feat(remote): split a remote session into its own pane, alongside the #1100 tab - #1141
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…penwong2kim#1100 tab openwong2kim#1100 shipped remote-terminal as an ordinary Surface — a tab on an existing pane's tab strip. Real usage on a paired VPS right after it shipped surfaced a gap: local terminals can ALSO be split into their own pane (a new layout region, independently resizable), and a remote session had no equivalent — only the tab. Add "Split right — remote" / "Split down — remote" to the same ⋮ menu, alongside "New remote pane" (unchanged): pick a host, mint a session (same AddRemotePaneModal), then attach it to a freshly split pane instead of a new tab on the clicking pane. resolveRemoteAttachPaneId (new, pure, exported alongside the existing pickSplitShownSurfaces/pickOverlaySurfaces) is the whole decision: null direction targets the clicking pane (openwong2kim#1100's tab flow, untouched); a direction targets whatever splitPane() already returned. splitPane creates an EMPTY leaf pane — EmptyLeafFunnel would otherwise race to spawn a local PTY into it, so addRemoteSurface runs in the same synchronous tick as splitPane, before React can commit and let the funnel's effect see an empty leaf. A blocked split (per-workspace pane cap) resolves to null — attach nowhere — rather than silently falling back onto the pane the user asked to split away from. Issue openwong2kim#1140's second ask (count an agent-driving remote pane in the roster/"Agenci") is NOT addressed here: workspaceAgentRoster.ts keys agent detection on ptyId, fed by local PTY hook events; remote surfaces carry ptyId: '' by design (same as browser/editor), so there is no existing signal path a real agent on the far end could report through. Building a heuristic on buffer content would be fragile and guessed; flagging it back on openwong2kim#1140 for the direction call instead of inventing a detection channel here.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughRemote session creation now supports horizontal and vertical pane splits. The flow enforces the pane cap, attaches minted sessions to the new pane, cleans up failed or owned sessions, and adds menu labels, tests, and changelog coverage. ChangesRemote pane split
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Remote splitting can create a session before confirming that a new pane is available, and a delayed completion after dismissal or reopening may attach a session using stale intent; this could leave an active remote session unattached or place it in an unintended pane, so the lifecycle behavior needs owner review or explicit acceptance before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SurfaceTabs
participant Pane
participant splitPane
participant resolveRemoteAttachPaneId
participant RemoteSession
SurfaceTabs->>Pane: Invoke remote split callback
Pane->>Pane: Store direction and open remote modal
Pane->>splitPane: Create pane in selected direction
splitPane-->>Pane: Return pane id or blocked result
Pane->>resolveRemoteAttachPaneId: Resolve attachment target
resolveRemoteAttachPaneId-->>Pane: Return pane id or null
Pane->>RemoteSession: Attach or destroy minted session
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In `@src/renderer/components/Pane/__tests__/paneClusterWidth.test.ts`:
- Around line 228-230: Update the stale issue reference in the pane cluster
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Correct the stale issue reference.
The comment labels these remote split actions as #1140, but this PR is #1141 and #1140 is the excluded remote agent-roster work. Update or remove the reference so the test documents the correct scope.
