Resuming a long session (196k events, 2.2k steps, 1.8k tool cards) took
~12s to render and ~800ms to echo one keystroke:
- Every step's timing footer called stepTimingAt, which replayed the whole
event log per footer - O(steps x events) on the initial render.
- pi-tui re-renders every component each frame and relies on per-component
line caches, but ToolCardComponent/ContextCardComponent built throwaway
Text/Markdown instances inside render(width), re-wrapping every settled
card's output on every keystroke.
Replace the per-footer replay with one shared StepTimingTracker per chat
mount (single O(events) cursor over the append-only log), and cache card
rows by width via CardLineCache, dropped by every state mutator and
invalidate().
Measured (tmux 200x50, 196k-event session): resume prompt-ready ~12s -> ~7.6s;
per-keystroke echo ~800ms median -> ~11ms.
The ShellDialect marker on BashExecutor and the load-time rejection in
tool-bash/tool-pwsh force every test and example fake executor to declare
a dialect for a guard with no in-repo or plausible deployment to catch
(shipped compositions always pair the tool with its matching executor),
and they break the example composition suites that stub ctx.bash without
a dialect (agent-spine-demo/cli-demo/acp-demo lost the bash tool).
Keep the non-dialect doc fixes that landed with the attempt: the tool-bash
README bashEnv contract trim with the stale example import removed, the
acp-snapshot suite.ts 'usable pwsh' JSDoc, and the pwsh.cordis.yml comment
indent. The parity note records the attempt and revert under Alternatives.
The seam gains ShellDialect ('bash' | 'powershell' - concrete shells, not
families: zsh or fish would be their own values, never 'bash'); bash-local
declares bash (bash-sandbox inherits), pwsh-local declares powershell, and
both tools throw at load when the mounted executor speaks another dialect -
previously tool-pwsh over bash-local handed PowerShell text to bash -c and
the deployment error surfaced as ordinary nonzero exits. Pinned by mismatch
tests on both tools; the parity note records the contract (both languages).
Also from the review round: the tool-bash README's managed-environment
section becomes a summary linking the owning dsh-bash-env contract (the
duplicated prose carried a stale owner in its example import), the
pwshOnly JSDoc drops the stale 'on PATH' phrasing, and the task-tools
contract comment in the two pwsh compositions is indented into its block.
session-title already registers a title projection unit; /resume now
reads it instead of scanning logs: live rows from the registry
snapshot, persisted rows from the durable checkpoint row
(cachedSnapshot, zero I/O), and only rows without a usable checkpoint
pay a coldSnapshot — checkpoint plus readFrom tail, written back so the
next scan is metadata-only. Cold reads are bounded by the new
resumeScanConcurrency config; compositions without the cache fall back
to the bounded readTitleSnapshots batch. The TUI overlay mounts the
projection registry, storage, and projection-cache rows over the same
storages root the web surface uses, so checkpoints serve both.
The merge resolved the module-graph.md conflict by regenerating doc GRAPHS
(gen-doc-graphs) while this file belongs to gen-module-graph; verify-module-graph
is a static-lane gate outside doc-sync, so the staleness only surfaced on CI.
The review caught the pwshCoverageExclusions comment claiming the inverse of
the code's behavior: a bare-PATH probe FAILING grants the exemption, so a
win32 host where only install-location pwsh (or 5.1) resolves kept the
exemption while its suites ran - over-exempting, never tightening.
resolvePwshPath/candidatePwshPaths move to the dependency-free
pwsh-local/src/resolve.ts (index.ts re-exports; public API unchanged) and
vitest.config.ts probes with that shared definition, so the exemption is
active exactly when the suites skip. The two spec headers stop saying
'on PATH' for a probe that is deliberately not PATH-only, and the parity
note records the abort backport as the one both-ways parity change (both
languages, pairing re-recorded); catalogs regenerated for the line shift.
- fromRequest placeholder: the last two braces of a consecutive } run now
terminate the placeholder, so patterns may end with a brace quantifier
(bot warning; the truncated pattern could even silently mis-match since
an unclosed { is literal in JS regexes)
- document that derived JSONL entries pass through the same resolution
- widen ToolRunContext/deferContext seam docs beyond composite-only usage
(source JSDoc, README pair, core-data-structures type-equiv blocks)
- pin direct-human blocked as uninstructed, completing the
goal-round/direct-human x complete/blocked test quadrant
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