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Summary

• Anchor live dictation to the composer prefix before the caret, fixing the mid-caret crash.
• Replace or discard a tracked region only when its bounds, prefix, and exact rendered text still match. Re-anchor stale regions without deleting user edits, and track the separator space so cancellation removes it too.
• Cover successive partials, stale bounds, same-length user replacements, and backspace-plus-cancel.
• Address the current review follow-ups: reject Unicode whitespace in decoded browser title origins (without changing execution URLs), and pin parent reasoning-effort forwarding through runResume.

Fixes #965.

Scope and base

Updated from current upstream main with a history-preserving merge and a normal push. ACP browser metadata and specialist model propagation are already on upstream main; only the small review follow-ups above are newly changed outside dictation.

Regression proof

• Before the Unicode fix, encoded U+00A0, U+2003, and U+3000 fail with unsafe origin accepted before permission translation, including browser open https://safe.example\u00a0evil.test. The test calls the title builder directly, then checks start and permission payloads through JSON round trips, while confirming execution URL normalization accepts the unchanged input.
• Temporarily removing runResume's ParentReasoningEffort forwarding fails the new assertion with --reasoning-effort "" (present=false). Forwarding was restored before validation.

Validation

Passed on Linux with the repository-declared Go 1.26.6:

• make fmt-check
• go vet ./...
• go test ./...
• go test ./internal/acp ./internal/specialist ./internal/tui -race -run "Browser|RunResumePassesTheParentModel|Dictation" -count=1
• go run ./cmd/zero-release build
• go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke
• make vulncheck
• git diff HEAD --check

Advisory make lint-static reports four unrelated existing staticcheck findings: QF1001 in internal/installtest/workflow_permissions_test.go:20, and QF1008 in internal/proxydial/proxydial.go:67,72 and internal/tools/web_fetch.go:315. These files are identical to upstream main; no finding targets this PR's changes.

Fixture Git commits used process-local GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1 GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=commit.gpgsign GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=false, avoiding inherited orb signing in disposable test repositories. Composer interactions and protocol title semantics are verified by state/payload assertions; there are no layout/style changes. Cross-platform execution remains with GitHub CI. No PR merge performed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved streaming dictation so partial text is separated correctly from existing content.
  • Preserved user edits when live dictation content changes while a partial result is in progress.
  • Prevented discarded dictation text from removing user-entered replacements.
  • Tightened browser title validation by rejecting additional unsafe whitespace characters.
  • Improved tool results by including accurate file diffs and locations.
  • Preserved model and reasoning settings when resuming specialist tasks.

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Walkthrough

The PR hardens live dictation region handling, adds ACP file-diff translation, extends browser title validation, and tests specialist model and reasoning-effort propagation.

Changes

Live dictation safety

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Region tracking and reanchoring internal/tui/dictation.go, internal/tui/dictation_stream.go	Streaming dictation tracks rendered text, validates region state, preserves user edits, and reanchors mismatched regions.
Streaming regression coverage internal/tui/dictation_test.go	Tests cover leading spaces, same-length edits, cancellation, backspacing, and invalid bounds.

ACP translation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tool result diffs and locations internal/acp/translate.go	Tool results include eligible absolute-path diffs and deduplicated diff and changed-file locations.
Unicode-safe browser titles internal/acp/translate_test.go	Tests cover decoded Unicode presentation controls and unsafe browser origins.

Specialist model propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Specialist argument and dispatch coverage internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go	Tests cover pinned and inherited models, reasoning-effort rules, flag ordering, and resumed or fresh child execution.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: jatmn, vasanthdev2004, gnanam1990

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The PR includes unrelated changes in internal/acp/translate.go, internal/acp/translate_test.go, and internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go. These changes address browser-title Unicode whitespa…	Remove the ACP and specialist changes from this PR, or move them to separate PRs with their corresponding linked issues.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 11 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: bounding live dictation regions in the TUI. The additional ACP and specialist changes are secondary.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR satisfies #965. internal/tui/dictation_stream.go now validates tracked bounds, prefix text, and exact rendered text before replacement or discard. Invalid or stale regions are re-anchored at …

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The PR includes unrelated changes in internal/acp/translate.go, internal/acp/translate_test.go, and internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go. These changes address browser-title Unicode whitespace handling and resume model/reasoning-effort forwarding. They do not implement or test the dictation bounds requirement in #965.

