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Requirement or Bug

Give the TUI pi's fixed-bottom dock, make Shift-Tab cycle thinking effort, replace per-server MCP lines with one loading line, and sync pi-tui to upstream v1.0.1.

Bug Reproduction Steps

N/A (feature PR). The Shift-Tab part fixes a mismatch: the welcome tip said "shift+tab cycles thinking effort", but Shift-Tab toggled plan mode.

Root Cause

N/A for the dock, effort cycle, and pi-tui sync. For the MCP line: each server that connected printed its own permanent MCP server "x" connected · N tools line. While fixing that, the startup status snapshot could also overwrite newer live mcp.status events, which could leave a stale "loading" state on screen. Live events now win over the snapshot.

Code Changes

Seven commits, each one slice:

  1. Fullscreen by default (tui/config.ts, tui-mode-selector.ts): DEFAULT_TUI_CONFIG.tuiMode is fullscreen, and the "(experimental)" label is gone. On exit, fullscreen still replays the transcript to the main screen.
  2. Shift-Tab cycles effort (editor-keyboard.ts, pythinker-tui.ts, commands/config.ts): Shift-Tab steps through the model's effort segments (without off) and wraps. Boolean-thinking models toggle on/off. It uses performModelSwitch with a new quiet option, so a key press adds no transcript line. The pick lasts for this session only (/effort still saves it). While a reply streams, the key does nothing. When no prompt highlight is active, the prompt frame uses the theme's effort* color; plan, bash, and slash highlights still take precedence. The tip, help panel, and docs are updated.
  3. Plain rules (custom-editor.ts): the prompt is drawn as two ─ rules with no sides. When a /btw panel is attached above (connectedAbove), the old box is kept, so the panel border still closes.
  4. Spinner in the top rule (activity-pane.ts, activity-spinner.ts, custom-editor.ts): while the agent works, the editor's top rule becomes ── ⠋ Working · tip ───. The spinner keeps its lifecycle; only where it draws changes, so the dock height does not change.
  5. MCP loading line (session-event-handler.ts, new mcp-loading-line.ts): one ● Loading MCP: a, b line with the shared blinking STATUS_BULLET. It lists only the servers still pending and is removed when none are left. Failed and needs-OAuth servers still print their own line, which stays.
  6. pi-tui upstream v1.0.1 (packages/pi-tui): a three-way merge from the old sync point 53816d7 (v0.85.1) to a7229ddc. Fork changes are kept. Upstream's private asciiVisibleWidth is renamed asciiTabVisibleWidth, because the fork already exports a function with that name. Upstream's new files received only !/bracket fixes for our stricter tsconfig. The darwin .node prebuilds were rebuilt from the reviewed darwin-platform.m. Their exports and linked libraries match upstream's v1.0.1 binaries. UPSTREAM.md records the new sync point. No new dependencies.
  7. Changesets.

Behavior Changes and Affected Users

Behavior Before After Who relies on the old behavior Escape hatch
Default TUI mode regular (native scrollback) fullscreen (fixed bottom dock, alt screen) New installs and users with no tui.toml. Existing tui.toml files already contain tui_mode = "regular" and are not affected. tui_mode = "regular", /settings → TUI mode
Shift-Tab toggles plan mode cycles thinking effort TUI users who toggle plan mode with the key /plan
Shift-Tab while streaming toggled plan mode does nothing same as above /plan
Prompt frame color plan/bash/slash highlight, otherwise neutral when not highlighted, the effort color none none (visual only)
Prompt editor frame rounded box two plain rules (box kept while /btw is attached) none tui_mode = "regular" keeps the regular layout, but the frame is plain in both modes
Working spinner own row above the prompt inside the prompt's top rule none none
MCP startup output one permanent line per connected server one temporary blinking line; failed and needs-auth lines are unchanged users who read tool counts from the chat the welcome card still shows MCP N connected; /mcp lists servers
Status snapshot vs live MCP events snapshot could overwrite newer events live events win none none
pi-tui internals v0.85.1 v1.0.1 (WezTerm image scroll, Kitty non-PNG convert, ANSI order fix) none none

Affected modules: apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/**, packages/pi-tui, docs (configuration/config-files.md, guides/interaction.md, reference/keyboard.md). Print mode, web, desktop, ACP, and SDK are not touched. Tests: TUI config tests (default and pinned regular), the editor-keyboard Shift-Tab cycle, editor side-border and plain-rule tests, activity-pane rule placement, MCP loading-line appear/shrink/clear, and the pi-tui node --test suite (1101 pass).

Checked manually with tmux at 150x45 and 80x24, in fullscreen and regular mode. Shift-Tab changed max → low → high on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. A slow stdio MCP fixture showed the blinking line shrink and then clear.

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  • I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • The TUI now defaults to fullscreen, with the prompt fixed at the bottom and in-app scrolling. Choose Regular mode to keep chat in terminal scrollback; saved mode settings are preserved.
    • Shift-Tab cycles through the current model’s thinking efforts. Use /plan to toggle Plan mode.
    • Connecting MCP servers appear together in a temporary loading line; failures and servers needing authentication remain individually visible.
    • Added support for clipboard file paths, improved image display in supported terminals, and more responsive wheel scrolling.
  • Improvements
    • Autocomplete better handles paths, punctuation, and CJK text. LaTeX rendering supports more script and cases layouts.

