fix(sessions): seed tui="default" so claude never asks the fullscreen upsell

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Summary

• hasCompletedOnboarding skips claude's first-run wizard, but "Try the new fullscreen renderer?" is a separate one-time upsell that sits outside that wizard and still interrupts a headless session.
• Pulled apart claude 2.1.238's bundled source: the upsell's eligibility check bails out unconditionally on if (settings.tui !== undefined) return false, before it even looks at how many times it's been shown (fullscreenUpsellSeenCount >= 3) — so seeding any explicit tui value retires it for good, not just "fullscreen".
• Seeds .tui //= "default" next to the existing .theme //= "dark" seed in seed_claude_state — "default" keeps the classic renderer this box is built around, and //= (only when unset) means a later /tui fullscreen still sticks, same as the theme seed.

Test plan

• nix run .#assemble — regenerated modules/agent-box.nix, diff is clean
• nix build .#checks.aarch64-linux.module-generated-up-to-date
• nix build .#checks.aarch64-linux.assemble-module-escaping
• nix build .#checks.aarch64-linux.multi-user
• nix build .#checks.aarch64-linux.module-single-file
• nix run .#update-golden + nix build .#checks.aarch64-linux.golden-snapshot — only the supervisor payload fixture moved
• Added a sessions.nix assertion (tui == "default" seeded alongside the existing theme check) — x86_64-only VM test, will run in CI

Fixes #395

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Walkthrough

Claude startup now seeds .tui as "default" when unset. Existing TUI values remain unchanged. The session test captures full scrollback when checking for the fullscreen-renderer upsell.

Changes

Claude TUI configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Seed the Claude TUI setting modules/agent-box.nix, modules/src/supervisor.sh, tests/golden/vm/payloads/agent-box-supervisor/bin/agent-box-supervisor	Claude state initialization sets .tui to "default" when absent and preserves existing values.
Validate the seeded setting tests/sessions.nix	The Claude startup test captures the complete main-pane scrollback and confirms that the fullscreen-renderer upsell is absent.

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This change seeds the default renderer setting to prevent the fullscreen upsell while preserving later explicit renderer changes; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: seeding Claude's TUI setting to prevent the fullscreen-renderer upsell.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the TUI initialization, its effect on the fullscreen-renderer upsell, preservation of user settings, and the related tests.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #395 by explicitly setting Claude's TUI mode to skip the fullscreen-renderer question in headless sessions while retaining the classic renderer.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to Claude state initialization, the generated module and fixture, and regression-test coverage for the linked issue.
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modules/src/supervisor.sh (1)

72-81: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a headless startup assertion for the Claude renderer upsell.

The module can select a different Claude build through agentNixpkgs or package. The existing test checks only .tui == "default". Capture the fresh main pane and fail if it contains "Try the new fullscreen renderer?".

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In `@modules/src/supervisor.sh` around lines 72 - 81, Update the supervisor
startup test around the existing .tui == "default" assertion to capture the
fresh main pane after launching Claude, then fail when its contents include “Try
the new fullscreen renderer?”. Preserve support for renderer selection through
agentNixpkgs or package while applying this check to the captured pane output.

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In `@modules/src/supervisor.sh`:
- Around line 72-81: Update the supervisor startup test around the existing .tui
== "default" assertion to capture the fresh main pane after launching Claude,
then fail when its contents include “Try the new fullscreen renderer?”. Preserve
support for renderer selection through agentNixpkgs or package while applying
this check to the captured pane output.

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In `@tests/sessions.nix`:
- Around line 275-276: Update the tmux capture command assigned to main_pane in
the session test to use capture-pane with -S -, preserving the existing target
and assertion so the complete available pane history is checked.

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