fix(maestro): scope assignment-skipping to wrappers that accept it

`command FOO=1 claude` and `nohup FOO=1 claude` are invalid shells (they
exec `FOO=1` as the program, exit 127), but the resolver skipped the
assignment unconditionally after any wrapper. Assignment prefixes are
only real at the start of a simple command or after a wrapper that itself
interprets them as env vars (env, sudo) or a keyword that restarts the
assignment grammar (time) — not after command, nohup, or a package
manager's subcommand, which just exec their next argument as the program.

Attach an accepts_assignment flag to each wrapper transition in both the
Rust and TS resolvers and gate the assignment-skip loop on the flag from
the most recently consumed wrapper. Extends the shared fixture with the
two reported cases plus every other wrapper transition and several nested
combinations (sudo+time valid, sudo+command / command+nohup / time+command
invalid, nohup+env valid) to lock the per-wrapper policy in for both
languages.

crates/maestro-acp/tests/fake_acp_agent.py

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Environment knobs, all optional:
   FAKE_ACP_INIT_FAIL=1    answer `initialize` with a JSON-RPC error
   FAKE_ACP_DELAY_SESSION_NEW_MS=n  wait n milliseconds before answering
                              `session/new`
+  FAKE_ACP_SESSION_NEW_GATE=path  wait for `path` to exist before answering
+                             `session/new`
   FAKE_ACP_EXIT_AFTER_NEW=1  exit 0 right after answering `session/new`
   FAKE_ACP_EXIT_ON_CANCEL=1  exit 0 on `session/cancel` (default: keep running
                              so the SIGTERM path is exercised)
@@ -133,6 +135,9 @@ for raw in sys.stdin:
             "authMethods": [],
         }})
     elif method == "session/new":
+        gate = os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_SESSION_NEW_GATE")
+        while gate and not os.path.exists(gate):
+            time.sleep(0.01)
         time.sleep(int(os.environ.get("FAKE_ACP_DELAY_SESSION_NEW_MS", "0")) / 1000)
         send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {"sessionId": session_id}})
         send(chunk("hello from fake"))

crates/maestro-daemon/src/session.rs

@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@
 //! handler interact with tmux.
 
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
+use std::future::Future;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
-use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicU64, Ordering};
+use std::pin::Pin;
-use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicU64, AtomicUsize, Ordering};
+use std::sync::{Arc, Weak};
+use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
 use chrono::Utc;
@@ -18,7 +21,7 @@ use maestro_protocol::{
     SessionStatus, SessionView, StructuredReplayEvent, TranscriptDelta, WorktreeSpec, NAME_KEY,
     NAME_SOURCE_KEY,
 };
-use tokio::sync::{broadcast, oneshot, watch, Mutex};
+use tokio::sync::{broadcast, oneshot, watch, Mutex, Notify};
 use uuid::Uuid;
 
 use crate::panes::Panes;
@@ -99,8 +102,12 @@ pub struct SessionRecord {
     /// outside the sessions lock. Daemon-local; never rides the wire.
     pub acp: Option<Arc<AcpSession>>,
     /// Open log plus its post-append live sender. Their shared lock is the
-    /// replay/live seam used by the structured WebSocket in #138.
+    /// replay/live seam used by the structured WebSocket in #138. Callers may
+    /// clone this handle under `sessions`, but must never hold either guard
+    /// while acquiring the other.
     acp_events: Option<Arc<Mutex<AcpEventStream>>>,
+    /// Latest activity snapshot applied, keyed to its originating stream.
+    structured_activity_watermark: Option<StructuredActivityWatermark>,
     /// Completion signal for the task draining ACP notifications into the
     /// event log. Shutdown waits for it before returning.
     acp_event_pump: Option<watch::Receiver<bool>>,
@@ -115,6 +122,12 @@ impl SessionRecord {
     }
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct StructuredActivityWatermark {
+    stream: Weak<Mutex<AcpEventStream>>,
+    sequence: u64,
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug)]
 struct AcpEventStream {
     log: EventLog,
@@ -126,6 +139,14 @@ struct AcpEventStream {
     /// claimed: it is queued onto ACP before another operation can proceed.
     operation: Arc<Mutex<()>>,
     dispatch: AcpDispatchState,
+    activity_sequence: u64,
+}
+
+impl AcpEventStream {
+    fn activity_snapshot(&mut self) -> (u64, ActivityState) {
+        self.activity_sequence += 1;
+        (self.activity_sequence, self.projection.activity())
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
@@ -263,9 +284,99 @@ struct Inner {
     /// Once daemon shutdown starts, it owns structured-session finalization.
     /// Background passes must not classify those deliberate exits as natural.
     shutting_down: AtomicBool,
-    /// Serializes structured creation with shutdown so every adapter child is
+    /// Admission is serialized with shutdown, while admitted handshakes run
-    /// either rejected or included in shutdown's final drain.
+    /// independently and are counted until registration or rollback finishes.
-    structured_lifecycle: Mutex<()>,
+    structured_lifecycle: StructuredLifecycle,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+struct StructuredLifecycle {
+    gate: std::sync::Mutex<()>,
+    in_flight: AtomicUsize,
+    settled: Notify,
+}
+
+impl StructuredLifecycle {
+    fn admit<'a>(
+        &'a self,
+        shutting_down: &AtomicBool,
+    ) -> Result<StructuredCreate<'a>, SessionError> {
+        let _gate = self.gate.lock().expect("structured lifecycle gate");
+        if shutting_down.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
+            return Err(SessionError::ShuttingDown);
+        }
+        self.in_flight.fetch_add(1, Ordering::AcqRel);
+        Ok(StructuredCreate { lifecycle: self })
+    }
+
+    async fn wait_until_settled(&self) {
+        loop {
+            let settled = self.settled.notified();
+            if self.in_flight.load(Ordering::Acquire) == 0 {
+                return;
+            }
+            settled.await;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+struct StructuredCreate<'a> {
+    lifecycle: &'a StructuredLifecycle,
+}
+
+impl Drop for StructuredCreate<'_> {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        if self.lifecycle.in_flight.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel) == 1 {
+            self.lifecycle.settled.notify_one();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+struct AdmittedStructuredCreate<'a> {
+    create: Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Result<Session, SessionError>> + Send + 'a>>,
+    /// Field order matters: dropping a cancelled create rolls back its inner
+    /// future before this permit releases shutdown's in-flight barrier.
+    _permit: StructuredCreate<'a>,
+}
+
+impl Future for AdmittedStructuredCreate<'_> {
+    type Output = Result<Session, SessionError>;
+
+    fn poll(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
+        self.create.as_mut().poll(cx)
+    }
+}
+
+struct PendingCreate<'a> {
+    inner: &'a Inner,
+    id: Uuid,
+    fifo_path: PathBuf,
+    worktree_path: Option<PathBuf>,
+    worktree_base_repo: Option<PathBuf>,
+    committed: bool,
+}
+
+impl PendingCreate<'_> {
+    fn commit(&mut self) {
+        self.committed = true;
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for PendingCreate<'_> {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        if self.committed {
+            return;
+        }
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&self.fifo_path);
+        if let Err(error) = self.inner.sidecar.delete(self.id) {
+            tracing::warn!(%error, id = %self.id, "rollback: failed to delete create artifacts");
+        }
+        if let (Some(base), Some(path)) = (&self.worktree_base_repo, &self.worktree_path) {
+            if let Err(error) = self.inner.worktree_mgr.remove(base, path) {
+                tracing::warn!(%error, ?path, "rollback: failed to remove worktree after partial create");
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 impl SessionManager {
@@ -309,7 +420,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
                 viewports: Mutex::new(Viewports::new()),
                 next_viewport: AtomicU64::new(0),
                 shutting_down: AtomicBool::new(false),
-                structured_lifecycle: Mutex::new(()),
+                structured_lifecycle: StructuredLifecycle::default(),
             }),
         }
     }
@@ -827,10 +938,18 @@ impl SessionManager {
     /// is on disk after the restart is truthful. tmux sessions are left
     /// alone — surviving a restart is what they are for.
     pub async fn shutdown(&self) {
-        if self.inner.shutting_down.swap(true, Ordering::AcqRel) {
+        {
-            return;
+            let _gate = self
+                .inner
+                .structured_lifecycle
+                .gate
+                .lock()
+                .expect("structured lifecycle gate");
+            if self.inner.shutting_down.swap(true, Ordering::AcqRel) {
+                return;
+            }
         }
-        let _lifecycle = self.inner.structured_lifecycle.lock().await;
+        self.inner.structured_lifecycle.wait_until_settled().await;
         let children: Vec<(Uuid, Arc<AcpSession>, Option<watch::Receiver<bool>>)> = {
             let sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
             sessions
@@ -980,11 +1099,15 @@ impl SessionManager {
     /// Spawn a new session. On success returns the freshly-created `Session`.
     pub async fn create(&self, req: CreateSessionRequest) -> Result<Session, SessionError> {
         if req.view == SessionView::Structured {
-            let _lifecycle = self.inner.structured_lifecycle.lock().await;
+            let permit = self
-            if self.inner.shutting_down.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
+                .inner
-                return Err(SessionError::ShuttingDown);
+                .structured_lifecycle
+                .admit(&self.inner.shutting_down)?;
+            return AdmittedStructuredCreate {
+                create: Box::pin(self.create_inner(req)),
+                _permit: permit,
             }
-            return self.create_inner(req).await;
+            .await;
         }
         self.create_inner(req).await
     }
@@ -1022,22 +1145,17 @@ impl SessionManager {
         // Each side effect below unwinds the ones before it on failure, so a
         // partial create never leaks a worktree or — worse — a ghost tmux
         // session with no in-memory record (NAP-260).
-        let bridge =
+        let mut pending = PendingCreate {
-            match PtyBridge::start_with_replay(fifo_path.clone(), self.inner.replay_bytes).await {
+            inner: &self.inner,
-                Ok(b) => b,
+            id,
-                Err(e) => {
+            fifo_path: fifo_path.clone(),
-                    self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
+            worktree_path: worktree_path.clone(),
-                    return Err(e.into());
+            worktree_base_repo: worktree_base_repo.clone(),
-                }
+            committed: false,
-            };
-        let mut session_env = match sanitize_env(&req.env) {
-            Ok(env) => env,
-            Err(e) => {
-                let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
-                self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
-                return Err(e);
-            }
         };
+        let bridge =
+            PtyBridge::start_with_replay(fifo_path.clone(), self.inner.replay_bytes).await?;
+        let mut session_env = sanitize_env(&req.env)?;
         // Identity + reporting target for the in-session hook (#106). Ours
         // win over whatever the request carried, so a client cannot spoof
         // another session's identity (#103).
@@ -1084,10 +1202,6 @@ impl SessionManager {
                         .await
                 };
                 if let Err(e) = spawned {
-                    // `bridge` drops at the end of this block, closing the
-                    // FIFO reader.
-                    let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
-                    self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
                     return Err(SessionError::Tmux(e));
                 }
                 (None, None)
@@ -1105,8 +1219,6 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     Err(error) => {
                         acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
                             .await;
-                        let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
-                        self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
                         return Err(SessionError::Sidecar(error));
                     }
                 };
@@ -1126,13 +1238,12 @@ impl SessionManager {
                         pending_approvals: HashMap::new(),
                         operation: Arc::new(Mutex::new(())),
                         dispatch: AcpDispatchState::default(),
+                        activity_sequence: 0,
                     })))
                 }
                 Err(e) => {
                     acp.terminate(maestro_acp::CANCEL_GRACE, maestro_acp::TERM_GRACE)
                         .await;
-                    let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
-                    self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
                     return Err(SessionError::Sidecar(e));
                 }
             }
@@ -1201,9 +1312,6 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     let _ = tmux_blocking(move || tmux.kill_session(id)).await;
                 }
             }
-            let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&fifo_path);
-            let _ = self.inner.sidecar.delete(id);
-            self.rollback_worktree(&worktree_base_repo, &worktree_path);
             return Err(SessionError::Sidecar(e));
         }
 
@@ -1213,6 +1321,11 @@ impl SessionManager {
             .map(|(acp, events)| (acp.clone(), events.clone()));
         {
             let mut sessions = self.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            let event_pump = event_pump.map(|(acp, events)| {
+                let done = start_acp_event_pump(&self.inner, id, &acp, events.clone());
+                start_acp_permission_pump(&self.inner, id, &acp, events);
+                done
+            });
             sessions.insert(
                 id,
                 SessionRecord {
@@ -1229,17 +1342,11 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     awaiting_suppressed: false,
                     acp,
                     acp_events,
-                    acp_event_pump: None,
+                    structured_activity_watermark: None,
+                    acp_event_pump: event_pump,
                 },
             );
         }
-        if let Some((acp, events)) = event_pump {
-            let done = start_acp_event_pump(&self.inner, id, &acp, events.clone());
-            start_acp_permission_pump(&self.inner, id, &acp, events);
-            if let Some(record) = self.inner.sessions.lock().await.get_mut(&id) {
-                record.acp_event_pump = Some(done);
-            }
-        }
         let _ = self.inner.events.send(CatalogEvent::SessionAdded {
             session: session.clone(),
         });
@@ -1264,19 +1371,10 @@ impl SessionManager {
             }
         }
 