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[Vasanthdev2004]

Approving. The real fix here is the anchor change, and it is load-bearing: reverting regionAnchor from string(stateRunes[:state.cursor]) back to state.text fails TestDictationStreamingPartialWithCaretInsideExistingText. Anchoring to the whole composer meant prefix could never equal anchor once the caret sat mid-text, which is what drove the arithmetic negative.

One thing to fix before this is done, and it is about coverage rather than correctness.

Neither clamp is pinned by any test. I removed the first, then the second, then both, and every DictationStreaming test stayed green each time, including TestDictationStreamingPartialClampsRegionAfterComposerShrink, which is named for exactly the case the clamps exist to handle.

They are not decorative. With both removed, driving the region out of bounds panics in the same class as the bug this PR fixes:

region past end after shrink   PANIC: slice bounds out of range [:40] with capacity 32
negative start                 PANIC: slice bounds out of range [:-3]

So the clamps guard reachable states, and nothing stops a later refactor deleting them with CI green and reintroducing the panic. The shrink test presumably keeps the region in range through the prefix-delta path and never reaches the clamp. Setting the region out of bounds directly is enough to pin it:

m.setComposerState(composerState{text: "ab", cursor: 2})
m.dictation.regionActive = true
m.dictation.regionStart = 40
m.dictation.regionEnd = 60
m.dictation.regionAnchor = "a much longer previous composer"
m.applyStreamingText("partial text")   // panics without the clamps

A negative-start case covers the second clamp the same way.

One concern of mine that turned out to be nothing, in case it saves you the thought: the first activation slices stateRunes[:state.cursor] before regionActive is true, so it is outside the clamped branch. I checked whether currentComposerState can return a cursor past the end on the !composerActive path, where it uses m.input.Position() raw with no normalizeComposerState. It cannot; bubbles/textinput bounds the cursor on both SetValue and SetCursor, so that slice is safe.

Approving because the code is correct as written and the missing coverage does not make it wrong, but I would rather the clamps were pinned before this lands.

go test ./internal/tui passes in full.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Retracting my approval. I approved this earlier today and I was wrong: the first clamp introduces a data-loss regression that main does not have. I found it by going back over the half I had flagged as untested, which is exactly where it was hiding.

The user's own text is destroyed

Type hello world, dictate, then backspace past the live region while partials keep arriving, then cancel:

                head (dc80cecd)                      main (eeea3308)
p1     "hello world there"  [11,17)          "hello world there"  [11,17)
edits  "hello wor" cursor=9                  "hello wor" cursor=9
p2     "hello wor there friend"  [7,20)      "hello worthere friend"  [9,21)
p3     "hello there friend againiend" [5,24) "hello worthere friend again" [9,27)
cancel "helloiend"                           "hello wor"

On main the user's hello wor survives and cancel restores it exactly. On this head their wor is eaten, a stray iend is left behind, and cancel leaves helloiend. The region desyncs progressively, [11,17) to [7,20) to [5,24), so each partial deletes a span the dictation never wrote.

Why the first clamp causes it

The pre-clamp at dictation_stream.go:96-101 runs before line 122 computes prefix := string(stateRunes[:m.dictation.regionStart]). Once regionStart has been clamped down to the shrunken composer length, prefix is no longer "the text before the live region", it is a truncation of the new composer, and a truncation is almost always a prefix of the old anchor. So the delete-before-the-region branch at 134-139 fires for an edit that was not before the region, and subtracts a delta that has no meaning. The second clamp then stops the panic but leaves the region pointing at unrelated text.

The fix is smaller than the current diff

Removing only lines 96-101 and keeping the regionAnchor change restores correct behaviour and leaves your own tests green:

p3     "hello worthere friend again"  [9,27)
cancel "hello wor"
ok  github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/tui

The anchor change is the actual fix for #965, and it stands on its own: reverting just it fails TestDictationStreamingPartialWithCaretInsideExistingText with the reported slice bounds out of range [:-1]. The clamps were added as defence and the first one is doing harm instead.

If you want to keep a clamp for the genuinely out-of-range case, it needs to sit after the anchor comparison rather than before it, so the prefix is still compared against the region that actually existed. And it wants a test: I noted in my earlier review that removing either clamp left every dictation test passing, which is what let this through. That observation was right and I did not follow it far enough before approving.

Sorry for the churn on this one.

[anandh8x]

The mid-caret anchor change fixes the reported crash, but the pre-comparison clamp can corrupt user text. If the user backspaces across a live dictation region while later partials arrive, clamping before comparing the anchor makes the shrink look like an edit before the region; subsequent partials then replace normal composer text, and cancel does not restore it. Please move/remove that first clamp so anchor comparison uses the original region position, retain bounds protection only at the slice/delete boundary, and add a regression covering the shrink-plus-cancel path.

[anandh8x]

Correction to my review: the problematic value is regionStart. Clamping regionStart before the anchor comparison causes the destructive misclassification described above.

[jatmn]

I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

• [P1] Rebase onto current main before merge
  internal/tui/dictation_stream.go:93
  This branch's merge base is 27b319ca88a3180bed5183f0c599e9307f3ece12, while live main is 1b5db1765672820caac1684b168c9898b5ba3593. GitHub currently reports it mergeable, but the repository requires a fresh base before review. Please rebase and re-run the affected validation on the resolved head.

Findings

• [P1] Do not clamp a stale live region into user text
  internal/tui/dictation_stream.go:109
  The new prefix anchor only proves that the text before regionStart is unchanged; it does not prove that [regionStart, regionEnd) is still the rendered transcript. For example, after rendering a partial at cursor 1 in aOLDz, replacing the composer with ab leaves regionStart == 1 and the prefix a intact but makes regionEnd stale. The final clamp turns that old range into [1,2), so the next partial deletes the user's b. The same sequence preserves b on the merge base. Re-anchor or otherwise preserve the replacement before applying the delayed partial, and add regression coverage, so it never overwrites user text.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Approving. The regression I retracted over is gone, and I drove it rather than reading the diff.

Replayed the exact sequence through the real key path, eight tea.KeyBackspace presses through applyComposerKey rather than a stand-in, then cancel:

                HEAD 329dd123                            MAIN
p1      "hello world there"          [11,17)     "hello world there"          [11,17)
edits   "hello wor"            cur=9 [11,17)     "hello wor"            cur=9 [11,17)
p2      "hello worthere friend"       [9,21)     "hello worthere friend"       [9,21)
p3      "hello worthere friend again" [9,27)     "hello worthere friend again" [9,27)
cancel  "hello wor"                              "hello wor"

Byte-identical at every step, bounds included. The values I reported (p3 "hello there friend againiend", cancel "helloiend") do not reproduce. The mechanism is gone by construction rather than patched around it: 058ba80 deleted the pre-clamp, and 329dd12 deleted the post-clamp along with the whole prefix-versus-anchor shift switch. There is no clamp( left in dictation_stream.go.

What replaced it is better than what I asked for. Both delete sites are now gated on liveRegionMatches, which requires the span being removed to be byte-identical to what dictation actually rendered. That is an invariant main does not have, and it means this subsystem structurally cannot delete text it did not write. Driving #965 itself shows the difference: main goes [5,11) to [-1,12) to a slice bounds out of range [:-1] panic and cancels to "d there world", while head cancels to "hello world".

