ucode-agent 1.43.0 → 1.45.0

package/src/ui/screen.js

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-/**
- * screen.js — the full-screen interface.
- *
- * Used whenever stdout is a real terminal. Everything else — piped input, CI,
- * `echo ... | ucode` — falls back to plain.js, which is why both exist.
- *
- * The layout, top to bottom:
- *
- *   ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
- *   │  UCODE wordmark                    dir / keys    │
- *   ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
- *
- *    the conversation, scrolling with the wheel or PgUp
- *
- *   ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
- *   │ › what you are typing, growing downward as it     │
- *   │                                                  │
- *   │ ◆ Build · Nemotron 3 Ultra                    4% │
- *   ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
- *
- * Both boxes are drawn rather than ruled off, because a box says "this is a
- * thing you use" where a horizontal rule only says "something changes here".
- *
- * The status sits inside the input box rather than under it: it describes the
- * thing you are typing into, so it belongs within the same border. It carries
- * three facts and no more — which mode is live, which model is answering, and
- * how full the window is. Anything else down there competes with what the user
- * is actually looking at, which is what they just typed.
- *
- * The transcript is a buffer of pre-rendered lines and the whole frame is
- * repainted whenever anything changes. At terminal sizes that is cheap, and
- * it rules out every partial-update bug at once.
- */
-
-import { appendFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
-import { homedir } from 'node:os';
-import path from 'node:path';
-import chalk from 'chalk';
-import {
-  theme, blue, sky, deep, dim, edge, ADDED, REMOVED, BANNER, BANNER_WIDTH, SPINNER,
-  boxTop, boxBottom, boxRow, visLen, padVis, clip, wrapAnsi,
-  shortenPath, asLabel, ensureColour, planLine, bare, narration, narrationMark, groupKind, groupLabel, groupTarget, runLine, planRows, tidyReply, trimAnswer,
-  bannerPaint, RAIL, modeChip } from './theme.js';
-import { FRAME_MS, spinnerGlyph, formatDuration, doneLine, workingLine, bannerSweep, SWEEP_MS } from './activity.js';
-import { gitBranch } from '../core/git.js';
-import { renderer, render, polish } from './markdown.js';
-import { VERSION } from '../core/version.js';
-
-/**
- * One line of narration, in the model's own words: "Reading screen.js".
- * Anything longer than this is prose, and prose belongs in the answer.
- */
-export const MAX_LABEL = 120;
-
-export function isLabel(text) {
-  const t = String(text ?? '').trim();
-  return t.length > 0 && t.length <= MAX_LABEL && !t.includes('\n');
-}
-
-export const COMMANDS = [
-  '/help', '/model', '/models', '/session', '/sessions', '/resume',
-  '/new', '/remember', '/skills', '/clear', '/search', '/copy', '/exit',
-  '/stats', '/doctor', '/deploy', '/look', '/undo',
-];
-
-// ANSI ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-const ESC = '\x1b';
-const ALT_ON = `${ESC}[?1049h`;
-const ALT_OFF = `${ESC}[?1049l`;
-
-/**
- * Mouse setup, decided by measurement rather than by documentation.
- *
- * 1007 is alternate scroll: inside the alternate screen the terminal turns
- * wheel events into arrow keys. On Windows that is the only way a wheel ever
- * reaches the program, because ConPTY forwards no mouse input at all — a probe
- * that enabled every tracking mode received nothing from a scroll.
- *
- * And mouse tracking suppresses alternate scroll. So on Windows tracking is
- * deliberately not requested: it delivers nothing there, and asking for it
- * would cost the wheel. Elsewhere tracking works, so the mode chip is
- * clickable on those platforms.
- */
-const TRACK = process.platform === 'win32'
-  ? '' : `${ESC}[?1000h${ESC}[?1002h${ESC}[?1015h${ESC}[?1006h`;
-const UNTRACK = process.platform === 'win32'
-  ? '' : `${ESC}[?1006l${ESC}[?1015l${ESC}[?1002l${ESC}[?1000l`;
-
-const PASTE_ON = `${ESC}[?2004h`;
-const PASTE_OFF = `${ESC}[?2004l`;
-const MOUSE_ON = `${ESC}[?1007h${TRACK}`;
-const MOUSE_OFF = `${UNTRACK}${ESC}[?1007l`;
-const HIDE = `${ESC}[?25l`;
-const SHOW = `${ESC}[?25h`;
-const HOME = `${ESC}[H`;
-const CLEAR_LINE = `${ESC}[K`;
-/** Written out rather than inline, so no edit can turn it into a real break. */
-const NEWLINE = String.fromCharCode(10);
-const at = (row, col) => `${ESC}[${row};${col}H`;
-const title = (t) => `${ESC}]0;${t}\x07`;
-
-/**
- * Fixed rows below the header: the gap under it, the gap above the input box,
- * the input box's two borders, the blank row inside it, and the status row.
- */
-const CHROME_BELOW = 6;
-
-/** How long one sentence of reasoning holds the line before the next takes it. */
-const THOUGHT_HOLD_MS = 1100;
-
-/** Reasoning that is about the request rather than about the work. */
-const RESTATEMENT = /^(?:the user|they|so the user|user)|^(?:i (?:need|should|will need) to (?:understand|figure|work out|check what))|^(?:let me (?:understand|re-?read|look at the (?:request|prompt)))|^(?:the (?:request|prompt|task) (?:is|asks|says))/i;
-
-/** The wordmark only earns its place with room for the facts column beside it. */
-const WORDMARK_NEEDS = BANNER_WIDTH + 30;
-
-/** What the empty input box says before anything is typed. */
-const PLACEHOLDER = 'Ask anything…';
-
-/**
- * What it says instead while the agent has the turn.
- *
- * The status row beside it already says "esc to stop", so this carries the
- * half nothing else on screen does: that the box is still live, and a line
- * typed into it now is kept and sent when the turn ends rather than lost. The
- * short form is for a terminal too narrow to hold the sentence, where a cut
- * one would read as a glitch.
- */
-const WORKING_HINT = 'Working… type to queue your next message';
-const WORKING_HINT_SHORT = 'Working…';
-const WORKING_HINT_NEEDS = WORKING_HINT.length + 8;
-
-/**
- * Three things to try, under the box, on a screen with nothing on it yet.
- *
- * A wordmark over an empty field is handsome and tells you nothing you can act
- * on — the first thing a new user has to do is guess what this accepts. Three
- * greyed lines answer that in one glance, and they say something about the
- * range of it too: build something new, understand something that exists,
- * change something small. They are dim, and they are gone the moment anything
- * is on the screen.
- */
-const SUGGESTIONS = [
-  'build me a landing page for a coffee shop',
-  'explain what this project does and how it fits together',
-  'add a dark mode toggle that remembers the choice',
-];
-
-/** The width of the `try` label, so the three lines share one left edge. */
-const SUGGEST_LABEL = 6;
-
-/** Rows the suggestions occupy under the box: one of air, then the three. */
-const SUGGEST_ROWS = SUGGESTIONS.length + 1;
-
-export class Screen {
-  constructor({ cwd, input = process.stdin, output = process.stdout } = {}) {
-    this.cwd = cwd;
-    this.input = input;
-    this.output = output;
-
-    this.lines = [];        // the rendered transcript
-    this.scroll = 0;        // rows scrolled up from the bottom
-    this.buffer = '';       // what is being typed
-    this.cursor = 0;
-    this.history = [];
-    this.historyIndex = -1;
-
-    this.status = { busy: false, text: '', frame: 0, since: 0 };
-    this.facts = {};
-    this.model = '';
-
-    this.waiters = [];
-    this.queue = [];
-    this.closed = false;
-
-    // 'build' may edit and run; 'plan' is read-only. Ctrl+B swaps them, and
-    // the chip is clickable wherever the terminal forwards clicks.
-    this.mode = 'build';
-    this.chipTo = 0;
-    this.onInterrupt = null;
-    this.onModeChange = null;
-    this.spinTimer = null;
-    this.paintedBusy = false;  // whose turn the frame on screen was drawn for
-    this.activity = null; // the turn in flight: when it began, how many steps
-    this.tick = 0;        // animation frames painted, for the spinner
-    this.intro = 0;       // when the launch sweep began, 0 once it is over
-    this.introTimer = null;
-    this.pendingPrompt = null;
-    this.lastPrompt = '';  // the last thing the user said, for the echo check
-    this.facts.branch = gitBranch(cwd);
-
-    this.cols = output.columns || 80;
-    this.rows = output.rows || 24;
-    this.md = renderer(this.width());
-  }
-
-  // -- lifecycle -----------------------------------------------------------
-
-  async start() {
-    ensureColour(this.output);
-    this.output.write(ALT_ON + MOUSE_ON + PASTE_ON + HIDE + title(`ucode — ${path.basename(this.cwd)}`));
-    this.input.setRawMode?.(true);
-    this.input.resume();
-    this.input.setEncoding('utf8');
-    this.input.on('data', (chunk) => this.onData(chunk));
-
-    this.onResize = () => {
-      this.cols = this.output.columns || 80;
-      this.rows = this.output.rows || 24;
-      this.md = renderer(this.width());
-      this.render();
-    };
-    this.output.on('resize', this.onResize);
-
-    this.render();
-    this.startIntro();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The light that crosses the wordmark once, at launch.
-   *
-   * Half a second, on the start screen only, and abandoned the instant there is
-   * anything else to look at. Below 256 colours there are no shades to fade
-   * through, so it is skipped rather than flickered.
-   */
-  startIntro() {
-    if (!this.output.isTTY || chalk.level < 2 || !this.welcoming()) return;
-    this.intro = Date.now();
-    this.introTimer = setInterval(() => {
-      if (this.closed || !this.welcoming() || Date.now() - this.intro >= SWEEP_MS) this.stopIntro();
-      else this.render();
-    }, FRAME_MS);
-    this.introTimer.unref?.();
-  }
-
-  stopIntro() {
-    if (this.introTimer) clearInterval(this.introTimer);
-    this.introTimer = null;
-    if (!this.intro) return;
-    this.intro = 0;
-    if (!this.closed) this.render();
-  }
-
-  stop() {
-    this.activity = null;
-    if (this.introTimer) clearInterval(this.introTimer);
-    this.introTimer = null;
-    this.intro = 0;
-    this.stopSpinner();
-    this.stopTimer();
-    this.output.off?.('resize', this.onResize);
-    this.input.setRawMode?.(false);
-    this.input.pause();
-    this.output.write(PASTE_OFF + MOUSE_OFF + ALT_OFF + SHOW);
-  }
-
-  close() {
-    if (this.closed) return;
-    this.closed = true;
-    this.stop();
-    while (this.waiters.length) this.waiters.shift()(null);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Every column the terminal has.
-   *
-   * Capped at 100 for a release, and it was wrong: on a wide monitor the frame
-   * sat in the left half of the screen with the rest of it empty, which reads
-   * as the window having failed to open rather than as a measured column. The
-   * interface fills what it is given. Prose inside it is still held to 100 by
-   * the markdown renderer, which is where that limit belongs — the boxes are
-   * the shape of the window, not of a paragraph.
-   */
-  width() {
-    return Math.max(30, this.cols);
-  }
-
-  /** Usable width inside a box: two borders and a space of padding each side. */
-  inner() {
-    return Math.max(8, this.width() - 4);
-  }
-
-  // -- transcript ----------------------------------------------------------
-
-  /**
-   * Append without painting.
-   *
-   * Anything replacing a region of the transcript has to build the whole
-   * region and then render once. Painting between the delete and the re-add
-   * puts a frame on screen with the text missing, and at streaming speed that
-   * reads as flicker.
-   */
-  add(text = '') {
-    const width = this.width();
-    for (const raw of String(text).split('\n')) {
-      if (visLen(raw) <= width) this.lines.push(raw);
-      else for (const wrapped of wrapAnsi(raw, width)) this.lines.push(wrapped);
-    }
-    this.scroll = 0; // new output snaps back to the bottom
-  }
-
-  push(text = '') {
-    this.add(text);
-    this.soon();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Collapse a burst of pushes into one frame.
-   *
-   * Printing a list one line at a time repaints the screen per line — a model
-   * list of fifty entries drew a hundred frames back to back, which is visible
-   * as a cascade. A microtask runs before any I/O, so everything pushed in one
-   * synchronous stretch becomes a single render, while a push after an await
-   * still paints immediately.
-   */
-  soon() {
-    if (this.queued) return;
-    this.queued = true;
-    queueMicrotask(() => {
-      this.queued = false;
-      this.render();
-    });
-  }
-
-  write(text = '') { this.push(text); }
-  blank() { this.push(''); }
-  note(text) { this.push(dim(`  ${text}`)); }
-
-  clearScreen() {
-    this.lines = [];
-    this.scroll = 0;
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The reply, at full strength, with room either side.
-   *
-   * `closing` says this is the last thing the turn will say. It is then also
-   * the last thing left on screen, and what the whole session reads like
-   * afterwards, so it is cut to eight lines — see trimAnswer.
-   */
-  assistant(text, { closing = false } = {}) {
-    if (!text?.trim()) return;
-    const tidy = tidyReply(text, 4, this.lastPrompt);
-    const body = closing ? trimAnswer(tidy) : tidy;
-    if (!body.trim()) return;
-    this.endRun();
-    this.add('');
-
-    // No bullet, and no indent. A mark on every reply made the answer read as
-    // one more step in the list above it, and on "Hey! How can I help you
-    // today?" it was a bullet on a greeting. The answer already wins the page
-    // by being the only thing on it at full strength; it does not also need to
-    // be labelled.
-    this.add(render(this.md, body));
-
-    this.add('');
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Something the user said, marked down its left edge in the same blue as the
-   * box it was typed into.
-   *
-   * A long session is mostly the agent's output — tool calls, diffs, answers.
-   * Your own messages are the landmarks you scroll back looking for, so they
-   * get a mark of their own. It was a full box, and forty turns of that is a
-   * ladder of rules across the page: two horizontal lines per message, each as
-   * loud as the input box, none of them saying anything the rail does not.
-   */
-  userMessage(text) {
-    // Kept so the reply can be checked against it: an answer that opens by
-    // saying the request back is repeating the line directly above it.
-    this.lastPrompt = String(text ?? '');
-    const room = Math.max(8, this.width() - 2);   // the rail and the space after it
-
-    const rows = [];
-    for (const paragraph of String(text).replace(/\r/g, '').split('\n')) {
-      for (const line of wrapAnsi(paragraph, room)) rows.push(line);
-    }
-
-    // Room between what you asked for and what came back: without it the reply
-    // starts against your own message and the two read as one block of text.
-    this.add('');
-    for (const row of rows) this.add(`${blue(RAIL)} ${chalk.white(row)}`);
-    this.add('');
-    this.add('');
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * A tool call, as it happens: "● Listing src".
-   *
-   * This lives in the transcript rather than only on the status line. The
-   * status line overwrites itself and is empty by the end of the turn, so work
-   * announced only there scrolls past unseen — and the diff underneath ends up
-   * with nothing above it explaining where it came from.
-   */
-  toolCall(label) {
-    // U+25CF, not U+23FA: the latter carries emoji presentation, which Windows
-    // Terminal draws as a white circle on a blue tile.
-    // Trimmed here rather than at paint time: runLine hands back a coloured
-    // string, and asLabel's regexes run off the end of one of those into the
-    // escape sequence instead of the last word.
-    const clean = asLabel(label);
-    const kind = groupKind(clean);
-    // One line per kind of work for as long as the model is working on one
-    // thing. Reading, writing and reading again used to draw six lines that
-    // said three things; now the "Reading files" line it already has is the
-    // one that counts up, wherever it sits.