+        pending.commit();
         Ok(session)
     }
 
-    /// Best-effort removal of a worktree created earlier in `create` when a
-    /// later step fails. No-op when the request had no worktree.
-    fn rollback_worktree(&self, base: &Option<PathBuf>, path: &Option<PathBuf>) {
-        if let (Some(base), Some(path)) = (base, path) {
-            if let Err(e) = self.inner.worktree_mgr.remove(base, path) {
-                tracing::warn!(error = %e, ?path, "rollback: failed to remove worktree after partial create");
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     /// Kill a session and remove its on-disk artifacts.
     ///
     /// Refused (#79) when the session's worktree holds unsaved work —
@@ -1456,6 +1554,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     // daemon; only tmux-backed sessions can be adopted.
                     acp: None,
                     acp_events: None,
+                    structured_activity_watermark: None,
                     acp_event_pump: None,
                 },
             );
@@ -1577,6 +1676,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
                             pending_approvals: HashMap::new(),
                             operation: Arc::new(Mutex::new(())),
                             dispatch: AcpDispatchState::default(),
+                            activity_sequence: 0,
                         })))
                     }
                     Err(error) => {
@@ -1624,6 +1724,7 @@ impl SessionManager {
                     awaiting_suppressed: false,
                     acp,
                     acp_events,
+                    structured_activity_watermark: None,
                     acp_event_pump: None,
                 },
             );
@@ -2044,57 +2145,59 @@ async fn sync_structured_activity_from_stream(
     id: Uuid,
     events: Arc<Mutex<AcpEventStream>>,
 ) {
-    let event_stream = events.lock().await;
+    let (sequence, raw) = events.lock().await.activity_snapshot();
-    let raw = event_stream.projection.activity();
+    apply_structured_activity(inner, id, Some((&events, sequence)), raw).await;
-    // Stream state must stay fixed until its catalog transition is applied;
-    // every other path releases `sessions` before awaiting this stream lock.
-    apply_structured_activity(inner, id, Some(&events), raw).await;
 }
 
 async fn apply_structured_activity(
     inner: &Arc<Inner>,
     id: Uuid,
-    expected_events: Option<&Arc<Mutex<AcpEventStream>>>,
+    expected_events: Option<(&Arc<Mutex<AcpEventStream>>, u64)>,
     raw: ActivityState,
 ) {
-    let updated = {
+    let mut sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
-        let mut sessions = inner.sessions.lock().await;
+    let Some(record) = sessions.get_mut(&id) else {
-        let Some(record) = sessions.get_mut(&id) else {
+        return;
-            return;
-        };
-        if record.session.view != SessionView::Structured {
-            return;
-        }
-        let current_events = record.acp_events.as_ref();
-        let stream_matches = match (expected_events, current_events) {
-            (Some(expected), Some(current)) => Arc::ptr_eq(expected, current),
-            (None, None) => true,
-            _ => false,
-        };
-        if !stream_matches {
-            return;
-        }
-        let raw = if record.session.status == SessionStatus::Dead {
-            ActivityState::Error
-        } else {
-            raw
-        };
-        let activity = crate::activity::apply_focus_suppression(
-            raw,
-            record.focused_since,
-            std::time::Instant::now(),
-            &mut record.awaiting_suppressed,
-        );
-        if record.session.activity == activity {
-            None
-        } else {
-            record.session.activity = activity;
-            record.session.activity_since = Utc::now();
-            Some(record.session.clone())
-        }
     };
-    if let Some(session) = updated {
+    if record.session.view != SessionView::Structured {
-        let _ = inner.events.send(CatalogEvent::SessionUpdated { session });
+        return;
+    }
+    let current_events = record.acp_events.as_ref();
+    match (expected_events, current_events) {
+        (Some((expected, sequence)), Some(current)) if Arc::ptr_eq(expected, current) => {
+            let stream = Arc::downgrade(current);
+            if record
+                .structured_activity_watermark
+                .as_ref()
+                .is_some_and(|watermark| {
+                    watermark.stream.ptr_eq(&stream) && sequence < watermark.sequence
+                })
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+            record.structured_activity_watermark =
+                Some(StructuredActivityWatermark { stream, sequence });
+        }
+        (None, None) => {}
+        _ => return,
+    }
+    let raw = if record.session.status == SessionStatus::Dead {
+        ActivityState::Error
+    } else {
+        raw
+    };
+    let activity = crate::activity::apply_focus_suppression(
+        raw,
+        record.focused_since,
+        std::time::Instant::now(),
+        &mut record.awaiting_suppressed,
+    );
+    if record.session.activity != activity {
+        record.session.activity = activity;
+        record.session.activity_since = Utc::now();
+        let _ = inner.events.send(CatalogEvent::SessionUpdated {
+            session: record.session.clone(),
+        });
     }
 }
 
@@ -2771,16 +2874,17 @@ mod tests {
         PermissionOption, PermissionOptionKind, RequestPermissionOutcome, RequestPermissionRequest,
         ToolCallUpdate, ToolCallUpdateFields,
     };
-    use maestro_protocol::{ActivityState, CreateSessionRequest, SessionView};
+    use maestro_protocol::{ActivityState, CatalogEvent, CreateSessionRequest, SessionView};
 
     use super::{
-        cancel_pending_approvals, permission_outcome, record_permission_request,
+        apply_structured_activity, cancel_pending_approvals, permission_outcome,
-        run_structured_activity_pass, sync_structured_activity_from_stream, AcpDispatchState,
+        record_permission_request, run_structured_activity_pass,
-        AcpEventStream, ApprovalDecision, RecordOutcome, SessionManager,
+        sync_structured_activity_from_stream, AcpDispatchState, AcpEventStream, ApprovalDecision,
+        RecordOutcome, SessionManager,
     };
     use crate::activity::FOCUS_CLEAR_HOLD;
     use crate::panes::FakePanes;
-    use crate::projection::Projection;
+    use crate::projection::{Projection, TurnLifecycle};
     use crate::sidecar::{
         EventCursor, EventLog, FaultyLogSink, PersistedEvent, SharedBuf, SidecarStore,
     };
@@ -2809,6 +2913,7 @@ mod tests {
             pending_approvals: std::collections::HashMap::new(),
             operation: std::sync::Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(())),
             dispatch: AcpDispatchState::default(),
+            activity_sequence: 0,
         }
     }
 
@@ -2965,6 +3070,87 @@ mod tests {
             .expect("terminal resize remains available");
     }
 
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn structured_activity_releases_stream_before_waiting_for_catalog() {
+        let (_state, manager, _panes, structured_id, events, _terminal_id) =
+            manager_with_structured_stream().await;
+        let sessions = manager.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+        let sync =
+            sync_structured_activity_from_stream(&manager.inner, structured_id, events.clone());
+        tokio::pin!(sync);
+        assert!(matches!(futures_util::poll!(sync.as_mut()), Poll::Pending));
+
+        assert!(
+            events.try_lock().is_ok(),
+            "activity sync held the event stream while waiting for the catalog"
+        );
+
+        drop(sessions);
+        tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(1), sync)
+            .await
+            .expect("activity sync did not finish");
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn newer_structured_activity_snapshot_cannot_be_overtaken() {
+        let (_state, manager, _panes, structured_id, events, _terminal_id) =
+            manager_with_structured_stream().await;
+        let mut catalog = manager.events();
+        manager
+            .inner
+            .sessions
+            .lock()
+            .await
+            .get_mut(&structured_id)
+            .unwrap()
+            .focused_since = None;
+
+        let (older_sequence, older_activity) = events.lock().await.activity_snapshot();
+        let (newer_sequence, newer_activity) = {
+            let mut event_stream = events.lock().await;
+            let turn = event_stream.projection.active_turn().unwrap();
+            event_stream.projection.clear_approval();
+            event_stream
+                .projection
+                .turn_lifecycle(TurnLifecycle::Finish, turn);
+            event_stream.activity_snapshot()
+        };
+
+        apply_structured_activity(
+            &manager.inner,
+            structured_id,
+            Some((&events, newer_sequence)),
+            newer_activity,
+        )
+        .await;
+        apply_structured_activity(
+            &manager.inner,
+            structured_id,
+            Some((&events, older_sequence)),
+            older_activity,
+        )
+        .await;
+
+        let CatalogEvent::SessionUpdated { session } = catalog.try_recv().unwrap() else {
+            panic!("unexpected catalog event");
+        };
+        assert_eq!(session.activity, ActivityState::Idle);
+        assert!(matches!(
+            catalog.try_recv(),
+            Err(tokio::sync::broadcast::error::TryRecvError::Empty)
+        ));
+        assert_eq!(
+            manager
+                .snapshot()
+                .await
+                .into_iter()
+                .find(|session| session.id == structured_id)
+                .unwrap()
+                .activity,
+            ActivityState::Idle
+        );
+    }
+
     #[tokio::test]
     async fn delayed_activity_from_a_replaced_stream_is_discarded() {
         let (_state, manager, _panes, structured_id, old_events, _terminal_id) =
@@ -2998,6 +3184,73 @@ mod tests {
         ));
     }
 
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn replacement_accepts_new_activity_after_a_high_old_watermark() {
+        let (_state, manager, _panes, structured_id, old_events, _terminal_id) =
+            manager_with_structured_stream().await;
+        let replacement = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(stream(
+            manager
+                .inner
+                .sidecar
+                .open_events(uuid::Uuid::new_v4())
+                .expect("open replacement event log"),
+        )));
+        manager
+            .inner
+            .sessions
+            .lock()
+            .await
+            .get_mut(&structured_id)
+            .unwrap()
+            .focused_since = None;
+        let _ = old_events.lock().await.activity_snapshot();
+        let (old_high_sequence, old_high_activity) = old_events.lock().await.activity_snapshot();
+        apply_structured_activity(
+            &manager.inner,
+            structured_id,
+            Some((&old_events, old_high_sequence)),
+            old_high_activity,
+        )
+        .await;
+        let (delayed_old_sequence, delayed_old_activity) =
+            old_events.lock().await.activity_snapshot();
+
+        {
+            let mut sessions = manager.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+            let record = sessions.get_mut(&structured_id).unwrap();
+            record.acp_events = Some(replacement.clone());
+            record.session.activity = ActivityState::Error;
+        }
+
+        let (new_sequence, new_activity) = replacement.lock().await.activity_snapshot();
+        assert!(new_sequence < old_high_sequence);
+        apply_structured_activity(
+            &manager.inner,
+            structured_id,
+            Some((&replacement, new_sequence)),
+            new_activity,
+        )
+        .await;
+        apply_structured_activity(
+            &manager.inner,
+            structured_id,
+            Some((&old_events, delayed_old_sequence)),
+            delayed_old_activity,
+        )
+        .await;
+
+        let sessions = manager.inner.sessions.lock().await;
+        let record = sessions.get(&structured_id).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(record.session.activity, ActivityState::Idle);
+        let watermark = record.structured_activity_watermark.as_ref().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(watermark.sequence, new_sequence);
+        assert!(watermark.stream.ptr_eq(&Arc::downgrade(&replacement)));
+        assert!(Arc::ptr_eq(
+            record.acp_events.as_ref().unwrap(),
+            &replacement
+        ));
+    }
+
     /// A handle that can never append *or* roll back: opened read-only, so
     /// both `write_all` and the rollback `truncate` fail with the OS's own
     /// error (`ftruncate` requires a writable fd too) instead of a

crates/maestro-daemon/tests/acp.rs

@@ -950,6 +950,191 @@ async fn shutdown_waits_for_structured_creation_and_rejects_new_creates() {
     assert_eq!(fake.log().matches("signal SIGTERM").count(), 1);
 }
 
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn structured_handshakes_run_independently() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let blocked = Fake::new();
+    let ready = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let gate = cwd.path().join("release-first");
+    let mut blocked_env = blocked.env();
+    blocked_env.insert(
+        "FAKE_ACP_SESSION_NEW_GATE".into(),
+        gate.to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+    );
+
+    let first_cwd = cwd.path().to_path_buf();
+    let manager = fx.manager.clone();
+    let first =
+        tokio::spawn(async move { manager.create(structured(&first_cwd, blocked_env)).await });
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        blocked.log().contains("recv session/new")
+    })
+    .await;
+
+    let second = tokio::time::timeout(
+        Duration::from_secs(5),
+        fx.manager.create(structured(cwd.path(), ready.env())),
+    )
+    .await
+    .expect("second handshake was blocked by the first")
+    .expect("second create");
+    assert_eq!(second.status, SessionStatus::Running);
+    assert!(!first.is_finished(), "the gate must still block the first");
+
+    std::fs::write(&gate, b"release").unwrap();
+    let first = first.await.expect("first task").expect("first create");
+    fx.manager.kill(first.id, false).await.expect("kill first");
+    fx.manager
+        .kill(second.id, false)
+        .await
+        .expect("kill second");
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn shutdown_waits_for_every_admitted_structured_create() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let a = Fake::new();
+    let b = Fake::new();
+    let late = Fake::new();
+    let cwd = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    let gate_a = cwd.path().join("release-a");
+    let gate_b = cwd.path().join("release-b");
+    let mut env_a = a.env();
+    let mut env_b = b.env();
+    env_a.insert(
+        "FAKE_ACP_SESSION_NEW_GATE".into(),
+        gate_a.to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+    );
+    env_b.insert(
+        "FAKE_ACP_SESSION_NEW_GATE".into(),
+        gate_b.to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+    );
+
+    let create_a = {
+        let manager = fx.manager.clone();
+        let cwd = cwd.path().to_path_buf();
+        tokio::spawn(async move { manager.create(structured(&cwd, env_a)).await })
+    };
+    let create_b = {
+        let manager = fx.manager.clone();
+        let cwd = cwd.path().to_path_buf();
+        tokio::spawn(async move { manager.create(structured(&cwd, env_b)).await })
+    };
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        a.log().contains("recv session/new") && b.log().contains("recv session/new")
+    })
+    .await;
+
+    let shutdown = {
+        let manager = fx.manager.clone();
+        tokio::spawn(async move { manager.shutdown().await })
+    };
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        matches!(
+            fx.manager.create(structured(cwd.path(), late.env())).await,
+            Err(maestro_daemon::SessionError::ShuttingDown)
+        )
+    })
+    .await;
+    assert!(!shutdown.is_finished());
+
+    std::fs::write(&gate_a, b"release").unwrap();
+    let session_a = create_a.await.expect("create a task").expect("create a");
+    assert!(
+        !shutdown.is_finished(),
+        "shutdown ignored the second create"
+    );
+
+    std::fs::write(&gate_b, b"release").unwrap();
+    let session_b = create_b.await.expect("create b task").expect("create b");
+    shutdown.await.expect("shutdown task");
+
+    wait_for_exit(a.pid()).await;
+    wait_for_exit(b.pid()).await;
+    assert_eq!(
+        fx.manager.status(session_a.id).await,
+        Some(SessionStatus::Dead)
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        fx.manager.status(session_b.id).await,
+        Some(SessionStatus::Dead)
+    );
+}
+
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn cancelling_a_structured_handshake_rolls_back_and_settles_admission() {
+    let fx = DaemonFixture::new();
+    let fake = Fake::new();
+    let repo = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+    init_repo(repo.path());
+    let gate = repo.path().join("release-create");
+    let mut env = fake.env();
+    env.insert("FAKE_ACP_ECHO_ENV".into(), "MAESTRO_SESSION_ID".into());
+    env.insert(
+        "FAKE_ACP_SESSION_NEW_GATE".into(),
+        gate.to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+    );
+    let request = CreateSessionRequest {
+        view: SessionView::Structured,
+        cwd: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
+        command: "claude".into(),
+        env,
+        metadata: HashMap::new(),
+        worktree: Some(WorktreeSpec {
+            base_repo: repo.path().to_path_buf(),
+            branch: "cancelled-create".into(),
+            create_branch: true,
+        }),
+    };
+
+    let create = {
+        let manager = fx.manager.clone();
+        tokio::spawn(async move { manager.create(request).await })
+    };
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        fake.log().contains("recv session/new")
+    })
+    .await;
+    let id = fake
+        .log()
+        .lines()
+        .find_map(|line| line.strip_prefix("env MAESTRO_SESSION_ID="))
+        .and_then(|id| uuid::Uuid::parse_str(id).ok())
+        .expect("session id in adapter log");
+    let pid = fake.pid();
+
+    create.abort();
+    let shutdown = {
+        let manager = fx.manager.clone();
+        tokio::spawn(async move { manager.shutdown().await })
+    };
+    assert!(create.await.unwrap_err().is_cancelled());
+    tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), shutdown)
+        .await
+        .expect("cancelled admission kept shutdown waiting")
+        .expect("shutdown task");
+    wait_for_exit(pid).await;
+    wait_for_async(Duration::from_secs(5), || async {
+        !fx.fifo_dir().join(format!("{id}.fifo")).exists()
+            && !repo.path().join("cancelled-create").exists()
+    })
+    .await;
+    assert!(fx.manager.snapshot().await.is_empty());
+    let id = id.to_string();
+    assert!(
+        std::fs::read_dir(fx.sidecar_dir())
+            .into_iter()
+            .flatten()
+            .all(|entry| !entry
+                .unwrap()
+                .file_name()
+                .to_string_lossy()
+                .starts_with(&id)),
+        "cancelled create left a sidecar artifact"
+    );
+}
+
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn shutdown_drains_final_notifications_to_the_log() {
     let fx = DaemonFixture::new();

crates/maestro-protocol/src/display.rs

@@ -166,45 +166,32 @@ pub fn merge_linear<T>(folder: TreeFolder<T>) -> TreeFolder<T> {
     cur
 }
 
