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Codeman maintainer 1cc7f68c15 feat(readmymind): phase 3 PR 1: alternates, rethink steering, phone surfaces
- Alternate suggestions render as tappable rows that swap into the
  editable field, with their rationale as a visible second line (phones
  have no hover for a title tip). The predictor already returned up to 3
  kind-diverse suggestions; the modal showed only the first.
- Rethink now records every displayed suggestion as rejected and carries
  an optional free-text steer note (the API accepted steer since phase 2;
  the UI never collected it). Both reset on each open. The steer field
  stays available in the error phase: steering a failed run's retry is
  exactly when a note helps.
- The modal header names the target session: overview rows and the
  accessory key can open it for a session that is not the active tab.
- Phone surfaces: a keyboard-accessory 🧠 key (hidden unless
  readMyMindEnabled is ON and the active session is claude mode,
  re-derived after innerHTML rebuilds, settings applies, and session
  switches) and a Suggest strip on the phone overview's yellow waiting
  rows (waiting only: on red rows a dialog is on screen and input text
  would land in its menu; answer routing is phase 3 PR 2)
- The modal renders as a compact sheet on phones with 16px inputs (iOS
  zoom guard) and 44px tap targets
- Send/Insert/Rethink freeze during the loading phase so a stale
  suggestion cannot be sent mid-rethink
- test/readmymind-phase3-surfaces.test.ts pins the load-bearing facts in
  CI: key in BOTH bar layouts, [hidden] re-assertion over inline-flex,
  header button off phones, the waiting-only row gate, no terminal
  refocus from the readmymind action, steer outside the result div

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 03:30:07 +02:00
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{
"name": "codeman",
"owner": {
"name": "Ark0N",
"url": "https://github.com/Ark0N"
},
"description": "Codeman, self-hosted mission control for AI coding agents. Ships the codeman agent skill: let one Claude Code session spawn, prompt, wait on and read other sessions.",
"plugins": [
{
"name": "codeman",
"source": "./plugins/codeman",
"description": "Drive Codeman from inside a Claude Code session: spawn worker sessions, prompt them, wait for them, read their answers, clean up. Acts only inside a Codeman-managed session.",
"version": "1.33.2",
"author": {
"name": "Ark0N",
"url": "https://github.com/Ark0N"
},
"homepage": "https://getcodeman.com",
"category": "productivity",
"keywords": [
"codeman",
"orchestration",
"multi-agent",
"session-manager",
"tmux",
"claude-code"
]
}
]
}
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.git
.agents
.claude
.codex
# `**/` matters: a .dockerignore pattern is matched against the WHOLE
# context-relative path, so a bare `.env` excludes ONLY the root file and
# `COPY . .` would bake docker/.env -- CODEMAN_PASSWORD and any provider API
# keys -- into the published image at /opt/codeman/docker/.env (verified).
**/.env
**/.env.*
!**/.env.example
# Same shape: docker/docker-compose.override.yml is the documented home for
# host-specific settings, so it must not ride COPY . . into the image either.
**/docker-compose.override.*
node_modules
dist
coverage
out
test-results
tmp
*.log
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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
npm run check:browser-excludes # every browser-driven test is kept out of `npm test`
```
`npm install` also installs a `pre-push` git hook that runs these static checks (about 10-40s, machine-dependent) and blocks the push if one fails. It skips itself when you push something other than the checked-out HEAD, or when the tree has uncommitted changes the checks would read. Skip it once with `CODEMAN_SKIP_PREPUSH=1 git push`; it never replaces a `pre-push` hook of your own.
### 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.
- **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.
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.
For the detailed rationale, defenses, and recommended secure setups, see
[`docs/security-architecture.md`](../docs/security-architecture.md).
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- name: Frontend JS syntax check
run: npm run check:frontend-syntax
# Asks `vitest list` what CI would actually collect, rather than matching
# filenames: a browser-driven test missing from BROWSER_TEST_GLOBS
# (config/test-suites.ts) passes locally and dies in the test job with
# "browserType.launch: Executable doesn't exist".
- name: Browser-test exclusion check
run: npm run check:browser-excludes
- name: Format check
run: npm run format:check
# install.sh reaches users through `curl | bash` with nothing between it and
# them, and until now nothing in this repo checked it at all: no shellcheck,
# no bats, and the vitest gate is Node-only.
- name: install.sh syntax
run: bash -n install.sh
# macOS ships bash 3.2 and this runner has bash 5, so the constructs that
# actually break a Mac install are invisible here without a container. This
# step is what catches them — in particular expanding an EMPTY array under
# `set -u`, which bash 3.2 treats as an unbound variable and `bash -n`
# cannot see because it is a runtime error, not a syntax one.
- name: install.sh runs on bash 3.2 (macOS's version)
run: |
set -euo pipefail
docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/w -w /w bash:3.2 bash -n /w/install.sh
docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/w -w /w -e CODEMAN_INSTALL_SH_LIB=1 bash:3.2 bash -c '
set -euo pipefail
. /w/install.sh
detect_all_clis
# `shell` declares no binaries, so its offset/length window is length 0.
# Iterating it is the empty-array case; reaching here means it did not abort.
echo "bash $BASH_VERSION: ${#CLI_IDS[@]} CLIs, $CLI_FOUND_COUNT found"
cli_catalog_names >/dev/null
cli_catalog_print_install_hints >/dev/null
# The install menu with nothing installed and the user answering "s":
# skipping must warn and continue, never trip the "failed to install"
# gate (it did once, aborting the install before the clone).
has_tty() { return 0; }
headless_guard() { return 0; }
read_reply() { eval "$1=s"; }
NONINTERACTIVE=0
k=0; while [[ $k -lt ${#CLI_ALL_BINS[@]} ]]; do CLI_ALL_BINS[$k]="no-such-cli-$k"; k=$((k + 1)); done
k=0; while [[ $k -lt ${#CLI_ALL_PATHS[@]} ]]; do CLI_ALL_PATHS[$k]="/nonexistent/$k"; k=$((k + 1)); done
CLI_DETECT_DONE=""; detect_all_clis
offer_ai_cli_install >/dev/null 2>&1
echo "bash $BASH_VERSION: skipping the AI CLI install menu continues"
'
# Issue #382: the dsh identity probe builds an OPTIONAL `timeout` prefix as an
# array, and on stock macOS there is no `timeout`, so the array is empty and the
# expansion aborts the whole installer under `set -u`. The step above cannot
# reach that branch: this image HAS `timeout`, and with no `dsh` on PATH the
# probe is never called at all. So hide `timeout` and call it directly.
docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/w -w /w -e CODEMAN_INSTALL_SH_LIB=1 bash:3.2 bash -c '
set -euo pipefail
. /w/install.sh
printf "#!/bin/sh\necho \"DeepSeek Harness 0.1\"\n" > /tmp/dsh
printf "#!/bin/sh\necho \"dancer shell (Debian dsh)\"\n" > /tmp/not-dsh
chmod 755 /tmp/dsh /tmp/not-dsh
# A PATH the probe can still work on, minus the binary under test.
mkdir -p /tmp/nobin
for b in grep sh; do ln -sf "$(command -v $b)" "/tmp/nobin/$b"; done
export PATH=/tmp/nobin
if command -v timeout >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "timeout is still on PATH, so this is NOT exercising the empty-array branch" >&2
exit 1
fi
dsh_banner_probe /tmp/dsh
if dsh_banner_probe /tmp/not-dsh; then
echo "identity probe accepted a foreign dsh" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "bash $BASH_VERSION: dsh identity probe survives a missing timeout"
'
# Installer v2: the question phase runs before the build, and every decision it
# takes is bash logic over stubbed tailscale state. Drive the flags, the launch
# default, the occupied-:443 menu and the rename question with canned answers,
# so a bash-4 construct or a flipped default in any of them fails here, not on a
# Mac. The JSON parsers need node (absent in this image) and are stubbed; their
# own coverage is test/install-sh-invariants.test.ts plus the vitest gate.
docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/w -w /w -e CODEMAN_INSTALL_SH_LIB=1 -e HOME=/tmp/h bash:3.2 bash -c '
set -euo pipefail
mkdir -p /tmp/h
. /w/install.sh
parse_flags --tailscale --service --name Build-Box --port 4000
[[ "$CODEMAN_TAILSCALE" == "1" && "$LAUNCH_PRESET" == "2" && "$TS_NAME" == "Build-Box" && "$CODEMAN_PORT" == "4000" ]]
[[ "$(ts_sanitize_name "$TS_NAME")" == "build-box" ]]
has_tty() { return 0; }
ANSWER=""; read_reply() { eval "$1=\"\$ANSWER\""; }
systemctl() { return 0; }
LAUNCH_PRESET=""; NONINTERACTIVE=0
choose_launch_mode linux >/dev/null 2>&1
[[ "$LAUNCH_CHOICE" == "2" ]]
check_tailscale() { return 0; }
ts_status_field() { case "$1" in "s.BackendState") printf Running ;; "s.Self && s.Self.DNSName") printf "box.tail.ts.net." ;; esac; }
ts_backend_state() { printf Running; }
ts_dns_name() { printf box.tail.ts.net; }
ts_serve_443_target_port() { printf 8080; }
ts_serve_find_port_mapping() { :; }
ts_serve_port_used() { return 1; }
detect_tailscale_serve_url() { :; }
tailscale_choose_mapping >/dev/null 2>&1
[[ "$TS_SERVE_MODE" == "path" && "$BIND_BASE_URL" == "/codeman" ]]
RENAMED=""; tailscale_rename_node() { RENAMED="$1"; }
TS_NAME=""; tailscale_choose_name >/dev/null 2>&1
[[ -z "$RENAMED" ]]
# A flag re-run keeps the password the unit already carries (and so
# never writes the unauthenticated ack), and the hand-start line the
# done screen prints carries every non-default value.
read_existing_binding() { EXISTING_FOUND=1; EXISTING_HOST=0.0.0.0; EXISTING_PASSWORD=s3cret; EXISTING_ACK=0; EXISTING_BASE_URL=""; }
CODEMAN_HOST=0.0.0.0; CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=0; unset CODEMAN_PASSWORD; BIND_ACK=0
choose_network_binding >/dev/null 2>&1
[[ "$BIND_PASSWORD" == "s3cret" && "$BIND_ACK" == "0" ]]
BIND_HOST=0.0.0.0; BIND_PASSWORD=x; BIND_ACK=0; BIND_BASE_URL=/codeman; CODEMAN_PORT=4000
[[ "$(start_command_hint)" == "CODEMAN_HOST=0.0.0.0 CODEMAN_PASSWORD="*" CODEMAN_BASE_URL=/codeman CODEMAN_PORT=4000 codeman web" ]]
RECONFIGURE=0; parse_flags --port 4001; [[ "$RECONFIGURE" == "1" ]]
echo "bash $BASH_VERSION: question phase (flags, launch default, occupied :443, rename opt-in, kept password, start line) ok"
'
- name: CLI catalogue artifacts are in sync with stock.ts
run: npm run generate:cli-catalog -- --check
- name: Server boot smoke test
run: |
set -u
@@ -205,9 +87,7 @@ jobs:
fi
- name: Run unit & integration tests
# 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.
# Excludes the browser-driven mobile suite (test/mobile/**); see config/vitest.ci.config.ts.
# Safe in CI: TmuxManager no-ops all shell commands under VITEST (test/setup.ts).
run: npm run test:ci
@@ -219,11 +99,6 @@ jobs:
run: npx vitest run
working-directory: packages/xterm-zerolag-input
# 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.
# 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.
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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
@@ -48,10 +45,6 @@ Thumbs.db
.env.local
.env.*.local
# Local Compose customisation (host-specific, not part of the project)
docker-compose.override.yml
docker-compose.override.yaml
# State files (local to each machine)
.claude/ralph-loop.local.md
@@ -100,6 +93,8 @@ packages/gesture-control/.vite/
# Claude Code plan tracking
plan.json
# Unfinished TUI (local development only)
src/tui/
.claude/
media-assets/
commands
@@ -109,7 +104,3 @@ readme-preview.mjs
# Uploaded images land here under each session working dir (runtime artifact)
.claude-images/
# Local-LLM harness smoke-test config (real IPs/keys) — see the .example.json
# alongside it in scripts/, which IS tracked as the template.
scripts/local-llm-test.config.json
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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
(`npm test` is the CI gate and is safe to run bare; the three excluded suites
have their own runners), security notes, and
(never run the full suite inside a managed tmux session), 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.
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@ sections here.
Quick pointers:
- Type check: `tsc --noEmit` · Lint: `npm run lint` · Format: `npm run format:check`
- Tests: `npm test` (the CI gate, safe to run bare) or `npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts` for one file
- Targeted tests only: `npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts` (bare `npm test` is unsafe in managed sessions)
- 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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This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
> Deep implementation detail lives in [`docs/architecture-invariants.md`](docs/architecture-invariants.md). This file holds the rules that prevent mistakes; that file holds the mechanisms, file inventories, and the history behind each rule. Pointers below are written as `→ architecture-invariants#anchor`. When the goal is raw throughput, [`docs/SPEEDRUN.md`](docs/SPEEDRUN.md) is the fast-execution protocol (it removes ceremony, never the safety rules here). The user-facing manual is `docs/wiki/` (mirrored to the GitHub wiki by CI; see the CI note under Additional Commands), and `AGENTS.md` deliberately just points here.
> Deep implementation detail lives in [`docs/architecture-invariants.md`](docs/architecture-invariants.md). This file holds the rules that prevent mistakes; that file holds the mechanisms, file inventories, and the history behind each rule. Pointers below are written as `→ architecture-invariants#anchor`. When the goal is raw throughput, [`docs/SPEEDRUN.md`](docs/SPEEDRUN.md) is the fast-execution protocol (it removes ceremony, never the safety rules here).
>
> **This file is in `.prettierignore` on purpose.** Prettier's markdown printer escapes underscores inside the glob-heavy paths used throughout (`agent-*.jsonl` became `agent-\_.jsonl`, collapsing backtick spans and corrupting a whole paragraph). Do not remove the ignore entry, and do not run `prettier --write` on it.
>
> **Repo root is kept short on purpose** (the README sits below the file listing on GitHub). Config lives in `config/` (`eslint.config.js`, `knip.json`, the vitest configs), Prettier's config is the `"prettier"` key in `package.json`, and `SECURITY.md` is under `.github/`. Root-only files are the ones tools genuinely require there: `CLAUDE.md` + `AGENTS.md` (loaded from the root by Claude Code / Codex), `CHANGELOG.md` (changesets writes it next to `package.json`), `tsconfig.json`, `.editorconfig`, `.nvmrc`/`.npmrc`, `.prettierignore` (resolved relative to cwd), `LICENSE` (GitHub detection), `.dockerignore` (the build context is the repo root, so Docker resolves it there and nowhere else) and `install.sh` (its raw URL is the published install one-liner). `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` is root-only for the same reason: `/plugin marketplace add Ark0N/Codeman` reads it from the repo root and nowhere else, which makes the repo its own plugin marketplace. The one plugin it lists is `plugins/codeman/` (manifest + README + a MIRROR of `skills/codeman/`), and ⚠️ the plugin is a small separate directory on purpose: `claude plugin install` copies the plugin root into its cache, and a plugin root that carries a `package.json` gets an **npm install** at install time (measured with the repo root as plugin root: 832 MB, 511 packages and this repo's postinstall on every installer's machine), while a symlink to `skills/codeman` would dangle in the copy. `skills/codeman/` stays the single source; `scripts/sync-plugin.mjs` mirrors it and writes `package.json`'s version into both manifests inside `version-packages`, and `test/plugin-manifest.test.ts` pins the byte-identity, the versions, the absence of a `package.json` in the plugin root and that no other component (`commands/`, `agents/`, `hooks/`, `.mcp.json`, `settings.json`) rides along. `npm run check:plugin` runs that drift check plus both strict validations with EXPLICIT paths (`plugins/codeman`, `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`): a bare `.` argument copied out of prose reads as a full stop and gets dropped, which surfaces as `missing required argument 'path'`. Needs the `claude` CLI, so it is a local check, not a CI step. Don't relocate those.
> **Repo root is kept short on purpose** (the README sits below the file listing on GitHub). Config lives in `config/` (`eslint.config.js`, `knip.json`, the vitest configs), Prettier's config is the `"prettier"` key in `package.json`, and `SECURITY.md` is under `.github/`. Root-only files are the ones tools genuinely require there: `CLAUDE.md` + `AGENTS.md` (loaded from the root by Claude Code / Codex), `CHANGELOG.md` (changesets writes it next to `package.json`), `tsconfig.json`, `.editorconfig`, `.nvmrc`/`.npmrc`, `.prettierignore` (resolved relative to cwd), `LICENSE` (GitHub detection) and `install.sh` (its raw URL is the published install one-liner). Don't relocate those.
