fix(terminal): refuse to submit a CLI prompt over an unsent composer draft by luisgonzaleznf · Pull Request #16290 · stablyai/orca

luisgonzaleznf · 2026-08-24T18:58:00Z

ELI5

When one agent messages another terminal with orca terminal send --text ... --enter, Orca pastes the text and presses Enter without looking at the target's input box. If the user had a half-typed prompt there, both get sent as one prompt. Now Orca looks first: if there is unsent text, it refuses and tells the sender what the draft is. --force keeps the old behavior on purpose.

What Changed

OrcaRuntimeService.writeTerminalAgentPrompt (the Claude Code / Codex paste-and-submit path used by terminal send --text --enter — now in rpc/methods/terminal/terminal-send-method.ts after the module split on main — and by orchestration dispatch/inject/worker preambles) now checks the rendered composer inside the serialized submission, right after the existing permission check and before any byte is written. Evidence is readVisibleTerminalState — the same host-side emulator state terminal read --screen returns — so it works for local, daemon, SSH-provider and orca serve hosts.
Detection is Fix terminal reads that flatten composer drafts into output #16711's detectTerminalComposerDraft — the same draft that terminal.read now exposes — read from readVisibleTerminalState(ptyId).draft, so the guard shares one projection with reads (headless emulator, provider snapshot, and renderer-serializer fallback). No detector of its own any more.
One fix to that shared detector, found by replaying a real Claude Code 2.1.246 screen: Claude writes a mode label into the composer's top rule (──── ultracode ─), which COMPOSER_FRAME_LINE rejected, so any such session lost draft detection for both read and this guard. The frame regex now allows a label between rule characters; the capture is the regression test.
terminal.send RPC maps the refusal to { accepted: false, bytesWritten: 0, refusedReason: 'pending-input', pendingInput: <draft> } and accepts an optional allowPendingInput: true. agent_prompt_pending_input is registered as a passthrough error code for the orchestration callers, which fail the dispatch instead of corrupting the draft.
CLI: terminal send --force → allowPendingInput; formatTerminalSend prints the refusal and the draft instead of Sent 0 bytes; refusals exit non-zero. orca-cli skill guide documents the rule.
The guard uses the freshly detected foreground agent (falling back to the launch agent), and retries a discarded provider frame (output advanced during the snapshot — i.e. the user is typing) up to 3× before falling open.

Related (no overlap found)

fix(terminal): serialize agent-prompt submits per PTY so overlapping sends stop gluing #14980 — serializes overlapping agent-prompt sends so two agents' prompts stop gluing to each other; this PR is about a human's unsent draft. Same seam (writeTerminalAgentPrompt), so expect a textual merge conflict, not a semantic one. It also notes mobile native chat never reaches this seam — consistent with the scope note above.
fix(orchestration): refuse dispatch --inject into a blocked pane #10740 — refuses dispatch --inject into a pane parked on an interactive prompt, before the dispatch row is created. Complementary: this PR runs after assertAgentPromptPermissionSafe and additionally never reads a numbered dialog option row (❯ 1. Yes…) as a composer.
Phantom composer drafts: GUI draft-layer text is composited into orca terminal read output as if typed #12358 — phantom composer drafts in terminal read. The runtime's screen read does not composite GUI-layer drafts, so they don't feed this detector. Caveat: if those phantoms are Claude ghost-text drawn undimmed right of the caret, this guard would refuse the send (loud, non-destructive) — the after-caret rule relies on placeholders rendering dim, which is what Claude Code 2.1.241 and Codex 0.149.1 do today.
docs(cli): document that terminal send --text writes control bytes verbatim #14037 — help-text edits to the same terminal send entries in help.ts / specs/core.ts; merge-order conflict only.

Follow-ups (not in this PR)

Concede on a repeated identical attempt. Default is reject-always; the only bypass is the explicit --force. A softer variant — refuse the first attempt, then concede when the same sender retries the same text against the same unchanged draft — would let unattended agent flows recover without a flag. Happy to do that in a separate PR if you want it.
Extend the guard to the other submitting paths (desktop review-note two-phase send, plugin terminal.sendText, agent-teams tmux dispatch, --text then --enter in separate calls) and to more agents once their composer glyphs are pinned.

Why

An agent in terminal A cannot see terminal B's composer, so it cannot know a draft is pending. Verified on Orca 1.4.188 (macOS) with both agents: draft Refactor the login page so that it + sent Status update from the other terminal: the build is green. → the target ran Refactor the login page so that itStatus update from the other terminal: the build is green. as one prompt. The contract that is violated — "this text lands as its own prompt" — lives in the host runtime's agent-prompt submission, so the guard lives there and every sender inherits it. The refusal is structured (Rule 1 of docs/reference/remote-wire-compatibility.md: new optional fields/params only): old CLIs against a new host see accepted: false; new CLIs against an old host keep today's appending behavior.

Linked Issue

Fixes #16289

Visual Proof

CLI behavior, no UI change. Screen reads from the reproduction (Claude Code 2.1.241; Codex reproduces identically with ›):

Before — draft present, then orca terminal send --terminal <B> --text "Status update from the other terminal: the build is green." --enter:

❯ Refactor the login page so that it                      ← unsent draft in B
...
{"send": {"accepted": true, "bytesWritten": 59}}          ← sender sees success
❯ Refactor the login page so that itStatus update from the other terminal: the build is green.
· Drizzling…                                              ← B runs the glued prompt

After (same state):

Refused: terminal term_… has unsent input in its composer: "Refactor the login page so that it"
Wait for the user to send or clear it, or re-run with --force to append to it.
(exit 1;  --json → "accepted": false, "refusedReason": "pending-input", "pendingInput": "Refactor the login page so that it")
❯ Refactor the login page so that it                      ← draft untouched

Testing

src/main/runtime/rpc/terminal-send-pending-draft.integration.test.ts — real OrcaRuntimeService fed the rendered frame via onPtyData, foreground claude: refuses and reports the draft (fails before the fix: the paste is written); still refuses with the caret moved home (\x1b[3G); pastes into an empty composer, including one showing a dim placeholder, and into a trust dialog's option list without reading it as a draft — each proceeds-case asserts accepted: true, the pasted payload, and the Enter write; appends with allowPendingInput.
src/main/daemon/terminal-composer-draft-captures.test.ts — replays four raw PTY captures (__fixtures__/: Claude Code 2.1.246 and Codex 0.149.1, composer-with-draft and permission/trust dialog) through the real HeadlessEmulator into Fix terminal reads that flatten composer drafts into output #16711's detector: both drafts detected, both dialogs rejected via the hidden cursor. The Claude draft capture is the one that exposed the frame-label bug.
CLI: --force → allowPendingInput, refusal output + exit code, formatTerminalSend; errors.test.ts passthrough code.
Ran src/main/runtime/rpc, src/shared, src/cli, src/main/daemon, orca-runtime.test.ts (9.3k tests), typecheck:tsc:node/cli, oxlint, check:code-quality:changed, check:max-lines-ratchet, verify:bundled-skill-guides. tests/e2e/cross-version-wire/cross-version-terminal-wire.unit.test.ts fails on outputPause capability negotiation identically with this branch's files reverted to origin/main (pre-existing in this environment).
Reproduced the bug live on macOS against the installed 1.4.188 for Claude Code and Codex. The fix itself was verified through the runtime integration tests, not against a dev build of the app; not run on Linux, Windows, or SSH hosts.

Scope not covered (same append behavior as today): mobile native-chat sends (already prefix Ctrl+U), the desktop review-note two-phase send, plugin terminal.sendText, agent-teams tmux dispatch, a separate --text then --enter, and agents other than Claude Code/Codex or plain shells. On Windows ConPTY a draft with the caret moved to column 1 is not detected (style signal disabled there).

I manually tested these changes locally
Automated tests added/updated, or explained why not below

AI Disclosure

Investigated, implemented, and tested with Claude Code (Claude Fable 5) under my direction; the reproduction and review were mine.

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Not applicable, or this change follows docs/reference/agent-skill-sharing-upstream-boundary.md and copies or mechanically translates no upstream skill-installer source, tests, fixtures, registry entries, path tables, comments, or documentation.

Notes

Wire: only optional additions (allowPendingInput param; refusedReason: 'pending-input', pendingInput fields). The renderer's note-send treats an unknown refusedReason as not-writable; mobile reads only accepted.
SSH: the check runs on the runtime that owns the PTY, using its own mirror of the output stream; loss of screen evidence proceeds (unknown never blocks a write).
Cost: guarded sends to renderer-backed panes may add one provider snapshot read (750 ms timeout, 1 s retry backoff) before the paste.

Checklist

This PR is small and focused
I explained what changed and why (including ELI5)
Before/after screenshots or videos attached for UI changes, or N/A with reason
Self-reviewed for correctness, security, and performance
Cross-platform, SSH/remote, and path/shortcut impact considered (or N/A)
pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test, and pnpm build pass (or CI will cover; local preferred)

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…draft `orca terminal send --text ... --enter` into a Claude Code or Codex session pastes at the composer caret and presses Enter without looking at the composer. When the user has a half-typed draft there, the draft and the agent's message are submitted as one glued prompt. The host runtime now reads the rendered composer (the same emulator state `terminal read --screen` returns) inside the serialized agent-prompt submission, before any byte is written. Typed text left of the caret, or undimmed text right of it (both agents draw their placeholder dim), counts as a draft and the send is refused with `accepted: false`, `refusedReason: 'pending-input'` and the draft in `pendingInput`. An unreadable screen never blocks a send, and native ConPTY panes skip the style signal because SGR-dim fidelity there is unverified. `--force` (RPC `allowPendingInput`) opts back into appending. Orchestration dispatch/inject/worker preambles share the guard and fail with `agent_prompt_pending_input` instead of corrupting the draft. Fixes stablyai#16289 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

coderabbitai · 2026-08-24T19:07:11Z

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Implement the promised --force override.

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@src/main/runtime/terminal/input/terminal-agent-prompt-pending-input.ts:
- Around line 62-63: **Implement the promised `--force` override.**

When the composer has a draft, this guard always throws. The CLI handler does
not read or forward `--force`, and the `TerminalSend` schema has no override
field. As a result, `orca terminal send --text ... --enter --force` cannot opt
into the prior behavior described in the PR. Pass an explicit force option
through the CLI, RPC, and writer. Keep this refusal as the default.
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Walkthrough

Terminal sends now check for unsent composer input before writing a prompt and after the beforeWrite hook. When the guard detects a draft, the RPC returns a rejected result with refusedReason: 'pending-input' and the draft text. The CLI displays the draft and sets a failing exit code. Tests cover draft detection, empty composers, permission-dialog options, and composer or PTY state changes during the send.

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The advertised force override is unavailable; users must send or clear a draft first. The change is mergeable with that limitation understood.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: refusing to submit a CLI prompt over an unsent composer draft.
Description check		The description is complete and relevant. It explains the user impact, implementation, rationale, linked issue, before-and-after behavior, testing, limitations, AI use, and checklist status. It also d…
Linked Issues check		For [`#16289`], the prompt path checks the visible composer draft before writing and checks again after the pre-write hook. A non-empty draft raises `AgentPromptPendingInputError`. `terminal.send` retur…
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For [#16289], the prompt path checks the visible composer draft before writing and checks again after the pre-write hook. A non-empty draft raises AgentPromptPendingInputError. terminal.send returns accepted: false, bytesWritten: 0, refusedReason: 'pending-input', and pendingInput. The CLI reports the refusal and exits non-zero. --force preserves the explicit append behavior. The reported integration, detector, RPC, and CLI tests cover these requirements.

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The reviewed changes support [#16289]. They add the composer guard, structured refusal handling, CLI output, orchestration passthrough, shared detector coverage, and user guidance. The previously reported formatting change in docs/reference/plugin-authoring.md has no diff against the merge base.

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…g drafts Run the composer check after the permission check so a trust/permission dialog whose selected option also starts with `❯` still yields agent_prompt_blocked, and never treat a numbered option row as the composer. Cross blank rows so multi-paragraph drafts count, stop at transcript markers instead, and drop dim placeholder cells from every row, not just right of the caret. Prefer the detected foreground agent over the launch agent after an agent swap, and retry a provider frame discarded by the user's own keystroke echo before falling open. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Re-apply the terminal.send refusal mapping and allowPendingInput param onto the split rpc/methods/terminal/* modules, and the RuntimeTerminalSend fields onto runtime-terminal-contracts.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

A draft may legitimately start with `1.` or continue with a bullet, so a numbered glyph row is a dialog only when a numbered option row sits directly under it (the cursor context now carries two rows below), and a row ends the draft only when its content starts at column 0 — both agents indent every continuation row. The proceeds-cases in the integration test now assert the accepted response and the pasted payload. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Regenerate the bundled skill guides from the merged orca-cli.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…ow text A numbered-list draft (`❯ 1. First step` / ` 2. Second step`) has the same row shape as a trust or permission dialog, so any text rule either misses that draft or misreads the dialog. Captured from Claude Code 2.1.246 and Codex 0.149.1: both agents show the terminal cursor whenever the composer has a caret and hide it (DECTCEM) while a dialog is open — evidence a draft cannot fake. The detector now answers null on a hidden cursor and drops the option-list heuristic and the rows-below lookahead. The four raw captures ship as fixtures and replay through the real emulator in terminal-cursor-line-context.test.ts. Ink paints gaps as empty cells, so typed text now renders those as spaces instead of losing them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Keep the pending-draft check ahead of the paste-ingest sizing (stablyai#16586) that now feeds createAgentPromptRenderGate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Drop this branch's composer-draft detector and cursor-line-context module in favour of stablyai#16711's detectTerminalComposerDraft: the guard now refuses on the same draft projection terminal.read exposes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…rafts Claude Code writes a mode label into the composer's top rule (`──── ultracode ─`), which COMPOSER_FRAME_LINE rejected, so every such session lost draft detection for terminal.read and for the send guard. The four raw captures from Claude Code 2.1.246 and Codex 0.149.1 now replay through the real emulator as regression coverage. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

luisgonzaleznf · 2026-08-28T15:19:36Z

Reconciled with #16711 (merged yesterday), which added the same terminal-cursor-line-context.ts and a shared detectTerminalComposerDraft for terminal.read. This branch no longer carries a detector of its own: the send guard now refuses on readVisibleTerminalState(ptyId).draft, the same projection reads expose, so both surfaces agree by construction. Net diff shrank accordingly.

Replaying real captures through that detector turned up one gap, fixed in d80e6cc: Claude Code writes a mode label into the composer's top rule (──── ultracode ─), which COMPOSER_FRAME_LINE rejected — sessions with a label lost draft detection for read and for this guard alike. The regex now allows a label between rule characters, and the four raw captures (Claude Code 2.1.246 / Codex 0.149.1, draft and dialog) ship as fixtures under src/main/daemon/__fixtures__/ with terminal-composer-draft-captures.test.ts.

…ding-draft # Conflicts: # src/cli/bundled-skill-guides.ts # src/cli/handlers/terminal.ts # src/cli/root-help-text-secondary.ts # src/cli/specs/core.ts # src/cli/terminal-format.test.ts # src/cli/terminal-format.ts # src/main/runtime/orca-runtime.ts # src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/terminal/terminal-send-method.ts # src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/terminal/unary-schemas.ts # src/shared/runtime-terminal-contracts.ts # src/shared/terminal-composer-draft.ts

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luisgonzaleznf · 2026-09-21T16:07:14Z

Merge conflicts resolved — now `MERGEABLE`

Merged origin/main into this branch (merge 893909e2f5). It was 2093 commits behind.

Please re-read the diff rather than the original review — the merge changed more than conflict markers, and two of the changes are deliberate and reviewable in their own right (both flagged below).

The 11 conflicts

Upstream split the 42,418-line orca-runtime.ts into ~200 mixin modules, so it is now a 58-line re-export shell. Most of this PR's additions had to be re-homed rather than merged in place:

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`orca-runtime.ts`	Took main's re-export shell; the PR's 55 lines moved into `orca-runtime-write-terminal-agent-prompt.ts`, which now owns the write path. Verified `readVisibleTerminalState`, `ptysById` and `providerSnapshotPreferredPtys` all resolve on ancestors in the 134-deep mixin chain.
`terminal-send-method.ts`	Kept both option spreads and both catch arms; this PR's arm first, main's `acceptedPromptCheckpoint` fallback intact.
`unary-schemas.ts`, `cli/handlers/terminal.ts`, `cli/specs/core.ts`	Took main's extractions; `allowPendingInput` / `--force` re-homed into the new per-command modules.
`terminal-format.ts` (+ test)	Took main's rewritten `formatTerminalSend`, grafted the pending-input arm ahead of the generic refusal; tests moved into main's describe and updated to its new refusal wording.
`terminal-composer-draft.ts`, `runtime-terminal-contracts.ts`, `root-help-text-secondary.ts`	Both sides kept — main's new types/flags plus this PR's.
`bundled-skill-guides.ts`	Regenerated, never hand-merged.

Guard ordering is unchanged in substance: the composer-draft check still runs after the permission check, and now sits after agentSessionPtyWriteGate.assertAdmitted so the cheap lease gate refuses before paying for a screen read.

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max-lines refactors. Two files sit at exactly the 300-line limit on main, so any addition trips the gate, and AGENTS.md forbids a max-lines disable. Both were shrunk instead:
- terminal-send-method.ts — hoisted the repeated { handle, accepted: false, bytesWritten: 0 } payload into one refused const, collapsing five catch arms to one-liners. Arm order and behaviour unchanged.
- runtime-terminal-contracts.ts — moved the six RuntimeTerminalVisual* layout types to a new src/shared/runtime-terminal-visual-layout.ts, re-exported from the barrel. Pure type move; no importer changed.
Two test fixes. The PR's tests stubbed the client as { call }, but main's handler now runs a prompt-delivery preflight — they failed with TypeError: client.getCliStatus is not a function. Switched to main's own promptClient(call, true) helper plus the prompt receipt it requires.

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pnpm tc clean · repo-wide oxlint clean · verify:rpc-params-catalog, verify:bundled-skill-guides, verify:skill-bundle-manifest, check:max-lines-ratchet, check:ts-nocheck-ratchet all pass. Vitest: 1068 files / 11359 tests across src/main/runtime/rpc + src/shared, 129 files / 1328 tests across src/cli, plus terminal-send-pending-draft.integration.test.ts 6/6 end-to-end through the re-homed guard.

No failure was written off as pre-existing — the only two were the real fallout above, and they are fixed.

One note for anyone merging older branches in this repo

git merge first refused with "unrelated histories". The checkout is a shallow clone (boundary ≈ 2026-09-08), so origin/main looks parentless and shares no ancestor with a branch cut in August. git fetch origin main --shallow-since=2026-06-01 fixes it. The pre-deepen "951 commits behind" is an artifact — the real number was 2093.

CodeRabbit had been paused on this branch since August (its status comment said so, and the 28 Aug push drew no review), so it never saw the last few pushes. Resumed it — a fresh review should land on this merge.

…draft before the paste Two review findings on the composer-draft send guard. A labelled top rule is no longer evidence on its own. `──────── build ─` above an ordinary `❯ ls` shell prompt matched the widened frame regex, so the detector read `ls` as composer input and the guard could refuse a legitimate send. A labelled rule now only counts as the composer's top border when the closing border is below the prompt — the box an agent draws, which a section divider in a shell transcript does not have. A plain rule still stands alone, so main's behaviour is unchanged. The composer is also re-read after `beforeWrite`. The write path already re-validates request activity, generation, permission state and PTY admission across that hook; composer state is an invariant of the same standing, and it was the only one not rechecked, so a draft started during the hook would have been pasted onto. Both are covered by tests that fail without the change. The real captured Claude Code 2.1.246 screen still reads its draft, which is what rules out over-tightening. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ding-draft # Conflicts: # src/cli/bundled-skill-guides.ts # src/cli/terminal-format.ts # src/main/runtime/orca-runtime-write-terminal-agent-prompt.ts # src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/terminal/terminal-send-method.ts # src/shared/runtime-terminal-contracts.ts

… writes `RuntimeAgentPromptWriteOptions.inputKind` became required on main. The draft-during-beforeWrite regression test drives `sendTerminalAgentPrompt` directly, so it states the `driving` kind `terminal.send` uses. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…ding-draft # Conflicts: # src/cli/bundled-skill-guides.ts

…ding-draft # Conflicts: # skill-guides/orca-cli.md # src/cli/bundled-skill-guides.ts # src/cli/root-help-text-secondary.ts # src/main/runtime/orca-runtime-write-terminal-agent-prompt.ts # src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/terminal/terminal-send-method.ts # src/main/runtime/runtime-terminal-contracts.ts # src/shared/terminal-composer-draft.test.ts # src/shared/terminal-composer-draft.ts

