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oh-my-pi/packages/coding-agent/test/tool-live-region-scrollback.test.ts
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can1357 3b3672a357 fix(coding-agent): made live-region rewrite floor travel across append-shaped insertions
append-only insertions above the floor no longer arm a permanent promotion freeze; floor index travels with the insertion; documented the floor semantics in the renderer internals doc.
2026-06-10 01:28:24 +02:00

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import { beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "bun:test";
import type { AssistantMessage } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai";
import { Settings } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/config/settings";
import { AssistantMessageComponent } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/components/assistant-message";
import { ToolExecutionComponent } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/components/tool-execution";
import { TranscriptContainer } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/components/transcript-container";
import { initTheme } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/theme/theme";
import { type Component, Text, TUI } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-tui";
import { VirtualTerminal } from "../../tui/test/virtual-terminal";
class MutableLiveBlock implements Component {
#lines: string[];
#finalized: boolean;
constructor(lines: string[], finalized = false) {
this.#lines = [...lines];
this.#finalized = finalized;
}
render(width: number): string[] {
return this.#lines.map(line => line.slice(0, width));
}
setLines(lines: string[]): void {
this.#lines = [...lines];
}
isTranscriptBlockFinalized(): boolean {
return this.#finalized;
}
}
function markerLines(prefix: string, count: number): string[] {
return Array.from({ length: count }, (_unused, i) => `${prefix}${i}`);
}
function stripRows(rows: string[]): string {
return rows.map(row => Bun.stripANSI(row).trimEnd()).join("\n");
}
describe("transcript reactive commit boundary", () => {
it("treats growth before stable trailing chrome as append-only", async () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const block = new MutableLiveBlock(["top", "stable", "bottom"]);
chat.addChild(block);
expect(chat.render(80)).toEqual(["top", "stable", "bottom"]);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBeUndefined();
block.setLines(["top", "stable", "inserted", "bottom"]);
expect(chat.render(80)).toEqual(["top", "stable", "inserted", "bottom"]);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(4);
});
it("treats in-place growth of the trailing line as append-only", async () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
// Models a streaming assistant reply: stable head rows plus a current
// line that grows token-by-token without adding a new row — the dominant
// streaming shape, and the one a strict line-count-growth check missed,
// stranding the scrolled-off head outside tmux pane history.
const block = new MutableLiveBlock(["para one", "para two", "the quick brown"]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
block.setLines(["para one", "para two", "the quick brown fox"]);
chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(3);
});
it("marks interior live re-layout volatile and defers commit", async () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const block = new MutableLiveBlock(["top", "old", "bottom"]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
block.setLines(["top", "new", "extra", "bottom"]);
expect(chat.render(80)).toEqual(["top", "new", "extra", "bottom"]);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBeUndefined();
block.setLines(["top", "new", "extra", "more", "bottom"]);
chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBeUndefined();
});
it("treats escape placement and pad drift on visually unchanged rows as append-only", async () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
// Field failure shape (streaming styled thinking): the previous last row
// carried the span-closing SGR before its width padding; when the
// paragraph wrapped onto a new row, the close moved to the new last row
// while the first row's visible cells stayed identical.
const sty = "\x1b[38;2;156;163;176m";
const block = new MutableLiveBlock([`${sty}alpha beta\x1b[39m `]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
block.setLines([`${sty}alpha beta `, `${sty}gamma\x1b[39m `]);
chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(2);
});
it("treats a wrap-shrink of the trailing line as append-only", async () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
// A streamed token extends the last word past the wrap column, so the
// word moves down onto an appended row and the previous bottom line
// shrinks. The bottom line is on screen by definition, so this is not a
// rewrite of committed-candidate rows.
const block = new MutableLiveBlock(["para one", "foo bar baz"]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
block.setLines(["para one", "foo bar", "bazqux and more"]);
chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(3);
});
it("re-earns append-only after a one-off interior rewrite heals", async () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const block = new MutableLiveBlock(["top", "old", "bottom"]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
// Interior rewrite (a codespan finalizing across a wrap) suspends commits.
block.setLines(["top", "new", "bottom"]);
chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBeUndefined();
// Clean static frames re-arm the block...
for (let i = 0; i < 30; i++) chat.render(80);
// ...and the next append-shaped frame resumes committing the full block,
// so the pinned emitter can backfill the stalled gap contiguously.
block.setLines(["top", "new", "bottom", "appended"]);
chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(4);
});
it("keeps a periodically rewriting block (spinner) deferred", async () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const block = new MutableLiveBlock(["⠋ running", "body"]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
const glyphs = ["⠙", "⠹", "⠸", "⠼", "⠴", "⠦", "⠧", "⠇", "⠏", "⠋"];
for (const glyph of glyphs) {
// Spinner advances every third frame; the static frames in between
// must never accumulate into a re-arm.
block.setLines([`${glyph} running`, "body"]);
chat.render(80);
chat.render(80);
chat.render(80);
}
block.setLines(["⠋ running", "body", "appended"]);
chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBeUndefined();
});
it("commits the settled head of a block whose tail keeps rewriting (task progress shape)", () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const head = markerLines("head-", 8);
const block = new MutableLiveBlock([...head, "⠋ agents running · 0 tools"]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
// The progress tail rewrites every frame, so append-only is never
// earned — but the head rows stay visibly identical the whole time.
for (let i = 1; i <= 62; i++) {
block.setLines([...head, `⠋ agents running · ${i} tools`]);
chat.render(80);
}
// The settled head must become commit-safe; otherwise a tall block's
// scrolled-off head is neither committed nor on screen for the whole
// run — the transcript reads as cut off until the tool seals.
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(8);
});
it("retreats the settled-head boundary when a promoted row is rewritten", () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const head = markerLines("head-", 8);
const block = new MutableLiveBlock([...head, "tail-0"]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
for (let i = 1; i <= 62; i++) {
block.setLines([...head, `tail-${i}`]);
chat.render(80);
}
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(8);
// A collapse/re-layout rewrites a promoted row: the boundary retreats
// to the divergence (the engine audit owns rows already committed).
block.setLines([...head.slice(0, 3), "rewritten", ...head.slice(4), "tail-x"]);
chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(3);
});
it("stops re-promoting slow-ticking rows after the first promoted-row rewrite", () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const head = markerLines("head-", 8);
// Task progress tree shape: per-agent rows whose tool/cost counters tick
// every few seconds — far slower than the promotion window, so each row
// looks "settled" between updates. Without the rewrite floor, every
// quiet stretch re-promotes the tree, every tick rewrites a
// committed row, and the engine audit recommits — spraying a stale
// snapshot of the block into scrollback for the whole run.
const tree = (a: number, b: number, c: number) => [
`agent-one · ${a} tools`,
`agent-two · ${b} tools`,
`agent-three · ${c} tools`,
];
const block = new MutableLiveBlock([...head, ...tree(0, 0, 0)]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
// Stagger slow updates with quiet stretches longer than the promotion
// window. The floor arms the first time an already-promoted row ticks
// and descends to each promoted ticker as it re-ticks; after the
// topmost ticker has re-ticked once post-promotion, the boundary must
// converge to the static head and never reach into the tree again.
let maxSafeEndAfterConvergence = 0;
const counters: [number, number, number] = [0, 0, 0];
for (let tick = 0; tick < 9; tick++) {
counters[tick % 3] += 1;
block.setLines([...head, ...tree(...counters)]);
for (let frame = 0; frame < 40; frame++) {
chat.render(80);
const safeEnd = chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd() ?? 0;
if (tick >= 4) maxSafeEndAfterConvergence = Math.max(maxSafeEndAfterConvergence, safeEnd);
}
}
// The static head still commits; the slow-ticking tree stays deferred.
