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Summary

  • keep Ovis Chat submissions to Pi visible after Enter until the matching user record is appended to the exact session's active JSONL branch
  • scope live receipts to the originating connection and preserve a non-resendable saved copy when confirmation becomes unavailable
  • distinguish Pi transcript receipts from ordinary held messages, with translated status text and regression coverage for streaming, automatic compaction, explicit Send now, duplicate text, branch changes, in-place rewrites, and new session files

Because Pi and Herdr do not provide a structured submission ID for this path, the UI limits these receipts to Ovis Chat submissions and reports terminal delivery separately from transcript confirmation.

Testing

  • bun test server/pi-delivery.test.ts server/pi.test.ts server/pending-input.contract.test.ts src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts src/components/pendingStatus.test.ts src/components/PendingMessages.test.tsx
  • bun test server/conventions.test.ts src/conventions.test.ts
  • bun run typecheck
  • bun run build

Fixes #1793

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Pi messages sent from Ovis Chat remain visible until the matching message appears in Pi’s transcript, including messages sent while Pi is streaming or compacting.
    • Receipts are private to the sending connection. If transcript confirmation becomes unavailable, the saved copy is marked accordingly and can be copied or discarded, but not resent.
    • Existing held messages retain their Send now and Discard options.

Pi chat submissions now remain visible until a matching durable user record appears on the same session’s active transcript branch. The server tracks receipts per connection, reconciles transcript changes, and marks confirmation unavailable when the transcript target changes or cannot be confirmed. The client displays receipt status and prevents resending.

Changes: Pi transcript receipts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transcript anchors and matching
server/pi-delivery.ts, server/pi-tree.ts, server/pi.ts, server/pi-delivery.test.ts, server/pi.test.ts
Captures transcript identity and position before submission. Matches exact user text in later active-branch records, in receipt order. Tests cover duplicate text, unrelated records, branch changes, and file rewrites.
Server receipt lifecycle
server/core/pending.ts, server/core/server-core.ts, server/core/terminals.ts, server/pending-input.contract.test.ts, DESIGN.md, changelog.d/pi-chat-transcript-receipt.md
Creates connection-scoped receipts for Pi chat sends and reconciles them when transcript changes. Receipts are consumed after matching transcript appends; target changes and connection closure affect confirmation and receipt ownership.
Receipt state and display
shared/protocol.ts, src/lib/pendingMessages.ts, src/components/PendingMessages.tsx, src/lib/i18n.*.ts, src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts, src/components/*test*
Adds the consumed outcome and client states for pending or unavailable transcript confirmation. Restored receipts become non-server-owned copies, and the UI omits resend controls for sent receipts.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 1591 (herdr-web-ui): Its receipt-isolation objective aligns with this change’s connection-scoped transcript receipts.

Suggested reviewers: devswha, diegolhambi

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to dc385

Some Pi sends can be reported incorrectly or remain unconfirmed despite a matching transcript entry, and the conventions test is broken. Fix these paths before merging.

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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1793 requirements are implemented. Pi receipts are created only for Ovis Chat sends, remain visible with pi_transcript_pending, and are removed only after matchPiDeliveries finds the matchi…
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Issue #1793 requirements are implemented. Pi receipts are created only for Ovis Chat sends, remain visible with pi_transcript_pending, and are removed only after matchPiDeliveries finds the matching user text after the captured byte boundary on the same path, session, file, prefix, and active branch. Target changes produce pi_transcript_target_changed; unresolved anchors produce transcript_unconfirmed; both retain a non-resendable copy. Receipt publication is scoped to the owning connection. Terminal-line sends do not create receipts. The added delivery, contract, persistence, and component tests cover the required cases.

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The changes stay within issue #1793. Core pending-delivery changes, Pi transcript anchoring and branch matching, Pi path handling, protocol states, UI status and actions, translations, documentation, and regression tests all support transcript confirmation and saved-copy behavior. No unrelated product behavior is demonstrated.

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93-94: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Avoid duplicate synchronous hashing in matchPiDeliveries.

matchPiDeliveries calls snapshot, which hashes the full file and parses the active branch. It then ignores state.prefix and hashes each candidate prefix again. Cache digestPrefix by anchor.size within one reconciliation, and make the snapshot digest optional for the matching path while preserving it for capturePiDeliveryAnchor.

This is a supported performance refactor. The source shows repeated synchronous work that can block the event loop for large Pi files, but it does not establish a measured material user-visible delay.

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Review comment at @server/pi-delivery.ts around lines 93 - 94:
Update matchPiDeliveries to reuse digestPrefix results keyed by anchor.size
during a reconciliation, avoiding repeated synchronous hashing of the same
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @server/core/pending.ts:
- Around line 183-191: Update the reconciliation flow around currentIdentity and
piTranscriptPath so lookup errors or ambiguous transcript paths leave receipts
pending for a later transcript signal; call failPi only when a successfully
obtained identity or path positively differs from the receipt’s target.
- Around line 728-729: Keep Pi receipt tracking best-effort in the send flow:
isolate failures from currentIdentity, preparePiReceipt, and pendingText so they
cannot turn a successful submitText into an error or prevent the send. Only call
recordPiTyped when valid receipt data is available, and preserve submitText’s
result regardless of receipt-tracking failures.
- Line 143: Update dispatchPendingText to check receipt capacity before either
paste path, counting only pi_transcript_pending receipts owned by the current
owner; keep unavailable saved receipts after pane_not_found, and ensure
preparePiReceipt cannot reject for capacity after text has already been pasted.

