Both of the dashboard's periodic reads hit endpoints that are far more
expensive than their cadence assumed, and the cost lands on the SERVER's
event loop, so it is paid by every browser client too.
`GET /api/sessions/unified` is ~550ms against 11 live sessions: it scans
every Claude transcript plus the lifecycle log, uncached, and republishes
the search index. `scheduleRefresh()` was a 250ms trailing debounce with no
floor, and a queued refresh re-ran the instant the previous one returned
(by recursing, which also chained one pending promise per iteration), so a
stream of events paced the refetches at the endpoint's own latency: with
`session:updated` broadcast per session per 500ms while anything is
working, the scans ran back to back. `resyncDelayMs()` now keeps ambient
refetches 3s apart, measured start-to-start. The user's own actions call
`refresh()` directly and are unaffected, so what this paces is only
"notice what changed elsewhere".
`GET /api/sessions/:id/terminal` is ~80-100ms: two `execSync` tmux calls,
then the whole byte buffer normalized before the tail is taken. It was
polled every second for as long as a live row was selected. It now backs
off 1s, 2s, 4s, 5s while consecutive reads change nothing, and resets to 1s
on any change, when the selection moves, when this dashboard sends input or
answers a dialog, and on return from an attach. A pane that is printing is
still read every second; a pane at its composer is not.
The poll also kept running in three places it had nothing to draw for: the
whole time the user was attached in tmux (an attach can last hours), and
behind the message overlays that an async action opens (answered, killed,
started), which are not keystroke-driven and so never reached the
`afterInput()` path that stops it. `setInterval` becomes a chained
`setTimeout`, since the delay now varies.
Measured against the live server, same idle row selected, 25s window:
22 tail reads before, 5 after. With a working pane selected it stays at 22,
which is the intended cadence for a pane whose output you are watching.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`TuiModelStore.confirmSatisfied()` and `approvalFor()` had no caller
outside their own tests. The first one mattered: it answered "does the
typed text authorize this kill?" with an exact name match, while the rule
actually consulted (`confirmAccepts()` in tui-app) also accepts the
8-character id prefix a mux name carries. Two divergent answers to one
question, the stricter one unreachable and waiting to be picked up by
mistake. knip cannot see class members, so the dead-code sweep never
flagged either.
The tests they existed for now assert observable state instead, and the
approvals one got stronger on the way: it checks that a session id coming
back does not inherit the dead session's dialog, which is the invariant
`removeSession()` is actually keeping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`TuiSessionRow` declared `lastSubmitAt`/`inputTokens`/`outputTokens`,
`stateSince()` ordered the WORKING group by the first of them and
`renderRowLines()` painted the other two, but nothing ever filled any of
them in: the unified list carries none, and the `session:updated` payload
that does was discarded (an event only schedules a refetch).
So a running turn was dated by its SESSION's creation instead. Measured
against the live server before the fix: w65 (created 21h ago, turn started
one minute earlier) outranked w67 (created 15 minutes ago, turn started
five minutes earlier), the reverse of the rule docs/tui.md states, and the
elapsed column read `21h` for a turn a minute old. The token column was
unreachable code for the same reason.
`fetchLiveSessionMetrics()` reads the three fields from `GET /api/sessions`
and `applyLiveMetrics()` folds them onto the rows. That route answers from
the server's cached LIGHT state (no terminal buffers): 10-20ms measured,
against the ~550ms the unified list in the same `Promise.all` already
costs, so it is cheap enough to ride every refresh. It is best-effort like
the approvals and tmux reads beside it, because losing the anchor is
better than losing the list.
A ZERO is treated as unknown rather than merged: `stateSince()` reads
`lastSubmitAt ?? createdAt` and 0 is not nullish, so a merged 0 would date
every never-submitted session to the epoch.
The snapshot path gets the same merge, or `codeman tui --list` would number
the WORKING group differently from the dashboard that `codeman tui <n>`
indexes into.
Verified live: working rows now show 28m/8m (turn age, tokens 280.5k/65.2k)
where they showed 21h/34m and no tokens. The e2e assertion fails on master's
wiring with `[*] 10m` against a session that pressed Enter one minute ago.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The inventory test predates the `tui` command, so a rename or an
accidental removal would have gone unnoticed: it now asserts the command,
its `-l`/`--list` flag and its optional position operand.
The digest and search-result lines joined their halves with an em-dash,
which the repo's own convention rules out, so both now use the middle dot
the surrounding lines already use. The one em-dash left in `src/tui/` is
load-bearing: `search-service.ts` builds a session snippet with it, and
the pattern that strips the repeated label has to match it.
Also moves `buildSearchEntries`'s doc comment back onto
`buildSearchEntries`; it had ended up stacked above a helper.
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`mark()` had no callers (knip's only finding on this branch), and the
renderer's fallback help list advertised `r` resume, which is deferred
with the rest of phase 3: a help screen naming a verb the build does not
implement is worse than no help.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A server that comes up mid-run was upgrading the header's hostname and
version but not its chip, which then stayed blank until the next telemetry
event. Also swaps a typographic apostrophe out of a preview error, which is
not renderable on the ASCII glyph tier.
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Two small honesty fixes at the edges: a server that goes down leaves the
dashboard holding prompts nothing can classify any more and whose answer
route is unreachable, so degraded mode clears them; and a resize can cross
the narrow breakpoint, where there is no preview pane to poll for.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured against a live Claude pane: an Ink TUI paints by ROW and emits
almost no newlines, so dropping cursor-position sequences collapsed a whole
screen into one unreadable line, and a tail cut mid-sequence printed the
remains of it (";1H") as text. Now a jump to column 1 starts a display line,
a jump inside a row moves the write position (capped, since a stream may
address a column no terminal has), and a severed CSI head is dropped before
parsing.
The preview is readable against a real session as a result: tool calls, the
working line and the composer all land where they belong.
Also drop the repeated session name from a search row, whose snippet opens
with the name the row already shows in its first column.
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The fake API server grows the routes the dashboard now calls (terminal tail,
input, approvals answer, search, away digest, plan usage on status), and the
new cases assert on what the server RECEIVED rather than on the frame: the
prompt arrives as one line ending in a carriage return, and the answers as
the exact action and option digit.
Also covered: the tail refreshing in place, the search overlay selecting a
live session, the digest rendering, one bell for an item announced twice,
and the 409 path reported as "no longer on screen".
The plan-usage chip is punctuated with the glyph tier's separator, so an
ASCII terminal no longer gets a stray middle dot in the header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dashboard stops being read-only. The selected session's tail is polled
once a second while the plain list has focus and the layout is wide, and an
unchanged tail never reaches the model, so a quiet session costs no repaint.
A row with no live buffer says so instead of polling forever.
Keys: y/n and the parsed digits answer the selected session's dialog through
`POST /api/approvals/:id/answer` (never a blind keystroke: that route
re-captures the pane and 409s when the dialog has moved on, which the TUI
reports as "no longer on screen"); `p` opens a one-line composer aimed at
the selected session; `/` searches with a 250ms debounce and Enter switches
to a live session result; `g` shows the away digest. A new prompt rings the
bell exactly once, tracked by item id so a repaint or a refetch cannot
stutter, and the plan-usage chip rides `GET /api/status` plus its telemetry
event.
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The preview pane now leads with the pending dialog when the selected session
has one: the question, the options with their digits, and the keys that
answer them, red for a dialog and yellow for a waiting prompt. The card is
capped at half the pane, because the tail is why the pane exists.
Around it: a header badge counting prompts that need a human, a preview
title that sacrifices the path rather than the state word, the footer
becoming the composer line while one is open (with the cell the terminal
cursor belongs in, so it can be shown there and hidden everywhere else), and
the search and digest panels as overlays with a stable width.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The store gains the three overlays phase 2 needs, each taking the keyboard
when it is set and all of them cleared together by closeOverlay(), plus the
pure flattening of `GET /api/search`'s typed groups into rows a cursor can
move over: headers are chrome, and only a session that is on the list counts
as selectable, since a history hit has no row to move the cursor to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three small pure modules the phase-2 verbs are built on:
- tui-composer: the single-line editor behind `p` and `/`, holding text as
code points so a cursor can never split a surrogate pair, with the scroll
window derived from the width rather than remembered.
- tui-approvals: what an approvals-inbox item's card says, which keys are
live for it (a digit answers only when the server parsed that option, and
an idle prompt answers to none of them), and which ids the bell has not
rung for yet.
- tui-digest: the away digest as compact lines, counts first and one line
per entry, with a capped tail per section.
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The IO half of src/tui: it owns the terminal, the timers, stdin and the
tmux handoff, and every decision it makes that is a function of its
inputs is an exported pure helper with unit tests (attach planning, the
typed kill confirmation, keymap selection, the repaint test, degraded
rows).
What it does: live session list over the unified API with SSE-driven
resync (debounced, with a 2s poll fallback the client asks for), cursor
and 1-9 navigation, attach and return, kill behind a typed confirmation
that refuses history rows and the session hosting the TUI, a new-session
case and CLI picker over quick-start, and degraded mode straight from
tmux when no server answers, re-probing so a server that starts upgrades
the dashboard in place.
Restoring the terminal is the part that has to be bulletproof: leave() is
idempotent and runs from normal quit, SIGINT/SIGTERM, a process exit hook
and prepended fatal handlers (src/index.ts already handles those by
exiting, so a listener registered after it would never run).
Attach is a handoff, never a proxy: the screen is restored and tmux gets
the real terminal. Inside tmux on the same socket there is nothing to
hand off to, so it issues switch-client and exits.
The preview pane, approvals answering, the prompt composer, search and
the digest are the next step; the region renders a placeholder rather
than pretending to load something.
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The footer and the help overlay held the plan's full keymap, which would
advertise verbs (prompt, search, digest, answer, resume) that the build
does not implement yet and teach users that the TUI ignores keys. Both
now take their entries from the render options when the caller passes
them; the built-in lists stay as the fallback.
The picker overlay windows its items around the cursor rather than
clipping them, so the selected case stays visible in a long list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The app layer repaints on state change, so the store has to be able to
say that something changed: `revision` is bumped by every mutating
method, and the repaint test compares it against the last painted frame.
Without it an idle dashboard would either redraw on a timer or go stale.
Three additions come with it, all optional so nothing existing changes
shape: `TuiSessionRow.muxName` (the unified list carries no mux name, so
the app fills it in from the local tmux enumeration and a row without one
cannot be attached), a `new-session` UI mode, and `TuiPickerState`, the
one-column chooser behind `n`.
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Everything the dashboard needs from outside the process, behind one typed
surface, so the app loop stays a loop. It is a client of the running server and
nothing else: rows come from the unified list, blocked states from the
approvals inbox, and answering goes through the endpoint that re-captures the
pane and refuses with a 409 when the dialog has already been answered in tmux.
That refusal is a typed result rather than an exception, because a human
beating you to a prompt is normal operation.
Discovery mirrors the daemon probe (`CODEMAN_API_URL`, else loopback on
`CODEMAN_PORT`, self-signed TLS accepted) and credentials come from where
`codeman attach` already reads them. An explicit port outranks the ambient
`CODEMAN_API_URL`, which every managed session exports: a caller that named a
port must not be redirected at whatever server owns its shell.
Input is single-line and `\r`-terminated at this layer, so no caller can strand
text on an unsubmitted composer, and each send is tagged for the server's
exactly-once path. The event stream defaults to a `?sessions=` filter that
matches nothing, which drops the terminal firehose while lifecycle, hook and
approval events still arrive. A silent-but-open stream is caught by a watchdog
rather than a socket error, since that failure mode reports nothing at all.
