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Prompts sent by servers that mark them with neither IAC GA nor IAC EOR — d20 and NukeFire among them — never reached the screen at the moment they arrived. This lands them, and takes the TelnetNegotiationCore release that makes it possible.

The render

WorldSession.OnOutputReceived's prompt branch set CurrentPrompt, raised PromptChanged, and returned. 22bd97f had deleted the only consumer of CurrentPrompt, and PromptChanged's one remaining subscriber rebuilds the input-bar label without reading it — so a prompt was captured and displayed nowhere.

The prompt now goes through ProcessOutputLine as an ordinary line, with CurrentPrompt still set alongside. It therefore reaches the scrollback and its file-backed spill, the session transcripts, RestoreLog, ⌃F search, the trigger/alias engines, and the unread/activity bars — every surface a line reaches. On a MUD that prompts after each command, that is one extra line per command.

raw is passed rather than the emoji-substituted line: ProcessOutputLine applies StripIncomingColour, ExpandTabs, the triggers and ApplyEmoji itself.

A boundary with no printable run — a bare SGR reset, an erase sequence — makes AnsiParser.Flush() return null. That is a boundary, not a blank line the server sent, so nothing is printed for it. Distinct from the deliberate ProcessOutputLine(StyledLine.Empty) in the line branch, which exists because the library submits genuinely blank lines.

The prompt flag

StyledLine.IsPrompt, with a WithPrompt(bool) builder, applied once at the end of ProcessOutputLine to the line actually delivered — so it survives whatever the pipeline does internally and reaches both LinePrinted and SpawnLineEventArgs on the same object. It rides a previously-unused bit in StyledLineCodec's flags byte, so RestoreLog's format version is unchanged and existing restore files decode correctly.

Wired, not acted on: nothing yet gags, logs, restores, searches or badges differently because of it.

TelnetNegotiationCore 2.8.1 → 2.12.0

2.12.0 adds PacketPatchProtocol, which infers a prompt boundary from silence (500 ms default) for servers that mark none, and fixes prompt text being prepended to the next submitted line. TelnetSession needed no changes: CallbackOnByteAsync is unchanged, and nothing here implements IProtocolContext.

Verified against the live games

Both connect screens, driven through a real WorldSession:

  • tdome.nukefire.org:4000What's your name, freejack? delivered complete, 725 ms after the last banner line
  • starwars.d20mud.com:5500Enter your account name. If you are a new account, simply type what you would like it to be: delivered byte-exact, 785 ms

Both via the packet-patch heuristic; neither server offers GA or EOR. A loopback server-mode interpreter confirms a real IAC GA is delivered as a prompt (~2 ms) and retires the heuristic through this app's own wiring.

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Build clean, all five suites green: Core 944, Graphics 83, Scripting 42, Web 37, Tui 1802.

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  • New Features

    • Prompts are clearly identified and preserved in display and saved session data.
    • Prompt lines appear in scrollback, trigger configured actions, and support styled or empty prompts without creating blank output.
    • UTF-8 is now the documented default for session communication.
    • Updated Telnet negotiation support improves prompt callbacks and silent packet handling.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented duplicate or unwanted blank lines during prompt processing.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for prompt handling, scrolling, triggers, styling, and data preservation.

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The update upgrades TelnetNegotiationCore to 2.12.0, documents UTF-8 encoding behavior, adds prompt state to StyledLine and its codec, and updates WorldSession prompt processing and tests.

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Prompt handling and Telnet updates

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CLAUDE.md, Directory.Packages.props, src/SharpMUTerm.Core/Telnet/TelnetSession.cs
TelnetNegotiationCore is upgraded to 2.12.0. Documentation describes related API behavior, UTF-8 defaults, and session encoding seeding.
Prompt state contract and persistence
src/SharpMUTerm.Core/Text/StyledLine.cs, src/SharpMUTerm.Core/Text/StyledLineCodec.cs, tests/SharpMUTerm.Core.Tests/Text/StyledLineCodecTests.cs
StyledLine exposes IsPrompt. Style copies preserve the flag. StyledLineCodec serializes and restores prompt state for empty and non-empty lines.
WorldSession prompt flow and validation
src/SharpMUTerm.Core/Session/WorldSession.cs, tests/SharpMUTerm.Core.Tests/Session/*, CLAUDE.md
Prompt boundaries use the normal output pipeline once. Empty prompt flushes do not emit blank lines. Tests cover scrollback, triggers, prompt state, and style-only prompts.

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The PR changes prompt rendering and prompt metadata; the remaining concerns are limited to minor documentation accuracy and formatting follow-ups. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WorldSession
  participant ProcessOutputLine
  participant StyledLine
  WorldSession->>ProcessOutputLine: process flushed prompt content with isPrompt
  ProcessOutputLine->>StyledLine: apply prompt state after text processing
  ProcessOutputLine-->>WorldSession: deliver tagged line or suppress empty boundary
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In `@src/SharpMUTerm.Core/Telnet/TelnetSession.cs`:
- Around line 441-442: Update the warning message in OnSubmitAsync to clarify
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Comment thread src/SharpMUTerm.Core/Telnet/TelnetSession.cs Outdated
HarryCordewener and others added 8 commits August 27, 2026 14:03
WorldSession.OnOutputReceived's prompt branch set CurrentPrompt and raised
PromptChanged, then returned before the line reached ProcessOutputLine -
22bd97f deleted the only render of CurrentPrompt, and PromptChanged's sole
remaining subscriber rebuilds the input-bar label without reading it. A
prompt now also runs through ProcessOutputLine (pre-emoji raw line, since
ProcessOutputLine applies StripIncomingColour/ExpandTabs/triggers/ApplyEmoji
itself), landing it in the pane exactly once alongside CurrentPrompt - where
it's searchable and trigger-visible, matching Mudlet.

Also updates WorldSessionTests' prompt test, which asserted the prompt was
absent from scrollback - that was the bug being fixed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
RESTORE WARNING: the committed pin (2.12.0) is not yet on nuget.org.
A bare `dotnet restore`/`build` of this commit will fail until
TelnetNegotiationCore 2.12.0 is published there; the local feed used to
build and test it was scaffolding, removed before this commit.

Pulls in PacketPatchProtocol (2.12.0), which is what actually delivers
the connect-screen prompt on tdome.nukefire.org and starwars.d20mud.com
- neither negotiates GA, EOR or SUPPRESS-GO-AHEAD. Verified live against
both: the prompt arrives as one complete line, ~700-790ms after the last
banner line (the plugin's 500ms hold time plus round-trips), confirming
the packet-patch heuristic rather than a real marker. A loopback test
against a real server-mode TelnetInterpreter additionally confirms this
app's own wiring, not just the library: a GA-marked prompt is delivered
in ~2ms, and a fragment sent after the GA is never reported by the
packet-patch heuristic, i.e. the real marker retires it end-to-end.
Checked every intervening CHANGELOG entry (2.8.2-2.11.0) against what
TelnetSession.cs uses: nothing else applies. CallbackOnByteAsync,
reached by reflection, is unchanged; IProtocolContext's breaking
additions don't apply since nothing here implements that interface
directly.

Also drops a history-lesson comment in WorldSession.cs (commit hash and
narrative) per the repo's established rule, keeping only the load-bearing
raw-vs-prompt explanation, and corrects a stale CLAUDE.md claim that
TelnetInterpreter.CurrentEncoding defaults to Encoding.ASCII - it is
Encoding.UTF8 as of this version (inert here either way, since
TelnetSession seeds it before any byte is processed).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…flag prompt lines

WorldSession.OnOutputReceived's prompt branch defaulted a null AnsiParser.Flush()
to StyledLine.Empty and called ProcessOutputLine unconditionally, so a server
that ends a burst in bare SGR (or an erase sequence) and then goes quiet for the
hold printed a blank line into the pane, scrollback, spill, transcript and
restore log once per prompt, forever. ProcessOutputLine now only runs when the
parser actually buffered a printable run; CurrentPrompt/PromptChanged still
update either way. This is the opposite case from 2.8.1's fix(line), which is a
genuinely blank line the library submits and must keep printing.

