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Codeman maintainer 40560aced1 fix(session): announce when a fresh or re-attached agent pane goes idle
A fresh codex, pi or opencode tile could spin "working" forever while the
pane sat at its composer. The external-CLI launch timer set the status to
idle WITHOUT an event, only `needsRefresh`. When the launch paint never
marked the pane working, the later idle confirmation found the status
already idle and announced nothing either, so every open browser kept the
`busy` from the spawn broadcast. A reload fixed it, which is why only open
pages were stuck. Measured on the 1.36.0 beta: w8 (codex) had
`lastPromptTime: 0`, i.e. no idle edge ever, and a page held a fresh pi
session at `busy` while GET /api/sessions said `idle`. pi and opencode hit
it on every launch (no work detection, so the timer is all they have);
codex only when its launch paint lost the race against the timer.

- `_concludeIdle()` is now the one place a pane is concluded idle: status,
  working flag and prompt stamp change together and `idle` is emitted
  (session:idle + state broadcast). `_confirmIdle()` uses it too.
- The launch settle (`_settlePaneStartup`) concludes a pane still in its
  spawn-time `busy`. A pane already working is left to `_confirmIdle()`
  only when its CLI declares `capabilities.workDetect`; for the rest the
  timer is the only thing that can settle it, so it also clears a working
  flag a launch spinner glyph latched.
- `_armPaneSettle()` also arms it for a RESTORED pane (Codeman restart,
  auto-reattach, tile Attach) of a CLI without work detection (at this
  commit shell, opencode, gemini, antigravity, pi, grok, deepseek and omp),
  which used to stay `busy` server-side with nothing to clear it. Restored claude and
  codex panes stay on their composer glyph, so a restart mid-turn is never
  called idle. No `needsRefresh` there: an attach refetches by itself.

Pre-existing since the OpenCode integration, not a regression of this
release. Restore-path gap reported by the opencode and pi sessions working
the same symptom.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 01:49:04 +02:00

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/**
* Working/idle detection for an interactive agent pane, Claude's and Codex's.
*
* The bug this pins: Claude redraws the composer (`❯`) about once a second all
* the way through a turn, so the old "saw a ❯, wait 2s, call it idle" rule
* flipped a busy session to idle two seconds into every turn. Measured on a live
* worker: `GET /api/sessions` reported `idle` for a session that had been
* running for 17 minutes and was mid-tool-call.
*
* A second bug this pins: work detection read Claude's glyph and Claude's status line
* for every CLI, so a Codex session reported itself idle through an entire turn. Each CLI
* now names its own pair in `capabilities.workDetect`, and a CLI that names none reports
* work exactly as before.
*
* The status-line fixtures below are verbatim captures from live panes
* (`tmux -L codeman capture-pane -p`) on Claude Code 2.1.220 and Codex CLI 0.152.1.
*/
import { describe, expect, it, vi, afterEach } from 'vitest';
import { Session } from '../src/session.js';
import { getCli } from '../src/config/cli-registry/index.js';
import { CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN } from '../src/utils/regex-patterns.js';
import {
trackActivityStreak,
isSustainedActivity,
isPaneQuiet,
ACTIVITY_GAP_MS,
WORKING_STREAK_MS,
IDLE_SILENCE_MS,
} from '../src/session-activity.js';
type SessionInternals = {
_handleTerminalOutput(data: string): void;
_detectInteractiveActivity(data: string): void;
};
/** One PTY chunk: what the pane emitted, exactly as the interactive handler sees it. */
function feed(session: Session, data: string): void {
const internals = session as unknown as SessionInternals;
internals._handleTerminalOutput(data);
internals._detectInteractiveActivity(data);
}
/**
* A session whose mux reports a fixed (or scripted) screen, so the pane probe has
* something to read. Only `capturePaneText` is exercised by these paths.
*/
function withFakePane(screen: string | (() => string), mode: 'claude' | 'codex' = 'claude'): Session {
const read = typeof screen === 'function' ? screen : () => screen;
const mux = {
isAvailable: () => true,
capturePaneText: () => read(),
} as unknown as NonNullable<Parameters<typeof Session.prototype.constructor>[0]>['mux'];
return new Session({
workingDir: '/tmp',
mode,
mux,
muxSession: { muxName: 'codeman-test', sessionId: 'test', createdAt: Date.now() },
} as ConstructorParameters<typeof Session>[0]);
}
/**
* Codex's pane, verbatim, while a turn runs and once it has finished. Codex draws `›` on
* its composer row through the whole turn, exactly as Claude draws `❯`, and prints
* `esc to interrupt` only while the turn is live.
*/
const CODEX_WORKING =
'Working (2m 49s • esc to interrupt)\n› Ask Codex to do anything\n' +
' gpt-5.6-sol high · Context 59% left · ~/innovi/irisplus-ent-2 · main\n';
const CODEX_FINISHED =
'─ Worked for 3m 47s ────────────────────\n› Ask Codex to do anything\n' +
' gpt-5.6-sol high · Context 57% left · ~/innovi/irisplus-ent-2 · main\n';
/** Codex's own composer repaint, the frame that arms the idle confirmation. */
const CODEX_COMPOSER_REPAINT = '\x1b[31;1H\x1b[38;5;246m›\xa0\x1b[39m\x1b[0m';
/** A composer repaint: the frame Claude ships roughly once a second while working. */
const COMPOSER_REPAINT =
'\x1b[31;1H\x1b[38;5;246m❯\xa0\x1b[39m\x1b[0m\x1b[33;1H \x1b[38;5;246mOpus 5 in:143,699 out:669 ctx:14%\x1b[39m';
describe('CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN', () => {
it('matches the live status line, whatever the glyph and gerund are', () => {
// Captured from three different live panes: the glyph animates through
// `· ✢ ✳ ∗ ✻ ✽` and the gerund is randomized per turn, so neither is matchable.
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test('✻ Actualizing… (15m 17s · ↓ 47.5k tokens)')).toBe(true);
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test('* Implementing the backend… (18m 59s · ↓ 69.9k tokens)')).toBe(true);
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test('· Finagling… (4m 45s · ↓ 13.3k tokens)')).toBe(true);
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test('✽ Herding… (3s · esc to interrupt)')).toBe(true);
});
it('does not match the FINISHED line, which carries the same glyph', () => {
// `✻ Cooked for 2m 49s` sits on screen for the whole idle period afterwards.
// Matching the glyph alone would pin such a session at "working" forever.
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test('✻ Cooked for 2m 49s')).toBe(false);
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test('✻ Brewed for 18m 41s')).toBe(false);
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test('✻ Worked for 2m 46s')).toBe(false);
});
it('ignores ordinary prose and the idle footer', () => {
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test(COMPOSER_REPAINT)).toBe(false);
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test(' ⏵⏵ bypass permissions on (shift+tab to cycle) · ← for agents')).toBe(
false
);
expect(CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN.test('the build took 45s to finish')).toBe(false);
});
});
describe('activity streak helpers', () => {
it('extends a streak while chunks keep arriving', () => {
let streak = trackActivityStreak(null, 1000);
streak = trackActivityStreak(streak, 2000);
streak = trackActivityStreak(streak, 3000);
expect(streak).toEqual({ startedAt: 1000, lastAt: 3000 });
});
it('restarts the streak after a gap', () => {
const first = trackActivityStreak(null, 1000);
const after = trackActivityStreak(first, 1000 + ACTIVITY_GAP_MS + 1);
expect(after.startedAt).toBe(1000 + ACTIVITY_GAP_MS + 1);
});
it('calls it working only once the streak spans the threshold', () => {
expect(isSustainedActivity(null)).toBe(false);
expect(isSustainedActivity({ startedAt: 0, lastAt: WORKING_STREAK_MS - 1 })).toBe(false);
expect(isSustainedActivity({ startedAt: 0, lastAt: WORKING_STREAK_MS })).toBe(true);
});
it('measures the streak on its own span, so a stale streak cannot age into working', () => {
// A single old chunk stays a single chunk no matter how much later we ask.
const oneChunk = { startedAt: 0, lastAt: 0 };
expect(isSustainedActivity(oneChunk)).toBe(false);
});
it('calls the pane quiet only after the silence window', () => {
expect(isPaneQuiet(1000, 1000 + IDLE_SILENCE_MS - 1)).toBe(false);
expect(isPaneQuiet(1000, 1000 + IDLE_SILENCE_MS)).toBe(true);
});
});
describe('Session interactive idle detection', () => {
afterEach(() => {
vi.useRealTimers();
});
it('stays busy through a long turn of composer repaints', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'claude' });
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('idle', () => events.push('idle'));
session.on('working', () => events.push('working'));
// 30 seconds of the once-a-second repaint a working pane emits. Every one of
// these carries a ❯; the old rule went idle after the first two seconds.
for (let i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
feed(session, COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
}
expect(events).toEqual(['working']);
expect(session.status).toBe('busy');
});
it('goes idle once the pane falls silent', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'claude' });
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('idle', () => events.push('idle'));
for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
feed(session, COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
}
expect(events).toEqual([]);
// Turn over: nothing more is emitted.
vi.advanceTimersByTime(IDLE_SILENCE_MS + 1000);
expect(events).toEqual(['idle']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
});
it('emits idle once, not once per re-check', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'claude' });
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('idle', () => events.push('idle'));
for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
feed(session, COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
}
vi.advanceTimersByTime(60_000);
expect(events).toEqual(['idle']);
});
it('refuses to go idle while the screen still shows the working line', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
// A turn can go completely silent inside one tool call (measured at 20+
// seconds on a live worker) while `✻ Elucidating… (39s · ↓ 2.0k tokens)`
// sits on screen the whole time. Silence alone must not end the turn.
const session = withFakePane('✻ Elucidating… (39s · ↓ 2.0k tokens)\n❯ \n');
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('idle', () => events.push('idle'));
for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
feed(session, COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
}
vi.advanceTimersByTime(60_000); // silent for a minute
expect(events).toEqual([]);
expect(session.status).toBe('busy');
});
it('goes idle once the working line leaves the screen', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const pane = { text: '✻ Elucidating… (39s · ↓ 2.0k tokens)\n❯ \n' };
const session = withFakePane(() => pane.text);
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('idle', () => events.push('idle'));
for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
feed(session, COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
}
vi.advanceTimersByTime(20_000);
expect(events).toEqual([]);
// Turn over: the same glyph remains, on the FINISHED line this time.
pane.text = '✻ Cooked for 2m 49s\n❯ \n';
vi.advanceTimersByTime(20_000);
expect(events).toEqual(['idle']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
});
it('does not call typing into the composer "working"', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
// Keystroke echo is a steady stream of repaints too, so the streak alone
// would call it work. The screen has no working line, which vetoes it.
const session = withFakePane('❯ some prompt being typed\n');
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('working', () => events.push('working'));
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
feed(session, '\x1b[31;3Hx');
vi.advanceTimersByTime(300);
}
expect(events).toEqual([]);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
});
it('does not mark an uncharacterised CLI working off raw activity', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
// Gemini and OpenCode render their own TUIs, and Codeman knows neither one's glyph,
// so nothing would arm the idle confirmation and a session marked working here would
// never recover. A CLI that names no glyph therefore reports no work at all.
expect(getCli('gemini')?.capabilities.workDetect).toBeUndefined();
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'gemini' });
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('working', () => events.push('working'));
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
feed(session, '\x1b[2K▌ Working (12s)');
vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
}
expect(events).toEqual([]);
});
it('marks a Codex pane working, and lets the turn end', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
let screen = CODEX_WORKING;
const session = withFakePane(() => screen, 'codex');
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('working', () => events.push('working'));
session.on('idle', () => events.push('idle'));
for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
feed(session, CODEX_COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
}
vi.advanceTimersByTime(20_000);
// The old code reported this session idle for the whole turn.
expect(events).toEqual(['working']);
expect(session.status).toBe('busy');
// Turn over: the working footer gives way to the finished line, which must NOT
// read as work — it sits on screen for the whole idle period afterwards.
screen = CODEX_FINISHED;
vi.advanceTimersByTime(20_000);
expect(events).toEqual(['working', 'idle']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
});
});
/**
* The launch settle (`_armPaneSettle` / `_settlePaneStartup`, 3 s after `startInteractive()`
* started a pane). The bug this pins: it set the status to idle WITHOUT an event, and when
* the launch paint never marked the pane working, the later idle confirmation found the
* status already idle and announced nothing either. The browser kept the `busy` the spawn
* broadcast, so a fresh codex, pi or opencode tile spun "working" for as long as it sat at
* its composer (measured on the 1.36.0 beta: `lastPromptTime: 0`, never an idle edge).
* A RESTORED pane of a CLI without work detection never got the settle at all.
*/
describe('external CLI launch settle', () => {
afterEach(() => {
vi.useRealTimers();
});
type LaunchInternals = { _resetBuffers(): void; _armPaneSettle(isRestored: boolean): void };
/** Codex at its composer after launch, verbatim from the beta pane that showed the bug. */
const CODEX_READY =
' >_ OpenAI Codex (v0.162.0)\n ~/codeman-cases/testcase\n› Ask Codex to do anything\n' +
' GPT-6-Luna default · ~/codeman-cases/testcase\n ? for shortcuts\n';
/** A session as `startInteractive()` leaves it: spawn-time `busy`, settle armed if it applies. */
function launch(session: Session, isRestored = false): string[] {
const internals = session as unknown as LaunchInternals;
const events: string[] = [];
session.on('idle', () => events.push('idle'));
session.on('working', () => events.push('working'));
session.on('needsRefresh', () => events.push('needsRefresh'));
internals._resetBuffers();
internals._armPaneSettle(isRestored);
return events;
}
it('announces a codex pane that paints its composer and goes quiet after the timer', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const session = withFakePane(CODEX_READY, 'codex');
const events = launch(session);
// The composer arms the confirmation, but a second paint keeps the pane
// from going quiet until after the 3 s timer has fired.
feed(session, CODEX_COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(600);
feed(session, '\x1b[33;3H\x1b[2m? for shortcuts\x1b[0m');
vi.advanceTimersByTime(60_000);
expect(events).toEqual(['idle', 'needsRefresh']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
expect(session.isWorking).toBe(false);
});
it('announces a codex pane whose launch paint never arms the confirmation', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const session = withFakePane(CODEX_READY, 'codex');
const events = launch(session);
feed(session, '\x1b[1;3H>_ OpenAI Codex (v0.162.0)');
vi.advanceTimersByTime(3000);
expect(events).toEqual(['idle', 'needsRefresh']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
// A composer repaint later on (a tile resize) must not announce it twice.
feed(session, CODEX_COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(60_000);
expect(events).toEqual(['idle', 'needsRefresh']);
});
it('does not announce twice when the confirmation already concluded before the timer', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const session = withFakePane(CODEX_READY, 'codex');
const events = launch(session);
feed(session, CODEX_COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(60_000);
expect(events).toEqual(['idle', 'needsRefresh']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
});
it('leaves a codex pane that is already working to its own confirmation', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
let screen = CODEX_WORKING;
const session = withFakePane(() => screen, 'codex');
const events = launch(session);
for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
feed(session, CODEX_COMPOSER_REPAINT);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
}
vi.advanceTimersByTime(10_000);
// The timer fired mid-turn and did not call the turn over.
expect(events).toEqual(['working', 'needsRefresh']);
expect(session.status).toBe('busy');
screen = CODEX_FINISHED;
vi.advanceTimersByTime(20_000);
expect(events).toEqual(['working', 'needsRefresh', 'idle']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
});
it('settles a CLI without work detection even when a launch spinner latched it working', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
// Nothing arms an idle confirmation for a CLI that names no composer glyph, so
// the launch timer is the only thing that can ever settle this pane.
expect(getCli('opencode')?.capabilities.workDetect).toBeUndefined();
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'opencode' });
const events = launch(session);
feed(session, '\x1b[5;3H⠋ Loading');
expect(session.isWorking).toBe(true);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(3000);
expect(events).toEqual(['working', 'idle', 'needsRefresh']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
expect(session.isWorking).toBe(false);
});
it('settles a RESTORED pane of a CLI without work detection, without a refetch', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
// A Codeman restart re-attaches every surviving pane through startInteractive(),
// which leaves it busy; opencode and gemini have no glyph that would ever clear that.
