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fix(shell): print a gentle-shell resume command when it exits - #1516

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Summary

To resume this session: pi --session <id>
To resume in gentle-shell: gentle-shell --session <id>
  • It keeps the home selector (--link, --home) and a custom --session-dir. Pi's line is left untouched.
  • It prints only to a TTY, like Pi's hint, and not after the terminal hung up (SIGHUP). Other signals do not silence it, since Pi may survive a SIGINT and keep running.
  • On win32 the command is quoted with double quotes that cmd.exe and PowerShell honor; when a value cannot be quoted safely there, no line is printed and Pi's own line is left alone (the quoting lives in feat(shell): add the gentle-shell resume hint logic and extension #1515). That includes cmd.exe operators, since PowerShell passes space-free arguments to the .cmd shim unquoted.
  • The label drops its ANSI style when stdout has no colors (process.stdout.hasColors(), which honors NO_COLOR, FORCE_COLOR=0 and dumb terminals).
  • The launcher exits only after the line is flushed (TTY writes are asynchronous on Windows). A write error or a failed handoff cleanup never changes Pi's exit code.

This is a workaround until Pi fixes it (earendil-works/pi#8048, #9750). Appending instead of replacing means there is nothing to undo once Pi does.

Issue

Closes #1503

PR type

  • Bug fix (type:bug)

Changes

File Change
bin/gentle-shell.mjs Creates a private handoff for interactive launches (named with the shared constants the extension checks), passes its path to Pi and the platform and color support, and prints the gentle-shell line on exit. Best-effort cleanup, also when spawn throws.
runtime/gentle-shell-resume-hint.mjs Generated from lib/gentle-shell-resume-hint.ts.
scripts/build-runtime-modules.mjs, scripts/verify-package-files.mjs Register the new runtime module.
tests/gentle-shell-bin.test.ts Handoff and cleanup, no handoff for subcommands, and tests in a real pseudo-terminal: the line is appended, still follows a non-zero Pi exit, is withheld after SIGHUP, is not silenced by a SIGINT that Pi survives, a cross-project session resumes by its session file, and the label is unstyled without colors. The PTY tests pin their color environment so they behave the same locally and in CI.

Test plan

Verified rebased on current main (5cc591f7, which includes the merged #1515):

  • pnpm test: 4002 pass, 0 fail, all three stages green.
  • pnpm run typecheck, pnpm run check:runtime-modules, and node scripts/verify-package-files.mjs: pass.
  • PTY tests via python3 pty (skipped on Windows or without python), with a timeout so a hung stub cannot block CI.
  • Mutation check: silencing the line on any signal again makes the SIGINT test fail.
  • Manual test in a real isolated gentle-shell session: both lines appear and the second one reopens the session.
  • Native review (RDD): 5 rounds, all approved.
  • GitHub CI: pending.

Heads-up: tests/history-session-scan-extract.test.ts fails now and then because of mtime resolution. It is unrelated to this change; I reported it separately in #1514.

Chain Context

Field Value
Chain gentle-shell resume command (#1503)
Tracker PR Not needed
Position 2 of 2
Base main
Depends on PR 1 (#1515), merged
Follow-up None
Review budget 446 changed lines in its own commit (advisory 400)
main
 └── PR 1  logic and extension (#1515, merged)
      └── 📍 PR 2  launcher wiring (this PR)

Stacking note: #1515 is merged and this branch is rebased on top of current main, so the diff now shows only this PR's change: 5 files, +441/−5.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Interactive launches now provide a resume command after Pi exits, when the terminal supports it and session details are available.
    • Resume commands account for sessions opened from another project and respect terminal color settings.
    • Pi subcommands continue without the interactive resume handoff.

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The launcher now passes a temporary handoff path to interactive Pi sessions. The extension writes eligible session details to that path. After Pi exits, the launcher uses the handoff to plan and print a gentle-shell resume command when output and terminal conditions allow.

