fix(maestro): follow initial attach replay

xterm.js has no built-in copy-on-select; mirror onSelectionChange to
navigator.clipboard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

crates/maestro-daemon/src/worktree.rs

@@ -111,16 +111,33 @@ impl WorktreeManager {
         // Clear registrations whose directory is gone first, so a
         // previously-leaked entry doesn't push this branch to a suffix.
         prune(base_repo)?;
-        // Anything occupying the target — a tree we left behind, one the
+        let (branch, path) = if create_branch {
-        // operator made, an unrelated directory — is sidestepped with a
+            // Worktrees are commonly abandoned without deleting their branch,
-        // numeric suffix on the directory; the branch stays whatever was
+            // so a random handle can collide with one of its own past runs.
-        // requested (#77). The daemon never adopts what it finds.
+            // Unlike the `add_existing` arm below, the suffix goes on the
-        let mut path = self.target_path(base_repo, branch);
+            // branch name itself — the path is derived from it anyway.
-        let mut n = 1;
+            let mut candidate = branch.to_string();
-        while path.symlink_metadata().is_ok() {
+            let mut path = self.target_path(base_repo, &candidate);
-            n += 1;
+            let mut n = 1;
-            path = self.target_path_suffixed(base_repo, branch, n);
+            while path.symlink_metadata().is_ok() || branch_exists(base_repo, &candidate) {
-        }
+                n += 1;
+                candidate = format!("{branch}-{n}");
+                path = self.target_path(base_repo, &candidate);
+            }
+            (candidate, path)
+        } else {
+            // Existing branch: the name must stay exact, so only the
+            // directory — anything occupying it, ours or the operator's — is
+            // sidestepped with a numeric suffix (#77). The daemon never
+            // adopts what it finds.
+            let mut path = self.target_path(base_repo, branch);
+            let mut n = 1;
+            while path.symlink_metadata().is_ok() {
+                n += 1;
+                path = self.target_path_suffixed(base_repo, branch, n);
+            }
+            (branch.to_string(), path)
+        };
         // The parent (`<repo>/worktrees` or the override root) may not exist
         // yet; the target itself must not.
         if let Some(parent) = path.parent() {
@@ -129,10 +146,10 @@ impl WorktreeManager {
         let mut cmd = Command::new("git");
         cmd.arg("-C").arg(base_repo).args(["worktree", "add"]);
         if create_branch {
-            cmd.arg("-b").arg(branch).arg(&path);
+            cmd.arg("-b").arg(&branch).arg(&path);
         } else {
             // Existing branch: `worktree add <path> <branch>` with no `-b`.
-            cmd.arg(&path).arg(branch);
+            cmd.arg(&path).arg(&branch);
         }
         let out = cmd.output()?;
         check(out)?;
@@ -266,6 +283,17 @@ fn branch_relpath(branch: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
     Some(candidate.to_path_buf())
 }
 
+/// Whether `refs/heads/<branch>` already exists in `base_repo`.
+fn branch_exists(base_repo: &Path, branch: &str) -> bool {
+    Command::new("git")
+        .arg("-C")
+        .arg(base_repo)
+        .args(["show-ref", "--verify", "--quiet"])
+        .arg(format!("refs/heads/{branch}"))
+        .status()
+        .is_ok_and(|s| s.success())
+}
+
 /// `git -C <base_repo> worktree prune` — drops registrations whose directory
 /// no longer exists.
 fn prune(base_repo: &Path) -> Result<(), WorktreeError> {

crates/maestro-e2e/tests/e2e.rs

@@ -497,6 +497,57 @@ async fn occupied_path_gets_suffixed_directory_and_both_worktrees_work() {
     );
 }
 
+/// A random handle can reuse the name of a branch left behind by an earlier,
+/// already-removed worktree — `git worktree add -b` refuses outright in that
+/// case, even though the directory is free. The daemon suffixes the branch
+/// itself (not just the directory) and both land on `-2`.
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
+async fn colliding_branch_name_gets_suffixed_too() {
+    let (_daemon, client) = bring_up().await;
+
+    let base = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    init_repo(base.path());
+
+    // No worktree directory in the way, but the branch already exists.
+    run_git(&["branch", "handle"], base.path());
+
+    let s = client
+        .spawn_session(&worktree_req(base.path(), "handle", true))
+        .await
+        .expect("spawn onto a taken branch name");
+
+    let suffixed = base.path().join("worktrees").join("handle-2");
+    assert_eq!(
+        s.cwd, suffixed,
+        "the directory must follow the suffixed branch name"
+    );
+    assert!(suffixed.is_dir());
+
+    let registrations = git_worktree_list(base.path());
+    assert!(
+        registrations.iter().any(|l| l.contains("handle-2")),
+        "the -2 branch's worktree must be registered: {registrations:?}"
+    );
+
+    let branches = String::from_utf8(
+        std::process::Command::new("git")
+            .arg("-C")
+            .arg(base.path())
+            .args(["branch", "--list"])
+            .output()
+            .unwrap()
+            .stdout,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        branches.contains("handle-2"),
+        "the branch itself must be named handle-2: {branches}"
+    );
+
+    let _origin = throwaway_origin(base.path());
+    client.kill_session(s.id).await.expect("kill");
+}
+
 /// #77/#88: the target path holds a plain directory the daemon never made and
 /// git has never heard of. The daemon neither adopts it nor errors — it builds
 /// beside it and leaves every byte of it alone.

docs/SIDEBAR.md

@@ -307,9 +307,10 @@ lands on the first row it was hiding. A highlight parked on a skipped row —
 reachable by clicking a folder header — still steps to its neighbour rather
 than jumping to the end of the list.
 
-The web client needs a chord to reach the list at all (`Ctrl+Shift+H`, and the
+The web client needs a chord to reach the list at all (leader-`h` — `Ctrl+A h`
-same chord back): an attached terminal owns every plain keystroke. The TUI uses
+by default — and the same chord back): an attached terminal owns every plain
-`ctrl-w h`.
+keystroke, and Escape is left to reach the pane's shell/app instead. The TUI
+uses `ctrl-w h`.
 
 Everything else is the same key on both clients:
 

docs/WORKTREES.md

@@ -35,10 +35,18 @@ The branch name is used verbatim as a relative path, so `feature/login` becomes
 back to a short hash of the branch.
 
 If that path exists, the daemon appends `-2`, then `-3`, and so on until it finds
-a free one. The suffix names the **directory only**. The branch is whatever was
+a free one.
-requested; a second worktree of the same branch is not what happens here, because
+
-git refuses to check the same branch out twice and the branch picker already
+For a *new* branch (`create_branch: true`), the suffix goes on the branch name
-marks branches that are checked out elsewhere.
+itself, and the directory follows since it is derived from the branch — a
+random handle can otherwise reuse the name of a branch some earlier, already
+removed worktree left behind, and `git worktree add -b` refuses outright even
+though the directory is free.
+
+For an *existing* branch (`create_branch: false`) the name must stay exact, so
+only the directory is suffixed — a second worktree of the same branch is not
+what happens here, because git refuses to check the same branch out twice and
+the branch picker already marks branches that are checked out elsewhere.
 
 ### The `worktree_root` override
 

web/src/attach.ts

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ import { Terminal } from "@xterm/xterm";
 import "@xterm/xterm/css/xterm.css";
 
 import { attachWsUrl } from "./routes.js";
-import { FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT } from "./catalog.js";
-import { CommandSet, defineCommands } from "./commands.js";
 import { escapeHtml } from "./html.js";
 import { INITIAL_RECONNECT_MS, MAX_RECONNECT_MS } from "./reconnect.js";
 import { applyModsToChar, cursorSeq, tildeSeq } from "./keys.js";
@@ -14,15 +12,6 @@ import { splitCommand, toolIconSvg } from "./toolIcon.js";
 import type { ClientControl, Uuid } from "./types.js";
 import { WebglPolicy } from "./webglRenderer.js";
 
-// The pane's half of the command registry (#148): plain Escape hands the
-// keyboard back to the session list, the pair to the list's Tab.
-const paneKeys = new CommandSet(
-  defineCommands({
-    "pane.focusList": () => document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent(FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT)),
-  }),
-  { preventDefault: false },
-);
-
 /** One budget for the whole page — see webglRenderer.ts for why contexts are
  *  rationed rather than handed to every connection. */
 const webglPolicy = new WebglPolicy();
@@ -221,15 +210,6 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
     }
   }
 
