@adhdev/daemon-core 0.9.82-rc.46 → 0.9.82-rc.460

package/src/cli-adapters/cli-state-engine.ts

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+/**
+ * CliStateEngine — CLI provider status state machine
+ *
+ * Owns all status-transition logic, timer management, and script-driven
+ * evaluation. Reads buffer state from the transport and writes to PTY via
+ * the transport interface — adapter stays as pure I/O layer.
+ */
+
+import { LOG } from '../logging/logger.js';
+import {
+    buildCliParseInput,
+    normalizeCliParsedMessages,
+    type TurnParseScope,
+} from './provider-cli-parse.js';
+import {
+    buildCliScreenSnapshot,
+    compactPromptText,
+    normalizePromptText,
+    promptLikelyVisible,
+    type CliChatMessage,
+    type CliProviderModule,
+    type CliSessionStatus,
+    type CliTraceEntry,
+    type ParsedSession,
+} from './provider-cli-shared.js';
+import type { CliScriptRunner } from './cli-script-runner.js';
+
+// ─── Types ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+export interface CliBufferSnapshot {
+    accumulatedBuffer: string;
+    accumulatedRawBuffer: string;
+    recentOutputBuffer: string;
+    responseBuffer: string;
+    screenText: string;
+    parseScreenText: string;
+    workingDir: string;
+    providerSessionId: string | null;
+    runtimeSettings: Record<string, any>;
+    isWaitingForResponse: boolean;
+    currentTurnScope: TurnParseScope | null;
+    lastOutputAt: number;
+    lastNonEmptyOutputAt: number;
+    lastScreenChangeAt: number;
+    lastScreenSnapshot: string;
+}
+
+/** What the engine needs from the transport layer */
+export interface CliTransportAccess {
+    getSnapshot(): CliBufferSnapshot;
+    writeRaw(data: string | Buffer): void;
+    getApprovalKeyForIndex(buttonIndex: number): string | undefined;
+    flushOutboundQueue(): void;
+    isAlive(): boolean;
+    /** Optional: override script dispatch (used by tests to mock detection) */
+    runDetectStatus?(text: string): string | null;
+    /** Optional: override script dispatch (used by tests to mock approval) */
+    runParseApproval?(tail: string): { message: string; buttons: string[] } | null;
+    /** Optional: override full session parse (used by tests to mock parsing) */
+    runParseSession?(): ParsedSession | null;
+    /** Optional: provider type override — used when tests patch the adapter's cliType */
+    cliType?: string;
+}
+
+export interface CliStateEngineCallbacks {
+    onStatusChange(): void;
+    onApplyParsedSession(session: ParsedSession): void;
+    onTurnCompleted(): void;
+}
+
+interface IdleFinishCandidate {
+    armedAt: number;
+    lastOutputAt: number;
+    lastScreenChangeAt: number;
+    responseEpoch: number;
+    assistantLength: number;
+}
+
+interface SettledEvalContext {
+    now: number;
+    modal: { message: string; buttons: string[] } | null;
+    status: string;
+    parsedMessages: CliChatMessage[];
+    lastParsedAssistant: CliChatMessage | undefined;
+    parsedStatus: string | null;
+    prevStatus: string;
+}
+
+// ─── Constants ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const SCRIPT_STATUS_DEBOUNCE_MS = 3000;
+const MAX_FINISH_RETRIES = 2;
+const FINISH_RETRY_DELAY_MS = 300;
+const MAX_TRACE_ENTRIES = 250;
+const APPROVAL_EXIT_TIMEOUT_MS = 60_000;
+const IDLE_CONFIRMATION_GRACE_MS = 2_000;
+
+// ─── Engine ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+export class CliStateEngine {
+    // ── Status ───────────────────────────────────────
+    currentStatus: CliSessionStatus['status'] = 'starting';
+    isWaitingForResponse = false;
+    currentTurnScope: TurnParseScope | null = null;
+    // ARCH-REFACTOR R1 (per-turn task identity): the mesh taskId bound to the most
+    // recently STARTED turn. Unlike currentTurnScope (nulled the moment the turn
+    // settles, before the completion event is even built), this persists past
+    // completion and is only overwritten when the NEXT turn starts. That window is
+    // exactly what the completion path needs: when a turn settles to idle, this still
+    // holds THAT turn's taskId (the next task's turn cannot have started yet — it is
+    // queued in pendingOutbound and only flushed asynchronously after idle), so the
+    // completion event carries the correct id instead of the racy session scalar.
+    currentTurnTaskId: string | null = null;
+    // GENERATING-BOUNDARY (R4d): wall-clock when the most recently STARTED turn began
+    // (set by onTurnStarted, persists past completion until the next turn starts).
+    // The startup-grace idle-stayed synthesis anchors its window on when the FIRST turn
+    // STARTED — not on when it finished — so a turn dispatched a few seconds after the
+    // grace collapse and then running for a non-trivial duration is still attributed to
+    // the startup collapse even though its COMPLETION lands past a now-anchored window.
+    currentTurnStartedAt = 0;
+    activeModal: { message: string; buttons: string[] } | null = null;
+
+    // ── Approval ─────────────────────────────────────
+    lastApprovalResolvedAt = 0;
+    lastResolvedModalMessage = '';
+    /**
+     * Monotonic counter bumped every time the FSM *enters* waiting_approval
+     * with a freshly captured modal (see `applyWaitingApproval`). It is the
+     * single discriminator between "the same approval re-observed across TUI
+     * paint flaps" and "a genuinely new, distinct approval".
+     *
+     * The message-equality cooldown below (`lastResolvedModalMessage`) cannot
+     * tell these apart on its own: claude-cli routinely presents consecutive
+     * approvals whose modal message text is identical (e.g. two back-to-back
+     * Bash-command prompts). When that second approval arrived inside
+     * `approvalCooldown`, the message-equality guard silently swallowed the
+     * key write and the approval stuck forever — fatal under auto-approval.
+     *
+     * `approvalEntrySeq` increments on every fresh entry; `lastResolvedEntrySeq`
+     * records which entry the cooldown belongs to. We only short-circuit the
+     * write when we are still resolving *that same* entry — a new entry (new
+     * seq) is always a real, distinct approval and must be written.
+     */
+    approvalEntrySeq = 0;
+    // Records which approval entry the last resolveModal() handled. Set unconditionally on
+    // every resolveModal (auto-approve fire, dashboard/mesh_approve, dev-cli-debug), so
+    // `lastResolvedEntrySeq >= approvalEntrySeq` is positive, ADHDev-side proof that the
+    // current/latest approval entry was actually resolved. Exposed via getStatus so the
+    // completion finalization gate (FALSEIDLE-a) can require resolution evidence before
+    // confirming a waiting_approval→idle transition. Public (read-only by convention).
+    lastResolvedEntrySeq = -1;
+    /**
+     * When the engine previously held a modal but the latest parse failed
+     * to extract one, we record the timestamp here and only drop the modal
+     * after the configured `approvalCooldown` to avoid flapping between
+     * waiting_approval and generating on every Claude TUI redraw — that
+     * flapping is what fed auto-approve a fresh modal signature on each
+     * paint and made the engine type "1" repeatedly into the prompt.