Also wires the prompt flag the plan called for and Task 5 dropped: StyledLine
gains IsPrompt (a WithPrompt(bool) builder, mirroring WithRule), set once at the
end of ProcessOutputLine on the line actually delivered rather than threaded
through StripColour/ExpandTabs/the trigger engine/emoji substitution. It reaches
LinePrinted and SpawnLineEventArgs for free (both already carry a StyledLine)
and round-trips through StyledLineCodec via a previously-unused flag bit, so
RestoreLog needs no format-version bump. Wired, not acted on: nothing yet gags,
logs, restores, searches or badges a prompt differently because of this bit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
04e0e26 corrected CLAUDE.md's claim about TelnetInterpreter.CurrentEncoding's
default (verified against TelnetStandardInterpreter.cs:46: it's Encoding.UTF8,
not ASCII) and left five comments and a user-visible warning string in
TelnetSession.cs still asserting ASCII. The branch touched the fact; it owns
fixing the source that already contradicted it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…get traps

CLAUDE.md gained a paragraph about the TelnetNegotiationCore 2.12.0 bump and not
one word about the prompt render it was for, despite the branch changing what
reaches the scrollback, FileScrollbackSpill, the transcript sinks, RestoreLog,
OutputSearch, the automation engines and the unread/activity/away bars — every
one of which has a dedicated bullet here that was wrong by omission.

Adds a Repository state bullet: what 22bd97f broke (CurrentPrompt rendered
nowhere), what it cost (a prompt reached none of the above surfaces), what
cd06e8b changed (a prompt is now an ordinary line through ProcessOutputLine,
reaching all of them — one extra line per command on a MUD that prompts per
command, stated rather than hidden), and the decisions not to relitigate
(lands exactly once; a printable-free boundary prints no line).

Also: a line beside the TNC 2.12.0 bullet saying cd06e8b and 04e0e26 must not
be separated (reverting the render alone while 2.12.0 stays pinned silently
drops every packet-patch-inferred prompt fragment instead of merely
mis-wrapping it), and corrects CLAUDE.md:44's claim that a clean checkout
builds and passes — true only on this machine, where a local feed populated
the 2.12.0 package cache; a clean checkout fails NU1101 until TNC 2.12.0 is on
nuget.org, and a mismatched publish afterwards fails NU1403 until that cache
directory is deleted (not worked around with a nuget.config pointing at /tmp).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Trim the branch's code comments and CLAUDE.md entries down to the
load-bearing rule: drop measurements, server names, and blow-by-blow
history of what broke and how it was found; keep the constraints a
future edit must not violate (raw vs. prompt, the null-Flush boundary
case, cd06e8b/04e0e26 shipping together).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…it actually risks

CodeRabbit flagged the warning as overstating the blast radius: it read as if
ordinary output lines could decode wrong. They can't — OnSubmitAsync decodes
newline-terminated lines with this session's own CurrentEncoding.Encoding, not
the interpreter's. What the unwritable property actually leaves exposed is
interpreter-managed traffic: pre-negotiation GMCP/MSDP/MSSP payloads and the
bytes the library encodes outbound for itself, both of which fall back to the
interpreter's unseeded UTF-8 default. Reworded to name that instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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1049-1049: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the inline code span spacing.

The inline code span for Corvid - contains a trailing space. Markdownlint MD038 reports this at Line 1049. Use Corvid - and describe the trailing separator outside the code span if the space is significant.

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In `@CLAUDE.md` at line 1049, Update the inline code span in the captures sentence
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- Around line 1308-1310: Update the IProtocolContext compatibility note to state
that v2.12.0 does not add the three prompt members to IProtocolContext; identify
them as public members of TelnetInterpreter instead, and remove the inaccurate
binary-breaking migration guidance.

In `@src/SharpMUTerm.Core/Telnet/TelnetSession.cs`:
- Around line 245-251: Update the comment near TelnetSession’s encoding seed to
distinguish callback frequencies: state that CallbackOnByteAsync receives the
encoding once per byte, while CallbackOnSubmitAsync runs once per submitted line
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