feat(sessions): allow per-session CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR env override (#255)

Adds an exact-key tier (ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS) beside ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES in
schemas.ts, admitting CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR so a case can run on a separate
Claude subscription (client-billed accounts). Exact match only: other
CLAUDE_* keys and near-misses like CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR_EXTRA stay rejected,
blocked keys stay blocked. The key also survives getEnvOverridesForPersist()
(a path, not a secret; dropping it would silently switch a rebuilt session
back to the default account after a reboot).

Docs cover the transcript caveat: a relocated config dir writes transcripts
outside ~/.claude/projects, so response viewer / subagent windows /
ultracode / Read My Mind go blind for that session unless projects is
symlinked back into the shared tree.

Design and spec contributed by @jordan8037310 in #255. Closes #255.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**Input**: `session.writeViaMux()` for programmatic/curl input — tmux `send-keys -l` (literal) + `send-keys Enter`. Single-line only (fire-and-once). Interactive **browser** input goes through a durable **exactly-once** layer: each frame carries a stable `clientId` + monotonic per-session `seq`, persisted to localStorage until the server ACKs (`{t:'ia',seq}` over WS, or HTTP 2xx), so a dropped link/reconnect can't lose or double-deliver a prompt. **WS resilience** (#149): the upgrade URL carries `cid = clientId + ':' + perTabNonce`, and `ws-connection-registry.ts` supersedes only same-TAB reconnects (two tabs on one session coexist; input frames keep the bare `clientId` for seq dedup); reconnects back off exponentially (attempts preserved across `_connectWs`), and the header connection chip renders from a real `_wsState` lifecycle (`connecting`/`connected`/`fallback`/`reconnecting`/`disconnected`).
### Per-session env overrides: exact-key allowlist and CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
**The env allowlist has two tiers, and exceptions go in the exact-key tier, never a widened prefix** (#255): `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` in `src/web/schemas.ts` carries the CLI-namespace prefixes, and `ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS` carries exact keys (currently only `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`). `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` relocates the Claude CLI's user config (credentials, settings, stats), which is how one machine runs sessions on separate Claude subscriptions: point a case's sessions at e.g. `~/.claude-clients/acme` via `envOverrides` and run `/login` there once against the client's account. The exact match matters: `CLAUDE_` as a prefix would open every future Claude CLI variable unreviewed, and near-misses (`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR_EXTRA`) stay rejected (`test/env-overrides-schema.test.ts`). No new security boundary is crossed: sessions already run as the server's OS account, and `applyEnvOverrides()` shellescapes values into socket-scoped `tmux setenv`. Two carry rules: **(1)** the key must survive `getEnvOverridesForPersist()` in `session.ts` (it is a path, not a secret; dropping it from state.json would silently move a rebuilt-after-reboot session back to the default account); **(2)** ⚠️ a relocated config dir writes transcripts outside `homedir()/.claude/projects`, which `subagent-watcher.ts`, `workflow-run-watcher.ts`, the response-viewer routes and Read My Mind capture all hardcode — those surfaces go blind for such a session. Documented workaround: symlink the transcripts back into the shared tree (`ln -s ~/.claude/projects <configDir>/projects`), keeping credentials separate while the watchers keep working.
### Agent wait primitives
**Agent wait primitives** (`GET /api/sessions/:id/wait`, `GET /api/sessions/:id/wait-output`, and the `wait`/`waitTimeout` fields on `POST /api/sessions/:id/input`): bounded long-polls that let an agent driving Codeman from a shell tool block until something happens. They exist because SSE was the only "tell me when" channel Codeman had, and a curl-driven caller cannot practically hold a stream and parse events inline. The blocking core is `src/web/session-wait-registry.ts` (no IO, no `Session` reference, so it unit-tests in isolation), bounds live in `src/config/agent-wait.ts`, and the wiring is three `notifySignal()` calls next to existing broadcasts (`session-listener-wiring.ts` for `working`/`idle`/`exit`, `hook-event-routes.ts` for `stop`/`blocked`) plus `notifyOutput()` riding the already-attached `terminal` listener. Design: `docs/agent-control-plan.md` §3; wire contract: `docs/api-reference.md`.