docs(cli-registry): document the catalogue's consumers and the trust boundary

Adds a "Consumers outside the server" section covering the two generated
artifacts, why each exists (neither install.sh nor a .mjs can import
TypeScript), what is deliberately NOT exported and why, the three-rule install
command trust boundary, and the bash 3.2 constraint with the offset/length
window shape it forces.

The adding-a-CLI checklist gains the regenerate step, since forgetting it is how
the installer would keep detecting the old set while the server offers the new
one — the drift this change removes, one level out.

docs/docker-cases.md gains how CLI_NPM_PACKAGES is derived, why it reads the
stock catalogue and not the merged registry, and a table of the four documented
Dockerfile special cases with their reasons. CLAUDE.md gains a command row and
names the generated block, the bash 3.2 rule and the trust boundary in its
install.sh paragraph.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015EMxQreQUZX5ZyybxAGh12
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`install.sh` and the Docker agent image now read the shipped CLI catalogue instead of
hand-maintaining their own lists.
Adding a CLI to `src/config/cli-registry/stock.ts` and running
`npm run generate:cli-catalog` wires it into the installer's detection, its install menu and
its closing reminder, and into the agent image's npm layer. Previously each of those was a
separate hand-written list that had to be kept in step and was not: upstream `b6d0f1fa` is
"wire OMP into install.sh's CLI detection (it had none)", where a user with only `omp`
installed was told no AI CLI was found and offered Claude Code, and the section comment above
that code named six of the nine CLIs.
The generator emits two committed artifacts, because neither consumer can import TypeScript:
`config/clis.stock.json` for the Docker build, and a marked block inside `install.sh` itself,
which runs via `curl | bash` before any checkout exists. The embedded copy is the FULL
catalogue: an earlier attempt fetched it and fell back to a hardcoded two-CLI list, degrading
silently on an empty response, and there is no degraded mode to fall into now. An optional,
opt-in refresh (`CODEMAN_CLI_CATALOGUE_URL` or `CODEMAN_REFRESH_CLI_CATALOGUE=1`) warns loudly
on all three failure shapes.
**Trust model is unchanged and now mechanical.** The server still never executes an entry's
install command. `install.sh` executes only commands embedded in itself — same file, same TLS
fetch, same commit as the `curl | bash` line that fetched it — and nothing pulled from the
network at install time is ever run: the two live in separate arrays and a test asserts the
refresh cannot write the executable one.
**The agent image respects `enabled`.** The generated catalogue carries that flag, so a CLI
shipping disabled is no longer baked into every image. It reads the stock catalogue rather than
the merged registry, so a user's `~/.codeman/clis.json` cannot change what is inside an image
tagged `codeman/agent:base`.
User-visible changes, all in the installer:
- The install menu is built from the catalogue, so it offers every enabled CLI that is not installed and ships an install command — five rather than the previous fixed two. Gemini had a command in the registry and appeared in no list in the script at all.
- Its entries use the registry's labels ("Claude" rather than "Claude Code"), the same trade already made for `codeman doctor` rows. A suffix map would just be the hand-maintained list again.
- On a `wget`-only host the menu prints the commands instead of running them. The registry's commands call `curl`, whereas the two literals they replace went through `download_to_stdout`; rewriting `curl` to `wget` inside a string about to be executed is the wrong instinct.
- `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1` still defaults to Claude Code, unchanged.
`install.sh` remains bash 3.2 compatible (macOS ships it): parallel indexed arrays with
offset/length windows instead of delimiters, no associative arrays, namerefs, `mapfile` or
here-strings. CI now runs `bash -n`, executes the script inside a real `bash:3.2` container —
which is what catches expanding an empty array under `set -u`, a runtime abort `bash -n` cannot
see — and checks the generated artifacts are in sync.
`docker/server.Dockerfile` is deliberately untouched; its narrower CLI list is now asserted as
a declared omission list so the divergence is visible rather than accidental.
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| Test coverage | `npm run test:coverage` |
| Dead-code sweep | `npm run knip` (config in `config/knip.json`, passed via `--config`) |
| Rebuild gesture overlay | `npm run build:gesture` (esbuild `packages/gesture-control/src/codeman/entry.ts` → `src/web/public/gesture/gesture-codeman.js`; commit the result) |
| Regenerate the CLI catalogue | `npm run generate:cli-catalog` (`--check` to fail on drift). Rewrites `config/clis.stock.json` **and** the marked block in `install.sh` from `stock.ts`. ⚠ **Commit both.** They are what `install.sh` and the Docker agent image read, since neither can import TypeScript; `test/cli-catalog-sync.test.ts` and a CI `--check` step fail if either goes stale. See `docs/cli-registry.md` |
| Build the docker agent image | `node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache` (builds `codeman/agent:base` from `docker/agent.Dockerfile`; prerequisite for Docker cases; `--engine`/`--image`). ⚠ **Always `--no-cache`** — a plain rebuild re-uses the cached `npm install -g` layer and silently keeps the CLIs frozen at their original versions, which once shipped a BROKEN codex while reporting success. See `docs/docker-cases.md` |
| Gesture playground | `npm run dev` **in** `packages/gesture-control/` (standalone vite demo, fake tabs) |
| Check public-asset formatting | `npm run check:public-assets` (prettier-checks `src/web/public/**` text assets; `scripts/check-public-assets.mjs`) |
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## Scripts & Tunnel
**`install.sh`** (repo root, 104KB) is the public entry point: `curl -fsSL <raw url> | bash` installs Node/tmux if missing, clones to `~/.codeman/app`, builds, and offers a systemd/launchd service. The network-access prompt is 3-way: **Tailscale** (loopback bind + guided `tailscale serve --bg <port>` HTTPS setup: install/login/operator/tailnet-HTTPS-toggle, then curl-verified end-to-end), **LAN** (0.0.0.0 + password prompt), or **local-only**; it preserves the existing binding on re-runs via `read_existing_binding()`. Tailscale state is detected dynamically from `tailscale serve status --json` (no marker files); the installer must NEVER `tailscale serve reset` or touch serve mappings other than 443→Codeman's port (users have unrelated serve config). `install.sh update`, `install.sh uninstall`, and `install.sh tailscale` (retrofit Tailscale access onto an existing install) also exist; `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1` approves system changes for automation, `CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1` presets the Tailscale choice (never installs Tailscale non-interactively).
**`install.sh`** (repo root, 104KB) is the public entry point: `curl -fsSL <raw url> | bash` installs Node/tmux if missing, clones to `~/.codeman/app`, builds, and offers a systemd/launchd service. The network-access prompt is 3-way: **Tailscale** (loopback bind + guided `tailscale serve --bg <port>` HTTPS setup: install/login/operator/tailnet-HTTPS-toggle, then curl-verified end-to-end), **LAN** (0.0.0.0 + password prompt), or **local-only**; it preserves the existing binding on re-runs via `read_existing_binding()`. Tailscale state is detected dynamically from `tailscale serve status --json` (no marker files); the installer must NEVER `tailscale serve reset` or touch serve mappings other than 443→Codeman's port (users have unrelated serve config). `install.sh update`, `install.sh uninstall`, and `install.sh tailscale` (retrofit Tailscale access onto an existing install) also exist; `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1` approves system changes for automation, `CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1` presets the Tailscale choice (never installs Tailscale non-interactively). Its CLI knowledge is a GENERATED block (`npm run generate:cli-catalog`, markers in the file), not a hand-written list: detection, the install menu and the closing reminder all read it, which is what stops the class of bug upstream `b6d0f1fa` fixed by hand (a user with only omp installed being told no AI CLI was found). ⚠️ It must stay **bash 3.2** clean — macOS ships it and the documented install is `curl | bash` under `set -euo pipefail`, so `declare -A`, `mapfile`, namerefs, `${x,,}` and here-strings are all fatal there; CI runs `bash -n` plus a real `bash:3.2` container, since expanding an EMPTY array under `set -u` is a runtime abort `bash -n` cannot see. ⚠️ It executes ONLY commands from the embedded block (`CLI_INSTALL_CMD_TRUSTED`); nothing fetched by the optional catalogue refresh is ever run.