-/// Command wrappers that run another program: the program is what follows.
-const WRAPPERS: [&str; 8] = [
-    "sudo", "env", "npx", "bunx", "uvx", "pnpm", "yarn", "command",
-];
-
 /// The program a command line runs, basenamed and stripped of its arguments —
 /// what a session card shows per `docs/SIDEBAR.md`, which names the program
 /// and never its flags. Leading `FOO=bar` assignments and wrappers (`sudo`,
-/// `npx`, `pnpm dlx`, …) are looked through. Mirrors the web's `splitCommand`.
+/// `npx`, `pnpm dlx`, …) are looked through, and quoting/escaping is honoured
+/// (never evaluated — no `$var`/`` `cmd` ``/`$(cmd)` expansion). A command a
+/// shell would need real grammar for (pipelines, `&&`/`;`, redirections,
+/// substitution, an unterminated quote) falls back to the naive first word
+/// rather than guessing through it (#199). Mirrors the web's `splitCommand`.
 pub fn command_program(command: &str) -> String {
-    let words: Vec<&str> = command.split_whitespace().collect();
+    match resolve(command) {
-    let mut i = 0;
+        Some(r) => match r.words.get(r.program_index) {
-    while i < words.len() {
+            Some(word) => basename(word).to_string(),
-        let word = words[i];
+            // Nothing but wrappers and assignments: say what was there
-        if is_env_assignment(word) {
+            // rather than rendering an empty fragment.
-            i += 1;
+            None => command.trim().to_string(),
-            continue;
+        },
-        }
+        None => legacy_first_word(command),
-        let wrapper = basename(word).to_lowercase();
-        if WRAPPERS.contains(&wrapper.as_str()) {
-            i += 1;
-            if (wrapper == "pnpm" || wrapper == "yarn") && words.get(i) == Some(&"dlx") {
-                i += 1;
-            }
-            continue;
-        }
-        break;
-    }
-    match words.get(i) {
-        Some(word) => basename(word).to_string(),
-        // Nothing but wrappers and assignments: say what was there rather than
-        // rendering an empty fragment.
-        None => command.trim().to_string(),
     }
 }
 
 /// Program name (already basenamed and lowercased) -> the tool id its mark
 /// stands for. Mirrors the web's `BY_PROGRAM` in `web/src/toolIcon.ts`;
 /// recognition is deliberately narrow, so an unrecognised program has no tool.
+/// `claude-code-acp` — the daemon's actual structured-session child — is
+/// deliberately absent: the daemon launches it directly and ignores
+/// `req.command`, so it is never itself a valid user-facing launch form.
 const BY_PROGRAM: [(&str, &str); 17] = [
     ("claude", "claude"),
     ("claude-code", "claude"),
@@ -226,29 +213,491 @@ const BY_PROGRAM: [(&str, &str); 17] = [
 ];
 
 /// The tool id a command line's icon stands for (`claude`, `codex`,
-/// `opencode`, ...), or `None` when the program is not one we have a mark for.
+/// `opencode`, ...), or `None` when the program is not one we have a mark for
-/// The command bar matches this field (`docs/COMMAND-BAR.md`), so it must name
+/// — including a command line [`resolve`] would only guess at. The command
-/// the same tools the web's `splitCommand().tool` does.
+/// bar matches this field (`docs/COMMAND-BAR.md`), so it must name the same
+/// tools the web's `splitCommand().tool` does.
 pub fn command_tool(command: &str) -> Option<&'static str> {
-    let program = command_program(command).to_lowercase();
+    let r = resolve(command)?;
+    let program = basename(r.words.get(r.program_index)?).to_lowercase();
     BY_PROGRAM
         .iter()
         .find(|(name, _)| *name == program)
         .map(|(_, tool)| *tool)
 }
 
-/// `FOO=bar`, the shell's own prefix for one command's environment.
+/// [`resolve`]'s outcome: the tokenized command line, and the index within it
-fn is_env_assignment(word: &str) -> bool {
+/// of the word that is the actual program (past every assignment/wrapper it
-    let mut chars = word.chars();
+/// resolved through).
+struct Resolution {
+    words: Vec<String>,
+    program_index: usize,
+}
+
+/// Tokenize `command` and walk past leading `FOO=bar` assignments and known
+/// wrapper forms (interleaved in any order/count) to find the program. An
+/// assignment run is only consumed at the very start of the line or right
+/// after a wrapper whose own semantics accept one there ([`Wrapper::accepts_assignment`]) —
+/// `command FOO=1 claude` and `nohup FOO=1 claude` stop at `FOO=1` rather than
+/// skipping to `claude`, since `command`/`nohup` just exec their next argument
+/// as the program, they don't setenv from an assignment-shaped one (#199).
+/// `None` when [`tokenize`] can't safely make sense of the line at all.
+fn resolve(command: &str) -> Option<Resolution> {
+    let words = tokenize(command)?;
+    let refs: Vec<&str> = words.iter().map(|w| w.text.as_str()).collect();
+    let mut i = 0;
+    let mut assignment_allowed = true;
+    loop {
+        if assignment_allowed {
+            while matches!(words.get(i), Some(word) if is_env_assignment(word)) {
+                i += 1;
+            }
+        }
+        let Some(word) = words.get(i) else { break };
+        let wrapper = basename(&word.text).to_lowercase();
+        let Some(w) = wrapper_resolver(&wrapper) else {
+            break;
+        };
+        match (w.resolve)(&refs, i) {
+            Some(next) if next > i => {
+                i = next;
+                assignment_allowed = w.accepts_assignment;
+            }
+            // Not a form of the wrapper we recognise (an unknown option, or
+            // — for `pnpm`/`yarn`/`bun` — no `dlx`/`x` subcommand behind it):
+            // the wrapper word itself is the program, not a launcher.
+            _ => break,
+        }
+    }
+    Some(Resolution {
+        words: words.into_iter().map(|w| w.text).collect(),
+        program_index: i,
+    })
+}
+
+/// The naive "first whitespace word, basenamed" reading used only when
+/// [`tokenize`] rejects the line outright — still something sane to show,
+/// never a wrapper/tool match to act on.
+fn legacy_first_word(command: &str) -> String {
+    match command.split_whitespace().next() {
+        Some(word) => basename(word).to_string(),
+        None => command.trim().to_string(),
+    }
+}
+
+/// One token from [`tokenize`]: its dequoted text, and — when both the name
+/// and `=` were entirely unquoted/unescaped in the source — the byte length
+/// of the name. Quoting or escaping either (`"FOO"=1`, `F\OO=1`, `FOO\=1`)
+/// makes the word an executable named `FOO=1`; quoting/escaping only the value
+/// preserves the assignment, matching Bash's assignment-word grammar (#199).
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+struct Word {
+    text: String,
+    plain_eq: Option<usize>,
+}
+
+/// Word-split `command` the way a shell would (honouring `'…'`, `"…"` and
+/// `\` quoting/escaping — POSIX quote *removal*, not evaluation) and return
+/// `None` the moment it needs real shell grammar this resolver doesn't
+/// attempt: a pipeline/list operator (`|`, `&`, `;`, `<`, `>`), a subshell or
+/// substitution (`(`, `)`, `` ` ``, `$(`), an unescaped newline (a command
+/// separator, like `;` — #199), or an unterminated quote/escape. Never
+/// expands `$var`/`` `cmd` ``/`$(cmd)` — a bare `$` is kept literal. A
+/// backslash immediately before a newline, quoted or not, is a line
+/// continuation: removed entirely rather than embedding the newline or
+/// ending the word (#199).
+fn tokenize(command: &str) -> Option<Vec<Word>> {
+    let mut words = Vec::new();
+    let mut current = String::new();
+    let mut has_current = false;
+    let mut plain_eq: Option<usize> = None;
+    let mut assignment_name_is_plain = true;
+    let mut chars = command.chars().peekable();
+
+    while let Some(c) = chars.next() {
+        match c {
+            ' ' | '\t' | '\r' => {
+                if has_current {
+                    words.push(Word {
+                        text: std::mem::take(&mut current),
+                        plain_eq: plain_eq.take(),
+                    });
+                    has_current = false;
+                    assignment_name_is_plain = true;
+                }
+            }
+            '\n' => return None,
+            '|' | '&' | ';' | '<' | '>' | '(' | ')' | '`' => return None,
+            '$' if chars.peek() == Some(&'(') => return None,
+            '\'' => {
+                has_current = true;
+                if plain_eq.is_none() {
+                    assignment_name_is_plain = false;
+                }
+                loop {
+                    match chars.next() {
+                        Some('\'') => break,
+                        Some(c2) => current.push(c2),
+                        None => return None, // unterminated single quote
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            '"' => {
+                has_current = true;
+                if plain_eq.is_none() {
+                    assignment_name_is_plain = false;
+                }
+                loop {
+                    match chars.next() {
+                        Some('"') => break,
+                        Some('\\') => match chars.next() {
+                            Some(c2 @ ('"' | '\\' | '$' | '`')) => current.push(c2),
+                            Some('\n') => {} // line continuation, removed entirely
+                            Some(c2) => {
+                                current.push('\\');
+                                current.push(c2);
+                            }
+                            None => return None, // trailing backslash
+                        },
+                        Some(c2) => current.push(c2),
+                        None => return None, // unterminated double quote
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            '\\' => match chars.next() {
+                Some('\n') => {} // line continuation, removed entirely
+                Some(c2) => {
+                    has_current = true;
+                    if plain_eq.is_none() {
+                        assignment_name_is_plain = false;
+                    }
+                    current.push(c2);
+                }
+                None => return None, // trailing backslash
+            },
+            other => {
+                has_current = true;
+                if other == '=' && plain_eq.is_none() && assignment_name_is_plain {
+                    plain_eq = Some(current.len());
+                }
+                current.push(other);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    if has_current {
+        words.push(Word {
+            text: current,
+            plain_eq,
+        });
+    }
+    Some(words)
+}
+
+/// A wrapper's known `-`/`--` options: which take no value, and which
+/// consume either a following word or a `--flag=value` as theirs. A
+/// `-`-prefixed word this table doesn't know halts resolution rather than
+/// guessing past it (#199) — callers read that as [`OptionTable::consume`]
+/// returning `None`.
+struct OptionTable {
+    flags: &'static [&'static str],
+    valued: &'static [&'static str],
+    /// Whether this wrapper's short options may be combined (`-iv`) or take
+    /// an attached value (`-uroot`), the way real getopt-based tools do
+    /// (#199). JS-toolchain wrappers (`npx`, `pnpm`, `yarn`, bun's `x`/
+    /// `dlx`) don't get this — guessing at bundling they don't actually
+    /// support would resolve through options they'd reject outright.
+    bundles_short_options: bool,
+}
+
+impl OptionTable {
+    /// Consume this table's options starting at `words[i]`, returning the
+    /// index just past them (which may equal `i` if there are none) — or
+    /// `None` on an option this table doesn't recognise, or a valued option
+    /// missing its operand.
+    fn consume(&self, words: &[&str], mut i: usize) -> Option<usize> {
+        loop {
+            let Some(&word) = words.get(i) else {
+                return Some(i);
+            };
+            if word == "--" {
+                return Some(i + 1);
+            }
+            if word == "-" || !word.starts_with('-') {
+                return Some(i);
+            }
+            if let Some((flag, value)) = word.split_once('=') {
+                return if self.valued.contains(&flag) && !value.is_empty() {
+                    i += 1;
+                    continue;
+                } else {
+                    None
+                };
+            }
+            if self.flags.contains(&word) {
+                i += 1;
+                continue;
+            }
+            if self.valued.contains(&word) {
+                let value = words.get(i + 1)?;
+                if value.is_empty() || value.starts_with('-') {
+                    return None;
+                }
+                i += 2;
+                continue;
+            }
+            if self.bundles_short_options
+                && !word.starts_with("--")
+                && word.len() > 2
+                && self.matches_short_cluster(word)
+            {
+                i += 1;
+                continue;
+            }
+            return None;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// `-iv` (bundled boolean short flags) or `-uroot` (a valued short
+    /// option with its value attached) — getopt's traditional short-option
+    /// forms. `false` the moment a character isn't a short option this
+    /// table knows, or a valued one ends the word with no attached value
+    /// left to be its operand (#199: rejected rather than guessed to come
+    /// from the next word instead).
+    fn matches_short_cluster(&self, word: &str) -> bool {
+        if !word.is_ascii() {
+            return false;
+        }
+        let bytes = word.as_bytes();
+        let mut buf = [b'-', 0];
+        let mut idx = 1;
+        while idx < bytes.len() {
+            buf[1] = bytes[idx];
+            let short = std::str::from_utf8(&buf).expect("ascii buffer");
+            if self.flags.contains(&short) {
+                idx += 1;
+                continue;
+            }
+            if self.valued.contains(&short) {
+                return idx + 1 < bytes.len();
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
+        true
+    }
+}
+
+const NO_OPTIONS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &[],
+    valued: &[],
+    bundles_short_options: false,
+};
+
+const ENV_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &[
+        "-i",
+        "--ignore-environment",
+        "-0",
+        "--null",
+        "-v",
+        "--debug",
+    ],
+    valued: &["-u", "--unset", "-C", "--chdir"],
+    bundles_short_options: true,
+};
+
+const SUDO_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &[
+        "-i",
+        "--login",
+        "-n",
+        "--non-interactive",
+        "-E",
+        "--preserve-env",
+        "-H",
+        "--set-home",
+        "-A",
+        "--askpass",
+        "-b",
+        "--background",
+        "-k",
+        "--reset-timestamp",
+        "-K",
+        "--remove-timestamp",
+        "-S",
+        "--stdin",
+    ],
+    valued: &["-u", "--user", "-g", "--group"],
+    bundles_short_options: true,
+};
+
+/// `-v`/`-V` only print what would run — they never execute it — so
+/// resolving through them would claim a program runs that `command` never
+/// launches (#199). Only `-p`, which still executes normally, is safe to
+/// look through.
+const COMMAND_BUILTIN_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &["-p"],
+    valued: &[],
+    bundles_short_options: true,
+};
+
+/// The bash *keyword* `time` only ever parses `-p` (POSIX output format);
+/// `-o`/`-v`/`-a`/`-f`/`--verbose`/... belong to the external GNU
+/// `/usr/bin/time`, a different program a bare `time` word doesn't
+/// necessarily name. Assuming them here would be guessing which `time`
+/// resolves (#199).
+fn resolve_time(words: &[&str], i: usize) -> Option<usize> {
+    let mut next = i + 1;
+    if words.get(next) == Some(&"-p") {
+        next += 1;
+    }
+    if words.get(next) == Some(&"--") {
+        next += 1;
+    }
+    match words.get(next) {
+        Some(word) if word.starts_with('-') => None,
+        _ => Some(next),
+    }
+}
+
+/// `-c`/`--call` embeds a whole shell command string rather than naming the
+/// program positionally — resolving past it would mean guessing at a
+/// program buried inside that string, so it's left unrecognised and
+/// resolution stops at `npx` (#199).
+const NPX_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &["-y", "--yes", "--no", "-q", "--quiet", "--ignore-existing"],
+    valued: &["-p", "--package", "--shell"],
+    bundles_short_options: false,
+};
+
+const PNPM_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &[
+        "--silent",
+        "-s",
+        "--stream",
+        "--aggregate-output",
+        "--no-progress",
+    ],
+    // `--package`/`--package=value` is documented in this pre-`dlx`
+    // position (`pnpm --package=x dlx y`), alongside the identical flag
+    // `dlx` itself also accepts (`PNPM_DLX_OPTS`).
+    valued: &["-C", "--dir", "--filter", "--package"],
+    bundles_short_options: false,
+};
+
+const YARN_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &["--silent", "-s", "--no-progress", "--non-interactive"],
+    valued: &["--cwd"],
+    bundles_short_options: false,
+};
+
+const PNPM_DLX_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &["-s", "--silent"],
+    valued: &["--package"],
+    bundles_short_options: false,
+};
+
+const YARN_DLX_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &["-q", "--quiet"],
+    valued: &["-p", "--package"],
+    bundles_short_options: false,
+};
+
+const BUN_X_OPTS: OptionTable = OptionTable {
+    flags: &["--bun", "--no-install", "--verbose", "--silent"],
+    valued: &["-p", "--package"],
+    bundles_short_options: false,
+};
+
+/// A resolver for one wrapper form: given the tokenized command and the
+/// index of the wrapper word itself, the index of the word after it (past
+/// its options and any subcommand it requires), or `None` if this occurrence
+/// isn't a form we resolve through.
+type WrapperResolver = fn(&[&str], usize) -> Option<usize>;
+
+/// One recognised wrapper form: how to walk past it, and whether an
+/// assignment word is a valid follow-on once it's been walked past.
+struct Wrapper {
+    resolve: WrapperResolver,
+    /// `true` only for wrappers that themselves interpret a following
+    /// `FOO=bar` as an environment assignment for the command they launch
+    /// (`env`, `sudo`), or a shell keyword that restarts the assignment-prefix
+    /// grammar for a brand new simple command (`time`). Every other wrapper
+    /// here is a plain executable that execs its next argument as the
+    /// program outright — an assignment-shaped one names a program literally
+    /// called `FOO=1`, not an env var (#199).
+    accepts_assignment: bool,
+}
+
+fn wrapper_resolver(name: &str) -> Option<Wrapper> {
+    let (resolve, accepts_assignment): (WrapperResolver, bool) = match name {
+        "env" => (|words, i| ENV_OPTS.consume(words, i + 1), true),
+        "sudo" => (|words, i| SUDO_OPTS.consume(words, i + 1), true),
+        "command" => (|words, i| COMMAND_BUILTIN_OPTS.consume(words, i + 1), false),
+        "nohup" => (|words, i| NO_OPTIONS.consume(words, i + 1), false),
+        "time" => (resolve_time, true),
+        "npx" => (|words, i| NPX_OPTS.consume(words, i + 1), false),
+        "pnpm" => (
+            |words, i| resolve_dlx(&PNPM_OPTS, &PNPM_DLX_OPTS, words, i),
+            false,
+        ),
+        "yarn" => (
+            |words, i| resolve_dlx(&YARN_OPTS, &YARN_DLX_OPTS, words, i),
+            false,
+        ),
+        "bun" => (resolve_bun, false),
+        "bunx" => (|words, i| BUN_X_OPTS.consume(words, i + 1), false),
+        "uvx" => (|_words, i| Some(i + 1), false),
+        _ => return None,
+    };
+    Some(Wrapper {
+        resolve,
+        accepts_assignment,
+    })
+}
+
+/// `pnpm`/`yarn` only look through to the package behind an explicit `dlx`
+/// — without it, the next word is a `package.json` script name, not a
+/// package to run (#199: `pnpm claude` is not `pnpm dlx claude`). `dlx`
+/// itself takes launcher-specific options too, consumed before the executable.
+fn resolve_dlx(
+    opts: &OptionTable,
+    dlx_opts: &OptionTable,
+    words: &[&str],
+    i: usize,
+) -> Option<usize> {
+    let j = opts.consume(words, i + 1)?;
+    if words.get(j) != Some(&"dlx") {
+        return None;
+    }
+    dlx_opts.consume(words, j + 1)
+}
+
+/// `bun x <pkg>` is bun's `dlx`/`npx` equivalent; `bun run <script>` is not
+/// (the same package-script ambiguity as bare `pnpm`/`yarn`), so only an `x`
+/// subcommand is looked through. `--bun` (`BUN_X_OPTS`) may follow it before
+/// the executable.
+fn resolve_bun(words: &[&str], i: usize) -> Option<usize> {
+    if words.get(i + 1) != Some(&"x") {
+        return None;
+    }
+    BUN_X_OPTS.consume(words, i + 2)
+}
+
+/// `FOO=bar`, the shell's own prefix for one command's environment —
+/// recognised only when the `=` came from plain, unquoted/unescaped source
+/// text (#199): `"FOO=1"` and `FOO\=1` name a program called `FOO=1`, not
+/// an assignment.
+fn is_env_assignment(word: &Word) -> bool {
+    let Some(eq) = word.plain_eq else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    let name = &word.text[..eq];
+    let mut chars = name.chars();
     match chars.next() {
         Some(c) if c.is_ascii_alphabetic() || c == '_' => {}
         _ => return false,
     }
-    let rest: String = chars.collect();
+    chars.all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '_')
-    match rest.split_once('=') {
-        Some((name, _)) => name.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '_'),
-        None => false,
-    }
 }
 
 fn basename(word: &str) -> &str {
@@ -497,38 +946,122 @@ mod tests {
             "claude"
         );
         assert_eq!(command_program("  zsh   -l  "), "zsh");
-        assert_eq!(command_program("hx src/main.rs"), "hx");
     }
 
+    /// The #199 resolver contract: every case in the shared parity fixture,
+    /// asserted identically here and by `web/src/toolIcon.test.ts`, so a
+    /// resolver regression in either language fails its own suite.
     #[test]
-    fn command_program_looks_through_paths_env_and_wrappers() {
+    fn resolves_the_shared_command_resolution_fixture() {
-        assert_eq!(command_program("/usr/local/bin/claude -p hi"), "claude");
+        #[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
-        assert_eq!(command_program("FOO=1 BAR=2 claude"), "claude");
+        struct Case {
-        assert_eq!(command_program("npx opencode"), "opencode");
+            command: String,
-        assert_eq!(command_program("pnpm dlx opencode run"), "opencode");
+            program: String,
+            tool: Option<String>,
+        }
+        #[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
+        struct Fixture {
+            cases: Vec<Case>,
+        }
+        let raw = include_str!("../../../fixtures/command-resolution.json");
+        let fixture: Fixture = serde_json::from_str(raw).expect("valid fixture JSON");
+        assert!(!fixture.cases.is_empty());
+        for case in &fixture.cases {
+            assert_eq!(
+                command_program(&case.command),
+                case.program,
+                "program for {:?}",
+                case.command
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                command_tool(&case.command),
+                case.tool.as_deref(),
+                "tool for {:?}",
+                case.command
+            );
+        }
     }
 
-    #[test]
+    fn word(text: &str) -> Word {
-    fn command_program_keeps_a_line_that_is_only_wrappers() {
+        Word {
-        assert_eq!(command_program("sudo"), "sudo");
+            text: text.into(),
-        assert_eq!(command_program(""), "");
+            plain_eq: None,
+        }
     }
 
-    /// The command bar's `tool` field (docs/COMMAND-BAR.md) names the same
+    /// Shell-aware tokenization (#199): quoting/escaping is honoured, never
-    /// tools the web's `splitCommand().tool` does.
+    /// evaluated — no `$var`/`` `cmd` ``/`$(cmd)` expansion is attempted.
     #[test]
-    fn command_tool_names_the_mark_the_card_shows() {
+    fn tokenize_handles_quotes_and_escapes_without_expanding_anything() {
-        assert_eq!(command_tool("claude --resume"), Some("claude"));
+        assert_eq!(
-        assert_eq!(command_tool("npx opencode"), Some("opencode"));
+            tokenize("claude --resume"),
-        assert_eq!(command_tool("/bin/zsh -l"), Some("shell"));
+            Some(vec![word("claude"), word("--resume")])
-        assert_eq!(command_tool("CLAUDE"), Some("claude"));
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            tokenize("\"/opt/my agent/claude\" --resume"),
+            Some(vec![word("/opt/my agent/claude"), word("--resume")])
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            tokenize("FOO=\"bar baz\" claude"),
+            Some(vec![
+                Word {
+                    text: "FOO=bar baz".into(),
+                    plain_eq: Some(3),
+                },
+                word("claude"),
+            ])
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            tokenize("claude --name=$HOME"),
+            Some(vec![
+                word("claude"),
+                Word {
+                    text: "--name=$HOME".into(),
+                    plain_eq: Some(6),
+                },
+            ]),
+            "a bare $ is kept literal, never expanded"
+        );
     }
 
-    /// Narrow on purpose: an unrecognised program has no mark, so the
+    /// Real shell grammar this resolver doesn't attempt — pipelines, list
-    /// candidate has no `tool` field to match rather than a wrong one.
+    /// operators, subshells/substitution, an unescaped newline, an
+    /// unterminated quote — is rejected outright rather than guessed
+    /// through (#199).
     #[test]
-    fn command_tool_is_absent_for_an_unrecognised_program() {
+    fn tokenize_rejects_ambiguous_shell_grammar() {
-        assert_eq!(command_tool("hx src/main.rs"), None);
+        for command in [
-        assert_eq!(command_tool(""), None);
+            "claude | tee log.txt",
+            "claude; echo done",
+            "claude && echo done",
+            "echo hi $(claude)",
+            "claude \"unterminated",
+            "claude 'unterminated",
+            "claude \\",
+            "claude\nclaude-code", // an unescaped newline separates commands, like `;`
+        ] {
+            assert_eq!(tokenize(command), None, "{command:?}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A backslash immediately before a newline is a line continuation:
+    /// removed entirely, joining what it split rather than embedding a
+    /// literal newline or ending the command (#199).
+    #[test]
+    fn tokenize_treats_backslash_newline_as_a_continuation() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            tokenize("clau\\\nde --resume"),
+            Some(vec![word("claude"), word("--resume")])
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// Only a plain, unquoted/unescaped `=` marks an assignment boundary —
+    /// quoting or escaping the `=` itself disqualifies the word, even
+    /// though the dequoted text looks identical (#199).
+    #[test]
+    fn tokenize_only_marks_plain_unquoted_equals_signs_as_assignments() {
+        assert_eq!(tokenize("FOO=1 claude").unwrap()[0].plain_eq, Some(3));
+        assert_eq!(tokenize("\"FOO=1\" claude").unwrap()[0].plain_eq, None);
+        assert_eq!(tokenize("FOO\\=1 claude").unwrap()[0].plain_eq, None);
     }
 }

crates/maestro-tui/src/draft.rs

@@ -1926,6 +1926,149 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(draft.build_request().unwrap().view, SessionView::Terminal);
     }
 
