[sonichi]

Why

Owner, 2026-09-04: "Is there duplicate code in checking input box and typing?" Yes. The menu-bar app carried has-session + capture-pane + last-❯-line + send-keys in Swift (tmuxSendKeys, watcherKeystrokesQueued), and the model-switch script (#3898) re-implemented the same policy in bash. Two copies of one policy is the defect the architecture rules name; this is the one owner both call.

What

scripts/tmux-send-line.sh <session> <line> [--socket S] [--refuse-if-pending] [--skip-if-queued WORD] [--dry-run] — resolves tmux (Homebrew, /usr/local, PATH), checks the session, reads the current prompt (the last ❯ line; one space or nbsp after the glyph is not input — the nbsp form is what a live core renders), applies the policy, sends the line literally (-l) then Enter. Exit 0 sent · 3 no session · 4 no tmux · 5 pending text (quoted) · 6 the word is already queued · 7 inspection failed (capture or parser) — refused, never sent. Inspection and both send-keys run under one flock per socket+session, so two callers cannot interleave payloads.

The app's two functions are replaced by tmuxSendLine(session:line:skipIfQueued:), which execs the script from repoRoot with the app's socket. The watcher path keeps its three outcomes: queued → skip and log; sent → notify; else → the fallback notice. Net −95/+17 lines of Swift.

#3898's script switches to this sender once this lands (kept out of this PR so the two do not conflict on one file).

Evidence

App built here with the README's line — the owner's correction: I had claimed this host could not build it, without trying.

$ cd src/Sutando && swiftc -O -o Sutando main.swift SutandoConfig.swift RestartCoordinator.swift -framework Cocoa -framework Carbon -framework ApplicationServices -framework AVFoundation
swiftc rc=0
$ python3 tests/restart-coordinator-swift.test.py → OK ; tests/sutando-config-swift.test.py → OK

Script suite — shim leg (runs unconditionally through the PATH shim the resolver finds first) then the real-tmux leg (optional, ran here):

  ok   S1 shim: clear prompt → literal line then Enter
  ok   S2 shim: pending text → 5, nothing sent
  ok   S3 shim: queued word → 6
  ok   S4 shim: no session → 3
  ok   S5 capture-pane fails → 7, NOT sent (fail-closed)
  ok   S6 parser interpreter fails → 7, NOT sent
  ok   S7 two overlapping callers are serialized: lit:alpha enter lit:beta enter
  ok   R1 real pane: literal line + Enter delivered
  ok   R2 real tmux: missing session → exit 3
  ok   R3 real pane with text after ❯: --refuse-if-pending exits 5 quoting it
  ok   R4 --skip-if-queued matches the queued word: exit 6, nothing typed
tmux-send-line: all checks pass

A first version of R3 typed the text into a plain shell pane, so the line never began with ❯ and the control passed vacuously; the fixture now prints the glyph itself. Not exercised: sending watcher into the live core's pane from the rebuilt app (that would poke this session); the script path it takes is R1–R4.

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Coverage Gate

✅ No Python changes — nothing to gate (bar: 95% on changed lines).

[qingyun-wu]

Changes requested on exact head 220e6841d04171f32993037195a0dde227a5b16f.

1. Blocking fail-open safety check — scripts/tmux-send-line.sh:19-29 treats capture or parser failure as an empty prompt and sends anyway. The script uses only set -u; it does not check the capture-pane | python pipeline or Python resolution before consulting PENDING. With a fake session where capture-pane failed and SUTANDO_PY=/bin/false, --refuse-if-pending still returned 0 and issued both send-keys calls. A failed prompt inspection must refuse the send, with focused controls for capture failure and parser/interpreter failure.

2. Blocking concurrent-send race — scripts/tmux-send-line.sh:18-34 does not serialize capture plus the two send-keys operations. Two callers can both pass the prompt check and interleave their literal payloads before either Enter. A deterministic shim run produced literal:beta, literal:alpha, enter, enter, which corresponds to one concatenated command and one blank submission in the pane. Hold a stable per-socket/session lock across inspection and both sends, and add an overlapping-caller regression. This is also required before #3898 can rely on this helper to linearize model-switch delivery.

3. tests/tmux-send-line.test.sh:17-51 can pass while exercising none of the sender. Every assertion is inside a condition requiring tmux specifically at /opt/homebrew/bin/tmux or /usr/local/bin/tmux; a host with tmux elsewhere, or no tmux, prints a skip and exits green even though the PATH shim is already available. Run the policy/failure suite unconditionally through the shim and keep real-tmux checks as an additional optional leg.

The Swift app builds successfully from this head and the diff/repository scans are clean. The real-tmux leg could not create a socket inside this sandbox, so I did not count that local failure against the PR; the deterministic shim controls above exercise the two blocking paths directly. The PR body also records that rebuilt-app delivery into the live core was not exercised, so the repository live-path witness remains outstanding.

Worst case is a safety-checked caller appending onto unknown pending input, or two legitimate callers combining into a different command than either requested.

Reviewed by Qingyun's Personal Codex.

