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What changed

Pi extension questions (select, input, editor) now open the normal question form, and the answer goes back to Pi. Input shows its placeholder, and editor starts with its prefilled text. An empty input/editor answer is sent as empty text; Skip still cancels.

Why

Fixes #642.

Two bugs:

  • The question form was only turned on for omp, so Pi got an Allow/Deny prompt instead, and Allow picked the first option.
  • The Pi adapter had no respondQuestion, so answers from the form never reached Pi.

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  • I did not mix unrelated changes

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Question forms now support placeholders, default answers, optional empty responses, and multiline text. Multiline answers retain their formatting, and Cmd/Ctrl+Enter submits them.
    • Pi extension dialogs now support input placeholders, prefilled answers, and timeouts across supported flavors.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Multiple dialogs are presented and resolved in order. Canceling a session or timing out a dialog also clears pending questions safely.
    • Answers that allow empty text are distinguished from skipped questions.

Route select/input/editor to the question flow for pi, wire respondQuestion on the pi adapter, and show input placeholders and editor prefill.
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Pi extension select, input, and editor requests now enter the question flow. The form supports request-provided placeholders and defaults, multiline text, and allowed empty answers. The Pi provider queues overlapping questions and routes replies, timeouts, and cancellation.

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Pi Extension Questions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Question data and form behavior
src/integrations/harness/providers/pi/piProtocol.ts, src/integrations/harness/providers/pi/piProtocol.test.ts, src/features/sessions/model/userQuestion.ts, src/features/sessions/ui/QuestionForm.tsx, src/features/sessions/ui/QuestionForm.test.ts
The request parser and question model carry placeholder, prefill, timeout, multiline, and empty-answer settings. The form initializes custom answers from defaults, renders a textarea for multiline questions, and submits permitted empty or untrimmed multiline text.
Queue Pi questions and route replies
src/integrations/harness/providers/pi/piFamily.ts, src/integrations/harness/providers/pi/piAdapter.ts, host/engine.ts, src/integrations/harness/providers/pi/piLive.test.ts, host/provider-transport.test.ts
The Pi provider queues extension questions, emits the queue head, and advances to the next question after resolution. Timeouts and cancellation resolve pending questions as skipped. The adapter forwards replies, and the host records answered or skipped resolution events. Tests cover question responses, overlapping dialogs, timeouts, and cancellation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PiExtension
  participant parseExtensionUiRequest
  participant handleExtensionUi
  participant QuestionForm
  participant piAdapter
  PiExtension->>parseExtensionUiRequest: Send select, input, or editor request
  parseExtensionUiRequest->>handleExtensionUi: Provide parsed question fields
  handleExtensionUi->>QuestionForm: Emit the queued question
  QuestionForm->>piAdapter: Submit the selected or custom answer
  piAdapter->>handleExtensionUi: Resolve the matching queued question
  handleExtensionUi->>PiExtension: Send the extension response
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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1077a

Answers remain tied to their session and request. The main observed risk is interruption handling: process exit can briefly publish additional questions during cleanup. No authorization bypass was established, but runtime cancellation compatibility remains uncertain.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · observed: Unexpected child exit emits session.ended and resolves pending questions without muting queue advancement. The new resolution continuation can therefore publish previously hidden questions during terminal cleanup. This weakens failure containment at the provider-to-session boundary. All queued resolutions eventually clear the prompts, and host run checks and final settlement bound the demonstrated effect; persistent stale state or privilege escalation was not established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is question content and lifecycle state within an affected live session, across both Pi and OMP because they share the queue implementation. Inspected answer routing does not establish cross-session, cross-run, or higher-privilege access.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Runtime-provided dialog fields cross into question presentation, while replies return through session-scoped provider routing. Host commands validate reply shape and text lengths, reject finished or replaced runs, and require the pending request ID. The provider additionally accepts only the matching queue head. These controls do not establish authentication of the outer transport.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Host event consumption rejects mismatched or non-running runs, and final settlement clears pending questions. Individual resolutions also clear only matching request IDs. These controls bound the child-exit ordering issue but do not suppress intermediate question publication while the current host run is still settling.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make unexpected process exit enter a non-presenting terminal state before settling queued requests, preserving matching resolution events without advancing to hidden dialogs.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: rendering Pi extension dialogs as native questions.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes all required sections, explains what changed and why, provides UI before-and-after images, and marks the checklist items as complete.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#642] requires Pi extension select, input, and editor requests to show native questions and return real answers. piFamily handles all three request types for Pi, queues overlapping dial…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within Issue [#642]. The model, question form, Pi protocol and adapter, queue handling, host resolution path, and related tests support native Pi extension questions. No unrelated f…
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- Around line 263-290: Update the completion and answer-building logic for
custom questions so empty `input` and `editor` values can be submitted as `""`
rather than treated as cancellation; preserve cancellation as a separate
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Comment thread src/features/sessions/ui/QuestionForm.tsx
Pi treats value "" as an answer and cancelled as dismissal. Let input/editor questions submit empty text; Skip still cancels.

