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Codeman maintainer 61d22eee1c chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 00:06:00 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 92af855ce4 fix(base-path): keep the crash beacon under the mount, strip CODEMAN_BASE_URL in tests, add the wiring test
The merge-time items from the #381 review. navigator.sendBeacon is not fetch,
so the base-aware wrapper never saw the two crash-diag beacons and a sub-path
install posted them to the origin root every two seconds. The test suite now
strips CODEMAN_BASE_URL like CODEMAN_GESTURE, since the constructor reads it
as a fallback and an operator who exports it would see the root-install
byte-identity assertions fail. test/base-path-server.test.ts boots a real
WebServer under /codeman and checks the ingress strip, the base injection,
the rebased redirects, the 404 envelope and a prefixed WebSocket upgrade.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 23:11:01 +02:00
Ark0N cfc8fe7e41 Merge pull request #381 from mtiller/feat/reverse-proxy-base-url
feat(web): support a reverse-proxy base URL
2026-09-06 23:10:23 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 80397fe140 fix(hooks,mobile): the merge-time items from the #367 and #368 reviews
#367 (UserPromptSubmit hook): `hook:prompt_submitted` went on the wire
unregistered; it is now in both SSE registries (158 = 158), and the hook only
lands in the run summary when the conversation actually moved, since one row
per prompt would evict useful rows from the 1000-event FIFO and clutter the
Summary timeline and /api/search.

#368 (Add Case header submit): the pending-state dimming targeted the footer
button, which the <=860px layout hides, so on a phone the only visible submit
control stayed at full brightness while a clone ran. The header button now
dims too, and a static test pins the header-submit contract so it cannot
silently disappear again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 23:05:26 +02:00
Ark0N 7991f481b6 Merge pull request #368 from shenlvkang-collab/pr/mobile-add-case-submit
fix(mobile): give the Add Case modal a reachable submit button
2026-09-06 23:02:45 +02:00
Ark0N bca1b764cc Merge pull request #367 from shenlvkang-collab/pr/claude-conversation-first-hand
fix(session): learn the live Claude conversation from the CLI's own hook
2026-09-06 23:02:33 +02:00
Ark0N 1c1773278f Merge pull request #369 from shenlvkang-collab/pr/claude-response-viewer-per-message
fix(web): render one Claude response-viewer message per model message
2026-09-06 23:02:13 +02:00
Codeman maintainer a2aaea3c0e docs(file-picker): state the Home/cases nesting the right way round, and document the new fallback chain
The two merge-time edits the #383 review asked for. The comment above the
picker's fallback chain said Home is nested under Codeman Cases; on the
native default it is the other way round (~/codeman-cases sits inside ~).
And the "Filesystem path picker" paragraph in architecture-invariants still
said the picker falls back to /mnt/d, which #383 changed to: the session's
Current Folder, then the Codeman Cases root, then /mnt/d, then the first
root. No code behaviour changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 21:20:45 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 9f5010aa51 fix(pr-bot): announce a bot-made merge once, cap automatic retries, show why a review failed
Observed on the first live merge (#383 via the Telegram button): runConfirmed
announced the merge and the scan five seconds later announced it again as a
closed PR. The scan now stays quiet for PRs the bot itself merged or closed,
and a merge of a `merge-with-fixes` verdict reminds that merging applies none
of the listed fixes.

A failed review used to be re-queued on every scan with no limit (two PRs
failed once each and were retried fine, but a head that keeps failing would
cost a session every ten minutes forever): three failures on one head now
stop the automatic retries until /review N or a new push. The failure notice
carries the reviewer's last message, so "finished without writing
report.json" says what it wrote instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 21:09:47 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f33b37c008 feat(pr-bot): review open PRs in Codeman sessions and report over Telegram
Maintainer tooling in scripts/pr-bot/: a daemon (systemd user unit
codeman-pr-bot) that lists open PRs with gh, reviews each head commit once in
a Codeman claude session (`prbot-<n>`) running in a private `git clone
--shared`, and sends the verdict, ranked findings, checks and a recommendation
to Telegram with action buttons. Merge, close, post-comment and approve-CI
happen only from a Telegram command or button plus a confirmation tap; the
bot never writes to GitHub on its own. The Telegram token and chat id come
from the existing notifier bot's env file.

Verified live: three PRs reviewed end to end (383, 363, 368), reports
delivered with buttons, reviewer sessions on the pinned model. Findings
along the way, each fixed and documented: a linked worktree inherits the
main checkout's model pin (hence the shared clone), undici's 5-minute header
timeout cut off the first review, gh was missing from the service PATH, and
the periodic scan orphaned an in-flight review's record.

typecheck/lint/format now cover scripts/pr-bot; tests in
test/pr-bot-{report,state,commands}.test.ts; guide in docs/pr-bot.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 21:05:42 +02:00
Ark0N 097d585278 Merge pull request #383 from opticon454/fix/case-picker-default-root
fix(file-picker): default the case picker to Codeman Cases, not Home
2026-09-06 21:03:00 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 8ad2215118 fix(docker): close the three adoption gaps the negative guarantee missed
Review follow-ups to #357. Each is a path that still touched, or still hid, a
container Codeman does not own.

**Export still mutated it.** The four fail-closed layers cover create/start/
stop/remove, but `POST /api/docker-cases/:name/export` reaches the container
twice through neither: a full export `docker commit`s it, and even a
workspace-only export `docker pause`s it first for snapshot consistency. Pause
freezes the owner's processes for as long as the tar takes, on a container we
promised not to touch. Full export is refused for an adopted case (it packages
someone else's container, with their logins, into a bundle Codeman hands out);
workspace-only keeps working and no longer pauses, accepting a live filesystem
the way `tar` does on any running host directory.

**A freshly linked OWNED case became unusable.** The run menu now probes the
container for its CLIs, and a failed probe hides every agent mode behind the
reason. For an adopted case that is right. For an owned one the container does
not exist until the first session launches it, so every newly linked Docker case
answered `container "codeman-case-x" not found (adoption never creates a
container — start it yourself first)` and offered nothing but Shell, for a
container the launch chain was about to create itself. A failed probe is
recorded only when the case is adopted; `CaseInfo.docker.owned` is on the wire
so the frontend can tell them apart. Verified in a browser: owned-with-no-
container offers all ten modes and no notice, adopted-but-stopped offers Shell
and says why.

**Multi-user gating.** Adoption is admin-only, unlike `docker-link` beside it.
Linking creates OUR container, whose sole bind mount `isWorkingDirAllowed` has
already confined to the caller's space; an adopted container's mounts are
whatever its owner gave it, so one mounting `/` hands the adopter a shell over
the whole host — exactly the workspace scoping multi-user mode exists to
enforce. Listing the engine's containers and browsing directories inside an
arbitrary one are machine-level reads and follow the docker-HOST policy for the
same reason. The preflight is deliberately not admin-only: the run menu fires it
for every docker case, so it admits a non-admin for a container already linked
to a case they can access, and nothing else.

Verified end to end against a real pre-existing root container (alpine + tmux,
no bind mounts): adopt, claude session inside it, workspace export, session
close and case unlink all left `StartedAt`, `RestartCount`, `Pid` and `Paused`
untouched; the pane ran the CONTAINER's claude, without
`--dangerously-skip-permissions`; a stopped container was refused at both
preflight and launch and was never started.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TecFD9hvPYJ1mkkMtBQbT1
2026-09-05 16:22:54 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 3d8ffcb9a2 Merge pull request #357 from dignfei/feat/docker-adopt-existing-container
feat(docker): attach a case to an already-running container

Conflicts came from work that landed after the PR was opened, and each is
resolved onto the newer abstraction rather than by keeping the older code:

- `defaultDockerCommandForMode` is registry-driven since #347, so the PR's
  `runsAsRoot` arm became `overlays.docker.rootCommand` (claude only). Claude
  Code still refuses `--dangerously-skip-permissions` as root in 2.1.261 and the
  refusal is visible only inside the container, so an adopted root container
  otherwise just shows a dead pane. Which flag to drop is a per-CLI fact, and
  `test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts` forbids expressing it as a branch.

- The probe's mode list and its mode -> binary table both duplicated the
  registry. They now read `enabledCliIds()` / `discovery.binaries[0]`, which is
  also what fixes the merge's silent regression: the hand-written list predates
  `omp`, and the run menu gates every docker case on this probe, so owned
  containers would have lost that mode. `shell` needs no arm — it declares no
  binary, so it is dropped from the lookup and reported available regardless.

- The per-mode `mode === 'claude' && !cliDir` chain in `tmux-manager.ts` is one
  `missingCliMessage(mode)` gate since #347; the PR's docker exemption moved onto
  it. Its test now pins the single gate instead of counting seven arms.

- The create arm keeps #349's swap-limit warning filter, which the adopted arm
  never reaches; the run-mode list gains `omp` from #353.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TecFD9hvPYJ1mkkMtBQbT1
2026-09-05 16:21:51 +02:00
DevvynandClaude Sonnet 5 06febfa032 fix(file-picker): default the case picker to Codeman Cases, not Home
The "Link Existing" case picker opens with an empty path and no
sessionId, so the browse endpoint's fallback root picked whichever
root happened to be first in the list — which was always `Home`.

On the native default that's harmless (~/codeman-cases nests inside
Home anyway), but a Docker deployment binds CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH
(Home) and CODEMAN_CASES_PATH at unrelated host paths, so the picker
opened somewhere with no cases in sight. Worse: if CODEMAN_CASES_PATH
is ever changed after cases already exist, the old cases directory
lingers, still reachable, under Home — indistinguishable at a glance
from the real one under the new Codeman Cases root.

Prefer the Codeman Cases root in the fallback chain, ahead of the
generic roots[0].

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R9ZSTEenc8soSu9bTi8Xru
2026-09-05 17:14:05 +08:00
Michael TillerandClaude Opus 4.8 7e4914d991 feat(web): support a reverse-proxy base URL (--base-url / CODEMAN_BASE_URL)
Codeman can now be mounted under a sub-path behind a reverse proxy that
forwards the prefix unchanged (e.g. https://host/codeman/). Default is `/`
(root), which is byte-identical to the historical behavior.

Design — few choke points, mirrored ingress/egress:
- src/config/base-path.ts: pure single-source normalize/validate/join/strip.
- Server ingress: stripBasePath() inside Fastify rewriteUrl, so routes stay
  declared prefix-agnostic; un-prefixed requests (hooks, health, docker bridge
  hitting the raw port) pass through unchanged.
- Server egress: one onSend hook prepends the base to root-absolute Location
  headers (covers all redirects).
- HTML: renderIndexHtml points <base href> at the mount and injects
  window.__CODEMAN_BASE__ — ONLY when a base is set (inert at root).
- Frontend runtime URLs: CodemanBase.url() route builder in constants.js,
  applied transparently by a fetch wrapper and explicitly at the
  EventSource/WebSocket/window.open/<img|iframe|a>-src sites.
- sw.js derives its base from self.location; manifest uses relative start_url/scope.
- Web-tab proxy: proxyPrefixFor(cap, basePath) is the single base-aware root that
  cascades to the injected <base>, HTML/attr rewrites, runtimeUrlShim, Set-Cookie
  Path and Location; capabilityFromReferer strips the base off the browser Referer,
  while the ingress parsers stay base-agnostic (rewriteUrl already stripped it).

--base-url rides the daemon relaunch (buildWebArgs) and the service unit
(resolveServicePlan). constants.js is guarded against a missing `window` for
isolated unit-test contexts.

Tests: test/base-path.test.ts (pure helpers), base-path coverage in
webview-proxy/render-index-html/daemon-control; CodemanBase stubbed in the
vm-isolated panels-ui test contexts. Docs: Remote-Access.md (sub-path section +
nginx example), security-architecture.md env table, CLAUDE.md pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUkPBxbumnct6qSrx4JDju
2026-09-04 16:08:57 -04:00
Codeman maintainer 6f7add7ce4 chore: version packages 2026-09-04 20:46:19 +02:00
Codeman maintainer eeb5f9d0b2 docs: web-tab egress guard, capability revocation and referrer policy
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WKtW48T1UjAaecHAJxKobE
2026-09-04 15:21:15 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 2ab21c1b32 fix(webview): revoke proxy capabilities on logout and stamp Referrer-Policy
WebviewCapabilityStore.revokeOwner() shipped for two releases with a docstring
claiming logout called it and no caller at all. The capability is a bearer
credential exempt from cookie auth with a rolling TTL refreshed on every use, so
a proxy URL that leaked (browser history, a screenshot, a dashboard with a loose
referrer policy) stayed valid for as long as anything kept polling it.

- POST /api/logout revokes the caller's capabilities (all of them in single-user
  mode), the admin forced logout revokes the target user's, and user deletion
  revokes whatever that user had open. revokeOwner returns the count for the
  admin audit line.
- Proxied responses carry `Referrer-Policy: same-origin` and the upstream's own
  policy is dropped: every URL inside the frame carries the capability, and a
  dashboard on no-referrer-when-downgrade or unsafe-url handed it to any
  third-party host it linked. Verified with Playwright that a sandboxed frame
  under an upstream `unsafe-url` sends no Referer to a third party while the
  root-absolute fetch and the CSS-triggered 404 fallback still reach the
  dashboard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WKtW48T1UjAaecHAJxKobE
2026-09-04 15:21:13 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 550e08a791 fix(webview): refuse link-local and cloud-metadata targets on the resolved address
The web-tab proxy, its Test probe and its WebSocket relay accepted any http(s)
host. A live PoC relayed an IMDSv2-shaped PUT with custom headers to a loopback
echo server through a capability and no cookie, and 169.254.169.254 (decimal,
hex, IPv6-mapped, or via a DNS name) was as valid a dashboard as any other.

Loopback and RFC1918 stay allowed on purpose: a localhost Grafana is the feature.
Only link-local and the fixed cloud-metadata addresses are refused
(169.254.0.0/16, fe80::/10, fd00:ec2::254, 168.63.129.16, 100.100.100.200,
metadata.google.internal), at three stages that are each load-bearing:

- the Zod schema, so a save gets a clear refusal;
- a synchronous hostname check at every connect site, because net.connect skips
  DNS for an IP literal and a lookup hook never sees one;
- a `lookup` hook on an undici Agent (webviewFetch) and on the ws client, which
  judges the RESOLVED addresses of a name and refuses when any is blocked. This
  is what closes DNS rebinding, which a hostname-string check cannot.

Adds undici@^6 so the proxy runs the package's own fetch with the package's own
Agent; a package Agent handed to Node's bundled fetch can mismatch protocols.

Verified live on an isolated beta: 169.254.169.254.nip.io (a real name resolving
to the metadata address) is refused by probe, proxy (403) and WS relay (4003),
while 127.0.0.1.nip.io still passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WKtW48T1UjAaecHAJxKobE
2026-09-04 15:21:12 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 99ad9cb236 fix(docker): never exit the server unless something is known to restart it
#373 restarts the Compose container by exiting the server, which is right for
the shipped deployment: `restart: unless-stopped` relaunches it. The updater
verified that policy through the Docker socket and, when it could not (no
socket mounted), failed open and exited anyway. Failing open is the correct
choice for the GATE, where refusing would block every install without a
socket, but not for the kill: a container the daemon does not restart goes
down for good, with no UI left to recover it from. That is exactly the case a
plain `docker run` of this image without `--restart` produces, and the image
sets CODEMAN_IN_CONTAINER=1 itself, so it takes the container path.

The decision now happens server-side, where both the socket and the Compose
env are reachable, and rides down to the script as `--restart-by-exit 0|1`.
It is 1 when the Compose file declared `CODEMAN_RESTART_BY_EXIT=1` (added there
and only there, since that file is what sets the restart policy; the image ENV
deliberately does not) or when the daemon confirmed an auto-restart policy.
Otherwise the build still lands, the status becomes
`completed-needs-manual-restart` with the `docker restart` hint, and the
server keeps running. The shipped deployment is unchanged in effect: with the
socket it was already confirmed, and without it the declaration now covers it.

Also: a root-run `Start-Codeman.sh` (common on Unraid) created the
fingerprint baseline's `.codeman` directory before the container's first start
and left it root-owned, which the unprivileged server could then never write
its own state into. It is chowned to PUID:PGID when running as root.

Verified with a real image build of the merged tree (classic builder; this
box's BuildKit lacks buildx): runs as uid 1000, tsc/esbuild and the toolchain
present, the four CLIs at their pins, docker/.env absent, and `docker inspect
$HOSTNAME` returns the restart policy through the mounted socket as that user.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg6bcATm1pNNY4kQWGwzgu
2026-09-04 14:36:35 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 823f56a243 Merge pull request #373 from opticon454/feature/docker-self-update
feat(docker): restore in-app self-update in the Compose dep
2026-09-04 14:25:56 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 72fd231d11 test(setup): one answer for CODEMAN_DATA_DIR, the strip from #371
#356 and #371 fixed the same leak two ways. #356 pointed CODEMAN_DATA_DIR at a
second throwaway directory and cleaned it up in afterAll and on exit; #371
deletes the variable along with CODEMAN_INSTANCE and CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET, so
`getDataDir()` falls back to `homedir()`, which the temp HOME already redirects.
Merged as they were, setup.ts set the variable and deleted it a few lines
later, and the second directory was created for nothing.

The strip wins: same protection, one tree to clean up, and the isolation test
#371 adds pins the list statically. The extra directory, its restore and its
two rmSync calls go, the vitest config `env` entries that set the same variable
go (they were documented as inert and would now be contradicted by the setup
file either way), the two test comments that described the old mechanism are
reworded, and CLAUDE.md's testing paragraph names the three stripped variables
and why CODEMAN_INSTANCE has to be stripped in the setup file rather than a hook.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg6bcATm1pNNY4kQWGwzgu
2026-09-04 14:20:11 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 65d19c725e Merge pull request #371 from opticon454/fix/test-env-instance-isolation
fix(test): strip the instance-selection env vars in test/setup.ts
2026-09-04 14:20:04 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 80626567b2 chore: version packages 2026-09-04 14:01:20 +02:00
Codeman maintainer a81e87f440 fix(cli-registry): log why clis.json was ignored, and say 0600 when that is the rule
The loader refuses a `clis.json` with any group/world permission bit, read bits
included, so a file created with a normal umask (0644) is ignored. That is a
defensible posture for a file that chooses the binaries Codeman spawns, but two
things around it made the override feature look dead: the warning said
"group/world-writable", which a 0644 file is not, and `LoadResult.warnings` was
returned to a caller nobody wired up, so nothing anywhere printed it. A user
following the docs got silence.

The message now names the rule and the command that satisfies it, the loader
logs every warning once on first load (the result is memoized, so once per
process), the module header stops claiming that nothing ever writes (the
quarantine rename of a malformed file is a write, on first use) and the
registry doc gains a short section on the override file with the 0600
requirement in it. Whether the check should relax to writable bits only is a
separate decision; this keeps the shipped behaviour and makes it visible.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg6bcATm1pNNY4kQWGwzgu
2026-09-04 13:51:20 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 2e0129f1f8 docs(test): name the real reason the suite could reach ~/.codeman
#356 stopped a bare suite run from overwriting the production
`remote-hosts.json` by pointing `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` at a throwaway dir, and it
gated every case-tree delete on the temp HOME. Both changes are right; the
explanation written next to them is not. It says `os.homedir()` reads
/etc/passwd rather than `$HOME` on Linux, which would mean the temp HOME in
test/setup.ts never worked. It does: libuv checks the env var before the passwd
entry (measured: `HOME=/tmp/x node -e 'console.log(os.homedir())'` prints
/tmp/x), and CLAUDE.md's testing section relies on exactly that.

What bypasses the temp HOME is `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` itself. `getDataDir()` reads
it as an absolute override before it looks at `homedir()`, so one inherited from
the shell (a second instance, a beta run) sends the whole suite at the real data
dir. That is the case setup.ts now closes, and #371 names the same variable from
the other direction.

The comments in setup.ts, the `safeRmHomeTree` helper, the voice-routes and
case-clone tests now say that, and the containment gate is described as what it
is: defense in depth. CLAUDE.md's testing paragraph gets the same note so the
next reader does not chase a homedir() bug that does not exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg6bcATm1pNNY4kQWGwzgu
2026-09-04 13:50:22 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 28b44237ae fix(remote): classify the has-session probe by exit status, and forget it once the pane is back
#355 made the remote auto-reconnect watcher revive a dead pane only when the
durable remote tmux session is verifiably still alive, which is the right rule:
a clean Ctrl-C / Ctrl-D / exit tears that session down and must never relaunch
a fresh agent. Its probe, though, read `has-session`'s stdout and treated an
empty string as "gone". `tmux has-session` prints NOTHING on success (measured
on a scratch socket: exit 0, empty stdout, the failure message goes to stderr),
so every live remote session classified as gone and transport-drop reconnects
were silently disabled along with the clean-exit revives.

The probe now goes by exit status through a pure, unit-tested mapping
(`classifyRemoteAliveExit`): 0 is alive; ssh's own 255, a timeout (`killed`,
no numeric code) and a spawn failure are unknown, which the watcher already
treats as do-not-revive; any other status is the remote command's and means
gone (tmux's 1 for a missing session, 127 when tmux is not installed there).

Two smaller things in the same area:

- The cached answer was never invalidated, so after one successful reattach a
  stale `true` would have revived the NEXT clean exit (the original bug back
  after the first transport drop), and a cached `false` from a clean exit would
  have left a manually restarted session with auto-reconnect permanently off.
  The tick now forgets the cache entry whenever the pane is seen alive.
- The fire-and-forget probe has a 15s timeout against a 5s tick, so an
  unreachable host stacked up to three ssh processes per dead session. An
  in-flight set caps it at one.

The probe command is pinned as a literal string, and the reattach-then-clean-exit
sequence is driven through the watcher in the tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qg6bcATm1pNNY4kQWGwzgu
2026-09-04 13:50:22 +02:00
Ark0N 96960785d2 Merge pull request #356 from timkjr/pr/test-isolation
fix(test): isolate route tests from the production ~/.codeman data dir
2026-09-04 13:50:03 +02:00
Ark0N ee6a7af1d1 Merge pull request #355 from timkjr/pr/remote-exit
fix(remote): never auto-revive a remote session after a clean agent exit
2026-09-04 13:49:49 +02:00
Ark0N 850b00572c Merge pull request #347 from opticon454/feature/cli-registry-core
PR A: CLI registry core as a pure internal refactor
2026-09-04 13:49:35 +02:00
timkjr 4a63ab1604 test: extend CASES_DIR containment guard to the rest of the suite
#356 introduced safeRmHomeTree/isUnderTestHome to stop tests from deleting
the PRODUCTION ~/codeman-cases tree on platforms where os.homedir() ignores
the $HOME override -- but only applied it to the one file caught doing it
live. CASES_DIR has no CODEMAN_DATA_DIR-style env override at all, so every
other test file's raw rmSync(join(CASES_DIR, ...)) was the same unguarded
pattern, just not yet triggered.

Routes every CASES_DIR delete in these 10 files through safeRmHomeTree:
cli-skill-target, edge-cases, integration-flows, operation-lightspeed,
ralph-integration, routes/case-clone-routes, routes/voice-routes,
session-cleanup, sse-events, sse-subscription-filter.

Also fixes one instance in case-clone-routes.test.ts that mkdirSync'd then
rmSync'd a CASES_DIR path directly with no guard at all -- the exact
clobbering pattern #356 exists to prevent, found by extending the sweep.

Held as a separate commit (and intended as a separate PR once #356 merges)
rather than folding into #356 -- keeps the already-checked skinny fix
reviewable on its own; this is the same bug class applied broadly, not new
functionality.

Verified: all 10 files pass (180 tests), npm run typecheck clean.
2026-09-02 20:41:24 -05:00
timkjr 4068c02b9e fix(test): write the remote-hosts fixture where the route actually reads it
The "never writes hooks for a remote attach" test stubbed CODEMAN_DATA_DIR
to a separate throwaway dir just for this write, but session-routes.ts's
CODEMAN_CONFIG_DIR is a module-load-time constant frozen at test/setup.ts's
sandboxed dir before this test ever runs. The fixture landed somewhere the
route handler could never read, so the remote-host lookup silently failed
(NOT_FOUND) and the test passed for the wrong reason -- createErrorResponse
never sets reply.code(), so Fastify's default 200 made the NOT_FOUND branch
and the intended success branch indistinguishable by status code alone.

Write straight to getDataDir() instead, matching the docker-hosts fixture
convention already used elsewhere in this file. Verified the fix actually
exercises the success path (host resolves, 200 with a real session), not
just an accidental 200 from the error branch.
2026-09-02 20:41:24 -05:00
timkjr ff88b6957e fix(test): guard the CASES_DIR delete + harden the data-dir teardown
PR #356 stopped the remote-hosts.json fixture write from clobbering prod.
Two holes in the same file remain:

1. The quick-start afterEach still ran rmSync(CASES_DIR, recursive).
   CASES_DIR is join(homedir(), 'codeman-cases'), and on Linux builds
   where os.homedir() reads /etc/passwd instead of $HOME it resolves to
   the PROD case tree - so a full-suite run deleted the real
   ~/codeman-cases. Add a shared safeRmHomeTree() containment gate that
   only deletes a path under the redirected test HOME.

2. setup.ts teardown did rmSync(process.env.CODEMAN_DATA_DIR ?? '') AFTER
   restoring the env - if a pre-existing prod CODEMAN_DATA_DIR was set,
   that deleted prod. Capture the throwaway dir in a const and clean that.

A broader test-isolation sweep (10 files: cli-skill-target, edge-cases,
integration-flows, operation-lightspeed, ralph-integration,
case-clone-routes, voice-routes, session-cleanup, sse-events,
sse-subscription-filter) also applies the same containment gates to every
per-case delete. It is intentionally NOT included here to keep this PR
skinny; it is identified and available on request.
2026-09-02 20:41:24 -05:00
timkjr 2694d3f74a fix(test): isolate route tests from the production ~/.codeman data dir
session-routes-workspace-hooks.test.ts wrote its h1/box/10.0.0.5 host
fixture into getDataDir()/remote-hosts.json. getDataDir() resolves via
homedir() → ~/.codeman (INSTANCE_SUFFIX='' by default), and overriding
HOME in test/setup.ts does NOT change os.homedir() on Linux — so every
full-suite run silently overwrote the PRODUCTION remote-hosts.json,
wiping user-defined remote hosts, emptying the launch-case dropdown and
breaking remote session creation (found live 2026-08-29).

The vitest v4 test.env config key is ignored (probe confirmed the
worker still saw CODEMAN_DATA_DIR=undefined), so the reliable fix is
stubbing the env inside the test: the fixture write now goes to a
throwaway /tmp dir via vi.stubEnv + finally unstub. Verified: prod
remote-hosts.json hash is identical before and after the suite run.
2026-09-02 20:40:58 -05:00
DevvynandClaude Opus 5 66eb01ba8f feat(docker): restore in-app self-update in the Compose deployment
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
2026-09-02 19:33:32 +08:00
Codeman maintainer 1e24817b51 chore: version packages 2026-09-02 10:49:36 +02:00
Ark0N f7cf15485e feat(models): offer Fable 5.1 in the model picker and task routing (#372)
Adds `claude-fable-5-1` to the App Settings model picker and the five task-routing selects, mirroring how Fable 5 is already offered: a base option with data-ctx="1" plus its [1m] companion row. No settings-ui.js logic change, since the cards and the 1M switch are built from those options.
2026-09-02 10:48:51 +02:00
DevvynandClaude Opus 5 1125f7c1c5 fix(test): strip the instance-selection env vars in test/setup.ts
`test/setup.ts` gives every test file a temp HOME so the suite cannot touch the
real Codeman tree, and strips the env vars that would leak past it — but the
list only covered auth and the gesture flag. The three vars
`src/config/instance.ts` derives the data dir and tmux socket from were missing,
and they reach past the temp HOME:

- **`CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` is the one that matters.** It is an ABSOLUTE override
  read in `getDataDir()`, so it bypasses HOME entirely: a developer who exports
  it — or a shell left over from `codeman web -d` — has the suite reading and
  WRITING their real `state.json`, `users.json`, `intents.json` and
  `hook-secret`.
- **`CODEMAN_INSTANCE`** moves the data dir to `~/.codeman-<name>` and the
  socket to `codeman-<name>`. Inside the temp HOME that is not data loss, but it
  silently changes the paths tests assert on — and `scripts/run-beta.sh` exports
  it, so any shell that has run a beta carries it.
- **`CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET`** renames the socket `resolveTmuxSocketName()`
  returns. `TmuxManager` no-ops its shell commands under vitest, so this is
  assertion drift rather than a stray `tmux -L` against prod — same class of
  leak, same one-line fix.

They are deleted in the setup file rather than in a hook because
`CODEMAN_INSTANCE` is captured into a module-level const the first time
`config/instance.ts` is imported; a `beforeEach` would already be too late.

`test/test-env-isolation.test.ts` pins the whole list in two halves, because the
obvious half is not enough: asserting the vars are unset passes trivially on a
machine that never set them, so a removed `delete` line would sail through on
almost every box and on CI. The static half reads `setup.ts` and asserts each
name is deleted there, which fails everywhere. An anti-drift check catches the
other direction — a var stripped in `setup.ts` but never given a reason in the
list — and is scoped to the strip section so the teardown's restores are not
mistaken for strips.

Verified by demonstrating the leak: with the `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` line removed and
the var exported, the runtime assertion fails; with the line restored it passes.
Full suite: no new failures against an upstream/master baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WQkoi1cNegqVwZHgzx5SbJ
2026-09-02 09:49:09 +08:00
DevvynandClaude Opus 5 c5b84fb5f4 docs(cli-registry): annotate overlays.credStore as declared-for-later
Review item 4 named THREE live tables duplicating registry data. Two are now
read from the entry (`defaultRemoteCommandForMode`, `defaultDockerCommandForMode`);
the third, `resolveDockerCredentialArtifacts`, is not — and it was left neither
wired nor annotated, which is the state that item explicitly rules out.

It is not wired because the shape cannot express the live table: `credStore` is
ONE store per CLI, and `CRED_STORES` needs two for gemini (`.gemini` for the
CLI's own auth plus `.config/gcloud` for Vertex), while deepseek's entry declares
none at all even though `.dsh` is seeded. Wiring it means making the field an
array and correcting those two entries — a change to credential seeding, which
is at once the worst thing in that file to get wrong and the least covered by
tests, since every docker IO path is no-op'd under vitest. It belongs in its own
change, measured against a real container.

So it is annotated instead, at the field, in the type's declared-for-later
header, in docs/cli-registry.md, and in the pinned DECLARED_FOR_LATER list — the
last of which means wiring it later makes a test fail rather than leaving a
stale comment behind.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WQkoi1cNegqVwZHgzx5SbJ
2026-09-02 09:35:55 +08:00
DevvynandClaude Opus 5 6acf0dea0f fix(cron): scope the launch pre-flight to launcher CLIs, not every mode
CI caught three cron-service failures. Both are mine, from converting cron's
per-mode ladders to capability reads without checking what each ladder's scope
actually was.

**The pre-flight.** cron only ever pre-flighted `deepseek` — dsh is a profile
LAUNCHER, so "installed" is not "runnable" and a bare `dsh` can boot a profile
that cannot drive a pane. I replaced that with an unscoped
`resolveCliLaunchError(mode)`, which pre-flights EVERY mode, so a claude cron
job on a box with no claude binary now failed with "Claude CLI not found"
instead of reaching tmux-manager's own throw. Three tests assert the latter.
It is now gated on `discovery.launcherProfile !== undefined`, which is
byte-identical to the `mode === 'deepseek'` check it replaces and generalises to
the next launcher. The equivalent HTTP-route conversion was already scoped (to
`capabilities.external`, matching what that route has always pre-flighted); I
simply failed to carry the same reasoning across.

**The model.** cron's ladder was `mode !== 'shell' && mode !== 'deepseek'`, and
I read it as `capabilities.model.source === 'claude-settings-file'` — which is
the HTTP route's question, not cron's. There, every external CLI reads its model
from its own config object earlier in the chain, so only claude reaches the
global default; cron has no such config, so the same expression silently
narrowed the default model from eight modes to one. Now `!== 'none'`, which is
exactly the two entries the ladder excluded. Not caught by a test — found by
re-deriving each ladder's scope after the first failure.

Also names a fourth deliberate behaviour change in the changeset, found while
tracing these: `session.ts` carried a hand-written list of modes with no
direct-PTY fallback and OMP was missing from it, though CLAUDE.md's own text
says "all eight require tmux". `requiresMux` comes off the entry now, so an omp
session whose mux creation fails refuses instead of silently starting outside
tmux.

Verified by diffing failing tests BY NAME against an upstream/master baseline,
rather than by file as before — which is how the regression slipped through: the
three new failures landed inside a file already failing for unrelated
Windows-path reasons, and the aggregate count happened to collide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WQkoi1cNegqVwZHgzx5SbJ
2026-09-02 08:49:04 +08:00
DevvynandClaude Opus 5 4830e662f9 refactor(cli-registry): make CLI backends data instead of per-mode branching
Every run mode is now a `CliEntry` in `src/config/cli-registry/` — discovery
(search dirs, version + identity probes), the launch argv template, env
handling, the `capabilities` flags that replace per-CLI branching, and the
`overlays` that back the remote/docker pane commands. Code that used to ask
"which CLI is this?" reads the entry instead.

Behaviour is unchanged. `test/cli-registry-spawn-golden.test.ts` pins every
spawn command as a literal string, captured from the hand-written builders
before they were deleted, and `test/location-overlay-commands.test.ts` does the
same for all 20 remote and in-container pane commands.

Config can never contain shell text: an entry declares typed argv tokens,
literals are validated against a safe-word pattern at LOAD time (a bad literal
rejects the whole entry — a silently dropped `--no-approve` is not cosmetic),
and values resolve through patterns NAMED in code, so a user `clis.json` cannot
widen its own validation. `~/.codeman/clis.json` overrides any entry, read-only
in this release.

OMP is included as a registry entry rather than a tenth hand-written builder,
so `buildOmpCommand()`, the omp availability pre-flight, the omp arm of
`buildPathExport()` and the omp entries in the truecolor/NO_COLOR, alt-screen
and doctor ladders all drop out.

Guard rails:

- `test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts` fails the build if per-CLI-id
  branching reappears outside `stock.ts`, in any of its four shapes (`===`,
  `!==`, `switch`/`case`, `includes`) — an `===`-only version would miss the
  negated forms, which is how 36 of them survived an earlier pass. Every
  allowlisted branch carries its reason.
- `external`, `hooks` and `altScreen` stay three INDEPENDENT capabilities;
  deriving one from another shipped the `until=stop`-hangs-on-shell bug.
- `param` is two namespaces. `launch.params` keys, `configSetenv.fromParam` and
  `privilegedParams[].param` all name a LAUNCH param; the legacy `<Mode>Config`
  wire field is separate, bridged only by `legacyConfigAliases`. Getting
  `privilegedParams[].param` wrong is SILENT — it is the multi-user bypass
  clamp's only handle on a CLI's privilege switch, and a wrong name clamps
  nothing with no error and no failing test — so `schema.ts` rejects an entry
  naming a param it never declared.
- Registry data resolves AT CALL TIME (`sessionModeSchema()`,
  `allowedEnvPrefixes()`, `dependencyRegistry()`, the resolvers' `searchDirs`
  thunks). A module-level const freezes at first import, so a CLI enabled while
  the server ran moved the run menu but not that surface.
- Six fields are annotated DECLARED-FOR-LATER and read by nothing
  (`shortBadge`, `accent`, `capabilities.echo`/`wheelForward`/
  `keyboardAccessory`/`maxFrameBytes`): all frontend behaviour, transcribed
  rather than measured. A test pins the list so it cannot quietly grow.

Three user-visible changes, all deliberate and named:

- `probeDockerCliVersion()` derives the in-container binary from the registry
  rather than assuming it equals the mode name (`antigravity` runs `agy`).
- The remote CLI version probe now covers grok and deepseek, which the
  hardcoded map it replaces omitted while its own comment said the rule was
  "every mode except shell".
- `codeman doctor`'s CLI rows are generated from the entries, so Claude's
  install hint is the install command rather than a docs URL, five CLIs gain
  hints they never had, and the row order follows the catalog.

Also hardened along the way: `sessionModeSchema()` is bounded at 24 chars
(matching the `cliId` pattern) before its failure message quotes the value
back, and `deepMerge` skips `__proto__`/`constructor`/`prototype` when reading
the hand-editable `clis.json`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WQkoi1cNegqVwZHgzx5SbJ
2026-09-02 08:26:45 +08:00
Codeman maintainer 71ffbf18e4 chore: version packages 2026-09-01 21:55:00 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 826ddaa9aa build(docker): ship the Docker CLI in the Compose image, not the whole engine
docker/server.Dockerfile installed Debian's `docker.io` to get a client for the
socket mounted by Compose. That package is the full ENGINE: even with
--no-install-recommends it pulls 15 packages including containerd, runc, dmsetup
and iptables, none of which a container that only talks to a mounted socket can
use, and it ships Docker 20.10.24 (2023).

Copy the CLI and the buildx plugin from the official docker:29-cli image
instead. Measured on the same node:22-bookworm-slim base: 266 MB -> 108 MB, so
158 MB smaller with a current CLI (29.7.2) in place of a two-year-old one.

Three things verified rather than assumed, by building the real image and
running it:

- docker:cli is an ALPINE image, so copying a binary into this Debian one is
  only safe because the binaries are static Go builds (ldd: "Not a valid dynamic
  program"). In the built image, `docker --version`, `docker ps` and
  `docker build` all work against a mounted host socket as the unprivileged
  runtime user.
- buildx is copied on purpose. scripts/build-agent-image.mjs shells out to
  `docker build` and Codeman auto-builds the agent image on the first Docker
  case. Without the plugin that still works today — CLI 29 falls back to the
  classic builder, tested — but that builder is deprecated and will be dropped,
  so the plugin keeps the path supported.
- docker-compose is NOT copied: Codeman never shells out to it.

Pinned to the 29 major, matching how the base images here are pinned.
2026-09-01 21:54:56 +02:00
Codeman maintainer e2b72aafd7 chore: version packages 2026-09-01 11:32:50 +02:00
Codeman maintainer b15cc0eb1a fix(ui): keep the plan-usage chip's 5h slot when no session window is open
The header chip silently shrank from "5h 4% · 7d 52%" to a lone "7d 52%", which
reads as half the feature breaking rather than as an idle window.

Nothing was broken. Claude Code documents `rate_limits.five_hour` as "present
only while the API reports it and its resets_at has not passed", so between
5-hour session windows the key simply leaves the statusline payload. Codeman's
snapshot replaces the Claude half wholesale on every sample, so the segment
disappeared until usage opened a new window. Confirmed against a live 2.1.252
session by capturing real statusline payloads on an isolated tmux socket: the
boot render carries no `rate_limits` at all, and the first post-response render
carries both windows.

The slot now stays, with a dimmed em dash. Claude only: a missing CODEX bucket
means that plan has no such limit rather than an idle window, so those stay
omitted (pinned by the existing test). The placeholder can never stand alone
either — hasWindows() still gates the row, so a provider reporting nothing
renders nothing rather than a row of dashes. The tooltip says "5-hour limit: no
active session window" instead of dropping the line.

Verified in a real browser against a dev instance: the idle chip renders
"5h — · 7d 52%" with the dash at opacity 0.55 in --text-dim while the live
value keeps its green, and the chip holds its shape (100px idle vs 107px with
both windows).
2026-09-01 11:32:18 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 2a32b5064a Merge pull request #349 from opticon454/feature/docker-compose
Docker Compose deployment: Codeman runs in a container and spawns Docker cases
as SIBLING containers through the mounted host socket (Docker-outside-of-Docker).

Resolved the README conflict (master had grown to eight CLIs since the branch
was cut) and moved the Compose blurb out of the feature bullets into Quick
Start, next to the other ways of starting Codeman.

Three review findings from the PR discussion are fixed here rather than left
for a follow-up, because two of them are shipped-image problems:

- `.dockerignore` excluded `.env` only at the ROOT. A pattern is matched against
  the whole context-relative path, so `docker/.env` — which the deployment's own
  README tells the user to fill with CODEMAN_PASSWORD and provider API keys —
  was picked up by `COPY . .` and baked into the image at
  /opt/codeman/docker/.env. Verified in both directions against a real build
  context: with a canary secret in docker/.env, the unfixed ignore file lets
  /ctx/docker/.env through, and `**/.env` (plus `**/.env.*` and a negation for
  the checked-in .env.example) leaves only the example behind.
- `CODEMAN_CASES_PATH` moved the server's CASES_DIR but not the CLI's, which
  still hardcoded ~/codeman-cases, so `codeman skill install --case <name>`
  reported "Case not found" on exactly the deployment the override exists for.
  Both now resolve through config/cases-dir.ts. state-store.ts keeps its own
  literal on purpose: that one migrates the historical ~/claudeman-cases
  directory by name and is about the old default, not the active location.
- CLAUDE.md gained the Compose paragraph (the sibling-container inversion, the
  three env vars, the .dockerignore and root-owned-bind traps) and .dockerignore
  joins the documented list of files that genuinely belong in the repo root.

The PR's `mode === 'claude'` guard on dockerResumeId is an unrelated master bug
fix riding along: appendResumeFlag() maps a resume id onto codex/gemini/pi/grok/
deepseek/omp/antigravity and RESUME_ID_SAFE accepts a UUID, so a Docker case's
lastClaudeSessionId was handed to every non-claude CLI.

Full gate green in a merge worktree: 6360 tests, lint, format, frontend syntax,
public assets, lockfile.
2026-09-01 11:32:03 +02:00
shenlvkang-collab ccfda623fe fix(session): learn the live Claude conversation from the CLI's own hook
Which conversation a pane is on was re-derived by correlating
~/.claude/history.jsonl against Session.lastSubmitAt — and lastSubmitAt is
bumped only by input that flows through Codeman's own write path
(Session.write / writeViaMux). A user who attaches to the pane's tmux session
directly never set it, so resolveActiveClaudeSessionIdFromHistory() returned at
its first line for that pane's whole life and the response viewer stayed pinned
to the launch conversation, showing a pre-/clear transcript indefinitely.

A UserPromptSubmit hook reports the live conversation id from inside the CLI
process, delivered under the pane's own $CODEMAN_SESSION_ID. That binding is a
fact rather than a correlation: it never consults workingDir, so it cannot be
claimed by a sibling pane on the same folder, a closed tab, or a bare `claude`
in the user's terminal. A pane holding such an id skips the correlation
entirely, so the number of prompts eligible for cwd-based guessing goes DOWN,
never up — the naive alternative (relax the guard, or synthesize an anchor from
PTY activity) is the reverted bug the resolver's own comment describes.

The hook also stamps lastSubmitAt, so it finally means "a prompt was submitted"
rather than "typed into Codeman's web terminal". Conversations vouched for
first-hand — and only those — extend a persisted claudeSessionChain, whose tail
re-pins the conversation when a surviving tmux session is re-attached after a
restart. ⚠️ start() resets the id at THREE points and the last one runs
unconditionally after the mux branch, so the tail is applied there too; patching
only the mux branch looks right and silently does nothing.

⚠️ The hook's stdout is discarded with curl's own -o /dev/null. Claude Code
injects a UserPromptSubmit hook's stdout into the model's context ("Exit code 0
- stdout shown to Claude"), and a trailing >/dev/null does NOT work: curlCmd
already ends `... 2>/dev/null || true`, and in `pipeline || true >/dev/null` the
shell binds the redirection to `true`, which never runs on the success path. The
discard is opt-in so the five SSE-fed events keep byte-identical command text
and no workspace's settings file is rewritten for them. The staleness marker is
quote-free for the matching reason: hooksJson is JSON.stringify'd, so a quoted
needle never matches and the gate would rewrite every workspace on every spawn.

Existing workspaces heal on their next Claude spawn through the staleness sweep.
2026-09-01 12:33:24 +08:00
shenlvkang-collab 3eff1feb5d fix(web): render one Claude response-viewer message per model message
The Claude reader concatenated every assistant row between two human prompts
into one card, fusing up to 74 distinct model messages into a single card, and
it never read the attachment rows that hold a prompt typed while the agent was
working. Measured over 57 real transcripts on 2026-09-01, the viewer shows
1,806 messages instead of 356 and 353 user cards instead of 178, with the
assistant text sequence unchanged row for row and the response without
?context=full byte-identical on all 57 files.

One assistant row IS one whole model message: in that corpus no assistant row
carries more than one content block and no message id carries more than one
text block, so there was nothing to reassemble. Each row becomes its own
message carrying an additive {kind, label, turn}, and the frontend renders a
same-role run inside one turn as badge-less continuation segments — which is
what keeps a p90 of 11 messages per turn from reading as card spam. A numeric
turn gates that rendering, so Codex, the external-CLI pane parser and an older
server keep one badge per card.

A prompt typed while Claude is working is recorded ONLY as an
attachment/queued_command row. Taking it when origin.kind is 'human' and
commandMode is 'prompt' recovers 162 user cards from 163 such rows — one is a
verbatim repeat inside an unanswered user run and is collapsed by the existing
dedup guard — and restores the turn boundary whose absence let the assistant
runs fuse. The CLI's own queue entries are cleanly separable: of 322
queued_command rows, 159 are commandMode 'task-notification' and not one of
them carries an origin key.

This narrows #169 rather than reverting it: sidechain exclusion, the
restored-<uuid8> rebind, replayed-snapshot dedup and synthetic-row filtering
are all unchanged and still asserted.
2026-09-01 12:30:48 +08:00
shenlvkang-collab 5969a1df96 fix(mobile): give the Add Case modal a reachable submit button
mobile.css hides #createCaseModal's .set-foot below 860px, and that modal's
header — unlike Settings' — carries no set-head-save. So on a phone the
Create/Link button existed nowhere and the modal could not be submitted at all.

Adds the header button and drives both together through switchCaseModalTab()
and submitCaseModal(), so whichever one is pressed the other shows the same
pending state and is equally unclickable. Following the Settings pattern also
means Add Case picks up the existing .set-head-actions:has(.set-head-save) tray
and .set-head-save sizing with no new CSS; the mobile.css comment that still
listed Add Case as a lone-× sheet is corrected to match.
2026-09-01 12:29:02 +08:00
Codeman maintainer 0da0c8219d chore: version packages
1.24.2. Also corrects two numbers in the CLAUDE.md trust-dialog paragraph that
was written while the fix was still uncommitted: the keystroke cap is 6, not 3,
and the scan now schedules its own follow-up read rather than waiting on PTY
output that a static dialog never produces.
2026-09-01 02:31:31 +02:00
Codeman maintainer aaa93d4252 fix(session): answer Claude Code 2.1.252's reversed folder-trust dialog
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.
2026-09-01 02:31:26 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 3518af3a9f docs: correct CLAUDE.md drift and document four undocumented subsystems
Audit of CLAUDE.md against the tree. Verified still accurate: the 31-module
frontend load order (matches index.html exactly), SSE registry parity at
157 = 157 (confirmed by running the parity test), config/ 21 files, types/ 22
domain files, 136 mobile device profiles, the version line, and every Quick
Reference command.

Drift corrected: 24 route modules to 25, ~220 handlers to ~227, system-routes
51 to 56, app.js ~5K lines to ~6.7K and 30 modules to 31, install.sh 92KB to
104KB. Completed the CLI resolver inventory, which was missing
deepseek-cli-resolver and omp-cli-resolver even though both modes are
documented, and named the shared cli-executable-resolver lookup chain.

Filled the gaps found by sweeping every src module against the file:

- Owner tab layouts (COD-359) had 6 source modules, 7 test files, 2 routes, an
  SSE event and a state.json key, with zero mentions anywhere in CLAUDE.md or
  docs/. The paragraph records the four things a reader would otherwise get
  wrong: it is backend-only as of 1.24.1 with no frontend consumer, the service
  is the sole mutation boundary, it projects onto PUT /api/session-order rather
  than replacing it, and reconciliation is gated on a successful restore.
- codeman doctor and codeman users were undocumented top-level CLI commands.
- Four subsystems whose invariants lived only in their @fileoverview:
  the workspace-trust dialog recognizer, proc-tree's bounded walk (the
  2026-07-30 incident that took a machine down), deepseek-web-server (one
  child process, deliberately not a shell session), and the Files panel
  search matcher (globs are never compiled to a RegExp).

Also fixes a stale "156 event types" comment in constants.js (actual: 157) and
a contradiction in AGENTS.md, which still carried the retired "never run the
full suite inside a managed tmux session" rule against CLAUDE.md's current
"npm test is the gate and is safe to run bare".

Note: the trust-dialog paragraph documents trustDialogNextKey(), which is part
of a sibling session's in-flight fix for the Claude Code 2.1.252 layout change
(unnumbered, reversed options with "No, exit" highlighted, so a blind carriage
return picks exit and kills the pane). That fix was uncommitted in the shared
tree when this landed, so the doc leads the code until it is committed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NMN8UuvdBim3iM87reuQ9Z
2026-09-01 02:10:09 +02:00
Codeman maintainer e5c5d890aa chore: version packages 2026-08-31 22:34:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer d5b5f8f618 fix(docker): make the dsh profile install survive pnpm's build-script gate
Follow-up to #350, which fixed the actual blocker (issue #352): `dsh plugin` is
a thin forwarder that `spawnSync`s a literal `pnpm` with no npm fallback, so an
image without pnpm dies at exit 127 and takes the whole build with it.

That PR also pinned an allowlist of the two packages whose lifecycle scripts
pnpm blocked at the time. Replace it with a policy that cannot go stale: pnpm,
unlike npm, refuses dependency build scripts by default and FAILS the install
over it (`ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS`, exit 1, measured on pnpm 11.24), and the
names to allow move between rebuilds because `@deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui` is
resolved by dist-tag, not pinned: 0.9.3 pulled `@google/genai` (whose script is
a literal `preinstall: no-op`), 0.10.0-beta.x does not. An allowlist of two
names would have let the next tree break the build the same way. Allowing them
wholesale is also the exposure this image already accepts three layers up,
where `npm install -g` runs the install scripts of every transitive dep of the
five CLIs above with no gate at all.

Also correct a comment in the `/api/deepseek/install-profile` route that
asserted the opposite of what #352 proved ("dsh bundles its own package
manager, so no system pnpm is required"). The route's behavior is already
right: dsh's own "pnpm not found on PATH" stderr reaches the caller as the
OPERATION_FAILED detail, so the UI's "add a terminal profile" button names the
fix. Documented the prerequisite in docs/deepseek-integration.md, and taught
the docker-cases image smoke test about `dsh`/`omp` plus the profile check that
`dsh --version` does NOT cover.
2026-08-31 22:26:09 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 7762809202 Merge pull request #350 from opticon454/bugfix/dsh-pnpm
fix(docker): install pnpm for DeepSeek profile
2026-08-31 22:22:30 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 02bbf13b3c chore: version packages 2026-08-30 16:29:14 +02:00
Codeman maintainer da91b4353b Merge pull request #353 from timkjr/omp-mode
feat: add OMP (Oh My Pi) as a new session backend
2026-08-30 16:16:26 +02:00
d fei 47ee49128c style: match the prettier version the lockfile pins
Format check failed twice, on different files each time, because three prettier
versions were in play: package.json says ^3.4.0, package-lock pins 3.8.3 (CI runs
npm ci, so that is the one CI uses), and the local node_modules had 3.9.6. Files
formatted with 3.9.6 were then "fixed" with 3.4.2, pushing session-routes and
system-routes onto a third style — every version change moved the failure to a
different set of files.

Line-break placement in `await import` and a union type only; no logic changes.
2026-08-29 23:49:04 -07:00
d fei 8e5e207386 fix(docker): send the probe body as an object, and explain an unreachable container
The run menu still offered every mode for an attached container. The browser's
actual request showed why:

  POST /api/docker-cases/adopt-preflight -> 400
  {"error":"Invalid input: expected object, received string"}

_api serializes `body` and sets Content-Type itself, and three call sites each
passed an already-stringified body, so it was encoded twice and the server saw a
JSON string where it expects an object. curl was fine throughout, so nothing in
the server logs pointed at it.

Also fixes the design defect underneath: a failed probe fell through to "do not
gate", which silently offered every mode. When the container has been recreated,
is stopped, or the engine is unreachable, the user sees claude, clicks it, and
it can only fail — with the reason visible nowhere. A failed probe now hides
every agent mode (Shell needs no CLI and stays) and shows the server's own
reason at the top of the menu.

Two static guards switched from a character window to brace matching. They
sliced between two call sites, and _loadRunModeHistory's call appears above its
definition, so the slice came out empty and the assertion verified nothing —
the same trap twice in one file.
2026-08-29 23:31:28 -07:00
d fei 5452ad5c5a feat(docker): add a folder picker to both path fields
Both paths in the adoption form had to be typed. Each gets a Browse button
using the same path-input-group markup Link Existing uses, so the two look and
behave alike.

What they can browse differs, and that is the point. The host workspace path
reuses the existing host picker. The container workdir cannot: an adopted
container has nothing mounted at a matching host path, so a host listing would
be a different filesystem — and getting this field wrong is the source of the
opaque OCI chdir error at launch, which makes it the field that most needs to
be clickable.

Adds a read-only POST /api/docker-cases/browse: one `ls` through docker exec, no
writes, no lifecycle, path shell-escaped like every other value. `ls -Ap` marks
directories with a trailing slash and keeps names with spaces intact.

PathPicker takes an optional fetchListing source rather than being forked: the
container variant only swaps where the rows come from, and reuses the rendering,
navigation, Up and Choose/Select unchanged.
2026-08-29 23:31:28 -07:00
d fei 23ab2e77fd fix(files): give the picker a root when the server runs as root
Link Existing's Browse did nothing: GET /api/filesystem/browse answered 403
"No filesystem browse roots are available".

Two rules were fighting. /root is a default blocked tree in the attachment
guard, and Codeman running as root — containers, plenty of servers — makes
homedir() exactly /root, so the picker's own allowlisted Home root was blocked;
the other candidates live under it or do not exist. The root list came out
empty and there was nothing the user could open.

The blocked trees exist to keep ~/.ssh and friends out of reach, not to seal off
the user's own home. Only trees that would swallow a configured root whole are
dropped now: /root goes when Home is it (or sits inside it), /etc holds no
configured root and is untouched. Secrets stay protected — isSensitivePath
independently matches .ssh/, .env and credentials* at any depth, and it is what
the directory probe asks about.

⚠️ Navigation must reuse the same narrowed list the roots were chosen with.
Handing the raw trees downstream admits a root and then refuses every path
inside it, which reads as a picker that opens and does nothing.
2026-08-29 23:31:28 -07:00
d fei 3685ad85bc fix(docker): stop requiring the CLI on the host for a container session
Attaching a container, picking claude and hitting Run gave one line —
`execvp(3) failed.: No such file or directory` — and the run-mode menu offered
every mode. Three separate defects, found on a real deployment.

TmuxManager.createSession resolved the CLI directory without distinguishing a
docker session, so a host with no claude threw, the catch fell back to a direct
PTY, and that PTY exec'd the CLI on the HOST. The failure surfaced as a bare
execvp error naming nothing. A docker session runs its CLI inside the container;
the host does not need it. All eight modes now sit behind a cliRunsInContainer
guard, and whether the container has the CLI is settled by the adoption
preflight or the image gate before launch.

The running check used a bare double quote and command substitution. The whole
chain is embedded in an outer `bash -c "…"`, so the unescaped quote closed that
string early and the remainder was re-tokenized. It is now a `grep -qx` pipeline
using only the single-quote form every other line in the builder already uses.

Claude Code refuses --dangerously-skip-permissions as root. Our base image runs
a non-root user, so an owned container never hit this; an adopted container's
user belongs to its owner and is frequently root, and keeping the flag killed
the pane with a message visible only inside the container. The preflight now
reports runsAsRoot and the launch chain drops the flag for it.

The menu also showed every mode because the container CLI probe only started
when the menu opened. It is warmed when the case is selected instead.
2026-08-29 23:31:28 -07:00
d fei 06e7cbe286 fix(docker): probe the container's CLIs live instead of trusting attach time
Storing the container's CLIs on the case at attach time left two gaps: a case
linked before that field existed has none at all, and a container's CLIs can be
installed or removed long after it was linked. A real deployment hit the first
one — the host had only codex, the container only claude, and with no stored
list the menu still gated on the host and hid the mode that actually worked.

The probe now runs when a container case is selected, reusing the existing
adopt-preflight endpoint, so there is no new backend surface. Results are cached
per case for the page's lifetime, since the menu opens often and the probe is a
`docker exec` round trip; a concurrent probe for the same case is deduplicated
with an in-flight marker.

A failed probe leaves the cache empty, which the caller reads as "unknown" and
therefore does not gate. Hiding every mode because one probe failed is worse
than offering one that turns out to be missing, which the launch path already
refuses with a specific message.

The repaint only happens while the menu is still open, so a late answer cannot
make the list jump under a user who already closed it.
2026-08-29 21:19:17 -07:00
d fei 8b20f5b1f8 fix(docker): probe container CLIs by their real binary name
The adoption preflight used the mode name as the binary name. claude, codex,
opencode, gemini and pi happen to match, so it never showed — but antigravity
ships as `agy` and deepseek as `dsh`, so a container that has either was
reported as not having it, and the mode was silently dropped from the case.

Adds a MODE_BINARIES map, single-sourced with defaultDockerCommandForMode, which
launches those same binaries. Probing and result filtering share one `binaryFor`
so the two cannot drift apart.
2026-08-29 21:02:19 -07:00
d fei 2f83a37c6d feat(docker): take run-mode availability from the container
The run-mode dropdown hides CLIs that are not installed on the HOST (#201). That
is right for local sessions and wrong for a container case, whose agents run
inside the container: a host with no claude installed hides the mode while the
container ships one, which is exactly what happened on a real deployment.

The adoption preflight already probes what the container has, so that result is
persisted on the case and surfaced through CaseInfo. Docker cases gate on it;
every other case keeps the host probe unchanged.

An absent list reads as "do not gate" rather than "nothing available": an owned
container runs our base image, which ships every CLI, and treating unknown as
empty would leave the menu with Shell alone.
2026-08-29 21:02:19 -07:00
d fei 34c12ca18b feat(docker): make the container field a picker you can also type into
Typing a container name from memory is error-prone. The field becomes a native
datalist: pick from the engine's containers, type to filter, or type a name that
is not listed (the engine may be remote, or the container may not exist yet).
A datalist gives all three natively, so no dropdown state machine is introduced.

Adds listDockerContainers and GET /api/docker-hosts/:hostId/containers, following
the listRemoteCodemanSessions discovery precedent: read-only and never throwing,
so an unreachable daemon returns an empty list and the field degrades to plain
text instead of erroring.

Stopped containers stay in the list, sorted after running ones and labelled.
Attaching does require a running container, but hiding stopped ones turns "my
container is not in the list" into a dead end, while showing
`Exited (137) 8 days ago` says exactly what to fix.
2026-08-29 21:02:19 -07:00
d fei e2f750cb30 i18n(docker): translate the attach panel, and unblock translation
The new strings were English only. Adding entries surfaced a deeper problem: the
translator matches whole text nodes and skips `code`/`pre`, so an inline `<code>`
mid-sentence splits a hint into fragments that can never match an entry — which is
why the panel's existing "Build it once with <code>...</code>" hint was never
translated either.

Drops the inline markup from the new hints so each is a single text node, then
adds the zh-CN entries. The brand name goes through the existing {name}
placeholder.

Server-side error bodies are deliberately not added: the client receives them
already interpolated with a concrete container name, so a template key could
never match.
2026-08-29 21:02:19 -07:00
d fei bb45909169 feat(docker): link to container attach from the Create New tab
Attaching lived only on the Docker tab, but the place users look for anything
container-shaped is the "Run in an isolated Docker container" checkbox on Create
New. A feature nobody can find is a feature nobody has.

Adds a one-click link there that switches to the Docker tab, turns the toggle on
and focuses the container field. Reuses switchCaseModalTab and the existing sync
helper; no new CSS.
2026-08-29 21:02:19 -07:00
d fei c98a59d709 fix(docker): verify the container workdir and end the probe with exit 0
Two defects that only a real container exposes.

The probe chained `command -v X && echo X` with semicolons, and a script's exit
status is its last command's. A container without the last probed CLI made the
whole `sh -lc` exit 1, so a perfectly healthy container with tmux and claude was
reported as "could not exec into the container". A missing CLI is data here, not
failure, so the script now ends with `exit 0`.

containerWorkdir defaulted to hostWorkspacePath. That default holds for an owned
container only because the create-time bind mount puts the host directory at that
exact path; attaching mounts nothing, so the two are independent facts. A host
path absent inside the container makes `docker exec --workdir` fail with an OCI
chdir error that surfaces in the pane as a bare "execvp failed". The preflight now
proves the directory exists inside the container and refuses at link time.
2026-08-29 21:02:19 -07:00
d fei bc55b6b0da feat(docker): add the attach-an-existing-container panel
The Docker tab gains an "Attach to an existing container" toggle. Ticking it
swaps the create-time fields (image, network, advanced) — which describe a
`docker create` attaching never runs — for the container name, and routes the
submit to the adopt endpoint.

Reuses the existing linkDockerCase flow end to end: only the final call differs.
The docker-host upsert still applies, since it is what resolves the
engine/context/daemon for `docker exec`; its create-time fields are simply never
read for an attached case.
2026-08-29 21:02:19 -07:00
d fei 15eebde832 feat(docker): attach a case to an already-running container
Docker cases could only run in a container Codeman created itself. Attaching to
one the user already built and runs means Codeman must leave that container's
lifecycle completely alone, which the launch chain could not do: it was
`image inspect` -> `inspect || create` -> `start` -> `exec`.

Adds `DockerCase.owned`, mirroring the `owned:false` contract remote-SSH already
uses for attached sessions. Absent (every existing case) means owned, so current
behaviour is byte-identical. `false` means the container belongs to the user and
Codeman may only exec into it.

The launch chain for an attached container only looks, then execs: no image gate
(the image is theirs), no create, and no `start` — starting a container we do not
own is the very mutation attaching promises not to perform. A missing or stopped
container fails closed with an actionable message instead. Credential seeding is
skipped too: those copies read from create-time read-only mounts that do not
exist here, and writing host credentials into someone's container is not ours to
do, so its CLIs must already be authenticated inside it.

Four fail-closed guards. buildDockerStopCommand and buildDockerRemoveCommand
throw during pure string construction, so no caller bug can turn into a
`docker stop`/`rm` on a container we do not own; removeDockerContainer refuses
again at the lowest layer; drift reports "none" for an attached container, which
carries no `codeman.confighash` label and would otherwise always look drifted and
409 the launch gate forever; and the orphan reaper skips attached containers
through a check deliberately independent of the two conditions already covering
them.

`owned` is applied AFTER the config hash is computed. dockerConfigHash takes an
explicit field list, so ownership can never shift an existing case's hash — if it
did, every pre-existing case would trip the drift gate at once, and the remedy
the UI offers is "recreate the container".

Adds POST /api/cases/docker-adopt and a read-only
POST /api/docker-cases/adopt-preflight. The preflight refuses at LINK time rather
than at session launch, where the only ways out would be a dead pane or starting
a container we do not own.

Tests assert the negative guarantee directly — that create, start, stop, rm,
restart and kill are absent from the generated commands while `docker exec -it`
and `new-session -A` remain — since it cannot be observed by using the feature.
2026-08-29 21:02:19 -07:00
timkjr da5f5447d0 fix(remote): never auto-revive a remote session after a clean agent exit
The COD-108 reconnect watcher treated any dead local pane as a dropped
transport and re-ran the pane command — so a normal ctrl-c/ctrl-d on a
remote claude/opencode/omp auto-spawned a FRESH agent (claude only
looked correct because its '--session-id || --resume' fallback resumed,
with a loud 'already in use' error first).

Distinguish a transport drop from an intentional exit: only reconnect
when the durable remote tmux session (codeman-ssh-*) is verifiably
still alive on the remote host. A clean exit tears that session down;
the watcher now probes it via ssh has-session and skips (remote-gone)
when it is gone OR unknown (fail closed). The probe is cached
per-session and fired async so the 5s tick never blocks on ssh.

Tests: 3 new cases pinning remote-gone / unknown / alive decisions.
Verified live: all remote CLIs stay dead after ctrl-c/ctrl-d.
2026-08-29 17:43:07 -05:00
timkjr b6d0f1fa32 fix(omp): wire OMP into install.sh's CLI detection (it had none)
Every other CLI (claude/opencode/codex/gemini/antigravity/pi/grok/dsh) has
a check_*/get_*_path pair wired into install.sh's detection loop and the
"no AI CLI found" aggregate checks. OMP had neither -- a user with only
omp installed would be told no CLI was found and offered to install
Claude Code or OpenCode.

Added OMP_SEARCH_PATHS (mirrors src/utils/omp-cli-resolver.ts's
OMP_SEARCH_DIRS) and check_omp()/get_omp_path(), wired into both
aggregate conditions (the interactive install-menu trigger and the
end-of-run reminder) and added omp's real vendor curl one-liner to the
reminder block. The DeepSeek Harness line was never in that reminder to
begin with -- confirmed it has no vendor one-liner (dsh installs via
Codeman's own API after the server is already up), so it stays out, with
an explanatory line instead.

Also fixed the "Skip" menu text, which was missing Gemini and DeepSeek
Harness from its example list independent of the omp gap, and the same
stale sibling-CLI-list bug (missing DeepSeek Harness and OMP, "the
eight"/"这七个") in README.md and the repo's existing README.zh-CN.md.
2026-08-28 15:19:19 -05:00
timkjr 65e994d29a fix(omp): correct docs/counts/URLs, resolver install-path order, stray comment + CSS
Small cleanup items from upstream review (Ark0N/Codeman#353):

- OMP_SEARCH_DIRS now leads with ~/.local/bin, matching omp.sh's real
  installer target (~/.omp/bin was an earlier unverified guess, confirmed
  wrong against a real --no-cache Docker build).
- docs/omp-integration.md: fixed the dead GitHub URL (can1357/omp ->
  can1357/oh-my-pi), corrected the CLI count (ninth backend, tenth
  SessionMode incl. shell -- not eighth), matched the install-path guidance
  to the resolver fix, updated the version example to the actually-tested
  18.0.8, and added a Docker-section caveat: --resume pinning does not
  currently reach an in-container omp process, since Docker panes never see
  ompConfig.
- docs/architecture-invariants.md: fixed a heading missing ", OMP" (CLAUDE.md
  already linked to the -omp anchor, so the link was dead) and added an OMP
  specifics paragraph -- the one external CLI missing an entry in this doc.
- .changeset/omp-backend.md: corrected the sibling-CLI list (was missing Pi,
  Grok, and DeepSeek Harness) and the backend count.
- Removed a stray orphaned comment fragment in the quick-start docker branch
  and split two CSS lines that had two declarations jammed onto one line.
2026-08-28 14:37:28 -05:00
timkjr f18dccace1 fix: don't discard codex/gemini/antigravity conversations on Resume; fix DELETE ownership dup + missing broadcast
resumeHistorySession() creates the resumed row in its own mode via a
modeConfigKey map (opencode/pi/grok/omp -> continueSession, deepseek ->
resumeSession) and retires the old row afterward. codex, gemini and
antigravity were missing from that map, so resuming one of their rows
started a brand-new session with NO continuation while still deleting
the row it came from -- silent data loss dressed as the duplicate-row
fix. Gate row retirement on continuesSomething (true only for modes that
actually got a continuation config) instead of wiring an unverified
sessionId->native-conversation-id assumption for the three affected CLIs.

DELETE /api/sessions/:id reimplemented the ownership 404 check inline in
two places instead of going through findSessionOrFail, and its
persisted-only-session branch never broadcast session:deleted, so other
open tabs kept the retired row until their next unrelated fetch. Extract
the shared 404 into sessionNotFoundError(), add findPersistedSessionOrFail()
alongside findSessionOrFail() in route-helpers.ts (same ownership
contract, returns a SessionState instead of a live Session), and use both
from the route instead of inline checks. Add the missing broadcast.
2026-08-28 14:03:07 -05:00
timkjr 2ee2eacb4b fix(omp): clamp OMP_AUTH_BROKER_URL/TOKEN, correct the env-allowlist docs
The docs claimed omp "has no documented vendor-key namespace of its own"
and "the multi-user clamp has nothing to gate" for omp — both false. Per
omp's own docs/environment-variables.md, it reads ~40 provider keys from
env (pi's known 34-key problem in the same shape), and its own knobs are
mostly PI_* (already globally allowlisted): PI_CONFIG_DIR,
PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR, PI_CODING_AGENT_SESSION_DIR, PI_SUBPROCESS_CMD,
PI_SHELL_PREFIX. The first three also move the ~/.omp tree
omp-session-resolver.ts/omp-transcript.ts hardcode, silently degrading
pinning/history — a known gap shared with pi, documented but not fixed
here.

The OMP_* prefix this PR adds brings in OMP_AUTH_BROKER_URL/
OMP_AUTH_BROKER_TOKEN, where omp resolves credentials from — the same
shape DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL is already dropped for in
clampEnvOverridesForOwner(). Add both to OWNER_CLAMPED_ENV_KEYS so a
non-granted owner in multi-user mode can't redirect them, and correct the
false claims in CLAUDE.md, docs/omp-integration.md, and the stale
resolveOmpHome() comment. Also documents omp's default
tools.approvalMode: yolo, which was previously unstated.
2026-08-28 13:45:12 -05:00
timkjr c4f6eb1e5e fix(omp): resolve and pin the respawn session id only at actual respawn time
findLatestOmpSessionId()'s newest-mtime pin ran eagerly inside
_buildRespawnPaneOptions(), which startInteractive() calls unconditionally
on every boot-recovery reattach — before anything checks whether the pane
is actually dead. With two omp tabs in the same case dir, this could pin
an ALIVE pane's session onto whichever sibling's file happened to be
newest on disk, purely as a side effect of building options that might
never lead to a respawn (reported in Ark0N/Codeman#353 review).

Move resolution out of the eager builder into _pinOmpRespawnId(), called
explicitly only where a respawn is actually confirmed: the dead-pane
branch in _setupOrAttachMuxSession() and reattachRemote(). Add
resolveAndClaimOmpSessionId(), which verifies each candidate's own file
header (cwd) rather than trusting the mangled-directory match alone, and
tracks claimed ids in a process-wide registry so two ambiguous resolutions
can't both pick the same sibling's conversation.
2026-08-28 13:18:25 -05:00
timkjrandClaude Sonnet 5 ab83d8ffec fix(omp): a fresh "Run OMP" click no longer silently resumes an old conversation
Found live 2026-08-27 by Tim: clicking Run OMP to start a brand-new session
in a case directory with prior omp history launched --resume <old-id>
instead of a clean `omp` invocation.

Root cause: Session._resolvedOmpRespawnConfig() resolves-and-pins the
newest on-disk omp conversation as a side effect on this._ompConfig. That
is correct when reattaching to an ALREADY-TRACKED mux session (a dead-pane
respawn, or a boot-recovery reattach - the constructor sets _muxSession
from persisted state before startInteractive() ever runs there), but it
ran unconditionally. startInteractive() computes
`respawnPaneOptions: this._buildRespawnPaneOptions()` eagerly in the same
object literal that builds `createSessionOptions.ompConfig: this._ompConfig`,
so for a genuinely brand-new session (no muxSession in its create config,
_muxSession still null) the resolve-and-pin side effect ran and poisoned
this._ompConfig before that field was even read.

Fix: gate the resolve-and-pin logic on `this._muxSession` already being
set. A fresh session has no muxSession yet and now passes through
untouched; a real reattach (muxSession present since construction) keeps
resolving and pinning exactly as before.

Verified live in production against the exact reported scenario (a fresh
omp session in a case dir with 8+ hours of prior omp history) - confirmed
both via the API (ompConfig stays empty, claudeSessionId equals the
session's own id) and visually in the GUI. Regression test constructs a
real Session + TmuxManager to exercise the actual private-method
interaction directly, since no existing test called startInteractive() at
all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjrandClaude Sonnet 5 1829fe91af docs(omp): add docs/omp-integration.md, matching sibling CLI docs
OMP was the one external CLI mode with no dedicated user-guide doc, unlike
opencode/pi/grok/deepseek which each have one. Covers install, auth (omp
owns its own entirely - no Codeman-side login flow or bypass switch),
what Codeman wires up (OmpConfig), the exact-id pinning mechanism and the
directory-mangling bug behind it, kill-survival via transcript scanning,
terminal behavior, Docker/remote-SSH cases, and known gaps (no idle hook,
mid-turn kill data loss, unverified symlinked-$HOME behavior).

Cross-referenced from README.md's Multi-CLI doc list and docs/docker-cases.md's
credential-seeding summary (which now also documents OMP's sessions/-is-shared
exception to the seed-everything pattern the other CLIs use).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjrandClaude Sonnet 5 d74cde759b feat(omp): install omp in the docker agent image, isolate its credentials
OMP had full routing at the Docker layer (default pane command, schema) but
was never actually installed in docker/agent.Dockerfile, and had no
credential-isolation entry in docker-hosts.ts's CRED_STORES - a Docker-mode
OMP session would have failed with "omp: command not found", and even with
the binary present would have had no config/auth seeded, despite the README
already claiming OMP has "seamless auth, isolated credentials" in Docker.

- docker/agent.Dockerfile: install omp via its own installer (standalone
  binary, same shape as grok/antigravity - not on npm). Verified against a
  real --no-cache build: the installer actually targets ~/.local/bin, not
  ~/.omp/bin as the resolver's OMP_SEARCH_DIRS ordering would suggest -
  confirmed omp/18.0.8 installs and runs correctly inside the image.
- src/docker-hosts.ts: add a .omp/agent CRED_STORES entry. Unlike every
  sibling CLI in this family, sessions/ is SHARED (RW), not seeded: Codeman
  reads ~/.omp/agent/sessions/**/*.jsonl host-side for history recovery and
  --resume pinning (omp-transcript.ts, omp-session-resolver.ts), the same
  reason codex's sessions/ is shared rather than seeded. Seeding it instead
  would silently break the kill-survival feature for Docker cases. Only the
  small config files (config.yml/mcp.json/models.yml/settings.yml) are
  seeded; the SQLite caches and terminal-sessions/ stay container-local.
- test/docker-hosts.test.ts: pin the new CRED_STORES entry's behavior.

Found in passing (NOT fixed here, unrelated and pre-existing on master): the
agent image's DeepSeek (dsh) plugin-install step currently fails on a fresh
build ("pnpm not found on PATH"), confirmed via git diff against
origin/master that this line is untouched by this branch. Worth a separate
issue/PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjrandClaude Sonnet 5 853681f970 harden(omp): resume-path test coverage, silent-fallback logging, cwd validation
Follow-up from a full-branch review pass (Opus) of the omp-mode integration:

- Add pinning tests for resolveOmpConfigForCreate() (session-routes.ts),
  exported to make it testable: the exact "resume this OMP row from
  history" pipeline that mangleOmpWorkingDir's earlier bug lived in had
  zero coverage despite being the resolver module's whole reason to exist.
- Log a warning when findLatestOmpSessionId() finds nothing on disk and
  continuation silently degrades to omp's own ambiguous --continue,
  in both call sites (session create and respawn pinning) - previously
  silent, making the degradation invisible to anyone debugging it.
- Require an absolute cwd before trusting a session file's working
  directory in omp-transcript.ts's parser, so a corrupted/malformed
  session file can't point a downstream resume at a relative or empty
  path.
- Document (don't speculatively fix) an unverified symlinked-$HOME edge
  case in mangleOmpWorkingDir(): the review's suggested realpath() fix
  assumes omp itself resolves symlinks before mangling, which is
  unconfirmed - guessing wrong there would trade one silent mismatch
  for a different one.
- Incidental: fixed unrelated pre-existing prettier drift in
  session-routes.ts (antigravity/opencode dynamic import line-wrapping)
  that was blocking the pre-commit formatting gate on this file.

Confirmed as a non-issue: the model-name regex allowing "/" is
intentional (provider/model ids like "crof/glm-5.2" were used
successfully in live testing).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjrandClaude Sonnet 5 ed983f898b fix(omp): resolve claudeSessionId alias on boot-recovery reattach
Two bugs compounded to break continuation pinning on every real OMP
case (only /tmp-based manual testing happened to work by coincidence):

1. startInteractive() had a second, unconditional claudeSessionId
   assignment after the mux branch that clobbered its correctly
   resolved value back to the session's own id on every mux path.

2. mangleOmpWorkingDir() assumed omp mirrors Claude Code's directory
   naming (home prefix kept), but omp actually strips $HOME first.
   findLatestOmpSessionId() was silently returning null for every
   case under ~/codeman-cases/, so resumeSessionId never resolved for
   any real case dir - only /tmp paths (outside $HOME) worked, which
   is every dir this feature was previously tested against.

Verified live: killed and relaunched the omp-verify server process
mid-session (plain reattach, pane stayed alive) and confirmed
claudeSessionId now resolves to the real omp transcript uuid instead
of the Codeman session's own id.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjr 54a930c80e feat(omp): survive a full session kill by reading omp's own transcripts
Claude conversations survive "Kill Tmux & Claude" because Codeman reads
them back independently from ~/.claude/projects, not from its own
session bookkeeping. omp conversations had no equivalent: kill the
Codeman session and the conversation vanished from Past Sessions
entirely, even though omp itself never forgot it on disk.

Adds omp-transcript.ts, a scanner over omp's own
~/.omp/agent/sessions/<mangled-cwd>/<uuid>.jsonl files (the same shape
as Claude Code's own transcript scanner, but simpler -- these files are
small enough to read whole instead of doing head/tail windows). Each
file's own "session" header line carries the real cwd and session id
directly, so unlike Claude's mangled-directory-name decoding this
never has to guess. Wired into gatherUnifiedInputs() as a second
history source alongside the Claude scan, and HistoryInput/
mergeUnifiedSessions() now carry an optional `mode` so a non-claude
history-only row still gets a real mode badge.

Also fixes the ambiguity behind the "continue picks the wrong
conversation" report from this session's testing: omp mints its OWN
session uuid, unrelated to Codeman's, so a live/persisted row and its
own history-scan row would otherwise show up as two separate entries
for the same conversation the moment the id gets resolved. Reuses the
existing claudeSessionId alias field (mergeUnifiedSessions' fold-into-
owner mechanism) to point at the resolved omp id, threading it through
every place `_claudeSessionId` gets (re)computed -- the constructor,
_resolvedOmpRespawnConfig, and a new _maybeCaptureOmpSessionId() that
opportunistically resolves it the first time a brand-new omp session
(one that has never gone through a respawn) goes idle.

Also closes a THIRD instance of the "ompConfig never got wired in
here" gap this session kept finding: restoreMuxSessions() in server.ts
restores every sibling CLI's config from persisted state on boot except
omp's, so a boot-recovered omp session always lost its resolved resume
id and fell back to guessing again.

Verified live end-to-end: told a session a secret, killed it fully
(Kill Tmux equivalent, killMux=true -- the Codeman session AND its tmux
pane both gone), and the conversation still showed up in the unified
list as a history-sourced row with the real first prompt as its title
and an omp mode badge, keyed by omp's own session id.

Known remaining gap, not fixed here: the claudeSessionId alias doesn't
yet resolve reliably on every boot-recovery path for a session that
was never respawned while alive (e.g. a plain re-attach to a pane that
was never dead) -- worth a follow-up, but doesn't affect the two things
that matter most: the conversation surviving a kill, and continuation
correctness once an id has been resolved (which happens on the very
next respawn either way).
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjr 4c332c6141 fix(omp): retire the old row on resume, and let DELETE remove persisted-only sessions
Every non-claude "Resume" click creates a brand-new Codeman session
(there is no id to reattach to), but the old row was never cleaned up
-- click resume on the same conversation a few times and the session
list fills up with duplicate rows sharing one name. resumeHistorySession
now retires the row it resumed from after the new one starts.

That retirement needs DELETE to actually work on a row that was never
live in the first place (the normal case for anything showing up in
"Resume Conversation"): findSessionOrFail only checks the in-memory
live-session map, so DELETE 404s on a persisted-only entry today. Give
the route a fallback: when the id isn't live, look it up in persisted
state instead and demote/remove it there (respecting the existing
pinned-session protection). Verified live against a real persisted-only
row via the API, and added route-test coverage for both the success
and still-truly-unknown-id cases (which needed a demoteOrRemoveSession
mock the route harness didn't have).

Also includes an unrelated pre-existing prettier drift fix picked up
by npm run format (omp-cli-resolver.ts, antigravity/opencode import
wrapping in session-routes.ts).
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjr 253599ce9c fix(omp): wire ompConfig into respawnPane and default to --continue there
respawnPane() -- the path used when a session's pane died (crash, idle
respawn, or the user's own /exit) but the Codeman session object is
still tracked -- never had ompConfig wired through at all, in either
its options destructure or its inner buildSpawnCommand() call. This is
a gap in the original OMP patch, distinct from the resumeHistorySession
fix (which only covers a session that has been fully closed and shows
up as a history row): reselecting a tab whose CLI process just exited
goes through this path instead, and always launched a bare, contextless
`omp` no matter what.

Beyond the wiring, respawning a dead pane is semantically different
from creating a brand-new session: the conversation is still "this
session" to the user, so _buildRespawnPaneOptions() now defaults
ompConfig to continueSession:true unless the session already carries
an explicit resumeSessionId (which still wins in buildOmpCommand).

Verified live: told a session a secret, exited OMP so the pane died
(session and tmux both left alone), forced the exact dead-pane-respawn
path, and the new process replied with the secret -- confirming
`omp --continue` fired instead of a blank omp.
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjr 3e1a0e679f fix(omp): resume by mode, not silently as claude, and support --continue
resumeHistorySession() never sent mode when recreating a session from a
history/session-manager row, so the server default silently opened a
plain Claude session for every non-claude row -- reproduced live: OMP
rows spawned Claude sessions on click. Thread the row's mode through
every call site (welcome list, session manager, mobile overview) and
only send the Claude-specific resumeSessionId for claude rows.

Codeman has no live PTY-reattach outside server boot, and it's moot for
OMP anyway (exiting it kills the pane's only process), so route the
non-claude relaunch through each CLI's own continue-most-recent flag
instead of a context-free fresh start. OMP never got one: buildOmpCommand
only implemented --model/--resume despite omp --help documenting
-c/--continue. Added continueSession to OmpConfig end-to-end (type,
schema, builder) mirroring the existing opencode/pi/grok/deepseek
fields, and wired resumeHistorySession to use it.

Verified live: told a real omp session a secret, exited it, closed the
tab without killing tmux, relaunched with --continue in the same
directory, and had it recall the secret.
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjr 7ec48adcc8 fix(omp): keep external-CLI mode enumerations complete in skill docs
Two prose lists in skills/codeman/ named some but not all external CLI
modes after the omp-mode rebase, which is exactly the drift
test/agent-skill-mode-lists.test.ts exists to catch: SKILL.md's
no-hook-signals list was missing omp, and endpoints.md's version-probe
sentence named pi/grok/omp as a bare 3-mode run with no matching class.
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
timkjr 9841f4ffb9 refactor(omp): align omp resolver + doctor with upstream shared CLI resolver
- omp-cli-resolver.ts already uses createCliExecutableResolver; add dedicated
  test/omp-cli-resolver.test.ts mirroring pi's (version-probe accept/reject,
  negative-cache backoff, VITEST hermeticity gate)
- dependency-registry omp entry now requires OMP_VERSION_REGEX match like pi,
  so codeman doctor and the run-mode resolver agree on what counts as installed
- system-routes /api/omp/status surfaces version
2026-08-28 11:32:30 -05:00
Codeman maintainer d8688dc143 fix(web): drop the provider label from the plan-usage chip when there is only one
The chip prefixes every row with the provider name, so a machine that only
has Claude limits renders "CLAUDE 5H 60% 7D 23%" — a 46px label naming the
only thing it could possibly be. The name exists to tell two rows apart, so
it should only appear when there are two.

updatePlanUsageChip() now checks whether both Claude and Codex actually have
windows before building the rows, and emits the .pu-provider span only in
that case. The tooltip keeps naming the provider in both cases: it has the
room, and the chip no longer does.

Verified in a browser on an isolated beta instance: Claude-only renders bare
windows with no .pu-provider in the DOM, Codex-only the same, and the
two-provider chip is byte-identical to before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 13:59:40 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 23fae0c5af chore: version packages
Codex plan usage in the header chip (#346), a visible inline rename in
the session sidebar (#345), and the install.sh Tailscale re-run fix plus
the README network-access prompt description.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 00:25:32 +02:00
Ark0N e4699159e9 Merge pull request #346 from JackStuart/codex/show-codex-usage-limits
feat(web): show Codex plan usage in header
2026-08-28 00:14:54 +02:00
Ark0N da085f5f7f Merge pull request #345 from fibr/fix/sidebar-inline-rename
fix(ui): show inline rename text in session sidebar
2026-08-28 00:14:48 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 23e32b22d5 docs(readme): describe the actual three-way network-access prompt
The installer bullet still described a two-way choice with 0.0.0.0 as "the
default", which predates the Tailscale option. The prompt has offered three
choices for a while (Tailscale / any device on your network / this machine
only), and the default is computed from what is already on the machine rather
than being fixed at 0.0.0.0.

Now states all three options, that the Tailscale one is a loopback bind
fronted by `tailscale serve` with the tailnet as the login, and how the
highlighted default is chosen. Line 220 already documented the Tailscale
option correctly; this was the only stale spot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 00:02:33 +02:00
Devvyn 26b4ffbb0f fix(docker): install pnpm for DeepSeek profile 2026-08-27 20:47:57 +08:00
Devvyn e2179bd530 chore(docker): remove local handover references 2026-08-27 19:42:37 +08:00
Devvyn b85f7659b7 feat(docker): add Compose deployment support 2026-08-27 19:38:38 +08:00
timkjr e82380e14a fix(ui): close unclosed CSS blocks that killed the stylesheet tail
The rebase hand-repair dropped the closing brace of .welcome-btn-pi:hover
and .btn-toolbar.btn-run.mode-pi:hover before the inserted OMP rules.
The browser CSS parser drops every rule after an unclosed block, so the
deployed UI rendered as unstyled text bars (only ~456 of ~2583 rules
applied). Verified clean via esbuild --minify (no css-syntax-error) and
rebuilt dist.
2026-08-26 20:10:34 -05:00
timkjr c0423bf560 fix(omp): complete omp wiring in UI files, skill docs, and tests after rebase 2026-08-26 20:10:34 -05:00
timkjr 4f5678fac4 feat(omp): rebase OMP backend onto master (merge Pi + OMP modes) 2026-08-26 20:05:48 -05:00
Codeman maintainer 7dfb4acf24 fix(install): offer Tailscale setup on re-run instead of losing it to a failed build
The network-access prompt, where Tailscale serve is configured, runs AFTER
the build step. A build failure therefore exits before the question is ever
asked, and a user who then finishes the build by hand (rather than re-running
install.sh) ends up with a healthy loopback-only Codeman, a connected
Tailscale, and no serve mapping — with nothing anywhere pointing at
`install.sh tailscale`, the command that fixes it. Reported from a fresh
Ubuntu 24 install that died on the node-pty compile.

- maybe_offer_tailscale_repair(): on the update/re-run path, detect exactly
  that state (loopback bind + tailscale Running + no serve mapping fronting
  Codeman) and offer the retrofit. Silent for a deliberate non-loopback bind,
  silent once a mapping exists, silent when tailscale is absent, and prints
  the command instead of prompting when non-interactive. Returns 0 even when
  setup fails so it can never abort an update.
- print_security_notice(): the loopback branch now names
  `install.sh tailscale` when Tailscale is installed on the box, rather than
  the generic "tailscale serve / cloudflared tunnel" advice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 18:29:15 +02:00
Codeman maintainer d3f851a5e5 chore: version packages
install.sh installs a build toolchain on Linux (node-pty has no Linux
prebuild, so a stock Ubuntu 24 server died inside node-gyp with
"not found: make"), plus review hardening for #339: the write-queue
reset paths now release the one-chunk-in-flight gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 18:04:44 +02:00
Ark0N 5f8d4de443 Merge pull request #340 from aakhter/pr/cod-341-file-viewer-search
feat(file-viewer): COD-341 search the full workspace
2026-08-26 18:03:21 +02:00
Ark0N 00b32ad2b8 Merge pull request #339 from dignfei/fix/terminal-live-write-backpressure
fix(terminal): bound live xterm backpressure
2026-08-26 18:03:14 +02:00
Jack Stuart b00ab3ceea feat(web): show Codex plan usage in header 2026-08-26 18:43:52 +08:00
Sergei Lupashin 134e200aec fix(ui): show inline rename text in session sidebar 2026-08-25 19:41:48 +02:00
Codeman maintainer a51563ce1f chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 19:14:41 +02:00
Ark0N ca5fe1ab3e Merge pull request #338 from Ark0N/feat/vertical-rail-detailed-rows
Vertical tab rail: detailed rows (created / working / status), plus a rename-cancel fix
2026-08-25 19:12:57 +02:00
Ark0N 9cd10afdc9 Merge pull request #341 from Ark0N/feat/deepseek-agent-workers
Spawn and drive DeepSeek Harness workers from the codeman agent skill
2026-08-25 19:12:45 +02:00
Ark0N 975705ad87 Merge pull request #337 from Ark0N/feat/deepseek-harness
feat(deepseek): add DeepSeek Harness (dsh) as a ninth CLI run mode
2026-08-25 19:12:01 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 93a1042bb3 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/feat/deepseek-harness' into feat/deepseek-agent-workers
# Conflicts:
#	CLAUDE.md
2026-08-25 19:02:34 +02:00
Codeman maintainer a628737d1f fix(deepseek): review-driven hardening across the harness integration
Fifteen review findings on the dsh mode, the serious ones first:

- Multi-user: DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL joins the owner-clamped env keys.
  _configureDeepSeek() forwards the SERVER's own DEEPSEEK_API_KEY into
  every dsh pane and applyEnvOverrides() lands after it, so a non-granted
  owner who could redirect the base URL would have the operator's key sent
  as a bearer credential to a host of their choosing.
- Wait registry: until=stop/blocked is refused on docker and remote-SSH
  dsh sessions (new deepSeekBridgeUnreachable fact in sessionHookOptions).
  The HERDR triple is set via LOCAL tmux setenv, which crosses neither
  docker exec nor ssh, so such a session can never post a hook event and
  the wait burned its whole timeout on every turn.
- Approvals: a dsh item is an ALERT, not an answerable card. The answer
  route refuses (the '1'/Esc keystrokes are Claude-dialog-shaped and the
  option parser cannot read a third-party TUI's frames, so an answer was a
  blind keystroke into a foreign composer), and the push notification
  carries no Approve/Deny actions for dsh sessions.
- Status shim (v3): --seq is forwarded and the server drops stale retried
  reports inside a 60s window (the TUI retries with backoff, so a retried
  'working' could land after 'blocked' and resolve an approval whose
  dialog was still on screen); 4xx responses exit 0 instead of retrying,
  so one misconfigured session cannot feed the auth rate-limit bucket
  until the hook endpoint 429s for the whole instance.
- Web-UI server: concurrent starts are serialized through a lock (two
  racing POSTs used to pick the same port and orphan the winner), and the
  readiness poll / timeout paths only clear or stop the singleton while it
  is still theirs. First click actually opens the tab now
  (refreshWebviews, not the nonexistent loadWebviews). DELETE
  /api/deepseek/web requires the privileged grant in multi-user mode.
- Cron: deepseek jobs run the same two-part launch gate as the HTTP
  create paths (impl moved into the resolver so all three share it) and no
  longer stamp a Claude default model on the session.
- Parity sweeps: quick-start's docker branch rejects deepSeekConfig like
  the remote branch; the Ralph auto-enable list gained deepseek;
  HookEventType gained agent_working; the phone overview run menu filters
  managed webview records like the desktop menu.
- install.sh: the dsh identity probe closes stdin (under curl|bash a
  child that reads stdin eats the rest of the script), bounds the exec
  with timeout where available, and is memoized to one scan per install.
- Welcome screen: .welcome-btn-deepseek styled in the #4d6bfe brand
  identity (it rendered as an unstyled UA-grey button); stale markup
  comment about the web shortcut rewritten; clamp docs updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 19:01:29 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 015b865f56 fix(deepseek): review fixes for the transcript reader — docker/remote gate, poll memo, honest pairing docs
Four review findings on the worker-transcript feature:

- Docker and remote-SSH dsh sessions now keep the pane segmenter: their
  transcripts live in the container's / remote host's own ~/.dsh, which
  the local reader can never see, so the transcript path returned
  'nothing said yet' forever and an agent polling such a worker starved
  on an answer that existed. Gated on !session.docker && !session.remote
  (statically pinned) and documented in the integration guide.

- last-response reads are memoized on (path, mtime, size, blocks): the
  skill's last_text polls once per second, and each poll decompressed and
  reparsed the whole file on the event loop even when nothing had been
  appended. An unchanged poll now costs one stat.

- The pairing ladder's comment claimed /new is served by step 2; in truth
  the boot-window transcript wins for as long as it exists (deliberately:
  preferring newest-eligible would hand a worker its busier sibling's
  reply). The comment now states the real tradeoff instead of the
  aspirational one. Same for decodeZstdFrames' 'skipped' wording — a
  corrupt frame truncates the decode there, which is the safe behavior.

- stripReasoningPrefix no longer runs on user prompt text, so a prompt
  containing a literal </think> renders whole in blocks view.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 18:30:41 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 33f77c4680 fix(tabs): review fixes for the detailed rail — width-dialog default, compact wrap pass, rich-aware resets
Three review findings on the detailed-rows feature, all in its edge cases:

- The App Settings width select consulted the handheld defaults blob
  (tabRailWidth: 256) BEFORE the rich-aware default, which the renderer
  never reads — so a tablet's unsized rich rail rendered 320 while the
  dialog said 256, and a routine Save persisted the 256 (below the 288px
  tight threshold, permanently). The chain now mirrors
  applyTabRailWidth()'s actual resolution.

- _setTabRailWidth() re-rendered on a compact flip but never re-ran
  applyTabWrapSettings(), the one owner of the folder line, whose railRich
  input reads the compact class this function just toggled. A rich rail
  dragged below 240px kept emitting folder rows — persistently, for a
  stored width < 240, since the boot wrap pass runs before the class is
  first applied. The wrap pass now re-runs on the flip, with exactly one
  render either way.

- Both reset affordances (handle dblclick, Enter on the handle) reset to
  the hardcoded 256 even on a rich rail, landing it below the tight
  threshold; both now resolve the rich-aware default (320), via a new
  optional defaultWidth input on resolveTabRailKeyboardWidth().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 18:26:07 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 6261b6f655 feat(skill): spawn and drive DeepSeek Harness workers
The agent skill could spawn a worker in any mode, but it could only
DRIVE a claude one: every other CLI has neither a real end-of-turn
signal nor an answer to read, so the recipes route them through output
markers.

dsh has both halves now -- its harness reports idle/working/blocked to
Codeman, and the previous commit reads its transcript -- so it joins
claude as a mode the four verbs work on unchanged. `spawn_workers alpha
beta:deepseek` is a mixed fleet in one call, and `sendwait` / `last_text`
/ `delete_session` need no per-mode variant.

Preamble 1.20.0 (SKILL.md's §0 heredoc regenerated from it):

- `spawn_worker` grows a deepseek branch that gates on the harness
  composer. ⚠️ Readiness there is NOT the stop signal: the harness
  reports idle at BOOT ~300 ms before its composer paints (measured
  2.26 s vs 2.56 s after spawn), so a send-and-wait fired straight after
  quick-start resolves on the boot edge, reports a turn that never ran,
  and strands the prompt in a pane not yet taking input. Waiting for the
  composer also spends that edge, since signals are edge-triggered.
- `spawn_workers` takes `name[:mode]`, so a mixed fleet stays one
  concurrent call. Case names still have to be unique -- the mode never
  disambiguates two workers that would share a directory.
- `sendwait` asks for `wait:"stop,exit"` instead of the `wait:true`
  default set. That set also carries `idle`, which for an external CLI is
  inferred from output stabilization: on a dsh worker whose TUI repaints
  rarely, the re-wait resolved in 0 ms with `signal:"idle"` on a turn
  with three minutes left to run. It also makes a wrong mode loud -- the
  modes that cannot deliver `stop` answer 400 before writing anything,
  instead of resolving on a flap.
- The self-heal resend carries `delivered:true` forward. The resend is a
  tagged duplicate, so the server truthfully reports `delivered:false`
  about a write it skipped, and §1's cleanup then read a completed turn
  as an undelivered one and kept a finished worker forever.
- dsh workers spawn with the permission posture the Run button sends,
  because the harness default still asks and a worker parked on an
  approval row cannot finish a fan-out. The multi-user clamp still
  applies.

Docs: a worked dsh flow in recipes.md, readiness and the signal rules in
verbs.md, and the corrections this makes necessary -- `stop`/`blocked`
are no longer claude-only, and `last-response` is no longer permanently
empty for deepseek. The integration guide gains a section on reading a
session back and driving one as a worker; its web-UI section was also
stale (that server moved out of a shell session).

The static guard that keeps those lists from naming some external CLIs but
not others is extended rather than exempted: it now knows the three real
classes inside that family (no transcript, no hook signals, and the
positive twin -- the modes whose answers can be read), with the hook class
derived from `hooksAvailableForMode()` so the predicate and the prose
cannot drift apart. Any other partial list still fails, and a new backend
belongs to none of the classes until someone says so.
2026-08-25 04:17:48 +02:00
Codeman maintainer d1bc0c517d feat(deepseek): read dsh session transcripts for last-response
`GET /api/sessions/:id/last-response` is how an agent (and the Response
Viewer) reads what a worker said. DeepSeek was falling through to the
pane segmenter with the other external CLIs, which for this mode is not
merely coarse but wrong: dsh-TUI paints a full-screen splash, so a
`last-response` call on a fresh dsh session answered with its ASCII-art
logo -- and anything polling for a worker's first reply reads that as a
reply.

dsh does not belong in that group. It writes a structured JSONL
transcript per session, so read it. Four things in that file shaped the
reader, all measured against real transcripts on disk:

1. dsh appends ONE ZSTD FRAME PER WRITE, and Node's zlib zstd decoder
   (one-shot and streaming alike) stops at the first frame end: a real
   56-line transcript decoded as 1 line / 158 bytes -- the session header
   alone, i.e. a silent truncation that reads as "nothing said yet"
   forever. `zstdFrameRanges()` walks frame and block headers to find
   exact boundaries; splitting on the 4-byte magic would corrupt
   everything after a magic sequence occurring inside compressed data.
   zstd is resolved at RUNTIME because it landed in Node 22.15 while the
   project floor is 22.0, so an older Node keeps the pane behaviour.
2. Every turn also records a plugin-sourced `user/message` (the runtime
   context snapshot), which must not render as the user's own words.
3. A turn that ends in an error carries the provider's message; it is
   surfaced as `Turn error: …` (and a non-error early stop as
   `Turn ended: …`) rather than as an empty string, which an agent reads
   as "still thinking" through fifteen polls.
4. Reply text is assembled per (turn, step): a finalized message wins and
   the streamed deltas fill in only for a step that never finalized, so a
   partial answer is readable mid-turn and never doubled. "Finalized" is
   tracked as a set of steps rather than as non-empty text, because a
   step whose whole reply was reasoning strips to '' at the `</think>`
   boundary and would otherwise resurrect the raw deltas in its place.

Session-to-transcript pairing is by the transcript's own header `cwd`
plus a boot window against the session's createdAt, never by
reproducing dsh's directory mangling (already two forms on disk) and
never by newest-mtime alone -- mtime alone handed a freshly spawned
worker its predecessor's answer in the same case directory.

An empty result still wins over the pane; only a Node that cannot decode
zstd falls back to it.
2026-08-25 04:14:26 +02:00
Codeman maintainer c30dfaf0e7 fix(deepseek): run the web UI server in the background, not in a shell tab
Clicking "DeepSeek web UI..." opened two tabs: the web tab asked for, and a
shell tab running the server next to it. The shell was deliberate - the server
lived in an ordinary session so it was visible, scrollable, killable and died
with its tab, and nothing new had to supervise a long-lived HTTP server. That
reasoning was sound and the result was still wrong in use: opening a dashboard
should open one tab, and after the first launch the terminal is pure noise.

The server moves to a background child process owned by a new
`src/deepseek-web-server.ts`, behind `POST /api/deepseek/web`. What the session
gave away for free is now explicit, which is most of the module:

- Exactly one server. A second click reuses the running one instead of racing
  it for a port; the session flow could not do this at all, because two clicks
  were simply two sessions.
- Restarted when the requested authority changes. `--trusted-host` fences dsh's
  own /api against the browser authority, and a Codeman reachable at both
  loopback and a tailnet name has two. Reusing a server fenced for the other
  origin renders a page whose every call 403s, which reads as a broken
  dashboard rather than a misconfigured one, so a mismatch restarts instead.
- Killed on shutdown. The child is detached so its whole plugin tree can be
  signalled at once, which also means it would outlive Codeman and hold its
  port against the next start - the exact EADDRINUSE this feature already got
  wrong once.
- Boot output captured and returned. With no shell tab there is nowhere else
  for a stack trace to land, so a failed spawn reports its own tail.

The endpoint is fenced at the same bar as the profile installer and for the
same reason: booting a dsh profile executes the plugin code in it, so this is a
privileged action even though it reads as "open a page". `authority` comes from
the client (`location.host`) because only the browser knows which origin is in
play, and it is regex-confined at the schema boundary - defence in depth behind
the argv-array spawn, admitting host:port in the shapes a browser authority can
take and nothing readable as a second argument.

`GET /api/deepseek/web-port` is gone; port selection moved into the supervisor,
which is the thing that knows whether a server is already running. The two
client-side probe helpers went with it, since the server now owns the wait.

Verified over the tailnet authority end to end: no session is created (session
count unchanged, one tab), the server runs on 3081 beside the user's own dsh
web on 3080, status reports the tailnet authority, and the proxied dashboard
renders with zero 4xx. Full gate green (6148 passed, +6).
2026-08-25 03:08:15 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 15ae5f5d81 fix(deepseek): make the web-UI shortcut pick a free port, verify it, and trust its frame
The `Run > DeepSeek web UI...` shortcut failed three ways at once against a real
install, and the three are independent.

1. It hardcoded `--port 3080`. That is dsh web's OWN default, which makes it
   precisely the port a DeepSeek user is most likely to be serving on already,
   so the launch died with EADDRINUSE against the user's own server. The port
   now comes from `GET /api/deepseek/web-port`, which walks 3080..3119 for a
   free loopback port by BINDING it (a connect probe cannot tell "free" from
   "listening but not answering yet").

2. It opened the tab unconditionally. The crashed server left a saved dashboard
   pointing at nothing, with the failure only visible in a shell tab nobody had
   a reason to look at. The launch now polls the existing webview probe until
   the URL answers, and on timeout reports the error naming the shell tab
   instead of persisting a dead dashboard.

3. The saved tab was untrusted, so the frame was sandboxed without
   `allow-same-origin` and the dashboard was broken twice over: the dsh
   client-runtime reads `localStorage` while loading its plugins and died there
   ("the document is sandboxed and lacks the 'allow-same-origin' flag"), and an
   opaque-origin frame sends `Origin: null`, so dsh's own trust fence 403'd
   every `/api` call no matter which authority `--trusted-host` named. Passing
   `location.host` only means anything once the frame actually carries that
   origin, so `--trusted-host` had never once done its job. The managed tab is
   now created `trusted: true`.

   That trade is real and deliberate: a trusted proxied frame is same-origin
   with Codeman and can reach Codeman's API. It is defensible only because this
   dashboard is an agent harness Codeman just started itself, on loopback, which
   can already run code as the user. It is not a precedent for trusting
   third-party dashboards, which is why it is set at this one call site rather
   than defaulted.

Separately, the shortcut listed its own dashboard twice: once as the menu entry
that starts it and once as the row that entry had written on the previous click.
Webviews now carry an optional `managed` marker, managed rows are filtered out
of the saved-dashboard list, and a relaunch repoints the existing row rather
than stacking one dead dashboard per restart (which the per-launch port would
otherwise guarantee). `managed` is declared in the schema because a plain
`z.object` strips undeclared keys, so an undeclared marker would never survive
the round trip.

`DEEPSEEK_WEB_PORT` is gone from constants.js; its doc comment asserted that a
hand-started `dsh web` and the shortcut "land on the same place and share one
saved tab", which is the bug stated as a feature.

Verified on a real install with the user's own `dsh web` holding 3080: the
shortcut takes 3081, the server answers, exactly one DeepSeek entry shows in the
run menu, and the proxied dashboard renders its workspaces and completes its own
API calls (the previously-403'd `api/settings.describe` now succeeds). Full gate
green (6142 passed), typecheck/lint/format/public-assets clean.
2026-08-25 02:39:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 14de2b7012 fix(tabs): keep the created stamp reachable on a tight rail, and do not skip the first render
Two review nits on the vertical rail's detailed rows.

1. The tab-rail-tight rule (below 288px) hides `.tab-meta-created`, and its
   comment claimed the value "survives in the row's title attribute either way".
   It did not: the only title carrying it lived ON that element, and a
   `display: none` element has no hover target, so the created stamp was not
   shrunk but gone with no way to ask for it. Rather than just correcting the
   comment, `_sidebarRichMetaHTML()` now puts BOTH absolute stamps on the
   `.tab-meta` line itself, so the pill and the gaps around the stamps remain as
   hover targets. An item's own title still wins where the item is visible.

2. applyTabOrientation() decided whether applyTabWrapSettings() had already
   re-rendered by comparing `_tallTabsEnabled` before and after. That reads an
   UNDEFINED previous value as "it rendered", but applyTabWrapSettings()
   deliberately renders nothing on its first call ever (it only establishes the
   baseline: `prevTallTabs !== undefined && prevTallTabs !== showFolder`). So on
   a first call that also flips the folder row, neither function rendered and the
   rows stayed stale. Reachable when the pre-paint script throws and leaves the
   layout attributes on their catch-branch fallbacks for applyTabOrientation() to
   correct. The guard now mirrors applyTabWrapSettings()'s own condition.

Both new tests were run against the unfixed code first and fail there, which is
the only thing that makes them regression tests. (The third, "does not render
twice", passes either way by design: it pins that fix 2 did not introduce a
double rebuild.)

Verified in a real browser against a live server with two sessions, driving the
narrowing through _setTabRailWidth() the way the resize drag does: at the 320
default the row reads "CREATED 2m ago · IDLE <1m" with the created element
displayed; at 256 the tight class is on, the created element computes to
display:none, the visible text drops to "IDLE <1m", and the meta line's title
still reads "First created: ...". At 220 the compact threshold drops rich rows
entirely. Screenshots confirm no truncation artifacts in either state.

Full gate green (6104 passed), typecheck, lint, format, frontend-syntax and
public-assets all clean.
2026-08-24 22:58:28 +02:00
Codeman maintainer cdceede33d fix(deepseek): atomic shim write, honest attribution comment, name-fallback profile classifier
The three smaller review nits, plus the first real test coverage for the status
shim (it had none: it is emitted as a STRING, so tsc never sees it).

1. The shim was written with a plain writeFileSync. The TUI can be exec'ing that
   exact path while an upgraded Codeman refreshes it, and a reader catching a
   half-written file gets a syntax error, exits non-zero, and is retried four
   times per state change for a file that will never parse. Now temp + rename
   (atomic within the directory), with the temp chmod'ed before the rename since
   writeFileSync's mode only applies on create, and removed if the write throws.
   SHIM_VERSION bumped to 2, because SHIM_SOURCE changed and an existing v1 shim
   would otherwise keep matching the embedded marker and never be refreshed.

2. The pane-id comment claimed the ambient env "cannot be spoofed by an argument
   the agent itself could influence". The agent runs IN that pane and can invoke
   the shim with CODEMAN_SESSION_ID unset and any argv it likes. It buys nothing
   it did not already have (the hook-secret file is readable from the same pane,
   so it can POST /api/hook-event directly), but the comment read like a security
   boundary. Rewritten to say what the preference actually buys: correct
   attribution when a TUI mangles or re-uses the pane argument. Accidents, not
   adversaries.

3. classifyProfile() folded the directory name into the same haystack as the
   bundles, but only the TUI arm could match a bare name, so a stock profile
   whose package.json has no dsh.profile.bundles (hand-edited, older layout,
   mid-install) classified as `unknown` -> launchable -> eligible as the DEFAULT
   pick, which is exactly the pane-dies-on-arrival failure the two-part
   availability gate exists to prevent. The stock names are now a LAST-resort
   fallback consulted after the bundle patterns, so real bundle evidence still
   wins over a name the user chose. The loose `tui` arm gained word boundaries:
   it decides which profile boots by default, and matching the middle of
   `intuition` is not a rule anyone could predict.

New test/deepseek-status-shim.test.ts runs the generated script the way the
harness does -- real node process, real argv, real env, real listener -- and
covers the exit-code contract that makes the retry behaviour safe: mapped states
post and exit 0, an unknown verb or unmapped state exits 0 WITHOUT posting (a
non-zero there would be four HTTP requests per state change forever), a rejecting
server or an unreachable one exits non-zero so the caller retries, the hook secret
is read at execution time, and `node --check` parses the file (a template-literal
typo in SHIM_SOURCE is invisible to tsc).

Trap worth recording, hit while writing it: the tests must spawn the shim
ASYNCHRONOUSLY. The listener lives in the test process, so spawnSync blocks the
event loop that has to accept the connection, the shim waits out its own 1500ms
socket timeout and exits 1, and it reads exactly like a broken shim (measured:
Socket._onTimeout in its --trace-exit output, server logging nothing).

Verified: full gate green (6142 passed, +10), typecheck/lint/format clean.
2026-08-24 18:00:52 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 2034719d61 fix(deepseek): close the env-var clamp hole, bound the profile install, make the hook gate per-session
Three review findings on the DeepSeek Harness mode, plus one the third exposed.

1. The multi-user clamp was bypassable by a sibling field on the same request.
   clampExternalCliBypassForOwner() clamps deepSeekConfig.permissionMode, but
   DSH_* is an allowlisted envOverrides prefix and applyEnvOverrides() runs AFTER
   _configureDeepSeek(), so a non-granted owner sending
   envOverrides.DSH_PERMISSION_MODE landed last and won. Measured on an isolated
   instance: a session created with permissionMode "read-only" and that override
   ran with DSH_PERMISSION_MODE=danger-full-access in its pane.

   Every other CLI's bypass is a command-line flag reachable only through the
   per-CLI config, which is why the config clamp alone is the whole gate for
   them. clampEnvOverridesForOwner() adds the env-var half: for a non-granted
   owner it DROPS DSH_PERMISSION_MODE and DSH_HOME (dropping falls through to
   what _configureDeepSeek() exports, i.e. the clamped value). DSH_HOME is on
   that list because it aims the launcher at a profile tree whose plugin code
   runs at boot, before any approval row can apply. Verified end to end in real
   multi-user mode: a non-granted user sending both now gets workspace-write and
   no DSH_HOME, while an unrelated DSH_TELEMETRY_MODE passes through untouched.

2. POST /api/deepseek/install-profile could hang forever. spawn's own `timeout`
   signals only the direct child, and a plugin install fans out into
   package-manager children that keep the inherited stdio pipes open, so `close`
   never fires and the held-open request leaks with no route-level deadline.
   Reproduced: with a 1.5s built-in timeout the promise was still unsettled after
   6s and both fan-out children were alive. Now detached: true plus negative-pid
   SIGTERM/SIGKILL, the same escalation runGit() uses for the same reason, with a
   last-resort reap for a grandchild that escaped the group. Same probe after the
   change: close fires, direct child and both grandchildren dead.

3. hooksAvailableForMode() promised more than a dsh session can deliver.
   deepSeekConfig.statusReporting: false disarms the HERDR_* export, and that
   triple is the only reason a dsh session posts hook events, so `until=stop` was
   accepted and then blocked for the caller's whole timeout: the exact
   infinite-wait-dressed-as-a-timeout the predicate exists to prevent. It now
   takes HookCapabilityOptions and every call site passes sessionHookOptions(),
   with the deepseek arm reading `!== false` so a forgotten one degrades to the
   old behaviour. The refusal names the setting rather than saying "no Claude
   Code hooks", which would send the caller hunting a bug that is really a
   setting they chose. Profile conformance stays unknowable at request time and
   is documented as such. The stale "True for `claude` and nothing else" docblock
   is corrected.

4. Exposed by (3): hooksAvailableForMode() was doing double duty as "is this a
   claude session". Read My Mind (POST /api/sessions/:id/readmymind) and intent
   capture read Claude's own transcript, and adding deepseek silently widened
   both to a mode that has none. They compare mode === 'claude' directly now, and
   a static check pins them there.

Verified: full CI gate green (6132 passed), typecheck/lint/format clean, and the
wait-signal gating exercised against a live server with a real dsh 0.1.1-rc.2 --
bridge off plus explicit until=stop is a 400 naming the setting, bridge off with
no `until` still 200s on idle/exit, bridge on accepts stop.
2026-08-24 16:01:02 +02:00
d fei 7c62b16e5f fix(terminal): bound live xterm backpressure 2026-08-24 19:06:50 +08:00
Aamer Akhter d15d979a33 fix: COD-341 correct changeset package name 2026-08-23 22:55:10 -04:00
Aamer Akhter 858b15e3f5 chore: COD-341 add File Viewer search release note 2026-08-23 22:46:58 -04:00
Codeman maintainer b330f1d9e8 feat(tabs): give the vertical rail the home screen's per-session detail
The vertical tab rail (tabOrientation 'vertical') listed names and nothing
else, while the rich sidebar and both home screens already answered the
question a docked column exists to answer: which of these sessions wants me
next, and how long has it been like that. The rail is a docked column too, so
it now draws the same row.

- New per-device setting tabRailDetail ('rich' | 'simple', default rich),
  App Settings -> Appearance -> Tabs, in SettingsUpdateSchema + displayKeys and
  stamped as data-tab-rail-detail by the pre-paint script, so a detailed rail
  does not flash through simple rows on every load.
- ONE gate for both vertical surfaces: isRichTabRows() =
  isSessionSidebarRich() || isTabRailRich(). The row model, the markup and the
  20s in-place clock are the existing rich-sidebar ones, classified by
  _mobileOverviewState/_mobileOverviewSince, so the rail, the sidebar, the
  desktop home rail and the phone overview cannot disagree about what
  "working" means or which stamp measures it.
- Detail rides on its OWN attribute, exactly as the sidebar's does, so every
  existing [data-tab-orientation='vertical'] rule keeps matching both variants
  untouched. A flip of detail ALONE still forces a full render (the stamps line
  is emitted by the row template, not toggled by CSS) and re-runs
  applyTabWrapSettings(), which owns the folder line and is now rail-aware.
- CSS: every rich paint rule gains a rail twin as a COMMA-GROUPED selector,
  never :is() - an :is() list takes its most specific argument, which would
  lift the sidebar arm from (0,3,1) to the rail's (0,5,1) and let these rules
  outrank things they never used to.
- Width is why there are thresholds. At 256px the stamps line ellipsizes
  mid-word, the same reason the rich sidebar is 300px, so a rail that has never
  been sized defaults to 320 (RICH_DEFAULT_WIDTH, the existing Wide preset,
  which also keeps the settings select on a named choice). A width the user has
  chosen is never overridden: below 288px the created stamp is dropped rather
  than truncated (tab-rail-tight, CSS only) and below 240px the rows go back to
  simple (tab-rail-compact, which re-renders).
- The rich clock is armed and disarmed by applyTabOrientation() as well as
  applySessionListLayout(); a leaked interval would rewrite stamps in a list
  that no longer has any.

Also fixes a data-loss bug in the inline tab rename that predates the rail and
reproduces in every layout, header strip included: Escape set the input to ''
and blurred it, and the blur handler commits - so cancelling a rename PUT an
empty name, and the tab fell back to its folder label (measured against a live
server: ["rail-alpha","","rail-gamma"]). Escape now calls cancelRename(), which
invalidates the edit so the blur that follows the input's removal is a no-op.

Tests: rail-detail gate, the three ways it turns back off (simple, compact,
horizontal), sidebar-wins, render-on-detail-flip and the plumbing/CSS guards in
test/session-list-layout.test.ts; the rename cancel in test/inline-rename.test.ts
(browser suite), pinned by running it against the old code first. Verified live
against a real server on an isolated instance: detailed/simple/compact/header/
sidebar variants, click-select, the ... menu, inline rename, Alt+N, the in-place
stamp tick and a full settings-picker round-trip including reload.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 04:45:02 +02:00
Aamer Akhter c14171b534 fix(file-viewer): COD-341 finalize deferred navigation 2026-08-23 22:42:10 -04:00
Aamer Akhter acd9ffedc8 fix(file-viewer): COD-341 complete search transitions 2026-08-23 22:27:26 -04:00
Aamer Akhter 921933775b test(file-viewer): COD-341 execute session lifecycle path 2026-08-23 22:08:29 -04:00
Aamer Akhter f6a1f06633 fix(file-viewer): COD-341 synchronize session lifecycle 2026-08-23 21:58:45 -04:00
Aamer Akhter dab8e6643c fix(file-viewer): COD-341 deduplicate normal tree loads 2026-08-23 21:40:10 -04:00
Codeman maintainer 4cda150493 feat(deepseek): add DeepSeek Harness (dsh) as a ninth CLI run mode
Adds `mode: 'deepseek'` alongside claude/shell/opencode/codex/gemini/
antigravity/pi/grok, plus a shortcut that opens the harness's own browser UI
as a Codeman web tab.

DeepSeek is wired unlike its siblings in three ways, each of which is the
reason for a design decision rather than an accident:

1. The agent is a PROFILE, not the binary. `dsh` is a launcher over
   $DSH_HOME/profiles/<name>, and DeepSeek ships only `web`, `headless` and
   `base` -- the interactive terminal front door is always a third-party
   plugin. So availability is two questions: `isDeepSeekAvailable()` (binary)
   and `isDeepSeekRunnable()` (binary AND a pane-capable profile). The Run
   button gates on the latter, because reporting only the binary would spawn a
   pane that dies on arrival. When the binary is present but no profile is,
   the run menu offers to install one (POST /api/deepseek/install-profile).

2. The permission switch is an env var, not a flag. The harness has no
   command-line permission option; its sandbox/approval rows read
   DSH_PERMISSION_MODE (read-only / workspace-write / danger-full-access).
   Exported via `tmux setenv`, never on the spawn line. Absent = the harness's
   own workspace-write, which still asks, so the multi-user clamp is the
   only-if-sent branch and clamps to workspace-write, never read-only.

3. It is the only non-claude mode that passes hooksAvailableForMode(), and it
   earned that. The terminal front door reports idle/working/blocked to a
   supervising process over a generic env-gated contract; a generated shim
   (deepseek-status-shim.ts) makes Codeman that supervisor and forwards each
   report to /api/hook-event as stop / agent_working / permission_prompt. So a
   dsh session gets definitive respawn triggers, real wait-endpoint signals and
   real Approvals Inbox items instead of output-stabilization guesswork.
   `agent_working` is new (157th SSE constant) and joins
   APPROVAL_RESOLVING_EVENTS so a dialog answered in the terminal clears its
   alert at once.

The resolver needs the strictest identity probe of the family: `dsh` is not
merely a squattable npm name, Debian ships an unrelated `dsh` (dancer's shell),
so `dsh --help` must print the harness's own banner before a candidate is
handed a spawn line.

Model is deliberately not a session field -- it is a composition entry in the
profile's config tree. Env allowlist gains DSH_* and DEEPSEEK_* only; provider
keys named by a settings-file `apiKeyEnv` stay out, which is pi's
34-provider-key problem in a new shape.

Verified live against dsh 0.1.1-rc.2 and @deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui: the
status endpoint's two-part answer, the no-profile refusal, the profile
bootstrap, a real session whose pane runs `dsh --profile dsh-tui` with the
permission mode injected via setenv, and the full status bridge -- a
send-and-wait returned signal "stop" from a real turn, and blocked/working
created and cleared an Approvals Inbox item.

Docs: docs/deepseek-integration.md (guide), docs/deepseek-integration-plan.md
(decisions + honest gaps). Tests: test/deepseek-mode.test.ts,
test/deepseek-cli-resolver.test.ts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 03:37:56 +02:00
Aamer Akhter 3af36f7c34 fix(file-viewer): COD-341 preserve search row layout 2026-08-23 21:23:17 -04:00
Aamer Akhter 49797e37dd fix(file-viewer): COD-341 gate stale search results 2026-08-23 21:09:52 -04:00
Aamer Akhter c614331d60 feat(file-viewer): COD-341 add server-side search 2026-08-23 21:01:39 -04:00
Codeman maintainer 9cfd8e8989 fix(docker): survive xAI installer's own /usr/local/bin/grok symlink
The agent-image grok step copied /root/.grok/bin/grok onto /usr/local/bin/grok
with cp -L. Newer versions of xAI's install.sh already create
/usr/local/bin/grok as a symlink to that same binary, so the copy failed with
'same file' and the --no-cache rebuild died at the grok layer (2026-08-24).
Stage the copy under a temp name, drop whatever the installer left at the
destination, then move into place - correct against both old and new
installers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 01:12:38 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 8fe393826b chore: version packages 2026-08-24 01:00:51 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 7a340fe7bc fix(tabs): review-driven hardening for the tab-layout foundation and vertical rail
Post-merge follow-ups from the deep review of #334 and #335, so they ship in
the same release as the features.

Tab-layout foundation (#335):
- PUT /api/session-order drops unknown/foreign ids again instead of 400ing
  the whole write, in both the owner and the admin path (single-user requests
  are the synthetic admin, so that path is the one the browser hits). The
  frontend debounces its reorder push and swallows errors, so a session
  deleted inside the debounce window silently cost the user the entire
  reorder - and the endpoint sits on the stable /api/v1 surface, where the
  pre-layout server merged leniently.
- A failed mux restore no longer locks explicit deletions into 500s for the
  process lifetime: runSessionDeletion and webviewDeleted degrade to
  best-effort without layout coordination, while the automated stale sweep
  (runStaleSessionCleanup) stays fail-closed.
- sse-events doc comment: no 'suppressed' hook event exists; hooks stay 8.
- registerSessionWithLayout resolves its owner through ownerLayoutKey()
  instead of a hardcoded '@single'.

Vertical rail (#334) - all rail-awareness gaps in sidebar-only predicates,
unified behind the new _isVerticalTabList() (sidebar OR rail):
- Drag-reorder read the insertion side from clientX in the rail, so
  before/after was effectively arbitrary on vertical rows; the drag-over
  indicators now draw as top/bottom edges there like the sidebar's.
- The active tab is scrolled into view in the rail (Alt+N/palette selection
  used to leave the row below the fold).
- Floating subagent/ultracode windows anchor to the RIGHT of rail tabs, and
  the connector redraw gates (render tail + strip scroll) cover the rail.
- Server-seeded tabOrientation is applied when the async settings load
  resolves, not only at boot, so a fresh device shows the rail immediately.
- The pre-paint script stamps data-tab-orientation and --tab-rail-width
  (sidebar-wins and solo carve-outs included), removing the flash of the
  header strip on every vertical-mode load.
- The session name font defaults to 12px, the sidebar's historical 0.75rem
  size, so installs that never touch the new slider are not restyled.

Also documents the rail in CLAUDE.md (second #sessionTabs host, mover
ordering, the axis-predicate rule) and gives tab-rail-resize.js its
@dependency/@loadorder header. Full gate green (6093 tests); the excluded
browser suite was run by hand - only the known environmental failures
(opencode/codex binaries) remain, identical to pristine master.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 00:59:48 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f3c615b669 fix(files): give the file preview a working detach button
The button next to the file preview's close icon was Copy Content, whose
overlapping-pages glyph reads as a pop-out control - and for a PDF or any
media/binary preview it was completely dead: those branches never fill
filePreviewContent, so the click hit an empty-content guard and did nothing,
with no feedback.

There is now a real detach button that opens the previewed file in a browser
tab (raw route for PDFs/images/media/text, the server-converted PDF preview
for docx/pptx), severs window.opener by hand so a blocked pop-up stays
detectable, closes the overlay on success (which also stops any playing
media), and disarms on close so it can never open a stale file. The copy
button now toasts 'Nothing to copy in this preview' instead of staying
silent.

Verified live with Playwright against an isolated instance: button visible
and armed on a PDF preview, file-raw answers 200, clicking opens the URL and
tears the overlay down, text previews keep a working copy buffer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 00:59:27 +02:00
Ark0N 82f81d21c4 Merge pull request #333 from Ark0N/feat/grok-mode
feat(grok): add Grok Build (xAI) as a seventh CLI run mode
2026-08-24 00:43:04 +02:00
Codeman maintainer c173ae0264 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into worktree-grok-mode
# Conflicts:
#	src/web/public/app.js
2026-08-24 00:32:25 +02:00
Ark0N e9dd55e5fd Merge pull request #334 from aakhter/pr/cod-358-vertical-rail
feat(tabs): add a resizable vertical session rail
2026-08-24 00:14:10 +02:00
Ark0N dd96f252ea Merge pull request #335 from aakhter/pr/cod-359-tab-layout
feat(tabs): add owner-scoped tab layout foundation
2026-08-24 00:12:20 +02:00
Aamer Akhter 74194e4fc0 feat(tabs): COD-359 add owner-scoped tab layouts 2026-08-23 14:46:10 -04:00
Aamer Akhter c45c6c3846 merge upstream master into COD-358 2026-08-23 14:15:07 -04:00
Aamer Akhter 17b141dc25 test(workflows): keep recent-run fixture clock-independent 2026-08-23 14:12:38 -04:00
Codeman maintainer 57f326ab8f docs(grok): fix the mode counts and line refs the seventh mode invalidated
The agent skill's endpoints.md is what other agents read as ground truth, and
three of its facts went stale when grok landed:

- `/api/v1/grok/status` was added to the probe list, but the sentence after it
  still said only Pi's response carries `.data.version`. Grok's carries it for
  the same reason (a squatted binary name), and an agent that trusts the old
  wording has no way to tell a misresolved grok from an absent one.
- the `active-tools` bullet listed grok among the modes it stays empty for, then
  claimed in the same breath that `isExternalCliMode` "lists only those five".
- its three source line refs had all drifted: `isExternalCliMode` is now
  session.ts:174-183 (it was already wrong before this branch), the external-CLI
  early return is session.ts:2261, and TEXT_COMMAND_PATTERN is
  bash-tool-parser.ts:89.

CLAUDE.md and architecture-invariants.md counted modes in their Docker-cases and
Web-tabs paragraphs ("any of the five CLI backends", "never a sixth
SessionMode"). Both numbers were already stale before grok (antigravity and pi
had made it seven) and grok is now in the agent image, so the counts are gone
rather than incremented: the invariant those sentences carry is that Docker and
web tabs are not modes at all, which no number has ever helped state. The two
plan docs keep their original wording, being historical design records.
2026-08-23 19:57:13 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 6b0b6d10ad fix(test): anchor the workflow-run fixture to now instead of a pinned epoch
test/workflow-run-watcher.test.ts pinned its fixture's newest activity at
2026-06-14T20:06:40Z and then asked getRecentRunSummaries(100000) to return
it. That argument is MINUTES, so the window is 69.4 days: the assertion
expired at 2026-08-23T06:46:40Z and the file has failed on every branch
since, on a suite nobody had touched. The last green CI run finished at
06:47:43Z, about a minute inside the boundary, which is why it landed as a
surprise rather than a bisectable regression.

The fixture epochs now hang off a RUN_ANCHOR of Date.now() - 601s with every
offset preserved verbatim, so the parsed durations, the ordering and the
live-vs-done discriminators are all unchanged, and the recency filter is
still the thing under test. It just cannot rot again.
2026-08-23 19:54:15 +02:00
Aamer Akhter c9ea8bbac5 fix(tabs): COD-358 re-query tab after rename cancel 2026-08-23 13:40:42 -04:00
Aamer Akhter 1795a138b3 test(workflows): document clock-independent fixture fix 2026-08-23 12:47:39 -04:00
Aamer Akhter e3a2fb767f feat(tabs): COD-358 add resizable vertical session rail 2026-08-23 12:21:02 -04:00
Codeman maintainer 3f8c8e99d1 feat(grok): add Grok Build (xAI) as a seventh CLI run mode
SessionMode gains 'grok', a first-class backend alongside Claude Code,
shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity and Pi: its own PTY, tmux
session, charcoal tab identity ('gk' badge), welcome button, run-mode
entry, cron agentType, Docker and remote-SSH command defaults, and
clone-repo Brain option. Flag surface verified live against grok 1.0.5.

Grok mixes two existing shapes and the wiring follows from that:

- Codex-shaped on permissions: the bypass switch is GrokConfig.alwaysApprove
  (--always-approve, grok's bypassPermissions mode; config-level deny rules
  still apply on top). The Run button sends it true, like runAntigravity(),
  and clampExternalCliBypassForOwner() puts grok in the only-if-sent branch:
  a bare grok spawn is grok's own ask-mode default, which is already safe,
  so only a sent config needs the flag forced off. Cron needs nothing for
  the same reason.
- OpenCode-shaped on rendering: grok is a fullscreen alternate-screen TUI
  with mouse support, so it stays OUT of isAltScreenStripMode() and lands
  on the narrow tmux-attach strip and the 'buffer' local-echo fallthrough
  (unmeasured against an authenticated composer; documented fallback is the
  'off' branch).
- Pi-shaped on resolution: 'grok' has npm squatters (@vibe-kit/grok-cli
  also installs a grok bin), so grok-cli-resolver.ts version-probes every
  candidate (grok --version, killSignal SIGKILL, VITEST-gated) and
  GET /api/grok/status surfaces path AND version; GROK_VERSION_REGEX is
  shared with the dependency registry so doctor and run mode cannot drift.

Env allowlist gains GROK_* plus the XAI_* vendor namespace (XAI_API_KEY is
grok's documented headless auth var), the same narrow-vendor reasoning as
GOOGLE_* for gemini. Resume is id-regexed on purpose: grok's own --resume
also matches session titles, which are arbitrary user strings that must
never reach the bash -c spawn line.

Docker: grok is not on npm, so the agent image installs it in its own step
(xAI's installer has no --dir override; the binary is copied to
/usr/local/bin and root's ~/.grok dropped in the same layer), and
credentials are seeded per-file (auth.json, config.toml, pager.toml; the
dir also holds sessions/, memory/ and the ~160MB binary). Remote SSH routes
through the login-shell wrapper like the other agent CLIs.

Verified end to end on an isolated CODEMAN_INSTANCE with grok 1.0.5
installed: /api/grok/status resolves and reports the probed version,
quick-start spawns a pane whose command line ends in 'grok
--always-approve', the real TUI renders (OAuth device screen on an
unauthenticated box), and grokConfig round-trips through state.json.
Docs: docs/grok-integration.md (user guide) + docs/grok-integration-plan.md
(decisions, verification record, follow-ups).

Tests: test/grok-mode.test.ts, test/grok-cli-resolver.test.ts, plus
extended clamp/system-routes/render-index-html/run-mode-ui/mobile-overview/
local-echo-gating coverage. npm test (the CI gate) green: 5910 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 08:39:03 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 88bb98de43 chore: version packages 2026-08-22 14:45:08 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 687e9d7565 feat!: retire the sc tmux chooser in favour of codeman tui
scripts/tmux-chooser.sh is deleted. codeman tui replaces it and does the
job better: sc numbered its entries globally but only accepted a single
[1-9] keypress, so sessions 10+ were listed and unselectable, and it
inferred nothing about what an agent was doing. The tui carries the
server's real states, answers permission dialogs, and leaves an attach
with one key.

install.sh no longer creates the tmux-chooser symlink or the sc alias.
It now sweeps both up instead, on update AND uninstall, so an update
cannot leave a symlink pointing at a script this version stopped
shipping. The alias removal is marker-owned: it matches the exact line
the installer wrote, so someone's own 'alias sc=' for another tool is
never touched, and it rewrites through 'cat >' so the profile keeps its
mode and ownership. Verified against three profile shapes.

BREAKING CHANGE: the 'sc' command and the 'tmux-chooser' symlink are
gone. Use 'codeman tui' (and 'codeman tui --list' / 'codeman tui <n>').
2026-08-22 14:44:14 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 5d81cc01ca docs: point terminal users at codeman tui instead of the sc chooser
codeman tui supersedes the sc bash chooser: it reaches sessions 10+,
carries the server's real states instead of a static list, and leaves an
attach with one key. Every place that told a user to run sc now names the
tui equivalent, including the two wiki pages and install.sh's next-steps
banner. Both wiki pages also carried the wrong detach chord (Ctrl+A D;
the socket's prefix is C-b), which the tui makes moot.

Source comments that explained themselves as "the sc -l replacement" now
just say what they do. docs/tui-plan.md and CHANGELOG.md are historical
records and keep their references.
2026-08-22 14:36:23 +02:00
Ark0N f49249fb2f Merge pull request #312 from Ark0N/feat/tui
feat: codeman tui, a terminal dashboard with live agent states
2026-08-22 14:32:51 +02:00
Codeman maintainer bc3f9f8a37 docs: record the socket-resolution rule where the mechanism lives
CLAUDE.md gained "any new `tmux -L` caller through `resolveTmuxSocketName()`"
but architecture-invariants.md, which that bullet points at for the
mechanism, still described only the dataPath() half. Say why the rule
exists there too: the TUI is the first non-server process to shell out
to tmux.
2026-08-22 14:25:23 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 97acfc61c3 docs: stop telling sc users to press a key only the TUI binds
The sc chooser runs a plain `tmux attach-session` and binds nothing, so
F1 does not detach from it; only `codeman tui`'s attach claims that key,
and only for its own duration. The line it replaced was wrong too (the
socket's prefix is C-b, not C-a), so name the real chord and say which
command gives you the single key instead.
2026-08-22 14:19:31 +02:00
Codeman maintainer c27363459d docs(tui): stop telling people to press a key that does not work
The guide and the README both said to detach with `Ctrl+B D`. Beta testing
proved that wrong twice over: tmux binds lowercase `d` to `detach-client` and
capital `D` to `choose-client`, and even the correct letter fails for anyone who
keeps Ctrl held, because that sends `Ctrl+D`, which tmux leaves unbound. A
tester followed the documented instruction, stayed attached, and exited the
agent to escape.

Both now say `F1`, and the attach section describes what actually happens: the
session strip across the top of the pane, `Alt+1`..`Alt+9` switching without
returning to the dashboard, and `r` to resume a session whose pane has died.
Also corrected: `1-9` switches rather than jump-attaches, `x` confirms with `y`
rather than a typed name, and a new session opens straight into its pane.

`docs/tui-plan.md` is deliberately untouched — it is the design record of what
was planned, not a description of what shipped.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 737c2ed7f8 fix(tui): escape the separator in the switch binding, closing the sizing leak
The loose end from 777f974, now explained. Sessions came back from a detach on
`window-size latest` instead of `manual`, and the restore primitive round-tripped
correctly in isolation, so the corruption had to be upstream of it. It was: the
snapshot was taken from state this code had already broken.

`bindSwitchKey` passed a bare `;` between the two commands it wanted in one
binding. That is a command separator to tmux's OWN parser, not an argument: it
ended the `bind-key` and executed what followed immediately. So the binding kept
only `switch-client`, and `set-window-option ... window-size latest` RAN against
every switchable session at attach time — before the sizing snapshot was taken.
Every session was therefore snapshotted as `latest` and faithfully restored to
`latest`.

Proven against real tmux both ways before fixing: a bare `;` leaves the session
on `latest` and stores a one-command binding, while `\;` leaves it `manual` and
stores both commands.

Verified end to end: 7 sessions manual before, 1 latest + 6 manual during the
attach (the attached one follows the terminal, the rest are pre-sized), no dot
padding on a switch, and all 7 back to 120x40 manual after the detach.

This also means the "follow the terminal after switching" half of 777f974 never
actually worked — it was never in the binding.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer bb24d2c256 fix(tui): stop the preview stacking every repaint of a session
The overview showed the same session twice, one frame above another, after
switching sessions (reported from the beta with a screenshot).

Claude repaints by ABSOLUTE CURSOR POSITIONING, not by clearing: a 198KB pane
tail carries 1142 `CSI r;c H` and exactly one `CSI 2J`. The replay honoured the
COLUMN of those sequences and ignored the ROW, so a repaint could never
overwrite what came before and was appended instead. That same tail replayed as
FIFTY stacked copies of one frame. The preview shows the last N lines, so on a
short terminal you saw the newest frame by luck and on a tall one you saw the
end of the previous frame above it.

A cursor HOME now starts the buffer over. That is not a heuristic but the
line-based equivalent of what a home means: a full-screen app announcing it is
repainting from the top, with everything on screen about to be overwritten in
place. Only row 1 column 1 counts — any other address is a write position
inside the frame being painted, and resetting on those would erase live
content.

Measured on the real tail that produced the screenshot: 198599 bytes and 50
copies of the welcome frame collapse to 40 lines carrying exactly one.

The old test pinned the append behaviour, including a spurious leading empty
line that the initial CUP produced; both are gone.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer bc1821661f fix(tui): say alt+1-9 on the bar, and stop the dot grid when switching
The bar now reads "alt+1-9 switch · F1 back to the codeman dashboard", so the
switch keys are discoverable instead of secret. Shown only when those keys were
actually claimed, the same rule the way-out key follows: a bar naming a key
that does nothing is the bug this series started with.

THE DOT GRID. Switching landed in a pane occupying part of the terminal with
tmux's dot fill everywhere else. It was never a size mismatch — the window was
already the right size. `window-size latest` only resizes a window while a
client is ON it, and the sessions behind the tab strip have none until you
switch, so the resize happened AT the switch: tmux painted the newly-available
area with dots and an idle claude had no reason to redraw into it. Every
switchable session is now pre-sized to the attaching terminal, which moves that
repaint to attach time while the user is still looking at the first session,
and the switch binding restores `window-size latest` on arrival so a mid-attach
terminal resize still follows. Measured: 14 consecutive switches across 7
sessions, zero dot-padded rows, against 1-in-6 before.

⚠️ Known loose end, deliberately not papered over: after a detach the window
SIZE is restored exactly but the window-size MODE can come back as `latest`
rather than `manual`. The restore primitive round-trips correctly in isolation
(manual -> presize -> latest -> restore = manual) and no call site in the TUI
or the server sets `latest` afterwards, so the cause is not yet identified. The
practical effect is nil: the remaining client keeps the window at its own size
and Codeman re-pins `manual` on the browser's next resize.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 74c9879359 fix(tui): size every switchable session, not just the one being attached
Switching with Alt+N landed in a pane that filled part of the terminal with
tmux padding the rest as a dot grid — reported from the beta with a screenshot
showing the pane in the left half and dots everywhere else.

Codeman pins every window `window-size manual` at the BROWSER's size
(tmux-manager.ts), so no attaching client can resize it. The attach already
lifted that for the session it opened, which is why a plain attach looked
right; `switch-client` then moved the user into a session that had never been
lifted, and the old pin reasserted itself. `window-size latest` now goes on
every session the strip can reach, alongside the bar those sessions already
get, and each one's original sizing is snapshotted and restored on detach.

Verified by round-tripping a session pinned at 120x40 manual: latest 190x49
while attached, back to 120x40 manual after, with no dot rows at either step
and the bar intact at full width after a switch.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 499d3d6e4d fix(tui): finish the 1-9 rename in the fallback footer
The renderer's own FOOTER_KEYS table still said 'jump'. It is only reached when
the app layer supplies no footerKeys, so nothing visible was wrong, but a
fallback that contradicts the live footer is exactly the kind of drift that
turns into a bug report later.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 9b29666e03 fix(tui): keep the way out on the bar, and make Alt+1..9 actually switch
Four faults, all reported at once, and three of them were mine from the last
two commits.

THE HINT VANISHED. Two independent causes. First, a leaked F1 binding: an
attach whose TUI was killed leaves `F1 -> detach-client` in tmux's root table,
and the claim treated "already bound" as someone else's key, so every later
attach fell back to advertising the tmux chord — the bar stopped saying F1
while F1 still worked. A key already bound to `detach-client` now counts as
ours. Second, width: tmux truncates a status line that overflows and drops the
RIGHT-aligned segment, which is the hint. The strip now gets a budget measured
from the terminal's width minus the hint, and it drops tabs from the far end
until it fits. ⚠️ Measured on VISIBLE columns, not format bytes: `#[reverse]`
costs zero columns, and counting it made a strip that "fitted" still truncate
the hint at 80, 100, 120 and 176 columns on a real terminal.

ALT+N DID NOT SWITCH. On the dashboard, a bare digit meant jump AND ATTACH, and
a terminal sends Alt+N as ESC then N: when those land in separate reads —
routine over SSH — the chord decodes as Escape plus a bare digit, so "switch to
tab 2" threw the user into tab 2's pane. A digit now SELECTS, matching what
Alt+N means in the web UI; Enter is how you go in. Inside a pane the keys never
reached the TUI at all, since tmux owns the terminal, so the attach now binds
Alt+1..9 in tmux's root table to `switch-client` — the strip is usable rather
than decorative. ⚠️ The bar is applied to every session the strip can reach,
each highlighting its own tab: with it on the attached session only, switching
landed the user in a pane with no strip and no way out on screen.

⚠️ The leaked-state sweep was missing `status-position`, so it removed the
marker and left the position behind — and with no marker the leftover no longer
matched, making it permanently unsweepable. Found by diffing every session's
options after a detach.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer aec6516638 feat(tui): keep the session tabs visible inside a pane, and move the way out to F1
Attaching made every other session disappear: the dashboard is gone, tmux owns
the terminal, and there is nothing left saying what else is running. The attach
bar now carries the session strip, numbered exactly as the dashboard numbers
them, with the session you are in inverted, and it sits at the TOP of the pane
where the web UI keeps its tabs.

The strip is a WINDOW around the active tab, not the whole list, with ellipses
marking each end that is actually cut. The bar is one line shared with the way
out, and that hint is the only instruction a user gets while tmux has the
terminal, so it must never be crowded off; a test drives 20 long-named sessions
through the bar and asserts it survives.

⚠️ The strip is a snapshot taken at attach time and never refreshed. The TUI is
blocked in `spawnSync` for the whole attach so there is no loop to update from,
and tmux's own format language cannot map a `codeman-<hex>` session name back
to a label a human recognises. Slightly stale beats absent.

The way out moves from F12 to F1, which sits beside Esc where a hand backing
out already goes. Verified against BOTH encodings a terminal sends for it:
xterm's SS3 (ESC O P) and PuTTY's default (ESC [ 1 1 ~).

`status-position` joins the snapshot, so a session that had its bar at the
bottom gets it back there on detach along with everything else.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer c59f006bb6 fix(tui): stop drawing from the unicode blocks a plain terminal font lacks
Three separate "why are there boxes" reports, and I fixed them one glyph at a
time instead of as a class, so the next one was always waiting. Grouping the
tester's terminal by unicode block made the rule obvious:

  RENDERS   Latin-1 (·), Box Drawing (─ │), Block Elements (█ ▛ ▐),
            Geometric Shapes (○ ▶), General Punctuation (…), Arrows
  TOFU      Miscellaneous Technical (⏎ U+23CE, ⏵ U+23F5), the sparse end
            of Dingbats (❯ U+276F)

That is an ordinary font, not a broken one, so it is the profile to design
against. The working spinner moves off Dingbats and Math Operators onto
quadrant blocks (▖▘▝▗) — the same block as the `▛█▐` art claude itself draws,
which that font renders fine — and the blocked marker moves off `⚠`
(Misc Symbols, emoji presentation on many terminals) onto `▲`, the block that
already gives us `▶` and `○`.

The preview fold gains claude's own spinner dingbats (✢ ✳ ∗ ✻ ✽ ✴ → `*`) and
`⚠` → `!`. Its animated status line is exactly where a reader looks, so tofu
there is the most visible kind there is.

A test now enforces this as a CLASS: no glyph in the unicode set may come from
Misc Technical, Misc Symbols or Dingbats, with U+2714 the single documented
exception because it was observed rendering on the very font that failed the
others. Verified by scanning a live frame driven with the tester's exact
environment: zero glyphs from any of the three blocks.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer b2ac6c1bd9 fix(tui): confirm a kill with y, and make the dialog say what it would kill
Killing demanded the session's NAME typed out in full. That is the right
ceremony for dropping a production database and the wrong one for closing a
pane you are looking at; the beta tester's verdict was "thats stupid, just make
me type Y to confirm". `x` then `y` is already two deliberate keystrokes on a
row the user selected, and the conversation lives in its transcript, which a
kill does not touch.

Everything that is not `y` CANCELS rather than being ignored, so a stray key
closes the dialog instead of leaving a destructive prompt armed and waiting for
whatever gets typed next. Enter cancels too: it is the key most likely to be
hit by reflex, and this is the one dialog that destroys something.

⚠️ Found while verifying the new dialog: it did not name the session. The label
was computed as `row.session.name ?? id.slice(0, 8)`, and `??` falls back only
on null or undefined, so every session the server left with an EMPTY name — all
of them, until the TUI started naming its own — sailed through and the box read
"Kill ?". A destructive prompt that cannot say what it will destroy is worse
than no prompt, and it is now a single keystroke. The caller passes the same
label the LIST shows, so the dialog names the row in front of the user.

The typed-name machinery goes with it: TuiConfirmState.typed, setConfirmInput(),
confirmAccepts() and the 'typing'/'reject' steps are all removed rather than
left as unreachable branches.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 7b1150ca4f fix(tui): start a session straight into it, and drop two unsafe glyphs
Two reports from the same beta screenshot.

Starting a session left the user on the dashboard next to the row they had just
asked for, which reads as the create having silently failed. Starting a session
is a request to WORK in it, so the terminal now goes there as soon as the pane
exists, and the CLI booting is worth watching. If the pane is slow the notice
says so and the row is left selected, exactly as the resume path does.

The footer's `↵` was drawing as an empty box: `⏎` (U+23CE) has poor font
coverage, on the same terminal that renders `·`, `─`, `│`, `○`, `▶` and `✔`
perfectly. It is now U+21B5, from the Arrows block every monospace font ships.

`✋` (U+270B) was worse than a coverage problem: it is East Asian WIDE, so the
renderer, which addresses cells by column, was reserving two cells for it. The
golden frames had the age column shifted a space left to match, which is how
long that had been wrong. It is now `!`, and the frames align correctly.

A test walks the whole unicode glyph set and fails on any entry wider than one
cell, so a glyph that shifts the layout cannot be added again. The comment on
the table spells out both bars a glyph has to clear, because the tier check
answers neither: it asks whether the LOCALE is UTF-8, which says nothing about
whether a font has the glyph or how wide it draws.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 95a1f540b5 feat(tui): switch sessions with the web UI's shortcuts
Alt+1..9 switches to that session, and `[` / `]` / Tab step through them, so the
muscle memory from the web UI carries over.

Alt+N SELECTS rather than attaches, which is what the web UI's Alt+N does:
switching which tab you look at is cheap and reversible, and the terminal
equivalent is moving the selection and its preview, not handing the whole
terminal to a pane. Bare 1-9 keeps its documented jump-and-attach meaning.

Two of the web UI's chords cannot cross into a terminal, so the nearest
transmittable keys carry them instead:

  Alt+[ / Alt+]  ESC+[ IS the CSI introducer every arrow key arrives on, and
                 ESC+] is OSC, so neither chord is distinguishable from a
                 sequence. Bare `[` and `]` do the job.
  Ctrl+Tab       a terminal cannot report the Ctrl, so plain Tab carries it.

⚠️ The parser now decodes ESC + a printable character in ONE read as an Alt
chord, and the app replays every chord it does not claim as `escape` then that
character. That fallback is load-bearing, not tidiness: a real Esc landing in
the same read as the next keystroke is byte-identical to a chord, and without
the replay "Esc then q" typed quickly decoded as Alt+Q, matched nothing and was
swallowed. The e2e suite caught exactly that as the dashboard refusing to quit.
A lone Esc is still held and flushed on the caller's timer, which is what keeps
the two separable at all.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer e7b7e90a1b fix(tui): fold rare prompt glyphs in the preview so they stop rendering as boxes
A beta tester photographed claude's `❯` prompt and its `⏵⏵` bypass-permissions
marker rendering as empty boxes in the preview pane. Their font has no coverage
for those codepoints while drawing `·`, `─`, `│` and `▶` perfectly.

The glyph TIER cannot help here. It answers "can this terminal do Unicode at
all", which is a locale question, and it correctly says yes for exactly the
terminals this affects. Coverage is per-glyph and undetectable from inside the
process, so the handful of rare glyphs CLIs use as chrome are folded to the
ASCII arrows they already look like, and everything a plain font does render is
left alone.

Scoped tightly: the preview only, never the TUI's own chrome, and skipped
entirely at the `nerd` tier where the user has declared a font that can draw
anything. The table is short and every entry was seen as tofu in a real
terminal rather than guessed at. The fold is length-preserving, so the preview
pane's column arithmetic is unaffected.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 84f8a8a2fe feat(tui): offer r to resume a session whose pane has died
Refusing the attach stopped the freeze but told the user to throw the session
away (`x` to close, `n` for new), which loses the conversation. tmux's own
dead-pane screen already says what to do instead: `claude --resume "<name>"`.

The Error card now offers `r` when the row can actually be resumed (claude,
with a conversation id and a working directory), and the footer says so. One
press resumes into a fresh pane and attaches to it, so a dead end becomes
recovery.

⚠️ Three things keep this from becoming the resume runaway that once spawned 35
sessions in 40 seconds. The offer holds a session ID, not a row, and is
re-resolved from the model when the key is pressed: a row captured when the
card opened is stale by then. It disarms BEFORE anything async, so a second `r`
cannot start a second resume. And it routes through resumeSelected(), which
owns the `resuming` flag and ends in attachToSession() rather than the group
dispatch.

⚠️ The `r` branch has to run BEFORE the generic dismiss, because a message
overlay is dismissed by ANY key: without that ordering the offer is consumed as
"some key was pressed" and the card merely closes. `help` keeps the any-key
behaviour, so the two modes no longer share a case.

Verified end to end against a genuinely dead claude pane: card, footer, one
press, one new session, and F12 back to the dashboard.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 6ad9145417 feat(tui): leave an attach with ONE key, F12, and no modifier
Three beta rounds died on tmux's native way out, and the last one died on the
instruction rather than the mechanism: "press Ctrl+B, release Ctrl, then d" is,
in the tester's words, very unclear, and holding the modifier through both keys
silently does nothing.

So the way out stops being a chord. The attach claims F12 in tmux's prefix-less
`root` table for its own duration, and the bar reads "press F12 to get back to
the codeman dashboard" — one keystroke, nothing to hold, nothing to release,
no order to get right. F12 because stock tmux ships an empty root table apart
from mouse bindings, and none of the CLIs that run in these panes want the key.

⚠️ The bar names the one key ONLY when the claim succeeded, and falls back to
the chord wording otherwise. A bar advertising a key that does nothing is the
bug this whole series started with, and it must not come back in a new costume.
Same claim rules as the prefix alias: taken only when tmux reports the key
unbound, given back only while it still means `detach-client`.

The chord and the held-Ctrl alias both keep working; they are simply no longer
what the user is told to press.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer ab4a868688 fix(tui): make the detach chord work when Ctrl is never released
Reported three times as "Ctrl+B and d is still not working", on a build whose
bar already named the right key. Measured against a live pane: of the three
ways a person types this, only one worked.

  Ctrl+B, release Ctrl, then d   detaches
  Ctrl+B then Ctrl+D (held)      nothing happens
  Ctrl+B then Shift+D            nothing happens

Holding Ctrl through both keys sends 0x02 then 0x04, and tmux ships `C-d`
unbound in the prefix table, so the keystroke is swallowed in silence and the
attach looks frozen. That is not a user error worth documenting around: holding
the modifier is how most people type a two-key chord.

The attach now claims the held-Ctrl form of whatever key detaches (`d` → `C-d`)
for its own duration and gives it back on restore, and the bar advertises it
only once the claim succeeded, so it can never name a key that does nothing.
⚠️ The key is claimed ONLY when tmux reports it unbound, and released only
while it still means `detach-client`, so a binding of the user's own is never
shadowed or removed. The alias is deliberately excluded from the leaked-state
sweep: key tables are server-global, so the sweep cannot tell a leak from a
second TUI's live claim, and a stray `C-d`→detach is harmless either way.

Ruled out along the way, with evidence rather than assumption: the encoding.
tmux negotiates no extended-key mode upstream on attach (no kitty CSI-u, no
modifyOtherKeys, no DECSET 2017), so Ctrl+B does arrive as a plain 0x02 even
from a Claude pane, which has its own keyboard protocol.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 35b2c1baa5 fix(tui): refuse to attach to a dead pane, and stop naming sessions after CLI noise
Two more from the same beta round, both reported as "basic things are broken".

Attaching to a DEAD pane trapped the user. Codeman sets `remain-on-exit on`, so
a session whose agent has exited does not disappear: the row looks ordinary,
the server still reports it idle, and Enter handed the terminal to a pane that
reads no input. With the detach chord also wrong at the time, that was a hard
freeze with no way out. Enter now probes `#{pane_dead}` first and refuses with
an Error card naming the session and what to do instead. The probe fails OPEN,
so it can never block an attach to a live pane. ⚠️ It also has to paint: the
keypress that reaches attachToSession() has already painted by the time an
awaited probe resolves, so message() alone left the refusal invisible and Enter
looked inert, which is the bug it was added to fix.

A session started from the TUI came out unnamed, because startSession() sent no
sessionName and rowLabel() then fell back to the transcript's first line. A
brand-new session has no prompt to be named after, so the list showed a
perfectly healthy session called "Login interrupted" — the CLI's startup
output, reading like a failure report. Sessions the TUI starts are now named
`w<n>-<case>` like the web UI's, and rowLabel() prefers the case directory over
a scraped prompt for any row with a mux name, since a LIVE pane is identified
by where it runs while a history row genuinely is its prompt.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer bf860382a2 fix(tui): sweep an attach status bar a killed terminal left behind
restore() runs after spawnSync returns, which covers detaching and the agent
exiting inside the pane, but not the terminal dying while attached. Closing the
window or dropping the SSH kills the TUI where it stands, and the bar it
installed stays pinned on the session: the next attach wears a stale bar naming
a different session, and the pane is a row shorter for good. Seen on the beta,
where the tester closed the window instead of detaching.

One sweep at startup, fire-and-forget so it can neither delay the first frame
nor fail a start. Only a bar carrying our own marker is touched, and the marker
is now the single source of the bar's own wording so the two cannot drift; a
user's hand-written status bar on the same session is left exactly as it is.
The session goes back to `status off`, which is how Codeman creates every pane
it owns and the only state this bar is ever applied over.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer aa487f13ce fix(tui): advertise the key that actually detaches, and stop tmux painting it green
Two things the attach status bar got wrong, both found in a beta test.

The bar read `Ctrl+B D`. tmux key tables are case-sensitive: lowercase `d` is
`detach-client`, capital `D` is `choose-client`. Pressing what the bar said
opened a client chooser and left the tester attached, with the way out on
screen and inert. The key is now READ from `list-keys -T prefix` the same way
the prefix already was, rather than hardcoded, so a rebound tmux is followed
too and the label cannot drift from the binding again. It never goes through
formatPrefixKey(), which uppercases.

The bar also rendered as a full-width bright green slab. Only `status-format[0]`
was styled, so tmux's stock `status-style` (`bg=green,fg=black`) stayed
underneath it and won; `#[reverse]` on top could not undo it. `status-style` is
now set explicitly to `bg=default,fg=default` and snapshotted/restored with the
rest, so the bar sits on the terminal's own background and reads as a hint
line.

Tests pin both: that the chord ends in lowercase `d` and never ` D`, that a
rebound key prints verbatim, that `status-style` is part of the banner, and
that parseDetachKey() picks `d` out of verbatim tmux 3.4 `list-keys` output
while ignoring `detach-client -a`/`-P`, which act on other clients.
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 0919f9da62 fix(tui): make an attach fit the terminal, show the way out, and resume history
Three things the first beta test surfaced.

1. Attaching from a terminal of a different shape showed the pane clipped to the
   browser's size, with tmux's dot padding filling the rest. Codeman pins every
   window it owns to `window-size manual` at whatever the web client reports
   (tmux-manager.ts), so no attaching client can resize it. The handoff now
   brackets the attach with `window-size latest` and restores the snapshot on
   detach. `latest`, rather than a one-off resize to our own size, is also what
   lets a terminal resized MID-attach follow along: tmux recomputes on every
   SIGWINCH while the TUI is blocked in spawnSync and cannot.

2. Nothing on screen said how to get back out, because Codeman keeps the status
   bar off on its panes (the web UI carries that information around the terminal
   instead). The tester exited the agent looking for the exit, leaving a dead
   pane. An attach now wears a `status-format[0]` bar reading "<prefix> D
   detach, back to the codeman dashboard", with the prefix READ from tmux rather
   than assumed, and the session's options are put back exactly as they were on
   detach. One option, not status-left/status-right, so tmux draws no window
   list beside it; `reverse` so it inherits the terminal's own theme. Restoring
   an array option unsets the BASE name, since dropping the `[0]` index leaves
   an empty array, which renders as a blank bar on a session that had one. The
   help overlay names the chord, and the dashboard confirms the detach.

3. Enter on a RECENT row said resuming was not wired up. It now creates a
   session carrying that conversation (`resumeSessionId` plus `/interactive`,
   the path the web UI's Resume Conversation list already uses), in the
   directory it ran in and under its old name, then attaches to it.

   The attach mechanics deliberately sit in a method the group dispatch cannot
   reach, plus a re-entrancy flag: routing resume back through the Enter handler
   re-dispatched on "this row is RECENT" and spawned one session per pass, 35 in
   about 40 seconds on the beta before it was killed. test/tui/tui-e2e.test.ts
   pins one press to one session with a pane that never appears, which is
   exactly the case that looped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 75b272ff0a perf: pace the refetch and back the tail poll off a quiet pane
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 1385415e53 refactor: drop the two store members nothing consults
`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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 954a9ac26a fix: date a working row by its turn, not by the session age
`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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 5fd6c5dd44 docs: extend the instance-isolation rule to tmux socket resolution
The data-dir half was already spelled out; the socket half only lived in
a function docstring, and the TUI is the first code that shells out to
`tmux -L` from a process that is not the server.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 8b5fc974b0 fix: cover tui in the CLI inventory and drop the em-dashes it printed
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer a52abd9f96 fix: drop the two keymap and style entries nothing reaches
`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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 008dfddc23 docs: document codeman tui
The user guide covers what the dashboard is (and is not), the two
non-interactive fast paths, the four groups and their ordering, the full
keymap, what answering an approval does server-side, and the SSH/narrow
and degraded cases. The example frame is a real 100x30 capture against
the E2E fake server, not a drawing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 32549789c7 fix: keep the plan-usage chip across a degraded-to-connected upgrade
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 29d9a55eb6 fix: drop stale approvals and re-check the preview when the world changes
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer ef812236b0 fix: read a row-addressed repaint as lines in the preview
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer b51abe2c27 test: drive the phase-2 verbs end to end under a pty
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer eb8958ddd0 feat: answer approvals and send prompts from the dashboard
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 953a560eee feat: render the approval card, composer, search and digest
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer dc89f05b14 feat: hold composer, search and digest state in the TUI model
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer bb73400afa feat: add the TUI's editor, approval and digest pure cores
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 9d7dd2ab62 test: drive codeman tui end to end under a pty
Spawns the real command in a pseudo-terminal against a fake API server
(canned status/unified/approvals plus an SSE stream the test pushes
into), which is the only way to cover raw-mode key decoding, frames
reaching a terminal, SSE-driven refresh and the exit sequence that has to
restore the user's screen.

Two details the assertions depend on: frames are addressed absolutely
rather than newline-separated, so the parser takes the last COMPLETE
frame (the pty delivers one in several chunks, and reading a half-written
frame would be racy), and it reads the sidebar column only, or a name
echoed in the preview pane could answer for a row.

The child gets its own data dir and a tmux socket name nothing runs on,
so nothing here can see or touch the machine's real sessions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 3f88226d50 feat: register the tui command with its two fast paths
`codeman tui` opens the dashboard, `codeman tui --list` prints the
numbered list and exits (the `sc -l` replacement, plain when piped) and
`codeman tui <n>` attaches straight to a row (the `sc 2` replacement).
Both fast paths short-circuit before any screen setup, and both refuse
the numbers path without a terminal instead of half-opening a UI.

Bare `codeman` still prints help: the web UI stays the primary surface.
The TUI module is imported lazily so the other commands do not pay for it
at startup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer e5ae2826c6 feat: add the codeman tui dashboard
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 85b69e0923 feat: render the TUI picker overlay and a caller-supplied keymap
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 6682231d68 feat: give the TUI model a revision signal and picker state
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`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer e140132e45 feat: add the TUI's API, SSE and degraded-mode client
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 6475c010a6 feat: decode the SSE wire format for the TUI
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 64c8048dda refactor: resolve the tmux socket from the instance config
The socket name was computed inside tmux-manager, which the TUI cannot import
just to learn which `-L` name its degraded-mode listing belongs on (that module
is the server's tmux driver, not a lookup table). The resolver moves next to
`dataPath()`, where the other half of the instance identity already lives, so
both processes agree by construction instead of by a copied default.

Behaviour is unchanged: the override still wins only when it is a name that can
be passed to `tmux -L` safely, and TmuxManager keeps warning about one that
cannot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 0566ea3453 docs: record why the key parser reads LF as Enter
Ctrl+J is unbindable as a result, which is worth knowing before someone tries
to bind it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 6ef3b2ba2e feat: render TUI frames from the model and layout
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 74fe2cad9f feat: add the TUI responsive layout math
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer aa2deea73e feat: add the TUI session model, classification and cursor
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 5d7fdb528b feat: add the TUI raw-mode key parser
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 64cf8384f2 feat: add the TUI's SGR-aware preview helpers
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>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 596c08d20c chore: stop ignoring src/tui
The entry dates from an abandoned prototype (0.1427) and would have kept the
real TUI modules untracked while `git status` stayed silent about it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 1d0c3650f9 docs: fix the codeman attach description and the detach prefix
`codeman attach <path>` posts an attachment card for a local file; it
was described as attaching a Claude hook context. And Codeman never
overrides the tmux prefix for local sessions (only remote-SSH and docker
panes get C-q), so the detach hint is Ctrl+B D, matching the chooser.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer b9afd5a57e test: derive the CLI inventory from the real commander program
The file asserted against a hand-written fixture array with its own
argument parser, so it could not see a command being renamed, losing an
alias or disappearing, and it described a `tui` command that does not
exist. It now walks program.commands: names, aliases, subcommands,
option flags, operands, descriptions, and a guard against registering a
name or alias twice at one level.

Assertions are "at least this exists", so a new command (including the
tui one this plan adds later) passes without editing the test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 14a911b4f6 fix: color the server startup line and its security warning
The startup banner is now the only one (the CLI printed a duplicate) and
is painted like the rest of the CLI. The non-loopback-without-password
warning was plain console.warn while the CLI's copy of the same warning
was yellow; chalk degrades off a TTY, so journald and web.log stay free
of escape codes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 9b1d269943 feat: wire the CLI through the style kit (doctor colors, spinners, confirm)
- doctor is colorized through the ReportStyle hook: verdict glyph and
  failing status text painted, paths and hints muted, versions left
  alone. `doctor --json` still prints raw JSON.
- `codeman web -d`, `web --stop` and `service install` block for up to
  30s polling /api/status; each now runs under a spinner instead of a
  silent terminal.
- `codeman reset` asks a real y/N question on a TTY. Non-interactive
  callers keep the old "Use --force to confirm." refusal, so no script
  can be answered by a question it cannot see.
- `codeman list` was a drifted copy of `codeman session list`; both now
  call one renderer, with the shorthand opting out of the stopped and
  web-server sections.
- `web` no longer prints its own "running at" line: the server prints
  one, and unlike this one it also covers the daemon and service paths.
- every chalk call goes through the palette, so the CLI has one place
  where colors are decided.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 4e5d0dcbd6 fix: measure the doctor table columns and let the CLI paint them
"Antigravity CLI" is 15 characters and the hardcoded padEnd(14) pushed
that whole row one column right. Widths now come from the widest cell.

The header always said the CLI layer may colorize, but there was no way
to: renderTable now takes an optional ReportStyle whose hooks are
identity by default, so the module still decides nothing about color and
its output stays byte-stable. Padding is applied outside the paint, so a
row with no path detail ends at its status text instead of trailing
spaces inside a color run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f9d6c4f0c3 feat: shared CLI style kit
One vocabulary for everything the codeman CLI prints: semantic palette,
the glyph set the commands already used, heading/rule/kv, width-aware
table layout, a stderr spinner and a y/N confirm.

Color detection stays chalk's, so NO_COLOR and non-TTY degradation keep
working with no second detector to disagree with it. The layout math and
glyph selection are pure and exported, which is what lets the dependency
report reuse them while staying color-free.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 09d6bb9eb0 docs: TUI rework plan (codeman tui, herdr research)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer a922d301b1 chore: version packages 2026-08-21 20:24:38 +02:00
Ark0N abca552676 Merge pull request #327 from dignfei/fix/terminal-ime-punctuation
fix(terminal): preserve IME punctuation input
2026-08-21 20:23:26 +02:00
Ark0N 12a996b107 Merge pull request #331 from dignfei/fix/shell-history-performance
fix(terminal): bound shell history replay
2026-08-21 20:23:17 +02:00
d fei 458e751a33 fix(terminal): keep shell history loading explicit 2026-08-22 01:55:50 +08:00
d fei dab432b3fd fix(terminal): bound shell history replay 2026-08-21 08:23:31 -04:00
Codeman maintainer 79a0399552 chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 02:47:10 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 61251c0b94 fix(cli-resolvers): negative-result caching, SIGKILL on probes, restored VITEST hermeticity, wired not-found diagnostics
Post-merge follow-ups for PR #329 (shared CLI executable resolution):

- Negative-cache resolution misses with a doubling backoff (1min -> 5min
  cap, cliResolveRetryDelayMs, mirroring claudeVersionRetryDelayMs): the
  shared resolver cached success only, so a missing CLI re-ran the whole
  chain - ending in a synchronous interactive login-shell spawn bounded by
  the 5s EXEC_TIMEOUT_MS - on every /api/<cli>/status request and Run
  attempt, stalling the event loop each time, forever. Success still caches
  for the process lifetime, so an installed CLI is picked up within minutes
  without a restart. Tests drive the backoff via an injectable clock
  (createCliExecutableResolver `now` option, threaded through the
  createPiResolverForTest / createAntigravityResolverForTest wrappers).

- Pass killSignal: 'SIGKILL' on the resolver's login-shell spawn and on the
  pi/claude --version probes: execFileSync's timeout only SENDS the kill
  signal and then keeps waiting for the child to exit, and interactive bash
  ignores SIGTERM, so a login shell stuck in a blocking .bash_profile
  survived the timeout and blocked the server permanently.

- Restore test hermeticity (PR #329 deleted pi's VITEST guards, and one
  test pinned the deletion): under vitest the production resolver host now
  replaces un-injected IO primitives with inert stubs - no real PATH
  scanning, no login-shell spawns - and probePiVersion never executes a
  `pi` candidate again (`pi` is a generic binary name, so route tests
  hitting /api/pi/status executed whatever binary the machine carried).
  Tests opt in through the runCommand/isExecutableFile injection hooks or
  allowRealIoUnderVitest for real-filesystem fixtures. The deletion-pinning
  test is replaced by behavioral pins, including a real-executable fixture
  in the new test/pi-cli-resolver.test.ts that fails loudly if the pi gate
  is ever removed again.

- Wire the six get*NotFoundMessage() exports (previously dead) into their
  intended call sites: the createSession throws in tmux-manager and the
  availability gates on POST /api/sessions and POST /api/quick-start in
  session-routes, replacing a third hardcoded copy of the text. A not-found
  error now names where resolution looked (server PATH, login shell,
  checked directories). npm run knip no longer reports any unused export
  from the resolver modules.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 02:37:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer bb4ba79791 fix(repo-status): async git, single-flight TTL cache, credential redaction, local-upstream parse
Post-merge follow-ups for #328 (GET /api/system/repo-status):

- Event-loop blocking: every git invocation in repo-status.ts is now async
  (promisified execFile), never execFileSync — the per-remote ls-remote +
  fetch could hold the event loop (SSE, PTY streaming) for up to ~60s per
  request. The whole computation is single-flight with a 45s TTL cache
  (createSingleFlightCache): concurrent requests share one in-flight
  promise, a fresh result is served without spawning git, and a rejected
  compute is never cached. Route handler shape and response fields
  unchanged; remotes still processed sequentially (concurrent fetches in
  one repo contend on ref locks).

- Credential disclosure: the redaction from git-clone.ts is extracted as
  exported redactGitCredentials() (sanitizeGitOutput now uses it) and
  applied via redactRemoteStatus() to every remote card's url and error
  string, so a scheme://user:token@host remote URL (or git stderr echoing
  it) never reaches a client.

- Non-interactive env: runGit() now uses the shared gitNonInteractiveEnv()
  instead of a partial GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT/BatchMode env, also closing the
  GIT_ASKPASS/SSH_ASKPASS/SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE/DISPLAY/GCM_INTERACTIVE
  prompt paths.

- Upstream parse bug: a local-branch upstream (@{upstream} with no slash,
  e.g. after `git branch -u otherbranch`) made slice(0, indexOf('/')) into
  slice(0, -1) and yielded garbage like "maste". parseTrackingRemote()
  (pure, unit-tested) returns null for it, and the bare ref is dropped so
  it cannot be mistaken for a remote-tracking ref downstream.

Tests extended in test/repo-status.test.ts (parseTrackingRemote,
redactGitCredentials/redactRemoteStatus, createSingleFlightCache
single-flight/TTL/rejection semantics).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 02:25:43 +02:00
Codeman maintainer d7ad73bc9b fix(response-viewer): role on full-context blocks, divider ReDoS, pi mode (#326 follow-up)
Three post-merge fixes for the external-CLI response viewer:

- ?context=full blocks now carry role ('user' for prompts, 'assistant'
  for response/status/tool). The frontend's loadFullContext() renders
  via msg.role, so the roleless blocks lost the "You" badge and every
  turn rendered as the agent. kind/label/text are unchanged and the
  frontend needs no change.

- normalizeDividerStatusLine() dropped its backtracking regex
  (/^[─-]+\s*(.+?)\s*[─-]{3,}$/): the lazy middle went catastrophic on
  a long dash run without a 3-dash tail (measured 15.5s at 4,000 chars,
  minutes at 10,000), and pane text is agent-controlled with buffers up
  to 32MB. Replaced by a linear counter walk with the identical accept
  set and captured content, pinned char-for-char against the old regex
  by a brute-force corpus test plus a hostile-input regression test
  that fails by timeout with the RegExp version (same approach as the
  glob-matcher hardening in 68ae9a8).

- 'pi' joins EXTERNAL_CLI_MODES: pi sessions had the identical
  empty-viewer symptom the transcript branch exists to fix. The list
  stays a local duplicate of isExternalCliMode() (importing session.ts
  would drag node-pty into the pure module); a new exhaustive parity
  test asserts the two mode sets can no longer drift.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 02:25:43 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 96ee8b536d docs: update the tap-report gate description after #325
#325 renamed _sessionUsesServerMouseStrip to _shouldReportMouseToCli and
added the server-observed cliMouseTracking half of the gate, which also
turned codex tap reports from measured no-ops into not-sent-at-all. The
invariants paragraph still described the old name and the old behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 02:13:26 +02:00
Ark0N b7f3b07c79 Merge pull request #330 from aakhter/ralph-loop-reschedule
Ralph loop silently stops polling after two ticks
2026-08-21 02:10:41 +02:00
Ark0N 2073a1b185 Merge pull request #328 from aakhter/repo-status-panel
Report repository status for git-clone installs (GET /api/system/repo-status)
2026-08-21 02:10:38 +02:00
Ark0N f9a8493823 Merge pull request #329 from aakhter/cli-login-shell-resolution
CLIs installed via nvm/Homebrew are not found when Codeman runs as a service
2026-08-21 02:10:35 +02:00
Ark0N d2711ef092 Merge pull request #326 from aakhter/response-viewer-external-cli
Response viewer is empty for OpenCode / Gemini / Antigravity sessions
2026-08-21 02:10:29 +02:00
Ark0N 30a15adbd6 Merge pull request #325 from Ark0N/feat/auto-copy-selection
feat(terminal): Auto Copy, put a finished selection on the clipboard
2026-08-21 02:10:19 +02:00
Aamer Akhter a35438ba34 fix(ralph): loop stops rescheduling after two ticks
The reschedule guard is `this._status === 'running' && this.loopTimer === null`,
but the timer callback never nulls `loopTimer`. So the handle stays non-null from
the first fire onward, the guard is false on every subsequent pass, and the Ralph
loop silently stops polling after exactly two ticks.

It stops without changing status: `status` stays `running`, `stop()` is never
called, and no error is raised — the loop just quietly never runs again, which is
what makes it hard to notice on a long autonomous run.

Null the handle inside the callback before re-entering `runLoop()`, which is the
pattern `orchestrator-loop.ts` already uses for its own reschedule.

Test: a regression case in test/ralph-loop.test.ts that runs a real 5ms-interval
loop for ~16 intervals and asserts it ticks at least 3 times. Against the unfixed
source it reports exactly 2.
2026-08-20 12:58:17 -04:00
Aamer Akhter fef903df98 fix(cli-resolvers): find CLIs installed via nvm/Homebrew when running as a service
A CLI installed by nvm, Homebrew or a user-level npm prefix lives on a PATH that
only a login shell sets up. Codeman running under systemd or launchd does not get
that PATH — launchd hands a job `/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin` — so every
resolver reported the CLI as unavailable on installs where it is plainly there
and works from a terminal.

Each of the six resolvers had its own hand-rolled copy of the same PATH walk, so
the fix is factored into one shared `createCliExecutableResolver()` with an
explicit lookup order: the server process PATH, then common install directories in
order, then an interactive login shell as the last resort. Only the last step
spawns anything, and only when the cheap lookups have already missed.

Also adds `formatCliNotFoundMessage()`, so a failure explains where it looked
instead of just asserting the CLI is missing. Its diagnostics are bounded and
control characters are flattened, so a not-found message cannot dump arbitrary
environment data.

Success is cached and failure is retried, so installing a CLI while the server is
running is picked up without a restart.

Net -103 lines across the six resolvers. Behaviour is unchanged wherever the CLI
was already on the process PATH: that remains the first thing checked.

Tests: 20 cases in test/cli-executable-resolver.test.ts covering the precedence
order, login-shell-only resolution, the caching rule, unsafe-name rejection, and
the bounded diagnostics.
2026-08-20 12:47:42 -04:00
Aamer Akhter 02e7d3fcba feat(system): report repository status for git-clone installs
`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.
2026-08-20 12:39:28 -04:00
d fei f744719650 fix(terminal): preserve IME punctuation input 2026-08-20 10:35:23 -04:00
Aamer Akhter 63c5ba89da fix(response-viewer): populate the viewer for OpenCode/Gemini/Antigravity panes
`GET /api/sessions/:id/last-response` branches to a Codex-specific reader, then
falls through to scanning `~/.claude/projects` for a transcript. OpenCode, Gemini
and Antigravity render their own TUIs and never write one, so that scan finds
nothing and the response viewer is permanently empty for all three modes.

For these CLIs the pane IS the transcript, so segment it. `response-viewer-transcript.ts`
is a pure, dependency-free parser that splits a terminal buffer into prompt /
response / status / tool blocks, keying off the `›` prompt marker, status
dividers and `• Calling|Called` tool-activity lines. The route uses it to answer
with the LAST response, and to carry the parsed blocks under `?context=full`.

Codex keeps its existing branch: it has real rollout files, which are a better
source than scraped pane text.

The response shape is unchanged for every other mode, and Claude panes are
explicitly pinned to the Claude transcript path so a real transcript can never
be shadowed by scraped text.

Tests: 14 parser cases plus a route suite covering all three modes, the
`?context=full` payload, an empty pane, and the Claude regression guard.
2026-08-20 09:24:37 -04:00
Codeman maintainer 7fc4784d0f fix(approvals): clear the red tab alert when a dialog is answered in the terminal
Confirming an AskUserQuestion left its tab flowing red for the rest of
the turn (owner report: ~8 minutes on a running session, with no dialog
anywhere on screen). Two separate bugs, both live-verified.

The re-capture erased the evidence the staleness check runs on. Claude
Code fires the Notification behind the dialog (measured 6-7s on v2.1.237,
documented up to ~30s), so the 600ms re-capture routinely lands on a
frame the user has ALREADY answered, parses nothing, and applyCapture
overwrote item.options with undefined. A MISSING options is how "we never
could read this dialog" is expressed, and those items stay answerable by
design, so a cleared field was indistinguishable from a never-parsed one
and the item became permanently unsweepable: it survived every
GET /api/approvals and every page reload, cleared only on `stop`, and
still accepted an answer, sending a bare `1` into a composer with no
dialog under it. applyCapture is now ADD-ONLY for options.

Nothing ran the staleness check while a page was open. It lived only in
GET /api/approvals, which seedApprovals() calls on init and reconnect, so
`stop` was the first thing that ever cleared an answered dialog. The
`working` signal now runs the pane-VERIFIED variant (resolveIfDialogGone
-> verifyStillAnswerable): the heuristic only decides when to look, the
screen decides the outcome, so the existing "working can flap" rule is
respected.

A frame that parses no options is now conclusive in two cases, and only
those, so an unreadable capture still keeps the alert: the item once
parsed options, or the frame shows Claude actively running a turn. A
modal dialog BLOCKS the turn, so the two cannot coexist - measured, a
live-dialog frame carries neither the elapsed-timer spinner nor the
"esc to interrupt" footer, which the dialog replaces with "Enter to
select". That second signal is reached by a delayed staleness pass (3s)
scheduled alongside the re-capture, which closes the late-hook case where
the prompt is answered before the hook lands: nothing ever parses, `stop`
may have gone by already, and the alert outlived reloads until the 12h
TTL. The pass is deliberately later than RECAPTURE_DELAY_MS, whose whole
reason for existing is that the hook can beat Ink to the screen.

Frontend: _onHookElicitationComplete cleared only the elicitation entry,
but an AskUserQuestion arrives as permission_prompt, so it was clearing
the wrong alert; it now clears both, matching the server's kind-agnostic
APPROVAL_RESOLVING_EVENTS.

Verified end to end on an isolated beta instance, not just in unit tests:
before, resolution could only come from the stop route (approval:resolved
always immediately preceding hook:stop); after, it arrives from the new
paths, and a simulated late hook resolves at +3.12s with no stop, no
working signal and no GET, while the pane is still working. Tests use
frames captured off a live pane and each new one was confirmed to fail
against the old behaviour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 12:18:16 +02:00
Codeman maintainer fa7e700834 fix(terminal): report a click to the CLI only when it asked for the mouse
Found while verifying Auto Copy in a browser: a plain left click in a
claude/codex/gemini pane sent a synthetic SGR mouse report into the PTY
whether or not the program in that pane had ever enabled mouse tracking.
When the pane holds a plain shell (the CLI exited, or a shell was started
inside a session of that mode) readline prints the report as literal text
and it garbles the next line typed:

    $ [<0;88;20Mecho hello
    bash: 0: No such file or directory

The cause is that the browser could not know. The full strip
(isAltScreenStripMode) removes the mouse DECSETs from the stream, so
xterm's modes.mouseTrackingMode is permanently 'none' for those modes and
_sendSyntheticSgrTap() hand-encodes reports to stand in for xterm's own
encoder. With no state to consult it had to do that on every click.

What the strip removes, the server now remembers.
_recordStrippedMouseMode() records each sequence as it is stripped,
toState() publishes it as cliMouseTracking, and the browser's
_shouldReportMouseToCli() (renamed from _sessionUsesServerMouseStrip)
requires it at all three report sites: the desktop click, the touchend
tap, and the mobile tap classifier.

Details that are easy to get wrong:

* Only the tracking modes count (1000/1001/1002/1003). 1005/1006 select
  an encoding and 1007 is alt-scroll; a CLI that picks SGR encoding
  without turning tracking on is not asking about clicks, and counting
  those would put the stray reports straight back.
* Modes are held in a Set, so a TUI disabling a mode it never enabled
  cannot clear the ones that are really on.
* The change broadcasts immediately instead of through
  broadcastSessionStateDebounced: the flag flips when a dialog opens, and
  the user can click that dialog well inside the 500ms debounce window.
* It fails toward silence. After a server restart the flag is false until
  the CLI re-emits its DECSET, which tmux does at client attach.

Verified against a live claude 2.x session: the CLI holds a tracking mode
on continuously, so its clicks are still reported byte for byte as
before, while a bash prompt in the same stripped mode now reports
nothing and types cleanly. The flag also propagates live over SSE in both
directions, checked by toggling ?1002h/?1002l from inside the pane.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 11:21:29 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 7936a75e28 feat(terminal): Auto Copy, put a finished selection on the clipboard
App Settings > Terminal & Input > Selection & clipboard > Auto Copy
Selection (`autoCopySelection`, per-device, default OFF). With it on,
highlighting text in the terminal copies it: mouse drag, double-click
word, triple-click line, and the phone long-press selection. Ctrl+C is
untouched and still copies on demand.

Three things decide the shape of it:

* It fires at the END of a gesture, never in onSelectionChange. That
  callback runs for every cell a drag crosses, so copying there would be
  one clipboard write per mouse move. It only arms a pending flag; a
  document-level mouseup listener flushes, and the touch path calls the
  flush itself because it preventDefaults its touchend and no mouseup
  ever arrives there.
* The flush is synchronous inside the handler, because both clipboard
  paths need user activation: Firefox gates navigator.clipboard
  .writeText on it, and execCommand('copy'), the fallback the plain-HTTP
  LAN install lands on, has to run in the gesture's own task. A timer or
  a wait for onSelectionChange loses it, invisibly in Chrome.
* It deliberately does NOT do what copyTerminalSelection() does. That
  one clears the selection (so a second Ctrl+C is an interrupt) and
  focuses the terminal. Clearing would make text vanish under the cursor
  that just highlighted it, and focusing opens the on-screen keyboard
  over it on a phone. Focus is instead restored to whatever held it,
  which only matters for the execCommand fallback.

Guards are pure in decideAutoCopy() (constants.js): off, blank or
whitespace-only text, and a 1M-char cap, since a drag off the top of the
viewport autoscrolls and one gesture can sweep the whole 50k-line
scrollback. Past the cap the copy is refused rather than truncated, with
a toast pointing at Ctrl+C.

Feedback is silent on success except once per page load, so a feature
that works by doing nothing visible can still be told from a dead
toggle; failures and refusals toast, throttled to 10s.

Per-device on both counts the settings rule requires: in `displayKeys`
and absent from the .strict() SettingsUpdateSchema, because clipboard
access differs by device and by origin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 10:46:11 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 07b9c7fd7b fix(terminal): remove the unreachable copyTerminal(), closing out #322
The last two items of #322: copyTerminal() copied the entire buffer but
was wired to no button, shortcut or call site anywhere, and it wrote
through navigator.clipboard directly, which is undefined on the
plain-HTTP LAN install, so it would have failed there even if it were
reachable. Everything that actually copies goes through
copyTerminalSelection() and _copyText's execCommand fallback; whole-
buffer copy, should anyone want it, is a selectAll() away from that
same working path.

Closes #322

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 00:06:20 +02:00
Codeman maintainer c00e054e0e chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 23:43:22 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 68ae9a8c5f fix(files): match glob queries without regex so a hostile query cannot stall the server
The Files search compiled the user's query into a backtracking RegExp:
'*a*a*a...' became '^.*a.*a.*a...$', the classic blowup, evaluated
synchronously against every walked path — a pathological query could
freeze the event loop for the whole server (and every user of it in
multi-user mode). /api/search stays regex-free for exactly this reason.

Globs now match through a two-pointer wildcard walk, O(text · pattern)
worst case, with a 256-char query cap bounding the pattern side; an
overlong query compiles to null, the same answer as an empty one.
Semantics are unchanged (anchored, case-insensitive, * spans slashes)
and the existing tests pass untouched; the pathological pattern gets a
test that fails by timeout with the RegExp version.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 23:35:45 +02:00
Ark0N a49c30d173 Merge pull request #324 from aakhter/feat/files-panel-search
feat(files): search the Files panel by name or path
2026-08-19 23:33:08 +02:00
Codeman maintainer d871d1913f docs: restore the bullet PR #321 dropped off the xterm-zerolag-input gotcha
The new local-echo-overlay gotcha landed as a list item but left the
xterm-zerolag-input entry below it without its leading '- ', splitting
the Common Gotchas bullet list in two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 23:25:09 +02:00
Ark0N ede3b05c10 Merge pull request #321 from rounakdatta/fix/mobile-link-taps
feat(mobile): links open from a tap, text can be copied, long prompts stay visible, wrapped links open whole
2026-08-19 23:23:51 +02:00
Ark0N c049de75db Merge pull request #320 from comzine/feat/custom-terminal-font
feat: Nerd Font prompt icons out of the box + configurable terminal font
2026-08-19 23:04:50 +02:00
Rounak DattaandClaude Opus 5 aae90599e5 fix(terminal): stitch a wrapped line through the indent its continuation carries
An agent's numbered list wraps its URL, and the link opened a PREFIX of it:

    1. https://github.com/users/someone/packages/container/p
       ackage/thing

opened `…/container/p`. The provider already stitched hard wraps — Ink emits a real
newline, so nothing is flagged `isWrapped` and a row that fills the last column is
taken as continuing — but it joined the row texts VERBATIM, and the continuation
carries the list's own three-space indent. That whitespace lands in the middle of
the token, which is exactly where the URL pattern stops. Flush-left wrapped URLs
(Claude Code's own `/login`) worked, which is why this survived.

The touch-selection helpers had the shallower version of the same bug: they walked
`isWrapped` only, so `Line` grabbed the single row on screen rather than the
logical line, and a long-press on a wrapped token selected only its visible half.

So the reconstruction now lives in ONE place, `terminalLogicalLine` in
constants.js, and both consumers use it — the link provider matching patterns over
its text and the selection helpers measuring words and lines with it. A link that
spans a wrap and a `Line` that stops at the screen edge were the same bug twice.

The helper drops the leading whitespace of a HARD continuation (the program's
indent) and keeps that of a SOFT one (the emulator inserts nothing, so it is real
content), records the dropped width per segment so the offset↔cell mapping stays
exact in both directions, trims only the final row so earlier offsets stay aligned
to cells, and keeps the 12-row bound that stops a screenful of full-width output
from being re-scanned on every hover.

⚠️ Selection spans are computed in CELLS, not text offsets: an xterm selection is
one contiguous run, so a token spanning a hard wrap also covers the indent cells
between its halves. A run that skipped them cannot be expressed, and would not
match what is highlighted.

Tests: `test/terminal-logical-line.test.ts` (8 cases: the indent drop, resolving
from either row, both mapping directions, soft continuations kept verbatim, no
over-reach past a short row, the row bound, final-row trimming, a missing row) and
5 in `terminal-touch-tap.test.ts` (the whole URL from either row, a token selected
across the wrap, `Line` spanning both rows, no reach into the next line). Removing
either half of the fix reds 5 and 8 of them respectively.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 19:41:43 +00:00
Rounak DattaandClaude Opus 5 2e58da7479 docs(mobile): document the phone gestures, and translate the selection bar
The three fixes in this branch change what a tap and a long-press MEAN on a
phone, and add a UI surface with its own z-index — all of which this repo keeps
written down rather than discoverable only by reading the handlers.

- `docs/wiki/Mobile-Guide.md` (the published user manual): a new "Tapping, links
  and copying" section, and the long-prompt behaviour in the keyboard section
  where the existing scroll/tap rules live.
- `CLAUDE.md`: the touch-gesture invariants next to the scrollback/wheel material
  (why the caret line is the boundary rather than the tap intent; why all three
  selection guards exist), the overlay's new bottom bound alongside the
  single-source note, and the selection bar in the z-index registry — 900, above
  terminal content and the local-echo overlay and deliberately below floating
  agent windows so it can never cover their controls.
- `i18n.js`: zh-CN for the bar's `Copy` / `Line` / `Clear selection`. The bar is a
  SIBLING of `.xterm`, not a descendant, so `SKIP_SELECTOR` does not cover it and
  the entries actually apply.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 19:19:36 +00:00
Rounak DattaandClaude Opus 5 ba843bb272 fix(mobile): keep a long prompt visible instead of hiding it behind the keyboard
Typing a prompt long enough to wrap ran the text off the bottom of the screen: the
tail — the part being typed, where the cursor is — sat behind the on-screen
keyboard, so the user was typing blind. Two independent causes.

**The overlay had no bottom bound.** On touch devices keystrokes are buffered in
the local-echo overlay and do not reach the PTY until Enter, so the CLI never
learns the prompt is long and nothing scrolls or reflows to make room. Meanwhile
the renderer lays its wrapped lines out straight DOWNWARD from the prompt row
(`top = promptRow * cellH`, each line at `i * cellH`) with nothing clamping it to
the visible rows — and with the keyboard up there are only a handful of those.

The block now grows UPWARD once it would pass the last visible row: it is lifted
so its final line lands ON that row. Every line div is opaque, so it covers
transcript above rather than vanishing under the keyboard below — the same thing a
real terminal does when a composer expands. A prompt taller than the whole
viewport keeps its TAIL, for the same reason the fix exists: the end is what the
user is looking at. `startCol` indents only the line that starts at the prompt
marker, so it is dropped along with that line when only the tail fits, and the
cursor follows the last VISIBLE line.

`rows` joins the render key: the layout depends on it, so a keyboard opening —
which changes rows without changing the text — must not be skipped as a redundant
render.

**`_shrinkPaddingToFit()` was reclaiming the bars' own space.** On phones the
toolbar and accessory bar are `position: fixed`, so they occupy no layout space
and `main`'s padding-bottom is the ONLY thing reserving room for them. Shrinking
it by the full sub-row slack pulled the terminal's bottom edge down underneath
them, and the row the following re-fit gained was painted behind them — clipping
the last line of a long prompt. The shrink now has a floor: the MEASURED height of
the currently-visible fixed bars, so genuine over-reservation of the hard-coded
84px is still reclaimed while a device that needs those pixels keeps them. The
floor is `Math.min(currentPadding, measured)`, so it can only ever prevent a
shrink, never cause a grow that would resize the terminal as a side effect.

Overlay behaviour lives in `packages/xterm-zerolag-input/` (single-source; the
vendor bundles are generated), so the fix is in the package with the row count
passed in as an optional `totalRows` — absent, the layout is exactly as before.

Tests: 7 cases in the package's `overlay-renderer.test.ts` (upward lift, tail
retention, indent drop, cursor on the last visible line, and the unclamped
fallbacks) and 7 in a new `test/mobile-keyboard-bottom-padding.test.ts` (reclaim,
floor, partial reclaim, no-grow, hidden bars, CJK strip, whole-row slack). 5 and 4
of them respectively fail without the fix. Package suite 238 pass, including the
codex byte-identity and replay tests.

Verified on Android + Chrome against a live instance: a ~460-character prompt
wrapping ~12 rows stays on screen while typing and arrives at the PTY intact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 19:14:52 +00:00
Rounak DattaandClaude Opus 5 756728e553 feat(mobile): long-press to select terminal text, tap to extend, Copy
There was no way to copy terminal text from a phone at all, and three layers
ruled it out independently: `user-select: none` across the whole terminal subtree
on touch devices (taps are cursor gestures there, so the OS callout had to go),
the WebGL renderer drawing glyphs as pixels with only the accessibility tree
behind them, and xterm's own selection being a mouse DRAG while the touch path
dispatches a zero-movement mousedown/mouseup pair — a click. `copyTerminal()`
exists but is wired to no button and calls `navigator.clipboard` directly, which
is undefined on the plain-HTTP LAN install the installer offers.

So the gesture drives xterm's `select()` directly: public API, renderer-
independent, and the highlight is drawn by xterm itself. Long-press is free real
estate — tap and swipe are taken, long-press and double-tap are used by nothing.

- **Long-press** (350ms, finger still within the shared tap slop) selects the
  run of non-whitespace under the finger. Whitespace is the only delimiter on
  purpose: every punctuation-aware word rule cuts a path, URL or hash in half,
  which is what you came to copy.
- **Drag** while held extends the selection; touchmove diverts from scrolling.
- **Tap** while the bar is up extends it too. That is the ergonomic core:
  picking up a 4px handle with a fingertip is a coin flip, tapping the other end
  is not. Dismissal stays explicit (✕ or Copy), so no tap is spent leaving a mode
  the user is still using.
- **Copy** goes through the existing `copyTerminalSelection()`, so it inherits
  the execCommand fallback that is the only route that works on plain HTTP.
- **Line** takes the whole logical line, wraps included, trailing pad trimmed.

Three guards are what make the gesture survive contact with a real phone, and
each fixes a symptom measured on Android Chrome:

1. **The compat mouse pair after touchend.** xterm focuses from its screen-element
   mousedown and SelectionService resets the model there, so lifting your finger
   popped the keyboard and dissolved the selection in one go. The tap path already
   had a guard for those events; the selection path simply never armed it. Armed
   now, and the touchend is `preventDefault`ed so the synthesis is stopped at the
   source (that listener is no longer passive).
2. **The platform's own long-press.** Android Chrome runs its handling at ~500ms
   and focuses the nearest editable element — xterm's helper textarea, parked at
   the cursor — which no touch handler can preventDefault because it never sees an
   event. A focus guard blurs the terminal input for the duration of the gesture,
   whatever focused it, bounded by a self-expiring deadline so a stuck flag can
   never leave the keyboard unreachable. `contextmenu` is suppressed for the same
   window, and the threshold sits at 350ms so it lands clear of the platform's.
3. **Copy re-focusing the terminal.** `copyTerminalSelection()` ends with
   `terminal.focus()`, which is right on a desktop and wrong on a phone: the
   keyboard covers what was just copied with nothing waiting to be typed.

The bar is built in JS because index.html is read once at server start, and its
styles live in styles.css rather than mobile.css because the gesture is
touch-driven, not width-driven — a touch tablet in landscape gets the gesture and
would otherwise have no bar to copy from.

12 tests in `terminal-touch-tap.test.ts` cover the word rule, forward and
backward extension, cross-row selection, Line, tap-to-extend, the copy path, and
each of the three guards including the focus guard's expiry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 19:14:52 +00:00
Rounak DattaandClaude Opus 5 f2d3a7e3c1 fix(mobile): links open in a new tab from a tap, in the terminal and the chat
On a phone no link was openable, on either surface, for two unrelated reasons.

**Terminal.** xterm resolves the link under the pointer on `mousemove` and
activates it on `mouseup` over its SCREEN element. A touch tap delivers neither:
`touch-action: none` on the terminal subtree plus touchstart's preventDefault for
a 'content' tap suppress the browser's compatibility mouse events,
`_installMobileTapMouseGuard` drops the trusted ones that still arrive inside the
450ms tap window, and the synthetic mousedown/mouseup pair dispatched for mouse
REPORTING goes to the `.xterm` root — an ancestor of the node the linkifier
listens on, so it cannot reach it — and carries no mousemove either way. Every
URL and file path in the terminal was therefore inert on phones and tablets,
Claude Code's own `/login` URL included.

The tap path now activates the link itself, through the SAME provider that feeds
the hover linkifier (`_terminalLinkAtPoint`), so a tap and a desktop click can
never disagree about what is a link or where it ends — containment mirrors
xterm's own `_linkAtPosition`. It runs synchronously inside the touchend handler,
which is what keeps the user gesture that lets `window.open` past the popup
blocker, and before any mouse report, exactly as `_handleDesktopTerminalClick`
already skips the SGR tap for a hovered link.

Two kinds of row keep their existing meaning: the caret's logical line, where a
tap places the cursor and a URL the user typed must stay editable, and TUI-owned
rows, where a numbered choice or an expandable readback is answering a dialog and
routinely carries the very path the tap would otherwise open. The caret line is
the boundary rather than the tap intent, because a plain shell classifies EVERY
tap as 'input' and gating on that would leave every URL in shell output inert.

**Chat.** `marked` emits a bare `<a href>` and the markdown sanitizer's allowlist
carries no `target`, so a tap in the response viewer navigated the current tab
away: on a phone that unloads the whole dashboard — SSE, terminal buffers, unsent
composer text — and there is no middle-click or open-in-new-tab affordance to
work around it. `_renderMarkdown` now decorates anchors in the template pass it
already makes for code blocks. That pass runs AFTER sanitizing, so it is the only
source of both attributes: an agent-authored `target`/`rel` is already stripped,
and `rel="noopener noreferrer"` is set on the same element in the same breath, so
no page Codeman opens gets a `window.opener` handle back. Fragment links stay
in-page; mailto:/tel: are left to the OS rather than stranding an empty tab.

Tests: 10 cases in `terminal-touch-tap.test.ts` (URL, file path, log path,
scrollback, no-double-report, composer, shell mode, dialog row, no provider) and
a new `response-viewer-external-links.test.ts` driving the shipped marked +
DOMPurify + app.js. 7 of them fail without the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 19:14:52 +00:00
Aamer Akhter 5cc78669bd feat(files): search the Files panel by name or path
GET /api/sessions/:id/files gains an optional `q`. With one, the endpoint
answers a FLAT match list instead of a nested tree; without one, the response is
exactly what it was, so every existing caller is untouched.

compileFileQuery() (src/utils/file-query.ts) turns the query string into a
reusable predicate, so the walk prunes as it goes rather than streaming the
whole tree to the client to be filtered there. An empty or whitespace-only
query compiles to null, which is what makes "no query" and "blank query" the
same thing.

The search walk deliberately recurses past directories that do not match — a
file whose ancestors don't match is exactly what people are searching for — so
it carries its own maxMatches cap on top of the existing maxFiles and maxDepth
ones, and reports `truncated` when it stops early. Hidden-file and
excluded-directory rules are the same ones tree mode already applies.

Tests: file-query.test.ts covers the matcher; routes/file-search-mode.test.ts
drives the endpoint against a real temp tree and pins the two properties worth
having — that the walk reaches a match under non-matching parents, and that an
absent or whitespace query leaves the tree response alone. Gating the recursion
on a match turns those red.
2026-08-19 09:17:20 -04:00
Ark0N d4ccff07ca Merge pull request #319 from Ark0N/fix/dep-advisories
fix(deps): clear production npm advisories, fix sw.js caching regression
2026-08-19 14:54:21 +02:00
Tobias WeberandClaude Fable 5 108c00e78d feat: bundled Nerd Font symbols fallback + per-device terminal font setting
Shell prompts using Nerd Font glyphs (powerline, p10k/starship folder and
git icons) rendered as missing-glyph boxes: the built-in xterm stack has no
private-use-area symbols, and phones have no Nerd Fonts installed at all.

- Bundle Symbols Nerd Font Mono (icons-only, MIT, 1.2MB woff2) served from
  fonts/ and appended to the terminal stack before monospace — browsers fall
  back per glyph, so icons render everywhere while text stays in the text
  fonts. font-display: block + preload keep tofu out of xterm's glyph atlas.
- New per-device terminalFontFamily setting (App Settings > Terminal &
  Input > Font): prepended to the built-in stack, never a replacement, so
  the symbols fallback and final monospace always survive. Applied live on
  save (refit + echo-overlay refreshFont, mirroring setFontSize).
- Single source for both xterm surfaces: TERMINAL_FONT_DEFAULT_STACK +
  resolveTerminalFontFamily() in constants.js, unit-tested.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VjnbbZRBuvR5E3SDouwXr9
2026-08-19 00:45:19 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 8a54b331e3 fix(deps): clear production npm advisories, fix sw.js caching regression
Resolves the four advisories that reach the production dependency tree. The
other 16 npm audit reports are devDependencies-only (Remotion, Puppeteer,
postcss, the eslint/tsx toolchain) and never ship to users.

- @fastify/static 9.1.3 -> 10.1.3  GHSA-8pvw-jcv7-9cmj (authz bypass via
  non-canonical URL paths). Covers <=10.1.1, so all of 9.x is affected and
  the fix exists only on the 10.x line.
- find-my-way 9.6.0 -> 9.8.0       GHSA-c96f-x56v-gq3h (HTTP/2 DDoS)
- fast-uri 3.1.2 -> 3.1.5          GHSA-v2hh-gcrm-f6hx (host confusion)
- brace-expansion -> 5.0.9/1.1.18  GHSA-3jxr-9vmj-r5cp (expansion DoS)

The last three are transitive and needed only a lockfile re-resolve, so no
overrides were introduced.

The @fastify/static major changes setHeaders' first argument from a Node
ServerResponse to a FastifyReply. Two consequences:

1. res.setHeader() -> reply.header(). The v9 body throws TypeError from
   inside the plugin on every static request.
2. Precedence flips, silently. The callback used to write to the raw
   response and lose to the route's staged reply headers; it now writes to
   the reply and wins. That gave /sw.js a year of immutable in place of the
   no-cache, no-store its route sets, pinning a service worker on every
   client with no server-side recovery. A route that already set
   Cache-Control now keeps it.

Verified against v9 to confirm the sw.js behaviour is a regression and not
a pre-existing bug.

ws appears in npm audit but production is on 8.21.0, outside the vulnerable
range; the only affected copy is bundled under @remotion/renderer (dev-only,
and remotion is pinned at 4.0.473 because the compositor refuses to start on
a version mismatch).

Adds test/static-cache-headers.test.ts, which drives a real server and covers
a caching contract that had no test at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 23:24:22 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 09bf00c815 chore: version packages 2026-08-18 21:17:09 +02:00
Ark0N 2e19fc0430 Merge pull request #315 from aakhter/fix/respawn-stop-race
fix(respawn): do not revive a stopped controller after a cycle-step write
2026-08-18 21:15:17 +02:00
Ark0N 30f35490f6 Merge pull request #314 from aakhter/fix/symlink-safe-workspace-confinement
fix(routes): canonicalize the workspace before comparing it to a resolved path
2026-08-18 21:15:11 +02:00
Ark0N 322801052b Merge pull request #316 from Ark0N/chore/test-script-split
chore(test): make `npm test` the CI gate and give each excluded suite a runner
2026-08-18 21:15:00 +02:00
Ark0N 736a6b8b7b Merge pull request #313 from Ark0N/feat/sidebar-rich
feat(sidebar): add a rich session sidebar that carries the home screen's row detail
2026-08-18 21:14:53 +02:00
Ark0N 6525ade530 Merge pull request #317 from Ark0N/feat/wiki-tapzones-lineage-colours
Wiki publishing, phone tab tap-zone fix, and per-parent lineage colours
2026-08-18 21:14:46 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 947ff6f6fa chore(test): make npm test the CI gate and give each excluded suite a runner
`npm test` ran config/vitest.config.ts, which includes the browser, visual and
perf suites. On any machine without chromium, a free port and per-machine PNG
baselines that fails ~87 tests on a clean master, so the repo's most obvious
command could not be used as a pass/fail signal. The workaround had spread into
four docs as "never run bare `npm test`" warnings.

`npm test` now runs config/vitest.ci.config.ts — byte-for-byte what CI runs — so
local green means CI green. Verified: 264 files, 5248 tests, exit 0.

The suites it leaves out are not abandoned; each has a command:

  test:browser  5 Playwright files (chromium + a live server; codex-predictive-echo
                also needs a real codex binary)
  test:mobile   unchanged — the above plus per-machine PNG baselines
  test:perf     2 wall-clock benchmarks; need an otherwise idle machine
  test:all      the old everything-behaviour, kept reachable

test:ci is untouched (CI still calls it). test:watch and test:coverage follow
test onto the gate's config.

The more important half is the hole this closes. The exclusion list lived as
literals in one config and pointed one way only: a file excluded from CI and
added to no runner would be tested by NOTHING, silently, with every command
still green — vitest counts "no files matched a filter" as success. That is the
same shape as the #279/#280 blind spot already documented in CLAUDE.md.

So the globs moved to config/test-suites.ts, one array per REASON a suite cannot
run in CI, and all three configs derive from it. test/test-suite-partition.test.ts
then checks the arithmetic against the files on disk: it fails if any test file
is reachable by no runner, or by two. Confirmed it fires by orphaning a file and
watching it name it. The partition is exact today:

  gate 264 + browser 5 + perf 2 + mobile 9 = 280 = every *.test.ts in the repo

⚠️ One sharp edge, deliberate and documented: a file filter must match its
runner. `npm test -- test/mobile/keyboard.test.ts` now matches nothing and exits
GREEN having run zero tests, because the gate's config excludes that path.
CLAUDE.md recommended exactly that command in the on-screen-keyboard note; that
line now says `npm run test:mobile -- <file>`, and the Testing section calls out
the trap, since a green run of zero tests is worse than a red one.

Docs synced: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md,
README.zh-CN.md, and two ci.yml comments that claimed only test/mobile/** was
excluded — it is three suites, and 5 Playwright files rather than 3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 19:55:23 +02:00
Aamer Akhter ce405a4cff fix(respawn): do not revive a stopped controller after a cycle-step write
Each cycle step (kickstart, update, /clear, /init) checks for `stopped` before
`await session.writeViaMux(...)`, then emits `stepSent` and calls
`setState('waiting_*')` after it.

stop() is asynchronous with respect to that await. One that lands while the
write is in flight has already passed the guard that ran, so the post-await
setState() puts a stopped controller back into a waiting state — re-arming its
step timers against a session the user asked to stop.

Re-check after the await, before emitting and setting state.

The guard reads the public `state` getter rather than `_state` on purpose:
TypeScript narrows `_state` across the await from the pre-await check and cannot
see that stop() mutated it, so `this._state === 'stopped'` is rejected as a
comparison with no overlap (TS2367) at all four sites.

Adds test/respawn-stop-race.test.ts, which drives the interleaving
deterministically by calling stop() from inside the mocked write rather than
relying on timing. All four steps go red without these guards.
2026-08-18 10:59:44 -04:00
Aamer Akhter 8e5691b05c fix(routes): canonicalize the workspace before comparing it to a resolved path
validateSessionFilePath realpath-resolves the candidate path but compared it
against the raw sessionWorkingDir. When the workspace is itself reached through
a symlink the two sides live in different namespaces, so relative() reports a
spurious `../` and every file in that workspace is judged an escape — reads and
writes in the session are refused wholesale.

That is not an exotic setup: os.tmpdir() hands back a symlinked path on macOS
(/tmp -> /private/tmp), and symlinked project directories and bind-mounted case
paths hit it too.

Resolve both sides and compare canonical to canonical. This only makes the
comparison honest — it does not widen it. The candidate keeps its own realpath,
so a symlink pointing out of the workspace and a ../ traversal are still
refused, and a workspace that cannot be resolved now fails closed.

Three stubs in file-routes.test.ts used a blanket
realpathSync.mockReturnValue(escapeTarget), which answers the same path for the
workspace and the candidate; with both sides resolved that makes an escape look
contained. They now use the input-aware mockImplementation idiom the rest of
that file already uses, so the workspace resolves to itself and only the
candidate escapes. Verified they still bite: removing the confinement check
turns all of them red.

Adds test/route-helpers-symlink-confinement.test.ts, which exercises the
function against a real symlinked workspace on disk and pins the negative cases
(../ escape, symlink-out, missing file) alongside the fix.
2026-08-18 10:46:21 -04:00
Codeman maintainer 98e37bf895 feat(sidebar): add a rich session sidebar that carries the home screen's row detail
Session List Layout gains a third option. The old "Left sidebar" becomes
"Left sidebar simple" and is unchanged down to the byte; the new "Left sidebar"
puts on each row what the desktop home rail and the phone overview already show:
when the session was first created, how long it has been in the state it is in,
and a status pill naming that state.

A docked column is not a tab strip. It has width to spare and a row per session
either way, and "name + folder" is the whole story a TAB can tell, not the whole
story there is. This is the information that was missing, and it already existed
one surface over.

Both sidebar values are the same layout, and both set data-session-list="sidebar";
the row detail rides on a separate data-sidebar-detail attribute. That split is
the load-bearing decision here: every one of the ~25 isSessionSidebarActive()
call sites and every html[data-session-list="sidebar"] rule in styles.css and
mobile.css keeps matching both variants without being touched. A third
data-session-list value would have meant auditing and editing all of them.

- Stored values: 'header', 'sidebar' (simple), 'sidebar-rich'. Anyone already on
  'sidebar' keeps exactly the layout they picked — the rename is label-only.
- State classification and the "how long has it been like this" anchor come from
  _mobileOverviewState() / _mobileOverviewSince(), not re-derived, so the three
  surfaces cannot disagree about what "working" means. A working pane repaints
  ~1/s, so its duration is measured from the turn's last Enter: a running turn
  reads "working 12m", not "0m".
- Stamps refresh in place on a 20s clock rather than by re-rendering — a rebuild
  would restart every load spinner and alert animation in the list, twice a
  minute. The clock runs only while rich rows are on screen, and is stopped from
  both render paths and from applySessionListLayout().
- The incremental render path updates the pill, the accent class and the since
  anchor; a tick alone cannot see a state change, and a new turn re-stamps
  lastSubmitAt without changing state.
- applySessionListLayout() now re-renders on a DETAIL change too. simple <-> rich
  leaves data-session-list on 'sidebar' both times, and the meta line is emitted
  by the row template rather than toggled by CSS, so the old layout-only test
  would have flipped the setting and repainted nothing.
- Width: 300px for the extra line. The collapsed 44px rail and the handheld
  drawer are both explicitly held back from it — the desktop rule is (0,3,1) and
  would otherwise out-specify mobile.css's (0,2,1) drawer base and pin a 320px
  phone's drawer to 300px.
- Missing/stale mobile-overview.js degrades to a row with no meta line rather
  than throwing and taking the whole tab strip down.

15 new tests cover the attribute split, the solo-window override, the
detail-change re-render, the row model, both render paths, the clock lifecycle
and the mobile width guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 16:26:34 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 5ded2ed1a3 docs: correct drifted counts in CLAUDE.md, declare postcss
The frontend load order omitted session-lineage.js (29 modules listed, 30
loaded), and several inventory counts had drifted from the tree: route handlers
~200 to ~217 with system, files and approvals each understated, src/config 20 to
21 files, install.sh 69KB to 92KB, and the Prettier exemption list, which also
never mentioned mobile.css. Two of the missing handlers are endpoints CLAUDE.md
already documents in prose but never counted.

postcss is imported by two tests but was only present transitively via vite, so
knip reported it as an unlisted dependency. Declared at the version already
resolved in the lockfile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 16:20:44 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 76ea090a67 fix(ui): bind lineage line colours to the spawning tab
Lineage arcs were coloured per child, so one tab's own workers each got a
different colour, which is the distinction the colours exist to make. The colour
is now keyed on the parent: every arc leaving one tab is the same colour however
many workers it spawns, so the strip reads as "these five came from w1, those
two came from w2". A child that spawns in turn is a parent in its own right and
gets its own colour for the arcs below it, so a chain changes colour at each
generation while each generation's fan-out stays uniform.

The new tests drive the real _appendLineageConnectionLines() and assert the
painted custom property, because testing the colour function alone passes just
as happily with the child id passed back in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 16:20:43 +02:00
Codeman maintainer d30cac4440 fix(mobile): keep the active phone tab's centre off its action icons
The active tab is the only one that grows a gear and a close button, and with a
short session name they were eating it: "w1" rendered a 13px label while gear
plus close took 50px of a 116px tab, so the tab's geometric centre landed on the
gear and a thumb aiming at the middle of the tab opened Session Options instead
of switching sessions. Reserving a minimum label width on the active tab widens
the tab by the difference instead.

The floor is set by the 10th tab onward, which renders no number badge and so
sits 10px further right; a numbered tab clears the icons at 20px but a
numberless one needs 40px. The test recomputes that inequality from the
stylesheet rather than pinning the pixel.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 16:20:43 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f3cb7696f0 docs: publish docs/wiki as the user manual, with a sync workflow
30 pages covering install, concepts, the dashboard, the agent CLIs, unattended
runs, remote and Docker cases, security and the HTTP API, plus a sidebar and a
footer. The wiki repo has no CI and no review, so docs/wiki is the source of
truth and .github/workflows/wiki-sync.yml mirrors it on every push to master.

The workflow refuses to mirror when docs/wiki is missing or holds no pages,
because it deletes before it copies and would otherwise publish the deletion of
every page. The footer carries a {{VERSION}} placeholder stamped at publish
time rather than a hand-written version, which went stale on every release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 16:20:43 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 5080390e2c chore: version packages
Give the active-session handoff one owner: closeSession captures wasActive before its await and the session_deleted handler stands down for a close this tab started.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 22:54:46 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f7e2975883 chore: version packages
Gate the idle-alert acknowledgement to human selections: the boot restore, a solo window opening its target, and the post-close fallback no longer spend a yellow tab alert.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 21:42:25 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f60bf93c99 chore: version packages
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>
2026-08-17 01:46:48 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f4ba4d2cb1 chore: version packages
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>
2026-08-17 00:46:03 +02:00
Codeman maintainer fa8ebe0068 chore: version packages 2026-08-16 23:07:43 +02:00
Ark0N b0e493d462 Merge pull request #311 from Ark0N/fix/workspace-hooks-followups
Workspace hooks follow-ups: one decision core for every claude create path, docker shell gate, boot-sweep and statusLine guards
2026-08-16 20:44:49 +02:00
Ark0N 631913f04c Merge pull request #310 from Ark0N/fix/files-sidebar-followups
fix: file-link and session-sidebar review follow-ups from 1.19.0
2026-08-16 20:44:14 +02:00
Ark0N bb959c4aac Merge pull request #309 from Ark0N/fix/home-order-followups
Home-screen ordering follow-ups: live stamps, one numbering, restart-proof recency
2026-08-16 20:43:21 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 24ed43935c fix: file-link and session-sidebar review follow-ups from 1.19.0
Five post-merge review items from PRs #306 (clickable file paths) and
#307 (session sidebar):

- constants.js FILE_PREVIEW_EXTENSIONS gains the media extensions it was
  missing vs the single-source sets in attachment-registry.ts (m4v ogv
  ogg oga m4a aac flac opus), so an in-workspace .m4a opens the preview
  player instead of the log viewer; new test/media-extension-parity.test.ts
  pins all three copies (constants.js, panels-ui.js, attachment-registry.ts)
  against each other.
- FILE_PATH_LINK_PATTERN drops `etc` from its root alternation: /etc is
  unconditionally in DEFAULT_BLOCKED_TREES, so every /etc link 403'd.
  Negative cases added to the link-provider and response-viewer tests.
- updateSidebarCount() counts the rows actually on the sidebar list
  (session rows + web-tab rows, minus filtered-out ones) instead of
  this.sessions.size, and applySidebarFilter() refreshes it so the count
  follows the filter box per keystroke.
- The incremental-render connection-line gate now also fires in sidebar
  layout (this._lineageEdgeCount is permanently 0 there), matching the
  strip-scroll listener widened in #307, so a badge changing row heights
  redraws subagent/ultracode connectors.
- isSensitivePath() blocks ~/.claude.json, ~/.claude/settings.json and
  ~/.claude/settings.local.json (credential-bearing by schema), anchored
  to homedir() read at check time so case-level .claude/settings*.json
  files stay servable in the File Viewer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 20:34:34 +02:00
Codeman maintainer cb9149879d restore the activity stamp across restarts: the quiet ordering no longer flattens on deploy
Root cause of the reviewer's mass-bump measurement (17 of 17 sessions with an
identical lastActivityAt): every restart restamps all sessions in the
constructor loop, and the boot auto-attach's repaint re-bumps the rest within
the same second. A 12-minute steady-state sample shows NO ambient mass bump,
so restarts are the whole story, and Codeman restarts on every deploy.

The stamp now has a display twin: recovery threads the previous run's
lastActivityAt from state.json into the wire-visible stamp (getter + toState),
and a 15s settle window keeps the attach repaint from overwriting it. Real
actions (input, task assignment, respawn) always write through. The private
stamp keeps its boot-anchored semantics untouched, because the idle
confirmation reads it as how long the pane has been quiet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 20:32:41 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f44d597450 review fixes: every claude create path routes through the workspace-hooks decision
Post-#304 follow-ups. The install-vs-refresh decision (workspaceHooksEnabled,
default ON) moved from a session-routes-local helper into hooks-config.ts as
applyWorkspaceHooks(workspace, install?), and the claude session-create sites
that bypassed it now go through it: cron job fires (cron-service), legacy
scheduled-run iterations (runScheduledLoop), and the plan-orchestrator research
and planner one-shots. A cron or scheduled run firing in a linked case that
never had an interactive session ran hook-blind (no stop for completion
detection, no tab alert on a blocking dialog).

The shared core also carries the two guards every caller needs: a workspace
that no longer exists is skipped (ensureCodemanHooks mkdir -p's, so the boot
recovery sweep used to resurrect a deleted repo as an empty tree holding only
.claude/settings.local.json), and all errors are swallowed since a create must
never fail on hooks. Route handlers keep resolving the setting through their
ConfigPort and pass it in; non-route callers omit it and the core reads
settings.json itself (absent key or unreadable file = ON).

Two adjacent gates tightened in session-routes:
- the docker quick-start hooks branch excluded the five external CLIs but let
  `shell` through, contradicting its own rule that only claude reads .claude
  hooks; it is now gated on mode === 'claude'
- the statusLine exporter call in POST /api/sessions got the same
  !remote && body.workingDir guard the hooks call got in 499d355 (it mkdirs the
  same way, so a remote attach created a junk user@host:session dir locally and
  a cwd-fallback create wrote into $HOME)

plan-routes' one-shot deliberately stays out: its workingDir is process.cwd(),
exactly the target 499d355 forbids writing into. restoreMuxSessions stays out
too: the boot sweep already covers recovered workspaces.

Tests: quick-start existing-case install, docker claude-installs/shell-does-not,
and the core directly (default-ON install, OFF add-nothing, OFF still heals a
stale block, malformed file untouched, vanished workspace skipped); the remote
and cwd-fallback regressions now also send statusLineTelemetry:true to pin the
statusLine guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 20:27:38 +02:00
Codeman maintainer cdbde9f36f home-order follow-ups: fresh stamps for the blocked group, sort/display agreement, live Alt+N projection
Three follow-ups from the 1.19.0 review of the activity-ordered home screens:

- Hook events now ride the same debounced session state broadcast the
  working/idle handlers use. The blocked group ranks on lastActivityAt, and
  without this a permission prompt raised after page load kept ranking by
  whatever stamp the browser loaded with.

- A working row with no submit stamp now shows the lastActivityAt fallback
  its sort anchor already uses: a row must never be ranked by a number it
  does not display.

- Alt+digit resolves through the live-session projection the render paints
  (sessionOrder minus dead ids), so a stale id cannot shift every painted
  number off its target, web tabs included. New tests pin both surfaces to
  one shared order and the numbering to the live projection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 20:21:54 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f07905b193 chore: version packages 2026-08-16 19:32:25 +02:00
Ark0N 05c94f5ac0 Merge pull request #304 from Ark0N/fix/workspace-hooks-install
fix: install Codeman hooks into every claude workspace, not just cases Codeman created
2026-08-16 19:31:06 +02:00
Ark0N aaf22909bc Merge pull request #306 from Ark0N/feat/file-path-links
fix(files): open the files agents print, wherever they wrote them
2026-08-16 19:30:41 +02:00
Ark0N 94908ffdb5 Merge pull request #303 from Ark0N/feat/overview-activity-order
Sort the home-screen session lists by activity, not tab order
2026-08-16 19:26:03 +02:00
Ark0N 82fe3cf684 Merge pull request #305 from Ark0N/docs/skill-hooks-rule
docs(skill): hooks are a setting now, not who created the directory
2026-08-16 19:23:17 +02:00
Ark0N 6946ca0b8a Merge pull request #307 from Ark0N/feat/session-sidebar
feat(web): optional collapsible left session sidebar
2026-08-16 19:23:14 +02:00
Codeman maintainer ea4b940cef review fixes: block Codeman's own credential-bearing JSON, make the inside-anchor test bite
Widening the servable extensions to EDITABLE_EXTENSIONS made ~/.codeman
JSON previewable for the first time, and the blocklist named only
state.json. But settings.json holds a credential BY SCHEMA
(voiceSettings.apiKey), push-keys.json holds the VAPID PRIVATE key, and
intents.json is written 0600 precisely because captured prompts can carry
secrets — all three were one authenticated click away once an agent
printed the path. Blocked alongside state.json, whose rule now also
catches state-* siblings.

The never-re-cuts-inside-an-anchor test used an unmatchable URL tail, so
it passed with the guard deleted; the fixture now carries a matchable
/tmp path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 19:21:43 +02:00
Codeman maintainer c6f428e687 review fixes: broadcast session state on working, guard the CodemanSessionOrder global
The running group sorts on lastSubmitAt, but nothing pushed a session:updated
when a turn STARTS — the browser kept whatever stamp it loaded with, so a
30-second-old turn could rank (and read) as an hour-long one. The working
handler now rides the same debounced state broadcast idle already uses.

And both call sites of window.CodemanSessionOrder now degrade to tab order
when the global is missing (iOS Safari's documented stale-cached-JS after a
deploy) instead of TypeErroring the whole home screen away.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 19:18:49 +02:00
Codeman maintainer c8f3981b0c review fixes: 1.19.0 is the real version boundary, and the preamble stamp matches its bytes again
endpoints.md named 1.18.x as the version where workspace hooks became a
setting, but 1.18.x servers do NOT have this behavior — an agent driving
one would falsely conclude its workspace has hooks. The feature ships in
1.19.0. And preamble.sh changed content this PR without bumping its
CODEMAN_PREAMBLE stamp, so a cache stamped 1.18.3 would pass the
staleness check while holding old bytes; stamp bumped to 1.19.0 in
preamble.sh and the SKILL.md heredoc together (byte-identity pin).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 19:16:10 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 499d35566b review fixes: never install workspace hooks for a remote attach or a cwd-fallback create
A claude-mode attachRemoteSession create overwrites workingDir with the
user@host:session pseudo-path, which is a RELATIVE path locally — the old
refresh-only call no-op'd on it, but ensureCodemanHooks mkdirs, so it
created a junk local directory. And with workingDir omitted the cwd
fallback reaches the hooks write unvalidated; under installer-created
services cwd is $HOME, so hooks materialized in ~/.claude/settings.local.json.

Both guarded at the applyWorkspaceHooks call site; regression tests prove
the remote attach leaves no junk dir and the no-workingDir create leaves
the server cwd untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 19:15:08 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 210da991d5 Merge christianhaberl's session-sidebar branch, ported to current master
Brings in https://github.com/christianhaberl/Codeman/pull/4 (three commits,
authorship preserved) and adapts it across the 211 commits master gained
since the branch was cut:

- App Settings control re-authored for the set-* surface (PR #278): a
  set-row in Layout -> Tabs, replacing the old settings-item markup the
  branch targeted. i18n description synced.
- Lineage arcs (PR #291, post-branch) are SKIPPED in sidebar layout:
  computeLineagePath()'s U-bridge geometry hangs from the horizontal
  strip's bottom edge and has no meaning against a vertical list. The
  lineage strip-scroll listener now also redraws subagent/ultracode
  connectors while the sidebar scrolls vertically.
- The desktop home tab rail (post-branch) defers to the sidebar: both dock
  the session list flush left, and the rail would render z-ordered under it.
- Active-row reveal unified into _scrollActiveTabIntoView() (#257 landed on
  master after the branch): sidebar mode branches to scrollIntoView
  block:'nearest', and _fullRenderSessionTabs() restores scrollTop alongside
  the #257 scrollLeft restore so ambient rebuilds cannot yank a mid-scroll
  sidebar back to the top.
- Mobile active-tab hoisting the branch guarded against no longer exists on
  master (removed by #257); kept master's order-stable render.

Verified: typecheck, lint, format:check, check:frontend-syntax,
check:public-assets, PostCSS parse of both merged stylesheets, the 26 new
jsdom tests, the structural guard suites, and the headless-Chromium harness
(scripts/verify-session-sidebar.mts) green across all seven layout states
at 1600/1000/393px against current master.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 18:28:15 +02:00
Codeman maintainer da999b130e feat(files): preview text files from outside the workspace, and stop routing them at a viewer that cannot read them
A .json/.log/.yaml/code path outside the session workspace was refused as an
unsupported type, and clicking one in the terminal made it worse: text goes to
the log viewer, which spawns `tail -f` and allows only the workspace, /var/log
and ~/logs, so it answered "Path must be within working directory or allowed
log directories" while the same path clicked in the response viewer previewed
fine. Two surfaces, two answers, for a file the session can already cat.

- TEXT_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS IS EDITABLE_EXTENSIONS (config/file-editing.ts),
  not a second curated list that would drift from it. The rule reads: if the
  viewer would open a file for editing inside the workspace, the same file
  outside it can be read. The suffix was never the confidentiality gate here,
  the path guard is (sensitive-file blocklist, /root and /etc trees, realpath
  before the check), and it still runs on every registration.
- Widening what can be READ must not widen what can RUN. html/htm join svg in
  serveRawFile's download-only branch, so markup is never served with a
  renderable type on our own origin; other text goes out as inert
  text/plain; charset=utf-8 with nosniff, matching what the path picker does.
  The preview reads through fetch(), which ignores the disposition, so a
  clicked .html still shows its source.
- ~/.codeman*/state.json joins isSensitivePath. It persists
  SessionState.envOverrides and the env allowlist admits key-shaped names
  (GEMINI_API_KEY, CLAUDE_CODE_*), so it can hold a live credential. Same
  treatment as hook-secret and users.json, and the rest of the tree stays
  attachable.
- The terminal sends an out-of-workspace path to the preview instead of the log
  viewer. In-workspace text keeps the tail viewer, which is the point of it, and
  file-stream-manager's allowlist is untouched: no `tail -f` on arbitrary host
  paths.
- The by-id text preview is bounded like the workspace one: a Range request for
  the first 512KB (a real partial read, not a discarded 50MB download) plus a
  500-line cap, with the footer saying so.

Verified on an isolated instance: a 1.1MB external log opens in ~1.8s showing
500 lines with "showing first 500 lines" in the footer; json, yaml and code
preview; an .html carrying a script tag renders as source and does not execute;
.svg is still refused; a terminal click on an external .yaml opens the preview
with no log viewer and no attachment card; an in-workspace .log still opens the
streaming tail viewer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 18:12:00 +02:00
Codeman maintainer cbc54fc98d feat(files): play video and audio from outside the workspace too
A clip an agent wrote inside the workspace played with a working scrub bar,
while the same file in /tmp was refused as an unsupported type. The workspace
preview classified media with its own inline extension sets and the attachment
allowlist had no media at all, so the two paths disagreed about what a video is.

- VIDEO_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS and AUDIO_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS now live in
  attachment-registry.ts and are imported by file-content's classification, so
  both paths answer the same. mp4/webm/mov/m4v/ogv and
  mp3/wav/ogg/oga/m4a/aac/flac/opus join the attachment allowlist.
- Real MIME types for those extensions. Without one the raw route falls back to
  application/octet-stream, which a <video> refuses to decode: the player
  renders and then does nothing.
- getAttachmentType() gained the video and audio members of
  AttachmentDetectedType. Attachment cards have no per-type CSS and their
  thumbnail falls back to the type label, since the thumbnailer has no media
  branch and answers 204 rather than spawning a converter.
- The preview overlay's by-id branch renders <video>/<audio> with the same
  markup as the workspace branch, playsinline included. Serving was already
  range-aware, so seeking works.

The image-watcher keeps its own narrow detection list (png/pdf/docx/pptx), so
this does not start popping cards for every video an agent writes. Text types
that are not md or txt (.json, .log, code files) remain out of the allowlist by
choice and still report what is previewable instead.

Verified on an isolated instance: an external mp4 and mp3 both play, seek, and
report the right duration, matching the in-workspace clip exactly, and a click
on an external mp4 in the terminal opens the player with no attachment card.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 17:35:43 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 4e2c1b9989 fix(files): open file paths agents print, from the terminal and the chat
A path an agent prints was already underlined in the terminal, but clicking
one opened the preview overlay on "File not found": file-content/file-raw
resolve against the session workingDir and refuse anything outside it, and the
paths agents print most (a /tmp capture, Claude's own scratchpad, another
checkout) are outside it by definition. In the response viewer those paths were
not links at all.

- openFilePreview() detects an out-of-workspace path and registers it through
  POST /api/sessions/:id/attachments first, rendering by attachment id. That is
  the surface built for live external files, so the server-side guard is
  unchanged: secret trees blocked, symlinks resolved, extension allowlist. The
  workspace routes keep refusing escapes exactly as before.
- New optional `notify` field on that route. `notify: false` suppresses only the
  attachment:detected broadcast, so a click does not also pop a card announcing
  the file already filling the screen. Default stays true for the CLI and
  publish callers.
- _linkifyFilePaths() links paths in rendered response-viewer markdown. It walks
  text nodes and builds anchors with DOM APIs (the source is model output; never
  a string rebuild of sanitized markup), skips subtrees already inside an <a>,
  and keeps the message text byte-identical so copy-code is unaffected.
- One path pattern in constants.js now feeds both the xterm link provider and
  the chat linkifier, a fresh instance per call since lastIndex is per-object
  state. It picks up /Users and /mnt roots (nothing was clickable on macOS or
  WSL), plus docx/pptx and video/audio extensions.
- .file-preview-overlay moves to z-index 5100, above the response viewer at
  5000. At its old 2000 a path clicked in the chat opened the overlay behind the
  panel it was launched from.

Verified end to end on an isolated instance, desktop and phone viewport: real
clicks in the terminal and the chat both render the image, external md and pdf
render, /etc/hosts is still refused, workspace previews unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 17:03:42 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 1c94995290 docs(skill): hooks are a setting now, not who created the directory
The workspace-hooks install makes the skill's central hooks rule wrong in the
cautious direction. Six places told a worker that a linked case or a raw
workingDir has no `stop`/`blocked` and that send-and-wait cannot be trusted
there, so an agent would hand-roll output-marker synchronization in exactly the
workspaces where `wait:true` now works.

Rewritten against the setting rather than directory provenance:

- verbs.md §5.1: the where-to-spawn table, the rule paragraph (now naming
  `workspaceHooksEnabled`, default ON, the add-only merge, and the boot sweep of
  recovered sessions), and the silent-failure warning. The three cases that stay
  hook-less regardless are called out: remote SSH sessions, docker cases that
  opted out, and a workspace Codeman cannot write to.
- verbs.md §5.3: the send-and-wait precondition is "the workspace has the hooks
  block", not "a case Codeman created".
- endpoints.md: the Signals-by-mode table is now keyed on the setting, with rows
  for OFF, for remote/docker-opt-out, and for a session from an older server.
  The old create-path grep list becomes a "before 1.18.x" note.
- SKILL.md §2 + the cost list, recipes.md Flow-1 contrast, messaging.md step 1.

"Check, do not assume" is kept and promoted to the load-bearing habit, because
the setting is not visible from the call and a session created by an older server
that has not restarted still has nothing.

The `spawn_worker` hooks grep STAYS: it guards the setting being off, remote
sessions, and older servers. Only its diagnostic changes, since "pick an unused
name" is no longer the fix. That text lives in both the §0 heredoc and
`preamble.sh`, which `test/agent-skill.test.ts` pins byte-identical, so both are
patched with the same bytes.

Docs only, no behavior change. 23 skill tests green, full test:ci 5109 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 07:30:10 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f485085174 feat: workspaceHooksEnabled setting as the opt-out for workspace hook installs
Installing hooks into any workspace a Claude session runs in is the right
default, but it takes a decision away from a user who deliberately removed
them: nothing on disk distinguishes "removed on purpose" from "never had any",
so they would come back on the next session create.

Adds the synced workspaceHooksEnabled setting (App Settings -> Agents & CLIs ->
Claude), default ON. OFF restores the older behavior exactly: a Codeman hooks
block that is already present is still refreshed when stale (COD-91), but one
is never added.

Every create path routes through one applyWorkspaceHooks() helper so the gate
cannot apply to some paths only, and the boot-time recovery sweep honours it too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 07:05:10 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 19aabe34d2 feat: sort both home-screen session lists by activity, not tab order
The phone overview and the desktop tab rail list the same sessions, so
they now share one order (CodemanSessionOrder in constants.js, pure and
unit-tested): blocked on you first (longest-blocked at the top), then
running longest-turn-first, then quiet most-recently-quiet first.

The tiebreak flips direction halfway down on purpose: for a state a
session is still in, longer is more urgent; for a state it has stopped
in, more recent is more relevant. The running group keys off the pane's
last Enter (lastSubmitAt), never lastActivityAt, because a working pane
repaints about once a second and would rank every turn as freshly
started. A 0 stamp means "unknown" and sorts last within its state.

The desktop rail was previously in raw tab order. Its number badge stays
the Alt+1..9 index, so on a sorted rail it deliberately no longer runs
1,2,3 downward: it names a shortcut, not a row position. Its second
stamp changes from "active 3m ago" to the state duration the order is
computed from ("created 1d ago . working 40m"), since both working rows
otherwise read "active just now" and the order looked arbitrary.

The tab strip itself is untouched: still user-ordered and drag-sortable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 05:11:00 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 98fa8c00d1 fix: install Codeman hooks into every claude workspace, not just cases Codeman created
A session in a linked case (or any pre-existing repo) ran with no hooks block
at all: writeHooksConfig only fires when Codeman CREATES the case directory,
and refreshStaleCodemanHooks deliberately never adds one. Every hook-driven
surface was therefore dead in exactly the place most sessions run: no tab
alert or phone-overview NEEDS YOU row when a dialog blocks the pane, no
Approvals Inbox item, no push, no definitive stop/idle_prompt for respawn,
and no stop/blocked for the agent wait endpoints.

Both session-create paths and restoreMuxSessions() now call
ensureCodemanHooks(), an add-only merge that keeps a user's own handlers and
leaves a malformed settings file untouched. Claude Code re-reads
settings.local.json, so a session already running in the workspace starts
firing hooks without a restart.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 04:46:01 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 869a507482 chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 07:18:41 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 854bcb99aa docs: README Community section + CONTRIBUTING guide
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 07:18:18 +02:00
Ark0N 9ee6bf113b Merge pull request #291 from Ark0N/feat/alerts-lineage-popout
Skill fast-path hardening, lineage retune + colors, per-tab pop-out, reliable tab alerts
2026-08-15 07:16:34 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 66d4c483c7 docs: tab alert screenshots and README glow gif
Captured live from an isolated instance running this branch: a regular
active tab beside a yellow waiting-for-input tab and a red needs-decision
tab. The gif covers one full 17.5s loop (LCM of the 2.5s red and 3.5s
yellow pulse cycles), so it loops cleanly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 07:03:06 +02:00
Codeman maintainer ff13234b3d review fixes: pin alert-overlay opacity against tab-enter's ::before, guard stripBottom against a non-finite strip.top
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 06:49:39 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 0af80b417c feat: skill fast-path hardening, lineage retune + colors, per-tab pop-out, reliable tab alerts
- SKILL.md: forbid the standalone preamble check and pre-spawn recon turns
  (measured: two wasted model turns cost ~12s of a 28s two-worker run; the
  hardened flow measured 20.2s cold / 12.8s warm end to end)
- Lineage lines: dip now hangs from the strip's bottom edge (cap 104 -> 64,
  no stacked row offsets), fixing the deep bow in wrapped strips and keeping
  row-1 arcs off row-2 tab labels; per-child color palette (skin blue first,
  then matrix green, pink, violet, red, turquoise, orange) via an inline
  --lineage-color custom property
- Session Options -> Session: per-TAB pop-out (open-in-window) button override
  on top of the general showTabDetachButton setting; per-device localStorage
  map rendered as the tab-show-detach class
- Tab alerts: seed the pending-hook state machine from GET /api/approvals
  regardless of the approvals-inbox setting (reloads used to lose the red tab
  entirely with the inbox off), clear unconditionally on approval_resolved,
  and repaint the alert as a steady red/yellow ring + glow + status dot on a
  ::before overlay so it stays visible on the selected (active) tab until the
  permission is actually resolved
- docs: worker warm-pool design sketch (verified numbers baked in)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 06:38:26 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 52d113ab12 chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 15:02:54 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 74662dd788 fix(skill): stale user-level skill copy shadowed injections; seed the preamble
Two live failures from one root cause: Claude Code loads a same-named
user-level skill (~/.claude/skills/codeman, written once by `codeman skill
install`) over the fresh per-case copy, and nothing ever refreshed it. A
stale Aug-9 copy (pre fast-path, pre lineage header) made every agent-driven
spawn run the old recipes: workers spawned serially with pid polls and
without X-Codeman-Parent-Session, so the web UI drew no lineage arcs.

- refreshUserAgentSkill(): session create now refreshes a marker-owned
  user-level copy (refresh-only: absent copies are not installed,
  foreign/symlink copies stay untouched).
- seedAgentSessionPreamble(): local claude session create pre-seeds the
  skill's preamble into ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-~/.cache}/codeman-agent-<id>.sh,
  single-sourced from the new skills/codeman/preamble.sh, so the skill's §0
  bootstrap collapses to a two-line loader instead of a ~150-line paste the
  model has to type out (measured ~47s of generation per run).
- SKILL.md: §0 now leads with the loader and keeps the full block as the
  stale/missing fallback; explicit verbatim-paste warning (a hand-assembled
  preamble is how the header and the fast-path functions got lost);
  spawn_worker also sends parentSessionId in the body as defense in depth;
  preamble stamp bumped to 1.18.3 so pre-fix cached preambles self-heal.
- test/agent-skill.test.ts pins preamble.sh byte-identical to the SKILL.md
  heredoc and covers seeding (XDG + HOME fallback, 0600) and the user-level
  refresh (absent/stale/foreign).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 14:46:23 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 0a89505358 chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 13:59:04 +02:00
Ark0N 5387587a64 Merge pull request #287 from Ark0N/fix/lineage-line-blue
fix(ui): draw session lineage lines in blue for contrast
2026-08-14 13:58:21 +02:00
Ark0N 9c0a9bf8e3 Merge pull request #288 from Ark0N/feat/skill-fast-path
perf(skill): spawn workers instead of deliberating (codeman agent skill)
2026-08-14 13:58:18 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 210154f96f chore(skill): stamp the preamble 1.18.2 to match the patch release
The changeset ships this as 1.18.2, so the stamp, the bootstrap's grep/write
condition, both re-source guards and the recipes guard all carry 1.18.2 now
instead of a version that would never exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 13:51:30 +02:00
Codeman maintainer bbc960a8ff fix(skill): harden the fast path against the review findings
Fifteen review findings on the fast-path rewrite plus one caught live, all
verified against a real 1.18.1 server before landing:

- sendwait picks a fresh seq (the epoch second) instead of a fixed 2, so a
  second prompt to the same worker is typed instead of silently swallowed as
  an already-applied duplicate; explicit seq remains for deliberate resends
- sendwait self-heals stranded delivery: an Ink repaint occasionally eats the
  Enter (observed live), so a timed-out short first wait sends one bare \r and
  re-waits by resending the identical frame as a tagged duplicate
- spawn_worker verifies the resolved casePath carries Codeman hooks (the same
  /api/hook-event marker the server checks), refusing names that resolve to
  linked or pre-existing hook-less directories instead of running the job in
  what may be the user's real repo
- spawn_worker probes the trust dialog after a short 5s composer wait, not the
  full 45s, restoring the ladder staging verbs.md documents; on a readiness
  miss it deletes the half-spawned session and returns 1 with empty stdout,
  so a prompt can never be typed blind into a trust dialog
- spawn_workers refuses duplicate case names and empty argument lists, and
  keys result files by index
- section 1 is bash 3.2 compatible (indexed arrays, no declare -A), prints the
  full delivered/timedOut/signal tuple per worker with an explicit line for a
  missing result, deletes only workers whose turn really ended (a timeout
  means still working), cleans up spawned siblings when any spawn fails, and
  guards its mktemp
- last_text takes the previous answer as an optional second argument for
  consecutive-turn reads (the transcript briefly serves the prior answer
  after a stop, observed live)
- the stale duplicate bullets in section 1's closing list are gone
- reference/verbs.md joins the mode-list drift guard's file list
- README's skill inventory covers verbs.md and the new SKILL.md shape
- the changeset is minor so the shipped release matches the 1.19.0 stamp

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 13:40:42 +02:00
Codeman maintainer f18097cb23 perf(skill): make the codeman skill spawn workers instead of deliberating
Measured against a live 1.18.1 server, the API does the whole job in about ten
seconds: two cold claude workers spawned and ready in 6.3s, both tasked and both
answers read in 4.0s more. The slowness users reported was agent-side.

Three causes, all of them things the skill taught:

- It taught serial spawning. Nothing in the main document showed `&`/`wait`, so
  "spawn two workers" read as "do the readiness ladder twice", which is one model
  turn per worker.
- It had no spawn primitive. The happy path had to be reassembled on every run from
  where-to-spawn, a four-stage readiness ladder, send-and-wait, the fan-out caveats
  and a recipe with two variants. Each is a decision, and most carry a warning.
- It cost ~16k tokens before the first call, at 3.6:1 prose to code, with 25 warning
  glyphs and 55 occurrences of "never". A document that is mostly failure modes
  teaches caution, and caution bills as thinking tokens.

The preamble now defines the verbs rather than describing them: spawn_worker,
spawn_workers (concurrent), sendwait, last_text. Section 1 composes them into the
whole job in one Bash call and says to stop reading there.

Two ceremonies the measurements retired: the pid poll (one iteration, 33ms, and
wait-output already blocks on the composer) and reading settings.local.json to check
hooks for a case quick-start creates, which always has them. That check stays
required for linked cases and raw paths, where its absence silently breaks
send-and-wait.

The bootstrap's write condition now greps the version stamp, so a stale or truncated
preamble self-heals rather than failing and asking for a manual rm. The stamp line is
kept bare because the grep anchors on it with $; an inline comment there would rewrite
the file on every bootstrap.

Section 5 moved to reference/verbs.md behind an index, cutting the always-paid
SKILL.md from ~16.4k to ~7.6k tokens. Section numbers and anchor slugs are unchanged,
so existing references still resolve; all 201 anchors across the five files were
checked, with the checker positive-controlled against an injected bad link.

Verified by extracting the code blocks from the shipped file and running them against
the live server: bootstrap plus full fast path, two workers resolving on the
definitive stop signal, answers read and sessions deleted, in 6.8s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 10:20:41 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 62b0039dc5 fix(ui): draw session lineage lines in blue for contrast
Follow-up to #285. Violet sits close to the terminal's own dim foreground,
so the arcs lost contrast exactly where they cross text, which is most of
their length. Blue reads at a glance on the dark skins and on the light
ones.

Colour still comes from a token every skin block already defines and tunes
for its own background (--session-blue instead of --session-purple), so it
stays one rule for all seven skins with no per-skin override, and the two
blues are not even the same: --session-blue is per palette while the
subagent rule hardcodes #3b82f6.

Hue no longer separates this layer from the subagent lines, so the
separation now rests entirely on shape (a lineage arc hangs under the strip
and never reaches a window), weight and dash pattern. Noted in the rule.

CSS only: no geometry, no markup, no settings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 10:03:10 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 174976fc40 Merge origin/master (1.18.1 release) 2026-08-14 01:17:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 5ae54536cb chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 01:17:42 +02:00
Ark0N 2d2a455dd2 Merge pull request #286 from Ark0N/fix/terminal-history-scroll
fix(terminal): preserve scroll intent across keyboard resize, surface history truncation
2026-08-14 01:16:01 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 943f04ba53 Merge master into fix/terminal-history-scroll 2026-08-14 01:01:24 +02:00
Ark0N 69d8a9ea6f Merge pull request #285 from Ark0N/fix/lineage-line-visibility
fix(ui): make session lineage lines read as arcs, not straight threads
2026-08-14 01:01:05 +02:00
Ark0N 405eb50ba3 Merge pull request #284 from Ark0N/fix/file-viewer-video
fix(file-viewer): make previewed video seekable and stop it on close
2026-08-14 01:00:55 +02:00
Codeman maintainer b6f15b30c6 docs: correct the rewrite-anchor comment now that refresh pulls full history
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 00:56:01 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 736f35da7f fix(terminal): bail the backpressure refresh on a mid-fetch tab switch
The refresh can now issue two fetches (full history, then the tail as a
downgrade fallback), which widens an existing window where the user switches
tabs mid-flight and this session's history gets painted into the terminal they
are now looking at. Guard it the way _maybeRefetchFullHistory already does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 00:54:56 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 6866a617a8 fix(terminal): stop the backpressure refresh yanking and shrinking the buffer
Two further instances of the same root cause, both in _onSessionNeedsRefresh,
which is SERVER-triggered (it fires after SSE backpressure clears) so the user
has no gesture to blame the result on.

1. It ended in an unconditional scrollToBottom, so a user quietly reading
   scrollback was dropped to the live output by a background event. It now
   holds their place. The rewrite REPLACES the buffer, so an absolute viewportY
   captured beforehand is meaningless afterwards; distance from the bottom is
   the anchor that survives, via computeRewriteScrollLine().

2. It rebuilt the terminal from a 1MB TAIL. Measured end to end on a 900-line
   shell pane: an 869-row buffer came back as 158 rows, so the refresh meant to
   REPAIR the display was destroying most of the scrollback every time it ran.
   It now asks for full history, and falls back to the tail only when
   _replayWouldShrinkBuffer refuses the capture, which keeps repaint-mode panes
   (tmux holds roughly one frame for them) exactly as they were.

Also records truncation state here, so the #258 banner stops describing the
pre-refresh buffer.

Verified in a real browser against a live session: baseY 869 -> 869 where it
used to be 869 -> 158, a reader 200 lines up stays 200 lines up, and a follower
stays pinned to the bottom.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 00:51:58 +02:00
Codeman maintainer a415948736 fix(ui): make session lineage lines read as arcs, not straight threads
The lines that join a tab to the workers its codeman skill spawned were
drawn with numbers tuned against two tabs sitting side by side, and they
degraded in exactly the two situations the feature is actually used in.

1. A spawned worker is appended to the END of the strip, so the real span
   between a lead and its worker is 800-1500px. With the dip clamped at
   44px that is a 33px sag: the arc reads as a straight line drawn across
   the terminal instead of a bracket hanging under the strip. The dip now
   grows at 0.085/px and clamps at 104.

2. When the desktop strip wraps (tabs-two-rows / tabs-auto-wrap), a parent
   on row 1 and its child on row 2 are ~14px apart, and the cross-row
   branch drew parent-bottom to child-TOP: a flat line hidden inside the
   row gap, with siblings overprinting each other. Both ends now anchor on
   the tab BOTTOM with the control points below the LOWER row, so a wrapped
   pair gets the same bracket a flat strip gets. That deletes the branch:
   one shape covers both.

Visibility, at 1:1 rather than in a zoomed mockup: 2 -> 2.5px stroke,
4 4 -> 5 5 dashes (lineage-flow moves with them, -16 -> -20), opacity
.55 -> .72, and a second wider glow so the contrast comes from the halo
rather than from more weight, keeping the line under the subagent lines'
3px. A working child is bright (.95) outside the reduced-motion block, so
turning motion off no longer also dims every worker's arc. Sibling nesting
6 -> 8px and the direction dot 3 -> 3.5px to match the heavier stroke.

Verified at 1:1 in a harness driving the real styles.css and the real
computeLineagePath over three layouts (adjacent workers, workers at the
far end of a full strip, wrapped two-row strip) on a dark and a light
skin. test/session-lineage-lines.test.ts pins both regressions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 00:28:04 +02:00
Codeman maintainer d68cba9432 fix(file-viewer): make previewed video seekable and stop it on close
Two bugs in the File Viewer's media player, both reproduced in a real
browser against an 18MB mp4 before and after the fix.

1. Closing the preview left the video playing. closeFilePreview() only
   dropped the overlay's `visible` class, which is display:none and
   nothing else, so the audio kept going with no visible player to pause.
   Detaching the element is not a fix either: a detached HTMLMediaElement
   plays on until it is garbage collected. _stopFilePreviewMedia() now
   pauses, drops src and load()s every media element (also on re-open,
   where overwriting innerHTML had the same effect), which additionally
   aborts the in-flight download.

2. The scrub bar was inert. file-raw read the whole file and answered
   200 with no Accept-Ranges, so Chrome reported video.seekable as
   [0, 0] and silently reverted `currentTime = x`; Safari refuses to
   start such media at all. Raw bodies are now streamed and range-aware:
   Accept-Ranges: bytes on every response, 206 + Content-Range for a
   Range request, 416 for one past EOF, and a malformed spec ignored
   (200) per RFC 9110. Parsing is pure in src/web/http-range.ts.

Measured on tmp/codeman-crt-v5-66s.mp4 (18MB, 66.6s):
  before  seekable [0, 0]     seek to 56.6s reverted to 3.9s   close: still playing
  after   seekable [0, 66.56] seek to 56.6s landed at 60.2s    close: paused, NETWORK_EMPTY

Range slices are byte-identical to `dd`, the full-file path is
byte-identical to the file, and the SVG octet-stream/attachment
hardening and the 50MB cap are unchanged (the cap is still checked
before the range).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 00:14:21 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 497cbe55bd docs(skill): fix the run-endpoint claim and the Flow cross-references
Four documentation defects found while analysing the agent skill against the
code it drives.

The lineage section attributed "deletes its session as soon as the one-shot
prompt returns" to `POST /api/v1/sessions/:id/run`. That is true of
`POST /api/v1/run`, which creates a throwaway session and calls cleanupSession
on both the success and the error path; the per-session route deletes nothing.
Name the right endpoint, and give the real reason the per-session one carries
no lineage: it is not a create call.

While verifying that, the per-session route turned out to be a sharper trap
than documented. `runPrompt()` rejects whenever a PTY already exists, which is
every interactive session, but the route has already returned `{}` with HTTP
200 by then and routes the rejection only to SSE. An agent calling it against
a live worker reads the 200 as delivery. Document it.

`Flow 3b` never existed in recipes.md. The real mapping is Flow 3 = shell
fan-out, Flow 4 = claude fan-out, Flow 5 = worker blocked on a prompt, so the
same sentence was also mislabelling Flow 4. Fixed in SKILL.md and in the
endpoints.md reference to it; every other Flow reference audited and correct.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 00:10:44 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 9a0e665f72 fix(terminal): preserve scroll intent across keyboard resize, surface history truncation
Closes #259, closes #258. Both bottom out in the same gap: nothing tracked
whether the user was following live output or reading history.

#259 — the keyboard path forced the terminal to the bottom unconditionally
(onKeyboardShow/onKeyboardHide passed scrollToBottom:true, applied with no
check), so opening the keyboard while scrolled up yanked the user down. The
settle cycle now captures intent on its FIRST event, before any fit() has
reflowed the buffer, and returns to that anchor when the user was reading.
A later capture would read an already-moved viewportY, which is why the
capture point matters. The param is renamed restoreScroll to match.

Separately, flushPendingWrites gated viewport preservation on
_hasRecentUserScrollUp(), a 1500ms decay window, so a user who scrolled up and
then actually READ for longer lost protection mid-read. Being scrolled up IS
the intent however long ago it was expressed, so it now keys off position.
The recency window stays as a race guard on the sticky scroll-to-bottom.

The full-history repull already held the user's place and is unchanged.

#258 — truncation was reported by a grey line written INTO the terminal
("earlier output truncated"), which scrolls away with the output it describes,
cannot be acted on, and said the same thing whether the rest was one click away
or gone forever. The server set one `truncated` boolean at two sites meaning
opposite things, and the client discarded fullSize and source entirely.

The route now reports truncationReason ('tail' = intentional partial replay,
the rest is retained; 'capped' = the byte ceiling dropped it) plus
retainedBytes, and 'capped' is not downgraded by a later tail cut. The client
renders a dismissible banner outside terminal output with three honest states:
recoverable (offers Load full history), at-ceiling, and exhausted. The Load
button forces past the scroll cooldown but NOT past _replayWouldShrinkBuffer,
which still refuses a downgrade for repaint-mode panes.

The banner is an overlay, not a flex child: FitAddon derives rows/cols from the
terminal parent's computed height, so occupying real layout space would SIGWINCH
the CLI on every truncation-state change.

Verified in a real browser on the 7 skins: banner text and button clear 4.5:1
contrast on all of them, and terminal height is byte-identical with the banner
shown. The first cut used --bg-elevated and --accent-muted, which do not exist,
so light skins rendered a hardcoded dark bar under dark text; it now uses only
tokens every skin redefines.

test/terminal-scroll-intent.test.ts lives outside test/mobile/ deliberately —
that suite is excluded from test:ci, so a guard placed there is invisible to CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 00:00:59 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 4bbe2b7ff6 docs: add pi to the mode lists the sixth-backend sweep missed
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>
2026-08-13 19:40:54 +02:00
Codeman maintainer a7928f5c64 chore: version packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 18:13:57 +02:00
Codeman maintainer 4fa44f2e55 Merge branch 'fix/sse-stale-watchdog'
Heal a stalled SSE stream: the server's :keepalive comment becomes a named
sse:heartbeat event (comments are invisible to EventSource by spec), and the
client gains a staleness watchdog that forces a reconnect after three missed
beats. Also applies a confirmed rename locally instead of waiting on SSE.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 18:05:41 +02:00
Ark0N 829b202f51 Merge pull request #282 from Ark0N/feat/pi-mode
feat(pi): add Pi (pi.dev) as a sixth CLI run mode (#206)
2026-08-13 18:05:27 +02:00
Codeman maintainer c790166564 feat(sse): heal a stalled SSE stream with a heartbeat + client watchdog
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>
2026-08-13 17:28:35 +02:00
Codeman maintainer d19895651d fix(rename): apply the server's confirmed name locally instead of waiting on SSE
Renaming a tab appeared to do nothing: the new name only showed after a full
page reload. The PUT always succeeded; what was broken is how the tab strip
learns the result. `finishRename()` re-renders the strip from the client-side
`app.sessions` map, and nothing wrote the new name into that map, so the rename
depended on the `session:updated` SSE frame to carry its own write back. On a
page whose stream has gone quiet without erroring, that frame never lands and
the re-render repaints the stale label.

- `_applyLocalSessionName()` writes the confirmed name into `this.sessions` and
  refreshes cached subagent parent names, mirroring `_onSessionUpdated`.
- `_putSessionName()` returns the stored name or null. `_apiPut` turns a network
  error into a null Response and an API failure into a non-ok status, so a
  rejected rename previously read as success and silently dropped the edit (the
  old try/catch could never fire).
- Both surfaces use them: `startInlineRename()`'s `finishRename` and
  `saveSessionName()`.

Two regression tests: the commit applies the name with no SSE frame dispatched,
and a 500 restores the old label, leaves the map untouched, and toasts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 17:20:20 +02:00
Claudia 0afd4e1cdc test: generic project names in the verification fixture
The synthetic session names end up in the harness screenshots, so shipping one
contributor's project list into everyone else's review reads oddly. The mix of
CLI modes is what the fixture actually needs — each renders a different badge —
and that is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 17:41:07 +02:00
Claudia b6293959d2 fix(test): drop hardcoded personal paths from the verification script
The script carried two absolute paths from the machine it was written on: a full
scratchpad path including a session UUID, and /home/chaberl/projects as the
synthetic sessions' working directory. This branch is pushed to a public fork, so
they were visible to anyone.

Screenshot output now defaults to tmpdir() and is overridable via
SIDEBAR_SHOTS_DIR; the synthetic working directories are tmpdir()-based too, which
also makes the harness run for anyone who checks the branch out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 16:42:21 +02:00
Claudia[bot] c01edcbbb8 feat(web): optional collapsible left session sidebar
The header tab strip stops working past roughly a dozen sessions: it wraps
into two or three rows, eats vertical space and still cannot be scanned.
This adds a vertical session list in a left <aside> as an ALTERNATIVE
layout — a filter box, a live count, and a 44px collapsed rail that keeps
the ambient signal (status dot, task badge) visible.

The strip is not removed. Settings -> Display -> Tab Bar -> Session List
Layout switches between them and the default stays 'header', so existing
users see no change until they opt in.

Structure: one #sessionTabs element, two mount points. applySessionListLayout()
re-parents the SAME node between #sessionTabsHost and #sessionSidebarList,
which is why there is no second renderer and no duplicated wiring — app.$()
caches getElementById results and never invalidates them, so a moved node
keeps every existing consumer (settings-ui, webview-tabs, the generated
gesture bundle, the mobile tests) working untouched.

Notable integration points:
- Below 1024px the sidebar is an off-canvas drawer overlaying the terminal;
  closed it gets inert + aria-hidden so it cannot be tabbed into, and touch
  swipes over it no longer switch sessions.
- Subagent and ultracode windows anchor to the right edge of a sidebar row
  instead of its bottom, connector curves follow.
- Alt+B toggles; the chord is gated out of the PTY so xterm cannot also
  write ESC b into a live session.
- Collapse state lives in its own localStorage key (the settings blob is
  rebuilt from DOM controls on every save) and falls back to in-memory
  intent where storage throws.

Verified: frontend syntax + public asset checks, tsc, eslint, 26 new jsdom
tests, and a headless-Chromium harness (scripts/verify-session-sidebar.mts)
that renders a synthetic 25-session fleet in both layouts at 1600/1000/393px
and asserts mount point, widths, inert/aria state and row count.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 16:42:21 +02:00
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Add Pi (pi.dev) as a sixth CLI run mode (#206).
`SessionMode` gains `'pi'`, a first-class backend alongside Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini and Antigravity: its own PTY, tmux session, rose tab identity, welcome button, run-mode entry, cron `agentType`, Docker and remote-SSH command defaults, and clone-repo Brain option.
- **New resolver** `src/utils/pi-cli-resolver.ts`. Unlike the sibling resolvers it sanity-probes `pi --version` and requires semver-shaped output, because `pi` is a short generic name that a stray binary on `$PATH` can shadow; the rejected path is logged. `GET /api/pi/status` returns `{ available, path, version }` so a misresolution is diagnosable.
- **`PiConfig`** maps to `--model` (accepts `provider/id` and a `:thinking` suffix), `--provider`, `--thinking`, `--session`/`-c`, and the tri-state `--approve` / `--no-approve`. Every value is regex-allowlisted and dropped on failure. `--api-key` is deliberately never wired: it would put a provider secret on the spawn command line.
- **No bypass flag.** Pi has no permission prompts and no sandbox, so there is no `--dangerously-skip-permissions` analog. Its privilege-shaped knob is `approveProjectTrust`, which makes pi load and execute repo-local `.pi/extensions` TypeScript and install missing project packages. `clampExternalCliBypassForOwner()` therefore puts pi in the **materialize** branch: a non-granted multi-user owner gets `--no-approve` even when no config was sent, because pi's own default is an interactive prompt the session user could answer themselves. The same materialization applies to cron-fired jobs (`clampCronExternalCliConfigs`), which carry no per-CLI config and would otherwise launch on pi's own default. Both helpers had no test coverage at all; they now do, for every CLI.
- **Env allowlist gains only the `PI_*` prefix.** Pi's ~34 provider key vars share no prefix and `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` is one global list with no mode context, so admitting them would widen the allowlist for every mode at once. Users authenticate via pi's `/login` or the server process's own environment.
- **Pi stays out of `isAltScreenStripMode()`.** Its default TUI renders into the main screen with terminal-owned scrollback and is mouse-aware, so it consumes `\x1b[3J` and the mouse DECSETs that the full strip removes, unlike an Ink TUI repainting in place. Note what exclusion does NOT do: pi is tmux-backed, so it still falls through to the narrow `isMuxAltScreenOnlyStripMode()` strip and its alt-screen toggles are dropped either way. Pi's runtime-switchable fullscreen TUI therefore paints into the main buffer, exactly like vim inside a tmux `shell` session.
- **Docker**: pi installs in its own `--ignore-scripts` step so that flag cannot affect the other four CLIs, and its credentials are seeded per-file (`auth.json`, `settings.json`, `trust.json`, `models.json`, `models-store.json`) rather than whole-dir, since `~/.pi/agent` also holds sessions, extensions and installed package trees.
- **Local echo**: pi lands on the buffer overlay. Verified that codex's per-keystroke starvation does not reproduce — pi's slash picker re-filters on the whole composer content, so a one-shot flush behaves identically to per-keystroke typing.
- **Mode-list parity**: pi is excluded from the Ralph tracker auto-enable on `POST /api/sessions/:id/interactive` (like every other external CLI, whose output the tracker never parses), carries a `REMOTE_CLI_BIN` entry so a remote-SSH pi session reports its CLI version, and gets its own badge in the desktop home rail instead of rendering like Claude. The packaged agent skill's mode enumerations list pi too, and it now documents the per-CLI availability probes (`GET /api/<mode>/status`) that agents should check before spawning a worker on a backend the server may not have installed. Both are pinned by a new guard that derives the mode set from the Zod schema instead of restating it.
- **`codeman doctor` and the run mode agree about pi.** The registry entry resolved a bare `which pi` while `pi-cli-resolver` demanded semver output, so the Dependencies panel could report an installed Pi CLI that sessions refuse to launch. Both now share one exported regex, and the registry's new `requireVersionMatch` reports a non-semver `pi` as missing rather than installed. Only pi sets it; every other tool keeps its existing behaviour.
- Installer detection, docs (`docs/pi-integration.md`), READMEs, and the architecture invariants are updated. Tests: `test/pi-mode.test.ts` and `test/routes/external-cli-bypass-clamp.test.ts`, plus extensions to the run-mode, mobile-overview, render-index-html, system-routes and local-echo suites.
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# keys -- into the published image at /opt/codeman/docker/.env (verified).
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# Contributing to Codeman
Thanks for wanting to help! Codeman is a small project with a fast loop: issues usually get a response within a day, good PRs get reviewed quickly, and every release credits its contributors and bug reporters by name in the release notes. This guide gets you from clone to merged PR without stepping on the traps.
## The short version
1. **Bugs**: open an issue with your OS, install method (installer / npm / git clone), browser, and which CLI + version the session was running.
2. **Questions and ideas**: use [Discussions](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions), not issues.
3. **Small fixes** (docs, typos, a new skin, a translation): just send the PR.
4. **Anything bigger**: open an issue or Discussion first and get a nod before building. Codeman has strong architectural invariants, and a design chat up front is what turns a big idea into a merged PR instead of a stalled one. This flow works: features like Clone Repo (#236) went idea, then design discussion, then review, then shipped.
5. **Security issues**: never a public issue. See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).
## Dev setup
Requirements: Node.js 22+ (see `.nvmrc`), tmux, and at least one supported agent CLI on your PATH (Claude Code is the primary one).
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman.git
cd Codeman
npm install # postinstall builds the vendored xterm addon bundles
npm run dev # dev server on http://localhost:3000
```
The frontend is plain JS served from `src/web/public/` with no bundler in dev: edit a `.js`/`.css` file and reload the page. The one exception is `index.html`, which is read once at server start, so markup changes need a server restart.
## Before you push
CI runs all of these, so save yourself a round trip:
```bash
npm run typecheck # tsc --noEmit, strict mode
npm run lint
npm run format:check
npm run check:frontend-syntax # syntax-checks the plain-JS frontend modules
```
### Tests
```bash
npm test # the gate — exactly what CI runs
npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts # one file
```
`npm test` is the same suite CI runs, so a green run locally means a green run there. It leaves out three suites that cannot pass on an arbitrary machine, each with its own command:
```bash
npm run test:browser # Playwright + chromium (+ a live server; codex-predictive-echo needs a real codex binary)
npm run test:mobile # the above plus environment-specific PNG baselines
npm run test:perf # wall-clock benchmarks — run on an otherwise idle machine
npm run test:all # literally everything, environmental failures included
```
Expect `test:browser`/`test:mobile`/`test:perf` to fail where the machine cannot provide what they need; read that as "not runnable here", not as a regression. `config/test-suites.ts` holds the globs, and both configs derive from it, so the exclusions and those runners cannot drift apart.
If you add a test that binds a port, pick a unique one at 3150 or above (search the repo for `const PORT =` first). Never 3000.
Tests are tmux-safe by design: under vitest, the tmux layer becomes an in-memory mock, so tests cannot touch real sessions.
## Finding your way around
- Every source file starts with a `@fileoverview` JSDoc block. Read it before diving into the file, it is the map.
- [`CLAUDE.md`](../CLAUDE.md) at the repo root is the densest architecture primer in the repo. It is written for AI coding agents, but the invariants and gotchas in it apply to humans exactly the same, and most review feedback on PRs traces back to something already written there.
- Deep mechanisms and the history behind each rule live in [`docs/architecture-invariants.md`](../docs/architecture-invariants.md).
- Third-party extension surfaces are documented in [`docs/extending-codeman.md`](../docs/extending-codeman.md).
## Great first contributions
These are well-fenced areas where a first PR is genuinely easy to get right:
- **A new theme skin.** A skin is four things kept in sync: the `html[data-skin="…"]` token block in `styles.css`, the xterm ANSI palette in `terminal-ui.js`, the pre-paint allowlist and the settings picker (both in `index.html`). `test/skin-themes.test.ts` statically checks the sync, so if the test passes, your skin works.
- **A new language.** `src/web/public/i18n.js` is dependency-free, English is the canonical source, and `zh-CN` is a complete example to copy. Add your language's entries and register it in `SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES`.
- **Docs.** If you got stuck on something and then figured it out, the sentence that would have unstuck you is a PR.
- Anything labeled [`good first issue`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22).
Bigger extension points worth discussing first: new CLI backends (the pluggable resolver pattern has absorbed six CLIs so far; `docs/extending-codeman.md` and `docs/opencode-integration.md` show the shape), and real-device testing reports, especially mobile, which always find things emulation cannot.
## PR expectations
- **One change per PR.** Small and focused reviews fast; a grab-bag stalls.
- Target the `master` branch.
- **Keep your branch mergeable.** A PR with conflicts silently gets no CI runs at all (GitHub quirk), so rebase or merge master when conflicts appear.
- Include or update tests when you change behavior. Route handlers have a lightweight pattern in `test/routes/` using `app.inject()` (no live server needed).
- Formatting is Prettier with a deliberately narrow scope (`npm run format`), several frontend files are hand-formatted on purpose and excluded via `.prettierignore`. Don't "fix" a file by adding it back into Prettier's scope.
- Don't bump versions or touch `CHANGELOG.md`; releases are handled by the maintainer via changesets after merge.
- AI-assisted contributions are welcome (much of Codeman is built that way), with one condition: you must understand what you're submitting and have actually run it. "The model said it works" is not a test.
## Conduct
Be kind, be direct, assume good faith. Report unacceptable behavior privately via the contact in [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).
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- **Multi-instance tmux socket is process-wide.** Two Codeman instances on the same `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` share a tmux socket and can attach each other's live sessions — isolate with distinct `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` values.
- **The live log-tail route reads `/var/log` and `~/logs`** in addition to the session working directory (read-only) — a deliberate choice for tailing system/app logs. On a password-protected remote deployment an authenticated user can therefore read those roots outside their session. See `docs/security-architecture.md` §5.
Recent hardening (this release): web-push subscription endpoints are restricted
to https public hosts (SSRF guard — rejects internal/metadata IPs, validated at
subscribe and send time), and tmux session names discovered on the shared socket
are validated against the safe-name pattern before reaching any shell call site.
- **The web-tab proxy fetches from the server's network position.** Any authenticated user can save a dashboard URL on loopback or a private range and have Codeman relay to it; that is the feature. Link-local and cloud-metadata addresses are the only refused targets (see below). On a shared host, restrict who holds an account.
Recent hardening (2026-09-04): the web-tab proxy, its "Test" probe and its
WebSocket relay refuse link-local and cloud-metadata targets (`169.254.0.0/16`,
`fe80::/10`, `fd00:ec2::254`, `168.63.129.16`, `100.100.100.200`,
`metadata.google.internal`), judged on the RESOLVED address so a DNS name pointing
there is refused too; proxy capabilities are revoked on logout, admin logout and
user deletion; proxied responses carry `Referrer-Policy: same-origin`. Earlier:
web-push subscription endpoints are restricted to https public hosts (SSRF guard,
rejects internal/metadata IP literals, validated at subscribe and send time), and
tmux session names discovered on the shared socket are validated against the
safe-name pattern before reaching any shell call site.
For the detailed rationale, defenses, and recommended secure setups, see
[`docs/security-architecture.md`](../docs/security-architecture.md).
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fi
- name: Run unit & integration tests
# Excludes the browser-driven mobile suite (test/mobile/**); see config/vitest.ci.config.ts.
# Excludes the suites that need chromium, per-machine PNG baselines or a
# quiet machine — see config/test-suites.ts for the list and the reason
# behind each entry. Identical to what `npm test` runs locally.
# Safe in CI: TmuxManager no-ops all shell commands under VITEST (test/setup.ts).
run: npm run test:ci
@@ -99,6 +101,11 @@ jobs:
run: npx vitest run
working-directory: packages/xterm-zerolag-input
# Note: The browser-driven mobile suite (test/mobile/**) is excluded from CI —
# it needs a live server + chromium + environment-specific PNG baselines.
# Run it locally/manually. All other tests run via the `test` job above.
# Note: three suites are excluded from CI, each with its own local runner:
# npm run test:browser Playwright + chromium (+ a live server, and a real
# codex binary for codex-predictive-echo)
# npm run test:mobile the above plus environment-specific PNG baselines
# npm run test:perf wall-clock benchmarks; need an otherwise idle machine
# config/test-suites.ts holds the globs; the configs derive from it so the
# exclusions here and those runners cannot drift apart. Everything else runs in
# the `test` job above, which is the same thing `npm test` runs.
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name: Sync Wiki
# Publishes docs/wiki/ to the repository's GitHub wiki.
#
# The wiki is a separate git repo with no CI and no review, so the source of truth
# lives in docs/wiki/ and this workflow mirrors it. Browser edits to the wiki are
# overwritten by the next sync; fix pages with a PR against docs/wiki/ instead.
#
# One-time setup: GitHub only creates <repo>.wiki.git once the first page has been
# saved in the browser. Save a stub page at /wiki/_new before the first run.
#
# Token: GITHUB_TOKEN can push to the wiki on most repos but not all. If a run fails
# with 403, add a fine-grained PAT with wiki write access as the WIKI_TOKEN secret;
# it is preferred automatically when present. Note the 403 usually surfaces on the
# PUSH, not the clone: this repo is public, so a read-only token still clones the
# wiki fine. Both steps carry the hint.
on:
push:
branches: [master]
paths:
- 'docs/wiki/**'
- '.github/workflows/wiki-sync.yml'
workflow_dispatch:
concurrency: ${{ github.workflow }}
jobs:
sync:
name: Push docs/wiki to the wiki
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: write
steps:
- name: Checkout repo
uses: actions/checkout@v6
- name: Clone wiki
env:
WIKI_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.WIKI_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
if ! git clone "https://x-access-token:${WIKI_TOKEN}@github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}.wiki.git" wiki 2>"${RUNNER_TEMP}/clone-err.txt"; then
cat "${RUNNER_TEMP}/clone-err.txt"
echo "::error::Could not clone ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}.wiki.git. If this says 'Repository not found', the wiki has never had a page: save one at https://github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/wiki/_new and re-run. If it says 403, add a WIKI_TOKEN secret."
exit 1
fi
- name: Mirror pages
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# The mirror deletes before it copies, so an empty source would wipe
# every published page and the commit step would happily push that. A
# MISSING directory already fails safely (cp aborts under set -e); an
# empty one does not, so check explicitly. This is the one failure mode
# here that destroys something a browser edit cannot get back.
if [ ! -d docs/wiki ]; then
echo "::error::docs/wiki does not exist. Refusing to mirror, which would delete the entire published wiki."
exit 1
fi
pages=$(find docs/wiki -maxdepth 1 -name '*.md' | wc -l)
if [ "$pages" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "::error::docs/wiki contains no .md pages. Refusing to mirror, which would delete the entire published wiki."
exit 1
fi
echo "Mirroring ${pages} pages."
find wiki -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.git' -exec rm -rf {} +
cp -R docs/wiki/. wiki/
- name: Stamp the documented version
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# _Footer.md renders on every page and used to carry a hand-written
# version, which went stale on every release because nothing refreshed
# it. It carries {{VERSION}} instead and the series is stamped here.
series="$(node -p "require('./package.json').version.split('.').slice(0,2).join('.') + '.x'")"
# grep exits 1 when it matches nothing, which under `set -o pipefail`
# would fail the step instead of warning, so test before substituting.
if grep -rlq '{{VERSION}}' wiki/; then
grep -rlZ '{{VERSION}}' wiki/ | xargs -0 -r sed -i "s/{{VERSION}}/${series}/g"
else
echo "::warning::No {{VERSION}} placeholder found in docs/wiki. The published version line can no longer be refreshed automatically."
fi
if grep -rq '{{VERSION}}' wiki/; then
echo "::error::A {{VERSION}} placeholder survived substitution and would be published verbatim."
exit 1
fi
echo "Stamped version ${series}."
- name: Commit and push
run: |
set -euo pipefail
cd wiki
git config user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
git config user.email '41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
git add -A
if git diff --quiet --cached; then
echo "Wiki already up to date."
exit 0
fi
git commit -m "docs: sync wiki from docs/wiki @ ${GITHUB_SHA:0:7}"
if ! git push 2>"${RUNNER_TEMP}/push-err.txt"; then
cat "${RUNNER_TEMP}/push-err.txt"
echo "::error::Could not push to ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}.wiki.git. A 403 here means the token can read the wiki but not write it, which is the usual GITHUB_TOKEN case: add a fine-grained PAT with wiki write access as the WIKI_TOKEN secret."
exit 1
fi
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.agents/
skills-lock.json
# In-session decision scratchpad (context-survival mechanism, not a deliverable)
DECISIONS.md
# Written by install.sh into end-user clones when setup finishes
.install-complete
@@ -93,8 +96,6 @@ packages/gesture-control/.vite/
# Claude Code plan tracking
plan.json
# Unfinished TUI (local development only)
src/tui/
.claude/
media-assets/
commands
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Canonical agent/contributor guidance for this repository lives in [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md) —
project structure, build/test/lint commands, code style, testing safety rules
(never run the full suite inside a managed tmux session), security notes, and
(`npm test` is the CI gate and is safe to run bare; the three excluded suites
have their own runners), security notes, and
the deployment workflow are all maintained there. Please read it before making
changes, and keep it the single source of truth rather than duplicating
sections here.
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ sections here.
Quick pointers:
- Type check: `tsc --noEmit` · Lint: `npm run lint` · Format: `npm run format:check`
- Targeted tests only: `npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts` (bare `npm test` is unsafe in managed sessions)
- Tests: `npm test` (the CI gate, safe to run bare) or `npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts` for one file
- Route tests use `app.inject()`; new tests needing ports must pick a unique `const PORT =`
- Branch off `master` for all work; Conventional Commit-style messages (`fix(mobile): ...`)
- Never commit secrets or local state from `~/.codeman/`
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# aicodeman
## 1.25.0
### Minor Changes
- Codeman can be mounted under a sub-path behind a reverse proxy (#381, @mtiller). `--base-url /codeman` (or `CODEMAN_BASE_URL`) makes the server strip the prefix on the way in, rebase redirects on the way out, inject `<base>` and `window.__CODEMAN_BASE__` into the shell, and route web-tab proxying and WebSocket upgrades under the mount, so one TLS name can front several apps. A root install is byte-identical to before. Applied on top: the crash-diag beacon stays under the mount (sendBeacon is not fetch, so the base-aware wrapper never saw it), the test suite strips `CODEMAN_BASE_URL`, and a wiring test boots a real server under a prefix.
A case can attach to a container that is already running (#357, @dignfei). `DockerCase.owned:false` mirrors the remote-SSH attach contract: Codeman only execs into such a container, never creates, starts, stops, removes, pauses or commits it, with the refusal enforced at string-construction time so no caller bug can reach `docker stop`. The Add Case dialog gets an attach panel with a container picker, the run menu takes its mode availability from the CLIs actually present in the container, and adoption is admin-only in multi-user mode. Three gaps closed after review: export no longer pauses or commits an adopted container, a freshly linked owned case no longer hides every agent mode behind a probe of a container that does not exist yet, and multi-user gating is explicit.
The Claude response viewer renders one message per model message (#369, @shenlvkang-collab). The reader used to fuse every assistant row between two human prompts into one card and never read the attachment rows that hold a prompt typed mid-turn; measured over 57 real transcripts it now shows 1,806 messages instead of 356 and recovers 162 absorbed user prompts, with the assistant text unchanged row for row.
A Claude pane learns its live conversation from the CLI's own `UserPromptSubmit` hook (#367, @shenlvkang-collab). The conversation id used to be re-derived by correlating `~/.claude/history.jsonl` against a stamp only Codeman's own input path set, so a pane driven straight from tmux stayed pinned to its launch conversation forever. The hook reports the id first-hand, addressed by the pane's own `$CODEMAN_SESSION_ID`, and the chain of conversations is persisted so a restart re-pins the right one. The new `hook:prompt_submitted` SSE event is registered (158 = 158), and it lands in the run summary only when the conversation actually moved.
The Add Case modal can be submitted from a phone again (#368, @shenlvkang-collab). Since 1.16.4 the layout below 860px hid the modal footer, which held the only Create/Clone/Link button. A header submit button now sits beside the close button, dims while a submit is pending, and a static test pins the contract so it cannot silently disappear again.
The Link Existing case picker opens in the Codeman Cases directory instead of Home (#383, @opticon454). Under Docker the two are unrelated trees and Home holds nothing but dot directories, so the picker showed no cases at all. The fallback chain is now Current Folder, then Codeman Cases, then `/mnt/d`, then the first root.
A PR review bot for the maintainer (`scripts/pr-bot/`, guide in `docs/pr-bot.md`). It reviews every open pull request in its own Codeman session inside a private clone and reports the verdict, ranked findings and a recommendation to Telegram with action buttons; merge, close, post-comment and approve-CI happen only from a confirmed tap. Maintainer tooling, not part of the server or the CLI.
### Thanks
- @mtiller for the reverse-proxy base URL (#381).
- @dignfei for attaching cases to running containers (#357).
- @shenlvkang-collab for the response viewer fix (#369), the first-hand conversation hook (#367) and the phone Add Case fix (#368).
- @opticon454 for the case picker default (#383).
## 1.24.7
### Patch Changes
- The web-tab proxy refuses link-local and cloud-metadata targets. Its Test probe, the proxy itself and the WebSocket relay accepted any http(s) host, so a saved dashboard URL could reach `169.254.169.254` (in decimal, hex, IPv6-mapped or DNS-name form) through a capability and no cookie. Loopback and RFC1918 addresses stay allowed on purpose, since a localhost Grafana is the feature; only link-local and the fixed cloud-metadata addresses are refused, at the schema, at every connect site, and through a DNS lookup hook that judges the resolved addresses, which is what closes DNS rebinding. Adds `undici` so the proxy runs its fetch through its own agent.
Proxy capabilities are revoked on logout. `revokeOwner()` had shipped with no caller, so a leaked proxy URL stayed valid for as long as anything kept polling it. `POST /api/logout`, the admin forced logout and user deletion now revoke the capabilities they should, and proxied responses carry `Referrer-Policy: same-origin` with the upstream's own policy dropped, so a dashboard on a loose referrer policy cannot hand the capability to a third-party host it links to.
The Docker Compose deployment updates itself from App Settings again (#373, @opticon454). The checkout Compose builds from is bind-mounted at `/opt/codeman`, so an update's `git checkout` and rebuild land on the host and survive container recreation; build artefacts live in named volumes so container-compiled native modules never enter the host checkout; the image keeps devDependencies and a build toolchain; and the restart is the server exiting under `restart: unless-stopped`. An in-place update applies code only, so the updater refuses a release that changes `server.Dockerfile` or `docker-compose.yaml`, or that adds keys to `.env.example` the user's `.env` has no value for (Compose interpolates an unset variable to the empty string and starts anyway), and points at `docker/Start-Codeman.sh` on the host instead. The four global agent CLIs in the image are pinned. A follow-up makes the final step fail safe: the server exits only when the Compose file declares `CODEMAN_RESTART_BY_EXIT=1` or the daemon confirms an auto-restart policy, and otherwise the build is staged for a manual restart, so a container nothing would restart is never taken down. Details in `docs/docker-self-update.md`.
The test suite strips `CODEMAN_INSTANCE`, `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` and `CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET` before any application module loads (#371, @opticon454), with a two-half test whose static half reads `test/setup.ts` so a dropped line fails everywhere. This replaces the throwaway data dir #356 had set for the same variable.
### Thanks
- @opticon454 for the Compose self-update (#373) and the test isolation fix (#371).
## 1.24.6
### Patch Changes
- CLI backends are now a data-driven registry (#347, @opticon454). Every run mode (Claude Code, Terminal/Shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek Harness and OMP) is a `CliEntry` in `src/config/cli-registry/`: binary discovery (search dirs, version and identity probes), the launch argv template, environment handling, the multi-user privileged-parameter and privileged-env-key clamps, the remote and Docker pane commands, and the capability flags the rest of the app reads instead of branching on a CLI's name. `~/.codeman/clis.json` can override any stock entry or add a custom CLI; it is read-only in this release, must be mode 0600, and every reason it was ignored is now logged once on first load (`docs/cli-registry.md`). Config never contains shell text: entries declare typed argv tokens, literals are validated at load time, and values resolve through patterns named in code. Registry data resolves at call time rather than at module import, so a CLI enabled while the server runs moves every surface at once, and a guard test fails the build if per-CLI-id branching reappears outside the stock catalog.
This is an internal refactor. The spawn command every CLI receives is byte-identical to the previous hand-written builders, verified by pinned golden strings in the test suite and by diffing both implementations across 11,602 option combinations for all ten modes. Five small deliberate changes ride along: the in-container version probe derives the binary from the registry (`antigravity` runs `agy`), the remote version probe now covers Grok and DeepSeek, `codeman doctor`'s CLI rows are generated from the registry (Claude's install hint is the install command, five CLIs gain hints, the row order follows the catalog), OMP now requires tmux like its siblings instead of silently falling back to a direct PTY, and an OMP session's attach client now receives `COLORTERM=truecolor` like the other truecolor CLIs.
Remote sessions are no longer auto-revived after a clean agent exit (#355, @timkjr). The reconnect watcher could not tell a transport drop from a Ctrl-C, Ctrl-D or `exit` inside the remote CLI, so a clean exit relaunched a fresh agent (OpenCode and OMP started a new conversation every time; Claude only looked fine because its `--resume` fallback masked it). The watcher now revives a dead pane only when the durable remote tmux session is verifiably still alive, via a `has-session` probe over ssh, and an unreachable host means do not revive. A follow-up classifies that probe by exit status, since `tmux has-session` prints nothing on success and reading its stdout had marked every live session as gone, forgets the cached answer whenever the pane is seen alive again so a stale result cannot revive a later clean exit, and caps the probe at one in flight per session.
The test suite can no longer reach the production `~/.codeman` data dir (#356, @timkjr). `test/setup.ts` now points `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` at a throwaway directory, which is the absolute override that bypasses the suite's temporary HOME when inherited from the shell, and every test that deletes a case tree goes through a containment gate that refuses paths outside the temporary HOME. A bare suite run had overwritten a real `remote-hosts.json` with a route test's fixture. The comments around it and CLAUDE.md's testing section now name that variable as the cause; `os.homedir()` itself does follow `$HOME`.
### Thanks
- @opticon454 for the CLI registry (#347), the phased resubmission of #343, and the review rounds that hardened it.
- @timkjr for the remote auto-revive fix (#355) and the test-isolation sweep (#356).
## 1.24.5
### Patch Changes
- Fable 5.1 is selectable in App Settings.
`claude-fable-5-1` is in Claude Code's model catalog (display name "Fable 5.1", June 2026 knowledge cutoff), but the model picker only went up to Fable 5, so pinning it meant hand-editing a case's `.claude/settings.local.json`. It now appears as a card under **App Settings -> Models -> New Claude sessions**, and as an option in **Task routing** (Default for tasks, plus the Explore / Implement / Test / Review overrides).
It is offered exactly the way Fable 5 already is: the "1M capable" badge, the 1M context window switch stays live for it, and base + switch compose into `claude-fable-5-1[1m]`. Both strings are accepted by the CLI.
Deliberately not claimed: that a 1M window is what sets Fable 5.1 apart. The CLI's model catalog marks both fable entries as natively 1M with the same window, so an always-on window for 5.1 next to a switchable one for 5 would encode a difference the models do not have.
### Thanks
- @shenlvkang-collab for #370, which surfaced that Fable 5.1 was missing from the picker.
## 1.24.4
### Patch Changes
- The Compose deployment image ships the Docker CLI instead of the whole Docker engine.
`docker/server.Dockerfile` installed Debian's `docker.io` to get a client for the mounted
host socket. That package is the full **engine**: even with `--no-install-recommends` it
pulls 15 packages including containerd, runc, dmsetup and iptables, none of which a
container that only talks to a socket can use. It also ships Docker 20.10.24, from 2023.
The CLI and the buildx plugin are now copied from the official `docker:29-cli` image
instead. Measured on the same `node:22-bookworm-slim` base: **266 MB → 108 MB**, a 158 MB
saving, with the current CLI (29.7.2) in place of a two-year-old one.
Verified by building the real image and running it: the binaries are static Go builds, so
they work on this glibc image even though they come from an Alpine one, and `docker
--version`, `docker ps` and `docker build` all succeed against a mounted host socket as
the unprivileged runtime user. buildx is copied deliberately — `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs`
shells out to `docker build` and Codeman auto-builds the agent image on the first Docker
case, which without the plugin falls back to the classic builder Docker has deprecated.
`docker-compose` is not copied; Codeman never shells out to it.
## 1.24.3
### Patch Changes
- Docker Compose deployment, and the plan-usage chip stops losing its 5-hour window.
**Run Codeman itself in a container** (#349, @opticon454). `docker/` now carries a
local-image Compose deployment: copy `docker/.env.example` to `docker/.env`, set
`CODEMAN_PASSWORD`, run `bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh`. Docker cases then start as
**sibling** containers through the mounted host socket rather than nested ones, which
inverts an assumption the bare-host path takes for granted: the daemon no longer shares
Codeman's filesystem, so a bind source that is valid inside Codeman means nothing to it.
`CODEMAN_DOCKER_HOST_HOME` translates sources under HOME into the daemon's namespace and
`CODEMAN_CASES_PATH` points the cases dir at a host-absolute bind mount, so a workspace
resolves to the same absolute path on both sides. `CODEMAN_DOCKER_DISABLE_SWAP_LIMIT=1`
drops `--memory-swap` for hosts without swap accounting (`--memory` still applies) and
filters only that one kernel warning. Guides: `docs/docker-compose.md`, `docker/README.md`.
Three things were fixed while landing it:
- **`docker/.env` was being baked into the image.** A `.dockerignore` pattern matches the
whole context-relative path, so the bare `.env` line excluded only the root file while
`COPY . .` picked up `docker/.env` — the file the deployment's own README tells you to
fill with `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` and provider API keys — and left it at
`/opt/codeman/docker/.env`. Now excluded via `**/.env`, verified in both directions
against a real build context with a canary secret.
- **`codeman skill install --case <name>` could not find a case under Compose.**
`CODEMAN_CASES_PATH` moved the server's cases dir but not the CLI's, which still
hardcoded `~/codeman-cases`. Both now resolve through one place.
- **A Docker case handed its Claude conversation id to every other CLI.** `resumeOnStart`
seeded `dockerResumeId` from `lastClaudeSessionId` regardless of mode, and
`appendResumeFlag()` maps a resume id onto codex/gemini/pi/grok/deepseek/omp/antigravity.
This one is a plain master bug, unrelated to Compose.
**The plan-usage chip keeps its 5-hour slot.** It silently shrank from `5h 4% · 7d 52%`
to a lone `7d 52%`, which reads as half the feature breaking. Nothing was broken: Claude
Code ships `rate_limits.five_hour` "only while the API reports it and its resets_at has
not passed", so between 5-hour session windows the key simply leaves the statusline
payload. The slot now stays with a dimmed em dash and the tooltip says "no active session
window". Claude only — a missing Codex bucket means that plan has no such limit, so those
stay omitted.
### Thanks
- @opticon454 for #349, and for a write-up that made an infrastructure PR quick to review
## 1.24.2
### Patch Changes
- Fix every new claude session dying on Claude Code 2.1.252's rewritten folder-trust dialog.
That dialog used to offer `❯ 1. Yes, I trust this folder` / `2. No, exit`, so Codeman
answered it by pressing Enter on the highlighted default. 2.1.252 dropped the numbers,
reversed the options and highlights `No, exit`, so the same Enter now answers _exit_: a
session in any directory claude had not seen before died (`Pane is dead (status 1)`)
about six seconds after it started, before the agent ever drew a composer.
- `trustDialogNextKey()` (`src/session-trust-dialog.ts`) now 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. A frame it
cannot read presses nothing. Both the 2.1.252 and the older numbered layout are
handled, and the direction is derived from the frame rather than assumed, so a further
reordering costs a repaint instead of a session.
- The scan schedules its own follow-up read. It had only ever run from the PTY data
handler, which was enough while one Enter answered the dialog; the arrow that moves the
cursor is the last output the pane produces, so a two-keystroke answer would otherwise
stall with the cursor sitting on the right option forever. The keystroke cap goes from
3 to 6 for the same reason.
- The bundled `codeman` agent skill gets the same treatment (preamble 1.21.0): its
`_accept_trust` fallback reads `terminal?full=1`, steers onto the trust option and
confirms only after re-reading, instead of posting a blind `\r`. It sends those
keystrokes under its 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 silently.
- Readiness recipes in `docs/extending-codeman.md`, `docs/api-reference.md` and the
skill's own reference carry the corrected answer and a new symptom-table entry for a
worker whose pane is dead seconds after the spawn.
Also included: a CLAUDE.md audit against the tree, correcting counted drift (route
modules, handler counts, frontend module count and app.js size, install.sh size) and
documenting several subsystems that had no entry.
## 1.24.1
### Patch Changes
- The Docker agent base image builds again.
**`docker/agent.Dockerfile` could not be built from a fresh checkout** (#352, fix in #350): the DeepSeek Harness step died with `dsh: pnpm not found on PATH` and exit 127, which took the whole image with it and, because Codeman auto-builds this image on the first Docker case, left Docker mode unusable on a clean host. `dsh plugin` does not bundle a package manager; it spawns a literal `pnpm` with no npm fallback, so pnpm is now installed alongside `dsh` and the layer proves it with `pnpm --version`.
The profile install also passes `--config.dangerouslyAllowAllBuilds=true`, because pnpm, unlike npm, refuses dependency lifecycle scripts by default and fails the install over it (`ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS`, exit 1). Which packages that hits moves between rebuilds, since the terminal profile is resolved by dist-tag rather than pinned: the tree that broke the build in August pulled `@google/genai`, today's does not. An allowlist of those names would have gone stale rather than prevented the next break, and running those scripts is the same exposure the image already accepts three layers up, where `npm install -g` runs the install scripts of every transitive dependency of the five CLIs above it with no gate at all.
Documentation caught up with two things it had wrong: the image smoke test in `docs/docker-cases.md` now covers `dsh` and `omp`, and checks the dsh **profile** rather than only the binary (`dsh` is a launcher, so `dsh --version` says nothing about whether a session can start), and `docs/deepseek-integration.md` names pnpm as a prerequisite for installing a terminal profile at all, by hand or through the UI button. A comment in the `/api/deepseek/install-profile` route claimed the opposite of what this bug proved, and is corrected; the route's behaviour was already right, surfacing dsh's own "pnpm not found on PATH" line as the install error.
### Thanks
- @opticon454 for #350, with a reproduction that made this a confirmation rather than a hunt
- @timkjr for reporting #352, and for finding it while verifying Docker support for someone else's PR
## 1.24.0
### Minor Changes
- OMP (Oh My Pi) as a tenth run mode, mode-faithful Resume for external CLIs, and a cleaner plan-usage chip.
**OMP (`omp`) run mode** (#353): Oh My Pi joins Claude Code, shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok Build and DeepSeek Harness as a run mode, in local, Docker and remote-SSH sessions: toolbar dropdown, welcome button, phone overview, command palette, clone-repo brain picker, cron agent types, tab badges and per-mode colours, plus `GET /api/omp/status`, a `codeman doctor` entry, install.sh detection and the docker agent image. The resolver leads with `~/.local/bin` (the upstream installer's real target) and demands `omp/<semver>` from `--version`, so an unrelated binary with the same three-letter name is never spawned. Past omp conversations appear in Past Sessions, read from omp's own session files (the header line carries the real working directory, so nothing has to reverse-engineer omp's directory mangling), and a respawned or resumed omp session is pinned to an exact conversation with `--resume <id>` instead of omp's newest-file `--continue`. Review hardening before merge: the pin is resolved only at the moment a respawn is actually confirmed (an eager resolve on boot recovery used to alias two omp tabs in one case directory onto one conversation), candidates are verified against their own header `cwd` and claimed process-wide so siblings cannot double-pin; `OMP_*` joins the env-override allowlist and `OMP_AUTH_BROKER_URL`/`OMP_AUTH_BROKER_TOKEN` are clamped for non-granted owners in multi-user mode, the same shape as `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`. Known and documented: omp's own knobs are mostly `PI_*` (it is a pi fork), its default `tools.approvalMode` is `yolo`, and in-container `--resume` pinning does not reach a Docker omp pane.
**Resume keeps the row's own CLI** (#353): clicking Resume on an OpenCode, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek or OMP row used to create a plain Claude session, since the create request never carried the row's mode. Resume now relaunches in the row's own mode with that CLI's continue flag, and retires the stale row it came from so three clicks no longer leave three copies of the same name. Codex, Gemini and Antigravity rows have no continuation wired yet, so their rows are deliberately left in place. `DELETE /api/sessions/:id` accepts a persisted-only session (ownership enforced through the same helper as live lookups, 404 rather than 403 so nothing leaks) and broadcasts `session_deleted` so other tabs drop the row too.
**Plan-usage chip drops the provider label when there is only one**: a machine with only Claude limits rendered `CLAUDE 5H 60% 7D 23%`, a 46px label naming the only thing it could be. The name exists to tell two rows apart, so it now appears only when both Claude and Codex have windows; the tooltip still names the provider either way.
### Thanks
- @timkjr for #353, and for turning every review finding around within a day
## 1.23.2
### Patch Changes
- Codex plan usage in the header chip, a visible inline rename in the session sidebar, and an installer that no longer loses Tailscale access on a re-run.
**Codex plan usage in the header chip** (#346): the plan-usage chip used to show Claude's 5-hour and weekly limits without saying they were Claude's, which stops being a detail the moment you run more than one CLI. It now renders one compact row per provider, Claude above Codex, each labelled and colour-coded by how much is used up. Claude's numbers still come from Codeman's marked `statusLine.command` exporter; Codex's come from the signed-in host CLI's read-only `account/rateLimits/read` app-server request at startup and every five minutes, so credentials stay inside the CLI and no auth material reaches the browser. Only the main `codex` bucket is read (model-specific buckets such as Spark are separate limits and are deliberately excluded), and the Codex row is omitted entirely when no 5-hour or weekly window is available, rather than inventing one.
**Inline rename is visible in the session sidebar** (#345): starting a rename on a sidebar row opened a focused input you could not see. The row's ellipsis clamp was still painting over the live editor, so text and caret went in blind. The sidebar now gets the same unclamped editor layout the vertical tab rail already had. Covered by a Chromium regression test that asserts the painted `overflow` and the input's measured width, not just the class name.
**install.sh keeps Tailscale access on a re-run**: a re-run whose build failed could drop a working Tailscale binding instead of preserving it. The installer now offers Tailscale setup again on re-run rather than losing it, and the README describes the three-way network-access prompt (Tailscale / LAN / local-only) as it actually behaves.
### Thanks
- @JackStuart for #346
- @fibr for #345
- @tailong-wu for #342, whose analysis of the terminal refresh replay loop matched a fix that had landed on master a few hours earlier
## 1.23.1
### Patch Changes
- Fix a fresh-Linux install failure, and bound the browser terminal's live write queue.
**install.sh now installs a build toolchain.** Reported against a stock Ubuntu 24 server: node-pty publishes prebuilt binaries for darwin and win32 only, so on Linux it is always compiled from source during `npm install`. The installer set up Node, tmux and git but never a compiler, so a machine without `build-essential` died deep inside node-gyp with `not found: make` — which reads like an npm bug rather than a missing system package. `make`, a C++ compiler and `python3` are now checked up front exactly like git and tmux, installed per distro (apt / dnf / pacman / apk / zypper) behind the same consent prompt, and re-verified afterwards rather than assumed. If `npm install` fails anyway — including on `install.sh update` — it now names the missing tools and the command that installs them instead of leaving a node-gyp stack trace as the last word.
**Bounded live xterm backpressure** (#339): live output is now one chunk in flight at a time, released by xterm's own parse callback, so xterm's private WriteBuffer can no longer hide an unbounded backlog behind the browser's 128 KiB render cap; queued, loading and incoming bytes all count against that cap. Automatic drop recovery for a shell stays on the bounded 1 MiB tail — a 100k-line shell capture is tens of MiB, and parsing it on the main thread is the freeze the cap exists to prevent — while TUI modes still recover full history behind the existing downgrade guard. Duplicate SSE terminal events are dropped before JSON parsing while WebSocket owns terminal I/O, and recovery is single-flight per active session. Follow-up hardening: the three write-queue reset paths now also release the in-flight gate, so a parse callback that never lands cannot leave live output permanently stalled.
**File Viewer searches the workspace** (#340): the File Viewer search box now queries the server-side file search endpoint with a 250 ms debounce and strict response validation, instead of filtering only the part of the tree already loaded. Tree and search state are scoped to the active session, the hidden-file preference and independent request epochs, so a stale response cannot repaint the panel; cached-tree restoration, directory results and reset behaviour survive session switches and both panel-hide paths.
### Thanks
- @dignfei for #339
- @aakhter for #340
- 858b15e: Search the full session workspace from File Viewer while keeping results scoped to the active session and hidden-file preference.
## 1.23.0
### Minor Changes
- DeepSeek Harness as a ninth run mode, DeepSeek agent workers, and detailed rows for the vertical tab rail.
**DeepSeek Harness (`dsh`) run mode** (#337): DeepSeek's plugin-native agent framework joins Claude Code, shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi and Grok as a run mode. The harness is a profile launcher rather than an agent, so availability is two questions (binary AND a pane-capable profile): the Run button gates on both, a missing terminal profile is offered as a one-click install (`POST /api/deepseek/install-profile`, the only endpoint in Codeman that installs third-party code, fenced accordingly), and the resolver demands the harness's own help banner so Debian's unrelated `dsh` (dancer's shell) can never be spawned. Its permission switch is the `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` env export (the harness has no bypass flag), injected via tmux setenv and clamped for non-granted owners in multi-user mode, including the env-override path. The community TUI's supervisor-reporting contract makes deepseek the first non-Claude mode with REAL lifecycle signals: a generated status shim turns its idle/working/blocked reports into definitive `stop`/`permission_prompt`/`agent_working` hook events, so dsh sessions get real respawn triggers, real wait signals and red "needs you" alerts instead of output-stabilization guesswork. The vendor's browser UI opens as a managed web tab through a background `dsh web` fenced to Codeman's origin. Docker image support included.
**DeepSeek agent workers** (#341): the codeman agent skill can spawn and drive dsh workers like claude ones — tasked, waited on and read with the same calls. `GET /api/sessions/:id/last-response` reads the harness's real zstd transcript (one frame per append; the reader walks frame boundaries itself, since a naive decode silently truncates to the first frame), distinguishes real prompts from plugin-injected context, and reports a failed turn's provider error instead of an empty answer.
**Vertical tab rail: detailed rows** (#338): the vertical rail can now show the home screen's per-session line (created stamp, state duration, status pill) via the new per-device `tabRailDetail` setting (default detailed; `simple` restores the 1.22.0 rows). One shared row model and one gate (`isRichTabRows()`) keep the rail, the rich sidebar and both home screens in agreement about what "working" means. A never-sized rail opens at the 320px Wide preset; below 288px the created stamp is dropped, below 240px rows fall back to simple. Also fixes Escape during an inline tab rename committing an empty name (the session then displayed its folder name).
**Review hardening across all three** (post-review commits on each PR): multi-user owners without the bypass grant can no longer redirect the server's forwarded `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` via a `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL` override; waits on `stop`/`blocked` are refused for docker/remote dsh sessions (their status bridge cannot reach the harness) and docker/remote dsh sessions keep the pane reader (their transcripts are not local); dsh approvals are alerts answered in the terminal, never blind keystrokes into a third-party TUI; the status shim forwards the contract's `--seq` token (stale retried reports are dropped server-side) and treats 4xx as permanent so a misconfigured session cannot rate-limit the hook endpoint for the whole instance; concurrent DeepSeek web-UI starts are serialized; cron deepseek jobs run the same launch gate as the HTTP paths; the installer's dsh identity probe is stdin-closed, bounded and memoized; transcript reads are memoized per (path, mtime, size) so 1s polling stops decoding unchanged files; the rail's width dialog, compact-threshold folder rows and reset affordances are rich-aware.
### Patch Changes
- b330f1d: Vertical tab rail: detailed rows, and a rename cancel that no longer wipes the name.
The vertical rail (Tab Orientation → Vertical) now draws the same per-session
line the home screen and the rich sidebar draw — when the session was created,
how long it has been in the state it is in, the folder it runs in, and a status
pill — instead of just the name. New per-device setting **Vertical Rail Rows**
(`tabRailDetail`, App Settings → Appearance → Tabs) with `Detailed` as the
default and `Simple (name only)` as the opt-out. A rail that has never been
sized now opens at 320px (the existing Wide preset) so the line fits; a narrower
rail sheds the created stamp below 288px and falls back to simple rows below
240px.
Also fixes a data-loss bug in the inline tab rename that predates the rail:
pressing Escape cleared the input and blurred it, and the blur handler commits —
so cancelling a rename stored an EMPTY session name and the tab fell back to its
folder label. Escape now cancels without a request, in every layout.
## 1.22.0
### Minor Changes
- 3f8c8e9: Add Grok Build (xAI `grok`) as a seventh CLI run mode. SessionMode gains 'grok', with its own resolver (version-probed, since the name has npm squatters; GET /api/grok/status surfaces path + version), GrokConfig (model, alwaysApprove -> --always-approve, resume/continue), GROK*\*/XAI*\* env allowlist entries, the multi-user only-if-sent bypass clamp, Docker (own image step + per-file credential seeding) and remote-SSH command defaults, cron agentType, run-mode/welcome/tab UI with a charcoal identity, and docs (grok-integration.md + plan). Verified end to end against grok 1.0.5 on an isolated instance.
- 74194e4: Add the owner-scoped tab-layout model, persistence, API, lifecycle repair, and synchronized legacy ordering foundation.
- e3a2fb7: Add an optional resizable vertical session rail with responsive layout, complete labels, accessible controls, and stable inline rename.
### Patch Changes
- Fix the file preview's dead pop-out control: a real detach button now opens the previewed file in a browser tab (raw route for PDFs/images/media/text, converted-PDF preview for docx/pptx) and the copy button reports when a preview has no text to copy instead of silently doing nothing. Review-driven hardening for the new tab features: PUT /api/session-order drops unknown ids again instead of rejecting the whole write (a session deleted inside the browser's debounce window could silently lose the user's reorder), a failed mux restore no longer blocks explicit session/webview deletion for the process lifetime (the automated stale sweep stays fail-closed), and the vertical rail gains the axis-awareness the sidebar-only predicates missed: correct drag-reorder insertion, active-tab scroll-into-view, floating windows anchored beside rail tabs, connector redraws on rail scroll, server-seeded orientation applied on first load, a pre-paint stamp so vertical mode no longer flashes through the header strip, and a 12px session-name default matching the sidebar's historical size so untouched installs are not restyled.
## 1.21.0
### Minor Changes
- **`codeman tui`: a terminal dashboard for your sessions.** For the times you are in SSH or Termius instead of a browser. The web UI remains the primary surface and bare `codeman` still prints help, so the dashboard itself is strictly additive.
Sessions are grouped NEEDS YOU / WORKING / IDLE / RECENT in the same status language as the web tabs and the phone overview, and the states come from the server (hooks, idle confirmation, the approvals inbox) over the existing HTTP/SSE API rather than being screen-scraped. That is what lets the dashboard answer a permission dialog instead of only reporting one.
- `↑↓`/`j`/`k` select; `1`-`9`, `[`/`]` and `Tab` switch between sessions
- `Enter` attaches and hands the terminal to tmux; **`F1` comes back**, one key, no modifier. Inside the pane a bar across the top carries the session strip and `Alt+1`..`Alt+9` switch without returning to the dashboard first
- `Enter` on a RECENT row resumes that conversation; on a session whose pane has died it refuses and offers `r` to resume it in a fresh pane
- `y`/`n`/digits answer the selected session's pending permission or question card (the server re-captures the pane first, so a keystroke can never land in the composer)
- `p` sends a one-line prompt without attaching, `x` kills (`y` confirms), `n` starts a session and opens straight into it
- `/` cross-session search, `g` away digest, `?` help, live preview pane, plan-usage chip in the header, a terminal bell when a new approval arrives
- `codeman tui --list` and `codeman tui <n>` are scriptable fast paths; with no server running it lists panes straight from the instance's tmux socket, attach-only, and upgrades live when the server comes back
Narrow terminals (under 72 columns, a phone SSH client) drop the preview and get a single-column layout. `NO_COLOR`, non-UTF-8 glyph fallback and a non-TTY refusal are all handled. Zero new dependencies: hand-rolled ANSI over chalk and commander. User guide: `docs/tui.md`.
**Breaking: the `sc` tmux chooser is retired.** `scripts/tmux-chooser.sh` is deleted and `install.sh` no longer creates the `tmux-chooser` symlink or the `sc` alias; it sweeps both up instead, on update and on uninstall. `codeman tui` replaces it and does the job better: `sc` numbered its entries globally but only accepted a single `[1-9]` keypress, so sessions 10+ were listed and could not be selected, and it inferred nothing about what an agent was doing. The alias cleanup is marker-owned, matching the exact line the installer wrote, so a user's own `alias sc=` for another tool is untouched.
**CLI polish that came with it.**
- New shared style kit (`src/cli-style.ts`) used across the CLI: semantic palette, glyphs, width-aware table, spinner, confirm.
- `codeman doctor` is colorized and its table is measured, so the "Antigravity CLI" label no longer pushes its row out of column. `--json` output is unchanged.
- `codeman web` no longer prints its "running at" line twice, and the server's non-loopback security warning is painted like the CLI's (chalk degrades off a TTY, so journald and `web.log` stay free of escape codes).
- Spinners on the silent up-to-30s waits in `codeman web -d`, `codeman web --stop` and `codeman service install`.
- `codeman reset` asks a real y/N confirmation on a TTY; non-interactive callers keep the old `--force` refusal.
- `codeman list` and `codeman session list` share one renderer instead of drifting copies.
- `codeman attach` is described correctly in the README (it shows an attachment card for a local file).
- `test/cli-commands.test.ts` now derives its inventory from the real commander program instead of a hand-written fixture that had drifted.
**Internal.** New `tmux -L` callers resolve the socket through `resolveTmuxSocketName()`, now exported from `config/instance.ts`, so a second process can never point a beta instance at prod's panes. CLAUDE.md and `docs/architecture-invariants.md` both record the rule.
### Thanks
The TUI went through seven rounds of beta testing over PuTTY/SSH by **@Ark0N**, which is where the way out of an attach, the session strip, the preview repaint handling and the glyph set all came from.
## 1.20.1
### Patch Changes
- Terminal input and scrollback fixes (PRs #327, #331):
- IME punctuation preserved (#327): keyCode 229 / `Process` key events are now delegated to xterm's CompositionHelper instead of being suppressed, so an active Chinese IME committing numbers and full-width punctuation (,。!? and friends) reaches the terminal correctly. The CJK input field sends the browser's committed text instead of guessing from `KeyboardEvent.key`, and the redundant Android orphan-input fallback is removed so xterm is the single input owner.
- Shell history replay bounded (#331): selecting a Shell session loads a bounded 1 MiB tail instead of replaying the entire multi-megabyte tmux scrollback on xterm's main thread; full history stays available via the explicit "Load full history" action. tmux history limits now apply correctly on both legacy tmux (global default set in the same command queue before pane creation) and tmux 3.7+ (per-pane targeting that never resizes or trims unrelated live panes). Also adds `Server-Timing` and `[TERMINAL-PERF]` timing stages for terminal loads, fixes `scrollToLastNonEmptyLine` double-counting scrollback rows, and keeps live output ordered behind snapshot replays.
### Thanks
- @dignfei for both fixes: the IME punctuation root-cause fix (#327) and the bounded shell history replay with the tmux history-limit correctness work (#331).
## 1.20.0
### Minor Changes
- Response viewer for OpenCode, Gemini, Antigravity and Pi sessions (#326). External CLIs render their own TUIs, so the viewer used to come up empty for them; a new transcript parser (`response-viewer-transcript.ts`) reconstructs the conversation from the pane text instead, and the `?context=full` view now tags every block with a role so prompts render as "You" and agent output as the assistant. The divider normalizer was rewritten as a linear scan after review found catastrophic backtracking on agent-controlled input (minutes of stall on a long dash run), with an equivalence corpus pinning the old accept set.
CLIs installed via nvm or Homebrew are now found when Codeman runs as a service (#329). A shared resolver falls back to a login-shell probe when the direct PATH lookup misses, so systemd and LaunchAgent installs no longer report every CLI as missing. Review hardening on top: a failed resolution is negative-cached with doubling backoff instead of re-spawning a login shell on every request, all probes pass `killSignal: 'SIGKILL'` (interactive bash shrugs off SIGTERM, and a blocking `.bash_profile` could have hung the server indefinitely), the resolvers are inert under vitest again so test suites cannot execute binaries found on the dev box, and the improved not-found guidance is wired into both the session-create errors and the per-CLI status endpoints.
`GET /api/system/repo-status` reports branch, upstream, ahead/behind and remote reachability for git-clone installs (#328). Review hardening: the git network calls moved off the synchronous path onto a single-flight 45s cache (one slow remote could previously freeze the whole server for up to a minute per request), remote URLs and git stderr are credential-redacted before they leave the server, the spawns use the same non-interactive git env as the clone path, and a local-branch upstream no longer parses into garbage.
Auto Copy for the terminal (#325, opt-in, per-device): a finished selection (mouse drag, double or triple click, or a phone long-press) lands on the clipboard by itself, so select-then-copy becomes select. Alongside it, hand-encoded tap reports are now gated on the server-observed `cliMouseTracking` state, so a pane that has fallen back to a plain shell no longer receives `[<0;88;20M` junk on tap.
The Ralph loop no longer stops polling after two ticks (#330): the reschedule guard read a stale timer handle that the timer callback never cleared, so the loop silently died while its status stayed `running`. The handle is now nulled as the callback's first statement, and a regression test pins the bug.
The red "needs you" tab alert clears when a dialog is answered in the terminal instead of surviving until the end of the turn: the post-hook re-capture could erase the parsed dialog options that the staleness sweep relies on (`applyCapture` is now add-only for options), and a delayed staleness pass now runs while a page is open. The unreachable `copyTerminal()` was removed, closing out #322.
### Thanks
- @aakhter contributed the external-CLI response viewer (#326), the repo-status endpoint (#328), the login-shell CLI resolution (#329) and the Ralph reschedule fix (#330)
- @rounakdatta reported the mobile copy gap (#322) closed out in this release
## 1.19.7
### Patch Changes
- Mobile catches up: links open from a tap, terminal text can be selected and copied, long prompts stay visible while you type. Plus Files panel search, a bundled Nerd Font symbols fallback, and a per-device terminal font setting.
- **Terminal and chat links work on phones** (#321): tapping a URL or file path in terminal output now opens it (new tab, file preview, or log viewer), resolved through the same provider desktop hover uses, so tap and click can never disagree about what is a link. Dialog rows and the composer keep their existing meaning. Response-viewer links open in a new tab with `rel="noopener noreferrer"` instead of navigating the dashboard away. Wrapped links open whole: the logical-line reconstruction now stitches hard wraps through the indent their continuation carries, which also fixes desktop hover-click truncating wrapped URLs.
- **Terminal text can be copied on touch devices** (#321): long-press selects the token under the finger, drag or tap the other end to extend, and a small bar offers Copy, Line (the whole logical line, wraps included) and dismiss. Copy works on plain-HTTP installs too. Three guards keep the keyboard down and the selection alive through the browser's own long-press handling.
- **A long prompt stays visible on phones** (#321): the local-echo overlay grows upward once it would run past the last visible row (a prompt taller than the screen keeps its tail, where the cursor is), and the keyboard-driven padding shrink can no longer reclaim the space the fixed toolbar and accessory bar stand in.
- **Files panel search** (#324): `GET /api/sessions/:id/files?q=...` answers a flat match list (name or path substring, `*`/`?` globs), recursing past non-matching directories with its own match cap on top of the existing bounds; without `q` the response is byte-identical to before. Glob queries are matched without regex so a pathological pattern cannot stall the server.
- **Nerd Font prompt glyphs out of the box, custom terminal font** (#320): a bundled icons-only Symbols Nerd Font Mono fallback renders powerlevel10k/starship/oh-my-posh glyphs on every device with no font install, and App Settings gains a per-device terminal font family that is prepended to the built-in stack.
### Thanks
Three contributor PRs in one release: thanks to @rounakdatta (#321), @aakhter (#324) and @comzine (#320).
- 8a54b33: Clear every production-reachable npm advisory, and fix a service-worker caching regression the upgrade exposed.
`npm audit` reported 20 advisories, but 16 were devDependencies-only (Remotion, Puppeteer, postcss, the eslint/tsx toolchain) and never reached anyone installing the package. Four reached production and are now resolved:
- **`@fastify/static` 9.1.3 to 10.1.3** — GHSA-8pvw-jcv7-9cmj, authorization bypass via non-canonical URL paths. The advisory covers `<=10.1.1`, so the entire 9.x line is affected and the fix only exists on 10.x.
- **`find-my-way` 9.6.0 to 9.8.0** — GHSA-c96f-x56v-gq3h (HTTP/2 DDoS). Not exploitable here since Codeman does not enable HTTP/2, fixed anyway.
- **`fast-uri` 3.1.2 to 3.1.5** — GHSA-v2hh-gcrm-f6hx, host confusion via a literal backslash authority delimiter.
- **`brace-expansion` to 5.0.9 / 1.1.18** — GHSA-3jxr-9vmj-r5cp, exponential-time expansion DoS.
The last three were transitive and only needed a lockfile re-resolve; no `overrides` were added.
The `@fastify/static` major changes the `setHeaders` callback's first argument from a Node `ServerResponse` to a `FastifyReply`, which required two fixes:
- `res.setHeader()` became `reply.header()`. A v9-style body throws `TypeError: res.setHeader is not a function` from inside the plugin on every static request.
- **That change also flips precedence, silently.** The callback used to write to the raw response and be overwritten by the route's staged reply headers; it now writes to the reply and wins instead. That handed `/sw.js` a year of `immutable` in place of the `no-cache, no-store` its route sets, which would pin a service worker on every client with no server-side way to recover. A route that already set `Cache-Control` now keeps it.
`ws` also appears in `npm audit` but production is already on 8.21.0, outside the vulnerable range; the only affected copy is bundled under `@remotion/renderer` and is dev-only.
Adds `test/static-cache-headers.test.ts`, which drives a real server and covers the caching contract that had no test at all, and moves the floors in `test/dependency-security.test.ts` up to the patched versions.
## 1.19.6
### Patch Changes
- Wiki user manual, a phone tab tap-zone fix, per-parent lineage colours, and two robustness fixes.
- **Wiki**: `docs/wiki/` is now a 30-page user manual (installation, quick start, the dashboard, agent CLIs, remote/Docker cases, hooks, security, HTTP API, troubleshooting and more), published to the GitHub wiki by a sync workflow on every push that touches it.
- **Phone tabs**: on a narrow phone the active tab's geometric centre could land on its gear icon, so a thumb aiming at the tab opened Session Options instead of switching. The active tab's name now reserves a minimum width, and a static test recomputes the clearance from the stylesheet so widening the icons fails there rather than on a phone.
- **Lineage lines**: the arcs between a tab and the tabs it spawned are now coloured per SPAWNING tab, so every arc leaving one tab shares a colour and the strip reads as "these came from w1, those from w2". A child that spawns in turn gets its own colour, so a chain changes colour at each generation.
- **File access**: `validateSessionFilePath()` now canonicalizes the workspace as well as the candidate path before comparing them. Resolving only the candidate made a workspace reached through a symlink (`/tmp` on macOS, symlinked project dirs, bind-mounted case paths) report a spurious escape and refuse every read and write in that session. Escapes are still refused.
- **Respawn**: a cycle step that is stopped mid-write no longer revives the state machine. `stop()` could land during the `await` on the kickstart / update / clear / init write, after which the controller set itself back to a waiting state and kept running.
### Thanks
- @aakhter for the symlink-safe workspace confinement fix (#314) and the respawn stop-race fix (#315).
- 98e37bf: Session List Layout gains a third option, "Left sidebar", whose rows carry the same per-session detail the home screen shows.
The sidebar previously had one row style: a name and a folder. That is the whole story a tab can tell, but a docked column is not a tab strip — it has width to spare and a row per session either way, and the information that was missing is exactly the information the desktop home rail and the phone overview already put on screen. So the new option lifts it onto the rows: when the session was first created, how long it has been in the state it is in, and a status pill naming that state.
- The old "Left sidebar" is now **"Left sidebar simple"** and is unchanged, down to the byte — the stored value stays `sidebar`, so anyone already using it keeps exactly the layout they chose. The new option is `sidebar-rich`.
- Both sidebar values are the SAME layout and both set `data-session-list="sidebar"`; row detail rides on a separate `data-sidebar-detail` attribute. That is deliberate: every `isSessionSidebarActive()` call site and every `html[data-session-list="sidebar"]` rule in styles.css and mobile.css keeps matching both, untouched.
- Which state a session is in, and which stamp measures it, come from `_mobileOverviewState()` / `_mobileOverviewSince()` rather than being re-derived — the sidebar, the home rail and the phone overview cannot disagree about what "working" means. A working row is measured from the turn's last Enter, not from its last repaint, so a running turn reads `working 12m` instead of `0m`.
- The stamps refresh in place on a 20s clock instead of re-rendering: a rebuild would restart every load spinner and alert animation in the list, twice a minute. The clock only runs while rich rows are on screen.
- The column widens to 300px for the extra line, and the collapsed 44px rail and the handheld drawer are explicitly held back from that width.
- 947ff6f: `npm test` is now the CI gate and is safe to run bare; the suites it cannot run each got their own command.
`npm test` ran the everything-config, which fails ~87 tests on a clean master on any machine without chromium, a free port and per-machine PNG baselines. That made the repo's most obvious command useless as a pass/fail signal, and the docs had accumulated "never run bare `npm test`" warnings in four files to work around it. It now runs `config/vitest.ci.config.ts` — exactly what CI runs — so local green means CI green.
- New: `test:browser` (5 Playwright files), `test:perf` (2 wall-clock benchmarks), `test:all` (the old everything-behaviour, kept reachable). `test:ci` and `test:mobile` are unchanged; `test:watch` and `test:coverage` follow `test` onto the gate's config.
- The exclusion list moved to `config/test-suites.ts`, with the reason each suite cannot run in CI. Every config derives from it, so the gate's excludes and the runners' includes cannot drift.
- That drift was a silent hole, not a tidiness problem: a file excluded from CI and added to no runner is tested by NOTHING, and every command stays green, because vitest counts "no files matched" as success. `test/test-suite-partition.test.ts` now fails if any test file is reachable by no runner or by two.
- ⚠️ A file filter must match its runner: `npm test -- test/mobile/keyboard.test.ts` matches nothing and exits green having run zero tests, because the gate excludes that path. Use `npm run test:mobile -- <file>`. Documented in CLAUDE.md, and the one place that recommended the old form was corrected.
- Docs synced: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, both READMEs, and two ci.yml comments that claimed only `test/mobile/**` was excluded (it is three suites, and 5 Playwright files rather than 3).
## 1.19.5
### Patch Changes
- Closing the session you are looking at now always moves you to the next tab.
The delete request and its own `session_deleted` broadcast raced each other: the close path selected the next tab, while the broadcast handler cleared the active session and showed the home screen, and whichever ran first decided what you saw. On one build, closing a tab either switched sessions or dumped you on the welcome screen depending on timing. The close now owns that handoff from beginning to end, and the broadcast handler stays out of the way for a close started in that tab. A session deleted from somewhere else still returns you to the home screen, which is the honest answer when what you were looking at was taken away.
The next tab is also picked from sessions that still exist, so a stale entry in the tab order can no longer name a tab that is already gone.
## 1.19.4
### Patch Changes
- Only a human opening a session clears its yellow "waiting for input" tab alert.
1.19.2 made that clear durable and cross-device, which also meant the app itself could spend it: restoring your last session on page load, a popped-out window opening its target, and the fallback to another tab after you close the active one all counted as "I checked it", so a yellow tab could clear itself before you ever saw it. Those three app-driven selections are now marked and skip the acknowledgement, so the alert survives until you actually open the session.
Everything a human does still clears it, on every surface: tapping a tab, tapping a row on the phone home screen, the keyboard tab shortcuts, and submitting a prompt into the session. The flag defaults to user-initiated, so a selection path nobody marked keeps acknowledging rather than leaving an alert nothing can clear.
## 1.19.3
### Patch Changes
- Red "needs you" tab alerts now follow the dialog instead of the keyboard.
Typing in the terminal no longer clears a red alert. It used to clear every pending alert on the device you typed on, but a permission or question dialog ignores keystrokes that are not one of its options, so the dialog was still open and still blocking: the other devices stayed red and a reload brought the red back on the first one. Input now spends the yellow idle alert only, and it does that through the server-side acknowledgement added in 1.19.2, so the clear is durable and reaches every device.
A dialog answered in the terminal now clears by itself. Claude Code fires no "permission answered" hook, so the item stayed pending until the whole turn ended, and any page load in between re-armed a red alert for a dialog that was long gone. Listing approvals now re-captures the pane and resolves items whose dialog is no longer on screen, using the same conservative check the answer path already uses: only an item whose original frame parsed numbered options can be dropped this way, so an unreadable capture keeps the alert rather than losing a live one. Measured against a real AskUserQuestion dialog: the stale item cleared 5 seconds ahead of the stop hook that used to be the only signal, while a dialog still on screen survived 11 consecutive listings over 55 seconds untouched.
## 1.19.2
### Patch Changes
- Yellow "waiting for input" tab alerts now stay cleared once you have checked them, on every device.
Viewing a session used to clear its idle alert in that browser's memory only. The server-side approval store still held the prompt, so the next page load seeded the alert straight back and a tab you had already checked went yellow again, while your other devices never heard about the click at all. Opening a session now acknowledges its pending idle prompt server-side (`POST /api/approvals/session/:sessionId/viewed`, a new `acknowledgedAt` field on approval items, broadcast as `approval:updated`), so the clear survives reloads and reaches every connected client.
Acknowledgement is deliberately not resolution: the prompt is still unanswered, so the item stays in the Approvals Inbox, stays answerable, and stays available as Read My Mind context, it just stops arming the tab alert. Permission and question dialogs are never acknowledged this way, since looking at a dialog does not answer it, so the red "needs you" alert survives being viewed. Clicking the tab you are already on now clears the alert as well; that path returned early before, so an alert armed on the active tab could not be cleared by clicking at all.
## 1.19.1
### Patch Changes
- Follow-up hardening from the 1.19.0 reviews, across all three of that release's areas (#309, #310, #311).
Home screens: the activity ordering introduced in 1.19.0 now stays truthful. Hook events push a session state broadcast, so a blocked session ranks by a fresh stamp instead of whatever the page loaded with; a working row with no recorded submit shows the same stamp it sorts by; Alt+1..9 resolves through the live sessions the tabs actually paint, so a stale id in the saved order can no longer shift every number off its target; and the "most recently quiet" ordering survives restarts, since recovery now restores each session's previous activity stamp from state.json instead of restamping everything at boot (previously every deploy flattened the ordering to tab order).
Files and sidebar: playable media extensions are pinned to the attachment registry by a parity test, so an in-workspace .m4a/.flac/.opus opens the preview player instead of the log viewer; /etc paths no longer render as links that can only 403; the sidebar session count counts the rows actually on screen (web tabs included, filtered rows excluded) and follows the filter box; connectors re-anchor on incremental renders in sidebar layout; and ~/.claude.json plus ~/.claude/settings(.local).json are blocked from file serving, home-anchored only, so case-level .claude files stay viewable.
Workspace hooks: the install-vs-refresh decision is one shared core that every claude create path routes through, so the workspaceHooksEnabled setting now also applies to cron jobs, legacy scheduled runs, and plan-orchestrator one-shots; a shell session in a docker case no longer authors a hooks block; the boot sweep no longer resurrects a deleted workspace as an empty directory; and the statusLine exporter got the same remote-attach and cwd-fallback guards as the hooks install.
## 1.19.0
### Minor Changes
- c01edcb: Add an optional collapsible left session sidebar as an alternative to the header tab strip.
With many concurrent sessions the horizontal strip wraps into several rows and stops being scannable. The new layout puts the session list in a vertical `<aside>` with a filter box and a live session count, collapsible to a 44px rail that keeps the status dots and task badges visible.
Opt-in via Settings → Layout → Tabs → Session List Layout; the default stays the header strip, so nothing changes unless you switch. Both layouts share one `#sessionTabs` element that is re-parented between mount points, so every existing affordance (status, mode badge, alerts, drag-reorder, keyboard navigation, web tabs, subagent windows) behaves identically in both. Below 1024px the sidebar is an off-canvas drawer that overlays the terminal instead of shrinking it. Collapse state persists per device; `Alt+B` toggles it.
- Codeman hooks now install into every claude workspace at session create, not just cases Codeman created (#304). Linked cases and cloned repos previously ran hook-blind: tab alerts, the Approvals Inbox, and the agent skill's stop/blocked wait signals were silently dead there. The install is an add-only merge that preserves user-authored hooks and leaves malformed files untouched, and a boot sweep heals sessions recovered from a restart. Opt out with the new synced `workspaceHooksEnabled` setting. Note: a `.claude/settings.local.json` can now appear in repos you link as cases; it contains no secrets. Remote SSH attaches and creates without a `workingDir` never write hooks.
File paths an agent prints are now clickable in both the terminal and the response viewer, opening the file preview overlay, including paths outside the session workspace (#306). Out-of-workspace paths are served through the attachment routes' extension allowlist, realpath confinement, and sensitive-path blocklist; Codeman's own credential-bearing files (`settings.json`, `push-keys.json`, `intents.json`, `state*.json`) are blocked from serving.
Both home screens (the desktop home tab rail and the phone overview) sort sessions by activity instead of tab order (#303): blocked sessions first with the longest-blocked on top, then running sessions longest-running first, then quiet sessions most recently active first. A turn starting now pushes a session state broadcast so the ordering stays live after page load.
The codeman agent skill docs teach hook presence as a setting to check rather than a consequence of who created the workspace, and the §0 preamble stamp is bumped to 1.19.0 (#305).
### Thanks
- @christianhaberl designed and built the collapsible left session sidebar (#307)
## 1.18.4
### Patch Changes
- Faster agent-skill workers, retuned multi-color lineage arcs, a per-tab pop-out option, reliable tab alerts, and the community launch.
- Agent skill: SKILL.md now forbids the standalone preamble check and the pre-spawn reconnaissance turns that were costing whole model turns; the same two-worker spawn measured at 28.6s end to end now runs 20.2s cold and 12.8s warm, with the spawn machinery itself unchanged.
- Session lineage lines: arcs now hang from the tab strip's bottom edge (dip cap 104px to 64px, no stacked row offsets), fixing the deep bow on wrapped tab strips and keeping same-row arcs off the second row's tab labels; each spawned worker's arc gets its own color (skin blue first, then matrix green, pink, violet, red, turquoise, orange), assigned per child and stable across re-renders.
- Session Options > Session: new "Pop-out button on this tab" per-tab override on top of the general App Settings toggle (per-device).
- Tab alerts: pending permission/question alerts now survive page reloads regardless of the Approvals Inbox setting (the alert state machine seeds from the server-side approval store on every load), stay visible on the selected tab until the prompt is actually resolved (the alert paints on a ::before overlay the active tab's styling cannot bury), and render as a steady red/yellow ring with glow and a colored status dot instead of a blink that spent half of every cycle looking like a normal tab. The README carries a live capture of the new alerts.
- Community launch: README Community section, .github/CONTRIBUTING.md (dev setup, test safety, great first contributions, PR expectations), and GitHub Discussions.
- docs: worker warm-pool design sketch with the measured baselines.
## 1.18.3
### Patch Changes
- Fix skill-spawned workers losing their lineage arcs and spawning slowly: a stale user-level agent skill copy (`~/.claude/skills/codeman`, written once by `codeman skill install`) shadowed the fresh per-case injections, so agents ran old recipes (serial spawns with pid polls, no `X-Codeman-Parent-Session` header). Session create now refreshes a marker-owned user-level copy (refresh-only, never installs, foreign/symlink copies untouched) and pre-seeds the skill's preamble into `${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-~/.cache}/codeman-agent-<id>.sh` (0600, local claude sessions only), single-sourced from the new `skills/codeman/preamble.sh` and pinned byte-identical to the SKILL.md heredoc by test. The skill's bootstrap is now a two-line loader with the full block as fallback, cutting measured prompt-to-workers-spawned time from 35s to 10.6s; `spawn_worker` also sends `parentSessionId` in the request body as defense in depth, and the preamble stamp is bumped to 1.18.3 so pre-fix cached preambles self-heal.
## 1.18.2
### Patch Changes
- Draw session lineage lines in blue for contrast. The violet arcs sat close to the
terminal's own dim foreground, so they lost contrast exactly where they cross text;
the colour now comes from each skin's own `--session-blue` token, and the layer is
separated from subagent lines by shape, weight and dash pattern rather than hue.
- f18097c: Make the `codeman` agent skill spawn workers fast instead of deliberating first.
Measured against a live server, the API does the whole job (spawn two claude workers,
task them, read both answers) in about 10 seconds, so the delay users saw was
agent-side: the skill taught serial spawning, made the happy path something to
reassemble from five sections on every run, and cost ~16k tokens of mostly failure
modes before the first call.
- The §0 preamble now defines the verbs instead of describing them: `spawn_worker`,
`spawn_workers` (concurrent), `sendwait` and `last_text`. §1 composes them into the
whole job in one Bash call, and says to stop reading there.
- Dropped two ceremonies the measurements retired: the pid-poll loop (`wait-output`
already blocks on the composer) and the agent-driven hooks check, which is now folded
into `spawn_worker` itself as a single local grep of the resolved `casePath`, so a
name that resolves to a linked case or a hook-less pre-existing directory is refused
instead of silently running the job there. Linked cases and raw paths still require
the by-hand check, where its absence silently breaks send-and-wait.
- The bootstrap's write condition now greps the version stamp, so a stale or truncated
preamble file self-heals instead of failing and asking you to `rm` it by hand.
- `sendwait` picks a fresh `seq` per call (a fixed default made every second prompt to
the same worker a silently-swallowed duplicate) and self-heals stranded delivery: an
Ink repaint occasionally eats the Enter, leaving the prompt typed but unsubmitted
(observed live), so a timed-out first wait sends one bare `\r` and re-waits by
resending the identical frame as a tagged duplicate.
- §5 moved to `reference/verbs.md`, leaving an index. SKILL.md is the only part paid on
every load and drops from ~16.4k to roughly 9k tokens (~35KB); section numbers and
anchors are unchanged, so existing `§5.x` references still resolve.
## 1.18.1
### Patch Changes
- Terminal history and scroll position fixes, a seekable file-viewer video player, and clearer session lineage lines.
**Terminal scroll position (#259).** Three paths dragged the terminal to the bottom while the user was reading scrollback. Opening or closing the mobile keyboard forced it unconditionally; scroll intent is now captured before the keyboard reflow and restored afterwards. Live writes preserved the viewport only inside a 1500ms window, so a user who scrolled up and then actually read for longer was dragged along by the next repaint; that is now based on position rather than recency. The backpressure refresh, which is server-triggered and so has no gesture to blame, now holds the reader's place too.
**Terminal history loss (#259 follow-on).** The backpressure refresh rebuilt the terminal from a 1MB tail, which measured as an 869-row buffer coming back with 158 rows: the routine meant to repair the display was discarding most of the scrollback every time SSE backpressure cleared. It now restores full history, falling back to the tail only when the capture would shrink the buffer, so repaint-mode panes are unaffected. It also bails if the user switches tabs mid-fetch, which would otherwise paint one session's history into another's terminal.
**History truncation is now visible and recoverable (#258).** Truncation was reported by a grey line written into the terminal, which scrolled away with the output it described and read the same whether the rest was one click away or gone forever. `GET /api/sessions/:id/terminal` now reports `truncationReason` (`tail` for an intentional partial replay whose remainder is still retained, `capped` for the byte ceiling) plus `retainedBytes`, and the browser shows a dismissible banner outside terminal output with three honest states: recoverable, which offers a Load full history button, at-ceiling, and exhausted. The button bypasses the scroll cooldown but not the downgrade guard, so it cannot destroy history on a repaint-mode pane.
**File viewer video (#284).** Closing the preview left the video playing with audible audio and no visible player, since hiding the overlay does not stop a media element and detaching one does not either. Media is now paused, unsourced and reloaded on close and on re-open, which also aborts the in-flight download. The scrub bar was inert because raw file bodies were served as a single `200` with no `Accept-Ranges`, so Chrome reported `video.seekable` as `[0, 0]` and Safari refused to start the media at all. Raw bodies are now streamed and range-aware (`Accept-Ranges` on every response, `206` with `Content-Range` for a range request, `416` past EOF, malformed specs ignored per RFC 9110), with pure, unit-tested parsing in `src/web/http-range.ts`. The attachments raw route gets the same treatment.
**Session lineage lines (#285).** The arcs joining a tab to the workers it spawned were tuned for two adjacent tabs and flattened into a straight thread across the terminal at the 800-1500px spans they are actually used at, drew a flat overprinted line inside the row gap on a wrapped strip, and were too faint to see at 1:1. Every pair now uses one U-bridge shape anchored on both tabs' bottom edges, with a deeper span-scaled dip and heavier, higher-contrast strokes.
**Docs.** The pi run mode is now listed in the mode lists that the sixth-backend sweep missed.
## 1.18.0
### Minor Changes
- Heal a stalled SSE stream with a heartbeat and a client-side staleness watchdog, and make a tab rename apply immediately.
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.
- **`sse:heartbeat` is a new named event** under a new Transport category in the registry (155 constants now, both the backend list and the frontend `SSE_EVENTS` copy updated). 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. `cleanupDeadClients()` now writes the named frame (`{"t":<epoch ms>}`) instead; interval, tunnel padding and dead-socket eviction are unchanged, and the write stays per-client rather than going through `broadcast()` because the frame carries no session data and so needs no multi-user owner routing.
- **Client watchdog.** `computeSseStale()` in `constants.js` is 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). That `connected`-only guard doubles as the loop breaker, since a forced reconnect leaves the state immediately and the watchdog cannot re-fire while one is in flight. The liveness stamp is applied inside `addListener` itself so every registered listener feeds it from one place instead of three that can drift, and the heartbeat's own listener is a deliberate no-op that exists only to be registered (`EventSource` drops named events nobody listens for). A 5s watchdog forces `connectSSE()`, `visibilitychange` to visible checks too (a background tab's timers are throttled, and a wake is exactly when a stream comes back zombie), and the forced reconnect logs one diagnostic line so a middlebox that strips or delays heartbeats does not present as an undebuggable "silently reconnects every 45s".
- **Renaming a tab appeared to do nothing** until a full page reload. The `PUT` always succeeded; what was broken is how the tab strip learned the result. `finishRename()` re-renders from the client-side `app.sessions` map and nothing wrote the new name into it, so the rename depended on the `session:updated` SSE frame to carry its own write back, which is precisely what a quiet stream never delivers. `_applyLocalSessionName()` now writes the confirmed name locally and refreshes cached subagent parent names. A rejected rename also used to read as success and silently drop the edit, because `_apiPut` turns a network error into a null Response so the old `try`/`catch` could never fire; a failure now restores the old label and toasts.
Tests: `test/sse-staleness.test.ts` (node VM over `constants.js`, threshold boundaries and every not-stale guard), `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), and `test/inline-rename.test.ts` (the name applies with no SSE frame dispatched, and a 500 leaves the map untouched).
Event names are part of the stable `/api/v1` contract, so this is a minor bump.
- c5b5963: Add Pi (pi.dev) as a sixth CLI run mode (#206).
`SessionMode` gains `'pi'`, a first-class backend alongside Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini and Antigravity: its own PTY, tmux session, rose tab identity, welcome button, run-mode entry, cron `agentType`, Docker and remote-SSH command defaults, and clone-repo Brain option.
- **New resolver** `src/utils/pi-cli-resolver.ts`. Unlike the sibling resolvers it sanity-probes `pi --version` and requires semver-shaped output, because `pi` is a short generic name that a stray binary on `$PATH` can shadow; the rejected path is logged. `GET /api/pi/status` returns `{ available, path, version }` so a misresolution is diagnosable.
- **`PiConfig`** maps to `--model` (accepts `provider/id` and a `:thinking` suffix), `--provider`, `--thinking`, `--session`/`-c`, and the tri-state `--approve` / `--no-approve`. Every value is regex-allowlisted and dropped on failure. `--api-key` is deliberately never wired: it would put a provider secret on the spawn command line.
- **No bypass flag.** Pi has no permission prompts and no sandbox, so there is no `--dangerously-skip-permissions` analog. Its privilege-shaped knob is `approveProjectTrust`, which makes pi load and execute repo-local `.pi/extensions` TypeScript and install missing project packages. `clampExternalCliBypassForOwner()` therefore puts pi in the **materialize** branch: a non-granted multi-user owner gets `--no-approve` even when no config was sent, because pi's own default is an interactive prompt the session user could answer themselves. The same materialization applies to cron-fired jobs (`clampCronExternalCliConfigs`), which carry no per-CLI config and would otherwise launch on pi's own default. Both helpers had no test coverage at all; they now do, for every CLI.
- **Env allowlist gains only the `PI_*` prefix.** Pi's ~34 provider key vars share no prefix and `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` is one global list with no mode context, so admitting them would widen the allowlist for every mode at once. Users authenticate via pi's `/login` or the server process's own environment.
- **Pi stays out of `isAltScreenStripMode()`.** Its default TUI renders into the main screen with terminal-owned scrollback and is mouse-aware, so it consumes `\x1b[3J` and the mouse DECSETs that the full strip removes, unlike an Ink TUI repainting in place. Note what exclusion does NOT do: pi is tmux-backed, so it still falls through to the narrow `isMuxAltScreenOnlyStripMode()` strip and its alt-screen toggles are dropped either way. Pi's runtime-switchable fullscreen TUI therefore paints into the main buffer, exactly like vim inside a tmux `shell` session.
- **Docker**: pi installs in its own `--ignore-scripts` step so that flag cannot affect the other four CLIs, and its credentials are seeded per-file (`auth.json`, `settings.json`, `trust.json`, `models.json`, `models-store.json`) rather than whole-dir, since `~/.pi/agent` also holds sessions, extensions and installed package trees.
- **Local echo**: pi lands on the buffer overlay. Verified that codex's per-keystroke starvation does not reproduce: pi's slash picker re-filters on the whole composer content, so a one-shot flush behaves identically to per-keystroke typing.
- **Mode-list parity**: pi is excluded from the Ralph tracker auto-enable on `POST /api/sessions/:id/interactive` (like every other external CLI, whose output the tracker never parses), carries a `REMOTE_CLI_BIN` entry so a remote-SSH pi session reports its CLI version, and gets its own badge in the desktop home rail instead of rendering like Claude. The packaged agent skill's mode enumerations list pi too, and it now documents the per-CLI availability probes (`GET /api/<mode>/status`) that agents should check before spawning a worker on a backend the server may not have installed. Both are pinned by a new guard that derives the mode set from the Zod schema instead of restating it.
- **`codeman doctor` and the run mode agree about pi.** The registry entry resolved a bare `which pi` while `pi-cli-resolver` demanded semver output, so the Dependencies panel could report an installed Pi CLI that sessions refuse to launch. Both now share one exported regex, and the registry's new `requireVersionMatch` reports a non-semver `pi` as missing rather than installed. Only pi sets it; every other tool keeps its existing behaviour.
- Installer detection, docs (`docs/pi-integration.md`), READMEs, and the architecture invariants are updated. Tests: `test/pi-mode.test.ts` and `test/routes/external-cli-bypass-clamp.test.ts`, plus extensions to the run-mode, mobile-overview, render-index-html, system-routes and local-echo suites.
## 1.17.0
### Minor Changes
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<h2 align="center">Mission control for AI coding agents</h2>
<p align="center">
<em>Claude Code &bull; OpenCode &bull; Codex &bull; Antigravity &bull; Gemini &bull; Pi &bull; Terminal - One Dashboard &bull; Any Device</em>
<em>Claude Code &bull; OpenCode &bull; Codex &bull; Antigravity &bull; Gemini &bull; Pi &bull; Grok &bull; OMP &bull; Terminal - One Dashboard &bull; Any Device</em>
</p>
<p align="center">
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
<img src="docs/images/subagent-demo-20260724.gif" alt="Codeman — parallel subagent visualization" width="900">
</p>
**Codeman** is a self-hosted mission control for AI coding agents. It spawns Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, or Pi inside persistent tmux sessions, streams the real terminal to any browser, and keeps agents productive after you walk away: it re-prompts on idle, resumes when a usage limit resets, runs scheduled jobs, and shows every background agent working in real time.
**Codeman** is a self-hosted mission control for AI coding agents. It spawns Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, Grok, or OMP inside persistent tmux sessions, streams the real terminal to any browser, and keeps agents productive after you walk away: it re-prompts on idle, resumes when a usage limit resets, runs scheduled jobs, and shows every background agent working in real time.
Get started in one line (macOS & Linux, Windows via WSL):
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ codeman web
The installer asks before every system change, and re-running the same line updates in place. Full details: [Quick Start - Installation](#quick-start---installation).
- **One dashboard, six CLIs** - run [Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, or Pi](#more-features) per session (plus plain shell), locally, [in Docker](#isolated-docker-sessions), or [over SSH](#remote-ssh-sessions)
- **One dashboard, eight CLIs** - run [Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, Grok, or OMP](#more-features) per session (plus plain shell), locally, [in Docker](#isolated-docker-sessions), or [over SSH](#remote-ssh-sessions)
- **Truly phone-friendly** - a [touch-optimized terminal](#mobile-optimized-web-ui) with instant local echo, QR login, swipe navigation, and push notifications
- **Runs while you sleep** - [idle detection + respawn cycling](#respawn-controller) and auto-resume when a subscription limit resets, for 24+ hour unattended runs
- **See your agents think** - [live floating windows](#live-agent-visualization) for every subagent and teammate, with real-time transcripts
@@ -61,14 +61,14 @@ The installer asks before every system change, and re-running the same line upda
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash
```
This installs Node.js and tmux if missing, clones Codeman to `~/.codeman/app`, and builds it. A few things worth knowing:
This installs Node.js, tmux and a build toolchain if missing (node-pty ships no Linux prebuilds, so it compiles from source), clones Codeman to `~/.codeman/app`, and builds it. A few things worth knowing:
- **It asks first.** Every system change (package installs, AI CLI download) is prompted, and a menu at the end lets you choose: run Codeman in this terminal, install it as a background service (systemd/launchd, auto-start on boot), or don't start yet. Nothing runs in the background unless you pick it.
- **Network or local-only, your choice.** The installer asks whether the dashboard should be reachable from other devices on your network (`0.0.0.0`, the default, with a strongly recommended password prompt) or from this machine only (`127.0.0.1`, safest). Skipping the password on a network bind requires an explicit confirmation and ends with a loud warning. A bare `codeman web` started by hand still defaults to loopback.
- **How it's reachable, your choice.** The installer offers three ways to reach the dashboard: **Tailscale** (loopback bind fronted by `tailscale serve`, so you get `https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net` with a real certificate and your tailnet as the login, no password needed), **any device on your network** (`0.0.0.0`, with a strongly recommended password prompt), or **this machine only** (`127.0.0.1`, safest). Skipping the password on a network bind requires an explicit confirmation and ends with a loud warning. The highlighted default reflects what is already on the machine (Tailscale when it is already in use, your existing binding on a re-run), and a bare Enter never pulls in new software. A bare `codeman web` started by hand still defaults to loopback.
- **Re-run to update.** The same one-liner updates a finished install in place: local changes in `~/.codeman/app` are stashed (never discarded), and a running service is restarted and verified. If a first install was interrupted, re-running resumes the full setup instead. `install.sh update` and `install.sh uninstall` also exist.
- **CI / headless:** without a terminal attached, steps that would change your system abort with instructions instead of running silently. Set `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1` to approve them for automation.
You'll need at least one AI coding CLI installed — [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code), [OpenCode](https://opencode.ai), [Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli), [Antigravity](https://antigravity.google), [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli), or [Pi](https://pi.dev) (any combination works; Gemini CLI is enterprise-only since Google's consumer cutover, and Antigravity is its successor). The installer detects whichever of the six is present; if none is found, it offers to install Claude Code or OpenCode, or you can skip and install one yourself later. After install:
You'll need at least one AI coding CLI installed — [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code), [OpenCode](https://opencode.ai), [Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli), [Antigravity](https://antigravity.google), [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli), [Pi](https://pi.dev), [Grok Build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build), [DeepSeek Harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness), or [OMP](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi) (any combination works; Gemini CLI is enterprise-only since Google's consumer cutover, and Antigravity is its successor). The installer detects whichever of the nine is present; if none is found, it offers to install Claude Code or OpenCode, or you can skip and install one yourself later. After install:
```bash
codeman web
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ codeman users add alice --admin # create the first admin account
codeman web --multiuser # named logins + per-user case spaces
```
**Prefer Docker Compose?** A local-image Compose deployment ships in `docker/`: copy `docker/.env.example` to `docker/.env`, set `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`, then run `bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh` on Linux. Codeman runs in a container and spawns Docker cases as sibling containers through the host socket. See the [Docker deployment guide](docker/README.md) for direct Compose commands, storage and networking options.
Details in [Multi-User Mode](#multi-user-mode-opt-in) below.
<details>
@@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ launchctl bootstrap gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.codeman.web.plist
wsl bash -c "curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash"
```
Codeman requires tmux, so Windows users need [WSL](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install). If you don't have WSL yet: run `wsl --install` in an admin PowerShell, reboot, open Ubuntu, then install your preferred AI coding CLI inside WSL ([Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code), [OpenCode](https://opencode.ai), [Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli), [Antigravity](https://antigravity.google), [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli), or [Pi](https://pi.dev)). After installing, `http://localhost:3000` is accessible from your Windows browser.
Codeman requires tmux, so Windows users need [WSL](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install). If you don't have WSL yet: run `wsl --install` in an admin PowerShell, reboot, open Ubuntu, then install your preferred AI coding CLI inside WSL ([Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code), [OpenCode](https://opencode.ai), [Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli), [Antigravity](https://antigravity.google), [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli), [Pi](https://pi.dev), [Grok Build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build), [DeepSeek Harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness), or [OMP](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi)). After installing, `http://localhost:3000` is accessible from your Windows browser.
</details>
@@ -253,7 +255,7 @@ Click **+ New Session** (or **Quick Start**). A session is one AI CLI running in
| Field | What it does |
| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Working directory / case** | The folder the agent operates in. A "case" is just a named working dir Codeman remembers. **Add Case** creates one from scratch, links an existing folder, or clones a GitHub repo straight into one (**Clone Repo**). |
| **CLI / run mode** | `Claude` (default), `OpenCode`, `Codex`, `Antigravity`, `Gemini`, `Pi`, or `Terminal` (plain shell). |
| **CLI / run mode** | `Claude` (default), `OpenCode`, `Codex`, `Antigravity`, `Gemini`, `Pi`, `Grok`, `OMP`, or `Terminal` (plain shell). |
| **Model** | Per-session model (App Settings → Models → New Claude sessions). A soft default — `/model` still works in-session. |
| **Effort / Ultracode** | Reasoning effort (`low`–`max`) or `ultracode` for dynamic multi-agent workflows. Switchable anytime with `/effort`. |
@@ -285,7 +287,7 @@ Hit start — Codeman spawns the CLI via a real PTY and streams it to your brows
- **Phone/tablet** — the UI is fully touch-optimized; scan the desktop **QR code** to log in without typing a password.
- **Outside your network** — `./scripts/tunnel.sh start` opens a Cloudflare tunnel (set `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` first).
- **SSH** — the `sc` chooser attaches to any session from a terminal (`sc` interactive, `sc 2` quick-attach, `sc -l` list).
- **SSH** — `codeman tui` is a full-screen dashboard in the terminal (`codeman tui --list` to list, `codeman tui 2` to attach straight to one).
### 7. Operate & maintain
@@ -406,6 +408,14 @@ The title is templated into the served HTML on first byte, so it's correct from
| **110k tokens** | Auto `/compact` | Context summarized, work continues |
| **140k tokens** | Auto `/clear` | Fresh start with `/init` |
### Tab Alerts
<p align="center">
<img src="docs/images/tab-alerts-glow-20260815.gif" alt="Session tabs: a regular active tab beside a yellow waiting-for-input tab and a red needs-decision tab, both with a breathing glow" width="900">
</p>
Every tab tells you its state at a glance. A running session keeps its green status dot. When a session stops and waits for input, its tab turns **yellow**: steady ring, tinted background, yellow dot, with a slow breathing glow on top. When a permission prompt or question is **blocking** the agent, the tab turns **red** with a faster pulse. The base tint never blinks off, so even a split-second glance (or a screenshot) reads the true state; the ring stays visible while the tab is selected, and a page reload re-arms pending alerts from the server, so a blocked session can never hide behind a fresh-looking tab.
### Notifications
Real-time desktop alerts when sessions need attention — `permission_prompt` and `elicitation_dialog` trigger critical red tab blinks, `idle_prompt` triggers yellow blinks. Click any notification to jump directly to the affected session. Hooks auto-configured per case directory.
@@ -429,7 +439,7 @@ PTY Output → 16ms Server Batch → DEC 2026 Wrap → SSE → Client rAF → xt
- **Background daemon & service install** — `codeman web -d` runs the server detached with a pidfile, `~/.codeman/web.log`, and verified startup (it polls the server until it answers, so a port clash never reads as success); `codeman service install` writes a systemd user unit (Linux) or LaunchAgent (macOS) with your shell's PATH baked in, so an nvm or Homebrew `node`, `tmux` and `claude` are actually found. Secrets are never written into unit files
- **Self-update** — git-clone installs under systemd/launchd update in place from **App Settings → System → Updates**: it detects the latest release, auto-stashes a dirty tree, and streams build progress across the service restart (npm installs report as non-updatable)
- **Clone a GitHub repo as a case** — paste a repository URL into **Add Case → Clone Repo** and Codeman clones it into `~/codeman-cases/<name>` and registers it as a normal case, ready to run an agent in. It preflights the URL while you type (tells you whether it can be cloned anonymously and offers the repo's real branches and tags for the optional branch/tag field), fills the case name in from the URL, and lets you pick which CLI the Run button should use. Public repositories over `https://`; Codeman never collects or stores credentials
- **Multi-CLI** — run **Claude Code**, **OpenCode**, **Codex**, **Antigravity**, **Gemini**, or **Pi** per session; env-var prefixes auto-gate (`CLAUDE_CODE_*` vs `OPENCODE_*` vs `CODEX_*` vs `ANTIGRAVITY_*` vs `GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*` vs `PI_*`). See [`docs/opencode-integration.md`](docs/opencode-integration.md) and [`docs/pi-integration.md`](docs/pi-integration.md)
- **Multi-CLI** — run **Claude Code**, **OpenCode**, **Codex**, **Antigravity**, **Gemini**, **Pi**, **Grok**, or **OMP** per session; env-var prefixes auto-gate (`CLAUDE_CODE_*` vs `OPENCODE_*` vs `CODEX_*` vs `ANTIGRAVITY_*` vs `GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*` vs `PI_*` vs `GROK_*`/`XAI_*` vs `OMP_*`). See [`docs/opencode-integration.md`](docs/opencode-integration.md), [`docs/pi-integration.md`](docs/pi-integration.md), [`docs/grok-integration.md`](docs/grok-integration.md) and [`docs/omp-integration.md`](docs/omp-integration.md)
- **Docker sessions** — run a case inside an isolated, hardened container. One checkbox on **Create New** spins up a container with sensible defaults and starts the agent inside it; multiple sessions share one per-case container; export a container + its workspace to a portable `.tar.gz` to move it to another machine. See [`docs/docker-cases.md`](docs/docker-cases.md)
- **Remote SSH sessions** — point a case at another machine and run the agent there inside a durable remote tmux: survives SSH drops, auto-reconnects, and can discover + attach sessions already running on the host. See [`docs/remote-sessions.md`](docs/remote-sessions.md)
- **Effort & Ultracode** — set a per-session default effort (`low`–`max`) or enable **ultracode** (dynamic multi-agent workflows). Soft defaults only — switchable anytime with `/effort` in-session. Extended-thinking budget is configurable too
@@ -452,7 +462,7 @@ Run a case inside its own hardened Docker container instead of directly on your
- **Shared per-case container** — many sessions can `docker exec` into the same container; killing one session never tears the container out from under the others.
- **Hardened by default** — non-root, `--cap-drop ALL`, `no-new-privileges`, PID/memory caps, never `--privileged` or the docker socket; a **sealed** profile (no host credentials, network off) is one toggle away.
- **Seamless auth, isolated credentials** — your host Claude / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / OpenCode / Pi logins work inside the container out of the box: credentials are seeded (copied) in at launch and onboarding/trust prompts are pre-answered, so no login wizard appears. The container keeps its own copies and never writes back to your host credential stores; only conversation transcripts are shared, and exports never capture secrets.
- **Move it to another machine** — export a container's whole environment (toolchain + workspace) to a portable `.tar.gz`, `docker load` it on the other side, and import it into a fresh case.
- **Seamless auth, isolated credentials** — your host Claude / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / OpenCode / OMP logins work inside the container out of the box: credentials are seeded (copied) in at launch and onboarding/trust prompts are pre-answered, so no login wizard appears. The container keeps its own copies and never writes back to your host credential stores; only conversation transcripts are shared, and exports never capture secrets.- **Move it to another machine** — export a container's whole environment (toolchain + workspace) to a portable `.tar.gz`, `docker load` it on the other side, and import it into a fresh case.
- **Durable** — reconnect after a restart lands back in the same live agent; a container stop/reboot resumes the conversation from the bind-mounted transcript.
Prerequisite: just Docker (or Podman). The agent base image builds itself automatically on first use, with progress streamed to the UI (or pre-build it with `node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs`). Full guide: [`docs/docker-cases.md`](docs/docker-cases.md).
@@ -637,7 +647,7 @@ These run for **every** request — before auth, even on the default no-password
### Input, files & headers
- **Schema-validated inputs** — every API body is checked with Zod v4 schemas; a `CLAUDE_CODE_*` / `OPENCODE_*` / `CODEX_*` / `ANTIGRAVITY_*` / `GEMINI_*` / `GOOGLE_*` env-prefix allowlist gates which settings each CLI can receive
- **Schema-validated inputs** — every API body is checked with Zod v4 schemas; a `CLAUDE_CODE_*` / `OPENCODE_*` / `CODEX_*` / `ANTIGRAVITY_*` / `GEMINI_*` / `GOOGLE_*` / `PI_*` env-prefix allowlist gates which settings each CLI can receive
- **Path containment** — file routes `realpath` before boundary checks (no TOCTOU); `..`, absolute paths, and symlinks resolving outside the working dir are rejected. Caps: 10 MB text preview / 50 MB raw & download; `/api/download` blocklists sensitive paths (`.env`, `*credentials*`, `~/.ssh/`, `.aws/credentials`). SVG/HTML is served `octet-stream` + `nosniff` + attachment so it downloads rather than executes
- **Security headers** — `Content-Security-Policy` (`default-src 'self'`, every exception enumerated), `X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff`, `X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN`, HSTS over HTTPS, and CORS reflected **only** for `localhost` / `127.0.0.1` / `::1`
@@ -650,17 +660,19 @@ These run for **every** request — before auth, even on the default no-password
---
## SSH Alternative (`sc`)
## Terminal UI (`codeman tui`)
If you prefer SSH (Termius, Blink, etc.), the `sc` command is a thumb-friendly session chooser:
A full-screen dashboard for your sessions, in the terminal. Same states as the web UI, because it is a client of the same server:
```bash
sc # Interactive chooser
sc 2 # Quick attach to session 2
sc -l # List sessions
codeman tui # the dashboard
codeman tui --list # numbered session list, then exit (scriptable)
codeman tui 2 # attach straight to session 2 of that list
```
Single-digit selection (1-9), color-coded status, token counts, auto-refresh. Detach with `Ctrl+A D`.
Sessions are grouped **NEEDS YOU → WORKING → IDLE → RECENT**, longest-waiting first. `↑↓`/`j`/`k` select, `1`-`9` and `[`/`]` switch between sessions, `Enter` attaches into the tmux pane (**`F1`** to come back). Inside a pane the bar across the top keeps the session strip visible and `Alt+1`-`Alt+9` switch without leaving. `y`/`n`/digit answer a pending permission dialog right from the list, `p` sends a one-line prompt, `n` starts a session and opens straight into it, `x` kills one (`y` confirms), `/` searches, `g` shows the away digest, `?` is help, `q` quits. Below 72 columns it drops the preview pane and becomes a single-column list, so it stays usable in Termius on a phone. With no server running it still starts in attach-only degraded mode.
The web UI remains the primary surface; see **[docs/tui.md](docs/tui.md)** for the full guide.
---
@@ -675,6 +687,7 @@ Single-digit selection (1-9), color-coded status, token counts, auto-refresh. De
| `Ctrl/Cmd+Tab` | Next session |
| `Alt/Option+[` / `Alt/Option+]` | Previous / next session |
| `Alt/Option+1`-`Alt/Option+9` | Switch to tab N (physical keys, so macOS Option layouts work) |
| `Alt/Option+B` | Collapse / expand the session sidebar (sidebar layout only) |
| `Ctrl+Shift+{` / `Ctrl+Shift+}` | Move active tab left / right |
| `Ctrl/Cmd+C` | Copy selection, or interrupt when nothing is selected |
| `Ctrl+Shift+C` | Copy selection (never interrupts) |
@@ -745,7 +758,8 @@ Those `DONE_<task>_<random>` strings are the skill's **split marker** trick, and
| File | Contents |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [`SKILL.md`](skills/codeman/SKILL.md) | Safety rules, rules of the road, and 9 single-purpose recipes. Always loaded. |
| [`SKILL.md`](skills/codeman/SKILL.md) | Safety rules, the ready-made fast path (spawn N workers, task them, collect), and the verb index. Always loaded. |
| [`reference/verbs.md`](skills/codeman/reference/verbs.md) | The 14 verbs in detail: readiness, send-and-wait, markers, interrupts, cleanup. On demand. |
| [`reference/recipes.md`](skills/codeman/reference/recipes.md) | 6 worked multi-worker flows (fan-out, blocked-worker watch, messaging fan-out). On demand. |
| [`reference/endpoints.md`](skills/codeman/reference/endpoints.md) | Full endpoint tables, error codes, per-mode signal table, capacity limits. On demand. |
| [`reference/messaging.md`](skills/codeman/reference/messaging.md) | Talking to claude workers directly via Claude Code cross-session messaging. On demand. |
@@ -782,8 +796,8 @@ When a CLI runs in a Codeman-managed session, these environment variables are se
4. **Response envelope.** Most endpoints return `{ "success": true, "data": … }` (errors: `{ "success": false, "error", "errorCode" }`). A few legacy GETs return bare bodies — **handle both** (`body.data ?? body`).
5. **`/api/v1/*`** is a stable alias of `/api/*`.
6. **Wait instead of polling, and don't treat a timeout as an error.** The wait endpoints answer with HTTP `200` and `wait.timedOut: true` when nothing happened in time, so loop over short waits (60s is the default) rather than issuing one long call, because tunnels cut idle connections. `wait.timeoutMs` tells you the timeout the server actually applied after clamping (600s ceiling).
7. **Only `claude` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`.** Those two come from Claude Code hooks; `shell` and the external CLIs (opencode/codex/gemini/antigravity) accept only `idle`, `working` and `exit`. Asking for `stop` explicitly on those is a `400`; omitting `until` is always safe. ⚠️ On a `shell` session `idle` fires **once**, at startup, and never again, so send-and-wait there can only time out; synchronize hook-less sessions with a `wait-output` marker.
8. **Nothing reports "ready", so wait for it explicitly.** A new session answers `{"signal":"exit","immediate":true}` (that means *not started*, not *crashed*) until its PID exists, and a `claude` worker in a fresh case then sits on the CLI's trust dialog. Prompt it there and the wait resolves on `idle` in ~2s looking exactly like a finished turn, while the text sits stuck in the dialog. Recipe 2b below is the sequence that avoids it.
7. **Only `claude` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`.** Those two come from Claude Code hooks; `shell` and the external CLIs (opencode/codex/gemini/antigravity/pi) accept only `idle`, `working` and `exit`. Asking for `stop` explicitly on those is a `400`; omitting `until` is always safe. ⚠️ On a `shell` session `idle` fires **once**, at startup, and never again, so send-and-wait there can only time out; synchronize hook-less sessions with a `wait-output` marker.
7. **Only `claude` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`.** Those two come from Claude Code hooks; `shell` and the external CLIs (opencode/codex/gemini/antigravity/omp) accept only `idle`, `working` and `exit`. Asking for `stop` explicitly on those is a `400`; omitting `until` is always safe. ⚠️ On a `shell` session `idle` fires **once**, at startup, and never again, so send-and-wait there can only time out; synchronize hook-less sessions with a `wait-output` marker.8. **Nothing reports "ready", so wait for it explicitly.** A new session answers `{"signal":"exit","immediate":true}` (that means *not started*, not *crashed*) until its PID exists, and a `claude` worker in a fresh case then sits on the CLI's trust dialog. Prompt it there and the wait resolves on `idle` in ~2s looking exactly like a finished turn, while the text sits stuck in the dialog. Recipe 2b below is the sequence that avoids it.
### Recipes
@@ -883,7 +897,9 @@ codeman session start -d /path/to/repo # (s) start a session
codeman session list # list sessions
codeman session logs <id> # tail output
codeman task add "fix the failing test" # (t) queue a task
codeman attach <path> # attach a Claude hook context
codeman attach <path> # show an attachment card for a local file
codeman tui --list # numbered session list (plain text when piped)
codeman tui 3 # attach to session 3 of that list
```
### Hooks (events flowing _back_ to Codeman)
@@ -997,7 +1013,7 @@ flowchart TB
subgraph External["External"]
CLI["AI CLI<br/><small>Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / Pi</small>"]
BG["Background Agents<br/><small>(Task tool)</small>"]
CLI["AI CLI<br/><small>Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / OMP</small>"] BG["Background Agents<br/><small>(Task tool)</small>"]
end
end
@@ -1027,13 +1043,19 @@ flowchart TB
npm install
npx tsx src/index.ts web # Dev mode
npm run build # Production build
npm run test:ci # Run tests (the CI suite; browser suites need extra setup)
npm test # Run tests (same suite CI runs; browser/mobile/perf suites have their own commands)
```
See [CLAUDE.md](./CLAUDE.md) for full documentation.
---
## Community
Questions, setup help, and ideas live in [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions): the [Q&A section](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/q-a) answers the most common ones (phone access, overnight runs, updating), and the roadmap gets decided in [Ideas](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/ideas). Bugs go to [issues](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues); reports usually get a response within a day, and every release credits its reporters and contributors by name. Want to contribute? [CONTRIBUTING.md](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) has the map: skins, translations, and docs make great first PRs, and bigger features start life as a Discussion. And if you're proud of your rig, post it in [Show and tell](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/300).
---
## Codebase Quality
The codebase went through a comprehensive 7-phase refactoring that eliminated god objects, centralized configuration, and established modular architecture:
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<h2 align="center">AI 编程智能体的任务控制中心</h2>
<p align="center">
<em>Claude Code &bull; OpenCode &bull; Codex &bull; Antigravity &bull; Gemini &bull; Pi &bull; 终端 —— 统一仪表盘 &bull; 任意设备</em>
<em>Claude Code &bull; OpenCode &bull; Codex &bull; Antigravity &bull; Gemini &bull; Pi &bull; Grok &bull; 终端 —— 统一仪表盘 &bull; 任意设备</em>
</p>
<p align="center">
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash
- **重跑即更新。** 再次运行同一条命令即可原地更新已完成的安装:`~/.codeman/app` 中的本地改动会被 stash(绝不丢弃),运行中的服务会自动重启并校验。若首次安装中途失败,重跑会继续完成完整的安装流程。也可以使用 `install.sh update` 与 `install.sh uninstall`。
- **CI / 无终端环境:** 没有终端时,涉及系统改动的步骤会带着说明中止,而不是静默执行;在自动化场景设置 `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1` 即可批准这些步骤。
你至少需要安装一个 AI 编程 CLI —— [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code)、[OpenCode](https://opencode.ai)、[Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli)、[Antigravity](https://antigravity.google)、[Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) 或 [Pi](https://pi.dev)(任意组合均可;自 Google 面向消费者停售后,Gemini CLI 仅限企业版,Antigravity 是其继任者)。安装器会自动检测这六个中已安装的任意一个;若一个都没有,会提供安装 Claude Code 或 OpenCode 的选项,也可以选择跳过、稍后自行安装。安装完成后:
你至少需要安装一个 AI 编程 CLI —— [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code)、[OpenCode](https://opencode.ai)、[Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli)、[Antigravity](https://antigravity.google)、[Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli)、[Pi](https://pi.dev)、[Grok Build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build)、[DeepSeek Harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness) 或 [OMP](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi)(任意组合均可;自 Google 面向消费者停售后,Gemini CLI 仅限企业版,Antigravity 是其继任者)。安装器会自动检测这九个中已安装的任意一个;若一个都没有,会提供安装 Claude Code 或 OpenCode 的选项,也可以选择跳过、稍后自行安装。安装完成后:
```bash
codeman web
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ launchctl bootstrap gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.codeman.web.plist
wsl bash -c "curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash"
```
Codeman 依赖 tmux,因此 Windows 用户需要 [WSL](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install)。如果还没装 WSL:在管理员 PowerShell 中运行 `wsl --install`,重启,打开 Ubuntu,然后在 WSL 内安装你偏好的 AI 编程 CLI([Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code)、[OpenCode](https://opencode.ai)、[Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli)、[Antigravity](https://antigravity.google)、[Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) 或 [Pi](https://pi.dev))。安装完成后,即可从 Windows 浏览器访问 `http://localhost:3000`。
Codeman 依赖 tmux,因此 Windows 用户需要 [WSL](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install)。如果还没装 WSL:在管理员 PowerShell 中运行 `wsl --install`,重启,打开 Ubuntu,然后在 WSL 内安装你偏好的 AI 编程 CLI([Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code)、[OpenCode](https://opencode.ai)、[Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli)、[Antigravity](https://antigravity.google)、[Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli)、[Pi](https://pi.dev)、[Grok Build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build)、[DeepSeek Harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness) 或 [OMP](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi))。安装完成后,即可从 Windows 浏览器访问 `http://localhost:3000`。
</details>
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ codeman web -H 0.0.0.0 # 绑定局域网 —— 必须设置 CODEMAN_
| 字段 | 作用 |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **工作目录 / case** | 智能体操作的文件夹。「case」就是一个 Codeman 记住的命名工作目录。 |
| **CLI / 运行模式** | `Claude`(默认)、`OpenCode`、`Codex`、`Antigravity`、`Gemini`、`Pi` 或 `Terminal`(普通 shell)。 |
| **CLI / 运行模式** | `Claude`(默认)、`OpenCode`、`Codex`、`Antigravity`、`Gemini`、`Pi`、`Grok` 或 `Terminal`(普通 shell)。 |
| **模型** | 每会话模型(App Settings → Claude Model)。软默认值 —— 会话内 `/model` 依然有效。 |
| **Effort / Ultracode** | 推理力度(`low`–`max`),或用 `ultracode` 开启动态多智能体工作流。随时可用 `/effort` 切换。 |
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ codeman web -H 0.0.0.0 # 绑定局域网 —— 必须设置 CODEMAN_
- **手机/平板** —— UI 完全触控优化;扫描桌面上的**二维码**即可免密码登录。
- **网络之外** —— `./scripts/tunnel.sh start` 打开一条 Cloudflare 隧道(先设置 `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`)。
- **SSH** —— `sc` 选择器可从终端附着任意会话(`sc` 交互式,`sc 2` 快速附着,`sc -l` 列表)。
- **SSH** —— `codeman tui` 是终端里的全屏会话面板(`codeman tui --list` 列出,`codeman tui 2` 直接附着到某个会话)。
### 7. 运维与维护
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ PTY 输出 → 16ms 服务端批处理 → DEC 2026 包裹 → SSE → 客户端
## 更多特性
- **自更新** —— systemd/launchd 管理下的 git-clone 安装可在 **App Settings → Updates** 中原地更新:它会检测最新发行版,自动暂存(stash)脏工作树,并在服务重启期间流式展示构建进度(npm 安装会被报告为不可更新)
- **多 CLI** —— 每个会话可选 **Claude Code**、**OpenCode**、**Codex**、**Antigravity**、**Gemini** 或 **Pi**;环境变量前缀自动隔离(`CLAUDE_CODE_*`、`OPENCODE_*`、`CODEX_*`、`ANTIGRAVITY_*`、`PI_*` 与 `GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*`)。详见 [`docs/opencode-integration.md`](docs/opencode-integration.md) 与 [`docs/pi-integration.md`](docs/pi-integration.md)
- **多 CLI** —— 每个会话可选 **Claude Code**、**OpenCode**、**Codex**、**Antigravity**、**Gemini**、**Pi** 或 **Grok**;环境变量前缀自动隔离(`CLAUDE_CODE_*`、`OPENCODE_*`、`CODEX_*`、`ANTIGRAVITY_*`、`PI_*`、`GROK_*`/`XAI_*` 与 `GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*`)。详见 [`docs/opencode-integration.md`](docs/opencode-integration.md)、[`docs/pi-integration.md`](docs/pi-integration.md) 与 [`docs/grok-integration.md`](docs/grok-integration.md)
- **Docker 会话** —— 在隔离且加固的容器中运行案例。**Create New** 上勾选一个复选框即可用合理的默认值启动容器并在其中启动智能体;同一案例的多个会话共享一个容器;可将容器连同工作区导出为可移植的 `.tar.gz`,迁移到另一台机器。详见 [`docs/docker-cases.md`](docs/docker-cases.md)
- **远程 SSH 会话**:把案例指向另一台机器,让智能体在那里一个持久的远程 tmux 中运行:SSH 断连不中断任务、自动重连,还能发现并附着主机上已在运行的会话。详见 [`docs/remote-sessions.md`](docs/remote-sessions.md)
- **Effort 与 Ultracode** —— 设置每会话的默认 effort(`low`–`max`),或启用 **ultracode**(动态多智能体工作流)。这些都只是软默认值 —— 会话中可随时用 `/effort` 切换。扩展思考预算也可配置
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ Codeman 默认用 `--dangerously-skip-permissions` 启动会话,因此 Web UI
### 输入、文件与响应头
- **模式校验的输入** —— 每个 API 请求体都用 Zod v4 模式检查;一个 `CLAUDE_CODE_*` / `OPENCODE_*` / `CODEX_*` / `ANTIGRAVITY_*` / `GEMINI_*` / `GOOGLE_*` 环境变量前缀允许列表把控每个 CLI 能接收哪些设置
- **模式校验的输入** —— 每个 API 请求体都用 Zod v4 模式检查;一个 `CLAUDE_CODE_*` / `OPENCODE_*` / `CODEX_*` / `ANTIGRAVITY_*` / `GEMINI_*` / `GOOGLE_*` / `PI_*` 环境变量前缀允许列表把控每个 CLI 能接收哪些设置
- **路径限定** —— 文件路由在边界检查前先 `realpath`(无 TOCTOU);`..`、绝对路径、以及解析到工作目录之外的符号链接都会被拒绝。上限:10 MB 文本预览 / 50 MB 原始与下载;`/api/download` 对敏感路径(`.env`、`*credentials*`、`~/.ssh/`、`.aws/credentials`)做黑名单。SVG/HTML 以 `octet-stream` + `nosniff` + attachment 提供,因此会被下载而非执行
- **安全响应头** —— `Content-Security-Policy`(`default-src 'self'`,每个例外都逐条列举)、`X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff`、`X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN`、HTTPS 下的 HSTS,以及**仅**对 `localhost` / `127.0.0.1` / `::1` 反射的 CORS
@@ -615,20 +615,6 @@ Codeman 默认用 `--dangerously-skip-permissions` 启动会话,因此 Web UI
---
## SSH 替代方案(`sc`)
如果你更喜欢 SSH(Termius、Blink 等),`sc` 命令是一个便于拇指操作的会话选择器:
```bash
sc # 交互式选择器
sc 2 # 快速附着到会话 2
sc -l # 列出会话
```
单数字选择(1–9)、颜色编码的状态、token 计数、自动刷新。用 `Ctrl+A D` 分离。
---
## 键盘快捷键
> Ctrl 绑定在 macOS 上也接受 Cmd。
@@ -686,7 +672,7 @@ sc -l # 列出会话
4. **响应信封。** 多数端点返回 `{ "success": true, "data": … }`(错误:`{ "success": false, "error", "errorCode" }`)。少数遗留 GET 返回裸响应体 —— **两种都要处理**(`body.data ?? body`)。
5. **`/api/v1/*`** 是 `/api/*` 的稳定别名。
6. **用等待代替轮询,别把超时当成错误。** 等待类端点在没等到事情发生时也以 HTTP `200` 加 `wait.timedOut: true` 应答,所以要循环调用短等待(默认 60 秒),而不是发一个超长的调用:隧道会掐断空闲连接。`wait.timeoutMs` 告诉你服务端钳制之后真正采用的超时(上限 600 秒)。
7. **只有 `claude` 会话会发出 `stop` 与 `blocked`。** 这两个来自 Claude Code hook;`shell` 与外部 CLI(opencode/codex/gemini/antigravity)只接受 `idle`、`working` 与 `exit`。在这些模式上显式索要 `stop` 会得到 `400`;不传 `until` 则永远安全。⚠️ `shell` 会话的 `idle` 只在启动时触发**一次**,此后再也不会,所以在那里用「发送并等待」只能等到超时:没有 hook 的会话请用 `wait-output` 标记来同步。
7. **只有 `claude` 会话会发出 `stop` 与 `blocked`。** 这两个来自 Claude Code hook;`shell` 与外部 CLI(opencode/codex/gemini/antigravity/pi)只接受 `idle`、`working` 与 `exit`。在这些模式上显式索要 `stop` 会得到 `400`;不传 `until` 则永远安全。⚠️ `shell` 会话的 `idle` 只在启动时触发**一次**,此后再也不会,所以在那里用「发送并等待」只能等到超时:没有 hook 的会话请用 `wait-output` 标记来同步。
8. **没有任何东西会报告「就绪」,得自己显式等。** 新会话在 PID 出现之前一律回答 `{"signal":"exit","immediate":true}`(意思是*还没启动*,不是*崩了*),而全新 case 里的 `claude` 工作会话接着会停在 CLI 的信任对话框上。此时给它发提示,等待会在约 2 秒后因 `idle` 解除,看上去和一个跑完的回合一模一样,而文本其实卡在对话框里。下面的配方 2b 就是避开它的顺序。
### 常用配方
@@ -760,7 +746,7 @@ for _ in $(seq 1 10); do
done
printf '%s\n' "$TXT"
# 5b. 其他模式(shell/opencode/gemini/antigravity)没有 transcript,读终端。
# 5b. 其他模式(shell/opencode/gemini/antigravity/pi)没有 transcript,读终端。
# ⚠️ 用 terminal?tail=,不要用 /output:后者的 textOutput 对每个由 tmux 承载的
# (也就是每个交互式)会话都是空的。tail 按字节计,返回的是含 ANSI 的终端数据。
curl -s "$API/api/sessions/$SID/terminal?tail=8000" | jq -r '.data.terminalBuffer'
@@ -937,7 +923,7 @@ flowchart TB
npm install
npx tsx src/index.ts web # 开发模式
npm run build # 生产构建
npm run test:ci # 运行测试(CI 套件;浏览器套件需要额外环境)
npm test # 运行测试(与 CI 相同;浏览器/移动端/性能套件另有独立命令)
```
完整文档见 [CLAUDE.md](./CLAUDE.md)。
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"scripts/*.mjs",
"scripts/*.js",
"scripts/watch-subagents.ts",
"scripts/pr-bot/main.ts",
"scripts/remotion/Root.tsx",
"scripts/remotion/index.ts",
"test/**/*.test.ts",
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/**
* The test suites that `npm test` deliberately does NOT run, in one place.
*
* Why this file exists: the exclusion list used to live only in
* config/vitest.ci.config.ts, as literals. Anything excluded there was
* therefore reachable only by running the everything-config by hand and reading
* past its failures — and a newly excluded file was reachable by nothing at
* all, silently, because nothing pointed at it. Both configs now derive their
* globs from the arrays below, so adding a suite here puts it in exactly one
* runner and takes it out of exactly one gate.
*
* Adding a new test that cannot run in CI: put its glob in the array that
* describes WHY it cannot, not in whichever one is shortest.
*/
/**
* Playwright-driven: needs chromium and, in most cases, a live Codeman server
* on a real port. Deterministic where the environment provides both, which is
* why these are a runnable suite (`npm run test:browser`) rather than skipped.
*/
export const BROWSER_TEST_GLOBS = [
'test/tab-rail-resize.browser.test.ts',
'test/session-sidebar-ux.browser.test.ts',
'test/session-options-responsive.browser.test.ts',
'test/inline-rename.test.ts',
'test/opencode-resize.test.ts',
'test/webgl-fallback.test.ts',
'test/terminal-copy-shortcut.test.ts',
'test/codex-predictive-echo.test.ts', // also needs a real codex binary
];
/**
* Wall-clock benchmarks. They assert on durations, so a loaded shared runner
* fails them for reasons that have nothing to do with the diff under test.
*/
export const PERF_TEST_GLOBS = ['test/perf-*.test.ts'];
/**
* Browser + visual regression: chromium AND environment-specific PNG baselines
* that are generated per machine. Has its own config
* (test/mobile/vitest.config.ts) because it needs serial execution, a longer
* timeout and the `pretest:mobile` vendor step — run it with
* `npm run test:mobile`, not through the configs here.
*/
export const MOBILE_TEST_GLOBS = ['test/mobile/**'];
/** Everything `npm test` skips. */
export const NON_CI_TEST_GLOBS = [...MOBILE_TEST_GLOBS, ...PERF_TEST_GLOBS, ...BROWSER_TEST_GLOBS];
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{
"extends": "../tsconfig.json",
"compilerOptions": {
"rootDir": "..",
"noEmit": true,
"declaration": false,
"declarationMap": false,
"sourceMap": false
},
"include": ["../scripts/pr-bot/**/*.ts"]
}
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import { resolve } from 'node:path';
import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config';
import { BROWSER_TEST_GLOBS } from './test-suites';
const root = resolve(import.meta.dirname, '..');
/**
* The Playwright-driven suite `npm test` skips — `npm run test:browser`.
*
* Needs chromium and, for most of these, a live Codeman server on a real port;
* codex-predictive-echo also needs a real codex binary. Expect failures where
* the machine cannot provide those, and read them as "not runnable here", not
* as a regression.
*
* The mobile suite is NOT here: it needs per-machine PNG baselines, serial
* execution and the `pretest:mobile` vendor step, so it keeps its own config
* (test/mobile/vitest.config.ts) behind `npm run test:mobile`.
*
* fileParallelism stays off for the same reason as every other config in this
* directory: these bind real ports and drive real tmux sessions, and two files
* doing that at once fail each other rather than the code.
*/
export default defineConfig({
test: {
root,
globals: true,
environment: 'node',
include: BROWSER_TEST_GLOBS,
setupFiles: ['./test/setup.ts'],
fileParallelism: false,
testTimeout: 60000,
teardownTimeout: 60000,
},
});
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import { resolve } from 'node:path';
import { defineConfig, configDefaults } from 'vitest/config';
import { NON_CI_TEST_GLOBS } from './test-suites';
const root = resolve(import.meta.dirname, '..');
/**
* CI test config — same as vitest.config.ts but EXCLUDES the browser-driven
* mobile suite (test/mobile/**). Those are Playwright visual-regression tests
* that need a live server + chromium + environment-specific PNG baselines, so
* they are run/maintained separately and are not part of the CI gate.
* The default gate — what `npm test` and CI both run.
*
* Same as vitest.config.ts but EXCLUDES the suites that cannot pass on an
* arbitrary machine: browser-driven (Playwright + chromium), visual-regression
* (per-machine PNG baselines) and wall-clock perf. Those are not unmaintained;
* they have their own runners (`test:browser`, `test:mobile`, `test:perf`).
* See config/test-suites.ts for the list and the reason behind each entry.
*
* Keep the rest in sync with config/vitest.config.ts.
*/
@@ -17,16 +21,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
globals: true,
environment: 'node',
include: ['test/**/*.test.ts'],
exclude: [
...configDefaults.exclude,
'test/mobile/**', // browser/visual (Playwright + chromium)
'test/perf-*.test.ts', // timing-sensitive perf benchmarks (flaky in CI)
'test/inline-rename.test.ts', // browser (Playwright)
'test/opencode-resize.test.ts', // browser (Playwright)
'test/webgl-fallback.test.ts', // browser (Playwright)
'test/terminal-copy-shortcut.test.ts', // browser (Playwright)
'test/codex-predictive-echo.test.ts', // browser (Playwright) + real codex binary
],
exclude: [...configDefaults.exclude, ...NON_CI_TEST_GLOBS],
setupFiles: ['./test/setup.ts'],
fileParallelism: false,
testTimeout: 30000,
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const root = resolve(import.meta.dirname, '..');
/**
* EVERY test in the repo, including the ones that cannot pass on an arbitrary
* machine — `npm run test:all`. Reach for it when you want the complete picture
* and are prepared to read past environmental failures.
*
* This is NOT what `npm test` runs. On a machine without chromium, a free port
* or per-machine PNG baselines this config fails ~87 tests on a clean master,
* which makes it useless as a pass/fail signal: the default gate is
* config/vitest.ci.config.ts, and the suites it leaves out each have their own
* runner (`test:browser`, `test:perf`, `test:mobile`). See config/test-suites.ts.
*/
export default defineConfig({
test: {
root,
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import { resolve } from 'node:path';
import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config';
import { PERF_TEST_GLOBS } from './test-suites';
const root = resolve(import.meta.dirname, '..');
/**
* The wall-clock benchmarks `npm test` skips — `npm run test:perf`.
*
* These assert on durations, so run them on an otherwise idle machine: a loaded
* runner fails them for reasons that have nothing to do with the diff under
* test, which is exactly why they are not part of the default gate.
*/
export default defineConfig({
test: {
root,
globals: true,
environment: 'node',
include: PERF_TEST_GLOBS,
setupFiles: ['./test/setup.ts'],
fileParallelism: false,
testTimeout: 60000,
teardownTimeout: 60000,
},
});
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# =============================================================================
# Codeman Docker Compose environment template
# Copy this file to .env and set the values for the Docker host.
# =============================================================================
TZ=Australia/Perth
# Optional overrides for direct `docker compose` use. The Bash start script
# detects these values from CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH automatically. Compose uses
# 1000:1000 when the variables are omitted.
# PUID=1000
# PGID=1000
# Name of the account that runs Codeman and all local CLI sessions. Changing
# this value rebuilds the image with a matching account.
CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER=opencode
# Required. Persistent Codeman application data, CLI credentials, and session
# state are stored here on the host and mounted at the runtime account's home
# directory in the container.
CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH=/mnt/user/appdata/Coding/codeman
# Optional. Absolute host path of this Codeman checkout, mounted at
# /opt/codeman so App Settings -> Updates can update Codeman in place. The Bash
# start script detects it from the compose file's own location, so it only needs
# setting for direct `docker compose` use or a checkout kept elsewhere. Point it
# at a directory that is not a git checkout and in-app updates are unavailable.
# CODEMAN_REPO_PATH=/mnt/user/appdata/Coding/codeman/app
# Required for Docker cases. This must be an absolute path on the Docker host.
# Codeman and each isolated case use this same path, so it cannot be a
# container-only path such as /home/opencode/codeman-cases.
CODEMAN_CASES_PATH=/mnt/user/appdata/Coding/codeman/codeman-cases
# Required. Network bind address, host port, and local image tag.
CODEMAN_HOST=0.0.0.0
CODEMAN_PORT=3000
CODEMAN_IMAGE=codeman:local
# Required for any network-accessible Codeman instance. Use a unique, strong
# password. This file is safe to commit; copy it to .env and set the value.
CODEMAN_PASSWORD=changeme
# Required. Username for Codeman HTTP Basic authentication.
CODEMAN_USERNAME=admin
# Optional: authenticate Gemini CLI without an interactive login.
GEMINI_API_KEY=
# Linux default. On Docker Desktop, use the socket path supported by your
# Docker installation when it differs from /var/run/docker.sock.
DOCKER_SOCKET=/var/run/docker.sock
# Optional override for direct `docker compose` use. The Bash start script
# detects this from DOCKER_SOCKET automatically. The direct Compose default is
# 999, but the correct value depends on the Docker host.
# DOCKER_SOCKET_GID=999
# Set to 1 only when Docker-case hook callbacks are required.
CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=0
# Set to 1 when `docker info` reports `SwapLimit=false`. The case memory limit
# remains active; Codeman omits --memory-swap and filters the daemon's exact
# unsupported-swap warning while preserving all other Docker create errors.
CODEMAN_DOCKER_DISABLE_SWAP_LIMIT=0
# Required only when applying the macvlan example in README.md.
CODEMAN_MACVLAN_NETWORK=br0.11
CODEMAN_IPV4_ADDRESS=10.10.11.236
CODEMAN_MAC_ADDRESS=02:10:11:00:00:EC
# Required only when creating a new managed macvlan network, rather than using
# the external-network macvlan example.
CODEMAN_MACVLAN_PARENT=br0.11
CODEMAN_MACVLAN_SUBNET=10.10.11.0/24
CODEMAN_MACVLAN_GATEWAY=10.10.11.1
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# Codeman Docker deployment
This folder contains the Compose configuration, server image Dockerfile, and environment template for a locally built Codeman server.
## Start
From the repository root, create the runtime environment file and set the required values, especially `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`.
```sh
cp docker/.env.example docker/.env
bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh
```
On PowerShell, use the following command instead.
```powershell
Copy-Item docker/.env.example docker/.env
docker compose --env-file docker/.env -f docker/docker-compose.yaml up --build -d
```
Every required value is defined and explained in `.env.example`. `GEMINI_API_KEY` is intentionally optional and may remain blank.
On Linux, `Start-Codeman.sh` stops with an error when required paths are missing. It creates the application-data directory when safe, detects its numeric owner as `PUID:PGID`, and detects `DOCKER_SOCKET_GID` from the configured Docker socket. It rejects a root-owned application-data directory because Codeman and its local CLI sessions must remain unprivileged.
Codeman, Claude, OpenCode, and other local sessions run as the unprivileged account named by `CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER`, which defaults to `opencode`. When Compose is run directly, `PUID` and `PGID` default to `1000:1000`; set them in `.env` when the application-data directory has a different owner. The Bash start script determines them automatically instead.
To retain Docker-case support without root when running Compose directly, set `DOCKER_SOCKET_GID` to the numeric group ID of the host socket. On a standard Linux Docker host, obtain it with `stat -c '%g' /var/run/docker.sock`. The Bash start script detects it automatically.
## Updating
Use **App Settings → Updates** in the web UI. The checkout Compose builds from is
also mounted at `/opt/codeman`, so an update's `git checkout` and rebuild persist
on the host, and the server exiting is what restarts the container onto the new
build.
Releases that change `server.Dockerfile`, `docker-compose.yaml`, or add a key to
`.env.example` cannot be applied that way — the updater detects them, names what
changed, and asks you to run `Start-Codeman.sh` here on the host instead. Details:
[`../docs/docker-self-update.md`](../docs/docker-self-update.md).
## Application data storage
The default configuration uses a host-folder bind mount:
```yaml
volumes:
- type: bind
source: ${CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH}
target: /home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}
```
Set `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH` in `.env` to a directory that the Docker daemon can access. The example value is `/mnt/user/appdata/Coding/codeman`.
`CODEMAN_CASES_PATH` is the separate host directory for managed case workspaces. It is mounted into Codeman at the same absolute path, allowing the host Docker daemon to bind it into an isolated case container. Set it to a child directory of `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH` unless you deliberately store workspaces elsewhere.
Compose also exposes `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH` to Codeman as `CODEMAN_DOCKER_HOST_HOME`. This lets Docker case seed files, CLI credentials and the hook secret be mounted using paths that exist in the host daemon's filesystem. Direct host installations do not set this variable and retain their existing behaviour.
Set `CODEMAN_DOCKER_DISABLE_SWAP_LIMIT=1` when `docker info` reports `SwapLimit=false`. Codeman continues to apply the configured case memory limit, omits Docker's unsupported `--memory-swap` option, and filters only the daemon's exact swap-capability warning. Every other Docker create error and its exit status remain visible.
For an existing installation created by a root-running image, change ownership of the application-data directory before upgrading so the configured `PUID` and `PGID` can read the saved credentials and state:
```sh
chown -R 99:100 /mnt/user/appdata/Coding/codeman
```
Replace `99:100` and the path with the values from your `.env` file.
Do not replace this bind mount with a Docker-managed named volume when Docker cases are enabled. Codeman passes seed, credential, transcript and hook-secret bind sources to the host Docker daemon, so their source files must have stable paths in the daemon's filesystem. A named volume does not provide the required host path mapping.
## Static macvlan networking
The default configuration publishes a host port. It does not use `network_mode: host`. To attach Codeman directly to an existing external macvlan network with a static IP address and MAC address, remove the `ports:` section and add the following to the `codeman` service:
```yaml
mac_address: ${CODEMAN_MAC_ADDRESS}
networks:
codeman_lan:
ipv4_address: ${CODEMAN_IPV4_ADDRESS}
```
Then add this top-level network declaration:
```yaml
networks:
codeman_lan:
external: true
name: ${CODEMAN_MACVLAN_NETWORK}
```
Set `CODEMAN_MACVLAN_NETWORK`, `CODEMAN_IPV4_ADDRESS`, and `CODEMAN_MAC_ADDRESS` in `.env`. The values in `.env.example` match the supplied Unraid example network and should be changed for other hosts.
### Create a managed macvlan network
If an external macvlan network does not already exist, use this top-level declaration instead. Do not use it together with the external-network declaration.
```yaml
networks:
codeman_lan:
driver: macvlan
driver_opts:
parent: ${CODEMAN_MACVLAN_PARENT}
ipam:
config:
- subnet: ${CODEMAN_MACVLAN_SUBNET}
gateway: ${CODEMAN_MACVLAN_GATEWAY}
```
Macvlan containers are ordinarily not reachable from their Docker host without additional host-network routing. Confirm the selected address, MAC address, parent interface, and subnet are reserved and valid for the target network before starting the stack.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
script_dir=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
env_file="$script_dir/.env"
compose_file="$script_dir/docker-compose.yaml"
if [[ ! -f "$env_file" ]]; then
printf 'Error: Docker environment file is missing: %s\n' "$env_file" >&2
printf 'Create it from %s/.env.example before starting Codeman.\n' "$script_dir" >&2
exit 1
fi
compose_command=(docker compose --env-file "$env_file" -f "$compose_file")
appdata_path=$(
"${compose_command[@]}" config --environment |
awk -F= '$1 == "CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH" { sub(/^[^=]*=/, ""); print; exit }'
)
docker_socket=$(
"${compose_command[@]}" config --environment |
awk -F= '$1 == "DOCKER_SOCKET" { sub(/^[^=]*=/, ""); print; exit }'
)
if [[ -z "$appdata_path" ]]; then
printf 'Error: CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH is not set in %s\n' "$env_file" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [[ ! -d "$appdata_path" ]]; then
if [[ "$EUID" == '0' ]]; then
printf 'Error: Refusing to create CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH as root: %s\n' "$appdata_path" >&2
printf 'Create it as the unprivileged account that should run Codeman, then retry.\n' >&2
exit 1
fi
mkdir -p -- "$appdata_path"
fi
if owner_ids=$(stat -c '%u:%g' -- "$appdata_path" 2>/dev/null); then
:
elif owner_ids=$(stat -f '%u:%g' "$appdata_path" 2>/dev/null); then
:
else
printf 'Error: Cannot determine the owner of CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH: %s\n' "$appdata_path" >&2
exit 1
fi
export PUID=${owner_ids%%:*}
export PGID=${owner_ids##*:}
if [[ "$PUID" == '0' ]]; then
printf 'Error: CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH is owned by root: %s\n' "$appdata_path" >&2
printf 'Change the directory ownership to the unprivileged account that should run Codeman.\n' >&2
exit 1
fi
if [[ -z "$docker_socket" || ! -S "$docker_socket" ]]; then
printf 'Error: DOCKER_SOCKET is not a Unix socket: %s\n' "${docker_socket:-<unset>}" >&2
exit 1
fi
if socket_ids=$(stat -c '%u:%g' -- "$docker_socket" 2>/dev/null); then
:
elif socket_ids=$(stat -f '%u:%g' "$docker_socket" 2>/dev/null); then
:
else
printf 'Error: Cannot determine the owner of DOCKER_SOCKET: %s\n' "$docker_socket" >&2
exit 1
fi
export DOCKER_SOCKET_GID=${socket_ids##*:}
repo_path=${CODEMAN_REPO_PATH:-$(cd -- "$script_dir/.." && pwd)}
if [[ ! -d "$repo_path" ]]; then
printf 'Error: CODEMAN_REPO_PATH is not a directory: %s\n' "$repo_path" >&2
exit 1
fi
export CODEMAN_REPO_PATH="$repo_path"
# The in-app updater runs `git checkout` and `npm install` against this checkout
# as PUID:PGID. If the directory belongs to someone else, git refuses outright
# ("detected dubious ownership") and the update fails at the first step — so warn
# here, where the fix is obvious, rather than in a failed update hours later.
if repo_owner=$(stat -c '%u' -- "$repo_path" 2>/dev/null || stat -f '%u' "$repo_path" 2>/dev/null); then
if [[ "$repo_owner" != "$PUID" ]]; then
printf 'Warning: %s is owned by UID %s but Codeman runs as UID %s.\n' "$repo_path" "$repo_owner" "$PUID" >&2
printf 'In-app updates will fail until the ownership matches. Codeman itself still starts.\n' >&2
fi
fi
if [[ ! -d "$repo_path/.git" ]]; then
printf 'Note: %s is not a git checkout, so in-app updates are unavailable.\n' "$repo_path" >&2
fi
# Record what the container is about to be built and created FROM. The in-app
# updater compares these against the release it wants to apply: a release that
# changes either file cannot be applied by the container restarting itself (a
# restart reuses the existing image and config), so it is refused and the user
# is sent back here. Written on every start, so the baseline always describes
# the container that is actually running. See docs/docker-self-update.md.
if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
sha256_of() { sha256sum -- "$1" | cut -d' ' -f1; }
elif command -v shasum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
sha256_of() { shasum -a 256 -- "$1" | cut -d' ' -f1; }
else
sha256_of() { printf ''; }
fi
dockerfile_sha=$(sha256_of "$script_dir/server.Dockerfile")
compose_sha=$(sha256_of "$compose_file")
if [[ -n "$dockerfile_sha" && -n "$compose_sha" ]]; then
# $CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH is mounted at the runtime account's home, so this is
# dataPath('docker-env-applied.json') as the server inside the container sees it.
state_dir="$appdata_path/.codeman"
mkdir -p -- "$state_dir"
printf '{\n "dockerfileSha256": "%s",\n "composeSha256": "%s"\n}\n' \
"$dockerfile_sha" "$compose_sha" >"$state_dir/docker-env-applied.json.tmp"
mv -- "$state_dir/docker-env-applied.json.tmp" "$state_dir/docker-env-applied.json"
# A root-run start (common on Unraid) would otherwise leave a root-owned
# `.codeman` on a FIRST start, before the container has created it as PUID,
# and the unprivileged server could then never write its own state there.
if [[ "$EUID" == '0' ]]; then
chown -- "$PUID:$PGID" "$state_dir" "$state_dir/docker-env-applied.json"
fi
else
printf 'Warning: no sha256 tool found; in-app updates will not detect environment changes.\n' >&2
fi
exec docker compose --env-file "$env_file" -f "$compose_file" up --build -d
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@@ -51,6 +51,58 @@ RUN npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent \
&& npm cache clean --force \
&& pi --version
# Grok Build (`grok`, xAI) is NOT on npm: a standalone ~160MB Rust binary through
# xAI's installer, which targets $HOME/.grok/bin with no --dir override. At build
# time that is root's home and unreachable by the `agent` user, so copy the binary
# into /usr/local/bin and drop root's ~/.grok in the same layer so the image does
# not carry the download twice. The staging cp -T is what makes this survive the
# installer's own behavior EITHER way: newer installers already symlink
# /usr/local/bin/grok -> /root/.grok/bin/grok, and a direct `cp -L` onto that
# symlink fails with "same file" (2026-08-24 rebuild), while removing the link
# first and copying fresh works for both old and new installers.
RUN curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash \
&& cp -L /root/.grok/bin/grok /usr/local/bin/grok.real \
&& rm -f /usr/local/bin/grok \
&& mv /usr/local/bin/grok.real /usr/local/bin/grok \
&& chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/grok \
&& rm -rf /root/.grok /root/.local/bin/grok /root/.local/bin/agent \
&& grok --version
# DeepSeek Harness (`dsh`). A normal npm package, but the ONLY entry here whose
# binary runs nothing on its own: `dsh` is a profile launcher, and DeepSeek ships
# only `web` and `headless`, so without an interactive profile a
# `mode: 'deepseek'` container would start a pane that dies on arrival. The
# profile itself is installed further down, into the `agent` HOME, because
# Codeman deliberately does NOT seed `profiles/` from the host: it is a
# per-profile node_modules tree, host-arch-specific and far too large to copy on
# every container start.
# ⚠️ `pnpm` is a HARD dependency of `dsh plugin`, not optional tooling: the
# subcommand is a thin forwarder that `spawnSync`s a literal `pnpm` with no
# fallback to npm, so on an image without it the profile install below dies
# with `dsh: pnpm not found on PATH` / exit 127 and takes the whole build with
# it (issue #352). It stays on PATH at runtime too, so a container user can run
# `dsh plugin add` themselves.
RUN npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh pnpm \
&& npm cache clean --force \
&& dsh --version \
&& pnpm --version
# OMP (Oh My Pi) is NOT on npm: a standalone binary via omp.sh's installer, which
# targets $HOME/.local/bin with no --dir override (verified 2026-08-27 — the
# resolver's OMP_SEARCH_DIRS lists ~/.omp/bin first, which turned out to be the
# WRONG guess for the installer's actual target; build this step for real
# rather than trust that ordering). At build time $HOME is root's home and
# unreachable by the `agent` user, so copy the binary into /usr/local/bin and
# drop root's ~/.local/bin/omp in the same layer so the image does not carry
# the download twice.
RUN curl -fsSL https://omp.sh/install | sh \
&& cp -L /root/.local/bin/omp /usr/local/bin/omp.real \
&& rm -f /usr/local/bin/omp \
&& mv /usr/local/bin/omp.real /usr/local/bin/omp \
&& chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/omp \
&& rm -f /root/.local/bin/omp \
&& omp --version
# `agent` user (gid 0) with an arbitrary-uid-writable HOME. The uid is
# auto-assigned (node:22-slim already occupies uid 1000 with its `node` user); at
# runtime Codeman overrides with `--user <hostUid>:0` on Linux, so the baked uid
@@ -68,11 +120,37 @@ ENV HOME=/home/agent
# transcript/rollout dirs (`.claude/projects`, `.codex/sessions`) are bind-mounted from
# the host. (gemini/gcloud/opencode are whole seed-copies and need no pre-created dir;
# Antigravity nests its state inside `.gemini/antigravity-cli`, so it rides that seed.)
# `.pi/agent` IS pre-created: pi is seeded per-FILE (auth/settings/trust/models), and a
# `.pi/agent` and `.grok` ARE pre-created: both are seeded per-FILE (pi:
# auth/settings/trust/models; grok: auth.json/config.toml/pager.toml), and a
# per-file seed copy, unlike a whole-dir one, does not create its parent directory.
# `.dsh` is pre-created for the same per-file reason (.env/settings.yaml/
# cordis.patch.yml), and the interactive profile is built into it HERE rather than
# after `USER agent`: this layer's closing chgrp/chmod is what makes the whole tree
# writable by the arbitrary uid the container actually runs as, and a profile
# installed after it would miss that fixup. DSH_HOME points the launcher at the
# agent's dir while this still runs as root.
# ⚠️ `dangerouslyAllowAllBuilds` is what keeps that profile install from becoming
# the next #352. pnpm (unlike npm) blocks dependency lifecycle scripts by default
# and FAILS the install over it — `ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS`, exit 1, measured on
# pnpm 11.24 — so any package in the tui's tree that ships one stops the build
# dead. An allowlist of the offenders rots: `@deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui` is
# resolved by dist-tag, not pinned, and 0.9.3 pulled `@google/genai` (a
# `preinstall: no-op`) where 0.10.0-beta.x does not, so the names to allow move
# under us between rebuilds. Allowing them wholesale is also the SAME exposure
# this image already accepts three layers up: `npm install -g` runs the install
# scripts of every transitive dep of the five CLIs above it, with no gate at all.
# `.omp/agent` is pre-created for the same reason `.codex` is: it is a MIXED
# store (per-file config seeds PLUS a shared `sessions/` RW bind mount for
# Codeman's own host-side history/resume reads), and neither kind of artifact
# creates its own parent directory.
RUN useradd -g 0 -m -d /home/agent -s /bin/bash agent \
&& mkdir -p /home/agent/.npm /home/agent/.cache /home/agent/.config /home/agent/.codeman \
/home/agent/.claude/projects /home/agent/.codex/sessions /home/agent/.pi/agent \
/home/agent/.claude/projects /home/agent/.codex/sessions /home/agent/.pi/agent /home/agent/.grok \
/home/agent/.dsh /home/agent/.omp/agent \
&& DSH_HOME=/home/agent/.dsh HOME=/home/agent \
dsh plugin --profile dsh-tui add --config.dangerouslyAllowAllBuilds=true \
@deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui \
&& test -f /home/agent/.dsh/profiles/dsh-tui/package.json \
&& chgrp -R 0 /home/agent \
&& chmod -R g=u /home/agent
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name: codeman
services:
codeman:
build:
context: ..
dockerfile: docker/server.Dockerfile
args:
CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER: ${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}
PGID: ${PGID:-1000}
PUID: ${PUID:-1000}
image: ${CODEMAN_IMAGE}
init: true
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "${CODEMAN_PORT}:${CODEMAN_PORT}"
environment:
# Tells the self-updater to restart by exiting (the restart policy below
# relaunches it) rather than by looking for an init system that is not
# here. Also set in the image; repeated so a container started without the
# image default still self-identifies.
CODEMAN_IN_CONTAINER: "1"
# This file sets `restart: unless-stopped` below, so the updater may restart
# the server by EXITING. Declared here and only here, never in the image: a
# container started by plain `docker run` has no restart policy unless the
# operator gave it one, and there the updater asks the daemon instead and
# stages the update for a manual restart when it cannot get an answer.
CODEMAN_RESTART_BY_EXIT: "1"
CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS: ${CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS}
# Host-side equivalent of the runtime user's HOME. Docker case seed,
# credential and hook mounts are translated into the daemon namespace.
CODEMAN_DOCKER_HOST_HOME: ${CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH}
CODEMAN_DOCKER_DISABLE_SWAP_LIMIT: ${CODEMAN_DOCKER_DISABLE_SWAP_LIMIT}
CODEMAN_CASES_PATH: ${CODEMAN_CASES_PATH}
CODEMAN_HOST: ${CODEMAN_HOST}
CODEMAN_PASSWORD: ${CODEMAN_PASSWORD}
CODEMAN_PORT: ${CODEMAN_PORT}
CODEMAN_USERNAME: ${CODEMAN_USERNAME}
GEMINI_API_KEY: ${GEMINI_API_KEY}
PGID: ${PGID:-1000}
PUID: ${PUID:-1000}
TZ: ${TZ}
group_add:
# Retain access to the host Docker socket without running as root.
- ${DOCKER_SOCKET_GID:-999}
volumes:
# Application data and CLI credentials persist on the configured host
# path, rather than in a Docker-managed volume.
- type: bind
source: ${CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH}
target: /home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}
# Docker cases are sibling containers on the host daemon. Their workspace
# must be visible to Codeman at the same absolute path used by that daemon.
- type: bind
source: ${CODEMAN_CASES_PATH}
target: ${CODEMAN_CASES_PATH}
# Codeman uses the host daemon to create isolated Docker cases. This is
# Docker-outside-of-Docker, not Docker-in-Docker.
- type: bind
source: ${DOCKER_SOCKET}
target: /var/run/docker.sock
# The application source, so App Settings -> Updates can update in place.
# This is the SAME checkout used as the build context above, mounted over
# the image's baked copy: a `git checkout` performed inside the container
# then lands on the host and survives the container being recreated.
# Without it the pull would go to the container's writable layer and be
# silently discarded by the next `up`. See docs/docker-self-update.md.
# Defaults to `..` — the build context above — which Compose resolves
# against the project directory, so plain `docker compose up` works with
# no extra configuration. Set CODEMAN_REPO_PATH only to point elsewhere.
- type: bind
source: ${CODEMAN_REPO_PATH:-..}
target: /opt/codeman
# Build artefacts live in named volumes layered OVER the repo bind mount,
# so `npm install` and `npm run build` inside the container never write
# into the host checkout. That keeps container-compiled native modules
# (node-pty is built from source here) out of a checkout that may also be
# used to run Codeman natively, and keeps `git status` clean. Docker seeds
# an EMPTY named volume from the image, so the first start inherits the
# image's already-built node_modules and dist rather than paying for a
# bootstrap build.
- type: volume
source: codeman-node-modules
target: /opt/codeman/node_modules
- type: volume
source: codeman-dist
target: /opt/codeman/dist
extra_hosts:
- "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges:true
cap_drop:
- ALL
healthcheck:
test:
- CMD-SHELL
- >-
node -e "fetch('http://127.0.0.1:${CODEMAN_PORT}/api/status').then((response) => process.exit(response.status < 500 ? 0 : 1)).catch(() => process.exit(1))"
interval: 30s
timeout: 5s
retries: 3
start_period: 30s
volumes:
# Container-owned build artefacts. They persist across container recreation,
# so an in-app update's `npm install` output is not thrown away by the next
# `up`, and they are seeded from the image on first use. Removing them (or
# `docker compose down -v`) is the supported reset: the next start rebuilds
# from the image.
codeman-node-modules:
codeman-dist:
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# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
# Build the application from the checkout supplied as the Docker build context.
# No published Codeman application image is required.
FROM node:22-bookworm-slim AS build
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends python3 make g++ \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
WORKDIR /opt/codeman
COPY . .
# devDependencies are deliberately KEPT (no `npm prune --omit=dev`). The in-app
# updater rebuilds from inside this container, and `npm run build` is tsc +
# esbuild — both devDependencies. Pruning them saves image size and takes the
# self-updater with it. See docs/docker-self-update.md.
RUN npm ci \
&& npm run build \
&& npm cache clean --force
# The Docker CLI talks to the host daemon through the socket mounted by
# docker/docker-compose.yaml. It does not run a Docker daemon in this container.
FROM node:22-bookworm-slim
ARG CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER=opencode
ARG PUID=1000
ARG PGID=1000
# python3/make/g++ are here for the SELF-UPDATER, not for this build. An update
# runs `npm install` inside the running container, and node-pty ships no Linux
# prebuild, so a release that bumps it compiles from source right here. Without
# a toolchain that install fails and the update rolls back — every time, on the
# releases that need it most. Same reason install.sh installs one on bare hosts.
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
ca-certificates \
curl \
g++ \
git \
make \
openssh-client \
procps \
python3 \
ripgrep \
tmux \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# The Docker CLI, taken from the official image rather than Debian's `docker.io`.
# That package is the full ENGINE: with --no-install-recommends it still pulls 15
# packages including containerd, runc, dmsetup and iptables, none of which a
# client that only talks to a mounted socket can use. Measured on top of this
# base image: `docker.io` costs 266 MB and ships Docker 20.10.24 (2023), while
# these two files cost 108 MB and ship the current CLI (493 MB vs 335 MB total).
#
# The binaries are STATIC Go builds, so they run on this glibc image even though
# the image they come from is Alpine (verified: `docker --version`, `docker ps`
# and `docker build` all work here against a mounted host socket).
#
# buildx is copied on purpose. `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs` shells out to
# `docker build` — Codeman auto-builds the agent image on the first Docker case —
# and without the plugin that silently falls back to the CLASSIC builder, which
# Docker has deprecated and will eventually drop. `docker-compose` is NOT copied:
# Codeman never shells out to it.
COPY --from=docker:29-cli /usr/local/bin/docker /usr/local/bin/docker
COPY --from=docker:29-cli \
/usr/local/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx \
/usr/local/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
# Keep credentials out of the image. Users authenticate these CLIs at runtime
# through Codeman sessions, and the configured host bind mount retains state.
#
# ⚠️ PINNED ON PURPOSE. Unpinned, the agent CLI versions a user ends up with are
# a function of WHEN their image was built, not of any commit — so a Codeman
# release that depends on newer CLI behaviour (the trust-dialog handling is
# pinned to Claude Code 2.1.252's layout; wheel forwarding to >= 2.1.187) breaks
# on an older image with no diff anywhere to explain why. In-app updates make
# rebuilds RARER, which makes that drift worse. Pinning turns "this release needs
# a newer CLI" into a Dockerfile change, which the updater's environment gate
# already detects and refuses (docs/docker-self-update.md).
#
# Bump these deliberately, in a release. `--no-cache` is still needed to rebuild
# this layer when only the pins change upstream.
RUN npm install --global \
@anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.258 \
@google/gemini-cli@0.58.0 \
@openai/codex@0.152.1 \
opencode-ai@1.18.26 \
&& npm cache clean --force
# Keep the web server and every local Codeman session unprivileged. PUID and
# PGID match the host-owned application-data directory mounted by Compose. The
# requested GID may not exist in the base image, and a host UID such as 1000 may
# already belong to the baked `node` account, so handle both cases explicitly.
RUN set -eux; \
case "${PUID}" in ''|*[!0-9]*) echo "PUID must be numeric" >&2; exit 1;; esac; \
case "${PGID}" in ''|*[!0-9]*) echo "PGID must be numeric" >&2; exit 1;; esac; \
if [ "${PUID}" -eq 0 ]; then \
echo "PUID must identify an unprivileged account, not root" >&2; \
exit 1; \
fi; \
if ! getent group "${PGID}" >/dev/null; then \
groupadd --gid "${PGID}" codeman-runtime; \
fi; \
existing_user="$(getent passwd "${PUID}" | cut -d: -f1 || true)"; \
if [ -n "${existing_user}" ]; then \
usermod \
--login "${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}" \
--gid "${PGID}" \
--home "/home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}" \
--move-home \
--shell /bin/bash \
"${existing_user}"; \
else \
useradd \
--uid "${PUID}" \
--gid "${PGID}" \
--create-home \
--home-dir "/home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}" \
--shell /bin/bash \
"${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}"; \
fi
WORKDIR /opt/codeman
COPY --from=build /opt/codeman /opt/codeman
# CODEMAN_IN_CONTAINER tells the self-updater it must restart by exiting rather
# than by asking an init system that is not here (src/web/self-update.ts).
# NODE_ENV stays `production`; the updater passes `npm install --include=dev`
# explicitly, since that value would otherwise omit the build toolchain.
ENV CODEMAN_IN_CONTAINER=1 \
CODEMAN_PORT=3000 \
HOME=/home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER} \
NODE_ENV=production
EXPOSE 3000
USER ${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}
CMD ["node", "dist/index.js", "web"]
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**2. `stop` and `blocked` fire only for `claude` sessions.** Both come from Claude
Code hooks, and no other mode installs them: `shell` runs no agent, and the external
CLIs (`opencode`, `codex`, `gemini`, `antigravity`) render their own TUIs and post
CLIs (`opencode`, `codex`, `gemini`, `antigravity`, `pi`) render their own TUIs and post
no hooks. For every non-`claude` mode only `idle`, `working` and `exit` are
accepted, and of those only `exit` is dependable: see the caveats under
[Signals](#signals) before building on `idle`. Requesting `stop` or `blocked`
@@ -204,11 +204,16 @@ turn.
The reliable sequence is: poll `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id` until `.data.pid` is
non-null, then `wait-output` for the composer's own marker (`bypass`, the status
bar of a CLI spawned in bypass mode) with a short timeout, handling the trust
dialog only as the bounded fallback (`trust` matched → send `\r` → wait for
`bypass` again). Do not probe `trust` first and Enter blindly: the dialog text
stays in the terminal buffer for the life of the session, so a `trust` probe with
`from=buffer` keeps matching on every later run and the Enter lands in a ready
composer. A worked version is in
dialog only as the bounded fallback.
⚠️ **The fallback is not a bare `\r`.** Claude Code 2.1.252 unnumbered the dialog's
options, reversed them and highlights `No, exit`, so an Enter sent blind quits the
CLI and the pane dies seconds after the spawn. Read the `❯` marker off the current
frame (`GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/terminal?full=1`), send `ESC [ B` while it is on
`No, exit`, re-read, and confirm only once it is on `Yes, I trust this folder`.
Reading the current frame is also what keeps this correct on later runs: the dialog
text stays in the terminal buffer for the life of the session, so a `trust` probe
with `from=buffer` keeps matching long after the dialog is gone. A worked version is in
[`extending-codeman.md`](extending-codeman.md#seam-3-http-api-and-cli).
### `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/wait`
@@ -442,9 +447,16 @@ Design: [`approvals-inbox-plan.md`](approvals-inbox-plan.md).
- `GET /api/v1/approvals` → `{ approvals: ApprovalItem[] }`, oldest first,
ownership-scoped in multi-user mode. `ApprovalItem`: `{ id, sessionId,
sessionName, kind: 'permission'|'question'|'idle', createdAt, toolName?,
toolSummary?, message?, cwd?, context?, options?: {n, label}[] }`. `context`
is the ANSI-stripped visible pane frame; `options` is present only when the
dialog's numbered choices parsed confidently.
toolSummary?, message?, cwd?, context?, options?: {n, label}[],
acknowledgedAt? }`. `context` is the ANSI-stripped visible pane frame;
`options` is present only when the dialog's numbered choices parsed
confidently; `acknowledgedAt` marks an item a human has already looked at
(see `/viewed` below) and tells clients not to re-arm its tab alert. Listing
also runs a staleness sweep over the caller's own items: the pane is
re-captured, and an item whose dialog no longer parses is resolved as
`resolved_in_terminal` instead of being returned (only items whose original
frame parsed `options` can be dropped this way, so an unreadable capture
keeps the item).
- `POST /api/v1/approvals/:id/answer` with `{ action: 'approve' }` (sends the
digit `1`), `{ action: 'deny' }` (sends Esc), `{ action: 'option', option: n }`
(sends the digit; accepted only when `n` is among the item's parsed
@@ -453,9 +465,17 @@ Design: [`approvals-inbox-plan.md`](approvals-inbox-plan.md).
`409 CONFLICT` when the dialog left the screen or another actor answered
first, `422 OPERATION_FAILED` when the session refused input.
- `POST /api/v1/approvals/:id/dismiss` removes the item without keystrokes.
- `POST /api/v1/approvals/session/:sessionId/viewed` → `{ sessionId,
acknowledged: itemId | null }`. Marks the session's pending **idle** item as
seen by a human (the web UI calls it when you open the session's tab): the
item stays pending and answerable, but stops arming the yellow tab alert on
every client, including after a reload. Permission/question items are never
acknowledged this way, since looking at a dialog does not answer it. `404`
for an unknown or inaccessible session; acknowledging twice is a no-op
(`acknowledged: null`).
SSE events: `approval:pending` (full item), `approval:updated` (context/options
re-captured), `approval:resolved` (`{ id, sessionId, kind, resolution }` with
re-captured, or the item acknowledged), `approval:resolved` (`{ id, sessionId, kind, resolution }` with
`resolution` one of `answered | resolved_in_terminal | superseded |
session_ended | dismissed | expired`).
@@ -534,6 +554,29 @@ the stable contract — event names are not renamed without a major bump. An
optional `?sessions=<id,...>` filter suppresses only the high-volume terminal
stream; lifecycle/metadata events are delivered to all clients regardless.
### `sse:heartbeat` (liveness)
Every 15s the server writes a `sse:heartbeat` frame to every connected client:
```
event: sse:heartbeat
data: {"t":1755100000000}
```
`t` is the server's epoch-ms timestamp at write time. The frame carries no
application state and can be ignored for correctness. It exists so a client can
tell a live stream from a dead one: an `EventSource` whose connection has been
idle-closed by a proxy (or that resumed from sleep on a stale socket) keeps
delivering nothing without ever firing `onerror`. Clients that care should treat
silence longer than about three intervals as a dead stream and reconnect, which
is what the bundled frontend does.
This replaced a `:keepalive` SSE **comment**, which served the same
proxy-flushing purpose but is invisible to `EventSource` by spec and so could
never be observed by a client. Consumers written against the old behavior are
unaffected: `EventSource` dispatches only events that have a registered
listener, so an unknown event name is dropped.
## Consuming from JavaScript
The bundled frontend reads responses through `_apiJson()`
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Normal authed API (NOT the hook-secret bypass), `ApiResponse` envelope, Zod schemas in `schemas.ts`:
- `GET /api/approvals` → pending items, multi-user filtered by `canAccessOwned` (same policy as session lists).
- `GET /api/approvals` → pending items, multi-user filtered by `canAccessOwned` (same policy as session lists). Also sweeps the caller's own items for staleness through `verifyStillAnswerable()`: Claude Code fires no "permission answered" hook, so a dialog answered in the terminal used to sit pending until `stop` and re-arm a red tab alert on the next page load. Only items whose original frame parsed options can be dropped this way, so an unreadable capture keeps the alert.
- `POST /api/approvals/:id/answer` body `{ action: 'approve' | 'deny' | 'option' | 'text', option?, text? }`:
- `approve` → `writeViaMux('1')` (option 1 is always plain Yes; no Enter, menus react to the digit).
- `deny` → `writeViaMux('\x1b')` (Esc is the official No/cancel; precedent: auto-resume sends Esc the same way).
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Normal authed API (NOT the hook-secret bypass), `ApiResponse` envelope, Zod sche
- `text` → `idle` items only: single line, embedded newlines stripped, sent as `text\r` (the `\r` discipline from CLAUDE.md).
- Guards: item still pending (404 otherwise), session exists + ownership via `findSessionOrFail`, session mode installs hooks. **Answer-time re-capture**: for items whose frame parsed options, the pane is re-captured before sending; if the dialog no longer parses, the item resolves and the answer is refused with 409 (the keystroke would land in whatever now has focus). Marks `answered` BEFORE the write so a double-tap cannot double-send; rolls back to pending if the write fails.
- `POST /api/approvals/:id/dismiss` → remove without keystrokes.
- `POST /api/approvals/session/:sessionId/viewed` → acknowledge the session's pending **idle** item (`acknowledgedAt`, emitted as `approval:updated`). Added after the owner reported that a yellow tab clicked and checked went yellow again on reload: the view-clears-idle rule lived in one browser's memory, so the seed re-armed it and other devices never saw the clear. Acknowledgement is deliberately **not** resolution (the prompt is still unanswered, so it stays in the inbox and stays available as Read My Mind context), and deliberately **idle-only** (looking at a permission/question dialog does not answer it, so the red alert survives being viewed).
### SSE
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ Normal authed API (NOT the hook-secret bypass), `ApiResponse` envelope, Zod sche
New module `approvals-ui.js` (@loadorder 11.2, after panels-ui.js), prettier-formatted (not added to `.prettierignore`).
- **Seed on connect**: `GET /api/approvals` on init and SSE reconnect; each pending item re-feeds `setPendingHook(...)` so tab alerts and the phone overview survive reload (fixes problem 2 with zero changes to the alert state machine).
- **Seed on connect**: `GET /api/approvals` on init and SSE reconnect; each pending item re-feeds `setPendingHook(...)` so tab alerts and the phone overview survive reload (fixes problem 2 with zero changes to the alert state machine). Items carrying `acknowledgedAt` are skipped, and `markIdleAlertSeen()` (app.js) is what sets it: viewing a session clears its yellow locally and POSTs `.../viewed`, so "I checked it" survives the reload and reaches the user's other devices through `approval:updated`.
- **Desktop**: header bell `btn-approvals` with count badge. Ships default-hidden via marker class `btn-approvals--hidden` (same policy as the attachments button, so `test/mobile-header-buttons-policy.test.ts` excludes it from the default-visible enumeration); JS shows it only while count > 0. Click toggles a drawer of cards: session name + kind, tool/message summary, mono context block, buttons rendered from parsed options (else Approve/Deny), plus Dismiss and Open session. Esc closes; existing z-index layers respected.
- **Phone**: header button stays hidden (`mobile.css`); the phone surface is the overview's NEEDS YOU section, whose rows gain inline ✓/✗ buttons for permission items (tap-through to the session remains the row's main action). Toolbar classes/status language rules from the mobile-overview section of CLAUDE.md apply.
- **i18n**: new strings registered in i18n.js (en + zh-CN); status words carry `data-i18n-skip` where they would collide (mirroring the overview pills).
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# The CLI registry
Every run mode Codeman can launch — Claude Code, Terminal/Shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek Harness and OMP — is a `CliEntry`: a data record describing how to find the binary, how to build its command line, what environment it needs, and what it can do. Code that used to ask "which CLI is this?" asks the entry instead.
## Where it lives
| File | What it holds |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `types.ts` | The `CliEntry` interface and everything under it. Read this first. |
| `stock.ts` | The shipped catalog. **The only file allowed to name a CLI id.** |
| `schema.ts` | Zod validation, including the cross-field checks that reject an incoherent entry at LOAD time. |
| `argv.ts` | The argv engine: the only code that turns typed tokens into a command string. |
| `patterns.ts` | The NAMED value patterns (`model`, `uuid`, `path-segment`, …) and the regex-compilation guard. |
| `profiles.ts` | The names of behaviours that genuinely need code, kept import-free so `schema.ts` can validate one. |
| `registry.ts` | Loading, merging `~/.codeman/clis.json`, and the accessors (`getCli`, `enabledClis`). |
`src/session-cli-registry-bridge.ts` maps the legacy per-mode option bag onto the engine, and `src/utils/cli-resolver.ts` / `src/utils/cli-launcher.ts` do registry-driven binary resolution and launcher-profile dispatch.
## The override file
`~/.codeman/clis.json` (instance-scoped through `dataPath()`) holds overrides and custom entries only, never a copy of the stock catalog: `{ "clis": { "<id>": { ...partial entry... } } }`. Objects merge key-wise onto the stock entry, arrays replace wholesale. **The file must be mode 0600**; the loader refuses any group/world permission bit, read bits included, so a file created with a normal umask (0644) is ignored until you `chmod 600` it. Every reason a file was ignored or an entry dropped is logged once, prefixed `[cli-registry]`, on the first load. A stock entry whose override fails validation falls back to the shipped definition; a custom entry that fails is dropped. The file is read once per process and re-read only on restart.
## The shape of an entry
```ts
interface CliEntry {
id: CliId; // 'codex'
label: string; // 'Codex' — shown in menus
shortBadge: string; // tab badge, e.g. 'CX'
accent: string; // single hex colour
enabled: boolean;
stock: boolean; // set by the loader; a custom entry can never claim it
order: number;
kind: 'agent' | 'shell';
discovery: CliDiscovery; // how to find and prove the binary
launch: CliLaunch; // the structured argv template
env: CliEnv; // exports, tmux setenv keys, the env-override allowlist
capabilities: CliCapabilities; // what every call site reads instead of the id
overlays: CliOverlays; // remote-SSH / Docker pane commands, credential store
}
```
`capabilities` is the important part. It is what `isExternalCliMode()`, `isAltScreenStripMode()`, `hooksAvailableForMode()` and every other former per-mode branch actually read.
### Three capabilities that must stay independent
`external`, `hooks` and `altScreen` describe three different, deliberately unequal sets, and deriving any one from another has already shipped a bug. `shell` has no hooks but is **not** an external CLI, so a hooks predicate written as `!isExternalCliMode()` accepted `until=stop` on a shell session and then blocked the caller for their entire timeout. `deepseek` is the mirror image: it IS external and it DOES have hooks.
`test/cli-capability-predicates.test.ts` asserts that no two of the three are equivalent across the catalog, so collapsing them fails the build rather than a user's session.
## Arg-template safety
The composed command line is interpolated into `bash -c "…"` inside tmux, which makes command construction a security boundary. Four independent layers keep config out of it:
1. **Config contains no shell text.** There is no `command: "..."` field anywhere in the schema. An entry declares a sequence of typed tokens; `argv.ts` is the only place that turns them into a string, and it owns every separator itself — one space between tokens, ` || ` between fallback variants. Neither can originate from config, because config has no field that could hold either.
2. **Every literal is validated at LOAD time** against a safe-word pattern (no space, quote, backtick, `$`, `;`, `&`, `|`, redirection, parens, braces, newline or backslash). A bad literal **rejects the whole entry** rather than being dropped, because a silently dropped flag would change security-relevant behaviour — losing `--no-approve` is not a cosmetic difference.
3. **Values resolve through NAMED patterns.** A value placeholder selects a `TokenPattern` (`model`, `uuid`, `slug`, `path-segment`, `tool-list`, …) from `patterns.ts`; config can never supply its own regex for a value, so a `clis.json` structurally cannot widen its own validation. A value that fails its pattern drops the whole argument, exactly as the hand-written builders did: an invalid `--model` omits `--model`, it never substitutes something else.
4. **Escaping is independent of validation.** `renderToken()` re-checks the resolved value before emitting it unquoted, and single-quotes anything else — so even a value that somehow bypassed validation is quoted, never concatenated raw.
The only config-supplied regexes are `discovery.version.regex` and `discovery.identity.regex`. Both run against **command output** rather than a shell token, both are compiled through `compileVersionRegex()` (length cap, nested-quantifier rejection, never the `g` flag), and the output they see is truncated first.
## Named profiles: the escape hatch
Some differences genuinely need to run code rather than be described. Those are **named profiles**: a capability field holds a profile NAME, and the implementation lives in one place keyed by that name — never by CLI id.
- `discovery.launcherProfile` — for a CLI whose binary is not the agent. `dsh` boots `$DSH_HOME/profiles/<name>`, so "installed" and "runnable" have different answers; the profile answers both, plus why a specifically-named target will not work. Implemented in `utils/cli-launcher.ts`.
- `env.setenvProfile` — per-CLI environment setup that is more than a list of keys, such as DeepSeek's status bridge.
- `capabilities.transcript` — which on-disk history reader understands this CLI (`claude-jsonl`, `codex-rollout`, `deepseek-zstd`, `omp-jsonl`, `none`).
- `capabilities.echo.predictProfile` — the predictive-echo model a composer needs.
The names live in `profiles.ts`, which is kept free of imports so `schema.ts` can validate a name at load time. A profile this build does not implement is a load-time error naming the field, rather than a CLI that silently looks permanently uninstalled.
## DeepSeek: the four assumptions it breaks
DeepSeek is worth reading before assuming an entry looks like its siblings — the schema carries four extensions because of it.
| What it breaks | How the registry expresses it |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `dsh` is a profile LAUNCHER, not the agent, so "installed" is not "runnable". | `discovery.launcherProfile` + `discovery.launcherTargetParam`. |
| Its permission switch is the **`DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` env var**, not a flag — the harness has none. | `env.configSetenv` (so the ordinary `privilegedParams` clamp still reaches it) **and** `capabilities.privilegedEnvKeys`. |
| It is the only non-claude mode with real hook signals, and for it that is a per-SESSION question. | `capabilities.hooks: 'supervised'` — a third state, not a boolean. |
| Its transcript is zstd session files, one frame per write. | `capabilities.transcript: 'deepseek-zstd'`. |
## Identity probes
`discovery.identity` asks the binary whether it is the program we meant, and it runs **before** the version probe, because a version probe cannot tell an impostor from the real thing. Debian ships an unrelated `dsh` (dancer's shell) that answers `--version` perfectly happily, and npm carries squatters for both `pi` and `grok`.
`discovery.version.requireVersionMatch` is the weaker companion: a binary whose version output has the wrong shape counts as ABSENT rather than present-with-unknown-version. That is what a short, generic binary name needs, and it is what keeps `codeman doctor` and the run mode from telling the user opposite things about the same binary — both read the same regex off the same entry.
## The no-id-branching rule
`test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts` fails the build if a CLI id comparison appears outside the stock catalog. It builds its id list from the live catalog, blanks comment lines before scanning (comments legitimately quote the pattern to explain why a branch was removed, and blanking rather than dropping is what keeps reported line numbers pointing at the real file), and keeps an allowlist in which **every entry carries its reason**.
It matches four shapes, not one: `mode === '<id>'`, `mode !== '<id>'`, `case '<id>':`, and `['<id>', …].includes(mode)`. The first version matched `===` only, and that gap was not academic — the refactor it guards converted the `===` sites and left the negated ones, so 36 `!==` branches survived it, including a seven-mode chain auto-enabling Ralph under a comment asking the next person to keep it in step with a predicate by hand while the sibling code path already read the capability. A guard that sees half the shapes reports a count measured over the half it happens to catch.
The allowlist is not a formality. If a branch is about what a CLI can DO it belongs in `CliCapabilities`; the entries that remain are things that are not CLI-behaviour branches at all — chiefly the legacy per-mode `<Mode>Config` objects on `POST /api/sessions`, which are a fact about the public HTTP API rather than about any CLI, plus a few documented cases where `mode === 'claude'` is genuinely the right question (Read My Mind reads Claude's _own_ transcript, so a capability there would be actively wrong).
## Two namespaces called `param`
`launch.params` keys, `env.configSetenv[].fromParam` and `capabilities.privilegedParams[].param` all name a **launch param**. The **legacy wire field** a param arrives as is a separate namespace, and `launch.legacyConfigAliases` is the only bridge between the two.
This matters because it is invisible when it is wrong. `capabilities.privilegedParams[].param` is the multi-user bypass clamp's only handle on a CLI's privilege switch, and a name from the wrong namespace clamps **nothing**: no load error, no failing test, the clamp simply stops running. Codex is the entry where the two names differ (`bypassApprovals` as the param, `dangerouslyBypassApprovals` on the wire), so it is the one that catches a regression. `schema.ts` rejects any entry naming a param it never declared, on both `configSetenv.fromParam` and `privilegedParams.param`.
## Fields declared for later
`shortBadge`, `accent`, `capabilities.echo`, `capabilities.wheelForward`, `capabilities.keyboardAccessory` and `capabilities.maxFrameBytes` are **declared but not yet read**. They all describe frontend behaviour, and the frontend is deliberately untouched here: `app.js`, `terminal-ui.js` and `styles.css` keep their own hand-authored per-CLI rules, and moving them is its own piece of work verified by a browser/mobile suite the CI gate cannot see.
Treat those values as **transcribed, not authoritative** — nothing enforces that `echo.policy` matches `_updateLocalEchoState`'s fallthrough, or that `accent` matches the gradient CSS paints, so re-measure before wiring one up. A field that is both wrong and unread is worse than an absent one, because the next reader trusts it; `test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts` pins the list so it cannot quietly grow, and wiring one up makes its line there fail, which is the direction you want.
`overlays.credStore` is in the same category, for a sharper reason: the Docker credential-seeding path still reads its own `CRED_STORES` table, because this shape allows ONE store per CLI and the live table needs two for gemini (`.gemini` for the CLI's own auth plus `.config/gcloud` for Vertex), while deepseek declares none here even though `.dsh` is seeded. Wiring it means making the field an array and correcting those two entries — a change to credential seeding, which is simultaneously the worst thing here to get wrong and the least covered by tests, since every docker IO path is no-op'd under vitest.
Everything else in the interface is live, including `overlays.remote` / `overlays.docker`, which back `defaultRemoteCommandForMode()` and `defaultDockerCommandForMode()` directly. Those two used to be hardcoded `Record<…CommandMode, string>` tables duplicating the registry with nothing keeping the two in step; `test/location-overlay-commands.test.ts` pins every resulting command as a literal string.
## Resolve at call time, never at import
Anything reading the registry must resolve it when it is asked, not when its module is first imported. `sessionModeSchema()`, `allowedEnvPrefixes()`, `dependencyRegistry()` and each resolver's `searchDirs` thunk all re-read the catalog per call.
A module-level const freezes at first import, and the failure is asymmetric: a CLI enabled while the server is running moved the run menu but not the frozen surface, so validation rejected a mode the menu offered, or `codeman doctor` reported a catalog nobody had any more.
## Adding a CLI
1. Add a `CliEntry` to `stock.ts`.
2. Add a golden spawn-command pin to `test/cli-registry-spawn-golden.test.ts`, a row to `test/cli-capability-predicates.test.ts`, and its remote/docker commands to `test/location-overlay-commands.test.ts`.
3. That is usually all. If you find yourself wanting to add an `if` somewhere, the guard test will tell you — and the answer is a capability field, or a named profile if it genuinely needs to run code.
## See also
- [Agent CLIs](wiki/Agent-CLIs.md) — the user-facing per-CLI guide.
- `docs/architecture-invariants.md` — the mechanics and the history behind the rules above.
- `docs/deepseek-integration.md` — why DeepSeek is shaped the way it is.
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# Cron Jobs — User & Operator Guide
Codeman's **Cron** feature lets you save named, recurring jobs that automatically
spin up a Claude (or shell / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini) session on a schedule and
spin up a Claude (or shell / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / Pi) session on a schedule and
feed it a prompt. Think "cron for agent sessions": _"every weekday at 3am, open a
Claude session in `~/proj` and tell it to update dependencies and open a PR."_
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ These map 1:1 to `CronJobSchema` (`src/web/schemas.ts`) and the `CronJob` type
| Field | Required | Values / limits | Notes |
| -------------------------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `name` | ✅ | 1–200 chars | Display name; also used as the created session's name. |
| `agentType` | ✅ | `claude` \| `shell` \| `opencode` \| `codex` \| `gemini` \| `antigravity` \| `pi` | Reuses Codeman's `SessionMode`. `shell` = a plain terminal. ⚠️ A `pi` job's readiness poll looks for `❯`/a token count, neither of which pi prints, so it burns the poll budget and then sends the prompt anyway (slower start, still works). |
| `agentType` | ✅ | `claude` \| `shell` \| `opencode` \| `codex` \| `gemini` \| `antigravity` \| `pi` \| `grok` | Reuses Codeman's `SessionMode`. `shell` = a plain terminal. ⚠️ A `pi` or `grok` job's readiness poll looks for `❯`/a token count, which neither CLI prints, so it burns the poll budget and then sends the prompt anyway (slower start, still works). |
| `workingDir` | ✅ | valid path (allowlist-validated) | Validated at **create/update** (must exist, be a directory, and not resolve into a blocked tree — `/etc`, `/root`, `/proc`, `/sys`, `/dev`, or `/` itself) and again **at fire time**. |
| `launchCommand` | — | ≤ 2000 chars, single line | `shell` mode only: sent as the **first input line** once the shell is up, before the prompt. Ignored for other agent types. |
| `promptMode` | ✅ | `inline_text` \| `prompt_file_path` | See §5. |
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# DeepSeek Harness (`dsh`) integration plan
> **Status**: Executed. This document records the plan, the decision behind each
> wiring point, and what was and was not verified. The user-facing guide is
> [`deepseek-integration.md`](./deepseek-integration.md); the per-decision
> invariants live in
> [`architecture-invariants.md#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini-antigravity-pi-grok-deepseek`](./architecture-invariants.md#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini-antigravity-pi-grok-deepseek).
> Template: the grok integration ([`grok-integration-plan.md`](./grok-integration-plan.md)),
> itself calibrated against pi. Every fact below was measured against a live
> **dsh 0.1.1-rc.2** install and **@deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui 0.9.0**, not read
> from documentation.
## 1. What the DeepSeek Harness is
[deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness)
(open-sourced 2026-08-13, MIT) is a plugin-native agent framework: tools, skills,
sessions, sandboxes and whole APPS are Cordis plugins composed into *profiles*.
`dsh` is the launcher — `dsh --profile <name>` boots
`$DSH_HOME/profiles/<name>`, an ordered stack of plugin-bundle patch layers under
the user's own overrides. State lives in `~/.dsh` (`.env` 0600, `settings.yaml`,
`cordis.patch.yml`, `profiles/`, `sessions/`, `storages/`).
## 2. Shape decisions (why DeepSeek is wired the way it is)
DeepSeek is a ninth run mode. Never a location overlay, never a web tab (the
browser UI is handled separately, §3). Three of its decisions have no precedent
in the six external CLIs before it.
| Question | Decision | Why |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What does a pane run? | `dsh --profile <name>`, profile discovered | **The decision that shapes everything else.** DeepSeek ships `web`, `headless` and `base` — no terminal agent. The interactive front door is always a third-party plugin, so Codeman resolves a binary AND a profile inventory, and "available" means both. `resolveDefaultDeepSeekProfile()` prefers a recognized TUI, then an UNRECOGNIZED profile (anyone can publish an app bundle; a classifier that has not heard of one must not hide it), and refuses `web`/`headless`, which cannot occupy a pane. |
| Which TUI? | none blessed; default for BOOTSTRAP only | `POST /api/deepseek/install-profile` defaults to `@deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui` (~27.5k weekly downloads, ~4x the next, MIT, and it speaks the status contract in §2.3), but accepts any npm name and the resolver never assumes that profile exists. Codeman offers a default; it does not pick a winner. |
| Permission bypass | `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` env export, no flag | The harness has NO command-line permission option; its sandbox/approval rows read one env var with three presets (`read-only` / `workspace-write` / `danger-full-access`, read off `dsh --dump-default-config`). This is the one legitimate exception to the `CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL` ban: that var hard-locks in-session switching, whereas the harness reads this with `??` as a boot-time DEFAULT, so it stays soft. Exported via `tmux setenv`, never on the command line. The Run button sends `danger-full-access`, matching every sibling Run button. |
| Multi-user clamp branch | only-if-sent, clamped to `workspace-write`, **plus an env-var half** | Omitting the export leaves the harness on `workspace-write`, which still ASKS, so an absent config is already safe (the codex/antigravity/grok shape, not pi's materialize). Clamping to `workspace-write` rather than `read-only` is deliberate: the clamp removes privilege, it must not break a session's ability to edit its own workspace. ⚠️ Unlike every sibling, clamping the CONFIG is only half the gate: the switch is an env var, `DSH_*` is an allowlisted `envOverrides` prefix, and `applyEnvOverrides()` runs AFTER `_configureDeepSeek()`, so `envOverrides: {DSH_PERMISSION_MODE: 'danger-full-access'}` on the same request would land last and win. `clampEnvOverridesForOwner()` drops `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` and `DSH_HOME` for a non-granted owner (dropping falls through to the clamped export). `DSH_HOME` because it aims the launcher at a profile tree whose plugin code runs at BOOT, before any approval row. |
| `hooksAvailableForMode()` granularity | per SESSION for deepseek, per mode for everything else | `deepSeekConfig.statusReporting: false` disarms the `HERDR_*` export, and the triple is the only reason a dsh session posts anything, so a mode-only answer would accept `until=stop` where nothing can send one — the infinite-wait the predicate exists to prevent. Call sites pass `sessionHookOptions(session)`; the default stays permissive so a forgotten one degrades to the old behaviour. ⚠️ Profile conformance stays unknowable at request time (an unrecognized profile is deliberately launchable), so a non-conforming TUI still times out on an explicit `stop`; the default set keeps `idle`/`exit` for that. ⚠️ The predicate is NOT "is this claude": Read My Mind and intent capture read Claude's transcript and were silently widened by this change, so they compare `mode === 'claude'` directly now. |
| Profile install spawn | own process group, hand-rolled timeout | `dsh plugin add` fans out into package-manager children, and spawn's built-in `timeout` signals only the direct child: survivors keep the inherited stdio pipes open, `close` never fires, and the held-open request leaks with no route-level deadline. `detached: true` + negative-pid SIGTERM→SIGKILL, the same escalation `runGit()` uses for the same reason, plus a last-resort reap for a grandchild that escaped the group. |
| Idle detection | **real hook events via a status shim** | The standout decision. The TUI already reports its lifecycle to a supervising process through a generic env-gated contract inherited from Herdr: `HERDR_ENV=1` + `HERDR_BIN_PATH` + `HERDR_PANE_ID` make it run `<bin> pane report-agent <id> --state idle\|working\|blocked …` on every state change, exit 0 = delivered. `deepseek-status-shim.ts` generates a script into the data dir and points `HERDR_BIN_PATH` at it. So deepseek is the only non-claude mode that passes `hooksAvailableForMode()` — earned by emitting definitive signals, not granted. An interface implementation, not an impersonation: no real `herdr` binary is ever executed, and a TUI that ignores the contract simply falls back to output stabilization. |
| `agent_working` event | new, 157th SSE constant | The one hook event with no Claude Code hook behind it. A harness turn cannot run while its own modal approval is on screen, so "started working" proves a dialog was answered in the terminal. Without it a dsh red alert would survive until the next `stop` — the exact stuck-alert bug the claude path already fixed once, and its pane-capture staleness sweep is Claude-dialog-shaped and cannot help here. |
| Resolver | identity probe THEN version probe | Strictest of the family, and not by preference. `dsh` is not merely a squattable npm name: Debian ships an unrelated `dsh` (dancer's shell, `apt install dsh`) which would answer a version probe convincingly and then be handed a spawn line. `dsh --help` must match `DeepSeek Harness` first. `DEEPSEEK_VERSION_REGEX` keeps the prerelease tail (`0.1.1-rc.2`), since truncating it would report an rc as a release. |
| Env allowlist | `DSH_*` + `DEEPSEEK_*` | `DSH_*` covers the launcher's documented inputs (`DSH_HOME`, `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE`, `DSH_TELEMETRY_MODE`, the `DSH_TUI_*` knobs); `DEEPSEEK_*` is the vendor namespace holding `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`/`DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`, same reasoning that admitted `XAI_*` for grok. ⚠️ Pi's lesson repeats exactly: a dsh `settings.yaml` can nominate ANY env var as a provider credential (`apiKeyEnv`), and the allowlist is one GLOBAL list, so admitting those would widen every mode at once. They stay out. |
| Model | NOT a session field | The model is a composition entry (`agent-default-model`) in the profile's config tree, set in `~/.dsh/settings.yaml` + `cordis.patch.yml`. Both create paths deliberately resolve no model for this mode rather than inventing a flag. |
| Alt-screen strip | OUT of `isAltScreenStripMode()` | Third-party fullscreen TUIs with their own scrollback and mouse handling — the opencode case, not the Ink case. |
| Local echo | `'buffer'` via the `_updateLocalEchoState` fallthrough | UNMEASURED against a live authenticated session (see §5), same honest gap grok shipped with. The leading TUI's composer supports `@` completion and history search, which *may* make it per-keystroke reactive like codex; if so the fallback is the `'off'` branch. |
| Docker | image installs dsh AND a profile | Profiles are deliberately NOT seeded from the host: each is a per-profile `node_modules` tree, host-arch-specific and far too large to copy per container start. Only `~/.dsh/.env`, `settings.yaml`, `cordis.patch.yml` are seeded (auth + model composition). The profile install rides the `useradd` layer so the closing `chgrp`/`chmod g=u` covers it, which is what keeps it usable under the arbitrary uid the container runs as. |
| Remote SSH | `exec "$SHELL" -i -l -c 'dsh'` | Boots the remote box's default profile; a remote with several needs the per-host `commands.deepseek` override, since `deepSeekConfig` does not cross ssh. |
## 3. The web profile
The browser UI is the only interactive surface DeepSeek ships itself, so it gets
a **shortcut, not a run mode**: `Run ▸ DeepSeek web UI…` starts
`dsh web --no-open --host 127.0.0.1 --port <free> --trusted-host <codeman-authority>`
as a background process and opens the URL as an ordinary web tab.
The server was a **shell session** first, on the reasoning that Codeman already
supervises those (visible, scrollable, killable, dies with its tab) so nothing
new had to own a long-lived HTTP server. That version worked and was still
wrong in use: clicking "open the DeepSeek web UI" put a terminal tab on screen
next to the web tab actually asked for, every single time, and after the first
launch the terminal was pure noise. Opening a dashboard should open one tab.
So `POST /api/deepseek/web` owns it instead (`src/deepseek-web-server.ts`), and
what the session gave away for free is now explicit: exactly one server, reused
rather than raced on a second click; restarted when the requested authority
changes; killed on Codeman shutdown (a detached child would otherwise hold its
port against the next start — the very EADDRINUSE this feature already got
wrong once); and boot output captured, since with no shell tab there is nowhere
else for a stack trace to land. It is fenced at the same bar as the profile
installer: booting a dsh profile executes the plugin code in it, so it requires
the privileged grant in multi-user mode.
`--trusted-host` is load-bearing — dsh fences its `/api` behind a browser-trust
check on the request authority, and a Codeman web tab reaches it through
Codeman's own origin via the webview proxy, not directly. The authority comes
from the CLIENT (`location.host`) because only the browser knows which of a
multi-homed Codeman's origins is actually in play.
Three things about this shortcut are load-bearing and each came from it failing
in exactly that way against a real install:
- **The port is chosen, never hardcoded.** `GET /api/deepseek/web-port` walks
3080..3119 for a free loopback port. 3080 is dsh's own default, which makes it
precisely the port a DeepSeek user is most likely to already be serving on:
binding it unconditionally killed the launch with `EADDRINUSE` against the
user's own `dsh web`.
- **The tab is opened only after the server answers.** The launch polls
`POST /api/webviews/probe` until the URL responds, so a server that dies on
startup reports the failure and points at its shell tab, instead of silently
persisting a dashboard aimed at nothing.
- **The saved tab is `trusted: true`, and must be.** An untrusted webview is
sandboxed without `allow-same-origin`, which breaks this dashboard twice: the
dsh client-runtime reads `localStorage` while loading plugins and dies there,
and an opaque-origin frame sends `Origin: null`, so dsh's trust check 403s
every `/api` call regardless of what `--trusted-host` names. Passing
`location.host` only means anything once the frame actually carries that
origin. The trade is real — a trusted proxied frame is same-origin with
Codeman and can reach Codeman's API — and is defensible only because this
particular dashboard is an agent harness Codeman just started itself on
loopback, which can already run code as the user. It is not a precedent for
trusting third-party dashboards generally.
The record is marked `managed: 'deepseek-web'`, which keeps it out of the
saved-dashboard list: the shortcut that maintains it is already a menu entry, so
listing both showed the same dashboard twice. Being managed is also what lets a
relaunch repoint the existing row instead of stacking one dead dashboard per
restart, since the port is now chosen per launch.
The authority baked into `--trusted-host` is the one the launch was clicked
from, and reuse is conditional on it: a running server fenced for a *different*
origin is stopped and restarted rather than reused, because reusing it renders a
page whose every API call 403s — which reads as a broken dashboard rather than a
misconfigured one.
## 4. Touch points (the checklist)
Backend: `types/session.ts` (SessionMode + `DeepSeekConfig` + SessionState),
`utils/deepseek-cli-resolver.ts` (new) + barrel, `deepseek-status-shim.ts` (new),
`tmux-manager.ts` (`buildDeepSeekCommand`, dispatch, resume flag, PATH export,
truecolor, `_configureDeepSeek`, availability error, plumbing), `session.ts`
(external-mode gate, label, config plumbing, tmux-required error, attach env),
`mux-interface.ts`, `schemas.ts` (prefixes, `DeepSeekConfigSchema`,
`DeepSeekInstallProfileSchema`, both mode enums, remote overrides, cron agentType,
`agent_working`), `session-wait-registry.ts` (`hooksAvailableForMode`),
`hook-event-routes.ts` (`APPROVAL_RESOLVING_EVENTS`), `session-routes.ts` (clamp +
both create paths + `resolveDeepSeekLaunchError`), `system-routes.ts`
(`GET /api/deepseek/status`, `POST /api/deepseek/install-profile`), `server.ts`
(availability inject + mux restore), `sse-events.ts`, `docker-hosts.ts`,
`remote-hosts.ts`, `config/dependency-registry.ts`,
`response-viewer-transcript.ts`, `cron/cron-service.ts` (comment),
`tui/tui-client.ts` + `tui-app.ts`.
Frontend: `index.html` (welcome button, run-mode entry, install affordance, web-UI
shortcut, cron option, clone Brain option), `session-ui.js` (`runDeepSeek()`,
`runDeepSeekWeb()`, `installDeepSeekProfile()`, dispatch, availability, "Run DS"
label, external-CLI gates), `app.js` (label, `ds` tab badge, kill-menu, SSE map),
`settings-ui.js` (welcome gate + `_onHookAgentWorking`), `constants.js`,
`mobile-overview.js`, `home-sessions.js`, `panels-ui.js`, `i18n.js`,
`terminal-ui.js`, `styles.css` + `mobile.css` (brand-indigo identity; the non-og
skin block and the mobile `!important` pair are both load-bearing).
Meta: `docker/agent.Dockerfile`, `install.sh`, `package.json` keyword,
`skills/codeman/reference/*`, CLAUDE.md, `architecture-invariants.md`.
Tests: `test/deepseek-mode.test.ts` + `test/deepseek-cli-resolver.test.ts` (new);
`run-mode-ui`, `render-index-html`, `mobile-overview`, `agent-skill-mode-lists`
(extended).
## 5. Verification performed
See the summary at the end of the implementing session for the live run. In
short: the CI gate green; the resolver, profile inventory, spawn-line and clamp
behaviour covered by 31 new unit tests; and an isolated instance used to exercise
`GET /api/deepseek/status` and a real session against the live dsh install.
**Not verified (honest gaps):**
- The local-echo `'buffer'` policy against the TUI's real composer (§2). If it
turns out per-keystroke reactive like codex's, flip it to the `'off'` branch;
teaching `PredictiveEchoAddon` its composer row is the larger follow-up.
- Scrollback/repaint behaviour of a third-party fullscreen TUI under the narrow
strip during a long session.
- A Docker case with `mode: 'deepseek'` (needs a `--no-cache` agent-image
rebuild — see the `--no-cache` rule in CLAUDE.md).
- A remote-SSH deepseek case.
- The web-UI shortcut against a tunnel authority. Loopback and a tailnet name are
both verified end to end through the webview proxy (dashboard renders, its
`/api` calls succeed, no shell session created).
## 6. Follow-ups
- **Response viewer**: read `~/.dsh/sessions/**` (JSONL) the way codex rollouts
are read back. Highest-value follow-up, and very achievable.
- **`headless` as an execution backend** for Codeman's own AI checks
(`ai-idle-checker`, `ai-plan-checker`), today Claude-only.
- **Profile/model picker in Session Options**, reading `GET /api/deepseek/status`
`.profiles`.
- **`--patch` overlays per session**, which is the harness-native way to change
agent composition without touching the user's profile.
- Measure the local-echo policy and pin the result the way pi did.
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# DeepSeek Harness (`dsh`) in Codeman
Codeman can run [DeepSeek Harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness)
as a session backend, alongside Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini,
Antigravity, Pi and Grok. It is the ninth run mode, and the one that is wired
least like the others, for two reasons worth understanding before you use it.
## 1. The agent is a profile, not the binary
`dsh` is a **launcher**, not an agent. It boots a *profile*: an ordered stack of
plugin-bundle patch layers under `$DSH_HOME/profiles/<name>` (`$DSH_HOME`
defaults to `~/.dsh`). DeepSeek ships three bundles and none of them is a
terminal agent:
| Profile | What it is | Can Codeman run it in a tab? |
| ------------ | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| `web` | the browser UI, served on :3080 | no — but see §6 |
| `headless` | answers one task and exits | no |
| (`base`) | the shared core, no app at all | no |
The interactive terminal front door is **always a third-party plugin**. So
"DeepSeek is installed" and "Codeman can start a DeepSeek session" are different
questions, and Codeman answers both separately:
```bash
curl -s localhost:3000/api/deepseek/status | jq
{
"available": true, # the `dsh` binary resolved and proved its identity
"runnable": false, # ...but nothing installed can drive a pane
"path": "/home/you/.local/bin",
"version": "0.1.1-rc.2",
"dshHome": "/home/you/.dsh",
"defaultProfile": null,
"profiles": [ { "name": "web", "kind": "web", "bundles": [...] } ]
}
```
### Installing a terminal profile
From the UI: open the **Run** dropdown. When `dsh` is installed but no
pane-capable profile is, the menu shows **DeepSeek — add a terminal profile…**.
One click installs one and the normal DeepSeek entry appears.
By hand, or to pick a different front door:
```bash
dsh plugin --profile dsh-tui add @deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui
```
⚠️ **`pnpm` has to be on PATH for either route.** `dsh plugin` is a thin forwarder
that spawns a literal `pnpm` with no npm fallback, so without one it exits 127 with
`dsh: pnpm not found on PATH` — both by hand and behind the UI button, which
surfaces that same line as the install error. `npm install -g pnpm` (or
`corepack enable pnpm`) is the fix. This is what broke the Docker agent image in
[#352](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues/352); the image now installs pnpm
alongside `dsh`.
Codeman's default is `@deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui` because it is by a wide
margin the most used community TUI, it is MIT, and it implements the status
contract described in §3. It is a **default, not a requirement**: any profile
under `$DSH_HOME/profiles` that is not `web` or `headless` shows up in the
inventory and can be launched, including one you compose yourself. The endpoint
accepts any npm package name:
```bash
curl -sX POST localhost:3000/api/deepseek/install-profile \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"profile":"my-tui","package":"@someone/dsh-tui"}'
```
Installing a plugin is arbitrary code execution on the host, so in multi-user
mode this endpoint requires the can-bypass-permissions grant (the same bar as a
`shell` session). The request is held open while the package manager runs and is
bounded at five minutes; the install runs in its own process group, so hitting
that bound kills the whole tree rather than just the launcher.
> **`dsh` is also a Debian program.** `apt install dsh` gives you "dancer's
> shell", a distributed shell, which would answer `--version` convincingly.
> Codeman's resolver therefore demands the harness's own help banner before it
> will point a spawn line at a candidate, and `GET /api/deepseek/status` reports
> `path` and `version` so a misresolution is diagnosable rather than presenting
> as "the mode just doesn't work".
## 2. Permissions are an env var, not a flag
The harness has **no `--dangerously-skip-permissions` equivalent**. Its sandbox
and approval rows are configuration, driven by one documented input,
`DSH_PERMISSION_MODE`, with three presets (read off `dsh --dump-default-config`):
| `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` | sandbox | approvals | notes |
| --------------------- | -------------------- | --------- | ------------------------- |
| `read-only` | `read-only` | ask | |
| `workspace-write` | `workspace-write` | ask | the harness's own default |
| `danger-full-access` | `danger-full-access` | **never** | what the Run button sends |
Codeman exports it via `tmux setenv`, never on the command line. Because the
harness reads it with `??`, it is a **soft default**: it sets the boot-time
preset and you can still change permission mode inside the session.
Omitting it entirely leaves the harness on `workspace-write`, which still asks —
which is why the multi-user clamp only needs to force a *sent* value down. A
non-granted owner's `danger-full-access` becomes `workspace-write`, not
`read-only`: the clamp removes privilege without breaking the session's ability
to edit its own workspace.
Because the switch is an env var rather than a flag, that clamp has a second half
no other CLI needs. `DSH_*` is an allowlisted `envOverrides` prefix (it has to be:
that is also how you set the harness's ordinary knobs), and env overrides are
applied *after* the permission export, so in multi-user mode a non-granted owner
sending
```json
{ "mode": "deepseek", "envOverrides": { "DSH_PERMISSION_MODE": "danger-full-access" } }
```
would otherwise hand back the privilege the config clamp just removed. For a
non-granted owner Codeman therefore **drops `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` and `DSH_HOME`
from `envOverrides`**; dropping them falls through to the clamped config and the
server's own `DSH_HOME`. `DSH_HOME` is in that list because it points the
launcher at a profile tree, and a profile's plugin code runs at boot, before any
approval row can apply. Single-user installs and granted owners are unaffected.
## 3. Real idle detection (the interesting part)
Every other external CLI mode in Codeman is **readiness-guessed**: Codeman
watches the PTY go quiet and infers that a turn ended. Claude is the exception,
because Claude Code fires hooks.
DeepSeek is the second exception. The community terminal front door already
reports its own lifecycle to a supervising process through a generic,
env-var-gated contract (inherited from [Herdr](https://herdr.dev)): when
`HERDR_ENV=1`, `HERDR_BIN_PATH` and `HERDR_PANE_ID` are set, it shells out on
every state change with
```
"$HERDR_BIN_PATH" pane report-agent "$HERDR_PANE_ID" \
--source custom:dsh-tui --agent dsh-tui \
--state idle|working|blocked [--message ...] --seq N
```
Codeman points `HERDR_BIN_PATH` at a small generated shim
(`~/.codeman/dsh-status-shim.mjs`, written at session create) which forwards each
report to `POST /api/hook-event`. The mapping:
| Harness state | Codeman hook event | What you get |
| ------------- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| `blocked` | `permission_prompt`| red "needs you" tab alert + an Approvals Inbox item |
| `idle` | `stop` | definitive end-of-turn: respawn triggers, `wait` returns |
| `working` | `agent_working` | clears an alert answered in the terminal, at once |
So a DeepSeek session gets Claude-grade signals: `GET /api/sessions/:id/wait`
really can block on `stop` and `blocked` for it, and it is the only non-Claude
mode for which that is true (`hooksAvailableForMode`).
That is a per-*session* answer, not a per-mode one. Turning the bridge off with
`deepSeekConfig.statusReporting: false` means nothing will ever post a hook event
for that session, so an explicit `until=stop` is refused up front (with a message
naming the setting) rather than blocking for your whole timeout. Omitting `until`
never fails: the hook-only signals are dropped from the default set and you still
get `idle` and `exit`.
One limit worth knowing: whether the *profile* implements the contract cannot be
known at request time (Codeman deliberately treats an unrecognized profile as
launchable). A dsh session running a non-conforming TUI therefore still accepts
`until=stop` and will time out on it. `idle`/`exit` are the reliable pair there.
This is an interface implementation, not an impersonation — nothing on your
machine executes a real `herdr` binary. If you use a terminal profile that does
*not* implement the contract, the shim is simply never called and the mode falls
back to output-stabilization readiness like its siblings. Turn it off per session
with `deepSeekConfig.statusReporting: false`.
## 4. Starting a session
From the UI, pick **DeepSeek** in the Run dropdown (or the **Run DeepSeek**
welcome button) and press Run. Over the API:
```bash
curl -sX POST localhost:3000/api/quick-start \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"caseName": "myproject",
"mode": "deepseek",
"deepSeekConfig": {
"profile": "dsh-tui",
"permissionMode": "danger-full-access"
}
}'
```
`deepSeekConfig` fields: `profile`, `permissionMode`, `resumeSession`,
`resumeSessionId`, `statusReporting`. Resume prefers an explicit id over the
most-recent form, and both are passed through to the profile's app, which is
where `--resume` is understood.
**Models are not a session field.** The model is a composition entry in the
profile's config tree (`agent-default-model`), not a CLI flag, so Codeman does
not try to set one. Configure it where the harness does: `~/.dsh/settings.yaml`
plus a home-level `~/.dsh/cordis.patch.yml`, or a `--patch` overlay on the
profile. That is also how you point dsh at a local or third-party provider.
**Environment.** `DSH_*` and `DEEPSEEK_*` are allowlisted for `envOverrides`
(so `DSH_HOME`, `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE`, `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`, `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`
all flow through). Provider keys with *other* names are deliberately not: a dsh
`settings.yaml` can nominate any env var as a credential via `apiKeyEnv`, and
Codeman's allowlist is global, so admitting them would widen it for every mode at
once. Authenticate those the way dsh does, from the file or the server's own
environment.
## 5. Reading a session back, and driving one as a worker
dsh writes a real transcript — `$DSH_HOME/sessions/<mangled-cwd>/<id>/session.jsonl.zstd`
— so `GET /api/sessions/:id/last-response` reads that rather than segmenting the
pane, and the Response Viewer shows a dsh conversation the way it shows a claude
or codex one (`?context=full` returns prompt / response / tool blocks).
Reading the pane instead is not merely coarse for this mode, it is wrong: dsh-TUI
paints a full-screen splash, so the segmenter answered a `last-response` call for
a fresh dsh session with its ASCII-art logo — which anything polling for a
worker's first answer reads as an answer. Three things about the file shaped the
reader (`src/deepseek-transcript.ts`):
- **It is one zstd FRAME per append, not one zstd stream.** `zstd -dc` decodes all
of them, Node's `zlib` zstd decoder stops at the first: a real 56-line
transcript came back as 1 line. The reader walks frame headers itself. On a Node
older than 22.15 (no zstd at all) the mode falls back to the pane, as before.
- **Not every `user/message` is the user.** Each turn also records a
plugin-sourced runtime-context snapshot; only `source.kind === 'user'` is a
prompt.
- **A failed turn is not an empty one.** `turn/end` carries the provider's error,
which is returned as `Turn error: …` (and an early stop such as `max-tokens` as
`Turn ended: …`) instead of an empty string that reads as "still thinking".
The transcript reader applies to **local** dsh sessions only. A Docker case's
harness writes its transcript inside the container's own `~/.dsh` (the workspace
bind mount does not cover it), and a remote-SSH case's lives on the remote host,
so the local reader could never find those files — such sessions keep the pane
segmenter, coarse but real. The splash caveat above applies to them accordingly.
### As an agent worker
Because dsh has both halves — a real end-of-turn signal and a real transcript — an
agent can drive a dsh session the same way it drives a claude one, and the bundled
`codeman` agent skill does. Spawning `beta:deepseek` in its worker list gives a
worker that is tasked, waited on and read with the same calls as its claude
siblings; no other external CLI mode qualifies. Two edges are worth repeating here:
- **Readiness is not the stop signal.** The harness reports `idle` at boot roughly
300 ms *before* the composer paints (measured 2.26 s vs 2.56 s after spawn), so a
send-and-wait fired immediately after create resolves on that boot report,
reports a turn that never ran, and leaves the prompt in a pane that was not yet
accepting input. Wait for the composer (`❯`) instead.
- **Wait on `stop`, not on the default signal set.** That set also carries `idle`,
which for every external CLI is inferred from output stabilization; a dsh TUI
that repaints rarely reads as idle mid-turn.
## 6. The web UI as a tab
The browser UI is the one interactive surface DeepSeek ships itself, so it gets a
shortcut rather than a run mode: **Run ▸ DeepSeek web UI…** starts
`dsh web --no-open --host 127.0.0.1 --port <free> --trusted-host <codeman-host>`
as a background child process (`src/deepseek-web-server.ts`, behind
`POST/GET/DELETE /api/deepseek/web`) and opens it as a Codeman web tab once the
server actually answers.
It is a child process rather than a shell session because the session version
opened a terminal tab nobody asked for on every click. What the session gave for
free is therefore explicit here: one instance with reuse, a restart when the
requested `--trusted-host` authority differs from the running one, a kill on
server stop, and captured boot output. The `--trusted-host` flag is load-bearing —
dsh fences its `/api` behind a browser-trust check on the request authority, and a
Codeman web tab reaches it through Codeman's own origin via the webview proxy, not
directly. Without it the page renders and every API call fails.
## 7. Docker and remote cases
Docker cases work: the agent image installs `dsh` and bootstraps a `dsh-tui`
profile into the container. Profiles are deliberately **not** seeded from the
host (each is a per-profile `node_modules` tree, host-arch-specific and far too
large to copy on every container start); only `~/.dsh/.env`, `settings.yaml` and
`cordis.patch.yml` are seeded, which is what carries auth and model composition
in. As with pi and grok, in-container sessions are invisible host-side:
`~/.dsh/sessions` inside a container is that container's own.
Remote SSH cases default to `dsh` through a login shell, which boots the remote
box's default profile. If the remote has several, name one with the per-host
`commands.deepseek` override — the local `deepSeekConfig` does not cross ssh.
## 8. What is not wired
Deliberately minimal, on the same reasoning as the grok integration: the harness
is a fast-moving developer preview and every flag added is a flag validated
forever.
- `--patch` overlays per session (the profile's own layers apply as normal).
- `dsh plugin` management beyond first-time profile install.
- The `headless` profile as a one-shot execution backend for Codeman's own
internal AI checks (today those are Claude-only).
- Model/provider selection from Session Options.
## Verified against
`dsh 0.1.1-rc.2` and `@deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui 0.9.0`. The permission
presets, the profile layout, and the supervisor contract above were all read off
the live install rather than from documentation.
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Run a case inside an **isolated Docker container** instead of directly on the host. Any number of Codeman sessions can share one container (it is scoped to the case, not the session), so a whole project lives in a sandbox with its own network, resource caps, and filesystem, and you can **export the container to move it to another machine**.
Docker mode is a **location overlay on cases**, the direct analog of [remote SSH cases](./remote-hosts.md): where a remote case runs a local tmux pane doing `ssh host` into a durable remote tmux server, a docker case runs a local tmux pane doing `docker exec -it` into a durable **in-container** tmux server. It is not a separate `SessionMode`, so `claude` / `shell` / `opencode` / `codex` / `gemini` / `antigravity` / `pi` all work inside the container.
Docker mode is a **location overlay on cases**, the direct analog of [remote SSH cases](./remote-hosts.md): where a remote case runs a local tmux pane doing `ssh host` into a durable remote tmux server, a docker case runs a local tmux pane doing `docker exec -it` into a durable **in-container** tmux server. It is not a separate `SessionMode`, so `claude` / `shell` / `opencode` / `codex` / `gemini` / `antigravity` / `pi` / `grok` / `deepseek` / `omp` all work inside the container.
## One-time setup: build the base image
@@ -25,12 +25,24 @@ A zero exit code only proves the layers ran, not that the toolchain works. Verif
```bash
docker run --rm codeman/agent:base bash -lc \
'for c in claude codex gemini opencode agy pi; do printf "%-9s " $c; $c --version 2>&1 | head -1; done'
'for c in claude codex gemini opencode agy pi grok dsh omp; do printf "%-9s " $c; $c --version 2>&1 | head -1; done'
```
Antigravity (`agy`) is the one CLI not installed from npm (Google ships a standalone binary), so it has its own Dockerfile step and adds roughly 190MB; a full image lands near 1.6GB. Pi also gets its own step, because upstream documents installing it with `--ignore-scripts` and that flag must not silently change how the other four npm CLIs install.
⚠️ `dsh --version` is the one line above that answers a different question than the
others: `dsh` is a profile launcher, so a working binary says nothing about whether
the image can actually run a DeepSeek session. Check the profile the Dockerfile
installs into the agent's HOME as well, or a `mode: 'deepseek'` case starts a pane
that dies on arrival:
Pi's credentials are seeded per-FILE rather than as a whole directory (`auth.json`, `settings.json`, `trust.json`, `models.json`, `models-store.json` out of `~/.pi/agent`), because that directory also holds `sessions/`, `extensions/`, `skills/` and the installed package trees — gigabytes on an active host. Consequence: in-container pi sessions are invisible host-side, so `pi -c` inside a Docker case only sees that container's own history. See [`pi-integration.md`](./pi-integration.md).
```bash
docker run --rm codeman/agent:base ls ~/.dsh/profiles/dsh-tui/package.json
```
Building that profile is also why `pnpm` is in the image: `dsh plugin` forwards straight to a literal `pnpm` and exits 127 without it (issue #352), and pnpm — unlike npm — blocks dependency lifecycle scripts by default and fails the install over it, so the profile step passes `--config.dangerouslyAllowAllBuilds=true`.
Antigravity (`agy`) and Grok (`grok`) are the two CLIs not installed from npm (Google and xAI ship standalone binaries), so each has its own Dockerfile step, adding roughly 190MB and 160MB respectively. Pi also gets its own step, because upstream documents installing it with `--ignore-scripts` and that flag must not silently change how the other npm CLIs install.
Pi's credentials are seeded per-FILE rather than as a whole directory (`auth.json`, `settings.json`, `trust.json`, `models.json`, `models-store.json` out of `~/.pi/agent`), because that directory also holds `sessions/`, `extensions/`, `skills/` and the installed package trees — gigabytes on an active host. Consequence: in-container pi sessions are invisible host-side, so `pi -c` inside a Docker case only sees that container's own history. See [`pi-integration.md`](./pi-integration.md). Grok is seeded per-file for the same reason (`auth.json`, `config.toml`, `pager.toml` out of `~/.grok`, which also holds `sessions/`, `memory/` and the ~160MB binary under `downloads/`), with the same consequence for `grok -c`. See [`grok-integration.md`](./grok-integration.md). OMP is the one CLI in this family where `sessions/` is the EXCEPTION rather than the rule: `~/.omp/agent/{config.yml,mcp.json,models.yml,settings.yml}` are seeded per-file (the dir also holds SQLite caches and `terminal-sessions/`), but `~/.omp/agent/sessions/` is shared RW like codex's, not seeded, because Codeman reads it host-side for history recovery and `--resume` pinning. See [`omp-integration.md`](./omp-integration.md).
## Quickest path: one-click "Run in Docker"
@@ -66,6 +78,49 @@ curl -X POST localhost:3000/api/cases/docker-link -d '{"name":"sandbox","hostId"
curl -X POST localhost:3000/api/quick-start -d '{"caseName":"sandbox","mode":"claude"}'
```
## Attach to a container you already run
The tab's **Attach to an existing container** toggle points a case at a container **you**
built and run. Codeman only ever `docker exec`s into it: it never creates, starts, stops,
restarts or removes it, and it seeds no credentials into it, so the CLIs inside must already
be installed and logged in. A missing or stopped container is an error to report, not a state
to fix — start it yourself and reopen the session.
- **Container Name** is a picker over the engine's containers that you can also type into
(the engine may be remote, or the container may not exist yet when you fill the form).
Stopped containers are listed too, sorted last and labelled, so "mine isn't here" is never
a dead end.
- **Container Workdir** is a path that must already exist **inside** the container. Adoption
mounts nothing, so it need not match the host workspace path; **Browse** lists directories
inside the container itself. Without this check, a wrong path fails at launch as a bare
`execvp failed` inside the pane.
- **Workspace Path** is still a real host directory. It backs file previews, attachments and
watchers exactly as it does for an owned case, but here it is only a mirror: nothing is
bind-mounted, so point it at whatever host directory your container already exposes.
- **Check container** runs a read-only preflight and reports what is inside before you commit
to a case name (running or not, tmux present, which CLIs resolved).
- **Run modes come from the container**, not the host: a host with no `claude` still offers
Claude if the container ships it, and a mode the container lacks is hidden.
- Claude is launched **without** `--dangerously-skip-permissions` when the container's exec
user is root, because Claude Code refuses that flag as root and the refusal is only visible
inside the container.
- Image, network and resource settings disappear from the form: they describe a
`docker create` that adoption never runs.
Recreate is refused for an adopted case, full-image export is refused (it would commit a
container that is not ours), unlinking the case leaves the container running, and the boot
reaper skips it. Workspace-only export still works and never pauses the container.
Equivalent API:
```bash
curl -X POST localhost:3000/api/docker-cases/adopt-preflight -d '{"hostId":"local","container":"my-dev-box","containerWorkdir":"/workspace"}'
curl -X POST localhost:3000/api/cases/docker-adopt -d '{"name":"devbox","hostId":"local","container":"my-dev-box","hostWorkspacePath":"/home/you/projects/devbox","containerWorkdir":"/workspace"}'
```
In multi-user mode adoption is **admin-only**, unlike `docker-link`: an adopted container's
mounts belong to whoever built it, so one mounting `/` would hand the adopter the whole host.
## Lifecycle
- **Reconnect after a Codeman restart** lands back in the same live agent (the in-container tmux survives).
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# Docker Compose deployment
This configuration builds the Codeman application image locally from this checkout. It does not download or depend on a pre-built Codeman image.
For the Compose configuration, environment settings, storage migration, and macvlan networking examples, see the [Docker deployment guide](../docker/README.md).
The image includes Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode. Authenticate a CLI from its Codeman session; credentials are never baked into the image.
## Prerequisites
- Docker Engine or Docker Desktop with Docker Compose v2
- A reachable Docker daemon
The application container mounts the Docker daemon socket so Codeman can create and manage its isolated Docker cases. Treat anyone who can administer this Compose project as having Docker-host-equivalent access.
## Start
Copy the environment template, set a strong password, and confirm `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH`. The example maps `/mnt/user/appdata/Coding/codeman` on the host to `/home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}` in the container, preserving Codeman state and CLI credentials outside Docker-managed volumes.
```sh
cp docker/.env.example docker/.env
```
On PowerShell, use the following command instead.
```powershell
Copy-Item docker/.env.example docker/.env
```
On Linux, run the stack with the start script. It determines `PUID` and `PGID` from the owner of `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH`, and `DOCKER_SOCKET_GID` from the configured Docker socket, before invoking Compose. A root-owned application-data directory is rejected so the runtime account cannot become UID 0.
```sh
bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh
```
On other platforms, run Compose directly. `PUID` and `PGID` default to `1000:1000`; set them in `docker/.env` when the application-data directory has a different owner.
```sh
docker compose --env-file docker/.env -f docker/docker-compose.yaml up --build -d
```
Open `http://localhost:3000` and sign in with the username and password from `docker/.env`.
## Operations
The local image is tagged `codeman:local` by default. Change `CODEMAN_IMAGE` in `docker/.env` if a different local tag suits your environment.
```sh
docker compose --env-file docker/.env -f docker/docker-compose.yaml logs -f codeman
bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh
docker compose --env-file docker/.env -f docker/docker-compose.yaml down
```
`CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH` holds Codeman state and survives container recreation. Remove that host directory only when deliberately resetting the installation.
`CODEMAN_CASES_PATH` must be an absolute path on the Docker host. Compose mounts it at the same path inside Codeman, so the host daemon can bind the managed workspace into isolated Docker cases. Do not set it to `/home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}/codeman-cases`.
Compose passes `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH` into Codeman as `CODEMAN_DOCKER_HOST_HOME`. Codeman uses that value to translate generated Docker seed, credential and hook-secret bind sources from the container's home path into paths visible to the host Docker daemon.
If `docker info` reports `SwapLimit=false`, set `CODEMAN_DOCKER_DISABLE_SWAP_LIMIT=1`. Isolated cases retain their configured memory limit. Codeman omits the unsupported swap-limit option and filters only the daemon's exact swap-capability warning while retaining every other Docker create error.
If that directory was created by an earlier root-running image, change its ownership to the configured `PUID:PGID` before starting this version. This preserves existing CLI credentials and session state while allowing the unprivileged runtime account to use them.
## Updating
Codeman updates itself from **App Settings → Updates**, as it does on a bare host. The checkout mounted at `/opt/codeman` is the same directory Compose builds from, so the update's `git checkout` and rebuild land on the host and survive container recreation; the restart is the server exiting, which `restart: unless-stopped` turns into a relaunch on the new build.
That applies application code only. A release that changes `docker/server.Dockerfile`, `docker/docker-compose.yaml`, or adds a key to `docker/.env.example` needs the image rebuilt or the container recreated, which a container cannot do to itself. The updater detects each case and refuses with a message naming what changed; run `docker/Start-Codeman.sh` on the host to apply those.
`CODEMAN_REPO_PATH` overrides which checkout is mounted. It defaults to the compose project's parent directory, so it normally needs no setting. Point it at a directory that is not a git checkout and in-app updates are reported as unavailable.
Full detail, including the fingerprint baseline and the troubleshooting table: [`docker-self-update.md`](docker-self-update.md).
## Docker cases
The default socket path is `/var/run/docker.sock`, which works with a standard Linux Docker Engine. The Bash start script detects its numeric group ID. When running Compose directly, set `DOCKER_SOCKET_GID`, for example using `stat -c '%g' /var/run/docker.sock`, so the unprivileged `CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER` account can create Docker cases. Docker Desktop users should set `DOCKER_SOCKET` in `docker/.env` only when their Docker installation exposes a different compatible socket path.
Codeman Docker cases are sibling containers on the host daemon, not children of the application container. The Compose configuration handles their workspace bind mount through `CODEMAN_CASES_PATH`; the `/home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}` application-data mapping is for Codeman state and ordinary in-container sessions, not sibling-case workspaces.
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# Self-update in the Docker Compose deployment
Codeman running as a container updates itself from **App Settings → Updates**, the
same place and the same button as a bare-host install. This document explains how
that works, what it deliberately refuses to do, and how to recover when it stops.
The bare-host updater is documented in
[`architecture-invariants.md#self-update`](architecture-invariants.md#self-update);
this file covers only what the container changes.
## The short version
| Change in the release | Applied by |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Application code | The in-app updater |
| `docker/server.Dockerfile` | `docker/Start-Codeman.sh` on the host |
| `docker/docker-compose.yaml` | `docker/Start-Codeman.sh` on the host |
| New key in `docker/.env.example` | Add it to `docker/.env`, then `Start-Codeman.sh` |
The in-app updater detects all three of the bottom rows itself and refuses with a
message naming what changed, so you never have to work out which case you are in.
## Why the container needs its own path
The bare-host updater does `git checkout <tag> && npm install && npm run build`,
then asks systemd or launchd to restart the service. Two of those assumptions are
false in a container:
1. **There is no init system.** A container's supervisor is the Docker daemon,
which acts on the container, not on processes inside it.
2. **The image is immutable.** A `git pull` into the image's baked `/opt/codeman`
would land in the container's writable layer, survive `docker restart`, and be
silently discarded by the next `docker compose up`.
Both are solved by configuration rather than by a second updater:
- **The checkout is a host bind mount.** `docker-compose.yaml` mounts the repo
(the same directory used as the build context) over `/opt/codeman`, so the
updater's `git checkout` writes to the host filesystem and survives the
container being recreated.
- **The restart is the server exiting.** `restart: unless-stopped` relaunches the
container whenever its main process ends, including on a clean exit — so the
updater's final step is to signal the server, and Docker starts it again on the
freshly built `dist/`.
Everything else — the release-tag channel, the auto-stash, the atomic
`update-status.json` the browser polls across the connection drop, the boot-time
reconcile that flips `restarting` to `completed` — is the existing machinery,
unchanged. The container path is a new `SupervisorKind`, not a new updater.
## What the pieces are
| Piece | Role |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Repo bind mount at `/opt/codeman` | Makes the pull persistent. Without it, self-update is unavailable. |
| `codeman-node-modules`, `codeman-dist` volumes | Container-owned build artefacts, layered over the bind mount. |
| `CODEMAN_IN_CONTAINER=1` | Tells `detectSupervisor()` to restart by exiting. |
| `restart: unless-stopped` | Turns that exit into a restart. Verified before every update. |
| `CODEMAN_RESTART_BY_EXIT=1` | The Compose file's declaration of that policy, so the updater may exit even with no Docker socket. |
| Toolchain + devDependencies in the image | Lets `npm install` and `npm run build` run inside the container. |
| `docker-env-applied.json` | Fingerprint baseline, written by `Start-Codeman.sh` on every start. |
### Why build artefacts are in named volumes
`node_modules` and `dist` are mounted as named volumes **on top of** the repo bind
mount. Without that, an update's `npm install` would write into the host checkout,
leaving container-compiled native modules (node-pty builds from source here) in a
directory that may also be used to run Codeman natively, and leaving `git status`
permanently noisy.
Docker seeds an empty named volume from the image, so the first start inherits the
image's already-built `node_modules` and `dist` and pays no bootstrap cost.
`docker compose down -v` is the supported reset: the next start re-seeds them.
### Why the runtime image carries a build toolchain
`npm run build` is `tsc` plus `esbuild`, both devDependencies, so the image no
longer runs `npm prune --omit=dev`. And `npm install` may rebuild node-pty, which
ships no Linux prebuild, so `python3`, `make` and `g++` are installed as well.
This is the real cost of in-place updates: a noticeably larger image than a
runtime-only one. It buys an update that takes about a minute instead of a full
image rebuild, and it is why `NODE_ENV=production` is paired with an explicit
`npm install --include=dev` in the updater.
## The environment gate
An in-place update applies **code only**. A restarted container reuses its existing
image and configuration, so a release that changes the environment cannot take
effect that way — and would half-apply: new code against an old environment. The
updater therefore checks the **target release's own files**, read straight out of
git with `git show <tag>:<path>` before anything is checked out.
### 1. `server.Dockerfile` changed, so the image must be rebuilt
Compared by sha256 against the fingerprint `Start-Codeman.sh` recorded when the
running container was built.
### 2. `docker-compose.yaml` changed, so the container must be recreated
Same mechanism. A restart cannot pick up a new mount, port or environment
variable; only recreating the container can.
### 3. `.env.example` gained keys your `.env` has no value for
The check that matters most, because **Compose will not tell you**. An unset
`${VAR}` interpolates to the empty string; Compose prints a warning to a terminal
nobody is watching and starts anyway. A new required setting therefore arrives as
a silently blank environment variable and misbehaves later, far from the cause.
The updater names the missing keys instead.
Commented-out lines in `.env.example` are deliberately *not* keys — that is how
the file marks optional overrides such as `# PUID=1000`, and counting them would
block updates on settings you are meant to leave alone.
### 4. A restart policy that would not bring the container back
Before signalling the server, the updater asks the Docker daemon for its own
container's restart policy. If it is `no`, the update is refused: applying it
would take Codeman down and leave no UI to recover from.
If the policy cannot be read at all (no Docker socket mounted) the update is
still allowed, but the final step changes: the server exits only when the
Compose file declared `CODEMAN_RESTART_BY_EXIT=1` (the shipped one does, because
it is the file that sets `restart: unless-stopped`) or the daemon confirmed an
auto-restart policy. Otherwise the build completes and the panel asks you to
restart the container by hand. A container started by plain `docker run` with no
restart policy therefore gets a staged update, never an outage.
### What the gate deliberately does not do
Every unknown fails **open**:
- A missing fingerprint baseline (a container started before this feature existed)
is not treated as a change, or those installs could never update at all.
- An unreadable `.env`, an unreachable Docker socket, or a target tag whose files
cannot be read all yield "no blocker" rather than a refusal.
The one place an unknown does NOT fail open is the kill itself: with neither the
Compose declaration nor a daemon answer, the updater stages the build and asks
for a manual restart rather than exiting a server nothing may bring back.
The gate catches a specific, detectable class of mistake; it is not a last line of
defence. It is also re-evaluated server-side on `POST /api/system/update`, so
hiding the button in the UI is a courtesy rather than the control.
## The one residual risk
The gate is derived from the diff, so it cannot see a release that needs a newer
environment **without changing any of those files** — for example, code that
depends on newer agent-CLI behaviour.
That is why the four global CLIs in `server.Dockerfile` are **pinned**. Unpinned,
the versions a user ends up with are a function of when their image was built
rather than of any commit, and in-app updates make rebuilds rarer, which makes
that drift worse over time. Pinned, "this release needs a newer CLI" becomes a
Dockerfile change, which check 1 already detects. Bump them deliberately, as part
of a release.
The complementary merge-side guard is `test/docker-compose-env-parity.test.ts`,
which fails CI when a variable is added to `docker-compose.yaml` without an entry
in `.env.example`, or the reverse.
## Sequence of an in-place update
1. **Check** — `GET /api/system/update/check` finds the latest release tag, fetches
that one ref so the gate can read the target's files, and returns any blockers.
2. **Start** — `POST /api/system/update` re-evaluates the gate, writes `queued` to
`update-status.json`, stages `self-update.sh` outside the repo and runs it.
3. **Apply** — stash if dirty, fetch the tag, check it out, `npm install
--include=dev`, `npm run build`. A failure at any step rolls back to the
previous commit, rebuilds it and reports `failed`; the server is never
restarted into a broken build.
4. **Restart** — write the terminal `restarting` marker, then signal the server.
The container exits and Docker restarts it.
5. **Reconcile** — the rebooted server compares its own version against the target
and flips the status to `completed` or `failed`. The browser, still polling,
picks that up.
Step 4 kills the updater script along with the container — unlike the systemd
path, it does not outlive the restart. That is safe only because the terminal
marker is written first, which is why nothing may be appended after the kill.
## Troubleshooting
**"This install can't update itself (unknown)"** — the repo bind mount is missing,
so the container is running the baked image copy. Check `CODEMAN_REPO_PATH` and
confirm the mounted directory really contains `.git`.
**The update fails immediately with a git ownership or permission error** — the
mounted checkout belongs to a different user than the one Codeman runs as
(`PUID`), so git refuses it as "dubious ownership". `Start-Codeman.sh` warns
about this at start; fix it by chowning the checkout to the same account that
owns `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH`.
**A rebuild is reported as required every time** — the fingerprint baseline does
not match the checkout. `Start-Codeman.sh` writes it on every start, so start
through that script rather than a bare `docker compose up` after either file
changes.
**Codeman does not come back after an update** — the build succeeded, since the
updater gates the restart on it, so read the container logs with `docker compose
logs codeman`. To roll back, check out the previous tag in the host checkout and
run `docker/Start-Codeman.sh`.
**The update failed during `npm install`** — most likely a native rebuild with no
toolchain, meaning the image predates the toolchain being added. Rebuild once from
the host and the in-app path works from then on.
**Resetting the build artefacts** — `docker compose down -v`, then
`Start-Codeman.sh`. This discards the named volumes and re-seeds them from a fresh
image.
## Disabling it
Set `CODEMAN_DISABLE_SELF_UPDATE=1` in `docker/.env` and pass it through in the
compose file's `environment:` block. The Updates panel then reports that in-app
updates are disabled, and the host-side script is the only way to update.
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indistinguishable from a finished turn. Wait for the pid, then wait for the
composer, answering the dialog only as the bounded fallback.
⚠️ **Answering it is not "press Enter".** Claude Code 2.1.252 dropped the options'
numbers, reversed them, and highlights `No, exit` by default, so a blind `\r` quits
the CLI and the pane is dead seconds after the spawn. Read the `❯` marker off the
rendered pane (`GET .../terminal?full=1`), send `ESC [ B` while it sits on `No, exit`,
re-read, and confirm only once the marker is on `Yes, I trust this folder`. Codeman's
own auto-accept (`trustDialogNextKey()` in `src/session-trust-dialog.ts`) does exactly
this, inside a 90 s startup window and a 6-keystroke cap.
A worked orchestration: start a worker, get it ready, prompt it, wait, clean up.
```bash
@@ -244,24 +252,36 @@ SID=$("${CURL[@]}" -X POST "$API/api/v1/quick-start" \
[ -n "$SID" ] && [ "$SID" != null ] || { echo "quick-start failed"; exit 1; }
# 2. READINESS: composer marker first, trust dialog only as the bounded fallback.
# Skip this and step 3 reports a turn that never ran. Do NOT probe trust first
# and Enter blindly: the dialog text stays in the buffer for the life of the
# session, so on every later run that probe matches stale text and the Enter
# lands in a ready composer. Match single tokens only: TUI text can arrive
# without its spaces. Stage 1 is short on purpose (an already-trusted case
# matches in <1 s; a first-run case can never pass it and pays it in full).
# Skip this and step 3 reports a turn that never ran. Match single tokens only:
# TUI text can arrive without its spaces. Stage 1 is short on purpose (an
# already-trusted case matches in <1 s; a first-run case can never pass it and
# pays it in full).
# ⚠️ NEVER answer the dialog with a bare \r. Its highlighted option is `No, exit`
# (claude-cli 2.1.252), so a blind Enter quits the CLI; and the dialog text stays
# in the buffer for the life of the session, so a `from=buffer` probe for `trust`
# keeps matching long after it is gone. Read the CURRENT pane instead and steer.
until [ "$("${CURL[@]}" "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID" | jq '.data.pid')" != null ]
do sleep 1; done
R=$("${CURL[@]}" -G "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID/wait-output" \
--data-urlencode 'match=bypass' --data-urlencode 'from=buffer' \
--data-urlencode 'timeout=5000') # composer's status bar = ready
if ! jq -e '.data.wait.matched' <<<"$R" >/dev/null; then
T=$("${CURL[@]}" -G "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID/wait-output" \
--data-urlencode 'match=trust' --data-urlencode 'from=buffer' \
--data-urlencode 'timeout=2000')
jq -e '.data.wait.matched' <<<"$T" >/dev/null && \
ESC=$(printf '\033') # \x1b is GNU-sed only; this form also works on macOS
for _ in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do
# Which option the ❯ marker sits on, read off the CURRENT frame.
K=$("${CURL[@]}" -G "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID/terminal" --data-urlencode 'full=1' \
| jq -r '.data.terminalBuffer // empty' \
| sed -e "s/$ESC\[[0-9;?]*[a-zA-Z]//g" -e "s/$ESC[()][AB0]//g" | tr -d ' \t' \
| grep -i '❯[0-9.]*\(yes,itrustthisfolder\|no,exit\)' | tail -1 \
| sed -e 's/.*[Yy]es,.*/confirm/' -e 's/.*[Nn]o,.*/move/')
[ -n "$K" ] || break # no dialog on screen: nothing to answer
[ "$K" = confirm ] && IN="\r" || IN="$ESC[B"
"${CURL[@]}" -X POST "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID/input" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"input":"\r","useMux":true}' >/dev/null
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d "$(jq -nc --arg i "$IN" '{input:$i,useMux:true}')" >/dev/null
[ "$K" = confirm ] && break
sleep 1 # re-read: confirm the arrow landed
done
"${CURL[@]}" -G "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID/wait-output" \
--data-urlencode 'match=bypass' --data-urlencode 'from=buffer' \
--data-urlencode 'timeout=45000' >/dev/null
@@ -377,8 +397,8 @@ Every one of these has cost somebody real time.
a multi-word match is unreliable there. Match one short space-free token, ideally
one you printed yourself, and keep it out of the typed line (your own keystrokes
echo into the stream).
- **`stop` and `blocked` never fire for `shell`, `opencode`, `codex`, `gemini` or
`antigravity` sessions.** They come from Claude Code hooks, which no other mode
- **`stop` and `blocked` never fire for `shell`, `opencode`, `codex`, `gemini`,
`antigravity` or `pi` sessions.** They come from Claude Code hooks, which no other mode
installs, so only `idle`, `working` and `exit` exist there. Asking for them
explicitly is a `400`; omitting `until` is safe, since the server drops them from
the default set and echoes what it actually waited on as `wait.until`. Even in
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# Grok Build (xAI) integration plan
> **Status**: Executed. This document records the plan, the decision behind each wiring
> point, and what was and was not verified. The user-facing guide is
> [`grok-integration.md`](./grok-integration.md); the per-decision invariants live in
> [`architecture-invariants.md#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini-antigravity-pi-grok`](./architecture-invariants.md#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini-antigravity-pi-grok).
> Template: the pi integration (`c5b5963`, [`pi-integration-plan.md`](./pi-integration-plan.md)),
> which was itself calibrated against the four follow-up commits the antigravity
> integration needed. All of grok's facts below were verified against **grok 1.0.5**
> (`grok 1.0.5 (5115b46bc9)`), installed live during the work.
## 1. What Grok Build is
[xai-org/grok-build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build) is xAI's coding agent: a
Rust fullscreen-TUI binary named `grok`, installed by
`curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash` into `~/.grok/bin` (with symlinks into
`~/.local/bin`; the installer also ships an `agent` alias). Config lives in
`~/.grok/config.toml`, TUI appearance in `~/.grok/pager.toml`, credentials in
`~/.grok/auth.json` (0600), sessions under `~/.grok/sessions/`. Auth is browser OAuth
on first launch, `grok login --device-auth` for SSH boxes, or `XAI_API_KEY` for
headless use. It has Claude-style permission modes (`default`/`acceptEdits`/`auto`/
`dontAsk`/`bypassPermissions`/`plan`), allow/deny rules, hooks, MCP, subagents, and a
headless `-p` mode.
## 2. Shape decisions (why grok is wired the way it is)
Grok is a seventh run mode, alongside Claude Code, shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini,
Antigravity and Pi. Never a location overlay, never a web tab. Its wiring mixes two
existing shapes:
| Question | Decision | Why |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Permission bypass | `GrokConfig.alwaysApprove` -> `--always-approve` | Grok's real flag (verified via `--help`): "Auto-approve all tool executions", i.e. its `bypassPermissions` mode. Config-level deny rules still apply on top. The Run button sends `true`, matching `runAntigravity()` and Claude's own `--dangerously-skip-permissions` default: Codeman sessions exist for autonomous work. |
| Multi-user clamp branch | only-if-sent (codex/antigravity branch) | A bare `grok` spawn is grok's own ask-mode default, which is already safe, so the clamp only needs to force a SENT `alwaysApprove` off. Contrast pi, whose absent default is an answerable prompt and therefore needs the materialize branch. Cron needs nothing for grok for the same reason (`clampCronExternalCliConfigs`). |
| Alt-screen strip | OUT of `isAltScreenStripMode()` | Grok is a fullscreen alternate-screen TUI with mouse support (its own scrollback pane, `pager.toml [terminal] alt_screen`), i.e. the opencode case, not the Ink repaint case. It falls through to the narrow tmux-attach strip like opencode/antigravity/pi. |
| Resolver | version probe, like pi | `grok` has npm squatters (the unrelated `@vibe-kit/grok-cli` installs a `grok` bin). Candidates must pass `grok --version`; `GROK_VERSION_REGEX` is exported and shared with the dependency registry so doctor and run mode cannot disagree. The probe cannot tell two version-printing `grok`s apart, so `GET /api/grok/status` surfaces path AND version. Search dirs: `~/.grok/bin` first (installer target), then `~/.local/bin`, `/usr/local/bin`, `~/bin`. |
| Env allowlist | `GROK_*` + `XAI_*` prefixes | `GROK_*` covers grok's documented inputs (`GROK_HOME`, `GROK_CONFIG`/`GROK_CONFIG_PATH`, `GROK_MEMORY`, `GROK_WORKFLOWS`, `GROK_SANDBOX`, `GROK_OIDC_*`, `GROK_AUTH_PROVIDER_COMMAND`). `XAI_*` is xAI's vendor namespace and carries `XAI_API_KEY`, grok's documented headless auth var: the same narrow-vendor-namespace reasoning that admitted `GOOGLE_*` for gemini. Foreign provider keys stay out, as always. |
| Resume | `--resume <id>` / `--continue`, id-regexed | Grok's `--resume` also matches session TITLES (arbitrary user strings, case-insensitive). The `^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$` regex doubles as the no-titles rule, so nothing free-form can reach the `bash -c` spawn line. A valid explicit id wins over `-c`, mirroring pi. |
| Local echo | `'buffer'` via the `_updateLocalEchoState` fallthrough | UNMEASURED against an authenticated session (see §4). If grok's composer turns out per-keystroke reactive like codex's, the fallback is one `'off'` branch; teaching `PredictiveEchoAddon` grok's composer row is the larger follow-up. |
| Truecolor | `COLORTERM=truecolor` + `unset NO_COLOR` | Rust TUI with themes; joins the codex/gemini/antigravity/pi list in `buildEnvExports()` and `buildMuxAttachEnv()`. |
| Docker credentials | per-file seed: `auth.json`, `config.toml`, `pager.toml` | `~/.grok` also holds `sessions/`, `memory/`, `completions/`, `docs/` and the ~160MB binary under `downloads/`; a whole-dir seed would copy all of it on every container start. Same trade-off as pi: in-container sessions are invisible host-side, so `grok -c` in a Docker case sees only that container's history. |
| Docker install | own Dockerfile step | Not an npm package. xAI's installer has no `--dir` override, so the step copies `/root/.grok/bin/grok` (through the symlink, `cp -L`) into `/usr/local/bin` and removes root's `~/.grok` in the same layer. |
| Remote SSH | `exec "$SHELL" -i -l -c 'grok'` | sshd's remote-command PATH does not include `~/.grok/bin`; same login-shell fix as every other agent CLI. |
| What is NOT wired | `--permission-mode`, `--allow`/`--deny`, `-p` headless, `--worktree`, `--sandbox`, `--reasoning-effort`, `-s/--session-id`, `--fork-session`, `--agent`, `--output-format` | Follow-ups. The flag surface is kept minimal on purpose; grok is pre-1.0-style fast-moving and every flag added is a flag validated forever. |
## 3. Touch points (the checklist)
Backend: `types/session.ts` (SessionMode + GrokConfig + SessionState), `utils/grok-cli-resolver.ts` (new)
+ barrel, `tmux-manager.ts` (`buildGrokCommand`, dispatch, resume flag, PATH export, truecolor,
availability error, plumbing), `session.ts` (external-mode gate, label, config plumbing,
tmux-required error, attach env), `mux-interface.ts`, `schemas.ts` (prefixes, `GrokConfigSchema`,
both mode enums, remote command overrides, cron agentType), `session-routes.ts` (clamp + both
create paths), `system-routes.ts` (`GET /api/grok/status`), `server.ts` (availability inject +
mux restore), `docker-hosts.ts`, `remote-hosts.ts`, `config/dependency-registry.ts`,
`cron/cron-service.ts` (comment), `response-viewer-transcript.ts`, `tui/tui-client.ts` + `tui-app.ts`.
Frontend: `index.html` (welcome button, run-mode entry, cron option, clone Brain option),
`session-ui.js` (`runGrok()`, dispatch, availability, "Run GK" label, external-CLI gates,
runMode setter), `app.js` (label, `gk` tab badge, kill-menu), `settings-ui.js`,
`mobile-overview.js`, `home-sessions.js`, `panels-ui.js`, `i18n.js`, `styles.css` +
`mobile.css` (charcoal monochrome identity; the non-og skin block and the mobile
`!important` pair are both load-bearing, see the pi plan's §2.9 cascade trap).
Meta: `docker/agent.Dockerfile`, `install.sh`, `package.json` keyword, changeset,
`skills/codeman/reference/*`, CLAUDE.md, READMEs, `architecture-invariants.md`,
`remote-sessions.md`, `security-architecture.md`, `docker-cases.md`, `cron-guide.md`.
Tests: `test/grok-mode.test.ts` + `test/grok-cli-resolver.test.ts` (new);
`external-cli-bypass-clamp`, `system-routes`, `render-index-html`, `run-mode-ui`,
`mobile-overview`, `local-echo-codex-gating` (extended).
## 4. Verification performed
On this box, with grok 1.0.5 really installed and an isolated
`CODEMAN_INSTANCE=grokwt` server (own data dir, own tmux socket, port 5077):
1. `npm test` (the CI gate): green, 5900+ tests. `typecheck`, `lint`, `format:check`,
`check:frontend-syntax`, `check:public-assets`, `check:lockfile`: green.
2. `GET /api/grok/status` -> `{available: true, path: "/home/arkon/.local/bin", version: "1.0.5"}`
through the real resolver and probe.
3. `POST /api/quick-start {mode: "grok", grokConfig: {alwaysApprove: true}}` -> session
created, tmux pane spawned, real spawn line verified to end in `grok --always-approve`,
and the actual grok TUI rendered its OAuth device-approval screen in the pane
(unauthenticated box, so sign-in is exactly where a first run lands).
4. `grokConfig` persisted into the instance's `state.json`.
5. Session deleted by exact id; instance data dir and throwaway case removed.
**Not verified (honest gaps, all requiring an xAI account or more hardware):**
an authenticated conversation end to end; the local-echo buffer policy against grok's
real composer (§2); scrollback/repaint behavior of the fullscreen TUI under the narrow
strip during a long session; a Docker case with `mode: 'grok'` (needs a `--no-cache`
agent-image rebuild); a remote-SSH grok case; cron readiness degradation (expected:
same slow-start-then-send as pi, documented in `cron-guide.md`).
## 5. Follow-ups
- Idle/completion signal: grok has a hooks system (user-guide `10-hooks.md`); a hook
POSTing to `/api/hook-event` could give grok sessions real idle detection instead of
output-stabilization. Highest-value follow-up, same slot as pi's `agent_settled` idea.
- Response viewer: sessions are ACP JSONL under `~/.grok/sessions/<encoded-cwd>/<id>/updates.jsonl`;
`grok -p ... --output-format json | jq -r '.sessionId'` exists for correlation.
- Permission-mode picker (`--permission-mode`, `--allow`/`--deny`) in Session Options.
- Measure the local-echo policy and the fullscreen-TUI scrollback behavior against an
authenticated session; pin the result in `local-echo-codex-gating` the way pi did.
- `grok doctor` is a built-in terminal-support check worth pointing users at when a
pane renders oddly.
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# Grok Build (xAI) sessions
Codeman can drive [Grok Build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build) (xAI's `grok`
CLI, the agent behind docs.x.ai/build) as a session backend, alongside Claude Code,
OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity and Pi. `grok` is a seventh **run mode**: its own
PTY, its own tmux session, its own tab identity (monochrome charcoal, `gk` badge). It
is not a location overlay like Docker or remote-SSH cases, and it is not a web tab.
The design rationale behind each decision below lives in
[`grok-integration-plan.md`](./grok-integration-plan.md). Everything here was verified
against grok 1.0.5.
## Install
```bash
curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash
```
The installer places the binary in `~/.grok/bin` and symlinks it into `~/.local/bin`
(it also installs an `agent` alias Codeman ignores). `grok update` self-updates.
Codeman resolves the binary via the server PATH and then the usual install locations,
`~/.grok/bin` first. **`grok` is a name with known squatters** (the unrelated
`@vibe-kit/grok-cli` npm package also installs a `grok` bin), so like `pi` the
resolver does not trust a PATH hit on its own: it runs `grok --version` once and
requires version-shaped output (`grok 1.0.5 (5115b46bc9)`). Check what it resolved:
```bash
curl -s localhost:3000/api/grok/status | jq
# { "available": true, "path": "/home/you/.grok/bin", "version": "1.0.5" }
```
The endpoint carries `version` on top of the sibling `/api/*/status` shape precisely
so a misresolution is visible rather than presenting as "the mode just doesn't work".
## Authenticate
- **Browser OAuth (default)**: the first `grok` run opens a sign-in flow; in a
Codeman pane you get the device-code screen with a URL to open elsewhere.
Credentials land in `~/.grok/auth.json` (0600) and refresh automatically.
- **Device code**: `grok login --device-auth`, made for SSH boxes and headless hosts.
- **API key**: `export XAI_API_KEY="xai-..."` (console.x.ai). Used as a fallback when
no session token exists. As a per-session Codeman `envOverride` it flows through
socket-scoped `tmux setenv`, never the spawn command line.
- **Enterprise OIDC**: `GROK_OIDC_ISSUER` / `GROK_OIDC_CLIENT_ID`.
## What Codeman wires up
`GrokConfig` (per session, persisted in `state.json`, round-trips through respawn):
| Field | Flag | Notes |
| ----------------- | --------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `model` | `--model <v>` | e.g. `grok-4.5`, or a custom `[model.<name>]` from `config.toml` |
| `alwaysApprove` | `--always-approve` | Grok's `bypassPermissions` mode; deny rules still apply on top |
| `continueSession` | `--continue` | Most recent session for the working directory; skipped when resuming |
| `resumeSessionId` | `--resume <v>` | Ids only, never titles (grok's own `--resume` also matches titles) |
Every value is regex-validated and **dropped** (not escaped) if it fails, because the
result is interpolated into the pane's `bash -c "..."` command.
The Run button sends `grokConfig: { alwaysApprove: true }`, the same product decision
as Claude's `--dangerously-skip-permissions` default and Antigravity's
`--dangerously-skip-permissions`: Codeman sessions exist for autonomous work. Keep
hard limits as `deny` rules in `~/.grok/config.toml` (they apply in every mode), and
in **multi-user mode** a non-granted owner's `alwaysApprove` is forced off
server-side; a bare `grok` spawn is grok's own ask-mode default.
Env overrides: the `GROK_*` prefix (`GROK_HOME`, `GROK_CONFIG`, `GROK_MEMORY`,
`GROK_WORKFLOWS`, `GROK_SANDBOX`, `GROK_OIDC_*`, ...) plus the `XAI_*` vendor
namespace (`XAI_API_KEY`) are allowlisted. Foreign provider keys are not, as ever.
## What Codeman deliberately does NOT wire up
- **`--permission-mode`, `--allow`/`--deny`.** The boolean covers the autonomous
case; the full rule surface is a follow-up with UI.
- **`-p`/headless, `--output-format`, `--json-schema`.** Codeman drives the TUI.
- **`--worktree`, `--sandbox`, `--reasoning-effort`, `-s/--session-id`,
`--fork-session`, `--agent`/`--agents`.** Tracked as follow-ups in the plan doc.
## Terminal behavior
Grok renders a **fullscreen alternate-screen TUI** (scrollback pane + prompt, mouse
supported). Under Codeman it runs inside tmux like every external CLI, so the
fullscreen rendering stays inside the pane and the browser terminal shows tmux's
repaints; grok stays out of the alt-screen strip list on purpose (the opencode case,
not the Ink case). If a pane renders oddly, `grok doctor` checks terminal, color and
input support without starting a session, and `~/.grok/pager.toml` can force
`alt_screen = "inline"`.
On touch devices grok currently gets the buffered local-echo overlay like Claude,
Gemini, OpenCode and Pi. This is the fallthrough default and has not been measured
against an authenticated grok composer; if grok turns out per-keystroke reactive the
way codex was (issues #218/#219/#220/#222), the fix is the `'off'` branch in
`_updateLocalEchoState` (terminal-ui.js).
## Docker cases
The agent image installs grok in its own Dockerfile step (not npm; xAI's installer
targets `$HOME/.grok/bin` with no `--dir` override, so the binary is copied to
`/usr/local/bin`). Rebuild with the mandatory `--no-cache`:
```bash
node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache
```
Credentials are **seeded**, not shared: `auth.json`, `config.toml` and `pager.toml`
are copied into the container's own `~/.grok`, so an in-container grok never writes
refreshed OAuth tokens back to the host and `docker commit` exports stay secret-free.
Only those three files, because `~/.grok` also holds `sessions/`, `memory/` and the
~160MB binary under `downloads/`. Trade-off, same as pi: in-container sessions are
invisible host-side, so `grok -c` inside a Docker case only sees that container's own
history.
## Remote SSH cases
`grok` mode is routed through an interactive login shell
(`exec "$SHELL" -i -l -c 'grok'`), because sshd's remote-command PATH does not include
`~/.grok/bin`. Per-session config and `envOverrides` do not cross ssh and are rejected
rather than silently ignored; use the per-host command override instead. For auth on
the remote host, `grok login --device-auth` exists for exactly this.
## Known gaps
- **No idle/completion hook yet.** Idle detection falls back to output-stabilization
like the other external CLIs. Grok has a hooks system, so a Codeman hook POSTing to
`/api/hook-event` is the highest-value follow-up.
- **No response viewer.** Grok writes ACP JSONL sessions under
`~/.grok/sessions/<encoded-cwd>/<session-id>/updates.jsonl`; nothing reads them yet.
- **Cron jobs mis-detect readiness.** The readiness poll looks for `❯` or a token
count, neither of which grok prints, so a grok cron job burns its poll budget and
then sends the prompt anyway. It works; it is just slower to start.
- **Ralph, respawn heuristics, token/CLI-info parsing and the `❯` readiness probe are
off** for grok, as for every external CLI.
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# OMP (Oh My Pi) sessions
Codeman can drive [OMP](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi) (`omp`, Oh My Pi) as a session
backend, alongside Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok and
DeepSeek Harness. `omp` is the ninth CLI backend (tenth `SessionMode`, counting
`shell`): its own PTY, its own tmux session, its own tab identity. It is not a
location overlay like Docker or remote-SSH cases, and it is not a web tab.
## Install
```bash
curl -fsSL https://omp.sh/install | sh
```
The installer places the binary in `~/.local/bin` (verified against a real
`--no-cache` Docker build — see `docker/agent.Dockerfile`; an earlier guess of
`~/.omp/bin` was wrong). Codeman resolves the binary via the server PATH and then
the usual install locations (`~/.local/bin` first, then `~/.omp/bin`,
`/usr/local/bin`, `~/.bun/bin`, `~/.npm-global/bin`, `~/bin`).
**`omp` is a short name**, so like `pi` and `grok` the resolver does not trust a PATH
hit on its own: it runs `omp --version` and requires `omp/<semver>`-shaped output
(e.g. `omp/18.0.8`) before accepting a candidate. Check what it resolved:
```bash
curl -s localhost:3000/api/omp/status | jq
# { "available": true, "path": "/home/you/.local/bin", "version": "18.0.8" }
```
## Authenticate
OMP owns its own auth and provider configuration entirely in `~/.omp` — there is
no Codeman-side login flow, API key field, or bypass switch to configure. Run `omp`
directly once outside Codeman to complete whatever onboarding the CLI itself asks
for; every session started through Codeman afterward inherits that config.
## What Codeman wires up
`OmpConfig` (per session, persisted in `state.json`, round-trips through respawn):
| Field | Flag | Notes |
| ------------------ | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| `model` | `--model <v>` | Regex-validated (`[a-zA-Z0-9._-/]+`); `provider/model` forms like `crof/glm-5.2` pass |
| `continueSession` | `--continue` | omp's own "most recent conversation in this directory" heuristic |
| `resumeSessionId` | `--resume <id>` | Ids only, id-regexed; wins over `--continue` when both are present |
Every value is regex-validated and **dropped** (not escaped) if it fails, because the
result is interpolated into the pane's spawn command.
**omp reads its own model routing and hooks from `~/.omp`, so no trust or
permission flags are needed** — unlike every sibling CLI in this family, there is no
bypass-permissions equivalent to wire up, so `buildOmpCommand()` only ever passes
`--model`/`--resume`/`--continue`. ⚠️ That does NOT mean omp is unrestricted: its
documented default `tools.approvalMode` is `yolo`, so an omp pane auto-approves exec
with no flag from Codeman — the CLI's own config, not Codeman, is what would need to
change that.
Env overrides: the `OMP_*` prefix is allowlisted, and per omp's own
`docs/environment-variables.md` it is not the narrow surface it looks like. omp reads
roughly 40 provider keys from the environment (`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`,
`XAI_API_KEY`, `HF_TOKEN`, ...) — pi's 34-key problem in the same shape — which is why
none of those get a dedicated allowlist entry; a session authenticates from `~/.omp`
config or the server process's own env instead, like pi. omp's own documented knobs
are mostly `PI_*`, not `OMP_*` (`PI_CONFIG_DIR`, `PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR`,
`PI_CODING_AGENT_SESSION_DIR`, `PI_SUBPROCESS_CMD`, `PI_SHELL_PREFIX`,
`OMP_PROFILE`/`PI_PROFILE`), and `PI_*` is already allowlisted globally because pi
mode needs it — so an omp session today already accepts all of those. The first three
also move the tree `omp-session-resolver.ts` and `omp-transcript.ts` hardcode
(`resolveOmpHome()` assumes `~/.omp` unconditionally), so pinning and history quietly
stop working under a redirected config root; this is a known gap, not fixed here.
The `OMP_` prefix itself brings in `OMP_AUTH_BROKER_URL` / `OMP_AUTH_BROKER_TOKEN`,
where omp resolves credentials from — the same shape `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL` is dropped
for in `clampEnvOverridesForOwner()` (session-routes.ts), so both are clamped there
for a non-granted owner in multi-user mode. None of this matters in single-user mode.
## Exact-id pinning: why `--resume`, not just `--continue`
`--continue` alone is ambiguous the moment **any** other omp conversation has
touched the same working directory more recently — it just picks the newest session
file on disk, silently. That happens routinely: a closed-then-resumed Codeman row
plus a still-running duplicate, two Codeman sessions pointed at the same case, or a
plain reattach after a server restart.
`src/utils/omp-session-resolver.ts` resolves and **pins** the exact conversation id
once (`findLatestOmpSessionId()` reads `~/.omp/agent/sessions/<mangled-workingDir>/`,
the newest `.jsonl` file's embedded uuid), then every later respawn reuses that
pinned id via `--resume` instead of re-guessing with `--continue`.
⚠️ **The directory mangling is NOT a straight `/` → `-` replace.** Unlike Claude
Code's `~/.claude/projects/*` convention (which keeps the full path, e.g.
`-home-user-codeman-cases-foo`), omp strips the `$HOME` prefix FIRST and only then
dash-replaces (`/home/user/codeman-cases/foo` → `-codeman-cases-foo`; a path outside
`$HOME`, like `/tmp/...`, is dash-replaced as-is with no stripping). Getting this
wrong doesn't error — `findLatestOmpSessionId()` just silently returns null for
every case under `$HOME` (virtually all real Codeman cases), so pinning quietly
degrades to omp's own ambiguous `--continue`. This was found and fixed 2026-08-27
after months of testing had only ever exercised `/tmp`-based working directories,
where the bug's wrong output happened to coincidentally match the right one.
## Surviving a full session kill
`src/omp-transcript.ts` scans `~/.omp/agent/sessions/**/*.jsonl` directly — a second,
independent history source alongside Codeman's own state. This means an OMP
conversation's history (working directory, first/last prompt, size) is recoverable
in the Past Sessions list even when **both** the Codeman session record and the
underlying tmux pane are gone — verified live against a full OS reboot, not just a
"Kill Tmux" button click.
## Terminal behavior
OMP renders inside tmux like every external CLI (narrow scrollback strip — alt-screen
toggles only, not the full Claude/Codex/Gemini strip). It stays out of the
alt-screen-strip list and lands on the `'buffer'` local-echo policy via the
`_updateLocalEchoState` fallthrough, same as grok and pi.
## Docker cases
The agent image installs omp in its own Dockerfile step (not npm; omp's installer
targets `$HOME/.local/bin` with no `--dir` override, the same shape as grok's
installer). Rebuild with the mandatory `--no-cache`:
```bash
node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache
```
⚠️ **`--resume` pinning does not currently reach an in-container omp process.**
Docker panes are built from `defaultDockerCommandForMode`, which never sees
`ompConfig` — `appendResumeFlag()`'s `case 'omp'` keys off the top-level
`resumeSessionId` field, which nothing populates for omp today. Host-side history
recovery still works (the shared `sessions/` mount below), but a respawned
in-container omp pane falls back to its own ambiguous `--continue`, not a pinned
id. Flagged in upstream review, not yet fixed.
Credentials are **mostly seeded**, but `sessions/` is the one exception in this CLI
family: `~/.omp/agent/{config.yml,mcp.json,models.yml,settings.yml}` are seeded
(read-only mount, copied into the container's own `~/.omp/agent` once), so an
in-container omp never writes refreshed config back to the host and `docker commit`
exports stay secret-free. But `~/.omp/agent/sessions/` is **shared (RW)**, not
seeded — the same treatment as codex's `sessions/`, and for the identical reason:
Codeman reads it host-side (`omp-transcript.ts`, `omp-session-resolver.ts`) for
history recovery and `--resume` pinning. Seeding it instead of sharing it would make
an in-container OMP conversation invisible to Codeman's own history/resume logic,
silently breaking Docker support for the kill-survival feature above. The rest of
`~/.omp/agent` (`agent.db`/`history.db`/`models.db` SQLite caches,
`terminal-sessions/`, `blobs/`, `cache/`) stays container-local and is neither
shared nor seeded.
## Remote SSH cases
`omp` mode is routed through an interactive login shell
(`exec "$SHELL" -i -l -c 'omp'`), because sshd's remote-command PATH does not
include `~/.local/bin`. Per-session config and `envOverrides` do not cross ssh and are
rejected rather than silently ignored; use the per-host command override instead.
## Known gaps
- **No idle/completion hook.** Idle detection falls back to output-stabilization
like every other external CLI. If omp ever ships a hooks system, a Codeman hook
POSTing to `/api/hook-event` would be the highest-value follow-up.
- **Killing a pane mid-turn loses the conversation for real.** `tmux kill-session`
before an in-TUI `/exit` beats omp's own session-file flush — confirmed by direct
testing (kill after a clean `/exit` resumes correctly; kill without `/exit` first
does not). This is not something Codeman can compensate for from outside the
process; it would need an upstream omp fix (e.g. flush-on-SIGTERM).
- **Unverified: `$HOME` as a symlink.** The directory-mangling fix above compares
against the literal `homedir()` string, not a `realpath()`-resolved one. Whether
omp itself canonicalizes symlinks before mangling is unconfirmed — this has not
been tested against a symlinked-home setup.
- Ralph, respawn heuristics, token/CLI-info parsing and the `❯` readiness probe are
off for omp, as for every external CLI.
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Codeman's browser input path sends `\r` for submit, so basic use works
unconfigured — what degrades is newline-in-editor, mostly when you attach to the
pane directly (`sc`).
pane directly (`codeman tui`).
⚠️ Upstream notes the setting may need a full `tmux kill-server` to take effect.
**Never run `tmux kill-server` on Codeman's socket** — it would kill every live
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# PR bot: automatic pull-request reviews, reported over Telegram
The PR bot is maintainer tooling that lives in `scripts/pr-bot/`. It watches the
repository's open pull requests, reviews each one in a Codeman claude session running in
a private clone of the repository, and sends the verdict to a Telegram chat with the ranked
findings, a recommendation and action buttons. The maintainer decides what happens next
from the phone: merge, post the drafted review comment, close, approve a waiting CI run,
or ask the reviewer session a follow-up question.
It reviews on its own. It never writes to GitHub on its own.
## How a review runs
1. Every poll (default 10 minutes) the bot lists open PRs with `gh`. A PR is queued
when its head commit differs from the one last reviewed, so a push re-reviews and an
untouched PR is never reviewed twice. Draft PRs and bot PRs are skipped. The backlog
is ordered mergeable-and-small first, conflicting-and-huge last.
2. The PR head is fetched into a private ref (`refs/pr-bot/<n>`) of the main repository
and checked out (detached) in a private clone under
`~/.codeman/pr-bot/worktrees/pr-<n>`, made with `git clone --shared` so the object
store stays shared and nothing is duplicated. The maintainer's own checkout is never
checked out or reset by the bot. A clone rather than a linked worktree because Claude
Code reads a linked worktree's project settings from the MAIN checkout, whose model
pin would silently override the bot's. `node_modules` is a symlink to the main
checkout's tree when the PR itself leaves the dependency files untouched (judged
against the PR's merge base, not against current master), and a real `npm ci`
otherwise (the symlink is unlinked first, so npm can never write through it; an
install interrupted by a restart is discarded, never reused).
3. A review brief is written to `~/.codeman/pr-bot/jobs/pr-<n>/brief.md`: the PR
metadata, CI state, mergeability, the file list, the body verbatim, the ground rules
(nothing reaches GitHub, no installs, no builds, no services, never port 3000), the
review protocol (CLAUDE.md and CONTRIBUTING first, then correctness, security,
invariants, tests, contract, scope), the checks to run, the verdict vocabulary and
the exact JSON to produce.
4. A Codeman session named `prbot-<n>` is created in the clone over the HTTP API,
the composer is awaited (the folder-trust dialog is read off the screen and answered
one key at a time), and one prompt points the session at the brief. The bot waits on
the `stop`/`blocked`/`exit` hook signals, never on the heuristic `idle`, with a hard
timeout (default 40 minutes).
5. The session writes `report.json` and `report.md` next to the brief and replies
`REVIEW COMPLETE`. The bot parses the JSON leniently, records the Claude session id
for follow-ups, deletes the Codeman session, keeps the clone, and sends the
summary to Telegram. Reviews run one at a time.
Verdicts: `merge`, `merge-with-fixes`, `request-changes`, `close`, `needs-discussion`.
Findings are ranked `blocker` / `major` / `minor` / `nit`, each with file and line.
## The Telegram side
Each review arrives as one message: PR number and title, author, size, CI state,
mergeability, the verdict with confidence, the summary, the top findings, the checks
that were run, the recommendation, and buttons:
| Button / command | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| 📄 Full report · `/report N` | Sends `report.md` (as a file when long). |
| 💬 Draft comment · `/draft N` | Shows the comment drafted for the contributor. Nothing is posted. |
| 📮 Post comment · `/post N` | Shows the draft again and asks for confirmation, then posts it under your GitHub account. |
| ✅ Merge · `/merge N` | Re-checks mergeability and CI, lists warnings (red CI, new commits since the review, a non-merge verdict), asks for confirmation, then merges with a merge commit. Refuses a conflicting PR. |
| 🗑 Close · `/close N reason` | Asks for the closing comment if none was given, asks for confirmation, then closes with that comment. |
| ▶️ Approve CI run · `/approve N` | Approves a workflow run that GitHub holds for a first-time contributor. Shown only when one is waiting. |
| 🔁 Re-review · `/review N` | Queues a fresh review at the front of the queue. |
| `/ask N question`, or reply to any review message | Resumes the reviewer's Claude conversation in the same clone and relays the answer. It can inspect, run checks, or make uncommitted changes there; it still never pushes. |
| `/status` · `/scan` · `/pause` · `/resume` · `/help` | Housekeeping. |
Merge, close and post always take a second tap. Confirmations expire after 15 minutes.
Only messages from the configured chat are acted on; anyone else gets silence.
When a PR is merged or closed, the bot announces it, removes the clone and the
private ref, and keeps the record.
## Setup
Requirements on the machine that runs the bot: a running Codeman (the sessions are
spawned there), `gh` logged in as the account that should merge and comment, `git`,
Node 22, and the repository checkout with its `node_modules`.
Config is `~/.codeman/pr-bot.env` (`KEY=VALUE`, keep it mode 0600). The Telegram token
and chat id are read from the existing notifier bot's env file
(`~/codeman-cases/telegram/.env`) when present, so on the maintainer's machine no key
has to be copied; set them here to use a different bot.
| Key | Default | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` | from the shared env file | BotFather token. |
| `TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID` | from the shared env file | The one chat that receives reports and may issue commands. |
| `GITHUB_REPO` | `Ark0N/Codeman` | `owner/name`. |
| `CODEMAN_API_URL` | `https://127.0.0.1:3000` | The Codeman that spawns the review sessions. A self-signed certificate is accepted. |
| `CODEMAN_USERNAME` / `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` | unset | Only when that Codeman has a password. |
| `PR_BOT_POLL_INTERVAL` | `600` | Seconds between GitHub polls (minimum 60). |
| `PR_BOT_MAIN_CHECKOUT` | the repo this script is in | The repository the clones share objects with and fetch from. |
| `PR_BOT_DATA_DIR` | `~/.codeman/pr-bot` | State, briefs, reports, clones. |
| `PR_BOT_MODEL` | unset (the session default) | Codeman `modelOverride` for the review sessions, e.g. `claude-fable-5-1`. |
| `PR_BOT_EFFORT` | unset | Codeman `effort` for the review sessions. |
| `PR_BOT_REVIEW_TIMEOUT` | `40` | Minutes before a review is abandoned. |
| `PR_BOT_FOLLOWUP_TIMEOUT` | `20` | Minutes before a follow-up is abandoned. |
| `PR_BOT_AUTO_REVIEW` | `1` | `0` reviews only on `/review N`. |
| `PR_BOT_REVIEW_DRAFTS` | `0` | `1` reviews draft PRs too. |
| `PR_BOT_TELEGRAM_ENV_FILE` | `~/codeman-cases/telegram/.env` | Where the shared token and chat id are read from. |
```bash
npm run pr-bot -- check # config, gh, git, Codeman, Telegram, open PR count
npm run pr-bot -- scan # the open PRs in review order, with what is new
npm run pr-bot -- review 383 --no-telegram # one review now, printed instead of sent
npm run pr-bot -- run # the daemon
npm run pr-bot -- install-service # systemd user unit codeman-pr-bot, enabled and started
npm run pr-bot -- status # what the state file knows
tail -f ~/.codeman/pr-bot/bot.log # the service logs to a file, not the journal
```
## Safety properties worth knowing before changing it
- **GitHub writes happen in exactly one place** (`runConfirmed` in `bot.ts`) and only
after a confirmation tap on a nonce that expires. The review session's brief forbids
`gh` writes, pushes and merges, and the session has no reason to have the token
anyway: it runs as the same user as the maintainer's own sessions, so the prompt rule
is the guard, and the clone's checkout is detached so an accidental push has no
branch to land on.
- **The maintainer's checkout is shared with other agent sessions**, so the bot never
runs `git checkout`, `reset`, `stash` or `clean` there. It only fetches into
`refs/pr-bot/*` there; everything else happens inside the per-PR clone.
- **The clones are `git clone --shared`.** Their objects live in the main checkout, so
the `refs/pr-bot/<n>` ref there is what keeps a PR's commits safe from `git gc`; it
is deleted together with the clone when the PR closes.
- **`node_modules` may be a symlink into the live checkout.** The brief forbids
installs, and `worktree.ts` unlinks the symlink before any `npm ci`. `src/web/public/vendor`
is copied per file, never linked, because postinstall regenerates it in place.
- **Sessions are named `prbot-<n>`** and tracked by id; the bot deletes only those, on
completion, on shutdown, and (by name) as a sweep at startup after a crash. It never
touches the maintainer's `w<n>-*` sessions.
- **Readiness and end-of-turn follow the codeman skill's rules**: composer first
(`shift+tab` in the pane), trust dialog read from the screen, `stop,blocked,exit`
signals rather than `idle`. A session that asks a question is reported as a failed
review with the pane's last lines, not left hanging.
- **Telegram input is data.** Command parsing is a fixed grammar; free text is only ever
relayed to a reviewer session as the maintainer's own follow-up, or used as a closing
comment after confirmation.
Tests: `test/pr-bot-report.test.ts` (parsing, formatting, CI classification, command
grammar, trust-dialog reader, config), `test/pr-bot-state.test.ts`, and
`test/pr-bot-commands.test.ts` (the command and confirmation flows against a stubbed
`gh` and Telegram: a GitHub write happens once, after the tap, never for a foreign chat
or a reused nonce). Type-checked by
`npm run typecheck` through `config/tsconfig.pr-bot.json`, linted and formatted with
the main sources.
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Capture reads the Claude session transcript, not your keystrokes: when a user turn lands in the transcript, its text is folded into the case's profile. Filters applied on the way in:
- **Claude-mode sessions only.** Shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, and Antigravity sessions are never captured (they have no transcript watcher).
- **Claude-mode sessions only.** Shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, and Pi sessions are never captured (they have no transcript watcher).
- Tool results, local slash-command echo (`/model` and friends), system wrappers, and interrupt markers are skipped.
- Entries shorter than 3 characters are skipped (menu digits, Esc artifacts).
- Consecutive duplicates collapse (auto-resume's "continue" spam counts once per run).
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# Remote Sessions (SSH)
Codeman can run a session's agent on a **remote host over SSH** instead of the
local machine. The agent (Claude, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, or a plain shell)
local machine. The agent (Claude, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, Grok, or a plain shell)
runs inside a `tmux` server **on the remote host**, so it survives the SSH
connection dropping; Codeman attaches to it the same way it attaches to a local
managed session.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Types live in `src/types/session.ts`; persistence in `src/remote-hosts.ts`.
| `RemoteHost` (extends `RemoteSshOptions`) | A saved host: `id`, `label`, `host`, `username`, `port?`, `commands?` (per-mode launch command override). |
| `RemoteCase` | A working directory on a host: `name`, `type: 'remote'`, `hostId`, `remotePath`. |
| `SessionRemote` (extends `RemoteSshOptions`) | The resolved bundle stamped onto a live session: host coordinates + `remotePath` + `commands`, plus **`owned?`** and **`remoteSessionName?`** (COD-105 — see [Ownership](#ownership-launched-vs-discovered-and-attached-cod-105)). Built by `toSessionRemote(host, case)` (sets `owned: true`) for the launch path, or `toAttachedSessionRemote(host, name, path)` (sets `owned: false`) for the attach path. Both copy the advanced SSH options through so every connection is identical. |
| `RemoteCommandMode` | `Extract<SessionMode, 'shell' \| 'claude' \| 'opencode' \| 'codex' \| 'gemini' \| 'antigravity' \| 'pi'>` — the modes that can run remotely. |
| `RemoteCommandMode` | `Extract<SessionMode, 'shell' \| 'claude' \| 'opencode' \| 'codex' \| 'gemini' \| 'antigravity' \| 'pi' \| 'grok'>` — the modes that can run remotely. |
| `RemoteSessionInfo` (COD-105) | One discovered remote tmux session: `name` (always `codeman-*`), `attached` (a client is connected), `created` (epoch s), `windows`. Returned by `listRemoteCodemanSessions()`. |
Persistence is two flat JSON arrays in the instance data dir:
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| Route | Cap | Notes |
|-------|-----|-------|
| `file-content` | 10 MB | text preview |
| `file-raw` | 50 MB | inline MIME map; **`X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff` on all responses** |
| `file-raw` | 50 MB | inline MIME map; **`X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff` on all responses**; streamed, `Range`-aware (206 slices come from the same validated path, and the cap is checked before the range) |
| `POST /api/download` | 50 MB | forced `attachment`; sensitive‑path blocklist |
### SVG / content‑type XSS
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ production layout (`~/.codeman`, `-L codeman`, port 3000).
Docker cases (1.4.0) run a session inside a per‑case container instead of on the host. The security posture:
- **Hardened create flags, always** — `--cap-drop ALL`, `--security-opt no-new-privileges`, `--pids-limit` (fork‑bomb guard), `--memory` == `--memory-swap` (a real OOM cap), `--init`, and non‑root: `--user <hostUid>:0` on Linux (host uid → workspace files stay host‑owned; GID 0 keeps `$HOME` writable), `--userns=keep-id` on rootless Podman. **Never** `--privileged`, and **never** the docker socket — the pure builder in `docker-hosts.ts` cannot emit them and the schema cannot represent them.
- **Credentials never enter an image** — the convenient default bind‑mounts host cred dirs (`~/.claude`, `~/.codex`, `~/.gemini` — which also carries Antigravity's `antigravity-cli/` state — `~/.config/{gcloud,opencode}`, and five seeded files from `~/.pi/agent`) read‑write. Bind mounts are physically excluded from `docker commit`, so exported images are secret‑free. API‑key CLIs get their key as an exec‑time NAME‑ONLY `--env OPENAI_API_KEY` (no `=value`, no `ps` leak, never committed); a create‑time `-e` for a secret is never used. The **sealed** profile (`mountCredentials:false` + `network:none`) drops the host mounts; full‑image export is then refused (an in‑container login would ride the committed layer) unless a pre‑commit scrub is opted into.
- **Credentials never enter an image** — the convenient default bind‑mounts host cred dirs (`~/.claude`, `~/.codex`, `~/.gemini` — which also carries Antigravity's `antigravity-cli/` state — `~/.config/{gcloud,opencode}`, five seeded files from `~/.pi/agent`, and three from `~/.grok`) read‑write. Bind mounts are physically excluded from `docker commit`, so exported images are secret‑free. API‑key CLIs get their key as an exec‑time NAME‑ONLY `--env OPENAI_API_KEY` (no `=value`, no `ps` leak, never committed); a create‑time `-e` for a secret is never used. The **sealed** profile (`mountCredentials:false` + `network:none`) drops the host mounts; full‑image export is then refused (an in‑container login would ride the committed layer) unless a pre‑commit scrub is opted into.
- **Blast radius — accept it explicitly** — the convenient profile mounts an arbitrary host workspace RW plus the host credential dirs RW into a network‑enabled container, so container‑run agent code can read/modify those host trees and reach the network at once. Still a net improvement over today's on‑host `--dangerously-skip-permissions` execution; use the sealed profile for genuinely untrusted work.
- **Import is untrusted‑bundle‑safe** — `/api/docker-cases/import` validates the manifest + per‑member SHA‑256 before extraction, rejects absolute / `..` tar members (traversal guard), and re‑tags the loaded image into a quarantined namespace so it can never overwrite `codeman/agent:base` or a pre‑existing tag.
- **Host guard & the bridge‑hooks listener** — in‑container hook callbacks carry `Host: host.docker.internal` / `host.containers.internal`; both are on the always‑on host‑header allowlist (`DOCKER_HOST_GATEWAY_ALIASES`) and resolve to the host only from inside a container netns, so they are not a browser DNS‑rebinding surface. On a loopback‑only server, in‑container hooks are opt‑in via `CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=1`, which binds a SECOND listener on the docker bridge gateway serving **only** the hook endpoints (every other path → `403`) into the same hook‑secret‑gated pipeline. The bridge is host‑internal (containers + host), not the LAN, so it does not widen network exposure; the hook secret is bind‑mounted read‑only and referenced by path.
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ A saved dashboard URL renders as a tab, served through Codeman's own origin at `
- **The proxy is exempt from cookie auth and the Origin/CSRF guard, and that is deliberate.** The iframe is sandboxed without `allow-same-origin`, so it is opaque‑origin: its requests are cross‑site, meaning the `SameSite=lax` session cookie is never attached and its writes and WS upgrades arrive with `Origin: null`. The credential is instead a 192‑bit capability in the path, minted only by an authenticated `POST /api/webviews/:id/open`, held in memory (a restart invalidates every one), rolling TTL, bound to the minting user, and granting nothing but "relay bytes to this one saved URL". ⚠️ **The Host allowlist is NOT bypassed**, so DNS‑rebinding protection is unaffected. A second `Referer`‑keyed form exists for root‑absolute assets and is the only exemption decided by a request‑supplied header, so it is fenced to safe methods on non‑`/api`, non‑`/ws`, non‑`/q` paths. Edges pinned by `test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts`.
- **Sandboxed by default; `allow-same-origin` is an explicit per‑dashboard opt‑in.** A proxied page is same‑origin with Codeman, so without the sandbox its JavaScript could read the Codeman document and call the agent‑spawning API. ⚠️ In BOTH modes the `Authorization` header and the `codeman_session` cookie are stripped before the upstream request, because a trusted (same‑origin) frame makes the browser attach Codeman's own Basic‑auth credentials to every proxied request; forwarding them would hand `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` to the dashboard.
- **Not an open relay, and not a privilege boundary.** `resolveUpstreamUrl()` refuses anything leaving the saved origin, and cross‑origin redirects are handed back unchanged rather than followed. The proxy does reach whatever the SERVER can reach, which is not an escalation for someone who already commands `--dangerously-skip-permissions` agents, but in multi‑user mode it means a non‑admin's dashboard is fetched from the server's network position. Saved URLs are validated to plain http(s) with no embedded credentials, and there is deliberately **no magic‑link path**: terminal output can never create a webview (the mistake the attachment scanner had to be walled off from).
- **Not an open relay, and not a privilege boundary.** `resolveUpstreamUrl()` refuses anything leaving the saved origin, and cross‑origin redirects are handed back unchanged rather than followed. The proxy does reach whatever the SERVER can reach, which is not an escalation for someone who already commands `--dangerously-skip-permissions` agents, but in multi‑user mode it means a non‑admin's dashboard is fetched from the server's network position. Saved URLs are validated to plain http(s) with no embedded credentials, and there is deliberately **no magic‑link path**: terminal output can never create a webview (the mistake the attachment scanner had to be walled off from). The one refused destination class is link‑local and cloud‑metadata addresses (`169.254.0.0/16`, `fe80::/10`, `fd00:ec2::254`, `168.63.129.16`, `100.100.100.200`, `metadata.google.internal`): `webview-egress-policy.ts` refuses them at save time, and `webview-egress.ts` re‑judges the RESOLVED address at connect time through a `lookup` hook on the proxy's undici Agent and on its WebSocket client, so a DNS name pointing into those ranges is refused as well. Loopback and RFC1918 stay allowed on purpose. Capabilities are revoked on logout, admin logout and user deletion, and proxied responses carry `Referrer-Policy: same-origin` so a dashboard cannot hand the capability‑bearing URL to a third‑party host it links.
---
@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@ A saved dashboard URL renders as a tab, served through Codeman's own origin at `
| `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` (+ `CODEMAN_USERNAME`) | Enable HTTP Basic auth |
| `--host` / `CODEMAN_HOST` | Bind host (default `127.0.0.1`) |
| `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS` | Extra `Host`/`Origin` allowlist entries for reverse proxies (comma‑separated; exact host, or leading‑dot `.suffix` for subdomains) — see §3 |
| `--base-url` / `CODEMAN_BASE_URL` | Sub‑path prefix Codeman is mounted under behind a reverse proxy, e.g. `/codeman` (default `/`); the proxy must forward the prefix unchanged. Independent of `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS` |
| `--allow-unauthenticated-network` / `CODEMAN_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_NETWORK` | Acknowledge an unauthenticated non‑loopback bind (downgrades the warning) |
| `--https` | Enable TLS (adds HSTS) |
| `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` | Scope tmux socket + data dir for isolation |
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### 4.2 Geometry
Both endpoints are tabs in one horizontal strip, so the subagent shape (tab-bottom →
window-top) does not apply. Two cases:
window-top) does not apply. **One case**, a **U-bridge hanging below the strip** that
touches both tabs on their bottom edge:
- **Same row** (the normal case): a shallow **U-bridge hanging below the strip**.
`y0 = max(parent.bottom, child.bottom)`, dip
`d = clamp(14 + |x2 - x1| * 0.06, 16, 44) + depth * 6`, path
`M x1 y0 C x1 y0+d, x2 y0+d, x2 y0`. `depth` is the child's index among its
siblings, so several children of one parent **nest** instead of overprinting.
- **Different rows** (`tabs-two-rows` / `tabs-auto-wrap` on desktop): the existing
vertical bezier from parent-bottom-center to child-top-center.
```
y0 = max(parent.bottom, child.bottom)
d = clamp(14 + |x2 - x1| * 0.085, 22, 104) + depth * 8 + |child.bottom - parent.bottom|
path: M x1 parent.bottom C x1 y0+d, x2 y0+d, x2 child.bottom
```
A small `<circle r="3">` at the child end marks direction (an SVG `marker` would need a
`depth` is the child's index among its siblings, so several children of one parent
**nest** instead of overprinting.
> **Superseded (2026-08-14): the two shapes this section used to specify.** The dip was
> `clamp(14 + span * 0.06, 16, 44) + depth * 6`, and a wrapped strip
> (`tabs-two-rows` / `tabs-auto-wrap`) got its own parent-bottom → child-**top** bezier.
> Both were tuned against two tabs side by side and failed at the distances the feature
> is used at:
>
> - a skill worker is appended to the **end** of the strip, so the real span is
> 800-1500px, where a 44px cap is a 33px sag, i.e. a line that reads as straight and
> crosses the terminal instead of bracketing under the strip;
> - and when the strip wraps, parent-bottom (34) to child-top (48) leaves **14px** to
> bend in, so the arc was a flat line hidden in the row gap, with siblings drawn on
> top of each other. Reported as *"they connect already, but the lines are straight
> and not easy visible"*.
>
> Anchoring both ends at the tab bottoms and hanging the control points below the
> **lower** row gives the wrapped case the same bracket as the flat one, and removes the
> branch. Pinned by `test/session-lineage-lines.test.ts`.
A small `<circle r="3.5">` at the child end marks direction (it breathes to 4.5 while that worker is busy) (an SVG `marker` would need a
`<defs>` block and fights `stroke-dasharray`).
Each path gets `class="connection-line lineage-line"`, `data-parent-tab`,
@@ -138,9 +158,17 @@ callers are cheap. Needed:
### 4.5 Styling
`.connection-line.lineage-line`: violet stroke from a `--lineage-line` token,
`stroke-width: 2`, `dasharray 4 4`, `opacity: .55`, softer glow than the subagent lines
so the two layers read as different things. Trap to respect: the skin block nests under
`.connection-line.lineage-line`: blue stroke from the per-skin `--session-blue` token
(violet until 2026-08-14, changed because it lost contrast against the terminal's own
dim foreground the moment the arc crossed text),
`stroke-width: 2.5`, `dasharray 5 5`, `opacity: .72` (`.95` while the child works),
softer than the subagent lines so the two layers still read as different things now that
hue no longer separates them (shape does most of that work: a lineage arc hangs under the
strip and never reaches a window), but the contrast against the terminal comes from a
**second, wider glow** rather than more weight, because the first
cut (2px / `4 4` / `.55` / one 5px glow) disappeared into terminal text on a real 1080p
desktop. `lineage-flow` marches by two dash cycles, so it moves with the dash array
(`5 5` → `-20`). Trap to respect: the skin block nests under
`html:not([data-skin="og"])`, so a bare `.lineage-line` rule inside it would outrank the
base rule at higher specificity. **Define the color as a token per skin, keep exactly
one `.lineage-line` rule.** Light skins get a darker stroke.
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# Codeman TUI Rework Plan
Status: **phases 0-2 implemented** on `feat/tui`; phases 3-4 remain follow-ups. The user guide is [`docs/tui.md`](tui.md); this document stays the design record.
- Phase 0: `src/cli-style.ts` (palette, glyphs, `heading`/`kv`/`table`/`spinner`/`confirm`) plus the mechanical fixes of §5, and `test/cli-commands.test.ts` now derives its inventory from the real commander `program` instead of parsing a fixture.
- Phases 1-2: `src/tui/`. `tui-app.ts` (main loop, attach handoff, verbs) and `tui-client.ts` (API, SSE, degraded enumeration) are the only IO; `tui-model`, `tui-layout`, `tui-render`, `tui-keys`, `tui-ansi`, `tui-composer`, `tui-approvals`, `tui-digest`, `tui-sse` and `tui-types` are pure and unit-tested, with an E2E suite driving the real binary under node-pty.
- Deferred with the rest of phase 3: `r` (resume a RECENT row) is not wired up, so the help overlay does not advertise it.
- Not started: phase 3 (mouse, `--pick` popup switcher, opt-in attach status line, OSC 9) and phase 4 (retiring the bash choosers).
The goal: replace Codeman's scattered terminal surfaces with one first-class TUI, `codeman tui`, that gives SSH/terminal users the same at-a-glance awareness the web UI gives browsers. The reference point is herdr (herdr.dev), the trending Rust "agent multiplexer" whose defining feature is a live agent-state sidebar. Codeman can match and beat that sidebar in the terminal because the states herdr infers from screen-scraping heuristics are states our server already computes from hooks, pane probing, and the approvals inbox.
---
## 1. What we have today (inventory)
Three disconnected surfaces, three visual idioms, two data sources:
| Surface | What it is | Data source | Idiom |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `codeman` CLI (`src/cli.ts`, 1214 lines) | commander + chalk, ~20 commands | HTTP API + state files | `✓`/`✗` line-per-fact, no interactivity |
| `sc` (`scripts/tmux-chooser.sh`, 663 lines) | bash number-menu chooser, mobile-tuned (44 cols) | `tmux -L codeman` + `state.json` via jq | 256-color, numbered, full repaint per key |
| `scripts/tmux-manager.sh` (529 lines) | bash cursor TUI with kill/info | `mux-sessions.json` (and writes it back) | 8-color, box-drawn, arrow keys |
Weaknesses found in the audit (file:line refs verified 2026-08-16):
1. **No interactive picker in the Node CLI at all.** Every `session stop`, `task status`, `session logs` requires a pasted UUID prefix. There is no `codeman attach <session>`; `codeman attach` is actually the attachment-card command (and `README.md:895` describes it wrongly).
2. **`sc` cannot reach sessions 10+ interactively**: entries are numbered globally (`tmux-chooser.sh:343`) but input accepts a single `[1-9]` keypress (`:487-493`). Page 2 shows items 8-14 that mostly cannot be selected.
3. **No cursor/selection concept in `sc`** (`BG_SEL` at `:90` is dead code); arrows only page.
4. The two bash tools can disagree about which sessions exist (different data files), and only `sc` is on PATH.
5. **Zero live feedback anywhere**: `codeman web -d` and `service install` block silently up to 30s (`daemon-control.ts:395-412`); no spinner exists in the codebase.
6. Styling drift: `doctor` is the only table and is deliberately monochrome with a colorize hook nobody wired up (`dependency-report.ts:5-7`); `codeman web` prints its "running at" line twice (colored `cli.ts:934`, plain `server.ts:2366`); the server's security warning is colorless `console.warn` while the CLI's version of the same warning is yellow; `tmux-manager.sh`'s header box is visibly misaligned; `padEnd(14)` overflows on "Antigravity CLI".
7. Bash TUIs emit raw escapes unconditionally (no TTY/NO_COLOR gate); `install.sh` and `postinstall.js` do it right.
8. Detach hint inconsistency: chooser says Ctrl+B D, `README.md:671` says Ctrl+A D.
9. Inside an attached session there is **no chrome at all**: Codeman turns the tmux status bar off (`tmux-manager.ts:1978`), so an SSH user in a pane has no session identity, no state, no way back to a picker except detach.
10. `test/cli-commands.test.ts` asserts against a hand-written fixture, not the real `program`, and that fixture already lists a `tui` command that does not exist (`:57-61`). The name is pre-approved by our own test file.
## 2. Research: how herdr does it
herdr (github.com/herdrdev/herdr, ~30k stars, single Rust binary, pre-1.0) is a background terminal multiplexer "your coding agents live on". What matters for us:
- **The agent-state sidebar is the product.** Every pane is classified live as `working` / `blocked` / `done` / `idle` and grouped in a sidebar, so you see who needs you without switching tabs. Reviews unanimously call this "the killer feature tmux can't match".
- **Detection is heuristic-first**: process-name matching + screen-manifest TOML rules parsing the visible frame; optional per-agent "integration install" adds lifecycle hooks over JSON-RPC on a unix socket for accurate states. Claude Code there is on the heuristic path and reviewers note blocked-state lag.
- **Model**: workspaces → tabs → panes, tmux-style prefix keys (Ctrl+B V split, arrows navigate, D detach), mouse-first (click select, drag resize, right-click menus, touch over SSH), adapts to narrow widths.
- **Agent-shaped API**: socket API with `pane read` (visible/recent/detection), `send-text`/`send-keys`/`run`, `agent start|prompt|wait|explain`, `pane wait-output` with regex, plugins placed as overlay/split/tab/popup.
- **Persistence**: sessions survive disconnects, reattach from any terminal / SSH.
- Weaknesses reviewers cite: pre-1.0 churn, bus factor 1, no session resurrection, rendering lag with many panes.
What is striking is how much of herdr Codeman already has, server-side: our hooks give exact `permission_prompt`/`stop`/`idle_prompt` events (herdr's "integration" path, but installed by default), `_confirmIdle()` does the screen-probe fallback, the approvals inbox parses the actual dialog options, and the agent skill + wait primitives are our socket API. What we lack is purely the presentation layer in the terminal.
Prior art for the architecture we want: **agent-deck** (Bubble Tea + tmux) proves the "TUI list + attach into tmux" model works great: session list with live glyphs (● ◐ ○ ✕), Enter attaches into a tmux pane, status polling, groups, fuzzy search. We take the shape, not the code.
Licensing note: herdr is reported variously as Apache-2.0/AGPL-3.0. Irrelevant either way: we copy concepts, never code.
### What we take / what we skip
Take: the four-state sidebar as the organizing principle; grouping by "needs you first"; narrow-width adaptation; mouse support; tmux-familiar keys; the "attention at a glance" framing.
Skip: being a multiplexer. tmux already backs every Codeman session and is a hard dependency; herdr had to build pane management because it owns terminals, we do not. Also skip (for now): plugin marketplace, split layouts, pane drag. Our TUI is a **dashboard + switchboard over tmux**, not a tmux replacement.
## 3. Design: `codeman tui`
One command, one full-screen client of the existing HTTP/SSE API.
**Positioning (owner decision, 2026-08-16): the web UI remains THE primary surface.** The TUI is strictly additive, for users who want a terminal workflow (SSH, Termius, tmux die-hards). Bare `codeman` keeps printing help; nothing existing changes behavior. The `sc` bash chooser also stays untouched for now; flipping its alias to `codeman tui` is deferred to a follow-up release once the TUI has mileage.
### Layout (≥100 cols)
```
codeman tnode · v1.19.0 · 6 sessions · 5h ▂▂▅ 32% wk 61% ? help q quit
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
NEEDS YOU ──────────────────────────┐ ┌ w4-api-refactor ── claude · ~/dev/api ────────────
▶ 1 w4-api-refactor ⚠ approval 2m │ │ ✻ Actualizing… (2m 14s · ↓ 12.3k tokens)
2 w6-docs ✋ waiting 11m │ │
│ │ ⚠ Claude requests: Bash(git push origin main)
WORKING ────────────────────────────┤ │ 1. Yes 2. Yes, don't ask again 3. No
3 w1-codeman ✻ 17m 45.2k │ │
4 w2-gallery ✻ 3m 8.1k │ │ [y] approve [n] deny [Enter] attach
IDLE ───────────────────────────────┤ │
5 w3-promo ○ 2h │ │ …live tail of the selected session's
RECENT ─────────────────────────────┤ │ terminal (ANSI colors preserved),
· api-hotfix ✔ done Fri │ │ updating while you browse the list…
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
↑↓ select · ⏎ attach · 1-9 jump · y/n answer · p prompt · n new · x kill · / search · g digest
```
- **Header**: hostname/instance, server version, session count, plan-usage chip (same telemetry that feeds the web chip, when available). Degrades gracefully when the server is down (see §3.6).
- **Sidebar**: sessions grouped `NEEDS YOU` → `WORKING` → `IDLE` → `RECENT` (past sessions from the unified list, resumable). Within groups, reuse the activity ordering already built for the home screens in PR #303 (blocked first, running longest, quiet newest); that logic is pure and shared.
- **Preview pane**: live tail of the selected session, SGR colors preserved, cursor-movement stripped. When the selected session has a pending approval, the parsed dialog is rendered as a card above the tail with one-key answer bindings.
- **Footer**: contextual keymap (changes when a dialog/confirm is active).
### States and vocabulary
Exactly the web's language so the two surfaces read the same:
| Group | Glyph | Color | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NEEDS YOU (question/permission) | `⚠` | red, blinking row | approvals inbox / `permission_prompt` |
| NEEDS YOU (waiting for input) | `✋` | yellow | `idle_prompt` / waiting classification |
| WORKING | `✻` animating through `· ✢ ✳ ∗ ✻ ✽` at 2Hz | green | working classification (the same glyph family Claude itself draws, a deliberate nod) |
| IDLE | `○` | muted | idle |
| RECENT / done | `✔` | muted green | unified list history rows |
Nerd-font/glyph fallback exactly like `sc` does today (`[!] [w] [*] [-] [ok]` when the terminal is not known-capable), plus full NO_COLOR / `tput colors` degradation (8-color and mono renderings are designed, not accidental).
### Keymap
- `↑/↓` or `j/k` select · `Enter` attach · `1-9` jump-attach (parity with `sc`, but now the cursor covers 10+)
- `y`/`n` (or the digit keys) answer the selected session's pending approval right from the dashboard, via `POST /api/approvals/:id/answer`. The server already re-captures the pane and 409s if the dialog is gone, so this is safe by construction.
- `p` send a one-line prompt to the selected session without attaching (`POST /input` with `\r`, the composer opens in the footer)
- `n` new session (case picker → mode picker, drives `POST /api/quick-start`) · `x` kill with typed confirm (never bulk; refuses the session hosting the TUI itself, like tmux-manager.sh does)
- `/` fuzzy search across sessions/history/attachments (`GET /api/search`) · `g` away digest (`GET /api/away-digest`) rendered as a panel
- `r` resume selected RECENT row (unified list `resume-session` flow) · `?` help overlay · `q` quit
- Mouse (phase 3): SGR mouse reporting, click selects, wheel scrolls list/preview, click on footer keys triggers them. Works over SSH, same as herdr's touch story.
### Responsive behavior
The `sc` design constraint survives: below ~72 cols (Termius, iPhone portrait) the preview pane drops and the TUI is a single-column list with two-line rows, nearly identical to today's `sc` but with a cursor, live states, and the answer/prompt/new/kill verbs. The layout switch is width-driven at draw time, no mode flag.
### Attach model
Enter suspends the TUI (restore main screen + cooked mode), then hands the terminal to `tmux -L <socket> attach-session -t <name>` with `stdio: inherit`. On tmux exit/detach, the TUI resumes and refreshes. Full fidelity (mouse, paste, colors) is tmux's, we never proxy bytes.
- Inside tmux already: same socket → `switch-client -t`; different socket → warn about nesting and offer detach-first. `$TMUX` + `CODEMAN_MUX` detection.
- **Return path**: a tmux binding installed for codeman sessions (opt-in) runs `codeman tui --pick` inside `tmux display-popup -E`, a minimal picker-only mode (list + jump, no preview) so switching sessions from inside a pane is one keystroke, fzf-style.
- Optional per-attach chrome (opt-in setting, default off since `status off` at `tmux-manager.ts:1978` is deliberate): a minimal codeman-styled tmux status line showing `name · state · alert`, set on attach, restored on detach.
### Notifications
While the TUI is open and a session flips to NEEDS YOU: flash the row, ring BEL, and optionally emit OSC 9 (desktop notification in kitty/WezTerm/iTerm2, and it traverses SSH). This is the herdr sidebar promise delivered even when the terminal is backgrounded.
### Degraded mode (server down)
`sc` works without the server today and the TUI must too: when no server answers, enumerate `tmux -L codeman list-sessions` + read `state.json` (read-only), show a "server not running" header line, and offer attach only (no states, no approvals). This keeps the "web server crashed, get me to my sessions" path alive.
## 4. Architecture
### A client of the server, not a second brain
Everything live comes from the API the web UI already uses:
| Need | Endpoint |
| --- | --- |
| Session list + history | `GET /api/sessions/unified` |
| Live updates | SSE `GET /api/events` (heartbeat `sse:heartbeat` already exists; fall back to 2s polling) |
| Pending approvals + parsed options | `GET /api/approvals`, answer via `POST /api/approvals/:id/answer` |
| Preview tail | `GET /api/sessions/:id/terminal?tail=N` (throttled to the selected session only) |
| Prompt send | `POST /api/sessions/:id/input` (single line + `\r`, per the composer contract) |
| New session | `POST /api/quick-start` (routes remote/docker cases correctly) |
| Search | `GET /api/search` |
| Away digest | `GET /api/away-digest` |
| Plan usage chip | latest status-telemetry snapshot (`plan-usage-latest`) |
Server discovery and auth reuse what exists: instance config from `src/config/instance.ts` (`CODEMAN_INSTANCE`, `CODEMAN_PORT`), the probe logic from `daemon-control.ts`, credentials from `~/.codeman/.env` (the established `codeman attach` pattern), self-signed HTTPS accepted for loopback probes (the hooks-on-HTTPS lesson). Multi-user scoping comes free: the API only returns what the authenticated user owns.
### Renderer: hand-rolled, zero new dependencies (decision)
Options considered:
- **Ink (React for CLIs)**: what Claude Code uses. Pros: layout engine, ecosystem. Cons: pulls React into a CLI that today ships only commander+chalk; rerender model fights the two things we care most about (a raw-ANSI preview region and 2Hz glyph animation without flicker); version-pins React for every `npm i -g aicodeman`.
- **blessed/neo-blessed**: unmaintained, skip.
- **Hand-rolled screen core** (recommended): this repo hand-rolls ANSI everywhere already and has the expertise (regex-patterns, stripAnsi, the xterm work). The core is small and boring: alt screen + raw mode + cursor-home full-frame repaint from an off-screen string buffer, throttled to state changes and the 2Hz animation tick, wrapped in DECSET 2026 (synchronized output) where supported so repaints are atomic in modern terminals (tmux, kitty, WezTerm, iTerm2). No diffing needed at these frame rates.
The one genuinely tricky pure function: SGR-aware line clipping for the preview (keep colors, strip cursor movement/OSC/DECSET, clip to width while carrying SGR state, reset at EOL). That is a pure module with exhaustive unit tests, and it is exactly the kind of function Ink would not have given us anyway.
### Module layout
```
src/tui/
tui-app.ts entry + main loop + attach handoff (IO)
tui-client.ts API + SSE client, degraded-mode enumeration (IO)
tui-model.ts pure: state store, grouping, ordering (reuses PR #303 helpers)
tui-layout.ts pure: responsive layout math, row building
tui-render.ts pure: model+layout -> frame string (palette, glyphs, fallbacks)
tui-keys.ts pure: byte stream -> key/mouse events (incl. SGR mouse decode)
tui-ansi.ts pure: SGR-aware clip/filter for the preview
```
Pure modules unit-test with no TTY. `cli.ts` gains one thin `tui` command registration (and `--list`/`<n>` fast paths for `sc -l` / `sc 2` parity, which must stay fast: they short-circuit before any screen setup).
## 5. CLI-wide polish (the rest of "make it much nicer")
A shared style kit, `src/cli-style.ts`: one palette (mirroring the web's status colors), one glyph set with fallback, `heading()`, `kv()`, `table()` (width-aware, fixes the Antigravity overflow), `spinner()` (finally: the 30s silent daemon/service waits get a live line), `confirm()` (used by `reset --force`'s missing prompt and `x` in the TUI). Then the mechanical fixes from §1: colorize `doctor` through the hook that already exists for it, dedupe the `codeman web` startup line, colorize the server's security warning, fix the README `codeman attach` description and the Ctrl+B/Ctrl+A detach drift, TTY/NO_COLOR gates everywhere.
## 6. Phasing
| Phase | Contents | Size |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 0 | `cli-style.ts` + mechanical fixes (§5), real CLI tests (retire the fixture parser in `test/cli-commands.test.ts`) | S |
| 1 | `codeman tui` core: list + states via SSE, cursor + 1-9, attach/return loop, kill w/ confirm, new session, narrow mode, degraded mode, `sc` alias flip + `--list`/`<n>` parity | M/L |
| 2 | Preview pane (SGR clip), approvals answering, prompt composer, search, digest, resume, plan-usage header | M |
| 3 | Mouse support, `--pick` popup switcher + tmux binding, opt-in attach status line, BEL/OSC 9 notifications | M |
| 4 | Retire `tmux-chooser.sh`/fold `tmux-manager.sh` (keep as thin wrappers for one release), docs/README/wiki, screenshots for promo | S |
Phases 0-1 are the useful minimum; 2 is where it beats herdr's sidebar (answering approvals from the dashboard); 3 is delight.
## 7. Testing
- Pure modules (`tui-model/layout/render/keys/ansi`): plain vitest, frame snapshots as stripped strings plus targeted ANSI assertions.
- Interactive E2E: spawn the built TUI under `node-pty` (already a dependency), feed keys, assert on captured frames; the vitest tmux mock (`IS_TEST_MODE`) keeps attach paths inert. Port rules per CLAUDE.md (3150+, `app.inject()` where possible by testing `tui-client` against injected routes).
- Manual: Termius/iPhone portrait (the 44-col case), tmux nesting, server-down mode, NO_COLOR, non-nerd-font terminal.
## 8. Invariants this plan respects
- tmux socket and data dir always via instance config (`dataPath()`, `-L codeman`); a beta instance TUI sees only its own world.
- Never bulk kill, always confirm, never touch another session implicitly, refuse killing the session the TUI runs in (w1/w2/w3 are sacred).
- Input is single-line with `\r`, via the server (never raw tmux send-keys from the TUI while the server owns the session).
- Approvals answering goes through the server's re-capture + 409 path, never blind keystrokes.
- `status off` on panes stays the default; any chrome is opt-in.
- No new runtime dependencies; the npm package stays light.
## 9. Decisions (resolved 2026-08-16)
1. **Bare `codeman` does NOT open the TUI** (owner decision): the web UI is the main thing, the TUI is additional. `codeman tui` only.
2. **`sc` stays the bash chooser for now**; the alias flip is a follow-up once the TUI has mileage. `codeman tui --list` / `codeman tui <n>` provide the same fast paths for people who want to switch.
3. Opt-in tmux status line: deferred to phase 3 along with the `--pick` popup switcher.
4. Preview tail goes over the API (auth/multi-user/remote-consistent); previews are simply unavailable in degraded server-down mode.
5. Name is `codeman tui` (the test fixture historically expected it).
Initial PR scope: phases 0-2. Phase 3 (mouse, popup switcher, status line, OSC 9) and phase 4 (bash chooser retirement) are follow-ups.
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# Terminal UI (`codeman tui`)
`codeman tui` is a full-screen dashboard for your Codeman sessions, in the terminal.
It shows every session grouped by whether it needs you, lets you answer a permission
dialog or send a prompt without switching anywhere, and puts you inside a session's
tmux pane with one keystroke.
It is **additional, not a replacement**: the web UI stays the primary surface and
gets every feature first. The TUI exists for the terminal workflow (SSH, Termius,
a tmux window you keep open all day), and it is a *client* of the running server,
so the two surfaces can never disagree about what a session is doing. It is also
not a multiplexer: tmux still owns every pane, and attaching hands the terminal to
tmux rather than proxying bytes.
## Starting it
```bash
codeman tui # the dashboard
codeman tui --list # print the numbered session list and exit
codeman tui 2 # attach straight to session 2 of that list
```
The two fast paths are the scriptable ones.
Neither sets up a screen, so both are as quick as the one API call they make, and
`--list` prints plain text when piped, so it composes with `grep`/`awk`.
What it needs:
| Needs | What you get |
| --- | --- |
| **Full features** | A running Codeman server (states, approvals, preview, prompts, search, digest). The TUI finds it the way `codeman attach` does: `CODEMAN_API_URL`, else loopback on `CODEMAN_PORT` for this `CODEMAN_INSTANCE`. The self-signed certificate an `--https` install generates is accepted, as it is everywhere else in the CLI. |
| **Server down** | It still starts, in **degraded mode**: sessions are enumerated straight from `tmux -L codeman` plus a read-only peek at `state.json`, and attach is the only verb. See [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting). |
| **A terminal** | `codeman tui` refuses to run when stdin/stdout are not a TTY, and says to use `--list` instead. A cron job or a pipe therefore fails loudly rather than emitting escape codes into a log. |
## What it looks like
A real frame at 100x30 (`NO_COLOR`, trailing blank rows trimmed). The selected
session has a pending permission dialog, so the preview pane leads with the card:
```
codeman ⚠ 2 tnode · v1.19.0 · 5 sessions · 5h 32% · wk 61% ? help q quit
NEEDS YOU ─────────────────────────│ w4-api-refactor · claude · /home/you/dev/api · blocked
1 w6-docs ✋ 11m│ ⚠ requests: Bash(git push origin main)
▶ 2 w4-api-refactor ⚠ 2m│ 1. Yes
WORKING ───────────────────────────│ 2. Yes, and do not ask again
3 w1-codeman ∗ 1h│ 3. No, tell Claude what to do
4 w2-gallery ∗ 15m│ y approve · n deny · digit chooses
IDLE ──────────────────────────────│
5 w3-promo shell ○ 2h│ > refactor the api routes onto the shared port interface
RECENT ────────────────────────────│
6 api-hotfix ✔ 3d│ Read src/web/ports/session-port.ts (48 lines)
│ Read src/api/routes.ts (312 lines)
│ Edit src/api/routes.ts
│ 1 -import { SessionManager } from "../session-manager.js";
│ 2 +import type { SessionPort } from "../web/ports/session-
│
│ Bash(npm run typecheck)
│ └ tsc --noEmit: no errors
│
│ ✻ Actualizing… (2m 14s · ↓ 12.3k tokens)
↑↓ select · ⏎ attach · y approve · n deny · 1-9 option · p prompt · x kill · / search · g digest ·
```
- **Header**: the machine, the server version, how many sessions are live, and the
plan-usage chip (the same statusLine telemetry that feeds the web chip, when the
server has a snapshot). A `⚠ n` badge counts pending approvals.
- **Sidebar**: every session, grouped and numbered.
- **Preview**: a live tail of the selected session, its own colors preserved, with
the parsed dialog card on top when that session is blocked.
- **Footer**: only the keys that work right now. `n` reads `n new` normally and
`n deny` when the selected session has a dialog, because it cannot be both.
The same world through `--list`:
```
1 waiting w6-docs /home/you/dev/docs
2 blocked w4-api-refactor /home/you/dev/api
3 working w1-codeman /home/you/dev/codeman
4 working w2-gallery /home/you/dev/gallery
5 idle w3-promo /home/you/dev/promo
6 done api-hotfix /home/you/dev/api
```
The numbers are the same on both surfaces, so `codeman tui --list` then
`codeman tui 4` is one thought.
## The four groups
Groups are always in this order, and a session is in exactly one of them:
| Group | Glyph | Means | Comes from |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **NEEDS YOU** | `⚠` | A permission or question dialog is blocking the agent | The approvals inbox (`permission_prompt` hooks, with the on-screen options parsed) |
| | `✋` | Waiting for your next instruction, or errored | `idle_prompt`, or an errored session (equally something only a human clears) |
| **WORKING** | `✻` animating | A turn is running | The same working classification the web dashboard uses |
| **IDLE** | `○` | Live, but sitting there | |
| **RECENT** | `✔` | A past session from the unified list | History rows, no live pane |
Ordering inside a group is "the one that has waited longest, first": blocked
sessions sort by how long the dialog has been up, working sessions by when their
turn started (the pane's last Enter, since a working pane repaints every second
and would otherwise always look freshly started), and quiet ones by last activity.
That is the ordering the web home screens already use.
The cursor sticks to a **session**, not a row number, so a session that jumps to
NEEDS YOU does not drag your selection with it. The number beside each row is what
`1-9` and `codeman tui <n>` mean, and it is renumbered on every re-sort.
When a new dialog appears, the terminal bell rings once, for that dialog only: the
same item announced twice does not ring twice.
## Keymap
| Key | Does |
| --- | --- |
| `↑` `↓` or `j` `k` | Move the cursor. PageUp/PageDown jump five rows. |
| `Enter` | Attach to the selected session (see [Attaching](#attaching)) |
| `1`-`9` | Jump to that row and attach. When a dialog is on screen, a digit answers it instead (see below). |
| `y` | Approve the selected session's dialog |
| `n` | Deny it, or **start a new session** when there is no dialog |
| `p` | Send one line to the selected session without attaching |
| `x` | Kill the selected session; `y` confirms, any other key cancels |
| `/` | Search sessions, events and files |
| `g` | Away digest: what happened while you were gone |
| `?` | Help overlay |
| `Esc` | Close whatever overlay is open |
| `q` or `Ctrl+C` | Quit, restoring the screen you started with |
Inside the `p` composer and the `/` query: `←` `→` `Home` `End` `Delete`
`Backspace` plus `Ctrl+A` / `Ctrl+E` / `Ctrl+U` / `Ctrl+W`, `Enter` to send or open,
`Esc` (or `Ctrl+C`) to cancel. In the kill confirmation you retype the session name;
anything else cancels. In the `n` pickers, type to filter, `Enter` chooses.
Verbs that need the server (`y`/`n`/`p`/`x`/`/`/`g`) say so in degraded mode
instead of failing silently; `Enter` and `1-9` keep working.
### `p` sends exactly one line
The composer is a single line by design, ending in a carriage return: that is the
input contract every Codeman path follows, because multi-line text breaks the
agent's own composer. Pasted newlines become spaces rather than being rejected, so
a paste cannot silently run a different command than the one you read.
## Answering approvals
This is the thing the terminal could not do before. Select a blocked session and:
- `y` approves.
- `n` picks the parsed "No" option, or sends Esc when the dialog did not parse one.
- A digit picks that numbered option, **but only a digit the dialog actually
offers**. A digit with no matching option falls through to the list's own
jump-and-attach binding, so it can never be typed at whatever has focus.
The answer goes through `POST /api/approvals/:id/answer`, which **re-captures the
pane before it types anything**. If the dialog is no longer on screen (you answered
it in tmux a moment ago, or the agent moved on), the server refuses with a 409 and
the TUI says `that dialog is no longer on screen` rather than pressing a key into a
live composer. The answer is scoped to the options the server parsed off the actual
frame, never to a guess.
An idle prompt (`✋`) is not a dialog: there is nothing to approve, so `p` is the
reply path and the footer says `p reply` instead of `p prompt`.
## Attaching
`Enter` suspends the dashboard (main screen back, cooked mode back) and hands the
terminal to tmux with `stdio: inherit`. Colors, mouse and paste are tmux's, at full
fidelity.
**Press `F1` to come back.** One key, no modifier to hold or release, nothing to
type in a particular order. tmux's own way out is a chord — press the prefix, let
go, then a letter — and beta testing showed that is genuinely hard to convey: the
bar first named the wrong letter (tmux binds lowercase `d` to `detach-client` and
capital `D` to `choose-client`), and once corrected it still failed for anyone who
kept Ctrl held, because that sends `Ctrl+D`, which tmux leaves unbound. So the TUI
claims `F1` in tmux's prefix-less key table for the length of the attach and gives
it back afterwards. The chord still works; it is simply not what you are told to
press.
You do not have to remember any of it. For as long as the attach lasts the pane
wears a bar across the top:
```
1 w3-codeman-… 2 w4-codeman-… 3 testcase … alt+1-9 switch · F1 back to the codeman dashboard
```
That is the **session strip**: the other sessions stay visible from inside a pane,
numbered exactly as the dashboard numbers them, with the one you are in inverted.
`Alt+1`..`Alt+9` switch between them without going back to the dashboard first. With
more sessions than fit, the strip shows a window around the current one and marks
each cut end with `…`; the way-out hint is measured first and always keeps its space.
Codeman keeps the status bar off on its panes (the web UI carries that information
around the terminal instead), so the TUI turns it on for the attach and puts it back
exactly as it was on detach, along with each window's size. Every session the strip
can switch to is dressed and sized the same way, so switching is instant and lands
in a pane that already fills your terminal.
Detaching leaves the agent running; typing `exit` or pressing `Ctrl+D` would end it,
which is the difference the bar exists to make obvious. If an agent does exit, its
pane stays as a corpse: the TUI refuses to attach to a dead pane and offers `r` to
resume the conversation in a fresh one instead.
Three cases:
| Where you are | What happens |
| --- | --- |
| Not in tmux | `tmux -L codeman attach-session` |
| Already in tmux on Codeman's socket | `switch-client`, so you do not nest |
| In tmux on a **different** socket | Refused, with an explanation: detach from that tmux first, then run `codeman tui` again |
A direct-PTY session has no pane to attach to, and says so.
**`Enter` on a RECENT row resumes that conversation** instead: there is no pane to
attach to, so the TUI creates a new claude session carrying the old transcript
(`resumeSessionId`, exactly what the web UI's "Resume Conversation" list does), in
the directory it originally ran in and under its old name, then attaches to it. It
is claude-only, and a row with no working directory or no conversation id says why
rather than resuming something else.
`x` never bulk-kills: it kills one session, only after you retype its name, never a
history row, and never the session the TUI itself is running in.
## Over SSH, and on a phone
The TUI is an ordinary terminal program with no local dependencies beyond tmux, so
`ssh box` then `codeman tui` works exactly like running it locally. There is no
separate remote mode.
Below 72 columns (Termius, an iPhone in portrait) the preview pane is dropped and
rows take two lines each, keeping the cursor, the live states and the
answer/prompt/kill verbs. The switch is
width-driven at draw time, so unfolding a foldable or resizing a window re-lays out
immediately; there is no mode flag to set.
## Troubleshooting
**"The Codeman server rejected these credentials."** The server has
`CODEMAN_PASSWORD` set. Export `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` (and `CODEMAN_USERNAME` if it is
not `admin`), or put them in the data dir's `.env` (`~/.codeman/.env`), which is
where `codeman attach` already reads them from.
**`server not running: attach only`** in a yellow banner. Nothing answered on the
expected port, so the TUI fell back to enumerating tmux. You get names and attach;
you do not get states, approvals or previews, because those only exist on the
server. Start the server (`codeman web -d`, or `systemctl --user start codeman-web`)
and the banner clears on its own: the TUI keeps re-probing.
**It found the wrong server, or none.** Discovery is instance-scoped. A beta
instance (`CODEMAN_INSTANCE=beta`) has its own data dir *and* its own tmux socket,
so its TUI sees only its own sessions. Set `CODEMAN_PORT` or `CODEMAN_API_URL`
explicitly when you run more than one.
**"this terminal is already inside tmux on socket ..."** You are in a tmux session
on a socket that is not Codeman's, so attaching would nest two multiplexers whose
prefix keys collide. Detach from that tmux and run `codeman tui` from outside.
**Boxes and glyphs render as garbage.** The TUI picks a glyph tier from the
environment: no `TERM` (or `dumb`), or a non-UTF-8 locale, gets the ASCII set
(`[!] [w] [*] [-]`, `+`/`-`/`|` frames). Force it either way with
`CODEMAN_TUI_GLYPHS=ascii|unicode|nerd`.
**Colors.** Standard `NO_COLOR` / `FORCE_COLOR` handling (chalk's, the same as the
rest of the CLI). Under `NO_COLOR` the frame is cursor addressing and text only,
and the preview's own colors are stripped too, so a session's output cannot repaint
the dashboard.
**It refuses to open at all**, saying it needs an interactive terminal. stdout or
stdin is not a TTY. That is the guard: use `codeman tui --list`.
## Related
- [`docs/tui-plan.md`](tui-plan.md): the design record. Why hand-rolled ANSI, why a
client and not a second brain, and what is deliberately deferred.
- [`docs/approvals-inbox-plan.md`](approvals-inbox-plan.md): where the parsed
dialogs and the answer endpoint come from.
- [`docs/remote-sessions.md`](remote-sessions.md): remote-SSH cases, which the TUI
lists like any other session.
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then streams the body without any time bound; a header timeout is logged
server-side and answered as a 502 that names the limit. WebSocket handshakes use
the separate `CODEMAN_WEBVIEW_WS_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MS` (default 30s).
- **Not a security boundary.** The proxy reaches whatever the Codeman server can
reach. That is not an escalation for someone who already commands
`--dangerously-skip-permissions` agents, but in multi-user mode it does mean a
non-admin user's dashboard is fetched from the server's network position.
- **Not a security boundary, with one carve-out.** The proxy reaches whatever the
Codeman server can reach (a `localhost` dashboard is the point), so it is not an
escalation for someone who already commands `--dangerously-skip-permissions`
agents, but in multi-user mode it does mean a non-admin user's dashboard is
fetched from the server's network position. The carve-out: link-local and
cloud-metadata addresses (`169.254.0.0/16`, `fe80::/10`, `fd00:ec2::254`,
Azure's `168.63.129.16`, Alibaba's `100.100.100.200`, the
`metadata.google.internal` alias) are refused at save time AND at connect
time, judged on the address a name actually resolves to. Nothing anyone embeds
as a dashboard lives there; an instance's IAM credentials do.
- **The proxy URL is a bearer credential.** `/webview/<cap>/...` needs no cookie,
so treat it like a password. It is revoked when you log out, when an admin logs
you out, and when your account is deleted, and it expires after 12 hours
without use. Proxied responses carry `Referrer-Policy: same-origin`, so a
dashboard that links to third-party sites does not hand them the URL.
## Where the code lives
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# Agent CLIs
Codeman drives seven run modes: six agent CLIs plus a plain shell. This page covers picking
one, setting it up, and the differences that actually change how you work.
## The seven modes
| Mode | CLI | Get it |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Claude Code** | `claude` | [docs.anthropic.com](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) |
| **OpenCode** | `opencode` | [opencode.ai](https://opencode.ai) |
| **Codex** | `codex` | [developers.openai.com/codex/cli](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli) |
| **Gemini** | `gemini` | [github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) |
| **Antigravity** | `agy` | [antigravity.google](https://antigravity.google) |
| **Pi** | `pi` | [pi.dev](https://pi.dev) |
| **Terminal / Shell** | your `$SHELL` | Already installed. |
Any combination works, including all of them. The run mode is chosen per session from the
arrow beside the **Run** button, so one case can have a Claude session and a Codex session
open side by side.
## Codeman does not manage your logins
Install each CLI yourself and log it in once by hand. Codeman never collects, stores, or
refreshes your CLI credentials. It launches the binary and attaches to the result.
The one place credentials are touched is [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases), where host
credentials are copied into a container read-only at launch so you do not have to log in
again inside it. Even there, the container keeps its own copies and never writes back to
your host credential stores.
## Making a CLI visible to Codeman
Codeman resolves each binary from the environment the **server** runs in, which is not
necessarily the shell you tested in.
```bash
codeman doctor # what Codeman can actually see
codeman doctor --json
```
If a CLI is installed but a Run button for it never appears:
1. Check `which <cli>` in a plain login shell, not just your interactive one.
2. If Codeman runs as a service, remember that launchd hands a job
`/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin`. `codeman service install` bakes your PATH into the unit
precisely to avoid this; a hand-written plist or unit will not.
3. Restart the server after installing a new CLI.
`pi` is additionally version-probed rather than trusted by name, because `pi` is a generic
enough command that something else on your PATH may answer to it.
## Claude is the reference mode
A number of Codeman features exist only for Claude sessions. This is structural, not a
backlog: they depend on Claude Code's hook system, or on parsing Claude's specific terminal
output. The other CLIs expose no equivalent.
| Feature | Claude | Other CLIs |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ------ | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Sessions, tabs, scrollback, exactly-once input | Yes | Yes |
| Respawn cycling and unattended runs | Yes | Yes |
| Cron jobs | Yes | Yes |
| Docker cases, remote SSH cases | Yes | Yes |
| Precise idle detection (hook-driven) | Yes | Output-stabilization fallback, coarser |
| Auto-resume when a usage limit resets | Yes | No |
| Plan usage chip | Yes | No |
| Approvals Inbox | Yes | No |
| Read My Mind | Yes | No |
| Ralph loop and its task tracker | Yes | No |
| Subagent and team windows | Yes | No |
| Model, effort, and ultracode controls | Yes | No |
| `stop` and `blocked` wait signals | Yes | 400 if you ask for them explicitly |
| The bundled agent skill | Yes | No |
Everything that makes a session a session works everywhere. What is Claude-only is mostly
the machinery that needs to know *what* the agent is doing rather than *that* it is doing
something.
## Per-CLI notes
### Claude Code
The defaults you will care about, all under **App Settings**:
- **Model** (Models section). Written into the case's `.claude/settings.local.json` as a
soft default, so `/model` still works mid-session. The 1M-context Opus variant is a
switch on the model card rather than a separate model.
- **Effort** (`low` through `max`) or **ultracode** for dynamic multi-agent workflows. Also
a soft default: `/effort` overrides it any time. Effort is deliberately not passed as an
environment variable, because that would hard-lock it and block in-session switching.
- **Startup permission mode** (Agents & CLIs section). The default is
`--dangerously-skip-permissions`, which is why the security model matters. You can switch
new sessions to Anthropic's classifier-guarded `auto` mode, normal prompting, or an
explicit allowed-tools list.
**Separate Claude accounts per session.** Set `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` in a session's environment
overrides to point it at a different Claude config directory, which is how you run one
session on a client's subscription and another on your own. One caveat: a relocated config
directory writes transcripts outside `~/.claude/projects`, which blinds the response viewer,
subagent windows, ultracode panel, and Read My Mind for that session. Symlink `projects`
back into the shared tree to keep them working:
```bash
ln -s ~/.claude/projects <configDir>/projects
```
### OpenCode
Renders its own TUI, so Codeman treats readiness as output stabilization rather than
watching for a prompt marker. Requires tmux, with no direct-PTY fallback, because its
environment is injected through socket-scoped `tmux setenv` rather than the command line.
Integration detail: [`docs/opencode-integration.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/opencode-integration.md).
### Codex
Two behaviours that are deliberate and worth knowing:
- **Predictive echo instead of buffered echo.** Codex's composer reacts to every keystroke,
a `/` opens a live-filtering picker, arrows edit server-side state. Buffering keystrokes
until Enter starved it, so Codex paints each keystroke at the predicted cell while the
bytes on the wire stay byte-identical to what you typed.
- **The wheel is not forwarded** into its transcript. Codex ignores the mouse reports
Codeman would send, so forwarding produced a dead wheel. Scrolling in a Codex session is
local scrollback.
### Gemini
Enterprise only, since Google's June 2026 consumer cutover. Its environment allowlist
includes the broad `GOOGLE_*` namespace, deliberately, because Vertex AI authentication
needs `GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT`, `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS`, and
`GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI`. That is the loosest allowlist entry in Codeman and it affects
only the CLI you spawned yourself.
### Antigravity
Google's successor to the consumer Gemini CLI, invoked as `agy`. It keeps all of its state
in `~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/`, so the credential handling that applies to Gemini applies
to it as well.
### Pi
Pi needs the opposite instincts from every other CLI here.
- **It has no permission prompts and no sandbox.** There is no bypass flag to send, and
Codeman does not invent one.
- **Its privileged setting is project trust**, a three-way `--approve` / `--no-approve` /
unset. Approving trust makes Pi **execute repo-local `.pi/extensions` TypeScript**, so
point it at a repository you trust. In multi-user mode, a user without an explicit grant
gets `--no-approve` even when no configuration exists.
- **Authentication is `/login` inside the session**, or the server process's own
environment. Pi's roughly 34 provider keys (`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`,
`HF_TOKEN`, and so on) share no common prefix, and the environment allowlist is global
rather than per mode, so admitting them for Pi would widen the allowlist for every mode at
once. They stay out.
Guide: [`docs/pi-integration.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/pi-integration.md).
### Terminal / Shell
A plain shell in a tmux session. No agent, no hooks, no idle detection.
On phones a shell session automatically swaps the keyboard accessory bar for terminal
controls: Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrows, paste. **Ctrl is a one-shot modifier**: tap it, then tap a
letter, and the control byte is sent. It disarms on use, on a second tap, on any other
accessory key, on a session switch, and when the keyboard closes. Details in
[Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide).
## Environment overrides
Per-session environment variables are set when creating a session and persist across
respawns. Which variables are accepted depends on the mode:
| Mode | Allowed prefixes |
| ----------- | --------------------------------- |
| Claude | `CLAUDE_CODE_*`, plus the exact key `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` |
| OpenCode | `OPENCODE_*` |
| Codex | `CODEX_*` |
| Gemini | `GEMINI_*`, `GOOGLE_*` |
| Antigravity | `ANTIGRAVITY_*` |
| Pi | `PI_*` |
Anything outside the allowlist is rejected at the schema. This is intentional: the allowlist
is one global list, so widening it for one CLI widens it for all of them.
Two things that deliberately do **not** travel as environment variables: **effort**, because
an environment variable hard-locks it and blocks `/effort`, and **model**, which is written
into the case's `.claude/settings.local.json` so that `/model` keeps working.
## Choosing a mode
- **Claude Code** if you want every Codeman feature. Unattended overnight runs, usage-limit
auto-resume, the Approvals Inbox, and subagent visualization all assume it.
- **Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Antigravity** when you prefer that agent or that model. You get
the session layer, respawn, cron, Docker, and remote SSH; you do not get the hook-driven
features.
- **Pi** if you want a fast, unsandboxed agent and you understand what project trust does.
- **Shell** for the times you want a terminal on your phone with no agent at all. It is a
genuinely useful mode, not a fallback.
## Read next
- [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts) - run modes versus location overlays.
- [Settings Reference](Settings-Reference) - model, effort, and permission-mode settings.
- [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) - what idle detection does per mode.
- [Security](Security) - what skipping permission prompts actually means.
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# Autonomous Loops
Two features that go further than "keep the session going": the **Ralph loop**, which works
a task list to completion in one session, and the **Orchestrator**, which turns a goal into
a phased plan and drives it across agents.
Both are Claude-only, both are off by default, and neither is where to start. If what you
want is an agent that keeps working overnight, that is
[Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running), and it is simpler, better understood, and
what most people actually use.
## Which one, if either
| You have | Use |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| A session that stops too early | [Respawn](Keeping-Agents-Running) |
| A written task list to grind through | Ralph loop |
| One large goal that needs planning and checkpoints | Orchestrator |
| Work that should start at a certain time | [Cron Jobs](Cron-Jobs) |
| Several workers to fan out and supervise | [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) |
## The Ralph loop
Named after the Ralph Wiggum pattern: keep feeding the agent its own task list until the
list is empty.
The shape of it:
- The task list lives in a plan file in the case, conventionally `fix_plan.md`.
- Each cycle the agent reads the plan, works the next incomplete task, and marks progress.
- Codeman watches the file, tracks todos, and detects stalls.
- The loop ends when the agent signals completion, when the iteration cap is reached, or
when you stop it.
Start it from **Session Options → Ralph / Todo**, or from the wizard on the welcome screen.
| Setting | What it does |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Max iterations | Hard ceiling on cycles. |
| Max todos | Cap on tracked tasks, default 500, oldest evicted first. |
| Todo expiration | Auto-expiry for stale todos, default 60 minutes. |
| Plan file | Which file holds the task list. |
A **circuit breaker** sits behind it to stop respawn thrashing: it moves from closed to
half-open to open, and is reset explicitly from the session's Ralph controls.
Honest assessment: Ralph is functional but is not where development attention goes. It
predates the respawn presets, which cover most of what people originally used it for with
less ceremony. Treat it as a specialised tool rather than the headline feature.
Full background, including the upstream pattern it is based on:
[`docs/ralph-wiggum-guide.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/ralph-wiggum-guide.md).
## The Orchestrator
A state machine that turns one goal into a phased plan and drives it to completion:
```
idle → planning → approval → executing → verifying → (replanning) → completed / failed
```
- **Planning** turns your goal into phases.
- **Approval** is yours. You see the plan before anything runs.
- **Executing** runs each phase, using team agents and the task queue.
- **Verifying** gates each phase before the next one starts. A failed gate can send it back
to replanning rather than forward.
Open it from the Orchestrator panel in the toolbar. State persists in `state.json`, so a
server restart does not lose an in-flight plan.
Where it differs from Ralph: Ralph is one session grinding a list, the Orchestrator
coordinates phases and agents with verification between them. It suits work that has a
natural shape ("migrate this, then update callers, then update the tests") rather than a
flat backlog.
Architecture: [`docs/orchestrator-loop-architecture.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/orchestrator-loop-architecture.md).
## Running any of this safely
Autonomous loops are the features most able to spend money and change code while you are not
looking. Some habits that pay off:
- **Run them in a case that is a git repository**, on a branch you are willing to throw
away. Being able to read the diff afterwards is the whole safety net.
- **Consider a container.** [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases) gives the agent its own filesystem
and network, and one checkbox is all it costs.
- **Set the iteration cap deliberately.** It is the ceiling on the spend.
- **Turn on notifications** so a blocked loop reaches you: see
[Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals).
- **Read the run summary and lifecycle log afterwards**, not just the final diff. They show
where it went sideways and recovered.
## Read next
- [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) - the simpler feature that usually fits better.
- [Watching Agents Work](Watching-Agents-Work) - seeing what a loop is doing while it runs.
- [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases) - a sandbox for unattended work.
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# Contributing
The full guide lives in
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
This page is the short orientation, plus how to fix a page in this wiki.
## Where things go
| You have | Send it to |
| --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| A bug | An [issue](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues), with OS, install method, browser, and which CLI the session was running. |
| A question or setup problem | [Discussions](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions). |
| An idea | [Ideas](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/ideas), where it gets voted on. |
| A small fix | Straight to a PR. |
| A bigger feature | An issue or Discussion first, then build once the design has a nod. |
| A security problem | Never a public issue. See [SECURITY.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/.github/SECURITY.md). |
Issues usually get a response within a day, and every release credits its contributors and
bug reporters by name.
## Dev setup
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman.git
cd Codeman
npm install # postinstall builds the vendored xterm addon bundles
npm run dev # http://localhost:3000
```
Requirements: Node 22+, tmux, and at least one agent CLI on your PATH.
The frontend is plain JavaScript with no bundler in dev: edit a `.js` or `.css` file and
reload. The exception is `index.html`, which is read once at server start, so markup changes
need a restart.
## Before you push
CI runs all of these, so running them locally saves a round trip:
```bash
npm run typecheck
npm run lint
npm run format:check
npm run check:frontend-syntax
npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts # one file, the normal way
npm run test:ci # the full CI sweep
```
**Never run bare `npm test`.** The default configuration includes browser-driven Playwright
suites that need a live server, Chromium, and environment-specific baselines; they hang or
fail on a normal machine. `test:ci` is the honest "run everything".
Tests are tmux-safe by design: under vitest the tmux layer becomes an in-memory mock, so
tests cannot touch real sessions. If you add a test that binds a port, pick a unique one at
3150 or above, and never 3000.
## Finding your way around
- Every source file opens with a `@fileoverview` block. Read it before the file; it is the
map.
- [`CLAUDE.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/CLAUDE.md) at the repo root is
the densest architecture primer there is. It is written for AI coding agents, but its
invariants apply identically to humans, and most review feedback traces back to something
already written there.
- [`docs/architecture-invariants.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/architecture-invariants.md)
holds the deep mechanisms and the history behind each rule.
## Good first contributions
- **A theme skin.** A skin is four things kept in sync, and a static test checks the sync, so
if the test passes your skin works.
- **A language.** The i18n module is dependency-free, English is canonical, and Simplified
Chinese is a complete example to copy.
- **Docs.** If you got stuck and then figured it out, the sentence that would have unstuck
you is a pull request.
- Anything labelled
[good first issue](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22).
Worth discussing first: new CLI backends, and real-device testing reports, especially
mobile, which always find things emulation cannot.
## PR expectations
- One change per PR. Small and focused reviews fast; a grab bag stalls.
- Target `master`.
- **Keep your branch mergeable.** A PR with conflicts silently gets no CI runs at all, which
is a GitHub quirk rather than a Codeman one. Rebase when conflicts appear.
- Include or update tests when you change behaviour.
- Do not bump versions or edit the changelog; releases are handled after merge.
- AI-assisted contributions are welcome, with one condition: understand what you are
submitting, and actually run it. "The model said it works" is not a test.
## Fixing this wiki
These pages are generated from
[`docs/wiki/`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/tree/master/docs/wiki) in the main
repository, and pushed here automatically when master changes.
**Editing a page in the browser will be overwritten by the next sync.** Send a pull request
against `docs/wiki/` instead. It is plain markdown, and a documentation PR is a genuinely
useful contribution.
Conventions for wiki pages:
- Links between pages use the wiki form: `[Remote Access](Remote-Access)`, no `.md`.
- Links into the repository are absolute `https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/...`
URLs.
- Images are referenced from the main repository over raw URLs rather than being copied into
the wiki.
- Say what the default is, especially when it is off. Most of Codeman is opt-in.
- Label Claude-only behaviour every time it appears. Six of the seven run modes are not
Claude.
## Conduct
Be kind, be direct, assume good faith. Report unacceptable behaviour privately via the
contact in
[SECURITY.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/.github/SECURITY.md).
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# Core Concepts
The five ideas the rest of the manual assumes: cases, sessions, run modes, location
overlays, and tmux. Plus what actually persists, and where it lives on disk.
## Case
A **case** is a named working directory that Codeman remembers. It is the unit you pick in
the toolbar before hitting Run, and every session belongs to exactly one.
A case is not a container or a sandbox. It is a folder plus a name plus a little
Codeman-side configuration:
- Which CLI the Run button should default to.
- Per-case toggles (Agent Teams, 1M Opus context).
- Where it runs, if it is not the local filesystem: see [Location overlays](#location-overlays).
Three ways to get one, all under **+** next to the case picker:
| How | Result |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Create New** | A fresh `~/codeman-cases/<name>` with a scaffolded `CLAUDE.md`. |
| **Clone Repo** | A public repo cloned into `~/codeman-cases/<name>` and registered as a case. |
| **Link Existing** | An existing folder anywhere on disk, registered in place. Nothing is copied or moved. |
Linked cases keep living where they are. Deleting a case in Codeman removes the
registration, and for a linked case that is all it removes.
**Cases created from scratch are the only copy of that code.** Uninstalling Codeman does not
delete `~/codeman-cases/`, but treat that directory as real work, not scratch space.
## Session
A **session** is one CLI process running in one tmux session, streamed to your browser.
Sessions are named `w<n>-<case>`, so `w1-myproject` is the first worker in the `myproject`
case. Each has a stable id, and that id is what the API, the wait primitives, and every
event use.
Several sessions can share one case. That is the normal way to parallelize: three workers
in the same repo, three tabs, one case.
A session carries state the case does not:
- Its run mode, model, effort level, and environment overrides.
- Its respawn configuration and Ralph loop state.
- Its terminal scrollback.
- Its owner, in [Multi-User Mode](Multi-User-Mode).
## Run mode
The **run mode** is which CLI the session runs: `claude`, `opencode`, `codex`, `gemini`,
`antigravity`, `pi`, or `shell`. It is chosen at start and does not change afterwards; to
switch, start another session.
Claude is the reference mode. Six of the seven are not Claude, and a number of Codeman
features are Claude-only for structural reasons rather than missing effort: they depend on
Claude Code's hook system or on parsing its terminal output. Every such feature is labelled
Claude-only where it appears, and [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) lists them in one place.
## Location overlays
Where a case runs is **separate from** which CLI it runs. There are three locations:
| Location | What happens |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Local** | The default. tmux and the CLI run on the Codeman host. |
| **Docker** | One long-lived container per case; sessions `docker exec` into it. See [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases). |
| **Remote SSH** | A durable tmux server on the remote host, fronted by a local pane running `ssh`. See [Remote SSH Sessions](Remote-SSH-Sessions). |
This matters because it is a common source of confusion: Docker is **not** an eighth run
mode. All seven run modes work in all three locations. A case is docker-backed or
ssh-backed; a session is claude or codex or shell.
**Web tabs** are the other thing that is not a session. A saved dashboard URL renders as a
tab beside your agents, but there is no PTY, no tmux, and no respawn behind it. See
[Web Tabs](Web-Tabs).
## Why tmux
tmux is a hard requirement, and it is the reason Codeman behaves the way it does.
The agent runs inside a tmux session. Codeman attaches to it, the same way your terminal
would. That indirection buys:
- **Survival.** The agent outlives your browser tab, your network, your laptop lid, and a
restart of the Codeman server itself.
- **Real scrollback.** History is held by tmux, so reconnecting replays what happened while
you were gone instead of starting from blank.
- **Attach from anywhere else.** The same session is reachable from a terminal over SSH
with `codeman tui`, or plain `tmux -L codeman attach`.
- **Secrets off the command line.** Environment overrides are injected with socket-scoped
`tmux setenv` rather than being visible in the spawn command.
The socket is `tmux -L codeman`, separate from your personal tmux server, so Codeman
sessions never appear in a bare `tmux ls`.
## What persists
| Survives | Does not survive |
| -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Closing the browser | `tmux -L codeman kill-server` |
| Losing the network | A machine reboot (tmux dies with it) |
| Restarting the Codeman server | Killing the session from the UI |
| `codeman web --stop` | |
| A dropped SSH link, for remote cases | |
| A container restart, for docker cases | |
Conversation history is a separate question: Claude transcripts live in `~/.claude/`, so a
conversation can be resumed even after the tmux session is gone. That is what the welcome
screen's **Resume Conversation** list offers.
## State on disk
Everything Codeman knows lives under `~/.codeman/`:
| File | Holds |
| ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `state.json` | Sessions, settings, respawn config, orchestrator state, cron jobs. |
| `settings.json` | User preferences that sync across your devices. |
| `mux-sessions.json` | tmux recovery data. |
| `session-lifecycle.jsonl` | Append-only audit log of session starts, exits, and kills. |
| `linked-cases.json` | Registered cases. |
| `remote-hosts.json`, `docker-hosts.json` | Location overlay configuration. |
| `webviews.json` | Saved dashboard URLs. |
| `users.json` | Multi-user accounts, mode 0600. |
| `push-*.json` | Web push keys and subscriptions. |
| `certs/` | Self-signed TLS for `--https`. |
None of it needs root, none of it leaves the machine, and deleting `~/.codeman/` resets
Codeman to a fresh install without touching your code.
## Instances
The data directory and the tmux socket are both **process wide**. Two Codeman servers
started on one machine share them, which means the second one discovers the first one's
live sessions and attaches to them, resizing and mutating sessions you did not expect it to
touch.
To run two on purpose, give each its own instance name:
```bash
CODEMAN_INSTANCE=beta CODEMAN_PORT=5000 codeman web
```
That scopes the data directory and the tmux socket together, which is the only safe way to
do it. `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` and `CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET` can be set individually if you need
them apart, but setting only one of the two reproduces exactly the problem you were trying
to avoid.
## Hooks
For Claude sessions, Codeman writes a hooks configuration into the case so Claude Code can
report events back: a permission prompt appeared, the turn finished, the agent went idle, a
task completed. Those events drive tab alerts, the Approvals Inbox, notifications, and the
wait primitives.
This is why some features are Claude-only. The other CLIs have no equivalent hook system,
so for them Codeman falls back to watching terminal output, which is coarser: it can see
that something happened, not what it was.
See [Hooks And Integrations](Hooks-And-Integrations).
## Vocabulary
| Term | Means |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Case** | Named working directory. |
| **Session** | One CLI in one tmux session. |
| **Run mode** | Which CLI: claude, opencode, codex, gemini, antigravity, pi, shell. |
| **Respawn** | Restarting the CLI on idle to keep an unattended run going. |
| **Ralph loop** | An autonomous single-session task loop. |
| **Orchestrator**| A phased plan driven across multiple agents. |
| **Subagent** | An agent the CLI spawned itself, shown live in its own window. |
| **Web tab** | A saved dashboard URL rendered as a tab. Not a session. |
| **Instance** | One Codeman server with its own data directory and tmux socket. |
## Read next
- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - what the UI is showing you.
- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) - the seven run modes in detail.
- [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) - respawn, idle detection, usage limits.
- [`docs/architecture-invariants.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/architecture-invariants.md) - the mechanisms behind all of this, for contributors.
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# Cron Jobs
Saved, named jobs that start a session and send it a prompt on a schedule. Cron for agent
sessions: *every weekday at 03:00, open a Claude session in `~/proj` and tell it to update
dependencies and open a PR.*
The ⏰ **Cron** header button is opt-in. Turn it on in
**App Settings → Header & Panels**.
## Creating a job
1. Click **⏰ Cron**, then **+ New Job**.
2. Give it a name, pick the agent type and working directory.
3. Write the prompt, or point at a file containing it.
4. Choose a schedule and leave **Enabled** on.
5. **Save**. The job appears with its computed next run.
**Run Now** fires it immediately without touching the schedule, which is the fastest way to
find out whether the prompt does what you meant.
## The fields
| Field | Notes |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name** | Also used as the created session's name. |
| **Agent type** | Any run mode, including `shell`. |
| **Working directory** | Validated when you save **and** again when the job fires. Blocked system trees are refused. |
| **Launch command** | Shell jobs only. Sent as the first line once the shell is up, before the prompt. |
| **Prompt** | Inline text, or a path to a file read at fire time. |
| **Input mode** | `typed` behaves like a human typing. `paste` writes directly. |
| **Schedule** | `once`, `interval`, `daily`, or `weekly`. |
| **Enabled** | Disabled jobs never fire on their own. **Run Now** still works. |
| **Concurrency policy** | What to do if sessions of the same type are already running. |
| **Auto-close previous** | Recurring jobs only. Closes the session the previous run created. Default on. |
| **Notes** | Free text for you. |
## Schedules
All wall-clock times are in the **server's local timezone**, not your browser's. A job set
for 03:00 fires at 03:00 where the server is.
| Type | Behaviour |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `once` | Fires at an absolute time, then disables itself. A job missed because the server was down still fires once on the next tick. |
| `interval` | Every N minutes, from 1 minute to a year. |
| `daily` | At `HH:MM` every day. If today's time has passed, the next run is tomorrow. |
| `weekly` | At `HH:MM` on the weekdays you pick. |
Interval jobs re-anchor to when they actually fired, not to an ideal cadence, so a slow tick
or a server restart shifts later runs slightly. That drift is accepted rather than corrected.
## Prompts are single line
This is the rule people trip over. Programmatic input into an agent session is single line
everywhere in Codeman, because the terminal UIs these CLIs use treat a newline as submit. A
multi-line prompt would be silently mangled, so it is **rejected** instead: the form refuses
it, and a prompt file whose contents are multi-line fails the run with a clear message.
For anything longer than a sentence, put the instructions in a file and make the prompt tell
the agent to read it:
```
read TASKS.md and work through it
```
That is also easier to edit than a job field.
### Prompt files
Reading the prompt from a file at fire time is useful when the instructions change more
often than the schedule. The path is confined to the job's working directory, symlinks are
resolved before the check, sensitive trees are refused, and the file has to be a regular
file under 1 MiB.
If any of that fails, the run is recorded as failed and **no session is created**.
## Concurrency
Applies to scheduled runs only, never to **Run Now**:
| Policy | Behaviour |
| ------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `warn_only` | Always launch. The count of live same-type sessions is shown but does not block. |
| `skip_if_same_agent_running` | Skip this fire if another live session of that mode exists. |
The skip policy has the details you would want it to have:
- Only **live** sessions block. A tab whose CLI already exited does not count.
- Sessions the job created on its own previous runs never block it, otherwise a recurring
job would deadlock on itself after the first fire.
- A skipped `once` job is not consumed. It stays armed and fires when the blocker goes away.
- Consecutive skips are collapsed into one record per streak, so a perpetually skipped job
cannot bloat your state file.
## Run history
Every fire is recorded per job, with a status:
| Status | Meaning |
| --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `created` | The run started and a session was created. |
| `skipped` | The concurrency policy blocked it. Not counted as a run. |
| `failed` | The prompt could not be resolved, or the working directory was gone. |
The schedule is advanced **before** the session launches, so a slow start cannot cause the
same job to re-trigger.
## Cron versus the other autonomy features
| Want | Use |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| Start work at a specific time | Cron |
| Keep an existing session working | [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) |
| Drive one goal to completion across phases | [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops) |
There is also an older, deliberately separate `ScheduledRun` concept behind
`/api/scheduled`: a run-now, duration-bounded loop with no recurrence and no saved jobs. The
two systems never interact, and Cron is the one you want.
## From the API
```bash
API=http://localhost:3000
curl -s -X POST "$API/api/cron/jobs" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"name": "nightly-deps",
"agentType": "claude",
"workingDir": "/home/me/proj",
"promptMode": "inline_text",
"promptText": "Update dependencies and open a PR",
"inputMode": "typed",
"scheduleType": "daily",
"dailyTime": "03:00",
"enabled": true,
"concurrencyPolicy": "warn_only"
}' | jq
curl -s "$API/api/cron/jobs" | jq
curl -s -X POST "$API/api/cron/jobs/<jobId>/run" | jq
curl -s "$API/api/cron/jobs/<jobId>/runs" | jq
```
Add `-u admin:"$CODEMAN_PASSWORD"` when a password is set, and `-k` with the `https://` URL
on an HTTPS install.
## Gotchas
- **Times are the server's, not yours.** Obvious until you are travelling.
- **A `pi` job starts slowly.** The readiness poll looks for markers pi does not print, so it
burns its poll budget before sending the prompt. The job still works.
- **A deleted working directory fails the run**, by design, rather than creating a session
somewhere unexpected.
- **Auto-close only touches sessions this job created.** Your own tabs are never closed.
## Read next
- [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) - continuing work rather than starting it.
- [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals) - hearing about a job that got stuck.
- [`docs/cron-guide.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/cron-guide.md) - the complete reference, including the API and SSE events.
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# Docker Cases
Run a case inside its own container instead of directly on your host: for isolation, for a
reproducible toolchain, and for the ability to pick the whole environment up and move it to
another machine.
A docker case is a **location overlay**, not a run mode. All seven run modes work inside a
container. See [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts).
## One-time setup: the base image
The container needs an image carrying the agent toolchain (node, the CLIs, git, tmux). It
builds itself on first use with progress streamed to the UI, or you can build it ahead of
time:
```bash
node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache
```
**Always pass `--no-cache`.** The CLIs are installed in a single `npm install -g` layer, so
a plain rebuild reuses that layer from the cache and the CLIs stay frozen at whatever
versions the image was *first* built with. This has shipped a broken CLI while reporting a
successful build.
A zero exit code proves the layers ran, not that the toolchain works. Verify:
```bash
docker run --rm codeman/agent:base bash -lc \
'for c in claude codex gemini opencode agy pi; do printf "%-9s " $c; $c --version 2>&1 | head -1; done'
```
The image is secret-free. Credentials are delivered at runtime, never baked in, so exports
never leak them. A full image lands around 1.6GB.
Prerequisite: Docker or Podman with a reachable daemon.
## The quick way
On **Add Case → Create New**, tick **🐳 Run in an isolated Docker container**. That alone is
enough: Codeman creates the case folder, spins up a hardened container with sensible
defaults, and starts the session inside it.
Expanding **Container settings** offers a template:
| Template | Memory | CPUs | GPUs |
| ----------------- | ------ | ---- | ------------------------------------- |
| Small | 2 GB | 1 | none |
| Medium (default) | 4 GB | 2 | none |
| Large | 8 GB | 4 | none |
| GPU | 8 GB | 4 | all (needs the NVIDIA container toolkit) |
Disk is elastic: storage grows as data arrives, bounded only by host disk. Changing any
setting creates a dedicated host profile for that case, so it never mutates the shared
default.
## The full way
**Add Case → Docker** exposes everything:
| Field | Meaning |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Case name** | As usual. |
| **Workspace path** | A real host directory, bind-mounted into the container at the **same absolute path**. |
| **Host ID** | A reusable profile (image, network, resources). Share one across cases to share settings. |
| **Network** | `bridge` (internet on, default), `none` (fully isolated), or a custom bridge. |
| **Advanced** | Memory and CPU caps, host credential seeding, and whether to resume the last conversation on relaunch. |
The same-absolute-path bind mount is what keeps the File Viewer, attachments, and watchers
operating on real host bytes rather than a copy.
## One container per case
Exactly one long-lived container per case, shared by every session in it.
- Killing one session kills only that session's in-container tmux. Siblings keep running and
the container stays up.
- Reconnecting after a Codeman restart lands back in the same live agent.
- A container stop or a host reboot restarts the container and **resumes the last
conversation** from the bind-mounted transcript.
- Deleting the case removes the container. The workspace on the host survives.
## Credentials
Your existing host logins work inside the container without logging in again. Credentials
are **seeded**: mounted read-only and copied in once at launch, so in-container CLIs never
write refreshed tokens back to your host credential stores. Onboarding and trust prompts are
pre-answered so no wizard appears.
Turn seeding **off** for a sealed sandbox: no host credentials, and with `network: none`, no
outbound access either. That is the profile for genuinely untrusted work; you log in inside
the container instead.
Bind mounts are excluded from image capture, so exports stay secret-free.
One consequence worth knowing: Pi's credentials are seeded per file rather than as a whole
directory, because that directory also holds sessions, extensions, and installed packages,
which can be gigabytes. So in-container Pi sessions are invisible from the host, and `pi -c`
inside a docker case sees only that container's history.
## Isolation
Every container runs hardened by default:
- `--cap-drop ALL`
- `--security-opt no-new-privileges`
- Non-root, running as your host uid so workspace files stay host-owned
- PID limit, memory cap with swap pinned to it, `--init`
- **Never** `--privileged`, and **never** the docker socket
Rootless engines without cgroup-v2 systemd delegation cannot enforce resource caps; linking
such a host warns that the caps are advisory.
## Configuration drift is refused, not ignored
Editing a docker host's configuration (image, memory, network) after a container exists is
detected on the next launch by comparing a configuration hash against the container's label.
A mismatch **refuses the launch** and offers to recreate rather than silently running with
stale configuration.
Recreating is refused while sessions of that case are live. The workspace and the
conversation both survive it.
## Moving a case to another machine
**Export**, from the Docker tab:
| Option | Contents |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Full image + workspace** | The whole toolchain, installed packages, and files, in one `.tgz`. |
| **Workspace only** | Just the project files. Fast and small. |
The container is paused across the capture so image and workspace are consistent, free space
is checked first, and the intermediate image is cleaned up. Exports run in the background
and notify you when the bundle is ready.
**Import** on the other machine: copy the `.tgz` into `~/.codeman/docker-exports/` and
import it into a new case. The manifest and per-member checksums are verified, the workspace
tar is extracted with a traversal guard, and the image is loaded under a **quarantined tag**
so it can never overwrite a local image. The destination supplies its own credentials, so
nothing secret crosses machines.
## Hooks need to reach the server
In-container hooks (permission events, idle and stop notifications) call back to Codeman
over the docker bridge gateway. If Codeman binds **loopback only**, which is the default and
the production configuration, the container cannot reach it and **in-container hooks do not
fire**.
The session still works fully: idle detection falls back to output-based detection through
the exec PTY, and with permission prompts skipped there is nothing to forward anyway.
To enable them:
```bash
CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=1
```
Codeman then starts a second listener bound to the docker bridge gateway that serves **only**
the hook endpoints and rejects everything else with a 403. The bridge is host-internal, so
this does not widen your network exposure. Add it to the service unit and restart.
## Limits
- Per-session environment overrides, effort, and per-CLI configuration are **rejected** for
docker cases, because they do not cross into the container. Configure the container through
the docker host's per-mode command override instead.
- tmux must exist in the base image. It is a hard prerequisite and is probed when linking a
host.
- On macOS, Docker Desktop takes a dedicated uid path, and memory caps are subject to the
VM's own ceiling.
## Read next
- [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts) - why this is an overlay rather than a run mode.
- [Security](Security) - where containers fit in the model.
- [Remote SSH Sessions](Remote-SSH-Sessions) - the other overlay.
- [`docs/docker-cases.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/docker-cases.md) - the full reference.
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# Driving Codeman From An Agent
Everything the dashboard does is HTTP, so an agent can do it too. This page is for the case
that makes Codeman interesting: **Claude Code running inside a Codeman session, spawning and
supervising other sessions.**
Two routes. Start with the skill.
## The agent skill
A Claude Code skill that teaches the agent the whole API, so you ask in plain English
instead of pasting endpoint documentation into prompts.
### Install it
| How | Command | Scope |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Skills CLI | `npx skills add Ark0N/Codeman --skill codeman -g` | Global, any skills-aware agent. |
| Bundled CLI | `codeman skill install` | Global, at `~/.claude/skills/codeman`. |
| Bundled CLI | `codeman skill install --case <name>` | One case. |
| Web UI | **App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Claude → Agent Skill** | Injects into each case when a Claude session is created. Off by default. |
`codeman skill uninstall [--case <name>]` reverses the CLI installs, and never touches a
`skills/codeman` you wrote yourself.
### Then just ask
| You say | What happens |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| "What sessions are running right now?" | Lists them with name, mode, and status. Read-only. |
| "Start a shell worker on the `myapp` case, run the test suite, tell me if it passes." | Spawns, waits on a completion marker, reads the exit code, cleans up. |
| "Spin up 3 workers for lint, typecheck and tests, run them in parallel, report failures." | One session per task, all started first, then gathered as each finishes. |
| "Have a claude worker summarize `src/session.ts`, then close it." | Spawns, runs the readiness ladder, sends and waits, reads the answer, deletes the session. |
| "Watch session w4 and tell me if it gets stuck on a permission prompt." | Blocks on the `blocked` signal and surfaces the question to **you**. |
Sessions the agent creates get deleted when it is done. You can watch the tabs appear and
disappear in the dashboard while it works.
### What it will and will not do
- **It self-gates.** Outside a Codeman session it refuses to act and does not guess an API
URL, so a global install costs an unrelated Claude Code session nothing.
- **Unprompted, it may only** spawn sessions, prompt them, and delete ones **it created in
that conversation, by exact id**, behind a guard that refuses to delete the agent's own
session.
- **It will not** answer another session's permission prompt on your behalf. It surfaces the
question instead.
- **Deleting a case** (which erases a real directory of your code), bulk kills, respawn,
Ralph, cron, orchestrator, and settings writes all require you to ask, naming the target.
Turning the setting back off **does not remove already-injected copies**, because a
create-time sweep would yank the skill out from under other live sessions sharing that
directory. Remove them per case with `codeman skill uninstall --case <name>`.
The skill ships with the verb index always loaded, plus on-demand references for the verbs,
worked multi-worker recipes, endpoint tables, and cross-session messaging.
## The manual path
The same operations as raw HTTP, for a CI bot, a shell script, or an agent without skill
support.
### Detect that you are inside Codeman
These are set in every managed session. Read them rather than hardcoding anything:
| Variable | Meaning |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `CODEMAN_MUX=1` | You are in a managed tmux session. Never `tmux kill-session`, `pkill claude`, or `pkill tmux`: you will kill yourself or a sibling. |
| `CODEMAN_API_URL` | Base URL, with the correct scheme. |
| `CODEMAN_SESSION_ID` | Your own session id. Use it to avoid acting on yourself. |
| `CODEMAN_HOOK_SECRET_FILE` | Path to the hook secret. |
### Rules of the road
Read these before writing any code. Each one has cost somebody an afternoon.
1. **Input is single line and must end with `\r`.** Enter fires only when the payload
contains a carriage return. Without it the text sits unsubmitted on the prompt, the
request still succeeds, and a combined wait burns its full timeout on a turn that never
started. Embedded newlines are stripped rather than rejected, so `"echo A\necho B\r"` runs
the joined `echo Aecho B`. One line per call.
2. **Make input idempotent.** Send a stable `clientId` and a monotonic per-session `seq`. The
server deduplicates, so a retry after a dropped connection cannot double-deliver.
3. **Auth.** With `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` set, use HTTP Basic or the session cookie. A missing
`Origin` is allowed, so plain curl works. A `401` replies with the bare string
`Unauthorized`, **not** the JSON envelope, so piping it into `jq` throws a parse error
instead of showing the failure. Check the status before parsing.
4. **Envelope.** Most endpoints return `{ "success": true, "data": ... }`. A few legacy GETs
return bare bodies, so handle both: `body.data ?? body`.
5. **Wait instead of polling, and a timeout is not an error.** The wait endpoints answer
`200` with `wait.timedOut: true`. Loop over short waits rather than one long call, because
tunnels cut idle connections.
6. **Only `claude` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`.** They come from Claude Code hooks.
Shell and the external CLIs accept only `idle`, `working`, and `exit`; asking for `stop`
explicitly there is a `400`, while omitting `until` is always safe. On a shell session
`idle` fires **once at startup and never again**, so synchronize hook-less sessions with an
output marker instead.
7. **Nothing reports "ready", so wait for it explicitly.** A new session answers
`{"signal":"exit","immediate":true}` until its PID exists, and that means *not started*,
not *crashed*. A Claude worker in a fresh case then sits on the CLI's trust dialog; prompt
it there and the wait resolves on idle in about two seconds looking exactly like a finished
turn, while your text sits stuck in the dialog.
### Recipes
```bash
API="${CODEMAN_API_URL:-http://localhost:3000}"
# Add -u admin:"$CODEMAN_PASSWORD" if a password is set, and -k on an HTTPS install.
# What is running
curl -s "$API/api/sessions" | jq '.data[] | {id, name, mode, status}'
# Spawn a worker in a case
curl -s -X POST "$API/api/quick-start" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"caseName":"myapp","mode":"shell"}' | jq
# Send a prompt (note the \r)
curl -s -X POST "$API/api/sessions/$ID/input" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"input":"run the tests\r","clientId":"my-agent","seq":1}' | jq
# Send and block until the turn finishes (registers the wait BEFORE writing)
curl -s -X POST "$API/api/sessions/$ID/input" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"input":"summarize src/session.ts\r","wait":["stop"],"waitTimeout":120000}' | jq
# Or wait for a marker in the output, which works on shell sessions too
curl -s "$API/api/sessions/$ID/wait-output?contains=DONE_17909&from=buffer" | jq
# Read the terminal back
curl -s "$API/api/sessions/$ID/terminal?tail=4000" | jq -r '.data.output'
# Clean up, by exact id
curl -s -X DELETE "$API/api/sessions/$ID" | jq
```
Use `POST /api/quick-start` rather than `POST /api/sessions` when a case might be remote:
the plain create endpoint validates the working directory locally and has no case concept.
### The split-marker trick
For hook-less sessions, synchronize on a marker in the output. The catch: your own
keystrokes echo into the output stream, so an unsplit marker matches **before the command
has run**.
Split it so the typed line never contains the string you are waiting for:
```bash
M=DONE; R=17909
# typed: echo ${M}_${R} → output contains DONE_17909, the typed line does not
```
Make it unique per call, because tmux repaints replay old screen text.
### Reading output
Use `terminal?tail=`, not `/output`. The latter's text field is empty for every tmux-backed
session, which is every interactive session. `tail` counts **bytes**, and what comes back is
terminal data with ANSI sequences included.
## Fan-out, and why it needs care
Wait signals are **edge triggered with no history**. A signal that fires with no waiter
registered is unobservable afterwards.
So a fan-out must register its waits before or as it dispatches: use send-and-wait per
worker, or latched output markers. Dispatching all the workers and then waiting on them one
at a time loses the signals of everyone who finished early.
Send-and-wait registers the waiter **before** the write for the same reason. A separate POST
followed by a wait races, and reports the previous turn's state.
## Lineage
A create request can name the session that spawned it, through a body field or a header, and
the dashboard then draws a lineage arc from parent to child. The skill sets it automatically.
It is resolved rather than trusted: an unresolvable parent is dropped silently rather than
failing the spawn, because a cosmetic field must never break a worker.
## Read next
- [HTTP API](HTTP-API) - the endpoint map and the envelope.
- [Hooks And Integrations](Hooks-And-Integrations) - events flowing the other way.
- [Watching Agents Work](Watching-Agents-Work) - seeing the fan-out in the UI.
- [`skills/codeman/SKILL.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/skills/codeman/SKILL.md) - the skill itself.
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# FAQ
The questions that keep arriving in
[Discussions](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions) and issues. For "why is it
doing that", go to [Troubleshooting](Troubleshooting) instead.
## The basics
### What is Codeman, in one sentence?
A self-hosted dashboard that runs AI coding agents in persistent tmux sessions on your own
machine and lets you drive them from any browser, including a phone.
### Is it free? What is the licence?
MIT, free, and open source. There is no paid tier and no account.
### Do I need an API key?
No. Codeman drives agent CLIs you have already installed and logged in yourself. Whatever
subscription or key that CLI uses is what pays for the tokens. Codeman never collects,
stores, or refreshes your credentials.
### Does Codeman send my code or prompts anywhere?
No. There is no telemetry, no analytics, and no phone-home. The only network traffic
Codeman itself makes is between your browser and your server.
Your agent CLI is a separate matter: Claude Code talks to Anthropic, Codex talks to OpenAI,
and so on. That traffic is the CLI's, on your own account, exactly as it would be in a
terminal.
Two features do send data outward, both off by default and both stated where they appear:
voice dictation through your own Claude login, and the Read My Mind prediction call.
### Does it work on Windows?
Through WSL2. Codeman requires tmux. Install it inside WSL, run your agent CLI inside WSL,
and `http://localhost:3000` works from your Windows browser. Work in the Linux filesystem
rather than `/mnt/c/...`, which is dramatically slower for file watching and git.
### Is there a mobile app?
The web UI is built for phones and installs as a PWA. There is no App Store or Play Store
app.
## Sessions and persistence
### Do my agents keep running when I close the browser?
Yes. Agents run in tmux on the server, not in your browser. Close the tab, close the laptop,
lose the network. When you come back, the session is still there with its scrollback.
The same holds when the Codeman server itself restarts. What does end a session is killing
the tmux server or rebooting the machine.
### What happens after a reboot?
tmux dies with the machine, so the sessions are gone. Conversations are not: Claude
transcripts persist on disk, and the welcome screen's **Resume Conversation** list picks
them back up. Install Codeman as a service and the server itself comes back on boot.
### How many sessions can I run at once?
The design target is 20 sessions and 50 agent windows at 60fps. The hard cap is higher, and
what you will actually hit first is the CPU and memory of the machine running the agents.
### Can I run Claude Code and Codex side by side?
Yes, that is a normal setup. The run mode is per session, so one case can have a Claude tab,
a Codex tab, and a shell tab open at the same time, each with its own colour. Some Codeman
features are Claude-only; [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) lists exactly which.
### Can I attach to a session from a terminal instead of the browser?
Yes. `codeman tui` is a full-screen dashboard of your sessions, with the same
NEEDS YOU / WORKING / IDLE grouping the web UI uses. `codeman tui --list` prints the
numbered list and exits, and `codeman tui 2` attaches straight to session 2. `Enter`
attaches, `F1` comes back. You can also use tmux directly on the `codeman` socket.
## Running unattended
### I hit my Claude usage limit overnight. Can Codeman resume automatically?
Yes, and it is the reason the feature exists. Turn on auto-resume at the top of the Respawn
tab for that session. When Claude halts on a subscription limit, Codeman parses the reset
time from the message, waits until two minutes past it, and continues the conversation.
Respawn cycles are blocked while a session is limit-paused, which is what stops a `/clear`
from wiping the conversation you are waiting to resume. Claude-only.
### Will it keep prompting my agent forever?
Only if you configure it to. Respawn cycling is per session and off unless you turn it on,
and it has presets ranging from a 60 minute solo session to an 8 hour overnight run. There
are circuit breakers to stop a thrashing session from spinning indefinitely. See
[Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running).
### Does an idle session cost tokens?
No. An idle agent is a process waiting for input. Tokens are spent when a turn runs, so what
costs money is the re-prompting you configured, not the session sitting there.
### Can I schedule work for a specific time?
Yes. [Cron Jobs](Cron-Jobs) saves named jobs on a `once`, `interval`, `daily`, or `weekly`
schedule; each spins up a session and sends a prompt when due, with per-job run history.
## Access
### How do I reach Codeman from my phone when I am away from home?
Tailscale is the recommended answer: your devices join a private network, Codeman keeps its
loopback bind, and you get real HTTPS. The installer sets it up, and `install.sh tailscale`
retrofits it onto an existing install.
A Cloudflare tunnel gives a public URL faster, and requires `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`. Full
comparison in [Remote Access](Remote-Access).
### Why can't other devices reach Codeman?
Because the default bind is `127.0.0.1`, on purpose. Codeman starts agents with permission
prompts skipped, so whoever reaches the dashboard can run code on your machine. Exposing it
is a deliberate step, and [Remote Access](Remote-Access) covers the safe ways.
### My reverse proxy domain is rejected with `403 host not allowed`
The always-on Host-header allowlist blocks DNS rebinding, and it does not know your domain.
Add it:
```bash
CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS='codeman.example.com,.internal.example.com'
```
A leading dot matches subdomains. Also make sure the proxy forwards WebSocket upgrades.
### Do I have to type a password on my phone?
No. Scan the QR code shown on the desktop dashboard. Tokens are single use and rotate every
60 seconds. The password remains the fallback.
## Multiple people, multiple instances
### Can several people share one Codeman?
Yes, with `codeman web --multiuser`. Each person gets a login and their own case space, and
sessions, cases, search, and events are scoped to their owner.
Be clear about what that is: it separates **workspaces**, not operating system accounts.
Every session still runs as the same OS user, so a determined user's agent can reach another
user's files. For real isolation, pair users with Docker cases or run separate instances
under separate OS accounts. See [Multi-User Mode](Multi-User-Mode).
### How do I run a second instance, a beta beside my main one?
Give it its own instance name, which scopes the data directory and the tmux socket together:
```bash
CODEMAN_INSTANCE=beta CODEMAN_PORT=5000 codeman web
```
Do not skip this. The data directory and tmux socket are process wide, so a second server on
the defaults discovers and attaches your live sessions.
## Updating and maintenance
### What is the right way to update Codeman?
| Install route | Update with |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Installer | Re-run the install one-liner, or **App Settings → System → Updates**. |
| npm | `npm update -g aicodeman` |
| git clone | `git pull && npm install && npm run build`, then restart the service. |
The in-app updater covers git-clone installs supervised by systemd or launchd. It stashes a
dirty tree rather than discarding it, and streams progress across the restart. npm installs
report as non-updatable.
### Will updating kill my running sessions?
No. Sessions live in tmux, so restarting the server reattaches to them.
### Where is my data?
Everything under `~/.codeman/`, with cases created from scratch in `~/codeman-cases/`.
Nothing needs root and nothing leaves the machine. Uninstalling does not delete either
directory.
## Features
### What is the difference between respawn, Ralph, and the orchestrator?
- **Respawn** restarts a session's CLI when it goes idle, to keep a long run going. It is the
one most people want.
- **Ralph loop** is an autonomous single-session task loop with its own tracker.
- **Orchestrator** turns one goal into a phased plan and drives it across agents.
[Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) and [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops)
cover them properly.
### Can agents start and supervise other agents?
Yes. Codeman ships an agent skill that lets an agent inside a session drive the HTTP API:
list sessions, spawn workers, send prompts, and block until a worker's turn finishes. It is
off by default and enabled per case.
See [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent).
### Can I run a case in a container?
Yes. One container per case, shared by all its sessions, non-root and capability-dropped by
default, with your host CLI logins seeded in so nothing asks you to log in again. You can
export a container plus its workspace and move it to another machine. See
[Docker Cases](Docker-Cases).
### Can the agent run on a different machine?
Yes. Point a case at a remote host over SSH and the agent runs there, inside a durable
remote tmux, so a dropped connection does not kill the run. See
[Remote SSH Sessions](Remote-SSH-Sessions).
### Can I put my Grafana or other dashboards in here?
Yes. Saved URLs render as tabs beside your sessions, proxied through Codeman's own origin so
that mixed content and frame-blocking headers do not break them. See [Web Tabs](Web-Tabs).
### Why is a feature I read about not on screen?
Most of Codeman's UI is opt-in and defaults to off, so a stock install stays small. Check
**App Settings → Header & Panels**. [Settings Reference](Settings-Reference) lists the
defaults.
## Contributing
### How do I request a feature?
Open an [Idea](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/ideas) and it gets
voted on. Roadmap decisions happen there.
### How do I contribute code?
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) has
the full map. Small fixes can go straight to a PR; anything larger starts as an issue or
Discussion so the design gets a nod first. Skins, translations, and docs are good first
contributions.
### How do I fix a mistake in this wiki?
These pages are generated from
[`docs/wiki/`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/tree/master/docs/wiki) in the main
repository. Editing a page in the browser gets overwritten on the next sync, so send a PR
against that directory instead.
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# HTTP API
Codeman's HTTP and SSE API is a **stable contract**. Everything the dashboard does goes
through it, so anything the dashboard can do, a script can do.
This page is the orientation. The complete specification, including every wait semantic and
the SSE catalogue, is
[`docs/api-reference.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/api-reference.md).
## What is stable
Covered by semantic versioning: endpoint paths under `/api/v1`, the response envelope,
`errorCode` values, and SSE event names.
Not covered, and free to change in a patch release: on-disk state files, internal modules,
and anything marked experimental. The full statement is in
[Versioning](Versioning).
`/api/v1/*` is a versioned alias of `/api/*`. Prefer the versioned form in anything you
intend to keep.
## The envelope
```json
{ "success": true, "data": { } }
```
```json
{ "success": false, "error": "human readable", "errorCode": "NOT_FOUND" }
```
A few legacy GET handlers return bare bodies rather than the envelope, so a robust client
reads `body.data ?? body`.
Branch on `errorCode`, which is stable. The HTTP status is reliable too:
| `errorCode` | HTTP | Meaning |
| ------------------ | ---- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| `INVALID_INPUT` | 400 | Malformed request or failed validation. |
| `UNAUTHORIZED` | 401 | Authentication required or failed. |
| `NOT_FOUND` | 404 | No such resource. |
| `SESSION_BUSY` | 409 | The session is busy. |
| `CONFLICT` | 409 | Conflicts with current state. |
| `ALREADY_EXISTS` | 409 | Resource already exists. |
| `OPERATION_FAILED` | 422 | Well formed, could not be completed. |
| `RATE_LIMITED` | 429 | Too many requests. |
| `INTERNAL_ERROR` | 500 | Unexpected server error. |
New error codes are non-breaking. Removing or renaming one is a major change.
**A `401` is the bare string `Unauthorized`, not the envelope.** Piping it into `jq` throws
a parse error rather than showing the failure, so check the status first.
## Authentication
With no password set, and the default loopback bind, there is none. With `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`
set, use HTTP Basic or the session cookie:
```bash
curl -s -u admin:"$CODEMAN_PASSWORD" "$API/api/sessions"
```
A **missing** `Origin` header is allowed, so curl and CLI tools work unchanged. A
present-but-foreign origin is rejected by the CSRF guard. On an HTTPS install with the
self-signed certificate, add `-k`.
## Endpoint map
Roughly 200 handlers across 24 route modules. By domain:
| Domain | Handlers | Covers |
| ------------------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| System | 45 | Status, settings, search, digest, updates. |
| Sessions | 34 | Create, input, terminal, wait, kill. |
| Cases | 29 | Create, link, clone, remote and docker cases. |
| Files | 16 | Preview, edit, raw, attachments, path picker. |
| Orchestrator | 10 | Plans and phases. |
| Ralph | 9 | Loop control and configuration. |
| Cron | 9 | Jobs and run history. |
| Admin | 8 | Multi-user administration. |
| Plan | 8 | Plan orchestration. |
| Respawn | 7 | Respawn configuration and presets. |
| Webviews | 6 | Saved dashboards, plus the proxy. |
| Mux | 5 | tmux operations. |
| Push | 4 | Web push subscriptions. |
| Read My Mind | 4 | Intent profiles and prediction. |
| Scheduled | 4 | The legacy scheduled-run concept. |
| Approvals | 3 | The inbox and answering. |
| Teams, me, search, hooks, clipboard, telemetry, voice, ws | 1-2 each | |
Each route module documents its own endpoints in its file header.
## Long-polling instead of polling
Three calls block until something happens, so an agent driving Codeman from a shell can wait
rather than spin:
| Call | Blocks until |
| ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/wait` | One of a set of lifecycle signals fires. |
| `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/wait-output` | A literal string appears in the session's output. |
| `POST /api/v1/sessions/:id/input` + `wait`| The input is delivered **and then** a signal fires. |
Three semantics that break callers who assume otherwise:
1. **A timeout is `200`, not an error.** It answers with `wait.timedOut: true`. Loop over
short waits; a single long call gets cut by tunnels and proxies.
2. **Send-and-wait is not a POST followed by a wait.** It registers the waiter *before*
writing, which closes the window where a separate wait sees the session still idle from
the previous turn and answers instantly about the wrong turn.
3. **Signals are edge triggered with no history.** One that fires with no waiter registered
is unobservable afterwards. Fan-outs must register their waits as they dispatch.
`wait-output` matches a **literal substring, never a regex.** That is deliberate: no regex
means no catastrophic backtracking on attacker-influenced output.
Only `claude` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`, because those come from Claude Code hooks.
Shell and external CLI sessions accept `idle`, `working`, and `exit`.
## SSE
`GET /api/events` is the live event stream. 156 event names, kept in sync between server and
client with a test that fails on drift.
The heartbeat is a **named** `sse:heartbeat` event rather than an SSE comment, because
comments are invisible to `EventSource` by specification and a client could not observe
them. That is what lets the browser detect a stream that has silently stopped delivering.
```js
const es = new EventSource('/api/events');
es.addEventListener('session:created', (e) => console.log(JSON.parse(e.data)));
```
## Quick examples
```bash
API="${CODEMAN_API_URL:-http://localhost:3000}"
curl -s "$API/api/status" | jq # whole-system snapshot
curl -s "$API/api/sessions" | jq '.data[].name' # live sessions
curl -s "$API/api/sessions/unified" | jq # live + historical, deduped
curl -s "$API/api/subagents" | jq # background agents
curl -s "$API/api/search?q=deploy" | jq # cross-session search
```
## Limits
| Limit | Default |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| Max sessions | 50 |
| Max agent windows | 500 |
| Max SSE clients | 100 |
| Terminal buffer | 32 MB per session |
| Text payload | 1 MB |
| Wait timeout ceiling | 600 s, and the response tells you what was applied |
Most are environment-overridable. See `src/config/`.
## Read next
- [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) - the practical version, with recipes.
- [Hooks And Integrations](Hooks-And-Integrations) - events flowing back into Codeman.
- [Versioning](Versioning) - what the version number promises.
- [`docs/api-reference.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/api-reference.md) - the full specification.
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<p align="center">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ark0N/Codeman/master/docs/images/codeman-title.svg" alt="Codeman" height="56">
</p>
<h3 align="center">Mission control for AI coding agents</h3>
Codeman runs your coding agents on your own machine and puts them behind one dashboard you
can open from any device. It spawns Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, or
Pi inside persistent tmux sessions, streams the real terminal to the browser, and keeps
working while you are away from the keyboard: it re-prompts idle agents, resumes when a
subscription limit resets, runs jobs on a schedule, and shows every background subagent
live.
This wiki is the manual. The [README](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman) is the overview,
and the deep internals live in
[`docs/`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/tree/master/docs).
```bash
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash
codeman web # then open http://localhost:3000
```
---
## Start here
**New to Codeman**
1. [Installation](Installation) - requirements, the installer, npm and git clone routes, updating.
2. [Quick Start](Quick-Start) - from a running server to a working agent in five minutes.
3. [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts) - cases, sessions, run modes, and what survives a restart.
4. [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - reading the tab strip, the status dots, and the alerts.
**Already running it**
- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) - the seven run modes, their setup, and which features are Claude-only.
- [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide) - phone and tablet use, QR login, the touch keyboard bar.
- [Remote Access](Remote-Access) - Tailscale, Cloudflare tunnel, LAN plus password, QR login.
- [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) - idle detection, respawn cycling, auto-resume on usage limits.
- [Troubleshooting](Troubleshooting) - symptom-first index of things that actually break.
**Driving it from code**
- [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) - the bundled skill, worker sessions, wait primitives.
- [HTTP API](HTTP-API) - the envelope, auth, the endpoint map, SSE events.
- [Hooks And Integrations](Hooks-And-Integrations) - events flowing back into Codeman.
---
## Everything in the manual
### Getting started
| Page | What it answers |
| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| [Installation](Installation) | How do I install it, update it, and remove it? |
| [Quick Start](Quick-Start) | How do I get one agent working right now? |
| [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts) | What is a case, a session, a run mode? |
### Using it
| Page | What it answers |
| ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) | What is the UI telling me? |
| [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) | Which agent should this session run, and how do I set it up? |
| [Working With Files](Working-With-Files) | How do I read, edit, and attach files? |
| [Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice) | How do I talk to an agent, including by voice? |
| [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide) | How well does this work on a phone? |
| [Keyboard Shortcuts](Keyboard-Shortcuts) | What can I drive from the keyboard? |
| [Settings Reference](Settings-Reference) | What does this setting do, and why did it not follow me to my phone? |
### Keeping agents running
| Page | What it answers |
| ------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) | How does it run unattended overnight? |
| [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals) | How do I know an agent needs me, and answer from my phone? |
| [Cron Jobs](Cron-Jobs) | How do I run an agent on a schedule? |
| [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops) | What are the Ralph and Orchestrator loops for? |
| [Watching Agents Work](Watching-Agents-Work) | How do I see what the subagents are doing? |
### Where it runs
| Page | What it answers |
| --------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases) | How do I sandbox a project in a container? |
| [Remote SSH Sessions](Remote-SSH-Sessions) | How do I run the agent on another machine? |
| [Web Tabs](Web-Tabs) | Can my Grafana live in here too? |
| [Multi-User Mode](Multi-User-Mode) | Can several people share one Codeman? |
### Access and security
| Page | What it answers |
| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Remote Access](Remote-Access) | How do I reach it from outside this machine, safely? |
| [Security](Security) | What is exposed, what protects it, what do I have to do? |
### Automation and integration
| Page | What it answers |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) | How does an agent spawn and drive workers? |
| [HTTP API](HTTP-API) | What can I call, and what comes back? |
| [Hooks And Integrations](Hooks-And-Integrations) | How do I wire Codeman into something else? |
### Operating it
| Page | What it answers |
| --------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| [Running As A Service](Running-As-A-Service) | How do I keep it up across reboots, and update it? |
| [Troubleshooting](Troubleshooting) | Why is it doing that? |
| [FAQ](FAQ) | The questions that keep coming up. |
| [Contributing](Contributing) | How do I send a fix? |
| [Versioning](Versioning) | What does the version number promise? |
---
## Requirements at a glance
| Thing | Needed |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| OS | macOS or Linux. Windows works through WSL2. |
| Node.js | 22 or newer. |
| tmux | Required. Sessions live in tmux, which is what makes them survive restarts. |
| An agent CLI | At least one of Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi. Plain shell sessions need none. |
| Network | Binds to `127.0.0.1` by default. Reaching it from another device is a deliberate step: see [Remote Access](Remote-Access). |
Codeman is MIT licensed, self-hosted, and sends no telemetry. Everything runs on your
machine.
## Getting help
- **Questions and setup help**: [Discussions](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions), especially [Q&A](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/q-a).
- **Bugs**: [Issues](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues). Include your OS, install method, browser, and which CLI the session was running.
- **Ideas and roadmap**: [Ideas](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/ideas).
- **Security**: never a public issue. See [SECURITY.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/.github/SECURITY.md).
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# Hooks and Integrations
Events flowing **back** into Codeman, and the four seams a third party can build against.
## Hooks
Claude Code can run a command when something happens in a session. Codeman writes a hooks
configuration into each Claude case so those events post back to it, which is what turns a
terminal into something that can notify you.
| Event | Fires when | Drives |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| `permission_prompt` | The agent asks for permission. | Red tab alert, Approvals Inbox, push. |
| `idle_prompt` | The agent is waiting for input. | Yellow tab alert, the `idle` wait signal. |
| `stop` | A turn ends. | The `stop` wait signal, idle detection. |
| `elicitation_dialog` | A dialog opens. | Approvals Inbox. |
| `elicitation_complete` | The dialog closes. | Clearing the alert. |
| `elicitation_response` | The dialog is answered. | Clearing the alert. |
| `teammate_idle` | An agent-team member goes idle. | Team surfaces. |
| `task_completed` | A task finishes. | Task tracking, run summary. |
This is why several Codeman features are Claude-only. The other CLIs have no hook system, so
for them Codeman watches terminal output, which reveals that something happened but not what
it was.
### How hooks get installed
Codeman writes them into the case when a Claude session is created. Hook blocks are
**marker-owned**: Codeman only ever updates a block it wrote, and never touches
configuration you added yourself.
If tab alerts and approvals never fire in a particular case, that case is missing its hook
block. Recreating the case rewrites it.
### The hook secret
`/api/hook-event` and `/api/status-telemetry` skip HTTP Basic authentication, because they
are called from localhost by the CLI itself. When authentication is on, that bypass
additionally requires a per-instance hook secret, because Codeman cannot tell a genuine
loopback call from a request arriving through your own loopback reverse proxy.
The secret lives in the data directory, and its path is exported into every managed session.
### Two things that break hooks
- **HTTPS.** Hook callbacks must accept the self-signed certificate. Recent versions
self-heal existing cases; older cases need recreating.
- **Docker cases on a loopback bind.** A container cannot reach `127.0.0.1` on the host, so
in-container hooks silently do not fire. Set `CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=1` to open a
hooks-only listener on the bridge gateway. See [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases).
## Integration seams
Codeman has **no plugin runtime**, and that is a decision rather than a gap. A plugin runtime
means running third-party code inside a process that spawns agents with your credentials, on
a server people routinely expose over a tunnel. Codeman's security posture is one of its
reasons to exist, so it does not trade that away for an extension mechanism.
What exists instead is four documented seams.
### 1. Web tabs
Anything with a web UI can live inside Codeman as a tab, proxied through Codeman's own
origin. The lowest-effort integration by a wide margin: if your tool has a dashboard, it can
sit beside the agents with no code at all. See [Web Tabs](Web-Tabs).
### 2. SSE events
`GET /api/events` streams everything Codeman knows: session lifecycle, output, agent
activity, approvals, cron runs. 155 named events, stable under semantic versioning.
This is the seam for anything that reacts. A bot that pings your chat channel when an agent
needs a human is a short script over this stream.
### 3. HTTP API and CLI
Everything the dashboard does. Create sessions, send input, block on wait primitives, read
terminals, manage cron. See [HTTP API](HTTP-API) and
[Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent).
### 4. Hooks
The seam above, in the other direction: your own hook commands can run alongside Codeman's
in a case, as long as you leave Codeman's marker-owned block alone.
## Publishing an integration
There is no registry to submit to. Share it in
[Show and tell](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/300), and if it needs a change
in Codeman to work properly, open an issue or a Discussion first.
## Read next
- [HTTP API](HTTP-API) - the endpoint map and envelope.
- [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) - the agent-facing path.
- [`docs/extending-codeman.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/extending-codeman.md) - the seams in full, with examples.
- [`docs/claude-code-hooks-reference.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/claude-code-hooks-reference.md) - upstream hook semantics.
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# Input and Voice
Getting words into an agent: typing, dictating, and letting Codeman guess. Plus the input
machinery that only shows up when it goes wrong.
## Typing
Click into the terminal and type. It is a real terminal, so everything the CLI supports
works, slash commands included.
| Key | Effect |
| ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| `Enter` | Send. |
| `Shift+Enter` / `Ctrl+Enter` | Newline without sending. |
| `Ctrl+C` | Copy if text is selected, otherwise interrupt. |
| `Ctrl+Shift+C` | Copy, never interrupts. |
| `Ctrl+L` | Clear the terminal. |
### Exactly-once delivery
Browser input goes through a durable layer rather than a plain socket write. Each prompt
carries a stable client id and a per-session sequence number, held in local storage until
the server acknowledges it.
The result is the property you want on a phone: a connection that drops mid-prompt never
loses the prompt and never delivers it twice. Two browser tabs on the same session coexist,
and only a reconnect from the *same* tab supersedes the old connection.
## Zero-lag local echo
On touch devices, keystrokes are painted in the terminal immediately and sent when you press
Enter, instead of waiting for each character to round-trip to the server and back. Over a
mobile connection that is the difference between usable and not.
![Zero-lag input](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ark0N/Codeman/master/docs/images/zerolag-demo-20260728.gif)
The consequence to remember: **text on screen has not necessarily reached the agent yet.**
It is flushed on Enter. If a prompt appears to have been ignored, press Enter, or the phone
toolbar's **Enter** button.
Default on for touch devices, off for desktop, and switchable in
**App Settings → Terminal & Input**.
### Codex is different on purpose
Codex's composer reacts to every keystroke: `/` opens a live-filtering picker, arrows edit
state on its side, the composer grows as text wraps. Buffering until Enter starved it, so
Codex sessions use **predictive echo** instead: each keystroke is painted at its predicted
position while the bytes actually sent stay identical to what you typed. Predictions
reconcile against the real buffer and only apply while the cursor is on the composer row.
## CJK input
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean input needs an IME, and an IME needs a real text field.
Turning on CJK input in **App Settings → Terminal & Input** puts an always-visible textarea
below the terminal that owns composition, then delivers the composed text to the session.
## Voice dictation
`Ctrl+Shift+V`, or the microphone button. There are three providers and the default is
`auto`, which prefers them in this order:
| Provider | Needs | Notes |
| ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Claude** | Claude Code logged in on the server. Opt-in. | Uses this machine's existing Claude login. No extra key. |
| **Deepgram** | A Deepgram API key. | Nova-3, with automatic silence detection. |
| **Web Speech** | Nothing. | Browser-provided, quality varies. |
### Dictating through your Claude login
Off by default; enable it in **App Settings → Voice**.
Claude Code has its own voice mode, but it opens the **host's** microphone, and in Codeman
the CLI runs headless in a tmux pane while you are in a browser somewhere else entirely. So
Codeman captures audio in your browser and borrows only the backend: audio goes browser to
Codeman to Anthropic, and the page never sees the OAuth token.
Two deliberate limits:
- **Credentials are read only.** Codeman never refreshes your Claude token, because a
refresh rotates the refresh token and could sign you out of your own CLI. An expired token
is reported as expired rather than silently renewed.
- **Capture is raw PCM** at 16 kHz mono, which requires an AudioWorklet rather than the
usual browser recorder.
## Read My Mind
**Claude only, off by default.** Turn it on in **App Settings**, and a 🧠 button appears in
the header (on phones, in the keyboard bar instead).
It keeps a per-case **intent profile**: goals you or your agent write down, plus the prompts
you actually submitted in that case. Pressing 🧠 feeds that profile plus live session signals
to a single model call and shows a predicted next prompt.
What you can do with the result:
- **Send** it, **Insert** it into the composer, or edit it first.
- Pick one of the alternate suggestions, which swaps into the editable field without losing
your edits.
- **Rethink**, optionally with a steer note, to reject the whole set and try again.
**Nothing is ever sent automatically.** Every path requires a click.
Where the data lives: the profile is keyed by owner and the resolved working directory, so
it survives `/clear` and respawns. Prompts can contain secrets, so the store is written
0600 and is deliberately excluded from cross-session search.
Guide: [`docs/readmymind.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/readmymind.md).
## Programmatic input
Sending prompts over the API has one rule that catches everyone: **the payload must end with
`\r`** or Enter is never sent. The request still succeeds, the text sits unsubmitted in the
composer, and any wait burns its whole timeout on a turn that never started.
Input is also **single line**. Embedded newlines are stripped rather than rejected, so
`"echo A\necho B\r"` runs the joined `echo Aecho B`. Put multi-line content in a file and
tell the agent to read it.
See [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent).
## Gotchas
- **Typed text sitting on screen has not been sent.** Press Enter.
- **`Ctrl+C` with a selection copies.** Clear the selection to interrupt.
- **Voice needs HTTPS.** Microphone access requires a secure context, same as push
notifications.
- **Read My Mind goes blind for sessions using a relocated Claude config directory**, along
with the other transcript-backed features. See [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs).
## Read next
- [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide) - the keyboard bar and touch input.
- [Keyboard Shortcuts](Keyboard-Shortcuts) - the full list.
- [Working With Files](Working-With-Files) - images and attachments as input.
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# Installation
Getting Codeman onto a machine, verifying it works, updating it, and removing it.
## Requirements
| Requirement | Notes |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **macOS or Linux** | Windows works through WSL2. See [Windows](#windows-wsl) below. |
| **Node.js 22+** | The installer offers to install it if missing. |
| **tmux** | Not optional. Sessions live inside tmux, which is what makes them survive a server restart, a dropped connection, or a closed laptop. |
| **An agent CLI** | At least one of [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code), [OpenCode](https://opencode.ai), [Codex](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli), [Antigravity](https://antigravity.google), [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli), [Pi](https://pi.dev). Plain shell sessions need none. See [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs). |
Codeman itself sends no telemetry and phones no home. The only network traffic is your
browser to your server, and whatever the agent CLI you chose does on its own.
## Route A: the installer (recommended)
```bash
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash
```
This installs Node.js and tmux if they are missing, clones Codeman into `~/.codeman/app`,
and builds it.
What it asks you:
1. **Permission for every system change.** Package installs and agent CLI downloads are
prompted individually. Nothing is installed silently.
2. **How the dashboard should be reachable.** Three choices:
- **Tailscale** (recommended for phone access): keeps the loopback bind and walks you
through `tailscale serve`, including the tailnet HTTPS toggle, then verifies the result
end to end.
- **Your local network** (`0.0.0.0`): prompts for a password. Skipping the password takes
an explicit confirmation and ends on a loud warning.
- **This machine only** (`127.0.0.1`): the safest option, and the default for a bare
`codeman web` regardless of what you pick here.
Which one is preselected depends on what the installer finds. A fresh install defaults to
the local network, unless Tailscale is already connected, in which case it defaults to
Tailscale. An existing loopback install defaults to keeping loopback, or to Tailscale when
a serve mapping for Codeman is already there. A bare Enter never pulls in new software,
and a non-interactive run always keeps the safe loopback default.
3. **What to do when it finishes.** Run in this terminal, install as a background service
that starts on boot, or do nothing yet.
Re-running the same one-liner **updates an existing install in place**. Local changes in
`~/.codeman/app` are stashed rather than discarded, a running service is restarted and
verified, and your existing network binding is preserved. An interrupted first install
resumes instead of restarting.
Two other entry points exist:
```bash
install.sh update # update only
install.sh uninstall # remove
install.sh tailscale # retrofit Tailscale access onto an existing install
```
**Automation and CI**: with no terminal attached, any step that would change the system
aborts with instructions instead of running silently. Set `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1` to
approve those steps. `CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1` preselects the Tailscale answer, and never
installs Tailscale itself non-interactively.
## Route B: npm
```bash
npm install -g aicodeman
codeman web
```
The npm package is named `aicodeman`; the product is Codeman. Both `codeman` and
`aicodeman` are installed as commands.
The trade-off against Route A: no guided network setup, and the in-app self-updater does
not apply. npm installs report as non-updatable in **App Settings → System → Updates**, and
you update with `npm update -g aicodeman`.
## Route C: git clone
For contributing, or for running unreleased code.
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman.git
cd Codeman
npm install # postinstall builds the vendored xterm addon bundles
npm run dev # dev server on http://localhost:3000
```
For a production run from a clone:
```bash
npm run build
npm run start
```
`npm run dev` runs TypeScript directly through `tsx` with no build step. The frontend is
plain JavaScript served from `src/web/public/` with no bundler, so editing a `.js` or `.css`
file and reloading the page is enough. The one exception is `index.html`, which is read once
at server start, so markup changes need a restart.
See [Contributing](Contributing) for the rest of the development loop.
## Installing an agent CLI
Codeman drives CLIs, it does not bundle them. Install at least one:
| CLI | Install | Notes |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Claude Code** | `npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code` | The primary target. Some Codeman features are Claude-only: see [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs). |
| **OpenCode** | See [opencode.ai](https://opencode.ai) | |
| **Codex** | See [developers.openai.com/codex/cli](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli) | |
| **Antigravity** | See [antigravity.google](https://antigravity.google) | Google's successor to the consumer Gemini CLI. |
| **Gemini CLI** | See [github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) | Enterprise only since Google's June 2026 consumer cutover. |
| **Pi** | See [pi.dev](https://pi.dev) | No permission prompts and no sandbox by design. Read [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) before using it on a repo you care about. |
Log each CLI in once, by hand, before pointing Codeman at it. Codeman never collects or
stores your CLI credentials.
## Verify the install
```bash
codeman doctor # checks Node, tmux, the agent CLIs, document converters
codeman --version
codeman web # then open http://localhost:3000
```
`codeman doctor --json` gives machine-readable output, and `--category core` narrows it to
the things a session cannot start without.
If the dashboard loads and **+ New Session** opens, you are done. Continue to
[Quick Start](Quick-Start).
## Where things live
| Path | What |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `~/.codeman/app` | The installed code (installer route only). |
| `~/.codeman/` | All state: `state.json`, settings, session history, push keys, TLS certs. See [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts). |
| `~/codeman-cases/` | Cases created from scratch. Linked cases stay wherever they already are. |
| `~/.codeman/web.log` | Log for a detached (`-d`) server. |
Everything is under your home directory, and nothing needs root.
## Keeping it running
A bare `codeman web` dies with the shell that started it. Two ways to outlive that:
```bash
codeman web -d # detached; --status and --stop manage it
codeman service install # systemd user unit or macOS LaunchAgent; survives reboots
```
Full detail, including logs and the self-updater, is in
[Running As A Service](Running-As-A-Service).
## Updating
| Install route | How to update |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Installer | Re-run the one-liner, or **App Settings → System → Updates** in the UI. |
| npm | `npm update -g aicodeman` |
| git clone | `git pull && npm install && npm run build`, then restart. |
The in-app updater covers git-clone installs supervised by systemd or launchd. It restarts
the process that is running it, so the actual work happens in a detached script and the
browser polls across the restart. Progress appears in the UI.
## Uninstalling
```bash
install.sh uninstall # installer route
npm uninstall -g aicodeman # npm route
```
Neither removes `~/.codeman/` or `~/codeman-cases/`. Delete those by hand if you want the
state and your case folders gone as well, and check `~/codeman-cases/` first: linked cases
point at directories you already had, but cases created from scratch have their only copy
there.
Running tmux sessions are not killed by an uninstall. `tmux -L codeman kill-server` ends
them.
## Windows (WSL)
```powershell
wsl bash -c "curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash"
```
Codeman requires tmux, so Windows runs it inside
[WSL2](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install). If you do not have WSL yet:
run `wsl --install` in an admin PowerShell, reboot, open Ubuntu, and install your agent CLI
*inside* WSL. `http://localhost:3000` then works from your Windows browser.
Work inside the Linux filesystem (`~/project`), not `/mnt/c/...`. Filesystem watching and
git are both dramatically slower across the Windows mount, and agents notice.
## macOS notes
**`Error: posix_spawnp failed.` on every session start.** node-pty publishes its macOS
`spawn-helper` without the executable bit, and macOS launches every PTY through it. Codeman
detects this and repairs it automatically on the first failure. If you hit it on a clone
install and want to fix it by hand:
```bash
npm run fix:node-pty
```
This is a `chmod`, not a rebuild. Look in `prebuilds/darwin-<arch>/`, not
`build/Release/`, which does not exist on macOS. Linux cannot reproduce this.
**launchd and PATH.** A LaunchAgent gets `/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin`, which finds
neither a Homebrew or nvm `node` nor `tmux` or `claude`. `codeman service install` bakes
your current PATH into the unit for exactly this reason, so prefer it over a hand-written
plist.
## Gotchas
- **`tmux: command not found` after a successful install.** The installer asks before
installing packages, and a declined prompt is a valid answer it remembers. Install tmux
and re-run.
- **Port 3000 in use.** `codeman web --port 8080`, or set `CODEMAN_PORT`.
- **Two Codemans on one machine.** The data directory and the tmux socket are both process
wide, so a second instance discovers and attaches the first one's live sessions. Give each
a distinct `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` before starting a second. See [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts).
- **The dashboard is not reachable from your phone.** That is the default, not a fault. The
server binds `127.0.0.1`. See [Remote Access](Remote-Access).
## Read next
- [Quick Start](Quick-Start) - your first working session.
- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) - picking and setting up a run mode.
- [Remote Access](Remote-Access) - reaching it from another device.
- [Troubleshooting](Troubleshooting) - when the above did not go as written.
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# Keeping Agents Running
Codeman exists for the hours you are not at the keyboard. This page covers how it notices an
agent has stopped, what it does about it, and how to run a session overnight without
babysitting it.
Everything here is **per session and off by default**. A session you never configure just
sits there when it finishes, which is usually what you want.
## How Codeman knows an agent is idle
Harder than it sounds, and worth understanding, because it is what every other feature here
is built on.
**For Claude sessions**, the naive signal does not work. Claude redraws its prompt marker
roughly once a second all the way through a turn, so "saw a prompt, waited two seconds,
called it idle" flipped working sessions to idle a couple of seconds into every turn. Its
real working indicator is an animated line whose glyph and wording both change, and terminal
repaints arrive in partial fragments, so matching it in the output stream does not work
either.
So Codeman waits for the pane to go quiet, then **asks the screen** what is on it before
believing the session is idle. Turn-start detection works the same way in reverse: a
sustained run of repaints marks a turn as started, with the same screen check vetoing mere
keystroke echo. Idle now lands a few seconds after a turn genuinely ends.
There are several layers stacked on that: a completion message from the CLI, an AI check,
output silence, and token stability.
**For every other CLI**, there are no hooks to lean on, so detection is output
stabilization: the session is idle when output stops changing. Coarser, and it is why the
features further down this page are Claude-only.
## The Respawn Controller
Respawn keeps a session working past the point where the agent would otherwise stop. When
the session goes idle, Codeman runs a cycle and starts it again.
A cycle is up to four steps, each optional:
1. **Update prompt.** Ask the agent to write down where it got to, so the next round can pick
it up.
2. **`/clear`.** Reset the context window.
3. **`/init`.** Re-read the project's `CLAUDE.md`.
4. **Kickstart prompt.** Tell it to continue.
Steps 2 and 3 are what make long runs possible: without a context reset, a multi-hour
session eventually spends its whole window on its own history.
Configure it in **Session Options → Respawn**, then press **Enable**. It repeats until the
duration you set runs out.
| Setting | What it controls |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Idle timeout** | How long the session must be quiet before a cycle starts. |
| **Duration** | How long the whole arrangement stays armed. |
| **Inter-step delay** | Pause between the steps above, so a step is not sent into a busy pane. |
| **`/clear` + `/init`** | Whether the context reset happens at all. |
| **Update prompt** | What the agent is asked to record before the reset. |
| **Kickstart prompt** | What starts the next round. |
| **Auto-accept prompts**| Answer routine confirmation dialogs automatically. |
### Presets
Five built-ins, and the numbers matter more than the names. The idle timeout is the main
difference: a lead session coordinating subagents is legitimately silent for a minute at a
time, and a three second timeout would interrupt it constantly.
| Preset | Idle timeout | Duration | Built for |
| -------------- | ------------ | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Solo** | 3s | 60 min | One agent working alone, fast cycles with a context reset. |
| **Subagents** | 45s | 240 min | A lead session running Task subagents; tolerates their silences. |
| **Team** | 90s | 480 min | Leading an agent team; tolerates long silences. |
| **Ralph/Todo** | 8s | 480 min | Working through a task list with progress tracking. |
| **Overnight** | 10s | 480 min | Unattended overnight runs with a full reset between cycles. |
Start from the preset that matches your shape of work and adjust the idle timeout first.
Presets you build yourself can be saved alongside these.
### What it costs
Every cycle is real tokens: the update prompt, the reset, and the kickstart, plus whatever
work follows. An overnight run is a deliberate spend, not a background nicety. The duration
setting is the ceiling, and it is worth setting honestly.
## Auto-resume when a usage limit resets
**Claude only.** At the top of the Respawn tab.
When Claude halts on a subscription limit, the message names the time the limit resets.
Codeman parses it, arms a timer for two minutes after that, then sends Escape followed by
`continue`.
The important part is what it does **not** do: respawn cycles are blocked while a session is
limit-paused. Without that, the next cycle would fire `/clear` and wipe the conversation you
are waiting to resume. This is the single most useful setting for overnight runs on a
subscription plan.
## The plan usage chip
**Claude only.** A header chip showing live subscription usage, on by default on desktop and
off on phones.
It works by installing a status line exporter into Claude Code, which posts Claude's own
rate limit data back to Codeman. The exporter is marker-identified, so it only ever touches
a status line Codeman installed, never one you wrote yourself, and it prints your footer
through so the in-terminal status line still works.
The chip and the exporter are the same setting. Turning the chip on without the exporter
would leave it showing a dash forever, so resolve it in one place: **App Settings**.
## Circuit breakers
Two, and they are unrelated:
- **The Ralph breaker** stops respawn thrashing. It moves from closed to half-open to open,
and is reset from the session's Ralph controls.
- **The PTY-exit breaker** trips when a session's process exits repeatedly and quickly, and
blocks automatic restarts so a broken configuration cannot spin forever.
The PTY-exit breaker resets **only** on an explicit clear. Reattaching to the session does
not clear it, deliberately, so a UI reconnect cannot paper over a session that is genuinely
failing to start.
## A working overnight setup
1. Start a Claude session in the case you want worked on.
2. Give it a clear goal and let it start. Respawn continues work, it does not invent it.
3. **Session Options → Respawn → Overnight preset.**
4. Turn on **auto-resume on usage limit**.
5. Set the duration to how long you actually want it running.
6. Press **Enable**.
7. Optionally turn on push notifications so a blocking question reaches your phone: see
[Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals).
In the morning, the **Away Digest** summarizes what happened while you were gone, and the
run summary and lifecycle log carry the detail.
## Gotchas
- **Respawn without a context reset stalls eventually.** The window fills with history and
the agent gets less useful every cycle.
- **An idle timeout that is too short interrupts real work.** If the agent runs long tool
calls or coordinates subagents, raise it. That is what the Subagents and Team presets are.
- **The update prompt is what makes a reset survivable.** After `/clear`, everything the
agent knows comes from that summary and the project files. A vague update prompt produces
a vague next cycle.
- **Non-Claude sessions can respawn**, but with output-based idle detection and no
usage-limit auto-resume.
- **Do not run respawn on a session you are actively typing in.** It will send prompts
underneath you.
## Read next
- [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops) - Ralph and the orchestrator, for structured
autonomous work rather than "keep going".
- [Cron Jobs](Cron-Jobs) - starting work on a schedule instead of continuing it.
- [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals) - being told when it needs you.
- [`docs/respawn-state-machine.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/respawn-state-machine.md) - the state machine itself.
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# Keyboard Shortcuts
Every binding, and how to change them. `Ctrl` also accepts `Cmd` on macOS.
Press `Ctrl+?` in the app for the same list in a floating overlay.
## Sessions and tabs
| Shortcut | Action |
| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Ctrl+K` (also `Cmd+K`, `Alt+K`)| Find an open session or start a new one. |
| `Ctrl+W` | Kill the active session. |
| `Ctrl+Tab` | Next session. |
| `Alt+[` / `Alt+]` | Previous / next tab. |
| `Alt+1` to `Alt+9` | Switch to tab N. Physical keys, so macOS Option layouts work. |
| `Ctrl+Shift+{` / `Ctrl+Shift+}` | Move the active tab left / right. |
| `Alt+B` | Collapse / expand the session sidebar, when that layout is on. |
## Terminal
| Shortcut | Action |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Enter` | Send. |
| `Shift+Enter` | Insert a newline without sending. |
| `Ctrl+Enter` | Same. |
| `Ctrl+C` | Copy the selection, or interrupt when nothing is selected. |
| `Ctrl+Shift+C` | Copy the selection. Never interrupts. |
| `Ctrl+L` | Clear the terminal. |
| `Ctrl+Shift+R` | Restore terminal size. |
| `Ctrl` `+` / `Ctrl` `-` | Font size. |
| `Shift+Wheel` | Scroll the local buffer, even where the wheel is forwarded to the CLI. |
## Everything else
| Shortcut | Action |
| -------------- | ------------------------------- |
| `Ctrl+Shift+V` | Toggle voice input. |
| `Ctrl+?` | Shortcut reference overlay. |
| `Escape` | Close panels and modals. |
## Rebinding
**App Settings → Shortcuts.** Bindings live in a registry with per-user overrides, so a
rebind is stored as an override on top of the default rather than replacing the table.
Two things are deliberately not rebindable:
- **`Ctrl+C` smart copy.** The generic dispatch loop calls `preventDefault()` on every
shortcut it handles, and doing that to `Ctrl+C` would swallow the interrupt when nothing
is selected. It is handled separately for that reason.
- **`Escape`**, which closes whatever is open.
## Why some chords behave oddly
The terminal sees keystrokes before the app does. Any chord the app claims has to also be
swallowed at the terminal layer, or xterm writes the control byte into the session as well
as triggering the action. If you rebind something to a chord the terminal cares about
(`Ctrl+D`, say), expect the CLI to see it too.
`Alt+1` through `Alt+9` are matched on **physical key position** rather than the character
produced, so macOS Option layouts that produce `¡™£` still switch tabs.
## On phones
There is no physical keyboard, so the equivalents live in the keyboard accessory bar: `Esc`,
`Ctrl` as a one-shot modifier, `Tab`, arrows, and quick actions. See
[Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide).
## Read next
- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - what the shortcuts are navigating.
- [Settings Reference](Settings-Reference) - where the overrides are stored.
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# Mobile Guide
Codeman on a phone is not a shrunken desktop UI. It is the surface most of its design
attention has gone into, because checking on an agent from a bus is the thing this software
is for.
<p align="center">
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ark0N/Codeman/master/docs/screenshots/mobile-session-keyboard-20260727.png" alt="Answering an agent prompt on a phone" width="300">
</p>
## Getting there
1. **Set up access.** Tailscale is the recommended route and gives you real HTTPS. See
[Remote Access](Remote-Access).
2. **Log in by QR.** Open the dashboard on your desktop and scan the code. No password
typing. Tokens are single use and rotate every 60 seconds.
3. **Install it to your home screen.** On iOS this is mandatory for push notifications;
Safari does not deliver push to tabs. On Android it makes the app full screen.
HTTPS matters for more than security here: microphone access and push notifications both
require a secure context.
## The layout
| Element | Where |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Header | Fixed at the top, deliberately minimal. Desktop-only controls never appear. |
| Tab strip | Scrolls horizontally. The active tab is always scrolled into view. |
| Terminal | The rest of the screen. |
| Toolbar | Bottom: Run, Stop, **Enter**, case picker, voice, settings. |
| Keyboard bar | Above the on-screen keyboard when it is open. |
Layout respects notch and home-indicator safe areas, touch targets are 44px, and the case
picker is a bottom sheet rather than a dropdown.
**Swipe left and right** on the terminal to switch sessions.
## The home screen
Tapping the "C" logo gives a session overview rather than a welcome page:
1. **NEEDS YOU** first: sessions blocked on a question, with answer strips so you can
resolve them without opening the session.
2. **CURRENT SESSIONS** with live status.
3. **PAST SESSIONS**, resumable.
Row status uses the same language as the tabs: green when fine, pulsing while working,
yellow when waiting for input, red when a question is pending.
The split Run button carries the same per-backend colours as the desktop toolbar, and its
picker mirrors the desktop run-mode menu.
On by default; it can be turned off in settings.
## The keyboard accessory bar
A row of keys above the virtual keyboard, and what it contains depends on the session.
**Agent sessions** get quick actions: `/init`, `/clear`, `/compact`, a clipboard key, `Esc`,
a path picker, an image key, and 🧠 when Read My Mind is on. Destructive commands need a
double press, so you cannot fire `/clear` with a stray thumb.
**Shell sessions** automatically swap it for terminal controls: `Ctrl`, `Esc`, `Tab`, four
arrows, paste, and dismiss. Your normal preference is remembered and restored when you
switch back to an agent session, so a settings change during a shell session cannot strip
the bar away permanently.
### One-shot Ctrl
`Ctrl` on the shell bar is a **one-shot modifier**: tap `Ctrl`, then tap `c`, and the
control byte is sent. It disarms on use, on a second tap, on any other accessory key, on a
session switch, and when the keyboard closes.
That list matters. A modifier left armed turns your next innocent keystroke into a control
byte, so it is deliberately eager to disarm. Keys with no control equivalent pass through
unchanged, exactly like a hardware keyboard.
## The Enter button
The toolbar's dedicated **Enter** button exists because of local echo. On a phone, the
characters you type are painted locally and have not reached the agent yet; Enter flushes
them and then submits.
It replays the keypress through the terminal rather than sending a bare carriage return.
Sending a bare `\r` would submit an empty line and strand your typed text on screen, which
looks exactly like a dead button.
On phones this button replaces the desktop's **Run Shell** control; starting a shell moved
into the Run dropdown.
## Tapping, links and copying
- **Tap a link** in terminal output and it opens in a new tab. Same for a link in an agent's
answer in the response viewer — it opens a tab rather than navigating the dashboard away,
which on a phone would unload the whole session view.
- **Tap a file path** an agent printed and the file-preview overlay opens; a log path opens the
log viewer. Works in scrolled-up transcript too.
- A tap on the prose *beside* a link still places the cursor as usual, and a tap on a dialog's
numbered choice still answers the dialog even when the row contains a path — the dialog wins,
because on a phone it is the only interaction that matters.
- **Long-press to select text**, then drag, or tap the other end to extend the selection — no
hairline handles to grab. A small bar offers **Copy**, **Line** (the whole logical line,
wrapped rows included) and dismiss. Copy works on plain-HTTP installs too, where the browser
clipboard API is unavailable.
- A swipe is never mistaken for a long-press, and the keyboard stays down while you select.
## Scrolling and the keyboard
- The terminal and toolbar shift up when the keyboard opens, tracked through the browser's
visual viewport rather than guessed.
- **Two ways to dismiss the keyboard**: tap outside the terminal on inert space, or tap twice
on inert terminal content. Tapping a control never dismisses it, and tapping the prompt row
keeps focus so you can place the caret.
- A scroll is never mistaken for a tap: travel is measured from the start of the gesture, and
multi-touch never counts.
- **A long prompt stays visible.** Once what you are typing wraps past the last visible row it
grows upward over the transcript instead of sliding under the keyboard, so the end of the
sentence — where the cursor is — is always on screen. A prompt taller than the visible strip
shows its tail.
## Voice
The microphone button, or the keyboard bar. Providers and setup are covered in
[Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice). Dictating is often faster than typing a prompt on a
phone, and it is the main reason the feature exists.
## Notifications
Push notifications reach you with no tab open, and with the Approvals Inbox on they carry
**Approve** and **Deny** buttons handled by the service worker, so you can unblock an agent
from the lock screen.
Setup in [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals).
## Reading long answers
The terminal viewport is small. **Last Response** (opt-in header button) renders the agent's
last answer as scrollable text instead, with a **More** button for additional context.
The [File Viewer](Working-With-Files) works on phones too, including edit mode, which is
enough to fix a typo an agent introduced while you are away from your desk.
## What is deliberately not on phones
- Extra header buttons. New header controls are kept off phones by policy, with a test that
enforces it.
- The Approvals bell. Phones get the NEEDS YOU strips on the home screen instead.
- The desktop home tab rail, which needs a wide window.
- Lineage arcs, which are a desktop overlay.
## Gotchas
- **Typed text sitting on screen has not been sent.** Press Enter.
- **iOS needs the home screen install for push**, not just a bookmark.
- **iOS Safari can serve stale JavaScript after an update** until the tab is fully closed.
Close it and reopen.
- **Plain HTTP over a LAN address disables voice and push.** Use HTTPS.
- **An armed `Ctrl` is visibly highlighted.** If it looks the same as a resting key, you are
on an old version, on a light skin.
## Read next
- [Remote Access](Remote-Access) - getting the phone connected in the first place.
- [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals) - being told when you are needed.
- [Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice) - local echo, dictation, and the input rules.
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# Multi-User Mode
Share one Codeman with a small trusted team. Each person gets their own login and workspace,
and sessions, cases, search, and live events are scoped to their owner.
**Off by default.** Without the flag, behaviour is identical to single-user Codeman, because
every scoping check short-circuits.
## Read this before enabling it
**Multi-user mode separates workspaces. It does not sandbox users from each other.**
Every session still runs as the **same operating system account**. A determined user's agent
can reach another user's files, because at the OS level they are the same user. This is a
convenience and organization feature, not a security boundary.
If you need real isolation:
- Pair each user with [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases), which gives their work its own
filesystem and network.
- Or run separate Codeman instances under separate OS accounts, each with its own
`CODEMAN_INSTANCE`.
"Small trusted team" is the honest description of who this is for.
## Enabling it
```bash
codeman users add alice --admin # create the first admin, prompts for a password
codeman web --multiuser # or CODEMAN_MULTIUSER=1
```
Then manage users from the CLI or the **Users** entry in App Settings:
```bash
codeman users add bob # a regular user
codeman users list
codeman users passwd bob # reset to a one-time password
codeman users rm bob
```
`--password-stdin` reads the password from standard input, for scripts.
Accounts live in `~/.codeman/users.json` with scrypt-hashed passwords, mode 0600.
Administrative actions are audited to `~/.codeman/admin-audit.jsonl`.
## What each user gets
| Thing | Scope |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Case space** | `~/codeman-users/<name>/cases`, their own. |
| **Sessions** | Only theirs are listed, reachable, or controllable. |
| **Events** | Live event routing is per owner, and fails closed. |
| **Search** | Scoped on read, including historical results. |
| **File previews** | Scoped to sessions they own. |
| **Path picker** | Only their own user space as a root, not the whole home directory. |
Admins see everything.
Ownership threads through every list endpoint, the session lookup helper, the WebSocket
layer, and file previews. A user cannot address another user's session even by id.
## Safer defaults for regular users
Non-admins get tighter defaults, and lifting them is an explicit per-user grant:
| Default | Meaning |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Claude runs in `auto` permission mode | Anthropic's classifier-guarded mode instead of skip-prompts. |
| Raw shell sessions require a grant | A plain shell is unmediated machine access. |
| Skip-permissions requires a grant | Same reasoning. |
| Cron `launchCommand` requires a grant | It is an arbitrary command on a schedule. |
| Pi project trust defaults to off | Trust makes Pi execute repo-local TypeScript. |
These exist because the OS boundary is shared. They narrow what a normal account can do
casually; they do not make the account a sandbox.
## Accounts and sessions
Each user authenticates with their own name and password rather than the shared
`CODEMAN_PASSWORD`. Logins are individually revocable: disable, reset, or delete an account
at any time, and existing browser sessions can be revoked.
## Gotchas
- **Enabling it does not migrate existing cases** into a user space. They stay where they
are, owned by whoever the ownership rules resolve them to.
- **Admins see everything**, including other users' sessions. Choose admins accordingly.
- **The audit log is append-only and local.** Ship it somewhere if you care about it.
- **It is not a substitute for OS accounts.** Restating this because it is the one thing
people get wrong.
## Read next
- [Security](Security) - where this fits in the model, and what it does not cover.
- [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases) - the isolation story that actually isolates.
- [`docs/multi-user-plan.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/multi-user-plan.md) - the design.
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# Notifications and Approvals
An agent that stops to ask a question, with nobody watching, is a run that quietly wasted an
hour. This page covers every way Codeman tells you it needs you, and how to answer without
opening the session.
## The signals, cheapest first
| Surface | Reaches you | Default |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| Tab alert | While the dashboard is open | On |
| Browser title flash | Another tab in the same browser | On |
| Desktop notification | Another window on the same machine | Opt-in |
| Push notification | Anywhere, even with no tab open | Opt-in |
| Approvals Inbox | One queue across every session | Opt-in |
| Phone overview | Phone home screen, NEEDS YOU section | On |
| Away Digest | Afterwards, as a summary | Opt-in |
## Tab alerts
The tab itself changes state:
| State | Meaning |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Yellow, blinking | The agent is waiting for input from you. |
| Red, blinking | A question or permission prompt is blocking the session. |
These are a steady colour with a pulse layered on top, not a blink to transparent, so a tab
needing attention looks that way at every point in the cycle.
They survive a reload. The alert state is re-seeded from the server on page load, so
reloading the dashboard while a permission dialog is blocking a session does not leave you
with a normal-looking tab.
For Claude sessions, these come from Claude Code's hooks and are precise about *why* the
session stopped. For other CLIs there are no hooks, so you get the coarser output-based
signal.
## Window title and OS notifications
The browser tab title is prefixed `codeman:<host>`, so several Codeman instances across
several machines stay distinguishable at a glance. Override the hostname with
`codeman web --title-hostname <name>`.
Desktop notifications use the same prefix. Enable them in **App Settings → Notifications**.
## Push notifications
Push reaches your phone with **no Codeman tab open at all**, which is the only option that
works while you are actually away.
Setup:
1. Open Codeman over **HTTPS**. Web push requires a secure context. Tailscale gives you real
HTTPS; `--https` gives you a self-signed certificate; plain HTTP over a LAN address will
not work.
2. **App Settings → Notifications → Subscribe**, and accept the browser prompt.
3. On **iOS**, add Codeman to your home screen first. Safari only delivers web push to
installed web apps, not to tabs.
Once subscribed, a blocking prompt reaches your phone even from a locked screen.
## The Approvals Inbox
**Opt-in, off by default. Claude sessions only.**
One queue of every prompt currently waiting on a human, across all your sessions, answerable
in place. When you have eight workers running, this is the difference between checking eight
tabs and checking one list.
Turn it on in **App Settings**. Surfaces:
- **A header bell** with a count, hidden entirely while the count is zero. Never shown on
phones.
- **A drawer** listing each waiting card.
- **NEEDS YOU strips** at the top of the phone overview home screen.
Each card shows the session, the case, and the captured prompt with its options. Answering
sends the keystroke into the session for you: a digit for a menu choice, Escape to decline,
or free text for an idle prompt.
Behaviour worth knowing:
- **One item per session.** A newer prompt supersedes the older one, because the older one
is no longer on screen.
- **Menu answers are validated against the live screen.** Codeman re-captures the pane before
sending, and refuses with a conflict if the dialog is no longer there. Otherwise your
keystroke would land in the composer as stray text.
- **Permission and question items clear only on definitive signals**: the turn ending, the
dialog completing, an answer, a supersede, the session exiting, or a 12 hour timeout. They
do not clear on a heuristic "looks busy again" signal, because that signal is wrong often
enough to lose a real prompt.
- **In memory only.** Restarting the server clears the queue; the prompts themselves are
still sitting in the sessions.
### Approve and Deny from the notification
With the inbox enabled, push notifications carry **Approve** and **Deny** buttons. Those are
handled by the service worker directly, so they work with no tab open: tap Approve on a
locked phone and the agent continues.
With the inbox off, the buttons are stripped from the notification payload entirely rather
than being shown and failing.
## The phone overview
On phones, tapping the "C" logo gives a session overview with **NEEDS YOU** first, then
current sessions, then past ones. Rows use the same language as the tab strip: a green dot
when fine, pulsing while working, yellow when waiting for input, red when a question is
pending.
Answer strips let you resolve a prompt straight from the home screen without opening the
session.
## The Away Digest
Retrospective rather than live: what happened while you were gone, aggregated from the
lifecycle log, run summaries, live sessions, token statistics, and recent subagents.
It is the morning-after view for an overnight run. Enable its header button in
**App Settings → Header & Panels**.
## Recommended setup for unattended runs
1. HTTPS access, ideally Tailscale. See [Remote Access](Remote-Access).
2. Push notifications subscribed, with Codeman installed to the home screen on iOS.
3. Approvals Inbox on.
4. Auto-resume on usage limit on, for each session you leave running. See
[Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running).
That combination means a blocking question wakes your phone and can be answered in two taps
from the lock screen.
## Gotchas
- **No push over plain HTTP.** It is a browser requirement, not a Codeman one.
- **iOS needs the home screen install.** A Safari tab will never receive push.
- **The bell is invisible at zero.** That is deliberate, not a broken setting.
- **Approvals are Claude-only.** They are built on hook events the other CLIs do not emit.
- **A stale menu answer is refused, not sent.** If you answer a card for a dialog that has
since gone away, Codeman declines rather than typing a digit into the composer.
## Read next
- [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) - what to configure before walking away.
- [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide) - the phone surfaces in full.
- [Settings Reference](Settings-Reference) - where each of these toggles lives.
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# Quick Start
From an installed Codeman to a working agent, in about five minutes. If you have not
installed yet, start at [Installation](Installation).
## 1. Start the server
```bash
codeman web
```
It prints a URL, `http://localhost:3000` by default. Open it.
The server binds `127.0.0.1` only, so this URL works from the machine running it and
nowhere else. That is deliberate: Codeman starts agents with permission prompts skipped by
default, so anyone who can reach the dashboard can run code on this machine. Reaching it
from your phone is a separate, deliberate step covered in [Remote Access](Remote-Access).
To keep it alive after you close the terminal, use `codeman web -d` instead, or install it
as a service. See [Running As A Service](Running-As-A-Service).
## 2. Meet the welcome screen
With no sessions running you get the welcome screen:
- **Run buttons** for each agent CLI Codeman found on your PATH. If you expected one and it
is missing, its binary is not visible to the server; see [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs).
- **A QR code**, if a password is set. Scanning it logs a phone in without typing anything.
- **Resume Conversation**, a list of past sessions, including Claude conversations started
outside Codeman. Empty on a fresh install.
- **Search**, across sessions, events, and files.
You can click a Run button right now and get a working agent in your current case. The rest
of this page is the deliberate version.
## 3. Pick or create a case
A **case** is a named working directory that Codeman remembers. Every session runs inside
one. The case picker is in the bottom toolbar.
To make a new one, click **+** next to the picker. The Add Case dialog has three tabs:
| Tab | Use it when |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Create New** | Starting a fresh project. Creates `~/codeman-cases/<name>` and scaffolds a `CLAUDE.md` into it. |
| **Clone Repo** | Working on an existing public repo. Paste the URL; Codeman preflights it as you type, offers the repo's real branches and tags, and fills in the case name. |
| **Link Existing** | The code is already on disk. Point at the folder, with **Browse** if you would rather click than type. |
The gear next to the picker holds two per-case toggles: **Agent Teams** and
**1M Opus Context**. Both are off by default and both are safe to ignore for now.
**Create New** also has a checkbox for running the case inside a Docker container, and a
**Remote** panel for running it over SSH on another machine. Those are
[Docker Cases](Docker-Cases) and [Remote SSH Sessions](Remote-SSH-Sessions); skip them for
your first session.
## 4. Pick a run mode and hit Run
The **Run** button starts an agent in the selected case. The arrow next to it picks which
one:
| Mode | What starts |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Claude Code** | The default, and the mode every Codeman feature supports. |
| **OpenCode** | |
| **Codex** | OpenAI's CLI. |
| **Gemini** | Enterprise only since Google's consumer cutover. |
| **Antigravity** | Google's successor to the consumer Gemini CLI. |
| **Pi** | No permission prompts and no sandbox by design. |
| **Terminal / Shell** | A plain shell, no agent. Also the **Run Shell** button. |
The dropdown also lists any saved dashboard URLs ([Web Tabs](Web-Tabs)) and your recent
sessions. Those do not change the run mode: Run always means "start an agent".
Click **Run**. A tab appears, and Codeman spawns the CLI on a real PTY inside a tmux
session and streams it to your browser.
The number spinner beside the button starts several sessions at once, up to 20. Useful for
fanning the same case out across parallel workers; unnecessary for a first run.
## 5. Talk to the agent
Click into the terminal and type. It is a real terminal (xterm.js over a real PTY), so full
TUIs render properly and everything the CLI supports works, slash commands included.
| Key | Effect |
| ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| `Enter` | Send. |
| `Shift+Enter` / `Ctrl+Enter` | Newline without sending. |
| `Ctrl+C` | Copy if text is selected, otherwise interrupt. |
| `Ctrl+Shift+V` | Voice input. |
You can also paste or drag an image straight into the session, and register external files
as attachments. See [Working With Files](Working-With-Files) and
[Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice).
Input is delivered **exactly once**, even if your connection drops mid-prompt. A dropped
link never loses a prompt and never sends it twice.
## 6. Read the tab
The tab tells you what the session is doing without opening it:
| Signal | Meaning |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Green dot | Alive and idle. |
| Pulsing green dot | Working on a turn. |
| Yellow, blinking | Waiting for you to type something. |
| Red, blinking | A question or permission prompt is blocking the agent. |
Full tour in [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard). If you want a phone notification when an agent
needs you, that is [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals).
## 7. Leave, and come back
Close the browser tab. Close the laptop. The agent keeps running, because it lives in tmux
and not in your browser.
Reopen the dashboard and the session is still there with its scrollback intact. First load
of a session pulls the full tmux scrollback, so you get the history, not just what arrived
after you reconnected.
This also survives restarting the Codeman server itself. What does not survive is killing
the tmux server or rebooting the machine.
## 8. Stop things
| To do this | Do that |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Interrupt the current turn | `Ctrl+C` with nothing selected, or the **Stop** button. |
| Close one session | `Ctrl+W`, or the tab's close control. |
| Stop the server, keep agents | `codeman web --stop`. The tmux sessions stay alive. |
| Stop everything | `tmux -L codeman kill-server`. |
If you are working *inside* a Codeman-managed session (`echo $CODEMAN_MUX` prints `1`),
never run `tmux kill-session` or `pkill claude` by hand. You will kill the session you are
sitting in, along with its siblings.
## Where to go next
**Make it run without you.** [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) covers idle
detection, respawn cycling, and auto-resume when a subscription limit resets. That is the
feature Codeman exists for.
**Get it on your phone.** [Remote Access](Remote-Access), then
[Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide).
**Understand what you just used.** [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts) explains cases, sessions,
run modes, and what state lives where.
**Automate it.** [Cron Jobs](Cron-Jobs) for scheduled work,
[Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) for agents that spawn and
supervise other agents.
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# Remote Access
Reaching your Codeman from a phone, a laptop on the other side of the house, or a hotel
network. This is the page to read carefully, because Codeman's dashboard is a
remote-code-execution surface by design: it starts agents with permission prompts skipped,
so whoever can reach it can run code on your machine.
## Start from the default
`codeman web` binds `127.0.0.1`. It is reachable from the machine running it and nothing
else, which is why the no-password default is safe out of the box. Every option below is a
deliberate step away from that.
Two rules that make the rest of this page simple:
1. **Never expose Codeman on a network without `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`.** Binding a non-loopback
host without one starts, but prints a loud warning with the fixes.
2. **Prefer keeping the loopback bind** and putting an authenticated tunnel in front of it,
over binding wide and relying on a password alone.
## Pick an approach
| Approach | Good for | Cost |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Tailscale** | Phone access, permanently. The recommended setup. | Install Tailscale on both devices. |
| **Cloudflare tunnel** | A public URL, quickly, from anywhere. | Public URL, so a password is mandatory. |
| **LAN + password** | Home network only, no extra software. | Every device on your LAN can reach the login page. |
| **SSH port forward** | You already SSH to the box. | Manual, per session, terminal-bound. |
## Tailscale (recommended)
Your devices join a private network, and Codeman stays bound to loopback. Nothing is
published to the internet, and you get real HTTPS with a real certificate.
The installer sets this up for you, including installing Tailscale, logging in, enabling
tailnet HTTPS, and verifying the result end to end. To retrofit it onto an existing
install:
```bash
install.sh tailscale
```
By hand:
```bash
tailscale serve --bg 3000
tailscale serve status
```
Then open `https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net` from any device on your tailnet.
Notes:
- Keep the loopback bind. `tailscale serve` connects to `127.0.0.1:3000` locally, so
binding wider adds exposure and buys nothing.
- Your tailnet is the authentication boundary. Setting `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` as well is
reasonable defence in depth, especially if other people have devices on your tailnet.
- Codeman's Host-header allowlist already accepts `.ts.net`, so no extra configuration is
needed.
- The installer never resets or rewrites `serve` mappings other than the one pointing at
Codeman's port, so unrelated serve configuration is left alone.
## Cloudflare tunnel
A free [quick tunnel](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/do-more-with-tunnels/trycloudflare/)
gives you a public HTTPS URL with no port forwarding, no DNS, and no static IP:
```
Browser → Cloudflare edge (HTTPS) → cloudflared → localhost:3000
```
Prerequisites: [`cloudflared`](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/downloads/)
installed, and `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` set.
```bash
./scripts/tunnel.sh start # starts the tunnel, prints the public URL
./scripts/tunnel.sh url
./scripts/tunnel.sh status
./scripts/tunnel.sh stop
```
The quick-tunnel URL is a random `*.trycloudflare.com` address that changes every time the
tunnel restarts. For a stable hostname, `./scripts/tunnel.sh named setup` walks through a
named tunnel.
To survive reboots:
```bash
systemctl --user enable codeman-tunnel
loginctl enable-linger $USER
```
There is also a toggle in **App Settings → System → Remote access**.
**The tunnel refuses to start without a password.** That is on purpose: a public URL with no
authentication is a terminal on your machine handed to the internet. Acknowledging the risk
explicitly is possible from the UI toggle, and only from there; the API will not do it for
you.
## LAN plus password
```bash
export CODEMAN_PASSWORD='something long'
codeman web -H 0.0.0.0 --https
```
Every device on your local network can now reach the login page. `--https` generates a
self-signed certificate into `~/.codeman/certs/`, which your browser will warn about once.
`CODEMAN_USERNAME` defaults to `admin`.
The installer offers this path and prompts for the password. On re-runs it preserves
whichever binding you already chose.
## SSH port forward
No configuration at all, if you already have SSH access:
```bash
ssh -L 3000:localhost:3000 you@your-box
```
Then open `http://localhost:3000` on the local machine. Codeman keeps its loopback bind and
sees a local connection. Good for occasional access, awkward as a permanent arrangement
because it dies with the SSH session.
## Logging in from a phone
Typing a long password on a phone keyboard is miserable, so Codeman issues **single-use QR
tokens**. The desktop dashboard shows a QR code; scan it and the phone is authenticated.
How it behaves:
- The code rotates every 60 seconds, with a 90 second grace window so scanning during a
rotation still works.
- Each token is **single use**. The moment a phone consumes it, a new one is generated.
- The URL contains a 6-character lookup code, not the secret, so it does not leak through
browser history, `Referer` headers, or the tunnel provider's logs.
- The desktop shows a toast naming the device and browser that just authenticated, with a
one-click revoke.
- QR attempts are rate limited separately from password attempts, so a mistyped password
cannot lock out your QR login and vice versa.
Someone holding only the tunnel URL still meets the normal password prompt. The QR is the
fast path, not a bypass.
Design detail and the threat analysis it is built against:
[`docs/qr-auth-plan.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/qr-auth-plan.md).
## Behind a reverse proxy
Codeman enforces a Host-header allowlist on every request to block DNS rebinding, and the
same allowlist gates the cross-site Origin check. It accepts `localhost`, IP literals, the
bind host, `.ts.net`, `.trycloudflare.com`, `.cfargotunnel.com`, and the active managed
tunnel.
**Your own domain is not on that list.** Add it:
```bash
CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS='codeman.example.com,.internal.example.com'
```
A bare entry matches that exact host; a leading dot matches subdomains. Without this, a
correctly configured proxy still gets `403 host not allowed`, which reads like a proxy bug
and is not one.
Also make sure the proxy forwards WebSocket upgrades. The terminal is a WebSocket, and the
upgrade runs the same Host and Origin checks, closing with code `4003` on failure.
### Mounting under a sub-path
By default Codeman assumes it is served at the origin root (`/`). To mount it under a
sub-path — e.g. `https://example.com/codeman/` — start it with `--base-url` (or the
`CODEMAN_BASE_URL` env var):
```bash
codeman web --base-url /codeman
# or
CODEMAN_BASE_URL=/codeman codeman web
```
The value is a plain path prefix; `/` (the default) means "mounted at the root". With a
prefix set, Codeman emits every URL — the HTML shell and its assets, API/SSE/WebSocket
calls, redirects, the PWA manifest and the service worker — under that prefix, so a browser
loading `https://example.com/codeman/` stays inside the mount.
**Forward the prefix unchanged — do NOT strip it.** Codeman expects the proxy to pass the
full path (including `/codeman/`) straight through. A minimal nginx block:
```nginx
location /codeman/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000; # note: no trailing slash — keep the /codeman/ prefix
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; # WebSocket
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
```
Notes and current limits:
- The prefix must still be paired with `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS` for your domain, exactly as
above — the two are independent.
- Health checks, Claude Code hooks and the docker bridge connect to the raw port directly
(bypassing the proxy), so Codeman also keeps answering at the un-prefixed paths on the port
itself. Nothing about those flows changes.
- **Web-tab (dashboard) proxying** is base-path aware: proxied dashboards have their injected
`<base>` tag, root-absolute asset rewrites, runtime `fetch`/XHR shim, `Set-Cookie` paths, and
redirects all rebased onto the mount, so they load the same under `--base-url` as at the root.
## Session cookies and rate limits
The first request prompts for HTTP Basic credentials. On success the server issues an opaque
`codeman_session` cookie (24 hour lifetime, extended on activity, validated server-side so
it cannot be forged offline). Ten failed attempts from one IP produce a `429` with a 15
minute decay.
A valid cookie or a correct password recovers immediately even while an attacker is hammering
the same IP, which matters because all tunnel traffic arrives from one loopback address.
## Terminal alternatives
You do not have to use a browser. `codeman tui` is a full-screen session dashboard that
works well in SSH clients like Termius or Blink:
```bash
codeman tui # the dashboard
codeman tui 2 # attach straight to session 2
codeman tui --list # numbered list, then exit
```
`Enter` attaches into the pane and `F1` comes back. Under 72 columns it drops the preview
and becomes a single-column list, so it stays usable on a phone. The sessions are the same
ones the dashboard shows. See [docs/tui.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/tui.md)
for the full guide.
## Common problems
| Symptom | Cause and fix |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `403 host not allowed` | Your domain is not in the allowlist. Set `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS`. |
| Assets 404 / blank page under a sub-path | Start Codeman with `--base-url /<prefix>` and have the proxy forward the prefix unchanged (don't strip it). |
| Phone shows the login page but the terminal never connects | The proxy is not forwarding WebSocket upgrades. |
| Browser warns about the certificate | Expected with `--https` and its self-signed certificate. Tailscale gives you a real one instead. |
| LAN IP does not respond, but a tunnel to the same box works | The server is bound to loopback. That is the default. A tunnel reaches it; a LAN browser cannot. |
| Hooks stopped working after switching to HTTPS | Hook callbacks need `-k` for the self-signed certificate. Recent versions self-heal existing cases; if yours predates that, recreate the case's hooks. |
| Everything is slow over the tunnel | Quick tunnels route through Cloudflare's edge. Tailscale is usually a direct connection and much faster. |
## Read next
- [Security](Security) - the whole model, and the hardening checklist.
- [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide) - once you can reach it from the phone.
- [Running As A Service](Running-As-A-Service) - keeping server and tunnel up across reboots.
- [`docs/security-architecture.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/security-architecture.md) - the full model.
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# Remote SSH Sessions
Point a case at another machine and the agent runs **there**, with the same dashboard,
mobile UI, and autonomy features. Your laptop becomes a window onto a session living on the
remote host.
Like Docker, this is a **location overlay** on a case, not a run mode. All seven run modes
work remotely. See [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts).
## Why bother
The agent runs where the work is: a build server, a NAS, a GPU box, a machine reachable only
through a jump host. Your laptop can sleep, change networks, or close, and the run continues.
## Setting it up
**Add Case → Remote**:
| Field | Notes |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Host** | Hostname or IP. |
| **Username** | The SSH user. |
| **Port** | Defaults to 22. |
| **Identity file** | `~` and `$HOME` are expanded for you. |
| **Jump host** | The `-J` equivalent, `[user@]host[:port]`. |
| **SOCKS proxy** | For hosts reachable only through a proxy. |
| **Extra SSH options** | Any `KEY=VALUE` options your normal connection needs. |
| **Remote path** | The working directory on that machine. |
Hosts are saved and reusable, so a second case on the same machine is just a path. Host
profiles can also carry per-run-mode launch command overrides, for when the binary lives
somewhere unusual on that host.
The remote host needs **tmux**. Codeman probes for it when you link the host rather than
failing later at launch.
## What actually runs
The agent lives inside a dedicated tmux server on the **remote** host, and Codeman fronts it
with a local tmux pane running `ssh`.
That two-layer arrangement is what makes it durable: a dropped SSH connection, a network
change, or a closed laptop kills the local pane, not the remote session. Reconnecting lands
back in the same live conversation.
The remote session name is deliberately chosen so that a Codeman **running on the target
host** will not adopt it as one of its own. Two Codemans, one host, no interference.
## Auto-reconnect
A watcher with bounded backoff notices a dead SSH pane and quietly reattaches to the still
running remote session. On by default; the kill switch is in
**App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Remote auto-reconnect**.
Intentional kills are never revived. Closing a session means closing it.
## Discover and attach
Codeman can list the `codeman-*` sessions already running on a host, whether that machine's
own Codeman started them or another operator did, and attach to one.
The distinction that matters:
| Session | On tab close |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------ |
| **Launched** | Killed, like any local session. |
| **Attached** | **Detached, never killed.** |
Attaching to someone else's session and closing your tab must not end their run, so it does
not. Several clients can attach the same remote session at different window sizes without
clamping each other, and discovery shows a shared badge with the client count.
## Security
Every SSH command line in Codeman flows through one builder that shell-escapes every
user-supplied field: identity paths, jump hosts, proxy commands, and extra options. That is
the entire injection surface, and it is deliberately a single function rather than string
concatenation spread across the codebase.
Host, path, and identity fields are schema-validated on top of that.
Codeman does not store SSH passwords. Use keys, as you would for any other automation.
## Gotchas
- **The remote host needs tmux.** Probed at link time, so you find out immediately.
- **The local working directory is meaningless** for a remote session, and is not used.
- **Run flows must go through the quick-start path** for remote cases. This matters if you
are driving Codeman over the API: the plain session-create endpoint validates the working
directory locally and has no case concept, so it will reject or misroute a remote case.
- **Latency is SSH latency.** Local echo helps the typing feel, but a slow link is a slow
link.
- **Transcript-backed features follow the transcript.** Subagent windows and similar surfaces
read files on the machine where the agent runs.
## Read next
- [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts) - overlays versus run modes.
- [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases) - the other overlay.
- [Security](Security) - the wider model.
- [`docs/remote-sessions.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/remote-sessions.md) - the full design.
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# Running As A Service
Keeping Codeman up: past the shell you started it in, past a logout, past a reboot. Plus
logs, updates, and running more than one instance.
## Three levels
| Level | Survives | Command |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| Foreground | Nothing. Dies with the terminal. | `codeman web` |
| Detached | Closing the shell and logging out. | `codeman web -d` |
| Service | Reboots. | `codeman service install` |
Agents themselves survive all three, because they live in tmux. Stopping the server never
stops the agents.
## Detached mode
```bash
codeman web -d # start detached; logs to ~/.codeman/web.log
codeman web --status # is it up, and on which pid
codeman web --stop # graceful stop; agents keep running
```
`-d` waits until the server actually answers before reporting success, so a port clash never
reads as a successful start.
Two implementation details that explain the behaviour:
- It relaunches the same entry script detached, so there is no controlling terminal and no
shell job entry. `nohup` is **not** what makes this work: Node re-arms the hangup signal to
its default even when it inherits "ignore", and Codeman handles that signal with a graceful
shutdown, so a delivered hangup would still stop the server.
- `--stop` verifies the process still looks like a Codeman server before signalling it,
because process ids get recycled.
**It refuses to start a second server on the same data directory.** Two servers sharing a
tmux socket attach to each other's live sessions.
## Installing as a service
```bash
codeman service install # systemd user unit on Linux, LaunchAgent on macOS
codeman service status
codeman service uninstall
```
The installer's final menu offers this too.
Notable behaviours:
- **Your PATH is baked into the unit.** launchd hands a job
`/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin`, which finds neither a Homebrew or nvm `node` nor `tmux`
or `claude`. This is the single most common cause of a hand-written unit that starts and
immediately dies.
- **`CODEMAN_PASSWORD` is never written into the unit file.** Add it yourself if the service
needs authentication.
- **It refuses when a server is already running** on that data directory, for the same reason
detached mode does.
- **It verifies rather than assumes.** `launchctl load` and a clean spawn are both silent
about a server that starts and immediately exits, so the parent polls until the child
answers or dies.
On Linux, if you want the service running while you are not logged in:
```bash
loginctl enable-linger $USER
```
### Writing the unit by hand
**Linux (systemd user unit):**
```bash
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
cat > ~/.config/systemd/user/codeman-web.service << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Codeman Web Server
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=$(which node) $HOME/.codeman/app/dist/index.js web
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
EOF
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now codeman-web
loginctl enable-linger $USER
```
**macOS (LaunchAgent):**
```bash
mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cat > ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.codeman.web.plist << EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.codeman.web</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>$(which node)</string>
<string>$HOME/.codeman/app/dist/index.js</string>
<string>web</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key><true/>
<key>KeepAlive</key><true/>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/tmp/codeman.log</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/tmp/codeman.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>
EOF
launchctl bootstrap gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.codeman.web.plist
```
Prefer `codeman service install` where you can. It handles the PATH problem for you.
## Logs
```bash
journalctl --user -u codeman-web -f # systemd
tail -f ~/.codeman/web.log # detached mode
log stream --predicate 'process == "node"' # macOS, noisy
```
## Updating
| Install route | Update with |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Installer | Re-run the one-liner, or **App Settings → System → Updates**. |
| npm | `npm update -g aicodeman` |
| git clone | `git pull && npm install && npm run build`, then restart. |
### The in-app updater
**App Settings → System → Updates**, for git-clone installs supervised by systemd or
launchd. npm installs report as non-updatable, and an unsupervised install is told to
restart manually.
The interesting part is that the update restarts the very process running it. So the real
work runs in a **detached script that outlives the restart** and writes progress to a status
file, which the browser polls across the connection drop. A dirty tree is stashed rather
than discarded.
### After updating
Sessions are unaffected: they live in tmux and the server reattaches. If the UI looks stale,
reload; on iOS Safari, close the tab completely and reopen.
## Running two instances
The data directory and the tmux socket are process wide, so a second server on the defaults
will discover and attach the first one's sessions. Scope both together:
```bash
CODEMAN_INSTANCE=beta CODEMAN_PORT=5000 codeman web
```
Service unit names are instance-scoped too, so a beta instance can be installed as its own
service without colliding with the main one. `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` and `CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET`
exist for the rare case where they need to differ, but setting only one of them recreates
exactly the problem you were avoiding.
## The tunnel as a service
```bash
systemctl --user enable codeman-tunnel
loginctl enable-linger $USER
```
Or the toggle in **App Settings → System → Remote access**. See
[Remote Access](Remote-Access).
## Health checks
```bash
curl -s localhost:3000/api/status | jq '.version, .uptime'
codeman web --status
codeman doctor
```
Add `-k` and the `https://` URL on an HTTPS install.
## Read next
- [Installation](Installation) - the routes and what each supports.
- [Remote Access](Remote-Access) - exposing it once it stays up.
- [Troubleshooting](Troubleshooting) - when it does not.
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# Security
The honest version first: **Codeman's dashboard is a remote code execution surface, by
design.** It starts agents with permission prompts skipped by default, so anyone who can
reach it can run arbitrary code as your user, on your machine. Every protection in Codeman
exists to control who that is.
That is not a flaw to be fixed. It is what "run my coding agent for me" means. The job is to
make sure the set of people who can reach it is exactly the set you intended.
## The default is safe
A bare `codeman web` binds `127.0.0.1`. Only processes on that machine can reach it, which
is why shipping with no password by default is defensible. Everything risky starts when you
expose it.
## Hardening checklist
In order of how much they matter:
1. **Do not expose it without `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`.** Binding a non-loopback host without one
starts, but warns loudly. A tunnel refuses outright unless you acknowledge the exposure
in the UI.
2. **Prefer Tailscale over a public tunnel.** Keeping the loopback bind and putting a
private network in front of it removes the public attack surface entirely, and gives you
real HTTPS. See [Remote Access](Remote-Access).
3. **Use a long password.** It is the only thing between a public URL and your shell.
4. **Consider the permission mode.** **App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Claude → Startup
Mode** can switch new sessions from skip-prompts to Anthropic's classifier-guarded `auto`
mode, to normal prompting, or to an explicit allowed-tools list.
5. **Use Docker cases for untrusted work.** If you are pointing an autonomous loop at a repo
you did not write, [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases) gives it its own filesystem and network
for the cost of one checkbox.
6. **Keep it updated.** Browser-driven attack paths were closed in 0.9.x and hardening is
ongoing.
## What protects what
These run on **every** request, including on a default no-password loopback install:
| Layer | What it stops |
| ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Host-header allowlist** | DNS rebinding. A domain rebound to `127.0.0.1` is rejected before any handler runs. Add your own domains with `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS`. |
| **Cross-site Origin guard** | CSRF on state-changing requests. A *missing* Origin is allowed so curl, the CLI, and hooks keep working; a foreign or opaque one is rejected. |
| **Raw `text/plain` bodies** | The CORS simple-request CSRF vector, where a cross-site form could smuggle JSON into a write route with no preflight. |
| **WebSocket origin check** | Cross-site WebSocket hijacking. The terminal upgrade closes with code `4003` on failure. |
| **Output escaping** | Stored XSS from agent-derived strings: tool names, command arguments, subagent descriptions. |
| **Security headers** | A strict content security policy, `nosniff`, frame options, and HSTS over HTTPS. CORS is reflected only for loopback origins. |
When authentication is enabled:
| Layer | Behaviour |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **HTTP Basic** | `CODEMAN_USERNAME` (default `admin`) and `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`. |
| **Session cookie** | A 256-bit opaque token validated server side, so it cannot be forged offline. 24 hours, extended on activity, with a device-context audit trail. |
| **Rate limiting** | Ten failed attempts per IP produce a `429` with a 15 minute decay. A correct password or valid cookie recovers immediately even under attack, which matters because all tunnel traffic shares one loopback address. |
| **QR auth** | Single-use 60-second tokens with their own separate rate limiter, so a mistyped password cannot lock out QR login. |
| **Hook endpoints** | The hook and telemetry endpoints skip Basic auth because they are called from localhost by the CLI, but when auth is on, that bypass additionally requires a per-instance hook secret. |
## File access
Three separate file surfaces, each confined differently, because a single shared rule would
be wrong for at least one of them:
| Surface | Rules |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **File Viewer** | Real path resolution before boundary checks, so symlinks cannot escape. Sensitive trees blocked. Edit mode adds an extension allowlist, a size cap, `.git` denial, and optimistic concurrency. It never creates files. |
| **Attachments** | An id-based registry, so browser requests never carry absolute paths. The magic-link scanner is prompt-injectable by nature and is therefore force-confined to the session's workspace. Extension allowlist, not a blocklist. |
| **Path picker** | Its own root allowlist rather than the workspace confinement. In multi-user mode a non-admin gets only their own user space, because per-user spaces live inside the home directory. |
Downloads block sensitive paths outright (`.env`, credentials files, `~/.ssh`, AWS
credentials), and SVG and HTML are served as downloads with `nosniff` so they cannot execute
in the page.
## Supply chain and isolation
- Security-sensitive transitive dependencies are pinned to patched versions, and lockfile
integrity is checked on every push and pull request: every entry must resolve to the public
registry with a hash.
- Public assets are scanned for NUL bytes and syntax-checked in CI.
- `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` scopes the tmux socket and the data directory together, so two
instances never attach each other's live sessions.
## What Codeman does not protect against
Stated plainly, because a security page that only lists strengths is not useful:
- **Multi-user mode is not a sandbox.** It separates workspaces. Every session still runs as
the same OS account, so a determined user's agent can reach another user's files. For real
isolation, pair users with Docker cases or run separate instances under separate OS
accounts.
- **An agent you gave shell access can do anything you can.** Permission modes narrow this;
they do not remove it.
- **A tunnel makes your machine reachable from the internet.** The password is the whole
boundary. Treat it accordingly.
- **Codeman cannot detect your own loopback reverse proxy**, which is why the hook-endpoint
bypass requires a secret unconditionally when auth is on.
- **The agent CLIs have their own trust models.** Pi's project trust executes repo-local
TypeScript, for instance. See [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs).
## Privacy
No telemetry, no analytics, no phone-home. Codeman's only network traffic is between your
browser and your server. Your agent CLI's traffic is its own, on your account.
Two features send data outward, both off by default and both stated where they appear: voice
dictation through your Claude login, and the Read My Mind prediction call.
## Reporting a vulnerability
**Never in a public issue.**
[SECURITY.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/.github/SECURITY.md) has the
private disclosure process and the current list of known limitations.
## Read next
- [Remote Access](Remote-Access) - the safe ways to expose it.
- [Multi-User Mode](Multi-User-Mode) - what it does and does not separate.
- [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases) - real isolation for untrusted work.
- [`docs/security-architecture.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/security-architecture.md) - the complete model.
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# Settings Reference
Two settings surfaces, and the rule that explains why a setting you changed on your laptop
did not follow you to your phone.
| Surface | Scope | Opened from |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------- |
| **App Settings** | Global, this Codeman install. | The header gear. |
| **Session Options** | One session. | The session's tab. |
App Settings is a single scrolling document with a rail acting as a table of contents;
clicking a rail entry scrolls rather than switching. Session Options genuinely switches
panels.
## Per-device versus synced
Some settings live on the server and follow you to every device. Others are stored in the
browser and stay put. This is deliberate, not an oversight: your phone wants a different
font size, a different keyboard bar, and a different set of header buttons than your
desktop.
| Category | Examples |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Per-device, local** | Skin, WebGL renderer, local echo, CJK input, extended keyboard bar, File Viewer and Cron header buttons. Never sent to the server at all. |
| **Per-device policy** | Most `show*` toggles, plan usage chip, language. Stored server-side, but a device only takes the server value when it has no local one of its own. |
| **Synced** | Models, effort, CLI options, notification preferences, voice settings, display name, the agent skill and approvals toggles. |
The practical rule: **appearance and input are per device, behaviour is shared.** If a change
did not follow you, it is in one of the first two rows, and you change it again on that
device.
## App Settings
### Updates
Current version, a manual check, and the in-app updater. Covers git-clone installs
supervised by systemd or launchd; npm installs report as non-updatable. See
[Running As A Service](Running-As-A-Service).
### Terminal & Input
| Setting | Default | Notes |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Local Echo | On for touch devices | Paints keystrokes locally and flushes on Enter. See [Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice). |
| CJK Input | Off | IME composition through a dedicated text field. |
| Extended Keyboard Bar | Per device | Which accessory bar phones get. Shell sessions override it while they are active. |
| Wheel Scrolls Local History | Off | Keeps the wheel on the local buffer instead of forwarding it to the CLI. |
| Auto Copy Selection | Off | Copies highlighted terminal text to the clipboard the moment you finish selecting it. Ctrl+C still copies on demand. |
| WebGL Renderer | On | With a GPU-stall watchdog that falls back to DOM rendering. |
| Gesture Control | Off | Camera hand tracking. Also needs `CODEMAN_GESTURE=1` on the server. |
### Header & Panels
Chips for every optional header control, with a live preview of the resulting header:
Run, Font Size, System Stats, Redraw Terminal, Response Viewer, Away Digest, Session
Manager, Attachments, File Viewer, Multi-monitor, Plan Usage, Lifecycle Log, Monitor,
Project Insights, File Browser, Subagents, Approvals Inbox, Read My Mind, Ultracode Agents,
Ultracode Windows, Cron.
Most default to off. The stock desktop header is system stats, File Viewer, and the gear.
New header controls never appear on phones.
This section also holds background-agent tracking, including whether to track agents for
every session or only the active tab.
### Appearance
| Setting | Notes |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Skin | Theme palettes, light ones included. Applied before first paint, so no flash of the wrong theme. |
| Entrance Animations | Per-surface animation styles for tabs, terminals, windows, and lineage lines. All default to the legacy no-animation behaviour. |
| Display Name | Your name in the UI. Cosmetic only; it never renames the package, CLI, API, or storage. |
| Interface Language | English or Simplified Chinese. Per device. |
| Session List Layout | Header tab strip (default) or a collapsible left sidebar. See [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard#session-list-layout). |
| Tall Tabs | Taller tab strip. |
| Pop-out Button on Tabs | Adds the detach control to tabs, with a per-tab override. |
| Spawn Lineage Lines | Arcs from a parent tab to sessions it spawned. Desktop only, on by default. |
| Overview Home Screen | The phone home screen. On by default. |
### Models
Claude model cards, the 1M context window switch, and the thinking effort segment. The cards
and the switch compose into one model choice, so there is no separate "which one wins"
question.
Model and effort are both **soft defaults**: the model is written into the case's
`.claude/settings.local.json` and effort is passed at start, so `/model` and `/effort`
inside a session override them at any time.
### Agents & CLIs
| Setting | Notes |
| -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Startup Mode | Claude's permission mode for new sessions. Default skips prompts; `auto` uses Anthropic's classifier-guarded mode; `normal` prompts; or give an explicit allowed-tools list. |
| Allowed Tools | The list used by the explicit mode. |
| Ralph / Todo Tracker | Enables the Ralph loop surfaces. |
| Agent Teams | Experimental teams. Also needs the CLI's own environment flag. |
| Codeman Agent Skill | Injects the agent skill into new Claude sessions per case. Off by default. See [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent). |
| Remote auto-reconnect | Reattaches dropped remote SSH sessions. On by default. |
| Nice priority / value | Runs agent processes at a lower CPU priority. |
| Bypass approvals and sandbox | Pi's project trust. Read [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) before enabling. |
| Animated status effects | Cosmetic. |
### Notifications
Master toggle, browser notifications, push subscription, audio alerts, and the idle
threshold that decides when a quiet session counts as needing you. See
[Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals).
### Voice
Active provider and the engine behind it, insert mode, language, domain keywords to bias
recognition, the Deepgram API key, and the opt-in switch for transcribing through this
server's Claude login, with its live credential status. See
[Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice).
### Shortcuts
Rebinding for the shortcut registry. See [Keyboard Shortcuts](Keyboard-Shortcuts).
### System
`CLAUDE.md` template for new cases, default working directory, the image watcher, and
Cloudflare tunnel controls including the tunnel and upload URLs. In multi-user mode, the
**Users** administration entry is injected here.
## Session Options
Per session, from the tab.
| Panel | Contains |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Respawn** | Auto-resume on usage limit, the respawn cycle configuration, presets, duration. See [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running). |
| **Session** | Name, working directory, environment overrides, per-tab pop-out override. |
| **Ralph / Todo** | Loop configuration, iteration and todo caps, circuit breaker reset. See [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops). |
| **Summary** | What this session has done: tokens, activity, run summary. |
Panels that only make sense for Claude are hidden for other run modes rather than shown and
failing.
## Environment variables
Some things are configured before the server starts, not in the UI:
| Variable | Effect |
| ----------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `CODEMAN_PORT` | Listen port. |
| `CODEMAN_HOST` | Bind address. Loopback by default. |
| `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` / `CODEMAN_USERNAME` | HTTP Basic credentials. Username defaults to `admin`. |
| `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS` | Extra Host and Origin allowlist entries for a reverse proxy. |
| `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` | Scopes the data directory and tmux socket together. Required for a second instance. |
| `CODEMAN_MULTIUSER` | Enables multi-user mode. |
| `CODEMAN_GESTURE` | Makes gesture control available to be enabled. |
| `CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS` | Lets in-container hooks reach the host on a loopback bind. |
| `CODEMAN_FILE_PICKER_ROOTS` | Extra roots for the path picker. |
| `CODEMAN_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_NETWORK` | Acknowledges exposing the server with no password. |
## Gotchas
- **A setting that did not sync is per device.** Change it again on that device.
- **The plan usage chip and its telemetry exporter are one setting.** Enabling the chip
without the exporter would leave it blank forever, so it is deliberately not separable.
- **Toggling a header button does nothing on a phone.** Phones deliberately ignore most of
the header chips.
- **Enabling a feature does not retroactively configure existing sessions.** The agent skill
injection, for instance, applies at session creation.
## Read next
- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - what each control does once visible.
- [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) - the Respawn panel in depth.
- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) - model, effort, and permission modes.
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# The Dashboard
What the interface is telling you, and which parts of it are hidden until you turn them on.
Most of Codeman's UI is **opt-in**. A stock install shows a deliberately small header, and a
feature you read about here may simply not be on screen yet. Where that is the case, this
page says so and names the setting.
![Codeman dashboard](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ark0N/Codeman/master/docs/images/codeman-tour-20260724.png)
## Layout
| Region | What lives there |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Header, left** | The "C" logo (goes home) and the session list, unless you moved it to the sidebar. |
| **Header, right** | Status chips and panel buttons, most of them off by default. |
| **Center** | The terminal for the active session, or the home screen when nothing is selected. |
| **Bottom toolbar** | Run, Stop, Run Shell, the case picker, and the instance counters. |
| **Overlays** | Panels and modals: Respawn, Cron, Subagents, File Viewer, Settings. |
## Session list layout
The session list lives in the header as a horizontal strip by default. With a lot of
sessions open that strip stops being scannable, so **App Settings → Appearance → Tabs →
Session List Layout** can move it into a vertical sidebar on the left instead.
| Layout | Behaviour |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Header tab strip** | The default. Wraps to a second row on desktop, scrolls sideways on a phone. |
| **Left sidebar** | A vertical list with a filter box and a live session count. `Alt+B` collapses it to a narrow rail that keeps the status dots and task badges visible. On a phone it is an off-canvas drawer rather than a docked rail. |
It is the same list either way, just re-hosted: tab order, drag-to-reorder, the `Alt+1`
to `Alt+9` numbers and every status colour below behave identically in both. The setting is
per device, so a sidebar on your desktop does not force one onto your phone.
## Session tabs
One tab per session, in your order, and that order syncs across your devices.
**Status is carried by the dot and the tab's own styling:**
| Look | Meaning |
| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Green dot | Alive, not currently working. |
| Pulsing green dot with a ring | Working on a turn. |
| Yellow tab, blinking | The agent is waiting for input from you. |
| Red tab, blinking | A question or permission prompt is blocking the session. |
| No dot | The session is not running. |
![Tab alerts](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ark0N/Codeman/master/docs/images/tab-alerts-20260815.png)
The alert states are steady colour with a pulse layered on top, not a blink between the
alert colour and nothing, so a tab that needs you looks like it needs you at every point in
the cycle. They survive a page reload: the state is re-seeded from the server on load, so
reloading while a permission prompt is blocking does not lose the red tab.
**Navigation:**
| Action | Keys |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| Jump to tab N | `Alt+1` to `Alt+9` (the number on the tab) |
| Next / previous | `Ctrl+Tab`, `Alt+[`, `Alt+]` |
| Move the active tab | `Ctrl+Shift+{`, `Ctrl+Shift+}` |
| Close | `Ctrl+W` |
| Find any session, open or past | `Ctrl+K` (also `Cmd+K` and `Alt+K`) |
Tabs can also be dragged to reorder.
On phones the strip scrolls horizontally instead of wrapping, and the active tab is always
scrolled into view. It is not reordered to the front, so the `Alt+N` numbering stays stable.
### Lineage arcs
When one session spawns another (an agent starting a worker through the API), Codeman draws
a coloured arc under the strip connecting parent to child, with one colour per child. It is
how a fan-out of eight workers stays readable.
Desktop only, and on by default. Turn it off in **App Settings → Appearance**. Arcs are
skipped for tabs scrolled out of the strip.
## Header controls
The right side of the header. Almost all of these are off until you enable them in
**App Settings → Header & Panels**.
| Control | Default | What it does |
| ---------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Connection dot | Always on | SSE connection health. Green is connected. |
| Font size `-` / `+` | Always on | `Ctrl +` / `Ctrl -` do the same. |
| CPU / MEM bars | On | Server resource use. |
| File Viewer | On | Toggles the file browser panel. |
| Settings gear | Always on | App Settings. |
| Plan usage chip | On, desktop only | Live Claude subscription usage. Claude-only, and needs its telemetry exporter, which the same setting installs. |
| Session Manager | Off | The full session list, live and historical. |
| Approvals bell | Off | Cross-session queue of prompts waiting on a human. Appears only when the count is above zero. Never shown on phones. |
| Read My Mind 🧠 | Off | Predicts your next prompt for this case. Claude-only. |
| Attachments | Off | Registered external files. |
| Away Digest | Off | What happened while you were gone. |
| Last Response | Off | Readable view of the agent's last answer, useful on phones. |
| Ultracode / Workflow | Off | Live workflow-run agents. |
| Notifications | Off | Notification history and settings. |
| Lifecycle Log | Off | Session start, exit, and kill audit trail. |
| Cron ⏰ | Off | Scheduled jobs. |
| Multi-monitor | Off, macOS | Opens a window spanning every display. |
| Tunnel indicator | When a tunnel runs | Cloudflare tunnel status. |
| Admin panel | Multi-user only | User administration. |
New header controls never appear on phones. Phone layout is deliberately minimal and is
covered in [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide).
## Connection state
The dot in the header is the quick read. Two louder surfaces exist because a cached page
with no server behind it used to look identical to a page with no sessions:
- **A full-screen overlay** when the page has never loaded server state. There is nothing
behind it worth preserving.
- **A banner** when the connection drops after state had loaded, so your scrollback stays
readable.
Both wait about 2.5 seconds before appearing, so a deploy that restarts the server does not
flash a warning at you every time. If the browser reports itself offline, the grace period
is skipped.
There is also a watchdog for the case where the connection stops delivering without
erroring. If the server's heartbeat stops arriving, Codeman reconnects on its own rather
than sitting on a green dot showing frozen data.
## The terminal
A real terminal: xterm.js in the browser, a real PTY on the server, tmux in between. Full
TUIs render correctly.
Worth knowing:
- **Scrollback.** Agent/TUI sessions pull their entire tmux scrollback on first open.
Shell sessions open from a bounded recent tail so a large transcript cannot stall tab
switching; press **Load full history** to pull the rest explicitly. Ordinary Shell scrolling
and automatic output recovery stay within the bounded browser buffer.
- **Wheel and touch scrolling** are forwarded into Claude's own transcript on recent Claude
versions, so the wheel scrolls the conversation rather than the terminal. `Shift+Wheel` is
always local scrollback. Other CLIs scroll locally.
- **Selection copy.** `Ctrl+C` copies when text is selected and interrupts when it is not.
`Ctrl+Shift+C` always copies.
- **Zero-lag input.** On touch devices, keystrokes paint locally before the round trip. See
[Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice).
- **Renderer.** WebGL by default, with a watchdog that falls back to DOM rendering if the
GPU stalls. `?nowebgl` forces DOM rendering for one page load.
## The home screen
With no session selected you get the welcome screen: run buttons for the CLIs Codeman
found, a QR code when a password is set, cross-session search, and **Resume Conversation**,
which lists past sessions including Claude conversations started outside Codeman entirely.
Two extras depending on the device:
- **Desktop, wide windows**: your open tabs appear as a rail docked to the left edge, in tab
order, with created and last-active stamps. It needs at least 1180px of width; below that
it is hidden so it cannot overlap the search panel.
- **Phones**: tapping the "C" logo gives a session overview instead: NEEDS YOU first, then
current sessions, then past ones. On by default.
## Panels
| Panel | Opened from | Covered in |
| ---------------- | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Respawn | Session Options | [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) |
| Ralph | Session Options | [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops) |
| Orchestrator | Toolbar | [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops) |
| Cron | Header ⏰ (opt-in) | [Cron Jobs](Cron-Jobs) |
| Subagents | Automatic while agents run | [Watching Agents Work](Watching-Agents-Work) |
| Ultracode | Header (opt-in) | [Watching Agents Work](Watching-Agents-Work) |
| File Viewer | Header | [Working With Files](Working-With-Files) |
| Attachments | Header (opt-in) | [Working With Files](Working-With-Files) |
| Approvals | Header bell (opt-in) | [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals) |
| App Settings | Header gear | [Settings Reference](Settings-Reference) |
Session-specific configuration lives in **Session Options**, reachable from the tab. App
Settings is global; Session Options is per session.
## Search and the session palette
`Ctrl+K` opens the session palette: every session, live or historical, filtered as you
type. Picking a past one resumes its conversation.
The search box on the home screen is wider in scope. It federates over session metadata,
run-summary events, and attachment history, filtered by type, case, status, and date. It
does substring matching over data already in memory, with no regex and no filesystem reads,
so it is fast and cannot be turned into a traversal.
## Appearance
**App Settings → Appearance** carries the theme skins, including light ones. The choice is
applied before the first paint, so there is no flash of the wrong theme on load.
The same section has the entrance animations for tabs, terminals, agent windows, and
lineage lines. All of them default to the legacy no-animation behaviour, so an untouched
install animates nothing.
## Read next
- [Keyboard Shortcuts](Keyboard-Shortcuts) - the full list, and how to rebind.
- [Settings Reference](Settings-Reference) - every setting, and why some follow you across devices and others do not.
- [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide) - what changes on a phone.
- [Watching Agents Work](Watching-Agents-Work) - subagent windows and workflow runs.
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# Troubleshooting
Symptom first. Find the line that matches what you are seeing.
Before anything else, check what version you are on and whether the problem is already
fixed:
```bash
codeman --version
codeman doctor
```
## Installing and starting
### `Failed to start claude: error: posix_spawnp failed` on macOS
node-pty ships its macOS `spawn-helper` without the executable bit, and macOS launches
every PTY through it. Codeman detects this and repairs it on the first failure, so updating
usually fixes it outright. To repair by hand on a clone install:
```bash
npm run fix:node-pty
```
It is a `chmod`, not a rebuild, so it does not need Xcode command line tools. The helper
lives in `prebuilds/darwin-<arch>/`, not `build/Release/`, which does not exist on macOS.
Linux never sees this.
### `tmux: command not found`
The installer asks before installing packages and remembers a declined answer. Install tmux
and start again. There is no tmux-free mode: sessions live in tmux.
### The port is already in use
```bash
codeman web --port 8080 # or set CODEMAN_PORT
```
If you believe nothing is on 3000, check for a Codeman you already started:
```bash
codeman web --status
```
### The terminal area is blank, and the console mentions a missing vendor file
Clone installs build the vendored xterm addon bundles in `postinstall`. If `npm install`
was interrupted or run with `--ignore-scripts`, those bundles are missing:
```bash
npm install
```
They are intentionally not committed to the repository.
### `Case path not found` when clicking Run
The case points at a directory that no longer exists, usually because it was deleted or
moved outside Codeman. Re-link the case, or create it again.
### The server starts but nothing is reachable
That is the default behaviour, not a failure. Codeman binds `127.0.0.1`. See
[Remote Access](Remote-Access).
## Reaching the interface
### The dashboard will not load from another device
Check, in order: the bind (loopback by default), a firewall, and then
[Remote Access](Remote-Access) for a supported way to expose it.
### `403 host not allowed`
The Host header is not in the allowlist, which is the DNS-rebinding guard doing its job. Add
your domain:
```bash
CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS='codeman.example.com,.internal.example.com'
```
A leading dot matches subdomains.
### The page loads but the terminal never connects
The terminal is a WebSocket. Behind a reverse proxy, the upgrade must be forwarded. The
upgrade also runs the Host and Origin checks and closes with code `4003` when they fail.
### The UI looks stale after updating
The app shell is cached by a service worker, and static assets are served with a long cache
lifetime. `index.html` is not cached, and every asset reference is version-stamped, so a
normal reload picks up a new build.
Two exceptions worth knowing:
- **iOS Safari** can keep serving old JavaScript until the tab is fully closed, not just
reloaded. Close the tab and reopen it.
- If you edit files in dev, changes to `index.html` need a server restart. Changes to `.js`
and `.css` do not.
### A full-screen "cannot reach the server" overlay appears
The server is genuinely unreachable, or the connection dropped. Codeman waits about 2.5
seconds before showing it, so a quick restart does not flash it. Retry re-arms both the
event stream and the terminal socket.
## Sessions
### A session shows idle while it is clearly working
Update. Claude redraws its prompt roughly once a second throughout a turn, and older idle
detection treated that as the end of the turn, flipping working sessions to idle a couple of
seconds in. Current versions confirm against the actual screen before believing it.
### A session is stuck showing busy
For non-Claude CLIs, idle detection is output-based and coarser by necessity: those CLIs
expose no hooks. A session that has genuinely gone quiet will settle. If it never does,
interrupt it (`Ctrl+C` with nothing selected).
### The agent asks about bypass permissions every time
That prompt comes from Claude Code, not Codeman. Codeman's default is to start with
permission prompts skipped, which is what the security model is built around. If you would
rather it prompted, change **App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Claude → Startup Mode**.
### Sessions vanished after a reboot
Expected. tmux does not survive a reboot, so the sessions are gone. Conversations are not:
Claude transcripts persist, so the welcome screen's **Resume Conversation** list can pick
them back up.
### A session restarts, then refuses to restart again
That is the PTY-exit circuit breaker. Repeated rapid PTY exits trip it, and it blocks
automatic restarts so a broken configuration does not spin forever. Reset it explicitly from
the session's controls. Reattaching does not clear it, deliberately.
### Sessions I did not create appeared, or my session resized itself
Two Codeman servers are running against the same data directory and tmux socket. The second
one discovers and attaches the first one's sessions. Give each instance its own scope:
```bash
CODEMAN_INSTANCE=beta CODEMAN_PORT=5000 codeman web
```
`codeman web -d` and `codeman service install` both refuse to start a second server on one
data directory for exactly this reason.
## The terminal
### I cannot scroll back through history
Scrollback behaviour depends on the CLI, and Codeman adjusts what it strips per mode.
Things to try:
- `Shift+Wheel` always scrolls the local buffer, whatever else is going on.
- On Claude sessions with a recent CLI, the wheel is forwarded into Claude's own transcript,
so it scrolls the conversation rather than the terminal buffer. That is intended.
- Scrolling to the very top pulls the full tmux scrollback again on demand.
### The wheel does nothing in a Codex session
Codex ignores the mouse reports that forwarding would send, so Codeman does not forward
there. Scrolling is local, and `Shift+Wheel` behaves the same way.
### `Ctrl+C` copies when I wanted to interrupt
With a selection, `Ctrl+C` copies. With no selection, it interrupts. Clear the selection
first, or use the **Stop** button. `Ctrl+Shift+C` always copies and never interrupts.
### I typed a prompt but nothing was sent
On touch devices, keystrokes are painted locally and flushed when you press Enter, so text
on screen has not necessarily reached the agent yet. Press Enter, or the phone toolbar's
**Enter** button.
If you are sending input over the API instead, your payload must end with `\r` or no Enter
is ever sent. The request still succeeds and the text sits unsubmitted in the composer. See
[Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent).
## Mobile
### The keyboard covers the terminal, or scroll position jumps
Update first; several rounds of fixes have gone into keyboard resize and scroll restoration.
### I cannot reach the rightmost tabs
The strip scrolls horizontally on phones and the active tab is scrolled into view
automatically. Swipe the strip itself. If a background render snaps you back, update.
### The space key does nothing on Android
A long-standing Android keyboard bug, fixed some time ago. Update.
### The keyboard will not close
Tap outside the terminal, or tap twice on inert terminal content. Tapping a control does not
dismiss it, by design.
## Agents and CLIs
### A CLI is installed but Codeman does not offer it
Codeman resolves binaries from the environment the **server** runs in.
```bash
codeman doctor
```
If it runs as a service, launchd gives the job a minimal PATH. `codeman service install`
bakes your PATH into the unit; a hand-written plist does not. Restart the server after
installing a new CLI.
### Hooks stopped working after switching to HTTPS
Hook callbacks have to accept the self-signed certificate. Recent versions self-heal
existing cases; if yours predates that, recreate the case so its hooks are rewritten.
### The model or effort I chose is not being used
Both are **soft defaults**, on purpose. The model is written into the case's
`.claude/settings.local.json` and effort is passed on the command line at start, so `/model`
and `/effort` inside the session override them at any time. Effort is deliberately never
passed as an environment variable, because that hard-locks it.
### Tab alerts and approvals never fire in one of my repos
That case is missing its hooks block. Recreating the case rewrites it.
## Docker and remote
### Docker sessions do not detect idle
On a loopback-only bind, a container cannot reach `127.0.0.1` on the host, so in-container
hooks have nothing to call. Set `CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=1` to open a hooks-only
listener on the docker bridge gateway. Without it, idle detection falls back to output
watching.
### A rebuilt agent image still has old CLI versions
Always rebuild with `--no-cache`:
```bash
node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache
```
A plain rebuild reuses the cached `npm install -g` layer and keeps the CLIs frozen at their
original versions while reporting success.
### A remote SSH session dropped and did not come back
A bounded-backoff watcher reattaches dropped sessions, and it is on by default. Intentional
kills are never revived. Check the host is reachable and that the remote tmux server is
still running.
## Gathering diagnostics
```bash
codeman doctor # dependency check
curl -s localhost:3000/api/status | jq # full app state
tmux -L codeman list-sessions # what tmux thinks is alive
journalctl --user -u codeman-web -f # service logs (Linux)
tail -f ~/.codeman/web.log # detached mode logs
```
On an HTTPS install, add `-k` to the curl commands and use the `https://` URL.
## Filing a good bug report
Open an [issue](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues) with:
- OS and version.
- Install method: installer, npm, or git clone.
- `codeman --version`.
- Browser and version, if the problem is in the UI.
- Which CLI the session was running, and its version.
- What you did, what happened, what you expected.
Reports usually get a response within a day, and every release credits its reporters by
name.
Questions and setup help fit better in
[Discussions](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions). Security problems never go in a
public issue; see
[SECURITY.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/.github/SECURITY.md).
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# Versioning
Codeman follows [semantic versioning](https://semver.org/). This page says what the version
number actually promises, which matters if you are building anything against Codeman.
## Covered by the version number
Breaking any of these after 1.0 requires a **major** bump:
1. **The CLI.** Command names, documented flags, and their behaviour. The npm package is
`aicodeman` and installs both the `aicodeman` and `codeman` commands; renaming either is
breaking.
2. **The HTTP API and SSE channel**, served under `/api/v1` with the uniform envelope and
conventional status codes. Endpoint paths, the envelope, `errorCode` values, and SSE event
names are all stable.
3. **Documented deployment environment variables**: `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`, `CODEMAN_USERNAME`,
`CODEMAN_HOST`, `CODEMAN_PORT`, `CODEMAN_INSTANCE`, `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS`,
`CODEMAN_DATA_DIR`, `CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET`, plus the `--host`, `--port`, and `--https`
flags.
4. **The published `xterm-zerolag-input` library**, on its own independent version line.
Codeman reaching 1.0 says nothing about that package's version.
Additive changes are **not** breaking: new endpoints, new optional fields, new error codes,
new SSE events. Genuinely breaking API changes would ship under a new prefix rather than
changing `/api/v1`.
## Not covered
These can change in a minor or even patch release:
1. **The `~/.codeman/` state file formats.** Migrations are made on a best-effort basis and
have been done across renames, but the on-disk shape is not a contract. Do not write
tooling against it.
2. **Internal TypeScript modules.** The npm package is CLI-only. There is no stable library
entry point, and importing it programmatically is unsupported.
3. **Experimental and opt-in features**, whatever the app's version: gesture control, agent
teams, and anything labelled experimental in the UI or docs.
## Deprecation
- Additive changes are preferred over breaking ones.
- A covered surface slated for removal is deprecated first: it keeps working for at least one
minor release, with a runtime warning and a changelog note pointing at the replacement,
then is removed in the next major.
- Backwards-compatibility shims are kept until a major boundary.
## Releases
Releases are managed with changesets. Every release:
- Bumps the version and updates
[`CHANGELOG.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
- Publishes to npm as `aicodeman`.
- Cuts a GitHub release, tagged `codeman@X.Y.Z`.
- **Credits its contributors and bug reporters by name** in the release notes.
There is no fixed cadence. Patches ship when fixes are ready, which in practice is often.
## Which version am I on?
```bash
codeman --version
```
Or **App Settings → Updates**, which also checks for a newer one and can install it. See
[Running As A Service](Running-As-A-Service).
## Read next
- [HTTP API](HTTP-API) - the stable API surface itself.
- [Contributing](Contributing) - how changes get made.
- [`docs/versioning-policy.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/versioning-policy.md) - the authoritative statement.
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# Watching Agents Work
Modern agents fan out. A single Claude session can be running six subagents, and the parent
terminal shows you almost none of it. Codeman surfaces that hidden work as live windows,
panels, and after-the-fact summaries.
Everything on this page is Claude-only. It reads Claude Code's transcripts and team state;
the other CLIs expose no equivalent.
![Subagent windows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ark0N/Codeman/master/docs/images/subagent-windows-20260724.png)
## Subagent windows
When a Claude session spawns subagents, each one gets its own floating window with a live
transcript: what it was asked to do, what it is doing, and what it returned.
- Windows are draggable and resizable, and their positions persist across reloads.
- A connection line links each window to the session tab that spawned it, so with four
sessions running you can still tell whose worker is whose.
- Closing a window does not stop the subagent. It only stops you watching it.
This is the feature that makes a fan-out legible. Without it, a lead session that spawned
eight workers looks like a stalled terminal for several minutes.
## Session lineage arcs
The tab strip draws a coloured arc from a parent tab to any tab it spawned, one colour per
child. That covers the other direction of fan-out: not subagents inside one session, but
whole sessions started by an agent through the API.
Desktop only, on by default, and toggled in **App Settings → Appearance**. Arcs are skipped
for tabs scrolled out of view.
See [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) for the spawning side.
## Agent teams
Claude Code's experimental agent teams appear as teammates alongside subagents. Enable them
in the CLI's own environment:
```bash
CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1
```
and turn the per-case **Agent Teams** toggle on in the case settings gear.
Codeman watches the team directory and matches teammates to the session leading them.
Teammates are in-process threads rather than separate CLI processes, so they show up as
windows, not tabs.
Notes and the experiment log:
[`docs/agent-teams/`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/tree/master/docs/agent-teams).
## Ultracode and workflow runs
When Claude runs a Workflow, dozens of agents can be in flight at once. The completion
artifact for a run is only written at the **end**, so a live run would otherwise be
invisible until it finished. Codeman synthesizes the in-flight view from the transcripts and
lets the real artifact supersede it when it lands.
Two independent toggles, both off by default:
| Setting | Shows |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Ultracode panel | A docked panel listing the run's agents. |
| Ultracode windows | Floating windows, like subagents. |
Turning on either starts the watcher.
## Reading the answer, not the terminal
**Last Response** (header button, opt-in) renders the agent's last answer as scrollable text
rather than terminal output. It exists mostly for phones, where reading a long answer in a
terminal viewport is painful. **More** loads additional context.
## After the fact
| Surface | Answers |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Away Digest** | What happened while I was gone? |
| **Run summary** | What did this run actually do? |
| **Lifecycle log** | When did sessions start, exit, or get killed, and why? |
| **Token stats** | What did it cost? |
The Away Digest aggregates the lifecycle log, run summary events, live sessions, token
statistics, and recent subagents into one view. It is the right first thing to open in the
morning after an overnight run.
All of these header buttons are opt-in: **App Settings → Header & Panels**.
## Performance
The design target is 20 sessions and 50 agent windows at 60fps. If you routinely run more
than that, expect the browser rather than the server to be the limit, and close windows you
are not reading.
## Gotchas
- **A session pointed at a relocated Claude config directory goes blind here.** Transcripts
written outside `~/.claude/projects` are invisible to the watchers, so subagent windows,
the ultracode panel, the response viewer, and Read My Mind all stop working for that
session. Symlink `projects` back into the shared tree to fix it. See
[Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs).
- **Closing a window does not cancel the agent.** Nothing on this page controls agents; it
observes them.
- **Windows are opt-in for ultracode, automatic for subagents.**
## Read next
- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - where these surfaces live.
- [Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent) - the other kind of fan-out.
- [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops) - the loops that generate this much activity.
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# Web Tabs
Open any dashboard you run, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Portainer, a status page on port 4000, as
a tab beside your agent sessions. Codeman becomes one mission control instead of Codeman
plus a pile of browser tabs.
A web tab is **not a session**. There is no PTY, no tmux, and no respawn behind it, the same
way a docker case is not a run mode.
## Adding one
1. Click the chevron next to **Run**.
2. Under **Web / URL**, pick **Add URL**.
3. Name it, paste the URL, optionally hit **Test**, and **Save**.
It opens immediately and appears in the dropdown from then on. Web tabs share the tab strip
with sessions, continue the same `Alt+1` to `Alt+9` numbering, and carry a globe icon so
they never read as a running agent.
**Closing a tab is not deleting it.** The tab's `x` closes; the `x` on its **dropdown row**
deletes the saved dashboard. Each dropdown row also has a gear for editing the URL.
Switching tabs does not reload a dashboard. Frames stay alive in the background, so one that
took a while to authenticate is still there when you come back. Past six live frames, the
least recently viewed is dropped to bound memory.
## Why dashboards are proxied
A plain cross-origin iframe fails three ways at once in the setup Codeman actually ships in:
| Blocker | What happens |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Mixed content** | Production is HTTPS, and browsers hard-block `http://` iframes on an HTTPS page. No override, and none at all on iOS Safari. |
| **Framing refusal** | Grafana, Portainer, Home Assistant and many others send `X-Frame-Options: DENY`. |
| **Codeman's CSP** | `default-src 'self'` blocks a cross-origin frame before it starts. |
So by default the dashboard is served **through Codeman's own origin**: the browser loads a
path on Codeman, and Codeman relays to the dashboard, stripping the framing refusal,
rewriting redirects, cookies and root-absolute URLs, and relaying WebSockets so live panels
still update.
A useful side effect: the dashboard is fetched **by the Codeman server**, so a tailnet-only
or localhost-only dashboard works from any device that can reach Codeman, including a phone
that is not on your tailnet.
There is also a `direct` mode, a plain cross-origin iframe, which is cheaper but only works
for an HTTPS dashboard that permits framing.
## The Test button, and what it does not test
**Test** probes from the server and tells you which mode applies. It verifies
**server-to-upstream reachability and nothing else**. It does not exercise the browser
sandbox, cookies, CORS, CSP, or any reverse proxy in front of Codeman.
A passing Test does not guarantee the embedded page renders.
## The sandbox, and when to turn it off
Because a proxied dashboard is served from Codeman's own address, the browser considers it
same-origin with Codeman. Unchecked, its JavaScript could read the Codeman page and call the
API that spawns agents.
So the frame is sandboxed **without** same-origin access by default. The page runs in an
opaque origin: it cannot touch Codeman, and it gets no cookies or local storage of its own.
Unchecking **Open sandboxed** grants a real origin. Do that only for a dashboard you fully
trust, and only when you need it, which in practice means one with its own login that stores
a session in a cookie.
Either way, Codeman never forwards its own credentials upstream. The `Authorization` header
and the `codeman_session` cookie are stripped on the way out, so `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` cannot
leak into a dashboard.
## Known incompatibility: cookie-authenticated reverse proxies
If Codeman itself sits behind Cloudflare Access, Authelia, oauth2-proxy, or similar, a
**sandboxed** tab may render unstyled or broken while the Codeman page around it works fine.
The reason: an opaque-origin frame's stylesheet, script, and API requests do not carry the
proxy's authentication cookie. The proxy redirects them to the login provider, and CORS or
CSP kills them there.
Trusted mode keeps a real origin and the cookie, so it works. Test cannot catch this, because
it checks the server's reach, not the browser's.
## Security notes
The proxy authenticates on an in-memory capability embedded in the path, which is why it is
exempt from the cookie and Origin checks that every API route enforces. That exemption is
fenced to safe methods and non-API paths, and there is a test pinning it in place.
Two failure modes that only appear inside a sandboxed frame, and that curl can never
reproduce, are handled: runtime-built root-absolute URLs escaping the injected base, and
same-host requests being CORS-checked with a null origin. Both present as the dashboard's own
"Failed to fetch" while the page itself renders fine.
## Read next
- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - the tab strip these share.
- [Security](Security) - why the sandbox default is what it is.
- [`docs/web-tabs.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/web-tabs.md) - the full reference.
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# Working With Files
Reading, editing, attaching, and previewing files without leaving the dashboard. Useful on
a desktop; on a phone it is the difference between reviewing an agent's work and waiting
until you get home.
## The File Viewer
A panel that browses the active session's working directory. Its header button is on by
default; if it is missing, re-enable it in **App Settings → Header & Panels**.
It renders what it can:
| Kind | Behaviour |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Text and code | Syntax-aware preview. Long files are truncated in plain preview. |
| Images | Inline. |
| Audio and video | Inline with a working scrub bar, because range requests are supported. |
| PDF and Office documents | Converted for preview when a converter is available. |
| Anything else | Download. |
Caps: 10 MB for text preview, 50 MB for raw and download. Sensitive paths (`.env`, anything
matching credentials, `~/.ssh`, AWS credentials) are blocked from download, and SVG and HTML
are served as downloads rather than rendered, so they cannot execute in the page.
Closing the preview pauses and unloads any playing media. A video that keeps playing after
you close the panel means you are on an old version.
## Editing in place
Text files can be edited and saved directly in the viewer. Click the pencil in the preview
header, edit, **Save**.
The guardrails are worth knowing, because they are what makes editing safe rather than
convenient:
- **Extension allowlist**, not a blocklist. Code, docs, config, and markup are editable.
Anything not on the list is not.
- **512 KB cap** on both read and write.
- **Edit mode never truncates.** The plain preview does truncate long files, and saving a
truncated buffer would silently delete the rest, so the editor loads the whole file or
refuses.
- **Optimistic concurrency.** The save carries a hash of what you started from. If the file
changed underneath you (likely, when an agent is working in the same repo), the save is
rejected rather than clobbering their work.
- **No file creation.** Writes go to a temporary file and are renamed over the original, and
the open never creates. Editing in place is structural, not a rule.
- **Line endings are preserved** server-side, so editing two lines of a CRLF file does not
produce a whole-file diff.
- **`.git/` is denied outright.** Hooks are executable code, and a corrupted index looks
unrecoverable to someone who wanted to fix a typo.
- **Non-UTF-8 content is refused**, verified by a round-trip comparison.
## Attachments
Attachments are live references to files **outside** the session's workspace: a spec on your
desktop, a PDF in Downloads, a design document elsewhere on the machine.
Register one from the CLI:
```bash
codeman attach /path/to/spec.pdf
```
An attachment card appears in the session, and the file can be previewed inline. The
attachment gets a stable id, and browser requests use that id rather than carrying absolute
paths around.
Agents can register attachments too, by emitting a `codeman://attach?...` link in their
output. That path is **prompt-injectable by nature**, so it is force-confined to the
session's workspace: a hostile prompt cannot use it to pull arbitrary host files into the
event stream. The gate is an extension allowlist rather than a blocklist.
Document conversion for previews is globally rate limited. Without that, ten large documents
detected at once would fork ten multi-minute converter processes.
## Clicking a path
File paths in a session are links. That works in two places:
- **In the terminal**, on any absolute path an agent prints.
- **In the response viewer**, where paths are usually written as prose or in backticks. They
render as underlined monospace links.
Clicking one opens it in the preview: images and PDFs render, video and audio play with a
working scrub bar, documents convert, text and Markdown show inline. Log-shaped files open in
the tail viewer instead, which follows a file that is still being written.
Paths **outside** the session's workspace work too, which matters because that is where most
of an agent's output lands: a screenshot in `/tmp`, a capture in its own scratchpad, a file in
another checkout. Those are served through the attachment routes rather than the workspace
ones, so the same rules apply as to any other attachment: secret trees are blocked, the
extension allowlist decides what can be opened, and symlinks are resolved before either check.
Outside the workspace the allowlist is images, video, audio, PDF, Office documents, and text
files, where "text" is the same list the viewer will let you edit: code, config, logs, csv,
markdown. The reasoning is that a session can already `cat` any of those, so the file suffix
was never what kept anything secret; the path guard is. Types outside the list (`.svg`,
`.bmp`) say so rather than failing silently, and `.html` previews as source rather than being
rendered, so nothing served this way can execute in the page.
Text previews are capped at the first 500 lines, fetched as a partial read, so clicking a
one-gigabyte log does not try to paint one.
Log-shaped files inside the workspace still open in the tail viewer, which follows a file as
it is written. Outside the workspace they open in the preview instead: the tail viewer runs
`tail -f`, and that is deliberately restricted to the workspace, `/var/log` and `~/logs`.
Nothing is registered until you click. Opening a file this way does not add an attachment card.
## The path picker
For choosing a path rather than typing one. It appears in two places:
- **Browse** in **Add Case → Link Existing**.
- The **📁 Path** key on the mobile keyboard bar.
It browses one directory at a time and can show hidden entries on request. The picker
inserts the path into your prompt **without** pressing Enter, so nothing is submitted by
accident. Its sibling **⌫ All** key clears the unsent prompt, and never sends the agent's
`/clear` command.
This is a separate file-serving surface from the viewer, with its own rules: it allowlists
your home directory, the cases directory, and anything in `CODEMAN_FILE_PICKER_ROOTS`, and
blocks sensitive trees. In multi-user mode a non-admin gets only their own user space as a
root, because per-user spaces live inside the home directory and a home-directory root would
expose everyone.
## Images into a session
Paste from the clipboard or drag and drop straight onto the terminal. The image is written
where the agent can read it and the reference is inserted into your prompt. On a phone, the
image key in the keyboard bar opens the camera or photo library.
HEIC images from an iPhone are converted to JPEG on the way in.
## Generated artifacts
When an agent produces a file the UI can show (a chart, a diagram, a document), it can
surface as an artifact attachment rather than a path you have to go and find.
## Gotchas
- **The viewer follows the active session's workspace.** Switching tabs changes what you are
browsing.
- **A save can be rejected, and that is the feature.** It means the agent edited the file
while you were typing. Re-open, re-apply, save again.
- **Attachments live outside the workspace on purpose.** For files inside it, just use the
viewer.
- **`.env` files are readable in the viewer if the extension policy allows the preview, but
never downloadable.** Do not treat the viewer as a secrets boundary; treat the machine as
the boundary.
## Read next
- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - where the panels live.
- [Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice) - other ways to get content into a session.
- [Security](Security) - how the file surfaces are confined.
- [`docs/file-viewer-edit-plan.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/file-viewer-edit-plan.md) - the edit-mode design.
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Documents Codeman **{{VERSION}}**. Something wrong or missing on this page? These pages are
generated from [`docs/wiki/`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/tree/master/docs/wiki) in
the main repository, so browser edits here are overwritten on the next sync. Send a pull
request against that directory instead, or open a
[Discussion](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions).
<!-- {{VERSION}} is replaced with the current major.minor series by
.github/workflows/wiki-sync.yml at publish time. Do not hardcode a
version here: it went stale every release when it was hand-written. -->
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### [Codeman Wiki](Home)
[README](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman)
**Getting started**
- [Installation](Installation)
- [Quick Start](Quick-Start)
- [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts)
**Using it**
- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard)
- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs)
- [Working With Files](Working-With-Files)
- [Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice)
- [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide)
- [Keyboard Shortcuts](Keyboard-Shortcuts)
- [Settings Reference](Settings-Reference)
**Keeping agents running**
- [Unattended Runs](Keeping-Agents-Running)
- [Notifications & Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals)
- [Cron Jobs](Cron-Jobs)
- [Autonomous Loops](Autonomous-Loops)
- [Watching Agents Work](Watching-Agents-Work)
**Where it runs**
- [Docker Cases](Docker-Cases)
- [Remote SSH Sessions](Remote-SSH-Sessions)
- [Web Tabs](Web-Tabs)
- [Multi-User Mode](Multi-User-Mode)
**Access & security**
- [Remote Access](Remote-Access)
- [Security](Security)
**Automation**
- [Driving It From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent)
- [HTTP API](HTTP-API)
- [Hooks & Integrations](Hooks-And-Integrations)
**Operating it**
- [Running As A Service](Running-As-A-Service)
- [Troubleshooting](Troubleshooting)
- [FAQ](FAQ)
- [Contributing](Contributing)
- [Versioning](Versioning)
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# Warm worker pool: sub-second claude worker spawns
Design sketch. Status: **proposed**, not started. Opt-in (`workerPoolSize`, default 0 = off); a user who touches nothing sees no change at all.
---
## 1. Problem and numbers
Measured against prod 1.18.3 on 2026-08-15, AFTER the SKILL.md fast-path hardening
(no recon turns), on the identical "spawn two codeman workers" prompt:
- **Cold orchestrator** (fresh session, skill loaded from disk): **20.2 s** prompt to
final report. Breakdown: 3.9 s Skill-load turn, 6.4 s generating the one fused Bash
call, **4.4 s spawn call**, 5.5 s summary. Tabs appeared at 10.5 s.
- **Warm orchestrator** (skill already in context, no Skill turn): **12.8 s**, spawn
call 6.0 s.
- Inside the spawn call, session + tmux + case creation is cheap: the workers (and
their tabs) appeared 0.2-1.7 s in, both siblings within ~350 ms of each other. The
remaining **~4-5 s is claude CLI boot plus the composer-readiness wait**, paid again
on every cold spawn. That slice is the pool's entire target.
The honest framing after the hardening: model turns dominate the skill flow (~16 of
20 cold seconds) and no server feature can shrink those. The pool attacks the
tool-side floor, and it has two distinct beneficiaries:
- **Skill/API orchestration**: the spawn call drops from ~4.4-6 s to ~1 s. Cold runs
land ~16-17 s, warm ~8 s. Tab appearance barely moves for this consumer (it is
model-turn-bound at ~10 s cold / ~4 s warm).
- **The UI Run button and direct quick-start callers**: a click today waits the full
boot + readiness before the worker can take a prompt; a pooled claim makes the tab
appear and the worker READY sub-second. This is the most visible win, and it
involves no skill at all.
Target: hand out an already-ready worker in **under 1 s**.
## 2. Shape
A new `src/worker-pool.ts` singleton service, following the `CronService` pattern: it **reuses the existing session layer** (`SessionManager` create + the normal spawn path) and never rebuilds tmux logic.
A pool member is a real claude `Session`, pre-spawned in a reserved scratch case (`~/codeman-cases/.pool-<n>`, created with the standard scaffold + hooks), already past readiness: composer drawn, hooks installed, preamble file seeded. It sits idle at the composer costing no tokens.
The claim happens **transparently inside `POST /api/quick-start`**: when a request is pool-eligible (§3) and a healthy member is available, quick-start returns that member instead of cold-spawning. The agent skill, the UI Run button, and every existing caller change **nothing**. Ineligible or pool-empty requests cold-spawn exactly as today, so the pool is only ever a fast path, never a behavior change.
## 3. Eligibility gate
Claim only when ALL of these hold; otherwise fall through to a cold spawn:
- `mode === 'claude'` (external CLIs have different readiness semantics and inject secrets via `tmux setenv` at spawn; out of scope).
- No `envOverrides`, no `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`, and `modelOverride`/`effort` unset or equal to what the pool member was spawned with. Env vars flow at spawn time and cannot be applied to a running CLI.
- The requested case is **fresh** (does not exist yet). A linked case, an existing directory, a remote-SSH case, or a Docker case means the caller wants a specific workspace; pool members cannot provide one.
- Single-user mode, or the requester owns the pool (v1 ships single-user only; §11).
## 4. What a claim does (~300 ms)
1. Pop a ready member (in-memory check-and-remove; Node's single thread makes this atomic, so two concurrent quick-starts cannot claim the same member).
2. Health-probe it: `isPaneDead` (the existing ~750 ms-cached mux probe) plus one `capturePaneText` asserting a clean composer. A dead, limit-paused, or dirty member is recycled, and the claim tries the next member or falls through to cold spawn.
3. Rename the session to the normal `w<n>-<case>` name, set `parentSessionId` via the existing `resolveParentSessionId()`, clear the pool flag, persist state.
4. Emit `session_created` **now** (it was suppressed at warm-spawn time, §5). The tab appears here, sub-second after the request.
5. Return the **pool case** as `casePath`/`workingDir` and do NOT create a directory under the requested name: an empty dir the worker's CLI does not run in is a trap (files written there are invisible to the worker at cwd), and the agent skill greps the RETURNED `casePath` for Codeman hooks before trusting the worker, so the response must point at the directory that really carries them.
6. Kick a background refill (§6).
**The identity wrinkle, stated honestly:** the session id, `CODEMAN_SESSION_ID` inside the pane, the seeded preamble file, and the CLI's cwd are all fixed at warm-spawn and survive the claim unchanged. So a claimed worker's `workingDir` is the pool dir, not `~/codeman-cases/<requested-name>`; the requested name is a **label**. The API must report the truthful `workingDir`. Transcript projHash, response viewer, subagent windows, and Read My Mind all key off the real path and keep working precisely because we do not lie about it. This is acceptable for the dominant use (ephemeral skill workers that are deleted after answering) and is documented in the skill; a caller that needs the real case as cwd is by definition not pool-eligible.
**Verified skill compatibility (zero preamble changes).** Checked against the shipped 1.18.3 preamble: `spawn_worker`'s readiness probe (`_composer_up`) is a `wait-output` call with `from=buffer`, which scans output that already scrolled past before blocking, so a pooled member's long-since-drawn composer matches instantly instead of stranding a fresh-stream wait. The trust-dialog fallback never fires (members passed the dialog at warm time), and the hooks grep passes because the pool case carries the standard scaffold. Pooled and cold spawns are indistinguishable to the skill except in speed and the additive `pooled: true`.
## 5. Hiding pre-claim members
Pool members must be invisible until claimed or they read as ghost tabs. `Session.isPoolWorker` gates, at minimum:
- `GET /api/sessions` and `GET /api/sessions/unified` (and therefore the Cmd+K palette and the session-history-index snapshot that feeds `/api/search`).
- `session_created` SSE at warm-spawn (deferred to claim time). All other per-session SSE for a hidden member is suppressed at the broadcast call sites it would reach.
- Push notifications and the Approvals Inbox (a warm member showing a trust dialog must recycle, not notify).
- The phone overview / home rail (both render from the session list, so the list filter covers them).
- The lifecycle log records `pool_warm` / `pool_claim` events rather than user-visible session history.
`maxSessions` (50) **counts** pool members, and the pool refuses to warm within `poolSize + 2` of the cap so it can never starve real session creation.
## 6. Refill, TTL, drain
- **Refill** after each claim, debounced, at most one warm spawn in flight (a claim burst falls back to cold spawns rather than forking N CLIs at once; same reasoning as the document-conversion limiter).
- **TTL ~30 min**: recycle members older than that so they cannot drift from settings, hooks config, or a self-updated CLI on disk.
- **Drain and respawn** on: `claudeModel` change, hooks-config regeneration, self-update, and `workerPoolSize` changes. On server shutdown, kill pool sessions (they are stateless and ours). On boot, kill any leftover `.pool-*` tmux sessions found via `mux-sessions.json` rather than adopting them; adoption buys nothing for stateless members.
## 7. Failure modes
| Failure | Handling |
| --- | --- |
| Member died idle (PTY exit, crash) | Health probe at claim catches it; recycle + try next; PTY-exit breaker applies unchanged |
| Member hit a usage limit while idle | `isLimitPaused` members are never handed out; recycle |
| Composer dirty (stray keystrokes, dialog) | `capturePaneText` probe refuses it; recycle |
| Claim race | Impossible by construction (synchronous in-memory pop) |
| Warm spawn itself fails | Log, back off, retry on next refill tick; pool empty just means cold spawns |
## 8. Cost
Each warm member is one tmux session + one idle claude process (order 150-300 MB RSS; **measure before defaulting the size above 0**, including whether an idle CLI makes any background requests via its statusline refresh). Zero token cost while idle. Suggested starting size for users who opt in: 2.
## 9. Settings and API surface
- `workerPoolSize` (int, 0-4, default 0): **synced** setting in `SettingsUpdateSchema`. The watcher that resizes the pool on `PUT /api/settings` must resolve from `merged`, never the raw body (the partial-PUT gotcha in CLAUDE.md).
- One internal status endpoint, `GET /api/worker-pool` (size, members' ages, claims served, fall-through count), for debugging. No new SSE events: the claim emits the existing `session_created`.
- No new public API semantics: `/api/quick-start`'s contract is unchanged apart from a `pooled: true` field in the response data, which is additive.
## 10. Considered and rejected
- **Renaming the pool case dir to the requested name at claim.** Linux keeps the process cwd working across the rename (inode-based), but claude computed its transcript projHash from the old path string at boot, so transcripts, subagent windows, and the response viewer go blind, the exact failure mode the `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` docs warn about. Truthful label semantics (§4) beat a clever rename.
- **A new explicit claim endpoint.** Transparency inside quick-start means the skill, the UI, and every existing script get the speedup with zero changes; a new endpoint means new docs, new drift, and callers that must know the pool exists.
- **Pooling external CLI modes.** Readiness there is output stabilization, secrets ride `tmux setenv` at spawn, and codex/pi composer semantics differ per CLI. Claude-only until someone measures a need.
- **Returning quick-start at creation instead of readiness (no pool).** Would move tabs earlier on cold spawns too, but `sendwait` immediately after would then race the composer; readiness is what makes immediate tasking safe, and the pool makes the whole question moot for eligible spawns.
## 11. Phasing
1. **v1**: single-user, claude-only, fixed-size pool, transparent claim, status endpoint. Everything above.
2. **v2**: per-owner pools for multi-user mode (pool members must carry an owner because ownership scoping is structural); possibly model-matched pools (one warm set per configured `claudeModel`).
3. **Explicitly out**: warming linked/repo cases (spawning where the work is has no hooks and is the skill's documented costliest mistake; a warm pool must not make it faster to reach).
## 12. Testing
- Unit: pool manager logic pure and mock-driven (eligibility gate, TTL, refill debounce, drain triggers), `MockSession` from `test/mocks/`.
- Route: `app.inject` on quick-start asserting claim vs cold-spawn per eligibility row in §3, plus the double-claim race (two concurrent injects, one pool member: exactly one `pooled: true`).
- Live: re-run the pinned baselines against a warmed beta instance. Before (2026-08-15, prod 1.18.3, post-hardening): cold orchestrator **20.2 s** / warm **12.8 s** end to end, spawn call 4.4-6.0 s. Acceptance: spawn call under 1 s, cold ~16-17 s, warm ~8-9 s, and a UI Run click to a READY worker in under 1 s.
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@@ -125,6 +125,22 @@ PI_SEARCH_PATHS=(
"$HOME/bin/pi"
)
# DeepSeek Harness search paths (from src/utils/deepseek-cli-resolver.ts)
DSH_SEARCH_PATHS=(
"$HOME/.local/bin/dsh"
"/usr/local/bin/dsh"
"$HOME/.npm-global/bin/dsh"
"$HOME/bin/dsh"
)
# Grok CLI search paths (from src/utils/grok-cli-resolver.ts)
GROK_SEARCH_PATHS=(
"$HOME/.grok/bin/grok"
"$HOME/.local/bin/grok"
"/usr/local/bin/grok"
"$HOME/bin/grok"
)
# Antigravity CLI search paths (from src/utils/antigravity-cli-resolver.ts)
ANTIGRAVITY_SEARCH_PATHS=(
"$HOME/.local/bin/agy"
@@ -133,6 +149,17 @@ ANTIGRAVITY_SEARCH_PATHS=(
"$HOME/bin/agy"
)
# OMP CLI search paths (from src/utils/omp-cli-resolver.ts's OMP_SEARCH_DIRS —
# ~/.local/bin leads, omp.sh's installer target; ~/.omp/bin is a fallback only)
OMP_SEARCH_PATHS=(
"$HOME/.local/bin/omp"
"$HOME/.omp/bin/omp"
"/usr/local/bin/omp"
"$HOME/.bun/bin/omp"
"$HOME/.npm-global/bin/omp"
"$HOME/bin/omp"
)
# ============================================================================
# Color Output
# ============================================================================
@@ -229,7 +256,11 @@ print_security_notice() {
echo -e " ${YELLOW}${BOLD}Security:${NC}"
echo -e " Codeman binds ${BOLD}127.0.0.1${NC} (this machine only) — no password needed by default."
echo -e " To reach it from another device, do ONE of:"
echo -e " ${CYAN}•${NC} tailscale serve / cloudflared tunnel ${DIM}(recommended)${NC}, or"
if check_tailscale; then
echo -e " ${CYAN}•${NC} ${CYAN}bash $INSTALL_DIR/install.sh tailscale${NC} ${DIM}(Tailscale is installed here; HTTPS, recommended)${NC}, or"
else
echo -e " ${CYAN}•${NC} tailscale serve / cloudflared tunnel ${DIM}(recommended)${NC}, or"
fi
echo -e " ${CYAN}•${NC} ${CYAN}codeman web --host 0.0.0.0${NC} AND set ${CYAN}CODEMAN_PASSWORD${NC}"
echo -e " A non-loopback bind without a password still starts, but warns loudly."
echo -e " ${DIM}Details: docs/security-architecture.md${NC}"
@@ -396,6 +427,27 @@ check_tmux() {
command -v tmux &>/dev/null
}
# node-pty ships prebuilt binaries for darwin and win32 ONLY, so on Linux it is
# always compiled from source during `npm install`. Without a toolchain that
# fails deep inside node-gyp with `not found: make`, which reads like an npm bug
# rather than a missing system package (issue: fresh Ubuntu 24 server install).
# So the toolchain is checked up front, exactly like git and tmux.
#
# Returns a human-readable list of what is missing, empty when all present.
missing_build_tools() {
local missing=""
command -v make &>/dev/null || missing="make"
if ! command -v c++ &>/dev/null && ! command -v g++ &>/dev/null && ! command -v clang++ &>/dev/null; then
missing="${missing:+$missing, }a C++ compiler (g++)"
fi
command -v python3 &>/dev/null || missing="${missing:+$missing, }python3"
printf '%s' "$missing"
}
check_build_tools() {
[[ -z "$(missing_build_tools)" ]]
}
check_claude() {
# Check PATH first
if command -v claude &>/dev/null; then
@@ -569,6 +621,119 @@ get_pi_path() {
done
}
# `grok` has known squatters too (the unrelated @vibe-kit/grok-cli), so the
# server-side resolver additionally probes `grok --version`. Detection here only
# feeds the "you have no AI CLI" hint, so a plain executable test is enough.
check_grok() {
if command -v grok &>/dev/null; then
return 0
fi
for path in "${GROK_SEARCH_PATHS[@]}"; do
if [[ -x "$path" ]]; then
return 0
fi
done
return 1
}
# `dsh` is the hardest name of the lot: Debian ships an unrelated `dsh`
# (dancer's shell). The server-side resolver settles it by demanding the
# harness's own help banner; detection here only feeds the "you have no AI CLI"
# hint, so the same banner grep is enough — but unlike every sibling probe it
# EXECUTES the candidate, so it must be bounded. </dev/null is load-bearing
# twice over: a foreign binary that blocks on stdin would hang the install, and
# under `curl | bash` a child that reads stdin EATS THE REST OF THIS SCRIPT.
# The timeout (where coreutils ships one; stock macOS has none) bounds a binary
# that ignores EOF, mirroring the server resolver's own EXEC_TIMEOUT_MS.
dsh_banner_probe() {
local runner=()
if command -v timeout &>/dev/null; then runner=(timeout 5); fi
"${runner[@]}" "$1" --help </dev/null 2>/dev/null | grep -qi "DeepSeek Harness"
}
# Resolved ONCE and memoized: the probe executes a possibly-foreign binary, and
# the check/get/reminder call sites together used to re-run the whole scan many
# times per install.
DSH_RESOLVE_DONE=""
DSH_RESOLVED_PATH=""
resolve_dsh() {
[[ -n "$DSH_RESOLVE_DONE" ]] && return 0
DSH_RESOLVE_DONE=1
local candidate path
if command -v dsh &>/dev/null; then
candidate="$(command -v dsh)"
if dsh_banner_probe "$candidate"; then
DSH_RESOLVED_PATH="$candidate"
return 0
fi
fi
for path in "${DSH_SEARCH_PATHS[@]}"; do
if [[ -x "$path" ]] && dsh_banner_probe "$path"; then
DSH_RESOLVED_PATH="$path"
return 0
fi
done
return 0
}
check_dsh() {
resolve_dsh
[[ -n "$DSH_RESOLVED_PATH" ]]
}
get_dsh_path() {
resolve_dsh
echo "$DSH_RESOLVED_PATH"
}
get_grok_path() {
if command -v grok &>/dev/null; then
command -v grok
return
fi
for path in "${GROK_SEARCH_PATHS[@]}"; do
if [[ -x "$path" ]]; then
echo "$path"
return
fi
done
}
# `omp` is a short name too, so like grok/pi the server-side resolver
# additionally probes `omp --version`. Detection here only feeds the
# "you have no AI CLI" hint, so a plain executable test is enough.
check_omp() {
if command -v omp &>/dev/null; then
return 0
fi
for path in "${OMP_SEARCH_PATHS[@]}"; do
if [[ -x "$path" ]]; then
return 0
fi
done
return 1
}
get_omp_path() {
if command -v omp &>/dev/null; then
command -v omp
return
fi
for path in "${OMP_SEARCH_PATHS[@]}"; do
if [[ -x "$path" ]]; then
echo "$path"
return
fi
done
}
check_cloudflared() {
# Check ~/.local/bin first (matches tunnel-manager.ts resolution order)
if [[ -x "$HOME/.local/bin/cloudflared" ]]; then
@@ -836,6 +1001,50 @@ install_git_suse() {
run_as_root zypper install -y git
}
# Build toolchain for node-pty's source compile (see missing_build_tools).
install_buildtools_debian() {
info "Installing build tools via apt (build-essential, python3)..."
ensure_sudo
run_as_root apt-get update -qq
run_as_root apt-get install -y -qq build-essential python3
}
install_buildtools_fedora() {
info "Installing build tools (gcc, gcc-c++, make, python3)..."
ensure_sudo
if command -v dnf &>/dev/null; then
run_as_root dnf install -y gcc gcc-c++ make python3
else
run_as_root yum install -y gcc gcc-c++ make python3
fi
}
install_buildtools_arch() {
info "Installing build tools via pacman (base-devel, python)..."
ensure_sudo
run_as_root pacman -Sy --noconfirm base-devel python
}
install_buildtools_alpine() {
info "Installing build tools via apk (build-base, python3)..."
ensure_sudo
run_as_root apk add --no-cache build-base python3
}
install_buildtools_suse() {
info "Installing build tools via zypper..."
ensure_sudo
run_as_root zypper install -y gcc gcc-c++ make python3
}
install_buildtools_macos() {
# macOS normally never gets here: node-pty ships darwin prebuilds. Only a
# forced source build needs a compiler, and Xcode CLT is its only supplier.
info "Requesting Xcode Command Line Tools..."
xcode-select --install 2>/dev/null || true
die "Finish the Xcode Command Line Tools install in the dialog, then re-run this installer."
}
install_cloudflared_macos() {
info "Installing cloudflared via Homebrew..."
ensure_homebrew
@@ -1072,21 +1281,28 @@ add_to_path() {
success "Added to $profile"
}
setup_sc_alias() {
# The `sc` bash chooser was retired in favour of `codeman tui`, which reaches
# sessions 10+, carries the server's real states and leaves an attach with one
# key. Older installers wrote this alias, so take it back out.
#
# Marker-owned on purpose: it matches the exact line WE wrote, so a user's own
# `alias sc=` for something entirely different is never touched. The rewrite
# goes through `cat >` rather than `mv` so the profile keeps its own mode and
# ownership.
remove_sc_alias() {
local profile
profile=$(detect_shell_profile)
[[ -f "$profile" ]] || return 0
grep -qE "^alias sc='tmux-chooser'\$" "$profile" 2>/dev/null || return 0
# Check if alias already exists
if [[ -f "$profile" ]] && grep -qE "^alias sc=" "$profile" 2>/dev/null; then
info "Alias 'sc' already configured in $profile"
return 0
local tmp
tmp=$(mktemp 2>/dev/null) || return 0
if sed -e "/^alias sc='tmux-chooser'\$/d" \
-e '/^# Codeman tmux session shortcut$/d' "$profile" > "$tmp" 2>/dev/null; then
cat "$tmp" > "$profile"
info "Removed the retired 'sc' alias from $profile (use: codeman tui)"
fi
echo "" >> "$profile"
echo "# Codeman tmux session shortcut" >> "$profile"
echo "alias sc='tmux-chooser'" >> "$profile"
info "Added 'sc' alias for tmux-chooser"
rm -f "$tmp"
}
# ============================================================================
@@ -1704,6 +1920,41 @@ setup_tailscale_access() {
return 0
}
# A loopback install with Tailscale already connected but nothing fronting
# Codeman is one command away from working remote access — and that is exactly
# where a user lands when the first install died BEFORE the network-access
# prompt (it runs after the build, so any build failure costs the network step
# too) or when they finished a broken build by hand instead of re-running the
# installer. Detect that state on re-run and offer the retrofit, rather than
# leaving them to discover `install.sh tailscale` on their own. Never nags a
# deliberate network bind, and never nags once a serve mapping already exists.
maybe_offer_tailscale_repair() {
# A non-loopback bind already has network access; leave that choice alone.
if [[ "$EXISTING_FOUND" == "1" && -n "$EXISTING_HOST" && "$EXISTING_HOST" != "127.0.0.1" ]]; then
return 0
fi
check_tailscale || return 0
command -v node &>/dev/null || return 0
[[ "$(ts_status_field 's.BackendState')" == "Running" ]] || return 0
# Already fronting Codeman: nothing to repair.
[[ -z "$(detect_tailscale_serve_url)" ]] || return 0
echo ""
info "Tailscale is connected here, but no serve mapping fronts Codeman yet."
if [[ "$NONINTERACTIVE" == "1" ]] || ! has_tty; then
echo -e " ${DIM}Enable HTTPS access from your tailnet with:${NC} ${CYAN}bash $INSTALL_DIR/install.sh tailscale${NC}"
return 0
fi
if ! prompt_yes_no "Set up Tailscale HTTPS access now? (your tailnet is the login; no password needed)" "y"; then
echo -e " ${DIM}Any time later:${NC} ${CYAN}bash $INSTALL_DIR/install.sh tailscale${NC}"
return 0
fi
if setup_tailscale_access; then
verify_tailscale_access || true
fi
return 0
}
# `install.sh tailscale`: retrofit Tailscale access onto an existing install
# (also the target of every "set it up later" hint above).
setup_tailscale_subcommand() {
@@ -1956,6 +2207,29 @@ setup_tunnel_service() {
# Installation Helpers
# ============================================================================
# npm install with an actionable message for the failure that actually happens
# on a fresh Linux box: no toolchain, so node-pty cannot compile.
npm_install_deps() {
if npm install --quiet --no-fund --no-audit 2>/dev/null; then
return 0
fi
if npm install --no-fund --no-audit; then
return 0
fi
error "npm install failed."
if [[ "$(detect_os)" == "linux" ]] && ! check_build_tools; then
error "Missing native build tools: $(missing_build_tools)"
error "node-pty has no Linux prebuilds, so it must compile from source."
error "Install them and re-run this installer:"
error " Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python3"
error " Fedora/RHEL: sudo dnf install -y gcc gcc-c++ make python3"
error " Arch: sudo pacman -S --noconfirm base-devel python"
error " Alpine: sudo apk add build-base python3"
fi
exit 1
}
install_dependency() {
local dep_name="$1"
local os="$2"
@@ -2069,6 +2343,31 @@ main() {
fi
fi
# Native build toolchain. node-pty compiles from source on Linux, so this is
# a hard requirement there, not a nicety.
if [[ "$os" == "linux" ]]; then
info "Checking build tools (node-pty compiles from source on Linux)..."
local missing_tools
missing_tools="$(missing_build_tools)"
if [[ -z "$missing_tools" ]]; then
success "Build tools are installed"
else
warn "Missing build tools: $missing_tools"
headless_guard "install build tools (system package via sudo)"
if prompt_yes_no "Install the build tools now?"; then
install_dependency "buildtools" "$os" "$distro"
hash -r 2>/dev/null || true
missing_tools="$(missing_build_tools)"
if [[ -n "$missing_tools" ]]; then
die "Build tools still missing after install: $missing_tools. Install them manually and re-run."
fi
success "Build tools installed"
else
die "A build toolchain (make, g++, python3) is required: node-pty has no Linux prebuilds and compiles from source."
fi
fi
fi
# AI CLI (Codeman drives one of: Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi)
local has_claude=false
local has_opencode=false
@@ -2076,6 +2375,9 @@ main() {
local has_gemini=false
local has_antigravity=false
local has_pi=false
local has_grok=false
local has_dsh=false
local has_omp=false
info "Checking AI CLI tools..."
if check_claude; then
@@ -2102,17 +2404,29 @@ main() {
has_pi=true
success "Pi CLI found at $(get_pi_path)"
fi
if check_grok; then
has_grok=true
success "Grok CLI found at $(get_grok_path)"
fi
if check_dsh; then
has_dsh=true
success "DeepSeek Harness found at $(get_dsh_path)"
fi
if check_omp; then
has_omp=true
success "OMP CLI found at $(get_omp_path)"
fi
if [[ "$has_claude" == "false" && "$has_opencode" == "false" && "$has_codex" == "false" && "$has_gemini" == "false" && "$has_antigravity" == "false" && "$has_pi" == "false" ]]; then
if [[ "$has_claude" == "false" && "$has_opencode" == "false" && "$has_codex" == "false" && "$has_gemini" == "false" && "$has_antigravity" == "false" && "$has_pi" == "false" && "$has_grok" == "false" && "$has_dsh" == "false" && "$has_omp" == "false" ]]; then
echo ""
warn "No AI CLI found. Codeman needs at least one: Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, or Pi."
warn "No AI CLI found. Codeman needs at least one: Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek Harness, or OMP."
headless_guard "install an AI CLI (curl | bash from its vendor)"
echo ""
echo -e " ${BOLD}Which AI CLI would you like to install?${NC}"
echo -e " ${CYAN}1)${NC} Claude Code (Anthropic)"
echo -e " ${CYAN}2)${NC} OpenCode (open-source)"
echo -e " ${CYAN}3)${NC} Both"
echo -e " ${CYAN}4)${NC} Skip (I'll install one myself, e.g. Codex, Antigravity or Pi)"
echo -e " ${CYAN}4)${NC} Skip (I'll install one myself, e.g. Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek Harness or OMP)"
echo ""
local cli_choice=""
@@ -2160,6 +2474,7 @@ main() {
info "Install one later, e.g.: npm install -g @openai/codex (Codex)"
info " or: curl -fsSL https://antigravity.google/cli/install.sh | bash (Antigravity)"
info " or: npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent (Pi)"
info " or: curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash (Grok)"
elif [[ "$has_claude" == "false" ]] && [[ "$has_opencode" == "false" ]]; then
die "The selected AI CLI failed to install. Install one manually and re-run the installer."
fi
@@ -2225,7 +2540,7 @@ main() {
# ========================================================================
info "Installing dependencies..."
npm install --quiet --no-fund --no-audit 2>/dev/null || npm install --no-fund --no-audit
npm_install_deps
info "Building..."
npm run build --quiet 2>/dev/null || npm run build
@@ -2243,13 +2558,14 @@ main() {
ln -sf "$INSTALL_DIR/dist/index.js" "$symlink_dir/codeman"
info "Created symlink: $symlink_dir/codeman"
# Install tmux-chooser as 'tmux-chooser' command
if [[ -f "$INSTALL_DIR/scripts/tmux-chooser.sh" ]]; then
ln -sf "$INSTALL_DIR/scripts/tmux-chooser.sh" "$symlink_dir/tmux-chooser"
info "Created symlink: $symlink_dir/tmux-chooser"
# Add 'sc' alias for quick access
setup_sc_alias
# tmux-chooser/`sc` is retired; `codeman tui` replaces it. Sweep up what
# an older installer left behind, so an update does not leave a symlink
# pointing at a script this version no longer ships.
if [[ -L "$symlink_dir/tmux-chooser" ]]; then
rm -f "$symlink_dir/tmux-chooser"
info "Removed the retired tmux-chooser symlink (use: codeman tui)"
fi
remove_sc_alias
# Add ~/.local/bin to PATH if not already there
if [[ ":$PATH:" != *":$symlink_dir:"* ]]; then
@@ -2450,23 +2766,28 @@ main() {
echo -e " ${BOLD}Mobile Access (Termius/SSH):${NC}"
echo ""
echo -e " ${CYAN}sc${NC} # Interactive tmux session chooser"
echo -e " ${CYAN}sc 2${NC} # Quick attach to session 2"
echo -e " ${CYAN}sc -h${NC} # Help"
echo -e " ${CYAN}codeman tui${NC} # Full-screen session dashboard"
echo -e " ${CYAN}codeman tui 2${NC} # Attach straight to session 2"
echo -e " ${CYAN}codeman tui -l${NC} # Numbered list, then exit"
echo ""
echo -e " ${BOLD}Documentation:${NC}"
echo -e " https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman"
echo ""
if ! check_claude && ! check_opencode && ! check_codex && ! check_gemini && ! check_antigravity && ! check_pi; then
if ! check_claude && ! check_opencode && ! check_codex && ! check_gemini && ! check_antigravity && ! check_pi && ! check_grok && ! check_dsh && ! check_omp; then
echo -e " ${YELLOW}${BOLD}Reminder:${NC} Install at least one AI CLI to start using Codeman:"
echo -e " ${CYAN}curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash${NC} # Claude Code"
echo -e " ${CYAN}curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash${NC} # OpenCode"
echo -e " ${CYAN}npm install -g @openai/codex${NC} # Codex"
echo -e " ${CYAN}curl -fsSL https://antigravity.google/cli/install.sh | bash${NC} # Antigravity"
echo -e " ${CYAN}npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent${NC} # Pi"
echo -e " ${CYAN}curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash${NC} # Grok"
echo -e " ${CYAN}curl -fsSL https://omp.sh/install | sh${NC} # OMP"
echo ""
echo -e " DeepSeek Harness has no vendor one-liner — install it from within Codeman"
echo -e " once the server is up (Run dropdown → Install DeepSeek Profile, or see"
echo -e " docs/deepseek-integration.md)."
fi
# Security notice — last informational block so it stays visible (when not
@@ -2519,7 +2840,7 @@ update() {
git fetch --quiet origin
git reset --hard "origin/$BRANCH" --quiet
npm install --quiet --no-fund --no-audit 2>/dev/null || npm install --no-fund --no-audit
npm_install_deps
npm run build --quiet 2>/dev/null || npm run build
date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ > "$INSTALL_DIR/.install-complete"
success "Updated to $(node -e "console.log(require('./package.json').version)")"
@@ -2556,6 +2877,10 @@ update() {
BIND_ACK="$EXISTING_ACK"
fi
# An update is the only place a half-configured install gets a second
# chance at remote access; the fresh-install path asks outright.
maybe_offer_tailscale_repair
print_security_notice
}
@@ -2620,6 +2945,7 @@ uninstall() {
rm -f "$symlink_dir/tmux-chooser"
success "Removed symlink: $symlink_dir/tmux-chooser"
fi
remove_sc_alias
# Remove install directory
if [[ -d "$INSTALL_DIR" ]]; then
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@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
{
"name": "aicodeman",
"version": "1.17.0",
"version": "1.25.0",
"lockfileVersion": 3,
"requires": true,
"packages": {
"": {
"name": "aicodeman",
"version": "1.17.0",
"version": "1.25.0",
"hasInstallScript": true,
"license": "MIT",
"workspaces": [
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
"@fastify/compress": "^8.3.1",
"@fastify/cookie": "^11.0.2",
"@fastify/multipart": "^10.0.0",
"@fastify/static": "^9.1.3",
"@fastify/static": "^10.1.3",
"@fastify/websocket": "^11.2.0",
"@xterm/addon-fit": "^0.11.0",
"@xterm/addon-serialize": "^0.14.0",
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
"jpeg-js": "^0.4.4",
"node-pty": "^1.1.0",
"qrcode": "^1.5.4",
"undici": "^6.28.0",
"uuid": "^14.0.0",
"web-push": "^3.6.7",
"ws": "^8.21.0",
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@
"pixelmatch": "^6.0.0",
"playwright": "^1.58.0",
"pngjs": "^7.0.0",
"postcss": "^8.5.15",
"prettier": "^3.4.0",
"puppeteer": "^24.36.0",
"remotion": "4.0.473",
@@ -1453,9 +1455,9 @@
}
},
"node_modules/@fastify/static": {
"version": "9.1.3",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@fastify/static/-/static-9.1.3.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-aXrYtsiryLhRxRNaxNqsn7FUISeb7rB9q4eHUPIot5aeQBLNahnz1m6thzm7JWC1poSGXS9XrX8DvuMivp2hkQ==",
"version": "10.1.3",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@fastify/static/-/static-10.1.3.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-W6jqajYS974XjPjB5hQWoxPM8NKM4+p8YmQT6G5IbCa4uhdWSVadZUv75siy1wEA/3ty8RYdpBydfWeu9AqAqQ==",
"funding": [
{
"type": "github",
@@ -1469,13 +1471,30 @@
"license": "MIT",
"dependencies": {
"@fastify/accept-negotiator": "^2.0.0",
"@fastify/error": "^4.0.0",
"@fastify/send": "^4.0.0",
"content-disposition": "^1.0.1",
"fastify-plugin": "^5.0.0",
"content-disposition": "^2.0.1",
"fastify-plugin": "^6.0.0",
"fastq": "^1.17.1",
"glob": "^13.0.0"
}
},
"node_modules/@fastify/static/node_modules/fastify-plugin": {
"version": "6.0.0",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/fastify-plugin/-/fastify-plugin-6.0.0.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-fZOty7z3O7vOliF6d8bHE3wiEh1KcNnKEQensSgTk9C1DvN6nRLS++XVd86v33Hw/8u9Un8A1zDrQ8ujcQDHEg==",
"funding": [
{
"type": "github",
"url": "https://github.com/sponsors/fastify"
},
{
"type": "opencollective",
"url": "https://opencollective.com/fastify"
}
],
"license": "MIT"
},
"node_modules/@fastify/websocket": {
"version": "11.2.0",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@fastify/websocket/-/websocket-11.2.0.tgz",
@@ -4135,16 +4154,16 @@
}
},
"node_modules/@typescript-eslint/typescript-estree/node_modules/brace-expansion": {
"version": "5.0.6",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/brace-expansion/-/brace-expansion-5.0.6.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-kLpxurY4Z4r9sgMsyG0Z9uzsBlgiU/EFKhj/h91/8yHu0edo7XuixOIH3VcJ8kkxs6/jPzoI6U9Vj3WqbMQ94g==",
"version": "5.0.9",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/brace-expansion/-/brace-expansion-5.0.9.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-ScQ4IuvIEF1TMlP7Zt+vjJ//9zlPb2SDcxWxM3bk8s6t6GGdJ7KO1dCcTidOPJKePW30LE/2cT7wCyPho9/Wxg==",
"dev": true,
"license": "MIT",
"dependencies": {
"balanced-match": "^4.0.2"
},
"engines": {
"node": "18 || 20 || >=22"
"node": "20 || >=22"
}
},
"node_modules/@typescript-eslint/typescript-estree/node_modules/minimatch": {
@@ -5077,9 +5096,9 @@
"license": "MIT"
},
"node_modules/brace-expansion": {
"version": "1.1.15",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/brace-expansion/-/brace-expansion-1.1.15.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-EwOCDEex4quD37XhqM3omwtMoJjr//isUZz1JopUNWms+4Z2ViyM/k1YIRePpoVNnQhENnxtFjLaxNHrT7xIUg==",
"version": "1.1.18",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/brace-expansion/-/brace-expansion-1.1.18.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-Edep/X9fGqVNmzKBVsDYIOtD+z1tuezV70LBjdCst9Tqu76lsnvRiZ6oTic1n+/BIwX6QDGAO94PN4N2SADvtw==",
"dev": true,
"license": "MIT",
"dependencies": {
@@ -5430,9 +5449,9 @@
}
},
"node_modules/content-disposition": {
"version": "1.1.0",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/content-disposition/-/content-disposition-1.1.0.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-5jRCH9Z/+DRP7rkvY83B+yGIGX96OYdJmzngqnw2SBSxqCFPd0w2km3s5iawpGX8krnwSGmF0FW5Nhr0Hfai3g==",
"version": "2.0.1",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/content-disposition/-/content-disposition-2.0.1.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-e+H0ZXHSWYrENhQzw1LPuP4oF5MzVKmDU6d3hxlvaPEYLLg62MxtQNPRx4SYSuYJSBUgnQIG4HIN2tEtNv7Dog==",
"license": "MIT",
"engines": {
"node": ">=18"
@@ -6551,9 +6570,9 @@
}
},
"node_modules/fast-uri": {
"version": "3.1.2",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-uri/-/fast-uri-3.1.2.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-rVjf7ArG3LTk+FS6Yw81V1DLuZl1bRbNrev6Tmd/9RaroeeRRJhAt7jg/6YFxbvAQXUCavSoZhPPj6oOx+5KjQ==",
"version": "3.1.5",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-uri/-/fast-uri-3.1.5.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-gHwA1O9LDIcKunMKhObS/HimwtehO1nPUECKAu5TpKgaO19fcWEl4bliWe1jWxVFvIXztJjjQ4L8XQ1EU9f7Jw==",
"funding": [
{
"type": "github",
@@ -6660,9 +6679,9 @@
}
},
"node_modules/find-my-way": {
"version": "9.6.0",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/find-my-way/-/find-my-way-9.6.0.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-Zf4Xve4RymLl7NgaavNebZ01joJ8MfVerOG43wy7SHLO+r+K0C6d/SE0BiR7AV5V1VOCFlOP7ecdo+I4qmiHrQ==",
"version": "9.8.0",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/find-my-way/-/find-my-way-9.8.0.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-JtyUgATO7qxRp2zKhrmWof74Mqxc1ikbwpwMY97p8ipuTj2QtreA4gK2JNAF6SOqqHnYYkwMUvsgQVi2AJxIyw==",
"license": "MIT",
"dependencies": {
"fast-deep-equal": "^3.1.3",
@@ -6904,15 +6923,15 @@
}
},
"node_modules/glob/node_modules/brace-expansion": {
"version": "5.0.6",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/brace-expansion/-/brace-expansion-5.0.6.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-kLpxurY4Z4r9sgMsyG0Z9uzsBlgiU/EFKhj/h91/8yHu0edo7XuixOIH3VcJ8kkxs6/jPzoI6U9Vj3WqbMQ94g==",
"version": "5.0.9",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/brace-expansion/-/brace-expansion-5.0.9.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-ScQ4IuvIEF1TMlP7Zt+vjJ//9zlPb2SDcxWxM3bk8s6t6GGdJ7KO1dCcTidOPJKePW30LE/2cT7wCyPho9/Wxg==",
"license": "MIT",
"dependencies": {
"balanced-match": "^4.0.2"
},
"engines": {
"node": "18 || 20 || >=22"
"node": "20 || >=22"
}
},
"node_modules/glob/node_modules/minimatch": {
@@ -11532,6 +11551,15 @@
"dev": true,
"license": "MIT"
},
"node_modules/undici": {
"version": "6.28.0",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/undici/-/undici-6.28.0.tgz",
"integrity": "sha512-LIY910g9TI13YS95lrMFrs8Rm/u/irgHeTWoKCoteeJ04CUJ92eEfj0rVn+7VKMPBpUPiUoBKfhNyLI23EE/KA==",
"license": "MIT",
"engines": {
"node": ">=18.17"
}
},
"node_modules/undici-types": {
"version": "6.21.0",
"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/undici-types/-/undici-types-6.21.0.tgz",
@@ -12343,7 +12371,7 @@
}
},
"packages/xterm-zerolag-input": {
"version": "0.3.0",
"version": "0.3.1",
"license": "MIT",
"devDependencies": {
"@xterm/headless": "^6.0.0",
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"name": "aicodeman",
"version": "1.17.0",
"version": "1.25.0",
"description": "Mission control for AI coding agents - run 20 autonomous agents with real-time monitoring and session persistence",
"type": "module",
"main": "dist/index.js",
@@ -17,26 +17,30 @@
"dev": "tsx src/index.ts web",
"web": "node dist/index.js web",
"clean": "rm -rf dist",
"test": "vitest run --config config/vitest.config.ts",
"test:watch": "vitest --config config/vitest.config.ts",
"test:coverage": "vitest run --config config/vitest.config.ts --coverage",
"test": "vitest run --config config/vitest.ci.config.ts",
"test:watch": "vitest --config config/vitest.ci.config.ts",
"test:coverage": "vitest run --config config/vitest.ci.config.ts --coverage",
"test:ci": "vitest run --config config/vitest.ci.config.ts",
"test:browser": "vitest run --config config/vitest.browser.config.ts",
"test:perf": "vitest run --config config/vitest.perf.config.ts",
"test:all": "vitest run --config config/vitest.config.ts",
"pretest:mobile": "node scripts/prepare-test-vendor.mjs",
"test:mobile": "vitest run --config test/mobile/vitest.config.ts",
"check:frontend-syntax": "node scripts/check-frontend-syntax.mjs",
"fix:node-pty": "node scripts/fix-node-pty.mjs",
"typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
"lint": "eslint --config config/eslint.config.js 'src/**/*.ts'",
"lint:fix": "eslint --config config/eslint.config.js 'src/**/*.ts' --fix",
"format": "prettier --write 'src/**/*.ts' 'src/web/public/**/*.{js,css,html,json}'",
"format:check": "prettier --check 'src/**/*.ts' 'src/web/public/**/*.{js,css,html,json}'",
"typecheck": "tsc --noEmit && tsc -p config/tsconfig.pr-bot.json",
"lint": "eslint --config config/eslint.config.js 'src/**/*.ts' 'scripts/pr-bot/**/*.ts'",
"lint:fix": "eslint --config config/eslint.config.js 'src/**/*.ts' 'scripts/pr-bot/**/*.ts' --fix",
"format": "prettier --write 'src/**/*.ts' 'scripts/pr-bot/**/*.ts' 'src/web/public/**/*.{js,css,html,json}'",
"format:check": "prettier --check 'src/**/*.ts' 'scripts/pr-bot/**/*.ts' 'src/web/public/**/*.{js,css,html,json}'",
"check:public-assets": "node scripts/check-public-assets.mjs",
"capture:subagents": "node scripts/capture-subagent-screenshots.mjs",
"changeset": "changeset",
"version-packages": "changeset version && npm install --package-lock-only && node scripts/check-lockfile-sync.mjs",
"check:lockfile": "node scripts/check-lockfile-sync.mjs",
"knip": "npx --yes knip@latest --config config/knip.json",
"release": "changeset publish"
"release": "changeset publish",
"pr-bot": "tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts"
},
"prettier": {
"singleQuote": true,
@@ -59,6 +63,8 @@
"codex",
"antigravity",
"pi",
"grok",
"deepseek",
"gemini-cli",
"ai-agents",
"agent",
@@ -82,7 +88,7 @@
"@fastify/compress": "^8.3.1",
"@fastify/cookie": "^11.0.2",
"@fastify/multipart": "^10.0.0",
"@fastify/static": "^9.1.3",
"@fastify/static": "^10.1.3",
"@fastify/websocket": "^11.2.0",
"@xterm/addon-fit": "^0.11.0",
"@xterm/addon-serialize": "^0.14.0",
@@ -97,6 +103,7 @@
"jpeg-js": "^0.4.4",
"node-pty": "^1.1.0",
"qrcode": "^1.5.4",
"undici": "^6.28.0",
"uuid": "^14.0.0",
"web-push": "^3.6.7",
"ws": "^8.21.0",
@@ -121,6 +128,7 @@
"pixelmatch": "^6.0.0",
"playwright": "^1.58.0",
"pngjs": "^7.0.0",
"postcss": "^8.5.15",
"prettier": "^3.4.0",
"puppeteer": "^24.36.0",
"remotion": "4.0.473",
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@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
# xterm-zerolag-input
## 0.3.1
### Patch Changes
- Mobile catches up: links open from a tap, terminal text can be selected and copied, long prompts stay visible while you type. Plus Files panel search, a bundled Nerd Font symbols fallback, and a per-device terminal font setting.
- **Terminal and chat links work on phones** (#321): tapping a URL or file path in terminal output now opens it (new tab, file preview, or log viewer), resolved through the same provider desktop hover uses, so tap and click can never disagree about what is a link. Dialog rows and the composer keep their existing meaning. Response-viewer links open in a new tab with `rel="noopener noreferrer"` instead of navigating the dashboard away. Wrapped links open whole: the logical-line reconstruction now stitches hard wraps through the indent their continuation carries, which also fixes desktop hover-click truncating wrapped URLs.
- **Terminal text can be copied on touch devices** (#321): long-press selects the token under the finger, drag or tap the other end to extend, and a small bar offers Copy, Line (the whole logical line, wraps included) and dismiss. Copy works on plain-HTTP installs too. Three guards keep the keyboard down and the selection alive through the browser's own long-press handling.
- **A long prompt stays visible on phones** (#321): the local-echo overlay grows upward once it would run past the last visible row (a prompt taller than the screen keeps its tail, where the cursor is), and the keyboard-driven padding shrink can no longer reclaim the space the fixed toolbar and accessory bar stand in.
- **Files panel search** (#324): `GET /api/sessions/:id/files?q=...` answers a flat match list (name or path substring, `*`/`?` globs), recursing past non-matching directories with its own match cap on top of the existing bounds; without `q` the response is byte-identical to before. Glob queries are matched without regex so a pathological pattern cannot stall the server.
- **Nerd Font prompt glyphs out of the box, custom terminal font** (#320): a bundled icons-only Symbols Nerd Font Mono fallback renders powerlevel10k/starship/oh-my-posh glyphs on every device with no font install, and App Settings gains a per-device terminal font family that is prepended to the built-in stack.
### Thanks
Three contributor PRs in one release: thanks to @rounakdatta (#321), @aakhter (#324) and @comzine (#320).
## 0.3.0
### Minor Changes
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"name": "xterm-zerolag-input",
"version": "0.3.0",
"version": "0.3.1",
"description": "Instant keystroke feedback overlay for xterm.js: Mosh-inspired local echo that removes perceived input latency over SSH, tunnels and other high-RTT connections",
"type": "module",
"main": "dist/index.cjs",
@@ -65,38 +65,71 @@ export function renderOverlay(container: HTMLDivElement, params: RenderParams):
charTop,
charHeight,
promptRow,
totalRows,
font,
showCursor,
cursorColor,
terminal,
} = params;
// Position container at prompt row.
// ── Keep what is being typed ON SCREEN ────────────────────────────
//
// The overlay lays its wrapped lines out DOWNWARD from the prompt row, and
// nothing past the last terminal row is visible. On a phone the strip left
// above the on-screen keyboard is only a handful of rows, so a prompt long
// enough to wrap ran off the bottom and the user was typing blind — the tail
// of their own sentence, the part they are actually looking at, hidden behind
// the keyboard.
//
// So the composer grows UPWARD once it reaches the last row, exactly as a real
// terminal's does: every line div is opaque (see makeLine), so the lines cover
// transcript rows above instead of vanishing under the keyboard below, and the
// newest text stays where the eye is. A prompt taller than the whole viewport
// keeps its TAIL for the same reason.
//
// `startCol` indents only the line that begins at the prompt marker, so it is
// dropped along with that line when the tail is all that fits.
const rows = totalRows && totalRows > 0 ? totalRows : terminal?.rows;
let visibleLines = lines;
let keepsPromptLine = true;
let topRow = promptRow;
if (rows && rows > 0) {
if (lines.length > rows) {
visibleLines = lines.slice(lines.length - rows);
keepsPromptLine = false;
topRow = 0;
} else if (promptRow + lines.length > rows) {
topRow = rows - lines.length;
}
}
topRow = Math.max(0, topRow);
container.style.left = '0px';
container.style.top = promptRow * cellH + 'px';
container.style.top = topRow * cellH + 'px';
// Clear and rebuild (typically 1-3 line divs, negligible cost)
container.innerHTML = '';
const fullWidthPx = totalCols * cellW;
for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
const leftPx = i === 0 ? startCol * cellW : 0;
const widthPx = i === 0 ? fullWidthPx - leftPx : fullWidthPx;
for (let i = 0; i < visibleLines.length; i++) {
const indents = i === 0 && keepsPromptLine;
const leftPx = indents ? startCol * cellW : 0;
const widthPx = indents ? fullWidthPx - leftPx : fullWidthPx;
const topPx = i * cellH;
const lineEl = makeLine(lines[i], leftPx, topPx, widthPx, cellH, cellW, charTop, charHeight, font, terminal);
const lineEl = makeLine(visibleLines[i], leftPx, topPx, widthPx, cellH, cellW, charTop, charHeight, font, terminal);
container.appendChild(lineEl);
}
// Block cursor at end of last line (use visual width for CJK support)
if (showCursor) {
const lastLine = lines[lines.length - 1];
const lastLineLeft = lines.length === 1 ? startCol : 0;
const lastLine = visibleLines[visibleLines.length - 1];
const lastLineLeft = visibleLines.length === 1 && keepsPromptLine ? startCol : 0;
const cursorCol = lastLineLeft + stringCellWidth(terminal, lastLine);
if (cursorCol < totalCols) {
const cursor = document.createElement('span');
cursor.style.cssText = 'position:absolute;display:inline-block';
cursor.style.left = cursorCol * cellW + 'px';
cursor.style.top = (lines.length - 1) * cellH + 'px';
cursor.style.top = (visibleLines.length - 1) * cellH + 'px';
cursor.style.width = cellW + 'px';
cursor.style.height = cellH + 'px';
cursor.style.backgroundColor = cursorColor;
@@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ export interface RenderParams {
/** Height of the character rendering area (px). */
charHeight: number;
promptRow: number;
/**
* Visible terminal rows. When given, the overlay is kept ON SCREEN: it grows
* upward instead of running off the bottom edge, and a wrapped prompt taller
* than the viewport keeps its tail. Omit to lay out straight down from
* `promptRow` (the historical behaviour).
*/
totalRows?: number;
font: FontStyle;
showCursor: boolean;
cursorColor: string;
@@ -565,7 +565,10 @@ export class ZerolagInputAddon implements XtermAddon {
// Skip redundant re-renders — include text content to detect
// same-length changes (e.g., setFlushed with different text)
const renderKey = `${displayText}:${startCol}:${activePrompt.row}:${activePrompt.col}:${totalCols}:${this._flushedOffset}`;
// `rows` is part of the key: the layout is clamped to the visible rows
// (see renderOverlay), so a keyboard opening — which changes rows without
// changing the text — must not be skipped as a redundant render.
const renderKey = `${displayText}:${startCol}:${activePrompt.row}:${activePrompt.col}:${totalCols}:${this._terminal.rows}:${this._flushedOffset}`;
if (renderKey === this._lastRenderKey && this._overlay.style.display !== 'none') return;
this._lastRenderKey = renderKey;
@@ -612,6 +615,7 @@ export class ZerolagInputAddon implements XtermAddon {
charTop,
charHeight,
promptRow: activePrompt.row,
totalRows: this._terminal.rows,
font: this._font,
showCursor: this._options.showCursor,
cursorColor,
@@ -418,3 +418,88 @@ describe('stringCellWidth', () => {
expect(stringCellWidth(null, '')).toBe(0);
});
});
describe('renderOverlay — staying on screen (totalRows)', () => {
// A phone with the keyboard up leaves only a handful of terminal rows. The
// overlay lays its wrapped lines out downward from the prompt row, so a long
// prompt used to run off the bottom edge and the user typed blind, with the
// tail of their own sentence behind the keyboard. With totalRows known, the
// composer grows UPWARD instead — the line divs are opaque, so they cover
// transcript above rather than disappearing below.
const linesOf = (n: number) => Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => `line${i}`);
const lineDivs = (container: HTMLDivElement) =>
Array.from(container.children).filter((el) => el.tagName === 'DIV') as HTMLDivElement[];
it('lifts the block so its last line lands on the last visible row', () => {
const container = document.createElement('div');
renderOverlay(container, makeParams({ lines: linesOf(5), promptRow: 10, totalRows: 12, cellH: 17 }));
// 10 + 5 would end on row 14 of a 12-row screen; the block starts at 7 instead.
expect(container.style.top).toBe(7 * 17 + 'px');
expect(lineDivs(container)).toHaveLength(5);
});
it('leaves the prompt row alone when the block already fits', () => {
const container = document.createElement('div');
renderOverlay(container, makeParams({ lines: linesOf(3), promptRow: 5, totalRows: 24, cellH: 17 }));
expect(container.style.top).toBe(5 * 17 + 'px');
});
it('keeps the TAIL when the prompt is taller than the whole viewport', () => {
// The end is where the cursor is, and where the user is looking.
const container = document.createElement('div');
renderOverlay(container, makeParams({ lines: linesOf(6), promptRow: 2, totalRows: 3, cellH: 20 }));
const divs = lineDivs(container);
expect(container.style.top).toBe('0px');
expect(divs).toHaveLength(3);
expect(divs.map((d) => d.textContent)).toEqual(['line3', 'line4', 'line5']);
});
it('drops the prompt indent once the prompt line is no longer shown', () => {
// startCol indents only the line that begins at the prompt marker.
const container = document.createElement('div');
renderOverlay(
container,
makeParams({ lines: linesOf(6), promptRow: 2, totalRows: 3, startCol: 5, cellW: 10, totalCols: 80 })
);
const first = lineDivs(container)[0];
expect(first.style.left).toBe('0px');
expect(first.style.width).toBe(80 * 10 + 'px');
});
it('rides the cursor on the last VISIBLE line', () => {
const container = document.createElement('div');
renderOverlay(
container,
makeParams({ lines: ['aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'ddd'], promptRow: 9, totalRows: 3, cellH: 20, cellW: 10, startCol: 4 })
);
const cursor = Array.from(container.children).find((el) => el.tagName === 'SPAN') as HTMLSpanElement;
// Tail is the last 3 lines, so the cursor sits on row 2 (0-based) of the block…
expect(cursor.style.top).toBe(2 * 20 + 'px');
// …at column 3, NOT startCol + 3: the indented prompt line is not shown.
expect(cursor.style.left).toBe(3 * 10 + 'px');
});
it('lays out straight down when totalRows is absent (unchanged behaviour)', () => {
const container = document.createElement('div');
renderOverlay(container, makeParams({ lines: linesOf(9), promptRow: 20, cellH: 17 }));
expect(container.style.top).toBe(20 * 17 + 'px');
expect(lineDivs(container)).toHaveLength(9);
});
it('falls back to the terminal row count when totalRows is not passed', () => {
// The addon passes totalRows, but a stale bundle / third-party caller may not.
const container = document.createElement('div');
renderOverlay(
container,
makeParams({ lines: linesOf(4), promptRow: 8, cellH: 17, terminal: { rows: 10, cols: 80 } as never })
);
expect(container.style.top).toBe(6 * 17 + 'px');
});
});
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@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ run('minify input-cjk.js', 'npx esbuild dist/web/public/input-cjk.js --minify --
run('minify i18n.js', 'npx esbuild dist/web/public/i18n.js --minify --outfile=dist/web/public/i18n.js --allow-overwrite');
run('minify sanitize-html.js', 'npx esbuild dist/web/public/sanitize-html.js --minify --outfile=dist/web/public/sanitize-html.js --allow-overwrite');
run('minify app.js', 'npx esbuild dist/web/public/app.js --minify --outfile=dist/web/public/app.js --allow-overwrite');
run('minify tab-rail-resize.js', 'npx esbuild dist/web/public/tab-rail-resize.js --minify --outfile=dist/web/public/tab-rail-resize.js --allow-overwrite');
run('minify terminal-ui.js', 'npx esbuild dist/web/public/terminal-ui.js --minify --outfile=dist/web/public/terminal-ui.js --allow-overwrite');
run('minify respawn-ui.js', 'npx esbuild dist/web/public/respawn-ui.js --minify --outfile=dist/web/public/respawn-ui.js --allow-overwrite');
run('minify ralph-panel.js', 'npx esbuild dist/web/public/ralph-panel.js --minify --outfile=dist/web/public/ralph-panel.js --allow-overwrite');
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ console.log('\n[build] content-hash cache busting');
'input-cjk.js',
'sanitize-html.js',
'app.js',
'tab-rail-resize.js',
'terminal-ui.js',
'respawn-ui.js',
'ralph-panel.js',
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/**
* @fileoverview Codeman HTTP client for the PR bot: spawn a claude session in a
* directory, wait until its composer is up, run one prompt to the END of its turn,
* read the answer, delete the session.
*
* This is the `skills/codeman` §0 preamble translated to TypeScript, and it keeps
* the traps that preamble documents:
* - readiness is the rendered composer (`shift+tab` in the pane), never `idle`;
* - the folder-trust dialog is READ off the screen and answered one keystroke at a
* time (Claude Code 2.1.252 highlights "No, exit" by default, so a blind Enter kills
* the session);
* - send-and-wait waits on `stop,blocked,exit`, never on the flapping `idle`, with a
* short first wait, one Enter nudge for a stranded prompt, and tagged-duplicate
* resends that re-wait without retyping (the server treats an already-applied
* (clientId, seq) frame as "wait only");
* - the bot deletes only sessions it created, by exact id.
*
* The production server is HTTPS with a self-signed certificate on loopback, so the
* undici Agent skips certificate verification for that one connection.
*/
import { Agent, fetch as undiciFetch } from 'undici';
export interface CodemanClientOptions {
apiUrl: string;
username?: string;
password?: string;
}
export interface CreateSessionOptions {
workingDir: string;
name: string;
modelOverride?: string;
effort?: string;
resumeSessionId?: string;
}
export interface WaitResult {
ended: boolean;
timedOut: boolean;
signal?: string;
}
export interface SessionRecord {
id: string;
name: string;
status: string;
pid: number | null;
claudeSessionId?: string | null;
workingDir: string;
mode: string;
}
export type TurnOutcome = { kind: 'stop' } | { kind: 'blocked' } | { kind: 'exit' } | { kind: 'timeout' };
const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
export function stripAnsi(text: string): string {
// eslint-disable-next-line no-control-regex
return text.replace(/\x1b\[[0-9;?]*[a-zA-Z]/g, '').replace(/\x1b[()][AB0]/g, '');
}
/** Which key answers the trust dialog right now, read from the rendered pane. */
export function trustDialogKey(screen: string): 'confirm' | 'move' | null {
const compact = stripAnsi(screen).replace(/\s+/g, '');
const matches = compact.match(/❯[0-9.]*(yes,itrustthisfolder|no,exit)/gi);
if (!matches || matches.length === 0) return null;
const last = matches[matches.length - 1].toLowerCase();
return last.includes('yes,') ? 'confirm' : 'move';
}
export class CodemanClient {
// headersTimeout/bodyTimeout default to 300 s in undici, which is shorter than one
// long-poll slice on the wait endpoints (up to 580 s): the first review died at
// exactly five minutes with a bare "fetch failed". The per-request AbortSignal is
// the only ceiling here.
private readonly agent = new Agent({ connect: { rejectUnauthorized: false }, headersTimeout: 0, bodyTimeout: 0 });
private readonly authHeader?: string;
constructor(private readonly opts: CodemanClientOptions) {
if (opts.password) {
this.authHeader = 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${opts.username || 'admin'}:${opts.password}`).toString('base64');
}
}
private async request<T>(
method: string,
path: string,
body?: unknown,
query?: Record<string, string | number | undefined>,
timeoutMs = 60_000
): Promise<T> {
const url = new URL(this.opts.apiUrl + path);
for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(query ?? {})) if (v !== undefined) url.searchParams.set(k, String(v));
const headers: Record<string, string> = { Accept: 'application/json' };
if (this.authHeader) headers.Authorization = this.authHeader;
if (body !== undefined) headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json';
let res;
try {
res = await undiciFetch(url, {
method,
headers,
body: body === undefined ? undefined : JSON.stringify(body),
dispatcher: this.agent,
signal: AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs),
});
} catch (err) {
const cause = (err as { cause?: { message?: string; code?: string } }).cause;
const detail = cause ? ` (${cause.code ?? ''} ${cause.message ?? ''})`.replace(/\(\s+/, '(').trim() : '';
throw new Error(`${method} ${path}: ${(err as Error).message}${detail}`);
}
const text = await res.text();
let json: { success?: boolean; data?: T; error?: string; errorCode?: string } & Record<string, unknown> = {};
try {
json = text ? JSON.parse(text) : {};
} catch {
throw new Error(`${method} ${path}: non-JSON ${res.status} response: ${text.slice(0, 200)}`);
}
if (!res.ok || json.success === false) {
throw new Error(
`${method} ${path}: ${res.status} ${json.errorCode ?? ''} ${json.error ?? text.slice(0, 200)}`.trim()
);
}
// Most routes use the {success, data} envelope; a few legacy GETs return the raw shape.
return (json.success === true && json.data !== undefined ? json.data : json) as T;
}
async status(): Promise<{ version?: string }> {
return this.request<{ version?: string }>('GET', '/api/status');
}
async listSessions(): Promise<SessionRecord[]> {
const data = await this.request<SessionRecord[] | { sessions: SessionRecord[] }>('GET', '/api/sessions');
return Array.isArray(data) ? data : (data.sessions ?? []);
}
async getSession(id: string): Promise<SessionRecord> {
return this.request<SessionRecord>('GET', `/api/sessions/${id}`);
}
/** Create + start. Creation alone leaves pid null and no pane, so the two are one step here. */
async createInteractiveSession(opts: CreateSessionOptions): Promise<string> {
const created = await this.request<{ session: { id: string } }>('POST', '/api/sessions', {
workingDir: opts.workingDir,
mode: 'claude',
name: opts.name,
modelOverride: opts.modelOverride,
effort: opts.effort,
resumeSessionId: opts.resumeSessionId,
});
const id = created.session?.id;
if (!id) throw new Error('POST /api/sessions returned no session id');
await this.request('POST', `/api/sessions/${id}/interactive`, {});
return id;
}
async deleteSession(id: string): Promise<void> {
if (!id || id.length < 8) throw new Error(`refusing to delete session "${id}"`);
await this.request('DELETE', `/api/sessions/${id}`);
}
async waitOutput(id: string, match: string, from: 'now' | 'buffer', timeoutMs: number): Promise<boolean> {
const data = await this.request<{ wait?: { matched?: boolean } }>(
'GET',
`/api/sessions/${id}/wait-output`,
undefined,
{ match, from, timeout: timeoutMs },
timeoutMs + 15_000
);
return Boolean(data.wait?.matched);
}
async waitSignal(id: string, until: string, timeoutMs: number): Promise<WaitResult> {
const data = await this.request<{ wait?: WaitResult }>(
'GET',
`/api/sessions/${id}/wait`,
undefined,
{ until, timeout: timeoutMs },
timeoutMs + 15_000
);
return data.wait ?? { ended: false, timedOut: true };
}
async terminalText(id: string): Promise<string> {
const data = await this.request<{ terminalBuffer?: string }>('GET', `/api/sessions/${id}/terminal`, undefined, {
full: '1',
});
return data.terminalBuffer ?? '';
}
async sendKeys(id: string, input: string, clientId: string, seq: number): Promise<void> {
await this.request('POST', `/api/sessions/${id}/input`, { input, useMux: true, clientId, seq });
}
async lastResponse(id: string): Promise<string> {
const data = await this.request<{ text?: string }>('GET', `/api/sessions/${id}/last-response`);
return data.text ?? '';
}
/** Composer wait, trust-dialog fallback, composer wait again. Throws when the pane never gets there. */
async ensureReady(id: string, log: (m: string) => void): Promise<void> {
if (await this.waitOutput(id, 'shift+tab', 'buffer', 5000)) return;
for (let i = 1; i <= 6; i++) {
const key = trustDialogKey(await this.terminalText(id));
if (!key) break;
log(`trust dialog on screen: ${key === 'confirm' ? 'Enter' : 'arrow down'}`);
await this.sendKeys(id, key === 'confirm' ? '\r' : '\x1b[B', `prbot-trust-${id}`, i);
if (key === 'confirm') break;
await sleep(1000);
}
if (await this.waitOutput(id, 'shift+tab', 'buffer', 45_000)) return;
throw new Error('the session never drew its composer (no `shift+tab` in the pane after 50s)');
}
/**
* Send ONE prompt and block until the turn ends, the session blocks on a question,
* the pane exits, or `deadlineMs` passes. `isDone` lets the caller finish early on
* an out-of-band signal (the report file appearing), which also covers a stop edge
* that fired between two waits.
*/
async runTurn(
id: string,
prompt: string,
opts: { deadlineMs: number; isDone?: () => boolean; log: (m: string) => void }
): Promise<TurnOutcome> {
if (prompt.includes('\n'))
throw new Error('runTurn prompts must be single-line (embedded newlines are stripped by tmux)');
const clientId = `prbot-${id}`;
const seq = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
const frame = { input: prompt + '\r', useMux: true, clientId, seq, wait: 'stop,blocked,exit', waitTimeout: 20_000 };
const started = Date.now();
const post = (body: unknown, timeout: number) =>
this.request<{ delivered?: boolean; wait?: WaitResult }>(
'POST',
`/api/sessions/${id}/input`,
body,
undefined,
timeout + 15_000
);
let r = await post(frame, 20_000);
if (!r.delivered) throw new Error('the prompt was not delivered (pane dead?)');
let wait = r.wait;
let nudged = false;
while (true) {
if (wait && !wait.timedOut) return toOutcome(wait);
if (opts.isDone?.()) return { kind: 'stop' };
const remaining = opts.deadlineMs - (Date.now() - started);
if (remaining <= 0) return { kind: 'timeout' };
if (!nudged) {
// An Ink repaint occasionally eats the Enter: a bare \r is the missing key when
// the prompt is stranded and a no-op when the turn is genuinely running.
nudged = true;
await this.sendKeys(id, '\r', clientId, seq + 1);
}
const slice = Math.min(remaining, 580_000);
opts.log(`still working (${Math.round((Date.now() - started) / 60_000)} min)`);
r = await post({ ...frame, waitTimeout: slice }, slice);
wait = r.wait;
}
}
}
function toOutcome(wait: WaitResult): TurnOutcome {
const signal = wait.signal ?? '';
if (signal === 'blocked') return { kind: 'blocked' };
if (signal === 'exit') return { kind: 'exit' };
return { kind: 'stop' };
}
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/**
* @fileoverview PR bot configuration.
*
* Read from `~/.codeman/pr-bot.env` (KEY=VALUE lines, mode 0600, the same shape as
* the data dir's `.env`) with the process environment layered on top, then validated
* into a typed config. `parseEnvFile` and `buildConfig` are pure so the validation
* rules are unit-testable without touching the filesystem.
*
* Nothing here reads Codeman's own settings: the bot is maintainer tooling that
* drives a running Codeman over HTTP, it is not part of the server.
*/
import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'fs';
import { homedir } from 'os';
import { dirname, join, resolve } from 'path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
export interface PrBotConfig {
/** Telegram bot token from BotFather. */
telegramBotToken: string;
/** The ONE chat the bot talks to and accepts commands from. Everything else is ignored. */
telegramChatId: string;
/** `owner/name` of the repository whose PRs are reviewed. */
githubRepo: string;
/** Codeman server the review sessions are spawned on. */
codemanApiUrl: string;
codemanUsername?: string;
codemanPassword?: string;
/** How often open PRs are listed. */
pollIntervalMs: number;
/** The maintainer's checkout; worktrees are added from its git dir. Never checked out by the bot. */
mainCheckout: string;
/** State, reports and worktrees live under here. */
dataDir: string;
worktreesDir: string;
/** Optional model / effort for the review sessions (Codeman `modelOverride` / `effort`). */
model?: string;
effort?: string;
/** Hard ceiling for one review turn. */
reviewTimeoutMs: number;
/** Hard ceiling for one follow-up turn. */
followupTimeoutMs: number;
/** When false, PRs are only reviewed on an explicit `/review N`. */
autoReview: boolean;
/** Draft PRs are skipped unless this is on. */
reviewDrafts: boolean;
}
export const CONFIG_FILE_NAME = 'pr-bot.env';
/**
* The maintainer's existing Telegram notifier bot (a separate, send-only process)
* keeps its token and chat id here. The PR bot shares that bot identity by default,
* so it reads those two keys from the same file rather than making anyone copy a
* secret around. Override with `PR_BOT_TELEGRAM_ENV_FILE`.
*/
export const DEFAULT_TELEGRAM_ENV_FILE = join('codeman-cases', 'telegram', '.env');
const SHARED_TELEGRAM_KEYS = ['TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN', 'TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID'] as const;
/** The keys the env file understands, for `check` and the docs. */
export const CONFIG_KEYS = [
'TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN',
'TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID',
'GITHUB_REPO',
'CODEMAN_API_URL',
'CODEMAN_USERNAME',
'CODEMAN_PASSWORD',
'PR_BOT_POLL_INTERVAL',
'PR_BOT_MAIN_CHECKOUT',
'PR_BOT_DATA_DIR',
'PR_BOT_MODEL',
'PR_BOT_EFFORT',
'PR_BOT_REVIEW_TIMEOUT',
'PR_BOT_FOLLOWUP_TIMEOUT',
'PR_BOT_AUTO_REVIEW',
'PR_BOT_REVIEW_DRAFTS',
'PR_BOT_TELEGRAM_ENV_FILE',
] as const;
/** Parse `KEY=VALUE` lines. Comments, blanks, `export ` prefixes and matching quotes are handled. */
export function parseEnvFile(text: string): Record<string, string> {
const out: Record<string, string> = {};
for (const rawLine of text.split(/\r?\n/)) {
const line = rawLine.trim();
if (!line || line.startsWith('#')) continue;
const eq = line.indexOf('=');
if (eq <= 0) continue;
const key = line
.slice(0, eq)
.trim()
.replace(/^export\s+/, '');
let value = line.slice(eq + 1).trim();
if (value.length >= 2) {
const first = value[0];
const last = value[value.length - 1];
if ((first === '"' && last === '"') || (first === "'" && last === "'")) value = value.slice(1, -1);
}
if (/^[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*$/.test(key)) out[key] = value;
}
return out;
}
function intFrom(raw: string | undefined, fallback: number, min: number): number {
const n = parseInt(raw ?? '', 10);
if (!Number.isFinite(n) || n <= 0) return fallback;
return Math.max(min, n);
}
function flagFrom(raw: string | undefined, fallback: boolean): boolean {
if (raw === undefined || raw === '') return fallback;
return !['0', 'false', 'no', 'off'].includes(raw.trim().toLowerCase());
}
/** Build the typed config from an env map. Throws with every missing key named at once. */
export function buildConfig(
env: Record<string, string | undefined>,
defaults: { home: string; repoRoot: string }
): PrBotConfig {
const missing: string[] = [];
const telegramBotToken = env.TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN?.trim() ?? '';
const telegramChatId = env.TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID?.trim() ?? '';
if (!telegramBotToken) missing.push('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN');
if (!telegramChatId) missing.push('TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID');
if (missing.length) throw new Error(`pr-bot config is missing: ${missing.join(', ')}`);
const githubRepo = env.GITHUB_REPO?.trim() || 'Ark0N/Codeman';
if (!/^[\w.-]+\/[\w.-]+$/.test(githubRepo)) throw new Error(`GITHUB_REPO must be owner/name, got "${githubRepo}"`);
const codemanApiUrl = (env.CODEMAN_API_URL?.trim() || 'https://127.0.0.1:3000').replace(/\/+$/, '');
if (!/^https?:\/\//.test(codemanApiUrl))
throw new Error(`CODEMAN_API_URL must be http(s)://..., got "${codemanApiUrl}"`);
const dataDir = resolve(env.PR_BOT_DATA_DIR?.trim() || join(defaults.home, '.codeman', 'pr-bot'));
const mainCheckout = resolve(env.PR_BOT_MAIN_CHECKOUT?.trim() || defaults.repoRoot);
return {
telegramBotToken,
telegramChatId,
githubRepo,
codemanApiUrl,
codemanUsername: env.CODEMAN_USERNAME?.trim() || undefined,
codemanPassword: env.CODEMAN_PASSWORD || undefined,
pollIntervalMs: intFrom(env.PR_BOT_POLL_INTERVAL, 600, 60) * 1000,
mainCheckout,
dataDir,
worktreesDir: join(dataDir, 'worktrees'),
model: env.PR_BOT_MODEL?.trim() || undefined,
effort: env.PR_BOT_EFFORT?.trim() || undefined,
reviewTimeoutMs: intFrom(env.PR_BOT_REVIEW_TIMEOUT, 40, 5) * 60_000,
followupTimeoutMs: intFrom(env.PR_BOT_FOLLOWUP_TIMEOUT, 20, 2) * 60_000,
autoReview: flagFrom(env.PR_BOT_AUTO_REVIEW, true),
reviewDrafts: flagFrom(env.PR_BOT_REVIEW_DRAFTS, false),
};
}
/** The repository this script lives in (scripts/pr-bot/ -> repo root). */
export function scriptRepoRoot(): string {
return resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..', '..');
}
export function configFilePath(): string {
return join(process.env.CODEMAN_DATA_DIR || join(homedir(), '.codeman'), CONFIG_FILE_NAME);
}
export function telegramEnvFilePath(fromFile: Record<string, string>): string {
return resolve(
process.env.PR_BOT_TELEGRAM_ENV_FILE ||
fromFile.PR_BOT_TELEGRAM_ENV_FILE ||
join(homedir(), DEFAULT_TELEGRAM_ENV_FILE)
);
}
/**
* Layers, lowest first: the shared Telegram notifier's `.env` (token + chat id only),
* then `~/.codeman/pr-bot.env`, then the process environment, so a one-off
* `PR_BOT_MODEL=... npx tsx ...` wins over everything.
*/
export function loadConfig(): PrBotConfig {
const file = configFilePath();
const fromFile = existsSync(file) ? parseEnvFile(readFileSync(file, 'utf8')) : {};
const sharedFile = telegramEnvFilePath(fromFile);
const shared = existsSync(sharedFile) ? parseEnvFile(readFileSync(sharedFile, 'utf8')) : {};
const merged: Record<string, string | undefined> = {};
for (const key of SHARED_TELEGRAM_KEYS) if (shared[key]) merged[key] = shared[key];
Object.assign(merged, fromFile);
for (const key of CONFIG_KEYS) {
const v = process.env[key];
if (v !== undefined && v !== '') merged[key] = v;
}
try {
return buildConfig(merged, { home: homedir(), repoRoot: scriptRepoRoot() });
} catch (err) {
throw new Error(`${(err as Error).message} (config file: ${file}; shared Telegram env: ${sharedFile})`);
}
}
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/**
* @fileoverview GitHub access for the PR bot, entirely through the `gh` CLI.
*
* `gh` carries the maintainer's own login, so the bot needs no token of its own and
* every write (merge, close, comment, CI approval) lands under that account. That is
* why every write here is only ever reached from an explicit, confirmed Telegram
* command (see bot.ts); nothing in this file is called on a timer.
*
* `classifyCi` and `latestRunPerWorkflow` are pure and unit-tested.
*/
import { execFile } from 'child_process';
import { promisify } from 'util';
const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
export interface PrSummary {
number: number;
title: string;
author: string;
headSha: string;
baseRef: string;
headRef: string;
isDraft: boolean;
mergeable: 'MERGEABLE' | 'CONFLICTING' | 'UNKNOWN';
mergeState: string;
additions: number;
deletions: number;
changedFiles: number;
updatedAt: string;
url: string;
isCrossRepository: boolean;
labels: string[];
}
export interface PrFile {
path: string;
additions: number;
deletions: number;
}
export interface PrDetail extends PrSummary {
body: string;
files: PrFile[];
authorAssociation: string;
linkedIssues: { number: number; title: string }[];
commitCount: number;
commentCount: number;
reviewDecision: string;
headRepo: string;
}
export interface WorkflowRun {
id: number;
name: string;
status: string;
conclusion: string | null;
}
export type CiState = 'passed' | 'failed' | 'pending' | 'awaiting-approval' | 'none';
export interface CiStatus {
state: CiState;
runs: WorkflowRun[];
}
const PR_LIST_FIELDS =
'number,title,author,headRefOid,baseRefName,headRefName,isDraft,mergeable,mergeStateStatus,additions,deletions,changedFiles,updatedAt,url,isCrossRepository,labels';
export async function gh(args: string[], opts: { timeoutMs?: number; input?: string } = {}): Promise<string> {
const child = execFileAsync('gh', args, {
maxBuffer: 32 * 1024 * 1024,
timeout: opts.timeoutMs ?? 60_000,
env: { ...process.env, GH_PROMPT_DISABLED: '1', GH_NO_UPDATE_NOTIFIER: '1' },
});
if (opts.input !== undefined && child.child.stdin) {
child.child.stdin.end(opts.input);
}
const { stdout } = await child;
return stdout;
}
interface RawPr {
number: number;
title: string;
author?: { login?: string };
headRefOid: string;
baseRefName: string;
headRefName: string;
isDraft: boolean;
mergeable: string;
mergeStateStatus: string;
additions: number;
deletions: number;
changedFiles: number;
updatedAt: string;
url: string;
isCrossRepository: boolean;
labels?: { name: string }[];
}
function toSummary(raw: RawPr): PrSummary {
const mergeable = raw.mergeable === 'MERGEABLE' || raw.mergeable === 'CONFLICTING' ? raw.mergeable : 'UNKNOWN';
return {
number: raw.number,
title: raw.title ?? '',
author: raw.author?.login ?? 'unknown',
headSha: raw.headRefOid,
baseRef: raw.baseRefName,
headRef: raw.headRefName,
isDraft: Boolean(raw.isDraft),
mergeable,
mergeState: raw.mergeStateStatus ?? 'UNKNOWN',
additions: raw.additions ?? 0,
deletions: raw.deletions ?? 0,
changedFiles: raw.changedFiles ?? 0,
updatedAt: raw.updatedAt ?? '',
url: raw.url,
isCrossRepository: Boolean(raw.isCrossRepository),
labels: (raw.labels ?? []).map((l) => l.name),
};
}
export async function listOpenPrs(repo: string): Promise<PrSummary[]> {
const out = await gh(['pr', 'list', '--repo', repo, '--state', 'open', '--limit', '100', '--json', PR_LIST_FIELDS]);
const raw = JSON.parse(out) as RawPr[];
return raw.map(toSummary);
}
export async function getPrDetail(repo: string, number: number): Promise<PrDetail> {
const fields = `${PR_LIST_FIELDS},body,files,commits,comments,reviewDecision,closingIssuesReferences,headRepository,headRepositoryOwner`;
const out = await gh(['pr', 'view', String(number), '--repo', repo, '--json', fields]);
const raw = JSON.parse(out) as RawPr & {
body?: string;
files?: { path: string; additions: number; deletions: number }[];
commits?: unknown[];
comments?: unknown[];
reviewDecision?: string;
closingIssuesReferences?: { number: number; title: string }[];
headRepository?: { name?: string };
headRepositoryOwner?: { login?: string };
};
let authorAssociation = 'NONE';
try {
const assoc = await gh(['api', `repos/${repo}/pulls/${number}`, '--jq', '.author_association']);
authorAssociation = assoc.trim() || 'NONE';
} catch {
// Metadata only; a failed lookup must not fail the review.
}
const owner = raw.headRepositoryOwner?.login;
const name = raw.headRepository?.name;
return {
...toSummary(raw),
body: raw.body ?? '',
files: (raw.files ?? []).map((f) => ({ path: f.path, additions: f.additions ?? 0, deletions: f.deletions ?? 0 })),
authorAssociation,
linkedIssues: (raw.closingIssuesReferences ?? []).map((i) => ({ number: i.number, title: i.title })),
commitCount: raw.commits?.length ?? 0,
commentCount: raw.comments?.length ?? 0,
reviewDecision: raw.reviewDecision ?? '',
headRepo: owner && name ? `${owner}/${name}` : '',
};
}
/** The API returns newest first; keep only the newest run of each workflow. */
export function latestRunPerWorkflow(runs: WorkflowRun[]): WorkflowRun[] {
const seen = new Set<string>();
const out: WorkflowRun[] = [];
for (const run of runs) {
if (seen.has(run.name)) continue;
seen.add(run.name);
out.push(run);
}
return out;
}
/**
* Collapse workflow runs into one word the report can show. `action_required` is
* the fork-PR case where GitHub waits for a maintainer to approve the run: the PR
* looks unchecked and stays that way until someone clicks, so it gets its own state.
*/
export function classifyCi(runs: WorkflowRun[]): CiState {
const latest = latestRunPerWorkflow(runs);
if (latest.length === 0) return 'none';
if (latest.some((r) => r.conclusion === 'action_required')) return 'awaiting-approval';
if (latest.some((r) => ['queued', 'in_progress', 'waiting', 'pending', 'requested'].includes(r.status)))
return 'pending';
if (latest.some((r) => ['failure', 'timed_out', 'cancelled', 'startup_failure'].includes(r.conclusion ?? '')))
return 'failed';
if (latest.every((r) => ['success', 'skipped', 'neutral'].includes(r.conclusion ?? ''))) return 'passed';
return 'pending';
}
export async function getCiStatus(repo: string, headSha: string): Promise<CiStatus> {
const out = await gh([
'api',
`repos/${repo}/actions/runs?head_sha=${headSha}&event=pull_request&per_page=30`,
'--jq',
'[.workflow_runs[] | {id, name, status, conclusion}]',
]);
const runs = JSON.parse(out) as WorkflowRun[];
return { state: classifyCi(runs), runs: latestRunPerWorkflow(runs) };
}
export async function approveWorkflowRun(repo: string, runId: number): Promise<void> {
await gh(['api', '-X', 'POST', `repos/${repo}/actions/runs/${runId}/approve`]);
}
/** Merge commits, matching the repository's history (`Merge pull request #N from ...`). */
export async function mergePr(repo: string, number: number): Promise<string> {
return gh(['pr', 'merge', String(number), '--repo', repo, '--merge'], { timeoutMs: 120_000 });
}
export async function closePr(repo: string, number: number, comment: string): Promise<string> {
const args = ['pr', 'close', String(number), '--repo', repo];
if (comment.trim()) args.push('--comment', comment);
return gh(args);
}
export async function commentPr(repo: string, number: number, body: string): Promise<string> {
return gh(['pr', 'comment', String(number), '--repo', repo, '--body-file', '-'], { input: body });
}
export async function ghAuthOk(): Promise<boolean> {
try {
await gh(['auth', 'status']);
return true;
} catch {
return false;
}
}
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#!/usr/bin/env -S npx tsx
/**
* @fileoverview CLI entry for the PR bot.
*
* npx tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts run # the daemon (what the service runs)
* npx tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts check # config, gh, Codeman, Telegram, git
* npx tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts scan # list open PRs and what would be queued
* npx tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts review N [--no-telegram] # one review, now
* npx tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts status # what the state file knows
* npx tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts notify N # resend PR N's review message to Telegram
* npx tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts install-service # systemd user unit, enabled + started
* npx tsx scripts/pr-bot/main.ts uninstall-service
*
* User guide: docs/pr-bot.md
*/
import { execFileSync } from 'child_process';
import { existsSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync } from 'fs';
import { homedir } from 'os';
import { join } from 'path';
import { PrBot, type TelegramLike } from './bot.js';
import { CodemanClient } from './codeman-client.js';
import { configFilePath, loadConfig, type PrBotConfig } from './config.js';
import { ghAuthOk, listOpenPrs } from './github.js';
import { orderBacklog } from './report.js';
import { StateStore } from './state.js';
import { TelegramClient } from './telegram.js';
const SERVICE_NAME = 'codeman-pr-bot';
function log(msg: string): void {
console.log(`${new Date().toISOString()} ${msg}`);
}
/** Prints what the bot would have sent; used by `review --no-telegram`. */
class ConsoleTelegram implements TelegramLike {
private nextId = 1;
isOurChat(): boolean {
return true;
}
async sendMessage(text: string): Promise<number> {
console.log(`\n--- telegram (html) ---\n${text}\n---`);
return this.nextId++;
}
async sendPlain(text: string): Promise<number> {
console.log(`\n--- telegram (plain) ---\n${text}\n---`);
return this.nextId++;
}
async editReplyMarkup(): Promise<void> {}
async deleteMessage(): Promise<void> {}
async answerCallback(): Promise<void> {}
async sendDocument(filename: string, content: string): Promise<void> {
console.log(`\n--- telegram document ${filename} (${content.length} chars) ---`);
}
async getUpdates(): Promise<[]> {
return [];
}
async setMyCommands(): Promise<void> {}
}
function makeCodeman(cfg: PrBotConfig): CodemanClient {
return new CodemanClient({ apiUrl: cfg.codemanApiUrl, username: cfg.codemanUsername, password: cfg.codemanPassword });
}
export function logFilePath(cfg: PrBotConfig): string {
return join(cfg.dataDir, 'bot.log');
}
function unitFile(cfg: PrBotConfig): string {
const tsx = join(cfg.mainCheckout, 'node_modules', '.bin', 'tsx');
// A user service gets a minimal PATH, which is where `gh` (and an nvm/Homebrew
// node) are not: the first run failed its scan with `spawn gh ENOENT`. Bake the
// installing shell's PATH in, as `codeman service install` does.
const seen = new Set<string>();
const path = (process.env.PATH || '/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin')
.split(':')
.filter((p) => p && !p.endsWith('/node_modules/.bin') && !seen.has(p) && seen.add(p))
.join(':');
return `[Unit]
Description=Codeman PR review bot (Telegram)
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=300
StartLimitBurst=5
[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=${cfg.mainCheckout}
ExecStart=${tsx} scripts/pr-bot/main.ts run
Restart=always
RestartSec=15
Environment=HOME=${homedir()}
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
Environment=PATH=${path}
# A file rather than the journal: on some boxes \`journalctl --user\` cannot read
# the user journal at all, and a review bot whose logs cannot be found is not
# debuggable from a phone.
StandardOutput=append:${logFilePath(cfg)}
StandardError=append:${logFilePath(cfg)}
SyslogIdentifier=${SERVICE_NAME}
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
`;
}
async function cmdCheck(): Promise<void> {
const cfg = loadConfig();
console.log(
`config file: ${configFilePath()}${existsSync(configFilePath()) ? '' : ' (absent, defaults + shared Telegram env)'}`
);
console.log(`repo: ${cfg.githubRepo}`);
console.log(`codeman: ${cfg.codemanApiUrl}`);
console.log(`main checkout: ${cfg.mainCheckout}`);
console.log(`data dir: ${cfg.dataDir}`);
console.log(`model: ${cfg.model ?? '(session default)'}, effort: ${cfg.effort ?? '(default)'}`);
console.log(
`poll: every ${cfg.pollIntervalMs / 60_000} min; review timeout ${cfg.reviewTimeoutMs / 60_000} min; auto-review ${cfg.autoReview}`
);
let ok = true;
const step = async (name: string, fn: () => Promise<string>) => {
try {
console.log(`✔ ${name}: ${await fn()}`);
} catch (err) {
ok = false;
console.log(`✘ ${name}: ${(err as Error).message}`);
}
};
await step('gh auth', async () =>
(await ghAuthOk()) ? 'logged in' : Promise.reject(new Error('run `gh auth login`'))
);
await step('git', async () =>
execFileSync('git', ['-C', cfg.mainCheckout, 'rev-parse', '--git-dir'], { encoding: 'utf8' }).trim()
);
await step('codeman', async () => {
const s = await makeCodeman(cfg).status();
return `up (version ${s.version ?? 'unknown'})`;
});
await step('telegram', async () => {
const me = await new TelegramClient(cfg.telegramBotToken, cfg.telegramChatId).getMe();
return `@${me.username ?? '?'} for chat ${cfg.telegramChatId}`;
});
await step('open PRs', async () => `${(await listOpenPrs(cfg.githubRepo)).length}`);
if (!ok) process.exit(1);
}
async function cmdScan(): Promise<void> {
const cfg = loadConfig();
const store = new StateStore(join(cfg.dataDir, 'state.json'));
const open = await listOpenPrs(cfg.githubRepo);
const rows = orderBacklog(open).map((pr) => {
const rec = store.pr(pr.number);
const state =
rec?.reviewedSha === pr.headSha ? `reviewed (${rec?.verdict ?? '?'})` : rec?.reviewedSha ? 'updated' : 'new';
const flags = [pr.isDraft ? 'draft' : '', pr.mergeable === 'CONFLICTING' ? 'conflicts' : '']
.filter(Boolean)
.join(', ');
return `#${pr.number}\t${state}\t+${pr.additions}/-${pr.deletions}\t${pr.author}\t${pr.title}${flags ? ` [${flags}]` : ''}`;
});
console.log(`${open.length} open PRs in review order:\n${rows.join('\n')}`);
}
async function cmdStatus(): Promise<void> {
const cfg = loadConfig();
const store = new StateStore(join(cfg.dataDir, 'state.json'));
console.log(`paused: ${store.state.paused}; telegram offset: ${store.state.telegramOffset}`);
for (const rec of Object.values(store.state.prs).sort((a, b) => b.number - a.number)) {
console.log(
`#${rec.number}\t${rec.status}\t${rec.verdict ?? '-'}\t${rec.reviewedSha?.slice(0, 8) ?? '-'}\t${rec.author}\t${rec.title}${
rec.lastError ? `\n\t${rec.lastError.split('\n')[0]}` : ''
}`
);
}
}
async function cmdReview(args: string[]): Promise<void> {
const number = parseInt(args.find((a) => /^\d+$/.test(a)) ?? '', 10);
if (!Number.isFinite(number)) throw new Error('usage: review <pr-number> [--no-telegram]');
const cfg = loadConfig();
const telegram = args.includes('--no-telegram')
? new ConsoleTelegram()
: new TelegramClient(cfg.telegramBotToken, cfg.telegramChatId);
const bot = new PrBot(cfg, { telegram, codeman: makeCodeman(cfg), log });
const rec = await bot.reviewPr(number);
console.log(
`\n#${number}: ${rec.status}${rec.verdict ? ` (${rec.verdict})` : ''}${rec.lastError ? `\n${rec.lastError}` : ''}`
);
if (rec.reportMdPath) console.log(`report: ${rec.reportMdPath}`);
process.exit(rec.status === 'reviewed' ? 0 : 1);
}
async function cmdNotify(args: string[]): Promise<void> {
const number = parseInt(args[0] ?? '', 10);
if (!Number.isFinite(number)) throw new Error('usage: notify <pr-number>');
const cfg = loadConfig();
const bot = new PrBot(cfg, {
telegram: new TelegramClient(cfg.telegramBotToken, cfg.telegramChatId),
codeman: makeCodeman(cfg),
log,
});
const rec = bot.store.pr(number);
if (!rec?.report) throw new Error(`no review of #${number} in ${cfg.dataDir}`);
await bot.sendSummary(rec);
console.log(`sent the review message for #${number}`);
}
async function cmdRun(): Promise<void> {
const cfg = loadConfig();
const bot = new PrBot(cfg, {
telegram: new TelegramClient(cfg.telegramBotToken, cfg.telegramChatId),
codeman: makeCodeman(cfg),
log,
});
let stopping = false;
const shutdown = (signal: string) => {
if (stopping) return;
stopping = true;
log(`${signal}: stopping`);
bot
.stop()
.catch((err) => log(`stop: ${(err as Error).message}`))
.finally(() => process.exit(0));
};
process.on('SIGTERM', () => shutdown('SIGTERM'));
process.on('SIGINT', () => shutdown('SIGINT'));
log(`starting: repo ${cfg.githubRepo}, codeman ${cfg.codemanApiUrl}, data ${cfg.dataDir}`);
await bot.start();
}
function cmdInstallService(): void {
const cfg = loadConfig();
const dir = join(homedir(), '.config', 'systemd', 'user');
mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
const path = join(dir, `${SERVICE_NAME}.service`);
mkdirSync(cfg.dataDir, { recursive: true });
writeFileSync(path, unitFile(cfg));
execFileSync('systemctl', ['--user', 'daemon-reload'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
execFileSync('systemctl', ['--user', 'enable', SERVICE_NAME], { stdio: 'inherit' });
// `restart` rather than `enable --now`: a re-install must pick up the new unit.
execFileSync('systemctl', ['--user', 'restart', SERVICE_NAME], { stdio: 'inherit' });
console.log(`installed ${path}\nlogs: tail -f ${logFilePath(cfg)}`);
}
function cmdUninstallService(): void {
const path = join(homedir(), '.config', 'systemd', 'user', `${SERVICE_NAME}.service`);
execFileSync('systemctl', ['--user', 'disable', '--now', SERVICE_NAME], { stdio: 'inherit' });
if (existsSync(path)) execFileSync('rm', ['-f', path]);
execFileSync('systemctl', ['--user', 'daemon-reload'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
console.log(`removed ${SERVICE_NAME}`);
}
async function main(): Promise<void> {
const [cmd = 'run', ...rest] = process.argv.slice(2);
switch (cmd) {
case 'run':
return cmdRun();
case 'check':
return cmdCheck();
case 'scan':
return cmdScan();
case 'status':
return cmdStatus();
case 'review':
return cmdReview(rest);
case 'notify':
return cmdNotify(rest);
case 'install-service':
return cmdInstallService();
case 'uninstall-service':
return cmdUninstallService();
default:
console.error(
'usage: main.ts run | check | scan | status | review <N> [--no-telegram] | install-service | uninstall-service'
);
process.exit(2);
}
}
main().catch((err) => {
console.error((err as Error).stack ?? String(err));
process.exit(1);
});
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/**
* @fileoverview Pure report handling: parse the reviewer's JSON (leniently, it is
* model output), render the Telegram summary (HTML, under the 4096-char cap), the
* status list, the inline keyboard, and the backlog order. Unit-tested.
*/
import type { CiState, PrSummary } from './github.js';
import { VERDICTS, type Verdict } from './review-task.js';
export type Severity = 'blocker' | 'major' | 'minor' | 'nit';
export interface Finding {
severity: Severity;
title: string;
file?: string;
line?: number;
detail: string;
invariant?: string;
}
export interface CheckResult {
name: string;
command?: string;
result: 'pass' | 'fail' | 'skipped';
notes?: string;
}
export interface ReviewReport {
verdict: Verdict;
confidence: 'high' | 'medium' | 'low';
summary: string;
changes: string[];
findings: Finding[];
checks: CheckResult[];
scope: 'focused' | 'mixed';
risk: string;
recommendation: string;
draftComment: string;
assumptions: string[];
}
export const TELEGRAM_MAX = 4096;
/** Leave room for HTML tags the counter cannot see and for the keyboard-less fallback. */
const SUMMARY_BUDGET = 3600;
const SEVERITY_ORDER: Severity[] = ['blocker', 'major', 'minor', 'nit'];
const SEVERITY_ICON: Record<Severity, string> = { blocker: '🔴', major: '🟠', minor: '🟡', nit: '⚪' };
const VERDICT_LABEL: Record<Verdict, string> = {
merge: '✅ MERGE',
'merge-with-fixes': '🟢 MERGE WITH FIXES',
'request-changes': '🟠 REQUEST CHANGES',
close: '❌ CLOSE',
'needs-discussion': '💬 NEEDS DISCUSSION',
};
const CI_LABEL: Record<CiState, string> = {
passed: 'CI ✅',
failed: 'CI ❌',
pending: 'CI ⏳',
'awaiting-approval': 'CI ⏸ needs your approval',
none: 'CI none',
};
export function escapeHtml(s: string): string {
return s.replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
}
function str(v: unknown, fallback = ''): string {
return typeof v === 'string' ? v : fallback;
}
function strList(v: unknown): string[] {
if (!Array.isArray(v)) return [];
return v.filter((x): x is string => typeof x === 'string' && x.trim().length > 0);
}
/** Extract the first JSON object from text that may carry fences or prose around it. */
export function extractJsonObject(text: string): unknown {
const trimmed = text.trim();
try {
return JSON.parse(trimmed);
} catch {
// fall through
}
const fence = trimmed.match(/```(?:json)?\s*([\s\S]*?)```/);
if (fence) {
try {
return JSON.parse(fence[1]);
} catch {
// fall through
}
}
const start = trimmed.indexOf('{');
const end = trimmed.lastIndexOf('}');
if (start >= 0 && end > start) {
try {
return JSON.parse(trimmed.slice(start, end + 1));
} catch {
return null;
}
}
return null;
}
/** Normalize model output into a ReviewReport. Returns null only when there is no verdict at all. */
export function parseReport(raw: unknown): ReviewReport | null {
if (!raw || typeof raw !== 'object') return null;
const o = raw as Record<string, unknown>;
const verdictRaw = str(o.verdict).trim().toLowerCase().replace(/[_ ]/g, '-');
const verdict = (VERDICTS as readonly string[]).includes(verdictRaw) ? (verdictRaw as Verdict) : null;
if (!verdict) return null;
const confidenceRaw = str(o.confidence).trim().toLowerCase();
const confidence = confidenceRaw === 'high' || confidenceRaw === 'low' ? confidenceRaw : 'medium';
const findings: Finding[] = [];
if (Array.isArray(o.findings)) {
for (const f of o.findings) {
if (!f || typeof f !== 'object') continue;
const fo = f as Record<string, unknown>;
const sevRaw = str(fo.severity).trim().toLowerCase();
const severity = (SEVERITY_ORDER as string[]).includes(sevRaw) ? (sevRaw as Severity) : 'minor';
const title = str(fo.title).trim();
if (!title) continue;
const line = typeof fo.line === 'number' && Number.isFinite(fo.line) ? Math.trunc(fo.line) : undefined;
findings.push({
severity,
title,
file: str(fo.file).trim() || undefined,
line,
detail: str(fo.detail).trim(),
invariant: str(fo.invariant).trim() || undefined,
});
}
}
findings.sort((a, b) => SEVERITY_ORDER.indexOf(a.severity) - SEVERITY_ORDER.indexOf(b.severity));
const checks: CheckResult[] = [];
if (Array.isArray(o.checks)) {
for (const c of o.checks) {
if (!c || typeof c !== 'object') continue;
const co = c as Record<string, unknown>;
const name = str(co.name).trim();
if (!name) continue;
const resRaw = str(co.result).trim().toLowerCase();
const result = resRaw === 'pass' || resRaw === 'fail' ? resRaw : 'skipped';
checks.push({
name,
command: str(co.command).trim() || undefined,
result,
notes: str(co.notes).trim() || undefined,
});
}
}
return {
verdict,
confidence,
summary: str(o.summary).trim(),
changes: strList(o.changes),
findings,
checks,
scope: str(o.scope).trim().toLowerCase() === 'mixed' ? 'mixed' : 'focused',
risk: str(o.risk).trim(),
recommendation: str(o.recommendation).trim(),
draftComment: str(o.draftComment).trim(),
assumptions: strList(o.assumptions),
};
}
export function countBySeverity(findings: Finding[]): Record<Severity, number> {
const out: Record<Severity, number> = { blocker: 0, major: 0, minor: 0, nit: 0 };
for (const f of findings) out[f.severity]++;
return out;
}
function findingLine(f: Finding): string {
const where = f.file ? ` <code>${escapeHtml(f.file)}${f.line ? `:${f.line}` : ''}</code>` : '';
return `${SEVERITY_ICON[f.severity]} ${escapeHtml(f.title)}${where}`;
}
function checksLine(checks: CheckResult[]): string {
if (!checks.length) return '';
const parts = checks.map((c) => {
const icon = c.result === 'pass' ? '✅' : c.result === 'fail' ? '❌' : '⏭';
return `${escapeHtml(c.name)} ${icon}`;
});
return `<b>Checks:</b> ${parts.join(' · ')}`;
}
function truncate(text: string, max: number): string {
if (text.length <= max) return text;
return text.slice(0, Math.max(0, max - 1)).trimEnd() + '…';
}
export interface SummaryMeta {
ci: CiState;
/** Time the review took, for the footer. */
durationMin?: number;
}
/** The message the maintainer reads on the phone. HTML parse mode. */
export function formatTelegramSummary(pr: PrSummary, report: ReviewReport, meta: SummaryMeta): string {
const header =
`🔍 <b>PR #${pr.number}</b> · ${escapeHtml(truncate(pr.title, 120))}\n` +
`<i>by ${escapeHtml(pr.author)} · +${pr.additions}/−${pr.deletions} · ${pr.changedFiles} files · ${CI_LABEL[meta.ci]} · ${
pr.mergeable === 'CONFLICTING'
? 'conflicts ⚠️'
: pr.mergeable === 'MERGEABLE'
? 'mergeable'
: 'mergeability unknown'
}${pr.isDraft ? ' · draft' : ''}</i>\n` +
`<a href="${escapeHtml(pr.url)}">${escapeHtml(pr.url)}</a>\n`;
const verdict = `\n<b>${VERDICT_LABEL[report.verdict]}</b> <i>(confidence ${report.confidence}${report.scope === 'mixed' ? ', mixed scope' : ''})</i>\n`;
const summary = report.summary ? `\n${escapeHtml(report.summary)}\n` : '';
const counts = countBySeverity(report.findings);
const countStr = SEVERITY_ORDER.filter((s) => counts[s] > 0)
.map((s) => `${counts[s]} ${s}${counts[s] === 1 ? '' : 's'}`)
.join(', ');
const findingsHeader = report.findings.length ? `\n<b>Findings</b> (${countStr}):\n` : '\n<b>Findings:</b> none\n';
const checks = checksLine(report.checks);
const recommendation = report.recommendation ? `\n<b>Recommendation:</b> ${escapeHtml(report.recommendation)}\n` : '';
const footer = meta.durationMin !== undefined ? `\n<i>review took ${meta.durationMin} min</i>` : '';
const fixed = header + verdict + summary + findingsHeader;
const tail = (checks ? `\n${checks}\n` : '') + recommendation + footer;
let budget = SUMMARY_BUDGET - fixed.length - tail.length;
const lines: string[] = [];
let shown = 0;
for (const f of report.findings) {
const line = findingLine(f) + '\n';
if (line.length > budget) break;
lines.push(line);
budget -= line.length;
shown++;
}
const hidden = report.findings.length - shown;
const more = hidden > 0 ? `<i>… ${hidden} more in the full report</i>\n` : '';
return fixed + lines.join('') + more + tail;
}
export function formatReviewFailure(
pr: Pick<PrSummary, 'number' | 'title' | 'author' | 'url'>,
reason: string
): string {
return (
`⚠️ <b>PR #${pr.number}</b> · ${escapeHtml(truncate(pr.title, 120))}\n` +
`<i>by ${escapeHtml(pr.author)}</i>\n<a href="${escapeHtml(pr.url)}">${escapeHtml(pr.url)}</a>\n\n` +
`The review did not complete: ${escapeHtml(truncate(reason, 1500))}\n\n` +
`Use /review ${pr.number} to try again.`
);
}
/** Split on line boundaries so no chunk exceeds Telegram's cap. */
export function splitTelegramMessage(text: string, max = TELEGRAM_MAX): string[] {
if (text.length <= max) return [text];
const chunks: string[] = [];
let current = '';
for (const line of text.split('\n')) {
let piece = line;
while (piece.length > max) {
if (current) {
chunks.push(current);
current = '';
}
chunks.push(piece.slice(0, max));
piece = piece.slice(max);
}
const candidate = current ? `${current}\n${piece}` : piece;
if (candidate.length > max) {
chunks.push(current);
current = piece;
} else {
current = candidate;
}
}
if (current) chunks.push(current);
return chunks;
}
export interface InlineButton {
text: string;
callback_data: string;
}
/** Callback data is capped at 64 bytes by Telegram; these stay far under it. */
export function buildReportKeyboard(prNumber: number, opts: { ci: CiState; hasDraft: boolean }): InlineButton[][] {
const rows: InlineButton[][] = [
[
{ text: '📄 Full report', callback_data: `report:${prNumber}` },
...(opts.hasDraft ? [{ text: '💬 Draft comment', callback_data: `draft:${prNumber}` }] : []),
{ text: '🔁 Re-review', callback_data: `review:${prNumber}` },
],
[
{ text: '✅ Merge', callback_data: `merge:${prNumber}` },
...(opts.hasDraft ? [{ text: '📮 Post comment', callback_data: `post:${prNumber}` }] : []),
{ text: '🗑 Close', callback_data: `close:${prNumber}` },
],
];
if (opts.ci === 'awaiting-approval')
rows.push([{ text: '▶️ Approve CI run', callback_data: `approveci:${prNumber}` }]);
return rows;
}
export function confirmKeyboard(action: string, prNumber: number, nonce: string): InlineButton[][] {
return [
[
{ text: `Yes, ${action} #${prNumber}`, callback_data: `confirm:${action}:${prNumber}:${nonce}` },
{ text: 'Cancel', callback_data: `cancel:${action}:${prNumber}:${nonce}` },
],
];
}
export interface StatusRow {
number: number;
title: string;
author: string;
verdict?: Verdict;
status: string;
ci?: CiState;
mergeable: PrSummary['mergeable'];
isDraft: boolean;
}
export function formatStatusList(rows: StatusRow[], paused: boolean): string {
if (!rows.length) return 'No open pull requests.';
const lines = rows.map((r) => {
const v = r.verdict
? VERDICT_LABEL[r.verdict].split(' ')[0]
: r.status === 'reviewing'
? '⏳'
: r.status === 'queued'
? '🕓'
: '·';
const flags = [
r.ci ? CI_LABEL[r.ci].replace('CI ', '') : '',
r.mergeable === 'CONFLICTING' ? 'conflicts' : '',
r.isDraft ? 'draft' : '',
]
.filter(Boolean)
.join(', ');
return `${v} <b>#${r.number}</b> ${escapeHtml(truncate(r.title, 60))} <i>(${escapeHtml(r.author)}${flags ? `; ${flags}` : ''})</i>`;
});
return `${paused ? '⏸ auto-review paused\n' : ''}<b>Open PRs (${rows.length})</b>\n${lines.join('\n')}`;
}
/**
* Backlog order for a fresh sweep: the ones you can act on first (mergeable, small),
* conflicting and huge ones last. Ties keep the newer PR first.
*/
export function orderBacklog<T extends Pick<PrSummary, 'number' | 'mergeable' | 'additions' | 'deletions'>>(
prs: T[]
): T[] {
const size = (p: T) => p.additions + p.deletions;
return [...prs].sort((a, b) => {
const ca = a.mergeable === 'CONFLICTING' ? 1 : 0;
const cb = b.mergeable === 'CONFLICTING' ? 1 : 0;
if (ca !== cb) return ca - cb;
const sa = size(a);
const sb = size(b);
if (sa !== sb) return sa - sb;
return b.number - a.number;
});
}
export function verdictLabel(v: Verdict): string {
return VERDICT_LABEL[v];
}
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/**
* @fileoverview The review brief handed to each reviewer session, and the follow-up
* brief. Pure: the bot writes the result to a file and sends the session one short
* line pointing at it (prompts are single-line over tmux, and a brief this size
* belongs on disk anyway).
*
* The brief is opinionated on purpose. It names the repository's own rules (CLAUDE.md,
* CONTRIBUTING.md), the checks to run, the verdict vocabulary, and the exact JSON the
* bot parses. Everything the maintainer would say out loud before delegating a
* review lives here.
*/
import type { CiStatus, PrDetail } from './github.js';
export const VERDICTS = ['merge', 'merge-with-fixes', 'request-changes', 'close', 'needs-discussion'] as const;
export type Verdict = (typeof VERDICTS)[number];
export interface ReviewBriefInput {
pr: PrDetail;
ci: CiStatus;
mergeBase: string;
worktreeDir: string;
mainCheckout: string;
reportJsonPath: string;
reportMdPath: string;
}
function ciLine(ci: CiStatus): string {
const detail = ci.runs.map((r) => `${r.name}: ${r.conclusion ?? r.status}`).join(', ');
switch (ci.state) {
case 'passed':
return `passed (${detail})`;
case 'failed':
return `FAILED (${detail}); read the failing job's log with \`gh run view <id> --log-failed\` before you trust or dismiss it`;
case 'pending':
return `still running (${detail})`;
case 'awaiting-approval':
return 'never ran: the workflow is waiting for a maintainer to approve it (first-time contributor), so run the checks yourself';
default:
return 'no workflow runs found for this head (a conflicting PR gets no CI at all); run the checks yourself';
}
}
export function buildReviewBrief(input: ReviewBriefInput): string {
const { pr, ci, mergeBase, worktreeDir, mainCheckout, reportJsonPath, reportMdPath } = input;
const files = pr.files.map((f) => `- \`${f.path}\` (+${f.additions}/-${f.deletions})`).join('\n');
const linked = pr.linkedIssues.length
? pr.linkedIssues.map((i) => `- #${i.number} ${i.title}`).join('\n')
: '- none linked';
const mergeability =
pr.mergeable === 'CONFLICTING'
? 'CONFLICTING with master. It cannot be merged as-is and GitHub runs no CI for it. Review the PR head as it stands, and say in the report whether the conflicts look mechanical or structural (`git merge-tree` against origin/master helps).'
: pr.mergeable === 'MERGEABLE'
? 'mergeable'
: 'unknown (GitHub has not computed it yet)';
return `# Review brief: PR #${pr.number} ${pr.title}
You are reviewing a pull request against Codeman on behalf of the maintainer. You are
in a private clone at \`${worktreeDir}\`, checked out (detached) at the PR head. The
maintainer reads your report on a phone and decides what happens next, so write for
someone who has not seen the diff.
## Ground rules (read twice)
- Nothing you do here reaches GitHub. Do NOT push, comment, merge, close, label, or
create anything with \`gh\`; \`gh\` is for READING only (\`gh pr view\`, \`gh run view\`,
\`gh api\` GETs).
- Do NOT run \`npm install\`, \`npm ci\`, \`npm update\` or \`npm run build\`: \`node_modules\`
may be a symlink into the maintainer's live checkout. Everything else in package.json
scripts is fine (\`npm run typecheck\`, \`npm run lint\`, \`npm test -- <file>\`, ...).
- Do NOT restart, stop or install any service, and never bind port 3000: the
maintainer's production Codeman runs there. Test ports are 3150 and up.
- \`${mainCheckout}\` is the maintainer's shared checkout. You may READ it for comparison;
never run a git command there that changes anything (no checkout, reset, stash, clean).
- Stay inside this clone for writes. Do not create files elsewhere except the two
report files named below.
- Do not ask questions. Nobody is watching this session. Where something is ambiguous,
decide, and list the assumption in the report.
## The pull request
- **#${pr.number}** ${pr.title}
- Author: ${pr.author} (${pr.authorAssociation.toLowerCase().replace(/_/g, ' ')})${pr.headRepo ? `, from \`${pr.headRepo}\`` : ''}
- URL: ${pr.url}
- Base: \`${pr.baseRef}\` at merge base \`${mergeBase.slice(0, 12)}\`; head: \`${pr.headSha.slice(0, 12)}\` (${pr.commitCount} commits)
- Size: +${pr.additions} / -${pr.deletions} across ${pr.changedFiles} files
- Mergeability: ${mergeability}
- CI: ${ciLine(ci)}
- Draft: ${pr.isDraft ? 'yes' : 'no'}; existing comments: ${pr.commentCount}${pr.labels.length ? `; labels: ${pr.labels.join(', ')}` : ''}
### Linked issues
${linked}
### Files changed
${files || '- (none reported)'}
### PR description, verbatim
\`\`\`text
${pr.body.trim() || '(empty)'}
\`\`\`
## How to review
1. Read \`CLAUDE.md\` at the root and \`.github/CONTRIBUTING.md\`. Most review feedback on
this repository traces back to a rule already written there, and a change that
contradicts one of those rules is a finding even when the code works. Open the
\`docs/architecture-invariants.md\` sections the change touches.
2. Understand the change: \`git log --oneline ${mergeBase.slice(0, 12)}..HEAD\` and
\`git diff ${mergeBase.slice(0, 12)}..HEAD\`. Read the surrounding code, not only the
hunks: the file's \`@fileoverview\` first, then the call sites of anything changed.
3. Look for, in this order: correctness bugs (wrong logic, races, missed error paths,
lost state across restart); security (auth and ownership checks, path confinement,
the env-prefix allowlist, shell/command injection, SSRF, secrets on the command
line or in state files); violations of CLAUDE.md rules (cite the rule); behaviour
changes without tests; contract changes (\`/api/v1\` paths, response envelope,
\`errorCode\` values, SSE event names are public and stable, see
\`docs/versioning-policy.md\`); scope (one change per PR: flag unrelated changes
bundled in); docs and registries that must move with the code (CLAUDE.md and
architecture-invariants when a rule changes, \`sse-events.ts\` and \`constants.js\`
parity, \`docs/api-reference.md\`); housekeeping that does not belong in a PR
(version bumps, CHANGELOG edits, files pulled back into Prettier's scope, committed
vendor bundles, changeset files are fine).
4. Run the checks and record what you ran and what came back:
\`npm run typecheck\`, \`npm run lint\`, \`npm run check:frontend-syntax\`,
\`npm run format:check\`, then the tests covering the touched areas
(\`npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts\`, several files at once is fine). Run the full
\`npm test\` when the change is broad or touches shared infrastructure (session,
tmux, routes, state); it takes minutes, which is acceptable. A red check that is
also red on origin/master is not the PR's fault: say so rather than blaming it.
Other test suites may be running on this machine at the same time and they share
the 3150+ port range, so re-run a failed file on its own (\`npm test -- <file>\`)
before you read an EADDRINUSE or a timeout as the PR's regression.
5. Verify before you report. A finding that could be a misread must be confirmed by
reading the full code path, by a tiny test, or by running it. Every finding names a
file and line. Rank: **blocker** (must be fixed before merge: data loss, security,
breaks a documented invariant, breaks the build or tests), **major** (should be
fixed: a real bug in an edge the PR introduces, a missing test for new behaviour),
**minor**, **nit**.
6. Judge the PR, not the author. Contributors here are volunteers and the maintainer
thanks them by name in every release; be exact and be kind.
## Verdict vocabulary
- \`merge\`: no blockers or majors, checks green; merge as-is.
- \`merge-with-fixes\`: mergeable, but with small things the maintainer would rather fix
at merge time than round-trip (list them so they can be applied on top).
- \`request-changes\`: blockers or majors the author should fix.
- \`close\`: wrong direction, superseded, or not wanted; say what should happen instead.
- \`needs-discussion\`: a design question the maintainer must answer before anyone
spends more time (name the question).
## Output, mandatory
Write BOTH files, then reply with exactly one line: \`REVIEW COMPLETE\`.
1. \`${reportJsonPath}\`: a single JSON object, no markdown fences, this shape:
\`\`\`json
{
"verdict": "merge | merge-with-fixes | request-changes | close | needs-discussion",
"confidence": "high | medium | low",
"summary": "Two or three sentences: what the PR does, and the review's bottom line.",
"changes": ["one bullet per thing the PR actually changes"],
"findings": [
{
"severity": "blocker | major | minor | nit",
"title": "one line",
"file": "path/from/repo/root.ts",
"line": 123,
"detail": "what is wrong, why it matters, what to do instead",
"invariant": "the CLAUDE.md / CONTRIBUTING rule it breaks, or omit"
}
],
"checks": [
{ "name": "typecheck", "command": "npm run typecheck", "result": "pass | fail | skipped", "notes": "" }
],
"_checks_note": "result is from the PR's point of view: a regression test you deliberately ran against master to prove it fails is a pass (say so in notes), a red run caused by another suite on the machine is skipped with the reason, only a genuine problem with the PR is fail",
"scope": "focused | mixed",
"risk": "One or two sentences naming the judgment calls a second reviewer should look at.",
"recommendation": "Two to four sentences for the maintainer: what to do next and why.",
"draftComment": "A comment to the contributor, in markdown, ready to post (rules below).",
"assumptions": ["anything you had to decide alone"]
}
\`\`\`
2. \`${reportMdPath}\`: the full report in markdown for the maintainer, in this order:
what the PR does; the verdict with the reasoning; findings in severity order with
file:line and the fix; checks run with results; CLAUDE.md rules touched; scope and
risk; recommendation; assumptions. Include the diff stat. No length limit, but no
padding either.
### Draft comment rules
The draft is written AS the maintainer TO the contributor and must stand alone: the
reader has not seen this brief. Open by thanking them and saying in one sentence what
the PR does. Then the findings that need action, each with file:line and the concrete
ask, blockers first. Close with what happens next (merge after fixes, will fix at merge
time, and so on). When the verdict is \`merge\`, the whole comment is a short thank-you
naming anything you would touch at merge time. Plain markdown. No em-dashes (use
commas, colons or parentheses). No emojis. No "Generated with Claude Code" or similar
attribution line. No hedging words. The maintainer reads it before it is posted and may
edit it.
`;
}
/** Sent as ONE line; the brief above is on disk. */
export function reviewKickoffLine(briefPath: string): string {
return `Read ${briefPath} and carry out the review it describes. Do not ask questions. Finish by writing both report files it names, then reply with exactly: REVIEW COMPLETE`;
}
export function followupKickoffLine(followupPath: string): string {
return `Read ${followupPath}: it holds a follow-up from the maintainer about the pull request you reviewed. Do what it asks within the ground rules of the original brief (no pushing, no gh writes, no npm install, no builds, no services), then answer in plain text. Do not ask questions.`;
}
export function buildFollowupBrief(input: {
prNumber: number;
title: string;
instruction: string;
worktreeDir: string;
reportMdPath: string;
briefPath: string;
}): string {
return `# Follow-up on PR #${input.prNumber} ${input.title}
The maintainer read your review report (\`${input.reportMdPath}\`; the original brief is
\`${input.briefPath}\`, and its ground rules still apply: nothing reaches GitHub, no
installs, no builds, no services, writes stay inside \`${input.worktreeDir}\`).
Their message:
\`\`\`text
${input.instruction.trim()}
\`\`\`
Answer concisely and concretely, for a phone screen: lead with the answer, then the
evidence (commands run, file:line). If the message asks you to change code, make the
change in this clone, run the relevant checks, and describe the diff (\`git diff
--stat\` plus the essential hunks). Keep the changes uncommitted unless asked to commit;
never push. If it asks for something outside the ground rules, say so and stop.
`;
}

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