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(8);
expect(maxSafeEndAfterConvergence).toBe(8);
});
it("keeps the rewrite floor anchored across append growth below it", () => {
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const head = markerLines("head-", 4);
const block = new MutableLiveBlock([...head, "ticker · 0"]);
chat.addChild(block);
chat.render(80);
// Let the ratchet over-promote through the quiet ticker, then tick it:
// the floor lands on the ticker row (index 4).
for (let i = 0; i < 70; i++) chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(5);
block.setLines([...head, "ticker · 1"]);
chat.render(80);
// Settled rows are inserted above the ticker (append above stable
// trailing chrome): the ticker shifts down and the floor must travel
// with it, or the new settled rows would be barred from promoting.
block.setLines([...head, "settled-a", "settled-b", "ticker · 1"]);
for (let i = 0; i < 70; i++) chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(6);
// And the shifted ticker itself never re-promotes.
block.setLines([...head, "settled-a", "settled-b", "ticker · 2"]);
for (let i = 0; i < 70; i++) chat.render(80);
expect(chat.getNativeScrollbackCommitSafeEnd()).toBe(6);
});
});
describe("tool live-region scrollback", () => {
beforeAll(async () => {
await initTheme();
// The task progress renderer reads settings (resolved-model badge).
await Settings.init({ inMemory: true, cwd: process.cwd() });
});
it("does not splice stale pending eval preview above the running eval viewport", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 12);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const code = Array.from({ length: 20 }, (_unused, i) => `const line${i} = ${i};`).join("\n");
const title = "call model with new prompt + check box heights";
const args = { cells: [{ language: "js", title, code }] };
const component = new ToolExecutionComponent("eval", args, {}, undefined, tui, process.cwd());
try {
chat.addChild(
new Text("Now let me verify by calling the model and checking the box heights it produces:", 0, 0),
);
chat.addChild(new Text("prior filler\n".repeat(8).trimEnd(), 0, 0));
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
chat.addChild(component);
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
component.updateResult(
{
content: [{ type: "text", text: "" }],
details: { cells: [{ index: 0, title, code, language: "js", output: "", status: "running" }] },
},
true,
);
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
const bufferText = term
.getScrollBuffer()
.map(row => Bun.stripANSI(row).trimEnd())
.join("\n");
expect(bufferText).not.toContain("pending [1/1]");
expect(bufferText).toContain("const line9 = 9;");
expect(bufferText).toContain("const line19 = 19;");
} finally {
component.stopAnimation();
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
it("repaints a finalized write whose result lands after a card was appended below it", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 20);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const content = Array.from({ length: 5 }, (_unused, i) => `const line${i} = ${i};`).join("\n");
const args = { file_path: "packages/coding-agent/test/probe.ts", content };
const component = new ToolExecutionComponent("write", args, {}, undefined, tui, process.cwd());
try {
chat.addChild(new Text("prior filler", 0, 0));
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
// The write streams its preview while it is the live block.
chat.addChild(component);
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
// An out-of-band card (e.g. a TTSR rule notification) is appended below
// the still-in-flight write. Previously this froze the write on its
// streaming preview, so the eventual result never repainted.
chat.addChild(new Text("⚠ Injecting rule: ts-set-map", 0, 0));
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
const beforeResult = term
.getScrollBuffer()
.map(row => Bun.stripANSI(row).trimEnd())
.join("\n");
expect(beforeResult).toContain("(streaming)");
// The write finishes after the card is already below it.
component.updateResult({ content: [{ type: "text", text: "" }], details: { path: args.file_path } }, false);
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
const afterResult = term
.getScrollBuffer()
.map(row => Bun.stripANSI(row).trimEnd())
.join("\n");
// The streaming preview is gone and the finalized header repainted in place.
expect(afterResult).not.toContain("(streaming)");
expect(afterResult).toContain("· 5 lines");
} finally {
component.stopAnimation();
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
it("commits the scrolled-off head of an over-tall expanded streaming write to scrollback", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 20);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const body = (n: number) => Array.from({ length: n }, (_unused, i) => `MARK-${i}`).join("\n");
const filePath = "packages/coding-agent/test/probe.txt";
// Expanded (Ctrl+O) lifts the tail-window cap, so the preview renders the
// whole content top-anchored — append-only growth as chunks stream in.
