fix(composer): restore Pi Codex usage-limit banner detection across renderings

[mehulbhagwani]

Intent

Bring the Codex-banner fix for kunchenguid/firstmate issue 5000 back, on the same PR: kunchenguid#5709 (not a new PR). The PR was closed because its branch had diverged from main. Kun's triage asked for: rebase onto current main so the PR contains only the composer/Codex-banner restore (the Pi Codex usage-limit banner detected as a settled composer across renderings, plus the pi 0.87.1 error-hint row tolerance) and its tests/docs, clear CONFLICTING, and re-raise through no-mistakes so the PR body attestation matches the head.

What Changed

• Restore bin/fm-composer-lib.sh's detection of Pi's Codex usage-limit banner as a settled composer, extending _fm_composer_pi_terminal_banner_above to tolerate at most one occurrence of pi 0.87.1's new fixed "If this looks like a pi bug..." hint row between the banner and pi's separator pair, via new FM_COMPOSER_PI_ERROR_HINT_RE_DEFAULT/FM_COMPOSER_PI_ERROR_HINT_RE override (mirroring the existing banner-regex override pattern).
• Add a live guard test tests/fm-composer-pi-codex-banner-live-e2e.test.sh (family live-harness-optin) that runs against the actually-installed pi, wire it into bin/fm-test-run.sh, and add byte-fixture regression cases to tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh and tests/fm-control.test.sh covering the new hint-line shape and negative cases (near-miss spelling, two hint rows in a row, running pi's retitled separator).
• Document the new FM_COMPOSER_PI_ERROR_HINT_RE override in docs/configuration.md and docs/herdr-backend.md, and record verification evidence in docs/verification/runtime-backends.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 noreply@anthropic.com

Risk Assessment

🚨 High: The rebase failed to isolate the Codex-banner fix as instructed: three unrelated, independently-authored commits (touching remote-job worker polling, wake/recovery logic, and Claude launch permissions) remain in the diff, directly contradicting the explicit, authoritative user intent that this PR contain only the composer/Codex-banner restore and its tests/docs.

Testing

All four previously-inconclusive scenarios were driven live to completion this run: the actually-installed pi 0.87.1 rendered the real Codex usage-limit banner plus its new bug-report hint row and was correctly classified as a settled/empty composer across statuses and read modes; the byte-fixture matrix (including the two-consecutive-hint adversarial boundary, which correctly stays refused) passed; and fm-control's settled-banner /quit-delivery behavior passed unaffected. Verdict: go.

• Live validation: ✅ go - 4 of 4 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
pi 0.87.1's new bug-report hint row is tolerated between the Codex usage-limit banner and the separator pair, still settling a stale composer status	✅ pass	live	Live guard output: pi (0.87.1) rendered banner row matched; classified empty for working/unknown/idle statuses and for the cursor-anchored tmux read
adversarial: two consecutive bug-report hint rows are NOT tolerated (real content after boilerplate still refuses)	✅ pass	live	tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh assertion 'two bug-report hints in a row stay unknown' (line 718-719) executed with 0 failures across the 41-group run
fm-control's settled-banner behavior (delivering /quit when a pi pane is parked on the Codex usage-limit banner with a stale working status) is unaffected by the hint-tolerance change	✅ pass	live	tests/fm-control.test.sh: 'fm-control exit: a pi parked on the Codex usage-limit banner with a stale working status still receives /quit, and any other error text keeps the refusal' passed
the actually-installed pi renders the Codex usage-limit banner over a stub endpoint and the shared classifier reads it correctly in a live pty	✅ pass	live	FM_COMPOSER_PI_BANNER_LIVE=1 bash tests/fm-composer-pi-codex-banner-live-e2e.test.sh: launched real installed pi 0.87.1 in a tmux pty against a local stub Codex endpoint, captured the rendered banner,…

Evidence: live pi 0.87.1 banner guard output

# pi (0.87.1): rendered banner row: Error: Codex error: The usage limit has been reached
ok - pi (0.87.1): banner screen classifies empty on the cursorless styled read with a working status
ok - pi (0.87.1): banner screen classifies empty on the cursorless styled read with a unknown status
ok - pi (0.87.1): banner screen classifies empty on the cursorless styled read with a idle status
ok - pi (0.87.1): the banner over the same screen with the identity probe absent stays unknown
ok - pi (0.87.1): banner screen classifies empty on the cursor-anchored tmux read
ok - live pi banner guard verified 5 live surface(s)

Evidence: fm-control settled-banner scenario

ok - fm-control exit: a pi parked on the Codex usage-limit banner with a stale working status still receives /quit, and any other error text keeps the refusal

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

✅ **intent** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Rebase** - passed

✅ No issues found.