-    const run = (this.segment ??= new Map()).get(kind);
-
-    if (run && this.lines[run.at] !== undefined) {
-      run.count++;
-      run.label = clean;
-      run.targets.push(groupTarget(clean));
-      this.run = run;
-      this.paintRun();
-    } else {
-      const fresh = {
-        kind, count: 1, at: 0, label: clean,
-        targets: [groupTarget(clean)], added: 0, removed: 0,
-      };
-      this.push(`${narrationMark(kind)} ${runLine(fresh)}`);
-      fresh.at = this.lines.length - 1;
-      this.run = fresh;
-      this.segment.set(kind, fresh);
-    }
-    this.updateSpinner(label);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The model speaking — or a plan, or a failure — ends the segment.
-   *
-   * Up to that point a kind of work keeps one line and counts up on it. After
-   * it, the next read is a new piece of work and deserves its own line, which
-   * is what makes the transcript read as a sequence of things done rather
-   * than a set of running totals.
-   */
-  /**
-   * Stop adding to the current run, but keep the lines already on screen.
-   *
-   * A kind of work gets one line for the whole turn. Starting a fresh set
-   * whenever the model spoke meant "Creating Tide from the HTML starter" five
-   * times down the page and "Reading files" four, each saying the same thing
-   * about a different moment. One line that counts up says all of it and
-   * costs one row.
-   */
-  endRun() { this.run = null; }
-
-  /** A new turn starts with a clean page's worth of lines. */
-  newSegment() { this.run = null; this.segment = new Map(); }
-
-  /** Redraw the run's single line from what it has accumulated. */
-  /**
-   * Redraw the run's single line from what it has accumulated.
-   *
-   * While its step is still running the text shimmers, which is the only
-   * thing on screen saying "this is happening now" once the per-step result
-   * lines are gone. It settles to plain dim the moment the step finishes, so
-   * the finished ones above stay quiet.
-   */
-  paintRun() {
-    if (!this.run) return;
-    this.lines[this.run.at] = `${narrationMark(this.run.kind)} ${runLine(this.run)}`;
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * A change, as its two numbers.
-   *
-   * The diff itself used to go into the transcript. A 539-line file printed
-   * there buries the answer under a copy of something already on disk, so
-   * what is kept is the shape of the change: how much arrived, how much left.
-   */
-  /**
-   * A one-word verdict on the step that just ran — "clean", "3 to fix".
-   *
-   * Same rule as diffStat: it goes on the line that named the step. Nothing
-   * goes underneath a bullet, and a result line per tool doubles the height of
-   * the transcript to say "ok".
-   */
-  runStat(text) {
-    if (!this.run || !text) return;
-    this.run.stat = text;
-    this.paintRun();
-  }
-
-  diffStat({ added = 0, removed = 0 } = {}) {
-    if (!this.run) return;
-    this.run.added += added;
-    this.run.removed += removed;
-    this.paintRun();
-  }
-
-  /** The checklist, when the model updates it. One line, wrapped if it must. */
-  plan(items) {
-    const rows = planRows(items);
-    if (!rows.length) return;
-    this.endRun();          // a plan is not another step of whatever came before
-    for (const row of rows) this.push(row);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * What came of a step.
-   *
-   * Nothing goes underneath the bullet any more: a line of its own for every
-   * result doubles the height of the transcript to say "ok". The bullet
-   * already names the step, and a change adds its numbers to that same line.
-   * Only a failure earns a line of its own.
-   */
-  toolResult() {}
-
-  /**
-   * Something went wrong, and the model is the one who can do anything about it.
-   *
-   * A red line of machinery — a failed edit, a command that exited non-zero —
-   * reads as the tool being broken, when almost always it is a step the model
-   * corrects on its own a second later. It goes to the model; the screen stays
-   * for what is being built. Whatever is genuinely unrecoverable surfaces as
-   * the model saying so in words, which is the form worth reading.
-   */
-  toolFailed() {
-    this.endRun();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The change itself, under the result.
-   *
-   * A line-number gutter, then the sign and the code tinted right across the
-   * row. The numbers are the point: a diff you cannot navigate from is a
-   * picture of a change rather than a record of one.
-   */
-  diff(lines) {
-    const gutter = 6;
-    // Two spaces of indent, the gutter, one space, then the tint fills the
-    // rest. One column over and every row wraps, splitting the whole diff.
-    const room = Math.max(12, this.width() - gutter - 3);
-
-    for (const line of lines) {
-      // A file heading in a multi-file write.
-      if (line.startsWith('~')) {
-        this.add(`  ${dim(' '.repeat(gutter))} ${sky(line.slice(1))}`);
-        continue;
-      }
-
-      const added = line.startsWith('+');
-      const rest = line.slice(1);
-      // Tools emit "<line>| <text>". A row with no number is the "12 more
-      // lines" note, which is not part of the change, so it stays dim.
-      const parsed = /^(\d+)\|\s?([\s\S]*)$/.exec(rest);
-      if (!parsed) {
-        this.add(`  ${dim(' '.repeat(gutter))} ${dim(rest)}`);
-        continue;
-      }
-
-      const [, number, body] = parsed;
-      const tint = added ? ADDED : REMOVED;
-      this.add(
-        `  ${dim(number.padStart(gutter))} ` +
-        // Tabs would leave the tint ending short of the row, so they widen.
-        tint(padVis(clip(`${added ? '+' : '-'} ${body.replace(/\t/g, '  ')}`, room), room))
-      );
-    }
-    this.render(); // a sixteen-line diff is one frame, not sixteen
-  }
-
-  /** Captured output under a command, dimmed so it reads as evidence. */
-  commandOutput(lines) {
-    for (const line of lines) this.add(`    ${dim(line)}`);
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * A running command's output, live — on the status line and nowhere else.
-   *
-   * Only the newest line, gone as soon as the next arrives. Appending each one
-   * instead would mean a test run leaving sixty lines of "ok" in the
-   * conversation permanently, which is noise the moment it scrolls. What
-   * survives a command is decided when it ends: nothing if it worked, the tail
-   * if it did not.
-   */
-  progress(lines) {
-    const last = lines[lines.length - 1]?.trim();
-    if (last) this.updateSpinner(last);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The model's own account of the step it is taking, before it takes it.
-   *
-   * Not called status(): `this.status` holds the spinner state, and a method
-   * of the same name would be shadowed by it on every instance.
-   */
-  narrate(text) {
-    const line = asLabel(text);
-    if (!line) return;
-    this.push(`${dim('⋮')} ${dim(clip(line, this.width() - 4))}`);
-    this.updateSpinner(line);
-  }
-
-  // -- streaming -----------------------------------------------------------
-  // Deltas appear as plain text as they arrive, then get replaced in place by
-  // properly rendered markdown once the reply is complete.
-
-  streamBegin() {
-    this.stopSpinner();
-    this.streamAt = this.lines.length;
-    this.streamBuf = '';
-    this.streamPainted = 0;
-  }
-
-  streamDelta(delta) {
-    if (this.streamAt === undefined) this.streamBegin();
-    this.streamBuf += delta;
-    const now = Date.now();
-    if (now - this.streamPainted < 60) return; // about 16fps is plenty
-    this.streamPainted = now;
-    this.repaintStream();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Repaint the partial reply.
-   *
-   * polish() runs on the partial text so bold, inline code and bullets are
-   * already styled while it streams. Without it the text arrives raw and then
-   * visibly re-renders at the end, which reads as a glitch.
-   */
-  repaintStream() {
-    this.lines.length = this.streamAt;
-    this.add('');
-    this.add(polish(this.streamBuf));
-    this.render(); // one frame, and never one without the reply in it
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Finish a streamed reply.
-   *
-   * `asLabel` says the text turned out to be narration ahead of a tool call
-   * rather than an answer, in which case one short line folds down into the
-   * status line it was always meant to be.
-   */
-  streamEnd({ asNarration = false, closing = false } = {}) {
-    if (this.streamAt === undefined) return '';
-    const text = this.streamBuf;
-    this.lines.length = this.streamAt;
-    this.streamAt = undefined;
-    this.streamBuf = '';
-
-    if (asNarration && isLabel(text)) this.narrate(text);
-    else if (text.trim()) this.assistant(text, { closing });
-    else this.render();
-    return text;
-  }
-
-  // -- thinking ------------------------------------------------------------
-  // A reasoning model does all its working before it says anything. None of it
-  // is printed: it is long, repetitive, and guesses drawn from it read worse
-  // than silence. The spinner counts the seconds so the wait is visibly alive,
-  // and the transcript gets one line afterwards saying how long it took.
-
-  /**
-   * The model's reasoning does not go on screen.
-   *
-   * It was surfaced here to fill the wait before the first tool call, and what
-   * it actually filled it with was the model talking to itself: "I need to
-   * build this", "The user wants a tasks app". Nobody needs their own request
-   * read back to them, and half-formed working-out is not something to publish.
-   * What the model *says* is its reply, and that is the only thing shown.
-   */
-  thinkingDelta() {}
-
-  thinkingEnd() {}
-
-  error(err, { debug = false } = {}) {
-    const known = err && typeof err === 'object' && err.attempted;
-    this.push('');
-    if (known) {
-      this.push(`${theme.error('✗')} ${chalk.white(`Failed while ${err.attempted}.`)}`);
-      this.push(`  ${err.failed}`);
-      if (err.fix) this.push(`  ${blue('→')} ${err.fix}`);
-      if (err.kind) this.push(dim(`  (${err.kind})`));
-    } else {
-      this.push(`${theme.error('✗')} ${chalk.white('Something broke inside ucode.')}`);
-      this.push(`  ${err?.message ?? String(err)}`);
-      this.push(`  ${blue('→')} That is a bug in ucode rather than in your project. Re-run with --debug.`);
-    }
-    if (debug) {
-      const stack = (known && err.cause?.stack) || err?.stack;
-      if (stack) this.push(dim(stack));
-    }
-    this.push('');
-  }
-
-  // -- header --------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  setFacts(facts) {
-    this.facts = { ...this.facts, ...facts };
-    if (facts.model) this.model = facts.model;
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  /** Same shape as the plain UI's header(), so the loop needs no branch. */
-  header({ cwd, model, used, limit, title: sessionTitle }) {
-    if (cwd && cwd !== this.facts.cwd) this.facts.branch = gitBranch(cwd);
-    this.setFacts({
-      cwd,
-      model,
-      title: sessionTitle,
-      percent: limit > 0 ? Math.min(100, Math.round((used / limit) * 100)) : 0,
-    });
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * How many rows the header box occupies.
-   *
-   * The frame has to be exactly as tall as the terminal or every row below the
-   * shortfall is off by that much — including the one the caret is parked on.
-   * So this is derived, never assumed.
-   */
-  headerHeight() {
-    return this.width() >= WORDMARK_NEEDS ? BANNER.length + 2 : 5;
-  }
-
-  headerLines() {
-    const width = this.width();
-    const inner = width - 2;              // between the borders
-
-    if (width < WORDMARK_NEEDS) {
-      // Too narrow for the wordmark: stack it rather than wrap it into noise.
-      const rows = [
-        `  ${blue.bold('U C O D E')}  ${dim('terminal coding agent')}`,
-        `  ${dim('dir'.padEnd(8))}${chalk.white(clip(shortenPath(this.facts.cwd ?? this.cwd, inner - 12), inner - 12))}`,
-      ];
-      return [boxTop(width), ...rows.map((r) => boxRow(r, width)), boxBottom(width)];
-    }
-
-    // Two spaces of padding, the wordmark, a gap, then the facts column.
-    //
-    // Only what you cannot work out by looking, and never what the status row
-    // already carries: the model and how full the window is live down there,
-    // next to each other, and a second copy up here would be a second place to
-    // keep in sync for no reader who needed it. What is left is where you are,
-    // which branch that is on, which build you are running, and the two keys
-    // worth knowing before you have typed anything.
-    //
-    // Every row has something on it. Three blank rows and a credit floating
-    // under them read as a column that was meant to be filled and was not.
-    const room = Math.max(8, inner - BANNER_WIDTH - 6);
-    const value = (v) => clip(String(v), Math.max(4, room - 10));
-    const branch = this.facts.branch;
-
-    // The facts run together from the top with nothing between them, the credit
-    // sits on the last row, and whatever is left over is the gap between the
-    // two. Holding a row empty in the middle of the list — which is what a
-    // fixed six-row layout did when a fact was missing — reads as a line that
-    // failed to draw rather than as spacing.
-    const facts = [
-      ['dir', value(shortenPath(this.facts.cwd ?? this.cwd, room - 10))],
-      branch && ['branch', value(branch)],
-      VERSION && ['version', value(this.facts.update ? `${VERSION} → ${this.facts.update} next start` : VERSION)],
-      ['keys', value('/help · esc interrupts · ctrl+b plan')],
-    ].filter(Boolean).slice(0, BANNER.length - 1);
-
-    while (facts.length < BANNER.length - 1) facts.push(['', '']);
-    facts.push(['', 'made with ❤️ by om dixit']);
-
-    const rows = BANNER.map((art, i) => {
-      const [label, text] = facts[i] ?? ['', ''];
-      const right = label
-        ? `${dim(label.padEnd(10))}${chalk.white(text)}`
-        : (text ? dim(text) : '');
-      return `  ${bannerPaint(i)(art)}   ${right}`;
-    });
-
-    // The frame is lit the way the wordmark inside it is: brightest along the
-    // top rule, settling to deep at the bottom. Eight rows of box for six of
-    // banner, so the borders take the two ends of the same ramp and the box
-    // reads as one object with a light above it rather than as a rule someone
-    // drew around a picture.
-    const depth = BANNER.length + 2;
-    return [
-      boxTop(width, bannerPaint(0, depth)),
-      ...rows.map((r, i) => boxRow(r, width, bannerPaint(i + 1, depth))),
-      boxBottom(width, bannerPaint(depth - 1, depth)),
-    ];
-  }
-
-  // -- input box -----------------------------------------------------------
-
-  /** The typed line, wrapped to the inside of a box `width` characters across. */
-  /**
-   * The typed text, laid out as rows inside the box.
-   *
-   * A line break in the buffer is a row of its own before any wrapping is
-   * considered. Slicing the text into fixed widths without looking for one
-   * put the newline into the frame instead, and the terminal obeyed it — the
-   * pasted text walked out of the box and over the transcript beside it.
-   *
-   * `starts` records where each row begins in the text, so the caret can be
-   * placed by looking up rather than by counting characters a second way and
-   * hoping the two agree.
-   */
-  inputLines(width = this.inner()) {
-    const prefix = this.pendingPrompt ? `${this.pendingPrompt} ` : '› ';
-    const full = prefix + this.buffer;
-
-    const rows = [];
-    const starts = [];
-    let at = 0;
-
-    for (const para of full.split(NEWLINE)) {
-      let i = 0;
-      do {
-        rows.push(para.slice(i, i + width));
-        starts.push(at + i);
-        i += width;
-      } while (i < para.length);
-      at += para.length + 1; // the newline itself
-    }
-
-    if (rows.length === 0) { rows.push(prefix); starts.push(0); }
-    return { rows, prefix, width, starts };
-  }
-
-  /** Which row the caret sits on, and how far along it. */
-  caretAt(width) {
-    const { rows, prefix, starts } = this.inputLines(width);
-    const index = prefix.length + this.cursor;
-    let row = 0;
-    while (row + 1 < starts.length && starts[row + 1] <= index) row++;
-    return { row, col: Math.min(index - starts[row], rows[row].length), rows };
-  }
-
-  viewportHeight() {
-    return Math.max(
-      3,
-      this.rows - this.headerHeight() - CHROME_BELOW - this.inputLines().rows.length
-    );
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The input box: what you are typing, and directly under it, inside the same
-   * border, the three things worth knowing while you type.
-   *
-   * The status used to sit outside the box on the last row of the screen,
-   * which made it a separate object floating under the input. Inside the
-   * border it reads as part of the thing you are using — the box says "this is
-   * where you work", and the row underneath says what you are working with.
-   */
-  inputBox(width = this.width()) {
-    const { rows } = this.inputLines(width - 4);
-    const border = this.borderPaint();
-    const busy = this.busy();
-    // Nothing typed yet: a quiet prompt where the text will go. The caret sits
-    // on its first letter and typing replaces it.
-    const empty = !this.buffer && !this.pendingPrompt;
-    const hint = !busy ? PLACEHOLDER
-      : (width >= WORKING_HINT_NEEDS ? WORKING_HINT : WORKING_HINT_SHORT);
-    const painted = rows.map((row, i) =>
-      i === 0
-        ? boxRow(` ${border('›')}${empty ? ` ${dim(hint)}` : row.slice(1)}`, width, border)
-        : boxRow(` ${row}`, width, border)
-    );
-    return [
-      boxTop(width, border),
-      ...painted,
-      // A blank row between the two. Sitting directly under the caret, the
-      // status read as a second line of the thing being typed; one row of air
-      // separates what you are writing from what you are writing it with.
-      boxRow('', width, border),
-      boxRow(this.statusRow(width), width, border),
-      boxBottom(width, border),
-    ];
-  }
-
-  /** Is the agent holding the turn? */
-  busy() {
-    return this.status.busy || !!this.activity;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The input box's edge, which says whose turn it is.
-   *
-   * Bold blue while the box is yours, quiet while the agent has it. The status
-   * row inside the same box already carries the words; this is the half you
-   * catch without reading, from the corner of your eye, in the one place on
-   * screen you were already looking.
-   */
-  borderPaint() {
-    return this.busy() ? deep : edge;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Repaint after something that may have changed whose turn it is.
-   *
-   * The cheap path redraws one row, which is right twelve times a second for a
-   * spinner and wrong at a turn boundary: the border above and below would
-   * still be the old weight while the status row had the new one, and the box
-   * would be drawn in two colours. A whole frame costs nothing twice a turn.
-   */
-  paintBusy() {
-    if (this.busy() === this.paintedBusy) this.paintStatus();
-    else this.render();
-  }
-
-  // -- status row ----------------------------------------------------------
-
-  modeChip() {
-    return modeChip(this.mode);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * How full the context window is, as a bare number.
-   *
-   * It turns amber at 75% because that is where turns start being folded away
-   * into a summary — the one moment the number predicts something you would
-   * want to know before it happens.
-   */
-  percentChip() {
-    const percent = Math.round(this.facts.percent ?? 0);
-    return percent >= 75 ? theme.warn(`${percent}%`) : dim(`${percent}%`);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Which mode is live, which model is answering, and how full the window is.
-   *
-   * Nothing else earns a place. The provider name was there and was cut: it is
-   * the same on every line of every session, so it was decoration that had to
-   * be read past to reach the two things that do change.
-   *
-   * The spinner used to borrow the middle of this row while something ran. It
-   * has a row of its own outside the box now, so the only thing that ever
-   * appears between the model and the percentage is a flash — a reply to
-   * something you just pressed, gone a moment later.
-   */
-  statusRow(width = this.width()) {
-    const inner = width - 2;             // the space between the two borders
-    const chip = this.modeChip();
-    const left = ` ${chip}  ${chalk.white(this.model || '—')}`;
-
-    // How long the turn has taken, back in the box beside the other two facts
-    // about the session. It is not on the live line: that line says what is
-    // being done, and a clock ticking in the middle of it competes with the
-    // words for no reason. Under a second there is no number worth reading.
-    const now = Date.now();
-    const since = this.activity?.start ?? this.status.since ?? 0;
-    const running = this.busy() && since && now - since >= 1000;
-    const right = `${running ? `${dim(formatDuration(now - since))}   ` : ''}${this.percentChip()} `;
-
-    // Where a click on the bottom row still counts as hitting the mode chip.
-    this.chipTo = 2 + visLen(chip);
-
-    const between = Math.max(1, inner - visLen(left) - visLen(right));
-    const middle = this.flashText ? dim(clip(this.flashText, between - 2)) : '';
-
-    const tail = middle ? `${middle}   ` : '';
-    const pad = Math.max(1, inner - visLen(left) - visLen(tail) - visLen(right));
-    return padVis(left + ' '.repeat(pad) + tail + right, inner);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * What is happening right now: the spinner, what it is doing, how long it has
-   * been doing it, and the way out.
-   *
-   * It used to live in whatever space the status row had spare between the
-   * model name and the percentage — inside the box you type into, which is the
-   * one place on screen that is about you rather than about the agent. Out
-   * here it sits directly under the steps it belongs to, in the same column,
-   * and has room for a bar instead of a shimmer.
-   */
-  activityLine(width = this.width()) {
-    if (!this.busy()) return '';
-    const now = Date.now();
-    return workingLine({
-      glyph: spinnerGlyph(this.tick, now),
-      label: this.status.busy ? this.status.text : 'working',
-      hint: 'esc to stop',
-      room: Math.max(4, width),
-      t: now,
-    });
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Which row the live line is painted on, 1-based, or 0 when it is not shown.
-   *
-   * It is the last line of the conversation, so its row moves as the
-   * conversation grows and stops moving once the viewport is full. Scrolled
-   * back, or with the picker open, it is not on screen at all and the cheap
-   * repaint has nothing to do.
-   */
-  activityRowAt() {
-    if (this.scroll > 0 || this.picker) return 0;
-    const index = Math.min(this.lines.length + 1, this.viewportHeight()) - 1;
-    return index < 0 ? 0 : this.headerHeight() + 2 + index;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Repaint only the moving rows, leaving the caret where the user left it.
-   *
-   * It is the second row from the bottom now — the box's own border is below
-   * it — so the row is written with its borders rather than as a bare line.
-   */
-  paintStatus() {
-    if (this.closed) return;
-    // On the start screen the status row is mid-screen, not second from the
-    // bottom, so the cheap single-row repaint would draw it in the wrong place.
-    if (this.welcoming()) {
-      this.render();
-      return;
-    }
-    const [row, col] = this.caret();
-    const width = this.width();
-    const liveAt = this.activityRowAt();
-    this.output.write(
-      HIDE +
-      (liveAt ? at(liveAt, 1) + CLEAR_LINE + padVis(this.activityLine(width), width) : '') +
-      at(this.rows - 1, 1) + CLEAR_LINE + boxRow(this.statusRow(width), width, this.borderPaint()) +
-      at(row, col) + SHOW
-    );
-  }
-
-  toggleMode() {
-    this.mode = this.mode === 'plan' ? 'build' : 'plan';
-    this.flash(this.mode === 'plan'
-      ? 'plan mode — reads and researches, changes nothing'
-      : 'build mode — free to edit files and run commands');
-    this.onModeChange?.(this.mode);
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  /** A message on the status line that fades on its own. */
-  flash(text) {
-    this.flashText = text;
-    clearTimeout(this.flashTimer);
-    this.flashTimer = setTimeout(() => {
-      this.flashText = null;
-      this.paintStatus();
-    }, 2500);
-    this.flashTimer.unref?.();
-    this.paintStatus();
-  }
-
-  // -- spinner -------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  startSpinner(text = 'thinking') {
-    // `since` is what makes a long think legible: the label may not change for
-    // a minute, so the seconds beside it are the proof it is still alive.
-    this.status = { busy: true, text: asLabel(text), frame: 0, since: Date.now() };
-    this.startTimer();
-    this.paintBusy();
-  }
-
-  updateSpinner(text) {
-    if (!this.status.busy) return;
-    this.status.text = asLabel(text);
-    this.paintStatus();
-  }
-
-  stopSpinner() {
-    if (!this.activity) this.stopTimer();
-    if (this.status.busy) {
-      this.status = { busy: false, text: '', frame: 0, since: 0 };
-      this.paintBusy();
-    }
-  }
-
-  // -- the turn in flight ----------------------------------------------------
-
-  /** A turn begins: the timer and step count run until turnEnd(). */
-  turnStart() {
-    this.newSegment();
-    this.activity = { start: Date.now(), steps: 0, movedAt: 0 };
-    this.startTimer();
-    this.paintBusy();
-  }
-
-  /** One more model step in this turn. */
-  step() {
-    if (!this.activity) return;
-    this.activity.steps++;
-    this.activity.movedAt = Date.now();
-  }
-
-  /** The turn is over: leave "✓ Done in 6m 12s · 25 steps" under the answer. */
-  turnEnd({ ok = true } = {}) {
-    const a = this.activity;
-    this.activity = null;
-    if (!this.status.busy) this.stopTimer();
-    // Nothing is written when a turn finishes. The reply is the end of the
-    // turn, and a timing line under it is bookkeeping the reader did not ask
-    // for. A turn that stopped *without* finishing still says so, because
-    // silence there is indistinguishable from a crash.
-    if (a && !ok && Date.now() - a.start >= 2000) {
-      this.push(`  ${doneLine(Date.now() - a.start, a.steps, { ok })}`);
-    }
-    this.paintBusy();
-  }
-
-  /** The animation clock: only the status row repaints, about twelve times a second. */
-  startTimer() {
-    if (this.spinTimer) return;
-    this.spinTimer = setInterval(() => {
-      // Only the status row repaints on a tick. Animating a transcript line
-      // meant redrawing the whole frame twelve times a second, and the input
-      // box was being rebuilt under the user's cursor as they typed.
-      this.tick++;
-      this.paintStatus();
-    }, FRAME_MS);
-    this.spinTimer.unref?.();
-  }
-
-  stopTimer() {
-    if (!this.spinTimer) return;
-    clearInterval(this.spinTimer);
-    this.spinTimer = null;
-  }
-
-  // -- input ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  nextLine() {
-    if (this.queue.length) return Promise.resolve(this.queue.shift());
-    if (this.closed) return Promise.resolve(null);
-    return new Promise((resolve) => this.waiters.push(resolve));
-  }
-
-  ask() {
-    return this.nextLine();
-  }
-
-  submit(text) {
-    const waiter = this.waiters.shift();
-    if (waiter) waiter(text);
-    else this.queue.push(text);
-  }
-
-  /** y/n, answered on the input line. */
-  confirm({ action, detail, risk }) {
-    this.push('');
-    this.push(`${chalk.inverse(theme.warn(risk === 'command' ? ' shell ' : ' outside project '))} ${chalk.white(action)}`);
-    for (const line of String(detail ?? '').split('\n')) {
-      if (line) this.push(dim(`  ${line}`));
-    }
-
-    this.pendingPrompt = 'go ahead? [y/N]';
-    this.render();
-
-    return this.nextLine().then((answer) => {
-      this.pendingPrompt = null;
-      // End of input counts as no. Never run something nobody approved.
-      const yes = /^(y|yes)$/i.test(String(answer ?? '').trim());
-      this.push(dim(yes ? '  approved' : '  declined'));
-      this.push('');
-      return yes;
-    });
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * A modal list: arrows move, Enter picks, Esc cancels.
-   *
-   * Only while this is open do the arrows stop scrolling the transcript. They
-   * cannot be given up permanently, because under alternate scroll the mouse
-   * wheel arrives as arrow keys.
-   */
-  pick(items, { active = 0, hint = 'enter to choose · esc to cancel', deletable = false } = {}) {
-    this.picker = {
-      items,
-      index: Math.min(Math.max(0, active), Math.max(0, items.length - 1)),
-      hint,
-      // With deletable, `d` twice on a row resolves { delete: index }. Twice,
-      // because a single stray keypress should never cost a conversation.
-      deletable,
-      armed: null,
-    };
-    this.render();
-    return new Promise((resolve) => { this.pickerResolve = resolve; });
-  }
-
-  closePicker(value) {
-    const resolve = this.pickerResolve;
-    this.picker = null;
-    this.pickerResolve = null;
-    this.render();
-    resolve?.(value);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Rows for an open picker, windowed so a long list still fits.
-   *
-   * An item may carry a `sub` line — a second, dimmer row underneath it. That
-   * is what lets a list of saved conversations show what each one was actually
-   * about instead of a column of near-identical titles.
-   */
-  pickerLines(height) {
-    const { items, index, hint, armed } = this.picker;
-    const room = Math.max(1, height - 2);
-
-    // Rows per item, so the window can be sized in rows rather than in items.
-    const rowsFor = (item) => (typeof item !== 'string' && item.sub ? 2 : 1);
-    const perItem = items.map(rowsFor);
-
-    // Walk outward from the selection until the window is full. Starting from
-    // the selection guarantees it is on screen however long the list is.
-    let first = index;
-    let last = index;
-    let used = perItem[index] ?? 1;
-    while (used < room && (first > 0 || last < items.length - 1)) {
-      if (first > 0 && used + perItem[first - 1] <= room) { first--; used += perItem[first]; }
-      else if (last < items.length - 1 && used + perItem[last + 1] <= room) { last++; used += perItem[last]; }
-      else break;
-    }
-
-    const out = [];
-    for (let i = first; i <= last; i++) {
-      const item = items[i];
-      const body = typeof item === 'string' ? item : item.label;
-      if (i === armed) out.push(`${theme.warn('✗')} ${theme.warn(bare(body))}`);
-      else out.push(i === index ? `${blue('❯')} ${chalk.bold.white(body)}` : `  ${dim(body)}`);
-      if (typeof item !== 'string' && item.sub) out.push(`  ${item.sub}`);
-    }
-
-    out.push('');
-    out.push(armed !== null && armed !== undefined
-      ? theme.warn('  press d again to delete this conversation · any other key keeps it')
-      : dim(`  ${hint}`));
-    return out;
-  }
-
-  /** A numbered list, answered on the input line. */
-  async choose(prompt, items, { allowNone = true } = {}) {
-    items.forEach((item, i) => this.push(`  ${blue(String(i + 1).padStart(2))}. ${item}`));
-    if (allowNone) this.push(dim('   0. none — start fresh'));
-    this.push('');
-
-    this.pendingPrompt = prompt;
-    this.render();
-
-    const answer = await this.nextLine();
-    this.pendingPrompt = null;
-
-    const trimmed = String(answer ?? '').trim();
-    if (trimmed === '' || trimmed === '0') return null;
-
-    const index = Number(trimmed);
-    if (!Number.isInteger(index) || index < 1 || index > items.length) {
-      this.push(theme.warn(`  "${trimmed}" is not one of 1-${items.length}.`));
-      return null;
-    }
-    return index - 1;
-  }
-
-  // -- keyboard and mouse --------------------------------------------------
-
-  /**
-   * Scroll the transcript, clamped at both ends.
-   *
-   * When there is nothing above the fold, say so. Silence is indistinguishable
-   * from broken input, and the difference matters: one means the conversation
-   * simply fits, the other means the terminal is not forwarding keys at all.
-   */
-  scrollBy(delta) {
-    const max = Math.max(0, this.lines.length - this.viewportHeight());
-    if (max === 0) {
-      this.flash('nothing above — it all fits on screen');
-      return;
-    }
-    const before = this.scroll;
-    this.scroll = Math.min(Math.max(0, this.scroll + delta), max);
-    if (this.scroll === before && delta > 0) this.flash('already at the top');
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Text arriving as a paste rather than as typing.
-   *
-   * A terminal in bracketed-paste mode wraps pasted text in markers, which is
-   * the only way to tell forty lines pasted at once from forty lines typed
-   * very fast. Without it every newline in the paste reads as Enter, so a
-   * pasted block submits itself a line at a time and arrives as forty
-   * messages. Inside the markers a newline is just a character.
-   */
-  onPaste(text) {
-    const clean = String(text).replace(/\r\n?/g, '\n');
-    this.buffer = this.buffer.slice(0, this.cursor) + clean + this.buffer.slice(this.cursor);
-    this.cursor += clean.length;
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  onData(chunk) {
-    // Pasted text first: it is wrapped in markers and must not be read as
-    // keys, or its newlines submit it in pieces.
-    const paste = /\[200~([\s\S]*?)\[201~/g;
-    if (paste.test(chunk)) {
-      paste.lastIndex = 0;
-      let at = 0;
-      let m;
-      while ((m = paste.exec(chunk))) {
-        if (m.index > at) this.onData(chunk.slice(at, m.index));
-        this.onPaste(m[1]);
-        at = m.index + m[0].length;
-      }
-      if (at < chunk.length) this.onData(chunk.slice(at));
-      return;
-    }
-    // An unterminated paste: hold what has arrived and wait for the rest.
