A subagent's send await:true to Main during a blocking task spawn was a structural deadlock: deliverIrcMessage queues mid-turn messages as step-boundary asides, but Main's next boundary requires the sender's own batch to finish, so the sender always burned the full irc.timeoutMs. Awaited sends now pass expectsReply through IrcBus.send; a mid-turn recipient with async.enabled off generates an ephemeral no-tools reply via runEphemeralTurn, records an irc:autoreply aside in its own history, and delivers it back over the bus with replyTo threading so the sender's waiter resolves.
- Added a new `icon.job` symbol entry to all symbol sets and exposed it on the theme icon map.
- Updated the status line to render running background jobs with the new job icon and count instead of the previous text label.
- Reordered the job status segment insertion so the job indicator is added to the leading position in the right-side parts.
- Added smooth streaming reveal of streamed tool-call args and `{ input }` partial previews.
- Integrated ToolArgsRevealController in EventController to route partial and final args.
- Implemented UTF-16-safe slicing to prevent surrogate-pair splits during reveal boundaries.
- Implemented reveal lifecycle controls to flush or stop streamed arg frames at message boundaries.
- Added tests for monotonic reveal progression, non-smooth immediate output, and flush/stop behavior.
- Added transcript and assistant block version tracking for finalized segments.
- Changed committed block reuse logic to require prior finalization and same version.
- Fixed rerendering of committed finalized blocks when version values changed.
Status line painted theme.statusLineBg across the bar, which renders as
visible dark/black blocks on terminals (Ghostty, transparent themes,
custom palettes) whose background does not match the theme's hardcoded
status-line color. Powerline end caps inherited the same fill so they
also stood out against the surrounding terminal.
The new statusLine.transparent appearance setting (default off) routes
the bar to the terminal's default background via the existing empty-bg
sentinel (\x1b[49m) and drops the powerline end caps, which need a
contrasting fill to bridge into the terminal.
Theme authors can opt in per-theme by setting statusLineBg to '' — the
existing empty-string sentinel already resolves to the same ANSI escape
the new toggle uses.
Fixes#2306
Only chain rows should force their nearest connector gutter back to vertical.
Inherited gutters from older last-sibling ancestors must stay suppressed so
linear continuations under nested branched grandchildren do not draw floating
vertical lines below unrelated branch connectors.
Updated the TUI renderer, mirrored the HTML export renderer, regenerated the
HTML template, and extended the #2298 regression to cover nested branched
grandchildren with linear continuations.
Fixes#2298
The /tree selector and HTML session export rendered chain rows (flattened
user/assistant turns) with bare spaces when their nearest branched ancestor
was the last sibling, breaking the visual connection back to the branch
parent.
Cause: tree-selector.ts and export/html/template.js propagated
`show: !isLast` to descendant gutters, so any chain row under a `└─`
ancestor rendered the gutter as space instead of `│`. Branched
grandchildren correctly need that space to keep standard tree drawing, but
chain-flattened conversation rows lost their anchor.
Fix: at render time, when the row has no connector of its own (chain row),
force the gutter to `│` regardless of the ancestor's `show` flag. Rows
with their own connector still respect the `show` flag so a `│` never
floats below an unrelated `└─` for branched descendants.
Applied identically in tree-selector.ts (TUI) and export/html/template.js
(HTML export, regenerated into template.generated.ts).
Fixes#2298
- Removed `StartupInput` pre-TUI buffering and replay, and read startup input directly each loop.
- Removed pre-startup model/provider/LSP discovery and startup handoff into session setup.
- Updated `WelcomeComponent` to use per-instance tips and show `No recent sessions` when empty.
- Documented task option removals and startup splash/input behavior changes in `CHANGELOG.md`.
- Added an exported `createIrcMessageCard` renderer to `tools/irc.ts` for incoming and relay IRC traffic.
- Updated IRC message rendering in `UiHelpers` to use the shared card component instead of manual transcript block construction.
- Included `replyTo` and timestamp-derived age metadata in the IRC transcript card output.
- Removed `resume` from task params and schema, requiring agent and assignment inputs.
- Dropped resume continuation paths in task execution and call rendering, always spawning a new agent.
- Removed the `irc.enabled` setting and computed IRC availability by task-depth rules.
- Updated task follow-up guidance to use IRC messaging/history links instead of `task(resume:)`.
The status-bar auto-thinking pending indicator used `?`-bearing symbols
in all three presets (`▣?` Unicode, nf-md-help_box Nerd Font, `[?]`
ASCII), which is visually indistinguishable from a terminal missing-
glyph fallback. Users assumed the icon was broken and toggled presets
to no effect.
Replaced each preset with an unambiguous loading indicator:
- Unicode: `⟳` (Clockwise Open Circle Arrow)
- Nerd Font: `\uf1ce` (fa-circle-o-notch)
- ASCII: `[~]`
Fixes#2267
A job poll whose watched jobs are all still running and nothing was cancelled is pure 'still waiting' noise once a newer block exists. ToolExecutionComponent now detects isWaitingPollDetails on the result, leaves the block displaceable, and keeps its rows out of scrollback. EventController tracks the most recent displaceable poll and resolves it (sealing the block) on every event that proves another tool now owns the live region: a new tool call/result, a streaming arg start, an end-of-turn signal, or another job result that itself isn't displaceable. UiHelpers' transcript rebuild applies the same rule. Docs and the new job-poll-displacement test pin the behavior.
The session-observer overlay is gone. The Agent Hub (ctrl+s, alt+a, or double-tap left arrow on an empty editor) presents one overlay with two views: a live registry table (status, unread irc count, current task, last activity; j/k to navigate, r to revive, x to abort/release) and per-agent chat (transcript + input line) — submitting revives a parked agent and steers it via the normal prompt path. Main is the ambient chat and stays out of the table.\n\nrenderInitialMessages no longer takes a prebuilt context: every redraw now reaches for AgentSession.buildTranscriptSessionContext() (full-history transcript with each compaction emitted inline at the point it fired, snapcompact frames re-attached on rebuild). UiHelpers drops the deferred-compaction render and the IRC autoreply branch that the new mailbox bus deprecated. CompactionSummaryMessage renders as a slim divider (── 📷 compacted · ctrl+o ──), expanding to the summary + snapcompact frame count. session-manager.buildSessionContext gains a { transcript: true } mode; an exported buildSessionContextFromFile() reads a session file without taking the writer lock so the hub chat view can tail any agent (parked or live). Theme picks up icon.camera + tool.irc symbol entries.
- Added pre-TUI startup input capture that queued non-empty Enter submissions.
- Replayed queued startup submissions after initialization and injected startup editor text into InteractiveMode.
- Handled startup Ctrl+C to clear typed text and Ctrl+D to exit, with detach restoring terminal state.
- Extended TUI Editor `onSubmit` to accept `void | Promise<void>` for async handlers.
- add discovery of `TITLE_SYSTEM.md` and pass it through interactive startup context
- route custom title prompts to online and local tiny title generators via protocol
- update session-title docs and changelog with override behavior
- add tests for prompt discovery, forwarding, and fallback to bundled title prompts
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