fix: set TERM per attach - #1250
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe daemon now captures terminal facts per attachment, publishes them to session-home environment files, installs refresh hooks for supported shells, and controls host replacement based on launch origin. Tests and documentation cover terminal refresh, reattachment, empty values, and shell integration. ChangesAttach environment refresh
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change refreshes TERM per attach, but an interactive attach can still terminate a sandbox that contains a live Exec command, potentially killing active work. Merge is not ready until that lifecycle case is fixed or explicitly accepted; documentation and attach-test timing also need follow-up. Possibly related PRs
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crates/minimald/src/session.rs (1)
1935-1965: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSet
HostOrigin::Execwhenensure_hostreuses a live host.
ensure_hostsetshost_originonly on the branch that launches a host. When it reuses a live host, the origin stays at whatever brought that host up. A host minted for activation hooks keepsHostOrigin::Hooks, so this sequence kills a running exec command:
finalizeruns activation hooks and keeps the host.host_originisHooks.- An SSH exec arrives.
ensure_hostreturns the live host unchanged.host_originis stillHooks.- The command runs inside that sandbox.
- A client attaches with a
TERM.attachseesHostOrigin::Hooks, kills the host, and the command dies.This is the case
HostOrigin::Execexists to prevent. Record the origin on the reuse path as well.🐛 Proposed fix
if let Some(host) = running { + // A command is about to run in this sandbox, whether the host was + // minted here or inherited from an earlier transition. Either way a + // later attach must not replace it. See [`HostOrigin::Exec`]. + self.host_origin = HostOrigin::Exec; return Ok(host); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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crates/minimald/src/session_host.rs (1)
1418-1426: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the doc reference to
BASELINE_PROMPT_COMMAND.This doc says the value is re-read at every prompt through
BASELINE_PROMPT_COMMAND. Lines 1697-1702 state the opposite: the refresh deliberately does not ride on that variable, and the shell hooks installed bycrate::envdo the re-reading. Point the reader at the hooks instead, so the two comments agree.📝 Proposed doc fix
/// This is how a fact about the *current* terminal reaches a shell that was /// spawned for a previous one — a process's `environ` cannot be rewritten from /// outside, so the value is published to a file the shell re-reads at every -/// prompt ([`BASELINE_PROMPT_COMMAND`]). Written from the daemon's side of the -/// session home rather than through the sandbox: it is the same directory, and -/// it works before the session has anything running to inject into. +/// prompt, through the shell hooks the daemon installs into the rootfs +/// (`crate::env`). Written from the daemon's side of the session home rather +/// than through the sandbox: it is the same directory, and it works before the +/// session has anything running to inject into.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/minimald/src/session_host.rs`:
- Around line 1464-1475: Update the per-attach env file write loop in the
session host to write each body to a sibling temporary file, then rename that
temporary file over the destination using the existing async filesystem APIs.
Preserve the current path handling and warning behavior, and ensure temporary
files are cleaned up or safely replaced on write or rename failure.
In `@docs/reference/loadouts.md`:
- Around line 514-520: Update the earlier Bash startup instructions around the
documented bash invocation to use the session shell’s --rcfile launch mode
instead of bash --noprofile -l, keeping the hook-table description and
surrounding documentation consistent.
In `@scripts/session-e2e.sh`:
- Around line 647-670: Extend the first attach assertion to capture a shell
identity such as $$, then have the reattach command print that identity and
assert it matches the recorded value. Update the reattach validation around
reattach_out so it verifies both TERM_INSHELL=vt220 and reuse of the same shell,
while preserving the existing failure diagnostics.
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In `@crates/minimald/src/session.rs`:
- Around line 1935-1965: Update ensure_host so the live-host reuse branch sets
self.host_origin to HostOrigin::Exec before returning the existing host,
matching the launch branch and preserving running exec commands during later
attach handling.
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In `@crates/minimald/src/session_host.rs`:
- Around line 1418-1426: Update the documentation comment near the session
environment refresh to reference the shell hooks installed by crate::env instead
of BASELINE_PROMPT_COMMAND, keeping the description that the value is re-read at
every prompt consistent with the implementation.
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In `@docs/reference/loadouts.md`:
- Around line 487-491: Update the session-shell lifetime paragraph to document
the exception that hook-minted shells are replaced on the first interactive
attach, while Exec-minted shells remain running; retain the existing explanation
that the shell can outlive attached terminals and that TERM cannot be stored
solely in its environment.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/minimald/src/session.rs` around lines 1721 - 1745:
The finalize comment must match the documented hook-shell replacement behavior.
In `@scripts/e2e-attach-pty.py`:
- Around line 100-115: The detach logic in the main deadline loop must wait for
an explicit command-completion marker in the accumulated buf before writing the
detach byte; replace the quiet >= 2 condition with that marker check while
retaining the existing DETACH and detached guards.