-  // Plain Escape hands the keyboard back to the session list instead of the
-  // shell/app. `false` tells xterm to skip its own handling of this event —
-  // which is also why the set doesn't `preventDefault`: swallowing here is
-  // xterm's return value, not the browser's.
-  term.attachCustomKeyEventHandler((e) => {
-    if (e.type !== "keydown") return true;
-    return !paneKeys.handle(e);
-  });
-
   // Touch scrolling: xterm's built-in touch handling is jittery (drags crawl a
   // line at a time and stall), so map finger drags ourselves. Two routes:
   //   • normal buffer  → term.scrollLines walks the scrollback.
@@ -379,6 +359,9 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
   let ws: WebSocket;
   let reconnectMs = INITIAL_RECONNECT_MS;
   let reconnectTimer: number | null = null;
+  // Snapshot replay starts at row zero, which can leave Codex at its oldest line.
+  // Follow it once per socket; later scrolling remains under the operator's control.
+  let awaitingReplay = true;
 
   const sendControl = (msg: ClientControl) => {
     if (ws.readyState !== WebSocket.OPEN) return;
@@ -398,6 +381,7 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
   };
 
   function connect(): void {
+    awaitingReplay = true;
     ws = new WebSocket(attachWsUrl(sessionId));
     ws.binaryType = "arraybuffer";
 
@@ -418,10 +402,20 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
         return;
       }
       if (ev.data instanceof ArrayBuffer) {
-        term.write(new Uint8Array(ev.data));
+        const replay = awaitingReplay;
+        awaitingReplay = false;
+        term.write(new Uint8Array(ev.data), () => {
+          if (replay) term.scrollToBottom();
+        });
       } else if (ev.data instanceof Blob) {
         // Some browsers may default to Blob despite binaryType="arraybuffer".
-        ev.data.arrayBuffer().then((b) => term.write(new Uint8Array(b)));
+        void ev.data.arrayBuffer().then((b) => {
+          const replay = awaitingReplay;
+          awaitingReplay = false;
+          term.write(new Uint8Array(b), () => {
+            if (replay) term.scrollToBottom();
+          });
+        });
       }
     };
 
@@ -470,6 +464,12 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
   const resizeDisp = term.onResize(({ cols, rows }) => {
     sendControl({ type: "Resize", cols, rows });
   });
+  // xterm has no built-in copy-on-select; mirror the selection to the
+  // clipboard ourselves (best-effort — insecure contexts lack the API).
+  const selectionDisp = term.onSelectionChange(() => {
+    const text = term.getSelection();
+    if (text) void navigator.clipboard?.writeText(text).catch(() => {});
+  });
 
   window.addEventListener("resize", onResize);
   const visual = window.visualViewport ?? null;
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ export function createAttachConnection(
       visual?.removeEventListener("resize", onResize);
       dataDisp.dispose();
       resizeDisp.dispose();
+      selectionDisp.dispose();
       releaseWebgl();
       try {
         ws.close();

web/src/catalog.ts

@@ -53,10 +53,6 @@ export function requestOpenCommandBar(): void {
  *  connection pool. */
 export const FOCUS_PANE_EVENT = "catalog-focus-pane";
 
-/** Ask the shell to hand the keyboard back to the session list — what Escape
- *  does when the pane's terminal is focused. Handled in main.ts. */
-export const FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT = "catalog-focus-sidebar";
-
 /** Ask the shell to open the spawn modal seeded from an existing session
  *  ("Spawn similar"). Detail is the session being cloned. */
 export const SPAWN_SIMILAR_EVENT = "catalog-spawn-similar";

web/src/commands.test.ts

@@ -133,31 +133,28 @@ describe("CommandSet", () => {
     expect(run).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
   });
 
-  it("keeps plain keys deaf inside a form field, and chorded ones live", () => {
+  it("keeps plain keys deaf inside a form field, and leader chords live from the pane", () => {
     const plain = vi.fn();
     const chorded = vi.fn();
     const set = new CommandSet(
-      defineCommands({ "spawn.open": plain, "focus.toggle": chorded }),
+      defineCommands({ "spawn.open": plain, "focus.toggle": chorded }, DEFAULT_LEADER),
+      { leader: DEFAULT_LEADER },
     );
     const input = el("<input>");
     expect(pressOn(set, input, "n")).toBe(false);
     expect(plain).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(pressOn(set, input, "H", { ctrlKey: true, shiftKey: true })).toBe(true);
+    // focus.toggle hangs off the leader (#166): a plain, unmodified Escape is
+    // left for the pane's shell/app instead.
+    const terminal = el('<textarea class="xterm-helper-textarea"></textarea>');
+    pressOn(set, terminal, "a", { ctrlKey: true });
+    expect(pressOn(set, terminal, "h")).toBe(true);
     expect(chorded).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
   });
 
-  it("keeps pane commands live inside the terminal's textarea", () => {
+  it("leaves a plain Escape for the pane instead of binding it", () => {
-    const run = vi.fn();
+    const set = new CommandSet(defineCommands({ "spawn.open": vi.fn() }));
-    const set = new CommandSet(defineCommands({ "pane.focusList": run }), {
-      preventDefault: false,
-    });
     const textarea = el('<textarea class="xterm-helper-textarea"></textarea>');
-    const e = key("Escape");
+    expect(pressOn(set, textarea, "Escape")).toBe(false);
-    Object.defineProperty(e, "target", { value: textarea });
-    expect(set.handle(e)).toBe(true);
-    expect(run).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-    // xterm is told to swallow by the return value, not by the browser default.
-    expect(e.defaultPrevented).toBe(false);
   });
 });
 
@@ -173,6 +170,7 @@ describe("the leader", () => {
     const byId = new Map(commandSpecs("ctrl-b").map((s) => [s.id, s]));
     expect(byId.get("pane.literalCtrlK")?.keys).toEqual(["ctrl-b ctrl-k"]);
     expect(byId.get("pane.literalLeader")?.keys).toEqual(["ctrl-b ctrl-b"]);
+    expect(byId.get("focus.toggle")?.keys).toEqual(["ctrl-b h"]);
     // Commands that do not hang off the leader are untouched.
     expect(byId.get("bar.open")?.keys).toEqual(["ctrl-k"]);
   });

web/src/commands.ts

@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ const SPECS: readonly SpecSource[] = [
     id: "focus.toggle",
     label: "Move the keyboard between the session list and the pane",
     group: "Session list",
-    keys: ["ctrl-shift-h"],
+    keys: [`${DEFAULT_LEADER} h`],
+    leaderKeys: (leader) => [`${leader} h`],
     scope: "global",
   },
   {
@@ -145,13 +146,6 @@ const SPECS: readonly SpecSource[] = [
     keys: ["tab"],
     scope: "list",
   },
-  {
-    id: "pane.focusList",
-    label: "Hand the keyboard back to the session list, from the pane",
-    group: "Session list",
-    keys: ["esc"],
-    scope: "pane",
-  },
   {
     id: "help.toggle",
     label: "Show or hide this help",

web/src/layout.test.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 
 import {
   emptyLayout,
+  equalizeRatios,
   leaves,
   locateSession,
   openSessions,
@@ -44,6 +45,23 @@ describe("splitLeaf", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("equalizeRatios", () => {
+  it("resets nested splits to equal width, not just the newest one", () => {
+    const tab = tabWithOneLeaf("s1");
+    const first = leaves(tab.root)[0].id;
+    splitLeaf(tab, first, "s2", "row", true); // A|B, 0.5/0.5
+    const second = leaves(tab.root)[1].id;
+    splitLeaf(tab, second, "s3", "row", true); // A(0.5) | (B|C, 0.5/0.5) -> B,C at 0.25 each
+
+    equalizeRatios(tab.root);
+
+    const root = tab.root as Extract<typeof tab.root, { kind: "split" }>;
+    expect(root.ratio).toBeCloseTo(1 / 3);
+    const inner = root.b as Extract<typeof root.b, { kind: "split" }>;
+    expect(inner.ratio).toBeCloseTo(1 / 2);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("removeLeaf", () => {
   it("collapses the parent split into the surviving sibling", () => {
     const tab = tabWithOneLeaf("s1");

web/src/layout.ts

@@ -118,6 +118,17 @@ export function removeLeaf(tab: Tab, leafId: string): void {
   tab.root = tab.root ? rec(tab.root) : null;
 }
 
