Confirming an AskUserQuestion left its tab flowing red for the rest of
the turn (owner report: ~8 minutes on a running session, with no dialog
anywhere on screen). Two separate bugs, both live-verified.
The re-capture erased the evidence the staleness check runs on. Claude
Code fires the Notification behind the dialog (measured 6-7s on v2.1.237,
documented up to ~30s), so the 600ms re-capture routinely lands on a
frame the user has ALREADY answered, parses nothing, and applyCapture
overwrote item.options with undefined. A MISSING options is how "we never
could read this dialog" is expressed, and those items stay answerable by
design, so a cleared field was indistinguishable from a never-parsed one
and the item became permanently unsweepable: it survived every
GET /api/approvals and every page reload, cleared only on `stop`, and
still accepted an answer, sending a bare `1` into a composer with no
dialog under it. applyCapture is now ADD-ONLY for options.
Nothing ran the staleness check while a page was open. It lived only in
GET /api/approvals, which seedApprovals() calls on init and reconnect, so
`stop` was the first thing that ever cleared an answered dialog. The
`working` signal now runs the pane-VERIFIED variant (resolveIfDialogGone
-> verifyStillAnswerable): the heuristic only decides when to look, the
screen decides the outcome, so the existing "working can flap" rule is
respected.
A frame that parses no options is now conclusive in two cases, and only
those, so an unreadable capture still keeps the alert: the item once
parsed options, or the frame shows Claude actively running a turn. A
modal dialog BLOCKS the turn, so the two cannot coexist - measured, a
live-dialog frame carries neither the elapsed-timer spinner nor the
"esc to interrupt" footer, which the dialog replaces with "Enter to
select". That second signal is reached by a delayed staleness pass (3s)
scheduled alongside the re-capture, which closes the late-hook case where
the prompt is answered before the hook lands: nothing ever parses, `stop`
may have gone by already, and the alert outlived reloads until the 12h
TTL. The pass is deliberately later than RECAPTURE_DELAY_MS, whose whole
reason for existing is that the hook can beat Ink to the screen.
Frontend: _onHookElicitationComplete cleared only the elicitation entry,
but an AskUserQuestion arrives as permission_prompt, so it was clearing
the wrong alert; it now clears both, matching the server's kind-agnostic
APPROVAL_RESOLVING_EVENTS.
Verified end to end on an isolated beta instance, not just in unit tests:
before, resolution could only come from the stop route (approval:resolved
always immediately preceding hook:stop); after, it arrives from the new
paths, and a simulated late hook resolves at +3.12s with no stop, no
working signal and no GET, while the pane is still working. Tests use
frames captured off a live pane and each new one was confirmed to fail
against the old behaviour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Persist the 'I checked it' state of yellow idle tab alerts across reloads and devices.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner decision: every Approvals Inbox UI surface (header bell, drawer,
phone overview answer strips, reload seeding) now requires enabling
approvalsInboxEnabled in App Settings -> Panels; only an explicit true
turns it on. The store, endpoints, and push Approve/Deny actions keep
running regardless (the push buttons are already opt-in per subscription).
Also replaces em-dashes with plain punctuation across the newly authored
comments, docs, and strings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Permission dialogs, AskUserQuestion questions and idle prompts from every
session now land in a server-side inbox (web/approval-inbox.ts, one item per
session, claude-mode only) and are answerable in place: a header bell + drawer
on desktop, inline answer strips on the phone overview's NEEDS YOU rows, and
working push Approve/Deny buttons (previously dead ends, now answered straight
from sw.js with no tab open). Pending alerts survive reloads because the
frontend seeds from GET /api/approvals on init.
Answering sends the digit / Esc / prompt text through the existing tmux input
path; option digits are accepted only when they match options parsed from the
captured pane frame, and the answer path re-captures the pane first so a
dialog that already left the screen refuses with 409 instead of typing into
the composer. New elicitation_complete / elicitation_response hook matchers
resolve question items the moment they are answered in the terminal;
refreshStaleCodemanHooks heals existing cases.
Verified end-to-end against a live claude session: a real AskUserQuestion
dialog parsed into 5 option buttons and was answered from the drawer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer