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Summary

  • Replacing terminal_subscribe hydrates now include optional screen current-screen CSI so alt-screen CLIs (Claude Code) paint on iOS/web instead of replaying a 512 KB transcript tail that lost the DECSET.
  • While a phone/web viewport is subscribed, desktop fit-resizes remember lastDesktop* but do not fight the live PTY size; restore on last unsubscribe.
  • Snapshot catch-up overflow no longer closes the controller websocket (4001); the host still answers terminal_snapshot so the rest of the phone stays connected. iOS shows a loading/error overlay until the first paint.

Test plan

  • npx vitest run src/services/sync/syncHostService.test.ts -t "terminal byte-offset streaming|keeps the sync socket|omits an oversized" (17 passed)
  • npx vitest run src/main/services/pty/ptyService.test.ts -t "mobile resize ownership" (5 passed)
  • npx tsc --noEmit in apps/ade-cli and apps/desktop
  • Open the long-running Claude Code CLI on iOS while desktop is focused; the TUI should paint immediately
  • Unsubscribe the phone and confirm the desktop pane returns to its previous size
  • Confirm a hot TUI no longer drops the whole iOS sync socket on snapshot catch-up overflow

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ADE   Open in ADE  ·  ade/cli-session-mobile-loading branch  ·  PR #1091

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  • New Features

    • Added faster, more accurate terminal restoration using serialized screen snapshots.
    • Mobile terminal views now preserve screen contents, dimensions, and buffer state during hydration.
    • Added terminal loading indicators and retryable subscription errors on iOS.
    • Mobile resizing temporarily takes ownership of terminal dimensions and restores desktop sizing afterward.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved recovery from unstable or oversized terminal snapshots without closing connections.
    • Prevented incomplete terminal escape sequences from being sent during snapshot fallback.

A days-long Claude Code session cannot be reconstructed from a 512 KB
transcript tail, and closing the phone socket on catch-up overflow blanked
every other iOS surface. Send current-screen CSI on replacing hydrates,
keep desktop fit-resizes from fighting a subscribed phone, and leave the
sync socket open when the snapshot barrier fails.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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  • apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.test.ts
  • apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.test.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/shared/types/sessions.ts
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The PR adds serialized terminal screen snapshots with size and dimension validation, resilient snapshot catch-up, mobile PTY viewport ownership, and screen-aware hydration and loading states for desktop and iOS clients.

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Terminal screen synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Snapshot contracts and PTY capture
apps/desktop/src/shared/types/..., apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.ts
Shared types define serialized screen data. The PTY service reads live or persisted screen snapshots.
Mobile viewport ownership
apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.test.ts
Mobile resizing takes ownership of PTY dimensions. Desktop dimensions are deferred and restored after mobile detachment.
Host snapshot enrichment and recovery
apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.ts, apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.test.ts
Non-delta snapshots include validated screen data. Failed catch-up sends a replacing snapshot without closing the socket.
Desktop screen hydration
apps/desktop/src/renderer/webclient/adapter/sessionsPty.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/TerminalView.tsx
Desktop replacement payloads preserve screen markers and write serialized screen data without transcript normalization.
iOS hydration and loading state
apps/ios/ADE/Models/RemoteModels.swift, apps/ios/ADE/Services/SyncService.swift, apps/ios/ADE/Views/Work/*, apps/ios/ADETests/ADETests.swift
iOS uses serialized screen data for replacing hydrates, bounds queued events, tracks painted state, and shows subscription loading or errors.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 18d1c

The PR improves mobile terminal hydration, but the current implementation can still send a blank pane after snapshot retries are exhausted and can omit screen data when stored snapshots include excessive scrollback. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed before merging.

Possibly related PRs

  • arul28/ADE#554: Extends the same terminal synchronization and mobile PTY infrastructure.
  • arul28/ADE#696: Modifies related snapshot barrier and queued-delivery recovery paths.
  • arul28/ADE#867: Extends the same terminal snapshot and hydration paths.

Suggested labels: desktop, ios, docs

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apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.ts (1)

7774-7786: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fix: the capture-attempts-exhausted fallback drops the last captured transcript.

When the while loop exits because barrier.captureAttempt >= MAX_TERMINAL_SNAPSHOT_CAPTURE_ATTEMPTS without barrier.failed ever being set, the post-loop fallback calls sendReplacingSnapshot(args.sessionService.get(sessionId), null). This discards the transcriptSnapshot that the last loop iteration did successfully read; the client receives an empty transcript instead of the most recent capture, so the pane hydrates blank until the next live chunk arrives.

Hoist the last successfully read snapshot into a variable outside the loop and pass it here instead of null.