const component = new ToolExecutionComponent(
"write",
{ file_path: filePath, content: body(12) },
{},
undefined,
tui,
process.cwd(),
);
component.setExpanded(true);
try {
chat.addChild(component);
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
for (const lineCount of [24, 40]) {
component.updateArgs({ file_path: filePath, content: body(lineCount) });
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
}
const scrollText = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
const viewportText = stripRows(term.getViewport());
// MARK-0 scrolled above the viewport: it must live in native scrollback
// (committed), not nowhere. Before the fix the tool block was not
// append-only, so its scrolled-off head was dropped — a yanked stream.
expect(viewportText).not.toContain("MARK-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("MARK-0");
// The streaming tail stays on screen, and nothing went missing between.
expect(viewportText).toContain("MARK-39");
expect(viewportText).toContain("(streaming)");
expect(scrollText).toContain("MARK-20");
} finally {
component.stopAnimation();
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
it("commits the scrolled-off head of an over-tall pending task context to scrollback", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 12);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const context = (n: number) => Array.from({ length: n }, (_unused, i) => `- CTX-${i}`).join("\n");
const args = (n: number) => ({
agent: "task",
context: context(n),
tasks: [{ id: "alpha", description: "probe", assignment: "Inspect the task context." }],
});
const component = new ToolExecutionComponent("task", args(4), {}, undefined, tui, process.cwd());
try {
chat.addChild(component);
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
for (const lineCount of [12, 24, 40]) {
component.updateArgs(args(lineCount));
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
}
const scrollText = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
const viewportText = stripRows(term.getViewport());
expect(viewportText).not.toContain("CTX-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("CTX-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("CTX-20");
expect(viewportText).toContain("CTX-39");
} finally {
component.stopAnimation();
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
it("keeps the static task context reachable in scrollback while progress ticks below it", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 12);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const context = Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_unused, i) => `- CTX-${i}`).join("\n");
const args = {
agent: "explore",
context,
tasks: [{ id: "alpha", description: "probe", assignment: "Inspect the repo." }],
};
const component = new ToolExecutionComponent("task", args, {}, undefined, tui, process.cwd());
const progressAt = (toolCount: number) => ({
index: 0,
id: "alpha",
agent: "explore",
agentSource: "bundled" as const,
status: "running" as const,
task: "probe",
description: "probe",
recentTools: [],
recentOutput: [],
toolCount,
tokens: 0,
cost: 0,
durationMs: toolCount * 250,
});
const partial = (toolCount: number) =>
component.updateResult(
{
content: [{ type: "text", text: "" }],
details: {
projectAgentsDir: null,
results: [],
totalDurationMs: 0,
progress: [progressAt(toolCount)],
},
},
true,
);
try {
chat.addChild(component);
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
// A running task rewrites its progress line (tool counts, spinner)
// below the static context for the whole run. The context head that
// scrolled above the viewport must still reach native scrollback —
// previously the ticking tail suspended commits for the entire
// block, leaving the context neither in history nor on screen.
// Two full promotion windows: the call→result transition frame
// poisons the first window's minimum, the second promotes the head.
for (let i = 1; i <= 70; i++) {
partial(i);
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
}
const scrollText = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
const viewportText = stripRows(term.getViewport());
expect(viewportText).not.toContain("CTX-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("CTX-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("CTX-20");
} finally {
component.stopAnimation();
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
}, 20000);
it("stops growing scrollback once slow-ticking rows are floored (no recommit storm)", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
// The duplication-storm shape from the field: a live block whose head is
// static context, whose tail is a slowly-ticking agent tree plus a
// spinner, with finalized content (IRC cards) piled below it. The pile
// pushes the ticker rows above the window top, so any over-promotion
// commits them; every later tick would then make the engine audit
// recommit — native scrollback gains a stale snapshot of the tree per
// tick for the entire run. With the rewrite floor the ratchet converges
// after the first promoted-row re-tick and scrollback stops growing.
