feat: dual queue — follow-up (Alt+Enter) + steering (Enter/queue mode)

[iRonin]

Two independent message queues for interacting with a running agent:

📬 Follow-up queue (Alt+Enter)

Queue messages to send after the current response completes, without interrupting.

• Alt+Up recalls queued follow-ups back into the input buffer (LIFO)
• Status bar shows 📬 N count

🎯 Steering queue (Enter in queue mode)

Queue mid-run steering messages that are dispatched at the earliest opportunity.

• Steering always takes priority over follow-up
• Follow-up only dispatched when steering queue is empty
• Status bar shows 🎯 N count

Configuration

display:
  busy_input_mode: queue          # Enter queues steering instead of interrupting
  steering_dispatch: one_by_one   # or all_at_once — combine into one turn
  followup_dispatch: one_by_one   # or all_at_once

Queue persistence

Both queues are saved to disk between turns and survive crashes. On resume (hermes -c or /resume), pending items are restored.

[teknium1]

Thanks for the work on busy-input queueing. The submitted head needs substantial reconstruction before its implementation can be evaluated.

Problems

• The PR head conflicts with its stated behavior: cli.py:1480 only recognizes queue and interrupt, while cli.py:7732 keeps Alt+Enter as a multiline-newline binding. The advertised follow-up and steering queues are not present in the inspected head.
• The patch is against an old cli.py snapshot and includes unrelated reversions/removals. Current main already routes busy input at cli.py:13502-13531 and drains interrupted input at cli.py:15295-15302.
• No tests accompany the claimed ordering, cancellation, persistence, or resume guarantees.

Suggested changes

• Rebuild the feature from current main, preserving the existing busy-input and drain paths.
• Add coverage for priority, dispatch modes, cancellation, and resume persistence.
• Clarify whether this is classic-CLI-only or should align with the existing TUI FIFO queue (ui-tui/src/hooks/useQueue.ts:15-41).

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