+    /// A custom command typed into the free-text field, run through the same
+    /// resolver the daemon/web gate uses (`command_tool`, #199): a path, an
+    /// env prefix, or a wrapper still resolves to Claude, so the toggle stays
+    /// offered and the request carries `Structured`; an unrelated program
+    /// does not.
+    #[test]
+    fn structured_view_follows_command_resolution_for_custom_commands() {
+        let cases: &[(&str, bool)] = &[
+            ("claude", true),
+            ("claude --resume", true),
+            ("CLAUDE", true),
+            ("/usr/local/bin/claude -p hi", true),
+            ("./bin/claude", true),
+            ("FOO=1 BAR=2 claude", true),
+            ("npx claude-code", true),
+            ("npx --yes claude-code", true),
+            ("sudo claude", true),
+            ("sudo -u root claude", true),
+            ("env -i claude", true),
+            ("nohup claude", true),
+            ("time claude", true),
+            ("command claude", true),
+            ("pnpm --silent dlx claude-code", true),
+            ("yarn --silent dlx claude-code", true),
+            ("bun x claude-code", true),
+            ("\"/opt/my agent/claude\" --resume", true),
+            ("bash", false),
+            ("opencode", false),
+            ("/usr/local/bin/bash -l", false),
+            // A package-manager wrapper without `dlx`/`x` runs a
+            // `package.json` script, not the package (#199) — must not be
+            // mistaken for a Claude launch.
+            ("pnpm claude", false),
+            ("yarn claude", false),
+            // The daemon's structured-session child, never a valid
+            // user-facing launch form (#199).
+            ("claude-code-acp", false),
+        ];
+        for &(command, supported) in cases {
+            let mut draft = DraftPane {
+                picked_cwd: Some(PathBuf::from("/srv/work")),
+                worktree_enabled: false,
+                advanced_collapsed: false,
+                ..DraftPane::default()
+            };
+            draft.selected_preset = draft.presets.len() - 1;
+            draft.custom_command = crate::text_input::TextInput::with_value(command);
+
+            assert_eq!(
+                draft.field_order().contains(&DraftField::StructuredToggle),
+                supported,
+                "toggle visibility for {command:?}"
+            );
+            draft.toggle_structured_view();
+            assert_eq!(
+                draft.structured_view, supported,
+                "toggle takes effect for {command:?}"
+            );
+            let view = draft.build_request().unwrap().view;
+            assert_eq!(
+                view,
+                if supported {
+                    SessionView::Structured
+                } else {
+                    SessionView::Terminal
+                },
+                "request view for {command:?}"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A configured preset (the spawn-form "alias" for a command) is gated
+    /// the same way as free text: a preset whose command resolves to Claude
+    /// through a wrapper still offers structured view.
+    #[test]
+    fn structured_view_follows_command_resolution_for_presets() {
+        let mut draft = DraftPane {
+            picked_cwd: Some(PathBuf::from("/srv/work")),
+            worktree_enabled: false,
+            advanced_collapsed: false,
+            ..DraftPane::default()
+        };
+        draft.set_presets(vec![
+            SpawnPreset {
+                id: "claude-wrapped".into(),
+                label: "Claude (npx)".into(),
+                command: "npx claude-code --resume".into(),
+            },
+            SpawnPreset {
+                id: "aider".into(),
+                label: "Aider".into(),
+                command: "aider".into(),
+            },
+        ]);
+
+        assert_eq!(draft.command(), "npx claude-code --resume");
+        assert!(draft.field_order().contains(&DraftField::StructuredToggle));
+        draft.toggle_structured_view();
+        assert!(draft.structured_view);
+        assert_eq!(draft.build_request().unwrap().view, SessionView::Structured);
+
+        // Switching to a preset that does not resolve to Claude clears the
+        // stale selection instead of letting an invalid request through.
+        draft.cycle_preset(1);
+        assert_eq!(draft.command(), "aider");
+        assert!(!draft.structured_view, "stale selection must clear");
+        assert!(!draft.field_order().contains(&DraftField::StructuredToggle));
+        assert_eq!(draft.build_request().unwrap().view, SessionView::Terminal);
+    }
+
+    /// Editing the custom-command text away from Claude clears an armed
+    /// selection immediately, matching the preset-switch case above — an
+    /// invalid `Structured` request can never reach `build_request`.
+    #[test]
+    fn structured_view_clears_when_custom_command_edited_away_from_claude() {
+        let mut draft = DraftPane {
+            picked_cwd: Some(PathBuf::from("/srv/work")),
+            worktree_enabled: false,
+            advanced_collapsed: false,
+            focused_field: DraftField::CustomCommand,
+            ..DraftPane::default()
+        };
+        draft.selected_preset = draft.presets.len() - 1;
+        draft.custom_command = crate::text_input::TextInput::with_value("claude");
+        draft.toggle_structured_view();
+        assert!(draft.structured_view);
+
+        typed(&mut draft, " -p");
+        assert_eq!(draft.command(), "claude -p");
+        assert!(draft.structured_view, "still Claude, selection survives");
+
+        for _ in 0.."claude -p".chars().count() {
+            draft.on_input(&InputKey::Backspace);
+        }
+        typed(&mut draft, "bash");
+        assert_eq!(draft.command(), "bash");
+        assert!(
+            !draft.structured_view,
+            "editing the program away from claude clears the stale selection"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(draft.build_request().unwrap().view, SessionView::Terminal);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn projects_render_sorted_with_stale_dimmed_and_other_directory_last() {
         let mut draft = DraftPane {

crates/maestro-tui/src/structured_pane.rs

@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ impl StructuredPane {
 
         let viewport = usize::from(area.height);
         let max_scroll = lines.len().saturating_sub(viewport);
+        state.scroll = reconcile_scroll(&state.scroll, &state.line_rows, &lines);
         if state.follow_selection {
             if let Some(selected) = state.selected.as_deref() {
                 let first = lines
@@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ impl StructuredPane {
                 Rect::new(area.x, area.y + offset as u16, area.width, 1),
             );
         }
+        state.line_rows = lines.iter().map(|line| line.row_id.clone()).collect();
     }
 
     fn render_projection_status(&self, f: &mut Frame, area: Rect, state: &StructuredState) {
@@ -214,6 +216,96 @@ fn error_line(text: &str) -> VisualLine {
     }
 }
 
+/// Translate `scroll` — a raw line index into `old_rows` (the previous
+/// render's row-per-line layout) — into the equivalent index into `lines`
+/// (this render's freshly rebuilt layout), anchored on row identity rather
+/// than raw position. A row's wrapped lines above or intersecting the
+/// viewport growing, shrinking, or moving index therefore shifts `scroll`
+/// along with it instead of leaving the viewport looking at different
+/// content. Falls back to the nearest surviving neighbour row when the
+/// anchor row itself is gone, and to the raw index (clamped) when nothing
+/// nearby survived either.
+fn reconcile_scroll(scroll: &usize, old_rows: &[Option<String>], lines: &[VisualLine]) -> usize {
+    if old_rows.is_empty() {
+        return *scroll;
+    }
+    let old_index = (*scroll).min(old_rows.len() - 1);
+    let anchor = old_rows[old_index].clone();
+    match anchor {
+        Some(id) => match find_row_block(lines, &id) {
+            Some((start, len)) => {
+                start + (old_index - block_start(old_rows, old_index)).min(len - 1)
+            }
+            None => fallback_after_removal(old_rows, lines, old_index),
+        },
+        None => {
+            // Untagged tail lines (connecting/dead/error) carry no row identity;
+            // approximate by preserving distance from the end of the transcript.
+            let distance_from_end = old_rows.len() - old_index;
+            lines.len().saturating_sub(distance_from_end)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Index of the first line belonging to `id`, and how many lines it spans.
+/// A row's wrapped lines are always contiguous in `lines` — `build_lines`
+/// emits them as one run per row — so a single forward scan suffices.
+fn find_row_block(lines: &[VisualLine], id: &str) -> Option<(usize, usize)> {
+    let start = lines
+        .iter()
+        .position(|line| line.row_id.as_deref() == Some(id))?;
+    let mut end = start;
+    while end + 1 < lines.len() && lines[end + 1].row_id.as_deref() == Some(id) {
+        end += 1;
+    }
+    Some((start, end - start + 1))
+}
+
+/// First index of the contiguous run that `index` sits in within `rows`.
+fn block_start(rows: &[Option<String>], index: usize) -> usize {
+    let mut start = index;
+    while start > 0 && rows[start - 1] == rows[index] {
+        start -= 1;
+    }
+    start
+}
+
+/// The anchor row is gone (removed, or replaced wholesale by a fresh
+/// snapshot). Search outward from its old position, nearest first, for a
+/// still-live neighbour row and land on its first line; if none of the old
+/// layout's rows survived, fall back to the raw old index clamped into the
+/// new layout.
+fn fallback_after_removal(
+    old_rows: &[Option<String>],
+    lines: &[VisualLine],
+    old_index: usize,
+) -> usize {
+    let len = old_rows.len();
+    let mut distance = 1usize;
+    loop {
+        if distance > old_index && old_index + distance >= len {
+            return old_index.min(lines.len().saturating_sub(1));
+        }
+        if distance <= old_index {
+            if let Some((start, _)) = old_rows[old_index - distance]
+                .as_ref()
+                .and_then(|id| find_row_block(lines, id))
+            {
+                return start;
+            }
+        }
+        if old_index + distance < len {
+            if let Some((start, _)) = old_rows[old_index + distance]
+                .as_ref()
+                .and_then(|id| find_row_block(lines, id))
+            {
+                return start;
+            }
+        }
+        distance += 1;
+    }
+}
+
 fn build_lines(state: &StructuredState, width: usize) -> Vec<VisualLine> {
     let mut out = Vec::new();
     for row in &state.rows {
@@ -1272,4 +1364,213 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(text.contains("adapter exited"), "{text}");
         assert!(text.contains("request failed"), "{text}");
     }
+
+    fn test_pane() -> StructuredPane {
+        StructuredPane {
+            handle: StructuredHandle::test_handle(StructuredState::default()),
+            focused: true,
+            mode: Mode::Normal,
+            session_status: SessionStatus::Running,
+            activity_detail: None,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn numbered_rows(state: &mut StructuredState, count: usize) {
+        for n in 0..count {
+            state.rows.push(row(
+                &format!("r{n}"),
+                TranscriptRowKind::AgentText,
+                json!({"content":{"type":"text","text":format!("line {n}")}}),
+            ));
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn grow_row(state: &mut StructuredState, id: &str) {
+        let index = state.rows.iter().position(|r| r.id == id).unwrap();
+        state.rows[index] = row(
+            id,
+            TranscriptRowKind::AgentText,
+            json!({"content":{"type":"text","text":"a very long streaming reply that keeps growing and will wrap across several lines now"}}),
+        );
+    }
+
+    fn render_transcript_lines(
+        pane: &StructuredPane,
+        state: &mut StructuredState,
+        width: u16,
+        height: u16,
+    ) -> Vec<String> {
+        let mut terminal = Terminal::new(TestBackend::new(width, height)).unwrap();
+        terminal
+            .draw(|frame| pane.render_transcript(frame, frame.area(), state))
+            .unwrap();
+        let buffer = terminal.backend().buffer().clone();
+        (0..height)
+            .map(|y| {
+                (0..width)
+                    .map(|x| buffer[(x, y)].symbol())
+                    .collect::<String>()
+            })
+            .collect()
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn row_growing_above_the_viewport_keeps_the_visual_anchor() {
+        let pane = test_pane();
+        let mut state = StructuredState::default();
+        state.follow_selection = false;
+        numbered_rows(&mut state, 20);
+        state.scroll = 10;
+
+        let before = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(before[0].contains("line 10"), "{before:?}");
+
+        grow_row(&mut state, "r3");
+        let after = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(
+            after[0].contains("line 10"),
+            "a row growing above the viewport must not shift what's on screen: {after:?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn appending_a_row_below_the_viewport_keeps_the_visual_anchor() {
+        let pane = test_pane();
+        let mut state = StructuredState::default();
+        state.follow_selection = false;
+        numbered_rows(&mut state, 20);
+        state.scroll = 10;
+
+        let before = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(before[0].contains("line 10"), "{before:?}");
+
+        state.rows.push(row(
+            "r20",
+            TranscriptRowKind::AgentText,
+            json!({"content":{"type":"text","text":"line 20"}}),
+        ));
+        let after = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert_eq!(before, after, "growth below the viewport must not move it");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn removing_a_row_above_the_viewport_keeps_the_visual_anchor() {
+        let pane = test_pane();
+        let mut state = StructuredState::default();
+        state.follow_selection = false;
+        numbered_rows(&mut state, 20);
+        state.scroll = 10;
+
+        let before = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(before[0].contains("line 10"), "{before:?}");
+
+        state.rows.retain(|r| r.id != "r3");
+        let after = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(
+            after[0].contains("line 10"),
+            "a row removed above the viewport must not shift what's on screen: {after:?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn removing_the_anchor_row_falls_back_to_the_nearest_surviving_neighbor() {
+        let pane = test_pane();
+        let mut state = StructuredState::default();
+        state.follow_selection = false;
+        numbered_rows(&mut state, 20);
+        state.scroll = 10;
+
+        let before = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(before[0].contains("line 10"), "{before:?}");
+
+        state.rows.retain(|r| r.id != "r10");
+        let after = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(
+            after[0].contains("line 9"),
+            "removing the anchor row should fall back to its nearest surviving neighbor: {after:?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn patching_a_row_above_the_viewport_keeps_the_visual_anchor() {
+        let pane = test_pane();
+        let mut state = StructuredState::default();
+        state.follow_selection = false;
+        numbered_rows(&mut state, 20);
+        state.scroll = 10;
+
+        render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        // Simulate a `TranscriptDelta::Patch` on a collapsed tool row above the
+        // viewport expanding into a multi-line diff.
+        let index = state.rows.iter().position(|r| r.id == "r5").unwrap();
+        state.rows[index] = row(
+            "r5",
+            TranscriptRowKind::ToolDiff,
+            json!({"title":"Edit(x)","content":[{"type":"diff","path":"x","oldText":"a","newText":"a\nb\nc\nd"}]}),
+        );
+        let after = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(
+            after[0].contains("line 10"),
+            "a patched row above the viewport must not shift what's on screen: {after:?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn narrow_width_reconciles_without_panicking() {
+        let pane = test_pane();
+        let mut state = StructuredState::default();
+        state.follow_selection = false;
+        numbered_rows(&mut state, 20);
+        state.scroll = 10;
+
+        render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 1, 3);
+        grow_row(&mut state, "r3");
+        render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 1, 3);
+        assert!(state.scroll <= state.line_rows.len());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn follow_selection_without_a_selection_stays_pinned_to_the_live_edge() {
+        let pane = test_pane();
+        let mut state = StructuredState::default();
+        state.follow_selection = true;
+        state.selected = None;
+        numbered_rows(&mut state, 20);
+
+        let before = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(before.last().unwrap().contains("line 19"), "{before:?}");
+
+        state.rows.push(row(
+            "r20",
+            TranscriptRowKind::AgentText,
+            json!({"content":{"type":"text","text":"line 20"}}),
+        ));
+        let after = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(
+            after.last().unwrap().contains("line 20"),
+            "bottom-follow must track the live edge as rows are appended: {after:?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn follow_selection_keeps_the_selected_row_visible_when_a_row_above_it_grows() {
+        let pane = test_pane();
+        let mut state = StructuredState::default();
+        state.follow_selection = true;
+        numbered_rows(&mut state, 20);
+        state.selected = Some("r15".into());
+
+        let before = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(
+            before.iter().any(|line| line.contains("line 15")),
+            "{before:?}"
+        );
+
+        grow_row(&mut state, "r3");
+        let after = render_transcript_lines(&pane, &mut state, 30, 5);
+        assert!(
+            after.iter().any(|line| line.contains("line 15")),
+            "the selected row must stay visible while follow_selection is on: {after:?}"
+        );
+    }
 }

crates/maestro-tui/src/structured_task.rs

@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ pub struct StructuredState {
     pub selected: Option<String>,
     pub expanded: HashSet<String>,
     pub scroll: usize,
+    /// Row id per rendered line from the last render pass, parallel to that
+    /// pass's `lines`. Lets the next render translate `scroll` — a raw index
+    /// into that now-stale layout — back into a row identity before mapping
+    /// it onto the freshly rebuilt layout, so growth/shrinkage above the
+    /// viewport shifts indices without shifting what's on screen.
+    pub(crate) line_rows: Vec<Option<String>>,
     pub follow_selection: bool,
     pub composer: TextInput,
     pub error: Option<String>,
@@ -42,6 +48,7 @@ impl Default for StructuredState {
             selected: None,
             expanded: HashSet::new(),
             scroll: 0,
+            line_rows: Vec::new(),
             follow_selection: true,
             composer: TextInput::default(),
             error: None,

