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+# Plan — ConPTY Interactive Sessions
+
+Spec: `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-23-conpty-interactive-sessions-design.md`
+Date: 2026-07-23
+
+Execution: subagent-driven-development, sonnet model, TDD where meaningful,
+build + test + commit per task. Stage files explicitly by path (never
+`git add -A`). Terminal rendering is visual — flagged for the user's visual pass.
+
+## Task 0 — Spike: embed a ConPTY terminal running `claude`
+
+Not TDD; a throwaway proof. Add a temporary window/view that embeds each
+candidate control and launches `claude` in a known worktree.
+
+- Evaluate **SvcSystems.UI.Terminal** and **Iciclecreek.Avalonia.Terminal**.
+- Acceptance: the real `claude` TUI renders correctly — colors, resize/reflow,
+  and a live permission prompt is usable; input reaches the CLI.
+- Output: pick one library; note the control API (start with cwd/exe/args/env,
+  process-exited event, dispose/kill). Record the decision in the spec.
+- Remove the throwaway harness before Task 1 (or keep as a manual dev sample,
+  not wired into the app).
+
+**Stop for the user's visual verification of the spike before continuing.**
+
+## Task 1 — Worker: interactive launch-spec endpoint
+
+- Add a Worker service/hub method that, given a taskId, prepares the worktree
+  (session-skills seeding, agent files, MCP config, env — reuse the autonomous
+  run prep path) and returns a `LaunchSpec { cwd, exe, args, env }`.
+- Reuse `WindowsTerminalLauncher.BuildResumeCommand` for exe/args.
+- Guards mirror `ResumeTaskInTerminal` (not Running/Queued, persisted SessionId,
+  worktree Active/Kept). Never-run task → spec without `--resume` (fresh start).
+- Tests (Worker.Tests, real SQLite/git): guard cases, spec contents for a
+  resumable task, fresh-start case. No real `claude` in tests.
+
+## Task 2 — Worker: ad-hoc launch-spec
+
+- Method to build a `LaunchSpec` for a free session in a given directory:
+  MCP config + env set up, no task/session-skills seeding.
+- Tests: env/MCP presence, arbitrary cwd.
+
+## Task 3 — UI: terminal host control + view model
+
+- Wrap the chosen library in an app control/view (e.g. `InteractiveTerminalView`
+  + `InteractiveTerminalViewModel`) that starts from a `LaunchSpec` and exposes
+  running/exited state.
+- `IWorkerClient`: add methods to fetch the task and ad-hoc launch specs; wire
+  the SignalR client + hub method.
+- Update hand-rolled `IWorkerClient`/hub fakes in BOTH test projects.
+- Tests: view model starts/stops lifecycle with a fake terminal backend;
+  fake worker returns a spec.
+
+## Task 4 — Command Center: host interactive panes + entry points
+
+- `MonitorPaneView`: autonomous panes keep the streamed log; interactive panes
+  host the terminal control.
+- Entry points: "Open interactive session" from a task (task-based) and a
+  "New session" action (ad-hoc, pick directory).
+- Layout toggle: focus (tabs) ↔ overview (grid); reuse/extend the existing
+  `UniformGrid` column logic for the grid mode.
+- Tests: view-model level (pane kind selection, layout toggle state). Rendering
+  is a visual-pass item.
+
+## Task 5 — Remove the streaming interactive stack
+
+Only after Tasks 1–4 land and the terminal path works.
+
+- Worker: delete `StreamingClaudeSession`, `InteractiveSessionService`,
+  interactive `WorkerHub` methods + broadcast events, DI registrations.
+  Verify `LiveSessionRegistry` / `IdleSessionReaper` usage first; remove only if
+  unreferenced.
+- UI: remove composer bits on `TaskMonitorViewModel`, the composer/queued portion
+  of `SessionTerminalView`, `IWorkerClient` interactive methods.
+- Update fakes and delete now-dead tests. Full build + all test projects green.
+
+## Task 6 — Docs
+
+- Update `docs/open.md` with visual-verification items (spike render, terminal
+  resize/focus, grid vs tabs).
+- Update affected per-project `CLAUDE.md` (Worker interactive removal, UI new
+  terminal host).
+
+## Verification gates
+
+- After Task 0: user visual pass on the spike.
+- After Task 4: user visual pass on Command Center (task + ad-hoc, tabs + grid,
+  permission prompt round-trip).
+- Never claim the terminal UI works without the user running it.
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+# ConPTY Interactive Sessions — Design
+
+Date: 2026-07-23
+Status: Approved (design), implementation not started
+
+## Problem
+
+The current in-app interactive session path streams `stream-json` from a
+`claude` process spawned **in the Worker** and renders it as a chat log with a
+composer. It does not surface permission requests, AskUser questions, and other
+TUI-native interactions well — the rendering is a partial reimplementation of
+what the real Claude Code TUI already does. We want full fidelity for
+interactive work without rebuilding the TUI.
