@adhdev/daemon-core 0.9.82-rc.41 → 0.9.82-rc.411

package/src/cli-adapters/raw-terminal-io.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
+import { randomUUID } from 'crypto';
+import {
+    SessionHostClient,
+    type SessionHostEndpoint,
+    type SessionHostRequest,
+    type SessionHostResponse,
+    type SessionTerminalSnapshot,
+    type SessionTerminalState,
+} from '@adhdev/session-host-core';
+
+type LowercaseLetter =
+    | 'a' | 'b' | 'c' | 'd' | 'e' | 'f' | 'g' | 'h' | 'i' | 'j' | 'k' | 'l' | 'm'
+    | 'n' | 'o' | 'p' | 'q' | 'r' | 's' | 't' | 'u' | 'v' | 'w' | 'x' | 'y' | 'z';
+
+type FunctionKey = 'f1' | 'f2' | 'f3' | 'f4' | 'f5' | 'f6' | 'f7' | 'f8' | 'f9' | 'f10' | 'f11' | 'f12';
+type BaseNamedKey =
+    | 'enter' | 'escape' | 'tab' | 'backspace'
+    | 'up' | 'down' | 'left' | 'right'
+    | 'home' | 'end' | 'pageup' | 'pagedown' | 'space'
+    | FunctionKey;
+type ShiftNamedKey = BaseNamedKey | LowercaseLetter | `ctrl+${LowercaseLetter}` | `alt+${LowercaseLetter}`;
+
+export type NamedKey =
+    | BaseNamedKey
+    | `ctrl+${LowercaseLetter}`
+    | `alt+${LowercaseLetter}`
+    | `shift+${ShiftNamedKey}`;
+
+const BASE_KEY_SEQUENCES: Record<BaseNamedKey, string> = {
+    enter: '\r',
+    escape: '\x1b',
+    tab: '\t',
+    backspace: '\x7f',
+    up: '\x1b[A',
+    down: '\x1b[B',
+    right: '\x1b[C',
+    left: '\x1b[D',
+    home: '\x1b[H',
+    end: '\x1b[F',
+    pageup: '\x1b[5~',
+    pagedown: '\x1b[6~',
+    space: ' ',
+    f1: '\x1bOP',
+    f2: '\x1bOQ',
+    f3: '\x1bOR',
+    f4: '\x1bOS',
+    f5: '\x1b[15~',
+    f6: '\x1b[17~',
+    f7: '\x1b[18~',
+    f8: '\x1b[19~',
+    f9: '\x1b[20~',
+    f10: '\x1b[21~',
+    f11: '\x1b[23~',
+    f12: '\x1b[24~',
+};
+
+const SHIFTED_CSI_KEYS: Partial<Record<BaseNamedKey, string>> = {
+    up: '\x1b[1;2A',
+    down: '\x1b[1;2B',
+    right: '\x1b[1;2C',
+    left: '\x1b[1;2D',
+    home: '\x1b[1;2H',
+    end: '\x1b[1;2F',
+    pageup: '\x1b[5;2~',
+    pagedown: '\x1b[6;2~',
+    f1: '\x1b[1;2P',
+    f2: '\x1b[1;2Q',
+    f3: '\x1b[1;2R',
+    f4: '\x1b[1;2S',
+    f5: '\x1b[15;2~',
+    f6: '\x1b[17;2~',
+    f7: '\x1b[18;2~',
+    f8: '\x1b[19;2~',
+    f9: '\x1b[20;2~',
+    f10: '\x1b[21;2~',
+    f11: '\x1b[23;2~',
+    f12: '\x1b[24;2~',
+};
+
+function isLowercaseLetter(value: string): value is LowercaseLetter {
+    return /^[a-z]$/.test(value);
+}
+
+function encodeControlLetter(letter: LowercaseLetter): string {
+    return String.fromCharCode(letter.charCodeAt(0) - 96);
+}
+
+function encodeShiftedKey(key: string): string {
+    if (isLowercaseLetter(key)) return key.toUpperCase();
+    if (key.startsWith('ctrl+') && isLowercaseLetter(key.slice(5))) {
+        return encodeControlLetter(key.slice(5) as LowercaseLetter);
+    }
+    if (key.startsWith('alt+') && isLowercaseLetter(key.slice(4))) {
+        return `\x1b${key.slice(4).toUpperCase()}`;
+    }
+    if (key === 'tab') return '\x1b[Z';
+    if (key in SHIFTED_CSI_KEYS) return SHIFTED_CSI_KEYS[key as BaseNamedKey]!;
+    if (key in BASE_KEY_SEQUENCES) return BASE_KEY_SEQUENCES[key as BaseNamedKey];
+    throw new Error(`Unsupported named key: shift+${key}`);
+}
+
+export function namedKeyToAnsi(key: NamedKey | string): string {
+    const normalized = String(key || '').trim().toLowerCase();
+    if (normalized in BASE_KEY_SEQUENCES) return BASE_KEY_SEQUENCES[normalized as BaseNamedKey];
+    if (normalized.startsWith('ctrl+') && isLowercaseLetter(normalized.slice(5))) {
+        return encodeControlLetter(normalized.slice(5) as LowercaseLetter);
+    }
+    if (normalized.startsWith('alt+') && isLowercaseLetter(normalized.slice(4))) {
+        return `\x1b${normalized.slice(4)}`;
+    }
+    if (normalized.startsWith('shift+')) return encodeShiftedKey(normalized.slice(6));
+    throw new Error(`Unsupported named key: ${key}`);
+}
+
+export function namedKeysToAnsi(keys: readonly (NamedKey | string)[]): string {
+    if (!Array.isArray(keys)) throw new Error('keys must be an array');
+    return keys.map(namedKeyToAnsi).join('');
+}
+
+export interface RawTerminalSessionHostClient {
+    connect(): Promise<void>;
+    request<T = unknown>(request: SessionHostRequest): Promise<SessionHostResponse<T>>;
+    close(): Promise<void>;
+}
+
+export interface RawTerminalAttachmentOptions {
+    endpoint?: SessionHostEndpoint;
+    sessionId: string;
+    mode?: 'read' | 'write';
+    clientId?: string;
+    client?: RawTerminalSessionHostClient;
+}
+
