The terminal learns where one command ends, and can be dragged wider

"The last command and its output" was not something the panel could honestly
offer. sendToChat took the last forty rows of the screen buffer, hard-wrapped at
the terminal's width with no way to tell a wrap from a newline -- its own comment
said so. So bash and zsh are given the OSC 133 markers VS Code and WezTerm use,
and Copy, Send and an Auto toggle are built on those.

The integration is written by the PTY command string itself, with printf. sshd
runs that string through $SHELL -c, so it can case on the shell's own name and
needs no probe, no second channel and no writable home. Passing it through the
environment does not work -- every distribution ships AcceptEnv LANG LC_*, so
anything else is dropped silently -- and feeding `source ...` in as keystrokes
races a slow .zshrc, echoes into the scrollback and lands in shell history.

Nothing needs hiding, which is the point of choosing it: the setup runs before
the shell exists and never writes to the PTY's input side, so there is nothing
to echo and no fan-out gate to build.

Two things were wrong in the first version and both were found by running it
against real shells rather than the fake one. bash: the DEBUG trap fires before
every simple command *including each one inside PROMPT_COMMAND*, so $? read from
there is whatever ran a moment ago -- every command reported success. The status
is captured in the trap now, which also removes the two-entry PROMPT_COMMAND
dance entirely. zsh: $ZDOTDIR is already ours by the time .zshenv runs, so the
shims were sourcing themselves and none of the user's configuration loaded; the
original is passed on the exec line.

Parsing is server-side. The `behind` path resets the terminal and replays a
truncated scrollback, so a client parser routinely sees a finish with no start;
two tabs share one shell and can disagree; and what comes out of this ends up
inside a prompt, so deriving it here leaves nothing to disbelieve. The bytes are
fanned out unchanged -- xterm consumes an OSC it has no handler for.

Output is bounded head and tail, 48KB and 16KB: a build that fails ten megabytes
in has the invocation at the top and the error at the bottom. Carriage returns
collapse to the last state of each line, which is the difference between a
usable prompt and two megabytes of spinner. The fence is sized to its content,
because output containing three backticks would otherwise break out and read as
prose.

Any shell that is not bash or zsh starts exactly as it did before. The buttons
then scrape the screen and say so, and Auto is disabled rather than degraded:
forty arbitrary lines on every message is worse than nothing.

Also a generic [data-resize] handle, keyboard included, persisted the way the
theme is. The inspector and sidebar can have it whenever they want it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ that would be expensive to revisit. Kept current as work lands; the detail of
**Status:** usable daily. Streaming chat, attachments, reasoning, tool calling
with web search, custom HTTP tools and MCP servers, agent chats that work on a
machine over SSH, a knowledge library, notes, memory and skills, speech in and
out, users and groups, model administration, installable as an app. 837 tests,
out, users and groups, model administration, installable as an app. 981 tests,
`ruff` clean.
---
@@ -120,6 +120,22 @@ be a different project, not a refactor.
running, and coming back reattaches with the scrollback. An idle timeout
is what eventually ends one, and so does deleting the chat, or disabling,
moving or deleting the connection
- [x] **The panel is resizable**, dragged from its edge or nudged with the
arrow keys, and the width follows you to another browser
- [x] **It knows where one command ends and the next begins** — bash and zsh
are given the markers VS Code and WezTerm use, so *Copy* and *Send* mean
one command and its output rather than the last forty rows of the screen.
An **Auto** toggle collects each one into the next message. Any other
shell starts exactly as it did before, the buttons fall back to the
screen and say so, and Auto is disabled rather than degraded
- [x] **The project directory is listed for the model** — one read-only
command, `git ls-files` where that works so `.gitignore` is honoured for
free, budgeted so a big directory becomes a count rather than a thousand
filenames on every request
- [x] **A directory is chosen by browsing it** over SFTP, not by typing a path
into an unlabelled box
- [x] The approval mode is chosen **before** the first message, beside the
message box rather than in the header
### The library
- [x] **Knowledge bases** — documents, images and saved web pages, grouped into
@@ -143,6 +159,10 @@ be a different project, not a refactor.
actually has, so the tools get used rather than ignored
- [x] Attach menu: file, image, a web page fetched on the spot, or a document
from the library
- [x] **`@` to name one** — the library everywhere, and files in the project
directory in an agent chat. The reference stays in the sentence and the
contents come along, with the path and the machine, so the model knows
exactly which file it was handed
### Audio
- [x] **Dictation** — record in the composer, transcribed by any OpenAI-shaped
@@ -193,6 +213,11 @@ be a different project, not a refactor.
- [x] Admin-managed cards on the new-chat screen; three seeded once at startup
### Interface
- [x] **`/` for commands** — compact, usage, mode, model, title, the panels,
the theme. Anything not in the table is sent as an ordinary message, and
`//` starts one with a literal slash
- [x] **Keyboard shortcuts** for the same jobs, listed beside the commands in
one table so `/help` cannot go stale
- [x] **Installable** — manifest, generated PWA icons, a service worker for the
shell and a themed offline page. The worker deliberately never touches
`/api/`: a reply is an event stream and caching one breaks it