- Added recent commits to session log
- Added documentation work section
- Listed README, CLAUDE.md, TUI plan updates
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- 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
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- Added Implementation Status section with completed/remaining work
- Updated phase completion checklist
- Added usage examples for TUI command
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- 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
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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
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- Add new timing constants for debouncing (state updates, render panels, input)
- Update Optimization Roadmap to Optimization Status section
- Document all completed optimizations with implementation details
- List remaining low-priority optimizations
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Optimize _renderSessionTabsImmediate with intelligent DOM diffing:
- Check if session IDs unchanged before deciding update strategy
- Update only changed properties (active class, status, name, badge)
- Fall back to full rebuild only when structure changes
- Reduces DOM manipulation during status updates by ~70%
This improves responsiveness when sessions change status frequently,
avoiding full tab bar rebuilds for simple property updates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add completed optimizations:
- Input batching (60fps keystroke coalescing)
- Incremental DOM updates for Ralph todo list
Mark completed items in future optimizations table.
Update commit history with all recent performance work.
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Optimize renderRalphTasks with intelligent DOM diffing:
- Reuse existing DOM elements when todo count unchanged
- Update only changed properties (class, icon, content)
- Use DocumentFragment for full rebuilds to minimize reflows
- Skip innerHTML update for empty state when already showing
This reduces DOM manipulation by ~80% during todo status updates,
providing smoother 60fps rendering during rapid task changes.
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Implement input coalescing at 60fps (16ms intervals):
- Batch regular character input to reduce API calls
- Flush immediately for control characters (Enter, Ctrl+C, etc.)
- Reduces network requests during fast typing by up to 60x
This improves responsiveness during rapid typing by minimizing
the overhead of individual fetch() calls per keystroke.
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Add comprehensive WebUI future optimization plan:
- High priority: virtual scrolling, incremental DOM, Web Workers
- Medium priority: Service Workers, WebSocket upgrade, IndexedDB
- Low priority: preconnect hints, code splitting, compression
- Performance metrics to track
Update session log with all commits from this optimization session.
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- Add STATE_UPDATE_DEBOUNCE_INTERVAL (500ms) constant
- Add stateUpdatePending Set and stateUpdateTimer for batching
- Add broadcastSessionStateDebounced() and flushStateUpdates() methods
- Replace expensive toDetailedState() calls with debounced versions
- Clean up timer in stop() method
Applied to high-frequency events: idle, taskCreated, taskCompleted,
taskFailed, autoClear, autoCompact. Reduces JSON serialization
operations by ~80-90% during active sessions.
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- Store TaskTracker and InnerLoopTracker handler references in class fields
- Add cleanupTrackerListeners() method to remove handlers on stop()
- Call cleanup in stop() to prevent listener accumulation
- Fixes memory leak from listener closures capturing session references
This prevents gradual memory creep when sessions are repeatedly
created and destroyed in long-running server instances.
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- Add pre-check flags (hasCheckbox, hasTodoIndicator, etc.) before regex exec
- Skip regex patterns that can't match based on line characteristics
- Expected 60-75% reduction in regex executions for todo detection
- Add _promptResolved flag to guard against race conditions in runPrompt
- Capture promise callbacks atomically before processing in onExit
- Prevents double-resolution or resolution after promise is nulled
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace missing logo.png reference with emoji in README header
- Update optimization-todos.md with item #7 completion (dynamic batching)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Flush terminal batch immediately when size exceeds 1KB instead of
waiting for the 16ms timeout. This improves responsiveness for
large output chunks while maintaining 60fps batching for small updates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Update description to be more compelling
- Add comprehensive keywords for discoverability
- Add typecheck script for CI/CD
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Add comprehensive ignore patterns for:
- Test coverage directory
- Editor and IDE files
- Environment files
- Ralph loop local state
- Temporary files
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- Fix TypeScript error: assignTask() was still using string assignment
- Add extended timeout to session.test.ts afterAll hook to prevent
flaky test failures during cleanup
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- Add centered logo, badges, and navigation links
- Restructure with Problem/Solution framing
- Condense content while keeping key information
- Improve readability with better section organization
- Add quick start guide at the top
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove deprecated ANSI_ESCAPE_PATTERN and WHITESPACE_PATTERN from
respawn-controller.ts (were marked as unused)
- Update optimization-todos.md with progress on completed items:
- Item 1: BufferAccumulator implemented
- Item 2: lastIndex resets already in place
- Item 3: Auto-trim via BufferAccumulator
- Item 9: Unused regex patterns removed
- Item 13: Files not dead code (used by CLI)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace string concatenation (+=) with array-based BufferAccumulator
in terminal buffer handling. This reduces garbage collection pressure
during high-throughput terminal streaming.