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In `@src/renderer/components/Pane/__tests__/paneClusterWidth.test.ts` around lines
228 - 230, Update the stale issue reference in the pane cluster width test
comment: replace `#1140` with `#1141` for the remote split actions, or remove the
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[wmux-hermes] Triage SummaryImplements #1140's split ask — "Split right/down — remote" menu items attach a minted remote session to a fresh pane via |
…am findings Conflict resolution + two fixes from the 3-way review of this PR: - Resolve the openwong2kim#1143 conflict by combining both sides: the split flow keeps its direction/attach logic AND passes owned: true, so a session attached to the fresh pane is destroyed when its tab closes, same as the tab flow. - Cap pre-check before the modal opens on the two split-remote paths: the modal mints a real host session before onCreated fires, so opening it at the pane cap spent a host round-trip on a split already known to refuse (and, post-openwong2kim#1129, left a session nothing would ever reap). - If splitPane still refuses after the mint (cap reached while the modal sat open, or the pane vanished under it), destroy the minted session via destroyRemoteSessions instead of stranding a live shell on the host. - clearSplitCwdSeed on the fresh leaf after attach: a remote leaf never goes through EmptyLeafFunnel, so the inherited-cwd seed would sit until the pane closes and replay a stale cwd if the leaf ever emptied — the same guard splitBrowserPane already applies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6
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…hat opened it (#1148) * fix(remote): AddRemotePaneModal closes on Escape and names the flow that opened it Two gaps the #1141 dogfood run surfaced, both dating back to #1100 but worth fixing now that the split flows tripled how often this dialog shows: - Escape now closes the modal (same document-level listener AttachRemoteModal binds) — the backdrop click was the only way out. - The heading is a `title` prop the caller sets per flow: "Split right — remote" / "Split down — remote" reuse the menu labels, the tab flow keeps the "New remote pane" default. Before, every flow said "New remote pane", so the dialog could not say which action it was answering. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6 * changelog: add fragment for #1148 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6 --------- Co-authored-by: openwong2kim <269396487+openwong2kim@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…and in the text you paste (#1174) * feat(remote): a remote tab looks remote — glyph on the tab, host fact in the tooltip Found while dogfooding #1141: a remote-terminal tab was indistinguishable from a local one. Both carry the same status dot and close button, and the title is no help — it is an OSC title the shell on the OTHER machine sets, so a Windows host renders "C:\Program Files\...\pwsh" exactly as a local pane does. The tooltip was actively misleading: it showed a cwd that is a real path on a machine that is not this one. - The tab carries IconExternalLink, the same glyph the ⋮ menu's "New remote pane" and "Split ... — remote" entries already use, so the action and the tab it produces read as one thing. It is labelled, since it is the only thing on the tab that says "remote". - The tooltip leads with "Remote terminal — " before the path. The tooltip builder is a pure function so the four shapes (local with cwd, local pre-prompt, remote, remote with neither) are asserted rather than grepped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6 * review round: the glyph gets a real role, and a test that renders it GLM cross-review: - aria-label sat on a bare <span>, which has no implicit role, so a screen reader is free to drop it — on the one non-text signal that says the tab is remote. It is a labelled role="img" now, extracted as RemoteSurfaceGlyph so the markup can be asserted by rendering it rather than grepping the file for the attribute. - 10px was below the icon set's grid and nearly invisible when zoomed; 12px, matching the other inline glyphs. - The new helpers had been inserted between withShortcut's JSDoc and withShortcut, silently re-parenting that comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6 * review round 2: drop the focus accent, render the test, mark the copied output too Independent review, all three confirmed against the code: - The glyph wore --accent-blue, which is THIS file's focus signal: the active pane's tab strip is underlined with it, and the workspace-tag comment a few lines up had already rejected a blue-ish mark on a tab because it "would read as focus". It inherits currentColor now, so it dims and brightens with the tab's own active/inactive text — which is the emphasis a provenance marker should have. Shape carries the meaning; the colour was carrying a WRONG meaning, not extra meaning. - The remaining source-scan test asserted a formatting-sensitive regex and would have passed just as happily with the condition inverted. The premise behind it was also wrong: SurfaceTabs.actions.test.tsx already mounts the real component with `surfaces` as a prop. The test renders now and asserts exactly one glyph, inside the remote tab, absent from the local one, and not painted with the focus accent. - The tooltip is one interpolated key instead of a separator concatenated in code, so a locale owns its own order and punctuation — and a host name can be added later without reopening every translation. And the same complaint, one file over: `renderSurfaceLines` had no remote branch, so dragging a remote tab out (or copying pane info) still produced "Terminal — pwsh", an empty "PTY ID:" line, and a bare "CWD:" naming a directory on somebody else's machine. It now says "Remote terminal", omits the PTY line the surface does not have, labels the path "CWD (remote)", and carries the host and session ids. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6 * fix the test's own path literals A heredoc ate the backslashes, so the remote fixture's cwd was "C:Userssomeone" and the assertion matched it only because both halves were corrupted identically — the exact shape of test that passes while proving nothing. Real Windows paths now, and the negative assertion is a plain string rather than a regex that needed escaping to say so. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6 * dogfood round: print what a remote surface actually knows, not what it might The dogfood ran the copy/drag output against a real remote session and found two of the lines this branch added were dead in the live app: "Remote terminal — unknown" on every surface, and no CWD line ever. Cause: `addRemoteSurface` has exactly one caller, which passes undefined for both shell and cwd, and nothing but the title is updated afterwards. So a remote surface's shell is permanently '' — the `|| 'unknown'` fallback was not a fallback, it was the only branch. The heading drops the shell it never has. The OSC title the remote shell reports is the one live description, so it goes on its own Title line where it is not pretending to be a shell name. The CWD line stays, guarded and labelled remote, for the day a caller supplies one. The suite was complicit: it hand-wrote a surface carrying a shell and a cwd and asserted happily against a shape the product cannot produce — the same "passes while proving nothing" failure the path literals had. It now builds its fixture with `createRemoteSurface`, called the way the app calls it, so the test cannot drift from the product again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6 * changelog: add fragment for #1174 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6 --------- Co-authored-by: openwong2kim <269396487+openwong2kim@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
#1100 shipped remote-terminal as an ordinary Surface — a tab on an existing pane's tab strip, deliberately not a separate "attached remote workspace" entity (#1086/#1091). Real usage right after it shipped, on a paired VPS, surfaced one gap: local terminals can also be split into their own pane (a new layout region, independently resizable), and a remote session had no equivalent — only the tab.
Filed as #1140 with two asks. This PR is the first.
What
"Split right — remote" / "Split down — remote" join the ⋮ menu, alongside the existing "New remote pane" (unchanged). Same
AddRemotePaneModal(pick a host, mint a session) — the only difference is where the minted session gets attached:resolveRemoteAttachPaneId(new, pure, exported alongside the existingpickSplitShownSurfaces/pickOverlaySurfaces) is the whole decision:nulldirection is the #1100 tab flow, untouched. A direction targets whateversplitPane()already returned.splitPanecreates an empty leaf pane —EmptyLeafFunnelwould otherwise race to spawn a local PTY into it — soaddRemoteSurfaceruns in the same synchronous tick assplitPane(noawaitbetween them), before React can commit and let the funnel's effect see an empty leaf. A blocked split (per-workspace pane cap,splitPanereturnsfalse) resolves tonull— attach nowhere — rather than silently falling back onto the pane the user asked to split away from.What's NOT here
Issue #1140's second ask — count an agent-driving remote pane in the roster/"Agenci" — is not addressed.
workspaceAgentRoster.tskeys agent detection onptyId, fed by local PTY hook events (PreToolUse/PostToolUseetc. reported through the daemon's local IPC). Remote surfaces carryptyId: ''by design (same as browser/editor), so there is no existing signal path a real agent running on the far end could report through — even removing thesurfaceType !== 'terminal'filter changes nothing, since the very next line (if (!ptyId...) return) excludes it anyway. Building a heuristic on buffer content (scanning for CLI chrome, a rename command, etc.) would be fragile and guessed. Left for a direction call on #1140 rather than inventing a detection channel here.Test plan
resolveRemoteAttachPaneIdpure-function tests (Pane.splitVisibility.test.tsx) — tab flow ignoressplitResult, split flow targets the new pane id, a blocked split resolves tonullrather than falling back.paneClusterWidth.test.ts's pinned menu-only-actions list now includessplit-right-remote/split-down-remote.npx tsc --noEmitclean,eslintclean on changed files.npm run test:parallel: 13195/13202 passed (7 pre-existing failures — playwright device presets,deck.handler.looptiming,worktree.handlergit/EBUSY — reproduced identically on a cleangit stashof this branch, unrelated to this diff).Summary by CodeRabbit
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