own file or by the session's
notice.
  - Lost with the process.
- `turnRunning` across a typed prompt, a notice's turn, an older prompt
with no `origin`, a queued prompt, another session's message and an
interruption.
  - `onChange` firing when either count changes.
- **`server/background-wait.test.ts`:**
  - Held and released by a resume.
  - The grace, the limit, and work that ended before the turn.
  - A snapshot only filling a gap.
  - `forget`.
- **`server/claude-session.contract.test.ts`** (real herdr, Claude
stand-in):
- The launch is written as the turn ends, and every frame at rest
carries the flag.
  - No alert goes out while the pane waits.
- With a "long turns only" device, exactly one "work finished" goes out
for a resume whose own turn is short, so the whole span counted.
- A wait that ends with no resume sends one frame without the flag and
one alert.
  - Breaking the alert rule in `onStatus` fails both tests.
- **Client:** `alertStatus`, `paneStatus` with the rollup, composer
words, `paneAfterStatus`.
- **`scripts/ui-regression.ts`:** a waiting pane reads BG in the
sidebar's agent row (the arc, held still) and in the composer's hidden
word, and its own status again after the wait.

```
bun run typecheck                        ✓
bun run generate:types --check           ✓
bun scripts/ci-tests.ts unit             1567 pass, 0 fail
bun scripts/ci-tests.ts integration      229 pass, 0 fail, 6 skip (macOS)
bun scripts/ui-regression.ts             79 PASS
```

Reading cost: a cold read of a real 43 MB Claude Code transcript takes
130 ms. Parent lines are parsed only when they can hold a launch, an
end, a notice or a prompt.

## Not covered

- **Monitor tasks.** Their notices are events with no status, and a
persistent monitor runs for the whole session.
- **OmO and Codex panes.** OmO counts its own tasks, and Codex does not
resume when background work ends.
- **herdr's own TUI**, which is another project.

🤖 Assisted by
[kilhyeonjun-harness](https://github.com/kilhyeonjun/kilhyeonjun-harness)

---------

Co-authored-by: Hako <devswha@gmail.com>

* fix(worktree): start a worktree asked from a linked checkout at the repository's workspace (#685)

## Problem

**New worktree** and **Open worktree…** could fail in the web UI with
herdr's own message:

> New and open worktree actions start from the repo parent workspace.

herdr starts a worktree only from the workspace on the repository's main
checkout
(`linked_worktree_source` otherwise). The sidebar hides both menu items
on a worktree row, but it
can only tell from `workspace.worktree.is_linked_worktree`, and herdr
sets that only on a workspace
whose checkout it opened itself. A plain workspace opened on a folder
that is a git worktree
carries no `worktree` info, so the row offers the actions and herdr
refuses them.

Measured on herdr 0.9.3 in an isolated session:

| workspace | `worktree` in `workspace.list` | `worktree.create` |
|---|---|---|
| on the main checkout | absent until its first worktree | created |
| plain, on a linked checkout | absent | `linked_worktree_source` |

`worktree.list` asked from the linked workspace does name the
repository's workspace in
`source.source_workspace_id` (absent when that workspace is not open).

## Fix

`POST /api/worktree/create` and `/api/worktree/open`: when herdr answers
`linked_worktree_source`, the server reads `worktree.list` for the asked
workspace and sends the
same request to `source_workspace_id`. With no such workspace open, or
when the listing fails,
herdr's original refusal is returned unchanged. The normal path makes no
extra RPC.

No wire shape changes, so `shared/protocol.ts` and the demo transport
are untouched.

## Notes

- "Start from" left empty means HEAD of the repository's main checkout,
as it does in herdr's own
  form, not the HEAD of the worktree the action was asked from.
- A remote PC answers through its own bridge, so it gets this with its
next runtime bundle.
- When the repository's main checkout is not open as a workspace, the
action still fails with
  herdr's message. Not changed here.