+export class RawTerminalAttachment {
+    private closed = false;
+
+    private constructor(
+        readonly sessionId: string,
+        private readonly clientId: string,
+        private readonly mode: 'read' | 'write',
+        private readonly client: RawTerminalSessionHostClient,
+    ) {}
+
+    static async attach(options: RawTerminalAttachmentOptions): Promise<RawTerminalAttachment> {
+        const sessionId = String(options.sessionId || '').trim();
+        if (!sessionId) throw new Error('sessionId is required');
+        const mode = options.mode || 'read';
+        const clientId = options.clientId || `raw-terminal-${process.pid}-${randomUUID().slice(0, 8)}`;
+        const client = options.client || new SessionHostClient({ endpoint: options.endpoint });
+        await client.connect();
+
+        const attachResponse = await client.request({
+            type: 'attach_session',
+            payload: {
+                sessionId,
+                clientId,
+                clientType: 'web',
+                readOnly: mode === 'read',
+            },
+        });
+        if (!attachResponse.success) {
+            await client.close().catch(() => {});
+            throw new Error(attachResponse.error || `Failed to attach terminal session ${sessionId}`);
+        }
+
+        if (mode === 'write') {
+            const ownerResponse = await client.request({
+                type: 'acquire_write',
+                payload: {
+                    sessionId,
+                    clientId,
+                    ownerType: 'user',
+                    force: true,
+                },
+            });
+            if (!ownerResponse.success) {
+                await client.request({
+                    type: 'detach_session',
+                    payload: { sessionId, clientId },
+                }).catch(() => ({ success: false }));
+                await client.close().catch(() => {});
+                throw new Error(ownerResponse.error || `Failed to acquire terminal session ${sessionId}`);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return new RawTerminalAttachment(sessionId, clientId, mode, client);
+    }
+
+    async readSnapshot(): Promise<SessionTerminalSnapshot> {
+        const response = await this.client.request<SessionTerminalSnapshot>({
+            type: 'get_terminal_snapshot',
+            payload: { sessionId: this.sessionId },
+        });
+        if (!response.success || !response.result) {
+            throw new Error(response.error || `Terminal screen unavailable for ${this.sessionId}`);
+        }
+        return response.result;
+    }
+
+    async readScreenText(): Promise<string> {
+        return (await this.readSnapshot()).text;
+    }
+
+    async readState(): Promise<SessionTerminalState> {
+        return (await this.readSnapshot()).state;
+    }
+
+    async writeInput(text: string): Promise<void> {
+        if (this.mode !== 'write') throw new Error('Raw terminal attachment is read-only');
+        const response = await this.client.request({
+            type: 'send_input',
+            payload: {
+                sessionId: this.sessionId,
+                clientId: this.clientId,
+                data: text,
+            },
+        });
+        if (!response.success) throw new Error(response.error || `Failed to write terminal input to ${this.sessionId}`);
+    }
+
+    async writeKeys(keys: readonly (NamedKey | string)[]): Promise<void> {
+        await this.writeInput(namedKeysToAnsi(keys));
+    }
+
+    async close(): Promise<void> {
+        if (this.closed) return;
+        this.closed = true;
+        if (this.mode === 'write') {
+            await this.client.request({
+                type: 'release_write',
+                payload: { sessionId: this.sessionId, clientId: this.clientId },
+            }).catch(() => ({ success: false }));
+        }
+        await this.client.request({
+            type: 'detach_session',
+            payload: { sessionId: this.sessionId, clientId: this.clientId },
+        }).catch(() => ({ success: false }));
+        await this.client.close().catch(() => {});
+    }
+}
+
+export async function withRawTerminalAttachment<T>(
+    options: RawTerminalAttachmentOptions,
+    operation: (attachment: RawTerminalAttachment) => Promise<T>,
+): Promise<T> {
+    const attachment = await RawTerminalAttachment.attach(options);
+    try {
+        return await operation(attachment);
+    } finally {
+        await attachment.close();
+    }
+}

