diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/prompts/system/tan-context-switch.md b/packages/coding-agent/src/prompts/system/tan-context-switch.md
index 55468b15a..88cd57291 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/prompts/system/tan-context-switch.md
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/prompts/system/tan-context-switch.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <system-notice cause="fork">
-The conversation above belongs to your parent session. 
+The conversation above belongs to your parent session.
 You are a fork created solely to handle the user's request below.
 
 Your parent agent is still working on the original task — that responsibility is
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/core/hashline.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/core/hashline.test.ts
index 3e41f52a7..8265640bf 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/core/hashline.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/core/hashline.test.ts
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ describe("hashline — anchor-stale recovery via read snapshot cache", () => {
 			expect(finalLines).toContain("L8");
 
 			const text = result.content[0]?.type === "text" ? result.content[0].text : "";
-			expect(text).toMatch(/Recovered from a stale file hash using a previous read snapshot/);
+			expect(text).toMatch(/Recovered by remapping stale line anchors to unchanged current lines/);
 		});
 	});
 
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ describe("hashline — anchor-stale recovery via read snapshot cache", () => {
 			expect(finalLines).toContain("GAMMA");
 			expect(finalLines).not.toContain("gamma");
 			const text = result.content[0]?.type === "text" ? result.content[0].text : "";
-			expect(text).toMatch(/Recovered from a stale file hash using a previous read snapshot/);
+			expect(text).toMatch(/Recovered by remapping stale line anchors to unchanged current lines/);
 		});
 	});
 
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/interactive-mode-status.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/interactive-mode-status.test.ts
index 2a2bff09c..542564c52 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/interactive-mode-status.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/interactive-mode-status.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { beforeAll, describe, expect, test, vi } from "bun:test";
 import type { AgentMessage } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-agent-core";
+import { resetSettingsForTest, Settings } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/config/settings";
 import { initTheme } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/theme/theme";
 import type { InteractiveModeContext } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/types";
 import { UiHelpers } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/utils/ui-helpers";
@@ -64,7 +65,10 @@ function createInitialRenderHarness(): { ctx: InteractiveModeContext; helpers: U
 
 describe("InteractiveMode.showStatus", () => {
 	beforeAll(async () => {
-		// showStatus uses the global theme instance
+		// showStatus uses the global theme instance; renderInitialMessages reads
+		// the global Settings (display.collapseCompacted).
+		resetSettingsForTest();
+		await Settings.init({ inMemory: true });
 		await initTheme();
 	});
 
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/launch.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/launch.test.ts
index eb5c95f3e..84b6bd48c 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/launch.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/launch.test.ts
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ describe("daemon broker", () => {
 			`process.stdin.setRawMode?.(true);
 process.stdin.setEncoding("utf8");
 process.stdin.resume();
-process.stdout.write("READY\\n");
+process.stdout.write("\\x1b[1;32mREADY\\x1b[0m\\n");
 process.stdin.on("data", chunk => process.stdout.write("INPUT:" + JSON.stringify(chunk) + "\\n"));
 setInterval(() => {}, 1000);
 `,
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ setInterval(() => {}, 1000);
 			expect(logs.op).toBe("logs");
 			if (logs.op !== "logs") throw new Error("unexpected logs result");
 			expect(logs.text).toContain("READY");
+			expect(logs.text).toContain("\x1b[1;32mREADY\x1b[0m");
 			expect(logs.text).toContain('INPUT:"run\\r"');
 
 			const stopped = await first.request({ op: "stop", name: "debugger", timeoutMs: 2_000 });