-    const open = chunk.indexOf('[200~');
-    if (open !== -1) {
-      if (open > 0) this.onData(chunk.slice(0, open));
-      this.pasting = chunk.slice(open + 6);
-      return;
-    }
-    if (this.pasting !== undefined && this.pasting !== null) {
-      const close = chunk.indexOf('[201~');
-      if (close === -1) { this.pasting += chunk; return; }
-      this.onPaste(this.pasting + chunk.slice(0, close));
-      this.pasting = null;
-      const after = chunk.slice(close + 6);
-      if (after) this.onData(after);
-      return;
-    }
-
-    // UCODE_DEBUG_KEYS=1 logs every byte the terminal sends to
-    // ~/.ucode/keys.log. Whether mouse reporting works at all depends on the
-    // terminal forwarding it; this is how to find out.
-    if (process.env.UCODE_DEBUG_KEYS) {
-      appendFile(path.join(homedir(), '.ucode', 'keys.log'), `${JSON.stringify(chunk)}\n`).catch(() => {});
-    }
-
-    // Pull mouse reports out of the chunk wherever they sit. Anchoring the
-    // match to the whole chunk meant a wheel event arriving alongside any
-    // other byte was silently treated as typing.
-    let rest = '';
-    let index = 0;
-    // Two encodings: SGR (ESC [ < b ; x ; y M|m), and the legacy form
-    // (ESC [ M then three bytes offset by 32) for terminals that ignore 1006.
-    const mouse = /\x1b\[<(\d+);(\d+);(\d+)([Mm])|\x1b\[M([\s\S])([\s\S])([\s\S])/g;
-    let match;
-
-    while ((match = mouse.exec(chunk)) !== null) {
-      rest += chunk.slice(index, match.index);
-      index = match.index + match[0].length;
-      if (match[1] !== undefined) {
-        this.onMouse(Number(match[1]), Number(match[2]), Number(match[3]), match[4]);
-      } else {
-        this.onMouse(
-          match[5].charCodeAt(0) - 32,
-          match[6].charCodeAt(0) - 32,
-          match[7].charCodeAt(0) - 32,
-          'M'
-        );
-      }
-    }
-    rest += chunk.slice(index);
-
-    // A chunk carrying a line break *and* other text did not come from a
-    // keyboard: nobody types a newline in the middle of a burst. Many
-    // terminals, Windows ones especially, send a paste with no markers at
-    // all, so without this every newline in it reads as Enter and the paste
-    // submits itself a line at a time.
-    if (looksPasted(rest)) { this.onPaste(rest); return; }
-
-    for (const key of splitKeys(rest)) this.onKey(key);
-  }
-
-  onMouse(button, col, row, press) {
-    // Wheel reports set bit 6; bit 0 says which way.
-    if (button >= 64) {
-      this.scrollBy(button % 2 === 0 ? 3 : -3);
-      return;
-    }
-    if (press !== 'M' || button !== 0) return;
-    if (this.welcoming()) {
-      const g = this.welcomeGeometry();
-      const statusRow = g.boxTop + g.inputRows + 3;          // 1-based
-      if (row === statusRow && col > g.left + 1 && col <= g.left + this.chipTo) this.toggleMode();
-      return;
-    }
-    // The mode chip, at the left of the bottom row.
-    if (row === this.rows - 1 && col >= 2 && col <= this.chipTo) this.toggleMode();
-  }
-
-  onKey(key) {
-    // An open picker owns the keyboard until it closes.
-    if (this.picker) {
-      const last = this.picker.items.length - 1;
-      if (this.picker.deletable && (key === 'd' || key === 'D' || key === `${ESC}[3~`)) {
-        if (this.picker.armed === this.picker.index) { this.closePicker({ delete: this.picker.index }); return; }
-        this.picker.armed = this.picker.index;
-        this.render();
-        return;
-      }
-      this.picker.armed = null;   // any other key takes the delete back
-      if (key === `${ESC}[A`) { this.picker.index = Math.max(0, this.picker.index - 1); this.render(); return; }
-      if (key === `${ESC}[B`) { this.picker.index = Math.min(last, this.picker.index + 1); this.render(); return; }
-      if (key === '\r' || key === '\n') { this.closePicker(this.picker.index); return; }
-      if (key === ESC || key === '\x03') { this.closePicker(null); return; }
-      return;
-    }
-
-    switch (key) {
-      case '\r':
-      case '\n': {
-        const text = this.buffer;
-        this.buffer = '';
-        this.cursor = 0;
-        this.historyIndex = -1;
-        if (text.trim()) {
-          this.history.unshift(text);
-          // Answers to a y/N or a numbered pick are not messages, so they are
-          // not echoed: the prompt reports its own outcome.
-          if (!this.pendingPrompt) this.userMessage(text);
-        }
-        this.render();
-        this.submit(text);
-        return;
-      }
-
-      case '\x7f':  // backspace
-      case '\b':
-        if (this.cursor > 0) {
-          this.buffer = this.buffer.slice(0, this.cursor - 1) + this.buffer.slice(this.cursor);
-          this.cursor--;
-        }
-        break;
-
-      case '\x03':  // ctrl+c
-        if (this.status.busy && this.onInterrupt) this.onInterrupt();
-        else { this.buffer = ''; this.cursor = 0; }
-        break;
-
-      case '\x04':  // ctrl+d
-        this.close();
-        return;
-
-      case '\x02':  // ctrl+b — swap plan and build
-        this.toggleMode();
-        return;
-
-      case '\x15':  // ctrl+u — clear the line
-        this.buffer = this.buffer.slice(this.cursor);
-        this.cursor = 0;
-        break;
-
-      case ESC:     // esc — stop the turn in flight
-        if (this.onInterrupt) this.onInterrupt();
-        return;
-
-      case '\t': {
-        const hit = COMMANDS.find((c) => c.startsWith(this.buffer));
-        if (hit) { this.buffer = hit; this.cursor = hit.length; }
-        break;
-      }
-
-      // With an empty line the arrows scroll the conversation; once there is
-      // something typed they walk history. Terminals often swallow PgUp and
-      // PgDn for their own scrollback, so this is the path that always works.
-      case `${ESC}[A`:
-        if (!this.buffer) { this.scrollBy(2); return; }
-        if (this.history.length) {
-          this.historyIndex = Math.min(this.historyIndex + 1, this.history.length - 1);
-          this.buffer = this.history[this.historyIndex] ?? '';
-          this.cursor = this.buffer.length;
-        }
-        break;
-
-      case `${ESC}[B`:
-        if (!this.buffer) { this.scrollBy(-2); return; }
-        this.historyIndex = Math.max(this.historyIndex - 1, -1);
-        this.buffer = this.historyIndex === -1 ? '' : (this.history[this.historyIndex] ?? '');
-        this.cursor = this.buffer.length;
-        break;
-
-      case `${ESC}[1;5A`: this.scrollBy(2); return;   // ctrl+up
-      case `${ESC}[1;5B`: this.scrollBy(-2); return;  // ctrl+down
-      case `${ESC}[5~`: this.scrollBy(this.viewportHeight()); return;
-      case `${ESC}[6~`: this.scrollBy(-this.viewportHeight()); return;
-
-      case `${ESC}[H`: this.scrollBy(this.lines.length); return;
-      case `${ESC}[F`: this.scroll = 0; this.render(); return;
-
-      case `${ESC}[C`: this.cursor = Math.min(this.cursor + 1, this.buffer.length); break;
-      case `${ESC}[D`: this.cursor = Math.max(this.cursor - 1, 0); break;
-
-      default:
-        if (key >= ' ' && !key.startsWith(ESC)) {
-          this.buffer = this.buffer.slice(0, this.cursor) + key + this.buffer.slice(this.cursor);
-          this.cursor += key.length;
-        } else {
-          return;
-        }
-    }
-
-    this.render();
-  }
-
-  // -- painting ------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  render() {
-    if (this.closed) return;
-    if (this.welcoming()) {
-      this.renderWelcome();
-      return;
-    }
-
-    const width = this.width();
-    const height = this.viewportHeight();
-
-    // The live line is the last line of the conversation, not a fixture above
-    // the input box. Pinned down there it sat at the bottom of the screen while
-    // the message that started it was at the top, with the empty middle of the
-    // viewport between them — so the thing being done looked unrelated to the
-    // thing that had been asked. On the end of the transcript it arrives
-    // directly under the prompt, which is where the eye already is.
-    const live = this.activityLine(width);
-    const said = live ? [...this.lines, live] : this.lines;
-
-    const end = Math.max(0, said.length - this.scroll);
-    const start = Math.max(0, end - height);
-    const window = this.picker ? this.pickerLines(height) : said.slice(start, end);
-    while (window.length < height) window.push('');
-
-    const frame = [
-      ...this.headerLines(),
-      '',
-      ...window,
-      // Always one clear row between the last thing said and the box you type
-      // in. Without it the newest line of output sits against the border and
-      // reads as part of the input rather than as the answer above it.
-      '',
-      ...this.inputBox(),
-    ];
-
-    // The cursor is hidden for the duration of the paint. Without this it is
-    // dragged through every line as the frame is written, which shows up as a
-    // dot flickering above the input box on every keystroke.
-    const out = [HIDE, HOME];
-    for (let i = 0; i < this.rows; i++) {
-      out.push(CLEAR_LINE + padVis(frame[i] ?? '', width) + (i === this.rows - 1 ? '' : '\n'));
-    }
-
-    const [row, col] = this.caret();
-    out.push(at(row, col) + SHOW);
-    this.paintedBusy = this.busy();
-    this.output.write(out.join(''));
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Where the typing caret belongs, 1-based.
-   *
-   * Column three is the first character inside the box: border, a space of
-   * padding, then the text.
-   */
-  caret() {
-    if (this.welcoming()) {
-      const g = this.welcomeGeometry();
-      const { row, col } = this.caretAt(g.boxWidth - 4);
-      // g.boxTop is 0-based and the typed lines start one below the border.
-      return [g.boxTop + 2 + row, g.left + 3 + col];
-    }
-
-    const { row, col: at, rows } = this.caretAt();
-    const col = 3 + at;
-    // Counting up from the bottom: the box border is the last row, the status
-    // row is above it, then the blank row, then the typed lines.
-    const firstRow = this.rows - 2 - rows.length;
-    return [firstRow + row, col];
-  }
-
-  // -- start screen ----------------------------------------------------------
-
-  /**
-   * Nothing has been said yet, so there is nothing to scroll: the screen is the
-   * wordmark and the place to type, centred, and nothing else.
-   *
-   * It comes back after /clear and /new too, since those empty the transcript —
-   * a fresh conversation starts from the same quiet screen as a fresh launch.
-   */
-  welcoming() {
-    return this.lines.length === 0 && !this.picker;
-  }
-
-  /** Where everything on the start screen goes, 0-based rows. */
-  welcomeGeometry() {
-    const cols = this.width();
-    const boxWidth = Math.max(30, Math.min(cols - 4, 84));
-    const left = Math.max(0, Math.floor((cols - boxWidth) / 2));
-    const big = cols >= BANNER_WIDTH + 4 && this.rows >= 18;
-    const art = big ? BANNER : ['u c o d e'];
-    const inputRows = this.inputLines(boxWidth - 4).rows.length;
-    const boxRows = inputRows + 4;                         // borders, typed rows, gap, status
-    const suggest = this.rows >= boxRows + art.length + SUGGEST_ROWS + 6;
-    const block = art.length + 2 + boxRows + (suggest ? SUGGEST_ROWS : 0);
-    // A touch above true centre reads as centred; exact centre looks low.
-    const top = Math.max(0, Math.floor((this.rows - block) / 2) - 1);
-    return { cols, boxWidth, left, big, art, inputRows, boxRows, suggest, top, boxTop: top + art.length + 2 };
-  }
-
-  renderWelcome() {
-    const g = this.welcomeGeometry();
-    const frame = new Array(this.rows).fill('');
-
-    // The wordmark lit from the top: sky at the crown, deep in the shadow
-    // rows. Across the rows rather than along them — a name split down its
-    // middle reads as two words, where a name that fades downward reads as
-    // one object with a light on it.
-    const elapsed = this.intro ? Date.now() - this.intro : Infinity;
-    g.art.forEach((line, i) => {
-      const pad = ' '.repeat(Math.max(0, Math.floor((g.cols - line.length) / 2)));
-      frame[g.top + i] = pad + (g.big
-        ? bannerSweep(line, i, g.art.length, elapsed)
-        : blue.bold(line));
-    });
-
-    const indent = ' '.repeat(g.left);
-    this.inputBox(g.boxWidth).forEach((row, i) => {
-      frame[g.boxTop + i] = indent + row;
-    });
-
-    // Three things to try, aligned with the text inside the box above them.
-    if (g.suggest) {
-      const at = g.boxTop + g.boxRows + 1;
-      SUGGESTIONS.forEach((text, i) => {
-        const label = i === 0 ? 'try'.padEnd(SUGGEST_LABEL) : ' '.repeat(SUGGEST_LABEL);
-        frame[at + i] = `${indent} ${dim(sky(label))}${dim(clip(text, Math.max(8, g.boxWidth - SUGGEST_LABEL - 2)))}`;
-      });
-    }
-
-    // The version, in the corner, and nothing else on the screen.
-    if (VERSION) {
-      const tag = dim(this.facts.update ? `v${VERSION} · v${this.facts.update} installed, starts next time` : `v${VERSION}`);
-      frame[this.rows - 1] = ' '.repeat(Math.max(0, g.cols - visLen(tag) - 2)) + tag;
-    }
-
-    const out = [HIDE, HOME];
-    for (let i = 0; i < this.rows; i++) {
-      out.push(CLEAR_LINE + padVis(frame[i], g.cols) + (i === this.rows - 1 ? '' : '\n'));
-    }
-    const [row, col] = this.caret();
-    out.push(at(row, col) + SHOW);
-    this.paintedBusy = this.busy();
-    this.output.write(out.join(''));
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Split a raw stdin chunk into keys, keeping escape sequences whole.
- *
- * Application cursor key mode (DECCKM) makes a terminal send ESC O A for the
- * up arrow rather than ESC [ A. Both are normalised to the bracket form here
- * so the key handler only ever sees one of them.
- */
-/**
- * Did this arrive as a paste, judged by shape rather than by markers?
- *
- * Someone pressing Enter sends one carriage return on its own. A paste sends
- * a line break with text around it, in a single read. That difference is all
- * there is to go on when a terminal does not implement bracketed paste, and
- * it is enough.
- *
- * Anything carrying an escape sequence is left alone: that is a key or a
- * mouse report, and reading one as text would put gibberish in the input.
- */
-export function looksPasted(chunk) {
-  const text = String(chunk ?? '');
-  if (text.length < 2 || text.includes(ESC)) return false;
-  const breaks = (text.match(/[\r\n]/g) ?? []).length;
-  if (breaks === 0) return false;
-  // One trailing break is someone finishing a line, not pasting one.
-  if (breaks === 1 && /[\r\n]$/.test(text)) return false;
-  return true;
-}
-
-export function splitKeys(chunk) {
-  const keys = [];
-  let i = 0;
-
-  while (i < chunk.length) {
-    const c = chunk[i];
-    if (c !== ESC) { keys.push(c); i++; continue; }
-
-    const rest = chunk.slice(i);
-    const csi = /^\x1b\[[0-9;?]*[A-Za-z~]/.exec(rest);
-    if (csi) { keys.push(csi[0]); i += csi[0].length; continue; }
-
-    const ss3 = /^\x1bO([A-Za-z])/.exec(rest);
-    if (ss3) { keys.push(`${ESC}[${ss3[1]}`); i += ss3[0].length; continue; }
-
-    keys.push(ESC);
-    i++;
-  }
-
-  return keys;
-}
+/**
+ * screen.js — the full-screen interface.
