Pi: /ctx-status overflows terminal height and clips content without scrolling #605

What happened?

/ctx-status can render an overlay taller than the terminal. The lower status sections, close hint, and bottom border are clipped, with no keyboard scrolling to reach the hidden content.

To reproduce:

1. Use @cortexkit/pi-magic-context v0.44.4 in Pi.
2. Use a terminal with limited vertical space.
3. Run /ctx-status with enough status content to exceed the available rows, particularly in the one-column layout.

Expected: the overlay fits within the terminal height, keeps its title, close controls, and bottom border visible, and allows scrolling through all status content.

Diagnostics

Environment:

• Pi: 1.0.0.
• Terminal app: Warp.
• The problem has been observed on both a 14-inch laptop display and a 27-inch external display. Physical display size is context, not a confirmed cause.

An isolated regression test exercising showStatusDialog() reproduced a 45-line component output for a 24-row terminal. Arrow keys did not change the rendered content.

Implementation findings:

• In packages/pi-plugin/src/dialogs/status-dialog.ts, StatusDialogComponent.render() renders the entire status content and border without checking terminal height. Its input handler only handles closing the dialog.
• Commit af77e29 changed the default display from a compact summary to the full status view. This is a suspected contributor, not a confirmed first-bad commit.
• Commit 591f344 introduced a two-column layout to reduce overlay height. Its commit message describes the overlay becoming very tall after the single-view merge, but the one-column fallback remained unchanged, without a height bound or scrolling.
• No version bisection has been performed.

A local patch against v0.44.4 bounds the component to terminal height, keeps the title and footer outside the scrollable body, adds Up/Down, PageUp/PageDown, and Home/End navigation, and clamps the scroll position after resizing or refreshing. Existing close keys and one-/two-column layout selection are preserved.

Verification:

• Status tests: 28 passed.
• Pi extension suite: 1,354 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed.
• Typecheck, build, formatting, and installed-extension module import checks passed.
• I manually tested the patched version in Warp and confirmed that the layout appears fixed.

The patch is local only; no PR has been submitted. This issue requests agreement on the fix direction first.

Plugin version

0.44.4

Platform

macOS arm64

Client

Pi