docs: publish docs/wiki as the user manual, with a sync workflow

30 pages covering install, concepts, the dashboard, the agent CLIs, unattended runs, remote and Docker cases, security and the HTTP API, plus a sidebar and a footer. The wiki repo has no CI and no review, so docs/wiki is the source of truth and .github/workflows/wiki-sync.yml mirrors it on every push to master. The workflow refuses to mirror when docs/wiki is missing or holds no pages, because it deletes before it copies and would otherwise publish the deletion of every page. The footer carries a {{VERSION}} placeholder stamped at publish time rather than a hand-written version, which went stale on every release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+# Watching Agents Work
+
+Modern agents fan out. A single Claude session can be running six subagents, and the parent
+terminal shows you almost none of it. Codeman surfaces that hidden work as live windows,
+panels, and after-the-fact summaries.
+
+Everything on this page is Claude-only. It reads Claude Code's transcripts and team state;
+the other CLIs expose no equivalent.
+
+![Subagent windows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ark0N/Codeman/master/docs/images/subagent-windows-20260724.png)
+
+## Subagent windows
+
+When a Claude session spawns subagents, each one gets its own floating window with a live
+transcript: what it was asked to do, what it is doing, and what it returned.
+
+- Windows are draggable and resizable, and their positions persist across reloads.
+- A connection line links each window to the session tab that spawned it, so with four
+  sessions running you can still tell whose worker is whose.
+- Closing a window does not stop the subagent. It only stops you watching it.
+
+This is the feature that makes a fan-out legible. Without it, a lead session that spawned
+eight workers looks like a stalled terminal for several minutes.
+
+## Session lineage arcs
+
+The tab strip draws a coloured arc from a parent tab to any tab it spawned, one colour per
+child. That covers the other direction of fan-out: not subagents inside one session, but
+whole sessions started by an agent through the API.
+
+Desktop only, on by default, and toggled in **App Settings → Appearance**. Arcs are skipped
+for tabs scrolled out of view.
+
+See [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) for the spawning side.
+
+## Agent teams
+
+Claude Code's experimental agent teams appear as teammates alongside subagents. Enable them
+in the CLI's own environment:
+
+```bash
+CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1
+```
+
+and turn the per-case **Agent Teams** toggle on in the case settings gear.
+
+Codeman watches the team directory and matches teammates to the session leading them.
+Teammates are in-process threads rather than separate CLI processes, so they show up as
+windows, not tabs.
+
+Notes and the experiment log:
+[`docs/agent-teams/`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/tree/master/docs/agent-teams).
+
+## Ultracode and workflow runs
+
+When Claude runs a Workflow, dozens of agents can be in flight at once. The completion
+artifact for a run is only written at the **end**, so a live run would otherwise be
+invisible until it finished. Codeman synthesizes the in-flight view from the transcripts and
+lets the real artifact supersede it when it lands.
+
+Two independent toggles, both off by default:
+
+| Setting                | Shows                                     |
+| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
+| Ultracode panel        | A docked panel listing the run's agents.  |
+| Ultracode windows      | Floating windows, like subagents.         |
+
+Turning on either starts the watcher.
+
+## Reading the answer, not the terminal
+
+**Last Response** (header button, opt-in) renders the agent's last answer as scrollable text
+rather than terminal output. It exists mostly for phones, where reading a long answer in a
+terminal viewport is painful. **More** loads additional context.
+
+## After the fact
+
+| Surface            | Answers                                                        |
+| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **Away Digest**    | What happened while I was gone?                                 |
+| **Run summary**    | What did this run actually do?                                   |
+| **Lifecycle log**  | When did sessions start, exit, or get killed, and why?           |
+| **Token stats**    | What did it cost?                                                |
+
+The Away Digest aggregates the lifecycle log, run summary events, live sessions, token
+statistics, and recent subagents into one view. It is the right first thing to open in the
+morning after an overnight run.
+
+All of these header buttons are opt-in: **App Settings → Header & Panels**.
+
+## Performance
+
+The design target is 20 sessions and 50 agent windows at 60fps. If you routinely run more
+than that, expect the browser rather than the server to be the limit, and close windows you
+are not reading.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- **A session pointed at a relocated Claude config directory goes blind here.** Transcripts
+  written outside `~/.claude/projects` are invisible to the watchers, so subagent windows,
+  the ultracode panel, the response viewer, and Read My Mind all stop working for that
+  session. Symlink `projects` back into the shared tree to fix it. See
+  [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs).
+- **Closing a window does not cancel the agent.** Nothing on this page controls agents; it
+  observes them.
+- **Windows are opt-in for ultracode, automatic for subagents.**
+
+## Read next
+
+- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - where these surfaces live.
+- [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) - the other kind of fan-out.
+- [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops) - the loops that generate this much activity.