One thing worth knowing rather than fixing. dictation_stream.go:137, the string(stateRunes[d.regionStart:d.regionEnd]) == d.regionRendered clause, is not pinned by any test: replacing it with true leaves the dictation suite green. It is load-bearing though, and it is the sole cause of the one behaviour difference from main. When a user edits inside the live region and the bounds stay valid, head abandons the region and re-anchors, leaving the edited copy behind:

   user overtypes the dictated span (" there" -> " MINE!")
   HEAD  cancel "hello world MINE!"
   MAIN  cancel "hello world"          <- the user's " MINE!" silently deleted

So it diverges in the safe direction: head keeps bytes the user typed and leaves visible duplicate transcript, main deletes them. You cannot distinguish "fixed a typo" from "typed replacement text" at that point, so I read this as a deliberate trade rather than a defect, and blocking on it would be asking for main's data loss back.

Two things to pick up whenever, neither gating: a test pinning line 137 specifically (a same-length in-region edit with valid bounds, since every existing test short-circuits on the bounds arm first), and re-running needsLeadingSpace in the re-anchor branch so the separator space stops being orphaned. The second is present on main too.

Sorry again for the churn. The retraction was right and the fix is right.

[jatmn]

lgtm

[PierrunoYT]

PierrunoYT addressed the remaining review follow-ups in e5912c2, published at 42cf7d2.

• Verified the earlier pre-clamp/stale-region data-loss findings are already fixed by the exact rendered-region guard; retained those protections and regression cases.
• Added a same-length, valid-bounds in-region replacement regression for both immediate cancel and a delayed partial followed by cancel. This specifically pins rendered-region equality rather than short-circuiting on invalid bounds.
• Recompute needsLeadingSpace when re-anchoring, keeping the separator inside the new tracked region so cancel removes it too. Updated stale-bounds and backspace expectations; the existing whitespace-terminated shrink case still verifies no extra separator.
• Integrated current upstream main aadb4a2. Preserved the original remote PR head as an ancestor via a merge, verified the resulting tree exactly equals the validated tree, and used a normal fast-forward push (no force-push).

Regression proof:

• Without separator recomputation, updated tests fail with stale live region replaced user text: "abnext", partials replaced user text after backspace: "hello worthere friend again", and composer = "abpartial text", want "ab partial text".
• Temporarily replacing only rendered-region equality with true fails both new subtests: cancel deleted same-length user edit: "hello world" and partial deleted same-length user edit: "hello world next". Restored the guard before validation.

Validation on the published tree: make fmt-check, go vet ./..., go test ./..., go test ./internal/tui -race -run Dictation -count=1, go run ./cmd/zero-release build, go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke, make lint-static (0 issues), make vulncheck (No vulnerabilities found), and git diff HEAD --check all passed. Full-suite fixture tests used process-local GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1 GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=commit.gpgsign GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=false: the first run inherited orb signing without a fixture key, including the plugins test. The isolated retry passed. Initial resource-constrained OpenAI timing failures also passed on retry; advisory lint was rerun successfully with a memory cap after a stalled first attempt.

These are composer-state interaction changes, verified through state assertions, not layout/style changes. Local validation is Linux; cross-platform GitHub CI and automated review are running. No PR merge performed.

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internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go (1)

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Add a runResume forwarding assertion.

runResume already forwards ParentReasoningEffort, and an unpinned manifest emits it as --reasoning-effort. Add this call-site assertion:

  }, TaskRunOptions{
-   ParentSessionID: parent.SessionID,
-   ParentModel:     "claude-opus-4.1",
+   ParentSessionID:       parent.SessionID,
+   ParentModel:           "claude-opus-4.1",
+   ParentReasoningEffort: "high",
  })
+
+ effort, ok := argValue(captured, "--reasoning-effort")
+ if !ok || effort != "high" {
+   t.Fatalf("the resumed child was launched with --reasoning-effort %q (present=%t), want the parent's", effort, ok)
+ }

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/acp/translate.go`:
- Line 141: Update the Unicode-character validation in browser title origin
handling to reject all whitespace via unicode.IsSpace(r), while preserving the
existing control, format, line-separator, and paragraph-separator checks. Add a
regression test covering a percent-encoded U+00A0 in the hostname reaching the
open branch and ensure it is rejected before permissionToolCall.

