Every working Claude session reported `status: "idle"` about two seconds
into its turn. Measured on live workers: two sessions mid-tool-call at 13
and 17 minutes both read `idle` while their panes showed
`✻ Actualizing… (13m 23s · ↓ 47.5k tokens)`.
Two things had drifted apart:
1. The working indicator changed. Claude animates the glyph through
`· ✢ ✳ ∗ ✻ ✽` and randomizes the gerund per turn, so neither
SPINNER_PATTERN (braille, no longer drawn) nor the keyword list
(Thinking/Writing/Reading/Running) matches a turn anymore.
2. A `❯` sighting is not the end of a turn. Claude redraws the composer
roughly once a second all the way through one, and that redraw armed
the "2s later, call it idle" timer.
Matching the new status line in the STREAM does not fix it either: tmux
ships partial repaints, so the complete line reached the PTY about once
every 20 seconds while the `❯` arrived every second.
So the decision moves off the stream:
- An unbroken run of repaints marks a turn as started. Sampled once a
second for 12s over six live sessions, the two working ones produced
output in 12/12 windows and the four idle ones in 0/12. Pure helpers in
session-activity.ts carry the thresholds.
- Idle now needs the pane to go quiet AND the screen to agree.
`_confirmIdle()` asks tmux what is rendered (new `capturePaneText()`,
one plain `capture-pane`, floored at 1.5s per session and only ever at
a transition) and re-checks every 5s while the screen still shows work.
A turn can sit silent for tens of seconds inside one tool call, so
silence alone proves nothing.
- The same screen check vetoes keystroke echo, which is a steady stream
of repaints too but is not work.
CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN matches the `… (elapsed)` shape rather than
the glyph, because the FINISHED line (`✻ Cooked for 2m 49s`) carries the
same glyph and would otherwise pin a session at working forever.
Claude mode only. An external CLI has no `❯`, so nothing would arm the
confirmation and such a session would latch busy.
respawn-patterns.hasWorkingPattern() had the same blind spot (its gerund
list cannot see "Actualizing"), so it takes the pattern as an extra
signal. That can only make respawn less eager, never more.
Idle now lands about 3 to 5 seconds after a turn ends instead of 2
seconds into one. Verified end to end against a live worker, sampled
against the CLI's own "esc to interrupt" footer as independent ground
truth: busy for all 25s of a turn, idle 3s after it ended.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to #209 and #210. Both land a real fix (a pane that is a login shell
picks up /etc/profile and the per-user PATH entries an ssh remote command never
sees, which is what was failing agent CLIs with exit 127). Three corrections:
1. `-i -l` is no longer hardcoded onto the resolved shell. That path ultimately
comes from the passwd entry, which is user data and can name anything, and a
shell that rejects an unknown flag exits on the spot: nushell, elvish and xonsh
take neither flag, so a user with one of those in passwd would have gotten a
dead pane on arrival, which is exactly the #208 failure #209 builds on top of.
loginShellArgs() applies them only to the POSIX-family shells verified to
accept both, and a test really launches every allowlisted shell present on the
machine rather than trusting the set. csh/tcsh are excluded deliberately: tcsh
honors -l only when it is the ONLY flag.
2. `remain-on-exit on` -> `failed`, moved LAST in the tmux command chain. `on`
keeps the pane after a CLEAN exit too, so typing `exit` in a remote shell
stranded a dead pane, the session outlived it, and the next launch's `-A`
reattached to that corpse: "Pane is dead (status 0)" instead of a shell,
permanently, on the DEFAULT path. Verified against a real tmux, as was the
fix: `failed` tears the session down on status 0 and keeps the pane on 127
with the "command not found" still on screen, which is the case #210 wanted.
It is last because tmux aborts the remaining commands of a `\;` sequence once
one errors (also verified) and `failed` needs tmux >= 3.2 on the REMOTE host;
leading, a rejection there would have silently dropped status/mouse/prefix/
escape-time/window-size along with it.
3. `$SHELL` -> `"${SHELL:-/bin/sh}"`, via one shared remoteLoginShellCommand()
helper instead of the string being rebuilt in tmux-manager as well.
Also corrects the rationale both PRs carried: a tmux pane already hands the shell
a tty, so it was interactive all along ($- contains i for a bare /bin/bash in a
pane) and ~/.bashrc was always being sourced. `-l` is the flag doing the work.