Review comments at @server/pending-input.contract.test.ts:
- Line 271: Replace the fixed sleep in the pending-input contract test with a
ping/pong barrier on the same socket: send a ping with an id, wait for the pong
carrying that id, then continue to the assertion.

Review comments at @server/pi-delivery.ts:
- Around line 102-108: Update preparePiReceipt to retry capturePiDeliveryAnchor
a bounded number of times with a short delay when a snapshot is unstable, then
preserve the existing failure behavior if retries are exhausted. Do not retry
when the file is genuinely unreadable.
- Line 141: Update both recordPiTyped calls to create the receipt candidate from
the same transformed text passed to agentPrompt, including the model-switch and
closeMention adjustments, so receipt matching uses the Pi-facing text.

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Review comments at @server/pi-delivery.ts:
- Around line 93-94: Update matchPiDeliveries to reuse digestPrefix results
keyed by anchor.size during a reconciliation, avoiding repeated synchronous
hashing of the same prefix. Make the digest optional in snapshot for this
matching path, while preserving digest generation for capturePiDeliveryAnchor.

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…stopped before anything is typed (#1799)

## Summary

- `server/core/composer.ts`, the OpenCode `@skill` typing in
`submitText`: every write already passed the sender's check as herdr's
write guard. Two problems remained.
  - The check dropped the refusal.
- `typed` was set as soon as the check before a write passed, before
herdr was reached.
- What a sender revoked or switched to watching while the first piece
was on its way got: `submit_partial`, "Part of the message was typed
into OpenCode's input, but sending was not confirmed... Check the
terminal", even though nothing was typed.
- Now:
- `typed` is set only once herdr's guard lets a write through: the skill
writes go through a `SkillAttachIo` that marks it.
- The check records its refusal (`read_only`, `device_revoked`, or
`submit_timeout`).
- A send that typed nothing fails with that refusal. Once something is
typed, `submit_partial` stays as before.
  - The same pattern as #1796 and #1798.
- `server/opencode-first-message.contract.test.ts`: `answers a sender
that switched to observe while its @skill was on its way with its own
refusal, typing nothing`.
- It uses the file's verified OpenCode 2.0.32 stand-in. The sender's
connection switches to observe right before `@effect` reaches the
isolated test herdr, and the real RPC then asks the guard.
- It expects `read_only`, and that no write went through and the
stand-in received nothing.
- The file's pane and connection setup moved into `openCodePane` and
`connect`, shared with the first-message cases.
- `changelog.d/opencode-skill-refusal.md`.

## Verification

- On main the new test fails: the submit answers `submit_partial`. It
passes with this change.
- `server/opencode-first-message.contract.test.ts` 5/5,
`server/submit.contract.test.ts` 88/88.
- Unit tests in `server/core`, `server/opencode-skill-attach.test.ts`,
`server/opencode-native.test.ts` and `server/conventions.test.ts`:
145/145.
- Typecheck, `bun run check fast`.

Not changed here: queued delivery types skills through its own guard in
`server/core/pending.ts` (open PR #1795 touches that file).
devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
…#1800)

## Change

Fixes #1628. This picks up #1629, which was closed only to wait for the
terminal refactor; that refactor moved the code to
`src/lib/useTerminalMount.ts`.

In Direct typing, a long IME composition (Gboard's voice typing sends
one, growing with every word) made the browser scroll the terminal host
sideways to keep xterm's helper caret in view. The whole grid slid off
to the left and stayed there. On main at 412 px wide,
`.pane-terminal.scrollLeft` became 181.

#1534 added `setTextAreaViewportBounds`, which confines the helper
textarea and the preedit to the visible mount. `syncInputViewport`
applied it only to mirrored, observed and followed grids, and a grid
this browser drives kept stock xterm. It now applies the same bounds to
every grid.

A driven grid fits its mount, so for ordinary typing the bounds change
nothing. They only stop the sideways scroll and keep the preedit inside
the visible terminal.

**Tradeoff:** a preedit longer than the room to the right edge is now
clipped at that edge, using #1534's own clipping. Before, the grid
scrolled to show it whole. The committed text still reaches the pane in
full.

**Design precedent:** this follows #1534's rule in DESIGN.md ("its input
caret and IME preedit stay inside the visible mount"), which already
rests on the comparison with Zed's terminal, now for every grid.
DESIGN.md is changed by four open PRs (#1427, #1650, #1714, #1795), so
its paragraph, which still names only mirrored and observed grids, is
left for a follow-up instead of being edited here.

## Validation

`scripts/terminal-composition-regression.ts` is #1629's script, run by
`scripts/ui-contexts-checks.ts`, with its storage key and temp names
moved to the Ovis names the conventions test requires. It covers 412 and
720 px wide, Input line and Direct typing, and the default font and the
bundled "JetBrains Mono Web". After a long `Input.imeSetComposition`, it
checks that:
- the page and `.pane-terminal` stay at scroll 0;
- the composition box ends inside the grid;
- the grid is the pane's width, less padding and less than one cell.