+ *
+ * Used whenever stdout is a real terminal. Everything else — piped input, CI,
+ * `echo ... | ucode` — falls back to plain.js, which is why both exist.
+ *
+ * The layout, top to bottom:
+ *
+ *   ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
+ *   │  UCODE wordmark                    dir / keys    │
+ *   ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
+ *
+ *    the conversation, scrolling with the wheel or PgUp
+ *
+ *   ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
+ *   │ › what you are typing, growing downward as it     │
+ *   │                                                  │
+ *   │ ◆ Build · Nemotron 3 Ultra                    4% │
+ *   ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
+ *
+ * Both boxes are drawn rather than ruled off, because a box says "this is a
+ * thing you use" where a horizontal rule only says "something changes here".
+ *
+ * The status sits inside the input box rather than under it: it describes the
+ * thing you are typing into, so it belongs within the same border. It carries
+ * three facts and no more — which mode is live, which model is answering, and
+ * how full the window is. Anything else down there competes with what the user
+ * is actually looking at, which is what they just typed.
+ *
+ * The transcript is a buffer of pre-rendered lines and the whole frame is
+ * repainted whenever anything changes. At terminal sizes that is cheap, and
+ * it rules out every partial-update bug at once.
+ */
+
+import { appendFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { homedir } from 'node:os';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import chalk from 'chalk';
+import {
+  theme, blue, sky, deep, dim, edge, ADDED, REMOVED, BANNER, BANNER_WIDTH, SPINNER,
+  boxTop, boxBottom, boxRow, visLen, padVis, clip, wrapAnsi,
+  shortenPath, asLabel, ensureColour, planLine, bare, narration, narrationMark, groupKind, groupLabel, groupTarget, runLine, planRows, tidyReply, trimAnswer,
+  bannerPaint, RAIL, modeChip, asNarrationLine } from './theme.js';
+import { FRAME_MS, spinnerGlyph, formatDuration, doneLine, workingLine, bannerSweep, SWEEP_MS } from './activity.js';
+import { gitBranch } from '../core/git.js';
+import { renderer, render, polish } from './markdown.js';
+import { VERSION } from '../core/version.js';
+
+/**
+ * One line of narration, in the model's own words: "Reading screen.js".
+ * Anything longer than this is prose, and prose belongs in the answer.
+ */
+export const MAX_LABEL = 120;
+
+export function isLabel(text) {
+  const t = String(text ?? '').trim();
+  return t.length > 0 && t.length <= MAX_LABEL && !t.includes('\n');
+}
+
+export const COMMANDS = [
+  '/help', '/model', '/models', '/session', '/sessions', '/resume',
+  '/new', '/remember', '/skills', '/clear', '/search', '/copy', '/exit',
+  '/stats', '/doctor', '/deploy', '/look', '/undo',
+];
+
+// ANSI ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+const ESC = '\x1b';
+const ALT_ON = `${ESC}[?1049h`;
+const ALT_OFF = `${ESC}[?1049l`;
+
+/**
+ * Mouse setup, decided by measurement rather than by documentation.
+ *
+ * 1007 is alternate scroll: inside the alternate screen the terminal turns
+ * wheel events into arrow keys. On Windows that is the only way a wheel ever
+ * reaches the program, because ConPTY forwards no mouse input at all — a probe
+ * that enabled every tracking mode received nothing from a scroll.
+ *
+ * And mouse tracking suppresses alternate scroll. So on Windows tracking is
+ * deliberately not requested: it delivers nothing there, and asking for it
+ * would cost the wheel. Elsewhere tracking works, so the mode chip is
+ * clickable on those platforms.
+ */
+const TRACK = process.platform === 'win32'
+  ? '' : `${ESC}[?1000h${ESC}[?1002h${ESC}[?1015h${ESC}[?1006h`;
+const UNTRACK = process.platform === 'win32'
+  ? '' : `${ESC}[?1006l${ESC}[?1015l${ESC}[?1002l${ESC}[?1000l`;
+
+const PASTE_ON = `${ESC}[?2004h`;
+const PASTE_OFF = `${ESC}[?2004l`;
+const MOUSE_ON = `${ESC}[?1007h${TRACK}`;
+const MOUSE_OFF = `${UNTRACK}${ESC}[?1007l`;
+const HIDE = `${ESC}[?25l`;
+const SHOW = `${ESC}[?25h`;
+const HOME = `${ESC}[H`;
+const CLEAR_LINE = `${ESC}[K`;
+/** Written out rather than inline, so no edit can turn it into a real break. */
+const NEWLINE = String.fromCharCode(10);
+const at = (row, col) => `${ESC}[${row};${col}H`;
+const title = (t) => `${ESC}]0;${t}\x07`;
+
+/**
+ * Fixed rows below the header: the gap under it, the gap above the input box,
+ * the input box's two borders, the blank row inside it, and the status row.
+ */
+const CHROME_BELOW = 6;
+
+/** How long one sentence of reasoning holds the line before the next takes it. */
+const THOUGHT_HOLD_MS = 1100;
+
+/** Reasoning that is about the request rather than about the work. */
+const RESTATEMENT = /^(?:the user|they|so the user|user)|^(?:i (?:need|should|will need) to (?:understand|figure|work out|check what))|^(?:let me (?:understand|re-?read|look at the (?:request|prompt)))|^(?:the (?:request|prompt|task) (?:is|asks|says))/i;
+
+/** The wordmark only earns its place with room for the facts column beside it. */
+const WORDMARK_NEEDS = BANNER_WIDTH + 30;
+
+/** What the empty input box says before anything is typed. */
+const PLACEHOLDER = 'Ask anything…';
+
+/**
+ * What it says instead while the agent has the turn.
+ *
+ * The status row beside it already says "esc to stop", so this carries the
+ * half nothing else on screen does: that the box is still live, and a line
+ * typed into it now is kept and sent when the turn ends rather than lost. The
+ * short form is for a terminal too narrow to hold the sentence, where a cut
+ * one would read as a glitch.
+ */
+const WORKING_HINT = 'Working… type to queue your next message';
+const WORKING_HINT_SHORT = 'Working…';
+const WORKING_HINT_NEEDS = WORKING_HINT.length + 8;
+
+/**
+ * Three things to try, under the box, on a screen with nothing on it yet.
+ *
+ * A wordmark over an empty field is handsome and tells you nothing you can act
+ * on — the first thing a new user has to do is guess what this accepts. Three
+ * greyed lines answer that in one glance, and they say something about the
+ * range of it too: build something new, understand something that exists,
+ * change something small. They are dim, and they are gone the moment anything
+ * is on the screen.
+ */
+const SUGGESTIONS = [
+  'build me a landing page for a coffee shop',
+  'explain what this project does and how it fits together',
+  'add a dark mode toggle that remembers the choice',
+];
+
+/** The width of the `try` label, so the three lines share one left edge. */
+const SUGGEST_LABEL = 6;
+
+/** Rows the suggestions occupy under the box: one of air, then the three. */
+const SUGGEST_ROWS = SUGGESTIONS.length + 1;
+
+export class Screen {
+  constructor({ cwd, input = process.stdin, output = process.stdout } = {}) {
+    this.cwd = cwd;
+    this.input = input;
+    this.output = output;
+
+    this.lines = [];        // the rendered transcript
+    this.scroll = 0;        // rows scrolled up from the bottom
+    this.buffer = '';       // what is being typed
+    this.cursor = 0;
+    this.history = [];
+    this.historyIndex = -1;
+
+    this.status = { busy: false, text: '', frame: 0, since: 0 };
+    this.facts = {};
+    this.model = '';
+
+    this.waiters = [];
+    this.queue = [];
+    this.closed = false;
+
+    // 'build' may edit and run; 'plan' is read-only. Ctrl+B swaps them, and
+    // the chip is clickable wherever the terminal forwards clicks.
+    this.mode = 'build';
+    this.chipTo = 0;
+    this.onInterrupt = null;
+    this.onModeChange = null;
+    this.spinTimer = null;
+    this.paintedBusy = false;  // whose turn the frame on screen was drawn for
+    this.activity = null; // the turn in flight: when it began, how many steps
+    this.tick = 0;        // animation frames painted, for the spinner
+    this.intro = 0;       // when the launch sweep began, 0 once it is over
+    this.introTimer = null;
+    this.pendingPrompt = null;
+    this.lastPrompt = '';  // the last thing the user said, for the echo check
+    this.facts.branch = gitBranch(cwd);
+
+    this.cols = output.columns || 80;
+    this.rows = output.rows || 24;
+    this.md = renderer(this.width());
+  }
+
+  // -- lifecycle -----------------------------------------------------------
+
+  async start() {
+    ensureColour(this.output);
+    this.output.write(ALT_ON + MOUSE_ON + PASTE_ON + HIDE + title(`ucode — ${path.basename(this.cwd)}`));
+    this.input.setRawMode?.(true);
+    this.input.resume();
+    this.input.setEncoding('utf8');
+    this.input.on('data', (chunk) => this.onData(chunk));
+
+    this.onResize = () => {
+      this.cols = this.output.columns || 80;
+      this.rows = this.output.rows || 24;
+      this.md = renderer(this.width());
+      this.render();
+    };
+    this.output.on('resize', this.onResize);
+
+    this.render();
+    this.startIntro();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The light that crosses the wordmark once, at launch.
+   *
+   * Half a second, on the start screen only, and abandoned the instant there is
+   * anything else to look at. Below 256 colours there are no shades to fade
+   * through, so it is skipped rather than flickered.
+   */
+  startIntro() {
+    if (!this.output.isTTY || chalk.level < 2 || !this.welcoming()) return;
+    this.intro = Date.now();
+    this.introTimer = setInterval(() => {
+      if (this.closed || !this.welcoming() || Date.now() - this.intro >= SWEEP_MS) this.stopIntro();
+      else this.render();
+    }, FRAME_MS);
+    this.introTimer.unref?.();
+  }
+
+  stopIntro() {
+    if (this.introTimer) clearInterval(this.introTimer);
+    this.introTimer = null;
+    if (!this.intro) return;
+    this.intro = 0;
+    if (!this.closed) this.render();
+  }
+
+  stop() {
+    this.activity = null;
+    if (this.introTimer) clearInterval(this.introTimer);
+    this.introTimer = null;
+    this.intro = 0;
+    this.stopSpinner();
+    this.stopTimer();
+    this.output.off?.('resize', this.onResize);
+    this.input.setRawMode?.(false);
+    this.input.pause();
+    this.output.write(PASTE_OFF + MOUSE_OFF + ALT_OFF + SHOW);
+  }
+
+  close() {
+    if (this.closed) return;
+    this.closed = true;
+    this.stop();
+    while (this.waiters.length) this.waiters.shift()(null);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Every column the terminal has.
+   *
+   * Capped at 100 for a release, and it was wrong: on a wide monitor the frame
+   * sat in the left half of the screen with the rest of it empty, which reads
+   * as the window having failed to open rather than as a measured column. The
+   * interface fills what it is given. Prose inside it is still held to 100 by
+   * the markdown renderer, which is where that limit belongs — the boxes are
+   * the shape of the window, not of a paragraph.
+   */
+  width() {
+    return Math.max(30, this.cols);
+  }
+
+  /** Usable width inside a box: two borders and a space of padding each side. */
+  inner() {
+    return Math.max(8, this.width() - 4);
+  }
+
+  // -- transcript ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+  /**
+   * Append without painting.
+   *
+   * Anything replacing a region of the transcript has to build the whole
+   * region and then render once. Painting between the delete and the re-add
+   * puts a frame on screen with the text missing, and at streaming speed that
+   * reads as flicker.
+   */
+  add(text = '') {
+    const width = this.width();
+    for (const raw of String(text).split('\n')) {
+      if (visLen(raw) <= width) this.lines.push(raw);
+      else for (const wrapped of wrapAnsi(raw, width)) this.lines.push(wrapped);
+    }
+    this.scroll = 0; // new output snaps back to the bottom
+  }
+
+  push(text = '') {
+    this.add(text);
+    this.soon();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Collapse a burst of pushes into one frame.
+   *
+   * Printing a list one line at a time repaints the screen per line — a model
+   * list of fifty entries drew a hundred frames back to back, which is visible
+   * as a cascade. A microtask runs before any I/O, so everything pushed in one
+   * synchronous stretch becomes a single render, while a push after an await
+   * still paints immediately.
+   */
+  soon() {
+    if (this.queued) return;
+    this.queued = true;
+    queueMicrotask(() => {
+      this.queued = false;
+      this.render();
+    });
+  }
+
+  write(text = '') { this.push(text); }
+  blank() { this.push(''); }
+  note(text) { this.push(dim(`  ${text}`)); }
+
+  clearScreen() {
+    this.lines = [];
+    this.scroll = 0;
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The reply, at full strength, with room either side.
+   *
+   * `closing` says this is the last thing the turn will say. It is then also
+   * the last thing left on screen, and what the whole session reads like
+   * afterwards, so it is cut to eight lines — see trimAnswer.
+   */
+  assistant(text, { closing = false } = {}) {
+    if (!text?.trim()) return;
+    const tidy = tidyReply(text, 4, this.lastPrompt);
+    const body = closing ? trimAnswer(tidy) : tidy;
+    if (!body.trim()) return;
+    this.endRun();
+    this.add('');
+
+    // No bullet, and no indent. A mark on every reply made the answer read as
+    // one more step in the list above it, and on "Hey! How can I help you
+    // today?" it was a bullet on a greeting. The answer already wins the page
+    // by being the only thing on it at full strength; it does not also need to
+    // be labelled.
+    this.add(render(this.md, body));
+
+    this.add('');
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Something the user said, marked down its left edge in the same blue as the
+   * box it was typed into.
+   *
+   * A long session is mostly the agent's output — tool calls, diffs, answers.
+   * Your own messages are the landmarks you scroll back looking for, so they
+   * get a mark of their own. It was a full box, and forty turns of that is a
+   * ladder of rules across the page: two horizontal lines per message, each as
+   * loud as the input box, none of them saying anything the rail does not.
+   */
+  userMessage(text) {
+    // Kept so the reply can be checked against it: an answer that opens by
+    // saying the request back is repeating the line directly above it.
+    this.lastPrompt = String(text ?? '');
+    const room = Math.max(8, this.width() - 2);   // the rail and the space after it
+
+    const rows = [];
+    for (const paragraph of String(text).replace(/\r/g, '').split('\n')) {
+      for (const line of wrapAnsi(paragraph, room)) rows.push(line);
+    }
+
+    // Room between what you asked for and what came back: without it the reply
+    // starts against your own message and the two read as one block of text.
+    this.add('');
+    for (const row of rows) this.add(`${blue(RAIL)} ${chalk.white(row)}`);
+    this.add('');
+    this.add('');
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A tool call, as it happens: "● Listing src".
+   *
+   * This lives in the transcript rather than only on the status line. The
+   * status line overwrites itself and is empty by the end of the turn, so work
+   * announced only there scrolls past unseen — and the diff underneath ends up
+   * with nothing above it explaining where it came from.
+   */
+  toolCall(label) {
+    // U+25CF, not U+23FA: the latter carries emoji presentation, which Windows
+    // Terminal draws as a white circle on a blue tile.
+    // Trimmed here rather than at paint time: runLine hands back a coloured
+    // string, and asLabel's regexes run off the end of one of those into the
+    // escape sequence instead of the last word.
+    const clean = asLabel(label);
+    const kind = groupKind(clean);
+    // One line per kind of work for as long as the model is working on one
+    // thing. Reading, writing and reading again used to draw six lines that
+    // said three things; now the "Reading files" line it already has is the
+    // one that counts up, wherever it sits.