End-to-end verified, not just unit-tested: the emitted remote pane command was
run through all three quoting layers under a minimal sshd-style PATH with the
CLI installed only on a login-shell PATH entry, and it resolved and launched the
CLI with its arguments intact and a space-containing remote path preserved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Release 1.9.8 (aicodeman) and 0.1.8 (xterm-zerolag-input).
Fixes macOS session start (`posix_spawnp failed.`, issues #6 and #204):
node-pty ships its macOS spawn-helper as mode 0644 and macOS launches every
PTY through it. `scripts/fix-node-pty.mjs` (npm run fix:node-pty) chmods every
helper, prebuilds/ included, then verifies by really opening a PTY; the blind
Node-22+ rebuild is gone. `spawnPtyWithHelperRepair()` self-heals an already
broken install on the first failed spawn.
Adds the phone home screen (session overview under 430px, per-device
`mobileOverviewEnabled`, default ON) and a guided Tailscale path in
install.sh, plus `install.sh tailscale` to retrofit it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds Antigravity as a sixth CLI backend alongside Claude Code, shell, OpenCode,
Codex and Gemini, following the existing pluggable-resolver pattern.
- `utils/antigravity-cli-resolver.ts` resolves the CLI, mirroring the other
resolvers; `GET /api/antigravity/status` reports availability and path.
- `ANTIGRAVITY_*` joins the `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` allowlist in schemas.ts, so
env overrides stay CLI-scoped rather than blanket-forwarded.
- Session, tmux-manager, mux-interface and types carry the new mode; secrets are
injected via socket-scoped `tmux setenv`, never on the spawn command line, so
the mode requires tmux with no direct PTY fallback like the other external CLIs.
- Frontend: Run-dropdown entry, agent-type option, `ag` tab badge and toolbar
colours. `runAntigravity()` routes remote/docker cases through
`POST /api/quick-start` and skips the local status probe for them.
Tests: test/antigravity-mode.test.ts, plus run-mode-ui and system-routes coverage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deterministic claude --version probe seeds cliVersion so wheel-forwarding
to Claude's transcript engages (banner scrape was unreliable on 2.1.187+
and resumed sessions). Shift+wheel reads the dominant axis so a trackpad's
horizontal Shift-scroll reaches local scrollback. New per-device
"Wheel Scrolls Local History" opt-out. Wheel reports use a fire-and-forget
send path so they no longer flicker the pending-bytes indicator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gemini (PR #134) blockers:
- runGemini() now unwraps the {success,data} envelope: status check reads
.data.available, quick-start reads data.data.sessionId (was reading the raw
shape, so the Run-Gemini button could never start a session).
- setGeminiEnvVars() now uses the socket-scoped ${this.tmux()} setenv instead of
bare tmux — Gemini/Google auth env vars were targeting the wrong tmux server
and silently failing on every install.
Gemini parity polish:
- gemini tab-mode badge ('gm') + .tab-mode.gemini CSS; kill-dialog label
'Kill Tmux & Gemini'; codeman doctor dependency-registry entry; export
isGeminiAvailable from utils barrel; COLORTERM=truecolor + unset NO_COLOR;
add gemini to isAltScreenStripMode (Ink TUI, repaints inline like Codex/Claude).
- Revert 4 system-routes.test.ts envelope assertions weakened to
(body.message ?? body.error) back to (body.success === false).
- Add a runGemini() vm-sandbox test that drives the envelope path end-to-end.
Ralph todo-config (PR #135): maxTodos/todoExpirationMinutes are now persisted
and read back — surfaced via the loopState getter (RalphTrackerState) into
toState()/SSE broadcast and restored in restoreState(), mirroring maxIterations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- M7 (SSRF): add isSafePushEndpoint (https-only; reject internal/loopback/link-local/metadata IPs incl. IPv4-mapped); enforce in PushSubscribeSchema and re-check before webpush.sendNotification. + unit test.
- M1 (command injection): validate tmux session names with isValidMuxName in sessionExists, killSession, and reconcileSessions before they reach a shell call site.
- M5: keep the intentional /var/log + ~/logs log-tail roots (a tested feature) and document the wider read scope in docs/security-architecture.md section 5 instead of dropping it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stats collector (~2s) and mouse-mode sync (5s) ran execSync (pgrep/ps/
list-panes, 5s timeout each) per session on the server's single thread,
blocking the event loop. With several sessions or a momentarily slow tmux this
froze port 3000 for seconds-to-tens-of-seconds while the process stayed alive
and other ports were unaffected — self-healing, so it never restarted and the
60s loopback healthcheck missed it. Convert these hot-path calls to execAsync.
