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fix(server): a decoded U+009C no longer ends an OSC string in terminal history - #36022
The review item was right: the previous head stopped U+009C from ending DCS, PM and APC strings as well as OSC. A filtered DCS query such as ESC P $qm U+009C HIDDEN ESC \ then swallowed the visible text after it on replay. The termination change now applies only to OSC. findStringTerminatorIndex takes isOsc (main's belTerminates, renamed): OSC ends at BEL and keeps a decoded U+009C as payload, which is how libghostty treats UTF-8 c2 9c. DCS, PM and APC ignore BEL and end at U+009C, as on main. stripStringTerminator is back to main's version; an OSC string can no longer end at U+009C, so its trailing-U+009C strip only affects the other strings. Against main, the diff is now just that terminator condition plus the test. The existing U+009C test also emits C ESC P $qm U+009C SHOWN ESC \ D and asserts history AB\nCSHOWN ESC \ D\n, so the text after a filtered DCS query survives reopening (the reviewer's example used HIDDEN for that text). This assertion fails on the previous head (history was CD) and passes now.
On origin/main d06ba27 (Node 26.13.1, bundled libghostty-vt 9f62873bf195): (1) Ran the reporter's repro-osc-c1.mjs against a fresh worktree. It runs the unchanged production scanner plus the checked-in Ghostty WASM. All controls passed. Input 'A ESC]11;? U+009C HIDDEN ESC\ B' (UTF-8 bytes ...3b3fc29c4849...) rendered live as 'AB'; the scanner kept 'AHIDDEN ESC\ B', which replayed as 'AHIDDENB'. Script exited 1 (defect reproduced). (2) Added a TerminalManager test (fake PTY, close and reopen) that emits 'A\u001b]11;?\u009cHIDDEN\u001b\B\n'. It fails on main: the reopened history starts with 'AHIDDEN\u001b\B\n' instead of 'AB\n'. Committed as e914e76 on factory/repro-36012.
Evidence
Emit A ESC]11;? U+009C HIDDEN ESC\ B in the real terminal, capture live output, then reload the app to replay saved history. Both commits render live AB; base replays AHIDDENB, while head replays AB. All four captures have clean $ prompts, without 9;6u.
Environment on both sides: Chromium 156.0.8078.4, 1280×800, light theme, isolated fresh database, identical synthetic project and Replay provider thread.
Scenario source. Recordings are trimmed to the reload interaction to exclude the initial shell path.
Tests
vp test run apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.test.ts: 94 passed. The same test with the previous head's Manager.ts: the DCS assertion failed (history was 'AB\nCD\n'). vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (2 files) all passed.
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stripStringTerminator leaves a trailing CAN/SUB cancel character in the content passed to shouldStrip*. This behaviour predates the fix and is unchanged.
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Written by Claude Opus 5.5, in Claude Code
Reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol, in Codex, and by Claude Opus 5.5, each on its own
Proof captured by GPT-6.1 Sol and checked by Claude Opus 5.5
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This aligns OSC history parsing with terminal rendering so decoded U+009C no longer exposes query payload during replay. An unresolved review concern about uncapped pending OSC data and server-memory exhaustion needs resolution.
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The terminal-history scanner now treats BEL as an OSC terminator and decoded U+009C as a terminator for non-OSC strings. A regression test checks how OSC and DCS content appears in reopened history.
Changes: Terminal history string termination
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String termination rules and regression coverage apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts, apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.test.ts
The scanner uses BEL to terminate OSC strings and decoded U+009C to terminate DCS, PM, and APC strings. The test checks that OSC content is filtered through ESC \ and that text following U+009C in a DCS remains visible in reopened history.
Terminal history now keeps U+009C inside OSC strings, so replay matches live output. A terminal stream that opens such a string and never closes it can grow the server's pending buffer without limit. This is a narrow edge case, but a cap on the pending buffer would be a worthwhile follow-up.
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The whole-PR diff for apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts changes the DCS, PM, and APC rule. The new code returns on decoded U+009C for those strings (isOsc false). The previous head removed U+009C as…
Provide evidence that the bundled libghostty ends DCS, PM, and APC strings at decoded U+009C, for example a fixture or test output. Alternatively, restore the previous rule for those strings, or update the PR description to state the DCS, P…
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The title names the fix and its scope: a decoded U+009C no longer ends an OSC string in terminal history. The raw summary says the change is to findStringTerminatorIndex and that U+009C still ends DCS…
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[#36012] The whole-PR diff from merge base 0af8be3 to head 968116b changes one helper in apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts, findStringTerminatorIndex. For OSC (isOsc true), the loop returns only on …
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The description follows the repository template closely. It has a clear Problem statement tied to issue #36012 with a reproduction on main. The Change section explains the isOsc terminator split and w…
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The title names the fix and its scope: a decoded U+009C no longer ends an OSC string in terminal history. The raw summary says the change is to findStringTerminatorIndex and that U+009C still ends DCS, PM, and APC strings, so the title is accurate but omits that scope. The title is a conventional commit title, 78 characters, and specific enough for a reviewer scanning history.
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[#36012] The whole-PR diff from merge base 0af8be3 to head 968116b changes one helper in apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts, findStringTerminatorIndex. For OSC (isOsc true), the loop returns only on BEL or CAN/SUB, and on the existing ESC branch. Decoded U+009C is no longer a terminator for OSC, so a UTF-8 U+009C inside an ESC-started OSC stays payload until the real ESC . This meets the first and second requirements: filtered history keeps AB and does not expose HIDDEN. Ground-state U+009C text is outside these helpers and is not changed in the diff, which meets the third requirement. The regression test result (base fails, head passes with 'AB\n') is author-reported. The Manager.test.ts blob was not readable in this review, so the test was not verified directly. The whole-PR diff shows no change to stripStringTerminator, which the PR description says was changed. This does not affect the OSC requirement, because the ESC \ terminator is still stripped as before.
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The description follows the repository template closely. It has a clear Problem statement tied to issue #36012 with a reproduction on main. The Change section explains the isOsc terminator split and why DCS, PM and APC still end at U+009C. Scope links the issue and states the change is a bug fix. Verification gives concrete test runs, before/after results, and browser evidence, and it names the untested residual CAN/SUB behavior. The author attribution section is present as the template asks. The description is complete, so this check passes.
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The whole-PR diff for apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts changes the DCS, PM, and APC rule. The new code returns on decoded U+009C for those strings (isOsc false). The previous head removed U+009C as a terminator in all strings. The PR description says U+009C is no longer a terminator in either helper. Issue #36012 does not request any change for DCS, PM, or APC. The code comment cites libghostty as the reason, but the PR description and the test summary do not state this behavior. The Manager.test.ts diff was not readable, so the DCS expectation in the test could not be checked. The BEL rule also changed: BEL now terminates only OSC, and it no longer terminates other strings through the belTerminates flag. This matches the earlier comment, but the PR description does not describe it. The change is in the same helper and is not clearly unrelated, but it is not established as required by #36012.
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Provide evidence that the bundled libghostty ends DCS, PM, and APC strings at decoded U+009C, for example a fixture or test output. Alternatively, restore the previous rule for those strings, or update the PR description to state the DCS, PM, APC, and BEL behavior changes and why they are needed for #36012. Make the Manager.test.ts diff readable so its DCS expectation can be verified.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts:
- Line 1205: The pending OSC, DCS, PM, or APC payload can grow without limit
when no terminator arrives. In the control-string handling path around
isControlSequenceCancel, cap session.pendingHistoryControlSequence and define a
bounded overflow policy, such as discarding the sequence or emitting it as text;
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Cap the pending control-string buffer.
An ESC-started OSC, DCS, PM, or APC string stays in session.pendingHistoryControlSequence until a terminator arrives. That buffer has no length limit. MAX_HISTORY_CHUNK_LENGTH applies only to history text, not to this pending payload.
This change removes U+009C as a terminator. A string that contains U+009C now stays in the pending buffer until BEL, ESC \, CAN/SUB, or the next ESC arrives. Before this change, U+009C ended the string and the remaining text went to bounded history. Unbounded retention already occurred for unterminated ESC-started strings. This PR adds a new trigger for it.
Define a maximum pending length and the behavior when it is reached, such as discarding the sequence or emitting it as text. Apply the cap on the pending path so the parser state stays consistent across chunk boundaries.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts at line 1205:
The pending OSC, DCS, PM, or APC payload can grow without limit when no terminator arrives. In the control-string handling path around isControlSequenceCancel, cap session.pendingHistoryControlSequence and define a bounded overflow policy, such as discarding the sequence or emitting it as text; apply it consistently across chunk boundaries while keeping parser state synchronized.
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The review item was right: the previous head stopped U+009C from ending DCS, PM and APC strings as well as OSC. A filtered DCS query such as
ESC P $qm U+009C HIDDEN ESC \then swallowed the visible text after it on replay. The termination change now applies only to OSC. findStringTerminatorIndex takesisOsc(main'sbelTerminates, renamed): OSC ends at BEL and keeps a decoded U+009C as payload, which is how libghostty treats UTF-8 c2 9c. DCS, PM and APC ignore BEL and end at U+009C, as on main. stripStringTerminator is back to main's version; an OSC string can no longer end at U+009C, so its trailing-U+009C strip only affects the other strings. Against main, the diff is now just that terminator condition plus the test. The existing U+009C test also emitsC ESC P $qm U+009C SHOWN ESC \ Dand asserts historyAB\nCSHOWN ESC \ D\n, so the text after a filtered DCS query survives reopening (the reviewer's example used HIDDEN for that text). This assertion fails on the previous head (history wasCD) and passes now.Fixes #36012
Reproduction on main
On origin/main d06ba27 (Node 26.13.1, bundled libghostty-vt 9f62873bf195): (1) Ran the reporter's repro-osc-c1.mjs against a fresh worktree. It runs the unchanged production scanner plus the checked-in Ghostty WASM. All controls passed. Input 'A ESC]11;? U+009C HIDDEN ESC\ B' (UTF-8 bytes ...3b3fc29c4849...) rendered live as 'AB'; the scanner kept 'AHIDDEN ESC\ B', which replayed as 'AHIDDENB'. Script exited 1 (defect reproduced). (2) Added a TerminalManager test (fake PTY, close and reopen) that emits 'A\u001b]11;?\u009cHIDDEN\u001b\B\n'. It fails on main: the reopened history starts with 'AHIDDEN\u001b\B\n' instead of 'AB\n'. Committed as e914e76 on factory/repro-36012.
Evidence
Emit
A ESC]11;? U+009C HIDDEN ESC\ Bin the real terminal, capture live output, then reload the app to replay saved history. Both commits render liveAB; base replaysAHIDDENB, while head replaysAB. All four captures have clean$prompts, without9;6u.Environment on both sides: Chromium 156.0.8078.4, 1280×800, light theme, isolated fresh database, identical synthetic project and Replay provider thread.
Scenario source. Recordings are trimmed to the reload interaction to exclude the initial shell path.
Tests
vp test run apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.test.ts: 94 passed. The same test with the previous head's Manager.ts: the DCS assertion failed (history was 'AB\nCD\n'). vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (2 files) all passed.
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Who did the work
Run by the t3code factory in T3 Code.