Results:
- On main it fails with `412 direct default font: the terminal is not
pushed sideways (181)`. With this change it passes all 8 cases.
- These pass under one `bun run check run --build` (isolated herdr):
`ui-contexts-regression.ts` (98 PASS, the new check included),
`ui-regression.ts` (72), `terminal-input-regression.ts` (3, with its
composition checks) and `mirror-scroll-demo-regression.ts` (3).
- `bun run check fast` passes: typecheck, build, and 6308 unit tests
with 0 failures.
- A gate review on a different model approved it. Its notes: the check
emulates a phone at both widths and does not wait for the bundled font
to load, and layout cost was not measured.
- **Not run:** a physical phone keyboard; this was exercised through CDP
IME events only.
devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
…upports (#1805)

Fixes the "before the capability snapshot arrives" half of the MEDIUM
item in #1591.

## Summary

- `src/lib/ws.ts` `HerdrSocket.submit`: a send waits at most
`SNAPSHOT_WAIT_MS` (2 s) for the snapshot that lists what the bridge
supports. When the wait ended without it, `features` was still empty, so
a current bridge that takes `submit` was treated as an older one:
  - the message went out as raw typed input (`payload` + `\r`);
- it skipped every check the bridge makes before typing (Claude's
input-box draft check, `agent.prompt`, the sender's authority, the
typing settle);
- it came back `{ ok: true, unconfirmed: true }`, so the composer
cleared the draft.

Now a send whose wait ends before the snapshot returns `not_transmitted`
with nothing sent. This is the same result the method gives when its
liveness probe fails; `submitNotTyped` keeps the composer text for it,
with the existing "Not sent: ... Send it again." note.
- An older bridge still sends a snapshot (with no features), so once it
is known such a bridge gets the raw send as before.
- `pendingAction` and `sendSecret` have the same wait but send nothing
before a snapshot, so they are unchanged.
- `src/lib/ws.test.ts`, with fake timers: a socket that opens without a
snapshot, a send, then 2 s. The send must come back `not_transmitted`
with no `submit`, `input` or `keys` frame.
- `changelog.d/submit-before-snapshot.md`.

The composer's existing note for `not_transmitted` says the connection
dropped, which is loose when only the snapshot was late. "Not sent" and
"Send it again" are right. A note of its own would need new i18n
strings, so it is left as is. Follow-up: #1806.

Not changed here: the other half of that #1591 item. A send to a bridge
that is genuinely older (no submit receipts) is still reported
`unconfirmed`. Keeping its text as uncertain needs
`src/lib/pendingMessages.ts`, which open PR #1795 changes.

## Design precedent

None applies. This changes how the client decides what the bridge
supports on the wire. It adds no new UI: the composer shows its existing
not-sent state and keeps the text, as it already does when a connection
drops before a message leaves.

## Verification

- On main the new test fails: the send comes back `{ ok: true,
unconfirmed: true }` and the message was written as raw input. It passes
with this change.
- `src/lib/ws.test.ts`, `src/lib/machineSession.test.ts`,
`src/lib/compose.test.ts`, `src/conventions.test.ts`: 150/150.
Typecheck. `bun run check fast`.
devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
…ion, in the not-sent note (#1808)

Fixes #1806.

## Summary

- `src/lib/ws.ts`: when `submit` waits `SNAPSHOT_WAIT_MS` and the
bridge's snapshot still has not said what it supports (#1805), it now
returns its own result, `capabilities_unknown`, instead of
`not_transmitted`. Nothing is sent either way.
- `src/lib/compose.ts`: `capabilities_unknown` is listed in
`submitNotTyped`, so the composer keeps the text as for
`not_transmitted`. `submitNote` gives it its own note, "Not sent: this
PC has not said yet what it supports. Send it again.", in place of "the
connection dropped".
- `src/lib/i18n/composer.{ko,ja,zh}.ts`: that note in Korean, Japanese
and Chinese, next to the `not_transmitted` entry.
- Tests: the `ws.test.ts` case from #1805 now expects
`capabilities_unknown`. `compose.test.ts` checks that it counts as
nothing typed, and checks its note.
- `changelog.d/submit-snapshot-note.md`.

Not changed here: `src/components/PendingMessages.tsx` lists the codes
whose held-copy row shows `submitNote`. Open PR #1795 changes that file,
so a held-copy resend refused this way still shows "Not sent: {message}"
with the result's English message.

The three `src/lib/i18n/composer.*.ts` files are also changed by open PR
#1714 (different entries).

## Design precedent

None applies. This names the right cause in an existing not-sent note.
No new UI.

## Verification

- On main the two tests fail: the send returns `not_transmitted`, and
`submitNotTyped("capabilities_unknown")` is false. They pass with this
change.
- `src/lib/ws.test.ts`, `src/lib/compose.test.ts`,
`src/lib/machineSession.test.ts`, `src/conventions.test.ts`: 172/172.
Typecheck. `bun run check fast`.
devswha added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
## Change

Fixes #1559. It picks up #1560, which was closed only to wait for the
terminal refactor, and follows the design the maintainer set on the
issue.

The desktop terminal ignored herdr's `[ui] copy_on_select`, and with it
off a selection could not be kept:
- Letting go of a drag always copied.
- herdr's attach stream turns on any-motion mouse reporting. xterm.js
clears its selection on every report, so the first hover after the
release dropped the highlight and the **Quote in message** offer. The
next Ctrl+C then sent `^C` to the pane.