fixtures/command-resolution.json

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+{
+  "_description": "the parity fixture for #199's command resolver — every case here is asserted identically by crates/maestro-protocol/src/display.rs (command_program/command_tool) and web/src/toolIcon.ts (splitCommand). `program` is the resolved, basenamed program; `tool` is the icon id it maps to, or null when unrecognised/ambiguous.",
+  "cases": [
+    { "command": "claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "claude --resume", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "CLAUDE", "program": "CLAUDE", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "/usr/local/bin/claude -p hi", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "./bin/claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "FOO=1 BAR=2 claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "FOO=\"bar baz\" claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "FOO='bar baz' claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "FOO=bar\\ baz claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "'/usr/local/bin/claude'", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "\"/opt/my agent/claude\" --resume", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "env -i claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "env --ignore-environment claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "sudo -u root claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "sudo --user=root claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "sudo -- claude --resume", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "nohup claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "time claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "time -p claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "time -- claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "time -p -- claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "time -pp claude", "program": "time", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "time -p -p claude", "program": "time", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "time -o /tmp/t.log claude", "program": "time", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "command claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "command -v claude", "program": "command", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "command -V claude", "program": "command", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "npx --yes claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "npx claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "pnpm --silent dlx claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "pnpm -C ./pkg dlx claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx -s claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx --silent claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "yarn --silent dlx claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx -q claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx --quiet claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bun x claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bunx claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "uvx claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bun x --bun claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bunx --bun claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bun x -p @anthropic-ai/claude-code claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bunx --package @anthropic-ai/claude-code claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bun x --package=@anthropic-ai/claude-code claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bunx --no-install claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bun x --verbose claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bunx --silent claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "bun --bun x claude-code", "program": "bun", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx --package foo claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx --package=foo claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx --package= claude-code", "program": "pnpm", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx --package", "program": "pnpm", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx -c \"claude-code\"", "program": "pnpm", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "pnpm --package=typescript dlx tsc", "program": "tsc", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx --unknown-flag claude-code", "program": "pnpm", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx --package foo claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx --package=foo claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx -p foo claude-code", "program": "claude-code", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx --package= claude-code", "program": "yarn", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx -p", "program": "yarn", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx -p --quiet claude-code", "program": "yarn", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "bunx --package= claude-code", "program": "bunx", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "bunx --package", "program": "bunx", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "bun x -p --silent claude-code", "program": "bun", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "sudo env -i claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "FOO=1 sudo BAR=2 claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "env -iv claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "sudo -nE claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "sudo -uroot claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "sudo -u", "program": "sudo", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "env --unset= claude", "program": "env", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "sudo --user= claude", "program": "sudo", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "sudo --user \"\" claude", "program": "sudo", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "sudo -nu claude", "program": "sudo", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "env -S 'python3 -u' script.py", "program": "env", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "npx -c \"claude --version\"", "program": "npx", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "npx --call \"claude --version\"", "program": "npx", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "command FOO=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "nohup FOO=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "npx FOO=1 claude-code", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx FOO=1 claude-code", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "yarn dlx FOO=1 claude-code", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "bun x FOO=1 claude-code", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "bunx FOO=1 claude-code", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "uvx FOO=1 claude-code", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "sudo time FOO=1 claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "nohup env FOO=1 claude", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "sudo command FOO=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "command nohup FOO=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "time command FOO=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "\"FOO=1\" claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "FOO\\=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "F\"O\"O=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "F\\OO=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "\"FOO\"=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "F\"\"OO=1 claude", "program": "FOO=1", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "claude\nclaude-code", "program": "claude", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "clau\\\nde --resume", "program": "claude", "tool": "claude" },
+    { "command": "npx opencode", "program": "opencode", "tool": "opencode" },
+    { "command": "pnpm dlx opencode run", "program": "opencode", "tool": "opencode" },
+    { "command": "pnpm claude", "program": "pnpm", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "yarn claude", "program": "yarn", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "claude-code-acp", "program": "claude-code-acp", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "hx src/main.rs", "program": "hx", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "bash", "program": "bash", "tool": "shell" },
+    { "command": "opencode", "program": "opencode", "tool": "opencode" },
+    { "command": "sudo", "program": "sudo", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "", "program": "", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "npx --unknown-flag claude-code", "program": "npx", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "claude | tee log.txt", "program": "claude", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "claude; echo done", "program": "claude;", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "claude && echo done", "program": "claude", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "echo hi $(claude)", "program": "echo", "tool": null },
+    { "command": "claude \"unterminated", "program": "claude", "tool": null }
+  ]
+}

web/src/structured.test.ts

@@ -932,6 +932,298 @@ describe("structured connection: reconnection/error/loading", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("structured connection: transcript scrolling", () => {
+  let frames: Map<number, FrameRequestCallback>;
+  let nextFrame: number;
+  let resizeCallback: ResizeObserverCallback;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    frames = new Map();
+    nextFrame = 1;
+    vi.stubGlobal("requestAnimationFrame", (cb: FrameRequestCallback) => {
+      const id = nextFrame++;
+      frames.set(id, cb);
+      return id;
+    });
+    vi.stubGlobal("cancelAnimationFrame", (id: number) => {
+      frames.delete(id);
+    });
+    vi.stubGlobal("ResizeObserver", class {
+      constructor(callback: ResizeObserverCallback) {
+        resizeCallback = callback;
+      }
+      observe(): void {}
+      unobserve(): void {}
+      disconnect(): void {}
+    });
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+    vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+  });
+
+  function metrics(conn: ReturnType<typeof mount>, height: number, clientHeight: number, top = 0) {
+    const scroll = conn.el.querySelector<HTMLElement>(".structured-scroll")!;
+    const values = { height, clientHeight, top };
+    Object.defineProperties(scroll, {
+      scrollHeight: { configurable: true, get: () => values.height },
+      clientHeight: { configurable: true, get: () => values.clientHeight },
+      scrollTop: {
+        configurable: true,
+        get: () => values.top,
+        set: (value: number) => { values.top = value; },
+      },
+    });
+    return { scroll, values };
+  }
+
+  function runFrames(): void {
+    const pending = [...frames.entries()];
+    frames.clear();
+    for (const [, cb] of pending) cb(0);
+  }
+
+  function resizeBody(width: number): void {
+    resizeCallback(
+      [{ contentRect: { width } } as ResizeObserverEntry],
+      {} as ResizeObserver,
+    );
+  }
+
+  it("shows the bottom after the initial transcript snapshot is laid out", () => {
+    const ws = new FakeSocket();
+    const conn = mount({ sockets: [ws] });
+    const { values } = metrics(conn, 900, 300, 40);
+    ws.open();
+    ws.emit({
+      type: "transcript_snapshot",
+      snapshot: {
+        cursor: 1,
+        rows: [
+          row("agent:1", "agent_text", { content: { type: "text", text: "latest" } }),
+        ],
+      },
+    });
+
+    expect(values.top).toBe(40);
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(600);
+    conn.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("keeps pinned appends and patches at the bottom after layout", () => {
+    const ws = new FakeSocket();
+    const conn = mount({ sockets: [ws] });
+    const { values } = metrics(conn, 600, 200);
+    ws.open();
+    ws.emit({ type: "transcript_snapshot", snapshot: { cursor: 0, rows: [] } });
+    runFrames();
+
+    values.height = 720;
+    ws.emit({
+      type: "projection_update",
+      transcript: {
+        type: "append",
+        row: row("agent:1", "agent_text", { content: { type: "text", text: "partial" } }),
+      },
+      state: idleState,
+    });
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(520);
+
+    values.height = 780;
+    ws.emit({
+      type: "projection_update",
+      transcript: {
+        type: "patch",
+        row: row("agent:1", "agent_text", {
+          content: { type: "text", text: "a longer completion" },
+        }),
+      },
+      state: idleState,
+    });
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(580);
+    conn.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    { position: "pinned", top: 800, expected: 880, manuallyScrolled: false },
+    { position: "manually scrolled", top: 180, expected: 180, manuallyScrolled: true },
+  ])("preserves the $position position when the composer grows", ({ top, expected, manuallyScrolled }) => {
+    const ws = new FakeSocket();
+    const conn = mount({ sockets: [ws] });
+    const { scroll, values } = metrics(conn, 1000, 200);
+    ws.open();
+    ws.emit({ type: "transcript_snapshot", snapshot: { cursor: 0, rows: [] } });
+    runFrames();
+
+    values.top = top;
+    if (manuallyScrolled) scroll.dispatchEvent(new Event("scroll"));
+    const input = conn.el.querySelector<HTMLTextAreaElement>(".structured-input")!;
+    Object.defineProperty(input, "scrollHeight", { configurable: true, value: 120 });
+    input.value = "one\ntwo\nthree";
+    input.dispatchEvent(new Event("input"));
+    values.height = 1080;
+    runFrames();
+
+    expect(input.style.height).toBe("120px");
+    expect(values.top).toBe(expected);
+    conn.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    { position: "pinned", top: 800, expected: 850, manuallyScrolled: false },
+    { position: "manually scrolled", top: 180, expected: 180, manuallyScrolled: true },
+  ])("preserves the $position position across the narrow breakpoint", ({ top, expected, manuallyScrolled }) => {
+    const ws = new FakeSocket();
+    const conn = mount({ sockets: [ws] });
+    const { scroll, values } = metrics(conn, 1000, 200);
+    ws.open();
+    ws.emit({ type: "transcript_snapshot", snapshot: { cursor: 0, rows: [] } });
+    runFrames();
+
+    values.top = top;
+    if (manuallyScrolled) scroll.dispatchEvent(new Event("scroll"));
+    resizeBody(500);
+    values.clientHeight = 150;
+    runFrames();
+
+    expect(conn.el.querySelector(".structured-body")!.classList).toContain("st-narrow");
+    expect(values.top).toBe(expected);
+    resizeBody(500);
+    expect(frames.size).toBe(0);
+    conn.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("preserves a user-scrolled position across updates, approvals, and tool expansion", () => {
+    const ws = new FakeSocket();
+    const conn = mount({ sockets: [ws] });
+    const { scroll, values } = metrics(conn, 1000, 200);
+    ws.open();
+    ws.emit({ type: "transcript_snapshot", snapshot: { cursor: 1, rows: [toolRow("tool:1", "output")] } });
+    runFrames();
+
+    values.top = 180;
+    scroll.dispatchEvent(new Event("scroll"));
+    values.height = 1120;
+    ws.emit({
+      type: "projection_update",
+      transcript: { type: "append", row: row("agent:2", "agent_text", { content: { type: "text", text: "new" } }) },
+      state: idleState,
+    });
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(180);
+
+    values.height = 1180;
+    ws.emit({
+      type: "projection_update",
+      transcript: {
+        type: "append",
+        row: row("approval:1", "approval", { toolCall: {}, options: allApprovalOptions }),
+      },
+      state: {
+        ...idleState,
+        pending_approval: {
+          nonce: "n1",
+          request: { sessionId: "s1", toolCall: {}, options: allApprovalOptions },
+        },
+      },
+    });
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(180);
+
+    conn.el.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>(".st-tool-head")!.click();
+    values.height = 1260;
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(180);
+    conn.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("resumes following when the user scrolls back near the bottom", () => {
+    const ws = new FakeSocket();
+    const conn = mount({ sockets: [ws] });
+    const { scroll, values } = metrics(conn, 1000, 200);
+    ws.open();
+    ws.emit({ type: "transcript_snapshot", snapshot: { cursor: 0, rows: [] } });
+    runFrames();
+
+    values.top = 750;
+    scroll.dispatchEvent(new Event("scroll"));
+    values.height = 1100;
+    ws.emit({
+      type: "projection_update",
+      transcript: {
+        type: "append",
+        row: row("agent:1", "agent_text", { content: { type: "text", text: "follow" } }),
+      },
+      state: idleState,
+    });
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(900);
+    conn.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("preserves a user-scrolled position across a reconnect snapshot", () => {
+    const first = new FakeSocket();
+    const second = new FakeSocket();
+    const conn = mount({ sockets: [first, second], shouldReconnect: () => true });
+    const { scroll, values } = metrics(conn, 1000, 200);
+    first.open();
+    first.emit({ type: "transcript_snapshot", snapshot: { cursor: 0, rows: [] } });
+    runFrames();
+
+    values.top = 160;
+    scroll.dispatchEvent(new Event("scroll"));
+    first.drop();
+    vi.advanceTimersByTime(1000);
+    second.open();
+    values.height = 1200;
+    second.emit({
+      type: "transcript_snapshot",
+      snapshot: {
+        cursor: 1,
+        rows: [
+          row("agent:1", "agent_text", {
+            content: { type: "text", text: "reconnected" },
+          }),
+        ],
+      },
+    });
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(160);
+    conn.dispose();
+  });
+
+  it("cancels a pending transcript frame when disposed or parked", () => {
+    const ws = new FakeSocket();
+    const conn = mount({ sockets: [ws] });
+    const { values } = metrics(conn, 900, 300, 25);
+    ws.open();
+    ws.emit({ type: "transcript_snapshot", snapshot: { cursor: 0, rows: [] } });
+    expect(frames.size).toBe(1);
+
+    conn.onUnmount();
+    expect(frames.size).toBe(0);
+    const input = conn.el.querySelector<HTMLTextAreaElement>(".structured-input")!;
+    Object.defineProperty(input, "scrollHeight", { configurable: true, value: 120 });
+    input.dispatchEvent(new Event("input"));
+    resizeBody(500);
+    expect(frames.size).toBe(0);
+    conn.onMount({ focus: false });
+    expect(frames.size).toBe(2);
+    conn.dispose();
+    expect(frames.size).toBe(0);
+    resizeBody(700);
+    expect(conn.el.querySelector(".structured-body")!.classList).toContain("st-narrow");
+    runFrames();
+    expect(values.top).toBe(25);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("structured connection: pane lifecycle", () => {
   beforeEach(() => vi.clearAllMocks());
 

web/src/structured.ts

@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
   const stateEl = el.querySelector(".attach-state") as HTMLSpanElement;
   const pillsEl = el.querySelector(".st-pills") as HTMLSpanElement;
   const disconnectBtn = el.querySelector(".disconnect") as HTMLButtonElement;
+  const scrollEl = el.querySelector(".structured-scroll") as HTMLDivElement;
   const rowsEl = el.querySelector(".structured-rows") as HTMLDivElement;
   const railEl = el.querySelector(".structured-rail") as HTMLElement;
   const bodyEl = el.querySelector(".structured-body") as HTMLElement;
@@ -117,6 +118,65 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
   let stateSocketGeneration = 0;
   let disposed = false;
 