const term = new VirtualTerminal(80, 10);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const head = markerLines("CTX-", 20);
const spinner = ["⠋", "⠙", "⠹", "⠸", "⠼", "⠴", "⠦", "⠧"];
let frameSeq = 0;
const liveLines = (a: number, b: number) => [
...head,
`agent-one · ${a} tools`,
`agent-two · ${b} tools`,
`${spinner[frameSeq % spinner.length]} running`,
];
const block = new MutableLiveBlock(liveLines(0, 0));
chat.addChild(block);
chat.addChild(new MutableLiveBlock(markerLines("IRC-", 15), true));
const counters: [number, number] = [0, 0];
const renderFrames = async (frames: number) => {
for (let i = 0; i < frames; i++) {
frameSeq++;
block.setLines(liveLines(...counters));
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
}
};
const tick = async (which: 0 | 1, frames: number) => {
counters[which] += 1;
await renderFrames(frames);
};
try {
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
// Overshoot: a quiet stretch longer than the promotion window lets
// the ratchet promote (and the engine commit) the ticker rows.
await renderFrames(35);
// First post-promotion tick of the topmost ticker arms the floor.
await tick(0, 35);
const settled = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
// Further slow ticks must not grow native scrollback at all.
await tick(1, 12);
await tick(0, 12);
await tick(1, 12);
expect(stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer())).toBe(settled);
// The static head still reached scrollback. The ticker rows sit in
// the hidden gap between the commit boundary and the window top
// (the accepted cost while finalized content is piled below a live
// block) — but history holds exactly one stale snapshot of them
// instead of one per tick.
expect(settled).toContain("CTX-0");
const staleSnapshots = settled.split("\n").filter(row => row.startsWith("agent-one ·")).length;
expect(staleSnapshots).toBeLessThanOrEqual(2);
} finally {
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
}, 30000);
it("commits the scrolled-off head of a tall finalized bottom tool result", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 12);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const content = markerLines("FINAL-", 40).join("\n");
const args = { path: "packages/coding-agent/test/finalized.txt" };
const component = new ToolExecutionComponent("read", args, {}, undefined, tui, process.cwd());
component.setExpanded(true);
component.updateResult(
{
content: [{ type: "text", text: content }],
details: { displayContent: { text: content, startLine: 1 } },
},
false,
);
try {
chat.addChild(component);
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
const scrollText = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
const viewportText = stripRows(term.getViewport());
expect(viewportText).not.toContain("FINAL-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("FINAL-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("FINAL-20");
expect(viewportText).toContain("FINAL-39");
} finally {
component.stopAnimation();
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
it("keeps a re-layouting live block's changed head out of scrollback", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 12);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const block = new MutableLiveBlock(markerLines("OLD-", 8));
try {
chat.addChild(block);
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
block.setLines(markerLines("NEW-", 40));
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
const scrollText = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
const viewportText = stripRows(term.getViewport());
expect(viewportText).not.toContain("NEW-0");
expect(scrollText).not.toContain("NEW-0");
expect(scrollText).not.toContain("NEW-20");
expect(viewportText).toContain("NEW-39");
} finally {
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
it("commits the scrolled-off head of an expanded eval whose output streams past the viewport", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 12);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const title = "stream lots of output";
const code = "for (let i = 0; i < 40; i++) console.log('MARK-' + i);";
const args = { cells: [{ language: "js", title, code }] };
const component = new ToolExecutionComponent("eval", args, {}, undefined, tui, process.cwd());
component.setExpanded(true);
const out = (n: number) => Array.from({ length: n }, (_unused, i) => `MARK-${i}`).join("\n");
const partial = (output: string) =>
component.updateResult(
{
content: [{ type: "text", text: "" }],
details: { cells: [{ index: 0, title, code, language: "js", output, status: "running" }] },
},
true,
);
partial(out(4));
try {
chat.addChild(component);
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
for (const lineCount of [12, 24, 40]) {
partial(out(lineCount));
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
}
const scrollText = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
const viewportText = stripRows(term.getViewport());
// The streamed output head scrolled above the viewport: it must live in
// native scrollback (committed), not nowhere. The fixed code cell rides
// along as the stable prefix above it.