Also add an always-on event-loop lag monitor (utils/event-loop-monitor.ts) that
logs stalls >=1s to the web log, so this otherwise-invisible class of incident
leaves a quantified, timestamped trace.
Co-authored-by: Teigen <teigen@TeigendeMac-mini.local>
Knip-driven cleanup. All changes verified with tsc --noEmit, lint, and
build.
Removed (zero consumers):
- VERIFICATION_PROMPT constant + its barrel re-export
- createInitialOrchestratorPersistState factory
- transcriptWatcher singleton export
- createAnsiPatternFull / createAnsiPatternSimple factories
- TimerInfo interface + unused AiCheckResult/AiPlanCheckResult imports
in respawn-controller.ts
- 35 unused Zod z.infer \`*Input\` types in schemas.ts
- Dead re-exports: SessionMode from session.ts, AuthSessionRecord from
web/ports/index.ts, EnhancedPlanTask/CheckpointReview from
ralph-tracker.ts, 7 unused entries in utils/index.ts
- 14 event/config interfaces that lived only as JSDoc hints (no TS type
position usage): Session/Respawn/RalphLoop/RalphTracker/
SessionManager/SessionAutoOps/Subagent/TaskQueue/TaskTracker/
TranscriptWatcher/Image/OrchestratorLoop Events + RespawnPreset +
SessionOutput
Narrowed to module scope (kept but no longer exported):
- buildPermissionArgs in session-cli-builder.ts
- 28 type/interface declarations used only within their own file:
Ai{Idle,Plan}Check{Config,State}, BashToolParser{Events,Config},
FileStream/CreateStream{Options,Result}, PlanSubagentEvent,
SubagentCallback, RalphLoopConfig, RalphLoop{Events,Options},
ActiveTimerInfo, DetectionStatus, ActionLogEntry, AutoOpsCallbacks,
TunnelStatus, Timer/LRUMap/StaleExpirationMap Options, AuthState,
SessionListenerDeps, SseStreamManagerDeps, and 8 more
Docs: CLAUDE.md advice for global-regex `lastIndex` now points to the
remaining `execPattern()` helper instead of the deleted factories.
Knip delta: unused files 42→0, unused exports 161→16, unused types 92→0.
The 16 remaining exports are a mobile-test helper toolkit intentionally
kept for upcoming tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* add project setup
* add tools to eslint
* remove contributing.md
* update claude md
* chore: simplify CI to single Node.js version (22)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* use node 20
* adjust formatting
* fix linting
* format
* fix layout
* fix: align CI node version to .nvmrc (22), remove redundant gotcha
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: arkon <arkon.85@hotmail.com>
Added IS_TEST_MODE (process.env.VITEST) guards to every method in TmuxManager and
ScreenManager that touches real tmux/screen sessions. Tests can never create, kill,
discover, or send input to real sessions. Removed broken E2E test suite entirely.
Rewrote test/setup.ts from 459 lines to minimal cleanup. Rewrote tmux-related tests
to verify test-mode safety behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Create src/utils/regex-patterns.ts with ANSI_ESCAPE_PATTERN_FULL,
ANSI_ESCAPE_PATTERN_SIMPLE, TOKEN_PATTERN, and helper functions
- Create src/utils/token-validation.ts with MAX_SESSION_TOKENS and
validation utilities
- Update session.ts, respawn-controller.ts, ai-checker-base.ts,
ralph-tracker.ts, state-store.ts to use shared utilities
- Export all new utilities from src/utils/index.ts
Reduces code duplication while maintaining pre-compiled patterns
for performance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Automatically removes entries not accessed within TTL
- Periodic cleanup with configurable interval
- Optional onExpire callback for cleanup notifications
- Refresh TTL on get (configurable)
- Touch, peek, getAge, getRemainingTtl methods
- Full iteration support
- Implements Disposable interface
Useful for caching ephemeral data like pending tool calls, subagent activity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add Disposable, BufferConfig, MemoryMetrics, CleanupRegistration types
- Create src/config/buffer-limits.ts with consolidated buffer size constants
- Create src/config/map-limits.ts with Map size limits to prevent unbounded growth
- Implement BufferAccumulator utility with configurable trim and onTrim callback
- Implement LRUMap with automatic eviction and O(1) operations
- Implement CleanupManager for unified resource cleanup with isStopped guard
- Add comprehensive tests for all new utilities
This lays the foundation for memory leak prevention and performance improvements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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