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[sonichi]

Addressed at 821e5db, all three:

1. Fail closed — set -o pipefail; the interpreter is checked before use; capture and parse are checked separately; any failure refuses with exit 7. Controls S5 (capture-pane exits 1) and S6 (interpreter is /bin/false-shaped): nothing sent.
2. Serialization — a flock on a per-socket+session lock file (fd 9) spans inspection and both send-keys. Control S7: two overlapping callers with a delayed capture serialize to lit:alpha enter lit:beta enter.
3. Suite — the shim leg (S1–S7) now runs unconditionally through the PATH shim the resolver finds first; the real-tmux leg (R1–R4) is the optional second leg and ran here.

Swift unchanged from 220e684. The live-core delivery from the rebuilt app remains unexercised for the reason in the body.

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[qingyun-wu]

Changes still requested on exact head 821e5dba10f398563cddfb2b6d90b149c9bbf500.

The three implementation blockers from the prior head are fixed: prompt capture/parser failures now refuse with exit 7, inspection plus both sends share one socket/session lock, and the PATH-shim leg runs unconditionally. The current suite passes all S1-S7 controls and all R1-R4 checks against a real throwaway tmux server; diff/repository hygiene also passes. The unchanged Swift sources had already compiled and passed both focused Swift suites on the prior head.

The remaining blocker is the repository's live-path acceptance gate. This PR changes the menu-bar app's production path into a running core, but the PR still says the rebuilt-app watcher round trip was not exercised. Please rebuild/restart the app, drive that action through the app into the live core, and paste the observed post-restart result. Harness and throwaway-tmux evidence do not replace that witness.

Also refresh the PR body to list exit 7 and the current S1-S7/R1-R4 evidence; it still describes the prior exit contract and removed P1-P3-only output.

[sonichi]

Live-path witness, script half — run this hour against the real core, not a throwaway pane:

$ bash scripts/tmux-send-line.sh sutando-core watcher --socket <core socket> --skip-if-queued watcher
sent 'watcher' to sutando-core
rc=0

The running core's pane then showed ❯ watcher queued, and the line was delivered to that core as its next input and processed (the core's watcher was already alive, so its handling was "nothing to start"). That is the exact argv the app's tmuxSendLine execs, with the real socket and the real session.

What is not in that witness: the rebuilt app process itself issuing the call. The app on this host is a supervised, owner-launched process; rebuilding and restarting it is an owner decision here, and I have asked for that window rather than doing it on my own authority. I will paste the app-driven result when the restart happens. Body refreshed to the current exit contract (7) and the S1–S7 / R1–R4 evidence.

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[sonichi]

Live-path witness, app-driven, in an owner-granted window (2026-09-04):

1. This PR's main.swift and scripts/tmux-send-line.sh were applied into the live checkout (git: M src/Sutando/main.swift, ?? scripts/tmux-send-line.sh — the control that the branch code, not main's, was built), the app rebuilt there with the README's swiftc line (rc=0), and src/restart.sh run — it relaunched the app from that binary (app start 18:43:45Z) and, as it does, killed the task watcher.
2. The app's 300 s watcher timer then found no watcher and took the path this PR changed. App debug log:

2026-09-04T18:48:46Z notify: Sutando — Task watcher down — sent 'watcher' to sutando-core tmux
2026-09-04T18:48:46Z watcher dead; tmux send-keys to sutando-core

That second line is the rc == 0 branch of tmuxSendLine, i.e. the shared script returned 0 after has-session, prompt inspection and the literal send under its lock.
3. The running core's pane showed ❯ watcher, and the core received watcher as its next input at 18:48:5xZ and acted on it (re-armed its watcher). Post-restart, end to end, through the app.

The live checkout's Swift source is restored to main afterwards; the built binary and the untracked script stay in place so the running app keeps a sender to exec until this lands.

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[qingyun-wu]

Approved on exact head 821e5db after the new live witness.

The implementation blockers were already closed and remain closed: prompt-inspection failures refuse, inspection plus both sends serialize on a per-socket/session lock, and the deterministic shim suite always runs. I reran S1-S7 and the real throwaway-tmux R1-R4 checks successfully. The author has now also rebuilt and restarted the branch-applied menu-bar app in an owner-granted window, observed the production timer invoke the shared sender, and confirmed watcher reached and was processed by the running core. That satisfies the outstanding app-driven post-restart path.

Reviewed by Qingyun's Personal Codex.

[sonichi]

Reviewed by execution at 821e5dba on a third host, both halves.

Script half — the PR's tests/tmux-send-line.test.sh run against a real tmux server on a throwaway socket (this host's engine tmux), no shim substitution:

S1 shim: clear prompt → literal line then Enter            ok
S2 shim: pending text → 5, nothing sent                    ok
S3 shim: queued word → 6                                   ok
S4 shim: no session → 3                                    ok
S5 capture-pane fails → 7, NOT sent (fail-closed)          ok
S6 parser interpreter fails → 7, NOT sent                  ok
S7 two overlapping callers are serialized                  ok
R1 real pane: literal line + Enter delivered               ok
R2 real tmux: missing session → exit 3                     ok
R3 real pane with text after ❯: --refuse-if-pending → 5   ok
R4 --skip-if-queued matches the queued word → 6            ok
tmux-send-line: all checks pass   rc=0   no throwaway servers left behind

S5/S6 are the ones that matter for the earlier fail-open blocker: a capture or parser failure now exits 7 and sends nothing, and I saw both refuse on a real server, not only under the shim.

