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Resolves #808.

Problem

When activity hooks are absent or not reporting, OpenRig falls back to pane heuristic activity detection. IDLE_STATUS_BAR_PATTERNS in packages/daemon/src/domain/session-transport.ts only recognized /⏵⏵ accept edits/. Consequently, an idle Claude seat in auto mode (or bypass permissions, plan mode), particularly with vim mode markers (-- INSERT --), was not recognized by the status bar check. This resulted in target_activity_unknown and caused rig compact to fail closed with Refused: activity could not be determined.

Solution

  1. Status Bar Patterns: Added CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER (/(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b)/) to IDLE_STATUS_BAR_PATTERNS.
  2. Mid-Work Precedence: Generalized the check in classifyPaneActivity so that any Claude permission mode bar only signals agent_idle when there is no midWorkEvidence.
  3. Unframed & Framed Claude Composer: Introduced sibling pattern CLAUDE_ANCHORED_MODE_FOOTER (/^(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b|\? for shortcuts$)/) for findClaudeComposer unframed detection and the selectionLines check, keeping the end-of-line $ anchor on the default footer so that suffixed default footers (e.g. ? for shortcuts · 2 shells) below an earlier question continue to read as a selection prompt rather than idle.
  4. Scope Discipline: Kept transcript-store.ts untouched in this PR as requested.

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Added 6 regression test cases in packages/daemon/test/session-transport.test.ts:

  • Idle Claude seat with -- INSERT -- ⏵⏵ auto mode on classified as agent_idle (idle_status_bar).
  • Idle Claude seats in bypass permissions, plan mode, and with -- NORMAL -- vim mode prefixes classified as agent_idle.
  • Typed prompt draft above an auto mode footer classified as attention (prompt_draft), not idle.
  • Active Claude seat in auto mode with live thinking indicator (✻ Thinking… (15s)) classified as agent_active (mid_work_pattern).
  • Unframed idle Claude seat with vim prefix recognized as idle.
  • Earlier selection question above an empty composer with a suffixed shortcut footer (? for shortcuts · 2 shells) correctly preserved as attention (selection_prompt).

Verification

  • npx vitest run packages/daemon/test/session-transport.test.ts passed (107/107 tests).
  • npm run lint passed (exit code 0, 4/4 workspaces typecheck clean).
  • npm run test:repo passed (exit code 0, 288/288 tests passed).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved detection of Claude Code’s idle status across additional permission and planning modes, including when Vim mode indicators are present.
    • Preserved accurate status detection for active work, typed drafts, and prompts awaiting attention.

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Claude mode-footer recognition now covers accept-edits, bypass-permissions, auto, and plan modes, including optional vim-mode prefixes. Idle classification uses the expanded permission-footer pattern. Tests cover idle, prompt-draft, active-work, and selection-prompt cases.

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Claude mode-footer classification

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Footer matching and session classification
packages/daemon/src/domain/session-transport.ts, packages/daemon/test/session-transport.test.ts
Footer patterns now recognize additional modes and optional vim-mode prefixes. Idle classification uses the permission-footer pattern while retaining mid-work evidence. Tests cover idle footers, typed drafts, active-work evidence, and selection prompts.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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A matching status line could make a working Claude pane appear idle and permit compaction. Resolve this conditional risk before merging.

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- Around line 67-70: Anchor the CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER regex at the start
of the line so it only matches permission-mode footer text, not matching text
embedded in a status message.

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- Around line 117-118: Update isStatusOverlayLine to recognize supported Claude
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Comment on lines +67 to +70
const CLAUDE_MODE_FOOTER = /^(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b|\? for shortcuts\b)/;

// Permission mode status footers specifically (excluding shortcuts hint that appears in Codex footers).
const CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER = /(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b)/;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Anchor the Claude permission-footer regex at the line start.

CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER also matches non-footer text such as status: ⏵⏵ auto mode on. Without prompt-draft or mid-work evidence, this can classify a working Claude pane as agent_idle. waitUntilIdle then permits manual compaction to send /compact to that session.

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-const CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER = /(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b)/;
+const CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER = /^(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b)/;
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const CLAUDE_MODE_FOOTER = /^(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b|\? for shortcuts\b)/;
// Permission mode status footers specifically (excluding shortcuts hint that appears in Codex footers).
const CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER = /(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b)/;
const CLAUDE_MODE_FOOTER = /^(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b|\? for shortcuts\b)/;
// Permission mode status footers specifically (excluding shortcuts hint that appears in Codex footers).
const CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER = /^(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:⏵⏵ (?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode) on\b|⏸ plan mode on\b)/;
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Anchor the CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODE_FOOTER regex at the start of the line so it
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if (/^(?:[›⏵⏺❯]+\s*)?(?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode|plan mode) on\b.*\/clear to save\b.*tokens?$/i.test(trimmed)) return true;
if (/^\d+\s+background terminal running\b.*\/ps to view\b.*\/stop to close\b/i.test(trimmed)) return true;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Strip all supported Claude mode footers from rotated transcripts.

isStatusOverlayLine only matches glyph-prefixed footers that include /clear to save ... tokens. It does not match the repository-supported suffix-free forms or footers prefixed with -- INSERT -- or -- NORMAL --. Since transcript rotation stores the captured pane content, these footer lines can remain in readTail output and persist in rotated transcripts.

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--- "a/packages/daemon/src/domain/transcript-store.ts"
+++ "b/packages/daemon/src/domain/transcript-store.ts"
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
   const trimmed = line.trim();
   if (!trimmed) return false;
   if (trimmed === "Checking for updates") return true;
-  if (/^(?:[›⏵⏺❯]+\s*)?(?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode|plan mode) on\b.*\/clear to save\b.*tokens?$/i.test(trimmed)) return true;
+  if (/^(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:[›⏵⏺❯]+\s*)?(?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode|plan mode)(?: on\b.*\/clear to save\b.*tokens?)?$/i.test(trimmed)) return true;
   if (/^\d+\s+background terminal running\b.*\/ps to view\b.*\/stop to close\b/i.test(trimmed)) return true;
   if (/^gpt-[^\n]+ · Context \[[^\]]+\] · .+$/.test(trimmed)) return true;
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if (/^\d+\s+background terminal running\b.*\/ps to view\b.*\/stop to close\b/i.test(trimmed)) return true;
if (/^(?:-- [A-Z]+ -- )?(?:[›⏵⏺❯]+\s*)?(?:accept edits|bypass permissions|auto mode|plan mode)(?: on\b.*\/clear to save\b.*tokens?)?$/i.test(trimmed)) return true;
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Update isStatusOverlayLine to recognize supported Claude mode footers both with
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Thanks, @shravansumanthanan. As you describe it, an idle Claude seat in auto, bypass or plan mode, including with vim's -- INSERT -- marker, wasn't recognised by the footer check, so rig compact refused it with "activity could not be determined" (#808). This adds those footers. We'll review it and follow up here.

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Thanks, @shravansumanthanan, for a clear fix for #808. We've reviewed it and measured it against main on a test build: an idle Claude seat in auto mode, bypass permissions or plan mode, with or without vim's -- INSERT -- marker, now reads idle instead of unknown; evidence of work in progress still wins; Codex panes are unchanged; and across 20 recorded real Claude and Codex screens, nothing that was working read as idle. Your tests fail on main and pass at this head. There are two small changes we need before we can take it, both so that main's behaviour stays the same for footers outside #808:

  1. Keep the end-of-line anchor on the default footer in two places. findClaudeComposer's unframed-composer check and the selectionLines check (whether an earlier question is now history) used \? for shortcuts$ on main. This PR switches both to the shared CLAUDE_MODE_FOOTER, which ends in \? for shortcuts\b, so a default-mode footer followed by more text, such as ? for shortcuts · 2 shells, now counts there too. In our measurement, with an earlier selection question above a complete empty composer, those longer footers change the reading from a selection prompt to idle, where main keeps the selection prompt. A sibling pattern identical to CLAUDE_MODE_FOOTER except that it ends in \? for shortcuts$, used in those two checks, keeps everything Claude seats in auto mode read as activity unknown when idle, so rig compact refuses them #808 needs. Please add one test showing that a longer footer such as ? for shortcuts · 2 shells, below an earlier selection question, still reads as a selection prompt.
  2. Leave transcript-store.ts out of this PR, or make the filter keep lines that quote a footer. The broader isStatusOverlayLine filter also removes real lines that quote these footers. In six test examples that quote a footer inside a fenced code block, main keeps the line and this PR drops it from the cleaned transcript (measured through TranscriptStore.readTail on stored text). The activity fix doesn't need this change, so the simplest route is to drop it. If you'd rather keep it, the filter needs to tell a live status overlay apart from a quoted footer.

The rest of the PR is good as it is. After your push, we'll review the change, and then there's a final maintainer check before merge.

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Thanks @mvschwarz for the detailed review and test measurements!

I've pushed an update addressing both points:

  1. End-of-line anchor on default footer: Introduced CLAUDE_ANCHORED_MODE_FOOTER ending with \? for shortcuts$ and used it in both findClaudeComposer's unframed-composer check and the selectionLines check, preserving main's behaviour for suffixed default footers.
  2. Regression test: Added a test verifying that an earlier selection question above an empty composer with a suffixed shortcut footer (? for shortcuts · 2 shells) still reads as attention / selection_prompt.
  3. Dropped transcript-store.ts: Reverted packages/daemon/src/domain/transcript-store.ts and test/transcript-store.test.ts so they remain completely untouched relative to main.

All 107 session-transport.test.ts tests and the full npm run test:repo suite (288 tests) pass clean. Ready for review!

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Approved at 1a15d62. An idle Claude seat in auto mode, bypass permissions or plan mode, with or without the vim INSERT marker, now reads idle instead of unknown. Mid-work evidence still wins, Codex panes are unchanged, and the default-mode footer keeps its end-of-line anchor in the composer and selection checks, so those keep main's results. Required CI passed at this head, and a combined run with current main passed the daemon suite.

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Merged to main, thanks @shravansumanthanan. It will ship in the next release. Thanks too for taking both narrowings exactly as asked.

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