fix(terminal): keep row alignment in the full-history pane replay

Switching to a session left the caret one row below the composer's input
line, on the box border, and every cursor-relative update the CLI sent
afterwards was measured from the wrong row. Any fresh output repaired it,
because the CLI then repainted the whole frame.

Two things were wrong with the full-history replay, and they compound.

The capture never restored the cursor. The visible-frame path ends with an
absolute cursor move back to the pane's position; the linear path returned
its text and left the caret wherever the last character landed, which for an
agent CLI is the bottom-most row carrying text — the status line.

The rows it addressed did not line up with the pane's rows either. Four
transforms ran over the capture and each can delete a line: the trailing
blank rows were stripped, redraw-bloat stripping ran, the trim that cuts
everything above the Claude banner ran, and leading whitespace was removed.
All four are right for a byte stream of successive frames. A capture is the
rendered pane, one line per screen row, so each deletion shifted the frame
out from under the restored cursor.

The full-history path now appends the pane's own cursor position and keeps
every row, so row N of the reply is row N of the pane. The visible-frame and
tail paths are untouched.

Restoring the cursor is what makes row alignment load-bearing here, and
neither CLAUDE.md nor the architecture invariants said so — which is how
four line-deleting transforms accumulated on the path. Both now record it.

Verified against a live 315x59 pane: the reply carries 59 rows, its row 55
is the composer's input line matching tmux, and it ends with the cursor move
that lands there.
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Michael Grundberg
2026-09-09 14:20:34 +02:00
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@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ Codeman is a Claude Code session manager with web interface and autonomous Ralph
**Circuit breakers**: the Ralph breaker prevents respawn thrashing (`CLOSED` → `HALF_OPEN` → `OPEN`; reset via `/api/sessions/:id/ralph-circuit-breaker/reset`). **Distinct: the PTY-exit breaker** (`session-pty-exit-breaker.ts`) trips after repeated rapid PTY exits and blocks auto-restarts. ⚠️ It resets ONLY via an explicit `{clearBreaker:true}` body on `POST /api/sessions/:id/interactive`; the frontend's auto-reattach in `selectSession()` sends no body and must never clear it. → [architecture-invariants#circuit-breakers-ralph--pty-exit](docs/architecture-invariants.md#circuit-breakers-ralph-and-pty-exit)
**Full-scrollback replay**: `GET /api/sessions/:id/terminal?full=1` returns the entire tmux scrollback, bounded by the configured history limit. On success the capture is returned ALONE (`source='mux-full-history'`), superseding the byte buffer so nothing duplicates. The first load of each non-shell TUI session per page requests `full=1` (`_fullHistoryLoaded` Set); Shell selection and automatic drop recovery always use a bounded 1 MiB `?tail=` window. Shell loads the rest only when **Load full history** is pressed; ordinary scrolling must not trigger a multi-megabyte reset+replay on xterm's main thread. Other modes may re-pull at the TOP (cooldown-guarded — tmux repaints bursty output in place, so browser scrollback shrinks while tmux's history stays complete). Live writes are one-chunk-in-flight, released by xterm's parse callback, so xterm's private queue cannot bypass the browser's 128 KiB render cap. While WebSocket owns terminal I/O, duplicate SSE terminal events are dropped before JSON parsing, and recovery is single-flight per active session. ⚠️ A full re-pull must never DOWNGRADE the buffer: a repaint-mode CLI pane keeps no tmux history, so its capture is one frame and the reset+rewrite would delete history mid-scroll — `_replayWouldShrinkBuffer()` refuses it and slows that session's cooldown to 60s. → [architecture-invariants#full-scrollback-replay](docs/architecture-invariants.md#full-scrollback-replay)
**Full-scrollback replay**: `GET /api/sessions/:id/terminal?full=1` returns the entire tmux scrollback, bounded by the configured history limit. On success the capture is returned ALONE (`source='mux-full-history'`), superseding the byte buffer so nothing duplicates. The first load of each non-shell TUI session per page requests `full=1` (`_fullHistoryLoaded` Set); Shell selection and automatic drop recovery always use a bounded 1 MiB `?tail=` window. Shell loads the rest only when **Load full history** is pressed; ordinary scrolling must not trigger a multi-megabyte reset+replay on xterm's main thread. Other modes may re-pull at the TOP (cooldown-guarded — tmux repaints bursty output in place, so browser scrollback shrinks while tmux's history stays complete). Live writes are one-chunk-in-flight, released by xterm's parse callback, so xterm's private queue cannot bypass the browser's 128 KiB render cap. While WebSocket owns terminal I/O, duplicate SSE terminal events are dropped before JSON parsing, and recovery is single-flight per active session. ⚠️ **A `full=1` capture is the rendered pane, one line per screen row, and it ENDS with an absolute cursor move back to the pane's own position** — without it the caret stays where the last character landed, which for an agent CLI is the status line, and every cursor-relative update the CLI sends afterwards is measured from the wrong row. That makes row alignment load-bearing on this path only: no transform that can DELETE A LINE may run over the capture, so it keeps its trailing blank rows and skips redraw-bloat stripping, the banner trim and the leading-whitespace strip. All three stay for the byte-stream and `?tail=` paths, where nothing depends on a row's absolute index. ⚠️ A full re-pull must never DOWNGRADE the buffer: a repaint-mode CLI pane keeps no tmux history, so its capture is one frame and the reset+rewrite would delete history mid-scroll — `_replayWouldShrinkBuffer()` refuses it and slows that session's cooldown to 60s. → [architecture-invariants#full-scrollback-replay](docs/architecture-invariants.md#full-scrollback-replay)
**Terminal touch gestures: link taps and text selection**: on a touch device xterm's own handlers see neither — `touch-action: none` plus touchstart's preventDefault suppress the browser's compatibility mouse events, `_installMobileTapMouseGuard` drops the trusted ones that still arrive, and the synthetic `mousedown`/`mouseup` pair dispatched for mouse REPORTING goes to the `.xterm` root, an ANCESTOR of the screen element the linkifier and SelectionService listen on. So both gestures are driven explicitly. ⚠️ **A tap activates the link under it** through the SAME provider that feeds the hover linkifier (`_terminalLinkAtPoint`, containment mirroring xterm's `_linkAtPosition`), synchronously inside `touchend` — that is what keeps the user gesture `window.open` needs — and BEFORE any mouse report, mirroring `_handleDesktopTerminalClick`'s skip for a hovered link. Two rows keep their meaning: the caret's logical line (`_tapIsOnCaretLine`, where a tap places the cursor in text the USER typed) and TUI-owned rows (`_isActionableMobileTerminalTap`, answering a dialog). ⚠️ The caret line is the boundary rather than the tap INTENT, because a shell classifies every tap as `'input'` and gating on that would leave every URL in shell output inert. ⚠️ **Long-press selects** by driving xterm's public `select()` (renderer-independent — under WebGL the glyphs are pixels and native selection cannot exist), drag or a further tap extends, and Copy goes through `copyTerminalSelection()` for its execCommand fallback on plain-HTTP installs. Three guards are load-bearing and each came from a real phone: the compat mouse pair after `touchend` (xterm focuses on mousedown and SelectionService resets the model there, so the keyboard sprang up and the selection vanished on lift), the platform's own ~500ms long-press (Android Chrome focuses the nearest editable element — the helper textarea — through no event a handler can preventDefault, so a bounded focus guard blurs it and `contextmenu` is suppressed for the gesture window), and `copyTerminalSelection()`'s closing `terminal.focus()` (right on desktop, wrong on a phone). Tests: `test/terminal-touch-tap.test.ts`.