Every claude session in a directory claude had not seen before died about six
seconds after it started (`Pane is dead (status 1)`), before the agent drew a
composer. Reproduced on a fresh case and measured.
Claude Code 2.1.252 rewrote the dialog. It used to be
❯ 1. Yes, I trust this folder
2. No, exit
and is now unnumbered, reversed, and highlights the option that quits:
❯ No, exit
Yes, I trust this folder
Detection still worked (the confirm affordance carries the match once the
numbered option text is gone), so the failure was entirely in the answer: the
auto-accept pressed Enter on the highlighted default, which is now exit.
trustDialogNextKey() reads the ❯ marker off the rendered pane and returns ONE
keystroke at a time: an arrow while the cursor is on the wrong option, Enter
only once the screen shows it on the trust option, and null for a frame that
does not say. Both layouts are handled, and which way the trust option lies is
read from the frame rather than assumed, so a further reordering costs a
repaint instead of a session. The last marked option wins, because the
direct-PTY fallback reads an append-only buffer where an older frame must not
out-vote the freshest one.
Two things only a live pane showed:
- The scan ran solely from the PTY onData handler. The arrow that moves the
cursor is the last output the pane produces, so the first fix parked every
session with the cursor sitting on the right option and no Enter ever sent.
It now schedules its own follow-up read (_trustDialogTimer, cleared in
_clearAllTimers()), offset past the scan throttle so the chain cannot break
on a boundary.
- The keystroke cap goes 3 -> 6, since answering is no longer one press.
The bundled codeman skill had the same blind \r as its bounded fallback, so
preamble 1.21.0 replaces it with _trust_key/_accept_trust: read
terminal?full=1, steer onto the trust option, re-read, then confirm. Those
keystrokes go out under their own clientId, because input sequence numbers are
monotonic per client and spending prompt numbers on dialog keys would make the
next send-and-wait look like a stale duplicate and vanish while reporting
success. The readiness recipes in docs/extending-codeman.md,
docs/api-reference.md and the skill's own reference carry the corrected answer,
plus a symptom-table entry for a worker whose pane is dead seconds after spawn.
Verified live on an isolated instance (own data dir and tmux socket): fresh
case -> arrow at 5 s -> Enter at 7 s -> composer, with hasTrustDialogAccepted
recorded. With the server-side auto-accept disabled in a throwaway copy, the
skill's fallback cleared a genuinely parked dialog in 1.1 s and spawn_worker
took a brand-new case to a live composer in 7.2 s; spawn_workers + sendwait +
last_text then ran end to end.
Red tab alerts track the dialog, not the keyboard: typing no longer clears them, and a dialog answered in the terminal resolves itself on the next listing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Persist the 'I checked it' state of yellow idle tab alerts across reloads and devices.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR #282 added pi across the prominent surfaces but left the enumerations
that read as exhaustive: the env-prefix allowlist (missing PI_*), the
external-CLI list for stop/blocked, cron's agent types (also missing
antigravity), the narrow-strip mode list, and the claude-only caveats in the
cron and Read My Mind guides. Both READMEs and the four affected docs now agree
with the schema.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An EventSource that stops delivering does not always error. A proxy that
idle-closed the connection, a laptop resumed from sleep, a tailnet reconnect:
`onerror` never fires, the header dot stays green, and every SSE-driven surface
(tab status dots, sessions created on another device, renames) freezes until the
user reloads. Nothing on the client tracked stream liveness at all.
The server already wrote a keepalive every 15s, but as an SSE `:keepalive`
COMMENT, and comments are invisible to `EventSource` by spec, so there was
nothing a client could observe.
Server:
- `sse:heartbeat` under a new Transport category in the event registry
(155 constants now, both counts updated).
- `cleanupDeadClients()` writes that named frame (`{"t":<epoch ms>}`) instead of
the comment. Interval, tunnel padding and dead-socket eviction are unchanged.
The write stays per-client rather than going through `broadcast()`: the frame
carries no session data, so it needs no multi-user owner routing.
Client:
- `computeSseStale()` in constants.js, a pure policy beside
`computeConnectionLossUi`. Stale only when the transport believes it is
`connected`, the device is online, and no frame has arrived for 45s (three
missed heartbeats). The `connected`-only guard is also the loop breaker: a
forced reconnect leaves that state immediately, so the watchdog cannot re-fire
while one is in flight.
- The liveness stamp is applied inside `addListener` itself, so the
`_SSE_HANDLER_MAP` wrappers and the directly-registered listeners all feed it
from one place instead of three that can drift. The heartbeat's own listener
is a no-op that exists only to be registered, since `EventSource` drops named
events nobody listens for.
- A 5s watchdog forces `connectSSE()` when the policy says stale, and is cleared
at the top of `connectSSE()` and nowhere else (its only teardown path).
Recovery needs no new sync path: the reconnect re-runs `handleInit`, which
already rebuilds from the server. `visibilitychange` -> visible checks too,
riding the existing listener, since a background tab's timers are throttled
and a wake is exactly when a stream comes back zombie.
- The forced reconnect logs one diagnostic line: if a middlebox ever strips or
delays heartbeats, the failure mode is "silently reconnects every 45s", which
is undebuggable from a field report without it.
Tests: `test/sse-staleness.test.ts` (node VM over constants.js, threshold
boundaries and every not-stale guard) and `test/sse-heartbeat.test.ts` (drives
`cleanupDeadClients()` with fake replies: named frame not a comment, parseable
payload, padding only with a tunnel, dead clients still evicted).
Verified end to end on an isolated instance: with the stream closed client-side
(no `onerror`), a rename sticks, an out-of-band session stays invisible, then
the watchdog reconnects on its own and it appears without a reload.
Event names are part of the stable API contract, so this is a MINOR bump.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mic button previously needed a Deepgram API key, or fell back to the
browser's Web Speech engine. It can now transcribe through the same
speech-to-text service Claude Code's own /voice mode uses, so anyone signed
in to Claude Code on the server gets dictation with no third-party account.
Claude Code's voice mode cannot be driven directly: it opens the HOST's
microphone (sox/arecord), and the CLI runs in a headless tmux pane while the
human is in a browser somewhere else. So capture stays in the browser and only
the transcription backend is borrowed.
Audio goes browser -> Codeman -> Anthropic. The OAuth token never reaches the
page: the browser sends PCM16 (16 kHz mono, produced by an AudioWorklet since
MediaRecorder cannot emit raw PCM) and receives text.
- GET /api/voice/status reports readiness and never the token
- GET /ws/voice/stream relays one dictation, with the same Host/Origin upgrade
guard as the terminal socket, plus caps on concurrency, stream length and
frame size
- credentials are read-only: Codeman never refreshes them, since a refresh
rotates the refresh token and could sign the user out of their own CLI
- claudeVoiceEnabled (synced, default OFF) gates the whole server side
- voiceSettings.provider picks auto/claude/deepgram/webspeech; auto prefers
Claude, then a configured Deepgram key, then the browser
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The feature as pitched in docs/readmymind-plan.md: pressing the header
brain button predicts the prompt you were about to type, from the case's
intent profile plus everything the session already knows.
Backend:
- readmymind-context.ts: pure budgeted context assembler (9 ranked
sources: pending approval dialog, user goals, last assistant turn tail,
recent prompts, tool activity, git workspace signals, away context,
sibling sessions, rethink state; 30 KB budget, whole-section drop from
the bottom of the ranking, trust tiers stated in the prompt)
- readmymind-collectors.ts: transcript tail reader (the live watcher
keeps only a 500-char snippet) and git signal collection (execFile,
2s timeout, skipped for remote-SSH cases)
- readmymind-predictor.ts: one-shot claude -p in a throwaway tmux
session, opus by default (readMyMindModel setting), strict JSON
contract with 1-3 suggestions (continue / verify / redirect), newline
stripping, 90s timeout; mutable singleton so route tests can stub it
- POST /api/sessions/:id/readmymind: claude-mode only (400), one
prediction in flight per session (409 CONFLICT), rethink body
{ steer, rejected }; ownership via findSessionOrFail
Frontend:
- readmymind-ui.js (loadorder 11.3): header brain button, marker-hidden
until readMyMindEnabled is ON, desktop only (phone key is phase 3);
modal with editable suggestion + rationale and Send / Insert /
Rethink / Dismiss; suggestion text rendered via value/textContent only
and nothing ever auto-sends
- App Settings -> Panels checkbox for readMyMindEnabled; en + zh-CN
strings
Verified end to end against a live isolated instance: transcript
capture, a real opus prediction grounded in the stated goals, rethink
steering, the 409, and the browser modal incl. Insert leaving the text
unsubmitted on the composer. 41 new unit/route tests; full test:ci
sweep green (4680 tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/readmymind.md covers phase 1 as a user guide: how to enable the synced
readMyMindEnabled setting via the API (no UI checkbox until phase 2), exactly
what is and is not captured, the hooks dependency (Docker bridge / remote-SSH
caveats), storage and wipe paths, curl examples for the three endpoints, the
agent-skill ground rules, and a troubleshooting table. Cross-linked from the
CLAUDE.md Key Patterns entry and the api-reference section.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per-case profiles of user intent (docs/readmymind-plan.md): user-stated goals
plus the user's recently submitted prompts, captured from the Claude session
transcript behind the new synced readMyMindEnabled setting (default OFF).
- intent-store.ts: keyed by owner + realpath(workingDir), FIFO/size caps,
consecutive-dupe collapse, atomic 0600 writes to ~/.codeman/intents.json
- transcript-watcher.ts: new transcript:user_prompt event for typed user turns
(tool_result-only entries stay silent); capture wiring in server.ts is
claude-only and gated on the setting per event
- readmymind-routes.ts: GET/PUT/DELETE /api/sessions/:id/intent, ownership
via findSessionOrFail, strict Zod schema
- agent skill: SKILL.md recipe + endpoints.md rows so agents can read and
record intent (PUT replaces: read + merge; never delete unprompted)
- groundwork for the phase-2 predictor button; nothing is ever auto-sent
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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>
Codeman maintainer