package/src/cli-adapters/resolve-executable.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+import { execFileSync } from 'child_process';
+import { existsSync } from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+// Extensions ConPTY/CreateProcess can launch directly (not .cmd/.bat, which
+// need a cmd.exe wrapper).
+const DIRECT_EXEC_EXT = new Set(['.exe', '.com']);
+
+// Executable extensions to probe when scanning a directory ourselves, ordered
+// most-directly-launchable first. node-pty's ConPTY backend launches an
+// absolute `.cmd`/`.bat` shim fine (verified) — it only fails to *resolve* a
+// bare command against an incomplete PATH — so once we hand it an absolute
+// path, a `.cmd` shim works just as well as a real `.exe`.
+const WIN_EXEC_EXT = ['.exe', '.com', '.cmd', '.bat'];
+
+/**
+ * Resolve a bare command against well-known global-bin directories that are
+ * frequently NOT on the daemon's inherited PATH, so `where` (which only
+ * searches PATH) misses them. A daemon running under one Node install (e.g.
+ * nvm) never sees another npm prefix's bin dir — notably npm's Windows default
+ * prefix at %APPDATA%\npm, where `npm i -g @openai/codex` lands. Returns an
+ * absolute path on the first hit, or null. Mirrors findBinary()'s extraDirs in
+ * provider-cli-shared.ts; kept inline here so this lightweight module (loaded
+ * by pty-transport) need not pull in the heavier shared module.
+ */
+function resolveWin32GlobalBin(trimmed: string): string | null {
+  // Only resolve a bare command name — anything with a path separator is the
+  // caller's explicit location and must not be re-pointed at a global bin dir.
+  if (path.isAbsolute(trimmed) || trimmed.includes('/') || trimmed.includes('\\')) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const extraDirs: string[] = [];
+  if (process.env.APPDATA) extraDirs.push(path.join(process.env.APPDATA, 'npm'));
+  try { extraDirs.push(path.dirname(process.execPath)); } catch { /* best-effort */ }
+  for (const dir of extraDirs) {
+    if (!dir) continue;
+    for (const ext of WIN_EXEC_EXT) {
+      const full = path.join(dir, trimmed + ext);
+      if (existsSync(full)) return full;
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve a launch command to an absolute executable path on Windows.
+ *
+ * node-pty's ConPTY backend resolves a bare/relative command against the
+ * *calling process's* `Path` env var and — critically — does NOT apply PATHEXT.
+ * So a provider command like `claude` never matches `claude.exe` and the native
+ * layer throws `File not found:` (empty), which crashes the daemon. We resolve
+ * it to an absolute `.exe` here (in the daemon process, which has the full PATH)
+ * before the command ever reaches node-pty.
+ *
+ * No-op on non-Windows and when the command is already an existing absolute path
+ * or cannot be resolved (caller keeps the original behaviour).
+ */
+export function resolveWin32Executable(command: string): string {
+  if (process.platform !== 'win32') return command;
+  const trimmed = (command || '').trim();
+  if (!trimmed) return command;
+
+  // Already an absolute path that exists — keep it.
+  if (path.isAbsolute(trimmed) && existsSync(trimmed)) return trimmed;
+
+  try {
+    const out = execFileSync('where', [trimmed], {
+      encoding: 'utf8',
+      windowsHide: true,
+    }).trim();
+    if (out) {
+      const matches = out.split(/\r?\n/).map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+      // Prefer a directly-launchable executable (.exe/.com) over .cmd/.bat shims.
+      const direct = matches.find((m) => DIRECT_EXEC_EXT.has(path.extname(m).toLowerCase()));
+      return direct || matches[0] || command;
+    }
+  } catch {
+    // `where` not found / non-zero exit — fall through to the global-bin scan.
+  }
+
+  // `where` found nothing on PATH. Before giving up (and letting node-pty crash
+  // with "File not found:" on the bare command), search npm's off-PATH global
+  // bin dir(s). This is the codex case: `npm i -g @openai/codex` installs to
+  // %APPDATA%\npm, which is absent from a nvm-launched daemon's PATH, so a spec
+  // binary of "codex" never resolved and the spawn ENOENT'd.
+  const globalBin = resolveWin32GlobalBin(trimmed);
+  if (globalBin) return globalBin;
+
+  return command;
+}

package/src/cli-adapters/session-host-transport.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
     type SessionHostRecord,
 } from '@adhdev/session-host-core';
 import { LOG } from '../logging/logger.js';
+import { resolveWin32Executable } from './resolve-executable.js';
 import type { PtyRuntimeMetadata, PtyRuntimeTransport, PtySpawnOptions, PtyTransportFactory } from './pty-transport.js';
 
 interface SessionHostPtyTransportFactoryOptions {
@@ -435,7 +436,7 @@ export class SessionHostPtyTransportFactory implements PtyTransportFactory {
     spawn(command: string, args: string[], spawnOptions: PtySpawnOptions): PtyRuntimeTransport {
         return new SessionHostRuntimeTransport({
             ...this.options,
-            command,
+            command: resolveWin32Executable(command),
             args,
             spawnOptions,
         });

package/src/cli-adapters/terminal-backends/ghostty-vt-backend.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import type {
     TerminalViewportBackend,
     TerminalViewportBackendOptions,
-    TerminalViewportBackendPreference,
 } from './types.js';
 
 type GhosttyVtTerminal = {
@@ -30,6 +29,15 @@ function isModuleNotFoundError(error: unknown, ref: string): boolean {
     return code === 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' && message.includes(ref);
 }
 
+// Identifies the host runtime so a binding-load failure names the exact ABI it
+// looked for. The underlying binding is N-API (ABI-stable), so a failure here is
+// almost always "no prebuilt directory addressed this triplet" rather than a
+// true ABI incompatibility — making the triplet the single most useful
+// diagnostic to surface in an env-blocker report.
+function runtimeTriplet(): string {
+    return `${process.platform}-${process.arch}-node${process.versions.modules}`;
+}
+
 function normalizeBinding(mod: any, ref: string): GhosttyVtBinding {
     const binding = mod?.default?.createTerminal
         ? mod.default
@@ -49,12 +57,10 @@ function getBindingCandidates(): string[] {
     return explicit ? [explicit] : DEFAULT_BINDING_CANDIDATES;
 }
 