for (const mode of ['opencode', 'gemini', 'shell'] as const) {
expect(getCli(mode)?.capabilities.workDetect).toBeUndefined();
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode });
const events = launch(session, true);
expect(session.status).toBe('busy');
vi.advanceTimersByTime(3000);
expect(events).toEqual(['idle']);
expect(session.status).toBe('idle');
}
});
it('leaves a RESTORED claude or codex pane to its own glyph, so a restart mid-turn is not called idle', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
for (const mode of ['claude', 'codex'] as const) {
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode });
const events = launch(session, true);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(3000);
expect(events).toEqual([]);
expect(session.status).toBe('busy');
}
});
it('arms nothing for a NEW claude pane, which waits for its ❯ instead', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'claude' });
const events = launch(session);
vi.advanceTimersByTime(3000);
expect(events).toEqual([]);
});
it('does nothing for a session stopped before the timer', () => {
vi.useFakeTimers();
const session = withFakePane(CODEX_READY, 'codex');
const events = launch(session);
(session as unknown as { _isStopped: boolean })._isStopped = true;
vi.advanceTimersByTime(3000);
expect(events).toEqual([]);
});
});
describe("codex's work-detection descriptor", () => {
const codex = getCli('codex')?.capabilities.workDetect;
it('matches the footer Codex prints while a turn runs', () => {
expect(new RegExp(codex!.workingLine).test(CODEX_WORKING)).toBe(true);
});
it('does not match the finished line, nor the idle footer', () => {
expect(new RegExp(codex!.workingLine).test(CODEX_FINISHED)).toBe(false);
});
it('matches the footer case-insensitively on the E', () => {
// Characterised on codex-cli 0.152.1, which prints a lowercase `esc`. A future
// version capitalising it would otherwise make the whole fix silently inert:
// the pane would simply never look like it was working.
expect(new RegExp(codex!.workingLine).test(CODEX_WORKING.replace('esc to interrupt', 'Esc to interrupt'))).toBe(
true
);
});
it('names the glyph Codex actually draws on its composer row', () => {
expect(CODEX_COMPOSER_REPAINT).toContain(codex!.promptGlyph);
expect(CODEX_WORKING).toContain(codex!.promptGlyph);
});
});
describe('wire activity stamp across recovery', () => {
// The stamp both home screens sort the quiet group on. Recovery restores the
// previous run's value, and the settle window keeps the boot attach repaint
// (ordinary PTY output, arriving within seconds of construction) from
// restamping every session "now": measured live, a restart left 17 of 17
// sessions with an identical lastActivityAt, which flattens the ordering to
// tab order after every deploy.
const OLD = 1_700_000_000_000;
const restored = () =>
new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'claude', lastActivityAt: OLD } as ConstructorParameters<
typeof Session
>[0]);
it('restores the previous-run stamp and holds it through attach-repaint output', () => {
const session = restored();
expect(session.lastActivityAt).toBe(OLD);
(session as unknown as SessionInternals)._handleTerminalOutput('attach repaint bytes');
expect(session.lastActivityAt).toBe(OLD);
expect(session.toState().lastActivityAt).toBe(OLD);
});
it('a real action writes through the settle window', () => {
const session = restored();
session.assignTask('t1');
expect(session.lastActivityAt).toBeGreaterThan(OLD);
});
it('output after the window moves the stamp normally', () => {
const session = restored();
(session as unknown as { _wireActivitySettleUntil: number })._wireActivitySettleUntil = Date.now() - 1;
(session as unknown as SessionInternals)._handleTerminalOutput('real output');
expect(session.lastActivityAt).toBeGreaterThan(OLD);
});
it('a fresh session has no window: first output stamps immediately', () => {
const before = Date.now();
const session = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'claude' });
(session as unknown as SessionInternals)._handleTerminalOutput('x');
expect(session.lastActivityAt).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(before);
});
});