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Move prompt gathering out of GetSessionDetails

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
developer-experience, tooling

Research direction

Start by locating GetSessionDetails and ConsoleService, then trace where prompt gathering and prompt-function errors are handled. Move prompt gathering to ConsoleService and verify that prompt errors produce the default prompt as described in the issue.

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Description

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement

When I introduced the concept of gathering session details after each command that gets run, I rolled prompt gathering into that to avoid running yet another command each time a prompt is needed. It seems that this causes more problems than necessary because a prompt function that throws errors does not get handled correctly anymore.

I'll move prompt gathering back out into the ConsoleService so that we can check for errors and return a default prompt appropriately.

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