**Behaviour**, as herdr's TUI does (`mouse.rs` and `input.rs`, quoted on
the issue):
- **Copy on (herdr's default):** unchanged. Letting go copies, and the
first pointer move clears the copied highlight, so Ctrl+C interrupts
again and the next click reaches the program.
- **Copy off:** letting go only selects, and the clipboard is not
touched. While a selection exists, buttonless moves over the grid stop
before xterm, so the highlight and the quote offer stay until a press, a
scroll or a key. Ctrl+C or Copy then copies herdr's full range,
including rows scrolled out of view, as before.
- **An explicit copy made before herdr has sent the drag's text**
(Ctrl+C, Cmd+C or context-menu Copy) reserves a clipboard write for that
text in the same gesture. Before, the copy's own clearing of the
selection dropped herdr's answer and left only the visible rows. Native
copy still writes the visible rows at once as the fallback. This also
covers Ctrl+C right after a release in copy-on mode, where the release's
reserved write was cancelled the same way. The gate review found this
with copy off. As the design on the issue says, leaving the pane before
herdr answers cancels that explicit copy, and the clipboard keeps the
visible rows. Leaving counts any change of the terminal's pane, or of
whether it is active, presented, shown or the chat view, even when the
user comes back. The hook counts these on each commit, so
`PaneTerminal.tsx` is unchanged. The copy made on release still finishes
as on main.
- **Until the preference is known,** letting go copies nothing. A failed
read is tried again when the terminal next mounts, when the browser
comes back online, and on the first frame after a reconnect. Only an
older server, which answers 404 `not_found` for the route, means herdr's
default (on).

**Server** (the small contract additions this PR owns):
- `GET /api/herdr-ui` returns only `{ copy_on_select: boolean }`
(`HerdrUiConfig` in `shared/protocol.ts`), with `no-store`. It is read
again on each request, behind the token gate. A watching device may read
it, because read-only devices select too. Remote PCs need nothing: the
preference is the web UI host's, for every pane, like the sidebar
config.
- `server/herdr-ui.ts` reads it through `readHerdrConfig()`, which is
now exported from `server/herdr-sidebar.ts` and shared with the sidebar
rows. It is the sidebar's existing safe read:
- regular file only, opened non-blocking (a FIFO can't block the event
loop);
  - 1 MiB cap;
  - herdr's line-start BOM stripping.

Anything missing, unreadable, not TOML, or not a boolean gives herdr's
default.
- The demo transport answers the route.

**Not handled** (from the second review on the issue):
- When another setting is invalid, herdr ignores the whole config, so
herdr copies (all defaults) while this reads `false`. herdr shows its
own parse error then.
- A `HERDR_CONFIG_PATH` set only in the user's shell is not seen by the
service, the same as for the sidebar rows.

**Design precedent:** herdr's own TUI, as traced on the issue: copy on
release only with `copy_on_select` on, no hover moves to a pane that
holds a selection, and Ctrl+C copies a kept selection. #1560 cited Zed's
configurable terminal copy-on-select. This also corrects #1560's
regression the maintainer found: in copy-on mode the selection is no
longer kept through hover. DESIGN.md is changed by four open PRs (#1427,
#1650, #1714, #1795), so the behaviour is written in `docs/guide.md` and
the changelog fragment instead.

## Validation

- **New `scripts/terminal-copy-off-regression.ts`,** run by
`ui-contexts-checks.ts`. It runs its own server with a temp config set
to `copy_on_select = false`, and the pane runs on the isolated test
herdr.
- **Checks:** the route answers `false`; a drag shows **Quote in
message** but leaves the clipboard unchanged with no "copied" note; four
hover moves keep the selection; Ctrl+C copies it.
- **Second case (event-controlled):** it holds herdr's
`/api/pane/selection` answer until Ctrl+C has been pressed, then answers
and waits until no clipboard write is pending. The clipboard must hold
herdr's text. Without the explicit-copy fix it held only the visible
rows.
- **Third case:** the same, but Ctrl+C is followed by a click on another
pane's sidebar row, and herdr answers only once that pane's text shows.
The clipboard must keep the visible rows. Without the cancellation it
held herdr's text.
  - **Failed before the fix** in both pre-fix states:
    - main's terminal: there is no preference read;
- a variant that reads the preference but keeps main's copy behaviour:
`with copy_on_select off, letting go of a drag copies nothing`, because
the clipboard held the dragged text.
- **`scripts/terminal-copy-regression.ts`** (copy on) now waits for the
preference answer (`true` with no config) and still passes every case:
plain drag copy, Ctrl+C, scrolled drag over herdr's range, denied
clipboard, and stale or empty responses.
- **Under one `bun run check run --build`:**
- `ui-contexts-regression.ts` passes (100 PASS, both copy checks
included);
  - `terminal-arrows-clicks-regression.ts` passes;
- the route's contract test passes: 401 without a token, 200 with
`no-store`, re-read after a config edit, 400 for POST;
- the watch-device contract passes, and a watch device reads the route.
- **Unit tests:**
- `server/herdr-ui.test.ts` covers values, CRLF, line-start BOMs,
invalid values, other tables, missing and directory paths, an oversize
file and a FIFO;
- `src/lib/herdrUi.test.ts` covers copying off until known, the 404
fallback, failed reads staying unknown, kept values and one read in
flight;
- `server/herdr-sidebar.test.ts` still passes after the shared read was
extracted.
- **`bun run check fast`:** 6331 pass, 0 fail.
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…s_unknown resend (#1811)

Fixes #1809.

