Claude Code draws its prompt suggestion in an empty composer, the first letter in the reverse-video cursor cell and the rest faint, so a plain capture read it as typed text and keep-warm never nudged those sessions. The keep-warm pane read now uses capture-pane -e and drops the suggestion before checking the composer.
Also from review: an off status carries no window, automation and an unreadable composer retry instead of stopping, a failed evaluation re-arms a retry, a trigger during an evaluation queues one follow-up that remove() cancels, and the cap's clock is seeded from lastSubmitAt for pre-upgrade state.
Claude Code lets a subscription's one-hour prompt cache expire after an hour idle, and the first turn back re-writes the whole conversation at the cache-write rate; nearly every gap over an hour goes cold, while the saving is concentrated in gaps of one to four hours. Codeman now sends one short keep-alive turn five minutes before the expiry Claude Code reports on its statusline, so the next real prompt still reads the conversation from cache, and stops two hours (configurable) after the last real prompt.
Codeman owns the idle policy for these sessions, as agreed in Discussion #554: a launch with keep-warm on also carries idleCompaction: false in its one --settings JSON, so Claude Code's own idle compaction cannot replace the conversation with a summary a minute before the nudge. It is decided once per launch (keep-warm on, the statusLine exporter injected, Claude Code 2.1.290 or newer, an unknown version fails closed like --name), recorded on the mux record, and picked up by any relaunch; a launch with keep-warm off is byte-identical. A session switched on after launch is kept warm best-effort and the readout says so.
Every guard lives in one pure rulebook: the opt-in (an agent-spawned session does not inherit the app default), a launch that reports cache state, a warm 1h cache with enough tokens at stake and no compaction this gap, a live pane, no usage-limit pause, no respawn, Ralph, task or waiting agent, idle, no open dialog, an empty composer and no recent keystroke. The nudge is a submit and moves lastSubmitAt, which the response viewer's conversation correlation needs; the cap counts from its own persisted lastRealPromptAt instead. Read My Mind drops the exact nudge text, and the turn's stop hook and idle prompt open pre-acknowledged so nothing alerts. The last cache report and the clock survive a restart, so the timer re-arms.
sendInput() typed the text of a text+Enter pair with `send-keys -l` and
sent Enter 50 ms later. Codex detects an unmarked paste from a fast
character burst and folds an Enter inside that window into the paste as a
newline, so the prompt stays in the composer unsubmitted. Measured with
codex-cli 0.162.1 in a throwaway tmux pane: 1505 chars stuck 3/3 as
`[Pasted Content 1506 chars]`, a 98-char line stuck 1/4. SubmitVerifier
re-presses Enter for the short case, but it cannot match the long one: the
composer shows the placeholder instead of the prompt's head.
The text now goes in via set-buffer + `paste-buffer -p -d` (markers only
when the pane requested bracketed paste), followed by the separate Enter as
before. Same pane, same texts: 4/4 and 3/3 submitted. Each send gets its
own named buffer; a paste that fails (pane or server gone) deletes it,
since tmux never trims named buffers on its own.
Also escapes a trailing `;` in the text, which tmux treats as a command
separator (`send-keys -l 'x;'` typed `x`, a lone `;` typed nothing).
sendInputToPane() has no callers in src/ and is left as it was.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude Code 2.1.277 takes typed text the moment its composer paints but
ignores Enter for the first 30 to 50 seconds after it (measured 2026-09-19
through the input route: an Enter at 28 s stranded the prompt, one at 51 s
submitted it). The text+Enter pair `sendInput` sends 50 ms apart therefore
left every programmatic prompt sitting unsent, and every waiter burned its
timeout on a turn that never started.
Server: `SubmitVerifier` (session-submit-verifier.ts), armed from
`writeViaMux` for every mux write that carried a carriage return, reads the
pane on a 2 s to 60 s schedule and re-sends Enter only while the last
composer line (the CLI's own prompt glyph) still holds the head of what was
sent. An empty composer, other text, or no composer line at all ends it; a
newer write replaces the schedule.
Skill: `sendwait` gets the same loop (`_composer_text`, no-break space
stripped by its bytes for BSD sed) for servers that predate this, and the
preamble version moves to 1.30.1 so seeded agents pick up the fresh copy.
SKILL.md's heredoc and the plugin mirror are regenerated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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