Other key scripts: `scripts/tmux-manager.sh` (safe tmux mgmt), `scripts/tunnel.sh [quick|named] start|stop|status|url` (quick = random trycloudflare URL, default; `named setup|enable` = fixed-hostname tunnel via `scripts/codeman-tunnel-named.service`; bare `start|stop|url` still means quick), `scripts/run-beta.sh` (isolated beta instance), `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs` (docker base image), `scripts/self-update.sh` (detached updater). Production services: `scripts/codeman-web.service`, `scripts/codeman-tunnel.service`. **Always set `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`** before exposing via tunnel.
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Everything else in the interface is live, including `overlays.remote` / `overlays.docker`, which back `defaultRemoteCommandForMode()` and `defaultDockerCommandForMode()` directly. Those two used to be hardcoded `Record<…CommandMode, string>` tables duplicating the registry with nothing keeping the two in step; `test/location-overlay-commands.test.ts` pins every resulting command as a literal string.
## Consumers outside the server
Two things need the catalogue but cannot import TypeScript, so `npm run generate:cli-catalog`
(`scripts/generate-cli-catalog.mts`) emits two artifacts from `stock.ts`. Both are committed,
and `test/cli-catalog-sync.test.ts` fails if either drifts from a fresh generation.
| Artifact | Consumer | Why it exists |
| ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `config/clis.stock.json` | `scripts/lib/cli-catalog.mjs` (Docker build args), tests | A `.mjs` cannot import the registry. |
| a marked block inside `install.sh` | the installer itself | It runs via `curl \| bash` before any checkout exists, so it can read neither. |
Only `id`, `label`, `shortBadge`, `enabled`, `order`, `kind` and `discovery` are exported.
`launch`, `env`, `capabilities` and `overlays` are spawn-time concerns the server alone
interprets, and a test asserts they never leak into the artifact — a second reading of the
launch model in a consumer that cannot be tested against a real spawn is exactly what this
registry exists to prevent.
The install.sh copy is **embedded, not fetched**, and is the FULL catalogue. An earlier design
fetched it and fell back to a hardcoded two-CLI list, which degraded silently on an empty
response; there is no degraded mode to fall into now. An optional, opt-in refresh
(`CODEMAN_CLI_CATALOGUE_URL`, or `CODEMAN_REFRESH_CLI_CATALOGUE=1`) exists for a stale local
copy, and warns on all three failure shapes — empty body, unparseable content, failed fetch.
### The install-command trust boundary
Three rules, and the middle one is why the embed matters:
1. **The server never executes an entry's `install.command`.** Unchanged, and still enforced by nothing executing it: the field is display text (`CliDiscovery.install.command`).
2. **`install.sh` executes only commands embedded in itself.** Those arrive in the same file, over the same TLS fetch, in the same commit as the `curl \| bash` line that fetched the script — identical trust to the hardcoded vendor one-liners it replaces.
3. **Nothing fetched at install time is ever executed.**
That is mechanical rather than a promise. `CLI_INSTALL_CMD_TRUSTED` is written only from the
generated block and is the only array the installer runs; `CLI_INSTALL_CMD_DISPLAY` is what the
refresh may rewrite. `test/install-sh-invariants.test.ts` asserts the split holds, that the
refresh never assigns into a `*_TRUSTED` array, and that it never `eval`s.
### bash 3.2
macOS ships bash 3.2 and the documented install is `curl -fsSL <url> | bash` under
`set -euo pipefail`, so a bash-4 construct is not a warning there — it kills the install. The
generated block therefore uses parallel indexed arrays with **offset/length windows** into one
flat array instead of delimiters (a `$HOME` containing a space needs no `IFS` handling, and an
entry with nothing to contribute gets length 0 and is never iterated). CI runs `bash -n` and
executes the script inside a real `bash:3.2` container, because the empty-window case is a
runtime `set -u` abort that `bash -n` cannot see.
## Resolve at call time, never at import
Anything reading the registry must resolve it when it is asked, not when its module is first imported. `sessionModeSchema()`, `allowedEnvPrefixes()`, `dependencyRegistry()` and each resolver's `searchDirs` thunk all re-read the catalog per call.
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## Adding a CLI
1. Add a `CliEntry` to `stock.ts`.
2. Add a golden spawn-command pin to `test/cli-registry-spawn-golden.test.ts`, a row to `test/cli-capability-predicates.test.ts`, and its remote/docker commands to `test/location-overlay-commands.test.ts`.
3. That is usually all. If you find yourself wanting to add an `if` somewhere, the guard test will tell you — and the answer is a capability field, or a named profile if it genuinely needs to run code.
2. Run `npm run generate:cli-catalog` and commit **both** artifacts (`config/clis.stock.json` and `install.sh`). The installer's detection, its install menu, its reminder text and the Docker agent image all follow from that one step — this is what makes upstream `b6d0f1fa` ("wire OMP into install.sh's CLI detection, it had none") impossible rather than merely fixed.
3. Add a golden spawn-command pin to `test/cli-registry-spawn-golden.test.ts`, a row to `test/cli-capability-predicates.test.ts`, its remote/docker commands to `test/location-overlay-commands.test.ts`, and its search paths to `test/install-sh-detection-parity.test.ts`.
4. Only if it cannot install with a plain `npm install -g <pkg>`: give it a layer in `docker/agent.Dockerfile` and a reason in `AGENT_IMAGE_SPECIAL_CASES` (`scripts/lib/cli-catalog.mjs`). The coverage test requires both, so an exclusion cannot quietly become an omission.
5. That is usually all. If you find yourself wanting to add an `if` somewhere, the guard test will tell you — and the answer is a capability field, or a named profile if it genuinely needs to run code.
## See also
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node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache
```
### Which CLIs the image contains
The npm-published CLIs come from `ARG CLI_NPM_PACKAGES`, which `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs`
fills from `config/clis.stock.json` (generated from `src/config/cli-registry/stock.ts`). Adding
a stock CLI that installs with a plain `npm install -g` needs no Dockerfile edit. The ARG
defaults to the same list in the same order, so a bare `docker build` produces a byte-identical
layer — a different order would be a different `RUN` string and so a needless cache miss.
⚠️ It reads the **stock** catalogue, never the merged registry. A user's `~/.codeman/clis.json`
must not change what is inside an image tagged `codeman/agent:base`, or two machines holding
that tag hold different images and every cache decision downstream is a lie. Each entry's
`enabled` flag IS honoured, so a CLI that ships disabled is never baked in.
Four CLIs keep hand-written layers, because the registry cannot express what makes them
special:
| CLI | Why it is not in the shared npm layer |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `pi` | Installs with `--ignore-scripts`, kept in its own layer so the flag cannot leak to the others. |
| `deepseek` | Needs `pnpm` alongside it (`dsh plugin`, issue #352) plus a `dsh-tui` profile install. |
| `antigravity` | Not on npm — Google ships a standalone binary (~190MB, the largest layer). |
| `grok`, `omp` | Not on npm — standalone vendor installers. |
`test/docker-agent-image-coverage.test.ts` requires every special case to carry a written
reason AND still be present in the Dockerfile, so an exclusion cannot silently become an
omission — which is the same failure upstream `b6d0f1fa` hit in `install.sh`.
Two things build this image: `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs` (a human) and
`ensureAgentBaseImage()` in `src/docker-hosts.ts` (the app, on the first Docker case). They
assemble the argv independently, because a `.mjs` cannot import TypeScript, so
`test/agent-image-build-args-parity.test.ts` pins them together. Without it, an image built by
hand and one built by the app could hold different CLIs under the same tag.
A zero exit code only proves the layers ran, not that the toolchain works. Verify by actually executing each CLI in the image, and check the build log for `Using cache` lines:
```bash