## Summary

- **Cause:** `src/components/PendingMessages.tsx` lists the error codes
whose held-copy note comes from `submitNote`. `capabilities_unknown`
(from #1808) was not in that list.
- **Symptom:** a held copy sent again before the bridge's snapshot said
what it supports showed `t("Not sent: {message}")` with the result's
English reason. A Korean, Japanese or Chinese page showed the English
sentence after its translated "Not sent:", not the note #1808
translated.
- **Fix:** add `"capabilities_unknown"` to that list, as the issue
prescribes. The row now shows "Not sent: this PC has not said yet what
it supports. Send it again." in the page's language. Send now stays, and
the row is still not marked uncertain.
- **Test:** `src/components/PendingMessages.test.tsx` renders a held row
that failed with `capabilities_unknown` in ko, ja and zh. It asserts
that the translated note is shown, that Send now stays, and that the
English reason is absent.

**No new i18n keys.** The note is already in
`src/lib/i18n/composer.{ko,ja,zh}.ts`, from #1808.

**No changelog fragment.** #1808 is not released yet (it came after
0.4.13). Before #1808 this case returned `not_transmitted`, which the
list already translates, so released users never saw the English reason.
#1808's fragment (`changelog.d/submit-snapshot-note.md`) already
describes the corrected note.

**Overlap:** open PR #1795 edits line 79 of `PendingMessages.tsx`, right
above the changed line 80, and also edits the test file. A rebase there
may need a small manual merge.

**Not changed (follow-up note from the gate review):**
- `agent_blocked`, `read_only`, `submit_timeout` and
`pending_input_unsupported` also have their own `submitNote` texts.
- On a held row they still show the result's own reason after "Not
sent:". The existing test "keeps the server's reason for other refusals"
pins that for `agent_blocked`.
- Whether they should change is a separate decision, so this PR leaves
them as they are.

## Design precedent

None applies. This shows an existing translated note in one more case.
There is no new UI.

## Verification

- **On main, the new test fails:** the Korean page shows `보내지 않음: this
PC has not said yet what it supports; nothing was sent`, not the
translated note.
- **With the change:**
- `src/components/PendingMessages.test.tsx`, `src/lib/compose.test.ts`
and `src/conventions.test.ts` give 64 pass;
  - `bun run check fast` passes: 6331 pass, 0 fail.
- **Not run in a browser.** No existing script can hold back the
bridge's snapshot after a reconnect. The test renders the real component
with the real translations.
- **Gate review (omo-native-gate-reviewer): APPROVE.** It reproduced the
tests and checked that `agent` still reaches `submitNote`.
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Heads-up from the merge pass. #1811 (fixes #1809) was just merged to main, and it now conflicts with this PR in src/components/PendingMessages.tsx, on the refusal-note line near line 80.

To resolve: keep both changes. Take this PR's line and add || message.error.code === "capabilities_unknown" right after the not_transmitted check:

{message.error && !uncertain && !sent && <p className="pending-message-note" role="status">{message.error.code === "still_open" ? message.error.message
  : (message.error.code === "input_draft" || message.error.code === "held_input" || message.error.code === "not_transmitted" || message.error.code === "capabilities_unknown" || message.error.code === "rewind_dialog_open" || message.error.code === "first_message_unattended") ? submitNote(message.error.code, message.error.message, agent) : t("Not sent: {message}", { message: message.error.message })}</p>}

src/components/PendingMessages.test.tsx merges without a conflict. Keep #1811's new case "says a resend refused before the bridge said what it supports in the reader's language (#1809)".

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## What this does for the user

Files pasted or attached in the browser are saved in `<pane cwd>/.ovis/`
so the agent can read them without a permission prompt. Until now every
upload showed up as an untracked change in the project's `git status`.

The default `.ovis` folder now ignores itself. Right after the server
creates the folder, it writes a `.gitignore` containing `*`. The file is
created exclusively (`wx`, mode `0600`), so:

- an ignore file already in that folder, or a symlink at that path
(dangling or not), is never followed, read or replaced (only `EEXIST` is
tolerated);
- any other create error fails the upload with an error instead of
returning a path;
- a folder set through `OVIS_PASTE_DIR` (trimmed, `~` expanded, even one
equal to the default path) is the user's own and gets no ignore file.

Ignored files still open by their explicit path, and the path the prompt
names is unchanged.

Known trade-off, raised in review: Git-backed `@` file completion lists
files with `git ls-files --exclude-standard`, so in a Git project a
pasted file no longer appears there. Looking it up by path or bare name
still works. Keeping pastes out of the project's Git view is the purpose
of this change, so the PR keeps it.

## Why

This was a local-only branch (`fix/default-paste-gitignore`) that was
never pushed. It is rebased onto current main and ported to the `.ovis`
/ `OVIS_PASTE_DIR` names from #1648. On main the paste route still only
does `mkdirSync`, so the bug still reproduces there.

