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fix(prompt): drop whole terminal escape sequences from prompt input - #615

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What's broken

The interactive prompts (promptSecret for the API key in setup / auth configure, and promptText) drop control characters one byte at a time. For a terminal escape sequence, only the ESC byte goes and its printable tail stays in the answer. Pressing Left after pasting the key turns sk-user-abc into sk-user-abc[D. Delete adds [3~, Home adds OH, Ctrl+Right adds [1;5C, and a bracketed paste becomes [200~sk-user-abc[201~. The prompt is masked, so the user can't see any of it, and the key then fails as invalid.

How you found it

Reading src/lib/prompt.ts: the "drop other control chars" branch skips ESC (0x1b) but not the bytes after it. Writing 'sk-user-abc\x1b[D\x1b[D\r' into promptSecret through a PassThrough returns "sk-user-abc[D[D". Confirmed on v0.15.0 by @fyZhang66 in #482.

Why it matters

This is the first thing a new user does (testsprite setup). A correctly copied key is silently changed by a normal keypress, and the error blames the key rather than the input handling.

The fix (scope as accepted in #482):

  • Adds a small ESC / CSI / SS3 state machine to readLine, kept across data chunks, used by both promptSecret and promptText.
  • Drops each sequence up to its final byte (arrows, Delete, Home/End, Ctrl+arrow, [200~ / [201~ paste markers), plus two-byte Alt+key escapes.
  • Keeps Enter and Ctrl-C ahead of it, so an unterminated sequence can't swallow the submit.
  • No new dependency. Plain typed or pasted input is unchanged.

Tests

src/lib/prompt.test.ts, 7 new tests, all failing on main and passing with the fix:

  • Arrow, Home/End (SS3 and CSI), Delete and Ctrl+arrow sequences are dropped from a secret.
  • Bracketed-paste markers are stripped.
  • A sequence split across two data chunks is dropped whole.
  • Alt+key is dropped.
  • promptText is covered too.
  • Enter inside an unterminated sequence still submits.
  • In raw TTY mode, one * is written per kept character only.

Rebased on main d61e6df. Full suite: 4,805 passed, 2 skipped. typecheck, format:check and lint (incl. check-ticket-refs) are clean.

Closes #482

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Terminal navigation, editing, bracketed-paste, and Alt-key escape sequences are no longer included in prompt responses.
    • Escape sequences split across input chunks are handled correctly.
    • Prompt submission and raw-mode masking continue to work as expected when escape sequences contain Enter or other control characters.

readLine dropped control characters one byte at a time, so for an
escape sequence only the ESC byte was removed and its printable tail
stayed in the answer. Pressing an arrow key, Home/End or Delete in the
`setup` / `auth configure` API-key prompt appended text such as `[D` or
`[3~` to the key (masked, so invisible), and a terminal with bracketed
paste enabled wrapped a pasted key in `[200~ ... [201~`. The corrupted
key then failed as an invalid key or a wrong-prefix validation error.

Track ESC / CSI / SS3 state across chunks and drop each sequence whole.
Enter and Ctrl-C keep their existing handling.
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readLine now tracks terminal escape sequences across input chunks and excludes those sequences from prompt responses. Tests cover secret and text prompts, bracketed-paste markers, incomplete sequences, and raw-mode masking.

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Escape-sequence filtering
src/lib/prompt.ts, src/lib/prompt.test.ts
readLine discards two-byte, CSI, and SS3 escape sequences, including sequences split across input chunks. Tests verify retained characters, prompt submission, and raw-mode masking.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 8d3b5

This change makes the secret and text prompts drop whole terminal escape sequences instead of leaking their trailing bytes into the entered value. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #482 is directly linked and remains open. src/lib/prompt.ts adds ESC/CSI/SS3 state that persists across data chunks. It drops cursor, Delete, Home/End, Ctrl+arrow, bracketed-paste, and Alt-k…
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Issue #482 is directly linked and remains open. src/lib/prompt.ts adds ESC/CSI/SS3 state that persists across data chunks. It drops cursor, Delete, Home/End, Ctrl+arrow, bracketed-paste, and Alt-key sequences. Enter and Ctrl-C are checked before escape parsing. The state applies to both promptSecret and promptText. src/lib/prompt.test.ts adds coverage for the required sequences, split chunks, unterminated input, prompt text, and raw-mode masking. No dependency is added.

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- Around line 102-104: Update the SS3 handling in the escape-sequence parser so
parameter bytes are retained and consumed through the sequence’s final byte,
matching the CSI parsing behavior instead of resetting immediately after the
first byte. Preserve normal SS3 parsing and add coverage for a parameterized
sequence such as \x1bO1;5P.
- Around line 91-95: Update the escape-state handling around the escape parser
so a second ESC is preserved as the start of a new sequence rather than consumed
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