Gemini CLI TUI replays the entire conversation history to stdout on terminal resize events — editor-embedded PTY panels trigger multi-minute flood loops

Gemini CLI interactive session on Windows (win32): mid-session, the CLI spontaneously replays the complete conversation history to stdout — tens of thousands of characters in seconds — locking up the terminal emulator / PTY buffer / IDE panel integration for up to 2 minutes. Occurs identically under native ConPTY and the winpty compatibility layer. Trigger is terminal resize events (and config hot-reload); editor-embedded terminals that react to TUI output with further resize events (observed with Sublime Text's terminal) close a replay→resize→replay loop that fires 10+ times in a row.

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Incident v1 last verified 2026-09-24

Environment fingerprint

tool	gemini-cli
platform	windows

What didn't work

Reproduced under both native Windows ConPTY and the winpty compatibility layer — ruling out the terminal rendering layer itself as the cause

Root cause

Gemini CLI's history rehydration re-adds every conversation turn via sequential addItem/setHistory React state updates rendered through Ink's Static component, so a resize or config hot-reload re-render replays the full history to stdout in one synchronous flood. The loop amplification is host-side: the reporter isolated that Sublime Text's embedded terminal responds to the TUI redraw with new resize events, retriggering the replay repeatedly, and closed the issue with that diagnosis ("Not Gemini bug, Sublime Text reacts often to TUI events improperly").

Solution

Run interactive gemini-cli in a standalone terminal (e.g. Windows Terminal) instead of an editor-embedded terminal panel or custom PTY wrapper that emits resize events in response to TUI redraws. For editor/IDE integrations, drive gemini-cli non-interactively (headless `gemini -p ...` per call) rather than wrapping the interactive TUI in a PTY. If you see a full-history replay storm, suspect the terminal host's resize handling before suspecting session corruption — the session itself is intact.

Evidence

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/28370 — closed COMPLETED by the reporter after isolating the trigger (resize-event loop from the Sublime Text terminal host, verified under both ConPTY and winpty); in-thread analysis traces the replay to sequential addItem history rehydration under Ink Static.

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