codeman tui supersedes the sc bash chooser: it reaches sessions 10+,
carries the server's real states instead of a static list, and leaves an
attach with one key. Every place that told a user to run sc now names the
tui equivalent, including the two wiki pages and install.sh's next-steps
banner. Both wiki pages also carried the wrong detach chord (Ctrl+A D;
the socket's prefix is C-b), which the tui makes moot.
Source comments that explained themselves as "the sc -l replacement" now
just say what they do. docs/tui-plan.md and CHANGELOG.md are historical
records and keep their references.
The guide and the README both said to detach with `Ctrl+B D`. Beta testing
proved that wrong twice over: tmux binds lowercase `d` to `detach-client` and
capital `D` to `choose-client`, and even the correct letter fails for anyone who
keeps Ctrl held, because that sends `Ctrl+D`, which tmux leaves unbound. A
tester followed the documented instruction, stayed attached, and exited the
agent to escape.
Both now say `F1`, and the attach section describes what actually happens: the
session strip across the top of the pane, `Alt+1`..`Alt+9` switching without
returning to the dashboard, and `r` to resume a session whose pane has died.
Also corrected: `1-9` switches rather than jump-attaches, `x` confirms with `y`
rather than a typed name, and a new session opens straight into its pane.
`docs/tui-plan.md` is deliberately untouched — it is the design record of what
was planned, not a description of what shipped.
Three things the first beta test surfaced.
1. Attaching from a terminal of a different shape showed the pane clipped to the
browser's size, with tmux's dot padding filling the rest. Codeman pins every
window it owns to `window-size manual` at whatever the web client reports
(tmux-manager.ts), so no attaching client can resize it. The handoff now
brackets the attach with `window-size latest` and restores the snapshot on
detach. `latest`, rather than a one-off resize to our own size, is also what
lets a terminal resized MID-attach follow along: tmux recomputes on every
SIGWINCH while the TUI is blocked in spawnSync and cannot.
2. Nothing on screen said how to get back out, because Codeman keeps the status
bar off on its panes (the web UI carries that information around the terminal
instead). The tester exited the agent looking for the exit, leaving a dead
pane. An attach now wears a `status-format[0]` bar reading "<prefix> D
detach, back to the codeman dashboard", with the prefix READ from tmux rather
than assumed, and the session's options are put back exactly as they were on
detach. One option, not status-left/status-right, so tmux draws no window
list beside it; `reverse` so it inherits the terminal's own theme. Restoring
an array option unsets the BASE name, since dropping the `[0]` index leaves
an empty array, which renders as a blank bar on a session that had one. The
help overlay names the chord, and the dashboard confirms the detach.
3. Enter on a RECENT row said resuming was not wired up. It now creates a
session carrying that conversation (`resumeSessionId` plus `/interactive`,
the path the web UI's Resume Conversation list already uses), in the
directory it ran in and under its old name, then attaches to it.
The attach mechanics deliberately sit in a method the group dispatch cannot
reach, plus a re-entrancy flag: routing resume back through the Enter handler
re-dispatched on "this row is RECENT" and spawned one session per pass, 35 in
about 40 seconds on the beta before it was killed. test/tui/tui-e2e.test.ts
pins one press to one session with a pane that never appears, which is
exactly the case that looped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user guide covers what the dashboard is (and is not), the two
non-interactive fast paths, the four groups and their ordering, the full
keymap, what answering an approval does server-side, and the SSH/narrow
and degraded cases. The example frame is a real 100x30 capture against
the E2E fake server, not a drawing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer