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  • match the Claude dialog footer across a single bounded wrap, so a pane under about 50 columns no longer reports an open dialog as idle
  • apply the same tolerance to the elicitation, dynamic workflow, model picker, and permission prompt rules, and to the prompt-box and background-MCP suppression gates
  • keep the elicitation header line-anchored while allowing a wrapped server name
  • bump the manifest version so hosts holding a cached remote manifest pick up the new rules

Claude word-wraps its own footer. At 48 columns the 49-cell footer breaks after Esc to, at a word boundary rather than at the column boundary, so this is Claude's own wrap and not a terminal soft wrap; reading unwrapped rows would not have fixed it. Detection matches over rendered rows, so the contiguous needles stopped matching and the known-agent fallback reported idle.

Left alone on purpose: legacy_no_prompt_blocker, where widening the priority 300 fallback adds false-positive risk without addressing the issue, and do you want to proceed?, which renders on its own line and only wraps below ~24 columns.

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  • just check, minus three live_handoff failures that reproduce identically on clean master on this host; all four CI check jobs pass
  • six new tests, each failing against master's manifest and passing with the fix: the reporter's 48-column footer capture, the full-screen captures from the issue, and wrapped elicitation, permission, dynamic workflow, and model picker screens asserting the owning rule id
  • real 50/48/40/34/24-column dialog captures from fix: repair hook authority fallback and visible blockers matthias-scale/herdr#70 all classify blocked through live_blocked_form
  • empty-prompt, quoted-blocker-at-live-prompt, model-picker, bash-permission, and trust-folder captures from the same set: identical results before and after this change
  • python3 scripts/agent_detection_manifest_check.py, with bundled and distribution/ manifests byte-identical

refs #2868

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Claude detection rules now match selected prompts and dialogs across whitespace or one wrapped newline. The changes cover blocked forms, workflow prompts, MCP elicitation, permission prompts, idle suppression, and model-picker menus. Tests cover wrapped dialogs, MCP header boundaries, rule precedence, unaffected streaming screens, and invalid footer separators.

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This updates Claude dialog detection for single-line narrow-pane wrapping and includes matching manifest and test updates. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

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Claude word-wraps its own hint and footer lines, so a pane under about 50
columns splits `Esc to cancel` across two rendered rows. Detection reads
rendered rows, so every rule gating on that footer stopped matching and an
open dialog reported idle.

Match the affected phrases across a single bounded wrap: spaces or tabs, or
one newline with optional indentation, never a blank line and never no
whitespace at all. Bump the manifest version so hosts holding a cached remote
manifest pick up the new rules.

refs herdrdev#2868
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@caner-akca caner-akca changed the title fix: detect claude selection dialogs in narrow panes fix: keep claude dialog detection working in narrow panes Sep 4, 2026
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The PR updates Claude’s detection manifest so dialog controls and footers remain recognizable across one rendered line wrap, and bumps the manifest version so cached hosts activate the revised rules.

  • Applies wrap-tolerant matching to blocked forms, dynamic workflows, MCP elicitation, model selection, permission prompts, prompt-box suppression, and background-MCP suppression.
  • Adds regression coverage for narrow dialog captures, rule ownership, neighboring-screen behavior, and separator bounds.
  • Keeps the bundled and distribution manifest copies aligned.

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The PR appears safe to merge, with no concrete correctness or security failures identified in the changed detection paths.

The updated expressions use supported manifest features, preserve distribution parity, and are covered by targeted narrow-pane and neighboring-screen regression tests.

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src/detect/manifests/claude.toml Broadens Claude dialog evidence to tolerate bounded rendered-line wrapping while preserving rule priorities and state semantics.
distribution/agent-detection/claude.toml Mirrors the bundled Claude manifest changes and version bump for remote distribution.
src/detect/manifest/tests.rs Adds focused narrow-pane regressions and negative controls for the updated Claude rules.

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In `@distribution/agent-detection/claude.toml`:
- Line 128: Restrict the mcp_elicitation_prompt matcher to a quoted MCP server
name with at most one optional newline continuation, preventing blank rows or
second wrapped rows from matching. Apply the identical pattern change in
distribution/agent-detection/claude.toml:128-128 and
src/detect/manifests/claude.toml:128-128, then add blank-line and second-wrap
non-match cases in src/detect/manifest/tests.rs:877-909.

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Comment thread distribution/agent-detection/claude.toml Outdated
The quoted server name accepted repeated newlines, including a blank row,
so a malformed multi-row header could match where the footer rules allow
only a single wrap. Hold the name to one continuation row.

refs herdrdev#2868
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