## Tests

- New contract test in `server/api.contract.test.ts`: a plain workspace
on a `git worktree add`
checkout gets `404 linked_worktree_source` while the repository's
workspace is closed, then
`200` for create and for open once it is open. It fails with `Expected:
200 Received: 404`
  without the server change.
- `bun run check fast` passes (2069 pass, 0 fail).

* fix(chat): keep keys typed around a slash completion (#688)

## Change

`main` CI failed at 26ccec01 ([run
37939818475](https://github.com/devswha/herdr-web-ui/actions/runs/37939818475),
Integration and browser): `scripts/settings-pages-demo-regression.ts`
timed out at 320px waiting for `release-notes` after `fill("/rln")`. The
test steps are ordinary input; the composer had two product races, both
reproduced deterministically and both user-visible.

1. **Stale caret after a completion** (`setTextAndCaret`). The caret was
placed in a `requestAnimationFrame`, so input landing before that frame
was overwritten. Playwright's `fill` selects all and inserts in two
protocol calls. When the frame fell between them, `/rln` was appended to
`/pr-comments `, and no slash menu opened (the CI failure). For a user:
typing `a` then `b` right after Tab on a busy phone gave `/pr-comments
ba`. Fix: commit with `flushSync` and place the caret in the same task.
2. **Swallowed Enter/Tab after narrowing the list.** A passive effect
clamped `selectedIndex`, and its update lands in a later render. Enter
or Tab in that window read `choices[old index]`, which is `undefined`:
the key was prevented and nothing happened. It surfaced on the rebased
tree as `"/comments"` left in the box with the menu open. Fix: derive
the clamped index during render, and step the arrows from it.

No timeout raised, no retry added.

## Validation

- Deterministic repros (throwaway, removed): before the fix,
`"/pr-comments /rln"` with no menu, `"/pr-comments ba"`, and Tab/Enter
leaving `"/comments"`. After the fix, `"/rln"` + `release-notes`,
`"/pr-comments ab"`, `"/pr-comments "`.
- Two new deterministic steps in `settings-pages-demo-regression.ts`.
With each fix reverted, its step fails (`'/pr-comments ba'` / 30 s
timeout); with the fixes, both pass.
- After the fixes: `settings-pages-demo-regression.ts` passed 10 of 10
runs on the rebased tree, the full `bun run check browser` and `bun run
check fast` exit 0, and `integration` exit 0 (before the second fix).

Remaining: the reset to row 0 on a new query is still an effect. In that
window, Enter picks `min(old index, last row)`, which matches the
behaviour before this change.

* fix(ci): gate deployment on source-bound verification (#692)

## Change
- Require reusable CI and the site build to succeed for the same SHA
before Pages publishes the website, demo, or installers. Pin checkouts,
keep deployment serialization, and fail closed on stale-main/API errors,
including manual runs.
- Strengthen existing `bun run check`: durable source-bound JSON and
command logs, source/dist invalidation, interrupted/not-run/skipped
states, shared lock for `run`, and `run --build` for browser
prerequisites.
- Retain reports on success and failure. Capture isolated failure
screenshots, bounded console errors, and optional traces without
DOM/network capture in the main UI and prompt-dock regressions.
- Typecheck six critical tooling/demo entrypoints without relaxing
strictness. Document parallel ownership, genuine-dependency-only stacks,
squash/restack validation and explicit authority.

