Normalize whitespace in grid get_process_output to save tokens

Grid snapshots pad every row to the full terminal width and leave the
bottom of the screen blank, so MCP grid reads carried a lot of dead
whitespace. Add normalizeGridText (CRLF/lone-CR to LF, right-trim each
line, collapse blank runs to a single blank, drop leading/trailing
blanks) and apply it to the grid branch of GetProcessOutput only.
Stream output, raw output, and WaitForPattern matching are untouched.

Resolves the terminal-read newline/token-waste TODO item.
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2026-05-25 12:33:59 +01:00
parent 50fd7be70d
commit 53f06b604f
4 changed files with 72 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
"sync"
"syscall"
"time"
"unicode"
"github.com/hjbdev/patterm/internal/mcp"
"github.com/hjbdev/patterm/internal/preset"
@@ -398,7 +399,7 @@ func (h *toolHost) GetProcessOutput(callerID, processID, mode string, sinceOffse
if c.Kind == KindAgent {
txt = applyChromeTrim(txt, h.chromeHintsFor(c.PresetRef))
}
out.Content = txt
out.Content = normalizeGridText(txt)
return out, nil
case "stream":
b, end := c.StreamRead(sinceOffset)
@@ -1018,6 +1019,30 @@ func stripANSI(s string) string {
return ansiRegexp.ReplaceAllString(s, "")
}
func normalizeGridText(s string) string {
s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\r\n", "\n")
s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\r", "\n")
lines := strings.Split(s, "\n")
out := make([]string, 0, len(lines))
pendingBlank := false
for _, line := range lines {
line = strings.TrimRightFunc(line, unicode.IsSpace)
if line == "" {
if len(out) > 0 {
pendingBlank = true
}
continue
}
if pendingBlank {
out = append(out, "")
pendingBlank = false
}
out = append(out, line)
}
return strings.Join(out, "\n")
}
// stripANSIBytes is the byte-slice form of stripANSI. Skips the
// string conversion and the regex DFA — useful when the caller will
// itself walk the result line-by-line (SearchOutput) or feed it to a