fix(#244): keep pm logs visible without corrupting input

[srausser]

Summary

• keep structured console logs visible during interactive ouroboros pm sessions instead of hiding them by default
• make --debug meaningful again by enabling verbose DEBUG-level logging for the PM session
• move multiline prompt handling into a shared CLI prompt helper used by both init and pm
• proxy stdout and stderr above the active prompt with patch_stdout(raw=True) so live logs do not cut through the input buffer
• keep explicit progress messages while a session starts and while the next question is being generated
• honor replacement interview state values returned by record_response() and complete_interview()

Testing

• uv run ruff check src/ tests/
• uv run pytest tests/unit/cli/formatters/test_prompting.py tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py tests/unit/cli/test_pm_brownfield.py tests/unit/cli/test_pm_overwrite.py tests/unit/cli/test_pm_select_repos.py tests/unit/cli/test_init_runtime.py -q

Closes #244

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Review — ouroboros-agent[bot]

Verdict: APPROVE

Reviewing commit d5112d4 | Triggered by: PR opened by @srausser

Branch: sam/issue-244-pm-interactive-logging | 2 files, +185/-10 | CI: MyPy Type Check pass 41s https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/actions/runs/23671647666/job/68966253818
Scope: diff-only
HEAD checked: d5112d4

What Improved

• pm_command() now restores the prior console logging state even on interruption, which avoids leaking the PM command's temporary logging mode into later CLI work.
• _run_pm_interview() adds explicit progress panels for interview startup and next-question generation while correctly skipping the generation message when resuming with a pending saved question.
• The new unit tests cover the key interactive logging behaviors: default suppression, debug override, interrupt restoration, new-session progress messages, and resume behavior.

Issue #244 Requirements

Requirement	Status
the pasted response appears visually cut off or overwritten	MET — reviewed against current diff
the terminal can look frozen while the next question is being generated because there is no clean user-facing progress indicator	MET — reviewed against current diff

Prior Findings Status

Prior Finding	Status
First review	MAINTAINED — no previous findings to re-check

Blockers

#	File:Line	Severity	Confidence	Finding

Follow-ups

#	File:Line	Priority	Confidence	Suggestion

Test Coverage

• Adequate for the diff: the added tests exercise the newly introduced logging-state transitions and progress-message branches in pm.py.
• I could not execute the tests in this environment because pytest is not installed, so this assessment is based on static review of the test code.

Design Notes

• The design is appropriate for the PR goal: console log suppression remains a temporary command-scoped concern in pm_command(), while user-facing progress feedback stays inside the interview loop via Rich panels instead of structured logs.
• Using finally to restore the prior global logging flag is the right containment boundary for this diff and avoids coupling interview internals to logging teardown.

Merge Recommendation

• Ready to merge if maintainers are satisfied with CI and project-level expectations.

Files Reviewed

• src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py
• tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py

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Review — ouroboros-agent[bot]

Verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES

Reviewing commit 567ceb9 | Triggered by: new push by @srausser

Branch: sam/issue-244-pm-interactive-logging | 2 files, +198/-2 | CI: passing

Issue #244 Requirements

Requirement	Status
Linked issue referenced in PR body	MET — PR body references #244.

Previous Review Follow-up

Previous Finding	Status
Prior bot review exists	Re-checked against current head 567ceb9; see blocking findings below for any still-open issues.

Blocking Findings

#	File:Line	Severity	Confidence	Finding
<your findings here, minimum 5, with specific file:line references>

Test Coverage

Design Notes

Follow-up Recommendations

• Re-run this review after any follow-up push so the findings can be checked against the new PR head.
• If any blocking items are intentionally deferred, document that decision in the PR body before requesting approval.

Files Reviewed

• src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py
• tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py

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[ouroboros-agent]

Follow-up to the automated review above: the current blocking issue on head 567ceb9 is that this push removes the PM command's only functional use of --debug.

Specifically:

• pm_command() no longer snapshots/restores console logging state (src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:97-105 on this head), and
• _run_pm_interview() still treats debug as unused (src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:332).

So the CLI still advertises --debug (src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:62-67), but the flag no longer changes logging behavior at all. Please either restore the intended debug/logging behavior or remove/rename the option in a separate breaking-change PR, and add a regression test so the flag cannot silently become a no-op again.

The multiline-input and progress-indicator changes otherwise look directionally correct for #244.

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Review — ouroboros-agent[bot]

Verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES

Reviewing commit 0e7ebba | Triggered by: new push by @srausser

Branch: sam/issue-244-pm-interactive-logging | 2 files, +223/-2 | CI: MyPy Type Check pass 43s https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/actions/runs/23687643747/job/69009703757

Issue #N Requirements

Requirement	Status
## Summary	Refer to review findings for verification against current diff.
Interactive ouroboros pm sessions write structured logs into the terminal while the user	Refer to review findings for verification against current diff.
## Repro	Refer to review findings for verification against current diff.
1. Configure ouroboros and run ouroboros pm in an interactive terminal (especially ove	Refer to review findings for verification against current diff.
2. Paste a multi-paragraph opening response.	Refer to review findings for verification against current diff.

Previous Review Follow-up

Previous Finding	Status
## Review — ouroboros-agent[bot]	Re-checked against commit 0e7ebba in this review.
Verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES	Re-checked against commit 0e7ebba in this review.
> Reviewing commit 567ceb9	Triggered by: new push by @srausser
Branch: sam/issue-244-pm-interactive-logging	2 files, +198/-2
### Issue #244 Requirements	Re-checked against commit 0e7ebba in this review.

Blocking Findings

#	File:Line	Severity	Confidence	Finding
1	src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:330	High	Medium	_multiline_prompt_async() wraps the prompt in patch_stdout(raw=True), but Ouroboros' structured logger writes console logs to stderr, not stdout. That means the new prompt wrapper still does not protect the interactive prompt from the debug logs this PR is trying to restore, so the main issue can still reproduce when --debug is enabled.
2	tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:88	Medium	High	The new prompt test hard-codes patch_stdout(raw=True) as the expected mechanism, but it never validates the stream the application actually logs to. As written, the test suite will pass even if debug logs continue to corrupt the prompt, so it gives false confidence on the PR’s primary behavior change.
3	tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:119	Medium	Medium	The new-session test stubs engine.record_response() and engine.complete_interview() to return the same mutable state object the CLI already holds. That masks whether _run_pm_interview() is correctly honoring returned state values, so the test will not catch regressions in completion/save behavior if the engine starts returning a replacement InterviewState.
4	tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:153	Low	High	The resume-path test only covers the /done exit from an already-persisted pending question. It does not exercise the key interruption case this PR comments about: saving a pending question, receiving an interrupt, and then confirming --resume re-displays that same question cleanly.
5	src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:309	Low	High	This PR forks a second copy of _multiline_prompt_async() instead of reusing or aligning the existing implementation in src/ouroboros/cli/commands/init.py. The two copies have already diverged on logging/prompt behavior, which materially raises the chance that future fixes land in one CLI path but not the other.

Test Coverage

tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py improves direct coverage for the new prompt helper, debug flag wiring, and the “resume without regenerating” branch, but there are still important gaps:

• No test demonstrates that log output arriving on stderr is rendered above the prompt without corrupting input state.
• No test covers the interrupt/resume contract described in src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:448-455.
• No test verifies behavior when PromptSession.prompt_async() raises EOFError or KeyboardInterrupt inside _multiline_prompt_async().
• I could not execute the test file in this environment because pytest is not installed, so this review is based on static verification only.

Design Notes

The contributor improved two things relative to the prior review context: --debug logging is re-enabled in pm_command(), and the PM CLI now mirrors the richer multiline input UX already used elsewhere. The remaining design issue is that the fix is split between duplicated prompt helpers and a stream-patching assumption that does not match the repo’s logging backend. That leaves the implementation fragile: the UI path and the logging path are being fixed independently, so the PR restores more output but still does not verify that the restored output is routed through the same stream the prompt layer protects.

Follow-up Recommendations

• Re-run the review after the next push if any blocking findings are addressed.
• If a finding reflects intentional behavior, add targeted tests or documentation in the touched area.

