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[CTX-1002] feat(input,config): prefix-sequence Leader dispatch with input.leader/timeout_len - #1748

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Priority: P2 | Area: input,config | Labels: feat,P2,area:input,area:config | Milestone: v0.1.0 | RFC: OQ-056 | Task: CTX-1002

Closes #1650

Summary

Core prefix-sequence (Leader) dispatch with configurable pending-state timeout, per #1650.

Scope

  • Core key dispatch: pending-state router for <Leader> <second> two-step sequences (new prefix_dispatch module, pure + caller-owned clock); timeout expiry reaps fail-open, bare Esc cancels, Leader re-press re-arms, unmatched follow-ups fall through with their normal owner (never swallowed). Multi-step (<Leader> w v) stays deferred and fails closed.
  • Configuration: canonical input.leader + input.timeout_len (default 1000ms, window 100..=60000) Lua surface; each wins over its legacy top-level alias (leader_key / leader_timeout_ms) when both are present. Prefix bindings ride the existing keymaps table as "leader <second>" entries (bare follow-up letters allowed; the leader keyword is symbolic and resolves from config, never hardcoded).
  • Lua integration: bitty.keymaps.suggest accepts the same "leader <second>" spelling (capture-tested); activation rides the pending-window router once the plugin-binding facility lands (slot stays deny-by-default).
  • Keymaps/Mod/Leader never hardcoded: arming chord, timeout, and bindings all resolve from configuration (DEC-W144-1 standing).

Verification

  • fmt clean; clippy clean (workspace + dev-tools); Windows target check clean; scratch-paths clean.
  • Suites: bitty-config 391, bitty-lua lib 94, lua_parity 17, bitty-terminal bin 604 — all pass.
  • Hermetic bitty-terminal tests cover single chords, prefix dispatch, timeout expiry, Esc cancel, fallback, re-arm, and config-driven Leader.
  • just ci-local environment-blocked locally (stalled 20+ min on nextest download inside act container, 0% CPU; containers stopped); remote Quality gates will cover it.

Do NOT merge (owner directive pending review + CI).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Configure the Leader key and timeout in the input settings, with each setting independently falling back to its legacy equivalent.
    • Use Leader-prefixed keybindings, such as leader w, to trigger actions. Prefix bindings support live configuration reloads.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid Leader settings and prefix bindings now report errors against their specific configuration fields.

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The change adds canonical input.leader and input.timeout_len settings, parses and resolves leader <second> keymap entries separately from single-chord bindings, and routes configured prefix sequences in the terminal. Startup and live config adoption carry prefix bindings. Lua keymap suggestions capture prefix spellings.

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Leader prefix configuration and dispatch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical Leader input settings
crates/bitty-config/src/file.rs, crates/bitty-lua/src/config.rs
Lua config extraction and config parsing support the optional input table. Its leader and timeout_len values take precedence independently over their corresponding legacy aliases. Tests cover extraction, precedence, and invalid values.
Prefix keymap parsing and resolution
crates/bitty-config/src/keymap.rs, crates/bitty-config/src/lib.rs, crates/bitty-config/src/file.rs, crates/bitty-lua/src/host.rs, crates/bitty-lua/tests/lua_parity.rs
Prefix-shaped entries are parsed, validated, and resolved outside the single-chord table. Duplicate context and follow-up identities use the later entry. The Lua bridge captures prefix spellings such as leader w.
Pending prefix routing
crates/bitty-terminal/src/prefix_dispatch.rs, crates/bitty-terminal/src/chrome_keys.rs
The terminal classifies Leader presses and follow-ups. Matching actions dispatch through apply_chrome_action; cancellation, repeats, hint deferral, and unmatched follow-ups have separate outcomes.
Startup and live-reload adoption
crates/bitty-terminal/src/config_reload.rs, crates/bitty-terminal/src/main.rs, crates/bitty-terminal/src/terminal_app.rs, crates/bitty-terminal/src/tests.rs
Startup and config reload resolve and pass prefix bindings to the app. Live adoption updates changed bindings and cancels an armed Leader or hint session when relevant bindings change.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TerminalInput
  participant route_cw_modal
  participant route_prefix_pending
  participant classify_prefix_press
  participant apply_chrome_action
  TerminalInput->>route_cw_modal: key press
  route_cw_modal->>route_prefix_pending: route prefix press
  route_prefix_pending->>classify_prefix_press: classify Leader or follow-up
  classify_prefix_press-->>route_prefix_pending: prefix outcome
  route_prefix_pending->>apply_chrome_action: apply matched action
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 54f59

