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Problem

A pane's terminal size follows the window in use. A window that comes back takes the pane again through focus/visibilitychange (back() → refit()). A PC window left in front while the user used the terminal on a phone never lost its focus, so no event fired, and the pane stayed at the phone's size until the user resized the window, switched panes or lenses, or focused another window and came back.

Fix

PaneTerminal adds reclaim: on a pointerdown or keydown inside this pane's terminal stack, while the tab is in use and not released, if the shared grid (pane-geometry) differs from this terminal's grid, it runs the existing refit(). refit() already skips observe, fixed (mirrored) grids and the chat lens, so those keep their current behavior. With matching grids it does nothing, so ordinary typing sends no extra resize.

Tests

  • New browser check checkFocusedWindowReclaimsTerminalSize (scripts/chat-size-regression.ts, run from ui-regression.ts): two in-use windows on one pane. A click in the desktop terminal brings the shell's stty size back to the desktop grid, a phone tap takes it again, and a key on the desktop takes it back. It fails without the fix ("the pane is 33 53, not 37 143").
  • checkChatKeepsTerminalSize, checkPaneSwitchKeepsTerminalSize and checkBackgroundTabKeepsTerminalSize still pass. bun run typecheck is clean.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Terminal panes now return to the active window’s size when you click or type in the terminal, including when the window remained focused while another device used it.
    • Right-clicking does not change the terminal pane’s size. Interactions with controls outside the terminal, such as the find bar, scrollbar, and key bar, also leave its size unchanged.

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PaneTerminal now reclaims the shared terminal grid after eligible pointer or keyboard input. The regression suite checks this behavior across focused desktop and phone terminal views.

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Terminal grid reclamation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reclaim the pane grid on terminal input
src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx, src/AGENTS.md, CHANGELOG.md
PaneTerminal refits the pane when eligible input occurs inside xterm and its dimensions differ from the shared grid. Documentation and the changelog describe click- and key-triggered reclamation.
Verify reclamation across focused windows
scripts/chat-size-regression.ts, scripts/ui-regression.ts
The regression suite checks that clicks and keypresses restore the dimensions of the focused desktop or phone terminal. It also checks that a right-click does not change the shared grid. Shell-size checks support file-backed reads and improved screen-output matching.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: wouldu-pres


Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b977d

The change makes the terminal reclaim the shared pane size after a click or key press in a window that kept focus. No unresolved concrete risk remains from the supplied review evidence, and the change looks mergeable.

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Review findings (Codex, pre-merge): reclaim ran on any pointerdown or
keydown inside the terminal stack, so typing in Find, a scrollbar drag, a
right-click for the pane menu, a held key's repeats or an IME composition
resized the pty under the other device. It now takes input inside the
terminal element only, a left button, and no repeat or composing key.

The regression's size probe matched the answer at a line start; a prompt
and command that fill the row exactly leave the answer on the same line of
the read, which was CI's "no size-6 answer". The phone's size is read once
the grid has changed, since input-ready comes before the pty resize. A
right-click is checked to leave the phone's grid.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… timeout

CI still lost a size answer ("no size-7 answer") with the runner's prompt
and grids: the answer is now bracketed and matched anywhere in the read, so
no row width can hide it, and a timeout reports what the pane shows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Review comments at @scripts/chat-size-regression.ts:
- Around line 793-795: In the desktop setup flow, wait for the desktop grid
resize to reach the pty before calling size() to capture desktopSize. Use the
existing size-confirmation mechanism so sizeLeaves() compares the phone resize
against the correct desktop baseline.

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- Line 1613: Update the keydown handler’s guard before refit() to also exclude
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CI lost a size answer again, this time with the pty resized right as the
shell answered: the screen reflowed and the read lost the line. The reclaim
check's probe writes stty's answer to a file in the pane's folder and reads
that; the other checks keep the screen probe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…iew threads

CodeRabbit: the reclaim skips an IME's first key (keyCode 229) and an open
or committing composition; the regression records each window's asked grid
from its resize frame and waits for the shell to report it before reading
a baseline, so a late attach resize cannot pass for the other window's.

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## Change

Release 0.4.8, from main at ca6db6e (20 PRs since v0.4.7: the 0.4.7
mobile walk-through fixes, two contributor PRs and the revived #793).

- `package.json` and `herdr-plugin.toml`: 0.4.8.
- CHANGELOG: `[Unreleased]` becomes `[0.4.8] - 2026-10-12`, with the
compare links. Twelve entries that had no PR link get theirs (#835 #837
#838 #840 #842 #843 #844+#848 #845 #847 #849 #851 #852). A Maintenance
line says the remote-PC runtime is now version 27.
- `release-summaries.json`: 0.4.8 in en/ko/ja/zh/tr (3 new, 6 improved,
8 fixed). The Turkish lines are not checked by a native speaker.
- `REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION` 26 -> 27: #836 adds the `pending-hold` server
feature and #787 serves precompressed assets, so `remote-v27` is
published before the app release.

Every PR merged since v0.4.7 is linked in the section: #787 #788 #793
#835 #836 #837 #838 #839 #840 #841 #842 #843 #844 #845 #846 #847 #848
#849 #851 #852.

## Validation

- `bun scripts/release-notes.ts 0.4.8` renders the summaries and the
full changelog (116 lines).
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