fix(tui): bound live dictation regions - #985
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WalkthroughLive dictation now validates tracked content before replacing or discarding text. ACP browser tool calls now carry structured, presentation-safe metadata. Specialist processes preserve pinned or inherited model settings across execution paths. ChangesLive dictation safety
Browser tool metadata
Specialist model propagation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A crafted browser URL can display an ambiguous origin in a permission prompt. Reject Unicode whitespace in displayed origins before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BrowserTool
participant ACPTranslation
participant ProtocolClient
BrowserTool->>ACPTranslation: Send browser tool name and arguments
ACPTranslation->>ACPTranslation: Validate operation and URL
ACPTranslation->>ProtocolClient: Send title and _meta browser details
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Approving. The real fix here is the anchor change, and it is load-bearing: reverting regionAnchor from string(stateRunes[:state.cursor]) back to state.text fails TestDictationStreamingPartialWithCaretInsideExistingText. Anchoring to the whole composer meant prefix could never equal anchor once the caret sat mid-text, which is what drove the arithmetic negative.
One thing to fix before this is done, and it is about coverage rather than correctness.
Neither clamp is pinned by any test. I removed the first, then the second, then both, and every DictationStreaming test stayed green each time, including TestDictationStreamingPartialClampsRegionAfterComposerShrink, which is named for exactly the case the clamps exist to handle.
They are not decorative. With both removed, driving the region out of bounds panics in the same class as the bug this PR fixes:
region past end after shrink PANIC: slice bounds out of range [:40] with capacity 32
negative start PANIC: slice bounds out of range [:-3]
So the clamps guard reachable states, and nothing stops a later refactor deleting them with CI green and reintroducing the panic. The shrink test presumably keeps the region in range through the prefix-delta path and never reaches the clamp. Setting the region out of bounds directly is enough to pin it:
m.setComposerState(composerState{text: "ab", cursor: 2})
m.dictation.regionActive = true
m.dictation.regionStart = 40
m.dictation.regionEnd = 60
m.dictation.regionAnchor = "a much longer previous composer"
m.applyStreamingText("partial text") // panics without the clampsA negative-start case covers the second clamp the same way.
One concern of mine that turned out to be nothing, in case it saves you the thought: the first activation slices stateRunes[:state.cursor] before regionActive is true, so it is outside the clamped branch. I checked whether currentComposerState can return a cursor past the end on the !composerActive path, where it uses m.input.Position() raw with no normalizeComposerState. It cannot; bubbles/textinput bounds the cursor on both SetValue and SetCursor, so that slice is safe.
Approving because the code is correct as written and the missing coverage does not make it wrong, but I would rather the clamps were pinned before this lands.
go test ./internal/tui passes in full.
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Retracting my approval. I approved this earlier today and I was wrong: the first clamp introduces a data-loss regression that main does not have. I found it by going back over the half I had flagged as untested, which is exactly where it was hiding.
The user's own text is destroyed
Type hello world, dictate, then backspace past the live region while partials keep arriving, then cancel:
head (dc80cecd) main (eeea3308)
p1 "hello world there" [11,17) "hello world there" [11,17)
edits "hello wor" cursor=9 "hello wor" cursor=9
p2 "hello wor there friend" [7,20) "hello worthere friend" [9,21)
p3 "hello there friend againiend" [5,24) "hello worthere friend again" [9,27)
cancel "helloiend" "hello wor"
On main the user's hello wor survives and cancel restores it exactly. On this head their wor is eaten, a stray iend is left behind, and cancel leaves helloiend. The region desyncs progressively, [11,17) to [7,20) to [5,24), so each partial deletes a span the dictation never wrote.
Why the first clamp causes it
The pre-clamp at dictation_stream.go:96-101 runs before line 122 computes prefix := string(stateRunes[:m.dictation.regionStart]). Once regionStart has been clamped down to the shrunken composer length, prefix is no longer "the text before the live region", it is a truncation of the new composer, and a truncation is almost always a prefix of the old anchor. So the delete-before-the-region branch at 134-139 fires for an edit that was not before the region, and subtracts a delta that has no meaning. The second clamp then stops the panic but leaves the region pointing at unrelated text.