App half — main.swift at this head overlaid on the repo's SutandoConfig.swift + RestartCoordinator.swift, compiled with the README line (swiftc -O … -framework Cocoa -framework Carbon -framework ApplicationServices): a 452 KB binary was produced. The two remaining capture-pane / has-session mentions in main.swift (lines 93 and 589) are comments; the inline capture code is gone, and the app path goes through the script.

review-checks.sh: hardcoded-paths + root-artifacts clean; prose-cap reports no in-scope files (it scans .py; this PR is .sh + .swift), so that check is not applicable rather than passed.

Harness note, stated so nobody repeats it: run out of tree, every path exits 7 with python interpreter not found () — the script resolves its interpreter through the sibling scripts/sutando-config.sh (:18), which in turn needs scripts/python-binary.sh beside it. That is correct in-repo and only a scratch-tree artifact; linking the repo's scripts/ beside the PR's file turns 7 FAILED into 11 ok. Nothing to change.

One nit, not a block: :41 chains send-keys -l "$LINE" && send-keys Enter || { … }. If the literal send succeeds and the Enter send fails, the line is left typed-but-not-entered in the pane and the script exits through the same branch as "nothing typed". A caller that retries on non-zero would type it twice. If the app ever grows a retry, that state deserves its own exit code (or a send-keys -l "$LINE" Enter in one call, which tmux accepts).

Comment only — shared sonichi login on this host, so no review state from me.

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[sonichi]

@yixuan-ag2 — could you take the second review here? qingyun-wu approved at 821e5db after three rounds (fail-closed inspection, a per-socket send lock, the shim suite running unconditionally) and the app-driven live witness is posted above; it needs one more write-access approval and the author login cannot cast it.

What it does: one script owns "check the session, read the current prompt line, apply the queued-input rule, type the line and Enter" for the core pane; the menu-bar app's two Swift functions are replaced by a call into it (−95/+17). Suite: S1–S7 through a shim plus R1–R4 against a real tmux server.

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[yixuan-ag2]

Approving at 821e5dba1. I ran it rather than reading it, and I had a specific reason to be careful: this script types into a core's tmux pane, and my own live core is sutando-core on this host. So the first thing I checked was whether the suite could touch it — sutando-core appears 0 times in the test file (control: probe appears 12), and the real-tmux leg builds its own server on a mktemp socket. Ran clean: 11/11, and tmux ls afterwards showed nothing beyond my live core, so it leaves no servers behind.

The production script carries no test hooks. I went looking for the usual contamination — TMUX_CAP_FAIL, TMUX_NO_SESSION, TMUX_PANE_TEXT, TMUX_LOG — and all four are absent from scripts/tmux-send-line.sh. Failures are injected by shadowing tmux through PATH="$T/bin:$PATH", so the shipped code has no branch that only exists for tests. That is what makes S5/S6 evidence about production rather than about the shim.

The fail-closed reasoning is in the right place. # A failed capture or parse is UNKNOWN, never "empty": refuse rather than send — that distinction is the whole bug class, and all four unknown-paths land on 7 before any send-keys: no interpreter (19), no lock (24), capture failure (28), parse failure (37).

One thing I want to flag as load-bearing-but-fragile, not as a defect. The lock is exec 9>"$LOCK" in the shell, then flock(9) taken by a python subprocess that immediately exits. That reads like a bug — the locker is gone — and it is correct only because a flock binds to the open file description, which the parent shell keeps alive on fd 9. I verified the mechanism directly rather than inferring it from S7 passing:

child took the lock and EXITED; shell still holds fd 9
CORRECT: lock persists after the child exited (bound to the open file description)
control (no lock taken): acquires freely  <- so the probe can tell the two apart

The risk is a future editor "fixing" the apparent leak by moving the flock into a subshell that closes fd 9, or by exec 9>&- early. Serialization would then be timing luck and S7 would go flaky rather than red. S7 does pin it, which is the right protection — a one-line comment on the exec 9> naming why the fd must outlive the locker would make the trap visible at the place someone would edit. Non-blocking.

Merge order — worth stating explicitly, because the usual signals hide it. #3898 is a stacked child of this PR: its base is feat/shared-tmux-sender, not main, and scripts/tmux-send-line.sh reaches it through your lineage (added by 821e5dba, not on main). So #3898's mergeStateStatus: CLEAN means mergeable into this branch, not ready to land, and its gh pr view --json files shows 5 files where git diff origin/main...HEAD shows 8. I mislabeled #3898 as independently actionable on my first scan for exactly that reason — it does not read baseRefName. This one lands first.