## Validation
- `bun run check fast`: passed after lifecycle fixes; 2242 tests passed,
7 skipped, 0 failed (before the final fail-closed correction, which has
focused coverage below). Includes workflow syntax, generated types, both
typechecks and app build.
- Final focused check/report/browser-evidence/Pages/browser-runner
tests: 39 passed, 233 assertions; both typechecks passed.
- Actual CLI lifecycle smoke: success/failure logs, build provenance,
source/dist mutation invalidation, competing-run lock refusal, SIGTERM
report and subsequent lock release passed in a disposable fixture
repository with a fake herdr executable.
- Actual Playwright synthetic failure: PNG, console metadata, private
artifact modes and trace without DOM/network capture captured from an
isolated fixture.
- Independent policy, deployment/evidence and report reviews completed.
Fixed interrupt cleanup ordering, inherited-output draining,
shared-report overwrite, unavailable source/build identities, and
bounded trace teardown. Actual CLI smoke also covered stubborn
descendants, shared-report lock refusal and source-identity loss.
Required GitHub CI remains authoritative for final SHA f44e9cc.

## Repository settings and remaining credential boundary
- Added `Native Windows install` to required main checks; retained
strict checks, admin enforcement, conversation resolution and optional
approval count. Latest 30 completed CI runs had 27 Windows successes,
one cancellation, and two fork runs awaiting approval without jobs.
- This PR does not provision an agent account or GitHub App credential.
Non-admin implementation credentials require separate operator
provisioning; no claim that current administrator credentials have been
replaced.

## Coordination record
Owner: coordinating maintainer session. Scope: verification/deployment
tooling and operating documentation. Start SHA:
b87d9d50019cdb87422415f7650ad29285a832cc. Branch/worktree:
worktree/rapid-stone-f62b. Dependencies: existing ci.yml/check
entrypoints only; no stacked PR dependency. Integration and release are
explicitly authorized by the user, subject to required checks and
unresolved-review blocking.

* chore(release): prepare 0.4.4 (#694)

## Change
Prepare app release 0.4.4 from main after #692, using the existing
release process only.

- Bump package.json and herdr-plugin.toml together.
- Move the existing Unreleased entries under 0.4.4 (2026-10-09 UTC),
preserving all PR links and external contributor credits.
- Add matching English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese release highlights
(3 new, 1 improved, 4 fixed; every line <=90 characters).
- No tags are created by this PR. The existing Release workflow must
validate the exact main SHA before publishing.

## Validation and review
- `bun scripts/release-notes.ts 0.4.4`: passed, generated expected
release body.
- Release-notes tests: 27 passed, 397 assertions, 0 failures.
- `bun install --frozen-lockfile`: passed without dependency changes.
- Reviewed the release metadata diff; all prior summary entries are
unchanged. The only non-metadata change is the one-line recorder
synchronization fix documented below.
- Audited release-range PR authors and existing changelog credits;
implementation PR #692 is linked.
- Required CI must pass on this PR before squash merge; no administrator
bypass.

Owner: release coordinator (explicitly authorized by user). Start SHA:
ceae7a259fa6f0d16ece3e56abb2178e752541dd. Scope: four release metadata
files and one release-blocking contract-test synchronization line.
Branch: chore/release-0.4.4. Dependencies: merged #692; no open stack.

## Observed release blocker
Website run
[37973801948](https://github.com/devswha/herdr-web-ui/actions/runs/37973801948)
correctly skipped deployment when the existing pending-input contract
test read `barrier` before the recorder observed its final Enter. A
WebSocket receipt is not a receipt from the separate recorder process.

Commit fe09359 adds the existing bounded `waitBytes("barrier\r")` before
the exact-byte and no-enqueue assertions, matching adjacent tests. No
production behavior, expectation, timeout, or skip condition changed.
This tiny prerequisite stays in the release PR rather than creating an
artificial release stack; it is a separate commit for review. No
changelog entry is needed for an internal test synchronization
correction.

Verification on the isolated herdr: full pending-input file **37
passed**, then the affected case **10/10 passed** with `--rerun-each
10`. Source-bound reports were preserved. Required CI is rerunning for
the new PR SHA; no failed check is bypassed or blindly rerun.

