[Bug]: Wave AI window does not properly understand "read last / current rows in terminal"

[DieterTHeck]

Current Behavior

instead of copying terminal output into wave AI window, it can read terminal output like "read last 80 rows of upper terminal"
This generally works well, it reads "row 0-80".

BUT - if this is repeated and the terminal shows new output in the meantime, then AI misunderstands a subseuqent "read last 10 rows in terminal"
In this example it might read "row 80-90" and this re-reads old terminal content, missing the new one.
It should instead read rows 0-10.

It does seem to work when asked "read row 0-10" but not when asking "read last 10 rows"

Expected Behavior

AI should always look at newest terminal content, unlesss explicitly stated.
It does seem to work when asked "read row 0-10" but not when asking "read last 10 rows"

Steps To Reproduce

1/ run smth in terminal
2/ ask AI to read last 10 rows
3/ run more in terminal
4/ ask AI to read last 10 rows again
5/ see how is reads older stuff, not row 0-10
6/ ask to read rows 0-10 and see that this works

Wave Version

Client Version 0.14.1 (202603032325) Update Channel: latest

Platform

macOS

OS Version/Distribution

No response

Architecture

arm64

Anything else?

No response

[sawka]

Thanks for the bug report. Makes sense. The trick is how to explain to the AI that the terminal is getting updated and to expect new content. Will think of how to integrate this into the system/tools prompts. Maybe also giving it some sense that "new rows" were added to an existing terminal since the last message round.

[DieterTHeck]

I think “check rows 0-10” works better than “ last 10 rows”. Maybe “last” is easier to misinterpret by the AI like “from last time” / “same as before”.
I run the commands typically in German (“letzte”) but I think in both German and English it can be interpreted as from last time.

With your answer in mind and thinking about it from a workflow perspective and assuming Wave could log / be aware of the number of rows displayed in a terminal at certain events:
If AI says, do that in that in a terminal. And user shifts focus to the terminal and types in something / execute.
And shifts focus again to the AI prompt afterwards.
wave could kind of offer a pre-calculated button stating: “I executed relevant commands in terminal [changed terminal(s) between focus shifts ].
Check row 0 to [[row count on shift focus back to AI] minus [ row count when shifting focus initially to the terminal]].”
When clicking it executes. When I type in something else, it disappears.

Shift focus to a terminal would probably be a precondition, so that there is no confusion with new rows in terminal where an installer is running in the background let’s say.