fix(input): make sure a prompt sent through the API actually leaves the composer

Claude Code 2.1.277 takes typed text the moment its composer paints but
ignores Enter for the first 30 to 50 seconds after it (measured 2026-09-19
through the input route: an Enter at 28 s stranded the prompt, one at 51 s
submitted it). The text+Enter pair `sendInput` sends 50 ms apart therefore
left every programmatic prompt sitting unsent, and every waiter burned its
timeout on a turn that never started.

Server: `SubmitVerifier` (session-submit-verifier.ts), armed from
`writeViaMux` for every mux write that carried a carriage return, reads the
pane on a 2 s to 60 s schedule and re-sends Enter only while the last
composer line (the CLI's own prompt glyph) still holds the head of what was
sent. An empty composer, other text, or no composer line at all ends it; a
newer write replaces the schedule.

Skill: `sendwait` gets the same loop (`_composer_text`, no-break space
stripped by its bytes for BSD sed) for servers that predate this, and the
preamble version moves to 1.30.1 so seeded agents pick up the fresh copy.
SKILL.md's heredoc and the plugin mirror are regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Common Gotchas
- **Single-line prompts only** — `writeViaMux()` sends text+Enter separately; multi-line breaks Ink. ⚠️ **Input must END with `\r` or Enter is never sent**: `sendInput()` only issues `send-keys Enter` when the payload contains a carriage return, a `\r`-less `POST /api/sessions/:id/input` still succeeds (send-and-wait even reports `delivered:true`) while the text sits unsubmitted on the composer, and any `wait` burns its whole timeout on a turn that never started. Embedded newlines are stripped, not rejected, so `"echo A\necho B\r"` runs the joined `echo Aecho B`
- **Single-line prompts only** — `writeViaMux()` sends text+Enter separately; multi-line breaks Ink. ⚠️ **Input must END with `\r` or Enter is never sent**: `sendInput()` only issues `send-keys Enter` when the payload contains a carriage return, a `\r`-less `POST /api/sessions/:id/input` still succeeds (send-and-wait even reports `delivered:true`) while the text sits unsubmitted on the composer, and any `wait` burns its whole timeout on a turn that never started. Embedded newlines are stripped, not rejected, so `"echo A\necho B\r"` runs the joined `echo Aecho B`. ⚠️ **Claude Code 2.1.277+ ignores Enter for the first 30-50 s after the composer paints** while still taking the typed text (measured 2026-09-19: an Enter at 28 s stranded the prompt, one at 51 s submitted it), so text+`\r` sent at readiness sits unsent with `0 tokens` and a `wait` burns its timeout. So the SERVER verifies every programmatic write that carried a `\r`: `SubmitVerifier` (`session-submit-verifier.ts`, armed from `writeViaMux`) reads the pane on a 2 s to 60 s schedule and re-sends Enter only while the LAST composer line (the CLI's own `promptGlyph`) verifiably still holds the head of what was sent; an empty composer, other text, or no composer line at all (a shell, a direct-PTY session) ends it, and a newer write replaces the schedule. The skill's `sendwait` keeps its own copy of the loop (`_composer_text` in `skills/codeman/preamble.sh`) for servers that predate this. The `shift+tab` footer only means the composer painted, never that Enter is accepted
- **ESM only** — Never `require()`, use `await import()`. `tsx` masks CJS/ESM issues in dev but production breaks
- **Package ≠ product name** — npm: `aicodeman`, product: **Codeman**. Release renames tags accordingly. Both `aicodeman` and `codeman` bin aliases are installed (`package.json` `bin`)
- **Global regex `lastIndex`** — Shared `g`-flag patterns in loops must reset `lastIndex = 0` first, or use the `execPattern()` helper in `utils/regex-patterns.ts` (resets automatically)