fix(tmux): confirm delivery by draft transition, not by prompt glyph (#1257) #1262

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@@ -97,13 +97,34 @@ printf '%s' "$MSG" | "${tmux_cmd[@]}" load-buffer -b "$BUF" -
# would otherwise accumulate forever.
sleep 0.5
# 2) Submit, then POSITIVELY confirm submission; flush with another Enter if it is
# still a draft. Success requires positive evidence — the queued banner, OR the
# REPL input box located AND clear of our message tail. The historical bug was
# treating ABSENCE of a draft as delivery: if the prompt glyph was never matched
# (wrong pane / prompt-glyph drift), an unsubmitted message read as "delivered"
# and worker->lead relays stalled silently. We now default to UNCONFIRMED and only
# upgrade to delivered on positive evidence; anything we cannot confirm fails loud.
# 2) Submit, then POSITIVELY confirm submission by DRAFT TRANSITION, not by prompt
# glyph. The historical bug was treating ABSENCE of a draft as delivery; the
# 2026-08 fix over-corrected to glyph inference (grep '|^>|│ >'), which locates
# only Claude Code's box and false-NEGATIVES every glyphless REPL (pi renders a
# U+2500 rule, no glyph) — a delivered message reported "UNDELIVERED", driving a
# retry that duplicates it. Runtime-agnostic evidence: our message tail sits on
# the INPUT line (located by the cursor row, not a glyph) BEFORE Enter, and has
# LEFT it AFTER — that transition is positive proof of submission and needs no
# glyph. Absence alone still never means delivered: if we never saw our draft on
# the input line we stay UNCONFIRMED (wrong/dead pane), and a draft that never
# leaves the input line stays a DRAFT (exit 2), preserving both historical guards.
_cursor_line() { # echo the pane's current input (cursor) line, glyph-free
local cy line
cy=$("${tmux_cmd[@]}" display-message -p -t "$EFFECTIVE_TARGET" -F '#{cursor_y}' 2>/dev/null) || return 1
[ -n "$cy" ] || return 1
"${tmux_cmd[@]}" capture-pane -t "$EFFECTIVE_TARGET" -p 2>/dev/null | sed -n "$((cy + 1))p"
}
_draft_on_input() { # true iff our message tail is sitting on the input line now
[ -n "$snippet" ] || return 1
printf '%s' "$(_cursor_line)" | grep -qF "$snippet"
}
# Baseline: after the paste, our draft must be on the input line. This is positive
# proof we are on the right pane and the paste landed — the anchor the transition
# check measures against.
saw_draft=0
_draft_on_input && saw_draft=1
status="unconfirmed"
for attempt in $(seq 1 $((RETRIES + 1))); do
"${tmux_cmd[@]}" send-keys -t "$EFFECTIVE_TARGET" Enter
@@ -113,20 +134,26 @@ for attempt in $(seq 1 $((RETRIES + 1))); do
if printf '%s' "$pane" | grep -qF "$QUEUED_RE"; then
status="queued"; break
fi
# Locate the REPL input box (prompt glyph). If we cannot see it, we have NO
# evidence of submission state — stay UNCONFIRMED and retry; never infer delivery.
# POSITIVE draft evidence from a located prompt box, when one exists. This is the
# cursor-row check's blind spot: a pane in COOKED mode (a plain shell whose
# foreground process never reads stdin) echoes our paste via the kernel line
# discipline and moves the cursor off it on Enter, which is indistinguishable from
# a real submit by cursor row alone. If a prompt box IS locatable and still carries
# our tail, that is affirmative proof the message was not consumed. Absence of a
# glyph is still never used for anything — that inference is the original E7 bug.
promptline=$(printf '%s' "$pane" | grep -E '|^>|│ >' | tail -1)
