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Setup and settle completion syntax is chosen from the server platform and raw SHELL instead of the shell that actually starts. For example, SHELL="/usr/bin/fish --login" starts /usr/bin/fish after command normalization but receives a POSIX completion wrapper. Fish rejects that wrapper, so synchronous thread preparation keeps waiting for its completion marker.

Record the successful shell executable in the terminal session and choose completion syntax and readiness behavior from it, including absolute Windows PowerShell paths. Startup listeners attach before opening so early prompt signals are retained. A shell that exits during startup retains an incomplete completion result instead of becoming a terminal-open error. If only cmd.exe starts, observed scripts close the idle terminal and report an unsupported-shell error before writing a wrapper. The integration preserves main's startup handling from #24775.

This is a focused fix for an obvious existing bug under the small-fix contribution exception. It uses the shared server runner reached by clients, MCP, and scheduled launches.

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• Focused added coverage exercises actual fallback syntax, idle-terminal cleanup, immediate delivery to a PowerShell fallback, and a shell exiting before its executable can be read. Existing tests cover startup waiting, listener cleanup during opening, and busy-terminal protection.
• All 128 focused tests in ProjectSetupScriptRunner.test.ts, terminal/Manager.test.ts, ThreadLaunchService.test.ts, and ThreadSettlementService.test.ts pass.
• All vp run check:changed validation steps pass: format, lint, both knip passes, GraphQL generation, affected-package typechecks, and adjacent tests.
• Native Bash probe on Windows using the generated wrappers:

  Before: setup-ready; AUDIT_DONE:  (begin/end: command not found)
  After:  setup-ready; AUDIT_DONE:0; no stderr
  

  Tests use a fake PTY with the real terminal manager and runner. The Windows native probe checks shell execution separately. A separate Linux service probe reports setup completing with 0 and settle completing with 1 using production node-pty execution after simulating missing-shell rejection at the adapter boundary.
• Real Linux web/PTY verification on exact head 7411af7 confirms the installed-Fish fix with SHELL="/usr/bin/fish --login": main rejects the POSIX wrapper and waits, while the PR completes setup, starts a real Codex turn that reads the setup file, and runs the settle action. The same pass verifies that setup exit 1 blocks provider start, a current-checkout thread skips the worktree action, and continuing a settled thread reopens it. Maria also reports all 128 focused tests and 29 checks passing on that head.
• Earlier Linux verification found a separate preexisting missing-executable issue: node-pty reports the failure asynchronously, bypassing the existing fallback chain. That native spawn behavior remains outside this PR's wrapper-selection scope. Native Windows PowerShell/cmd, macOS, Fish/Zsh fallback, and the early-shell-exit race were not verified by the Linux runtime pass; Electron, mobile, and remote connection modes were also not exercised.

Model and harness: GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused server bug fix that makes setup and settle completion wrappers follow the shell that actually starts after fallback, with explicit cmd.exe handling and targeted regression tests. It does not alter wire schemas, product defaults, deployment behavior, or sensitive packages.

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The terminal manager records and exposes the shell selected for each running session. The setup-script runner uses that shell to select a completion wrapper and reports an unsupported-shell error for cmd. It waits for readiness only for POSIX and fish shells.

Changes: Setup-script shell detection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record and expose the selected shell apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts	Terminal sessions store the selected shell command after spawn. getShell returns it for a running session and fails when the session is not running or has no recorded shell.
Use the selected shell for completion apps/server/src/project/ProjectSetupScriptRunner.ts, apps/server/src/project/ProjectSetupScriptRunner.test.ts, apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.test.ts	The runner queries the opened terminal for its shell before wrapping an observed command. It waits for readiness only for POSIX and fish shells, and returns ProjectSetupScriptUnsupportedShellError for cmd. Tests cover PowerShell completion syntax, fish fallback behavior, shell exits, and the cmd.exe unsupported-shell result.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ProjectSetupScriptRunner
  participant TerminalManager
  participant TerminalProcess
  ProjectSetupScriptRunner->>TerminalManager: Open terminal
  TerminalManager->>TerminalProcess: Spawn selected shell
  ProjectSetupScriptRunner->>TerminalManager: Get shell for session
  TerminalManager-->>ProjectSetupScriptRunner: Return selected shell command
  ProjectSetupScriptRunner->>TerminalProcess: Write shell-specific completion command

