The main loop's closing paren was missing — (sleep 0.1)) only closed
sleep and the minibuffer let, but NOT the loop itself. The next form
(progn (disconnect-daemon)) was INSIDE the loop body, called on every
iteration. On first call it added '* Disconnected *' and cleared the
daemon stream, making the TUI permanently disconnected.
Fix: add ) to close the loop. Also:
- Connect-daemon runs synchronously BEFORE with-terminal (3 ports, 6s
max). If daemon is already running, the TUI starts connected.
- If sync connect fails, background thread retries every 5 seconds.
- start-daemon in background (no blocking wait for daemon startup),
so TUI appears immediately.