A narrowly configured prefix using a non-graphic follow-up may never dispatch. This affects only such bindings and can be worked around with a typable key, so the merge risk is low.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 54f59

Leader sequences remain controlled by trusted configuration and reuse existing terminal actions. One bounded input-ownership concern remains: a pending sequence can survive losing window focus and consume typing after refocus. No attacker-driven privilege escalation was established, and security coverage remains incomplete.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: A pending Leader sequence survives window-focus interruption. Arming a configured sequence, losing focus, and returning before its deadline allows the next matching key to execute a terminal action rather than retain its normal input owner. Focus handling clears held keys and overlay capture but not Leader state, and the downstream focus handler does not disarm hints. This cleanup behavior existed for hints before the PR; the new prefix route extends it to configured actions. Exposure requires trusted bindings and a local input sequence, and timeout expiry bounds the stale state.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is local input ownership and configured actions within the running terminal application. The inspected flow does not establish cross-service or tenant exposure, new credentials, or elevated privileges; downstream action effects were not exhaustively audited.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Project admission checks consent and protected-field restrictions before creating a mergeable layer. Lua keymap suggestions remain capture-only for this feature, and the plugin-binding lookup returns no action; accepting Leader syntax therefore does not activate plugin execution authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Timeout, cancellation, unmatched-input fallback, and routing-change invalidation contain pending-state failures. Focus interruption remains inconsistent with those cleanup paths: without an overlay capture, neither the terminal nor runtime focus handler clears the pending sequence, so a matching post-refocus press can still execute its configured action before expiry.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Treat window-focus loss as the end of the Leader gesture by idempotently clearing both pending Leader and hint state, preventing subsequent typing from inheriting an interrupted sequence.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning [#1650] The PR implements deterministic two-step Leader dispatch, timeout expiry with fail-open routing, cancellation, and unmatched-key fall-through. It adds configurable input.leader and `input.ti… Implement multi-step Leader bindings, including <Leader> w v, and add hermetic bitty-terminal tests for multi-step dispatch and pending-state behavior.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: two-step Leader dispatch and canonical input configuration.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The configuration, keymap parsing, Lua suggestion capture, terminal routing, live-config adoption, and tests all support the Leader/prefix-dispatch work in [#1650]. The reviewed changes show no unrela…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 88.71% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 62 functions across 12 files.
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[#1650] The PR implements deterministic two-step Leader dispatch, timeout expiry with fail-open routing, cancellation, and unmatched-key fall-through. It adds configurable input.leader and input.timeout_len, prefix keymap parsing, bitty.keymaps.suggest capture, and hermetic terminal tests. However, #1650 identifies multi-step sequences such as &lt;Leader&gt; w v as a requested use case. The reviewed implementation accepts only leader &lt;second&gt; bindings and rejects longer sequences, so that use case cannot dispatch a bound command.

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- Around line 1949-1960: Update the single-character fallback in Chord::parse to
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if let Ok(chord) = Chord::parse(trimmed) {
return Ok(chord);
}
let mut chars = trimmed.chars();
match (chars.next(), chars.next()) {
(Some(c), None) => Ok(Chord {
ctrl: false,
alt: false,
shift: false,
super_held: false,
key: KeyName::Char(c.to_ascii_lowercase()),
}),

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Reject fallback keys that cannot match a runtime press.

The fallback accepts non-ASCII graphic characters, but key_ref_from_event rejects them. It also accepts bare + with Shift unset; on the documented US-layout path, the compositor reports + or = with Shift held, and prefix matching compares modifiers exactly. Whitespace cannot reach this fallback through a configured leader <second> entry.

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-        (Some(c), None) => Ok(Chord {
+        (Some(c), None) if c.is_ascii_graphic() && c != '+' => Ok(Chord {
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if let Ok(chord) = Chord::parse(trimmed) {
return Ok(chord);
}
let mut chars = trimmed.chars();
match (chars.next(), chars.next()) {
(Some(c), None) => Ok(Chord {
ctrl: false,
alt: false,
shift: false,
super_held: false,
key: KeyName::Char(c.to_ascii_lowercase()),
}),
if let Ok(chord) = Chord::parse(trimmed) {
return Ok(chord);
}
let mut chars = trimmed.chars();
match (chars.next(), chars.next()) {
(Some(c), None) if c.is_ascii_graphic() && c != '+' => Ok(Chord {
ctrl: false,
alt: false,
shift: false,
super_held: false,
key: KeyName::Char(c.to_ascii_lowercase()),
}),
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Review comment at @crates/bitty-config/src/keymap.rs around lines 1949 - 1960:
Update the single-character fallback in Chord::parse to accept only ASCII
graphic characters other than `+`. Preserve the existing error path for
characters that fail this check so fallback keys can match runtime presses with
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Independent reviewer verdict: APPROVE (recorded as COMMENT — self-approval impossible; author and reviewer share the credential).

