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Keep bounded, byte-counted terminal chunks and append only unread output. Use UTF-16 cursors so compaction preserves live terminal replies. Reset on lifecycle changes or a real retained-data gap. Keep the existing wire protocol, native buffer interface, and client retention limit. Native streaming and strict server replay byte bounds remain separate. Continue the client helpers from #9027 at source head 9391da2. Created with GPT-6 Astra (preview) in Codex. Co-Authored-By: Wout Stiens <71498452+StiensWout@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* perf(web): speed up terminal snapshots (#9663) (cherry picked from commit cccd7e3c885065e925f559c5708378cdb3b51eb3) * perf(server): stop rebuilding terminal history per chunk (#9703) Append terminal history incrementally and materialize text for snapshots and coalesced disk writes. Clear evicted line references without changing retained output. Continues [#9357](pingdotgg/t3code#9357). The original contribution and author credit are preserved. The current line limit and wire format stay unchanged. A strict byte limit remains separate work. Created with GPT-6 Astra (preview) in Codex. Co-authored-by: will <will@moondiner.com> (cherry picked from commit 3bbbc1d9fd8b3d649c60ba0137c7dae93a6aab3f) * perf(web): stop replaying terminal buffers on rollover (#9707) Keep bounded, byte-counted terminal chunks and append only unread output. Use UTF-16 cursors so compaction preserves live terminal replies. Reset on lifecycle changes or a real retained-data gap. Keep the existing wire protocol, native buffer interface, and client retention limit. Native streaming and strict server replay byte bounds remain separate. Continue the client helpers from pingdotgg/t3code#9027 at source head 9391da2b48439d1d7a2b01d169e785682bf8abb8. Created with GPT-6 Astra (preview) in Codex. Co-Authored-By: Wout Stiens <71498452+StiensWout@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit da7e46d08e85bcb07ecd78721a40f7b612fac2f2) * perf(server): bound terminal history by bytes (#9748) Keep at most 5,000 lines and 8 MiB of retained UTF-8 terminal history. Discard the oldest text at either limit while preserving complete live output. Track bytes and newlines in small chunks. Join split surrogates before eviction. Restore only the needed file tail, handle short reads, and close the file before rewriting current or legacy history. Created with GPT-6 Astra (preview) in Codex. Co-authored-by: will <will@moondiner.com> (cherry picked from commit cf9729d5ee9660c08556e823080d3bb19648ed28) * fix(server): advertise truecolor in the integrated terminal (#7680) Co-authored-by: Julius Marminge <51714798+juliusmarminge@users.noreply.github.com> (cherry picked from commit 89ee69e4430b21ee14565abf5c34dae43f38c1d8) * docs(terminal): describe history limits with Pylon identity --------- Co-authored-by: Theo Browne <me@t3.gg> Co-authored-by: will <will@moondiner.com> Co-authored-by: Wout Stiens <71498452+StiensWout@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Shubh <shubh@shubhxho.com> Co-authored-by: Julius Marminge <51714798+juliusmarminge@users.noreply.github.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds replay-aware terminal streaming across contracts, server state, web rendering, Android, and iOS. It introduces byte-bounded history, replay markers, UTF-8-safe chunking, buffered native writes, streaming Ghostty rendering, and extended scrollback replay. ChangesTerminal replay pipeline
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In `@apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts`:
- Around line 3324-3327: Update both bufferedEvents clear sites in the Manager
attach/resync flow to retain lifecycle events such as closed instead of dropping
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retained lifecycle events before switching to live delivery, matching the
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Rebase terminal streaming onto current main, retaining offset-based client output, bounded history reads, visibility controls, and provider-aware terminal launches. Capture extended replay before the attach repaint and restore the PTY size if attach is interrupted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 13-16: Update terminalAttachStream to obtain
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- Line 3312: Update the buffered event path in publishEvent to bound the
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1786-1789: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPersist the DEC mode state with compacted history.
When compaction removes an earlier DEC mode setter,
persistenceStartDecModesretains that state only in memory. The truncate write stores onlycapped. After a manager restart, the retained tail replays from default modes, so alternate-screen or other sticky-mode output can render in the wrong terminal state.Persist a replay prefix with the compacted history, or persist and restore the start-mode metadata. Add a restart test where the mode setter is before the retained tail.