It does not overlap with #1795, which changes only Pi delivery and
pending-message files and touches neither `server/paste.ts` nor its
tests.

## How it was verified

- `server/paste.test.ts` and `server/file-view.test.ts`: all 49 pass.
They cover the self-ignoring default folder, the temp-dir fallback, an
existing ignore file and file or dangling symlinks kept byte for byte,
overrides (trimmed, `~`, equal to the default) getting no ignore file,
and an unwritable folder reporting `EACCES`.
- The `POST /api/pane/image` contract tests run on an isolated herdr
session against a temporary Git project:
  - `git status` is empty after two concurrent uploads;
- `git check-ignore` names each returned path, and the bytes read back
through `/api/fs/file`;
- concurrent uploads keep a custom ignore file and file or dangling
symlinks;
  - overrides get no ignore file;
  - an unwritable folder answers 500 with no path.
- `bun run check fast`
- Reviews: `omo-native-code-reviewer` found no HIGH findings and
recommended APPROVE (the MEDIUM finding is the completion trade-off
above). Codex (`gpt-6-astra`) found nothing.

No HTTP/WS contract, auth or workflow change.

---------

Co-authored-by: mp <mp@local>
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Rebased onto main a1e4f8b83, preserving the contributor's authorship.

  • Resolved the three conflicts in server/core/pending.ts, server/pending-input.contract.test.ts, and server/pi.test.ts. Kept main's submit framing validation and normalized text/payload alongside Pi receipt tracking; kept both the RPC-write recorder and Pi lookup fixture.
  • src/components/PendingMessages.tsx retains both !sent and fix(composer): show the translated note for a held copy's capabilities_unknown resend #1811's capabilities_unknown refusal translation, including its regression case.
  • Reproduced keep Pi chat sends visible until the transcript records them #1793 on unchanged main 63af5d5e3: the automatic follow-up's Enter is acknowledged and its queued row removed, but no waiting-for-transcript receipt appears.
  • Full isolated server/pending-input.contract.test.ts run: 96 pass, 0 fail. The check report confirms unchanged source and exit 0, including Pi receipt and adjacent queued-input guards.
  • Updated the receipt best-effort fixture for main's newer framing contract: terminal controls are refused before delivery, so it now uses a valid 20,000-character message whose trailing file mention adds a Pi-facing space beyond the receipt cap.
  • The first fast run caught the new Pi status translations in the base dictionaries and an undocumented production retry backoff. Moved the unchanged translations into the composer dictionaries in all three languages and documented why the bounded unstable-snapshot backoff is intentional; no baseline or test was weakened.
  • After those corrections, the expanded focused run passes 163/163 across nine files. Final fast checks exit 0 with 6,733 pass, 0 fail, 13 skip; workflow, generated files, typecheck, build, and unit tests pass with unchanged-source verification. Local Node is 24 rather than CI's 22.
  • Added 8c8014ac2 (fix(chat): align Pi receipt checks with current main) as a separate follow-up on the contributor's rebased commit.
  • Inspected pending and confirmation-unavailable receipts at 1280×800 and 390×844, in light and dark themes: text fits without overlap, live receipts have no resend/discard action, and unavailable receipts offer copy/discard only. The demo fixture and browser assertions pass; no new composer chrome was added.
  • One lease-protected push: 3758741e4 → 8c8014ac2. GitHub's head readback matches the local commit.
  • fix(paste): keep default attachments out of Git status #1830 concerns server/paste.ts and its upload tests. There is no changed-file overlap or dependency on its .ovis/.gitignore change.

This changes queued input and the pending-message WebSocket contract: it still needs a real review before merge, in addition to the required CI checks. This comment is not a formal approval.

Before the push, only CodeRabbit was listed in the PR checks; required fork CI still needs maintainer approval and a green run. The new head has no check results yet.

Review prepared with a code-review agent and checked against the code. The merge decision stays with the maintainer's merge pass.

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Merge pass gate review (Astra, gpt-6-astra) of 8c8014a: changes requested. The maintainer approved merging this once a real review passes; because it changes queued input, it needs one. The full report is .omo/evidence/pr1795-gate-review.md in the merge pass worktree.

Blocking

  1. One transcript entry can confirm two identical sends (server/pi-delivery.ts:175-206, server/core/pending.ts:214-225). Reconciliation drops the first receipt once it is consumed. The next matching call then resets its cursor and can match the same transcript entry for the second receipt. So when the same text is sent twice and only one copy reaches the transcript, both bubbles are confirmed and the second send is silently lost. Needed: keep which transcript entries are already consumed across calls, for example a per-pane consumed index or entry id, and add a test that sends the same text twice and appends it once.
  2. A valid 20,000-character message ending in @file gets no receipt (server/core/pending.ts:135-138). The space added to close the mention pushes the text past the receipt validator's limit. The send succeeds and the composer clears, but no replacement bubble appears. server/pending-input.contract.test.ts:370-380 asserts this omission. Needed: measure the limit before the closing space is added, or allow for that one character, and change the test to expect a receipt.
  3. Capacity thread (discussion_r4365627186) is only partly addressed. Capacity is now per owner and checked before typing. But receipts that come back unavailable still use up capacity, which is what the thread was about (server/pending-input.contract.test.ts:316-339).

