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+# Task
+
+Resolve issue #33: [bug] text typed during a turn is lost when the agent completes
+
+## Issue body
+
+### What happened
+While the agent is working, the user types into the message bar (to steer the
+next turn or queue a follow-up). When the agent transitions from working to
+completed, that in-progress text is deleted from the message footer and the bar
+resets to empty. Anything the user was mid-typing is gone.
+
+### Steps to reproduce
+1. Start an interactive sesh session.
+2. Submit a request so the agent is actively working.
+3. While it works, type some text into the message bar.
+4. Wait for the agent to finish (transition to completed).
+
+### Expected
+The text the user is typing should be preserved in the message bar at all
+times, including across the working-to-completed transition. The buffer is the
+user's draft and should survive state changes.
+
+### Actual
+When the turn completes, the input editor is reset and the message bar is
+cleared, discarding the partial message the user was composing.
+
+### Likely location
+The editor buffer is reset in `harness/tui.go`. `beginInput` zeroes `t.buf`
+when the editor re-opens (which fires as the prompt re-shows at completion):
+`t.prompt, t.buf, t.pos, t.mask = prompt, nil, 0, mask`. That clear is
+correct after a submit (`endInput`), but it also destroys a draft that was
+being typed during the turn. The fix likely preserves the current `buf`/`pos`
+when re-opening the editor at completion rather than unconditionally zeroing
+it.
+
+### sesh context
+- build: 33cb3ae
+- provider protocol / model / context window: openai / glm-5.2 / 200000
+- active mods: none
+- tuning overrides: handoff_pct:80 hard_pct:90 max_useful_context:250000 assumed_context:200000 (and a second set: handoff_pct:70 hard_pct:85 max_useful_context:400000) task_depth:3 stuck_after:3 seed_ledger_entries:10 recall_links:50 diff_lines:40 skill_note_off:false update_check:true
+- skills installed: 6
+- tool mods: 1
+- mcp configured: yes
+- invocation: interactive; flags: none
+
diff --git a/harness/tui.go b/harness/tui.go
index d8e9a7a..9fb9ebd 100644
--- a/harness/tui.go
+++ b/harness/tui.go
@@ -770,9 +770,20 @@ func (t *tuiConsole) SetTitle(s string) {
 // footer itself persists between inputs.
 func (t *tuiConsole) beginInput(prompt string, mask bool) {
 	t.mu.Lock()
-	t.prompt, t.buf, t.pos, t.mask = prompt, nil, 0, mask
-	t.snippets = nil
-	t.images = nil
+	// A turn can end while the user is mid-typing a steering message. Carry
+	// that draft into the next prompt instead of discarding it: endInput and
+	// the steer/stop paths already clear the buffer on submit, so a non-empty
+	// one here uniquely identifies the carry-over. The buffer's snippet and
+	// image tokens index into the slices, so they carry too. A buffer left
+	// masked (a secret prompt) never carries: gating on the prior mask, not
+	// the new one, stops a secret leaking into an ordinary prompt either way.
+	if !t.mask && len(t.buf) > 0 {
+		t.prompt, t.mask = prompt, mask
+	} else {
+		t.prompt, t.buf, t.pos, t.mask = prompt, nil, 0, mask
+		t.snippets = nil
+		t.images = nil
+	}
 	t.histIdx = len(t.hist)
 	t.draft = nil
 	t.winTop = 0
diff --git a/harness/tui_test.go b/harness/tui_test.go
index bc03d36..88478a5 100644
--- a/harness/tui_test.go
+++ b/harness/tui_test.go
@@ -301,6 +301,67 @@ func TestAttendTurnStopCommandCancelsWithoutQueuing(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestBeginInputPreservesDraftAcrossTurnEnd: a draft typed during a turn (but
+// never submitted) must survive the working-to-completed transition and remain
+// in the editor when the next prompt opens, so in-progress text is not lost.
+// attendTurn leaves the typed buffer in place when the turn ends; the next
+// ReadLine re-opens the editor through beginInput, which must carry that buffer
+// forward instead of zeroing it. Breaker: revert beginInput to an unconditional
+// t.buf = nil and the submitted line comes back empty instead of "fix it".
+func TestBeginInputPreservesDraftAcrossTurnEnd(t *testing.T) {
+	f, err := os.CreateTemp(t.TempDir(), "tui-out")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+	tc := &tuiConsole{out: f, in: bufio.NewReader(strings.NewReader("fix it")), cols: 80}
+	// Phase 1: the user types a steering draft while a turn runs; the stream's
+	// EOF ends the attend (errTurnOver) the way a turn finishing on its own does.
+	if err := tc.attendTurn(turnAttend{
+		done:   make(chan struct{}), // never closes; EOF ends attend
+		cancel: func() {},
+		queue:  func(string) {},
+	}); err != errTurnOver {
+		t.Fatalf("attendTurn err = %v, want errTurnOver", err)
+	}
+	if got := string(tc.buf); got != "fix it" {
+		t.Fatalf("draft must survive attendTurn: buf = %q, want %q", got, "fix it")
+	}
+	// Phase 2: the next prompt re-opens the editor. EOF closed the pump's
+	// channel, so re-arm a fresh input source the way a live console keeps
+	// reading, then submit with Enter.
+	tc.runes = nil
+	tc.in = bufio.NewReader(strings.NewReader("\r"))
+	line, err := tc.ReadLine("-> ")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ReadLine: %v", err)
+	}
+	if line != "fix it" {
+		t.Fatalf("draft must carry into the next prompt: line = %q, want %q", line, "fix it")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestBeginInputDropsMaskedDraftForOrdinaryPrompt: a non-empty buffer left from
+// a masked prompt must never carry into an ordinary one, so a secret cannot
+// leak across prompt types. The carry-over branch is gated on !mask, so a
+// non-empty masked buffer is cleared when the next (non-masked) prompt opens.
+// Breaker: drop the !mask guard on the carry-over branch and the secret text
+// survives into the ordinary prompt.
+func TestBeginInputDropsMaskedDraftForOrdinaryPrompt(t *testing.T) {
+	f, err := os.CreateTemp(t.TempDir(), "tui-out")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+	// Seed the exact state a masked prompt leaves mid-edit (non-empty buffer,
+	// masked), then open an ordinary prompt: the secret must not carry.
+	tc := &tuiConsole{out: f, cols: 80, buf: []rune("hush"), pos: 4, mask: true}
+	tc.beginInput("-> ", false)
+	if len(tc.buf) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a masked draft must not carry into an ordinary prompt: buf = %q", string(tc.buf))
+	}
+}
+
 // TestEscIsBareKeysOffIntroducer: bare-Escape detection decides by the byte
 // following Esc, not by timing, so it holds up under tmux/SSH latency. A lone
 // Esc with the stream then closed is bare; an Esc followed by a CSI introducer