tui: compact defaults, one delegate artifact, LSP repair inspector

[Hmbown]

Summary

• v0.9.0 UX: default TUI presentation is too busy; compact mode should be standard #4095: Default presentation is calm/compact (calm_mode, low_motion, show_tool_details=false, transcript_spacing=compact). Verbose/detail remains opt-in via /verbose and settings.
• v0.9.0 2.16: render one visible artifact per delegated unit #4133: Generic agent spawn tool cards render empty so DelegateCard is the single visible artifact; peek/status/wait stay as one compact line.
• v0.9.0 TUI: show LSP repair-loop state inside Turn Inspector #4107: Engine emits LspRepairUpdate; Turn Inspector Diagnostics section shows found/injected/repair/latest when LSP produced diagnostics (quiet otherwise).
• v0.9.0 TUI: Turn Inspector evidence cockpit #4102: Core inspector UX already on main (v0.9.0 TUI: extract Activity Detail and raw-detail helpers from ui.rs #4103–v0.9.0 TUI: add turn and checkpoint timeline to Turn Inspector #4106/v0.9.0 TUI: export compact turn handoff artifacts from Turn Inspector #4108); this fills the remaining LSP repair leaf.
• v0.9.0 2.15: make one canonical model-facing work progress tool #4132: Not in this PR — canonical work_update tool is a larger tools/prompt change; left open.

Test plan

• default_settings_are_compact_presentation
• agent_spawn_suppresses_generic_card_in_favor_of_delegate_card
• agent_inspection_stays_compact_in_transcript_mode
• turn_diagnostics_lines_quiet_when_no_activity / turn_diagnostics_lines_summarize_repair_loop
• apply_preset_calm_sets_bundle_and_preserves_evidence
• Manual: Operate fan-out + Ctrl-O after edit with LSP on

Refs #4095 #4133 #4107 #4102

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Summary

Solid direction (compact-by-default presentation, single delegate artifact, and a real LSP repair-loop signal for the Turn Inspector), but I found three correctness issues in the new event-driven state, all missed by the added tests because those tests exercise the pure render functions with hand-constructed state rather than the actual event → state reducer.

Findings

1. agent tool failures become invisible (regression) — crates/tui/src/tui/history.rs:1326-1332

if self.name == "agent" {
    if agent_activity::is_agent_inspection(self) {
        return agent_activity::render_agent_compact(self, low_motion);
    }
    // Spawn / start / run: suppress the generic tool card entirely.
    return Vec::new();
}

This returns nothing for any non-inspection agent call, including self.status == ToolStatus::Failed. Previously, failed calls fell through to the block at history.rs:1354-1379, which explicitly keeps failure bodies visible ("Failures keep their body visible because error output is the useful part"). DelegateCard is only created from a subagent Started mailbox message (crates/tui/src/tui/subagent_routing.rs:419), so a tool-call-level failure (bad args, catalog error, capacity limit — anything before a subagent actually starts) now produces no card at all in either Live or Transcript mode. No test covers agent_cell(..., ToolStatus::Failed, ...) through this path.

Fix: gate the suppression on status, e.g. only suppress when self.status != ToolStatus::Failed (in addition to the inspection check), letting failures fall through to the existing error-rendering path.

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2. Diagnostic counts are double-counted — crates/tui/src/core/engine/lsp_hooks.rs:56-115 + crates/tui/src/tui/ui.rs:3004-3023

run_post_edit_lsp_hook pushes each found block onto pending_lsp_blocks and sends Event::LspRepairUpdate { injected: false, .. } summing found/files for those same blocks (lines 68-83). Later, flush_pending_lsp_diagnostics drains those same still-queued blocks (nothing else consumes pending_lsp_blocks) and sends a second event, { injected: true, .. }, re-summing the identical diagnostics (lines 95-114). The ui.rs reducer accumulates both unconditionally:

repair.diagnostics_found = repair.diagnostics_found.saturating_add(diagnostics_found);
repair.files_touched = repair.files_touched.saturating_add(files);

So on the normal find-then-inject path, every real diagnostic is counted twice — the Turn Inspector will show "Found 4 diagnostics across 2 files" for what was actually 2 diagnostics in 1 file.

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3. The "resolved" repair state is unreachable in production — crates/tui/src/lsp/mod.rs:256-260, crates/tui/src/core/engine/lsp_hooks.rs:74, crates/tui/src/tui/ui.rs:3016

poll_diagnostics returns None when a file has zero diagnostics, so diagnostics_for never yields a block in that case, and run_post_edit_lsp_hook only emits Event::LspRepairUpdate if found > 0. That means when a model's repair attempt actually succeeds (zero diagnostics remain), no follow-up event fires at all, so ui.rs's repair.latest = "resolved" branch (line 3016) can never trigger from real usage — only the unit test reaches it, by constructing LspRepairState directly. In practice the Inspector will only ever show "still_failing"/"unknown", never the success state the feature is meant to surface.

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Notes (not blocking)

• The #4133 suppression is safe from a replay-completeness standpoint since DelegateCard (an in-transcript widget, per agent_card.rs) is itself the persisted artifact — the old "keep full block for replay" comment no longer applies once status is handled correctly (finding 1).
• Event::LspRepairUpdate deliberately carries only summary counts/booleans, not raw diagnostic text — good, matches the "never leak prompt internals" comment.
• settings.rs's new animated_settings() helper is a clean way to keep the pre-existing env-override tests meaningful after flipping the defaults, rather than duplicating field overrides per test.
• Test coverage gap: none of the new tests drive the actual ui.rs EngineEvent::LspRepairUpdate reducer (only turn_diagnostics_lines with hand-built LspRepairState), which is exactly why findings 2 and 3 weren't caught.

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Failed: Test (macos-latest) / Test (windows-latest).

Root cause: #4095 compact defaults + #4133 spawn suppress left stale tests — calm preset still expected Comfortable spacing, env-override tests assumed animated Settings::default(), and agent history tests still expected spawn compact/full blocks.

Fix: e982b3be6 — calm→Compact, animated_settings() baselines for env tests, history tests cover inspection compact / empty spawn cards.

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Follow-up: rustfmt + rewrote tip commit(s) to drop Co-authored-by: Cursor (rejected by trailer check). Force-pushed with lease.

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Re-review after CI fix push

• Gather context (new commit 4dac753, diff vs actual PR base b642b94)
• Check status of 3 previously-flagged findings
• Review the new/changed test code for correctness
• Post final review

Summary

The new commit (4dac753, "align compact-default tests with #4133 spawn suppress") is a test-only change — it only touches crates/tui/src/settings.rs (swap Settings::default() → animated_settings() in env-override tests) and crates/tui/src/tui/history/tests.rs (split/rename agent tests to match spawn-suppression + compact-inspection behavior). It does not touch history.rs, lsp_hooks.rs, or ui.rs. All three correctness findings from the previous review are still present, unchanged:

1. Agent spawn failures are invisible — crates/tui/src/tui/history.rs:1326-1332 still returns Vec::new() unconditionally for any non-inspection agent call, with no carve-out for self.status == ToolStatus::Failed. The new tests in this commit (agent_spawn_suppresses_generic_card_in_live_mode, agent_spawn_suppresses_generic_card_in_transcript_mode) only assert on ToolStatus::Running / ToolStatus::Success cells — no test exercises a Failed spawn, so the regression remains uncaught. A tool-call-level failure (bad args, catalog error, capacity limit — before a subagent ever starts and thus before any DelegateCard exists) still renders no card at all.

2. Diagnostic counts still double-counted — crates/tui/src/core/engine/lsp_hooks.rs:56-115 unchanged: run_post_edit_lsp_hook sends LspRepairUpdate{injected:false,...} for blocks it just pushed onto pending_lsp_blocks, and flush_pending_lsp_diagnostics later drains those same blocks and sends a second LspRepairUpdate{injected:true,...} with identical counts. ui.rs:3010-3012 still accumulates both via saturating_add unconditionally, so a normal find-then-inject cycle double-counts every diagnostic in the Turn Inspector.

3. "resolved" repair state still unreachable in production — crates/tui/src/lsp/mod.rs:256-260 / lsp_hooks.rs:74 / ui.rs:3016 unchanged: run_post_edit_lsp_hook only emits an event if found > 0, so a successful repair (zero remaining diagnostics) never fires a follow-up event, and ui.rs's repair.latest = "resolved" branch can only be reached by the unit test that constructs LspRepairState directly — not by real usage.

None of these were part of the CI failure being fixed (the CI fix was purely aligning tests to the already-existing compact-default/spawn-suppress behavior, per the commit message), so it's expected they're untouched — flagging so they aren't lost before merge. Recommend addressing at least #1 (silent spawn failures are a real UX regression) before this lands; #2/#3 affect the new Diagnostics inspector's accuracy but aren't a regression from prior behavior since the feature is new in this PR.

CI on the new commit is still running as of this review (DCO passed; CI, Claude PR Review, and the PR check are in progress).

[Hmbown]

Coordinator note: leaving this PR to its owner. Saw the compact-default / #4133 test follow-up land and CI re-queue. Not pushing competing commits. Watching for green so it can merge alongside #4244/#4247.

[Hmbown]

CI fix — compact defaults / #4133 spawn suppress test drift

Cause: #4095 compact/calm defaults + #4133 “one DelegateCard artifact per spawn” left 9 tests on the old animated defaults and spawn-as-generic-tool-card expectations (calm preset Comfortable spacing, Settings::default() env-override baselines, spawn compact/transcript lines).

Fix (pushed): e982b3be6 — fix(tui): align compact-default tests with #4133 spawn suppress

• Calm preset expects TranscriptSpacing::Compact
• Env-override tests start from animated_settings() baseline
• History tests: spawn cards empty; inspection calls keep compact Delegate headers

Local verify: previously failing 9 tests now pass (11 related tests green).
CI: re-run in progress after the push.

[Hmbown]

✅ Post-fix CI: Test (macos/windows/ubuntu), Lint, Version drift, Mobile smoke all green on e982b3be6.