feat(api): establish stable HTTP contract — uniform {success,data} envelope, status codes, /api/v1

Point 1 of the v1.0 lock-in: commit to a stable HTTP API (the cleanest, fullest form).

Core (centralized):
- Every JSON /api response now uses ONE envelope via a Fastify preSerialization hook (src/web/server.ts): success -> { success:true, data:<payload> }; error -> { success:false, error, errorCode } with a conventional HTTP status. Non-JSON routes (file-raw, tail-file SSE, download, screenshots, /q redirect, WS) are skipped.
- Error-code -> HTTP status is a single source of truth (httpStatusForErrorCode in src/types/api.ts): 400/401/404/409/422/429/500. Expanded ApiErrorCode (added UNAUTHORIZED, CONFLICT, RATE_LIMITED). Errors are no longer HTTP 200.
- Versioned alias: /api/v1/* rewrites to /api/* (rewriteApiV1Url), so external clients pin to a stable surface while the bundled UI keeps using /api/*.
- Handlers stripped of manual 'success:true' (50 across 14 route files) so they return bare payloads the hook wraps uniformly; fixed the mux DELETE {success:<bool>} envelope collision (-> {killed}).

Frontend (48 call sites across 10 files):
- _apiJson() auto-unwraps { success:true, data } -> data (null on error), so most bare-shape readers are transparent. Raw-fetch sites relocate payload reads under .data; success/res.ok/error checks unchanged.

Docs: new docs/api-reference.md (envelope, status table, error codes, /api/v1, SSE); versioning-policy.md flipped — the HTTP/SSE API is now part of the stable, SemVer-covered surface.

Verification: full unit/route suite green (2680 passed) incl. ~166 updated assertions across 24 test files; typecheck/lint/format/frontend-syntax clean; a headless-chromium smoke loaded the migrated UI and drove the panels with 0 console/page errors; /api/status and /api/v1/status confirmed returning the uniform envelope live.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ surfaces are covered by SemVer and which are explicitly not. It exists because
"1.0" is a commitment to stability, and an undocumented public surface invites
incompatible client assumptions we would then be pressured to keep.
> **Status:** draft for the 1.0 cut. The central decision below — that the HTTP/SSE
> API is *not* SemVer-covered — should be confirmed by the maintainer before 1.0,
> since it determines whether a number of in-flight cleanups are "breaking."
> **Status:** finalized for the 1.0 cut. The HTTP/SSE API **is** part of the stable
> surface — served under `/api/v1` with a uniform response envelope and
> conventional HTTP status codes. See [`api-reference.md`](api-reference.md).
## What SemVer covers (the public, stable surface)
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ A **MAJOR** bump is required to break any of these after 1.0:
1. **The CLI.** Command names, documented flags, and their behavior for
`codeman <command>` (published to npm as `aicodeman`; invoked as `codeman`).
This is the package's actual public entry point (`bin`).
- *Note:* the npm package name vs. invoked command name (`aicodeman` vs
`codeman`) is a known inconsistency to resolve **before** 1.0 — renaming
either after 1.0 is itself a breaking change.
- The package is published to npm as `aicodeman` and installs **both** the
`aicodeman` and `codeman` commands (`bin` aliases); `codeman` is the
canonical command used throughout the docs. Renaming either after 1.0 is a
breaking change.
2. **The published `xterm-zerolag-input` library**, but on **its own version
line** — it is versioned and released independently of the Codeman app. Its
1.0 status is a separate decision; the Codeman app reaching 1.0 does *not*
@@ -31,26 +32,26 @@ A **MAJOR** bump is required to break any of these after 1.0:
`CODEMAN_INSTANCE`, `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS`, `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR`,
`CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET`, and the `--host` / `--port` / `--https` CLI flags.
Removing or changing the meaning of one of these is breaking.
4. **The HTTP API and SSE event channel**, served under **`/api/v1`** with the
uniform `{success:true,data}` / `{success:false,error,errorCode}` envelope and
conventional HTTP status codes. Endpoint paths, the response envelope, error
`errorCode` values, and SSE event names are stable — see
[`api-reference.md`](api-reference.md). *Additive* changes (new endpoints, new
optional fields, new error codes, new SSE events) are non-breaking; breaking
changes ship under a new prefix (`/api/v2`). The unversioned `/api/...` alias
is kept working for the bundled UI.
## What SemVer does NOT cover (internal surfaces — may change in any release)
These may change in a **MINOR** (or even PATCH) release without a MAJOR bump:
1. **The HTTP API and SSE event registry** (`/api/...`, the ~120 SSE event
types). This is an **internal protocol between the server and its own bundled
web frontend**, not a published client API. There is no OpenAPI spec, no
published client, and no versioned `/api/v1` namespace. If you script against
these endpoints, **pin to an exact Codeman version** — they can change between
minors (response shapes, status codes, event names). Standardizing the error
envelope and HTTP status codes is explicitly reserved as a non-breaking
internal change under this policy.
2. **The `~/.codeman/` state file formats** (`state.json`, `settings.json`,
1. **The `~/.codeman/` state file formats** (`state.json`, `settings.json`,
`mux-sessions.json`, etc.). We make a **best-effort** to migrate existing data
forward (and have done so across renames), but the on-disk schema is not a
stable contract — do not write tooling that depends on its exact shape.
3. **Internal TypeScript modules.** The npm package is CLI-only; `import`ing it
2. **Internal TypeScript modules.** The npm package is CLI-only; `import`ing it
programmatically is not supported (there is no stable library entry point).
4. **Experimental / opt-in features**, regardless of the app's version:
3. **Experimental / opt-in features**, regardless of the app's version:
Gesture Control (beta), Agent Teams
(`CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1`), and anything labeled experimental
in the UI or docs. These may change or be removed at any time.