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#24423: The issue reports failed completion tracking for Nushell setup scripts. This PR uses the opened terminal's shell to select completion handling, but Nushell remains mapped to POSIX syntax.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24775: Both changes handle shell readiness and startup behavior in ProjectSetupScriptRunner.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25472: Both changes affect setup-script completion wrappers and exit-status reporting.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24428: The Nushell completion syntax added by this PR relates to shell-specific completion selection.

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No merge-blocking issue was established for the shell fallback change.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

updated the original branch at a3dea0163c3b8524cbe70320c10ffa087ffcd91b, preserving @Aforno's commits.

• merged current main (071239804e37) without conflicts, rebasing, or force-pushing.
• kept successful-shell tracking, matching setup/settle wrappers, startup listeners, immediate powershell delivery, and idle cmd cleanup. combined duplicate error handling and kept command construction local, removing 9 lines.
• compared the original diff with the result: all original behavior and regression cases remain; only runner plumbing was simplified.

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• the existing fallback regression fails against current main: a failed fish launch sends a fish wrapper to the fallback shell.
• all 52 runner/terminal tests pass with the fix.
• blacksmith vp run check:changed: format, lint, both knip passes, graphql, affected-package typechecks, and adjacent tests pass.
• real node-pty/bash service probe: setup prints setup-ready and completes with 0; settle prints settle-failed and completes with 1. unavailable shells were rejected at the probe's adapter boundary to exercise the fallback chain; subsequent pty execution used the production adapter.
• both independent whole-diff reviewers found no blockers on this head.

unverified: native windows powershell/cmd, native fish/zsh, and full browser/provider launch flows. no ui components changed; no browser evidence is claimed.

@Aforno, one separate follow-up from the linux probe: node-pty can return a process for a nonexistent executable and later print execvp(3) failed, so that asynchronous failure never enters the manager's existing spawn-error fallback chain. this predates the change and does not block matching completion syntax when fallback actually occurs.

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Verified in a real dev environment

verification found a failure. the missing-fish scenario still fails before the provider starts on linux.

used a disposable linux boat vm, repository Playwright dependencies, and /usr/bin/google-chrome. installed dependencies with vp i in a separate github/main worktree (c677d5fc45) and on the exact pr head initially available (d4c4284de2). ran one background dev server at a time with isolated state, stopping each by its captured process group before starting the next.

created a real git project through the web app, added a synchronous worktree setup action, selected codex gpt-6.1-sol, selected new worktree, and submitted a prompt asking codex to read the setup output and run pwd. no mocks, fixtures, replay provider, or seeded data were used.

setup action:

printf 'setup-ready\n'; printf 'ready\n' > setup-proof.txt

observed through the web client and real pty:

main, SHELL=/missing/fish:
  execvp(3) failed.: No such file or directory
  worktree setup failed; setup exited with no exit code; provider did not start

main, SHELL="/usr/bin/fish --login":
  terminal manager starts /usr/bin/fish
  fish: command substitutions not allowed here
  setup keeps waiting for its completion marker; provider does not start
  cancelled through the app after 24 seconds

pr d4c4284de2, SHELL=/missing/fish:
  execvp(3) failed.: No such file or directory
  worktree setup failed; setup exited with no exit code; provider did not start

main sends a posix wrapper to the normalized fish executable. the pr addresses actual-shell wrapper selection, but linux node-pty accepts the missing executable at spawn and reports its failure asynchronously, bypassing the existing fallback chain. the earlier adapter-intercepted probe does not prove this native path.

inspected both original captures and confirmed both uploaded images load at 1440x1000.