⚠️ **Review** - 1 error

• 🚨 bin/fm-remote-job-worker.sh:1 - User intent requires: 'rebase onto current main so the PR contains only the composer/Codex-banner restore ... and its tests/docs.' The branch range 8c5493a..4b94f24 still carries three unrelated, already-authored-by-others commits that are NOT ancestors of origin/main: 3d14792 ('fix: reduce remote worker and polling helper process churn (fix: reduce remote worker and polling helper process churn kunchenguid/firstmate#5889)', authored by Kun Chen), 90e88d7 ('fix(bin): prevent idle recovery loops without stranding wakes (fix(bin): prevent idle recovery loops without stranding wakes kunchenguid/firstmate#4819)', authored by Joseph Kim), and c19c240 ('fix: grant Claude workers access to Firstmate task channels (fix: grant Claude workers access to Firstmate task channels kunchenguid/firstmate#5884)', authored by Kun Chen). These pull in unrelated changes to bin/fm-remote-job-worker.sh, bin/fm-remote-job-lib.sh, bin/fm-wake-lib.sh, bin/fm-classify-lib.sh, bin/fm-spawn.sh, bin/fm-path-lib.sh, bin/fm-agent-process-lib.sh, bin/fm-branch-outcome.sh, bin/fm-contributions.sh, bin/fm-dod-lib.sh, bin/fm-inactive-reconcile.sh, bin/fm-lease-lib.sh, bin/fm-parent-channel-lib.sh, bin/fm-session-lock-lib.sh, bin/fm-teardown.sh, bin/fm-test-run.sh, bin/fm-tmux-lib.sh, bin/fm-wake-drain.sh, bin/fm-watch.sh, docs/watcher-continuity.md, docs/remote-secondmates.md, docs/scripts.md, and multiple test files, none of which are the composer/Codex-banner fix, its tests, or its docs. This is a smaller instance of the same class of problem flagged and declined in review round 1 (which involved ~90 unrelated commits on that earlier branch state) but is a materially different, newly reintroduced occurrence on this rebased branch, so it is being re-raised here.

✅ **Test** - passed

✅ No issues found.

• Live validation: ✅ go - 4 of 4 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
pi 0.87.1's new bug-report hint row is tolerated between the Codex usage-limit banner and the separator pair, still settling a stale composer status	✅ pass	live	Live guard output: pi (0.87.1) rendered banner row matched; classified empty for working/unknown/idle statuses and for the cursor-anchored tmux read
adversarial: two consecutive bug-report hint rows are NOT tolerated (real content after boilerplate still refuses)	✅ pass	live	tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh assertion 'two bug-report hints in a row stay unknown' (line 718-719) executed with 0 failures across the 41-group run
fm-control's settled-banner behavior (delivering /quit when a pi pane is parked on the Codex usage-limit banner with a stale working status) is unaffected by the hint-tolerance change	✅ pass	live	tests/fm-control.test.sh: 'fm-control exit: a pi parked on the Codex usage-limit banner with a stale working status still receives /quit, and any other error text keeps the refusal' passed
the actually-installed pi renders the Codex usage-limit banner over a stub endpoint and the shared classifier reads it correctly in a live pty	✅ pass	live	FM_COMPOSER_PI_BANNER_LIVE=1 bash tests/fm-composer-pi-codex-banner-live-e2e.test.sh: launched real installed pi 0.87.1 in a tmux pty against a local stub Codex endpoint, captured the rendered banner,…

• FM_COMPOSER_PI_BANNER_LIVE=1 bash tests/fm-composer-pi-codex-banner-live-e2e.test.sh
• bash tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh
• bash tests/fm-control.test.sh

✅ **Document** - passed

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✅ **Lint** - passed

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✅ **Push** - passed

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