## Quick Reference
| Task | Command |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Dev server | `npm run dev` (or `npx tsx src/index.ts web`) |
| Type check | `npm run typecheck` (= `tsc --noEmit`) |
| Type check | `tsc --noEmit` |
| Lint | `npm run lint` (fix: `npm run lint:fix`) |
| Format | `npm run format` (check: `npm run format:check`) |
| Tests | `npm test` (the CI gate — safe to run bare) · one file: `npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts` · see Testing for the excluded suites |
| Single test | `npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts` (or `npx vitest run --config config/vitest.config.ts test/<file>.test.ts`) — ⚠ **never** run bare `npm test`, see Testing section |
| Build | `npm run build` (esbuild via `scripts/build.mjs`, NOT tsc — `tsc --noEmit` is type-check only) |
| Production | `npm run build && systemctl --user restart codeman-web` |
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- To land a commit on master **without** switching branches (which would yank the tree out from under the other session): `git push origin HEAD:master` then `git branch -f master HEAD`. Never `git checkout master` to "fix" it.
- **Never `git add -A`/`git add .`** — stage explicit paths. A sweep will pick up another session's WIP.
- Another session's broken WIP can block `npm run build`, since `tsc` is the first step and the build gates on it. That is not your bug to fix. ⚠️ `tsc` still EMITS on type errors, so a failed `npm run build` leaves a rebuilt `dist/index.js` compiled from their tree; check what it pulled in before restarting the service. To deploy frontend-only changes past a blocked `tsc`, run the asset stage of `scripts/build.mjs` (everything after the `tsc`/`chmod` lines is independent of it).
- **A pre-push failure in a file you did not touch is another session's WIP.** Push with `CODEMAN_SKIP_PREPUSH=1 git push` and leave it alone. (The hook already skips itself when the tree has uncommitted changes in a path it checks, so this mostly happens once the other session has committed.)
## CRITICAL: Always Test Before Deploying
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4. **Sync CLAUDE.md version**: Update the `**Version**` line below to match the new version from `package.json`
5. **Commit and deploy**: verify the branch first (`git branch --show-current`), then stage EXPLICIT paths — never `git add -A`, which has swept another session's WIP into a release. `git status --short` and account for every line before committing:
`git add <paths> && git commit -m "chore: version packages" && git push && npm run build && systemctl --user restart codeman-web`
6. **Refresh the getcodeman.com version badge**: the landing page's status bar carries the release version (`v<x.y.z> · getcodeman.com · MIT`), so it goes stale on every release if nobody bumps it. The site source and its deploy script are maintained outside this repository, on the maintainer's machine only; follow the local site handbook there, which also covers the numbers strip and `sitemap.xml` refresh that belong in the same pass. Poll production (`curl -s https://getcodeman.com/ | grep v<x.y.z>`) before calling it done, since the edge lags a deploy by up to a minute. Not applicable to contributor clones — skip it and say so.
7. **Wait for CI**: after `git push`, TWO workflows fire per master push — `CI` and `Release` (the npm publish + GitHub release). List both runs for the pushed commit with `gh run list --commit $(git rev-parse HEAD) --json databaseId,workflowName` and watch EACH with `gh run watch <id> --exit-status`. Confirm both pass before considering the release done (`gh run list -L 1` returns only one of the two).
8. **Announce it in Discussions**: every release gets a post in the [Announcements](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/announcements) category, shaped like #418 and #302: the short version first (one bold lead-in per theme, features before fixes, what it does for the user rather than how it works), contributor @-mentions inline where their work is described (a mention notifies them, and a contributor reposting is the cheapest reach this project has), a link to the release, and the Thanks names at the end. Casual first-person voice, no em-dashes, humanizer pass when the skill is available. A same-day follow-on patch (1.28.1 after 1.28.0) is folded into the previous post as an edit, never a second thread. Post it with `gh api graphql -F body=@<file> -f title='Codeman <x.y.z>: <hook>' -f repo=R_kgDOQ-SMDg -f cat=DIC_kwDOQ-SMDs4DCHZE -f query='mutation($repo:ID!,$cat:ID!,$title:String!,$body:String!){createDiscussion(input:{repositoryId:$repo,categoryId:$cat,title:$title,body:$body}){discussion{number url}}}'` (the repo's node id and its Announcements category id; `pinDiscussion` does not exist in the API, so pinning stays a click in the UI). This step exists because announcements stopped at 1.18 (#302) while ten releases shipped with nobody notified; #418 is the backfill covering 1.19.0 to 1.28.1, and release notes only count as content once they reach a surface people are subscribed to.
6. **Wait for CI**: after `git push`, TWO workflows fire per master push — `CI` and `Release` (the npm publish + GitHub release). List both runs for the pushed commit with `gh run list --commit $(git rev-parse HEAD) --json databaseId,workflowName` and watch EACH with `gh run watch <id> --exit-status`. Confirm both pass before considering the release done (`gh run list -L 1` returns only one of the two).
CI runs `npm run check:lockfile` on every push/PR, so lockfile drift fails the build even if the `version-packages` script is bypassed.
**Version**: 1.33.2 (must match `package.json`)
**Version**: 1.16.2 (must match `package.json`)
## Project Overview
Codeman is a Claude Code session manager with web interface and autonomous Ralph Loop. Spawns Claude CLI via PTY, streams via SSE, supports respawn cycling for 24+ hour autonomous runs.
**Tech Stack**: TypeScript (ES2022/NodeNext, strict mode), Node.js, Fastify, node-pty, xterm.js. Supports Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex (OpenAI), Gemini (Google, enterprise-only since Google's June 2026 consumer cutover), Antigravity (`agy`, Google), Pi (pi.dev), Grok Build (`grok`, xAI), DeepSeek Harness (`dsh`) and OMP (`omp`) CLIs via pluggable CLI resolvers (`SessionMode = 'claude' | 'shell' | 'opencode' | 'codex' | 'gemini' | 'antigravity' | 'pi' | 'grok' | 'deepseek' | 'omp'`).
**Tech Stack**: TypeScript (ES2022/NodeNext, strict mode), Node.js, Fastify, node-pty, xterm.js. Supports Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex (OpenAI), Gemini (Google, enterprise-only since Google's June 2026 consumer cutover), and Antigravity (`agy`, Google) CLIs via pluggable CLI resolvers (`SessionMode = 'claude' | 'shell' | 'opencode' | 'codex' | 'gemini' | 'antigravity'`).
**TypeScript Strictness** (see `tsconfig.json`): `noUnusedLocals`, `noUnusedParameters`, `noImplicitReturns`, `noImplicitOverride`, `noFallthroughCasesInSwitch`, `allowUnreachableCode: false`, `allowUnusedLabels: false`.
**Requirements**: Node.js 22+, Claude CLI, tmux
**Git**: Main branch is `master`. Terminal session dashboard: `codeman tui` (`--list` to list, `codeman tui <n>` to attach).
**Git**: Main branch is `master`. SSH session chooser: `sc` (interactive), `sc 2` (quick attach), `sc -l` (list).
## Additional Commands
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| Task | Command |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Terminal dashboard | `codeman tui` (`--list` prints the numbered list and exits, `codeman tui <n>` attaches to row n; both short-circuit before any screen setup). Needs a TTY; without a server it starts attach-only. `docs/tui.md` |
| Dev with TLS | `npx tsx src/index.ts web --https` |
| Override window title hostname | `npx tsx src/index.ts web --title-hostname <name>` (default: `os.hostname()` — `codeman:<name>` is used for tab title, title-flash, and OS desktop notification prefix) |
| Bind a non-loopback host | `npx tsx src/index.ts web --host 0.0.0.0` (or `-H`; env `CODEMAN_HOST`; default `127.0.0.1`). Without `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` it **starts but warns loudly** — see Common Gotchas + `docs/security-architecture.md` |
| Mount under a reverse-proxy sub-path | `npx tsx src/index.ts web --base-url /codeman` (env `CODEMAN_BASE_URL`; default `/`). Normalized in `src/config/base-path.ts` (`''` = root). See Reverse-proxy base path below + `docs/wiki/Remote-Access.md` |
| Continuous typecheck | `tsc --noEmit --watch` |
| Watch-mode test | `npm run test:watch -- test/<file>.test.ts` (runs the CI gate's config; pass a file to narrow it) |
| Watch-mode test | `npm run test:watch -- test/<file>.test.ts` (always pass a file — bare watch includes the browser suites) |
| Test coverage | `npm run test:coverage` |
| Dead-code sweep | `npm run knip` (config in `config/knip.json`, passed via `--config`) |
| Rebuild gesture overlay | `npm run build:gesture` (esbuild `packages/gesture-control/src/codeman/entry.ts` → `src/web/public/gesture/gesture-codeman.js`; commit the result) |
| Regenerate the CLI catalogue | `npm run generate:cli-catalog` (`--check` to fail on drift). Rewrites `config/clis.stock.json` **and** the marked block in `install.sh` from `stock.ts`. ⚠ **Commit both.** They are what `install.sh` and the Docker agent image read, since neither can import TypeScript; `test/cli-catalog-sync.test.ts` and a CI `--check` step fail if either goes stale. See `docs/cli-registry.md` |
| Build the docker agent image | `node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache` (builds `codeman/agent:base` from `docker/agent.Dockerfile`; prerequisite for Docker cases; `--engine`/`--image`). ⚠ **Always `--no-cache`** — a plain rebuild re-uses the cached `npm install -g` layer and silently keeps the CLIs frozen at their original versions, which once shipped a BROKEN codex while reporting success. See `docs/docker-cases.md` |
| Gesture playground | `npm run dev` **in** `packages/gesture-control/` (standalone vite demo, fake tabs) |
| Check public-asset formatting | `npm run check:public-assets` (prettier-checks `src/web/public/**` text assets; `scripts/check-public-assets.mjs`) |
| Frontend JS syntax check | `npm run check:frontend-syntax` (`scripts/check-frontend-syntax.mjs`; runs in CI) |
| Browser-test exclusion check | `npm run check:browser-excludes` (`scripts/check-browser-test-excludes.mjs`; runs in CI, <1s). Fails if a test importing playwright/puppeteer is still collected by `config/vitest.ci.config.ts`; add it to `BROWSER_TEST_GLOBS` in `config/test-suites.ts` |
| Pre-push hook | Installed by `npm install` (`scripts/git-hooks.mjs`, via postinstall): runs the static CI checks (~10-40s) before `git push`. Skip once: `CODEMAN_SKIP_PREPUSH=1 git push`. Skips itself with a notice when HEAD is not the pushed commit or the tree has uncommitted changes the checks would read. Marker-owned, so a hand-written `pre-push` is never overwritten; installs ONLY into the repo's own `<git-common-dir>/hooks` (worktree-safe; a `core.hooksPath` elsewhere, e.g. a global one, is left alone) |
| Excluded-suite runners | `npm run test:browser` · `npm run test:mobile` · `npm run test:perf` · `npm run test:all` (everything, environmental failures included) — see Testing |
| CI-equivalent test sweep | `npm run test:ci` (full suite minus browser/perf — see Testing) |
| Production start | `npm run start` |
| Production logs | `journalctl --user -u codeman-web -f` |
| Detached server | `codeman web -d` (`--status`, `--stop`; pidfile+log at `dataPath('web.pid'/'web.log')`). ⚠ Refuses to start a 2nd server on one data dir — see Instance isolation |
| Install/remove the service | `codeman service install` / `status` / `uninstall` (systemd user unit on Linux, LaunchAgent on macOS; names from `config/service-names.ts`) |
| Dependency doctor | `codeman doctor` (alias `check-deps`; `--json`, `--category core\|office\|other`). Probes Node/Claude CLI/tmux/LibreOffice/MS Office against `config/dependency-registry.ts`; engine is pure given an injectable `ProbeHost` |
| Multi-user accounts | `codeman users add <name>` / `passwd <name>` / `list` / `rm <name>` (writes `~/.codeman/users.json`, mode 0600; see Multi-user mode) |
**CI**: `.github/workflows/ci.yml` (push to master/main + PRs, Node 22) runs two jobs: **(1)** `check:lockfile`, `typecheck`, `lint`, `check:frontend-syntax`, `check:browser-excludes`, `format:check`, then a **server boot smoke test** (`tsx src/index.ts web --port 3151` must answer `/api/status` within 30s); **(2)** the **unit/integration test suite** via `npm run test:ci` (`config/vitest.ci.config.ts` — excludes the browser-driven `test/mobile/**` suite, `perf-*` benchmarks, and 14 Playwright tests; globs live in `config/test-suites.ts`), followed by the **`packages/xterm-zerolag-input` package tests** (a bare `npx vitest run` in that directory; its vitest is hoisted by the root `npm ci`, so no separate install, and `npm test` at the root does NOT run them). `npm test` runs this same config, so local green == CI green. Tests are tmux-safe in CI: `TmuxManager` no-ops all shell commands under `VITEST` (see Testing). A third workflow, `wiki-sync.yml`, fires only on master pushes touching `docs/wiki/**` and mirrors that directory to the GitHub wiki (browser edits to the wiki are overwritten by the next sync, so fix pages via `docs/wiki/`).
**CI**: `.github/workflows/ci.yml` (push to master/main + PRs, Node 22) runs two jobs: **(1)** `check:lockfile`, `typecheck`, `lint`, `check:frontend-syntax`, `format:check`, then a **server boot smoke test** (`tsx src/index.ts web --port 3151` must answer `/api/status` within 30s); **(2)** the **unit/integration test suite** via `npm run test:ci` (`config/vitest.ci.config.ts` — excludes the browser-driven `test/mobile/**` suite, `perf-*` benchmarks, and 3 Playwright tests). Tests are tmux-safe in CI: `TmuxManager` no-ops all shell commands under `VITEST` (see Testing).
**Code style**: Prettier (`singleQuote: true`, `printWidth: 120`, `trailingComma: "es5"`) — config lives in the **`"prettier"` key of `package.json`**, not a `.prettierrc` (keeps the repo root short; editors read it natively). `.prettierignore` stays at the root because Prettier resolves it relative to cwd. ESLint flat config (`config/eslint.config.js`) allows `no-console`, warns on `@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any`. Ignores: `app.js`, `scripts/**/*.mjs`, `src/web/public/vendor/**`, `scripts/remotion/**`.
**Prettier scope is deliberately narrow.** `npm run format` globs only `src/**/*.ts` and `src/web/public/**` (`lint` only `src/**/*.ts`), and `.prettierignore` then exempts most of `src/web/public/*.js` (app.js, styles.css, **mobile.css**, index.html, upload.html, and 15 hand-formatted modules) plus `CLAUDE.md`. Those files are hand-formatted by design; `npm run check:public-assets` and `check:frontend-syntax` are what guard them (NUL bytes + JS syntax), not Prettier. Do not "fix" a file by adding it back to Prettier's scope.
**Prettier scope is deliberately narrow.** `npm run format` globs only `src/**/*.ts` and `src/web/public/**`, and `.prettierignore` then exempts most of `src/web/public/*.js` (app.js, styles.css, index.html, and 14 hand-formatted modules) plus `CLAUDE.md`. Those files are hand-formatted by design; `npm run check:public-assets` and `check:frontend-syntax` are what guard them (NUL bytes + JS syntax), not Prettier. Do not "fix" a file by adding it back to Prettier's scope.
## Common Gotchas
- **Single-line prompts only** — `writeViaMux()` sends text+Enter separately; multi-line breaks Ink. ⚠️ **Input must END with `\r` or Enter is never sent**: `sendInput()` only issues `send-keys Enter` when the payload contains a carriage return, a `\r`-less `POST /api/sessions/:id/input` still succeeds (send-and-wait even reports `delivered:true`) while the text sits unsubmitted on the composer, and any `wait` burns its whole timeout on a turn that never started. Embedded newlines are stripped, not rejected, so `"echo A\necho B\r"` runs the joined `echo Aecho B`. ⚠️ **Claude Code 2.1.277+ ignores Enter for the first 30-50 s after the composer paints** while still taking the typed text (measured 2026-09-19: an Enter at 28 s stranded the prompt, one at 51 s submitted it), so text+`\r` sent at readiness sits unsent with `0 tokens` and a `wait` burns its timeout. So the SERVER verifies every programmatic write that carried a `\r`: `SubmitVerifier` (`session-submit-verifier.ts`, armed from `writeViaMux`) reads the pane on a 2 s to 60 s schedule and re-sends Enter only while the LAST composer line (the CLI's own `promptGlyph`) verifiably still holds the head of what was sent; an empty composer, other text, or no composer line at all (a shell, a direct-PTY session) ends it, and a newer write replaces the schedule. The skill's `sendwait` keeps its own copy of the loop (`_composer_text` in `skills/codeman/preamble.sh`) for servers that predate this. The `shift+tab` footer only means the composer painted, never that Enter is accepted. ⚠️ **A prompt must never be written into the pane as ONE burst**: Claude Code 2.1.283 takes a `<text>\r` burst of ~100+ chars as a paste, its `\r` lands as a NEWLINE and the prompt strands (a later raw `\r` does not recover it, a tmux `send-keys Enter` does). So `POST .../input` routes a plain prompt (`isPlainPromptInput()`, route-helpers.ts: printable text + exactly one trailing `\r`) through `writeViaMux` even without `useMux`, AWAITED so the browser's serialized POST fallback keeps frame order; raw frames and an explicit `useMux:false` keep the direct write
- **Single-line prompts only** — `writeViaMux()` sends text+Enter separately; multi-line breaks Ink. ⚠️ **Input must END with `\r` or Enter is never sent**: `sendInput()` only issues `send-keys Enter` when the payload contains a carriage return, a `\r`-less `POST /api/sessions/:id/input` still succeeds (send-and-wait even reports `delivered:true`) while the text sits unsubmitted on the composer, and any `wait` burns its whole timeout on a turn that never started. Embedded newlines are stripped, not rejected, so `"echo A\necho B\r"` runs the joined `echo Aecho B`
- **ESM only** — Never `require()`, use `await import()`. `tsx` masks CJS/ESM issues in dev but production breaks
- **Package ≠ product name** — npm: `aicodeman`, product: **Codeman**. Release renames tags accordingly. Both `aicodeman` and `codeman` bin aliases are installed (`package.json` `bin`)
- **Global regex `lastIndex`** — Shared `g`-flag patterns in loops must reset `lastIndex = 0` first, or use the `execPattern()` helper in `utils/regex-patterns.ts` (resets automatically)
- **`envOverrides` flow `CLAUDE_CODE_*` / `OPENCODE_*` / `CODEX_*` / `GEMINI_*` / `GOOGLE_*` / `ANTIGRAVITY_*` / `PI_*` / `GROK_*` / `XAI_*` / `DSH_*` / `DEEPSEEK_*` env vars, plus exact-key `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`** — Set via `POST /api/sessions { envOverrides }`, stored on `Session._envOverrides`, exported by `tmux-manager.buildEnvExports()` at spawn time, persisted in `SessionState.envOverrides`. **Do NOT** write these to `<case>/.claude/settings.local.json` — that's the old path and creates UI/disk drift. (`GOOGLE_*` is the deliberately-broad Vertex-AI namespace for Gemini — see Multi-CLI prefix discipline.) `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` (#255, exact match via `ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS` in `schemas.ts`) points a session at a separate Claude account/config dir for per-client subscriptions; it persists to state.json (a path, not a secret; losing it on restart would silently switch accounts). ⚠️ A relocated config dir writes transcripts outside `~/.claude/projects`, so the response viewer, subagent windows, ultracode panel and Read My Mind capture go blind for that session unless the user symlinks `projects` back into the shared tree (`ln -s ~/.claude/projects <configDir>/projects`). ⚠️ It is also one of claude's `privilegedEnvKeys` (Custom Model Endpoint Profiles, since it can redirect a session's traffic same as any other injected var), so in multi-user mode setting it via `envOverrides` is admin-only, and a non-granted owner's already-persisted `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` is stripped on reboot-restore — silently returning that session to the default Claude account rather than the one it was pointed at (see `session-env-clamp.ts`). → [architecture-invariants#per-session-env-overrides-exact-key-allowlist-and-claude_config_dir](docs/architecture-invariants.md#per-session-env-overrides-exact-key-allowlist-and-claude_config_dir)
- **`envOverrides` flow `CLAUDE_CODE_*` / `OPENCODE_*` / `CODEX_*` / `GEMINI_*` / `GOOGLE_*` / `ANTIGRAVITY_*` env vars, plus exact-key `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`** — Set via `POST /api/sessions { envOverrides }`, stored on `Session._envOverrides`, exported by `tmux-manager.buildEnvExports()` at spawn time, persisted in `SessionState.envOverrides`. **Do NOT** write these to `<case>/.claude/settings.local.json` — that's the old path and creates UI/disk drift. (`GOOGLE_*` is the deliberately-broad Vertex-AI namespace for Gemini — see Multi-CLI prefix discipline.) `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` (#255, exact match via `ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS` in `schemas.ts`) points a session at a separate Claude account/config dir for per-client subscriptions; it persists to state.json (a path, not a secret; losing it on restart would silently switch accounts). ⚠️ A relocated config dir writes transcripts outside `~/.claude/projects`, so the response viewer, subagent windows, ultracode panel and Read My Mind capture go blind for that session unless the user symlinks `projects` back into the shared tree (`ln -s ~/.claude/projects <configDir>/projects`). → [architecture-invariants#per-session-env-overrides-exact-key-allowlist-and-claude_config_dir](docs/architecture-invariants.md#per-session-env-overrides-exact-key-allowlist-and-claude_config_dir)
- **Effort is NOT an env var** — never carry effort as `CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL`: the env var hard-locks effort and blocks in-session `/effort` switching (incl. ultracode). It flows as the dedicated `effort` payload field → `Session._effort` → `claude --effort <level>` for regular levels incl. `max` (the settings `effortLevel` key is `enum(["low","medium","high","xhigh"]).catch(undefined)` — `max` gets SILENTLY dropped there), or `claude --settings '{"ultracode":true}'` for ultracode (rejected by `--effort`). Both are soft defaults the user can override anytime. Legacy env-var entries are auto-migrated by the Session constructor and unset from tmux sessions in `applyEnvOverrides()`. See `buildEffortCliArgs()` in `session-cli-builder.ts`, tests in `test/effort-injection.test.ts`
- **Model choice flows via `settings.local.json`, NOT `--model` or env** — the App Settings **Claude Model** picker (`claudeModel` in `settings.json`) is read by `session-ui.js` at session create (wins over the legacy 1M-Opus toggles `opusContext1m`/`opusContext1mEnabled`), sent as the `modelOverride` payload field, and `updateCaseModel()` (`hooks-config.ts`) writes/deletes the `model` key in `<case>/.claude/settings.local.json`. This is the intended exception to the envOverrides rule above: model legitimately lives in `settings.local.json` (a soft default — in-session `/model` still works); env vars do not
- **Multi-CLI prefix discipline** — env-var prefix is CLI-specific (`CLAUDE_CODE_*` vs `OPENCODE_*` vs `CODEX_*` vs `GEMINI_*` vs `ANTIGRAVITY_*` vs `PI_*` vs `GROK_*` vs `DSH_*`) and the `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` allowlist in `schemas.ts` enforces this; non-prefix exceptions are exact keys in `ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS` (currently only `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`), never a widened prefix. Gemini additionally allowlists the **broad `GOOGLE_*`** namespace (intentional: Vertex AI auth needs `GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT`/`GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS`/`GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI`; it is the loosest allowlist entry, affecting only the user's own spawned CLI), and Grok allowlists **`XAI_*`** for the same vendor-namespace reason (`XAI_API_KEY` is grok's documented auth var). When adding a setting, decide which CLI(s) it applies to and gate the env export accordingly. Never blanket-forward all prefixes. ⚠️ Pi is the case that proves the rule: its ~34 provider keys (`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `HF_TOKEN`, …) share NO prefix, and the allowlist is one GLOBAL list applied by a refine with no mode context, so admitting them for pi would widen it for every mode at once — they stay out, and pi users authenticate via `/login` or the server process's own env. ⚠️ DeepSeek repeats pi's lesson exactly: a dsh `settings.yaml` can nominate ANY env var as a provider credential (`apiKeyEnv`), so only the vendor namespaces `DSH_*` (launcher inputs incl. `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE`) and `DEEPSEEK_*` (`DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`/`DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`) are admitted; foreign provider keys authenticate from dsh's own files or the server env. Resolver design pattern: `docs/opencode-integration.md`, `docs/pi-integration.md`, `docs/grok-integration.md`, `docs/deepseek-integration.md`
- **Multi-CLI prefix discipline** — env-var prefix is CLI-specific (`CLAUDE_CODE_*` vs `OPENCODE_*` vs `CODEX_*` vs `GEMINI_*` vs `ANTIGRAVITY_*`) and the `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` allowlist in `schemas.ts` enforces this; non-prefix exceptions are exact keys in `ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS` (currently only `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`), never a widened prefix. Gemini additionally allowlists the **broad `GOOGLE_*`** namespace (intentional: Vertex AI auth needs `GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT`/`GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS`/`GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI`; it is the loosest allowlist entry, affecting only the user's own spawned CLI). When adding a setting, decide which CLI(s) it applies to and gate the env export accordingly. Never blanket-forward all prefixes. Resolver design pattern: `docs/opencode-integration.md`
- **Zod `.optional()` rejects `null`** — accepts `undefined` only. When the frontend builds a request body with `JSON.stringify`, an explicit `null` field is preserved on the wire and fails validation with `INVALID_INPUT`. Convert `null` → `undefined` before stringifying (e.g. `field: value ?? undefined`), or declare the schema `.nullish()`. This has caused real shipped bugs twice
- **Local-echo overlay stays on screen**: the overlay lays its wrapped lines out DOWNWARD from the prompt row, and the text has not reached the PTY yet, so the CLI never learns the prompt is long and nothing scrolls to make room. With the keyboard up only a handful of rows are visible, so a long prompt used to run off the bottom and the user typed blind. The block now grows UPWARD once it would pass the last visible row (optional `totalRows` in `RenderParams`; the line divs are opaque, so they cover transcript above), and a prompt taller than the viewport keeps its TAIL. ⚠️ Separately, `_shrinkPaddingToFit()` (mobile-handlers.js) must never shrink `main`'s padding-bottom below the MEASURED height of the fixed bars: on phones the toolbar and accessory bar are `position: fixed`, so that padding is the only thing reserving room for them, and taking it pulled the terminal's bottom row behind them. Tests: `packages/xterm-zerolag-input/test/overlay-renderer.test.ts`, `test/mobile-keyboard-bottom-padding.test.ts`.
- **`xterm-zerolag-input` is single-source** — BOTH echo addons live ONLY in `packages/xterm-zerolag-input/src/`, bundled into TWO **gitignored** vendor files: `vendor/xterm-zerolag-input.js` (buffer overlay, entry `zerolag-input-addon.ts`) and `vendor/xterm-predictive-echo.js` (codex write-through, entry `predictive-echo-addon.ts`) — dev by `scripts/postinstall.js`, prod by `scripts/build.mjs`. `app.js`/terminal-ui.js only **consume** them via `new LocalEchoOverlay(terminal)` / `new PredictiveEchoOverlay(terminal)`; there is no inline copy. So: change the package source, then rerun the bundle step (`npm install` for dev, `npm run build` for prod). **Never hand-edit `app.js` for overlay behavior, and never commit the gitignored vendor bundles.** Always test on mobile after touching it. → [architecture-invariants#xterm-zerolag-input-is-single-source](docs/architecture-invariants.md#xterm-zerolag-input-is-single-source), `docs/local-echo-overlay-plan.md`
- **Default bind is loopback-only; non-loopback without a password starts but warns** — the server defaults to `--host 127.0.0.1`. Binding non-loopback (`--host`/`-H`/`CODEMAN_HOST`) without `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` starts anyway but prints a loud warning; `--allow-unauthenticated-network` / `CODEMAN_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_NETWORK=1` acknowledges it. ⚠️ The production systemd unit passes no `--host`, so prod binds **localhost only**: reach it via `tailscale serve`/tunnel to `127.0.0.1`. A loopback bind is reachable through a same-host tunnel but NOT by a browser hitting the box's LAN IP. `install.sh` is separate and prompts for the binding (defaulting to LAN + a password), and preserves the existing binding on re-runs. → [architecture-invariants#default-bind-and-the-non-loopback-warning-path](docs/architecture-invariants.md#default-bind-and-the-non-loopback-warning-path), `docs/security-architecture.md`
- **Instance isolation / multi-instance attach danger** — the data dir (`~/.codeman`) and tmux socket (`tmux -L codeman`) are PROCESS-WIDE and shared by every Codeman on the machine, derived from `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` via `src/config/instance.ts`. ⚠️ A 2nd instance on the SAME socket **discovers and attaches PTYs to the first instance's live sessions**, resizing and mutating them. `$HOME` isolation is NOT enough because tmux is system-global. To run two instances, give each a distinct `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` (scopes dir + socket together), or set `CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET` + `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` individually; `scripts/run-beta.sh` does this for a beta alongside prod. **Any new `~/.codeman/...` path MUST go through `dataPath()`**, never `join(homedir(), '.codeman', …)`, and **any new `tmux -L` caller through `resolveTmuxSocketName()`** (both in `config/instance.ts`): the TUI shells out to tmux from a second process, and a hardcoded `codeman` there would point a beta instance at prod's panes. → [architecture-invariants#instance-isolation-and-the-multi-instance-attach-danger](docs/architecture-invariants.md#instance-isolation-and-the-multi-instance-attach-danger)
- **node-pty's macOS `spawn-helper` ships without `+x`** (issues #6, #204): `node-pty@1.1.0` publishes `prebuilds/darwin-<arch>/spawn-helper` as mode 0644, and macOS launches every PTY through it, so a stock macOS install fails every session start with `Error: posix_spawnp failed.` **Linux can never reproduce it**: `spawn-helper` is an `OS=="mac"` gyp target and node-pty ships no Linux prebuild, so node-gyp always emits an executable helper there. ⚠️ The flip side of that: since Linux has no prebuild, `npm install` **needs a C/C++ toolchain there** (`make`, `g++`, `python3`), so `install.sh` checks for and installs one alongside Node/tmux/git — a stock Ubuntu 24 server has none and died inside node-gyp with `not found: make`. Do not drop that step. ⚠️ Look in **`prebuilds/<platform>-<arch>/`**, not just `build/Release/`, which does not exist on macOS. Repair is a chmod, never a mandatory rebuild (that would require Xcode CLI tools and deletes `prebuilds/` before compiling): `npm run fix:node-pty` chmods every helper then proves it by really opening a PTY. `spawnPtyWithHelperRepair()` (`utils/node-pty-repair.ts`) wraps every `pty.spawn()` in `session.ts` and self-heals a broken install on the first failure. → [architecture-invariants#node-ptys-macos-spawn-helper-must-be-executable](docs/architecture-invariants.md#node-ptys-macos-spawn-helper-must-be-executable)
- **Instance isolation / multi-instance attach danger** — the data dir (`~/.codeman`) and tmux socket (`tmux -L codeman`) are PROCESS-WIDE and shared by every Codeman on the machine, derived from `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` via `src/config/instance.ts`. ⚠️ A 2nd instance on the SAME socket **discovers and attaches PTYs to the first instance's live sessions**, resizing and mutating them. `$HOME` isolation is NOT enough because tmux is system-global. To run two instances, give each a distinct `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` (scopes dir + socket together), or set `CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET` + `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` individually; `scripts/run-beta.sh` does this for a beta alongside prod. **Any new `~/.codeman/...` path MUST go through `dataPath()`**, never `join(homedir(), '.codeman', …)`. → [architecture-invariants#instance-isolation-and-the-multi-instance-attach-danger](docs/architecture-invariants.md#instance-isolation-and-the-multi-instance-attach-danger)
- **node-pty's macOS `spawn-helper` ships without `+x`** (issues #6, #204): `node-pty@1.1.0` publishes `prebuilds/darwin-<arch>/spawn-helper` as mode 0644, and macOS launches every PTY through it, so a stock macOS install fails every session start with `Error: posix_spawnp failed.` **Linux can never reproduce it**: `spawn-helper` is an `OS=="mac"` gyp target and node-pty ships no Linux prebuild, so node-gyp always emits an executable helper there. ⚠️ Look in **`prebuilds/<platform>-<arch>/`**, not just `build/Release/`, which does not exist on macOS. Repair is a chmod, never a mandatory rebuild (that would require Xcode CLI tools and deletes `prebuilds/` before compiling): `npm run fix:node-pty` chmods every helper then proves it by really opening a PTY. `spawnPtyWithHelperRepair()` (`utils/node-pty-repair.ts`) wraps every `pty.spawn()` in `session.ts` and self-heals a broken install on the first failure. → [architecture-invariants#node-ptys-macos-spawn-helper-must-be-executable](docs/architecture-invariants.md#node-ptys-macos-spawn-helper-must-be-executable)
- **Headless screenshots: `deviceScaleFactor` MUST be 1, and write unique filenames** — under DSF=2 xterm's WebGL renderer draws glyphs at ~2× nominal size while still *reporting* nominal cell dims, so only the pixels reveal it and only the terminal font looks wrong. And overwriting a fixed output path leaves OS image viewers showing the old render, which reads as "the fix didn't work"; `scripts/capture-real-overview.mjs` mints a timestamped filename per run. Seed the per-device `localStorage` keys (`codeman:skin`, `codeman-font-size`, `codeman-app-settings`) so the capture matches a real device. → [architecture-invariants#headless-screenshot-capture](docs/architecture-invariants.md#headless-screenshot-capture)
**Import conventions**: Utils from `./utils`, types from `./types` (barrel), config from specific `./config/*` files.
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| Domain | Key files | Notes |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Entry** | `src/index.ts`, `src/cli.ts`, `daemon-control`, `service-installer`, `config/service-names`, `cli-style` | The last three back `web -d` / `service install`; `cli-style` is the shared palette/table/spinner/confirm kit |
| **TUI** | `src/tui/`: `tui-app` ★ + `tui-client` (the only IO) over a pure core (`-model`, `-layout`, `-render`, `-keys`, `-ansi`, `-composer`, `-approvals`, `-digest`, `-sse`, `-types`) | `codeman tui`, a CLIENT of the server, never a second brain. Design doc: `docs/tui-plan.md`; user guide `docs/tui.md` |
| **DeepSeek** | `src/utils/deepseek-cli-resolver.ts`, `src/deepseek-status-shim.ts`, `src/deepseek-web-server.ts` (background `dsh web`, not a session) | `dsh` is a PROFILE LAUNCHER, not an agent; read `docs/deepseek-integration.md` first |
| **Session** | `src/session.ts` ★, `session-manager`, `session-auto-ops`, `session-cli-builder`, `session-task-cache`, `session-order` (pure), `session-pty-exit-breaker`, `session-trust-dialog` (pure), `usage-limit-patterns`, `usage-telemetry`; `src/services/unified-session-service.ts` | Pure/unit-tested helpers are split out of `session.ts` on purpose |
| **Mux** | `src/mux-interface.ts`, `src/mux-factory.ts`, `src/tmux-manager.ts` ★, `src/proc-tree.ts` (pure, bounded descendant walk) | |
| **Entry** | `src/index.ts`, `src/cli.ts`, `daemon-control`, `service-installer`, `config/service-names` | The last three back `web -d` / `service install` |
| **Session** | `src/session.ts` ★, `session-manager`, `session-auto-ops`, `session-cli-builder`, `session-task-cache`, `session-order` (pure), `session-pty-exit-breaker`, `usage-limit-patterns`, `usage-telemetry`; `src/services/unified-session-service.ts` | Pure/unit-tested helpers are split out of `session.ts` on purpose |
| **Mux** | `src/mux-interface.ts`, `src/mux-factory.ts`, `src/tmux-manager.ts` ★ | |
| **Respawn** | `src/respawn-controller.ts` ★ + 4 helpers (`-adaptive-timing`, `-health`, `-metrics`, `-patterns`) | Read `docs/respawn-state-machine.md` first |
| **Ralph** | `src/ralph-tracker.ts` ★, `src/ralph-loop.ts` + 5 helpers (`-config`, `-fix-plan-watcher`, `-plan-tracker`, `-stall-detector`, `-status-parser`) | Read `docs/ralph-wiggum-guide.md` first |
| **Orchestrator** | `src/orchestrator-loop.ts`, `-planner`, `-verifier` | Read `docs/orchestrator-loop-architecture.md` first |
@@ -167,23 +153,23 @@ Codeman is a Claude Code session manager with web interface and autonomous Ralph
| **Agents** | `src/subagent-watcher.ts` ★, `team-watcher`, `bash-tool-parser`, `transcript-watcher`, `workflow-run-watcher` | `workflow-run-watcher` is STANDALONE and never touches `subagent-watcher` |
| **AI** | `src/ai-checker-base.ts`, `ai-idle-checker.ts`, `ai-plan-checker.ts` | |
| **Tasks** | `src/task.ts`, `task-queue.ts`, `task-tracker.ts` | |
| **State** | `src/state-store.ts`, `run-summary.ts`, `session-lifecycle-log.ts`, `intent-store.ts`, `tab-layout.ts` (pure model) + `-service` (sole mutation boundary) + `-persistence` + `-legacy-order` | |
| **Infra** | `src/hooks-config.ts`, `push-store`, `tunnel-manager`, `image-watcher`, `file-stream-manager`, `remote-hosts` + `remote-reconnect` + `remote-wake` (IO: `dgram`/`net`/`child_process`), `docker-hosts` + `docker-export` | Remote/docker case overlays; see Key Patterns |
| **State** | `src/state-store.ts`, `run-summary.ts`, `session-lifecycle-log.ts`, `intent-store.ts` | |
| **Infra** | `src/hooks-config.ts`, `push-store`, `tunnel-manager`, `image-watcher`, `file-stream-manager`, `remote-hosts` + `remote-reconnect` (pure), `docker-hosts` + `docker-export` | Remote/docker case overlays; see Key Patterns |
| **Web tabs** | `src/webview-store.ts`, `webview-capabilities.ts`, `src/web/webview-proxy.ts` (pure), `src/web/routes/webview-routes.ts` | Dashboard URLs as tabs; NOT a SessionMode |
| **Search** | `src/search-service.ts` | Pure in-memory core for `GET /api/search` |
| **Attachments** | `src/attachment-registry.ts`, `attachment-magic`, `generated-artifact-attachments`, `session-attachment-history`, `document-preview-cache`, `document-thumbnailer`, `document-conversion-limiter`, `config/attachment-guard` | See Key Patterns |
| **Plan** | `src/plan-orchestrator.ts`, `src/prompts/*.ts`, `src/templates/` (`claude-md.ts` + `case-template.md`) | `templates/` holds the CLAUDE.md scaffold generated into new cases |
| **Web** | `src/web/server.ts` ★, `sse-events.ts`, `routes/*.ts` (one module per domain + barrel; `session-routes.ts` ★), `route-helpers.ts`, `ports/*.ts`, `middleware/auth.ts`, `schemas.ts`, `self-update.ts`, `plan-usage-latest.ts`, `ws-connection-registry.ts`, `heic-jpeg-converter.ts` + `heic-jpeg-worker.ts` | |
| **Frontend** | `src/web/public/app.js` (core) + the modules listed in the Frontend load order + `sw.js` (+ `voice-pcm-worklet.js`, fetched from JS, not in the load order) | See Frontend section for the load order, which is authoritative |
| **Types** | `src/types/index.ts` (barrel) → domain files; also `src/types.ts` root re-export | See `@fileoverview` in index.ts |
| **Web** | `src/web/server.ts` ★, `sse-events.ts`, `routes/*.ts` (20 modules + barrel; `session-routes.ts` ★), `route-helpers.ts`, `ports/*.ts`, `middleware/auth.ts`, `schemas.ts`, `self-update.ts`, `plan-usage-latest.ts`, `ws-connection-registry.ts`, `heic-jpeg-converter.ts` + `heic-jpeg-worker.ts` | |
| **Frontend** | `src/web/public/app.js` (~5K lines, core) + 28 modules + `sw.js` | See Frontend section for the load order, which is authoritative |
| **Types** | `src/types/index.ts` (barrel) → 20 domain files; also `src/types.ts` root re-export | See `@fileoverview` in index.ts |
★ = Large, central file (>50KB) — read its `@fileoverview` first. All files have `@fileoverview` JSDoc — read that before diving in. Discovery aid: `grep -l '@fileoverview' src/web/routes/*.ts` lists all route modules; same grep works for `src/types/`, `src/web/public/*.js`.
**Local packages**: `packages/xterm-zerolag-input/` (local echo overlay, single-source, see Gotchas). `packages/gesture-control/` (`codeman-gesture-control`, hand-tracking overlay source, built via `npm run build:gesture`).
**Config**: `src/config/` — flat files plus the `cli-registry/` subdir, no barrel (`index.ts`) exists; import from the specific file. ⚠️ There are TWO `config/` directories: the repo-root `config/` holds tooling only (ESLint, knip, the vitest configs, `test-suites.ts`), while runtime config lives in `src/config/`. Throughout this file a bare `config/<name>.ts` in a code context means `src/config/<name>.ts`.
**Config**: `src/config/` — 17 files, no barrel (`index.ts`) exists; import from the specific file.
**Utilities**: `src/utils/` — re-exported via index. Key: `CleanupManager`, `LRUMap` (⚠ NOT in the barrel — import from `./utils/lru-map.js` directly), `StaleExpirationMap`, `BufferAccumulator`, `stripAnsi`, `Debouncer`, `KeyedDebouncer`. Also: `claude-cli-resolver`/`opencode-cli-resolver`/`codex-cli-resolver`/`gemini-cli-resolver`/`antigravity-cli-resolver`/`pi-cli-resolver`/`grok-cli-resolver`/`deepseek-cli-resolver`/`omp-cli-resolver` (CLI path resolution, one per `SessionMode`, all nine sharing the lookup chain in `cli-executable-resolver`: server PATH, then that CLI's install dirs, then an interactive login shell LAST, since it is the only step that spawns anything and it is what finds nvm/Homebrew installs under a service manager's minimal PATH; ⚠ `pi-`, `grok-` and `deepseek-cli-resolver` additionally probe the binary's identity, since `pi` is a generic name, `grok` has npm squatters, and Debian ships an unrelated `dsh`), `file-query` (⚠ Files-panel search matcher, glob-by-two-pointer, never RegExp), `string-similarity` (fuzzy matching), `regex-patterns` (ANSI/token/spinner patterns), `assertNever` (exhaustive checks), `token-validation` (auth tokens), `nice-wrapper` (process priority), `shell-resolver` (⚠ resolves a real login shell for `mode: 'shell'`; the literal string `$SHELL` used to be expanded by the SERVER's shell, which is empty in a container), `event-loop-monitor` (a sync `execSync` freezes the port while the process stays alive, leaving no trace), `dependency-checker` + `dependency-report` (the `codeman doctor` probe engine, registry in `config/dependency-registry.ts`).
**Utilities**: `src/utils/` — re-exported via index. Key: `CleanupManager`, `LRUMap` (⚠ NOT in the barrel — import from `./utils/lru-map.js` directly), `StaleExpirationMap`, `BufferAccumulator`, `stripAnsi`, `Debouncer`, `KeyedDebouncer`. Also: `claude-cli-resolver`/`opencode-cli-resolver`/`codex-cli-resolver`/`gemini-cli-resolver` (CLI path resolution), `string-similarity` (fuzzy matching), `regex-patterns` (ANSI/token/spinner patterns), `assertNever` (exhaustive checks), `token-validation` (auth tokens), `nice-wrapper` (process priority).
### Data Flow
@@ -196,116 +182,61 @@ Codeman is a Claude Code session manager with web interface and autonomous Ralph
**Input**: `session.writeViaMux()` for programmatic/curl input via tmux `send-keys -l` + `send-keys Enter`, single-line only. Interactive **browser** input goes through a durable **exactly-once** layer: a stable `clientId` + monotonic per-session `seq` persisted to localStorage until the server ACKs, so a dropped link cannot lose or double-deliver a prompt. `ws-connection-registry.ts` supersedes only same-TAB reconnects, so two tabs on one session coexist. → [architecture-invariants#input-delivery-and-ws-resilience](docs/architecture-invariants.md#input-delivery-and-ws-resilience)
**Agent wait primitives**: bounded long-polls: `GET /api/sessions/:id/wait`, `GET .../wait-output` (literal substring, **never** regex) and `wait`/`waitTimeout` on `POST .../input`. Registry `session-wait-registry.ts` (pure), bounds `config/agent-wait.ts`. ⚠️ A timeout is a 200 (`wait.timedOut`). ⚠️ `stop`/`blocked` exist for `claude` and `deepseek` ONLY (rule lives in `hooksAvailableForMode()`): explicit request elsewhere is a 400. ⚠️ Send-and-wait registers the waiter BEFORE the write; teardown must `notifySignal('exit')` BEFORE `cancelAll()`; hangup abort listens on `reply.raw` (guarded by `writableFinished`), never `req.raw`; liveness comes from `isPaneDead`, never `session.pid`. ⚠️ Signals are edge-triggered with no history: gather fan-outs via send-and-wait or `wait-output` markers. Packaged as the `skills/codeman` skill (`codeman skill install`, plugin marketplace, or injection behind `agentSkillEnabled`, SYNCED, default OFF): injection is add-only, marker-owned (`applyAgentSkill`), refuses symlinks, and refreshes a marker-owned user-level copy (`refreshUserAgentSkill`). → [architecture-invariants#agent-wait-primitives](docs/architecture-invariants.md#agent-wait-primitives), `docs/api-reference.md`
**Agent-created case marker** (`src/agent-case-marker.ts`): a case dir that `POST /api/quick-start` CREATES for an agent-driven spawn (signal: the preamble's `X-Codeman-Agent-Origin` header / `agentOrigin` field, else a resolved `parentSessionId`) gets `.codeman-agent-case.json`, published as `agentCreated` on `GET /api/cases`; `GET /api/cases/agent-created` is the cleanup listing (`inUse`, `modifiedAt`) behind Add Case → Manage. ⚠️ Only the branch that CREATES the directory may write it: never label a linked case, cloned repo or pre-existing path (it drives a recursive delete). ⚠️ Reading is total: anything but a well-formed v1 marker reads as not agent-created. ⚠️ Removal stays on `DELETE /api/cases/:name` (the ONE recursive-delete path), and the sweep excludes `inUse` cases. ⚠️ Changing the preamble's headers requires bumping `CODEMAN_PREAMBLE`. → [architecture-invariants#agent-created-case-marker](docs/architecture-invariants.md#agent-created-case-marker)
**Agent preamble cache GC**: the §0 preamble seeded per claude session (`$XDG_CACHE_HOME/codeman-agent-<id>.sh`) is now REMOVED with the session (`removeAgentSessionPreamble` from `_doCleanupSession`, `killMux` only — a detach leaves the session recoverable and its agent would come back to a loader whose file we deleted) and swept at boot (`pruneAgentSessionPreambles(this.sessions.keys())`, once, after restore, so every session this instance owns is in the keep set). Nothing removed them before: 236 leftovers measured on a working machine, the oldest three weeks old. ⚠️ The sweep needs BOTH guards — never a live session's file at any age (the two-line loader reads it mid-run), and `AGENT_PREAMBLE_MAX_AGE_MS` (7d) of age on top, which is what keeps ANOTHER instance's sessions (whose ids this process cannot see) out of the blast radius. Losing one is degradation, not breakage: the §0 fallback block rewrites it. Tests live with the seed's in `test/agent-skill.test.ts`.
**Agent wait primitives**: bounded long-polls so an agent driving Codeman from a shell can block instead of poll: `GET /api/sessions/:id/wait` (lifecycle signal), `GET /api/sessions/:id/wait-output` (literal substring, **never** regex) and `wait`/`waitTimeout` on `POST /api/sessions/:id/input`. Registry in `session-wait-registry.ts` (pure, no `Session` reference), bounds in `config/agent-wait.ts`. ⚠️ **A timeout is a 200** (`wait.timedOut`), never an error, so callers loop over short waits. ⚠️ `stop`/`blocked` come from Claude Code hooks and therefore fire for **`claude` mode ONLY** (`shell` installs none either); asking for one explicitly on another mode is a 400, the default set silently drops them. ⚠️ Send-and-wait registers the waiter BEFORE the write (a separate POST-then-wait races and reports the PREVIOUS turn), and both teardown paths must `notifySignal('exit')` BEFORE `cancelAll()`. ⚠️ Client-hangup abort listens on **`reply.raw`** guarded by `writableFinished`: on `req.raw`, `close` fires when the request BODY ends, which on a POST killed every send-and-wait instantly and no `app.inject()` test could see it. ⚠️ Worker liveness cannot come from `session.pid` — for a tmux session that is the local attach client, which outlives a worker dying inside its pane — so it is probed at the mux layer (`isPaneDead`, ~750 ms cache) on blocking waits only, never on the input hot path. ⚠️ Signals are edge-triggered with no history: one that fires with no waiter registered is unobservable afterwards, so gather fan-outs with send-and-wait or latched `wait-output` markers, never fire-and-forget-then-sequential-signal-waits. The primitives are packaged as the **`skills/codeman` agent skill**: installable via `codeman skill install [--case <name>]` / `skill uninstall`, or auto-injected into a case's `.claude/skills/` on Claude session create behind `agentSkillEnabled` (SYNCED, default OFF). Injection is ADD-ONLY at create, marker-owned (`applyAgentSkill` in `hooks-config.ts` never touches an unmarked user copy) and refuses symlinks (this repo's own `.claude/skills/codeman` is a symlink to the source, which the injector must never write through). → [architecture-invariants#agent-wait-primitives](docs/architecture-invariants.md#agent-wait-primitives), `docs/api-reference.md`
**Idle detection**: Multi-layer (completion message → AI check → output silence → token stability). See `docs/respawn-state-machine.md`.
⚠️ **A `❯` sighting is NOT the end of a turn, and neither is silence.** Claude redraws the composer all through a turn, and its working line (`✻ Actualizing… (13m 23s · …)`) is invisible to `SPINNER_PATTERN`, keyword lists and the raw stream. `_confirmIdle()` (session.ts) requires the pane to go quiet AND the SCREEN (`capturePaneText()` + the working-line pattern) to agree; a sustained run of repaints (`session-activity.ts`) marks a turn as started. ⚠️ The composer glyph and working line are per-CLI registry DATA (`capabilities.workDetect`), never Claude constants; a CLI declaring neither falls back to Claude's pair. ⚠️ `workingLine` is config-supplied and runs on the PTY hot path, so it must compile through `compileVersionRegex()` in BOTH the schema refine and `_workingLinePattern()` (ReDoS guard; null, not throw). → [architecture-invariants#idle-detection-composer-glyph-and-working-line](docs/architecture-invariants.md#idle-detection-composer-glyph-and-working-line)
⚠️ **A turn that ENDED waiting for its own workers is working, not idle.** Claude closes such a turn with `✻ Waiting for 1 dynamic workflow to finish` (background agents / ultracode) and resumes by itself; `capabilities.workDetect.awaitingLine` makes the idle probe count it as work. ⚠️ Claude never redraws that row, so it stays on screen after the workers finish: test it ONLY as the newest column-0 row above the composer (`isAwaitingWorkers()`), never pane-wide and never on the stream. → [architecture-invariants#idle-detection-composer-glyph-and-working-line](docs/architecture-invariants.md#idle-detection-composer-glyph-and-working-line)
⚠️ **A quiet pane is not always a pane that wants you.** A CLI can declare an optional `capabilities.workDetect.watchingLine` (a monitor, background shell or cloud hand-off it is still running); the idle probe reads it into `Session.watching` and `notePrompt()` opens that idle item ALREADY acknowledged, so no surface alerts. Only `idle` is eligible, and the label is pane-derived and prompt-injectable, so a pattern must anchor on chrome only that CLI draws. → [architecture-invariants#the-watching-signal-a-quiet-pane-that-is-not-waiting-for-you](docs/architecture-invariants.md#the-watching-signal-a-quiet-pane-that-is-not-waiting-for-you). Tests: `test/session-watching.test.ts`, `test/watching-no-alert.test.ts`.
**An exited agent in a live pane** (`paneExit`, #446): panes use `remain-on-exit on`, so `/exit` leaves a pane, session and pid that look alive; `TmuxManager.startPaneExitWatcher()` publishes `SessionState.paneExit` via `session:updated`. ⚠️ Never set `status: 'error'` or null the `pid` for it; the field is TRI-STATE (absent = UNKNOWN, never alive, scoped by `Session.paneExitApplies`); an absent `#{pane_dead_status}` is not 0; a path that starts a command in a pane must clear the record AND persist. A clean exit is CLOSED via `cleanupSession()` (`pane-exit-sweep.ts`): only an explicit numeric status 0 with no signal, confirmed by 2 reads, with no start/attach in flight (`paneLifecycleInFlight`) and not within 10 s of one (a startup error keeps its row); a crashed agent keeps its row. → [architecture-invariants#an-exited-agent-in-a-live-pane-paneexit](docs/architecture-invariants.md#an-exited-agent-in-a-live-pane-paneexit)
**Dead-pane respawn resume pin** (`_buildRespawnPaneOptionsWithResumePin()`, session.ts): recovering a dead pane, like a custom-model `restartCli()`, must pin the conversation or claude refuses the reused `--session-id`. The pin takes the first transcript-backed candidate (chain tail, launch seed, own id), never `_claudeSessionId`, adds nothing when none is backed, and is never applied to remote or docker sessions. → [architecture-invariants#dead-pane-respawn-the-resume-pin](docs/architecture-invariants.md#dead-pane-respawn-the-resume-pin)
**Workspace-trust dialog auto-accept** (`session-trust-dialog.ts`, pure): Claude Code's per-directory trust dialog is always answered yes, or the session is stuck. ⚠️ Match the compacted SCREEN (`compactScreenText()`, all whitespace removed), never the stream (tmux sends words joined by cursor-forwards, not spaces). ⚠️ Never answer with a blind `\r` (newer versions highlight "No, exit" first): `trustDialogNextKey()` returns ONE key per re-read frame (arrow, then Enter only once `❯` is on the trust option), and the LAST marked option wins. ⚠️ All three guards must hold: startup window `TRUST_DIALOG_WINDOW_MS` (90s), two-marker match (`isTrustDialogScreen`), attempt cap `TRUST_DIALOG_MAX_ATTEMPTS` (6). ⚠️ Read `capturePaneText()`; only a direct-PTY session falls back to a SHORT buffer tail. ⚠️ The scan must schedule its own next read (`_trustDialogTimer`, cleared in `_clearAllTimers()`), not rely on PTY output. → [architecture-invariants#workspace-trust-dialog-auto-accept](docs/architecture-invariants.md#workspace-trust-dialog-auto-accept)
**Process-tree walks are bounded** (`proc-tree.ts`, pure): `collectDescendants(pid, byParent)` is the ONE descendant traversal, fed by one cached `ps -eo pid=,ppid=` snapshot (`refreshProcSnapshot()` in tmux-manager.ts: async, in-flight-shared, and ANY error discards the result rather than caching a truncated `ps`). ⚠️ Never walk a process tree with per-node `pgrep` or unbounded recursion (the unbounded version took a machine down): the walk must terminate on cycles, cap depth (`PROC_WALK_MAX_DEPTH`) and node count (`PROC_WALK_MAX_NODES`), and never spawn anything. ⚠️ Keep it in its own module so the test exercises the shipped code, and report truncation through `onTruncated` naming both caps, never silently. → [architecture-invariants#process-tree-walks-are-bounded](docs/architecture-invariants.md#process-tree-walks-are-bounded)
⚠️ **A `❯` sighting is NOT the end of a turn, and neither is silence.** Claude redraws the composer (`❯`) about once a second all through a turn, so the old "saw a ❯, wait 2s → idle" rule flipped every working session to idle two seconds in (measured: a session mid-tool-call at 17 minutes reporting `status:"idle"`). Its working indicator is `✻ Actualizing… (13m 23s · ↓ 47.5k tokens)`: the glyph animates through `· ✢ ✳ ∗ ✻ ✽`, the gerund is randomized, and the finished line (`✻ Cooked for 2m 49s`) carries the same glyph, so neither `SPINNER_PATTERN` (braille, not what current versions draw) nor a keyword list can see it. Matching the new line in the STREAM does not work either: tmux ships partial repaints, so the whole line reaches the PTY only every few tens of seconds. So: `_confirmIdle()` (session.ts) requires the pane to go quiet, and then asks the SCREEN via `capturePaneText()` + `CLAUDE_WORKING_LINE_PATTERN` before believing it; a sustained run of repaints (`session-activity.ts`, pure + unit tested) is what marks a turn as started, with the same screen probe vetoing keystroke echo. Idle now lands ~3-5s after a turn ends instead of 2s into one. Claude-mode only, since an external CLI has no `❯`, so nothing would ever arm the confirmation and the session would latch busy.
**Auto-resume on usage limit** (opt-in per session, top of the Respawn tab): when Claude halts on a subscription limit, `usage-limit-patterns.ts` (pure, unit-tested) parses the reset time and `SessionAutoOps` arms a timer for reset+2min, then sends Esc + `continue`. ⚠️ Respawn cycles are blocked while paused (`isLimitPaused` guard in `onIdleDetected`), which is what prevents `/clear` from wiping the paused conversation. Claude-mode only. → [architecture-invariants#auto-resume-on-usage-limit](docs/architecture-invariants.md#auto-resume-on-usage-limit)
**Plan-usage chip** (`showPlanUsageLimits`, per-device: desktop default **ON**, handhelds OFF): resolve DISPLAY only through `planUsageChipEnabled()` (settings-ui.js). The same setting is the server-side COLLECTION switch, read fresh by `readPlanUsageTelemetryEnabled()` (hooks-config.ts) at every claude create/respawn. ⚠️ An ABSENT key reads as ON in the reader; `GET /api/settings` must never write. ⚠️ A save sends `showPlanUsageLimits` ONLY when it flips the chip on that device (`planUsageCollectionFlip()`), or a phone switches collection off for every desktop. Claude data comes from the statusLine exporter, injected as an EPHEMERAL `claude --settings` flag (`resolveStatusLineCliCommand`), never written to disk, WRAPPING a user's own statusLine, posting to `POST /api/status-telemetry`. Codex comes from a read-only `account/rateLimits/read` poll (main bucket only). → [architecture-invariants#plan-usage-chip-statusline-telemetry](docs/architecture-invariants.md#plan-usage-chip-statusline-telemetry), `docs/usage-limits-display-plan.md`
**Plan-usage chip** (statusLine telemetry, `showPlanUsageLimits`, per-device: desktop default **ON**, handhelds OFF via the mobile block in `getDefaultSettings()`): resolve it ONLY through `planUsageChipEnabled()` in settings-ui.js, which backs all three call sites (the App Settings checkbox, the chip's visibility, and the `statusLineTelemetry` flag on session create). A chip shown without telemetry renders `—` forever. Codeman injects its own `statusLine.command` exporter which POSTs Claude's `rate_limits` blob to `POST /api/status-telemetry`. The exporter is identified by a marker, so it only ever adds/updates/removes a statusLine that is **ours**, never a user's hand-authored one, and it prints the footer through so the in-terminal statusline is not blanked. Claude-mode only; distinct from auto-resume, which reacts to the limit *message* rather than showing live %. → [architecture-invariants#plan-usage-chip-statusline-telemetry](docs/architecture-invariants.md#plan-usage-chip-statusline-telemetry), `docs/usage-limits-display-plan.md`
**Orchestrator**: State machine that turns a user goal into a phased plan and drives it to completion: `idle → planning → approval → executing → verifying → (replanning) → completed/failed`. `OrchestratorLoop` (engine) delegates plan generation to `orchestrator-planner` and per-phase verification gates to `orchestrator-verifier`, executing phases via team agents/`task-queue`. State persists under the `orchestrator` key in `state.json`. Distinct from Ralph (single-session autonomous loop) — orchestrator coordinates multi-phase, multi-agent execution. See `docs/orchestrator-loop-architecture.md`.
**Cron (`CronJob`s)**: saved, named jobs on a recurring schedule (`once`/`interval`/`daily`/`weekly`) with per-job run history. ⚠️ **Distinct from the legacy `ScheduledRun`** (`/api/scheduled`, a run-now duration-bounded loop); the two never interact and keep separate `Scheduled*` / `Cron*` names. `CronService` **reuses the existing session layer** rather than rebuilding tmux logic. Next-run math is pure and unit-tested in `cron-time.ts` (server-local timezone). The schedule is advanced BEFORE launch so a slow launch cannot re-trigger. → [architecture-invariants#cron-jobs](docs/architecture-invariants.md#cron-jobs), `docs/cron-discovery.md`
**Remote sessions + remote SSH cases**: a case can point at a remote host. The agent runs in a durable remote `tmux -L codeman-remote`, fronted by a LOCAL tmux pane running `ssh`. Attached (`owned:false`) sessions **detach, never kill**; owned ones propagate `kill-session`. Auto-reconnect (`remoteAutoReconnect`, default ON) revives ONLY when `remoteTmuxSessionAlive()` proves the remote session alive. ⚠️ Classify that probe by EXIT STATUS (`classifyRemoteAliveExit`), never stdout. ⚠️ **Command-injection surface: every ssh command line must flow through `buildSshConnectionArgs()`**; never hand-build one. ⚠️ Remote file reads (`src/remote-files.ts`, attachment routes too) take browser paths only as `shellescape`d tokens, resolve symlinks fail-closed, cap on the REMOTE size, never copy to local disk, are bounded by `src/remote-ssh-limiter.ts`, and pick the host from the SESSION, never the path; no writes over ssh (the `PUT` guard must precede local path validation). ⚠️ Route remote cases through `POST /api/quick-start`, not `POST /api/sessions`. → [architecture-invariants#remote-sessions-over-ssh](docs/architecture-invariants.md#remote-sessions-over-ssh), [#remote-ssh-cases](docs/architecture-invariants.md#remote-ssh-cases), `docs/remote-sessions.md`
**Remote sessions + remote SSH cases**: a case can point at a remote host. The agent runs inside a durable remote `tmux -L codeman-remote` (session name `codeman-ssh-<id>`, deliberately failing the remote Codeman's `SAFE_MUX_NAME_PATTERN` so an instance on the target host never adopts it), fronted by a LOCAL tmux pane running `ssh`. Attached (`owned:false`) sessions **detach, never kill** on tab close; owned ones propagate `kill-session`. A bounded-backoff watcher auto-reconnects dropped sessions (`remoteAutoReconnect`, default ON). ⚠️ **Command-injection surface: every ssh command line must flow through `buildSshConnectionArgs()`**, which `shellescape`s every user field. Never hand-build an ssh line elsewhere. ⚠️ Run flows must route remote cases through `POST /api/quick-start`, not `POST /api/sessions` (which stat-validates `workingDir` locally and has no `caseName`). → [architecture-invariants#remote-sessions-over-ssh](docs/architecture-invariants.md#remote-sessions-over-ssh), [#remote-ssh-cases](docs/architecture-invariants.md#remote-ssh-cases), `docs/remote-sessions.md`
**Wake-on-LAN (`remote-wake.ts`)**: optional `RemoteHost.wakeMac` (magic packet) or `RemoteHost.wakeCommand` (single executable, no shell, takes precedence) lets HTTP input, `POST /api/sessions/:id/wake` and the user's create/attach (`ensureHostAwake`) wake a sleeping host. ⚠️ Only an explicit user request may wake: never give the registry to the auto-reconnect watcher, `handleRemoteSessionDropped`, boot recovery or `cron-service.ts`, and `GET /api/sessions/:id/reachability` must never wake. ⚠️ Detection is a throttled bare TCP probe; never add `ServerAliveInterval`, and a `jumpHost`/`socksProxy`/`ProxyCommand` host is reachability-UNKNOWN (`isProbeable()`): never buffer, gate or banner on it. ⚠️ In multi-user mode a non-admin attach 403s BEFORE host lookup. ⚠️ WS keystrokes bypass the registry, so the banner (`host-wake-ui.js`) must not promise queued input. Waiting requests use the 40 s `REMOTE_WAKE_REQUEST_READY_TIMEOUT_MS`. → [architecture-invariants#remote-ssh-cases](docs/architecture-invariants.md#remote-ssh-cases)
**Docker cases**: a case can point at a **container**, with any of the five CLI backends running inside it. Like remote-SSH this is a **LOCATION OVERLAY on cases, never a sixth `SessionMode`**. Exactly one long-lived container **per case**, shared by all its sessions, so killing a session kills only that session's in-container tmux and **never** `docker stop` while siblings remain. The workspace is a real host dir bind-mounted at the **same absolute path**, which is what keeps file-routes/watchers on real host bytes and makes the in-container transcript projHash match the host. Credentials are **seeded** (RO mount, copied into the container once) rather than shared RW, so in-container CLIs never write refreshed tokens back to the host, and bind mounts are excluded from `docker commit` so exports stay secret-free. **NEVER a create-time `-e` for secrets, NEVER `--privileged`, NEVER the docker socket.** Config drift is detected via a label hash and a drifted launch is REFUSED rather than silently launched with stale config. ⚠️ On the loopback-only prod bind a container cannot reach 127.0.0.1, so in-container hooks need `CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=1`; otherwise idle detection falls back to output-based. → [architecture-invariants#docker-cases](docs/architecture-invariants.md#docker-cases), `docs/docker-cases.md` (user guide), `docs/docker-cases-plan.md` (design)
**Docker cases**: a case can point at a **container** running any CLI mode inside it, a **LOCATION OVERLAY on cases, never a `SessionMode`**. One long-lived container **per case**, shared by its sessions: killing a session kills only its in-container tmux, **never** `docker stop` while siblings remain. The workspace is bind-mounted at the **same absolute path**. Credentials are **seeded**, never shared RW. **NEVER a create-time `-e` for secrets, NEVER `--privileged`, NEVER the docker socket.** A drifted config (label hash) REFUSES the launch. ⚠️ An **adopted** container (`DockerCase.owned === false`) is only `exec`ed into: never create, start, stop, restart, remove, `docker commit` or `docker pause` it; fail closed. Test `owned === false`, never truthiness. ⚠️ Apply `owned` AFTER `dockerConfigHash`. ⚠️ Run modes come from the CONTAINER (`availableModes`), and a failed probe is normal for an OWNED case. ⚠️ Root exec user drops the bypass flag via the registry's `overlays.docker.rootCommand`, never a branch. ⚠️ Adoption is admin-only in multi-user mode. ⚠️ Loopback prod needs `CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=1` for in-container hooks. → [architecture-invariants#docker-cases](docs/architecture-invariants.md#docker-cases), `docs/docker-cases.md`
**External CLI modes (OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity)**: `isExternalCliMode()` in `session.ts` gates Claude-specific behavior off (Ralph tracker, BashToolParser, token/CLI-info parsing, ❯-prompt readiness); these CLIs render their own TUIs, so readiness is output stabilization instead. All four **require tmux with no direct PTY fallback**, because secrets are injected via socket-scoped `tmux setenv` and never on the spawn command line. ⚠️ `run*()` in `session-ui.js` MUST unwrap the `{success,data}` envelope; reading the raw shape silently breaks the run. ⚠️ **Codex sessions use PREDICTIVE WRITE-THROUGH echo, never the buffer overlay** (`_localEchoPolicy` in `_updateLocalEchoState`, terminal-ui.js): codex's composer reacts per keystroke ("/" pops a live-filtering picker, arrows edit server-side state, the composer grows as it wraps), so buffer-until-Enter starved it into issues #218/#219/#220/#222 and stays disabled (`_localEchoEnabled` remains false for codex). Instead, `PredictiveEchoAddon` (separate `vendor/xterm-predictive-echo.js` bundle) paints each keystroke at the predicted cell while the wire path stays BYTE-IDENTICAL: the onData hook (`_predictHookOnData`) is a plain statement with no `return`, so control always falls through into the untouched send path — pinned by vm and E2E byte-identity tests. Predictions reconcile against the parsed buffer and only while the cursor sits on the measured composer row (`isCodexComposerRow`, `/^› /`). Codex also **drops keystrokes that share a PTY read with a bracketed paste**, so flushed text and the paste sequence must go out as separate delayed writes (mirroring the Enter branch's delayed `\r`). Tests: `test/local-echo-codex-gating.test.ts`, `test/codex-predictive-echo.test.ts` (E2E vs real codex), `packages/xterm-zerolag-input/test/codex-replay.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini](docs/architecture-invariants.md#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini)
**Docker Compose deployment** (`docker/`): Codeman runs in a container and spawns Docker cases as **SIBLING** containers via the host socket, never nested. `resolveDockerDaemonMountSource()` maps HOME bind sources into the daemon's namespace (`CODEMAN_DOCKER_HOST_HOME`); `CODEMAN_CASES_PATH` makes workspaces resolve to the same absolute path on both sides. ⚠️ `CODEMAN_CASES_PATH` must move every consumer: resolve it only via `config/cases-dir.ts`. ⚠️ `.dockerignore` matches whole paths: keep `**/.env` or `docker/.env` secrets ship in the image. ⚠️ Long-form binds create missing sources ROOT-OWNED: `Start-Codeman.sh` pre-creates them, and `docker/entrypoint.sh` (root, `cap_add: [CHOWN, DAC_OVERRIDE, KILL, SETGID, SETUID]` against `cap_drop: ALL`, `KILL` for tini; pinned by the test) fixes ownership then drops to `PUID:PGID` via `setpriv`, never re-owning foreign dirs. ⚠️ Append `/opt/codeman-cli` and `~/.local/bin` to `PATH`, never prepend. ⚠️ `server.Dockerfile`, the compose file and `.env.example` feed the self-updater's environment gate (`docs/docker-self-update.md`). → [architecture-invariants#docker-compose-deployment](docs/architecture-invariants.md#docker-compose-deployment), `docs/docker-compose.md`
**Run launch synchronization**: the Run entrypoint holds an in-flight lock and disables `#runBtn` for the whole launch (≥500ms), so a double click cannot create duplicate sessions with the same `w<n>-<case>` name. `_ensureCreatedSessionVisible()` runs before `selectSession()`, and `_onSessionCreated()` stays an idempotent upsert, so POST-first and SSE-first ordering both produce exactly one rendered tab. → [architecture-invariants#run-launch-synchronization](docs/architecture-invariants.md#run-launch-synchronization)
**CLI registry** (`src/config/cli-registry/`): every run mode is a `CliEntry` (discovery, launch argv template, env handling, `capabilities`, and the `overlays` behind remote/docker pane commands). **No code outside `stock.ts` may branch on a CLI id**: use a capability field or a NAMED PROFILE (`profiles.ts`); `test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts` and `test/frontend-cli-no-id-branching.test.ts` enforce it. ⚠️ Config holds typed argv tokens, never shell text; literals are validated at LOAD time and a bad one rejects the whole entry. ⚠️ Keep `external`, `hooks` and `altScreen` independent; never derive one from another. ⚠️ Config regexes (`discovery.version.regex`, `capabilities.workDetect.workingLine`, `capabilities.workDetect.watchingLine`, `capabilities.workDetect.awaitingLine`) must compile through `compileVersionRegex()`. ⚠️ `privilegedParams[].param` names a LAUNCH PARAM, not the legacy `<Mode>Config` field (bridged only by `launch.legacyConfigAliases`); a wrong name silently clamps nothing. ⚠️ Resolve the registry AT CALL TIME, never in a module-level const. ⚠️ Remote claude/omp arms of `buildRemoteLaunchCommand` are not covered by the pane-command golden. `~/.codeman/clis.json` overrides entries. It is WRITTEN only by the opt-in CLI management routes (`cliManagementEnabled`, default OFF; `/api/clis`, `cli-registry-routes.ts`), and only through `mutateRegistryFile()` in `registry-writer.ts`, which serializes mutations and refuses (409) a file that does not parse or has group/world permission bits rather than overwriting it. Importing the registry still writes nothing. → [architecture-invariants#cli-registry](docs/architecture-invariants.md#cli-registry), `docs/cli-registry.md`
**Unified session list**: `GET /api/sessions/unified` merges live sessions, persisted state, lifecycle-log history, and Claude transcript files into one deduped list (pure core in `src/services/unified-session-service.ts`). Transcript rows fold into their owning session via a `claudeSessionId → Codeman id` alias map, so resumed and `/clear`-respawned sessions do not appear twice. No terminal buffers in the response, unlike `/api/sessions`. Backs the Cmd+K Session Manager, plus pinning and cross-device tab order (`PUT /api/session-order`; pure merge helpers in `src/session-order.ts`, pushing device wins and server-only ids are never dropped). → [architecture-invariants#unified-session-list-and-session-manager](docs/architecture-invariants.md#unified-session-list-and-session-manager)
**External CLI modes (OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek, OMP)**: `isExternalCliMode()` in `session.ts` gates Claude-specific behavior off (Ralph tracker, BashToolParser, token parsing, ❯ readiness; readiness is output stabilization); work detection is per-CLI `capabilities.workDetect` data, not this gate. All eight **require tmux, no direct PTY fallback** (secrets go via socket-scoped `tmux setenv`, never the command line). ⚠️ `run*()` in `session-ui.js` MUST unwrap the `{success,data}` envelope. ⚠️ **Codex uses predictive write-through echo, never the buffer overlay**: `_predictHookOnData` must never `return` (wire path stays byte-identical), and flushed text and a bracketed paste must go out as separate delayed writes. ⚠️ **Pi**: no bypass flag, never invent one; `approveProjectTrust` executes repo code, so it is in the clamp's **materialize** branch; never wire `--api-key`. ⚠️ **Grok**: `alwaysApprove` is stripped for non-granted owners (only-if-sent). ⚠️ **DeepSeek**: the agent is a PROFILE (Run gates on `isDeepSeekRunnable()`); the permission switch is the `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` env var, so `clampEnvOverridesForOwner()` must DROP `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE`, `DSH_HOME` and `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL` for non-granted owners; `hooksAvailableForMode()` is per-SESSION for it (pass `sessionHookOptions(session)`) and is never a stand-in for `mode === 'claude'`; answers come from `deepseek-transcript.ts`, paired by header `cwd` + boot window, never newest-mtime. ⚠️ **OMP**: `OMP_AUTH_BROKER_URL`/`_TOKEN` are clamped the same way. → [architecture-invariants#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini-antigravity-pi-grok-deepseek-omp](docs/architecture-invariants.md#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini-antigravity-pi-grok-deepseek-omp)
**Hook events**: Claude Code hooks trigger via `/api/hook-event`. Key events: `permission_prompt`, `elicitation_dialog`, `elicitation_complete`, `elicitation_response`, `idle_prompt`, `stop`, `teammate_idle`, `task_completed`. See `src/hooks-config.ts`; upstream hook semantics mirrored in `docs/claude-code-hooks-reference.md`.
**DeepSeek web UI** (`POST`/`GET`/`DELETE /api/deepseek/web`, `deepseek-web-server.ts`): the Run menu's "DeepSeek web UI..." entry supervises ONE background `dsh web` child process, deliberately **NOT a shell session**. ⚠️ Every piece is load-bearing: exactly one server (a second click REUSES it), restarted when the browser authority changes (`--trusted-host`, last asker wins), killed on shutdown via `stopDeepSeekWeb()` (the detached child would otherwise outlive Codeman and hold its port), and failures returned to the caller. ⚠️ Never hardcode the port: search from 3080 across 40, detect free ports by BINDING, then wait for the server to really answer. ⚠️ Both `POST` and `DELETE` must stay behind `canUsernameRunPrivilegedCommands` (booting a profile runs its plugin code; the server is shared). → [architecture-invariants#deepseek-web-ui](docs/architecture-invariants.md#deepseek-web-ui)
**Approvals Inbox** (cross-session queue of prompts waiting on a human; `approvalsInboxEnabled`, SYNCED, default OFF: every surface is opt-in; only the store and answer endpoints run regardless, so flipping it ON shows anything already pending): `web/approval-inbox.ts` is a `sessionWaits`-style singleton fed by `/api/hook-event`, holding at most ONE item per session (a new prompt supersedes), claude-mode only, in-memory. Cards are answered via `POST /api/approvals/:id/answer`, which sends a digit / Esc / idle-prompt text through `writeViaMux` (menu answers never carry `\r`). ⚠️ `option` digits are accepted ONLY when they match options parsed from the captured pane frame, and the answer path RE-CAPTURES the pane first (a dialog that no longer parses on screen means the keystroke would land in the composer, so refuse with 409). ⚠️ Resolution on the heuristic `working` signal is restricted to `idle` items; permission/question items clear only on definitive signals (`stop`, `elicitation_complete`/`elicitation_response`, exit/delete, answer, supersede, 12h TTL). The frontend seeds from `GET /api/approvals` in `handleInit` (which is what makes tab alerts survive reloads), but only with the setting ON; push Approve/Deny buttons are also gated on it (`sendPushNotifications` strips `actions`/`approvalId` when OFF) and are answered from `sw.js` directly so they work with no tab open. Surfaces (all gated on the setting): header bell (marker-hidden until count > 0, phones never show it) + drawer (`approvals-ui.js`), phone overview NEEDS YOU answer strips (`mobile-overview.js`). Design: `docs/approvals-inbox-plan.md`.
**Custom Model Endpoint Profiles** (opt-in, `customModelEndpointsEnabled`, SYNCED, default OFF; `docs/custom-model-endpoints.md`): points a session at a user-configured OpenAI-compatible endpoint (store `custom-model-hosts.ts`, `~/.codeman/custom-model-hosts.json`, 0600). `authStyle` is `bearer` or `api-key`, never both headers (hangs the server). The per-CLI redirect is registry data, `capabilities.customModelInjection` (`env` / `configContentEnv` / `configDir` / `unsupported`), computed by the pure `custom-model-injection.ts`; ⚠️ `configDir` writes an isolated per-session config, NEVER the user's real `~/.codex`/`~/.pi`/`~/.omp`/grok config. ⚠️ Claude applies via `Session.restartCli()` (a relaunch in the existing pane, so the conversation is pinned as `resumeSessionId`), the rest one-shot at launch; retired env keys must also be `setenv -u`'d (`_pendingEnvUnsets`), since tmux env survives `respawn-pane`. ⚠️ Remote/Docker sessions are refused (400). ⚠️ Persist only KEYS (`__customModel`), never values (they carry the API key). ⚠️ Every redirectable var must be in that CLI's `privilegedEnvKeys`, and `ANTHROPIC_*` stays out of claude's `allowedPrefixes`. ⚠️ The Run-menu picker builds entries from `window.__codemanCustomModelClis` (escaped via `escapeScriptJson()`), never a hardcoded CLI id list, and launches through `run()` via a temporary `_runMode` swap, never `setRunMode()`. → [architecture-invariants#custom-model-endpoint-profiles](docs/architecture-invariants.md#custom-model-endpoint-profiles)
⚠️ **llama-swap endpoints** (one model at a time): the apply routes check `GET /running` and return `requiresConfirmation` before evicting a model another live session uses; `confirmedSwap` and `confirmedContext` are SEPARATE flags and must stay so. Claude alone gets a context floor (`CLAUDE_MIN_SAFE_CONTEXT_TOKENS`); context is parsed from `/running`'s `cmd`, never trusted from `/props`. Backend log lines come from llama-swap's `/api/events` `upstream` source, never `/logs`. → [architecture-invariants#custom-model-endpoint-profiles](docs/architecture-invariants.md#custom-model-endpoint-profiles)
**Run launch synchronization**: the Run entrypoint holds an in-flight lock and disables `#runBtn` for the whole launch (≥500ms) so a double click cannot create duplicate `w<n>-<case>` sessions; `_ensureCreatedSessionVisible()` runs before `selectSession()` and `_onSessionCreated()` stays an idempotent upsert, so POST-first and SSE-first both render exactly one tab. ⚠️ **Closing has the mirror-image race**: `closeSession()` must read `wasActive` BEFORE its `await` and announce the delete via `_closingSessions`, and `_onSessionDeleted` skips the active-session handoff for ids in that set; never read `activeSessionId` after the fact. The fallback picks the first `sessionOrder` entry still in `sessions`. Tests: `test/session-close-fallback.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#run-launch-synchronization](docs/architecture-invariants.md#run-launch-synchronization)
**Session lineage lines** (tab → tab it spawned, `sessionLineageLines`, per-device, desktop default ON): a create request may name its spawner via a `parentSessionId` body field or the `X-Codeman-Parent-Session` header; `resolveParentSessionId()` (route-helpers.ts) resolves it (exact id or unique ≥8-char prefix, live, visible, same owner) and ⚠️ anything unresolvable is DROPPED, never a 400. Rides `toState()`, no new SSE event. ⚠️ Rendering is a LAYER on the existing SVG pass (`_appendLineageConnectionLines` at the tail of `_updateConnectionLinesImmediate()`), geometry pure in `computeLineagePath()`: one U-bridge shape hanging from the strip bottom, colors keyed on the SPAWNING tab and memoized (never by draw index). ⚠️ Desktop only (z-index vs the fixed mobile header). ⚠️ Paths must keep `data-agent-id="lineage:<childId>"` (the entrance animation queries it); skip edges whose endpoint is scrolled out of the strip. → [architecture-invariants#session-lineage-lines-tab--tab-it-spawned](docs/architecture-invariants.md#session-lineage-lines-tab--tab-it-spawned)
**Auto-named sessions** (`autoNameSessions`, SYNCED, default OFF): a placeholder tab (`w3-myapp`) takes its first real prompt as a title in the `<prefix>: <title>` form, so the case identity and `w<n>` counter survive. Ownership is `SessionState.nameSource` (`placeholder` | `auto` | `manual`; the `name` setter / `PUT /api/sessions/:id/name` makes it `manual`, never touched again). ⚠️ `applyAutoName()` flips to `auto` even if the string is unchanged, so only the FIRST titled prompt names the tab. ⚠️ Only user input counts: `SessionWriteOptions.fromUser` is set by the browser WS path and `POST /api/sessions/:id/input` ONLY; any new user-input path must set it (and the send-key Shift+Enter path must call `trackUserInput()`). ⚠️ The pure tracker (`session-auto-name.ts`) sits on the raw keystroke stream with an explicit rule per key; add a rule for any new key class. ⚠️ `nameSource` also decides `--name`: only a `manual` name is pinned on the claude CLI (`Session.cliPinnedName`), since `--name` is also the `/resume` title; a rename appends a `custom-title` row to a LOCAL, non-docker transcript, and a same-name PUT is a no-op (never flips to `manual`). Tests: `test/session-auto-name.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#auto-named-sessions-first-prompt--tab-title](docs/architecture-invariants.md#auto-named-sessions-first-prompt--tab-title)
**Maintainer bot (external)**: the Telegram bot that reviews open PRs and triages discussion threads in Codeman sessions used to live at `scripts/pr-bot/`. It moved OUT of this repository on 2026-09-14, to `~/codeman-cases/prbot/` (its own private git repo, systemd unit `codeman-pr-bot`, guide + agent rules in its own `README.md` and `CLAUDE.md`). It is a CLIENT of Codeman's HTTP API like any other, so nothing here depends on it and it is not part of the server, the CLI or the npm package. ⚠️ It spawns real sessions named `prbot-<n>` / `dscbot-<n>` on the local Codeman and holds clones under `~/.codeman/pr-bot/`, so those session names and that data dir are taken; it also fetches PR heads into `refs/pr-bot/*` of this checkout and must never check out, reset or clean it. The CHANGELOG entries for 1.25.0 and earlier still describe it, which is history rather than drift.
**Unified session list**: `GET /api/sessions/unified` merges live sessions, persisted state, lifecycle-log history and transcript files into one deduped list (pure core `src/services/unified-session-service.ts`), backing the Cmd+K Session Manager, pinning and cross-device tab order (`PUT /api/session-order`, `src/session-order.ts`). ⚠️ Transcript history is THREE stores (`~/.claude/projects`, `~/.omp/agent/sessions`, `~/.codex/sessions`), folded via the `claudeSessionId → Codeman id` alias map (not Claude-only despite the name). ⚠️ `resumeId` is set by a SCANNER row only, never a live session; every surface that re-projects these rows (phone overview included) must carry it through, or a tap silently starts a second conversation. → [architecture-invariants#unified-session-list-and-session-manager](docs/architecture-invariants.md#unified-session-list-and-session-manager)
**Owner tab layouts** (`tab-layout*.ts` + `GET`/`PUT /api/tab-layout`): named tab GROUPS over the flat strip, scoped per owner (`@single` when multi-user is off), persisted as `tabLayouts` in state.json. BACKEND ONLY: no frontend calls these routes yet. ⚠️ `TabLayoutService` is the single mutation boundary (one completed server action = at most one versioned write); never write layout state from a route or manager directly. ⚠️ The layout PROJECTS onto `PUT /api/session-order` via `tab-layout-legacy-order.ts`; change both sides together. ⚠️ Reconciliation is gated on a SUCCESSFUL restore (`markRestorationComplete`/`assertDeletionReady()`): a failed restore must leave the layout untouched or live tabs get pruned. → [architecture-invariants#owner-tab-layouts](docs/architecture-invariants.md#owner-tab-layouts)
**Hook events**: Claude Code hooks trigger via `/api/hook-event` (`permission_prompt`, `elicitation_dialog`, `elicitation_complete`, `elicitation_response`, `idle_prompt`, `stop`, `teammate_idle`, `task_completed`, `prompt_submitted`); see `src/hooks-config.ts` and `docs/claude-code-hooks-reference.md`. ⚠️ Every claude session installs the hooks block into its workspace (add-only merge) from every create path and from `restoreMuxSessions()`, gated by `workspaceHooksEnabled` (SYNCED, default ON). ⚠️ Route that decision through `applyWorkspaceHooks`, never call `ensureCodemanHooks` at a new site, or the setting silently stops applying. ⚠️ An AskUserQuestion / plan-selection dialog arrives as `permission_prompt` (RED alert), not `elicitation_dialog` (MCP elicitation). → [architecture-invariants#hook-events-and-workspace-hook-installation](docs/architecture-invariants.md#hook-events-and-workspace-hook-installation)
**Reboot restore** (`src/reboot-restore.ts` pure + `web/reboot-restore-registry.ts` + `routes/reboot-restore-routes.ts` + `reboot-restore-ui.js`): after a host reboot kills every pane, Codeman holds an IN-MEMORY plan of the destroyed sessions and a banner offers to rebuild them. ⚠️ The heuristic only decides whether to ASK. ⚠️ Rebuild is TAKE-then-build (entries leave the plan before the first `await`, single-flighted per owner). ⚠️ Re-check grant, workspace and already-live at click time, reading already-live FRESH per entry; key confinement on the entry's OWNER, never the caller. ⚠️ Rebuilt sessions come back disarmed: no respawn/Ralph, `rearmAutoResumeSchedule: false`, and pass `nameSource` through. ⚠️ Undo a failed rebuild with `discardPartiallyBuiltSession()`, NEVER `cleanupSession()`. Claude-mode only, never remote/docker. Tests: `test/reboot-restore.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#reboot-restore](docs/architecture-invariants.md#reboot-restore)
**Approvals Inbox** (`approvalsInboxEnabled`, SYNCED, default OFF; the store and answer endpoints run regardless): `web/approval-inbox.ts` is an in-memory, claude-only queue fed by `/api/hook-event`, at most ONE item per session, answered via `POST /api/approvals/:id/answer` through `writeViaMux` (menu answers never carry `\r`). ⚠️ Accept `option` digits ONLY if they match options parsed from a fresh RE-CAPTURE of the pane; a dialog no longer on screen is a 409. ⚠️ Resolve permission/question items only via the pane-verified `verifyStillAnswerable()`; the heuristic `working` signal alone may resolve `idle` items only. ⚠️ `applyCapture()` is ADD-ONLY for `options`. ⚠️ Viewing ACKNOWLEDGES an idle item (never resolves it) and only a human selection does: app-made selections pass `selectSession(id, { auto: true })`; `_ackDelivery` spends the IDLE alert only. ⚠️ `handleInit` seeds tab alerts from `GET /api/approvals` REGARDLESS of the setting. → [architecture-invariants#approvals-inbox](docs/architecture-invariants.md#approvals-inbox)
**Read My Mind intent profiles** (`readMyMindEnabled`, SYNCED, default OFF; `docs/readmymind-plan.md`): per-CASE profiles (goals + recent prompts) keyed by owner + realpath(workingDir), captured from the transcript (`transcript:user_prompt`), never the input paths; the listener must stay inside `startTranscriptWatcher()`'s `if (!watcher)` block. Store `src/intent-store.ts` → `intents.json`, ⚠️ written 0600 tmp+rename and never fed to `/api/search` (prompts carry secrets). Routes in `readmymind-routes.ts` (ownership via `findSessionOrFail` WITH `req`); predictor = pure `readmymind-context.ts` + IO in `readmymind-collectors.ts` + `readmymind-predictor.ts`, claude-only, one in flight per session (409). ⚠️ Suggestions render via value/`textContent` ONLY and nothing auto-sends, ever. Frontend `readmymind-ui.js`. → [architecture-invariants#read-my-mind-intent-profiles](docs/architecture-invariants.md#read-my-mind-intent-profiles)
**Voice dictation via Claude** (`claudeVoiceEnabled`, SYNCED, default OFF): the mic transcribes through this machine's Claude Code login (the CLI `/voice` backend) instead of Deepgram; the browser captures, `src/web/voice-stream.ts` relays to Anthropic. ⚠️ The OAuth token never reaches the page. ⚠️ Credentials are READ-ONLY (`src/claude-credentials.ts`): never refresh them (it rotates the refresh token and can sign the user out of their CLI). ⚠️ Capture must be linear16/16 kHz/mono via an AudioWorklet; `voice-pcm-worklet.js` borrows voice-input.js's `?v=` token, so edit the two together. ⚠️ Claude transcript frames are cumulative: replace, never append. → [architecture-invariants#voice-dictation-via-claude](docs/architecture-invariants.md#voice-dictation-via-claude)
**Read My Mind intent profiles** (phase 1 of `docs/readmymind-plan.md`; `readMyMindEnabled`, SYNCED, default OFF): per-CASE profiles (user-stated `goals` + the user's recent real prompts), keyed by owner + realpath(workingDir) so they survive `/clear`/respawns and multi-user scoping is structural. Capture rides the transcript (`transcript:user_prompt` from `transcript-watcher.ts`), NOT the input paths: `POST /input` sees only programmatic prompts and the WS channel is raw keystrokes. The listener lives inside `startTranscriptWatcher()`'s `if (!watcher)` block (outside it would duplicate per hook event) and is claude-only + gated on the setting per event. Store: `src/intent-store.ts` singleton, `intents.json` written 0600 tmp+rename (prompts can contain secrets; never fed to `/api/search`). Endpoints: GET/PUT/DELETE `/api/sessions/:id/intent` + POST `/api/sessions/:id/readmymind` (`readmymind-routes.ts`, ownership via `findSessionOrFail` WITH `req`; registrations stay the bare `app.<method>('path')` shape, the endpoints.md drift scanner cannot see generics). **Phase 2 (predictor + 🧠 button)**: `readmymind-context.ts` is the PURE budgeted assembler (9 ranked sources, drop order siblings→away→workspace→tools, sections 1-4 truncate only); IO lives in `readmymind-collectors.ts` (transcript TAIL read — the live watcher keeps only a 500-char snippet — + git signals, skipped for remote-SSH cases) and the route; `readmymind-predictor.ts` reuses the AiCheckerBase spawn mechanics standalone (verdict-shaped base vs freeform JSON) as a mutable singleton routes call and tests stub. Claude-mode only (400), one in flight per session (409 CONFLICT), model = `readMyMindModel` setting defaulting to `AI_CHECK_MODEL` (opus, decided). Frontend `readmymind-ui.js`: header 🧠 marker-hidden (`btn-readmymind--hidden`) until the setting is ON, desktop; phones get the keyboard-accessory 🧠 key (`refreshReadMyMind()` in keyboard-accessory.js, re-derived after every innerHTML rebuild + settings apply + the tab-render tail; `.accessory-btn[hidden]` must stay re-asserted, inline-flex beats the UA hidden rule) plus a `🧠 Suggest` strip on the overview's YELLOW waiting rows ONLY (on red rows a dialog is on screen and `POST /input` text would land in its menu; answer routing via the approvals endpoint is phase-3 PR 2). Up to 3 kind-diverse suggestions: alternates swap into the editable field, Rethink records everything displayed as rejected and carries the optional steer note (resets each open, like the rejections); suggestions render via value/`textContent` ONLY and Send/Insert go through `POST /input` (server-side, so the sendEnterKey/local-echo trap does not apply) — nothing auto-sends, ever. User guide: `docs/readmymind.md`.
**Agent Teams**: `TeamWatcher` polls `~/.claude/teams/`, matches to sessions via `leadSessionId`. Teammates are in-process threads appearing as subagents. Enable: `CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1`. See `docs/agent-teams/`.
**Circuit breakers**: the Ralph breaker prevents respawn thrashing (`CLOSED` → `HALF_OPEN` → `OPEN`; reset via `/api/sessions/:id/ralph-circuit-breaker/reset`). **Distinct: the PTY-exit breaker** (`session-pty-exit-breaker.ts`) trips after repeated rapid PTY exits and blocks auto-restarts. ⚠️ It resets ONLY via an explicit `{clearBreaker:true}` body on `POST /api/sessions/:id/interactive`; the frontend's auto-reattach in `selectSession()` sends no body and must never clear it. → [architecture-invariants#circuit-breakers-ralph--pty-exit](docs/architecture-invariants.md#circuit-breakers-ralph-and-pty-exit)
**Full-scrollback replay**: `GET /api/sessions/:id/terminal?full=1` returns the whole tmux scrollback ALONE (`source='mux-full-history'`), superseding the byte buffer. First load of each non-shell TUI session requests it (`_fullHistoryLoaded`); Shell selection and drop recovery use a bounded 1 MiB `?tail=`, and a Shell scroll-to-top pulls a bounded `?full=1&tail=` window (a window no longer than the browser's buffer is skipped before the downgrade guard, so it never marks the session exhausted); the unbounded pull stays behind **Load full history**. ⚠️ The capture ends with a RELATIVE cursor move back to the pane's caret (never `CUP`), so no line-deleting transform may run over it; those skips key on `isFullCapture`, never on `?full=1` alone. ⚠️ A re-pull must never shrink the buffer (`_replayWouldShrinkBuffer()`). ⚠️ `captureCols`/`captureRows` are absent when no frame was positioned: test `Number.isFinite`, never truthiness. ⚠️ A frame dropped at the 128 KiB render cap MUST be recovered, and the recovery verifies itself: `_scheduleDroppedOutputRecovery` re-arms (bounded by `DROP_RECOVERY_MAX_ATTEMPTS`) while `_onSessionNeedsRefresh` reports no repaint, but never after a capture-fetch `'deadline'`. → [architecture-invariants#full-scrollback-replay](docs/architecture-invariants.md#full-scrollback-replay)
**Full-scrollback replay**: `GET /api/sessions/:id/terminal?full=1` returns the entire tmux scrollback, bounded by the configured history limit. On success the capture is returned ALONE (`source='mux-full-history'`), superseding the byte buffer so nothing duplicates. The first load of EACH session per page load requests `full=1` (`_fullHistoryLoaded` Set); tab switches keep the cheap `?tail=` path, and scrolling up at the TOP of the buffer re-pulls `full=1` on demand (cooldown-guarded — tmux repaints bursty output in place, so browser scrollback shrinks while tmux's history stays complete). ⚠️ That re-pull must never DOWNGRADE the buffer: a repaint-mode CLI pane keeps no tmux history, so its capture is one frame and the reset+rewrite would delete history mid-scroll — `_replayWouldShrinkBuffer()` refuses it and slows that session's cooldown to 60s. → [architecture-invariants#full-scrollback-replay](docs/architecture-invariants.md#full-scrollback-replay)
**Split-pane sessions** (`showSplitButton`, header button, default OFF, desktop-only, per-device): a second live session ("Pane B") beside the active one, in its own `SplitTerminalPane` (terminal-split.js) with its own xterm + WebSocket, resizable via a draggable divider. Deliberately plainer than the primary pane — no local-echo overlay, CJK IME, or touch handlers — and NOT persisted across reloads. → [architecture-invariants#split-pane-sessions](docs/architecture-invariants.md#split-pane-sessions)
**Terminal scrollback strip + wheel/touch forwarding** (#205): codex/claude/gemini get the FULL strip (alt-screen, `3J`, mouse DECSETs); tmux-backed shell/opencode/antigravity get a NARROW strip (alt-screen toggles only — it removes tmux's own attach-time `smcup`, which otherwise parks xterm in the scrollback-less alt buffer and turns the wheel into arrow keys). ⚠️ Gated on `useMux`: direct-PTY fallback sessions must keep the alt screen for vim/less/htop. Wheel AND touch forward to the CLI transcript for **claude ≥ 2.1.187 ONLY** at ANY scroll position (snap-to-bottom first); Shift+wheel and the `terminalWheelLocalScrollback` setting stay local. ⚠️ Codex was in that list and must never go back without a fresh measurement: codex-cli 0.147.0 ignores SGR wheel reports entirely (`mouse_any_flag=0`, inline viewport, transcript pushed into terminal scrollback), so forwarding produced a dead wheel (#227 follow-up). `_wheelScrollLines()` reads `ev.deltaMode` (Firefox = LINE units). ⚠️ When that gate is FALSE on a claude session whose local buffer is hollow (`baseY === 0`), the gesture becomes coalesced PageUp/PageDown key sends (`_maybePageCliTranscript`) instead of a no-op; ⚠️ and `getClaudeCliVersion()` must never cache a FAILED probe (one timeout used to disable forwarding process-wide until restart). `_logScrollRouting()` prints the routing decision and its inputs once per session — read it before diagnosing a scroll report. → [architecture-invariants#terminal-scrollback-strip-flavors-and-wheeltouch-forwarding](docs/architecture-invariants.md#terminal-scrollback-strip-flavors-and-wheeltouch-forwarding)
**Terminal touch gestures: link taps and text selection**: on touch devices xterm's linkifier and SelectionService never see the gesture, so both are driven explicitly (terminal-ui.js). ⚠️ A tap activates the link under it through the SAME provider as the hover linkifier (`_terminalLinkAtPoint`), synchronously inside `touchend` (keeps the user gesture `window.open` needs) and BEFORE any mouse report; the caret's logical line (`_tapIsOnCaretLine`) and TUI-owned rows (`_isActionableMobileTerminalTap`) keep their meaning. ⚠️ Gate on the caret line, never on tap intent (a shell calls every tap `'input'`). ⚠️ Long-press selects via xterm's public `select()`; keep the three guards: suppress the compat mouse pair after `touchend`, the bounded focus guard + `contextmenu` suppression for the platform long-press, and no closing `terminal.focus()` on phones. Tests: `test/terminal-touch-tap.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#terminal-touch-gestures-link-taps-and-text-selection](docs/architecture-invariants.md#terminal-touch-gestures-link-taps-and-text-selection)
**Detached start + service install** (issue #231): `codeman web -d` relaunches the SAME entry script with `detached:true` (setsid), so there is no controlling terminal and no shell job entry. ⚠️ `nohup` is NOT what makes this work: Node re-arms SIGHUP to its default disposition even when it inherits "ignore", and `cli.ts` handles SIGHUP with a graceful shutdown, so a delivered HUP still stops the server. ⚠️ Both `-d` and `service install` must REFUSE when a server is already up on this data dir (pidfile check + `/api/status` probe): a second instance on the shared tmux socket attaches PTYs to the first one's live sessions. ⚠️ Neither may report success it has not observed — the parent polls `/api/status` until the child answers or dies, since `launchctl load` and a clean spawn are both silent about a server that starts and immediately exits. `--stop` verifies the pid still LOOKS like a Codeman server (`ps -o command=`) before signalling, because pids get recycled. Unit/label names live in `config/service-names.ts` so install.sh, `detectSupervisor()` and `service install` cannot drift into supervising two copies; they are instance-scoped, and identical to the historical names for the default instance. `service install` bakes the installing shell's PATH into the unit (launchd gives a job `/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin`, which finds neither a Homebrew/nvm `node` nor `tmux`/`claude`) and never writes `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` into it. → [architecture-invariants#detached-start-and-service-install](docs/architecture-invariants.md#detached-start-and-service-install)
**Auto Copy (copy-on-select)** (`autoCopySelection`, per-device, default OFF): a finished terminal selection lands on the clipboard with no keystroke. ⚠️ Copy at the END of a gesture, never in `onSelectionChange` (per-cell); it only arms `_autoCopyPending` and a document-level `mouseup` flushes. ⚠️ The flush must be SYNCHRONOUS in the handler (both clipboard paths need user activation); never defer it to a timer. ⚠️ Touch needs its own calls from `_endTouchSelectionGesture()`/`_selectTouchSelectionLine()` (no mouseup arrives). ⚠️ Unlike `copyTerminalSelection()`, never clear the selection or focus the terminal; restore prior focus. Guards are pure in `decideAutoCopy()` (constants.js, 1M-char cap, refused not truncated). Tests: `test/terminal-auto-copy.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#auto-copy-copy-on-select](docs/architecture-invariants.md#auto-copy-copy-on-select)
**Ctrl+V paste trap** (`image-input.js`): `Ctrl+V` routes through `_handleImagePaste()`, which focuses a hidden `contenteditable` trap and reads the clipboard from the paste event landing there; images upload and their paths are typed in, text goes through `terminal.paste()` so bracketed-paste markers survive. ⚠️ **The trap must consume exactly ONE paste event** (Firefox delivers two per keypress: the `execCommand('paste')` event and the keydown's default action); the one-shot flag lives on the trap, never on a browser check. ⚠️ Do not remove the `execCommand('paste')` call: on some mobile engines it is the only route into the trap, and the trap is the only place image blobs are read. Tests: `test/image-paste-trap.