Merge pull request #557: feat(cli): codeman agent — session-to-session verbs for every CLI mode (#445, phase 1)

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that makes Codeman interesting: **Claude Code running inside a Codeman session, spawning and
supervising other sessions.**
Two routes. Start with the skill.
Three routes. In a Claude session, start with the skill. In any other CLI mode, use the
`codeman agent` commands. Raw HTTP is there for everything else.
## The agent skill
@@ -59,6 +60,36 @@ DeepSeek Harness workers the same way it drives Claude ones (`spawn_workers alph
beta:deepseek` is a mixed fleet in one call), since those are the two modes with real
completion signals.
## The `codeman agent` commands
The skill is Claude-shaped: Codeman seeds its preamble for Claude sessions only. An
`opencode`, `codex`, `pi` or `gemini` agent runs in the same environment but has nothing
that teaches it the API, so `codeman agent` packages the same verbs as shell commands. It is
a thin client over the endpoints in [the manual path](#the-manual-path), so auth and
ownership apply unchanged, and it refuses to act outside a Codeman session. One line in a
case's `AGENTS.md` is enough: *"other sessions: `codeman agent --help`"*.
```bash
codeman agent ls # sessions; * marks this one
SID=$(codeman agent spawn scratch-1 --mode claude) # quick-start + wait for the composer where the mode has a ready mark
codeman agent send "$SID" 'review src/, then say DONE' --until stop,exit --timeout 300000
codeman agent read "$SID" # last answer (as the server reads it for that mode)
codeman agent read "$SID" --tail 3000 # terminal tail, ANSI stripped (every mode)
codeman agent send "$SID" 'run the tests, then print WORKDONE followed by _4711' # hook-less modes: the marker in halves …
codeman agent wait "$SID" --match WORKDONE_4711 # … and the wait on the joined form
codeman agent interrupt "$SID" # a bare ESC, conversation intact
codeman agent rm "$SID" # any session except this one
```
- **Ids** may be the 8-character form `ls` prints. Anything shorter refuses, and so does an
ambiguous prefix.
- **`send`** takes ONE quoted argument of printable text and presses Enter. A prompt that
starts with `-` goes after `--`: `codeman agent send "$SID" -- "- fix the bug"`.
- **Markers** follow [the split-marker trick](#the-split-marker-trick): the echo of your own
prompt is output too, so ask for the marker in halves and wait on the joined form.
- **Exit codes** are the same for every verb: `0` done, `1` error, `2` timeout, `3` the
worker exited, `4` refused. `--json` prints the response's `data`.
## The manual path
The same operations as raw HTTP, for a CI bot, a shell script, or an agent without skill