Screen kilo/blank-v7-8-18

Kilo Code CLI 7.8.18 on its first start has drawn nothing yet: the 40 lines of the pane are empty. The capture was taken about 30 s after the start, because the scenario steps took longer on this runner. At that time the TUI process had a child "npm list" with no tty (fact 57). On the other nine labels of the run, Kilo Code CLI showed its input box (idle-v7-8-18). The screen is the capture of the step 02-after-20s, with no key sent, by scenarios/first-run.sh in the scenarios workflow run 41142220844 on the CI runner macos-26-intel (x64), with a throwaway HOME, no login and no key.

Expected state

NO_BOX

Agent version

Kilo Code CLI 7.8.18

Provenance

measured

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Expected result

state

NO_BOX

dialog

none

Metadata

agent

kilo

agent_version

7.8.18

measured

2026-10-30

capture

plain

pane

120 columns, 40 rows

provenance

measured

negative_control_for

idle-v7-8-18

facts

• 046. The first start of ten more agents with no login
• 057. Kilo Code CLI can draw nothing for 30 s while a child npm runs