A gemini session stayed "working" for good after its first turn. Its braille
spinner trips the generic SPINNER_PATTERN and marks the pane working, but only
a composer glyph arms the idle confirmation and gemini declared none, so it
fell back to Claude's `❯`, which gemini never draws.
Measured on live Gemini CLI 0.63.0 panes (capture-pane every 300 ms through
real turns with a shell call at 40, 120 and 200 columns, YOLO and default
approval mode, plus the raw PTY stream). The turns ran against a local
stand-in for the Gemini API (GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL, which Codeman's custom
endpoint support already sets), since the CLI's TUI does not depend on the
backend and no account is needed for it:
- The TUI repaints its whole bottom region every frame, composer included,
and the composer sits between a `▄` bar and a `▀` bar; the submitted prompt
is echoed between the same bars. The `▀` bar arms the idle check: every
repaint carries it, tmux's reattach repaint too. The composer's prompt
character is no good: it follows the approval mode (`*` in YOLO), and its
`>` also starts the echoed prompt, which would make the submit verifier
read a submitted prompt as stranded and press Enter again.
- While a turn runs a line `⠦ Thinking... (esc to cancel, 6s)` animates about
every 80 ms (largest gap mid-turn: 214 ms). The label can be any loading
phrase, so the working line is the `(esc to cancel, <n>` suffix, or a
spinner frame opening a line for when a long phrase wraps that suffix.
Nothing at rest matches either.
- A tool confirmation (default mode) replaces the composer, stops the
spinner and the pane goes silent (3.9 s gap), so it reads as idle.
Verified on an isolated instance from this branch: a YOLO turn emitted one
session:working (+170 ms) and one session:idle (2.5 s after the last output);
a default-mode turn went working -> idle while the confirmation waited ->
working once allowed -> idle at the end; after a server restart four restored
gemini panes went busy -> idle in about 4 s; a fresh launch settled in 3 s.
The launch-settle and uncharacterised-CLI tests that used gemini as their
example of a CLI without work detection now use grok and deepseek.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An omp session stayed "working" for good once a turn started, the same
latch pi had: omp's braille spinner trips the SPINNER_PATTERN fast path,
and only a composer glyph arms the idle confirmation. omp declared none,
so it fell back to Claude's `❯`, which omp never draws once its setup
wizard is done.
Measured on live omp 18.8.6 and 18.0.11 panes, holding a turn open
against a local endpoint that never answers: the input row is `╰─ <text>`
and is redrawn at submit, at the end of a turn, at launch and on
reattach. While a turn runs, the status bar's leading `π` becomes a
braille spinner plus the elapsed time (` ⠼ 14s > ⬢ model > ...`; 18.0.11
pads it with two spaces, past a minute it reads `1m`), with a
`⎋ Working…` row above it. The registry entry now names the input row as
the glyph and either working signal as the working line.
The glyph also switches the submit verifier on for omp, which reads the
input row the way it reads Claude's composer. A prompt sent mid-turn goes
to omp's Steering queue and clears the row, so the verifier stands down.
Text left in the row after an Enter is the one case it re-presses.
Verified end to end on a sandboxed instance (own HOME and PATH, omp
18.8.6): session:idle at launch, session:working during a turn,
session:idle about 3 s after it ended, and a restored pane settled idle
about 3 s after a server restart.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An opencode session that ran a tool stayed "working" for good. The running
tool row draws a braille spinner (`⠋ Sleep for 12 seconds...`), which trips
the generic SPINNER_PATTERN and marks the pane working, but only a composer
glyph arms the idle confirmation and opencode declared none, so it fell back
to Claude's `❯`, which opencode never draws. Measured on an isolated
instance: a 16 s turn latched busy/isWorking for the rest of the session.
A text-only turn had the opposite problem and never showed as working.
Measured on live opencode 1.3.0 panes (capture-pane every 250-300 ms through
real turns at 40, 60, 120 and 200 columns, plus the raw PTY stream):
- Every composer row starts with a `┃` bar, and the submitted prompt lands in
the transcript with the same bar, so a turn's first repaint arms the idle
check, and tmux's reattach repaint does the same for a restored pane.
- While a turn runs the footer row starts with an 8-cell knight-rider
spinner, `⬝■■■■■■⬝ esc interrupt`, redrawn about every 40 ms (largest
gap mid-turn: 121 ms). At rest the TUI is silent and nothing on screen
draws a `⬝`/`■` run, the 200-column sidebar included.
- The working line is the spinner run, `[⬝■]{8}`, not the label: tmux ships
`esc` and `interrupt` as separate words joined by cursor moves, so the
label never reaches the stream detector, and at 40 columns the footer
wraps it to `esc` / `interr` / `upt`. All 344 spinner chunks of a turn
match the run after Codeman's ANSI strip.
- A pending permission prompt replaces the composer and stops the spinner,
so it reads as idle (waiting on the user).
- The last `┃` row on screen is the composer's agent/model row, or the
permission box's closing bar, never the prompt text, so the submit
verifier stands down and can never press Enter into a dialog.
Verified on an isolated instance from this branch: a 15 s tool turn emitted
exactly one session:working (+271 ms) and one session:idle (3 s after the
spinner stopped); a permission prompt read idle and the allowed turn went
working -> idle; after a server restart both restored opencode panes (one
at rest, one on a permission prompt) went busy -> idle in about 4 s; a
fresh launch reached an open page as idle in 3 s.