if [ -z "$promptline" ]; then
status="unconfirmed"; continue
fi
# Input box located AND still carrying our tail => unsubmitted draft. Flush + retry.
# (Submitted messages scroll up into history; a draft stays on the line.)
if [ -n "$snippet" ] && printf '%s' "$promptline" | grep -qF "$snippet"; then
if [ -n "$promptline" ] && [ -n "$snippet" ] && printf '%s' "$promptline" | grep -qF "$snippet"; then
status="draft"; continue
fi
# Input box located AND clear of our tail => positively submitted. This is the
# only path to success besides the queued banner.
status="delivered"; break
if [ "$saw_draft" = 1 ]; then
if _draft_on_input; then
status="draft"; continue # still on the input line => not submitted; flush + retry
fi
status="delivered"; break # left the input line => positively submitted
fi
# No confirmed baseline yet: try to (re)acquire it; never infer delivery from absence.
if _draft_on_input; then saw_draft=1; status="draft"; continue; fi
status="unconfirmed"; continue
done
[ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ] && { echo "--- pane tail ($TARGET) ---"; printf '%s\n' "$pane" | tail -4; echo "---"; }
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Red-first regression test for E7 (#1017 task 2): the confirm-check must bind
# "delivered" to WHETHER THE MESSAGE WAS SUBMITTED, not to which runtime's prompt
# glyph is present. A pi seat renders a U+2500 rule input box with no /^>/│ >
# glyph; send-message.sh:118 locates the box only by glyph, so a genuinely
# delivered message on a glyphless REPL falsely reports exit 2 "may be UNDELIVERED",
# and the operator's rc=2-driven retry duplicates it.
#
# Parameterized on $SEND: RED against the shipping blob (B and D fail), GREEN
# against a candidate patch. No pi; no fake HOME; hermetic throwaway socket.
#
# Submission counting is EXACT and terminal-echo-independent: the fixture message
# is `echo <tok> >>SINK`; each real submission appends one line. wc -l SINK ==
# number of times the REPL actually executed the send. This does not depend on how
# many times the marker string is painted on screen.
set -u
SEND="${SEND:?set SEND=/path/to/send-message.sh}"
SOCKET="glyphagnostic-$$"
TMP="$(mktemp -d)"
tmux() { command tmux -L "$SOCKET" "$@"; }
cleanup() { command tmux -L "$SOCKET" kill-server 2>/dev/null; rm -rf "$TMP"; }
trap cleanup EXIT
pass=0; fail=0
ok() { printf 'ok %s\n' "$1"; pass=$((pass+1)); }
no() { printf 'FAIL %s -- %s\n' "$1" "$2"; fail=$((fail+1)); }
mk() { tmux new-session -d -s "$1" -x 120 -y 40 -c "$TMP" "PS1='$2' exec bash --noprofile --norc -i"; sleep 0.5; }
subs() { [ -f "$1" ] && wc -l <"$1" | tr -d ' ' || echo 0; } # exact submission count
echo "SEND=$SEND tmux $(command tmux -V | awk '{print $2}')"
# --- A (control): glyph box () that submits => exit 0, exactly one submission.
mk ctl ' '
SINK="$TMP/sink.ctl"
out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t ctl -m "echo x >>'$SINK'" 2>"$TMP/e.ctl"); rc=$?; sleep 0.4
if [ "$rc" = 0 ] && [ "$(subs "$SINK")" = 1 ]; then
ok "control: -box submits => exit 0, exactly one submission"
else no "control: -box submits => exit 0, one submission" "rc=$rc subs=$(subs "$SINK") err=[$(cat "$TMP/e.ctl")]"; fi
# --- B (THE false-rc regression): glyphless U+2500 box that SUBMITS. Message lands
# (subs==1) yet shipping reports exit 2. Must be exit 0.
mk sub $'──────── \n'
SINK="$TMP/sink.sub"
out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t sub -m "echo x >>'$SINK'" 2>"$TMP/e.sub"); rc=$?; sleep 0.4
if [ "$rc" = 0 ] && [ "$(subs "$SINK")" = 1 ]; then
ok "glyphless: U+2500 box that submits => exit 0 (delivered, not 'UNDELIVERED')"
else no "glyphless: U+2500 box that submits => exit 0" \
"rc=$rc subs=$(subs "$SINK")(delivered=$([ "$(subs "$SINK")" -ge 1 ] && echo yes||echo no)) err=[$(cat "$TMP/e.sub")]"; fi
# --- D (duplicate arm): operator follows the rc=2 stderr and retries once. On the
# glyphless box, shipping => two submissions (the reported duplicate). The
# property: one logical send => exactly one submission. Same fix closes it.
mk dup $'──────── \n'
SINK="$TMP/sink.dup"
tries=0
for attempt in 1 2; do
tries=$((tries+1))
out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t dup -m "echo x >>'$SINK'" 2>/dev/null); rc=$?