+    const run = (this.segment ??= new Map()).get(kind);
+
+    if (run && this.lines[run.at] !== undefined) {
+      run.count++;
+      run.label = clean;
+      run.targets.push(groupTarget(clean));
+      this.run = run;
+      this.paintRun();
+    } else {
+      const fresh = {
+        kind, count: 1, at: 0, label: clean,
+        targets: [groupTarget(clean)], added: 0, removed: 0,
+      };
+      this.push(`${narrationMark(kind)} ${runLine(fresh)}`);
+      fresh.at = this.lines.length - 1;
+      this.run = fresh;
+      this.segment.set(kind, fresh);
+    }
+    this.updateSpinner(label);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The model speaking — or a plan, or a failure — ends the segment.
+   *
+   * Up to that point a kind of work keeps one line and counts up on it. After
+   * it, the next read is a new piece of work and deserves its own line, which
+   * is what makes the transcript read as a sequence of things done rather
+   * than a set of running totals.
+   */
+  /**
+   * Stop adding to the current run, but keep the lines already on screen.
+   *
+   * A kind of work gets one line for the whole turn. Starting a fresh set
+   * whenever the model spoke meant "Creating Tide from the HTML starter" five
+   * times down the page and "Reading files" four, each saying the same thing
+   * about a different moment. One line that counts up says all of it and
+   * costs one row.
+   */
+  endRun() { this.run = null; }
+
+  /** A new turn starts with a clean page's worth of lines. */
+  newSegment() { this.run = null; this.segment = new Map(); }
+
+  /** Redraw the run's single line from what it has accumulated. */
+  /**
+   * Redraw the run's single line from what it has accumulated.
+   *
+   * While its step is still running the text shimmers, which is the only
+   * thing on screen saying "this is happening now" once the per-step result
+   * lines are gone. It settles to plain dim the moment the step finishes, so
+   * the finished ones above stay quiet.
+   */
+  paintRun() {
+    if (!this.run) return;
+    this.lines[this.run.at] = `${narrationMark(this.run.kind)} ${runLine(this.run)}`;
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A change, as its two numbers.
+   *
+   * The diff itself used to go into the transcript. A 539-line file printed
+   * there buries the answer under a copy of something already on disk, so
+   * what is kept is the shape of the change: how much arrived, how much left.
+   */
+  /**
+   * A one-word verdict on the step that just ran — "clean", "3 to fix".
+   *
+   * Same rule as diffStat: it goes on the line that named the step. Nothing
+   * goes underneath a bullet, and a result line per tool doubles the height of
+   * the transcript to say "ok".
+   */
+  runStat(text) {
+    if (!this.run || !text) return;
+    this.run.stat = text;
+    this.paintRun();
+  }
+
+  diffStat({ added = 0, removed = 0 } = {}) {
+    if (!this.run) return;
+    this.run.added += added;
+    this.run.removed += removed;
+    this.paintRun();
+  }
+
+  /** The checklist, when the model updates it. One line, wrapped if it must. */
+  plan(items) {
+    const rows = planRows(items);
+    if (!rows.length) return;
+    this.endRun();          // a plan is not another step of whatever came before
+    for (const row of rows) this.push(row);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * What came of a step.
+   *
+   * Nothing goes underneath the bullet any more: a line of its own for every
+   * result doubles the height of the transcript to say "ok". The bullet
+   * already names the step, and a change adds its numbers to that same line.
+   * Only a failure earns a line of its own.
+   */
+  toolResult() {}
+
+  /**
+   * Something went wrong, and the model is the one who can do anything about it.
+   *
+   * A red line of machinery — a failed edit, a command that exited non-zero —
+   * reads as the tool being broken, when almost always it is a step the model
+   * corrects on its own a second later. It goes to the model; the screen stays
+   * for what is being built. Whatever is genuinely unrecoverable surfaces as
+   * the model saying so in words, which is the form worth reading.
+   */
+  toolFailed() {
+    this.endRun();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The change itself, under the result.
+   *
+   * A line-number gutter, then the sign and the code tinted right across the
+   * row. The numbers are the point: a diff you cannot navigate from is a
+   * picture of a change rather than a record of one.
+   */
+  diff(lines) {
+    const gutter = 6;
+    // Two spaces of indent, the gutter, one space, then the tint fills the
+    // rest. One column over and every row wraps, splitting the whole diff.
+    const room = Math.max(12, this.width() - gutter - 3);
+
+    for (const line of lines) {
+      // A file heading in a multi-file write.
+      if (line.startsWith('~')) {
+        this.add(`  ${dim(' '.repeat(gutter))} ${sky(line.slice(1))}`);
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      const added = line.startsWith('+');
+      const rest = line.slice(1);
+      // Tools emit "<line>| <text>". A row with no number is the "12 more
+      // lines" note, which is not part of the change, so it stays dim.
+      const parsed = /^(\d+)\|\s?([\s\S]*)$/.exec(rest);
+      if (!parsed) {
+        this.add(`  ${dim(' '.repeat(gutter))} ${dim(rest)}`);
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      const [, number, body] = parsed;
+      const tint = added ? ADDED : REMOVED;
+      this.add(
+        `  ${dim(number.padStart(gutter))} ` +
+        // Tabs would leave the tint ending short of the row, so they widen.
+        tint(padVis(clip(`${added ? '+' : '-'} ${body.replace(/\t/g, '  ')}`, room), room))
+      );
+    }
+    this.render(); // a sixteen-line diff is one frame, not sixteen
+  }
+
+  /** Captured output under a command, dimmed so it reads as evidence. */
+  commandOutput(lines) {
+    for (const line of lines) this.add(`    ${dim(line)}`);
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A running command's output, live — on the status line and nowhere else.
+   *
+   * Only the newest line, gone as soon as the next arrives. Appending each one
+   * instead would mean a test run leaving sixty lines of "ok" in the
+   * conversation permanently, which is noise the moment it scrolls. What
+   * survives a command is decided when it ends: nothing if it worked, the tail
+   * if it did not.
+   */
+  progress(lines) {
+    const last = lines[lines.length - 1]?.trim();
+    if (last) this.updateSpinner(last);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The model's own account of the step it is taking, before it takes it.
+   *
+   * Not called status(): `this.status` holds the spinner state, and a method
+   * of the same name would be shadowed by it on every instance.
+   */
+  narrate(text) {
+    const line = asLabel(text);
+    if (!line) return;
+    this.push(`${dim('⋮')} ${dim(clip(line, this.width() - 4))}`);
+    this.updateSpinner(line);
+  }
+
+  // -- streaming -----------------------------------------------------------
+  // Deltas appear as plain text as they arrive, then get replaced in place by
+  // properly rendered markdown once the reply is complete.
+
+  streamBegin() {
+    this.stopSpinner();
+    this.streamAt = this.lines.length;
+    this.streamBuf = '';
+    this.streamPainted = 0;
+  }
+
+  streamDelta(delta) {
+    if (this.streamAt === undefined) this.streamBegin();
+    this.streamBuf += delta;
+    const now = Date.now();
+    if (now - this.streamPainted < 60) return; // about 16fps is plenty
+    this.streamPainted = now;
+    this.repaintStream();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Repaint the partial reply.
+   *
+   * polish() runs on the partial text so bold, inline code and bullets are
+   * already styled while it streams. Without it the text arrives raw and then
+   * visibly re-renders at the end, which reads as a glitch.
+   */
+  repaintStream() {
+    this.lines.length = this.streamAt;
+    this.add('');
+    this.add(polish(this.streamBuf));
+    this.render(); // one frame, and never one without the reply in it
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Finish a streamed reply.
+   *
+   * `asLabel` says the text turned out to be narration ahead of a tool call
+   * rather than an answer, in which case one short line folds down into the
+   * status line it was always meant to be.
+   */
+  streamEnd({ asNarration = false, closing = false } = {}) {
+    if (this.streamAt === undefined) return '';
+    const text = this.streamBuf;
+    this.lines.length = this.streamAt;
+    this.streamAt = undefined;
+    this.streamBuf = '';
+
+    // Mid-build the model's prose is commentary on work that has not happened
+    // yet, so it is condensed to one line rather than printed whole — long or
+    // short, it never becomes a block of text above the file being written.
+    if (asNarration) {
+      const line = asNarrationLine(text);
+      if (line) this.narrate(line);
+      else this.render();
+    }
+    else if (text.trim()) this.assistant(text, { closing });
+    else this.render();
+    return text;
+  }
+
+  // -- thinking ------------------------------------------------------------
+  // A reasoning model does all its working before it says anything. None of it
+  // is printed: it is long, repetitive, and guesses drawn from it read worse
+  // than silence. The spinner counts the seconds so the wait is visibly alive,
+  // and the transcript gets one line afterwards saying how long it took.
+
+  /**
+   * The model's reasoning does not go on screen.
+   *
+   * It was surfaced here to fill the wait before the first tool call, and what
+   * it actually filled it with was the model talking to itself: "I need to
+   * build this", "The user wants a tasks app". Nobody needs their own request
+   * read back to them, and half-formed working-out is not something to publish.
+   * What the model *says* is its reply, and that is the only thing shown.
+   */
+  thinkingDelta() {}
+
+  thinkingEnd() {}
+
+  error(err, { debug = false } = {}) {
+    const known = err && typeof err === 'object' && err.attempted;
+    this.push('');
+    if (known) {
+      this.push(`${theme.error('✗')} ${chalk.white(`Failed while ${err.attempted}.`)}`);
+      this.push(`  ${err.failed}`);
+      if (err.fix) this.push(`  ${blue('→')} ${err.fix}`);
+      if (err.kind) this.push(dim(`  (${err.kind})`));
+    } else {
+      this.push(`${theme.error('✗')} ${chalk.white('Something broke inside ucode.')}`);
+      this.push(`  ${err?.message ?? String(err)}`);
+      this.push(`  ${blue('→')} That is a bug in ucode rather than in your project. Re-run with --debug.`);
+    }
+    if (debug) {
+      const stack = (known && err.cause?.stack) || err?.stack;
+      if (stack) this.push(dim(stack));
+    }
+    this.push('');
+  }
+
+  // -- header --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  setFacts(facts) {
+    this.facts = { ...this.facts, ...facts };
+    if (facts.model) this.model = facts.model;
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  /** Same shape as the plain UI's header(), so the loop needs no branch. */
+  header({ cwd, model, used, limit, title: sessionTitle }) {
+    if (cwd && cwd !== this.facts.cwd) this.facts.branch = gitBranch(cwd);
+    this.setFacts({
+      cwd,
+      model,
+      title: sessionTitle,
+      percent: limit > 0 ? Math.min(100, Math.round((used / limit) * 100)) : 0,
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * How many rows the header box occupies.
+   *
+   * The frame has to be exactly as tall as the terminal or every row below the
+   * shortfall is off by that much — including the one the caret is parked on.
+   * So this is derived, never assumed.
+   */
+  headerHeight() {
+    return this.width() >= WORDMARK_NEEDS ? BANNER.length + 2 : 5;
+  }
+
+  headerLines() {
+    const width = this.width();
+    const inner = width - 2;              // between the borders
+
+    if (width < WORDMARK_NEEDS) {
+      // Too narrow for the wordmark: stack it rather than wrap it into noise.
+      const rows = [
+        `  ${blue.bold('U C O D E')}  ${dim('terminal coding agent')}`,
+        `  ${dim('dir'.padEnd(8))}${chalk.white(clip(shortenPath(this.facts.cwd ?? this.cwd, inner - 12), inner - 12))}`,
+      ];
+      return [boxTop(width), ...rows.map((r) => boxRow(r, width)), boxBottom(width)];
+    }
+
+    // Two spaces of padding, the wordmark, a gap, then the facts column.
+    //
+    // Only what you cannot work out by looking, and never what the status row
+    // already carries: the model and how full the window is live down there,
+    // next to each other, and a second copy up here would be a second place to
+    // keep in sync for no reader who needed it. What is left is where you are,
+    // which branch that is on, which build you are running, and the two keys
+    // worth knowing before you have typed anything.
+    //
+    // Every row has something on it. Three blank rows and a credit floating
+    // under them read as a column that was meant to be filled and was not.
+    const room = Math.max(8, inner - BANNER_WIDTH - 6);
+    const value = (v) => clip(String(v), Math.max(4, room - 10));
+    const branch = this.facts.branch;
+
+    // The facts run together from the top with nothing between them, the credit
+    // sits on the last row, and whatever is left over is the gap between the
+    // two. Holding a row empty in the middle of the list — which is what a
+    // fixed six-row layout did when a fact was missing — reads as a line that
+    // failed to draw rather than as spacing.
+    const facts = [
+      ['dir', value(shortenPath(this.facts.cwd ?? this.cwd, room - 10))],
+      branch && ['branch', value(branch)],
+      VERSION && ['version', value(this.facts.update ? `${VERSION} → ${this.facts.update} next start` : VERSION)],
+      ['keys', value('/help · esc interrupts · ctrl+b plan')],
+    ].filter(Boolean).slice(0, BANNER.length - 1);
+
+    while (facts.length < BANNER.length - 1) facts.push(['', '']);
+    facts.push(['', 'made with ❤️ by om dixit']);
+
+    const rows = BANNER.map((art, i) => {
+      const [label, text] = facts[i] ?? ['', ''];
+      const right = label
+        ? `${dim(label.padEnd(10))}${chalk.white(text)}`
+        : (text ? dim(text) : '');
+      return `  ${bannerPaint(i)(art)}   ${right}`;
+    });
+
+    // The frame is lit the way the wordmark inside it is: brightest along the
+    // top rule, settling to deep at the bottom. Eight rows of box for six of
+    // banner, so the borders take the two ends of the same ramp and the box
+    // reads as one object with a light above it rather than as a rule someone
+    // drew around a picture.
+    const depth = BANNER.length + 2;
+    return [
+      boxTop(width, bannerPaint(0, depth)),
+      ...rows.map((r, i) => boxRow(r, width, bannerPaint(i + 1, depth))),
+      boxBottom(width, bannerPaint(depth - 1, depth)),
+    ];
+  }
+
+  // -- input box -----------------------------------------------------------
+
+  /** The typed line, wrapped to the inside of a box `width` characters across. */
+  /**
+   * The typed text, laid out as rows inside the box.
+   *
+   * A line break in the buffer is a row of its own before any wrapping is
+   * considered. Slicing the text into fixed widths without looking for one
+   * put the newline into the frame instead, and the terminal obeyed it — the
+   * pasted text walked out of the box and over the transcript beside it.
+   *
+   * `starts` records where each row begins in the text, so the caret can be
+   * placed by looking up rather than by counting characters a second way and
+   * hoping the two agree.
+   */
+  inputLines(width = this.inner()) {
+    const prefix = this.pendingPrompt ? `${this.pendingPrompt} ` : '› ';
+    const full = prefix + this.buffer;
+
+    const rows = [];
+    const starts = [];
+    let at = 0;
+
+    for (const para of full.split(NEWLINE)) {
+      let i = 0;
+      do {
+        rows.push(para.slice(i, i + width));
+        starts.push(at + i);
+        i += width;
+      } while (i < para.length);
+      at += para.length + 1; // the newline itself
+    }
+
+    if (rows.length === 0) { rows.push(prefix); starts.push(0); }
+    return { rows, prefix, width, starts };
+  }
+
+  /** Which row the caret sits on, and how far along it. */
+  caretAt(width) {
+    const { rows, prefix, starts } = this.inputLines(width);
+    const index = prefix.length + this.cursor;
+    let row = 0;
+    while (row + 1 < starts.length && starts[row + 1] <= index) row++;
+    return { row, col: Math.min(index - starts[row], rows[row].length), rows };
+  }
+
+  viewportHeight() {
+    return Math.max(
+      3,
+      this.rows - this.headerHeight() - CHROME_BELOW - this.inputLines().rows.length
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The input box: what you are typing, and directly under it, inside the same
+   * border, the three things worth knowing while you type.
+   *
+   * The status used to sit outside the box on the last row of the screen,
+   * which made it a separate object floating under the input. Inside the
+   * border it reads as part of the thing you are using — the box says "this is
+   * where you work", and the row underneath says what you are working with.
+   */
+  inputBox(width = this.width()) {
+    const { rows } = this.inputLines(width - 4);
+    const border = this.borderPaint();
+    const busy = this.busy();
+    // Nothing typed yet: a quiet prompt where the text will go. The caret sits
+    // on its first letter and typing replaces it.
+    const empty = !this.buffer && !this.pendingPrompt;
+    const hint = !busy ? PLACEHOLDER
+      : (width >= WORKING_HINT_NEEDS ? WORKING_HINT : WORKING_HINT_SHORT);
+    const painted = rows.map((row, i) =>
+      i === 0
+        ? boxRow(` ${border('›')}${empty ? ` ${dim(hint)}` : row.slice(1)}`, width, border)
+        : boxRow(` ${row}`, width, border)
+    );
+    return [
+      boxTop(width, border),
+      ...painted,
+      // A blank row between the two. Sitting directly under the caret, the
+      // status read as a second line of the thing being typed; one row of air
+      // separates what you are writing from what you are writing it with.
+      boxRow('', width, border),
+      boxRow(this.statusRow(width), width, border),
+      boxBottom(width, border),
+    ];
+  }
+
+  /** Is the agent holding the turn? */
+  busy() {
+    return this.status.busy || !!this.activity;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The input box's edge, which says whose turn it is.
+   *
+   * Bold blue while the box is yours, quiet while the agent has it. The status
+   * row inside the same box already carries the words; this is the half you
+   * catch without reading, from the corner of your eye, in the one place on
+   * screen you were already looking.
+   */
+  borderPaint() {
+    return this.busy() ? deep : edge;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Repaint after something that may have changed whose turn it is.
+   *
+   * The cheap path redraws one row, which is right twelve times a second for a
+   * spinner and wrong at a turn boundary: the border above and below would
+   * still be the old weight while the status row had the new one, and the box
+   * would be drawn in two colours. A whole frame costs nothing twice a turn.
+   */
+  paintBusy() {
+    if (this.busy() === this.paintedBusy) this.paintStatus();
+    else this.render();
+  }
+
+  // -- status row ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+  modeChip() {
+    return modeChip(this.mode);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * How full the context window is, as a bare number.
+   *
+   * It turns amber at 75% because that is where turns start being folded away
+   * into a summary — the one moment the number predicts something you would
+   * want to know before it happens.
+   */
+  percentChip() {
+    const percent = Math.round(this.facts.percent ?? 0);
+    return percent >= 75 ? theme.warn(`${percent}%`) : dim(`${percent}%`);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Which mode is live, which model is answering, and how full the window is.
+   *
+   * Nothing else earns a place. The provider name was there and was cut: it is
+   * the same on every line of every session, so it was decoration that had to
+   * be read past to reach the two things that do change.
+   *
+   * The spinner used to borrow the middle of this row while something ran. It
+   * has a row of its own outside the box now, so the only thing that ever
+   * appears between the model and the percentage is a flash — a reply to
+   * something you just pressed, gone a moment later.
+   */
+  statusRow(width = this.width()) {
+    const inner = width - 2;             // the space between the two borders
+    const chip = this.modeChip();
+    const left = ` ${chip}  ${chalk.white(this.model || '—')}`;
+
+    // How long the turn has taken, back in the box beside the other two facts
+    // about the session. It is not on the live line: that line says what is
+    // being done, and a clock ticking in the middle of it competes with the
+    // words for no reason. Under a second there is no number worth reading.
+    const now = Date.now();
+    const since = this.activity?.start ?? this.status.since ?? 0;
+    const running = this.busy() && since && now - since >= 1000;
+    const right = `${running ? `${dim(formatDuration(now - since))}   ` : ''}${this.percentChip()} `;
+
+    // Where a click on the bottom row still counts as hitting the mode chip.
+    this.chipTo = 2 + visLen(chip);
+
+    const between = Math.max(1, inner - visLen(left) - visLen(right));
+    const middle = this.flashText ? dim(clip(this.flashText, between - 2)) : '';
+
+    const tail = middle ? `${middle}   ` : '';
+    const pad = Math.max(1, inner - visLen(left) - visLen(tail) - visLen(right));
+    return padVis(left + ' '.repeat(pad) + tail + right, inner);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * What is happening right now: the spinner, what it is doing, how long it has
+   * been doing it, and the way out.
+   *
+   * It used to live in whatever space the status row had spare between the
+   * model name and the percentage — inside the box you type into, which is the
+   * one place on screen that is about you rather than about the agent. Out
+   * here it sits directly under the steps it belongs to, in the same column,
+   * and has room for a bar instead of a shimmer.
+   */
+  activityLine(width = this.width()) {
+    if (!this.busy()) return '';
+    const now = Date.now();
+    return workingLine({
+      glyph: spinnerGlyph(this.tick, now),
+      label: this.status.busy ? this.status.text : 'working',
+      hint: 'esc to stop',
+      room: Math.max(4, width),
+      t: now,
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Which row the live line is painted on, 1-based, or 0 when it is not shown.
+   *
+   * It is the last line of the conversation, so its row moves as the
+   * conversation grows and stops moving once the viewport is full. Scrolled
+   * back, or with the picker open, it is not on screen at all and the cheap
+   * repaint has nothing to do.
+   */
+  activityRowAt() {
+    if (this.scroll > 0 || this.picker) return 0;
+    const index = Math.min(this.lines.length + 1, this.viewportHeight()) - 1;
+    return index < 0 ? 0 : this.headerHeight() + 2 + index;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Repaint only the moving rows, leaving the caret where the user left it.
+   *
+   * It is the second row from the bottom now — the box's own border is below
+   * it — so the row is written with its borders rather than as a bare line.
+   */
+  paintStatus() {
+    if (this.closed) return;
+    // On the start screen the status row is mid-screen, not second from the
+    // bottom, so the cheap single-row repaint would draw it in the wrong place.
+    if (this.welcoming()) {
+      this.render();
+      return;
+    }
+    const [row, col] = this.caret();
+    const width = this.width();
+    const liveAt = this.activityRowAt();
+    this.output.write(
+      HIDE +
+      (liveAt ? at(liveAt, 1) + CLEAR_LINE + padVis(this.activityLine(width), width) : '') +
+      at(this.rows - 1, 1) + CLEAR_LINE + boxRow(this.statusRow(width), width, this.borderPaint()) +
+      at(row, col) + SHOW
+    );
+  }
+
+  toggleMode() {
+    this.mode = this.mode === 'plan' ? 'build' : 'plan';
+    this.flash(this.mode === 'plan'
+      ? 'plan mode — reads and researches, changes nothing'
+      : 'build mode — free to edit files and run commands');
+    this.onModeChange?.(this.mode);
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  /** A message on the status line that fades on its own. */
+  flash(text) {
+    this.flashText = text;
+    clearTimeout(this.flashTimer);
+    this.flashTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+      this.flashText = null;
+      this.paintStatus();
+    }, 2500);
+    this.flashTimer.unref?.();
+    this.paintStatus();
+  }
+
+  // -- spinner -------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  startSpinner(text = 'thinking') {
+    // `since` is what makes a long think legible: the label may not change for
+    // a minute, so the seconds beside it are the proof it is still alive.
+    this.status = { busy: true, text: asLabel(text), frame: 0, since: Date.now() };
+    this.startTimer();
+    this.paintBusy();
+  }
+
+  updateSpinner(text) {
+    if (!this.status.busy) return;
+    this.status.text = asLabel(text);
+    this.paintStatus();
+  }
+
+  stopSpinner() {
+    if (!this.activity) this.stopTimer();
+    if (this.status.busy) {
+      this.status = { busy: false, text: '', frame: 0, since: 0 };
+      this.paintBusy();
+    }
+  }
+
+  // -- the turn in flight ----------------------------------------------------
+
+  /** A turn begins: the timer and step count run until turnEnd(). */
+  turnStart() {
+    this.newSegment();
+    this.activity = { start: Date.now(), steps: 0, movedAt: 0 };
+    this.startTimer();
+    this.paintBusy();
+  }
+
+  /** One more model step in this turn. */
+  step() {
+    if (!this.activity) return;
+    this.activity.steps++;
+    this.activity.movedAt = Date.now();
+  }
+
+  /** The turn is over: leave "✓ Done in 6m 12s · 25 steps" under the answer. */
+  turnEnd({ ok = true } = {}) {
+    const a = this.activity;
+    this.activity = null;
+    if (!this.status.busy) this.stopTimer();
+    // Nothing is written when a turn finishes. The reply is the end of the
+    // turn, and a timing line under it is bookkeeping the reader did not ask
+    // for. A turn that stopped *without* finishing still says so, because
+    // silence there is indistinguishable from a crash.
+    if (a && !ok && Date.now() - a.start >= 2000) {
+      this.push(`  ${doneLine(Date.now() - a.start, a.steps, { ok })}`);
+    }
+    this.paintBusy();
+  }
+
+  /** The animation clock: only the status row repaints, about twelve times a second. */
+  startTimer() {
+    if (this.spinTimer) return;
+    this.spinTimer = setInterval(() => {
+      // Only the status row repaints on a tick. Animating a transcript line
+      // meant redrawing the whole frame twelve times a second, and the input
+      // box was being rebuilt under the user's cursor as they typed.
+      this.tick++;
+      this.paintStatus();
+    }, FRAME_MS);
+    this.spinTimer.unref?.();
+  }
+
+  stopTimer() {
+    if (!this.spinTimer) return;
+    clearInterval(this.spinTimer);
+    this.spinTimer = null;
+  }
+
+  // -- input ---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  nextLine() {
+    if (this.queue.length) return Promise.resolve(this.queue.shift());
+    if (this.closed) return Promise.resolve(null);
+    return new Promise((resolve) => this.waiters.push(resolve));
+  }
+
+  ask() {
+    return this.nextLine();
+  }
+
+  submit(text) {
+    const waiter = this.waiters.shift();
+    if (waiter) waiter(text);
+    else this.queue.push(text);
+  }
+
+  /** y/n, answered on the input line. */
+  confirm({ action, detail, risk }) {
+    this.push('');
+    this.push(`${chalk.inverse(theme.warn(risk === 'command' ? ' shell ' : ' outside project '))} ${chalk.white(action)}`);
+    for (const line of String(detail ?? '').split('\n')) {
+      if (line) this.push(dim(`  ${line}`));
+    }
+
+    this.pendingPrompt = 'go ahead? [y/N]';
+    this.render();
+
+    return this.nextLine().then((answer) => {
+      this.pendingPrompt = null;
+      // End of input counts as no. Never run something nobody approved.
+      const yes = /^(y|yes)$/i.test(String(answer ?? '').trim());
+      this.push(dim(yes ? '  approved' : '  declined'));
+      this.push('');
+      return yes;
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A modal list: arrows move, Enter picks, Esc cancels.
+   *
+   * Only while this is open do the arrows stop scrolling the transcript. They
+   * cannot be given up permanently, because under alternate scroll the mouse
+   * wheel arrives as arrow keys.
+   */
+  pick(items, { active = 0, hint = 'enter to choose · esc to cancel', deletable = false } = {}) {
+    this.picker = {
+      items,
+      index: Math.min(Math.max(0, active), Math.max(0, items.length - 1)),
+      hint,
+      // With deletable, `d` twice on a row resolves { delete: index }. Twice,
+      // because a single stray keypress should never cost a conversation.
+      deletable,
+      armed: null,
+    };
+    this.render();
+    return new Promise((resolve) => { this.pickerResolve = resolve; });
+  }
+
+  closePicker(value) {
+    const resolve = this.pickerResolve;
+    this.picker = null;
+    this.pickerResolve = null;
+    this.render();
+    resolve?.(value);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Rows for an open picker, windowed so a long list still fits.
+   *
+   * An item may carry a `sub` line — a second, dimmer row underneath it. That
+   * is what lets a list of saved conversations show what each one was actually
+   * about instead of a column of near-identical titles.
+   */
+  pickerLines(height) {
+    const { items, index, hint, armed } = this.picker;
+    const room = Math.max(1, height - 2);
+
+    // Rows per item, so the window can be sized in rows rather than in items.
+    const rowsFor = (item) => (typeof item !== 'string' && item.sub ? 2 : 1);
+    const perItem = items.map(rowsFor);
+
+    // Walk outward from the selection until the window is full. Starting from
+    // the selection guarantees it is on screen however long the list is.
+    let first = index;
+    let last = index;
+    let used = perItem[index] ?? 1;
+    while (used < room && (first > 0 || last < items.length - 1)) {
+      if (first > 0 && used + perItem[first - 1] <= room) { first--; used += perItem[first]; }
+      else if (last < items.length - 1 && used + perItem[last + 1] <= room) { last++; used += perItem[last]; }
+      else break;
+    }
+
+    const out = [];
+    for (let i = first; i <= last; i++) {
+      const item = items[i];
+      const body = typeof item === 'string' ? item : item.label;
+      if (i === armed) out.push(`${theme.warn('✗')} ${theme.warn(bare(body))}`);
+      else out.push(i === index ? `${blue('❯')} ${chalk.bold.white(body)}` : `  ${dim(body)}`);
+      if (typeof item !== 'string' && item.sub) out.push(`  ${item.sub}`);
+    }
+
+    out.push('');
+    out.push(armed !== null && armed !== undefined
+      ? theme.warn('  press d again to delete this conversation · any other key keeps it')
+      : dim(`  ${hint}`));
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  /** A numbered list, answered on the input line. */
+  async choose(prompt, items, { allowNone = true } = {}) {
+    items.forEach((item, i) => this.push(`  ${blue(String(i + 1).padStart(2))}. ${item}`));
+    if (allowNone) this.push(dim('   0. none — start fresh'));
+    this.push('');
+
+    this.pendingPrompt = prompt;
+    this.render();
+
+    const answer = await this.nextLine();
+    this.pendingPrompt = null;
+
+    const trimmed = String(answer ?? '').trim();
+    if (trimmed === '' || trimmed === '0') return null;
+
+    const index = Number(trimmed);
+    if (!Number.isInteger(index) || index < 1 || index > items.length) {
+      this.push(theme.warn(`  "${trimmed}" is not one of 1-${items.length}.`));
+      return null;
+    }
+    return index - 1;
+  }
+
+  // -- keyboard and mouse --------------------------------------------------
+
+  /**
+   * Scroll the transcript, clamped at both ends.
+   *
+   * When there is nothing above the fold, say so. Silence is indistinguishable
+   * from broken input, and the difference matters: one means the conversation
+   * simply fits, the other means the terminal is not forwarding keys at all.
+   */
+  scrollBy(delta) {
+    const max = Math.max(0, this.lines.length - this.viewportHeight());
+    if (max === 0) {
+      this.flash('nothing above — it all fits on screen');
+      return;
+    }
+    const before = this.scroll;
+    this.scroll = Math.min(Math.max(0, this.scroll + delta), max);
+    if (this.scroll === before && delta > 0) this.flash('already at the top');
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Text arriving as a paste rather than as typing.
+   *
+   * A terminal in bracketed-paste mode wraps pasted text in markers, which is
+   * the only way to tell forty lines pasted at once from forty lines typed
+   * very fast. Without it every newline in the paste reads as Enter, so a
+   * pasted block submits itself a line at a time and arrives as forty
+   * messages. Inside the markers a newline is just a character.
+   */
+  onPaste(text) {
+    const clean = String(text).replace(/\r\n?/g, '\n');
+    this.buffer = this.buffer.slice(0, this.cursor) + clean + this.buffer.slice(this.cursor);
+    this.cursor += clean.length;
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  onData(chunk) {
+    // Pasted text first: it is wrapped in markers and must not be read as
+    // keys, or its newlines submit it in pieces.