* fix(terminal): keep a tab out of use updating; pausing it is a setting (#699)

## Change

**Problem.** Since 0.4.4 (#660), a desktop tab detaches its pane one
second after the user switches to another window, so that herdr's own
TUI gets the pane's size back. The tab then stops updating until it is
clicked again. To someone who does not run herdr's TUI next to the
browser, this looks like the terminal froze. It also happens on a second
monitor where the tab stays in view.

**Change.**
- A tab that is out of use keeps its pane and its output again, as in
0.4.3. It still sends no resize and reconnects with `keep_size`. Only
the release is affected.
- **Settings → Terminal → Pause in another window** (`releasePaneAway`,
off by default) turns #660's release back on, unchanged, for people who
also work in herdr's own TUI on the same PC.
- The herdr API has no read-only way to tell whether a TUI client shows
the pane: the snapshot has no client field, and `no_foreground_client`
comes only from `client.window_title.set/clear`, which change the user's
title. So the choice stays with the user.

@jiunshinn: #660 made a desktop tab stop updating a second after the
user switches windows, and we had a report that this reads as a frozen
terminal. This PR makes that release opt-in, off by default. A follow-up
will make the setting switch the tab to a read-only `herdr terminal
session observe` stream instead of pausing. I measured on 0.9.3 that the
observer leaves herdr's TUI at its own size (44x37 stays 44x37, while an
attach makes it 150x50), so the tab keeps updating and the TUI is not
cut off. Feedback welcome.

## Validation

- `scripts/chat-size-regression.ts` against a `bun run check run
--build` herdr: 20/20 PASS. The new check (default settings, window
blurred, clock run past the 1 s release delay) confirms there is no
`detach`, no paused banner, and the pane's `pty-data` still arrives. The
existing #660 checks run with the setting on and still pass.
- `bun run check fast`: workflow syntax, generated types, typecheck,
build, unit tests all ok.
- `src/lib/settings.test.ts`: the setting is off by default and only a
boolean `true` turns it on.
- Settings → Terminal opened in a browser against the isolated test
session: the toggle shows up off, turns on, and is saved to
`herdr-web-ui:settings`. Korean, Japanese and Chinese strings were
added, and `i18n.test.ts` passes.

* feat(terminal): a tab out of use watches its pane read-only instead of pausing (#700)

## Change

**Problem.** #699 made #660's release opt-in: with the setting on, a
desktop tab out of use detaches its pane so that herdr's own TUI gets
the pane's size back, and then the tab freezes until it is clicked.
People who run herdr's TUI next to the browser had to pick one of two
problems: a frozen web terminal, or a TUI cut off at the browser's size.

**Fix.** herdr ≥ 0.7.2 has a read-only observer, `herdr terminal session
observe <pane> --cols --rows`. Unlike `terminal attach`, it does not
take ownership of the pane's size. I measured this on 0.9.3 with a real
TUI client and a split pane at 44 columns:

| state | pane size (`stty size`) |
|---|---|
| TUI only | 37 44 |
| browser tab in use (attach) | 37 145 |
| browser tab out of use, **watching** | **37 44** |
| browser back in use | 37 145 |

With the setting on, the tab now detaches as before, then watches the
pane instead of pausing. The terminal shows "View only while you use
another window · click to type". Focus or a pointerdown unwatches and
attaches again at the tab's size. A grid change starts the view again at
the new grid. A released tab that moves to another pane watches that
one.

- **Wire** (`shared/protocol.ts`, feature `"watch"`): client `watch
{pane_id, cols, rows}` / `unwatch {pane_id}`; server `watch-data
{pane_id, data}` / `watch-end {pane_id}`. A watch is not an attach:
there is no input, resize, ACK or input-ready, and it never touches
`attachments`, claims or `pan…
pt-act pushed a commit to radicor/herdr-web-ui that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2026
S1 and RL5 never landed: devswha#569 was declined as a product decision and
process-errors.ts was removed from devswha#570 before it merged. A1 shipped as
devswha#633, and the table's KaTeX claim was wrong - strict stays "ignore" on
purpose. Cites commits and PRs instead of a script that was never
committed, and dates the check so a stale row is recognisable.
devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 16, 2026
## Change

Settings > Devices now shows one red open-access warning and a neutral
pairing explanation with guidance for authenticated reverse proxies.
Header-token sessions no longer offer an ineffective **Sign out**
action; cookie-token and paired-device sessions keep it.

