Codex Cli Start Delay

[arul28]

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  Open in ADE  ·  ade/see-screenshot-after-submitting-emssage-749c4815 branch  ·  PR #647

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved launch instructions so they now adapt to whether a task prompt was provided.
  • When a prompt is present, the app now tells the CLI to begin work right away.
  • When no prompt is provided, the app now waits for the next user instruction before taking action.

Greptile Summary

This PR updates CLI launch guidance for sessions with and without an initial prompt. The main changes are:

• Adds separate ADE preamble text for idle launches and prompted launches.
• Tells prompted CLI sessions to start on the supplied user prompt immediately.
• Adds Codex tests for empty launches and initial-prompt launches.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The change is narrowly scoped to CLI launch guidance and accompanying tests, with no accepted correctness concerns.

The modified behavior is covered by targeted tests for empty and initial-prompt launches, and no issues were identified in the changed files.

T-Rex Logs

What T-Rex did

• Ran a test with a user prompt block present and observed that the base launch emitted wait guidance.
• Verified that the head launch preserves wait guidance for an empty launch and switches a prompted launch to immediate-start guidance.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The CLI launch preamble now varies ADE session guidance based on whether an initial prompt is present, and the Codex launch tests assert both the waiting and immediate-work variants in launch.initialInput.

Changes

Codex CLI launch guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Initial-prompt-aware guidance and assertions apps/desktop/src/shared/cliLaunch.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/terminals/cliLaunch.test.ts	workTabCliPreamblePrompt now chooses between waiting and immediate-work guidance from hasInitialPrompt, workTabCliPrompt passes Boolean(initialPrompt), and Codex launch tests assert the matching launch.initialInput content.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Suggested labels

desktop

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is related to the main change: Codex CLI now delays action when there is no initial prompt and starts immediately when there is one.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.

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