+    const paste = /\[200~([\s\S]*?)\[201~/g;
+    if (paste.test(chunk)) {
+      paste.lastIndex = 0;
+      let at = 0;
+      let m;
+      while ((m = paste.exec(chunk))) {
+        if (m.index > at) this.onData(chunk.slice(at, m.index));
+        this.onPaste(m[1]);
+        at = m.index + m[0].length;
+      }
+      if (at < chunk.length) this.onData(chunk.slice(at));
+      return;
+    }
+    // An unterminated paste: hold what has arrived and wait for the rest.
+    const open = chunk.indexOf('[200~');
+    if (open !== -1) {
+      if (open > 0) this.onData(chunk.slice(0, open));
+      this.pasting = chunk.slice(open + 6);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (this.pasting !== undefined && this.pasting !== null) {
+      const close = chunk.indexOf('[201~');
+      if (close === -1) { this.pasting += chunk; return; }
+      this.onPaste(this.pasting + chunk.slice(0, close));
+      this.pasting = null;
+      const after = chunk.slice(close + 6);
+      if (after) this.onData(after);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // UCODE_DEBUG_KEYS=1 logs every byte the terminal sends to
+    // ~/.ucode/keys.log. Whether mouse reporting works at all depends on the
+    // terminal forwarding it; this is how to find out.
+    if (process.env.UCODE_DEBUG_KEYS) {
+      appendFile(path.join(homedir(), '.ucode', 'keys.log'), `${JSON.stringify(chunk)}\n`).catch(() => {});
+    }
+
+    // Pull mouse reports out of the chunk wherever they sit. Anchoring the
+    // match to the whole chunk meant a wheel event arriving alongside any
+    // other byte was silently treated as typing.
+    let rest = '';
+    let index = 0;
+    // Two encodings: SGR (ESC [ < b ; x ; y M|m), and the legacy form
+    // (ESC [ M then three bytes offset by 32) for terminals that ignore 1006.
+    const mouse = /\x1b\[<(\d+);(\d+);(\d+)([Mm])|\x1b\[M([\s\S])([\s\S])([\s\S])/g;
+    let match;
+
+    while ((match = mouse.exec(chunk)) !== null) {
+      rest += chunk.slice(index, match.index);
+      index = match.index + match[0].length;
+      if (match[1] !== undefined) {
+        this.onMouse(Number(match[1]), Number(match[2]), Number(match[3]), match[4]);
+      } else {
+        this.onMouse(
+          match[5].charCodeAt(0) - 32,
+          match[6].charCodeAt(0) - 32,
+          match[7].charCodeAt(0) - 32,
+          'M'
+        );
+      }
+    }
+    rest += chunk.slice(index);
+
+    // A chunk carrying a line break *and* other text did not come from a
+    // keyboard: nobody types a newline in the middle of a burst. Many
+    // terminals, Windows ones especially, send a paste with no markers at
+    // all, so without this every newline in it reads as Enter and the paste
+    // submits itself a line at a time.
+    if (looksPasted(rest)) { this.onPaste(rest); return; }
+
+    for (const key of splitKeys(rest)) this.onKey(key);
+  }
+
+  onMouse(button, col, row, press) {
+    // Wheel reports set bit 6; bit 0 says which way.
+    if (button >= 64) {
+      this.scrollBy(button % 2 === 0 ? 3 : -3);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (press !== 'M' || button !== 0) return;
+    if (this.welcoming()) {
+      const g = this.welcomeGeometry();
+      const statusRow = g.boxTop + g.inputRows + 3;          // 1-based
+      if (row === statusRow && col > g.left + 1 && col <= g.left + this.chipTo) this.toggleMode();
+      return;
+    }
+    // The mode chip, at the left of the bottom row.
+    if (row === this.rows - 1 && col >= 2 && col <= this.chipTo) this.toggleMode();
+  }
+
+  onKey(key) {
+    // An open picker owns the keyboard until it closes.
+    if (this.picker) {
+      const last = this.picker.items.length - 1;
+      if (this.picker.deletable && (key === 'd' || key === 'D' || key === `${ESC}[3~`)) {
+        if (this.picker.armed === this.picker.index) { this.closePicker({ delete: this.picker.index }); return; }
+        this.picker.armed = this.picker.index;
+        this.render();
+        return;
+      }
+      this.picker.armed = null;   // any other key takes the delete back
+      if (key === `${ESC}[A`) { this.picker.index = Math.max(0, this.picker.index - 1); this.render(); return; }
+      if (key === `${ESC}[B`) { this.picker.index = Math.min(last, this.picker.index + 1); this.render(); return; }
+      if (key === '\r' || key === '\n') { this.closePicker(this.picker.index); return; }
+      if (key === ESC || key === '\x03') { this.closePicker(null); return; }
+      return;
+    }
+
+    switch (key) {
+      case '\r':
+      case '\n': {
+        const text = this.buffer;
+        this.buffer = '';
+        this.cursor = 0;
+        this.historyIndex = -1;
+        if (text.trim()) {
+          this.history.unshift(text);
+          // Answers to a y/N or a numbered pick are not messages, so they are
+          // not echoed: the prompt reports its own outcome.
+          if (!this.pendingPrompt) this.userMessage(text);
+        }
+        this.render();
+        this.submit(text);
+        return;
+      }
+
+      case '\x7f':  // backspace
+      case '\b':
+        if (this.cursor > 0) {
+          this.buffer = this.buffer.slice(0, this.cursor - 1) + this.buffer.slice(this.cursor);
+          this.cursor--;
+        }
+        break;
+
+      case '\x03':  // ctrl+c
+        if (this.status.busy && this.onInterrupt) this.onInterrupt();
+        else { this.buffer = ''; this.cursor = 0; }
+        break;
+
+      case '\x04':  // ctrl+d
+        this.close();
+        return;
+
+      case '\x02':  // ctrl+b — swap plan and build
+        this.toggleMode();
+        return;
+
+      case '\x15':  // ctrl+u — clear the line
+        this.buffer = this.buffer.slice(this.cursor);
+        this.cursor = 0;
+        break;
+
+      case ESC:     // esc — stop the turn in flight
+        if (this.onInterrupt) this.onInterrupt();
+        return;
+
+      case '\t': {
+        const hit = COMMANDS.find((c) => c.startsWith(this.buffer));
+        if (hit) { this.buffer = hit; this.cursor = hit.length; }
+        break;
+      }
+
+      // With an empty line the arrows scroll the conversation; once there is
+      // something typed they walk history. Terminals often swallow PgUp and
+      // PgDn for their own scrollback, so this is the path that always works.
+      case `${ESC}[A`:
+        if (!this.buffer) { this.scrollBy(2); return; }
+        if (this.history.length) {
+          this.historyIndex = Math.min(this.historyIndex + 1, this.history.length - 1);
+          this.buffer = this.history[this.historyIndex] ?? '';
+          this.cursor = this.buffer.length;
+        }
+        break;
+
+      case `${ESC}[B`:
+        if (!this.buffer) { this.scrollBy(-2); return; }
+        this.historyIndex = Math.max(this.historyIndex - 1, -1);
+        this.buffer = this.historyIndex === -1 ? '' : (this.history[this.historyIndex] ?? '');
+        this.cursor = this.buffer.length;
+        break;
+
+      case `${ESC}[1;5A`: this.scrollBy(2); return;   // ctrl+up
+      case `${ESC}[1;5B`: this.scrollBy(-2); return;  // ctrl+down
+      case `${ESC}[5~`: this.scrollBy(this.viewportHeight()); return;
+      case `${ESC}[6~`: this.scrollBy(-this.viewportHeight()); return;
+
+      case `${ESC}[H`: this.scrollBy(this.lines.length); return;
+      case `${ESC}[F`: this.scroll = 0; this.render(); return;
+
+      case `${ESC}[C`: this.cursor = Math.min(this.cursor + 1, this.buffer.length); break;
+      case `${ESC}[D`: this.cursor = Math.max(this.cursor - 1, 0); break;
+
+      default:
+        if (key >= ' ' && !key.startsWith(ESC)) {
+          this.buffer = this.buffer.slice(0, this.cursor) + key + this.buffer.slice(this.cursor);
+          this.cursor += key.length;
+        } else {
+          return;
+        }
+    }
+
+    this.render();
+  }
+
+  // -- painting ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  render() {
+    if (this.closed) return;
+    if (this.welcoming()) {
+      this.renderWelcome();
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const width = this.width();
+    const height = this.viewportHeight();
+
+    // The live line is the last line of the conversation, not a fixture above
+    // the input box. Pinned down there it sat at the bottom of the screen while
+    // the message that started it was at the top, with the empty middle of the
+    // viewport between them — so the thing being done looked unrelated to the
+    // thing that had been asked. On the end of the transcript it arrives
+    // directly under the prompt, which is where the eye already is.
+    const live = this.activityLine(width);
+    const said = live ? [...this.lines, live] : this.lines;
+
+    const end = Math.max(0, said.length - this.scroll);
+    const start = Math.max(0, end - height);
+    const window = this.picker ? this.pickerLines(height) : said.slice(start, end);
+    while (window.length < height) window.push('');
+
+    const frame = [
+      ...this.headerLines(),
+      '',
+      ...window,
+      // Always one clear row between the last thing said and the box you type
+      // in. Without it the newest line of output sits against the border and
+      // reads as part of the input rather than as the answer above it.
+      '',
+      ...this.inputBox(),
+    ];
+
+    // The cursor is hidden for the duration of the paint. Without this it is
+    // dragged through every line as the frame is written, which shows up as a
+    // dot flickering above the input box on every keystroke.
+    const out = [HIDE, HOME];
+    for (let i = 0; i < this.rows; i++) {
+      out.push(CLEAR_LINE + padVis(frame[i] ?? '', width) + (i === this.rows - 1 ? '' : '\n'));
+    }
+
+    const [row, col] = this.caret();
+    out.push(at(row, col) + SHOW);
+    this.paintedBusy = this.busy();
+    this.output.write(out.join(''));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Where the typing caret belongs, 1-based.
+   *
+   * Column three is the first character inside the box: border, a space of
+   * padding, then the text.
+   */
+  caret() {
+    if (this.welcoming()) {
+      const g = this.welcomeGeometry();
+      const { row, col } = this.caretAt(g.boxWidth - 4);
+      // g.boxTop is 0-based and the typed lines start one below the border.
+      return [g.boxTop + 2 + row, g.left + 3 + col];
+    }
+
+    const { row, col: at, rows } = this.caretAt();
+    const col = 3 + at;
+    // Counting up from the bottom: the box border is the last row, the status
+    // row is above it, then the blank row, then the typed lines.
+    const firstRow = this.rows - 2 - rows.length;
+    return [firstRow + row, col];
+  }
+
+  // -- start screen ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+  /**
+   * Nothing has been said yet, so there is nothing to scroll: the screen is the
+   * wordmark and the place to type, centred, and nothing else.
+   *
+   * It comes back after /clear and /new too, since those empty the transcript —
+   * a fresh conversation starts from the same quiet screen as a fresh launch.
+   */
+  welcoming() {
+    return this.lines.length === 0 && !this.picker;
+  }
+
+  /** Where everything on the start screen goes, 0-based rows. */
+  welcomeGeometry() {
+    const cols = this.width();
+    const boxWidth = Math.max(30, Math.min(cols - 4, 84));
+    const left = Math.max(0, Math.floor((cols - boxWidth) / 2));
+    const big = cols >= BANNER_WIDTH + 4 && this.rows >= 18;
+    const art = big ? BANNER : ['u c o d e'];
+    const inputRows = this.inputLines(boxWidth - 4).rows.length;
+    const boxRows = inputRows + 4;                         // borders, typed rows, gap, status
+    const suggest = this.rows >= boxRows + art.length + SUGGEST_ROWS + 6;
+    const block = art.length + 2 + boxRows + (suggest ? SUGGEST_ROWS : 0);
+    // A touch above true centre reads as centred; exact centre looks low.
+    const top = Math.max(0, Math.floor((this.rows - block) / 2) - 1);
+    return { cols, boxWidth, left, big, art, inputRows, boxRows, suggest, top, boxTop: top + art.length + 2 };
+  }
+
+  renderWelcome() {
+    const g = this.welcomeGeometry();
+    const frame = new Array(this.rows).fill('');
+
+    // The wordmark lit from the top: sky at the crown, deep in the shadow
+    // rows. Across the rows rather than along them — a name split down its
+    // middle reads as two words, where a name that fades downward reads as
+    // one object with a light on it.
+    const elapsed = this.intro ? Date.now() - this.intro : Infinity;
+    g.art.forEach((line, i) => {
+      const pad = ' '.repeat(Math.max(0, Math.floor((g.cols - line.length) / 2)));
+      frame[g.top + i] = pad + (g.big
+        ? bannerSweep(line, i, g.art.length, elapsed)
+        : blue.bold(line));
+    });
+
+    const indent = ' '.repeat(g.left);
+    this.inputBox(g.boxWidth).forEach((row, i) => {
+      frame[g.boxTop + i] = indent + row;
+    });
+
+    // Three things to try, aligned with the text inside the box above them.
+    if (g.suggest) {
+      const at = g.boxTop + g.boxRows + 1;
+      SUGGESTIONS.forEach((text, i) => {
+        const label = i === 0 ? 'try'.padEnd(SUGGEST_LABEL) : ' '.repeat(SUGGEST_LABEL);
+        frame[at + i] = `${indent} ${dim(sky(label))}${dim(clip(text, Math.max(8, g.boxWidth - SUGGEST_LABEL - 2)))}`;
+      });
+    }
+
+    // The version, in the corner, and nothing else on the screen.
+    if (VERSION) {
+      const tag = dim(this.facts.update ? `v${VERSION} · v${this.facts.update} installed, starts next time` : `v${VERSION}`);
+      frame[this.rows - 1] = ' '.repeat(Math.max(0, g.cols - visLen(tag) - 2)) + tag;
+    }
+
+    const out = [HIDE, HOME];
+    for (let i = 0; i < this.rows; i++) {
+      out.push(CLEAR_LINE + padVis(frame[i], g.cols) + (i === this.rows - 1 ? '' : '\n'));
+    }
+    const [row, col] = this.caret();
+    out.push(at(row, col) + SHOW);
+    this.paintedBusy = this.busy();
+    this.output.write(out.join(''));
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Split a raw stdin chunk into keys, keeping escape sequences whole.
+ *
+ * Application cursor key mode (DECCKM) makes a terminal send ESC O A for the
+ * up arrow rather than ESC [ A. Both are normalised to the bracket form here
+ * so the key handler only ever sees one of them.
+ */
+/**
+ * Did this arrive as a paste, judged by shape rather than by markers?
+ *
+ * Someone pressing Enter sends one carriage return on its own. A paste sends
+ * a line break with text around it, in a single read. That difference is all
+ * there is to go on when a terminal does not implement bracketed paste, and
+ * it is enough.
+ *
+ * Anything carrying an escape sequence is left alone: that is a key or a
+ * mouse report, and reading one as text would put gibberish in the input.
+ */
+export function looksPasted(chunk) {
+  const text = String(chunk ?? '');
+  if (text.length < 2 || text.includes(ESC)) return false;
+  const breaks = (text.match(/[\r\n]/g) ?? []).length;
+  if (breaks === 0) return false;
+  // One trailing break is someone finishing a line, not pasting one.
+  if (breaks === 1 && /[\r\n]$/.test(text)) return false;
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function splitKeys(chunk) {
+  const keys = [];
+  let i = 0;
+
+  while (i < chunk.length) {
+    const c = chunk[i];
+    if (c !== ESC) { keys.push(c); i++; continue; }
+
+    const rest = chunk.slice(i);
+    const csi = /^\x1b\[[0-9;?]*[A-Za-z~]/.exec(rest);
+    if (csi) { keys.push(csi[0]); i += csi[0].length; continue; }
+
+    const ss3 = /^\x1bO([A-Za-z])/.exec(rest);
+    if (ss3) { keys.push(`${ESC}[${ss3[1]}`); i += ss3[0].length; continue; }
+
+    keys.push(ESC);
+    i++;
+  }
+
+  return keys;
+}