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In `@apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts`:
- Around line 3349-3352: Retain the latest PTY startup error on the session
instead of clearing bootstrapError after one replay. Update the attach/replay
flow around bootstrap.snapshot.status and listener so every error-status
snapshot replays the retained failure reason, including later attaches; clear
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In `@apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts`:
- Around line 1786-1789: Update the compaction flow around capHistoryByBytes and
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[gpt-6] RESPONDING ON BEHALF OF WOUT:@coderabbitai review Fixed the two findings from the latest review in b09142c. Startup errors now belong to the session and survive later attaches until a successful launch. For the outside-diff DEC-mode finding, compacted durable history now includes its replay prefix in both memory and disk. This removes the separate persistence-start mode map and keeps append-recovery writes consistent. A test compacts away the mode setters, appends another frame, and loads the persisted history in a fresh manager; the original modes and final resets are preserved. All 119 manager/transport tests and the server typecheck pass. Please review the latest commit; automatic reviews remain paused. |
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Large terminal sessions repeatedly rewrote retained history and could queue unbounded output for slow clients. This streams bounded PTY batches, appends durable history, and lets web and native mobile clients replay deeper scrollback incrementally.
replayBytesrequest for compatibility.Rebased onto current main, preserving its offset-based client cursors, bounded history-file reads, hidden-terminal rendering controls, and provider-instance launch handling. Extended replay now captures history and its sequence together before requesting a repaint, preventing duplicate output. Cancelling an attach also restores the PTY's temporary resize. Compacted durable history carries its DEC mode prefix so replay stays consistent after a server restart.
Reset updates preserve replay/live segments on web, desktop, and mobile, including unread bytes arriving before a render or native surface reset. Both replay and transport queues preserve final output before close and release blocked producers on disconnect. Buffering starts atomically with the captured snapshot, retained startup errors follow every error-status snapshot, and close receives its sequence after pending output drains. A subscription that stops draining for 30 seconds fails explicitly and releases its producers, so it cannot block terminal lifecycle commands indefinitely. Alternate-screen recoloring is removed from this PR because RGB equality cannot distinguish terminal defaults from explicit application colors.
Validation: 260 focused tests across the terminal manager, transport queue, shared client state, native command mapping, and web/Ghostty WASM. Server, client-runtime, web, and mobile typechecks pass. Scoped lint has warnings but no errors. The new batched-reset and queue-overflow tests fail against the original implementation. One existing manager restart/write timing test failed during earlier parallel validation and passed on rerun. The final manager and transport pass completed all 119 tests successfully; all 27 terminal contract tests pass.
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Supersedes #8564.
Original work by GPT-5.6 Sol through Codex; earlier reviews by Claude Fable 5/5.1 through Claude Code. This update by GPT-6 through Codex, all in T3 Code.
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Changes span server attach/replay protocol, session state shape (
buffer→ chunkedoutput), and native mobile command paths; older clients or stale native binaries can mis-decode streams or lack streaming APIs.Overview
Mobile native terminals now accept incremental output instead of rebuilding from a single
initialBufferprop. Android and iOS exposestreamingRevision2 with asyncwrite,writeReplay, andreset, queue up to 8 MiB of pending data before the surface exists, suppress PTY query replies during replay, and coalesce redraws. Ghostty scrollback is configured as 64 MiB (byte budget) so large 4 MiB replays fit.NativeTerminalSurfaceswitches from a flatbufferstring toTerminalOutputState, gates on native streaming support, and queuesreset/write/writeReplaycommands with retry, deferred empty replay resets while history streams, and one-shot surface recovery on command failure. The thread route passesreplayPending,replayPaused, and requestsEXTENDED_TERMINAL_REPLAY_BYTESon attach when the binary supports it; buffer replay helpers only signal pause during font-layout transitions instead of hiding the whole buffer.Server
TerminalManagertests in this diff reflect the broader streaming work: byte-capped durable history and replay tails,replay-start/replay-completeonly whenreplayBytesis set, PTY output batching and pause/resume under backlog, DEC mode prefixing for aged replay tails, attach resize wiggle for alternate-screen apps, and stricter mouse report handling when tracking ends.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 54c67517d25b11b86ae025029ec4084a86d2177d. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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Stream terminal attach output with bounded replay, backpressure, and replay/live delivery
TerminalAttachTimeoutErrorand the manager subscription is unsubscribed, as implemented in AttachStream.tsreplayBytesonTerminalAttachInput(bounded to a default/extended/max range),replay-startandreplay-completestream events, andTerminalAttachTimeoutErrorin terminal.tswriteReplay/write/resetcommands, synchronized-output mode 2026 gating, and 64 MiB scrollback; replay segments stay distinct from live segments through surface.ts, T3TerminalView.kt, and T3TerminalView.swiftTerminalManagerOptionsreplaceshistoryLineLimit/historyByteLimitwith separatehistoryTargetBytes/historyMaxBytes/replayTargetBytes/replayMaxBytesand output batching/pending-event limits; attach listeners now receive areplay/livedelivery classification;TerminalSessionStateaddsreplayStartVersionandreplayCompleteVersionfields; mouse reports are withheld when tracking is inactive and serialized PTY writes target only the current running processMacroscope summarized a7bc5e7.
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