+/** Reset every split ratio under `node` so all leaves get equal width,
+ *  regardless of split direction or nesting order. Returns the leaf count. */
+export function equalizeRatios(node: Node | null): number {
+  if (!node) return 0;
+  if (node.kind === "leaf") return 1;
+  const na = equalizeRatios(node.a);
+  const nb = equalizeRatios(node.b);
+  node.ratio = na / (na + nb);
+  return na + nb;
+}
+
 export function addTab(layout: Layout): Tab {
   const tab: Tab = {
     id: freshId("t"),

web/src/main.ts

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ import { loadLayout, saveLayout } from "./persistence.js";
 import { createPreviewSchedule } from "./previewSchedule.js";
 import {
   FOCUS_PANE_EVENT,
-  FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT,
   OPEN_COMMAND_BAR_EVENT,
   OPEN_SPAWN_EVENT,
   SESSION_SELECT_EVENT,
@@ -440,10 +439,11 @@ const spawnKeys = new CommandSet(
   }),
 );
 
-// Ctrl+Shift+H moves the keyboard between the session list and the pane, the
+// Leader-h moves the keyboard between the session list and the pane, the web
-// web counterpart of the TUI's `ctrl-w h`. It has to be a chord: an attached
+// counterpart of the TUI's `ctrl-w h`. It has to be a chord behind the
-// terminal owns every plain keystroke, so nothing unmodified could ever get
+// leader: an attached terminal owns every plain keystroke, and Ctrl+Shift+H
-// the focus back out of it.
+// is already claimed by the browser (history), so nothing unmodified — or
+// modified with a common browser chord — could get the focus back out of it.
 //
 // This set also owns the leader (`[tui].leader`, `ctrl-a` by default, served
 // on `/api/info`): it holds the key as a partial chord and takes select-all off
@@ -528,8 +528,8 @@ window.addEventListener(
 );
 
 
-// Tab in the session list hands the keyboard to the pane; Escape in the pane
+// Tab in the session list hands the keyboard to the pane; leader-h (focus.toggle,
-// hands it back — the pair the TUI gets from `tab` and `esc`.
+// above) hands it back the other way.
 document.addEventListener(FOCUS_PANE_EVENT, () => {
   // Handing the keyboard to a previewed pane is choosing it: the preview stops
   // being provisional rather than snapping back the moment the list blurs.
@@ -537,10 +537,6 @@ document.addEventListener(FOCUS_PANE_EVENT, () => {
   if (previewed) focusSession(previewed);
   pool.focusTerminal();
 });
-document.addEventListener(FOCUS_SIDEBAR_EVENT, () => {
-  drawer.open(); // no-op on desktop; on mobile the list is off-canvas
-  sidebar.focusList();
-});
 
 /** Open/focus a session and reflect it in the shell chrome. Shared by the
  *  hash router and the sidebar's click-driven path (#133), which can't rely

web/src/multiview.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   activeTab,
   addTab,
   closeTab,
+  equalizeRatios,
   findLeaf,
   freshId,
   type Dir,
@@ -457,6 +458,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
     dropPreview();
     const tab = activeTab(layout);
     tab.focusedLeafId = splitLeaf(tab, leafId, null, dir, true);
+    equalizeRatios(tab.root);
     render();
   }
 
@@ -542,6 +544,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
       target.sessionId = sessionId;
     } else {
       tab.focusedLeafId = splitLeaf(tab, target.id, sessionId, "row", true);
+      equalizeRatios(tab.root);
     }
     render();
     opts.onOpenSessionsChange?.();
@@ -815,6 +818,7 @@ export function createMultiView(opts: MultiViewOptions): MultiView {
     if (source.kind === "pane" && self) removeLeaf(tab, self);
     else if (loc) removeLeaf(loc.tab, loc.leaf.id);
     tab.focusedLeafId = splitLeaf(tab, targetLeafId, sessionId, dir, after);
+    equalizeRatios(tab.root);
     render();
   }