Clear TODO backlog: --debug/--profile, codex selection, MCP orientation, perf

- Add --debug[=DIR] / --profile[=DIR] flags that write run artefacts
  (patterm.log, events.jsonl, per-child raw PTY captures, CPU + heap
  + goroutine pprof) to a dir without polluting stdout/stderr.
- Strengthen vendor-TUI orientation in three places (MCP
  initialize.instructions, the spawn_agent tool description, and
  help('spawning')) to head off codex's habits of poking the Unix
  socket via perl and shelling out to launch peers — both bypass
  caller identity and produce orphaned top-level tabs.
- Fix click-and-drag text selection from alt-screen TUIs. Host SGR
  mouse reporting now follows the focused child's screen side
  instead of being permanently armed; alt-screen TUIs that need
  mouse re-enable it themselves and the toggle is forwarded.
- Move drawSidebar() off the per-PTY-chunk hot path. Long claude
  session resume was paying a full sidebar rebuild for every
  scrolled chunk; the chrome ticker now drains a dirty flag at 60 Hz.
- Gate the per-chunk Title() CGO poll on a containsOSC scan so
  codex/ratatui's many SGR-only chunks no longer pay a CGO call each.

cmd/patterm/main.go

@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
 	"runtime/debug"
+	"runtime/pprof"
 	"time"
 
 	flag "github.com/spf13/pflag"
@@ -49,7 +52,13 @@ func main() {
 	var (
 		projectDir  = flag.String("project", "", "project directory (default $PWD)")
 		showVersion = flag.Bool("version", false, "print version and exit")
+		debugDir    = flag.String("debug", "", "write debug logs + per-child raw PTY output to DIR (auto-picks a dated subdir under $XDG_STATE_HOME/patterm/debug when DIR is omitted)")
+		profileDir  = flag.String("profile", "", "write CPU+heap+goroutine pprof files to DIR (auto-picks a dated subdir under $XDG_STATE_HOME/patterm/profile when DIR is omitted)")
 	)
+	// Allow bare `--debug` / `--profile` with no value — pflag treats
+	// them as boolean-shaped strings, picking a sensible default dir.
+	flag.Lookup("debug").NoOptDefVal = "auto"
+	flag.Lookup("profile").NoOptDefVal = "auto"
 	flag.Parse()
 
 	if *showVersion {
@@ -73,15 +82,103 @@ func main() {
 		die("chdir %s: %v", cwd, err)
 	}
 
+	resolvedDebug, err := resolveDiagDir(*debugDir, "debug")
+	if err != nil {
+		die("debug: %v", err)
+	}
+	resolvedProfile, err := resolveDiagDir(*profileDir, "profile")
+	if err != nil {
+		die("profile: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	stopProfile := startProfile(resolvedProfile)
+	defer stopProfile()
+
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	if err := app.Run(ctx, app.Options{
 		ProjectDir: cwd,
 		ProjectKey: key,
+		DebugDir:   resolvedDebug,
 	}); err != nil {
 		die("%v", err)
 	}
 }
 
+// resolveDiagDir turns the raw flag value into an absolute directory
+// path. Empty string disables the feature. The sentinel "auto" (set by
+// NoOptDefVal on bare flags) picks $XDG_STATE_HOME/patterm/<kind>/<ts>.
+// Any other value is treated as a literal path.
+func resolveDiagDir(raw, kind string) (string, error) {
+	if raw == "" {
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	if raw == "auto" {
+		base := os.Getenv("XDG_STATE_HOME")
+		if base == "" {
+			home, err := os.UserHomeDir()
+			if err != nil {
+				return "", err
+			}
+			base = filepath.Join(home, ".local", "state")
+		}
+		ts := time.Now().Format("20060102-150405")
+		return filepath.Join(base, "patterm", kind, ts), nil
+	}
+	return raw, nil
+}
+
+// startProfile begins a CPU profile under dir and returns a stop func
+// that writes heap + goroutine snapshots before flushing the CPU file.
+// Returns a no-op stop func when dir is empty. All diagnostics are
+// written to <dir>/profile.log — never to stdout/stderr — so the TUI
+// stays uncluttered.
+func startProfile(dir string) func() {
+	if dir == "" {
+		return func() {}
+	}
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o700); err != nil {
+		return func() {}
+	}
+	logPath := filepath.Join(dir, "profile.log")
+	plog := func(format string, args ...any) {
+		f, err := os.OpenFile(logPath, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND, 0o600)
+		if err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+		defer f.Close()
+		fmt.Fprintf(f, format+"\n", args...)
+	}
+	cpuPath := filepath.Join(dir, "cpu.pprof")
+	f, err := os.Create(cpuPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		plog("cpu open: %v", err)
+		return func() {}
+	}
+	if err := pprof.StartCPUProfile(f); err != nil {
+		plog("cpu start: %v", err)
+		_ = f.Close()
+		return func() {}
+	}
+	plog("profiling started at %s", time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
+	return func() {
+		pprof.StopCPUProfile()
+		_ = f.Close()
+		// Heap and goroutine snapshots at exit. Heap captures
+		// steady-state allocation; goroutine catches stragglers
+		// that didn't get cleaned up.
+		runtime.GC()
+		if hf, err := os.Create(filepath.Join(dir, "heap.pprof")); err == nil {
+			_ = pprof.Lookup("heap").WriteTo(hf, 0)
+			_ = hf.Close()
+		}
+		if gf, err := os.Create(filepath.Join(dir, "goroutine.pprof")); err == nil {
+			_ = pprof.Lookup("goroutine").WriteTo(gf, 0)
+			_ = gf.Close()
+		}
+		plog("profiling stopped at %s", time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
+	}
+}
+
 func runMCPProxy() {
 	var (
 		socket   = flag.String("socket", "", "path to the running patterm process's MCP socket")