🐛 Proposed fix: forward the last captured transcript to the fallback snapshot
         let forceReplacement = false;
         let barrierCompleted = false;
+        let lastCapturedTranscript: { data: string; startOffset: number | null; endOffset: number | null } | null = null;
         const sendReplacingSnapshot = (
             barrier.captureAttempt += 1;
             const session = args.sessionService.get(sessionId);
             const transcriptSnapshot = session
               ? await runWithAbortSignal(
                   () => args.ptyService.readTranscriptSnapshot({
                     sessionId,
                     maxBytes,
                     alignStartToSafeBoundary: true,
                   }),
                   signal,
                   "Sync operation aborted.",
                 )
               : null;
+            if (transcriptSnapshot) lastCapturedTranscript = transcriptSnapshot;
             failTerminalSnapshotBarrier(peer, sessionId, barrier, "capture_did_not_reach_stable_offset");
-            if (sendReplacingSnapshot(args.sessionService.get(sessionId), null)) {
+            if (sendReplacingSnapshot(args.sessionService.get(sessionId), lastCapturedTranscript)) {
               barrierCompleted = true;
             }

Also applies to: 7866-7875

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In `@apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.ts` around lines 7774 - 7786,
Hoist a variable for the most recently successful transcript capture outside the
barrier retry loop, update it whenever readTranscriptSnapshot returns a
snapshot, and pass it to the capture-attempts-exhausted sendReplacingSnapshot
fallback instead of null. Preserve the existing behavior for failed or
unavailable captures.
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apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.test.ts (1)

11629-11680: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a regression test for the capture-attempts-exhausted fallback.

This suite covers the barrier.failed mid-capture overflow path, where the final terminal_snapshot correctly carries the last captured transcript. It does not cover the sibling fallback: capture attempts exhausted without barrier.failed ever being set (planTerminalSnapshotFlush keeps requiring recapture until MAX_TERMINAL_SNAPSHOT_CAPTURE_ATTEMPTS). That branch currently sends an empty transcript instead of the last captured one — see the linked comment on syncHostService.ts.

Add a test such as "sends the last captured transcript when capture attempts exhaust without ever failing": mock readTranscriptSnapshot to always resolve with a transcript whose endOffset keeps trailing the required offset (forcing needsRecapture on every attempt), push offsetful handlePtyData chunks between attempts to advance the required offset, and assert the final terminal_snapshot.transcript is non-empty.

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In `@apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.test.ts` around lines 11629 -
11680, Add a regression test alongside the existing sync snapshot overflow test
for capture attempts exhausting without barrier.failed. Make
readTranscriptSnapshot consistently return a transcript whose endOffset trails
the required offset, advance the required offset with offsetful handlePtyData
chunks between attempts, and assert the final terminal_snapshot retains the last
captured non-empty transcript.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.test.ts`:
- Around line 7711-7721: Split the test coverage so the dimensions passed to
service.resize are restored and asserted immediately after that call, verifying
375x53 independently. Keep the existing resizeTerminal verification for 200x40
in a separate named regression test or otherwise isolate it with its own setup,
so each API path has a distinct restoration assertion.

In `@apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.ts`:
- Around line 2356-2365: Update the snapshot persistence flow used by
storedScreenSnapshot to generate and persist a screenSerialized representation
with serialize scrollback set to 0, then have storedScreenSnapshot read that
field instead of the general serialized payload while preserving the existing
dimensions and buffer type.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.ts`:
- Around line 7774-7786: Hoist a variable for the most recently successful
transcript capture outside the barrier retry loop, update it whenever
readTranscriptSnapshot returns a snapshot, and pass it to the
capture-attempts-exhausted sendReplacingSnapshot fallback instead of null.
Preserve the existing behavior for failed or unavailable captures.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.test.ts`:
- Around line 11629-11680: Add a regression test alongside the existing sync
snapshot overflow test for capture attempts exhausting without barrier.failed.
Make readTranscriptSnapshot consistently return a transcript whose endOffset
trails the required offset, advance the required offset with offsetful
handlePtyData chunks between attempts, and assert the final terminal_snapshot
retains the last captured non-empty transcript.
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  • apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.test.ts
  • apps/ade-cli/src/services/sync/syncHostService.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.test.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/TerminalView.tsx
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/webclient/adapter/sessionsPty.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/shared/types/sessions.ts
  • apps/desktop/src/shared/types/sync.ts
  • apps/ios/ADE/Models/RemoteModels.swift
  • apps/ios/ADE/Services/SyncService.swift
  • apps/ios/ADE/Views/Work/SwiftTermSessionView.swift
  • apps/ios/ADE/Views/Work/TerminalSessionScreen.swift
  • apps/ios/ADETests/ADETests.swift

Comment thread apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.test.ts
Comment thread apps/desktop/src/main/services/pty/ptyService.ts
Ended-session hydrate also persists a scrollback-0 screen serialize so the 256k cap cannot drop the current TUI.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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