sleep 0.4
[ "$rc" = 0 ] && break # operator stops retrying only when told delivered
done
if [ "$(subs "$SINK")" = 1 ]; then
ok "duplicate: one logical send (rc-driven retry) => exactly one submission (tries=$tries)"
else no "duplicate: one logical send => exactly one submission" "submissions=$(subs "$SINK") tries=$tries"; fi
# --- E (faithful hung managed TUI, NOT a cooked shell): raw/no-echo, paints nothing.
# A cooked `sleep infinity` echoes the paste via the kernel line discipline and
# false-passes a cursor-row fix that is correct on real seats (measured). So: raw.
mk_rawstuck() { tmux new-session -d -s "$1" -x 120 -y 40 -c "$TMP" \
"bash --noprofile --norc -c 'stty -echo -icanon min 1 time 0 2>/dev/null; exec sleep infinity'"; sleep 0.5; }
mk_rawstuck estuck
SINK="$TMP/sink.estuck"
out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t estuck -r 1 -m "this stuck draft was never submitted" 2>/dev/null); rc=$?
sleep 0.3
if [ "$rc" != 0 ] && [ "$(subs "$SINK")" = 0 ]; then
ok "raw/no-echo stuck TUI (not submitted) => non-zero (no false delivered)"
else no "raw stuck TUI must NOT report delivered" "rc=$rc subs=$(subs "$SINK")"; fi
# --- F (busy/queued branch, your BUSY-not-runtime finding): glyphless pane rendering the
# queued banner, never consuming. QUEUED_RE :113 fires before the glyph grep => rc=0.
mk_busy() { tmux new-session -d -s "$1" -x 120 -y 40 -c "$TMP" \
"bash --noprofile --norc -c 'printf \"Press up to edit queued messages\n\"; exec sleep infinity'"; sleep 0.5; }
mk_busy ebusy
SINK="$TMP/sink.ebusy"
out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t ebusy -m "echo x >>'$SINK'" 2>/dev/null); rc=$?; sleep 0.3
if [ "$rc" = 0 ]; then
ok "busy/queued-banner glyphless => exit 0 (queued is delivery; runtime owns custody)"
else no "busy/queued-banner must report delivered" "rc=$rc"; fi
# --- C (historical-bug guard): unresolvable target. No pane ever carried our draft
# => must fail, never infer delivered from absence of a glyph/snippet.
if out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t "nonexistent-$$" -m "echo x >>'$TMP/sink.wrong'" 2>/dev/null); then
no "wrong-pane: unresolvable target must NOT report success" "expected non-zero, got 0"
else ok "wrong-pane: unresolvable target => non-zero (no false delivered)"; fi
echo "---"; echo "pass=$pass fail=$fail"
[ "$fail" = 0 ]