+  // Within 64px, wheel and touch imprecision should still count as following.
+  const FOLLOW_BOTTOM_THRESHOLD_PX = 64;
+  let followingBottom = true;
+  let receivedSnapshot = false;
+  let scrollWorkActive = true;
+  let parkedScrollTop: number | null = null;
+  let scrollFrame: number | null = null;
+  let pendingScroll: { top: number; follow: boolean } | null = null;
+
+  function cancelScrollFrame(): void {
+    if (scrollFrame !== null) window.cancelAnimationFrame(scrollFrame);
+    scrollFrame = null;
+    pendingScroll = null;
+  }
+
+  function beginTranscriptLayout(forceBottom = false): void {
+    if (!scrollWorkActive || disposed) return;
+    if (pendingScroll) {
+      if (forceBottom) pendingScroll.follow = true;
+      return;
+    }
+    pendingScroll = {
+      top: scrollEl.scrollTop,
+      follow: forceBottom || followingBottom,
+    };
+  }
+
+  function finishTranscriptLayout(): void {
+    if (!scrollWorkActive || disposed || !pendingScroll || scrollFrame !== null) return;
+    scrollFrame = window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+      scrollFrame = null;
+      const pending = pendingScroll;
+      pendingScroll = null;
+      if (!pending || disposed || !scrollWorkActive) return;
+      scrollEl.scrollTop = pending.follow
+        ? Math.max(0, scrollEl.scrollHeight - scrollEl.clientHeight)
+        : pending.top;
+    });
+  }
+
+  function updateTranscriptLayout(update: () => void, forceBottom = false): void {
+    beginTranscriptLayout(forceBottom);
+    update();
+    finishTranscriptLayout();
+  }
+
+  function onTranscriptScroll(): void {
+    const distance = scrollEl.scrollHeight - scrollEl.clientHeight - scrollEl.scrollTop;
+    followingBottom = distance <= FOLLOW_BOTTOM_THRESHOLD_PX;
+    cancelScrollFrame();
+  }
+
+  function onTranscriptClick(event: Event): void {
+    if ((event.target as Element | null)?.closest(".st-tool-head")) beginTranscriptLayout();
+  }
+
+  scrollEl.addEventListener("scroll", onTranscriptScroll);
+  scrollEl.addEventListener("click", onTranscriptClick, true);
+
   function lastRowIdOfKind(kind: TranscriptRowKind): string | null {
     for (let i = rows.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) if (rows[i].kind === kind) return rows[i].id;
     return null;
@@ -160,6 +220,7 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
       (expanded) => {
         if (expanded) expandedRowIds.add(row.id);
         else expandedRowIds.delete(row.id);
+        finishTranscriptLayout();
       },
     );
     if (!el) return null;
@@ -207,44 +268,50 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
   }
 
   function applySnapshot(snapshot: { rows: TranscriptRow[] }): void {
-    rows = [...snapshot.rows];
+    const forceBottom = !receivedSnapshot;
-    const expandableIds = new Set(
+    updateTranscriptLayout(() => {
-      rows.filter((row) => row.kind === "tool_call" || row.kind === "tool_diff").map((row) => row.id),
+      rows = [...snapshot.rows];
-    );
+      const expandableIds = new Set(
-    for (const id of expandedRowIds) if (!expandableIds.has(id)) expandedRowIds.delete(id);
+        rows.filter((row) => row.kind === "tool_call" || row.kind === "tool_diff").map((row) => row.id),
-    rowIndex.clear();
+      );
-    rows.forEach((row, i) => rowIndex.set(row.id, i));
+      for (const id of expandedRowIds) if (!expandableIds.has(id)) expandedRowIds.delete(id);
-    rowEls.clear();
+      rowIndex.clear();
-    rowsEl.replaceChildren();
+      rows.forEach((row, i) => rowIndex.set(row.id, i));
-    for (const row of rows) mountRow(row);
+      rowEls.clear();
+      rowsEl.replaceChildren();
+      for (const row of rows) mountRow(row);
+    }, forceBottom);
+    receivedSnapshot = true;
   }
 
   function applyDelta(delta: TranscriptDelta | null | undefined): void {
     if (!delta) return;
-    if (delta.type === "append") {
+    updateTranscriptLayout(() => {
-      rowIndex.set(delta.row.id, rows.length);
+      if (delta.type === "append") {
-      rows.push(delta.row);
-      mountRow(delta.row);
-    } else if (delta.type === "patch") {
-      const i = rowIndex.get(delta.row.id);
-      if (i === undefined) {
         rowIndex.set(delta.row.id, rows.length);
         rows.push(delta.row);
         mountRow(delta.row);
+      } else if (delta.type === "patch") {
+        const i = rowIndex.get(delta.row.id);
+        if (i === undefined) {
+          rowIndex.set(delta.row.id, rows.length);
+          rows.push(delta.row);
+          mountRow(delta.row);
+        } else {
+          rows[i] = delta.row;
+          remountRow(delta.row);
+        }
       } else {
-        rows[i] = delta.row;
+        const i = rowIndex.get(delta.id);
-        remountRow(delta.row);
+        if (i === undefined) return;
+        rows.splice(i, 1);
+        expandedRowIds.delete(delta.id);
+        rowIndex.clear();
+        rows.forEach((row, idx) => rowIndex.set(row.id, idx));
+        rowEls.get(delta.id)?.remove();
+        rowEls.delete(delta.id);
       }
-    } else {
+    });
-      const i = rowIndex.get(delta.id);
-      if (i === undefined) return;
-      rows.splice(i, 1);
-      expandedRowIds.delete(delta.id);
-      rowIndex.clear();
-      rows.forEach((row, idx) => rowIndex.set(row.id, idx));
-      rowEls.get(delta.id)?.remove();
-      rowEls.delete(delta.id);
-    }
   }
 
   function toolRowCount(): number {
@@ -293,10 +360,12 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
     reconcileAwaitingBegin();
     const newPendingId = state.pending_approval ? lastRowIdOfKind("approval") : null;
     if (newPendingId !== pendingApprovalRowId) {
-      const prev = pendingApprovalRowId;
+      updateTranscriptLayout(() => {
-      pendingApprovalRowId = newPendingId;
+        const prev = pendingApprovalRowId;
-      if (prev !== null && rowIndex.has(prev)) remountRow(rows[rowIndex.get(prev)!]);
+        pendingApprovalRowId = newPendingId;
-      if (newPendingId !== null) remountRow(rows[rowIndex.get(newPendingId)!]);
+        if (prev !== null && rowIndex.has(prev)) remountRow(rows[rowIndex.get(prev)!]);
+        if (newPendingId !== null) remountRow(rows[rowIndex.get(newPendingId)!]);
+      });
     }
     renderPills();
     renderRailNow();
@@ -320,8 +389,10 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
 
   // ---- composer ----
   function autoResize(): void {
-    input.style.height = "auto";
+    updateTranscriptLayout(() => {
-    input.style.height = `${Math.min(input.scrollHeight, 160)}px`;
+      input.style.height = "auto";
+      input.style.height = `${Math.min(input.scrollHeight, 160)}px`;
+    });
   }
   input.addEventListener("input", autoResize);
   input.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
@@ -377,8 +448,11 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
   // ---- narrow-pane rail collapse (a split pane, not just the viewport) ----
   const NARROW_BREAKPOINT = 560;
   const resizeObserver = new ResizeObserver((entries) => {
+    if (disposed) return;
     const width = entries[0]?.contentRect.width ?? bodyEl.clientWidth;
-    bodyEl.classList.toggle("st-narrow", width < NARROW_BREAKPOINT);
+    const narrow = width < NARROW_BREAKPOINT;
+    if (bodyEl.classList.contains("st-narrow") === narrow) return;
+    updateTranscriptLayout(() => bodyEl.classList.toggle("st-narrow", narrow));
   });
   resizeObserver.observe(bodyEl);
 
@@ -493,6 +567,12 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
   // `mountToken` is bumped on every mount/unmount so a stale frame can tell
   // it is no longer the most recent one.
   let mountToken = 0;
+  let focusFrame: number | null = null;
+
+  function cancelFocusFrame(): void {
+    if (focusFrame !== null) window.cancelAnimationFrame(focusFrame);
+    focusFrame = null;
+  }
 
   return {
     sessionId,
@@ -500,13 +580,26 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
     onMount(mountOpts?: { focus?: boolean }) {
       const focusOnMount = mountOpts?.focus !== false;
       const token = ++mountToken;
-      requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+      scrollWorkActive = true;
+      pendingScroll = {
+        top: parkedScrollTop ?? scrollEl.scrollTop,
+        follow: followingBottom,
+      };
+      parkedScrollTop = null;
+      finishTranscriptLayout();
+      cancelFocusFrame();
+      focusFrame = window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+        focusFrame = null;
         if (disposed || token !== mountToken) return; // parked/remounted since this was scheduled
         if (focusOnMount && !input.disabled) input.focus();
       });
     },
     onUnmount() {
       mountToken++;
+      parkedScrollTop = pendingScroll?.top ?? scrollEl.scrollTop;
+      scrollWorkActive = false;
+      cancelScrollFrame();
+      cancelFocusFrame();
     },
     focusTerminal() {
       if (!input.disabled) input.focus();
@@ -519,11 +612,16 @@ export function createStructuredConnection(
       if (disposed) return;
       disposed = true;
       mountToken++;
+      scrollWorkActive = false;
+      cancelScrollFrame();
+      cancelFocusFrame();
       cancelReconnect();
       resizeObserver.disconnect();
       unsubscribeStore?.();
       closeCurrentSocket();
       expandedRowIds.clear();
+      scrollEl.removeEventListener("scroll", onTranscriptScroll);
+      scrollEl.removeEventListener("click", onTranscriptClick, true);
       el.remove();
     },
   };

web/src/toolIcon.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { splitCommand, toolIconSvg } from "./toolIcon.js";
+import commandResolutionFixture from "../../fixtures/command-resolution.json";
+
+interface CommandResolutionCase {
+  command: string;
+  program: string;
+  tool: string | null;
+}
 
 describe("tool icons on the command fragment (docs/SIDEBAR.md)", () => {
   it("recognises the agents and shells sessions are spawned with", () => {
@@ -46,6 +53,14 @@ describe("tool icons on the command fragment (docs/SIDEBAR.md)", () => {
     expect(splitCommand("").tool).toBeNull();
   });
 
+  it("resolves every case in the shared command-resolution fixture (#199)", () => {
+    const cases = commandResolutionFixture.cases as CommandResolutionCase[];
+    expect(cases.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    for (const { command, program, tool } of cases) {
+      expect(splitCommand(command), command).toEqual({ tool, program });
+    }
+  });
+
   it("gives every recognised tool a labelled mark", () => {
     for (const tool of ["claude", "codex", "opencode", "gemini", "aider", "cursor", "pi", "shell"]) {
       const svg = toolIconSvg(tool);

web/src/toolIcon.ts

@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@
  * as text, so the fragment never renders a mark that stands for the wrong tool.
  */
 
-/** Command wrappers that run another program: the tool is what follows. */
+/** Program name (already basenamed and lowercased) → icon id.
-const WRAPPERS = new Set(["sudo", "env", "npx", "bunx", "uvx", "pnpm", "yarn", "command"]);
+ *
-
+ * `claude-code-acp` — the daemon's actual structured-session child — is
-/** Program name (already basenamed and lowercased) → icon id. */
+ * deliberately absent: the daemon launches it directly and ignores the
+ * session's command, so it is never itself a valid user-facing launch form. */
 const BY_PROGRAM: Record<string, string> = {
   claude: "claude",
   "claude-code": "claude",
@@ -53,39 +54,443 @@ export interface CommandParts {
   program: string;
 }
 
-/** Split a command line into the tool its icon stands for and the program name.
+/** Split a command line into the tool its icon stands for and the program
+ * name — basenamed and stripped of its arguments. Leading `FOO=bar`
+ * assignments and wrapper forms (`sudo`, `env -i`, `npx`, `pnpm dlx`, …) are
+ * looked through, and quoting/escaping is honoured (never evaluated — no
+ * `$var`/`` `cmd` ``/`$(cmd)` expansion). A command a shell would need real
+ * grammar for (pipelines, `&&`/`;`, redirections, substitution, an
+ * unterminated quote) falls back to the naive first word rather than
+ * guessing through it (#199). Mirrors the Rust `command_program`/
+ * `command_tool` in `crates/maestro-protocol/src/display.rs`.
  *
  * `claude --resume` → `{tool: "claude", program: "claude"}`; an unrecognised
  * `hx src/` keeps `hx` as the program with no tool. */
 export function splitCommand(command: string): CommandParts {
-  const words = command.trim().split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean);
+  const words = tokenize(command);
-  let i = 0;
+  if (words === null) {
-  // Leading `FOO=bar` assignments and wrappers stand in front of the real
+    const program = legacyFirstWord(command);
-  // program; `pnpm dlx x` / `yarn dlx x` need one more word skipped.
+    return { tool: null, program };
-  while (i < words.length) {
-    const word = words[i];
-    if (/^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*=/.test(word)) {
-      i += 1;
-      continue;
-    }
-    const wrapper = basename(word).toLowerCase();
-    if (WRAPPERS.has(wrapper)) {
-      i += 1;
-      if ((wrapper === "pnpm" || wrapper === "yarn") && words[i] === "dlx") i += 1;
-      continue;
-    }
-    break;
   }
+  const i = programIndex(words);
   if (i >= words.length) return { tool: null, program: command.trim() };
-  const program = basename(words[i]);
+  const program = basename(words[i].text);
   return { tool: BY_PROGRAM[program.toLowerCase()] ?? null, program };
 }
 