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src/integrations/harness/providers/pi/piLive.test.ts (1)

215-240: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test Pi input and editor replies through the response handler.

The live test checks input/editor display data but does not submit either reply. A regression can therefore break text forwarding, empty input, or Skip handling while the test still passes. Add assertions for the exact extension_ui_response payloads.

Suggested fix
+    it("forwards input and editor replies, including empty input and Skip", async () => {
+      const frame = await open("pi-replies");
+      frame({
+        type: "extension_ui_request",
+        id: "i1",
+        method: "input",
+        title: "Name",
+      });
+      const input = asked();
+      piAdapter.respondQuestion!("pi-replies", input.requestId, {
+        kind: "answered",
+        answers: {},
+        custom: { i1: "main" },
+      });
+      await vi.waitFor(() =>
+        expect(replies()).toContainEqual({
+          type: "extension_ui_response",
+          id: "i1",
+          value: "main",
+        }),
+      );
+
+      events.length = 0;
+      frame({
+        type: "extension_ui_request",
+        id: "e1",
+        method: "editor",
+        title: "Commit message",
+      });
+      const editor = asked();
+      piAdapter.respondQuestion!("pi-replies", editor.requestId, {
+        kind: "answered",
+        answers: {},
+        custom: { e1: "fix: x\n\n  body" },
+      });
+      await vi.waitFor(() =>
+        expect(replies()).toContainEqual({
+          type: "extension_ui_response",
+          id: "e1",
+          value: "fix: x\n\n  body",
+        }),
+      );
+
+      events.length = 0;
+      frame({
+        type: "extension_ui_request",
+        id: "empty",
+        method: "input",
+        title: "Optional value",
+      });
+      const empty = asked();
+      piAdapter.respondQuestion!("pi-replies", empty.requestId, {
+        kind: "answered",
+        answers: {},
+        custom: { empty: "" },
+      });
+      await vi.waitFor(() =>
+        expect(replies()).toContainEqual({
+          type: "extension_ui_response",
+          id: "empty",
+          value: "",
+        }),
+      );
+
+      events.length = 0;
+      frame({
+        type: "extension_ui_request",
+        id: "skip",
+        method: "input",
+        title: "Skipped value",
+      });
+      const skipped = asked();
+      piAdapter.respondQuestion!("pi-replies", skipped.requestId, {
+        kind: "skipped",
+      });
+      await vi.waitFor(() =>
+        expect(replies()).toContainEqual({
+          type: "extension_ui_response",
+          id: "skip",
+          cancelled: true,
+        }),
+      );
+      await stopPiSession("pi-replies");
+    });
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Extend the live test around `open` and `piAdapter.respondQuestion!` to submit
input and editor answers, then assert the exact `extension_ui_response`
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- Around line 215-240: Extend the live test around `open` and
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Thanks for putting this together, @nandan-varma, and for adding empty-answer support. I found two remaining cases to address before merging:

  • handleExtensionUi can emit overlapping dialogs, but applyHarnessEvent stores only one pending question. The second hides the first, and answering it clears the form while the first request remains unresolved. Could you queue dialogs so both can be answered?
  • QuestionForm and isCustomSelection treat a literal “Other” option as custom text even when allowCustom is false. Continue stays disabled until unrelated text is entered, which Pi then ignores. Could you honor allowCustom in both rendering and validation?

Please add tests that submit these cases through the form and adapter.

One smaller follow-up: parseExtensionUiRequest still drops whitespace-only editor prefill through stringField. Please preserve editor prefill verbatim. Thanks!

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Thanks for the quick review :)

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Thanks for addressing these, @nandan-varma. One remaining case affects remote sessions: host/engine.ts clears pendingQuestion directly when accepting an answer, so applyHarnessEvent cannot promote the next queued question when the resolution arrives. Could you use the shared resolution path there and add a host test that answers two overlapping dialogs? Thanks!

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Hi @hardbeat920, I've rebased onto main and fixed the conflicts with #688 and the async Codex questions change. The host engine now resolves answers through the shared path, so the next queued question shows up properly in remote sessions. I also added a host test that answers two overlapping dialogs. Have a look whenever you get a chance. Thanks!

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