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WalkthroughSuccessful submissions update per-pane tracking. Claude prompt parsing detects held messages and offers Send or Discard. Pending-message checks account for held prompts and do not treat their own paste as a held message. ChangesClaude held-message prompts
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Some queued messages can remain pasted but unsubmitted after a retained hint triggers the pre-Enter check, requiring terminal review. Narrow text or viewport matches can also misclassify or hide the card. These cases are bounded and recoverable, but merit owner awareness. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to Existing access checks and explicit user confirmation limit exposure. However, an unavailable screen-state check can leave suggested text misidentified as a held draft, making Send or Discard behave differently from what the card promises. Retained concerns
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- Line 452: Update dispatchPendingText to call noteSubmitted with the dispatched
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- Line 2751: Export heldCandidate and pass the pane’s candidate to
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…characters
Claude Code 2.1.294 takes zero-width and other invisible characters out
of a message and, instead of sending it, keeps it in its input until it
is reviewed. The chat had already sent it and cleared its box, so the
message seemed gone while it sat in the terminal's input.
Claude says so over the box only for a moment ("Removed 1 invisible
character · review and press Enter to send"; a turn's status line takes
that row), so the box counts on its own as well: the server notes what
the chat last sent to a pane when it carried invisible characters, and
a box holding that text less only invisible ones is a held message. The
card shows the message and offers Send (Enter) and Discard (Ctrl+C
clears Claude's input); each answer checks the screen first, as every
card does. Checked live against Claude Code 2.1.294.
A queued message is sent by dispatchPendingText, not submitText, so a held message it sent was never recorded, and pendingContext asked for a card without the recorded send: once Claude's hint had gone, a queued message was pasted over the message Claude still held. dispatchPendingText now records its message after the Enter (after the checks, which would otherwise take the pasted message itself for a held one), and pendingContext passes the recorded send, so a held message refuses queued input as any open card does. A contract test drives the queue past a delivered message that the screen then shows held.
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The card's Discard presses Ctrl+C, which clears Claude Code's input only
while it waits. Under a running turn the same key interrupts the turn
("Interrupted · What should Claude do instead?") and leaves the held
message in the box (measured live on 2.1.294).
The card now offers Send alone while herdr reports the pane working, and
Discard comes back when the turn ends. The choices are part of the card's
id, so a Discard tapped on a card read before the turn began is refused
with prompt_changed instead of reaching the turn.
Route tests cover that, and that a box edited or sent from the terminal
after the card was read refuses the answer without a key.
Claude Code's hint ("Removed 1 invisible character ...") outlasts the
message for a moment once it is sent or cleared in the terminal. The box
under it is empty again and shows its own grey text, the new-session tip
or a suggested prompt, which reads as a message in a plain-text screen.
The card then offered Enter, which sends Claude's suggestion, and Ctrl+C,
which on an empty input asks to leave Claude.
A held-message card is now checked against an ANSI read of the box, the
way the suggestion reader already tells grey text from typed text, on
every read and so before every answer. A read that fails or shows no box
leaves the card as it was.
Found by the Codex review of this PR; the route test fails without it.
What the chat last sent with invisible characters stayed noted for ten minutes, also after its held message was sent or dropped. The same words queued again without the characters were then taken for that held message by the check between the paste and its Enter: the delivery ended in submit_changed with the message left in Claude's box, where it showed as a held one. The check between a delivery's own paste and its Enter no longer asks whether the box holds the noted message; the check before the paste still does. A held-message card that was answered forgets the note, and so does a pane that closed. Found by the Codex review of this PR. The contract test queues the same words after a held message and fails without the change, as does the route test for an answered card.
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Thanks for this, @Yoonwoo-Ha. The bug is real and the write-up made it easy to check: on To get it ready to merge I pushed a few commits on top of yours rather than send it back. Nothing is asked of you. What I changed
Each of these has a test that fails without it: route tests in One thing in the description that I measured differently: typing in the terminal does not remove the hint on 2.1.294; it stays while the box is edited. That turns out fine, because the card follows the box (its body is part of its id) and an answer to an older card is refused. Looked at and left as they are (from an adversarial review pass; none can press a key the user did not ask for)
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The check ahead of a queued message read the screen as plain text only, so under Claude's hint left over an empty box its grey suggestion still counted as a held message there, while the card's reader had already dropped it: the message was refused with agent_blocked for a card that never showed. Both paths now ask the same question (claudeHeldIsGrey). From the CodeRabbit review; the contract test fails without it.
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🟠 Major · Exclude the delivery’s own paste from hint-based held detection. · index.ts:588
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winExclude the delivery’s own paste from hint-based held detection.
If Claude leaves the removal hint above an empty grey box, the first pending check permits delivery. If the hint remains after the new message is pasted, this pre-Enter check passes
pasted: true, butparseClaudeHeldstill uses the hint to classify the new paste as held. The check returnsagent_blocked; delivery skips Enter and reportssubmit_changed. Suppressclaude-helddetection for the delivery’s own paste while retaining checks for other prompts.The PR objectives report that typing does not remove Claude’s hint.
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- Line 2701: Update claudeHeldIsGrey to read the pane with source "detection"
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The grey-text check reads the pane's viewport, because herdr gives
colors for that read alone: an ANSI read of the live screen ("detection",
where the card itself is read) carries no escapes on herdr 0.9.3. A pane
scrolled into its history can show an older input box there, and its grey
suggestion then hid the card of a message the live screen still held,
and let queued delivery past it.
The grey text now counts only when it is the very text the card took for
the message. From the CodeRabbit review; the route test fails without it.
…nt left up
Claude Code keeps its hint ("Removed 1 invisible character ...") up for a
moment after the held message is sent or cleared, and typing does not
take it down. A queued message delivered in that moment was pasted into
the empty box, and the check between its paste and its Enter then read
the hint over that paste as a held message: no Enter, submit_changed, and
the message left in Claude's box.
The check before the paste already found the box free of a held message,
so the one after it no longer takes this delivery's own paste for one.
Other prompts still stop the Enter. From the CodeRabbit review; the
contract test fails without it.
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Independent review of 1391214 (lead session; the contributor wrote 046decb and ad2f6e0, lane ext-601 wrote 11556c2, dc25634, 29380e5, 05b8e1b and 1391214).
Verdict: approve. The bug is real: a chat message with an invisible character left the chat's box and never reached the agent. Thanks, @Yoonwoo-Ha.
What I ran:
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
a probe of parseInteractivePrompt("claude", <the held-message screen from the PR>) on main |
null: no card |
| the same probe on this branch | a card "Claude Code removed 1 invisible character" with Send and Discard, body helloworld test |
bun test ./server/prompt.test.ts on 1391214 |
208 pass, 0 fail |
the same with server/prompt.ts from ab135d5 (the contributor's change with main merged, before the lane's commits) |
4 fail: no Discard while Claude works, a Discard tapped before the turn began presses nothing, Claude's grey placeholder is no held message, the same words sent again are a new message |
the same with server/prompt.ts from 36658ae (before 1391214) |
1 fail: the scrolled-viewport case |
Read:
- Nothing is sent on the app's own initiative: Send (Enter) and Discard (Ctrl+C) go only through the prompt-answer route, on a card whose id includes the box's text and its choices, so an answer to an older card is refused.
- Discard is not offered while Claude works, where Ctrl+C would interrupt the turn; the card is not shown over Claude's own grey text, where Enter would send Claude's suggestion.
- Queued delivery waits behind a held message instead of pasting into its box.
- The per-pane note of what the chat sent is dropped when the card is answered, when the pane closes, and after ten minutes.
I did not run server/pending-input.contract.test.ts (it needs a live herdr) or a live Claude Code: the lane ran both, and CI's "Integration and browser" is green on 1391214. The Lows in the lane's comment are fine as they are; none can press a key the user did not ask for. Both required checks and CodeRabbit are green, with every thread resolved.
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Correction to my review above: the branch moved to 7dadd8d while I was writing it, so the tests I listed ran on 1391214. I have now read the one commit in between (7dadd8d, "a queued message's own paste is no held message under a hint left up"): the check ahead of a queued delivery's Enter no longer takes that delivery's own paste for a held message when Claude's hint is still up from an earlier one, and |
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A chat message with an invisible character in it (a zero-width space, a joiner, a byte-order mark; pasted text often carries them) seemed lost. The chat cleared its box, but the message never reached the agent.
Reproduced live on Claude Code 2.1.294, sent exactly as the composer does (bracketed paste, then Enter):
Claude Code takes the characters out and, instead of sending, keeps the message in its input until it is reviewed. The chat has already cleared its box by then.
That hint does not stay. With a turn already on screen its row goes to the status line (
✻ Cooked for 1s · done): in 20 seconds of polling after an Enter it never showed, while❯ timingtestsat in the box the whole time. So the hint cannot be the only signal.A card for the held message (
parseClaudeHeld, responderclaude-held):submitTextrecords the chat's last message per pane (noteSubmitted), only when it carried such characters, for 10 minutes.removedInvisiblecompares the two without whitespace, since the box wraps a long message. Every character the box lacks must be invisible: format controls (zero-width, bidi, tags, BOM), combining marks, or Hangul fillers.Validation
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server/prompt.test.tscases, built on the live screen:enterand Discard →ctrl+c;removedInvisible, including U+FEFF (which\swould have taken for a space) and a Hangul filler.Two of these fail on
main.Live, Claude Code 2.1.294 in an isolated herdr session, through this server:
POST /api/pane/prompt/answerwith Discard emptied Claude's input.bun run test:unit1818 pass,tsc --noEmitclean.