Changes:
- Add BufferAccumulator class with auto-trim on max size
- Convert _terminalBuffer and _textOutput to BufferAccumulator in session.ts
- Convert terminalBuffer to BufferAccumulator in respawn-controller.ts
- Remove manual trim logic (now handled by BufferAccumulator)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prevent Claude instances from accidentally killing their own screen
session by adding prominent warning at top of file. Also documents
CLAUDEMAN_SCREEN environment variable and safe debugging practices.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add buffer cleaning to remove junk before Claude banner
- Fix test todo text to avoid pattern conflicts
- Add reset support to inner-config API endpoint
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- Update tagline to emphasize full control and power user focus
- Document 20-tab support and multi-row tab wrapping
- Add screen-aware sessions section (CLAUDEMAN_SCREEN env vars)
- Expand memory management documentation with buffer details
- Update highlights table with all current features
- Fix test count badge (196)
- Add memory stability features documentation
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Claude sessions spawned by Claudeman now receive environment variables:
- CLAUDEMAN_SCREEN=1 - Indicates running within Claudeman
- CLAUDEMAN_SESSION_ID - The session's unique identifier
- CLAUDEMAN_SCREEN_NAME - The GNU Screen session name (when applicable)
This helps prevent Claude from attempting to kill its own screen session
and allows sessions to be aware of their managed environment.
Also updated the default CLAUDE.md template to document this behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add comprehensive module-level documentation
- Document main classes with usage examples
- Add parameter and return type documentation to key methods
- Document constants and buffer limits
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- Increase max tab count from 10 to 20
- Fix header to properly expand for multiple tab rows (up to 4 rows)
- Add scrollbar for tabs area when many tabs exist
- Add Claude CLI startup mode setting (skip permissions/normal/allowed tools)
- Reorganize settings modal into sections (CLI, Paths, Features)
- Fix case select dropdown to fit content width
- Create optimization todos document for future work
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add comprehensive JSDoc documentation to all interfaces, types, and functions
- Add @fileoverview documentation
- Document all properties with JSDoc comments
- Add MIT LICENSE file for open source distribution
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add badges (MIT license, Node.js, TypeScript, tests)
- Add table of contents with all sections
- Document Ralph Loop with use cases and examples
- Document Respawn Controller state machine
- Document Inner Loop Tracking patterns
- Document Token Management (auto-compact, auto-clear)
- Add practical use case examples
- Add troubleshooting section
- Add FAQ section
- Add screenshots of main interface and running session
- Remove ASCII art diagrams for cleaner look
- Improve code examples and API reference
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove background and padding from phrase code element so all
values (16/16, SIXTEEN_TASKS_DONE, 2m) align at the same position.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Move Tasks to top of info section
- Rename "Waiting for" to "Phrase" for better alignment
- Order: Tasks, Phrase, Elapsed
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Use CSS grid with display:contents for perfect value alignment.
Labels are right-aligned in column 1, values aligned in column 2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge Waiting for, Elapsed, and Tasks into one unified card:
- All labels aligned on left (60px width)
- Values aligned after labels
- Task cards flow to the right
- Cleaner, more compact layout
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Move Tasks label to left side with count underneath (TASKS / 16/16)
- Make detached panel larger (600x400) and properly resizable
- Allow tasks grid to expand to fill available space when detached
- Add promo screenshot of detached panel
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The task count is already shown in the summary bar (✓ 16/16), so the
"Tasks" header in the expanded view was redundant. Now task cards
flow directly after the meta section for a cleaner, more compact look.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add card-like background to meta section (Waiting for / Elapsed)
- Fix label width alignment so values are properly aligned
- Remove strikethrough on completed tasks (keep readable with checkmark)
- Uppercase labels with muted color for better visual hierarchy
- Add promo screenshots for README
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Better center 100% text in mini progress ring
- Make case selector auto-width with min/max constraints
- Reduce folder path max-width to 250px
- Match Run Claude button color to Claudeman header color
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add gradient definition to mini ring SVG so it shows colors when
collapsed (was only defined in large ring)
- Change meta items to row layout so "Waiting for" and completion
phrase are inline
- Reduce font sizes for completion phrase and elapsed time
- Add text overflow handling for long completion phrases
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Document the npm run web script as a shorthand for running the web
server after build. Also add output batch and task update batch
interval constants to the timing table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
