fix(terminal): read the colour env from the registry on every local spawn path

buildClaudeEnv(), the direct-PTY fallback taken when mux creation fails, now
reads getCli('claude').env and applies its unset and exports lists. It used to
delete COLORTERM and CLAUDECODE from a hand-maintained list of its own, which
left it contradicting the registry entry that the tmux pane and the attach
client both read. An engine value needing a mux name has nothing to resolve
against on this path, so it is skipped rather than guessed.

Claude no longer unsets NO_COLOR. The invisible-background bug does not need
it, and unsetting it overrides a preference the user set deliberately, so a
user who exports NO_COLOR globally keeps monochrome panes. The other seven
truecolor CLIs still unset it; that inconsistency is intentional and the
comment on the entry says so.

The invariants doc gains a Terminal colour env paragraph under Session launch
modes, where a reader looking up Claude will find it — the previous sentence
sat under a heading that lists only the non-Claude CLIs. It now says the lists
are the stock catalog and a clis.json override replaces them wholesale, and
that the declarations reach the tmux pane, its attach client and the direct
PTY but not a remote pane, whose command carries no env exports at all. Docker
hands COLORTERM=truecolor to every mode, including the two the registry says
must unset it.

The changeset named six peer CLIs and there are seven: deepseek also exports
truecolor. A test beside the existing OpenCode assertion pins the new
behaviour, so a future registry edit cannot make the backgrounds vanish again
in silence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Grundberg
2026-09-13 14:42:30 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 7767b16d4f
commit dae2ac580f
5 changed files with 43 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -174,17 +174,19 @@ const CLAUDE: CliEntry = {
legacyConfigAliases: { resumeId: 'resumeSessionId' },
},
env: {
// Claude joins the truecolor list with COLORTERM=truecolor and NO_COLOR unset.
// Claude asks for truecolor, like every CLI here except `shell` and `opencode`.
// tmux hands the pane TERM=screen, which supports-color reads as 16 colors, and
// Claude then quantizes every RGB color its theme asks for down to that palette.
// Each dark background lands on ESC[40m, the terminal's own black, so the block
// Claude draws behind the user's own messages renders invisible. PR #3 unset
// COLORTERM here against xterm.js#484, which xterm.js had already closed in 2019,
// and Codeman now ships @xterm/xterm 6 and sets `terminal-overrides *:Tc` itself.
// The other truecolor CLIs also unset NO_COLOR. Claude does not, so a user who
// exports NO_COLOR globally keeps the monochrome panes they asked for.
// CLAUDECODE stays unset, because Claude reads it as a signal that it is running
// nested inside itself.
exports: [{ name: 'COLORTERM', value: 'truecolor' }],
unset: ['CLAUDECODE', 'NO_COLOR'],
unset: ['CLAUDECODE'],
tmuxSetenvKeys: [],
dockerExecEnvNames: [],
allowedPrefixes: ['CLAUDE_CODE_'],
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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import { isEffortLevel } from './types.js';
import { getAugmentedPath } from './utils/index.js';
import { compareVersions } from './utils/dependency-checker.js';
import { dataPath } from './config/instance.js';
import { getCli } from './config/cli-registry/registry.js';
/**
* Build Claude CLI permission flags based on the configured mode.
@@ -181,10 +182,26 @@ export function buildClaudeEnv(sessionId: string): Record<string, string | undef
// Path only (not the secret value) — hook curls cat it at execution time (COD-54)
CODEMAN_HOOK_SECRET_FILE: dataPath('hook-secret'),
};
// The colour and identity vars come from the registry entry, the same source
// buildEnvExports() and buildMuxAttachEnv() read, so this fallback cannot drift from
// the tmux pane the way a hand-maintained list here did.
// COD-115: `delete`, not `= undefined` — node-pty serializes a present-with-undefined
// key as the literal string "KEY=undefined" (see buildMuxAttachEnv below).
delete env.COLORTERM;
delete env.CLAUDECODE;
const cliEnv = getCli('claude')?.env;
for (const name of cliEnv?.unset ?? []) delete env[name];
for (const item of cliEnv?.exports ?? []) {
// A direct PTY has no mux, so `muxName` has no value to resolve against. Claude
// declares literals only; an unresolvable engine value is skipped, never guessed.
const value =
typeof item.value === 'string'
? item.value
: item.value.engine === 'sessionId'
? sessionId
: item.value.engine === 'codemanPrefixedSessionId'
? `codeman_${sessionId}`
: undefined;
if (value !== undefined) env[item.name] = value;
}
return env;
}