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Pythinker TUI

Layer / File(s) Summary
Thinking effort shortcut
apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/commands/config.ts, apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/controllers/editor-keyboard.ts, apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/pythinker-tui.ts
Shift-Tab now cycles thinking effort. Plan mode uses /plan. Effort-specific editor border colors and telemetry are added.
Fullscreen layout and MCP status
apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/config.ts, apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/editor/custom-editor.ts, apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/controllers/session-event-handler.ts
Fullscreen becomes the default. Activity spinners render in the editor rule. MCP connections use one transient loading row.
TUI tests and documentation
apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/*, docs/configuration/config-files.md, docs/reference/keyboard.md
Tests and documentation reflect the new mode, shortcut, border, and MCP behavior.

pi-tui synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Color and terminal APIs
packages/pi-tui/src/colors.ts, packages/pi-tui/src/oklab.ts, packages/pi-tui/src/terminal-colors.ts, packages/pi-tui/src/tui.ts
Color parsing and conversion APIs are added. Terminal color queries now collect foreground, background, and palette replies.
Autocomplete and rendering
packages/pi-tui/src/autocomplete.ts, packages/pi-tui/src/components/*, packages/pi-tui/src/utils.ts
Autocomplete handles CJK boundaries and wrappers. Rendering caches and ANSI width handling are updated.
Images, scrolling, and terminal behavior
packages/pi-tui/src/components/image.ts, packages/pi-tui/src/terminal-image.ts, packages/pi-tui/src/tui-alt-screen.ts, packages/pi-tui/src/wheel-scroll.ts
Kitty image conversion and sizing, wheel acceleration, clipboard feedback, overlay cursor handling, and WezTerm redraws are updated.
LaTeX and package documentation
packages/pi-tui/src/latex.ts, packages/pi-tui/README.md, packages/pi-tui/UPSTREAM.md
LaTeX scripts and cases gain layout support. The README and upstream synchronization record are updated.

Native clipboard

Layer / File(s) Summary
File-path clipboard bridge
packages/pi-tui/native/*, packages/pi-tui/src/native-platform.ts
macOS file URLs are exposed as path arrays through the native clipboard interface.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 94f4e

The new Shift-Tab effort cycling can, in rare failure cases, raise an unhandled error that may end the CLI unexpectedly. Adding a catch handler is a small fix. The remaining issues are documentation and minor performance nits. The change is mergeable with that follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 94f4e

The inspected changes primarily affect local interaction and display. The new clipboard capability returns paths without reading or sending their file contents, and the effort shortcut does not change permissions or saved defaults. Risk remains low, but the bundled macOS binaries and some affected behavior have not been fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected clipboard capability exposes local macOS pasteboard path metadata to an existing native-module caller under the process's existing privileges. Its source does not open the referenced files or transmit their contents. External consumers and the bundled binaries remain outside the verified source-level exposure assessment.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The Darwin producer requests file URLs only, checks aggregate-size overflow and allocation failure, and returns NUL-delimited paths. Completion checks termination while creating JavaScript strings, rejects conversion errors or cancellation, and frees the job buffer. These transport checks do not authorize any future consumer to dereference a returned path.
  • observed — Keyboard negotiation consumes device-attributes replies only while its own reply count is outstanding; otherwise it forwards the complete sequence. Terminal-color queries assign recognized replies to the oldest queued query, suppress duplicates, settle on completion or timeout, and retain timed-out queries for late replies.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — MCP event handling retains session-ID filtering, and snapshot application checks the current session identity. Consolidating progress does not remove failed-server errors or OAuth-required warnings in the inspected status handler.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Verify both distributed Darwin prebuilds against the reviewed source through reproducible builds or equivalent provenance evidence. Source inspection alone cannot establish their security-relevant behavior.
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614-616: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

CodeQL flags polynomial backtracking in normalizeScriptValue.

The /\s*([=+-])\s*/g regex runs on script text from model output. On long runs of whitespace with no operator, the engine retries \s* at each start position. The cost is quadratic in the run length. Script arguments are usually short, so the practical impact is low. A lookaround-free form avoids the scan:

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 function normalizeScriptValue(value: string): string {
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+	return value.trim().replace(/[ \t\n\r]*([=+-])[ \t\n\r]*/g, "$1");
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…ode (#371)

## Requirement or Bug

Keep the xhigh effort border distinct from plan mode after #369 made the
primary color periwinkle.

## Bug Reproduction Steps

On `main`, pick xhigh effort with Shift-Tab, then turn on `/plan`. The
prompt border is `#A78BFA` (xhigh) in one case and `#B4B8F8` (plan,
periwinkle primary) in the other. The two shades are hard to tell apart.

## Root Cause

#369 changed `primary`, and `modePlan` with it, to periwinkle `#B4B8F8`.
That moved the plan color close to the existing `effortXHigh` violet.
This is a palette fix, not a workaround.

## Code Changes

`effortXHigh` changes from `#A78BFA` to `#D58BF0` (dark) and from
`#7048B6` to `#8E3AA8` (light). The docs table and the unreleased
periwinkle changeset are updated. Contrast: light xhigh on white is
6.32:1, dark xhigh on black is 8.78:1.

## Behavior Changes and Affected Users

| Behavior | Before | After | Who relies on the old behavior | Escape
hatch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt border at xhigh effort | `#A78BFA` / `#7048B6` | `#D58BF0` /
`#8E3AA8` | none (visual only) | custom theme `effortXHigh` |

Affected module: `apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/theme/colors.ts`. TUI
tests: 2896 passed.

## Checklist

- [x] I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/PyModel/pythinker-code/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
document.
- [ ] I have linked a related issue (external PRs: issue must have a
maintainer's `/approve`).
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my feature works. (palette value
change; existing contrast tests cover it)
- [x] The behavior-change table above is complete, and every removed
behavior or flipped default is named in the changeset and either has an
escape hatch or was explicitly approved by a maintainer in this PR.
- [x] Ran `gen-changesets` skill, or this PR needs no changeset.
- [x] Ran `gen-docs` skill, or this PR needs no doc update.
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