- Reuse exact configured-token validation through `bearerMatches`;
health exposes only `auth.bearer: true` for a matching header.
- Preserve the existing length guard and `timingSafeEqual`. An arbitrary
or wrong Authorization header grants nothing, including on `/ws`.
- Keep existing open-install defaults, same-origin checks and guessing
budgets. This does not revive the default-deny policy declined in #569.
- Update Korean device labels, Japanese/Chinese warnings, reverse-proxy
guidance and the Devices changelog.

Only the pending Devices/proxy-auth hunks were extracted. No usage/hub
changes or .senpi mockups are introduced. The patch applied without
conflicts to latest main fetched at task start: `ea287c42`.

## Security and review

The health flag contains no credential. Sign-out belongs at the proxy
because it sends the app token again on the next request. The guide
covers HTTP and WebSocket header forwarding and restricting the direct
app port.

Review fixes: the contract now proves cookie authentication succeeds
rather than merely checking flag absence; it rejects wrong bearer tokens
and omits the flag for a valid cookie plus wrong bearer. The guide
distinguishes the direct app's 401 from a proxy's own redirect/refusal.

## Validation

- `bun install --frozen-lockfile`: passed in the isolated worktree.
- `bun run check fast`: exit 0; **4,017 passed, 0 failed, 8 existing
skips**. Source-state verification passed.
- Isolated configured-token and neighboring token-auth contracts: **13
passed, 0 failed**.
- Mutation: disabling bearer acceptance failed the intended
configured-token assertion; restoring passed. Restored source diff
SHA256 matches the fast-checked source.
- Real isolated `ulw-qa` herdr with temporary XDG config/state and
non-loopback ephemeral app ports. No user session or ports 7317/7421
were used.
- `curl -i`: health remains public (200). Missing/wrong bearer does not
authenticate. Protected session is 401 without a token and 200 with the
configured bearer. Cookie-only health omits the flag. Tokenless/unpaired
open access remains unchanged.
- Real `/ws`: valid bearer receives a snapshot; missing/wrong bearer is
refused.
- **16 inspected screenshots**: 1440/390, light/dark; open state in
English/Korean, header-bearer and cookie sessions in English. One
warning plus neutral hint; no horizontal overflow or page errors. Header
sessions omit Sign out; cookie sessions retain it.

Not verified locally: Windows/macOS, physical phones, actual Caddy/nginx
deployment, and full integration/browser CI suites. Header forwarding
was exercised directly against the real backend. Independent gate review
was unavailable: the harness refused the sole spawn at its nesting
limit. Manual review is not independent approval.

## Screenshots

### Desktop open state: one warning and neutral proxy hint
![Desktop open state: one warning and neutral proxy
hint](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f69dddae-1a59-44b2-9602-7eaff249bf38)

### Phone Korean open state in dark mode
![Phone Korean open state in dark
mode](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9979b304-ad2a-46d9-8b52-c8681cb2f0ba)

### Header bearer session: no Sign out
![Header bearer session: no Sign
out](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6e6d815d-cef7-46fd-8d13-a73c58eece96)

### Cookie session: Sign out remains available
![Cookie session: Sign out remains
available](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/08249945-dd02-42b1-8ca2-a5d7a6c8be56)

## Scope record

Owner: Devices/proxy-auth publication session. Branch:
`feat/devices-proxy-auth`. Start SHA: `ea287c42`. Dependencies: none.
Verification: fast, targeted contracts, mutation and isolated
real-surface QA passed. Status: ready for maintainer review; no
auto-merge or reviewer requests.
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