Codeman running under docker/docker-compose.yaml lost the ability to update
itself from App Settings -> Updates. The image had no .git (excluded by
.dockerignore), so the install reported as "unknown"; there was no init system
for detectSupervisor() to find; the runtime stage had neither devDependencies
nor a build toolchain; and a pull into the baked /opt/codeman would have landed
in the container's writable layer and been discarded by the next `up`.
Restore it through configuration rather than a second updater, so the release
channel, auto-stash, status file and boot reconcile are all reused unchanged:
- The checkout Compose builds from is bind-mounted over /opt/codeman, so the
update's git checkout and rebuild land on the host and survive recreation.
- The restart is the server exiting; `restart: unless-stopped` relaunches the
container on the new dist/. This is the one supervisor whose updater does NOT
outlive the restart, which is safe only because the terminal "restarting"
marker is written first.
- node_modules and dist are named volumes over the bind mount, so
container-compiled native modules never enter the host checkout.
- The runtime image keeps devDependencies and gains python3/make/g++, since
`npm run build` is tsc + esbuild and node-pty has no Linux prebuild.
An in-place container update applies code only, because a restart reuses the
existing image and config. evaluateEnvironmentGate() reads the target release's
own files with `git show <tag>:<path>` and refuses when server.Dockerfile or
docker-compose.yaml changed, when .env.example gained keys the user's .env
lacks, or when the restart policy would not bring the container back. The
missing-key check matters most: Compose resolves an unset ${VAR} to the empty
string and starts anyway, so a new required setting would otherwise arrive as a
silently blank variable. Every unknown fails open, and the gate is re-evaluated
server-side on POST /api/system/update.
The four global agent CLIs are pinned, because an unpinned CLI bump is the one
environment change no diff-derived gate can see; pinning turns it into a
Dockerfile change the gate already detects.
Adds test/docker-compose-env-parity.test.ts as the merge-side guard (every
compose ${VAR} has an .env.example entry and the reverse) and
test/docker-self-update.test.ts for the pure gate decisions.
Documented in docs/docker-self-update.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013yAQ2y9t81jzSfpStUxx5T
`GET /api/system/update/check` answers "is there a newer published release
tag?", which is the right question for an npm install but not for a git clone
that tracks a branch. Such an install can be many commits behind its own remote
while the latest tag says it is current, and nothing surfaces that.
Adds `GET /api/system/repo-status`: an informational companion that reports what
this CHECKOUT looks like against its own remotes — current branch and commit,
ahead/behind counts per remote, the remote's role (tracking / upstream / other),
and a bounded list of incoming commits.
Read-only and defensive: every git invocation is `execFileSync` with an argv
array and a timeout, a non-git or remote-less install reports a structured
`error` rather than throwing, and nothing here mutates the working tree or
touches the updater's own state.
Tests: 24 cases in test/repo-status.test.ts.
A KeepAlive system-level LaunchDaemon (the right setup for headless Macs,
where no GUI login means LaunchAgents never start) is now detected as
supervisor 'launchd-daemon': the updater kills the server PID (passed via
--server-pid) and launchd respawns it on the new dist/ — no root needed.
Detection requires the daemon plist to be bootstrapped AND KeepAlive=true.
Also: on boot, a 'completed-needs-manual-restart' status auto-completes
when the running version matches the staged target, so the stale
'restart Codeman to apply' instruction no longer lingers in the UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update Codeman from the web UI: a "Check for updates" button queries GitHub
for the latest tagged release (git ls-remote fallback) and shows release
notes; "Update now" runs git checkout <tag> → npm install → npm run build →
restart, streaming live progress that survives the service restart.
- Release-tag channel; dirty trees auto-stashed (left for manual git stash pop)
- Cross-platform restart: systemd / launchd / manual, detected at runtime
- Updater runs detached (systemd-run --scope on Linux, setsid on macOS) so the
restart it triggers can't kill the build mid-flight
- Build-failure rollback to the pre-update commit; boot reconcile with an
update-id/freshness guard; 409 concurrency lock; runner staged outside the
repo; strict tag validation; CODEMAN_DISABLE_SELF_UPDATE kill-switch
- Endpoints: GET /api/system/update/check, POST /api/system/update,
GET /api/system/update/status
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