expect(viewportText).not.toContain("MARK-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("MARK-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("MARK-20");
// The streaming tail stays on screen, and nothing went missing between.
expect(viewportText).toContain("MARK-39");
} finally {
component.stopAnimation();
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
});
function makeAssistantMessage(text: string): AssistantMessage {
return {
role: "assistant",
content: [{ type: "text", text }],
api: "anthropic",
provider: "anthropic",
model: "test-model",
usage: {
input: 0,
output: 0,
cacheRead: 0,
cacheWrite: 0,
totalTokens: 0,
cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0, total: 0 },
},
stopReason: "stop",
timestamp: Date.now(),
};
}
function makeThinkingMessage(thinking: string): AssistantMessage {
const message = makeAssistantMessage("");
message.content = [{ type: "thinking", thinking }];
return message;
}
describe("assistant live-region scrollback", () => {
beforeAll(async () => {
await initTheme();
await Settings.init({ inMemory: true, cwd: process.cwd() });
});
it("commits a streamed reply's scrolled-off head to scrollback instead of dropping it", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 12);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
// A streaming assistant reply, mid-stream (no message in the ctor → live).
// A markdown list yields one stable row per item, so growth is append-only.
const component = new AssistantMessageComponent(undefined, false);
const markers = Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_unused, i) => `- MARK-${i}`);
try {
chat.addChild(component);
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
component.updateContent(makeAssistantMessage(markers.slice(0, 4).join("\n")));
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
for (const lineCount of [12, 24, 40]) {
component.updateContent(makeAssistantMessage(markers.slice(0, lineCount).join("\n")));
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
}
const scrollText = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
const viewportText = stripRows(term.getViewport());
// MARK-0 scrolled above the viewport: with the fix it lives in native
// scrollback (committed), not nowhere. The regression dropped it.
expect(viewportText).not.toContain("MARK-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("MARK-0");
// The tail is still on screen, and nothing went missing in between.
expect(viewportText).toContain("MARK-39");
expect(scrollText).toContain("MARK-20");
} finally {
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
it("commits scrolled-off styled thinking paragraphs to scrollback while streaming", async () => {
if (process.platform === "win32") return;
const term = new VirtualTerminal(120, 12);
const tui = new TUI(term);
const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
const component = new AssistantMessageComponent(undefined, false);
// Word-wrapped italic/colored paragraphs — the styled streaming shape the
// raw-byte append detector mis-classified as volatile (the span-closing
// SGR moves rows as the paragraph wraps), which froze the commit boundary
// and dropped every later paragraph that scrolled past the viewport top.
const paragraphs = Array.from(
{ length: 8 },
(_unused, i) =>
`PARA-${i} considering the resolver path and the descriptor defaults, the policy layer must keep the ` +
`reasoning flag intact while discovery maps an unknown model entry onto the bundled reference shape ` +
`so the runtime request stays correct across upstream metadata shifts.`,
);
const fullText = paragraphs.join("\n\n");
const words = fullText.split(" ");
try {
chat.addChild(component);
tui.addChild(chat);
tui.start();
await term.waitForRender();
// Stream a few words per frame so the in-flight bottom line extends,
// wraps, and sheds words onto new rows across many coalesced frames.
for (let i = 5; i <= words.length; i += 5) {
component.updateContent(makeThinkingMessage(words.slice(0, i).join(" ")));
tui.requestRender();
await term.waitForRender();
}
const scrollText = stripRows(term.getScrollBuffer());
const viewportText = stripRows(term.getViewport());
// Early paragraphs scrolled above the viewport: they must live in
// native scrollback, not vanish into the dropped gap.
expect(viewportText).not.toContain("PARA-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("PARA-0");
expect(scrollText).toContain("PARA-4");
// The tail is still on screen.
expect(viewportText).toContain("PARA-7");
} finally {
tui.stop();
await term.flush();
}
});
});