+
+## Decision
+
+**Hybrid execution model:**
+
+- **Autonomous queue tasks** (`Status=Queued`, picked by the queue): unchanged.
+  Headless `stream-json`, full orchestration (status flow, diff, review, merge).
+- **Interactive sessions**: an **embedded ConPTY terminal** running the real
+  `claude` CLI, rendered in the **UI process**. Full TUI fidelity (permission
+  prompts, questions, colors, everything the standalone CLI does). Detached from
+  the review/merge/status machinery — these are a manual cockpit.
+
+This is the third direction for interactive (external `wt` terminal → streaming
+chat → embedded ConPTY). The streaming interactive stack is **removed**, not run
+in parallel — accepted as discarded work in exchange for one interactive path
+and full fidelity.
+
+## Architecture
+
+### Process location
+
+ConPTY terminal controls render in-process and spawn their child (`claude`) as a
+child of the host process. Therefore interactive sessions move **out of the
+Worker and into the UI process**. They no longer flow over SignalR. This mirrors
+the existing `ResumeTaskInTerminal` behavior (launch real `claude`), but embedded
+instead of via external `wt.exe`.
+
+### Worktree preparation (task-based sessions)
+
+Interactive task sessions get the **same worktree preparation as autonomous
+runs**: session-skills seeding, agent files, MCP config, environment. The Worker
+performs the prep and returns a launch spec to the UI:
+
+```
+LaunchSpec {
+  cwd:  string   // worktree path
+  exe:  string   // resolved claude executable / shell
+  args: string[] // e.g. --resume <sessionId>
+  env:  Dictionary<string,string>
+}
+```
+
+The command construction reuses the existing logic in
+`WindowsTerminalLauncher.BuildResumeCommand`. Guards mirror
+`ResumeTaskInTerminal`: task not Running/Queued, a persisted SessionId exists,
+worktree exists and is Active/Kept.
+
+### Free / ad-hoc sessions
+
+In addition to task-based sessions, the user can open an ad-hoc terminal in a
+chosen directory (no task). These also get MCP config + env set up so the
+`claudedo` tools are available, but no per-level session-skills seeding tied to a
+task.
+
+### Terminal host control
+
+Embed a ConPTY-capable Avalonia terminal control in the UI. Candidates:
+
+- **SvcSystems.UI.Terminal** (IvanJosipovic) — explicit ConPTY, full-screen TUI
+  render + resize reflow, selection/mouse reporting.
+- **Iciclecreek.Avalonia.Terminal** — XTerm.NET + Porta.Pty, clean
+  `TerminalControl` embed API.
+
+Selection is resolved by a **spike** (first plan step): the acceptance criterion
+is that the real `claude` TUI renders correctly inside the control — colors,
+resize/reflow, and a live permission prompt are usable.
+
+### Command Center layout
+
+- `MonitorPaneView` keeps the streamed log for autonomous tasks.
+- Interactive panes host the terminal control instead of the log+composer.
+- Layout is **toggleable**: focus mode (tabs, one session large) ↔ overview mode
+  (grid, several sessions at once).
+
+## Removals
+
+Worker:
+- `StreamingClaudeSession`, `InteractiveSessionService`
+- `WorkerHub` interactive methods: `OpenInteractiveTerminal`,
+  `SendInteractiveMessage`, `RemoveQueuedInteractiveMessage`,
+  `StopInteractiveSession`, `InterruptInteractiveSession`
+- Broadcast events: `InteractiveSessionStarted/Ended`, `InteractiveQueueChanged`,
+  `InteractiveMessageSent`
+- `IdleSessionReaper` and `LiveSessionRegistry` **iff** unused elsewhere
+  (verify during implementation — do not delete blindly).
+
+UI:
+- Composer on `TaskMonitorViewModel`: `ComposerDraft`, `SubmitComposerCommand`,
+  `InterruptInteractiveCommand`, `StopInteractiveCommand`, `QueuedMessages`,
+  `IsInteractiveLive`.
+- The composer + queued-messages portion of `SessionTerminalView` (the log
+  portion stays for autonomous panes).
+- `IWorkerClient` interactive methods.
+
+## Open items (implementation time)
+
+- Whether `LiveSessionRegistry` is referenced outside the interactive path.
+- Exact env dictionary handed to the ConPTY control (parity with the autonomous
+  run environment).
+- Session-id availability for a never-run task (no `--resume` → start fresh).
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No screen-scraping of terminal output back into task status/diff/review.
+- No change to the autonomous queue execution path.