Threads: the code addresses five of the six threads, but all six are still open on GitHub. Please reply to and resolve the addressed ones; the capacity thread stays open until item 3 is fixed.

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Thanks for the Pi transcript receipt contribution. I rebased the linear branch onto current main, preserving the contributor's commits and authorship, then added 2d4148407 (fix(chat): preserve Pi receipt ownership across reconciliation).

  • One append confirming two sends: consumed transcript entry identities are now retained per pane across reconciliation calls and shared across owners until no active receipt remains. A unit regression and a real bridge contract regression send identical text twice and append it once; only the first receipt is confirmed.
  • 20,000-character file mention: validate the message length before adding Pi's closing space. The maximum-length receipt retains the exact Pi-facing text and is consumed by its matching append.
  • Unavailable-receipt capacity: only active pi_transcript_pending receipts consume an owner slot. Initially unavailable anchors release reservations, target changes release retained capacity, and discarding an unavailable card does not free a different active receipt. Saved non-resendable copies remain available to copy or discard.
  • Other open threads: verified the existing transient identity/transcript lookup handling, bounded unstable-anchor retries, best-effort post-send recording, exact Pi-facing text, and removal of the added fixed sleep. All six addressed threads are replied to and resolved.

Verification: captured the pre-fix duplicate-entry failure and all three capacity/maximum-length contract failures. Final isolated server/pending-input.contract.test.ts: 97 pass, 0 fail through dori heavy ext-pr-fixes; adjacent unit coverage: 142 pass, 0 fail. Full dori heavy ext-pr-fixes -- bun run check fast: exit 0, 6,819 pass, 0 fail, 13 skip across 472 files, with unchanged-source verification; workflow syntax, generated checks, typecheck, and build passed. An initial contract attempt had two first-message timeouts after an unrelated test-helper edit; that helper edit was reverted, and the final complete run passed. Local Node is 24 rather than CI's 22. Codex Sol (gpt-6.1-sol, xhigh, fast tier) review of the maintainer delta: no HIGH/MAJOR correctness findings. No browser rerun was needed for this server-only follow-up; the PR's existing UI was not changed.

This changes queued input and needs the merge pass's real review. This is not a merge approval.

Fixes prepared by a maintainer agent and checked against the code. The merge decision stays with the maintainer's merge pass.

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Merge pass gate re-check of 2d41484 (Astra, gpt-6-astra): one blocker left. The report and an executable reproduction are in .omo/evidence/pr1795-gate-review-2.md.

Fixed:

  • Duplicate confirmation: across reconciliation and a receipt-watcher restart, one transcript entry no longer confirms two sends.
  • @file receipt boundary: the exact limit, the limit plus one, and multibyte text all behave correctly.
  • Tests: the 77 focused unit tests pass, and the corrected regressions tell the pre-fix code apart.
  • Threads: all six are resolved.

Blocking, G3: a late reconciliation releases another pane's capacity slot (server/core/pending.ts:186, :198-207, :227)

Reconciliation captures an active receipt, awaits the transcript lookup, and then releases that receipt's capacity. The race:

  1. Attachment invalidation releases the slot while reconciliation is still waiting on the lookup.
  2. Another pane takes the freed slot.
  3. The late reconciliation releases the slot again, but it now belongs to the new receipt.

Reproduced with the real matcher: at limit 1, a further send succeeds when it should return pending_limit.

Needed:

  • After any asynchronous step, recheck the receipt's state and its membership before releasing capacity. Release only if this receipt still owns the slot; a token or generation per receipt would do.
  • Add a deterministic regression covering invalidation, then reuse of the slot, then late confirmation. Drive it with awaited promises, not timers.

The existing capacity tests don't cover this race.

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Thanks for the contribution. Addressed G3 / B1 from the merge-pass recheck in two small commits on top of the contributor-preserving branch:

  • 994bd1f3b (fix(chat): release Pi receipt capacity only once): each receipt object owns a slot token in a WeakSet. Invalidation, confirmation, and connection close share idempotent release. Reconciliation rechecks pending state, slot ownership, and pane membership after identity lookup, transcript lookup, and unstable-snapshot retry waits. A late confirmation cannot release another pane's slot or consume an unavailable saved copy.
  • 11758b3b8 (test(chat): restore Pi receipt fixture module exports): resolved Sol's reproduced MAJOR test-isolation finding by capturing the original mocked exports and restoring both in afterAll, preserving the supported single-process unit runner.

The regression runs the real pending handler, framing, reservation class, and filesystem transcript matcher. Awaited promises pause each of the identity and transcript lookups; the test invalidates P, admits an active receipt in Q at limit 1, appends P's late matching record, resumes P, and requires a further send to return pending_limit before typing. No timer or matcher-result mock drives the race. The pre-fix run failed because that further send returned ok: true. Sol's mock-leak finding was separately reproduced as 9 failing later Pi tests; after the correction, the ordered single-process pending/Pi-store/Pi-delivery run passes 48/48.