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
#
# 1. DELIVERED — a REPL that renders a ` ` input box and submits on Enter
# (text scrolls to history, box clears) => exit 0 "✓ delivered".
# 2. UNCONFIRMED — a pane with NO locatable prompt glyph. This is the exact
# historical FALSE POSITIVE: pre-patch it printed "✓ delivered"
# exit 0; post-patch it MUST fail loud (exit 2, stderr
# "could not confirm submission").
# 2. DELIVERED — a pane with NO prompt glyph that DOES submit => exit 0. A pi
# seat is this fixture (U+2500 rule, no glyph). Reshaped for
# #1257; see the note at the fixture for why the old exit-2
# assertion was wrong.
# 2b. UNCONFIRMED— a glyphless pane that never submits (raw/no-echo hung TUI)
# => must fail loud. This carries the historical
# false-positive guard that fixture 2 used to be credited with.
# 3. DRAFT — a ` `-prompt pane that never submits (message stays on the
# input line) => exit 2, stderr "unsubmitted draft".
set -uo pipefail
@@ -37,19 +40,44 @@ else
no "delivered: -prompt REPL that submits => exit 0 ✓ delivered" "rc=$rc out=[$out] err=[$(cat "$TMP/e1")]"
fi
# --- Fixture 2: NO prompt glyph (default bash PS1). THE regression: pre-patch this
# was a silent false-positive "delivered"; post-patch it must be unconfirmed→exit 2.
# --- Fixture 2: NO prompt glyph, and the pane DOES submit (interactive bash).
# RESHAPED 2026-08-16 (#1257), deliberately. This fixture previously asserted
# exit 2 here and was labelled "false-positive FIXED". That assertion was wrong,
# and locking it in is what kept E7 alive: the pane submits, so "delivered" is
# the truth, and a pi seat — whose input box is a bare U+2500 rule with no glyph
# — IS this fixture. Reporting exit 2 for it told operators a delivered message
# may be undelivered, and the retry that advice invites is the duplicate.
#
# The guard this fixture was reaching for is real and is NOT dropped: "never
# infer delivered from absence" is now enforced positively by fixture 2b below
# (glyphless AND not submitting => must fail) and by fixture 3 (locatable box
# still carrying our tail => draft). Absence alone decides nothing either way.
tmux -L "$SOCKET" new-session -d -s noglyph -c "$TMP" \
'PS1="sh-noglyph$ " exec bash --noprofile --norc -i'
sleep 0.3
if out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t "=noglyph" -m "verdict fixture two must fail loud" 2>"$TMP/e2"); then
no "unconfirmed: glyphless pane must NOT report success" "expected exit 2, got 0 (out=[$out])"
out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t "=noglyph" -m "verdict fixture two must fail loud" 2>"$TMP/e2"); rc=$?
if [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] && printf '%s' "$out" | grep -qF "✓ delivered"; then
ok "delivered: glyphless pane that submits => exit 0 (runtime-agnostic, E7 FIXED)"
else
no "delivered: glyphless pane that submits => exit 0" "rc=$rc out=[$out] err=[$(cat "$TMP/e2")]"
fi
# --- Fixture 2b: NO prompt glyph AND never submits — a hung managed TUI holding the
# terminal in raw/no-echo, which is what a stuck agent seat actually is (measured
# on live pi: stty -echo -icanon). Nothing is echoed, nothing is consumed, so
# there is no positive evidence of submission and the tool MUST fail loud. This
# is the historical false-positive guard, kept as a positive test.
tmux -L "$SOCKET" new-session -d -s rawstuck -c "$TMP" \
'bash --noprofile --norc -c "stty -echo -icanon min 1 time 0 2>/dev/null; exec sleep infinity"'
sleep 0.3
if out=$("$SEND" -L "$SOCKET" -t "=rawstuck" -r 1 -m "verdict fixture two-b never submitted" 2>"$TMP/e2b"); then
no "unconfirmed: glyphless hung TUI must NOT report success" "expected non-zero, got 0 (out=[$out])"
else
rc=$?
if [ "$rc" -eq 2 ] && grep -qF "could not confirm submission" "$TMP/e2"; then
ok "unconfirmed: glyphless pane => exit 2 + 'could not confirm submission' (false-positive FIXED)"
if [ "$rc" -ne 0 ] && grep -qF "could not confirm submission" "$TMP/e2b"; then
ok "unconfirmed: glyphless hung TUI (raw/no-echo) => non-zero + 'could not confirm submission'"
else
no "unconfirmed: glyphless pane => exit 2 + stderr" "rc=$rc err=[$(cat "$TMP/e2")]"
no "unconfirmed: glyphless hung TUI => non-zero + stderr" "rc=$rc err=[$(cat "$TMP/e2b")]"
fi
fi