Not verified

• successful codex turns, setup-to-provider handoff, settle, and neighboring shell flows. codex was selected, but the failing setup blocked its turn.
• current head 7411af7f00e9ac39c542d84a2719f5c7926c2979, which arrived during this pass. it adds early-shell-exit handling; its runtime behavior was not exercised. the failure capture above is explicitly from d4c4284de2.
• a local missing-executable preflight fix. strengthened the existing fallback regression and saw it fail through blacksmith before changing production code. the follow-up blacksmith run stalled during source sync, and the restarted app/vm stalled for over ten minutes. server logs recorded repeated event-loop stalls, including 198850 ms. stopped further attempts under the task limit. no fix was committed or pushed; the unverified patch is retained outside the checkout for follow-up. vp run check:changed did not run.
• a usable interaction recording. the restarted app stayed on its loading screen and later became unreachable; no successful recording is claimed.
• inline image rendering in git.cafe. reopening this comment showed external-image links; both uploaded images were inspected directly.
• native windows powershell/cmd, macos, electron shell, ios/android, and remote/relay/tunnel paths were not exercised on this linux vm.

latest github head reports successful or skipped checks, but this pass does not establish that the feature works. all task dev servers are stopped; the task blacksmith worker had already stopped.

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verified the installed-fish wrapper mismatch on exact head 7411af7f00e9ac39c542d84a2719f5c7926c2979. no code changes or pushes were needed.

used a disposable linux vm, repository playwright 1.60.0, /usr/bin/google-chrome, real node-pty, and codex gpt-6.1-sol through the local proxy. installed dependencies with vp i in a separate github/main worktree (f58fad0416) and on the exact pr head. ran one background dev server at a time with isolated empty state and SHELL="/usr/bin/fish --login". no mocks, fixtures, replay provider, or seeded data.

through the web app, added a real git project, configured a synchronous worktree setup action, selected new worktree and codex, and submitted the same prompt on both versions. the action printed setup-ready and wrote ready to setup-proof.txt; the prompt asked codex to run pwd and read that file.

main: fish rejects the posix wrapper: command substitutions not allowed here
      setup waits; Start agent stays pending; cancelled through app after capture
pr:   setup creates setup-proof.txt at 01:38:49.565Z
      real codex run starts at 01:38:50.917Z
      codex executes pwd and cat, returns SHELL_PROOF_OK
      persisted run completes at 01:39:03.778Z
settle: web menu emits thread.settled at 01:42:13.227Z
        settle action rewrites setup-proof.txt at 01:42:15.265Z; contents ready

neighboring checks passed:

• edited the action through the app to printf 'setup-failed\n'; false. a new worktree showed exit 1 and blocked provider start.
• a current-checkout thread skipped that failing worktree action. real codex ran pwd, reported /home/user/shell-proof, and returned CURRENT_CHECKOUT_OK. this turn recovered after two provider retries and finished within a minute.
• continuing a settled thread reopened it and completed another real provider turn.

blacksmith ran the existing runner, terminal manager, thread launch, and thread settlement suites: 4 files, 128 tests passed. the stored pr-head check snapshot reports 29 successful, 0 failing, 0 pending. no source edits required check:changed.

short command transcript. inspected screenshots and recording; uploaded images load at 1440x1000, and the uploaded 17-second video plays, seeks, and reaches its end without a media error.

Not verified

• native windows powershell/cmd handling, macos, electron shell, ios/android, and remote/relay/tunnel connections. this was a linux web-client pass.

• a real missing-executable spawn falling through to another shell, zsh fallback, and the early-shell-exit race. the focused tests cover these branches; this runtime pass proves installed fish normalization and wrapper selection. it does not resolve or re-verify the separate preexisting asynchronous missing-executable fallback issue recorded in the earlier comment.

• native startup prompts and manual project actions were not exercised.

• inline media rendering in git.cafe: reopening the comment showed external-image links rather than inline media. the uploaded images and video were opened and verified directly in chrome.