Wait for PTY output before typing, and answer the cursor query from it

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rust/src/cli/tty_runner.rs writes its scripted input after a fixed initial_delay_secs (0.4s by default) and then reads. On Windows, ConPTY discards input written before the shell has attached its console reader, so the first line can be typed into a PTY nobody is listening to yet.

test_run_sends_script_through_pty drives cmd.exe that way and asserts on the echoed marker, so it failed whenever the shell was slower to start than the delay. That tracked test parallelism, not the platform:

$ cargo test --manifest-path rust/Cargo.toml --lib   # on main
run 1: FAILED. 1273 passed; 1 failed
run 2: FAILED. 1273 passed; 1 failed
run 3: ok.     1274 passed
run 4: FAILED. 1273 passed; 1 failed
run 5: FAILED. 1273 passed; 1 failed

The same suite is green with --test-threads=1. This is pre-existing on main and unrelated to any current branch — it just made a full local suite run unreliable.

Fix

After the configured delay, wait for the child's first output before typing the script, bounded by the remaining timeout and capped at 2s. A program that stays silent still receives the script once the window closes, so no caller can hang.

Because that readiness read is a read like any other, it answers ConPTY's Device Status Report handshake (CSI 6 n), which some Windows shells issue on startup and block on. The response was previously a bare chunk.contains handled at one site only; it now goes through DeviceStatusWatcher, which:

• carries the tail of each read so a query split across a read boundary is still answered (a read is a byte slice, not a line — the seven-byte query can arrive in pieces),
• consumes each occurrence exactly once, and
• keeps the carry bounded.

Skipping this is not theoretical: with the handshake answered at one site only, the two windows_batch_file_* tests went red immediately.

Validation

• 6 consecutive full --lib runs green after the change (main: 4 of 5 red)
• 5 new deterministic tests: every split point of the query, repeated queries, a partial query completed later, a query embedded in banner output, and an unbounded-carry guard
• cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean
• full suite: 1279 + 25 passed

Note

The readiness wait is a real behavior change to a shipped path: CommandRunner and the Claude login probes go through the same run(). It only ever waits longer before typing (never shorter), and only until first output, so it should make those flows more reliable rather than less. Worth a manual Claude login pass before merge.

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Walkthrough

The PTY runner now waits briefly for initial child output after the configured delay. It answers ConPTY cursor-position queries during this probe and in the main read loop before sending the script.

Changes

ConPTY readiness handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared device-status response rust/src/cli/tty_runner.rs	Adds a two-second readiness grace constant and a helper that responds to CSI 6 n with \x1b[1;1R and flushes the writer.
Initial output probe rust/src/cli/tty_runner.rs	Polls for the child’s first output before typing, records received data, and uses the shared helper for device-status responses in both read paths.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 53dd3

On ConPTY sessions that split the cursor-status query across reads, the child can wait indefinitely for its response and never consume the scripted input. Preserve partial escape sequences across reads before merging.

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