With no server answering, sessions are listed from tmux on the instance socket
(argv, never a shell string) and decorated from a read-only peek at state.json,
which keeps the "the server died, get me to my sessions" path alive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Node has no EventSource, so the live-update stream is read as raw bytes and
decoded here. Three details are what the parser exists for: a TCP read can end
between the CR and the LF of a CRLF, so a trailing CR is held back rather than
dispatched; the tunnel padding the server appends after a frame is a comment
with no blank line after it and must not split anything; and the keepalive is a
NAMED event, because an SSE comment is invisible to a browser client by spec.
Event classification lives here too, as a set rather than a prefix test:
`session:terminal` is most of the stream and the preview pane pulls its own
tail, so it is deliberately not a resync trigger.
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One absolutely-addressed line per row, each closed with an erase-to-end, so
nothing scrolls and a repaint cannot leave the previous frame's tail behind.
The caller wraps the result in synchronized-output brackets; that is an IO
decision and stays out of the renderer.
Color is passed in rather than detected. chalk's detection is right for the
one-shot CLI but would make a frame non-deterministic, so the palette is raw
SGR in the same semantic roles cli-style uses, and `color: false` emits nothing
but the cursor addressing, the session's own colors in the preview included.
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Below 72 columns the preview pane is dropped and rows take two lines, the
constraint the `sc` chooser was built around and the reason it is still usable
on a phone; above it a clamped sidebar carries the list and the preview takes
the rest.
Every region is clamped to a non-negative size, so a 5x5 terminal degrades to a
header instead of handing the renderer negative widths.
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Rows are the ones GET /api/sessions/unified already returns and blocked states
are the items the approvals inbox already parsed, both imported as types only
so a CLI process pulls in neither the server nor node-pty. Classification
speaks the web UI's language (red blocked, yellow waiting, green working) so a
user with both surfaces open never has to translate between them.
Groups order by how long a session has been in its state, which is why WORKING
anchors on the pane's last Enter: a working pane repaints about once a second,
so its last-activity stamp always says "now".
Selection is tracked by session id, never by row index: rows re-sort under the
cursor whenever a session starts working or an approval lands, and an
index-tracked cursor would quietly move the selection to another session
between two keystrokes.
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Decodes printable UTF-8, the control keys, arrows in both CSI and SS3 forms and
SGR mouse reports out of a byte stream that can tear anywhere, so a sequence
split across two reads decodes the same as one that arrives whole.
A lone ESC cannot be told from the start of an arrow key by looking at bytes,
so the parser holds it and the caller resolves it with flush() once its
disambiguation timer fires. Unknown sequences are swallowed: a stray CSI must
never reach a prompt composer as typed text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The preview pane shows a session's raw terminal stream, so it needs the tail
reconstructed rather than emulated: SGR survives, cursor steering and OSC do
not, and a carriage return returns to column 0 so a spinner that repaints its
line 200 times contributes one line instead of 200.
Widths count East Asian Wide characters as two columns, which the clip and pad
helpers rely on to never cut a wide character, a code point or an escape
sequence in half.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove TUI from git (moved to .gitignore for local development)
- Remove React/Ink dependencies (unused in published version)
- Remove tui command from CLI
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Rename inner-loop-tracker.ts → ralph-tracker.ts throughout codebase
- Add ralph-config.ts for parsing .claude/ralph-loop.local.md config
- Standardize API error responses using createErrorResponse()
- Add input validation for auto-compact/auto-clear thresholds
- Update UI labels to "Ralph / Todo Tracker" consistently
- Add 46 integration tests for Ralph tracking functionality
- Update test badge to 438 total tests
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add getFullScreenId() to get PID.screenName format for unambiguous attach
- Update DirectAttach.ts and index.tsx to use full screen IDs
- Remove TUI documentation from README (still in development)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add killAllScreensAndClaude() function to useSessionManager
- Kills all tracked sessions, orphan claudeman screens, and Claude CLI processes
- Press 'D' (Shift+d) in sessions view to trigger
- Update HelpOverlay with new shortcut documentation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add state store flush on shutdown to prevent data loss from debounced saves
- Add error handling in session exit handler to ensure cleanup always runs
- Add 5s timeout to all TUI execSync calls to prevent hangs
- Cache screen -ls output with 100ms TTL (90% reduction in execSync calls)
- Add token pre-check to skip expensive regex when "token" not in data
Based on findings from security, performance, and reliability analysis.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TUI now checks if web server is running on startup and offers to start
it in the background. Added new CLI options: --with-web (auto-start),
--no-web (skip check), -p (port).
TUI feature parity with web interface:
- Shell mode: press 'h' in cases view to start bash instead of Claude
- Multi-start: press 'm' to start 1-20 sessions at once
- Respawn toggle: Ctrl+R to enable/disable respawn on Claude sessions
- Session rename: API support via useSessionManager hook
Security fixes from previous analysis:
- Command injection prevention in screen-manager.ts
- Path traversal protection in server.ts
- Input validation for shell-interpolated values
Also fixes memory leak in session.ts (timer tracking) and flaky test
timeout in session-cleanup.test.ts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Handle SIGINT/SIGTERM signals properly
- Unmount Ink app before exit
- Restore cursor visibility and clear screen on exit
- Use try/finally to ensure cleanup runs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove unused imports (Text, execSync, writeFileSync, React)
- Move n/r/q key handlers from App.tsx to StartScreen component
- Mark unused onClose prop in HelpOverlay with underscore prefix
- Consolidate keyboard handling in components that display the controls
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Improves documentation across all TUI files:
- App.tsx: Main component with keyboard shortcuts reference
- index.tsx: Entry point with usage examples
- useSessionManager.ts: Hook with detailed API documentation
- All components: Props, returns, and behavior descriptions
- Helper functions: Parameter and return type documentation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Poll session API every 2 seconds for respawn status
- Display respawn state and cycle count in StatusBar
- Show respawn status in magenta to match web UI
- Format state (underscores to spaces) for readability
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Poll inner loop state from state-inner.json every 500ms
- Display RalphPanel when loop is enabled and has data
- Auto-adjust terminal height when panel is shown
- Add innerLoopState and innerTodos to session manager hook
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Display Ralph loop status (active/idle)
- Show completion phrase, cycle count, elapsed time
- Display todo list with status icons (pending/in_progress/completed)
- Truncate long todo items, limit to 5 visible
- Use magenta border to match web UI styling
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Show session name prominently in status bar
- Add optional inputMode prop for visual feedback
- Update keyboard hints to indicate typing sends input
- Reorganize status bar layout for better readability
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Press 'd' or 'x' to delete/kill selected session
- Auto-adjust selection index when sessions are removed
- Update footer controls with delete shortcut
- Update help overlay with delete shortcut
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add Start Screen section with arrow navigation and attach
- Separate Main View into Navigation and Session Management
- Include all new shortcuts (Enter, a, arrows)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add arrow key navigation in StartScreen (up/down to move)
- Highlight selected session with blue background
- Press Enter to view session in TUI mode
- Press 'a' to attach directly to GNU screen session
- Attach exits TUI and inherits stdio for full terminal control
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Poll screen hardcopy every 500ms for live output
- Clean up temp files after reading
- Update CLAUDE.md with TUI documentation
- Add TUI command examples to Commands section
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a full TUI for Claudeman using Ink (React for CLI):
- StartScreen: Shows existing sessions from screens.json
- TabBar: Session tabs with status indicators
- TerminalView: PTY output display with scrolling
- StatusBar: Session info and keyboard shortcuts
- HelpOverlay: Full keyboard shortcut reference
Features:
- Session discovery from ~/.claudeman/screens.json
- Tab navigation (Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+1-9)
- Create new sessions (connects to web API)
- Kill sessions via screen commands
- Keyboard-driven navigation
Usage: claudeman tui
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer