fix(watching): close the review findings on the label and its window

A dual review (Codex CLI and Claude's code-reviewer, same diff, same brief)
found the trust boundary weaker than the comments around it claimed. Eleven
findings, all applied.

The two blockers were both about who can write the row the label is read from.
Claude's window covered two rows, and the second one is the status line, whose
command a session running with permissions bypassed can write into its own
`.claude/settings.json` — so an agent could print `· 1 monitor ·` onto a row of
its own and silence its own idle alert. The default window is one row now, which
is the footer and nothing else, and the constant says why. Separately, the label
reached `data-tab-meta-sig` unescaped while the row is installed with innerHTML,
which is an injection sink for any config-supplied pattern whose capture group is
permissive; it goes through escapeHtml() like every other untrusted string in
that file.

The Codex entry could not be fixed the same way, and now says so. Its row is
third from the bottom only while a terminal runs; with none running that slot
holds the last row of the transcript, so matching the complete row (with the
`/stop to close` tail, window narrowed to three) raises the bar without closing
it. What contains it is `hooks: 'none'`: no hook event from a codex session
reaches notePrompt(), so a forged label costs a wrong badge and cannot quiet an
alert. The registry comment, `docs/cli-registry.md` and the test all state that
rather than claiming a guarantee the code does not have.

Also from the review: the TUI header badge no longer counts an acknowledged
item, which was the same gate the classifier fix already went through and was
wrong for human acknowledgement too; the TUI approval card reads the quiet
reason and drops to a new `info` tone instead of asking for a reply; the badge
carries an aria-label, because the phone it was built for has no hover target;
the schema refuses `watchingLines` without a `watchingLine`; and the pattern and
its window are resolved together rather than one memoized and one not.

Documentation moved with it. The mechanism now lives in
`docs/architecture-invariants.md` with CLAUDE.md keeping the rule and a pointer,
`docs/wiki/Notifications-And-Approvals.md` tells users why a session stopped
buzzing, and both that page and the changeset name the limitation neither did
before: a question asked in plain prose is not a dialog, so it is silenced along
with the false alarms while background work runs.

Verified live again after the narrowing, on an isolated beta: a Claude session
reported `1 monitor` and took its idle prompt acknowledged, and a Codex session
reported `1 background terminal` against the full-row anchor.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Grundberg
2026-09-22 17:11:33 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 64c288a683
commit 05c788ce9d
19 changed files with 292 additions and 59 deletions
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@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@
import type { ApprovalItem, ApprovalOption } from '../web/approval-inbox.js';
import type { TuiApprovalAnswer } from './tui-client.js';
/** Card severity, in the same red/yellow vocabulary the web inbox uses. */
export type TuiApprovalTone = 'err' | 'warn';
/**
* Card severity, in the same red/yellow vocabulary the web inbox uses, plus the quiet
* third case: an item that opened acknowledged asks for nothing and reads grey.
*/
export type TuiApprovalTone = 'err' | 'warn' | 'info';
export interface TuiApprovalCard {
tone: TuiApprovalTone;
@@ -50,8 +53,14 @@ function clean(text: string | undefined): string {
return (text ?? '').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim().slice(0, MAX_CARD_TEXT);
}
/**
* How loud the card is. An idle prompt the inbox opened ALREADY acknowledged is not
* asking for anything — the session is watching work it started itself — so it drops to
* `info` and out of the warning vocabulary the other two share with the web inbox.
*/
export function approvalTone(item: ApprovalItem): TuiApprovalTone {
return item.kind === 'idle' ? 'warn' : 'err';
if (item.kind !== 'idle') return 'err';
return item.acknowledgedReason ? 'info' : 'warn';
}
/**
@@ -65,9 +74,13 @@ export function approvalCard(item: ApprovalItem): TuiApprovalCard {
const summary = clean(item.toolSummary) || clean(item.toolName);
if (item.kind === 'idle') {
// Say what it is waiting for rather than asking for a reply, in the same words the
// web drawer uses for the same item. The prompt is still answerable, so the hint
// stays either way.
const quiet = clean(item.acknowledgedReason);
return {
tone: 'warn',
title: message || 'waiting for your reply',
tone: approvalTone(item),
title: quiet ? `quiet, ${quiet}` : message || 'waiting for your reply',
detail: [],
options: [],
hint: 'p to reply',
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@@ -462,7 +462,8 @@ export function computeListWindow(
* The pending dialog, drawn above the tail: the question, the parsed options
* with their digits, and the keys that answer them. Red for a permission or
* question prompt, yellow for an idle one, the same severity vocabulary the web
* inbox uses.
* inbox uses. An idle prompt that opened acknowledged carries neither: it reads
* grey with the idle glyph, because nothing about it wants the reader.
*/
export function renderApprovalCard(
item: ApprovalItem,
@@ -472,8 +473,8 @@ export function renderApprovalCard(
): string[] {
const paint = painterFor(opts.color);
const card = approvalCard(item);
const color = card.tone === 'err' ? SGR.red : SGR.yellow;
const glyph = card.tone === 'err' ? glyphs.blockedPermission : glyphs.waiting;
const color = card.tone === 'err' ? SGR.red : card.tone === 'warn' ? SGR.yellow : SGR.gray;
const glyph = card.tone === 'err' ? glyphs.blockedPermission : card.tone === 'warn' ? glyphs.waiting : glyphs.idle;
const lines: string[] = [];
const push = (text: string, style: string): void => {
lines.push(padDisplay(paint(clipStyledLine(text, width), style), width));
@@ -571,10 +572,19 @@ function previewBody(
// Chrome
// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/** Sessions with a prompt waiting on a human, which is what the badge counts. */
/**
* Sessions with a prompt waiting on a human, which is what the badge counts.
*
* An ACKNOWLEDGED item is not one of them. Its alert has been spent, either by somebody
* opening the session elsewhere or because the inbox opened it that way for a session
* watching its own background work, and the row has already left NEEDS YOU by the same
* flag (`classifySession`). Counting it here would put a number in the header for a
* group the reader can see is empty.
*/
export function pendingApprovalCount(model: TuiRenderModel): number {
let count = 0;
for (const group of model.groups()) for (const row of group.rows) if (row.approval) count++;
for (const group of model.groups())
for (const row of group.rows) if (row.approval && !row.approval.acknowledgedAt) count++;
return count;
}