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In `@internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go`:
- Around line 231-233: Add a call-site assertion in the runResume test to verify
that ParentReasoningEffort is forwarded and emitted as the --reasoning-effort
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[jatmn]

lgtm

The merge-base changed after approval.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Re-approving at 42cf7d2a. The commits since my last approval are the two things I listed as non-gating, plus a merge of main.

TestDictationStreamingSameLengthRegionEditPreserved pins the clause at dictation_stream.go:137 that nothing pinned before: a same-length overtype of the live region with valid bounds now survives both a later partial and cancel, which is the safe direction I described. And the re-anchor branch runs needsLeadingSpace, so the separator is no longer orphaned after a stale region is abandoned; the three re-anchor expectations changed from abpartial text to ab partial text to match. Nothing else moved.

internal/tui green here apart from the long-cwd title bar test that fails on main on this machine; CI 6 of 6 at this head.

The merge-base changed after approval.

[jatmn]

LGTM

The merge-base changed after approval.

[jatmn]

lgtm

[Vasanthdev2004]

Re-approving at 559fd362. Since my last approval the branch gained a merge of main and one commit.

The merge is clean in the strict sense: its tree is identical to an automatic merge of its two parents, so nothing was resolved by hand. The three dictation files have not changed since 42cf7d2a, so the sequence I drove then (type, dictate, backspace across the live region while partials arrive, cancel) still stands, and the dictation tests are green.

559fd362 is a ride-along outside this PR's title. browserTitleTextSafe now also rejects whitespace runes in the decoded origin, which closes the no-break space, em space and ideographic space spellings of the same trick the format and bidi checks were there for. It is applied to the origin only, so a path with an encoded space is unaffected. Taking the check back out fails all three new URLs on both assertions, before translation and after the wire round trip. The extra --reasoning-effort assertion in resume_model_test.go passes. Both would have been cleaner as their own PRs, but they are small and correct, so I am not going to argue the point.

Merged onto current main, which is fourteen commits ahead: build and vet clean, acp, specialist and the dictation tests green. CI 9 of 9 at this head.

For whoever merges: the changes-requested from anandh8x dates from dc80cecd and is about the pre-comparison clamp, which was removed two heads ago along with the whole shift switch. Nothing in it applies to this head.

[anandh8x]

Re-reviewed at head 93e68c7. The branch is current with main, the effective diff remains the reviewed six-file change, and all CI checks pass across Linux, macOS, and Windows. Approved.

[PierrunoYT]

Rechecked this PR at head 93e68c7:

• Current upstream main (99721c7) is already an ancestor of the branch.
• The reported dictation fixes and subsequent review requests are present. The inline review thread is resolved, and the latest reviews from all three human reviewers approve.
• All nine check runs and the CodeRabbit status pass. GitHub still reports the PR as mergeable but BLOCKED.

The active main ruleset also requires CodeQL scanning and GitHub code-quality results, neither of which appears in the visible check rollup. These are possible blockers, but I could not confirm the exact failing rule: the code-scanning APIs returned 403 and rule-suite inspection returned 404 with the available access.

Could a maintainer inspect the merge box or rule evaluation and identify the unmet requirement? No additional code change or speculative push was made, and no protection settings were changed.

Validation note: diff hygiene is clean. Local focused race tests could not run because this orb has no Go executable; the green CI results above are for the existing PR head.

[Vasanthdev2004]

@PierrunoYT it's the code-scanning rule. The main ruleset requires CodeQL results (code_scanning with CodeQL, alerts at errors and security alerts at high or higher), and fork PRs here never get a CodeQL run. This head has the nine checks every fork PR gets, while a branch in the repo also gets Analyze (actions), Analyze (ruby) and CodeQL. So nothing a fork pushes can satisfy that rule. It's the same for every community PR, not something in this one.

It needs @kevincodex1, either to merge with a bypass or to have CodeQL run on pull requests from forks. Nothing on your side to change.