@mjasnikovs/pi-task 0.17.26 → 0.17.27

package/dist/remote/bridge.d.ts

@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ export interface AskSpec {
     question: string;
     /** Primary recommended option, prefilled in the local TUI. */
     recommended?: string;
+    /**
+     * Placeholder for the local TUI text input when there is NO recommended
+     * option. Local-only: the remote card must not see it, or it would render as
+     * an acceptable recommendation ("✓ Accept" answering with placeholder text).
+     * Used by the steer prompt, whose hint ("type guidance, or leave empty…") is
+     * instructional copy, not an answer.
+     */
+    localPlaceholder?: string;
     /** Secondary recommended option shown as a second button on the remote. */
     recommended2?: string;
     /** Whether the browser card shows a Skip button (answers with empty string). */

package/dist/remote/bridge.js

@@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ export class SessionUI {
                 signal
             });
         }
-        return this.ctx.ui.input(spec.localTitle, spec.recommended, { signal });
+        return this.ctx.ui.input(spec.localTitle, spec.recommended ?? spec.localPlaceholder, {
+            signal
+        });
     }
 }
 export function publishNotify(message, level) {

package/dist/task/orchestrator.d.ts

@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ export interface RunSingleTaskOptions {
      * Ask the user for a steering message after they interrupt (ESC) the
      * implementation turn. Return text to continue the same task as another turn,
      * or undefined/empty to pause the run. Only consulted with
-     * waitForImplementation. Defaults to a ctx.ui.input prompt; injectable so the
-     * steer loop is testable without a real dialog.
+     * waitForImplementation. Defaults to a bridged SessionUI.ask (local TUI input
+     * raced against a remote browser card); injectable so the steer loop is
+     * testable without a real dialog.
      */
     promptSteer?: (ctx: ExtensionCommandContext) => Promise<string | undefined>;
     /**

package/dist/task/orchestrator.js

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import { readTextFile } from '../shared/fs-text.js';
 import { allocateTaskId, ensureTasksDir, readSection, readTaskFile, setTaskSection, taskFilePath, tasksDir, updateTaskFrontMatter, writeTaskFile } from './task-io.js';
 import { startWidget } from './widget.js';
 import { armImplWidget, disarmImplWidget, setupImplWidget } from './impl-widget.js';
-import { publishViewer, publishNotify, publishLifecycleNotice, registerBridgeCommand, getBridge } from '../remote/bridge.js';
+import { publishViewer, publishNotify, publishLifecycleNotice, registerBridgeCommand, getBridge, SessionUI } from '../remote/bridge.js';
 import { pushNotify } from '../remote/push.js';
 import { getConfig } from '../config/config.js';
 import { buildGateDeps } from './gate-deps.js';
@@ -342,6 +342,11 @@ export class TaskRunner {
 /** Dialog copy for the post-interrupt steering prompt. */
 const STEER_TITLE = 'Paused — steer the model';
 const STEER_PLACEHOLDER = 'Type guidance to continue this task, or leave empty to pause';
+/** Remote-card copy for the same prompt. The browser has no placeholder ghost
+ *  text, so the pause affordance must be spelled out in the question itself
+ *  (Skip = empty answer = pause, same as an empty local submit). */
+const STEER_QUESTION = 'Paused — the implementation was interrupted.\n'
+    + 'Type guidance to continue this task, or Skip to pause the run.';
 /**
  * True when the most recent assistant turn ended because the user interrupted it
  * (pressed ESC). pi records a user abort as stopReason "aborted" on the assistant
@@ -472,7 +477,19 @@ export async function resumeAcrossCompactions(ctx) {
  * should pause; false when the implementation completed (steered or not).
  */
 async function steerUntilDone(ctx, promptSteer) {
-    const ask = promptSteer ?? (c => c.ui.input(STEER_TITLE, STEER_PLACEHOLDER));
+    // Fan the prompt out through the bridge (local TUI input + remote browser
+    // card, first answer wins) instead of a raw ctx.ui.input: an interrupt can
+    // come from the remote Stop button just as well as a terminal ESC, and a
+    // terminal-only dialog leaves the remote viewer staring at a silently
+    // paused run. Remote Skip returns '' → same pause path as an empty local
+    // submit.
+    const ask = promptSteer
+        ?? (c => new SessionUI(c).ask({
+            localTitle: STEER_TITLE,
+            localPlaceholder: STEER_PLACEHOLDER,
+            question: STEER_QUESTION,
+            allowSkip: true
+        }));
     while (wasInterrupted(ctx)) {
         const steer = await ask(ctx);
         if (steer === undefined || steer.trim().length === 0)

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "name": "@mjasnikovs/pi-task",
-    "version": "0.17.26",
+    "version": "0.17.27",
     "description": "Deterministic task planning and spec-orchestration for local models — crash-safe /task pipelines with verify/enforce gates, a real-time remote web view, and web/docs/fetch/worker subagent tools.",
     "type": "module",
     "main": "./dist/index.js",