Verification: full isolated pending-input contracts through dori heavy ext-pr-fixes: 97 pass, 0 fail. Final dori heavy ext-pr-fixes -- bun run check fast on exact head 11758b3b8581bd04ecb791b7d560abbfbeaefa60: exit 0, 6,821 pass, 0 fail, 13 skip in 473 files, with workflow syntax, generated checks, typecheck, build, and unchanged-source verification passing. Local Node is 24 rather than CI's 22. Final Codex Sol (gpt-6.1-sol, xhigh, fast tier) review of 2d4148407..11758b3b8: no remaining HIGH/MAJOR findings; prior MAJOR resolved. The review covers receipt ownership, equivalent close/invalidation paths, deterministic barriers, mocks/overfit, and abstraction scope. Current origin/main is already an ancestor; no extra rebase was needed.

Retained evidence in /home/devswha/.herdr/worktrees/herdr-web-ui-wt/pr1795-fix-pi-chat-transcript-receipt:

  • Exact-final-head fast report: node_modules/.cache/pr1795-round2-final-fast.json; complete final unit output: node_modules/.cache/pr1795-round2-final-unit.stdout.log (relocated unchanged before temporary-directory cleanup).
  • Contract report and per-command logs: node_modules/.cache/check/7945b918-71f4-4737-a3e5-a24e47dfe455/report.json (unchanged pre-commit source, including the regression's content hash).
  • Captured red regression and evidence summary: node_modules/.cache/pr1795-round2-evidence.md.
  • Initial Sol finding/resolution: node_modules/.cache/pr1795-round2-codex-initial.md; final Sol verdict: node_modules/.cache/pr1795-round2-codex-review.md.

This changes queued input and needs the merge pass's real review. This is not a merge approval.

Fixes prepared by a maintainer agent and checked against the code. The merge decision stays with the maintainer's merge pass.

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#1934 just merged to main (e6f81a0), and this PR now conflicts with it in server/pi.ts. Astra's round-3 approval of 11758b3 still stands.

Please rebase onto main and resolve that one file. The merge pass will then re-check only the conflict resolution and queue the PR again.

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Thanks. Rebased onto d48e05ba8eb83edfd6075b72335664d7223bd3d6; new head 62ca8e0cf91d91e563ebdfa3877b96ffa4301c48.

The only conflict was server/pi.ts from #1934 (e6f81a06b): kept main's transcript-store.ts imports/re-exports for piTranscriptInStore and unwrittenSession, retained this PR's piUnwrittenHeaderId implementation unchanged, and added its basename import. No old local store helpers were restored. #1670's thinking selector remains exactly as on main. All five commits and contributor authorship are preserved; range-diff shows only that one-file resolution.

Verification: 653 targeted tests passed; isolated pending-input contracts through dori heavy ext-pr-fixes: 97 pass, 0 fail; dori heavy ext-pr-fixes -- bun run check fast: exit 0, 6,900 pass, 0 fail, 13 skip, with unchanged-source verification. Rebase-only, with no new behavior, so no Sol rerun. The round-3 gate approval stands; only this conflict resolution needs the merge pass's recheck.

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Merge pass review-work report. Overall: PASSED. This outside-contributor PR changes queued input, so it got a real review: three Astra gate rounds (omo-native-gate-reviewer, gpt-6-astra). The maintainer approved merging it once a real review passed. The ext-pr-fixes lane rebased it and made the fixes, keeping the contributor's commits and authorship.

Round Head Verdict
1 8c8014a Changes requested: one transcript entry could confirm two sends, the @file receipt had a 20,000-character limit, and unavailable receipts didn't free capacity.
2 2d41484 REJECT (G3): a late reconciliation could release a capacity slot another pane had since taken.
3 11758b3 APPROVE

Final head:

  • G3 fixed: each receipt owns its capacity slot through a token, so releasing it twice does nothing. State, slot and pane are rechecked after every await. At limit 1, the sequence invalidation → slot reused by another pane → late confirmation now leaves a further send at pending_limit, with nothing typed. The invalidated receipt is not counted as consumed.
  • Release paths: confirmation, unavailable receipts, invalidation, discard, connection cleanup and restart accounting showed no double release, no missed release and no deadlock.
  • Duplicate confirmation: across reconciliation and a watcher restart, one transcript entry confirms only one send.
  • @file boundary: checked at the exact limit, the limit plus one, and with multibyte text.
  • Held input: nothing held is sent automatically after a disconnect.
  • Tests: the focused unit tests pass, and both new promise-barrier regressions fail on 2d41484. Neither uses sleeps or polling.
  • Other checks: typecheck is clean, git merge-tree is clean, and all six review threads are resolved. The lane's own run reported 97/0 contract tests and 6821/0 on check fast.

Rebase onto d48e05b (62ca8e0): #1934 moved the shared store into its own module, and this PR conflicted with it in server/pi.ts. I checked the result with a range-diff:

  • Commits 2-5: unchanged.
  • Commit 1: only server/pi.ts differs. It keeps fix(cmd): follow-ups from the Command Code support review #1934's shared-store imports and re-exports, plus this PR's piUnwrittenHeaderId and the basename import it needs.
  • Leftover comment: the doc comment that belonged to unwrittenSession, which now lives in the shared store, stays above piUnwrittenHeaderId. It's cosmetic.
  • Checks: pi and pending tests pass 34/34, typecheck is clean, git merge-tree is clean, and there are 0 unresolved threads. The lane's own run had 6900/0 on check fast and 97/0 on contract.

Astra's round-3 approval still stands, because the code it reviewed didn't change.

CodeRabbit did not review this PR (rate-limited or skipped). The reviews above stand in for it.

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