@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent 16.3.11 → 16.3.12

package/src/internal-urls/registry-helpers.ts

@@ -20,11 +20,13 @@ export function resetRegisteredArtifactDirsForTests(): void {
 /**
  * Snapshot of artifacts dirs for every registered session, deduped.
  *
- * Prefers `sessionManager.getArtifactsDir()` because subagents adopt their
- * parent's `ArtifactManager` and report the parent's dir there; dedup then
- * collapses parent + N subagents (the whole agent tree) to one entry. Falls
- * back to the raw session file (with the `.jsonl` suffix stripped) when no
- * live session reference is attached.
+ * Collects TWO candidate dirs per ref, because a subagent reads from its
+ * adopted (root-wide) `ArtifactManager.dir` but its own children are written
+ * one level deeper, under `sessionFile.slice(0, -6)` (`task/index.ts`). A
+ * depth-2+ subagent's output therefore lives in the write-time dir, not the
+ * adopted one, so `agent://` must scan both or it 404s a live nested peer.
+ * `addDir` dedup collapses the depth-0 case (both formulas agree) back to a
+ * single entry.
  */
 export function artifactsDirsFromRegistry(): string[] {
 	const dirs: string[] = [];
@@ -33,7 +35,8 @@ export function artifactsDirsFromRegistry(): string[] {
 		if (!dirs.includes(dir)) dirs.push(dir);
 	};
 	for (const ref of AgentRegistry.global().list()) {
-		addDir(ref.session?.sessionManager.getArtifactsDir() ?? (ref.sessionFile ? ref.sessionFile.slice(0, -6) : null));
+		addDir(ref.session?.sessionManager.getArtifactsDir());
+		if (ref.sessionFile) addDir(ref.sessionFile.slice(0, -6));
 	}
 	for (const dir of extraArtifactsDirs) addDir(dir);
 	return dirs;

package/src/modes/components/model-selector.ts

@@ -90,16 +90,20 @@ interface RoleAssignment {
 	autoSelected: boolean;
 }
 
+type ModelSelectorAction = "modelRole" | "retryFallback";
+
 type RoleSelectCallback = (
 	model: Model,
 	role: string | null,
 	thinkingLevel?: ConfiguredThinkingLevel,
 	selector?: string,
+	action?: ModelSelectorAction,
 ) => void;
 type CancelCallback = () => void;
 interface MenuRoleAction {
 	label: string;
-	role: string; // now accepts custom role strings
+	role: string;
+	action: ModelSelectorAction;
 }
 
 interface ProviderTabState {
@@ -284,14 +288,19 @@ export class ModelSelectorComponent extends Container {
 	}
 
 	#buildMenuRoleActions(): void {
-		this.#menuRoleActions = getKnownRoleIds(this.#settings).map(role => {
+		const roleActions = getKnownRoleIds(this.#settings).map(role => {
 			const roleInfo = getRoleInfo(role, this.#settings);
 			const roleLabel = roleInfo.tag ? `${roleInfo.tag} (${roleInfo.name})` : roleInfo.name;
 			return {
 				label: `Set as ${roleLabel}`,
 				role,
+				action: "modelRole" as const,
 			};
 		});
+		this.#menuRoleActions = [
+			...roleActions,
+			{ label: "Set as DEFAULT retry fallback", role: "default", action: "retryFallback" },
+		];
 	}
 
 	#loadRoleModels(autoCandidateModels?: ReadonlyArray<Model>): void {
@@ -1195,6 +1204,11 @@ export class ModelSelectorComponent extends Container {
 			if (this.#menuStep === "role") {
 				const action = this.#menuRoleActions[this.#menuSelectedIndex];
 				if (!action) return;
+				if (action.action === "retryFallback") {
+					this.#handleSelect(selectedItem, action.role, undefined, action.action);
+					this.#closeMenu();
+					return;
+				}
 				this.#menuSelectedRole = action.role;
 				this.#menuStep = "thinking";
 				this.#menuSelectedIndex = this.#getThinkingPreselectIndex(action.role, selectedItem.model);
@@ -1206,7 +1220,7 @@ export class ModelSelectorComponent extends Container {
 			const thinkingOptions = this.#getThinkingLevelsForModel(selectedItem.model);
 			const thinkingLevel = thinkingOptions[this.#menuSelectedIndex];
 			if (!thinkingLevel) return;
-			this.#handleSelect(selectedItem, this.#menuSelectedRole, thinkingLevel);
+			this.#handleSelect(selectedItem, this.#menuSelectedRole, thinkingLevel, "modelRole");
 			this.#closeMenu();
 			return;
 		}
@@ -1225,13 +1239,23 @@ export class ModelSelectorComponent extends Container {
 		}
 	}
 
-	#handleSelect(item: ModelItem, role: string | null, thinkingLevel?: ConfiguredThinkingLevel): void {
+	#handleSelect(
+		item: ModelItem,
+		role: string | null,
+		thinkingLevel?: ConfiguredThinkingLevel,
+		action: ModelSelectorAction = "modelRole",
+	): void {
 		if (this.#isItemDisabled(item)) {
 			return;
 		}
 		// For temporary role, don't save to settings - just notify caller
 		if (role === null) {
-			this.#onSelectCallback(item.model, null, undefined, item.selector);
+			this.#onSelectCallback(item.model, null, undefined, item.selector, action);
+			return;
+		}
+
+		if (action === "retryFallback") {
+			this.#onSelectCallback(item.model, role, undefined, item.selector, action);
 			return;
 		}
 
@@ -1241,7 +1265,7 @@ export class ModelSelectorComponent extends Container {
 		this.#roles[role] = { model: item.model, thinkingLevel: selectedThinkingLevel, autoSelected: false };
 
 		// Notify caller (for updating agent state if needed)
-		this.#onSelectCallback(item.model, role, selectedThinkingLevel, item.selector);
+		this.#onSelectCallback(item.model, role, selectedThinkingLevel, item.selector, action);
 
 		// Update list to show new badges
 		this.#updateList();

package/src/modes/components/settings-defs.ts

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ function pathToSettingDef(path: SettingPath): SettingDef | null {
 	}
 
 	if (schemaType === "record") {
-		return path === "providers.maxInFlightRequests" ? { ...base, type: "providerLimits" } : null;
+		return path === "providers.maxInFlightRequests" ? { ...base, type: "providerLimits" } : { ...base, type: "text" };
 	}
 
 	return null;

package/src/modes/components/status-line/component.ts

@@ -1235,9 +1235,21 @@ export class StatusLineComponent implements Component {
 					}
 				}
 			}
+			const leftOverflowDropIndex = (): number => {
+				// Preserve the current working directory as long as possible. The
+				// previous right-to-left pop could collapse a normal-width bar to
+				// just the model segment, hiding the path before less-critical left
+				// segments such as model/mode/collab were removed.
+				for (let i = leftSegIds.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+					if (leftSegIds[i] !== "path") return i;
+				}
+				return left.length - 1;
+			};
+
 			while (totalWidth() > topFillWidth && left.length > 0) {
-				left.pop();
-				leftSegIds.pop();
+				const dropIdx = leftOverflowDropIndex();
+				left.splice(dropIdx, 1);
+				leftSegIds.splice(dropIdx, 1);
 				leftWidth = groupWidth(left, leftCapWidth, leftSepWidth);
 			}
 		}

package/src/modes/controllers/command-controller.ts

@@ -849,11 +849,7 @@ export class CommandController {
 	}
 
 	async #runNewSessionFlow(options?: NewSessionOptions, label: string = "New session started"): Promise<void> {
-		if (this.ctx.loadingAnimation) {
-			this.ctx.loadingAnimation.stop();
-			this.ctx.loadingAnimation = undefined;
-		}
-		this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+		this.ctx.clearTransientSessionUi();
 
 		if (this.ctx.session.isCompacting) {
 			this.ctx.session.abortCompaction();
@@ -867,14 +863,9 @@ export class CommandController {
 
 		this.ctx.statusLine.invalidate();
 		this.ctx.statusLine.resetActiveTime();
-		this.ctx.ui.requestRender();
 		this.ctx.updateEditorBorderColor();
-		this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
-		this.ctx.pendingMessagesContainer.clear();
-		this.ctx.compactionQueuedMessages = [];
-		this.ctx.streamingComponent = undefined;
-		this.ctx.streamingMessage = undefined;
-		this.ctx.pendingTools.clear();
+		this.ctx.clearTransientSessionUi();
+		this.ctx.resetTranscript();
 
 		this.ctx.present([new Spacer(1), new Text(`${theme.fg("accent", `${theme.status.success} ${label}`)}`, 1, 1)]);
 		await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
@@ -914,7 +905,7 @@ export class CommandController {
 			this.ctx.loadingAnimation.stop();
 			this.ctx.loadingAnimation = undefined;
 		}
-		this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+		this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 
 		const success = await this.ctx.session.fork();
 		if (!success) {
@@ -1177,7 +1168,7 @@ export class CommandController {
 			this.ctx.loadingAnimation.stop();
 			this.ctx.loadingAnimation = undefined;
 		}
-		this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+		this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 
 		const label = isAuto ? "Auto-compacting context... (esc to cancel)" : "Compacting context... (esc to cancel)";
 		const compactingLoader = new Loader(
@@ -1207,7 +1198,7 @@ export class CommandController {
 			await this.ctx.session.compact(instructions, options);
 
 			compactingLoader.stop();
-			this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+			this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 			this.ctx.rebuildChatFromMessages();
 
 			this.ctx.statusLine.invalidate();
@@ -1223,7 +1214,7 @@ export class CommandController {
 			}
 		} finally {
 			compactingLoader.stop();
-			this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+			this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 		}
 		// Run the caller's pre-flush hook (e.g. the plan-approval model transition)
 		// before queued user input is dispatched, so any turn queued during
@@ -1252,7 +1243,7 @@ export class CommandController {
 			this.ctx.loadingAnimation.stop();
 			this.ctx.loadingAnimation = undefined;
 		}
-		this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+		this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 
 		const handoffLoader = new Loader(
 			this.ctx.ui,
@@ -1273,11 +1264,10 @@ export class CommandController {
 				return;
 			}
 
-			// Rebuild chat from the new session (which now contains the handoff document)
-			this.ctx.rebuildChatFromMessages();
-
+			// Rebuild chat from the new session (which now contains the handoff document).
+			this.ctx.clearTransientSessionUi();
+			this.ctx.renderInitialMessages();
 			this.ctx.statusLine.invalidate();
-			this.ctx.ui.requestRender();
 			this.ctx.updateEditorBorderColor();
 			await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 
@@ -1297,9 +1287,9 @@ export class CommandController {
 			}
 		} finally {
 			handoffLoader.stop();
-			this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+			this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 		}
-		this.ctx.ui.requestRender();
+		this.ctx.ui.requestRender(true, { clearScrollback: true });
 	}
 }
 

package/src/modes/controllers/event-controller.ts

@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ export class EventController {
 		if (this.ctx.retryLoader) {
 			this.ctx.retryLoader.stop();
 			this.ctx.retryLoader = undefined;
-			this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+			this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 		}
 		this.#cancelIdleCompaction();
 		this.#cancelIdleRecap();
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ export class EventController {
 		if (this.ctx.loadingAnimation) {
 			this.ctx.loadingAnimation.stop();
 			this.ctx.loadingAnimation = undefined;
-			this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+			this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 		}
 		if (this.ctx.streamingComponent) {
 			this.ctx.chatContainer.removeChild(this.ctx.streamingComponent);
@@ -1125,9 +1125,9 @@ export class EventController {
 
 	/**
 	 * Tear down the live "Working…" loader: stop its animation timer AND clear the
-	 * reference. A transient overlay (auto-compaction / auto-retry) that only ran
-	 * `statusContainer.clear()` detached the loader from the container but left
-	 * `ctx.loadingAnimation` set, so the resumed turn's `agent_start` →
+	 * reference. A transient overlay (auto-compaction / auto-retry) can remove the
+	 * loader from the container while leaving `ctx.loadingAnimation` set, so the
+	 * resumed turn's `agent_start` →
 	 * `ensureLoadingAnimation()` (guarded by `if (!this.loadingAnimation)`) skipped
 	 * re-adding it and the spinner vanished while the agent kept streaming. Nulling
 	 * the reference here lets the next `agent_start` recreate and re-attach it.
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ export class EventController {
 		this.#cancelIdleRecap();
 		this.#setTerminalProgress(true);
 		this.#stopWorkingLoader();
-		this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+		this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 		const reasonText =
 			event.reason === "overflow"
 				? "Context overflow detected, "
@@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ export class EventController {
 		if (this.ctx.autoCompactionLoader) {
 			this.ctx.autoCompactionLoader.stop();
 			this.ctx.autoCompactionLoader = undefined;
-			this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+			this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 		}
 		const isHandoffAction = event.action === "handoff";
 		const isShakeAction = event.action === "shake";
@@ -1245,12 +1245,12 @@ export class EventController {
 		} else if (event.errorMessage) {
 			this.ctx.showWarning(event.errorMessage);
 		} else if (isHandoffAction) {
-			this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
+			this.ctx.clearTransientSessionUi();
 			this.ctx.lastAssistantUsage = undefined;
-			this.ctx.rebuildChatFromMessages();
+			this.ctx.renderInitialMessages();
 			this.ctx.statusLine.invalidate();
-			this.ctx.ui.requestRender();
 			await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
+			this.ctx.ui.requestRender(true, { clearScrollback: true });
 			this.ctx.showStatus("Auto-handoff completed");
 		} else if (event.skipped) {
 			// Benign skip: no model selected, no candidate models available, or nothing
@@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ export class EventController {
 	async #handleAutoRetryStart(event: Extract<AgentSessionEvent, { type: "auto_retry_start" }>): Promise<void> {
 		this.#trackRetrySupersededAssistantComponent(this.#lastAssistantComponent);
 		this.#stopWorkingLoader();
-		this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+		this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 		if (AIError.is(event.errorId, AIError.Flag.ThinkingLoop)) {
 			// The retry path drops the failed assistant from runtime context. Do not
 			// restore its inline Error row; just unpin the fixed-region banner so the
@@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ export class EventController {
 		if (this.ctx.retryLoader) {
 			this.ctx.retryLoader.stop();
 			this.ctx.retryLoader = undefined;
-			this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+			this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 		}
 		if (event.success) {
 			let appliedRecovered = false;

package/src/modes/controllers/extension-ui-controller.ts

@@ -162,18 +162,12 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 			waitForIdle: () => this.ctx.session.agent.waitForIdle(),
 			reload: async () => {
 				await this.ctx.session.reload();
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 				this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 				await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 				this.ctx.showStatus("Reloaded session");
 			},
 			newSession: async options => {
-				// Stop any loading animation
-				if (this.ctx.loadingAnimation) {
-					this.ctx.loadingAnimation.stop();
-					this.ctx.loadingAnimation = undefined;
-				}
-				this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+				this.ctx.clearTransientSessionUi();
 
 				// Create new session
 				this.clearExtensionTerminalInputListeners();
@@ -192,15 +186,8 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 				// Reset and update status line
 				this.ctx.statusLine.invalidate();
 				this.ctx.statusLine.resetActiveTime();
-				this.ctx.ui.requestRender();
-
-				// Clear UI state
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
-				this.ctx.pendingMessagesContainer.clear();
-				this.ctx.compactionQueuedMessages = [];
-				this.ctx.streamingComponent = undefined;
-				this.ctx.streamingMessage = undefined;
-				this.ctx.pendingTools.clear();
+				this.ctx.clearTransientSessionUi();
+				this.ctx.resetTranscript();
 
 				this.ctx.present([
 					new Spacer(1),
@@ -218,7 +205,6 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 				}
 
 				// Update UI
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 				this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 				await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 				this.ctx.editor.setText(result.selectedText);
@@ -233,7 +219,6 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 				}
 
 				// Update UI
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 				this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 				await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 				if (result.editorText && !this.ctx.editor.getText().trim()) {
@@ -251,7 +236,6 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 					return { cancelled: true };
 				}
 				setSessionTerminalTitle(this.ctx.sessionManager.getSessionName(), this.ctx.sessionManager.getCwd());
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 				this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 				await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 				return { cancelled: false };
@@ -398,18 +382,12 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 			waitForIdle: () => this.ctx.session.agent.waitForIdle(),
 			reload: async () => {
 				await this.ctx.session.reload();
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 				this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 				await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 				this.ctx.showStatus("Reloaded session");
 			},
 			newSession: async options => {
-				// Stop any loading animation
-				if (this.ctx.loadingAnimation) {
-					this.ctx.loadingAnimation.stop();
-					this.ctx.loadingAnimation = undefined;
-				}
-				this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+				this.ctx.clearTransientSessionUi();
 
 				// Create new session
 				this.clearExtensionTerminalInputListeners();
@@ -425,12 +403,8 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 				}
 
 				// Clear UI state
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
-				this.ctx.pendingMessagesContainer.clear();
-				this.ctx.compactionQueuedMessages = [];
-				this.ctx.streamingComponent = undefined;
-				this.ctx.streamingMessage = undefined;
-				this.ctx.pendingTools.clear();
+				this.ctx.clearTransientSessionUi();
+				this.ctx.resetTranscript();
 
 				this.ctx.present([
 					new Spacer(1),
@@ -448,7 +422,6 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 				}
 
 				// Update UI
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 				this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 				await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 				this.ctx.editor.setText(result.selectedText);
@@ -463,7 +436,6 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 				}
 
 				// Update UI
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 				this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 				await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 				if (result.editorText && !this.ctx.editor.getText().trim()) {
@@ -480,7 +452,6 @@ export class ExtensionUiController {
 				if (!result) {
 					return { cancelled: true };
 				}
-				this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 				this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 				await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 				return { cancelled: false };

package/src/modes/controllers/input-controller.ts

@@ -86,6 +86,20 @@ function hasPasteText(value: unknown): value is PasteTarget {
 	return typeof value === "object" && value !== null && typeof (value as PasteTarget).pasteText === "function";
 }
 
+const SHELL_PROMPT_COMMAND_RE =
+	/^(?:\.{0,2}\/|~\/|cd(?:\s|$)|sudo(?:\s|$)|git(?:\s|$)|bun(?:\s|$)|npm(?:\s|$)|pnpm(?:\s|$)|yarn(?:\s|$)|node(?:\s|$)|python\d*(?:\s|$)|cargo(?:\s|$)|go(?:\s|$)|make(?:\s|$)|docker(?:\s|$)|kubectl(?:\s|$))/;
+const SHELL_PROMPT_OPERATOR_RE = /(?:^|\s)(?:&&|\|\||\||2>&1|[<>]{1,2})(?:\s|$)/;
+const OMP_STATUS_LINE_RE = /^\s*in:\s+\d+\s+out:\s+\d+(?:\s+cache\s+\S+)?\s+t:\s+\S+\s+tok\/s:\s+\S+/m;
+
+function looksLikePastedShellPrompt(code: string): boolean {
+	const firstLine = code.split("\n", 1)[0]?.trimStart() ?? "";
+	return (
+		SHELL_PROMPT_COMMAND_RE.test(firstLine) ||
+		SHELL_PROMPT_OPERATOR_RE.test(firstLine) ||
+		OMP_STATUS_LINE_RE.test(code)
+	);
+}
+
 function pythonCommandPrefixLength(trimmedText: string): 0 | 1 | 2 {
 	if (trimmedText.charCodeAt(0) !== 36 /* $ */) return 0;
 	if (trimmedText.charCodeAt(1) === 123 /* { */) return 0;
@@ -100,8 +114,10 @@ function parsePythonCommandInput(text: string): { code: string; isExcluded: bool
 	const trimmed = text.trimStart();
 	const prefixLength = pythonCommandPrefixLength(trimmed);
 	if (prefixLength === 0) return undefined;
+	const code = trimmed.slice(prefixLength).trim();
+	if (prefixLength === 1 && looksLikePastedShellPrompt(code)) return undefined;
 	return {
-		code: trimmed.slice(prefixLength).trim(),
+		code,
 		isExcluded: prefixLength === 2,
 	};
 }
@@ -536,7 +552,7 @@ export class InputController {
 			const wasPythonMode = this.ctx.isPythonMode;
 			const trimmed = text.trimStart();
 			this.ctx.isBashMode = trimmed.startsWith("!");
-			this.ctx.isPythonMode = pythonCommandPrefixLength(trimmed) > 0;
+			this.ctx.isPythonMode = parsePythonCommandInput(trimmed) !== undefined;
 			if (wasBashMode !== this.ctx.isBashMode || wasPythonMode !== this.ctx.isPythonMode) {
 				this.ctx.updateEditorBorderColor();
 			}

package/src/modes/controllers/mcp-command-controller.ts

@@ -88,12 +88,14 @@ function raceAbortSignal<T>(promise: Promise<T>, signal: AbortSignal, createErro
 const MCP_AUTH_MIN_WRAP_WIDTH = 16;
 
 /**
- * Wrap `url` into rows that each fit inside `width`, prefixed by a shared
- * single-column indent so nested composition doesn't touch column 0. When the
- * label + URL fit on one line, returns a single row; otherwise puts the label
- * on its own row and slices the URL into fixed-width chunks. URL chunks are
- * plain code points — browsers strip whitespace when pasted into the address
- * bar, so a multi-row selection copies back to the intact URL.
+ * Wrap `url` into rows that each fit inside `width`. When the label + URL fit
+ * on one line, returns a single indented row; otherwise puts the label on its
+ * own indented row and slices the URL into fixed-width chunks that start at
+ * column 0. Continuation chunks carry ZERO leading bytes on purpose: a
+ * multi-row terminal selection includes the newline plus any leading indent,
+ * and while address bars strip newlines they preserve or percent-encode
+ * embedded spaces — an indent would corrupt the URL at every chunk boundary
+ * (silently, when the damage lands inside a query value).
  */
 function wrapUrlRows(label: string, url: string, width: number): string[] {
 	const indent = " ";
@@ -103,10 +105,9 @@ function wrapUrlRows(label: string, url: string, width: number): string[] {
 	if (inlineWidth <= effective) {
 		return [`${indent}${theme.fg("muted", `${label} ${sanitized}`)}`];
 	}
-	const chunkWidth = Math.max(1, effective - indent.length);
 	const rows: string[] = [`${indent}${theme.fg("muted", label)}`];
-	for (let i = 0; i < sanitized.length; i += chunkWidth) {
-		rows.push(`${indent}${theme.fg("muted", sanitized.slice(i, i + chunkWidth))}`);
+	for (let i = 0; i < sanitized.length; i += effective) {
+		rows.push(theme.fg("muted", sanitized.slice(i, i + effective)));
 	}
 	return rows;
 }

package/src/modes/controllers/selector-controller.ts

@@ -593,13 +593,27 @@ export class SelectorController {
 				this.ctx.settings,
 				this.ctx.session.modelRegistry,
 				this.ctx.session.scopedModels,
-				async (model, role, thinkingLevel, selector) => {
+				async (model, role, thinkingLevel, selector, action) => {
 					// `auto` is session-global: never baked into a per-role model value
 					// (it can't round-trip through `model:<level>`). Apply it to the session
 					// separately and persist via `defaultThinkingLevel`.
 					const isAuto = thinkingLevel === AUTO_THINKING;
 					const concreteThinking = isAuto ? undefined : thinkingLevel;
+					const selectorValue = selector ?? `${model.provider}/${model.id}`;
 					try {
+						if (action === "retryFallback" && role !== null) {
+							const fallbackSelector = formatModelSelectorValue(selectorValue, concreteThinking);
+							const fallbackChains = this.ctx.settings.get("retry.fallbackChains");
+							const chain = Array.isArray(fallbackChains[role]) ? fallbackChains[role] : [];
+							this.ctx.settings.set("retry.fallbackChains", {
+								...fallbackChains,
+								[role]: [fallbackSelector, ...chain.filter(existing => existing !== fallbackSelector)],
+							});
+							const roleInfo = getRoleInfo(role, settings);
+							const roleLabel = roleInfo?.name ?? role;
+							this.ctx.showStatus(`${roleLabel} fallback model: ${fallbackSelector}`);
+							return;
+						}
 						if (role === null) {
 							// Temporary: update agent state but don't persist the model to settings
 							await this.ctx.session.setModelTemporary(model);
@@ -771,7 +785,6 @@ export class SelectorController {
 						return;
 					}
 
-					this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 					this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 					this.ctx.editor.setText(result.selectedText);
 					done();
@@ -915,7 +928,6 @@ export class SelectorController {
 
 						// Update UI — rebuild the display transcript for the new leaf (the
 						// context from navigateTree is the LLM context, not the transcript).
-						this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 						this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 						await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 						if (result.editorText && !this.ctx.editor.getText().trim()) {
@@ -927,7 +939,7 @@ export class SelectorController {
 					} finally {
 						if (summaryLoader) {
 							summaryLoader.stop();
-							this.ctx.statusContainer.clear();
+							this.ctx.statusContainer.disposeChildren();
 						}
 						this.ctx.editor.onEscape = originalOnEscape;
 					}
@@ -1067,7 +1079,6 @@ export class SelectorController {
 		this.ctx.updateEditorBorderColor();
 
 		// Clear and re-render the chat
-		this.ctx.chatContainer.clear();
 		this.ctx.renderInitialMessages({ clearTerminalHistory: true });
 		await this.ctx.reloadTodos();
 		this.ctx.showStatus(movedProject ? `Resumed session in ${shortenPath(newCwd)}` : "Resumed session");