Scope: read-only review of 28446e4 (12 files, +1206/-15). Worktree inspected: bitty/.worktrees/ctx-1002-feat-prefix-leader-dispatch. CI: all required checks pass (Quality gates 1+2, CodeQL rust+actions, MSRV 1.85, Linux X11/Wayland, macOS ARM64, Windows, Supply chain, M1 + Compat aggregates, VM tier PR; VM main/nightly skipped by design).

Verified against the brief (Closes #1650, RFC OQ-056):

  • No hardcoded chords/mods/timeouts: arming via ResolvedLeader::arms, budget via leader.timeout_ms, bindings via resolve_prefix_bindings; startup (main.rs ~675) and reload (config_reload.rs resolve_app_adoption ~310-312) both go through resolve_leader_for; canonical input.leader/input.timeout_len (file.rs ~2005-2055, default 1000, window 100..=60000) each win over legacy leader_key/leader_timeout_ms. LEADER_TIMEOUT_MS_DEFAULT and test chords (e.g. ctrl+b in tests) are defaults/fixtures, not dispatch constants. Prefix entries ride keymaps as "leader " (leader keyword symbolic, resolved from config).
  • Empty table = byte-identical: classify_prefix_press returns Ignored when bindings empty (prefix_dispatch.rs ~95-97), and route_cw_modal skips the tier entirely when prefix_bindings empty (chrome_keys.rs ~1708) — hint/normal dispatch untouched.
  • Expiry/Esc/unmatched fail-open: expired window polls Expired -> disarm hint + return false, press routes to shell (chrome_keys.rs ~1700-1707); bare Esc (no mods, mirrors hint cancel) -> Cancel, consumed + disarmed (is_prefix_cancel + route Cancel ~1803-1807); unmatched follow-up with no hint armed -> Fallthrough, disarm + return false, press keeps normal owner (~1809-1815). Leader re-press re-arms (consumed), held repeat swallowed without extending window (Repeat, consumed).
  • Multi-step deferred fail-closed: three-token "leader w v" is not a prefix entry — split_prefix_chord returns None, parse_prefix_entry None, validate_entry errs (keymap.rs ~1861-1862, tests ~4349-4421). Disclosed deferral; acceptance (#1650) requires deterministic Leader sequences + timeout reset + hermetic single/prefix/timeout tests, all present (prefix_dispatch tests + chrome_keys hermetic cases: single, prefix, expiry, Esc, fallback, re-arm, config-driven Leader). Multi-step dispatch is follow-up material, not a silent gap.
  • Reload cancels armed windows: adopt_live_config (terminal_app.rs ~676-692) diffs leader/keymaps/prefixes/hints-enabled and on any change resets leader_state to Idle + cw_hint_disarm (fail-open); held-key ownership kept (CTX-0229). resolve_app_adoption reuses startup resolvers so reload binds what fresh launch would.
  • Lua suggest parity: bitty.keymaps.suggest captures "leader " spelling (host.rs ~3043-3136, bounded capture), parity test asserts capture chord "leader w" (lua_parity.rs ~205-225). Activation rides the pending-window router once plugin binding lands; slot stays deny-by-default — disclosed, no phantom execution path (terminal plugin-binding lookup remains None; prefix actions reuse existing suspicious-paste/pane-close/workspace-close/composer-owner guards).

CodeRabbit disposition (1 inline + summary):

  • Inline Minor (keymap.rs:1960, parse_prefix_second single-char fallback accepts non-ASCII graphic + bare '+' with Shift unset while key_ref_from_event requires ascii_graphic and exact mods): technically valid — "leader e-acute" or bare "leader +" would parse yet never match at runtime (dead binding). Not a merge blocker: narrow config-UX edge, no safety impact (fail-closed non-match), consistent with the single-chord bare-letter fallback style, and CodeRabbit's own final risk calls the change Low/mergeable with owner awareness. Recommend follow-up (guard c.is_ascii_graphic() && c != '+') or documented rejection with a test; leaving to owner.
  • Pre-merge Linked-Issues warning (multi-step w v not dispatched): acknowledged as scoped deferral above; acceptance text does not require three-press, and the deferred path fails closed with tests. Track as follow-up if #1650 is extended.
  • Arch note (pending prefix survives window/focus-owner change): lifecycle hardening proposal, no verified bypass; agree it deserves a defined semantic + test as follow-up.

No other threads open. Verdict: APPROVE.

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