The fix is smaller than the current diff
Removing only lines 96-101 and keeping the regionAnchor change restores correct behaviour and leaves your own tests green:
p3 "hello worthere friend again" [9,27)
cancel "hello wor"
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The anchor change is the actual fix for #965, and it stands on its own: reverting just it fails TestDictationStreamingPartialWithCaretInsideExistingText with the reported slice bounds out of range [:-1]. The clamps were added as defence and the first one is doing harm instead.
If you want to keep a clamp for the genuinely out-of-range case, it needs to sit after the anchor comparison rather than before it, so the prefix is still compared against the region that actually existed. And it wants a test: I noted in my earlier review that removing either clamp left every dictation test passing, which is what let this through. That observation was right and I did not follow it far enough before approving.
Sorry for the churn on this one.
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The mid-caret anchor change fixes the reported crash, but the pre-comparison clamp can corrupt user text. If the user backspaces across a live dictation region while later partials arrive, clamping before comparing the anchor makes the shrink look like an edit before the region; subsequent partials then replace normal composer text, and cancel does not restore it. Please move/remove that first clamp so anchor comparison uses the original region position, retain bounds protection only at the slice/delete boundary, and add a regression covering the shrink-plus-cancel path.
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Correction to my review: the problematic value is regionStart. Clamping regionStart before the anchor comparison causes the destructive misclassification described above. |
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
internal/tui/dictation_stream.go:93
This branch's merge base is27b319ca88a3180bed5183f0c599e9307f3ece12, while livemainis1b5db1765672820caac1684b168c9898b5ba3593. GitHub currently reports it mergeable, but the repository requires a fresh base before review. Please rebase and re-run the affected validation on the resolved head.
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- [P1] Do not clamp a stale live region into user text
internal/tui/dictation_stream.go:109
The new prefix anchor only proves that the text beforeregionStartis unchanged; it does not prove that[regionStart, regionEnd)is still the rendered transcript. For example, after rendering a partial at cursor 1 inaOLDz, replacing the composer withableavesregionStart == 1and the prefixaintact but makesregionEndstale. The final clamp turns that old range into[1,2), so the next partial deletes the user'sb. The same sequence preservesbon the merge base. Re-anchor or otherwise preserve the replacement before applying the delayed partial, and add regression coverage, so it never overwrites user text.
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Approving. The regression I retracted over is gone, and I drove it rather than reading the diff.
Replayed the exact sequence through the real key path, eight tea.KeyBackspace presses through applyComposerKey rather than a stand-in, then cancel:
HEAD 329dd123 MAIN
p1 "hello world there" [11,17) "hello world there" [11,17)
edits "hello wor" cur=9 [11,17) "hello wor" cur=9 [11,17)
p2 "hello worthere friend" [9,21) "hello worthere friend" [9,21)
p3 "hello worthere friend again" [9,27) "hello worthere friend again" [9,27)
cancel "hello wor" "hello wor"
Byte-identical at every step, bounds included. The values I reported (p3 "hello there friend againiend", cancel "helloiend") do not reproduce. The mechanism is gone by construction rather than patched around it: 058ba80 deleted the pre-clamp, and 329dd12 deleted the post-clamp along with the whole prefix-versus-anchor shift switch. There is no clamp( left in dictation_stream.go.
What replaced it is better than what I asked for. Both delete sites are now gated on liveRegionMatches, which requires the span being removed to be byte-identical to what dictation actually rendered. That is an invariant main does not have, and it means this subsystem structurally cannot delete text it did not write. Driving #965 itself shows the difference: main goes [5,11) to [-1,12) to a slice bounds out of range [:-1] panic and cancels to "d there world", while head cancels to "hello world".
One thing worth knowing rather than fixing. dictation_stream.go:137, the string(stateRunes[d.regionStart:d.regionEnd]) == d.regionRendered clause, is not pinned by any test: replacing it with true leaves the dictation suite green. It is load-bearing though, and it is the sole cause of the one behaviour difference from main. When a user edits inside the live region and the bounds stay valid, head abandons the region and re-anchors, leaving the edited copy behind:
user overtypes the dictated span (" there" -> " MINE!")
HEAD cancel "hello world MINE!"
MAIN cancel "hello world" <- the user's " MINE!" silently deleted
So it diverges in the safe direction: head keeps bytes the user typed and leaves visible duplicate transcript, main deletes them. You cannot distinguish "fixed a typo" from "typed replacement text" at that point, so I read this as a deliberate trade rather than a defect, and blocking on it would be asking for main's data loss back.
Two things to pick up whenever, neither gating: a test pinning line 137 specifically (a same-length in-region edit with valid bounds, since every existing test short-circuits on the bounds arm first), and re-running needsLeadingSpace in the re-anchor branch so the separator space stops being orphaned. The second is present on main too.
Sorry again for the churn. The retraction was right and the fix is right.
* feat(acp): surface safe browser tool metadata * fix(acp): align browser permission titles * fix(acp): namespace browser metadata * fix(acp): reject unsafe browser title text
…itlawb#1009) * fix(specialist): keep the pinned model when a specialist is resumed Metadata.Model exists so a bounded, delegated task can run on a cheaper model than its parent, and BuildArgs appends it to the child argv through appendModelArgs. BuildResumeArgs never did. So a specialist pinned to a cheap model ran on that model exactly once. The moment the orchestrator resumed it, the child fell back to whatever the parent's configured model resolved to. Nothing surfaced it: the resumed child starts normally and does the work, so the only symptom is the bill. Cost-motivated delegation quietly stopped saving anything. Resuming does not restore the recorded model on its own. sessions.PrepareExec records the model a run used but never feeds it back into provider construction, so the flag has to be passed again rather than relied upon. BuildResumeArgsInput now carries ParentModel and ParentReasoningEffort, the same fallbacks the fresh path takes, and runResume passes what TaskRunOptions already held. The reasoning-effort rule travels with the model unchanged: the parent's effort is inherited only when the manifest pins no model of its own, because a manifest that chose a different model has not agreed to the parent's effort for it. Regressions drive both builders and compare them, so the two paths cannot drift again: a pinned model survives resume, an unpinned one still inherits the parent's, both halves of the effort rule hold, and the flag keeps its position relative to --auto in both. Refs Gitlawb#554 * test(specialist): cover the resume call site, not just its builder The builder tests all call BuildResumeArgs directly, so dropping the ParentModel field from the runResume call site still compiled and still passed every one of them. The defect this fixes lived at the call site, so it needs a test that goes through Run. Driven through the real dispatch with the RunChild seam capturing argv. * test(specialist): guard the fresh call site as well runFresh and runResume each construct their builder input by hand and carry a byte-identical ParentModel line. Deleting either compiles and, until now, deleting the fresh one was silent. The resume half is what this branch repairs. This covers the other half so the pair cannot drift again in the direction nobody was looking.
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In `@internal/acp/translate.go`:
- Line 141: Update the Unicode-character validation in browser title origin
handling to reject all whitespace via unicode.IsSpace(r), while preserving the
existing control, format, line-separator, and paragraph-separator checks. Add a
regression test covering a percent-encoded U+00A0 in the hostname reaching the
open branch and ensure it is rejected before permissionToolCall.
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- Around line 231-233: Add a call-site assertion in the runResume test to verify
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In Go's net/url implementation, the URL.Parse function does decode percent-encoded sequences in the host component, but it enforces strict constraints on what is permitted to be encoded [1][2][3]. When parsing a URL, the net/url package uses an internal unescape function with the encodeHost mode to process the host string [1][2][4]. According to the implementation of this logic: 1. The parser generally expects percent-encoding in the host to be used only for non-ASCII bytes [1][5][2]. 2. If the parser encounters a percent-encoded ASCII character (such as %2F for '/'), it will return an EscapeError, effectively rejecting the URL [1][6][2]. 3. An exception is made for "%25", which is permitted to allow escaping a percent sign itself, particularly in the context of IPv6 scoped-address literals (zone identifiers) [1][2]. Consequently, while the implementation does technically perform unescaping (decoding) during the assignment of the Host field, it does not support arbitrary percent-encoded ASCII characters [1][2]. Attempting to parse a URL with percent-encoded ASCII characters in the host will result in a parsing error rather than producing a decoded host string [6].
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Reject Unicode whitespace in browser title origins.
In the open branch, url.Parse decodes percent-encoded non-ASCII host bytes before browserTitleTextSafe checks the origin. An encoded U+00A0 can therefore reach permissionToolCall as part of the permission title and make the origin ambiguous. Reject unicode.IsSpace(r) and add a regression test for a percent-encoded U+00A0 hostname.
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unicode.IsSpace(r), while preserving the existing control, format,
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Summary
The caret-middle regression panicked before the fix with
slice bounds out of range [:-1]atdictation_stream.go:115.Linked issue
Fixes #965
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