fix(terminal): stop forwarding the wheel to codex, it ignores SGR reports

DodgyBadger reported a completely dead wheel in codex tabs (#227 comment)
while the scrollbar drag worked, and the [scroll] line confirmed the
branch: forward-sgr with 967 rows of healthy local scrollback unused.

Measured against codex-cli 0.147.0 in a bare tmux: codex never enables
mouse tracking (mouse_any_flag=0), runs an inline viewport
(alternate_on=0) and pushes its transcript into the terminal's own
scrollback (history_size grows), and SGR wheel reports written to its
pane change nothing at all. Hand-encoded SGR taps are no-ops too, so
they stay (harmless), which means click-to-position is merely
unavailable there rather than damaging.

_shouldForwardWheelToApp now returns true for claude >= 2.1.187 and
nothing else; codex falls to the local-scrollback path like
shell/gemini/opencode, which is the same history the scrollbar drag was
already reaching. The claude-only PageUp fallback is untouched.

Verified in Chromium against a live codex session on an isolated
instance: routing logs local-scrollback, the viewport moves 39 -> 4 and
zero bytes go to the PTY.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -163,6 +163,57 @@ both self-reporting, so the retest ask is now "open the console and paste the `[
- iPhone: Claude or shell session, and whether a full tab kill changes anything.
- Browser console: `app.terminalUi?.terminal?.modes?.mouseTrackingMode` (false-path 4).
## ROUND 3 (2026-08-09): Codex wheel dead — CONFIRMED AND FIXED
DodgyBadger (Codex latest, Chrome, Windows 11): mouse wheel does nothing in a CODEX session
while working fine in shell and web tabs; DRAGGING THE SCROLLBAR WORKS, so xterm's local
buffer demonstrably has content for their codex pane. Analysis against the shipped code:
- `_shouldForwardWheelToApp` returns true UNCONDITIONALLY for `codex` (no version gate, unlike
claude's `>= 2.1.187`), so every plain wheel tick is sent as SGR reports to Codex.
- The "verified to scroll its transcript on SGR wheel reports" claim for codex predates
current Codex builds; if Codex latest ignores SGR wheel, forwarding eats the gesture while
the healthy local scrollback (proven by the working scrollbar) sits unused.
- The #227 PageUp fallback cannot rescue this: it is gated to `claude` mode AND `baseY === 0`,
and codex here has real local scrollback. The `[scroll]` diagnostic will still say
`forward-sgr (mode=codex, ...)`, confirming the branch, worth asking the reporter to paste.
**CONFIRMED by the reporter's `[scroll]` line (2026-08-09, PR #227 comment)**:
`forward-sgr (mode=codex, cliVersion=unknown, localScrollbackOptOut=false, mouseTracking=none,
localScrollbackRows=967)`. Forwarding branch active, 967 rows of healthy local scrollback
unused, Codex ignoring the SGR reports. Environment: Codex latest, Chrome, Windows 11.
**Measured against codex-cli 0.147.0** (isolated `tmux -L codexwheel`, fake `CODEX_HOME/auth.json`,
history built with 401ing prompts), which settles it without needing a version gate at all:
| Probe | Result |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| `#{mouse_any_flag}` once the TUI is up | `0`: codex never enables mouse tracking |
| `#{alternate_on}` | `0`: inline viewport, not an alt-screen pager |
| `#{history_size}` while prompting | grows 3 → 32: the transcript goes to scrollback |
| 6 × `\x1b[<64;10;10M` written to the pane | pane capture byte-identical, nothing happens |
| control: literal `zz` | pane changes, so the probe can see changes |
| `\x1b[<0;12;5M` + release (the click-tap path) | no change either: taps are no-ops, not garbage |
Codex has no in-app pager to drive: its history lives in the terminal's own scrollback, which is
exactly what forwarding was stealing the gesture from. A version gate would be the wrong fix (and
`cliVersion=unknown` means there is no codex probe to gate on anyway).
**Fix (shipped):** `_shouldForwardWheelToApp` now returns true for `claude >= 2.1.187` and nothing
else. Codex falls to the normal local-scrollback path like shell/gemini/opencode, so wheel and touch
scroll the same history the scrollbar drag was already scrolling. The claude-only PageUp fallback is
untouched: codex never needs it, its local buffer is real. Taps stay hand-encoded for codex
(`_sessionUsesServerMouseStrip`), measured harmless, so click-to-position is merely unavailable
there rather than damaging. Lesson for the next mode added to the forward list: "it is a strip mode"
proves nothing, write a real SGR report into a live pane and diff the capture first.
Verified end-to-end in Chromium against a live codex session on an isolated instance
(`CODEMAN_INSTANCE=codexwheel`, port 5055, `envOverrides.CODEX_HOME` pointing at the fake auth
dir): trusted `page.mouse.wheel` up now logs
`[scroll] … → local-scrollback (mode=codex, …, localScrollbackRows=43)`, moves the viewport
39 → 4 (back to the Codex banner), and sends ZERO bytes to the PTY. Unit coverage:
`test/terminal-touch-tap.test.ts` ("only claude forwards — codex and gemini keep the local wheel").
Original plan follows.
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