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…draft Closes stablyai#16289. `terminal send --text ... --enter` into a Claude Code or Codex pane pastes at the composer cursor and then writes Enter. If the user already has unsent text there, the paste lands on top of it and Enter submits both together — the user's half-written thought is shipped as part of an automated prompt, and there is no way to take it back. A submitting agent prompt now reads the composer before it writes. A rendered draft refuses the send with `refusedReason: 'pending-input'` and returns the draft text so the caller can say what is in the way. An unreadable screen is unknown, never a refusal: this can only ever block a send on positive evidence. The guard sits in the runtime write path rather than in the RPC method, because `sendTerminalAgentPrompt` has three production callers — the CLI/RPC method, orchestration agent turns, and agent launch. Guarding one of them would leave the same bug reachable through the others. It reads twice. Once on entry, before any side effect, with the permission check first: a permission dialog's selected row also starts with `❯`, so a blocked prompt must still report `agent_prompt_blocked` rather than pending-input. Once more after the caller's `beforeWrite` hook, which can poll for up to a second — ample time for the user to start typing. The second read ends with `assertWritable`, preserving upstream's invariant that it is the last statement before the write. The read retries briefly when the pane prefers provider snapshots: a provider frame is discarded once output advances past it, which is exactly what a user's keystroke echo does, so a single read would miss the draft in the case this fix exists for. `AgentPromptPendingInputError` lives next to `AgentPromptPermissionReturnedError`; both are the writer's pre-paste refusals that wrote no byte. The composer detector needs a separate fix to see a Claude Code composer whose top rule carries a mode label (`──── ultracode ─`); that is a standalone bug affecting terminal projection, wait settlements and the renderer's IME mask, and it ships as its own PR. Until it lands this refusal does not engage in labelled modes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-30T22:28:49Z

+    if (pendingInput !== null) {
+      throw new AgentPromptPendingInputError(pendingInput)


Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Implement the promised --force override.

When the composer has a draft, this guard always throws. The CLI handler does not read or forward --force, and the TerminalSend schema has no override field. As a result, orca terminal send --text ... --enter --force cannot opt into the prior behavior described in the PR. Pass an explicit force option through the CLI, RPC, and writer. Keep this refusal as the default. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

luisgonzaleznf · 2026-11-04T15:30:33Z

Superseded by #38159 — same author, same issue (#16289), rebuilt as a single commit on current main.

Closing rather than merging main in again. This branch had reached 23 commits (12 of them merges) against a main that moves faster than the review cycle, and its history described two things that are no longer part of the change: the --force / allowPendingInput bypass (dropped — sendAgentTurn never set it, so orchestration loses nothing) and the composer frame-label fix (now obsolete, #37171 landed an equivalent fix upstream and closed #36478).

The scope that remains is the guard itself: 13 files, relocated into main's current terminal/input/ layout and reporting through its refusedSend shape.

The review conclusions from this thread are carried into #38159's description so they do not need re-deriving — the assertWritable ordering fix, the re-check after beforeWrite, and the declined paste→Enter window finding with its reasoning, now recorded there as an explicit follow-up.

Thanks @coderabbitai — the four findings here all landed, three as fixes and one as a documented follow-up.

coderabbitai · 2026-11-04T15:30:58Z

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@luisgonzaleznf Thanks for the clear handoff. Based on your summary, #38159 replaces this PR with the guard-only change. The --force bypass is dropped, and upstream now covers the frame-label fix.

The three fixes and the documented paste→Enter follow-up remain distinct. Would you like a separate issue to track that follow-up?

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Repo: stablyai/orca PR: 16290
File: src/main/runtime/orca-runtime-write-terminal-agent-prompt.ts:85-85
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Learning: In `src/main/runtime/orca-runtime-write-terminal-agent-prompt.ts`, `writeTerminalAgentPrompt` must re-run `assertNoPendingComposerInput(ptyId, options)` after the first `options.beforeWrite?.(ptyId)` and before request, generation, permission, and PTY-admission revalidation. The first hook accepts a caller-supplied `(ptyId) => void | Promise<void>` callback, so composer state must be revalidated with the other send invariants. Do not perform this draft check after the second `beforeWrite` before Enter, because Orca’s own paste is expected to be present in the composer at that stage.

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chore: drop pre-commit re-indent of an unrelated test

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chore: drop pre-commit reformatting of files untouched by this change

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[Bug]: splitting a pane can restore a stale unsent composer draft into the new pane #16695

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Keep the pending-draft check ahead of the paste-ingest sizing (stablyai#16586) that now feeds createAgentPromptRenderGate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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fix(native-chat): keep a tab launch draft out of split sibling composers #16883

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fix(notes): reuse verified host prompt delivery #19417

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[Bug]: terminal send --enter appends to the target's unsent draft and submits both #16289

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[Bug]: orca terminal send interleaves agent text with the human user's in-progress input in the target terminal #31195

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fix(terminal): detect a composer whose top rule carries a mode label #36475

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[Bug]: a Claude Code composer in a labelled mode (e.g. ultracode) is not detected at all #36478

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fix(terminal): refuse to submit a CLI prompt over an unsent composer draft #38159

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