-function loadGhosttyVtBinding(required: boolean): GhosttyVtBinding | null {
+function loadGhosttyVtBinding(): GhosttyVtBinding {
     if (cachedBinding !== undefined) {
-        if (!cachedBinding && required && cachedBindingError) {
-            throw cachedBindingError;
-        }
-        return cachedBinding;
+        if (!cachedBinding && cachedBindingError) throw cachedBindingError;
+        return cachedBinding!;
     }
 
     const errors: string[] = [];
@@ -65,7 +71,7 @@ function loadGhosttyVtBinding(required: boolean): GhosttyVtBinding | null {
             const mod = require(ref);
             cachedBinding = normalizeBinding(mod, ref);
             cachedBindingError = null;
-            return cachedBinding;
+            return cachedBinding!;
         } catch (error) {
             if (isModuleNotFoundError(error, ref)) {
                 errors.push(`${ref}: module not found`);
@@ -78,57 +84,85 @@ function loadGhosttyVtBinding(required: boolean): GhosttyVtBinding | null {
 
     cachedBinding = null;
     cachedBindingError = new Error(
-        `ghostty-vt backend requested but no binding is available (${errors.join('; ') || 'no candidates tried'})`,
+        `ghostty-vt binding unavailable for runtime ${runtimeTriplet()} ` +
+            `(${errors.join('; ') || 'no candidates tried'})`,
     );
-
-    if (required) throw cachedBindingError;
-    return null;
-}
-
-export function resolveTerminalBackendPreference(): TerminalViewportBackendPreference {
-    const raw = process.env.ADHDEV_TERMINAL_BACKEND?.trim().toLowerCase();
-    if (raw === 'ghostty-vt' || raw === 'xterm' || raw === 'auto') return raw;
-    return 'auto';
-}
-
-export function isGhosttyVtBackendAvailable(): boolean {
-    return !!loadGhosttyVtBinding(false);
+    throw cachedBindingError;
 }
 
 export class GhosttyVtTerminalBackend implements TerminalViewportBackend {
     readonly kind = 'ghostty-vt' as const;
     private terminal: GhosttyVtTerminal;
+    private rows: number;
+    private disposed = false;
 
     constructor(options: TerminalViewportBackendOptions) {
-        const binding = loadGhosttyVtBinding(true);
-        if (!binding) {
-            throw new Error('ghostty-vt backend requested but no binding is available');
-        }
+        const binding = loadGhosttyVtBinding();
+        this.rows = Math.max(1, options.rows | 0);
         this.terminal = binding.createTerminal({
             cols: Math.max(1, options.cols | 0),
-            rows: Math.max(1, options.rows | 0),
+            rows: this.rows,
             scrollback: Math.max(0, options.scrollback | 0),
         });
     }
 
     resize(rows: number, cols: number): void {
-        this.terminal.resize(Math.max(1, cols | 0), Math.max(1, rows | 0));
+        this.rows = Math.max(1, rows | 0);
+        this.terminal.resize(Math.max(1, cols | 0), this.rows);
     }
 
     write(data: string): void {
-        if (!data) return;
+        if (!data || this.disposed) return;
         this.terminal.write(data);
     }
 
+    private formatLines(): string[] {
+        // ghostty's `trim:true` collapses CUF-advanced cells — many TUIs including
+        // Claude Code render spaces via cursor-forward rather than literal spaces,
+        // which would break downstream regex matching. Keep per-row padding and
+        // trim trailing whitespace ourselves.
+        //
+        // formatPlainText uses a .screen pin which includes scrollback history.
+        const raw = this.terminal.formatPlainText({ trim: false }) || '';
+        if (!raw) return [];
+        return raw.split('\n').map((row) => row.replace(/\s+$/, ''));
+    }
+
+    private static trimBlankEnds(lines: string[]): string {
+        let first = 0;
+        let last = lines.length;
+        while (first < last && !lines[first]) first += 1;
+        while (last > first && !lines[last - 1]) last -= 1;
+        return lines.slice(first, last).join('\n');
+    }
+
     getText(): string {
-        return this.terminal.formatPlainText({ trim: true }) || '';
+        if (this.disposed) return '';
+        const lines = this.formatLines();
+        if (lines.length === 0) return '';
+        // Take only the viewport (last `rows` lines) to exclude scrollback history.
+        const viewport = lines.length > this.rows ? lines.slice(-this.rows) : lines;
+        return GhosttyVtTerminalBackend.trimBlankEnds(viewport);
+    }
+
+    getTextWithScrollback(): string {
+        if (this.disposed) return '';
+        const lines = this.formatLines();
+        if (lines.length === 0) return '';
+        // Full buffer including scrollback — does NOT slice to the viewport, so a
+        // tall prompt whose top has scrolled above the visible rows is still
+        // matchable by content patterns.
+        return GhosttyVtTerminalBackend.trimBlankEnds(lines);
     }
 
     getCursorPosition(): { col: number; row: number } {
+        if (this.disposed) return { col: 0, row: 0 };
         return this.terminal.getCursorPosition();
     }
 
     dispose(): void {
+        if (this.disposed) return;
+        this.disposed = true;
         this.terminal.dispose();
     }
 }

package/src/cli-adapters/terminal-backends/types.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-export type TerminalViewportBackendKind = 'xterm' | 'ghostty-vt';
-
-export type TerminalViewportBackendPreference = TerminalViewportBackendKind | 'auto';
+export type TerminalViewportBackendKind = 'ghostty-vt';
 
 export type TerminalViewportBackendOptions = {
     rows: number;
@@ -13,6 +11,15 @@ export interface TerminalViewportBackend {
     resize(rows: number, cols: number): void;
     write(data: string): void;
     getText(): string;
+    /**
+     * Like getText() but includes scrollback history (the lines that have
+     * scrolled above the visible viewport). Used by content-pattern matching
+     * (e.g. approval/modal button extraction) that must stay correct when a
+     * tall prompt — a big diff or long explanation — pushes part of the
+     * prompt box above the viewport. NOT for cursor-relative / stable_ms
+     * conditions, whose row indices are viewport-relative.
+     */
+    getTextWithScrollback(): string;
     getCursorPosition(): { col: number; row: number };
     dispose(): void;
 }

package/src/cli-adapters/terminal-screen.ts

@@ -1,99 +1,29 @@
 /**
- * PTY screen snapshot abstraction.
- *
- * Terminal viewport backend selection.
- *
- * Runtime preference is backend-agnostic:
- * - prefer ghostty-vt when available (or when explicitly requested)
- * - fall back to xterm when ghostty-vt is unavailable
+ * PTY screen snapshot abstraction — ghostty-vt backend.
  */
 
-import { LOG } from '../logging/logger.js';
-import { GhosttyVtTerminalBackend, isGhosttyVtBackendAvailable, resolveTerminalBackendPreference } from './terminal-backends/ghostty-vt-backend.js';
-import type {
-    TerminalViewportBackend,
-    TerminalViewportBackendKind,
-    TerminalViewportBackendOptions,
-    TerminalViewportBackendPreference,
-} from './terminal-backends/types.js';
-import { XtermTerminalBackend } from './terminal-backends/xterm-backend.js';
+import { GhosttyVtTerminalBackend } from './terminal-backends/ghostty-vt-backend.js';
+import type { TerminalViewportBackendKind } from './terminal-backends/types.js';
+import { DEFAULT_SESSION_HOST_COLS, DEFAULT_SESSION_HOST_ROWS } from '@adhdev/session-host-core';
 
 const DEFAULT_SCROLLBACK = 2000;
-const loggedTerminalBackends = new Set<string>();
 