Files Reviewed

• src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py
• tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py

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Reviewed by ouroboros-agent[bot] via Codex deep analysis

[ouroboros-agent]

Review — ouroboros-agent[bot]

Verdict: APPROVE

Branch: sam/issue-244-pm-interactive-logging | 5 files, +312/-46 | CI: all required checks passing
Scope: diff-only
HEAD checked: 4acacda

What Improved

• The multiline prompt implementation is now shared between init and pm, which removes the earlier duplication and keeps the interactive input behavior aligned across both entrypoints.
• The PM flow now keeps explicit user-facing progress messages (Starting interview..., Generating next question...) while preserving pending questions for resume flows.
• The state-handling fixes now honor replacement state objects returned by both record_response() and complete_interview(), which closes the stale-state concern from the prior review.
• The new tests cover prompt stream proxying, debug-mode logging, resume-with-pending-question behavior, and interrupted-session recovery.

Issue #244 Requirements

Requirement	Status
Interactive PM mode should keep pasted multiline input usable instead of letting live terminal output corrupt the prompt UI.	MET — the shared prompt helper now wraps PromptSession.prompt_async() in patch_stdout(raw=True) and the corresponding unit test verifies both sys.stdout and sys.stderr are proxied during input (src/ouroboros/cli/formatters/prompting.py:12, tests/unit/cli/formatters/test_prompting.py:14).
PM mode should show explicit progress feedback while the session starts and while the next question is generated.	MET — _run_pm_interview() emits progress messages before ask_opening_and_start() and ask_next_question(), while correctly skipping the generation message when resuming an already-persisted pending question (src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:378, src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:398, tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:72, tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:120).
Resume behavior should preserve and re-display a pending unanswered question after interruption.	MET — the PM loop persists a synthetic unanswered round before waiting for input, and the interrupt/resume test verifies the saved question is re-displayed on resume (src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:406, src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:421, tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:150).

Prior Findings Status

Prior Finding	Status
Prompt protection only covered stdout, so restored debug logs could still cut through the active prompt.	WITHDRAWN — the new helper explicitly relies on patch_stdout(raw=True) for both stdout and stderr, and the added unit test asserts both streams are proxied during the prompt (src/ouroboros/cli/formatters/prompting.py:33, tests/unit/cli/formatters/test_prompting.py:18).
The PM command still duplicated multiline prompt logic instead of sharing one implementation with init.	WITHDRAWN — both commands now import and use the shared helper from ouroboros.cli.formatters.prompting (src/ouroboros/cli/commands/init.py:26, src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:22).
The tests did not prove the CLI honored replacement state returned by record_response() / complete_interview().	WITHDRAWN — the new tests use replacement state objects and assert the final save occurs with the returned state, matching the updated runtime logic (src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:439, src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py:455, tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:76, tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:123).
Resume coverage did not exercise the interruption case that persists a pending question and re-displays it later.	WITHDRAWN — test_run_pm_interview_preserves_pending_question_across_interrupt_and_resume now covers that contract directly (tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:150).

Blockers

#	File:Line	Severity	Confidence	Finding

Follow-ups

#	File:Line	Priority	Confidence	Suggestion
1	tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py:150	Low	74%	The targeted test run passes, but it emits an unraisable RuntimeWarning about an AsyncMock coroutine never being awaited. It would be worth tightening this test setup in a follow-up so the interactive-path tests stay warning-clean under pytest.

Test Coverage

• I ran the targeted unit coverage for the touched interactive paths: uv run pytest tests/unit/cli/formatters/test_prompting.py tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py tests/unit/cli/test_init_runtime.py -q → 10 passed.
• Coverage for the diff is solid: prompt stream proxying, PM debug flag behavior, progress messaging, replacement-state handling, and interrupt/resume persistence are all exercised by the added tests.
• The only follow-up I noticed from execution was a non-failing pytest RuntimeWarning about an unawaited AsyncMock in the interactive logging test module.

Merge Recommendation

• Ready to merge. The current HEAD addresses the previously raised concerns, the linked issue requirements are met in the diff, and the targeted tests passed on the reviewed commit.

Files Reviewed

• src/ouroboros/cli/commands/init.py
• src/ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py
• src/ouroboros/cli/formatters/prompting.py
• tests/unit/cli/formatters/test_prompting.py
• tests/unit/cli/test_pm_interactive_logging.py

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