fix(startup-banner): eliminate flicker, freeze, and reload-damaged intro - #355
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesStartup banner behavior
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Error paths can leave the startup overlay and terminal UI in an unfinished state, potentially causing a stuck or inconsistent interface. The PR should address this cleanup gap before merging. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SessionStart
participant StartupBanner
participant CustomUI
participant Terminal
SessionStart->>StartupBanner: provide session_start reload state
StartupBanner->>CustomUI: show intro overlay when enabled
StartupBanner->>CustomUI: request throttled animation renders
StartupBanner->>CustomUI: close overlay on completion or skip
StartupBanner->>Terminal: clear terminal after resize skip
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In `@extensions/startup-banner.ts`:
- Around line 727-740: Update the animation render error handlers around
tui.requestRender() so every catch path calls cleanup() and then
done(undefined), including both render-error handlers. Also update the
ctx.ui.custom() rejection handler to call cleanup() before completing the custom
UI flow.
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| done(undefined); | ||
| return; | ||
| } | ||
| try { | ||
| tui.requestRender(); | ||
| } catch { | ||
| cleanup(); | ||
| // Render on every other tick (~20fps instead of 40fps): the intro | ||
| // still reads as smooth while halving the per-tick full-header | ||
| // repaints and hardware-cursor teleports that ghostty shows as | ||
| // flicker/ghosting (ghostty#12685). Timing stays tick-based, so | ||
| // the animation duration is unchanged. | ||
| if (tick % 2 === 0) { | ||
| try { | ||
| tui.requestRender(); | ||
| } catch { | ||
| cleanup(); | ||
| } |
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The file packages/coding-agent/src/core/extensions/types.ts in the badlogic/pi-mono repository (part of the Pi agent harness project) defines the extension system for the Pi coding agent [1][2][3]. This file contains the interfaces and types that allow extensions to register LLM-callable tools, commands, keyboard shortcuts, CLI flags, and UI components [1][4]. Regarding the specific context of UI customization mentioned in the file: Extensions can interact with the user via UI primitives and custom editor components [1][2]. The ExtensionContext (often accessed via ctx) provides a method setEditorComponent(factory: EditorFactory | undefined) which allows setting a custom editor component via a factory function [2]. The EditorFactory receives theme (for styling) and keybindings (for app-level keybindings) [2]. For advanced control, developers can extend CustomEditor from @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent and override handleInput(data: string) [2]. This allows the custom editor to handle specific key inputs (e.g., implementing Vim normal/insert modes) and call super.handleInput(data) for default app functionality [2]. The Promise type is typically involved in the asynchronous nature of these operations, such as handling tool execution or asynchronous UI updates, although the specific implementation details for any given done callback or promise-based workflow depend on the specific extension logic being implemented [1][4]. For further details, you can browse the source directly on GitHub [3][5].
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Finish the custom UI flow on every error path.
When tui.requestRender() throws, call cleanup() and done(undefined) in both render-error handlers. When ctx.ui.custom() rejects, call cleanup() in the rejection handler.
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In `@extensions/startup-banner.ts` around lines 727 - 740, Update the animation
render error handlers around tui.requestRender() so every catch path calls
cleanup() and then done(undefined), including both render-error handlers. Also
update the ctx.ui.custom() rejection handler to call cleanup() before completing
the custom UI flow.
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Summary
Fixes the animated startup banner's visual problems, originally reported and verified on Ghostty:
ROSE_PULSE_TICKS = 4(~100ms) and render on every other tick (~20fps). Same animation duration, ~4x fewer full-header repaints.CSI 6;H;W t, theme changes, resizes). The oldinvalidate()killed the ticker, freezing the logo half-written with the rose invisible.invalidate()is now a no-op and real teardown moved todispose().session.reload()re-firessession_startwith reason"reload"; the intro skipped the reload guard, wrote a raw screen clear, and a second splash overlay interleaved with the reload's rendering, desyncing the TUI cursor model. The intro now returns early onreason === "reload".ctx.ui.custom+overlay: true, and hides itself once finished (done()).Two commits were squashed into one (
a2e2eb9a). No behavioral change to the rest of the extension.Test plan
node --experimental-strip-types --check extensions/startup-banner.ts— parses clean.Notes
Local copy of the fixes (never pushed before) recovered from the worktree; kept as patch + reapply script at
~/.pi/gentle-ai/on the reporter's machine undergentle-pi-startup-banner-fixes.patch.Summary by CodeRabbit