+/** The naive "first whitespace word, basenamed" reading used only when
+ * {@link tokenize} rejects the line outright — still something sane to
+ * show, never a wrapper/tool match to act on. */
+function legacyFirstWord(command: string): string {
+  const first = command.trim().split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean)[0];
+  return first === undefined ? command.trim() : basename(first);
+}
+
+/** One token from {@link tokenize}: its dequoted text, and — when both the
+ * name and `=` were entirely unquoted/unescaped in the source — the index of
+ * the name. Quoting or escaping either (`"FOO"=1`, `F\OO=1`, `FOO\=1`)
+ * makes the word an executable named `FOO=1`; quoting/escaping only the value
+ * preserves the assignment, matching Bash's assignment-word grammar (#199). */
+interface Word {
+  text: string;
+  plainEq: number | null;
+}
+
+/** `FOO=bar`, the shell's own prefix for one command's environment —
+ * recognised only when the `=` came from plain, unquoted/unescaped source
+ * text (#199). */
+function isEnvAssignment(word: Word): boolean {
+  if (word.plainEq === null) return false;
+  return /^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$/.test(word.text.slice(0, word.plainEq));
+}
+
+/** Walk `words` past leading `FOO=bar` assignments and known wrapper forms
+ * (interleaved in any order/count) to the index of the actual program. An
+ * assignment run is only consumed at the very start of the line or right
+ * after a wrapper whose own semantics accept one there ({@link Wrapper.acceptsAssignment}) —
+ * `command FOO=1 claude` and `nohup FOO=1 claude` stop at `FOO=1` rather than
+ * skipping to `claude`, since `command`/`nohup` just exec their next argument
+ * as the program, they don't setenv from an assignment-shaped one (#199). */
+function programIndex(words: Word[]): number {
+  const texts = words.map((w) => w.text);
+  let i = 0;
+  let assignmentAllowed = true;
+  for (;;) {
+    if (assignmentAllowed) {
+      while (i < words.length && isEnvAssignment(words[i])) {
+        i += 1;
+      }
+    }
+    if (i >= words.length) break;
+    const wrapper = basename(texts[i]).toLowerCase();
+    const w = WRAPPER_RESOLVERS[wrapper];
+    if (!w) break;
+    const next = w.resolve(texts, i);
+    // Not a form of the wrapper we recognise (an unknown option, or — for
+    // `pnpm`/`yarn`/`bun` — no `dlx`/`x` subcommand behind it): the wrapper
+    // word itself is the program, not a launcher.
+    if (next === null || next <= i) break;
+    i = next;
+    assignmentAllowed = w.acceptsAssignment;
+  }
+  return i;
+}
+
 function basename(word: string): string {
   const cut = word.lastIndexOf("/");
   return cut >= 0 ? word.slice(cut + 1) : word;
 }
 
+/** Word-split `command` the way a shell would (honouring `'…'`, `"…"` and
+ * `\` quoting/escaping — POSIX quote *removal*, not evaluation) and return
+ * `null` the moment it needs real shell grammar this resolver doesn't
+ * attempt: a pipeline/list operator (`|`, `&`, `;`, `<`, `>`), a subshell or
+ * substitution (`(`, `)`, `` ` ``, `$(`), an unescaped newline (a command
+ * separator, like `;` — #199), or an unterminated quote/escape. Never
+ * expands `$var`/`` `cmd` ``/`$(cmd)` — a bare `$` is kept literal. A
+ * backslash immediately before a newline, quoted or not, is a line
+ * continuation: removed entirely rather than embedding the newline or
+ * ending the word (#199). */
+function tokenize(command: string): Word[] | null {
+  const words: Word[] = [];
+  let current = "";
+  let hasCurrent = false;
+  let plainEq: number | null = null;
+  let assignmentNameIsPlain = true;
+  let i = 0;
+  const n = command.length;
+
+  while (i < n) {
+    const c = command[i];
+    if (c === " " || c === "\t" || c === "\r") {
+      if (hasCurrent) {
+        words.push({ text: current, plainEq });
+        current = "";
+        hasCurrent = false;
+        plainEq = null;
+        assignmentNameIsPlain = true;
+      }
+      i += 1;
+    } else if (c === "\n") {
+      return null;
+    } else if ("|&;<>()`".includes(c)) {
+      return null;
+    } else if (c === "$" && command[i + 1] === "(") {
+      return null;
+    } else if (c === "'") {
+      hasCurrent = true;
+      if (plainEq === null) assignmentNameIsPlain = false;
+      i += 1;
+      const close = command.indexOf("'", i);
+      if (close === -1) return null; // unterminated single quote
+      current += command.slice(i, close);
+      i = close + 1;
+    } else if (c === '"') {
+      hasCurrent = true;
+      if (plainEq === null) assignmentNameIsPlain = false;
+      i += 1;
+      for (;;) {
+        if (i >= n) return null; // unterminated double quote
+        const c2 = command[i];
+        if (c2 === '"') {
+          i += 1;
+          break;
+        }
+        if (c2 === "\\") {
+          const escaped = command[i + 1];
+          if (escaped === undefined) return null; // trailing backslash
+          if (escaped === "\n") {
+            i += 2; // line continuation, removed entirely
+            continue;
+          }
+          current += '"\\$`'.includes(escaped) ? escaped : "\\" + escaped;
+          i += 2;
+        } else {
+          current += c2;
+          i += 1;
+        }
+      }
+    } else if (c === "\\") {
+      const escaped = command[i + 1];
+      if (escaped === undefined) return null; // trailing backslash
+      if (escaped === "\n") {
+        i += 2; // line continuation, removed entirely
+        continue;
+      }
+      hasCurrent = true;
+      if (plainEq === null) assignmentNameIsPlain = false;
+      current += escaped;
+      i += 2;
+    } else {
+      hasCurrent = true;
+      if (c === "=" && plainEq === null && assignmentNameIsPlain) {
+        plainEq = current.length;
+      }
+      current += c;
+      i += 1;
+    }
+  }
+  if (hasCurrent) words.push({ text: current, plainEq });
+  return words;
+}
+
+/** A wrapper's known `-`/`--` options: which take no value, and which
+ * consume either a following word or a `--flag=value` as theirs. A
+ * `-`-prefixed word this table doesn't know halts resolution rather than
+ * guessing past it (#199) — callers read that as {@link consumeOptions}
+ * returning `null`. */
+interface OptionTable {
+  flags: Set<string>;
+  valued: Set<string>;
+  /** Whether this wrapper's short options may be combined (`-iv`) or take
+   * an attached value (`-uroot`), the way real getopt-based tools do
+   * (#199). JS-toolchain wrappers (`npx`, `pnpm`, `yarn`, bun's `x`/`dlx`)
+   * don't get this — guessing at bundling they don't actually support
+   * would resolve through options they'd reject outright. */
+  bundlesShortOptions: boolean;
+}
+
+/** `-iv` (bundled boolean short flags) or `-uroot` (a valued short option
+ * with its value attached) — getopt's traditional short-option forms.
+ * `false` the moment a character isn't a short option this table knows, or
+ * a valued one ends the word with no attached value left to be its operand
+ * (#199: rejected rather than guessed to come from the next word instead). */
+function matchesShortCluster(opts: OptionTable, word: string): boolean {
+  let idx = 1;
+  while (idx < word.length) {
+    const short = "-" + word[idx];
+    if (opts.flags.has(short)) {
+      idx += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (opts.valued.has(short)) {
+      return idx + 1 < word.length;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+/** Consume `opts`'s options starting at `words[i]`, returning the index just
+ * past them (which may equal `i` if there are none) — or `null` on an
+ * option this table doesn't recognise, or a valued option missing its
+ * operand. */
+function consumeOptions(opts: OptionTable, words: string[], i: number): number | null {
+  for (;;) {
+    const word = words[i];
+    if (word === undefined) return i;
+    if (word === "--") return i + 1;
+    if (word === "-" || !word.startsWith("-")) return i;
+    const eq = word.indexOf("=");
+    if (eq >= 0) {
+      if (opts.valued.has(word.slice(0, eq)) && word.slice(eq + 1).length > 0) {
+        i += 1;
+        continue;
+      }
+      return null;
+    }
+    if (opts.flags.has(word)) {
+      i += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (opts.valued.has(word)) {
+      const value = words[i + 1];
+      if (value === undefined || value.length === 0 || value.startsWith("-")) return null;
+      i += 2;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (
+      opts.bundlesShortOptions &&
+      !word.startsWith("--") &&
+      word.length > 2 &&
+      matchesShortCluster(opts, word)
+    ) {
+      i += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+const NO_OPTIONS: OptionTable = { flags: new Set(), valued: new Set(), bundlesShortOptions: false };
+
+const ENV_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set(["-i", "--ignore-environment", "-0", "--null", "-v", "--debug"]),
+  valued: new Set(["-u", "--unset", "-C", "--chdir"]),
+  bundlesShortOptions: true,
+};
+
+const SUDO_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set([
+    "-i",
+    "--login",
+    "-n",
+    "--non-interactive",
+    "-E",
+    "--preserve-env",
+    "-H",
+    "--set-home",
+    "-A",
+    "--askpass",
+    "-b",
+    "--background",
+    "-k",
+    "--reset-timestamp",
+    "-K",
+    "--remove-timestamp",
+    "-S",
+    "--stdin",
+  ]),
+  valued: new Set(["-u", "--user", "-g", "--group"]),
+  bundlesShortOptions: true,
+};
+
+/** `-v`/`-V` only print what would run — they never execute it — so
+ * resolving through them would claim a program runs that `command` never
+ * launches (#199). Only `-p`, which still executes normally, is safe to
+ * look through. */
+const COMMAND_BUILTIN_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set(["-p"]),
+  valued: new Set(),
+  bundlesShortOptions: true,
+};
+
+/** The bash *keyword* `time` only ever parses `-p` (POSIX output format);
+ * `-o`/`-v`/`-a`/`-f`/`--verbose`/... belong to the external GNU
+ * `/usr/bin/time`, a different program a bare `time` word doesn't
+ * necessarily name. Assuming them here would be guessing which `time`
+ * resolves (#199). */
+function resolveTime(words: string[], i: number): number | null {
+  let next = i + 1;
+  if (words[next] === "-p") next += 1;
+  if (words[next] === "--") next += 1;
+  const command = words[next];
+  return command?.startsWith("-") ? null : next;
+}
+
+/** `-c`/`--call` embeds a whole shell command string rather than naming the
+ * program positionally — resolving past it would mean guessing at a
+ * program buried inside that string, so it's left unrecognised and
+ * resolution stops at `npx` (#199). */
+const NPX_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set(["-y", "--yes", "--no", "-q", "--quiet", "--ignore-existing"]),
+  valued: new Set(["-p", "--package", "--shell"]),
+  bundlesShortOptions: false,
+};
+
+const PNPM_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set(["--silent", "-s", "--stream", "--aggregate-output", "--no-progress"]),
+  // `--package`/`--package=value` is documented in this pre-`dlx` position
+  // (`pnpm --package=x dlx y`), alongside the identical flag `dlx` itself
+  // also accepts (`PNPM_DLX_OPTS`).
+  valued: new Set(["-C", "--dir", "--filter", "--package"]),
+  bundlesShortOptions: false,
+};
+
+const YARN_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set(["--silent", "-s", "--no-progress", "--non-interactive"]),
+  valued: new Set(["--cwd"]),
+  bundlesShortOptions: false,
+};
+
+const PNPM_DLX_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set(["-s", "--silent"]),
+  valued: new Set(["--package"]),
+  bundlesShortOptions: false,
+};
+
+const YARN_DLX_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set(["-q", "--quiet"]),
+  valued: new Set(["-p", "--package"]),
+  bundlesShortOptions: false,
+};
+
+const BUN_X_OPTS: OptionTable = {
+  flags: new Set(["--bun", "--no-install", "--verbose", "--silent"]),
+  valued: new Set(["-p", "--package"]),
+  bundlesShortOptions: false,
+};
+
+/** `pnpm`/`yarn` only look through to the package behind an explicit `dlx`
+ * — without it, the next word is a `package.json` script name, not a
+ * package to run (#199: `pnpm claude` is not `pnpm dlx claude`). `dlx`
+ * itself takes launcher-specific options too, consumed before the executable. */
+function resolveDlx(
+  opts: OptionTable,
+  dlxOpts: OptionTable,
+  words: string[],
+  i: number,
+): number | null {
+  const j = consumeOptions(opts, words, i + 1);
+  if (j === null) return null;
+  if (words[j] !== "dlx") return null;
+  return consumeOptions(dlxOpts, words, j + 1);
+}
+
+/** `bun x <pkg>` is bun's `dlx`/`npx` equivalent; `bun run <script>` is not
+ * (the same package-script ambiguity as bare `pnpm`/`yarn`), so only an `x`
+ * subcommand is looked through. `--bun` (`BUN_X_OPTS`) may follow it before
+ * the executable. */
+function resolveBun(words: string[], i: number): number | null {
+  if (words[i + 1] !== "x") return null;
+  return consumeOptions(BUN_X_OPTS, words, i + 2);
+}
+
+/** A resolver for one wrapper form: given the tokenized command and the
+ * index of the wrapper word itself, the index of the word after it (past
+ * its options and any subcommand it requires), or `null` if this occurrence
+ * isn't a form we resolve through. */
+type WrapperResolver = (words: string[], i: number) => number | null;
+
+/** One recognised wrapper form: how to walk past it, and whether an
+ * assignment word is a valid follow-on once it's been walked past. */
+interface Wrapper {
+  resolve: WrapperResolver;
+  /** `true` only for wrappers that themselves interpret a following
+   * `FOO=bar` as an environment assignment for the command they launch
+   * (`env`, `sudo`), or a shell keyword that restarts the assignment-prefix
+   * grammar for a brand new simple command (`time`). Every other wrapper here
+   * is a plain executable that execs its next argument as the program
+   * outright — an assignment-shaped one names a program literally called
+   * `FOO=1`, not an env var (#199). */
+  acceptsAssignment: boolean;
+}
+
+const WRAPPER_RESOLVERS: Record<string, Wrapper> = {
+  env: { resolve: (words, i) => consumeOptions(ENV_OPTS, words, i + 1), acceptsAssignment: true },
+  sudo: {
+    resolve: (words, i) => consumeOptions(SUDO_OPTS, words, i + 1),
+    acceptsAssignment: true,
+  },
+  command: {
+    resolve: (words, i) => consumeOptions(COMMAND_BUILTIN_OPTS, words, i + 1),
+    acceptsAssignment: false,
+  },
+  nohup: {
+    resolve: (words, i) => consumeOptions(NO_OPTIONS, words, i + 1),
+    acceptsAssignment: false,
+  },
+  time: { resolve: resolveTime, acceptsAssignment: true },
+  npx: {
+    resolve: (words, i) => consumeOptions(NPX_OPTS, words, i + 1),
+    acceptsAssignment: false,
+  },
+  pnpm: {
+    resolve: (words, i) => resolveDlx(PNPM_OPTS, PNPM_DLX_OPTS, words, i),
+    acceptsAssignment: false,
+  },
+  yarn: {
+    resolve: (words, i) => resolveDlx(YARN_OPTS, YARN_DLX_OPTS, words, i),
+    acceptsAssignment: false,
+  },
+  bun: { resolve: resolveBun, acceptsAssignment: false },
+  bunx: {
+    resolve: (words, i) => consumeOptions(BUN_X_OPTS, words, i + 1),
+    acceptsAssignment: false,
+  },
+  uvx: { resolve: (_words, i) => i + 1, acceptsAssignment: false },
+};
+
 /** Anthropic's burst: tapered rays around a centre, long ones on the axes. */
 function burst(): string {
   const rays = Array.from({ length: 8 }, (_, k) => {