+     */
+    modalLostAt = 0;
+    private approvalExitTimeout: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null;
+
+    // ── Response tracking ────────────────────────────
+    responseEpoch = 0;
+    submitPendingUntil = 0;
+    responseSettleIgnoreUntil = 0;
+    submitRetryUsed = false;
+    submitRetryPromptSnippet = '';
+    finishRetryCount = 0;
+    providerErrorMessage: string | null = null;
+    providerErrorReason: string | null = null;
+
+    // ── Timers ───────────────────────────────────────
+    private settleTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null;
+    private idleTimeout: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null;
+    private finishRetryTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null;
+    private providerErrorRetryTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null;
+    private providerErrorRetryKey = '';
+
+    // ── Debounce ─────────────────────────────────────
+    pendingScriptStatus: 'generating' | 'waiting_approval' | null = null;
+    pendingScriptStatusSince = 0;
+    private pendingScriptStatusTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null;
+
+    // ── Idle candidate ───────────────────────────────
+    private idleFinishCandidate: IdleFinishCandidate | null = null;
+
+    // ── Idle confirmation grace ──────────────────────
+    /**
+     * `finishResponse` produces the `generating → idle` transition that
+     * coordinators interpret as "task complete". Some providers (antigravity-
+     * cli observed in the wild) briefly paint a screen that looks like an
+     * idle prompt between tool result frames while still actively running,
+     * which fired `response_finished` and broke completion semantics.
+     * We defer the actual idle transition by IDLE_CONFIRMATION_GRACE_MS and
+     * cancel it if the scripted detection re-detects generating during that
+     * window — a true completion stays idle for many seconds, so a 2-second
+     * grace is sufficient to filter the paint blip.
+     */
+    private pendingIdleFinishTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null;
+    private pendingIdleFinishAt = 0;
+
+    // ── Status history (debug) ───────────────────────
+    private statusHistory: { status: string; at: number; trigger?: string }[] = [];
+    private traceEntries: CliTraceEntry[] = [];
+    private traceSeq = 0;
+    private traceSessionId = '';
+
+    constructor(
+        private readonly provider: CliProviderModule,
+        private readonly runner: CliScriptRunner,
+        private readonly transport: CliTransportAccess,
+        private readonly callbacks: CliStateEngineCallbacks,
+        private readonly timeouts: Required<NonNullable<CliProviderModule['timeouts']>>,
+    ) {}
+
+    // ─── Public API ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    setStatus(status: CliSessionStatus['status'], trigger?: string): void {
+        const prev = this.currentStatus;
+        if (prev === status) return;
+        this.currentStatus = status;
+        this.statusHistory.push({ status, at: Date.now(), trigger });
+        if (this.statusHistory.length > 50) this.statusHistory.shift();
+        this.recordTrace('status', { previousStatus: prev, trigger: trigger || null });
+        LOG.info('CLI', `[${this.provider.type}] status: ${prev} → ${status}${trigger ? ` (${trigger})` : ''}`);
+    }
+
+    scheduleSettle(): void {
+        if (this.settleTimer) clearTimeout(this.settleTimer);
+        const epoch = this.responseEpoch;
+        const delay = Math.max(
+            this.timeouts.outputSettle,
+            this.submitPendingUntil > Date.now()
+                ? (this.submitPendingUntil - Date.now()) + this.timeouts.outputSettle
+                : 0,
+        );
+        this.settleTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+            this.settleTimer = null;
+            if (epoch !== this.responseEpoch) return;
+            this.evaluateSettled(this.transport.getSnapshot());
+        }, delay);
+    }
+
+    /** Called from sendMessage in transport once a turn scope is established. */
+    onTurnStarted(turnScope: TurnParseScope): void {
+        this.isWaitingForResponse = true;
+        this.finishRetryCount = 0;
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('send_message');
+        this.currentTurnScope = turnScope;
+        // ARCH-REFACTOR R1: bind this turn's mesh taskId. A task-less (ad-hoc dashboard)
+        // turn carries no taskId → null here, which correctly clears any prior task's id
+        // so an ad-hoc turn's completion is never stamped with a stale taskId.
+        this.currentTurnTaskId = typeof turnScope.taskId === 'string' && turnScope.taskId.trim()
+            ? turnScope.taskId
+            : null;
+        // R4d: stamp the turn-start moment so the startup-grace idle-stayed synthesis can
+        // anchor its window on dispatch time rather than completion time.
+        this.currentTurnStartedAt = Date.now();
+        this.responseEpoch += 1;
+    }
+
+    /** Called when PTY exits */
+    onPtyExit(): void {
+        this.clearAllTimers();
+        this.setStatus('stopped', 'pty_exit');
+    }
+
+    /** Called when adapter starts up successfully */
+    onSpawnReady(): void {
+        this.setStatus('starting', 'pty_ready');
+        this.traceEntries = [];
+        this.traceSeq = 0;
+        this.traceSessionId = `${Date.now().toString(36)}-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 8)}`;
+        this.recordTrace('session_start', { providerType: this.provider.type });
+    }
+
+    resolveModal(buttonIndex: number): void {
+        const snap = this.transport.getSnapshot();
+        const parseApproval = typeof this.transport.runParseApproval === 'function'
+            ? (s: CliBufferSnapshot) => this.transport.runParseApproval!(s.recentOutputBuffer.slice(-500))
+            : (s: CliBufferSnapshot) => this.runParseApproval(s);
+        let modal = this.activeModal ?? parseApproval(snap);
+
+        if (!modal && this.runner.hasParseSession()) {
+            try {
+                const parsed = this.runParseSession(snap) as any;
+                const parsedModal = parsed?.activeModal && Array.isArray(parsed.activeModal.buttons)
+                    && parsed.activeModal.buttons.some((b: any) => typeof b === 'string' && b.trim())
+                    ? parsed.activeModal : null;
+                if (parsed?.status === 'waiting_approval' && parsedModal) {
+                    modal = parsedModal;
+                    // No modal was held (`this.activeModal` was null above), so a
+                    // freshly parsed approval here is a new entry by definition.
+                    this.activeModal = parsedModal;
+                    this.approvalEntrySeq++;
+                    if (this.currentStatus !== 'waiting_approval') {
+                        this.setStatus('waiting_approval', 'resolve_modal_parse');
+                        this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+                    }
+                }
+            } catch { /* ignore parse failures */ }
+        }
+
+        if (!this.transport.isAlive()) return;
+        // (fix) Hard fail-safe: never write an approval key without a concrete
+        // modal that has buttons. The previous gate `currentStatus !== 'WA' &&
+        // !modal` let resolveModal proceed whenever status was still pinned to
+        // waiting_approval, even if parseApproval had returned null. Combined
+        // with auto-approve and Claude's modal flapping (status==WA but modal
+        // briefly null between paints) this typed "1" into the prompt over and
+        // over. Require a real modal with at least one button.
+        const buttonsValid = Array.isArray(modal?.buttons)
+            && modal.buttons.some((b: any) => typeof b === 'string' && b.trim());
+        if (!modal || !buttonsValid) return;
+
+        const currentModalMessage = typeof modal?.message === 'string' ? modal.message.trim() : '';
+        const inCooldown = !!this.lastApprovalResolvedAt
+            && (Date.now() - this.lastApprovalResolvedAt) < this.timeouts.approvalCooldown;
+        // (fix) Suppress the duplicate key-write ONLY when this is the *same*
+        // approval entry re-observed across TUI paint flaps — i.e. the FSM has
+        // not entered waiting_approval afresh since the last resolve
+        // (approvalEntrySeq unchanged). A new entry (bumped seq) is always a
+        // distinct approval and must be written, even within the cooldown
+        // window and even when its message text matches the previous one.
+        //
+        // Previously this gated on message equality alone, so consecutive
+        // claude-cli approvals that share message text (very common) had the
+        // second write swallowed — the approval stuck unresolved despite
+        // auto-approval being on.
+        const sameEntryReResolve = this.approvalEntrySeq === this.lastResolvedEntrySeq;
+        if (inCooldown && sameEntryReResolve && currentModalMessage === this.lastResolvedModalMessage) return;
+
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('resolve_modal');
+        this.recordTrace('resolve_modal', { buttonIndex, activeModal: modal, approvalEntrySeq: this.approvalEntrySeq });
+        this.activeModal = null;
+        this.lastApprovalResolvedAt = Date.now();
+        this.lastResolvedModalMessage = currentModalMessage;
+        this.lastResolvedEntrySeq = this.approvalEntrySeq;
+        this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil = Date.now() + this.timeouts.outputSettle + 400;
+        if (this.approvalExitTimeout) { clearTimeout(this.approvalExitTimeout); this.approvalExitTimeout = null; }
+        this.setStatus('generating', 'approval_resolved');
+        this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+
+        const approvalKey = this.transport.getApprovalKeyForIndex(buttonIndex);
+        if (approvalKey !== undefined) {
+            this.transport.writeRaw(approvalKey);
+        } else {
+            const DOWN = '\x1B[B';
+            const buttonCount = Array.isArray(modal?.buttons) ? modal.buttons.length : 0;
+            const clamped = buttonCount > 0
+                ? Math.min(Math.max(0, buttonIndex), buttonCount - 1)
+                : Math.max(0, buttonIndex);
+            this.transport.writeRaw(DOWN.repeat(clamped) + '\r');
+        }
+    }
+
+    isApprovalRecentlyResolved(): boolean {
+        return !!(this.lastApprovalResolvedAt
+            && (Date.now() - this.lastApprovalResolvedAt) < this.timeouts.approvalCooldown);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Called from sendMessage before starting a new turn.
+     * Clears stale idle response state when the terminal looks idle and no modal is active.
+     */
+    clearStaleIdleResponseGuard(reason: string, snap: CliBufferSnapshot): boolean {
+        const blockingModal = this.activeModal
+            ?? (typeof this.transport.runParseApproval === 'function'
+                ? this.transport.runParseApproval(snap.recentOutputBuffer.slice(-500))
+                : this.runParseApproval(snap));
+        const isIdle = (typeof this.transport.runDetectStatus === 'function'
+            ? this.transport.runDetectStatus(snap.recentOutputBuffer)
+            : this.runDetectStatus(snap)) === 'idle';
+        if (!this.isWaitingForResponse || this.currentStatus !== 'idle' || !isIdle || !!blockingModal) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        this.clearAllTimers();
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate(reason);
+        this.isWaitingForResponse = false;
+        this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil = 0;
+        this.submitRetryUsed = false;
+        this.submitRetryPromptSnippet = '';
+        this.finishRetryCount = 0;
+        this.currentTurnScope = null;
+        this.activeModal = null;
+        this.recordTrace('stale_idle_response_cleared', { reason });
+        this.callbacks.onTurnCompleted();
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Called from sendMessage before starting a new turn.
+     * Clears stale idle response state when the parsed session confirms idle with a final assistant message.
+     */
+    clearParsedIdleResponseGuard(reason: string, parsedStatus: any, snap: CliBufferSnapshot): boolean {
+        const parsedRawStatus = typeof parsedStatus?.status === 'string' ? parsedStatus.status.trim() : '';
+        const parsedModal = parsedStatus?.activeModal ?? parsedStatus?.modal ?? null;
+        const blockingModal = this.activeModal
+            ?? (typeof this.transport.runParseApproval === 'function'
+                ? this.transport.runParseApproval(snap.recentOutputBuffer.slice(-500))
+                : this.runParseApproval(snap));
+        if (
+            !this.isWaitingForResponse
+            || parsedRawStatus !== 'idle'
+            || !!parsedModal
+            || !!blockingModal
+            || !this.parsedStatusHasFinalAssistantMessage(parsedStatus)
+        ) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        this.clearAllTimers();
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate(reason);
+        this.isWaitingForResponse = false;
+        this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil = 0;
+        this.submitRetryUsed = false;
+        this.submitRetryPromptSnippet = '';
+        this.finishRetryCount = 0;
+        this.currentTurnScope = null;
+        this.activeModal = null;
+        this.setStatus('idle', reason);
+        this.recordTrace('parsed_idle_response_cleared', {
+            reason,
+            parsedStatus: parsedRawStatus,
+            parsedMessageCount: Array.isArray(parsedStatus?.messages) ? parsedStatus.messages.length : 0,
+        });
+        this.callbacks.onTurnCompleted();
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    clearAllTimers(): void {
+        if (this.settleTimer) { clearTimeout(this.settleTimer); this.settleTimer = null; }
+        if (this.idleTimeout) { clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout); this.idleTimeout = null; }
+        if (this.approvalExitTimeout) { clearTimeout(this.approvalExitTimeout); this.approvalExitTimeout = null; }
+        if (this.finishRetryTimer) { clearTimeout(this.finishRetryTimer); this.finishRetryTimer = null; }
+        if (this.pendingScriptStatusTimer) { clearTimeout(this.pendingScriptStatusTimer); this.pendingScriptStatusTimer = null; }
+        if (this.providerErrorRetryTimer) { clearTimeout(this.providerErrorRetryTimer); this.providerErrorRetryTimer = null; }
+        if (this.pendingIdleFinishTimer) { clearTimeout(this.pendingIdleFinishTimer); this.pendingIdleFinishTimer = null; this.pendingIdleFinishAt = 0; }
+        this.providerErrorRetryKey = '';
+    }
+
+    resetActiveTurnState(): void {
+        this.clearAllTimers();
+        this.isWaitingForResponse = false;
+        this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil = 0;
+        this.submitRetryUsed = false;
+        this.submitRetryPromptSnippet = '';
+        this.finishRetryCount = 0;
+        this.currentTurnScope = null;
+        this.activeModal = null;
+        this.pendingScriptStatus = null;
+        this.pendingScriptStatusSince = 0;
+    }
+
+    clearIdleFinishCandidate(reason: string): void {
+        if (!this.idleFinishCandidate) return;
+        this.recordTrace('idle_candidate_reset', { reason, candidate: this.idleFinishCandidate });
+        this.idleFinishCandidate = null;
+    }
+
+    hasActionableApproval(startupModal?: { message: string; buttons: string[] } | null): boolean {
+        return !!(startupModal ?? this.activeModal);
+    }
+
+    getTraceEntries(): CliTraceEntry[] { return this.traceEntries; }
+    getStatusHistory(): { status: string; at: number; trigger?: string }[] { return this.statusHistory; }
+    getTraceSessionId(): string { return this.traceSessionId; }
+
+    /** Record a trace entry from the transport layer (e.g. output events in debug mode). */
+    recordExternalTrace(type: string, payload: Record<string, any> = {}): void {
+        this.recordTrace(type, payload);
+    }
+
+    // ─── Script dispatch (builds inputs from snapshot) ──────────────────────
+
+    runDetectStatus(snap: CliBufferSnapshot): string | null {
+        const tail = snap.recentOutputBuffer.slice(-500);
+        return this.runner.detectStatus({
+            tail,
+            screenText: snap.screenText,
+            rawBuffer: snap.accumulatedRawBuffer,
+            isWaitingForResponse: snap.isWaitingForResponse,
+            screen: buildCliScreenSnapshot(snap.screenText),
+            tailScreen: buildCliScreenSnapshot(tail),
+        });
+    }
+
+    runParseApproval(snap: CliBufferSnapshot): { message: string; buttons: string[] } | null {
+        const tail = snap.recentOutputBuffer.slice(-500);
+        const buffer = snap.screenText || snap.accumulatedBuffer;
+        return this.runner.parseApproval({
+            buffer,
+            screenText: snap.screenText,
+            rawBuffer: snap.accumulatedRawBuffer,
+            tail,
+            screen: buildCliScreenSnapshot(snap.screenText),
+            bufferScreen: buildCliScreenSnapshot(buffer),
+            tailScreen: buildCliScreenSnapshot(tail),
+        });
+    }
+
+    runParseSession(snap: CliBufferSnapshot): ParsedSession | null {
+        // Allow transport to override session parsing (enables test mocking)
+        if (typeof this.transport.runParseSession === 'function') {
+            const session = this.transport.runParseSession();
+            if (session && typeof session === 'object') {
+                this.callbacks.onApplyParsedSession(session);
+            }
+            return session;
+        }
+        const tail = snap.recentOutputBuffer.slice(-500);
+        const input = buildCliParseInput({
+            accumulatedBuffer: snap.accumulatedBuffer,
+            accumulatedRawBuffer: snap.accumulatedRawBuffer,
+            recentOutputBuffer: snap.recentOutputBuffer,
+            terminalScreenText: snap.parseScreenText,
+            workingDir: snap.workingDir,
+            providerSessionId: snap.providerSessionId || undefined,
+            historySessionId: snap.providerSessionId || undefined,
+            baseMessages: [],
+            partialResponse: snap.responseBuffer,
+            isWaitingForResponse: snap.isWaitingForResponse,
+            scope: snap.currentTurnScope,
+            runtimeSettings: snap.runtimeSettings,
+        });
+        const session = this.runner.parseSession({
+            ...input,
+            tail,
+            tailScreen: buildCliScreenSnapshot(tail),
+        });
+        if (session && typeof session === 'object') {
+            this.callbacks.onApplyParsedSession(session);
+        }
+        return session;
+    }
+
+    // ─── Core evaluation loop ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    evaluateSettled(snap: CliBufferSnapshot): void {
+        const now = Date.now();
+        if (this.submitPendingUntil > now || this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil > now) {
+            const delayTime = Math.max(this.submitPendingUntil - now, this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil - now) + 50;
+            if (this.settleTimer) clearTimeout(this.settleTimer);
+            this.settleTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+                this.settleTimer = null;
+                this.evaluateSettled(this.transport.getSnapshot());
+            }, delayTime);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (!this.isWaitingForResponse && !this.currentTurnScope && !this.activeModal && !this.runner.parseErrorMessage) {
+            const tail = snap.recentOutputBuffer;
+            const modal = this.runParseApproval(snap);
+            const lightweightStatus = this.runner.hasDetectStatus() ? this.runDetectStatus(snap) : null;
+            if (!modal && lightweightStatus === 'idle' && this.currentStatus === 'idle') return;
+        }
+
+        const session = this.runParseSession(snap);
+        if (!session) return;
+
+        const { status, messages } = session;
+        const modal = (session as any).activeModal ?? session.modal ?? null;
+        const parsedStatus = (session as any).parsedStatus ?? null;
+        const parsedMessages = normalizeCliParsedMessages(messages, {
+            scope: null,
+            lastOutputAt: snap.lastOutputAt,
+        });
+
+        if (this.maybeCommitVisibleIdleTranscript(session, parsedMessages, snap)) return;
+
+        const lastParsedAssistant = [...parsedMessages].reverse().find((m) => m.role === 'assistant');
+
+        if (
+            this.currentTurnScope
+            && !lastParsedAssistant
+            && !this.submitRetryUsed
+            && this.transport.isAlive()
+            && !this.hasActionableApproval()
+            && promptLikelyVisible(snap.screenText, normalizePromptText(this.submitRetryPromptSnippet || this.currentTurnScope?.prompt || ''))
+            && !this.hasMeaningfulResponseBuffer(snap, normalizePromptText(this.submitRetryPromptSnippet || this.currentTurnScope?.prompt || ''))
+        ) {
+            this.submitRetryUsed = true;
+            this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil = Date.now() + this.timeouts.outputSettle + 400;
+            LOG.info('CLI', `[${this.provider.type}] Retrying submit key from settled parser (no assistant yet)`);
+            this.transport.writeRaw('\r');
+            if (this.settleTimer) clearTimeout(this.settleTimer);
+            this.settleTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+                this.settleTimer = null;
+                this.evaluateSettled(this.transport.getSnapshot());
+            }, this.timeouts.outputSettle + 150);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (!status) return;
+
+        const prevStatus = this.currentStatus;
+        const ctx: SettledEvalContext = { now, modal, status, parsedMessages, lastParsedAssistant, parsedStatus: parsedStatus || null, prevStatus };
+
+        if (!this.applyPendingScriptStatusDebounce(ctx)) return;
+
+        const recentInteractiveActivity = this.hasRecentInteractiveActivity(snap, now);
+        LOG.debug(
+            'CLI',
+            `[${this.provider.type}] settled diagnostics prompt=${JSON.stringify(this.currentTurnScope?.prompt || '').slice(0, 140)} status=${String(status || '')} parsedStatus=${String(parsedStatus || '')} parsedMsgCount=${parsedMessages.length} lastParsedAssistant=${JSON.stringify((lastParsedAssistant?.content || '').slice(0, 120)).slice(0, 160)} responseBuffer=${JSON.stringify((snap.responseBuffer || '').slice(0, 160)).slice(0, 220)} recentActivity=${recentInteractiveActivity}`
+        );
+
+        // recent_activity_hold protects an in-flight user turn from a false
+        // idle blip. It must NOT fire during startup — when the adapter has
+        // no currentTurnScope, there is no user turn to protect; the recent
+        // activity is just the CLI painting its welcome screen. Firing here
+        // produced the startup status flip the user reported
+        // (generating → idle → generating → idle within the first few seconds
+        // of claude-cli launch).
+        //
+        // When isWaitingForResponse=true and a currentTurnScope is alive, a
+        // PTY quiet period (>statusActivityHold ms without output) does NOT
+        // mean the response is done — claude-cli regularly pauses 2s+ between
+        // chunks during parsing/generation. recentInteractiveActivity going
+        // false during such a pause was the root cause of false-idle
+        // regressions. We hold generating whenever an active response turn is
+        // in flight (unconditionally, not just when there was recent output).
+        // The real completion gate is applyIdle's idleFinishCandidate +
+        // idleFinish timeout, which requires stable quiet AND a parsed
+        // assistant message.
+        //
+        // Fast-path exception: only release the hold if the parser shows a
+        // *current-turn* final standard assistant after the last user message,
+        // and it is not still streaming. Using !!lastParsedAssistant was too
+        // broad — it matched previous-turn assistant messages and caused
+        // false-idle between the first assistant text chunk and the first
+        // tool call (the agent outputs text, then immediately begins tool use;
+        // the gap between them hit this fast path and committed idle).
+        const hasFinalCurrentTurnAssistant = (() => {
+            if (parsedStatus !== 'idle') return false;
+            const msgs: any[] = Array.isArray(parsedMessages) ? parsedMessages : [];
+            let lastUserIdx = -1;
+            for (let i = msgs.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+                if (msgs[i]?.role === 'user') { lastUserIdx = i; break; }
+            }
+            // No user message visible: fall back to any non-streaming standard assistant.
+            const searchSlice = lastUserIdx >= 0 ? msgs.slice(lastUserIdx + 1) : msgs;
+            return searchSlice.some((m: any) => {
+                if (!m || m.role !== 'assistant') return false;
+                if (typeof m.content !== 'string' || !m.content.trim()) return false;
+                const kind = typeof m.kind === 'string' && m.kind.trim() ? m.kind.trim() : 'standard';
+                return kind === 'standard' && m.meta?.streaming !== true;
+            });
+        })();
+        const shouldHoldGenerating = status === 'idle'
+            && this.isWaitingForResponse
+            && !!this.currentTurnScope
+            && !modal
+            && !hasFinalCurrentTurnAssistant;
+
+        if (shouldHoldGenerating) { this.applyHoldGenerating(ctx); return; }
+        if (status === 'error') {
+            if (this.maybeScheduleProviderErrorRetry(ctx, session, snap)) return;
+            this.applyError(ctx, session);
+            return;
+        }
+        if (status === 'waiting_approval') { this.applyWaitingApproval(ctx); return; }
+        if (status === 'generating') { this.applyGenerating(ctx); return; }
+        if (status === 'idle') { this.applyIdle(ctx, snap, now); }
+    }
+
+    // ─── State transitions ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    private applyPendingScriptStatusDebounce(ctx: SettledEvalContext): boolean {
+        const { now, status, prevStatus } = ctx;
+        const shouldDebounce = prevStatus === 'idle' && !this.isWaitingForResponse
+            && !this.currentTurnScope && (status === 'generating' || status === 'waiting_approval');
+
+        if (!shouldDebounce) {
+            this.pendingScriptStatus = null;
+            this.pendingScriptStatusSince = 0;
+            if (this.pendingScriptStatusTimer) { clearTimeout(this.pendingScriptStatusTimer); this.pendingScriptStatusTimer = null; }
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        const armPending = (delayMs: number) => {
+            if (this.pendingScriptStatusTimer) clearTimeout(this.pendingScriptStatusTimer);
+            this.pendingScriptStatusTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+                this.pendingScriptStatusTimer = null;
+                this.evaluateSettled(this.transport.getSnapshot());
+            }, delayMs);
+        };
+
+        if (this.pendingScriptStatus !== status) {
+            this.pendingScriptStatus = status as 'generating' | 'waiting_approval';
+            this.pendingScriptStatusSince = now;
+            armPending(SCRIPT_STATUS_DEBOUNCE_MS);
+            return false;
+        }
+        const elapsed = now - this.pendingScriptStatusSince;
+        if (elapsed < SCRIPT_STATUS_DEBOUNCE_MS) { armPending(SCRIPT_STATUS_DEBOUNCE_MS - elapsed); return false; }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    private applyHoldGenerating(ctx: SettledEvalContext): void {
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('hold_generating_recent_activity');
+        this.setStatus('generating', 'recent_activity_hold');
+        if (this.idleTimeout) clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout);
+        this.idleTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
+            if (this.isWaitingForResponse && !this.hasActionableApproval()) {
+                if (this.shouldDeferIdleTimeoutFinish()) return;
+                this.finishResponse();
+            }
+        }, this.timeouts.generatingIdle);
+        this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+    }
+
+    private applyWaitingApproval(ctx: SettledEvalContext): void {
+        const { modal } = ctx;
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('waiting_approval');
+        const inCooldown = this.lastApprovalResolvedAt
+            && (Date.now() - this.lastApprovalResolvedAt) < this.timeouts.approvalCooldown;
+        if (inCooldown && !modal) {
+            if (this.approvalExitTimeout) { clearTimeout(this.approvalExitTimeout); this.approvalExitTimeout = null; }
+            this.activeModal = null;
+            const reason = inCooldown ? 'approval_cooldown_non_actionable' : 'approval_prompt_gone_non_actionable';
+            if (this.isWaitingForResponse) {
+                this.setStatus('idle', reason);
+                if (this.idleTimeout) clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout);
+                this.idleTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
+                    if (this.isWaitingForResponse && !this.hasActionableApproval()) {
+                        if (this.shouldDeferIdleTimeoutFinish()) return;
+                        this.finishResponse();
+                    }
+                }, this.timeouts.generatingIdle);
+            } else {
+                this.setStatus('idle', reason);
+            }
+            this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+            return;
+        }
+        // (fix) A *real* modal with valid buttons surfacing during the cooldown
+        // window is a genuinely new approval, not a trailing repaint of the one
+        // we just resolved — resolveModal cleared activeModal and flipped status
+        // to generating, so detectStatus only re-reports waiting_approval with a
+        // concrete modal when the CLI actually presents the next prompt.
+        // Previously this case fell through BOTH the `inCooldown && !modal`
+        // branch above and the `!inCooldown` branch below, so the FSM silently
+        // ignored the second approval — leaving it stuck unresolved under
+        // auto-approval. Capture it like any fresh entry (the modal-message
+        // cooldown still de-dupes the same approval inside resolveModal, now
+        // keyed on approvalEntrySeq). The `!modal` flap case stays gated by
+        // cooldown above; only an actionable new modal breaks through here.
+        if (!inCooldown || modal) {
+            if (!modal) {
+                LOG.warn('CLI', `[${this.provider.type}] detectStatus=waiting_approval but parseApproval returned null; ignoring`);
+                // (fix) If we previously surfaced waiting_approval but the
+                // modal extraction is now failing, eventually drop the modal
+                // and fall back to generating so the dashboard doesn't show
+                // a "waiting" badge with no buttons. BUT defer the transition
+                // for a hysteresis window — Claude TUI re-renders parts of
+                // the approval frame multiple times per second and the
+                // intermediate parses occasionally lose buttons for a single
+                // pass. Flapping the engine status WA → generating → WA →
+                // generating between paints fed auto-approve a fresh modal
+                // signature each time, which typed the approval key
+                // ("1") into the prompt repeatedly. Wait for the modal to
+                // stay gone for `approvalCooldown` before clearing.
+                if (this.currentStatus === 'waiting_approval' && this.activeModal) {
+                    const lostAt = this.modalLostAt || Date.now();
+                    if (!this.modalLostAt) this.modalLostAt = lostAt;
+                    if (Date.now() - lostAt >= this.timeouts.approvalCooldown) {
+                        this.activeModal = null;
+                        this.modalLostAt = 0;
+                        this.setStatus('generating', 'approval_lost_modal');
+                        this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+                    }
+                }
+                return;
+            }
+            this.modalLostAt = 0;
+            this.isWaitingForResponse = true;
+            this.setStatus('waiting_approval', 'script_detect');
+            // (fix) Don't overwrite an already-captured modal with a fresh
+            // re-parse on every evaluate — Claude TUI redraws option labels
+            // partially between paints (e.g. "Yes, and don't ask again for ..."
+            // is wider than the row and ships with a different trailing
+            // string each paint), which made the dashboard flap the modal
+            // signature continuously. Keep the first stable modal whose
+            // button count matches the latest parse; only swap when the
+            // shape clearly changed (different number of buttons → different
+            // approval).
+            const prev = this.activeModal;
+            const prevBtnCount = Array.isArray(prev?.buttons) ? prev!.buttons.length : 0;
+            const nextBtnCount = Array.isArray(modal.buttons) ? modal.buttons.length : 0;
+            if (!prev || prevBtnCount !== nextBtnCount) {
+                this.activeModal = modal;
+                // A fresh modal was captured (none held, or the button shape
+                // changed). This is a distinct approval entry — bump the seq so
+                // resolveModal's message-equality cooldown does not mistake it
+                // for a flap-repaint of the previously resolved approval.
+                this.approvalEntrySeq++;
+                this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+            }
+            if (this.idleTimeout) clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout);
+            this.armApprovalExitTimeout();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private applyGenerating(ctx: SettledEvalContext): void {
+        const { modal, parsedMessages, lastParsedAssistant, parsedStatus, prevStatus } = ctx;
+        const noActiveTurn = !this.currentTurnScope;
+        // If the turn is already complete (isWaitingForResponse=false, no scope,
+        // no modal), PTY generating blips are just the CLI repainting its prompt.
+        // Check BEFORE cancelling the pending idle-finish timer — we don't want
+        // to cancel a scheduled idle transition just because the CLI blinked.
+        if (!this.isWaitingForResponse && noActiveTurn && !modal) return;
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('generating');
+        // Cancel any pending grace-window idle transition. We have fresh
+        // evidence the provider is still generating; the previous
+        // finishResponse() was a paint blip, not a real completion.
+        this.cancelPendingIdleFinish('generating_signal_returned');
+        const snap = this.transport.getSnapshot();
+        const effectiveScreenText = snap.screenText || snap.accumulatedBuffer;
+        const looksIdleChrome = /(^|\n)\s*[❯›>]\s*(?:\n|$)/m.test(effectiveScreenText);
+        const parsedShowsLiveProgress = parsedStatus === 'generating' && !!lastParsedAssistant;
+        if (prevStatus === 'idle' && !this.isWaitingForResponse && noActiveTurn && !modal && looksIdleChrome && !parsedShowsLiveProgress) return;
+        if (prevStatus === 'waiting_approval') {
+            if (this.approvalExitTimeout) { clearTimeout(this.approvalExitTimeout); this.approvalExitTimeout = null; }
+            this.activeModal = null;
+            this.lastApprovalResolvedAt = Date.now();
+        }
+        if (!this.isWaitingForResponse) { this.isWaitingForResponse = true; }
+        this.setStatus('generating', 'script_detect');
+        if (this.idleTimeout) clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout);
+        this.idleTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
+            if (this.isWaitingForResponse) {
+                if (this.shouldDeferIdleTimeoutFinish()) return;
+                this.finishResponse();
+            }
+        }, this.timeouts.generatingIdle);
+        this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+    }
+
+    private applyError(ctx: SettledEvalContext, session: ParsedSession): void {
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('provider_error');
+        this.clearAllTimers();
+        this.isWaitingForResponse = false;
+        this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil = 0;
+        this.submitRetryUsed = false;
+        this.submitRetryPromptSnippet = '';
+        this.finishRetryCount = 0;
+        this.currentTurnScope = null;
+        this.activeModal = null;
+        this.providerErrorMessage = typeof session.errorMessage === 'string' && session.errorMessage.trim()
+            ? session.errorMessage.trim() : 'Provider reported an error';
+        this.providerErrorReason = typeof session.errorReason === 'string' && session.errorReason.trim()
+            ? session.errorReason.trim() : 'provider_error';
+        this.setStatus('error', this.providerErrorReason);
+        this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+    }
+
+    private maybeScheduleProviderErrorRetry(ctx: SettledEvalContext, session: ParsedSession, snap: CliBufferSnapshot): boolean {
+        const retryPrompt = typeof (session as any).retryPrompt === 'string' ? String((session as any).retryPrompt).trim() : '';
+        const retryDelayMs = typeof (session as any).retryDelayMs === 'number' ? Number((session as any).retryDelayMs) : NaN;
+        if (!retryPrompt || !Number.isFinite(retryDelayMs) || retryDelayMs < 0 || !this.transport.isAlive()) return false;
+
+        const retryAttempt = typeof (session as any).retryAttempt === 'number' ? Number((session as any).retryAttempt) : 0;
+        const errorReason = typeof session.errorReason === 'string' && session.errorReason.trim() ? session.errorReason.trim() : 'provider_error';
+        const retryKey = `${errorReason}:${retryAttempt}:${retryPrompt}`;
+        if (this.providerErrorRetryTimer && this.providerErrorRetryKey === retryKey) return true;
+
+        if (this.providerErrorRetryTimer) clearTimeout(this.providerErrorRetryTimer);
+        this.providerErrorRetryKey = retryKey;
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('provider_error_retry');
+        if (this.idleTimeout) { clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout); this.idleTimeout = null; }
+        if (this.approvalExitTimeout) { clearTimeout(this.approvalExitTimeout); this.approvalExitTimeout = null; }
+        this.providerErrorMessage = typeof session.errorMessage === 'string' && session.errorMessage.trim()
+            ? session.errorMessage.trim() : 'Provider reported an error';
+        this.providerErrorReason = errorReason;
+        this.activeModal = null;
+        this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil = Date.now() + retryDelayMs + this.timeouts.outputSettle + 400;
+        this.setStatus('generating', 'provider_error_retry_scheduled');
+        this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+
+        this.providerErrorRetryTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+            this.providerErrorRetryTimer = null;
+            this.providerErrorRetryKey = '';
+            if (!this.transport.isAlive()) return;
+            this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil = Date.now() + this.timeouts.outputSettle + 400;
+            this.submitRetryUsed = false;
+            this.transport.writeRaw(`${retryPrompt}\r`);
+            if (this.settleTimer) clearTimeout(this.settleTimer);
+            this.settleTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+                this.settleTimer = null;
+                this.evaluateSettled(this.transport.getSnapshot());
+            }, this.timeouts.outputSettle + 150);
+        }, retryDelayMs);
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    private applyIdle(ctx: SettledEvalContext, snap: CliBufferSnapshot, now: number): void {
+        const { modal, lastParsedAssistant, prevStatus } = ctx;
+        if (prevStatus === 'waiting_approval') {
+            if (this.approvalExitTimeout) { clearTimeout(this.approvalExitTimeout); this.approvalExitTimeout = null; }
+            this.activeModal = null;
+            this.lastApprovalResolvedAt = Date.now();
+            this.setStatus('idle', 'approval_prompt_gone_script_idle');
+        }
+        if (!this.isWaitingForResponse) {
+            if (prevStatus !== 'idle') {
+                this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('idle_without_response');
+                this.setStatus('idle', 'script_detect');
+                this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+            }
+            return;
+        }
+        const quietForMs = snap.lastNonEmptyOutputAt ? (now - snap.lastNonEmptyOutputAt) : Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER;
+        const screenStableMs = snap.lastScreenChangeAt ? (now - snap.lastScreenChangeAt) : 0;
+        const hasAssistantTurn = !!lastParsedAssistant;
+        const assistantLength = (lastParsedAssistant as any)?.content?.length || 0;
+        const idleFinishConfirmMs = this.timeouts.idleFinishConfirm;
+        const idleQuietThresholdMs = Math.max(idleFinishConfirmMs, this.timeouts.outputSettle);
+        const idleReady = !modal && hasAssistantTurn && quietForMs >= idleQuietThresholdMs && screenStableMs >= idleFinishConfirmMs;
+        const candidate = this.idleFinishCandidate;
+        const candidateQuiet = !!candidate && candidate.responseEpoch === this.responseEpoch
+            && candidate.lastOutputAt === snap.lastOutputAt
+            && candidate.lastScreenChangeAt === snap.lastScreenChangeAt
+            && assistantLength >= candidate.assistantLength
+            && (now - candidate.armedAt) >= idleFinishConfirmMs;
+
+        if (idleReady && candidateQuiet) {
+            this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('finish_response');
+            if (this.idleTimeout) clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout);
+            this.finishResponse();
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (idleReady) {
+            if (!candidate) { this.armIdleFinishCandidate(snap, assistantLength); return; }
+        } else {
+            this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('idle_not_ready');
+        }
+
+        if (this.idleTimeout) clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout);
+        this.idleTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
+            if (this.isWaitingForResponse && !this.hasActionableApproval()) {
+                if (this.shouldDeferIdleTimeoutFinish()) return;
+                const parsed = this.runParseSession(this.transport.getSnapshot());
+                if (this.shouldDeferFinishForTranscript(parsed)) {
+                    this.rescheduleTranscriptFinishCheck('transcript_idle_timeout_not_final');
+                    return;
+                }
+                this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('idle_timeout_finish');
+                this.finishResponse();
+            }
+        }, this.timeouts.idleFinish);
+    }
+
+    finishResponse(): void {
+        if (this.submitPendingUntil > Date.now()) return;
+        if (this.responseSettleIgnoreUntil > Date.now()) return;
+        const snap = this.transport.getSnapshot();
+        const parsedBeforeFinish = this.runParseSession(snap);
+        if (this.shouldDeferFinishForTranscript(parsedBeforeFinish)) {
+            this.rescheduleTranscriptFinishCheck('transcript_finish_not_final');
+            return;
+        }
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate('finish_response_enter');
+        const commitResult = this.commitCurrentTranscript(snap);
+        if (this.shouldRetryFinishResponse(snap, commitResult)) {
+            this.finishRetryCount += 1;
+            if (this.finishRetryTimer) clearTimeout(this.finishRetryTimer);
+            this.finishRetryTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+                this.finishRetryTimer = null;
+                if (this.isWaitingForResponse && !this.hasActionableApproval()) this.finishResponse();
+            }, FINISH_RETRY_DELAY_MS);
+            return;
+        }
+        this.resetActiveTurnState();
+        this.callbacks.onTurnCompleted();
+        // Defer the actual `generating → idle` transition by a short grace
+        // window. If applyGenerating fires again before the grace expires —
+        // antigravity's tool-result paint blips do this — cancelPendingIdle
+        // Finish() drops the pending transition and we stay generating.
+        this.scheduleIdleFinish('response_finished');
+        this.transport.flushOutboundQueue();
+    }
+
+    private scheduleIdleFinish(reason: string): void {
+        // If we are already deferring, replace the schedule so the most
+        // recent finishResponse "wins". Reasons accumulate via the trigger.
+        if (this.pendingIdleFinishTimer) clearTimeout(this.pendingIdleFinishTimer);
+        this.pendingIdleFinishAt = Date.now() + IDLE_CONFIRMATION_GRACE_MS;
+        this.pendingIdleFinishTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+            this.pendingIdleFinishTimer = null;
+            this.pendingIdleFinishAt = 0;
+            // If a new user turn started during the grace window, we owe
+            // generating semantics to that turn — do not retroactively idle.
+            if (this.isWaitingForResponse) return;
+            // The timer firing without a cancelPendingIdleFinish call means
+            // no fresh applyGenerating happened during the grace window;
+            // the previous fake-blip is over. Commit the idle.
+            //
+            // Note: the previous "currentStatus === 'generating' → return"
+            // guard caused stuck-generating sessions — finishResponse leaves
+            // currentStatus='generating' on purpose (so the dashboard keeps
+            // the spinner during the 2s grace), and then the timer fired
+            // without cancellation but refused to commit because the very
+            // status we are about to transition out of was still set.
+            // Re-checking currentStatus there meant idle was unreachable.
+            this.setStatus('idle', reason);
+            this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+        }, IDLE_CONFIRMATION_GRACE_MS);
+    }
+
+    private cancelPendingIdleFinish(reason: string): void {
+        if (!this.pendingIdleFinishTimer) return;
+        clearTimeout(this.pendingIdleFinishTimer);
+        this.pendingIdleFinishTimer = null;
+        this.pendingIdleFinishAt = 0;
+        this.recordTrace('idle_finish_cancelled', { trigger: reason });
+    }
+
+    // ─── Helpers ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    private armApprovalExitTimeout(): void {
+        if (this.approvalExitTimeout) clearTimeout(this.approvalExitTimeout);
+        this.approvalExitTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
+            if (!this.hasActionableApproval()) return;
+            const snap = this.transport.getSnapshot();
+            const modal = typeof this.transport.runParseApproval === 'function'
+                ? this.transport.runParseApproval(snap.recentOutputBuffer.slice(-500))
+                : this.runParseApproval(snap);
+            const detectStatus = typeof this.transport.runDetectStatus === 'function'
+                ? this.transport.runDetectStatus(snap.recentOutputBuffer)
+                : this.runDetectStatus(snap);
+            const stillWaiting = detectStatus === 'waiting_approval' || !!modal;
+            if (stillWaiting) {
+                if (!modal) {
+                    LOG.warn('CLI', `[${this.provider.type}] approval timeout: no actionable modal; keeping fail-closed`);
+                    this.activeModal = null;
+                    this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+                    this.armApprovalExitTimeout();
+                    return;
+                }
+                this.activeModal = modal;
+                this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+                this.armApprovalExitTimeout();
+                return;
+            }
+            LOG.warn('CLI', `[${this.provider.type}] Approval timeout — auto-clearing`);
+            this.activeModal = null;
+            this.lastApprovalResolvedAt = Date.now();
+            this.setStatus('idle', 'approval_timeout');
+            this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+        }, APPROVAL_EXIT_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    }
+
+    private armIdleFinishCandidate(snap: CliBufferSnapshot, assistantLength: number): void {
+        const now = Date.now();
+        this.idleFinishCandidate = {
+            armedAt: now,
+            lastOutputAt: snap.lastOutputAt,
+            lastScreenChangeAt: snap.lastScreenChangeAt,
+            responseEpoch: this.responseEpoch,
+            assistantLength,
+        };
+        if (this.settleTimer) clearTimeout(this.settleTimer);
+        this.settleTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+            this.settleTimer = null;
+            this.evaluateSettled(this.transport.getSnapshot());
+        }, this.timeouts.idleFinishConfirm);
+    }
+
+    private shouldDeferIdleTimeoutFinish(): boolean {
+        if (!this.isWaitingForResponse || this.hasActionableApproval()) return false;
+        const snap = this.transport.getSnapshot();
+        const detectFn = typeof this.transport.runDetectStatus === 'function'
+            ? () => this.transport.runDetectStatus!(snap.recentOutputBuffer)
+            : () => this.runDetectStatus(snap);
+        const latestStatus = detectFn() || this.currentStatus;
+        if (latestStatus === 'generating') {
+            this.evaluateSettled(snap);
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private hasRecentInteractiveActivity(snap: CliBufferSnapshot, now: number): boolean {
+        const quietForMs = snap.lastNonEmptyOutputAt ? (now - snap.lastNonEmptyOutputAt) : Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER;
+        const screenStableMs = snap.lastScreenChangeAt ? (now - snap.lastScreenChangeAt) : Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER;
+        return quietForMs < this.timeouts.statusActivityHold || screenStableMs < this.timeouts.statusActivityHold;
+    }
+
+    private hasMeaningfulResponseBuffer(snap: CliBufferSnapshot, normalizedPromptSnippet: string): boolean {
+        const raw = String(snap.responseBuffer || '').trim();
+        if (!raw) return false;
+        const normalizedPrompt = compactPromptText(normalizedPromptSnippet);
+        if (!normalizedPrompt) return true;
+        const normalizedBuffer = compactPromptText(raw);
+        if (!normalizedBuffer) return false;
+        if (normalizedBuffer === normalizedPrompt) return false;
+        if (normalizedBuffer.startsWith(normalizedPrompt)) {
+            const remainder = normalizedBuffer.slice(normalizedPrompt.length)
+                .replace(/[─═\-]+/g, '')
+                .replace(/⏵⏵accepteditson\([^)]*\)/gi, '')
+                .replace(/esctointerrupt/gi, '')
+                .replace(/❯/g, '')
+                .replace(/^[\s\-–—:;,.!/?]+/, '')
+                .trim();
+            return remainder.length > 0;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    private shouldDeferFinishForTranscript(parsed: any): boolean {
+        // Honor only the explicit manifest opt-in. We used to also hard-code
+        // codex-cli here, but that left codex sessions wedged in `generating`
+        // whenever the PTY parser or native transcript missed the final
+        // assistant line — a much more common failure mode than the original
+        // background-tool race this was meant to guard against. If a provider
+        // really needs the gate, the manifest can set
+        // `requiresFinalAssistantBeforeIdle: true`.
+        const requiresFinalAssistant = !!this.provider.requiresFinalAssistantBeforeIdle;
+        if (!requiresFinalAssistant) return false;
+        if (!this.isWaitingForResponse || !this.currentTurnScope || this.hasActionableApproval()) return false;
+        const parsedStatus = typeof parsed?.status === 'string' ? parsed.status.trim() : '';
+        if (parsedStatus !== 'idle') return true;
+        if (parsed?.activeModal || parsed?.modal) return true;
+        // For providers that own their history externally (e.g. SpecCliAdapter
+        // reading native JSONL), parsed.messages only reflects PTY-visible
+        // content which may include previous-turn assistant messages. Gate on
+        // whether the *current turn* has a final assistant: find the last user
+        // in parsed.messages, and check there is an assistant after it.
+        // If no user found at all (e.g. PTY hid it), defer — the native-history
+        // completion gate in cli-provider-instance will confirm via JSONL read.
+        // For providers that own their history externally (e.g. SpecCliAdapter
+        // reading native JSONL), parsed.messages may include previous-turn
+        // assistant messages. Only an assistant that appears *after* the last
+        // user message counts as evidence the current turn finished.
+        const messages: any[] = Array.isArray(parsed?.messages) ? parsed.messages : [];
+        let lastUserIdx = -1;
+        for (let i = messages.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+            if (messages[i]?.role === 'user') { lastUserIdx = i; break; }
+        }
+        if (lastUserIdx < 0) {
+            // No user message visible in PTY parser. Two sub-cases:
+            // (a) messages is non-empty — some content was parsed but no user
+            //     line was found. Use the any-assistant fallback.
+            // (b) messages is empty — the provider owns history externally
+            //     (e.g. SpecCliAdapter always returns []) and PTY gives us
+            //     nothing to judge. Do NOT defer here: deferring with empty
+            //     messages causes an infinite reschedule loop because
+            //     parsedStatusHasFinalStandardAssistantMessage also returns
+            //     false on empty input. Let cli-provider-instance's native-
+            //     history gate handle this case.
+            if (messages.length === 0) return false;
+            return !this.parsedStatusHasFinalStandardAssistantMessage(parsed);
+        }
+        // Check for a final standard assistant after the last user
+        const hasCurrentTurnAssistant = messages.slice(lastUserIdx + 1).some((m: any) => {
+            if (!m || m.role !== 'assistant') return false;
+            if (typeof m.content !== 'string' || !m.content.trim()) return false;
+            const kind = typeof m.kind === 'string' && m.kind.trim() ? m.kind.trim() : 'standard';
+            return kind === 'standard' && m.meta?.streaming !== true;
+        });
+        return !hasCurrentTurnAssistant;
+    }
+
+    private rescheduleTranscriptFinishCheck(reason: string): void {
+        this.clearIdleFinishCandidate(reason);
+        this.setStatus('generating', reason);
+        if (this.idleTimeout) clearTimeout(this.idleTimeout);
+        this.idleTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
+            if (!this.isWaitingForResponse || this.hasActionableApproval()) return;
+            this.evaluateSettled(this.transport.getSnapshot());
+        }, this.timeouts.idleFinishConfirm);
+        this.recordTrace('transcript_finish_deferred', { reason });
+    }
+
+    private shouldRetryFinishResponse(snap: CliBufferSnapshot, commitResult: { hasAssistant: boolean; assistantContent: string }): boolean {
+        if (!this.currentTurnScope) return false;
+        if (this.hasActionableApproval()) return false;
+        if (this.finishRetryCount >= MAX_FINISH_RETRIES) return false;
+        if (commitResult.hasAssistant && commitResult.assistantContent.trim()) return false;
+        if (this.runDetectStatus(snap) !== 'idle') return false;
+        const now = Date.now();
+        const quietForMs = snap.lastNonEmptyOutputAt ? (now - snap.lastNonEmptyOutputAt) : Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER;
+        const screenStableMs = snap.lastScreenChangeAt ? (now - snap.lastScreenChangeAt) : 0;
+        return quietForMs < 1200 || screenStableMs < 1200 || !commitResult.hasAssistant;
+    }
+
+    private commitCurrentTranscript(snap: CliBufferSnapshot): { hasAssistant: boolean; assistantContent: string } {
+        const parsed = this.runParseSession(snap);
+        if (parsed && Array.isArray(parsed.messages)) {
+            const parsedMessages = normalizeCliParsedMessages(parsed.messages, { scope: null, lastOutputAt: snap.lastOutputAt });
+            const lastAssistant = [...parsedMessages].reverse().find((m) => m.role === 'assistant');
+            if (lastAssistant) return { hasAssistant: true, assistantContent: lastAssistant.content || '' };
+        }
+        return { hasAssistant: false, assistantContent: '' };
+    }
+
+    private maybeCommitVisibleIdleTranscript(session: ParsedSession, parsedMessages: CliChatMessage[], snap: CliBufferSnapshot): boolean {
+        if (!this.provider.allowInputDuringGeneration) return false;
+        if (!session || session.status !== 'idle' || !this.isWaitingForResponse || !this.currentTurnScope || this.activeModal || session.modal) return false;
+        const visibleAssistant = [...parsedMessages].reverse().find((m) => m.role === 'assistant' && String(m.content || '').trim());
+        if (!visibleAssistant) return false;
+        this.resetActiveTurnState();
+        this.callbacks.onTurnCompleted();
+        this.setStatus('idle', 'script_idle_commit');
+        this.callbacks.onStatusChange();
+        this.transport.flushOutboundQueue();
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    private parsedStatusHasFinalAssistantMessage(parsed: any): boolean {
+        const messages = Array.isArray(parsed?.messages) ? parsed.messages : [];
+        const last = [...messages].reverse().find((m: any) => {
+            if (!m || m.role !== 'assistant') return false;
+            return typeof m.content === 'string' && m.content.trim().length > 0;
+        });
+        return !!last;
+    }
+
+    private parsedStatusHasFinalStandardAssistantMessage(parsed: any): boolean {
+        const messages = Array.isArray(parsed?.messages) ? parsed.messages : [];
+        const last = [...messages].reverse().find((m: any) => {
+            if (!m || m.role !== 'assistant') return false;
+            if (typeof m.content !== 'string' || !m.content.trim()) return false;
+            const kind = typeof m.kind === 'string' && m.kind.trim() ? m.kind.trim() : 'standard';
+            return kind === 'standard' && m.meta?.streaming !== true;
+        });
+        return !!last;
+    }
+
+    private recordTrace(type: string, payload: Record<string, any> = {}): void {
+        const entry: CliTraceEntry = {
+            id: ++this.traceSeq,
+            at: Date.now(),
+            type,
+            status: this.currentStatus,
+            isWaitingForResponse: this.isWaitingForResponse,
+            activeModal: this.activeModal ? { message: this.activeModal.message, buttons: [...this.activeModal.buttons] } : null,
+            payload,
+        };
+        this.traceEntries.push(entry);
+        if (this.traceEntries.length > MAX_TRACE_ENTRIES) {
+            this.traceEntries.splice(0, this.traceEntries.length - MAX_TRACE_ENTRIES);
+        }
+    }
+}