 export function getTerminalBackendRuntimeStatus(): {
     backend: TerminalViewportBackendKind;
-    preference: TerminalViewportBackendPreference;
-    ghosttyAvailable: boolean;
 } {
-    const preference = resolveTerminalBackendPreference();
-    const ghosttyAvailable = isGhosttyVtBackendAvailable();
-    const backend: TerminalViewportBackendKind = (
-        preference === 'ghostty-vt' || (preference === 'auto' && ghosttyAvailable)
-            ? 'ghostty-vt'
-            : 'xterm'
-    );
-    return { backend, preference, ghosttyAvailable };
-}
-
-function createTerminalBackend(
-    options: TerminalViewportBackendOptions,
-    preference: TerminalViewportBackendPreference,
-): TerminalViewportBackend {
-    const ghosttyAvailable = isGhosttyVtBackendAvailable();
-    if (preference === 'ghostty-vt') {
-        const backend = new GhosttyVtTerminalBackend(options);
-        logTerminalBackendSelection(preference, ghosttyAvailable, backend.kind);
-        return backend;
-    }
-
-    if (preference === 'auto' && ghosttyAvailable) {
-        const backend = new GhosttyVtTerminalBackend(options);
-        logTerminalBackendSelection(preference, ghosttyAvailable, backend.kind);
-        return backend;
-    }
-
-    const backend = new XtermTerminalBackend(options);
-    logTerminalBackendSelection(preference, ghosttyAvailable, backend.kind);
-    return backend;
-}
-
-function logTerminalBackendSelection(
-    preference: TerminalViewportBackendPreference,
-    ghosttyAvailable: boolean,
-    backendKind: TerminalViewportBackendKind,
-): void {
-    const key = `${preference}:${ghosttyAvailable}:${backendKind}`;
-    if (loggedTerminalBackends.has(key)) return;
-    loggedTerminalBackends.add(key);
-    if (backendKind === 'xterm' && preference !== 'xterm' && !ghosttyAvailable) {
-        const message = `[terminal-screen] ghostty-vt unavailable; using xterm fallback (preference=${preference})`;
-        if (preference === 'auto') {
-            LOG.info('Terminal', message);
-        } else {
-            LOG.warn('Terminal', message);
-        }
-        return;
-    }
-    LOG.info(
-        'Terminal',
-        `[terminal-screen] backend=${backendKind} preference=${preference} ghosttyAvailable=${ghosttyAvailable}`,
-    );
+    return { backend: 'ghostty-vt' };
 }
 
 export class TerminalScreen {
-    readonly backendKind: TerminalViewportBackendKind;
+    readonly backendKind: TerminalViewportBackendKind = 'ghostty-vt';
     private rows: number;
     private cols: number;
-    private readonly preference: TerminalViewportBackendPreference;
-    private terminal: TerminalViewportBackend;
+    private terminal: GhosttyVtTerminalBackend;
 
-    constructor(rows = 40, cols = 120) {
+    constructor(rows = DEFAULT_SESSION_HOST_ROWS, cols = DEFAULT_SESSION_HOST_COLS) {
         this.rows = Math.max(1, rows | 0);
         this.cols = Math.max(1, cols | 0);
-        this.preference = resolveTerminalBackendPreference();
         this.terminal = this.createBackend();
-        this.backendKind = this.terminal.kind;
     }
 
     reset(rows = this.rows, cols = this.cols): void {
@@ -117,6 +47,11 @@ export class TerminalScreen {
         return this.terminal.getText();
     }
 
+    /** Full buffer including scrollback history (see backend doc). */
+    getTextWithScrollback(): string {
+        return this.terminal.getTextWithScrollback();
+    }
+
     getCursorPosition(): { col: number; row: number } {
         return this.terminal.getCursorPosition();
     }
@@ -125,11 +60,11 @@ export class TerminalScreen {
         this.terminal.dispose();
     }
 
-    private createBackend(): TerminalViewportBackend {
-        return createTerminalBackend({
+    private createBackend(): GhosttyVtTerminalBackend {
+        return new GhosttyVtTerminalBackend({
             cols: this.cols,
             rows: this.rows,
             scrollback: DEFAULT_SCROLLBACK,
-        }, this.preference);
+        });
     }
 }