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A local shell that echoes slower than the threshold would draw predicted glyphs, and every registered surface's output is copied and scanned while the setting is on. Both tests fail on main. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every terminal registered with the prediction center, and a local shell was kept out only by its measured echo latency. A shell on a loaded Mac can echo slower than the 25 ms threshold, and while the setting was on every terminal's PTY output was copied and scanned on the main actor. Each surface is now classified at its first keystroke after prediction starts for it: only a terminal whose shell runs on another machine (an SSH or Cloud machine, a remote tmux pane, another signed-in Mac) gets an active engine, and the output inbox accepts only those surfaces, so a local terminal's reads are dropped before any copy. Input that bypassed the keystroke path (a paste completing, text and keys sent over the socket, the TextBox, a paired phone) left an armed echo run in place. A key typed right after a paste was drawn where the pasted text was about to land. That input now withdraws the prediction, like an editing key does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughTerminal prediction now runs only on surfaces classified as remote. The engine tracks erased cells and untracked input while remote echoes are pending. Input and output paths forward classification and prediction events. New tests exercise deletion, surface gating, output buffering, and remote ownership. ChangesRemote terminal prediction
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GhosttyNSView->>TerminalPredictionCenter: Check per-surface prediction eligibility
GhosttyNSView->>TerminalPredictionCenter: Forward typed input
TerminalPredictionCenter->>TerminalPredictionEngine: Apply input to remote engine
TerminalPredictionCenter->>PredictionOutputInbox: Accept remote surface and deposit output
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Remote-terminal predictions can briefly hide text retained after Ctrl-W or appear at the wrong position after a paste-first input. These bounded visual defects warrant fixes or explicit acceptance before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The remote-only gate reduces exposure for local terminals, but an initial paste or other sent input can be missed before the first keystroke classifies a remote terminal. Depending on output timing, the display can then associate that input’s echo with a later key. No command execution or security-boundary bypass was established. Retained concerns
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… named keys The center read its setting with UserDefaults.bool(forKey:), which reads an unset key as off, so a catalog default of on would never reach it. It now takes the default from the catalog. A transport-named key in a remote tmux pane skipped the prediction path and left drawn glyphs in place. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…session starts or ends A remote terminal moved into a Dock was classified local because only the workspace split tree was consulted, so it never predicted. Classification now resolves the hosting Dock first, as terminal link opening does. Classification was fixed at a surface's first keystroke, so a terminal typed into before its remote session registered (a reconnect that keeps the surface) never predicted in that runtime. A change to a workspace's remote terminal set now withdraws and classifies the surface again at its next keystroke. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…flight predictions A frame-composing harness (grid plus overlay every 16.7 ms) flags any column the user deleted and saw blank that later shows text again. 6 of 8 fail. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Backspace over a glyph still in flight no longer lets its echo paint the character back: the cell is drawn blank until the erase lands. Ctrl-U, Ctrl-W and Option-Backspace mask in-flight glyphs the same way, and keys whose effect is unknown (Return, arrows, pastes) raise a barrier behind the glyphs already sent instead of dropping them, so nothing vanishes and reappears. A glyph retyped onto a blank cell replaces the blank. The simulation now checks blanks at the end of the run: a blank over text already where it belongs fails only if the remote never rewrites that cell. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 259-282: Update sentUntrackedInput to validate that the surface
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- Around line 414-452: Update typedLineErase to receive whether the erase is
Ctrl-U or Ctrl-W and mask only the glyphs that readline deletes. For Ctrl-W,
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| /// its erase lands instead of flashing back as their echoes arrive. | ||
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| /// stay undrawn until a fresh echo re-arms the run. Returns whether the | ||
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Scope Ctrl-W masking to readline’s deleted word.
RigLineEditor.killWord removes all trailing spaces, then the preceding non-space run. A reverse scan that marks any crossed glyph can fail for word␠␠: it treats the second trailing space as the separator and leaves word unmasked. Track whether a non-space glyph was crossed instead. Consume all trailing spaces, mask the word, and stop only at the next separator. Also pass the Ctrl-U versus Ctrl-W scope into this boundary, because the current loop masks every speculative glyph and can blank prefix text retained by the remote.
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Update typedLineErase to receive whether the erase is Ctrl-U or Ctrl-W and mask
only the glyphs that readline deletes. For Ctrl-W, scan backward through all
trailing spaces, then mask the preceding non-space word, stopping at the next
separator; track whether a non-space glyph was crossed so repeated trailing
spaces do not end the scan early. Preserve Ctrl-U’s whole-line erase behavior
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…by character Output answering Return, an arrow or a paste (CR LF, a redraw) resolved the barrier only when printable; a newline counted as a misprediction, so fast typing followed by Return could suspend prediction. A barrier that expires unanswered guessed nothing and no longer counts either. Ctrl-U behind a barrier acts on the new line and leaves the submitted glyphs drawn. Ctrl-U and Ctrl-W are recognized by the layout's character rather than the physical key. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…and stalls
Found while dogfooding over a slow link and by adversarial tests:
- zsh answers the second key of a line with BS and a rewrite of the first
("\bec"), which withdrew everything as a misprediction and left prediction
dark for the rest of the line. The engine now remembers what it saw echoed
on the row and accepts a move back over it followed by the same text; CSI n D
reports its count for this. zsh-syntax-highlighting recolouring is the same.
- A key typed ahead of a password prompt got its cooked-mode echo and armed
the run, so the rest of the password was drawn. Drawing now needs two
echoes in a row since the run last ended, and a `*` never counts.
