A dual review (Codex CLI and Claude's code-reviewer, same diff, same brief)
found the trust boundary weaker than the comments around it claimed. Eleven
findings, all applied.
The two blockers were both about who can write the row the label is read from.
Claude's window covered two rows, and the second one is the status line, whose
command a session running with permissions bypassed can write into its own
`.claude/settings.json` — so an agent could print `· 1 monitor ·` onto a row of
its own and silence its own idle alert. The default window is one row now, which
is the footer and nothing else, and the constant says why. Separately, the label
reached `data-tab-meta-sig` unescaped while the row is installed with innerHTML,
which is an injection sink for any config-supplied pattern whose capture group is
permissive; it goes through escapeHtml() like every other untrusted string in
that file.
The Codex entry could not be fixed the same way, and now says so. Its row is
third from the bottom only while a terminal runs; with none running that slot
holds the last row of the transcript, so matching the complete row (with the
`/stop to close` tail, window narrowed to three) raises the bar without closing
it. What contains it is `hooks: 'none'`: no hook event from a codex session
reaches notePrompt(), so a forged label costs a wrong badge and cannot quiet an
alert. The registry comment, `docs/cli-registry.md` and the test all state that
rather than claiming a guarantee the code does not have.
Also from the review: the TUI header badge no longer counts an acknowledged
item, which was the same gate the classifier fix already went through and was
wrong for human acknowledgement too; the TUI approval card reads the quiet
reason and drops to a new `info` tone instead of asking for a reply; the badge
carries an aria-label, because the phone it was built for has no hover target;
the schema refuses `watchingLines` without a `watchingLine`; and the pattern and
its window are resolved together rather than one memoized and one not.
Documentation moved with it. The mechanism now lives in
`docs/architecture-invariants.md` with CLAUDE.md keeping the rule and a pointer,
`docs/wiki/Notifications-And-Approvals.md` tells users why a session stopped
buzzing, and both that page and the changeset name the limitation neither did
before: a question asked in plain prose is not a dialog, so it is silenced along
with the false alarms while background work runs.
Verified live again after the narrowing, on an isolated beta: a Claude session
reported `1 monitor` and took its idle prompt acknowledged, and a Codex session
reported `1 background terminal` against the full-row anchor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three small pure modules the phase-2 verbs are built on:
- tui-composer: the single-line editor behind `p` and `/`, holding text as
code points so a cursor can never split a surrogate pair, with the scroll
window derived from the width rather than remembered.
- tui-approvals: what an approvals-inbox item's card says, which keys are
live for it (a digit answers only when the server parsed that option, and
an idle prompt answers to none of them), and which ids the bell has not
rung for yet.
- tui-digest: the away digest as compact lines, counts first and one line
per entry, with a capped tail per section.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