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Resume Hint Handoff

Layer / File(s) Summary
Handoff data and resume-hint logic
lib/gentle-shell-resume-hint.ts, runtime/gentle-shell-resume-hint.mjs, scripts/build-runtime-modules.mjs, tests/gentle-shell-resume-hint.test.ts
Adds session handoff creation, serialization, parsing, resume-command construction, and hint planning. Tests cover session-directory handling, validation, command formatting, and hint conditions.
Extension handoff writing
extensions/resume-hint.ts, tests/resume-hint-extension.test.ts
The extension claims the handoff path and writes session data for interactive TUI quits. Tests cover environment handling, reloads, and shutdown conditions.
Launcher handoff and hint output
bin/gentle-shell.mjs, tests/gentle-shell-bin.test.ts, scripts/verify-package-files.mjs
Interactive launches pass a temporary handoff path to Pi and clean up its directory after exit. The launcher prints an eligible hint while preserving Pi’s exit result. Tests cover subcommands, TTY output, and signals; package checks include the new modules.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GentleShellLauncher
  participant Pi
  participant ResumeHintExtension
  participant HandoffFile
  GentleShellLauncher->>Pi: Start interactive session with handoff path
  Pi->>ResumeHintExtension: Invoke shutdown handler on TUI quit
  ResumeHintExtension->>HandoffFile: Write serialized session handoff
  GentleShellLauncher->>HandoffFile: Read handoff after Pi exits
  GentleShellLauncher->>GentleShellLauncher: Plan and print resume hint when eligible
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Suggested reviewers: alan-thegentleman

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8ee6c

The new hint reopens cross-project sessions and respects disabled terminal colors. No material merge-blocking risk remains supported by the current evidence.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8ee6c

The new handoff is limited to interactive sessions and has controls that restrict when a resume command is printed. No material security issue was established, but interrupted-process and platform-specific behavior remain less certain.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The evidenced exposure is a per-interactive-launch temporary handoff and a command displayed on that launch’s terminal. The inspected changes do not establish a service, tenant, or privilege expansion.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The Pi child supplies session data across a file boundary before the launcher displays it. A newly created directory, create-only extension write, parsed field validation, and platform-aware quoting constrain that flow; path-shape validation alone does not establish the writer’s identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Invalid or absent handoff data suppresses the additional line rather than changing Pi’s exit code. Abrupt termination can bypass the inspected cleanup path; its platform-specific residual exposure was not established.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #1503 requires a resume command that uses gentle-shell and preserves --link or --home when selected. The launcher creates a private handoff for interactive launches, passes it through `RESUM…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within Issue #1503. The runtime resume-hint module, launcher wiring, package and build checks, and tests support the resume command. Windows quoting addresses the issue comment abou…
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matraket pushed a commit to matraket/gentle-shell that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2026
Address the CodeRabbit review on Gentleman-Programming#1515/Gentleman-Programming#1516:

- When the quitting session belongs to another project than the launch
  directory (e.g. after /resume), hand off the absolute session file and
  print `--session <file>`. A bare id makes pi offer a fork into the
  launch directory, while a file path reopens the original session.
  Pinned against pi's real SessionManager.
- Only claim a handoff path shaped like the launcher's private file
  (<tmpdir>/gentle-shell-resume-*/handoff.json) and create it with the
  "wx" flag, so an inherited or foreign GENTLE_SHELL_RESUME_HANDOFF can
  neither overwrite an existing file nor follow a planted symlink.
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This looks good overall and matches the append approach requested in #1503.

One thing I think we need to fix before merging: we have to keep cmd.exe / native Windows compatibility too. The printed resume command currently uses POSIX quoting via shellQuote, but in cmd.exe single quotes do not protect paths with spaces or metacharacters. So a copied hint like --home 'C:\Users\Name With Space\...' can fail or be parsed unsafely.

Could we make the displayed command quoting platform-aware, or avoid printing a copy-pasteable path-based command on win32 unless it can be quoted safely for that shell?

The rest of the behavior matches the issue: append below Pi’s line, preserve --link / --home, keep the handoff, and retain the Pi formatResumeCommand pinning test.

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Address the review on Gentleman-Programming#1516: the printed resume command used POSIX
single quotes, which cmd.exe and PowerShell do not honor, so a path with
spaces or metacharacters could fail or be parsed unsafely when pasted.

- On win32, arguments are wrapped in double quotes when needed.
- When a value cannot be quoted safely there (", %, !, $, `, or a
  trailing backslash), no command is produced and pi's own line is left
  alone.
- Other platforms keep POSIX quoting, and the pin against pi's
  formatResumeCommand compares with the same POSIX quoting.
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Thanks, good catch. Fixed with the approach you suggested, combining both options:

  • On win32 the command is quoted with double quotes, which both cmd.exe and PowerShell honor, e.g. --home "C:\Users\Name With Space\home". Plain paths stay unquoted.
  • When a value cannot be quoted safely for those shells (it contains ", %, !, $, `, or ends in a backslash), no gentle-shell line is printed and only Pi's own line remains.
  • Other platforms keep POSIX quoting, and the pin against Pi's formatResumeCommand is unchanged.

The quoting lives in #1515 (e89096b, with win32 tests that run on every platform); this PR now passes process.platform to it (abe5362). Full suite: 3979 pass, 0 fail.

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… hint

Address the latest CodeRabbit review on Gentleman-Programming#1515/Gentleman-Programming#1516:

- On win32, also refuse & | < > ^ ( ). gentle-shell is installed as a
  .cmd shim, and PowerShell drops the quotes of a space-free argument when
  it calls one, so cmd.exe would read them as operators. For such paths no
  gentle-shell line is printed and pi's own line is left alone.
- Take a color flag and print the label without ANSI styling when stdout
  has no colors (NO_COLOR, FORCE_COLOR=0, dumb terminals), like pi's own
  dimmed label.
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Refs #1503\n\nIntermediate foundation slice for the resume hint chain; launcher wiring remains in #1516.
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#1515 is merged now, thanks.

Could you please update/rebase this branch on top of current main? I checked locally that it merges cleanly and the reduced diff is the launcher wiring slice only, but GitHub still shows the already-merged #1515 files in this PR.

Once the branch is updated, we can review and run CI on the clean #1516 diff.

Wire the resume hint into the launcher (Gentleman-Programming#1503). For interactive
launches it creates a private handoff file and passes its path to pi.
After pi exits it appends, below pi's own "pi --session <id>" hint:

  To resume in gentle-shell: gentle-shell --session <id>

keeping the home selector (--link, --home) and any custom
--session-dir. Pi's line is left untouched.

The line is printed only to a TTY, like pi's hint, and not after the
terminal hung up (SIGHUP). Other forwarded signals do not silence it,
since pi may survive a SIGINT and keep running. The launcher exits
only after the line is flushed, since TTY writes are asynchronous on
Windows; a write error or a failed handoff cleanup never changes pi's
exit code.
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matraket force-pushed the fix/1503-resume-hint-02-launcher branch from 2f1e0ca to 8ee6c6d Compare September 28, 2026 22:44
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Done, thanks! Rebased on current main (5cc591f): the branch is now the single launcher commit (8ee6c6d), with the same patch as before (5 files, +441/−5). pnpm test passes on it (4002 pass, 0 fail). I also updated the stacking note in the description.

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Thanks for taking care of the rebase and the Windows fix! I went through the updated diff and ran the tests locally, all passing. CI is green too, nothing blocking from my side.

Really appreciate you sticking with the back and forth on this one. Good to merge!

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bug(launcher): on exit, gentle-shell suggests pi --session <id>, which cannot find the session

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