- An overdue echo or unmodelled cursor motion now hides what is drawn but
keeps matching the keystrokes in flight, so one stall no longer leaves the
line untracked while the user keeps typing. The lifetime scales to three
round trips on links slower than 500 ms.
- A cursor save and restore (a status line or clock repaint) is ignorable;
kitty graphics and sixel images are disruptive.
- Output with nothing in flight is skimmed instead of classified byte by
byte, and the inbox keeps at most 1 MiB per surface, reporting a drop.
- Backspace over an echo not yet painted blanks it until the erase. Blanks
that output removes stay until the next presented frame, and the host
drains a surface's pending output before retiring at a frame.
The breaker tests that armed on one echo now arm on two. The two render
race tests are disabled until ghostty tees after the parse.
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The determinism guard reads a duration literal inside an assertion as a wall-clock check. This one is the engine's simulated clock. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ghostty makes the terminal view layer-hosting. The overlay drew in draw(_:), which AppKit called with the host's whole bounds as the dirty rect, and the run never reached the screen: on a dev build with a 1.8 s link, ten predicted glyphs sat drawn, unhidden and on top for over a second with nothing visible. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The terminal view is layer-hosting (ghostty's IOSurface layer is its layer), and AppKit's draw pass for a subview of it never put the run on screen. Render the run into a bitmap of the overlay's own size and set it as the layer's contents from updateLayer, which does not depend on that pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a dev build the rendered-frame callback never fired: it is counted in the Metal layer's nextDrawable, and ghostty presents through its own IOSurface layer. The hold set when an erase removed blanks was never released, so the overlay kept a blank over a cell the grid had already redrawn, and hid every later prediction on that surface. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hold waits for a presented frame, and the host may never report one. Release it after confirmationHold, the same bound a held confirmation has, and include that deadline in nextExpiry so the host's timer re-anchors the overlay. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes found while assessing predictive local echo (Beta Features) for default-on in #15217. The largest: in most of my dogfood runs the overlay never reached the screen. Ghostty makes the terminal view layer-hosting, and AppKit does not reliably show a subview's
draw(_:)output under a layer-hosting view. An earlier recording of a sibling build did show predictions, so it is not every run; what decides it is not pinned down. The fix sets the layer's contents directly, which does not depend on it.Drawing
updateLayer. Before this, a dev build with a 1.8 s link had ten glyphs predicted, placed, unhidden and on top for over a second with nothing on screen. Main draws through the samedraw(_:)path.nextDrawable, but ghostty presents through its own IOSurface layer, sopresentedFramenever runs on current builds. Held confirmations already fell back toconfirmationHold(120 ms). The layout hold added in this PR had no fallback and froze the overlay on a stale blank; it now releases afterconfirmationHoldtoo. The frame hook itself is not rewired here. The keyboard copy-mode cursor and rendered-frame notifications use the same hook.Remote terminals only (unchanged from the first revision)
ssh hosttyped into a local terminal is classified local.Findings from the adversarial pass (its tests are cherry-picked here from
break/predictive-echo-findings)*never counts toward arming.PredictionBreakRenderRaceTestsstay disabled until the submodule picks it up.ESC _ G) and sixel DCS (ESC P ... q) are disruptive and withdraw the run.memchrinstead of classifying it byte by byte. The per-surface inbox is bounded at 1 MiB (overflow withdraws and resyncs), and the scan reads the buffer without per-byte arrays. In a debug build, idle output costs 16 to 65 ms per MiB, against 830 ms for a loop that only touches every byte.max(1.5 s, 3 × RTT), so links over 1.5 s now arm and keep their glyphs.BSand a rewrite of the word. The engine now remembers what the line echoed, treats a cursor-left over it as a rewind and accepts the rewrite. Before, this withdrew on every word; it was also the app-side "first echo withdraws" finding.Also seen and left alone: a fresh
cmux sshworkspace can show its first prompt blank until the shell redraws it. It happens with prediction off too.Dogfood
Tagged dev builds on a separate Mac,
cmux sshto a local sshd behind a delay proxy, 75 ms each way unless noted. "Main" is main at b76db12 with only the drawing fix cherry-picked, since unmodified main draws nothing. Recorded withscripts/dogfood/predictive-echo/record.py.Underlined, then confirmed:
Burst, held Backspace, paste mid-burst, Ctrl-U and Ctrl-W, with 25 ms jitter. Main draws glyphs cells away from the cursor. This branch keeps them in place and keeps deleted text blank:
sudo: nothing typed at
Password:is drawn:vim and less are not predicted:
Paste, then typing right after it. Neither draws the keys typed after the paste:
A local tab never predicts:
40 ms jitter, 15% of writes stalled 250 ms. Main stays dark after zsh rewrites the first word; this branch predicts through it:
Testing
swift testinPackages/Shared/CmuxTerminalPrediction: 126 tests pass, including the randomized line-editor simulation and the adversarial suites. The two render-race tests are disabled until the ghostty bump.TerminalPredictionOverlayViewTests(CmuxTerminal) ran on another Mac: it fails at c885f66 (the layer has no contents) and passes at cc139e7. The layout-hold test fails at 811ff09 and passes at e32fc06.scripts/verify-local.py --affected upstream/main: 14 of 14 checks pass.Remaining risk
*rule narrow this but do not close it.Changelog
Fixed: Predictive local echo now draws its predictions reliably, predicts only in remote terminals, keeps deleted text blank until the remote erases it, and never draws keys typed into a password prompt
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