The launch-settle tests that used opencode as their example of a CLI
without work detection now use gemini and antigravity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A pi session stayed "working" for good once a turn started. pi's braille
spinner trips the SPINNER_PATTERN fast path, which marks the pane working,
but only a composer glyph arms the idle confirmation and pi declared none,
so it fell back to Claude's `❯`, which pi never draws. Measured on beta136:
an errored turn stayed busy/isWorking for 3+ minutes after pi was back at
rest.
pi has no composer glyph. Measured on a live pi 1.1.0 pane (capture-pane
every 250 ms through a turn): its composer sits between two `─` rules, and
while a turn runs it rewrites the top rule as `── ⠏ Working ───` on every
frame. The registry entry now names the rule as the glyph that arms the
check and a spinner frame inside it as the working line.
The same glyph settles a reattached pi pane (a restored pane gets no launch
timer): tmux's reattach repaint carries `─`, which arms the confirmation.
The submit verifier reads the last rule, finds no prompt text and stands
down, so it can never press Enter on a pi pane.
Verified on an isolated instance from this branch: a real pi turn emitted
session:working then session:idle, and after a server restart the restored
pi pane went busy -> idle in about 3 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude Code's advisor tool (code.claude.com/docs/en/advisor) lets the session's
main model consult a second, stronger model at decision points: before
committing to an approach, on a recurring error, and before declaring a task
done. Codeman can now start claude sessions with one.
- `advisorModel` field on POST /api/sessions, /api/quick-start and
/api/ralph-loop/start (fable, opus, sonnet or a full model id in those
families; haiku cannot advise and is refused). Stored on the session and
persisted, so respawn, boot restore and reboot restore keep it. Remote and
docker quick-starts refuse it, as they refuse effort.
- App Settings, Models, "Advisor" segment (Default / Sonnet / Opus / Fable),
synced as `claudeAdvisorModel`. Run, resume and the Ralph wizard send it.
Default sends nothing, leaving the CLI's own /advisor choice in charge.
- Carried as the `advisorModel` key in the launch's single --settings JSON,
merged with ultracode and the statusLine exporter, never the --advisor
flag: `claude --advisor haiku` exits 1 at launch, which would leave a dead
pane on every respawn, while the settings key degrades to no advisor. A
launch without an advisor is byte-identical to before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New docs/wiki/Custom-Model-Endpoints.md (auto-synced to the live GitHub
wiki on push to master, per docs/wiki/Contributing.md) covers turning the
feature on, adding an endpoint, the Run-menu picker's one-off-run
behaviour, the per-harness confidence table, and what it deliberately does
not do yet (remote/Docker sessions, live hot-swap). Linked from the
sidebar, from Agent-CLIs.md's "Read next" list plus a short pointer
section, and from Settings-Reference.md's Models section.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RqZeHrRS6DYcGcGX2p9EwG
The wiki was written for seven run modes and never received Grok Build, DeepSeek
Harness or OMP. They now appear everywhere the others do: the modes table and
per-CLI notes, install commands, environment prefixes, the Quick Start table, the
requirements rows, the vocabulary, and every "seven modes" count.
The 1.27 to 1.29.0 changes land on the pages that own them: attaching a case to an
existing container, multi-case adoption and the copy-a-case picker (Docker Cases);
file reads over ssh in remote cases and what stays unavailable (Remote SSH Sessions,
Working With Files, Security); single-page app routing, frame recovery, localhost
links as tabs and the egress guard (Web Tabs); DeepSeek as the one non-Claude mode
with real stop/blocked signals and Approvals items, Codex's own work detection,
last-response, the model-endpoint routes and refreshed counts (HTTP API, Driving
From An Agent, Hooks, Notifications, Keeping Agents Running, Core Concepts);
Shift+drag, right-click copy, Auto Copy, the Ctrl+Z guard, font weight, the vertical
rail and its activity sort (Keyboard Shortcuts, Input And Voice, The Dashboard,
Settings Reference); the 600px phone cutoff, Codex shift arrows and iPhone Duo
(Mobile Guide); the Docker Compose route and its update rule (Installation, Running
As A Service); four new symptom entries and a "which CLIs" question (Troubleshooting,
FAQ).
Custom model endpoints are deliberately left to #430, which adds that page and edits
Agent CLIs, Settings Reference and the sidebar; these edits stay out of the regions
#430, #428 and #376 touch, and all three still merge cleanly on top.
Both READMEs: the web-tab menu entry is labelled "Add URL" in the UI, not
"Add dashboard".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
30 pages covering install, concepts, the dashboard, the agent CLIs, unattended
runs, remote and Docker cases, security and the HTTP API, plus a sidebar and a
footer. The wiki repo has no CI and no review, so docs/wiki is the source of
truth and .github/workflows/wiki-sync.yml mirrors it on every push to master.
The workflow refuses to mirror when docs/wiki is missing or holds no pages,
because it deletes before it copies and would otherwise publish the deletion of
every page. The footer carries a {{VERSION}} placeholder stamped at publish
time rather than a hand-written version, which went stale on every release.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer