A remote case's workingDir is an absolute path on the remote host, but the
file read routes resolved it with local `fs`: `validateSessionFilePath`'s
realpathSync fails for a path that does not exist on the Codeman host, so
every preview of an agent-written file answered "File not found" (#415).
Add src/remote-files.ts as the single remote-read layer, built on the same
buildSshConnectionArgs() the launch uses:
- remoteProbePaths(): ONE round trip returning realpath + stat for the
requested path AND the workspace root, so containment is checked against a
remotely canonicalized root (a symlinked remotePath is ordinary).
- remoteCreateReadStream(): streams the body (cat, or tail -c +N | head -c L
for a Range) with nothing buffered in memory, and reaps the ssh child when
the response ends so an aborted download cannot orphan it.
- remoteReadFile(): bounded read for file-content.
file-raw, file-content, file-preview and file-thumbnail now share one local/
remote target resolution. Guards keep their local strength: lexical pre-check,
remote realpath, workspace containment, sensitive-path blocklist, and the size
cap applied to the remote size before any bytes are read. An unreachable host
answers 502 with the remote reason instead of a misleading 404. Nothing is ever
copied to the Codeman host and there is NO local fallback (an sshfs mount of
the same tree must not shadow the remote bytes).
Deliberately unchanged: writes (edit=1 / PUT now answer 400 explicitly while
the viewer hides its Edit affordance), office previews, thumbnails, file tree,
picker, external attachment registration and tail-file stay local-only.
A long orchestration creates one case directory per worker and deleting the
sessions never removed them, so ~/codeman-cases accumulated scratch folders
that were indistinguishable from real projects. They are now labelled and
have a cleanup path.
- src/agent-case-marker.ts: a case dir quick-start CREATES for an agent-driven
spawn gets a .codeman-agent-case.json marker (when, by whom, parent session,
mode). Only the create branch writes it, so a linked case, a cloned repo or
any pre-existing path is never labelled; reading is total, so a malformed
marker means "not agent-created" rather than a half-trusted entry.
- The signal is the new X-Codeman-Agent-Origin header the skill preamble sets
on its shared curl (preamble bumped to 1.22.0), or an agentOrigin body
field, falling back to a resolved parentSessionId so a worker spawned by a
stale skill copy is still labelled.
- GET /api/cases publishes it as agentCreated; GET /api/cases/agent-created is
a read-only cleanup listing adding inUse and modifiedAt; Add Case -> Manage
badges each case and offers a review-then-delete sweep that names every
directory in its confirm and skips any case a live session is working in.
Removal stays on the existing DELETE /api/cases/:name.
- Agent preamble caches are collected too: ~/.cache/codeman-agent-<id>.sh was
written per claude session and never removed (236 leftovers measured on a
working machine). Now deleted with the session and swept at boot, guarded by
a live-session keep set plus a 7-day age floor.
Verified end to end on an isolated instance: marker written for header, body
and lineage-only spawns, absent with no agent signal and for a pre-existing
directory; inUse flipping on session end; badge, sticky bar, confirm and sweep
driven in a browser; preamble seeded on create, removed on delete, boot sweep
taking only the aged orphans.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Docker Compose deployment: Codeman runs in a container and spawns Docker cases
as SIBLING containers through the mounted host socket (Docker-outside-of-Docker).
Resolved the README conflict (master had grown to eight CLIs since the branch
was cut) and moved the Compose blurb out of the feature bullets into Quick
Start, next to the other ways of starting Codeman.
Three review findings from the PR discussion are fixed here rather than left
for a follow-up, because two of them are shipped-image problems:
- `.dockerignore` excluded `.env` only at the ROOT. A pattern is matched against
the whole context-relative path, so `docker/.env` — which the deployment's own
README tells the user to fill with CODEMAN_PASSWORD and provider API keys —
was picked up by `COPY . .` and baked into the image at
/opt/codeman/docker/.env. Verified in both directions against a real build
context: with a canary secret in docker/.env, the unfixed ignore file lets
/ctx/docker/.env through, and `**/.env` (plus `**/.env.*` and a negation for
the checked-in .env.example) leaves only the example behind.
- `CODEMAN_CASES_PATH` moved the server's CASES_DIR but not the CLI's, which
still hardcoded ~/codeman-cases, so `codeman skill install --case <name>`
reported "Case not found" on exactly the deployment the override exists for.
Both now resolve through config/cases-dir.ts. state-store.ts keeps its own
literal on purpose: that one migrates the historical ~/claudeman-cases
directory by name and is about the old default, not the active location.
- CLAUDE.md gained the Compose paragraph (the sibling-container inversion, the
three env vars, the .dockerignore and root-owned-bind traps) and .dockerignore
joins the documented list of files that genuinely belong in the repo root.
The PR's `mode === 'claude'` guard on dockerResumeId is an unrelated master bug
fix riding along: appendResumeFlag() maps a resume id onto codex/gemini/pi/grok/
deepseek/omp/antigravity and RESUME_ID_SAFE accepts a UUID, so a Docker case's
lastClaudeSessionId was handed to every non-claude CLI.
Full gate green in a merge worktree: 6360 tests, lint, format, frontend syntax,
public assets, lockfile.
Which conversation a pane is on was re-derived by correlating
~/.claude/history.jsonl against Session.lastSubmitAt — and lastSubmitAt is
bumped only by input that flows through Codeman's own write path
(Session.write / writeViaMux). A user who attaches to the pane's tmux session
directly never set it, so resolveActiveClaudeSessionIdFromHistory() returned at
its first line for that pane's whole life and the response viewer stayed pinned
to the launch conversation, showing a pre-/clear transcript indefinitely.
A UserPromptSubmit hook reports the live conversation id from inside the CLI
process, delivered under the pane's own $CODEMAN_SESSION_ID. That binding is a
fact rather than a correlation: it never consults workingDir, so it cannot be
claimed by a sibling pane on the same folder, a closed tab, or a bare `claude`
in the user's terminal. A pane holding such an id skips the correlation
entirely, so the number of prompts eligible for cwd-based guessing goes DOWN,
never up — the naive alternative (relax the guard, or synthesize an anchor from
PTY activity) is the reverted bug the resolver's own comment describes.
The hook also stamps lastSubmitAt, so it finally means "a prompt was submitted"
rather than "typed into Codeman's web terminal". Conversations vouched for
first-hand — and only those — extend a persisted claudeSessionChain, whose tail
re-pins the conversation when a surviving tmux session is re-attached after a
restart. ⚠️ start() resets the id at THREE points and the last one runs
unconditionally after the mux branch, so the tail is applied there too; patching
only the mux branch looks right and silently does nothing.
⚠️ The hook's stdout is discarded with curl's own -o /dev/null. Claude Code
injects a UserPromptSubmit hook's stdout into the model's context ("Exit code 0
- stdout shown to Claude"), and a trailing >/dev/null does NOT work: curlCmd
already ends `... 2>/dev/null || true`, and in `pipeline || true >/dev/null` the
shell binds the redirection to `true`, which never runs on the success path. The
discard is opt-in so the five SSE-fed events keep byte-identical command text
and no workspace's settings file is rewritten for them. The staleness marker is
quote-free for the matching reason: hooksJson is JSON.stringify'd, so a quoted
needle never matches and the gate would rewrite every workspace on every spawn.
Existing workspaces heal on their next Claude spawn through the staleness sweep.
resumeHistorySession() creates the resumed row in its own mode via a
modeConfigKey map (opencode/pi/grok/omp -> continueSession, deepseek ->
resumeSession) and retires the old row afterward. codex, gemini and
antigravity were missing from that map, so resuming one of their rows
started a brand-new session with NO continuation while still deleting
the row it came from -- silent data loss dressed as the duplicate-row
fix. Gate row retirement on continuesSomething (true only for modes that
actually got a continuation config) instead of wiring an unverified
sessionId->native-conversation-id assumption for the three affected CLIs.
DELETE /api/sessions/:id reimplemented the ownership 404 check inline in
two places instead of going through findSessionOrFail, and its
persisted-only-session branch never broadcast session:deleted, so other
open tabs kept the retired row until their next unrelated fetch. Extract
the shared 404 into sessionNotFoundError(), add findPersistedSessionOrFail()
alongside findSessionOrFail() in route-helpers.ts (same ownership
contract, returns a SessionState instead of a live Session), and use both
from the route instead of inline checks. Add the missing broadcast.
validateSessionFilePath realpath-resolves the candidate path but compared it
against the raw sessionWorkingDir. When the workspace is itself reached through
a symlink the two sides live in different namespaces, so relative() reports a
spurious `../` and every file in that workspace is judged an escape — reads and
writes in the session are refused wholesale.
That is not an exotic setup: os.tmpdir() hands back a symlinked path on macOS
(/tmp -> /private/tmp), and symlinked project directories and bind-mounted case
paths hit it too.
Resolve both sides and compare canonical to canonical. This only makes the
comparison honest — it does not widen it. The candidate keeps its own realpath,
so a symlink pointing out of the workspace and a ../ traversal are still
refused, and a workspace that cannot be resolved now fails closed.
Three stubs in file-routes.test.ts used a blanket
realpathSync.mockReturnValue(escapeTarget), which answers the same path for the
workspace and the candidate; with both sides resolved that makes an escape look
contained. They now use the input-aware mockImplementation idiom the rest of
that file already uses, so the workspace resolves to itself and only the
candidate escapes. Verified they still bite: removing the confinement check
turns all of them red.
Adds test/route-helpers-symlink-confinement.test.ts, which exercises the
function against a real symlinked workspace on disk and pins the negative cases
(../ escape, symlink-out, missing file) alongside the fix.
Permission dialogs, AskUserQuestion questions and idle prompts from every
session now land in a server-side inbox (web/approval-inbox.ts, one item per
session, claude-mode only) and are answerable in place: a header bell + drawer
on desktop, inline answer strips on the phone overview's NEEDS YOU rows, and
working push Approve/Deny buttons (previously dead ends, now answered straight
from sw.js with no tab open). Pending alerts survive reloads because the
frontend seeds from GET /api/approvals on init.
Answering sends the digit / Esc / prompt text through the existing tmux input
path; option digits are accepted only when they match options parsed from the
captured pane frame, and the answer path re-captures the pane first so a
dialog that already left the screen refuses with 409 instead of typing into
the composer. New elicitation_complete / elicitation_response hook matchers
resolve question items the moment they are answered in the terminal;
refreshStaleCodemanHooks heals existing cases.
Verified end-to-end against a live claude session: a real AskUserQuestion
dialog parsed into 5 option buttons and was answered from the drawer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The opt-in multi-user feature's only enforcement is web-layer scoping
(all sessions share one OS account). An adversarial review found 8 critical
+ 7 high cross-user holes that defeated it, plus mediums; all fixed here.
Single-user (flag-off) behavior stays byte-identical apart from documented
consistency deltas.
Ownership / confinement:
- DELETE /api/sessions (bulk) + /:id now owner-scope / findSessionOrFail
- quick-start, cron (create+fire), scheduled runs confine workingDir to the
owner's space; case link/docker-link/docker-import confine the host path
- resolveCasePath no longer resolves linked cases for non-admins; foreign
remote/docker cases are skipped (fall through to the caller's own local case)
- history, subagents/workflows, mux-sessions, orchestrator, cron run-history,
away-digest, and remote/docker host reads are owner- or admin-scoped
Permission policy (section 6.3):
- non-granted users are downgraded at every spawn site incl. legacy
/api/scheduled, PlanOrchestrator one-shots, remote launch, and the cron-fire
gemini/codex bypass switches; resolveClaudeModeForUsername now fails closed
Auth / store:
- verify-first login throttle (a correct password is never locked out),
/ws terminal subject to the change-password lockbox, cookie fast-path
re-validates identity live, role/grant changes revoke sessions, admin delete
runs the last-admin guard before any teardown
- users.json: distinguish missing (ENOENT) from corrupt/unreadable so a bad
read can't overwrite all accounts; unique per-process temp write path
Event streams:
- debounced session:updated + batched task:updated, clipboard, and push
notifications route by owner (fail closed); getLightState hides machine-wide
globalStats from non-admins
Tests: two suites updated to assert the fixed (secure) behavior. tsc, eslint,
and test:ci all green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Threads per-user ownership through sessions, cases, cron, and the permission
policy. All scoping is a no-op in single-user mode (isMultiUserMode() guards).
Sessions
- Session.owner stamped at every create path from req.authUser / job.owner:
POST /api/sessions, /api/run, /api/quick-start, ralph start, cron launch,
plan generation. Round-trips through recovery (MuxSession.owner mirror, read
muxSession.owner ?? savedState?.owner) and the mux layer.
- findSessionOrFail(ctx, id, req) now does a NOT_FOUND owner check (never 403, so
other users' session existence is not leaked); wired at ~50 call sites.
- List endpoints filtered by owner: GET /api/sessions, /api/sessions/unified
(live+persisted+lifecycle scoped, host-wide transcripts admin-only), cron jobs.
Permission policy (section 6.3)
- resolveClaudeModeForUsername wraps getClaudeModeConfig at every spawn site so a
non-granted user is forced to --permission-mode auto (bypass -> auto), including
recovery (or a reboot would un-downgrade). buildPromptArgs now respects the
session's claudeMode, closing the one-shot (runPrompt) bypass hole.
- Shell mode and cron launchCommand require canBypassPermissions: 403 at
POST /api/sessions, /api/quick-start create, cron job create, AND cron fire time
(re-checked against the owner's current grant).
Cases
- resolveCasesDir(user): per-user ~/codeman-users/<name>/cases in multi-user, the
shared ~/codeman-cases otherwise. All case CRUD + ralph + plan + quick-start
resolve through it. resolveCasePath is owner-aware.
- GET /api/cases scoped per user (own folders; legacy linked cases admin-only;
remote/docker cases owner-filtered). RemoteCase/DockerCase gain owner, stamped
at link/quickcreate/import.
- Remote + Docker host CRUD is admin-only.
- Non-admin workingDir confinement (the linchpin): realpath must resolve inside the
user's space, enforced at POST /api/sessions and /api/run BEFORE any disk write.
Limits
- sessionCapacityState / sessionCapacityMessage centralize the global + per-user
cap (CODEMAN_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_USER, default global/2), replacing the 6 copy-pasted
MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS checks.
Tests: test/ownership-scoping.test.ts (case isolation, host-CRUD gate, workingDir +
shell gates, and the scoping helpers). Deferred to phase 4: WS owner gate, SSE
fan-out filtering, file-route preview/thumbnail helper scoping, push routing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a parallel multi-user auth branch (the single-user Basic-auth path is
left byte-identical). Off unless CODEMAN_MULTIUSER/--multiuser.
- middleware/auth.ts: mode-selecting registerAuthMiddleware. New async
multi-user hook verifies username:password against the user store (scrypt),
mints identity-carrying cookies, decorates req.authUser, enforces a per-IP
AND per-username failure bucket, and the mustChangePassword lockbox. The
hook-secret loopback bypass is now a single shared helper used by both
branches. FastifyRequest.authUser module augmentation.
- ports/auth-port.ts: AuthSessionRecord gains username/role/mustChangePassword.
- user-store.ts: verifyPassword (timing-equalized against user enumeration).
- route-helpers.ts: getAuthUser (synthetic admin fallback), canAccessOwned,
requireAdmin, revokeUserSessions; findSessionOrFail gains an optional req for
a NOT_FOUND owner check (dormant until phase 3 wires callers).
- routes/me-routes.ts: GET /api/me (synthetic admin in single-user) and
POST /api/me/password (verify current, min 8, clear mustChangePassword,
revoke other sessions).
- QR: QrTokenRecord + AuthSessionRecord carry a username; tunnel-manager
mintUserToken / consumeTokenWithIdentity / getQrSvgForCode; /q/:code binds
the cookie to the token's user (rejects identity-less tokens in multi-user);
GET /api/tunnel/qr mints a per-user token. Single-user keeps the rotating token.
- server.ts: bootstrap the initial admin from CODEMAN_USERNAME/PASSWORD on first
boot (refuse to start with no users); multi-user with >= 1 user satisfies the
non-loopback auth requirement and the tunnel-enable guard; userFailures bucket
disposal.
- types/api.ts: FORBIDDEN, PASSWORD_CHANGE_REQUIRED, USER_EXISTS, USER_NOT_FOUND,
LAST_ADMIN error codes (message + status wired).
- Session.owner field + getter/setter, SessionState.owner, MuxSession.owner,
CreateSessionOptions.owner (foundation for phase 3 ownership threading).
Tests: test/multiuser-auth.test.ts (10, live server on 3170/3171). Existing auth
suite (auth-security, qr-auth, cod54-hook-event, network-auth-policy) unchanged
and green; full test:ci sweep passes (3519 tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Detach a session tab into its own browser window and back.
Detach/undock:
- GET /session/:id serves the SPA in "solo mode", reusing the existing
client (terminal, local-echo overlay, reconnect) so no terminal code is
duplicated. One PTY already fans out to N SSE/WS clients, so a detached
window is just another live client — no server fan-out work was needed.
- A pop-out icon per tab; detached tabs show a badge and focus the popup on
click; closing the popup re-docks. Cross-window state via BroadcastChannel
plus a WindowProxy poll, and survives a dashboard reload (roll-call).
app.detachSession(id) is a single idempotent entry point (future gesture
hook). <base href="/"> so relative assets resolve under /session/:id.
Beta-branch isolation (so it can run alongside a prod Codeman):
- Default port 3000 -> 5000.
- New src/config/instance.ts derives the data dir and tmux socket from
CODEMAN_INSTANCE (default "beta"): ~/.codeman-beta + tmux -L codeman-beta.
Every ~/.codeman path now goes through dataPath()/getDataDir() (state,
mux-sessions, settings, push keys, lifecycle log, screenshots, certs,
linked-cases, subagent window state). Overridable via CODEMAN_INSTANCE /
CODEMAN_DATA_DIR / CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET. Prevents a second instance from
discovering and attaching PTYs to the first instance's live tmux sessions.
Verified: tsc / eslint / prettier / lockfile clean; Playwright E2E (27 checks)
for detach/solo/redock; default isolation confirmed to see zero real sessions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor: extract SSE event handlers into named class methods
Replace ~80 inline addListener closures in connectSSE() with a
declarative _SSE_HANDLER_MAP array that drives registration in a
single loop. Each handler is now a named _on* method on CodemanApp,
making them individually addressable for LLM navigation.
Add SSE_EVENTS constant object in constants.js to eliminate magic
event-type strings scattered across the frontend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: fix inaccuracies in CLAUDE.md
- Fix types barrel path: src/types.ts → src/types/index.ts
- Update app.js line count: ~12K → ~11.5K
- Correct route handler counts (113 → 111, per-group fixes)
- Add code style, ESM gotcha, env vars, route test, lifecycle log docs
- Add Node 22 CI note, test teardown timeout, port range
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: add mobile screenshots and QR auth security writeup to README
Add 3 mobile screenshots (landing, idle, active) and expand the
mobile section with QR auth security design details and a
touch-optimized interface subsection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: bundle xterm-zerolag-input as vendor IIFE and add pre-commit hook
Build and postinstall now bundle the local xterm-zerolag-input package
as an IIFE at vendor/xterm-zerolag-input.js with global LocalEchoOverlay
shim. Add git pre-commit hook that runs prettier --check on staged .ts
files to catch format issues before CI.
Also bump constants.js and app.js cache-bust versions to 0.3.0 and add
tunnel upload URL display row in settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: add cloudflared install support and interactive launch menu
- Add optional cloudflared dependency detection and installation
across 6 distro families (macOS, Debian, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, SUSE)
- Add tunnel systemd service setup helper
- Replace post-install instructions with interactive launch menu
(run now / systemd service / skip)
- Uninstall now cleans up both codeman-web and codeman-tunnel services
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: gitignore readme-preview.mjs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor: WIP — SSE event constants, @fileoverview docs, CLAUDE.md compression
- Migrate broadcast() string literals → SseEvent.* typed constants
- Add @fileoverview with cross-domain references to all 13 type domain files
- Add @fileoverview to frontend JS modules (constants, mobile, voice, etc.)
- Add section dividers to route files for LLM scanability
- Compress CLAUDE.md: flat file list → domain table, fix counts
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor: optimize codebase for LLM context window efficiency
CLAUDE.md: 456 → 309 lines (32% reduction)
- Merge Commands into compact table, remove redundant bash block
- Convert Security section to dense table format
- Merge Performance + Resource Limits, Debugging + Troubleshooting
- Compress Tunnel, Memory Leak, Scripts, Screenshots sections
- Remove Key Patterns that duplicate @fileoverview in source files
Backend @fileoverview enhancements (10 priority files):
- session.ts: key methods, events, cross-domain refs
- respawn-controller.ts: state machine, idle detection layers
- ralph-tracker.ts: exports, circuit breaker, events
- ralph-loop.ts: lifecycle, persistence, events
- subagent-watcher.ts: watched patterns, teammate detection
- server.ts: coordination list, port interfaces
- state-store.ts: dual-file persistence, migration
- session-manager.ts: lifecycle methods, mutex guard
- hooks-config.ts: hook events list, categories
- sse-events.ts: category breakdown (~90 events, 17 categories)
Frontend app.js: add 6 section dividers, update @fileoverview line refs
Fix: escape glob `*/` in JSDoc that broke ESLint parser
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: address PR #29 review bugs
- server.ts: replace hardcoded 'session:needsRefresh' with SseEvent constant
- install.sh: fix Alpine cloudflared install for non-root (download to tmpfile first)
- install.sh: replace Arch pacman (AUR-only) with direct binary download
- index.html: bump all 8 remaining cache-bust versions from v0.2.9 to v0.3.0
- mobile-handlers.js: fix @dependency annotation (keyboard-accessory.js, not constants.js)
- types/push.ts: fix layer number (4, not 5)
- subagent-watcher.ts: fix watched pattern path to include {session} segment
- constants.js: fix SSE_EVENTS count in @fileoverview (~73, not ~65)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Split 6,710-line server.ts into focused route modules using port
interfaces for dependency injection. 107/109 routes extracted into
12 domain files with auth middleware, 5 port interfaces, and shared
helpers. Server.ts retains orchestration (SSE, lifecycle, state).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Randalix