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| A session shell is spawned once and outlives the terminals that attach to | ||
| it, so `TERM` — a fact about *the terminal currently attached* — cannot | ||
| live in its environment alone. The shell may have been minted for a | ||
| different terminal, or for no terminal at all: a lifecycle hook or an exec | ||
| brings the sandbox up the same way an attach does. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document the shell replacement exception consistently.
The documentation and the finalize comment should both state that a session shell can outlive an attachment, but hook-minted shells are replaced on the first interactive attach while shells minted by Exec remain running. The current wording says the shell is spawned once and retained, and the finalize comment says the hook host is kept so sandbox-local state survives, which is no longer true when that replacement occurs. Please update both locations to describe the replacement condition and its persistence boundary.
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In `@docs/reference/loadouts.md` around lines 487 - 491, Update the session-shell
lifetime paragraph to document the exception that hook-minted shells are
replaced on the first interactive attach, while Exec-minted shells remain
running; retain the existing explanation that the shell can outlive attached
terminals and that TERM cannot be stored solely in its environment.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/minimald/src/session.rs` around lines 1721 - 1745:
The finalize comment must match the documented hook-shell replacement behavior.
| quiet = 0 | ||
| detached = False | ||
| while time.monotonic() < DEADLINE: | ||
| chunk = drain_ready(1.0) | ||
| if chunk is None: | ||
| break # EOF / closed | ||
| buf.extend(chunk) | ||
| quiet = 0 if chunk else quiet + 1 | ||
| # The detach chord has to arrive as a WRITE OF ITS OWN: the daemon | ||
| # matches a *bare* ctrl-w (`b.len() == 1 && b[0] == 0x17`), so the same | ||
| # byte inside the command stream is not a detach — it reaches the shell, | ||
| # where readline eats it as delete-previous-word. Sent once the stream | ||
| # goes quiet, so the commands have run first. | ||
| if DETACH and not detached and quiet >= 2: | ||
| os.write(fd, b"\x17") | ||
| detached = True |
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loop_at = driver.index("while time.monotonic() < DEADLINE:")
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Wait for an explicit command-completion marker before sending detach. Two empty one-second reads do not prove that the shell executed the queued commands. A slow startup can send b"\x17" before command output reaches the transcript. The daemon closes the channel after detach, so the loop exits normally.
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In `@scripts/e2e-attach-pty.py` around lines 100 - 115, The detach logic in the
main deadline loop must wait for an explicit command-completion marker in the
accumulated buf before writing the detach byte; replace the quiet >= 2 condition
with that marker check while retaining the existing DETACH and detached guards.
Problem
A session shell could come up with no
TERMand keep it for the session'swhole life. In that shell, anything that pages dies before printing:
$ git branch
'unknown': I need something more specific.
(
lesssubstitutes the literalunknownfor an unsetTERM; ncursesrejects that entry as generic.)
Cause
TERMwas a mint-time fact.Session::attachread it from the PTYrequest but only passed it to
mint_session_host— the live-host branchdropped it. And two launches have no PTY to read it from:
ensure_host(execs) and
launch_host_for_hooks(lifecycle hooks). So a session whoseloadout declared an
on_activatehook got a terminal-less shell, and everylater attach silently reused it.
Fix
TERMis now a per-attach fact:the session env for everything the daemon runs in the sandbox.
~/.local/state/minimal/attach-env.{sh,fish,json},since a running process's
environcan't be rewritten from outside.Exec-minted ones are not — a command is live in that sandbox.The refresh hooks are installed by the daemon into every session rootfs,
at each shell's own vendor/system integration point — no loadout or project
author participates, and nothing composed can weaken them:
DEBUGtrapprecmdpreexecfish_promptfish_preexecpre_promptpre_executionThe pre-execution half is load-bearing: after a re-attach, the prompt on
screen was drawn before you detached and has already fired, so without it
the first command you type still sees the old terminal.
POSIX shells (sh, dash, ash, busybox, ksh) get
$ENVpointing at adaemon-owned file — correct at startup, no refresh, because POSIX has no
hook for one.
Note: the session shell is now
bash --noprofile --rcfile <daemon rc> -irather than
-l;--rcfileis only honored for non-login shells, and--noprofilealready suppressed everything-lwould have read.Testing
minimald, each verified non-vacuous by reverting the fix.session-e2e.shassertsTERMin a hook-launched shell and after are-attach from a different terminal; reverted, it fails with
dumb.nushell) in the stale-prompt scenario;
$ENVviabash --posix.just cigreen except twomctxtest-ignoredtests, which failidentically at the base commit (nested-sandbox limitation).
just e2e-nativegreen.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Bug Fixes
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TERM.