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#terminal-paste-ctrlv](docs/architecture-invariants.md#terminal-paste-ctrlv)
**Terminal scrollback strip + wheel/touch forwarding**: codex/claude/gemini get the FULL strip (alt-screen, `3J`, mouse DECSETs); tmux-backed shell/opencode/antigravity/omp get a NARROW strip (alt-screen toggles only). ⚠️ Gated on `useMux`: direct-PTY sessions must keep the alt screen. Wheel and touch forward to the CLI for **claude ≥ 2.1.187 ONLY, and only while it has mouse tracking on** (`cliMouseTracking`: fullscreen claude sets it, its default inline renderer does not and scrolls locally like codex); ⚠️ never re-add codex without a fresh measurement (it ignores SGR wheel reports). ⚠️ `getClaudeCliVersion()` must never cache a FAILED probe. ⚠️ Hand-report clicks only while the CLI has mouse tracking on: `_shouldReportMouseToCli()` gates all three report sites on `cliMouseTracking` (from `_recordStrippedMouseMode()`, session.ts), or a plain shell prints the reports as literal text. Read `_logScrollRouting()` before diagnosing a scroll report. → [architecture-invariants#terminal-scrollback-strip-flavors-and-wheeltouch-forwarding](docs/architecture-invariants.md#terminal-scrollback-strip-flavors-and-wheeltouch-forwarding)
**Detached start + service install**: `codeman web -d` relaunches the same entry script `detached:true` (setsid); `nohup` is not what makes it survive. ⚠️ Both `-d` and `service install` must REFUSE when a server is already up on this data dir (pidfile + `/api/status` probe), or a second instance attaches to the first one's live sessions. ⚠️ Never report success not observed: poll `/api/status` until the child answers or dies. `--stop` must verify the pid still looks like Codeman (`ps -o command=`) before signalling. Unit/label names live only in `config/service-names.ts`. `service install` bakes the installing shell's PATH into the unit and never writes `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` into it. → [architecture-invariants#detached-start-and-service-install](docs/architecture-invariants.md#detached-start-and-service-install)
**Self-update** (App Settings → System → Updates): in-app updater for git-clone installs under a supervisor (`systemd`, `launchd`, `launchd-daemon`, `docker-compose`, else `none`). The work runs in a DETACHED `scripts/self-update.sh` writing `update-status.json`, polled across the restart; pure helpers in `src/web/self-update.ts`. ⚠️ Compose: the restart kills the script, so nothing may be appended after the `restarting` marker; the repo must stay a host bind mount over `/opt/codeman` and the image must keep devDependencies + toolchain. ⚠️ `evaluateEnvironmentGate()` refuses releases that change `server.Dockerfile`/`docker-compose.yaml` or add `.env.example` keys, re-evaluated on `POST /api/system/update`; unknowns fail OPEN, but the exit-to-restart needs `--restart-by-exit 1` (`CODEMAN_RESTART_BY_EXIT=1` only in the Compose file). ⚠️ Keep the agent CLIs in `server.Dockerfile` pinned. → [docs/docker-self-update.md](docs/docker-self-update.md), [architecture-invariants#self-update](docs/architecture-invariants.md#self-update)
**Reverse-proxy base path** (`--base-url` / `CODEMAN_BASE_URL`, default `/`; pure single source `src/config/base-path.ts`, normalized to `''` or `/foo`): mounts Codeman under a sub-path behind a proxy that forwards the prefix unchanged. Few choke points: `stripBasePath()` in Fastify's `rewriteUrl` (routes stay prefix-agnostic; unprefixed requests still answer), one `onSend` hook rebasing `Location`, `renderIndexHtml` rewriting `<base href>` + injecting `window.__CODEMAN_BASE__`, and `CodemanBase.url()` (constants.js) for runtime URLs. ⚠️ Keep template asset refs RELATIVE, and route every root-absolute frontend URL (EventSource/WebSocket/`window.open`/src) through `CodemanBase.url()`. ⚠️ Web-tab proxy egress goes through `proxyPrefixFor(cap, basePath)`; ingress parsers stay base-agnostic. ⚠️ `--base-url` must ride `buildWebArgs` and `resolveServicePlan`. Tests: `test/base-path.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#reverse-proxy-base-path](docs/architecture-invariants.md#reverse-proxy-base-path)
**Self-update** (App Settings → Updates): in-app updater for git-clone installs supervised by systemd/launchd (`systemd`, `launchd`, `launchd-daemon`, else `none` → "restart manually"). The update restarts the very process running it, so the real work runs in a DETACHED `scripts/self-update.sh` that outlives the restart and writes progress to `update-status.json`, which the browser polls across the connection drop. `src/web/self-update.ts` splits pure helpers (unit-tested) from IO wrappers. npm installs report as non-updatable. → [architecture-invariants#self-update](docs/architecture-invariants.md#self-update)
**Attachments** (live external document references; all wiring in `file-routes.ts`): a **registry** maps a stable `attachmentId` to a realpath-resolved, extension-allowlisted absolute path, so browser requests never carry arbitrary absolute paths. ⚠️ The **magic-link scanner** (`codeman://attach?...` in terminal output) is **prompt-injectable**, so its scan path is force-confined to the session workspace; a hostile prompt could otherwise exfiltrate arbitrary host files over SSE. The security gate is an extension **allowlist**, not a blocklist. `document-conversion-limiter.ts` caps converter spawns globally: without it, N large docs detected at once fork N multi-minute processes, which is a resource-exhaustion vector. → [architecture-invariants#attachments](docs/architecture-invariants.md#attachments)
**File-path links (terminal + chat)**: a path an agent prints is clickable on BOTH surfaces and opens the file-preview overlay. ⚠️ ONE pattern (`FILE_PATH_LINK_PATTERN` / `absoluteFilePathPattern()` in constants.js) feeds the xterm link provider AND `_linkifyFilePaths()`, a fresh instance per call (`lastIndex`). The chat linkifier walks TEXT NODES with DOM APIs, never rebuilds sanitized markup as a string. ⚠️ An out-of-workspace path goes through the ATTACHMENT routes (`POST /api/sessions/:id/attachments` with `notify: false`), never by widening `file-content`/`file-raw` or `file-stream-manager`'s `tail -f` allowlist. ⚠️ `TEXT_ATTACHMENT_EXTENSIONS` IS `EDITABLE_EXTENSIONS` (never a second list), and widening READ must never widen RUN: `html`/`htm`/`svg` stay download-only, other text is inert `text/plain`+`nosniff`. Media extensions are single-sourced in `attachment-registry.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#file-path-links-terminal--response-viewer](docs/architecture-invariants.md#file-path-links-terminal--response-viewer)
**Filesystem path picker** (Link Existing "Browse" + the mobile keyboard's `📁 Path` key): lazy one-directory browsing via `GET /api/filesystem/browse`, with `GET /api/filesystem/preview` for the tapped file. Inserts the path **without** Enter, so the prompt is never submitted; the sibling `⌫ All` key clears only the unsent prompt and must never send the agent's `/clear`. ⚠️ This is a **second file-serving surface and inherits neither the attachment confinement nor its ownership scoping** — it allowlists Home, `CASES_DIR`, `/mnt/d` and `CODEMAN_FILE_PICKER_ROOTS`, blocks sensitive trees, and rejects symlink escapes **after** `realpath`. ⚠️ The optional `sessionId` is an ownership boundary that must be `canAccessOwned`-checked by hand (it does not go through `findSessionOrFail`), and in multi-user mode a non-admin gets only their own `userSpacePath` as a root: per-user spaces live INSIDE `homedir()`, so a `Home` root exposes every other user's workspace. Previews go through the same global conversion limiter, and Markdown/TXT/JSON are served as inert `text/plain`. → [architecture-invariants#filesystem-path-picker](docs/architecture-invariants.md#filesystem-path-picker)
**File Viewer edit mode** (issue #212): the file-preview overlay edits workspace text files in place — `GET .../file-content?edit=1` + `PUT /api/sessions/:id/file-content`, policy in `src/config/file-editing.ts`. This is a **third file surface and the only one that WRITES**: read-path confinement (realpath + workspace + ownership) plus sensitive/blocked/`.git` denies and an extension **allowlist**; writes are `wx`-temp + rename (no `O_CREAT` anywhere = edit-in-place is structural); optimistic concurrency via sha256 `baseHash` → 409. ⚠️ `edit=1` never truncates and the client must never save a plain-preview buffer (the 500-line truncation would silently delete the rest). ⚠️ CRLF/UTF-8 guards: EOL re-applied server-side, non-UTF-8 refused via round-trip compare. → [architecture-invariants#file-viewer-edit-mode](docs/architecture-invariants.md#file-viewer-edit-mode), `docs/file-viewer-edit-plan.md`
**Files panel search** (COD-236, the `q` param on `GET /api/sessions/:id/files`): `compileFileQuery()` (`utils/file-query.ts`, pure) compiles the query into a predicate the server-side walk prunes with; a query returns a FLAT match list and the walk recurses past non-matching directories. An empty, whitespace-only or overlong (`MAX_QUERY_LENGTH`, 256) query compiles to `null`, keeping the default tree response byte-identical. ⚠️ **Never compile a glob into a RegExp** (`*a*a*a…` backtracks and freezes the event loop for the whole server): `globMatch()` is a two-pointer wildcard walk. → [architecture-invariants#files-panel-search](docs/architecture-invariants.md#files-panel-search)
**Raw file bodies are streamed and range-aware**: `file-raw`, the attachments `/raw` route and `GET /api/download` share `sendFileBody()`, advertise `Accept-Ranges: bytes` and answer `Range` with `206` + `Content-Range` (single-range, parser in `src/web/http-range.ts`); without it `<video>` cannot seek. The size cap (`MAX_FILE_DOWNLOAD_BYTES`, default 2GB, env `CODEMAN_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES`, `0` = unlimited) is a sanity bound, not memory protection; never reintroduce a whole-file buffer. ⚠️ Bodies go out via `reply.hijack()`, so `sendRawStream` must copy the status onto `reply.raw` by hand or a partial body ships as `200`. ⚠️ Closing the preview must pause and unload media (`_stopFilePreviewMedia`), since a detached `HTMLMediaElement` keeps playing. → [architecture-invariants#raw-file-bodies-streamed-and-range-aware](docs/architecture-invariants.md#raw-file-bodies-streamed-and-range-aware)
**Ultracode / workflow-run visualization** (opt-in, default OFF): the Workflow tool writes a completion artifact only at run *end*, so live in-flight runs exist solely as transcript dirs. `workflow-run-watcher.ts` therefore synthesizes ACTIVE runs from transcripts until the completion artifact appears and supersedes them. It is **STANDALONE** and deliberately never imports or touches `subagent-watcher.ts`, despite reading the same tree. Two independent toggles: `showUltracodeAgents` (docked panel) and `ultracodeFloatingWindows` (floating windows); the watcher starts if **either** is on. → [architecture-invariants#ultracode--workflow-run-visualization](docs/architecture-invariants.md#ultracode-and-workflow-run-visualization)
**Clone a repository as a case** (issue #236, Add Case → **Clone Repo**): `POST /api/cases/clone` clones synchronously into the caller's case space (bounded by `GIT_CLONE_TIMEOUT_MS`, no job store); `POST /api/cases/clone-preflight` checks anonymous cloneability and lists refs. Core in `src/git-clone.ts`. ⚠️ **The URL is a code-execution surface**: refuse every `::` form and a leading `-`, spawn only argv arrays with `--` before operands. ⚠️ Stay non-interactive (`gitNonInteractiveEnv()`) or the open request hangs; never collect credentials, refuse `user:password@` URLs. ⚠️ Timeout kills the process GROUP, remove the destination only if this attempt created it, and repo contents win over scaffolding (existing `CLAUDE.md` kept, hooks merged, repo `.claude/settings*` warned about). → [architecture-invariants#clone-a-repository-as-a-case](docs/architecture-invariants.md#clone-a-repository-as-a-case)
**Clone a repository as a case** (issue #236, Add Case → **Clone Repo**): `POST /api/cases/clone` clones a public repo into the caller's case space synchronously (request held open, bounded by `GIT_CLONE_TIMEOUT_MS`, no job store); `POST /api/cases/clone-preflight` reports whether the URL can be cloned anonymously plus its real branches/tags. Core in `src/git-clone.ts`. ⚠️ **The URL is a code-execution surface**: `ext::sh -c <cmd>` (and ANY `<name>::<payload>` helper) makes git run a command, so every `::` form is refused, a leading `-` is refused, and every spawn is an argv array with `--` before the operands. ⚠️ **Non-interactive or the open request hangs** — `gitNonInteractiveEnv()` closes the terminal/askpass/ssh/GCM prompt paths; `HOME`/`PATH` stay inherited, so a user's OWN credential helper may authenticate (Codeman still never collects or stores credentials, and refuses a `user:password@` URL). ⚠️ Timeout kills the process GROUP (clone fans out into child processes), the destination is removed only if this attempt created it, and repository contents win over scaffolding (existing `CLAUDE.md` kept, hooks merged, repo-shipped `.claude/settings*` reported as a warning since its hooks run locally). The **Brain** picker sets the toolbar run mode on success. → [architecture-invariants#clone-a-repository-as-a-case](docs/architecture-invariants.md#clone-a-repository-as-a-case)
**Cross-session search**: `GET /api/search` federates an in-memory search over session metadata, run-summary events, and attachment-history entries. The pure core `searchSources()` does substring matching with hard per-type caps: **no regex (so no ReDoS) and no filesystem reads (so no traversal)**. The server-private `externalPath` is never read. PAST sessions (#261) come from `session-history-index.ts`, a capped snapshot of the unified list filled **outside** the request path (`/api/sessions/unified` publishes it; a stale one is rebuilt fire-and-forget), that indirection is what keeps the no-fs property. ⚠️ The snapshot is stored UNSCOPED with a per-row owner and MUST be re-filtered through `canAccessOwned()` on read; history rows carry `jumpTo.kind:'resume-session'`, since a closed session has no tab to select. → [architecture-invariants#cross-session-search](docs/architecture-invariants.md#cross-session-search)
**Cross-session search**: `GET /api/search` federates an in-memory search over session metadata, run-summary events, and attachment-history entries. The pure core `searchSources()` does substring matching with hard per-type caps: **no regex (so no ReDoS) and no filesystem reads (so no traversal)**. The server-private `externalPath` is never read. → [architecture-invariants#cross-session-search](docs/architecture-invariants.md#cross-session-search)
**Web tabs** (dashboard URLs as tabs): a saved URL renders as a tab beside sessions, **NOT a `SessionMode`**, and is proxied through Codeman's own origin (`/webview/<cap>/...`). ⚠️ The proxy is NOT an API surface: its capability-based auth exemption stays fenced to safe methods and non-route paths (`test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts`). ⚠️ Iframes omit `allow-same-origin` unless `trusted`, and `Authorization`/`codeman_session` are stripped upstream in both modes. ⚠️ **Egress guard**: link-local and cloud-metadata targets are refused at save time, by a sync hostname check at each connect (IP literals skip DNS), AND on the resolved address (`webview-egress.ts`); use the `undici` package's own `fetch` + `Agent`, never Node's global fetch. ⚠️ Loopback links in agent output auto-open as proxied web tabs (`openLinkThroughWebTabIfLoopback`), but never auto-route `*.localhost` (prompt-injectable DNS). Capabilities are revoked on logout (`revokeOwner`). → [architecture-invariants#web-tabs](docs/architecture-invariants.md#web-tabs), `docs/web-tabs.md`
**Web tabs** (dashboard URLs as tabs): a saved URL renders as a tab beside agent sessions. **NOT a sixth `SessionMode`** (no PTY, no tmux, no respawn), same reasoning that keeps Docker/remote-SSH as case overlays. Dashboards are **proxied through Codeman's own origin** by default, because a direct iframe fails three ways at once: prod is HTTPS so `http://` targets are blocked as mixed content, many dashboards send `X-Frame-Options: DENY`, and our own `default-src 'self'` CSP blocks cross-origin frames. Proxying leaves the prod CSP unchanged (`/webview/...` is `'self'`). ⚠️ The proxy is **NOT an API surface**: it authenticates on an in-memory capability in the path and is correspondingly exempt from the cookie + Origin checks; that exemption is fenced to safe methods and non-`/api` paths and is pinned by `test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts`. ⚠️ Iframes omit `allow-same-origin` unless a dashboard is explicitly marked `trusted`, and `Authorization`/`codeman_session` are stripped upstream in **both** modes so `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` cannot leak. ⚠️ A sandboxed frame is **opaque-origin**, which breaks two things `curl` can never reproduce: its runtime-built root-absolute URLs escape `<base>` (fixed by an injected `runtimeUrlShim()`), and its same-host `fetch`/XHR are CORS-checked with `Origin: null` (fixed by `buildProxyCorsHeaders()` plus exempting the proxy from the global `OPTIONS`-204 short-circuit in `registerSecurityHeaders`). Both present as the dashboard's own "Failed to fetch" while the page renders fine. → [architecture-invariants#web-tabs](docs/architecture-invariants.md#web-tabs), `docs/web-tabs.md`
**Multi-user mode** (opt-in `--multiuser` / `CODEMAN_MULTIUSER=1`, OFF by default): named users with scrypt-hashed passwords in `~/.codeman/users.json`. Gated everywhere by `isMultiUserMode()`; when OFF, behavior is byte-identical to single-user because every scoping helper short-circuits. ⚠️ **Not a security boundary at the agent layer**: every session still runs as the SAME OS account. This separates WORKSPACES; it does not sandbox users (Docker cases are the isolation story). Ownership threads through `Session.owner` and is enforced in `findSessionOrFail`, list endpoints, SSE routing (fail-closed), WS, search, and file-preview. → [architecture-invariants#multi-user-mode](docs/architecture-invariants.md#multi-user-mode), `docs/multi-user-plan.md`
@@ -317,57 +248,29 @@ Codeman is a Claude Code session manager with web interface and autonomous Ralph
### Frontend
Frontend JS modules have `@fileoverview` with `@dependency`/`@loadorder` tags. Load order: `constants.js`(1) → `i18n.js`(1.5) → `mobile-handlers.js`(2) → `voice-input.js`(3) → `notification-manager.js`(4) → `keyboard-accessory.js`(5) → `input-cjk.js`(5.5) → `terminal-keycode229-recovery.js`(5.55) → `sanitize-html.js`(5.6) → `app.js`(6) → `tab-rail-resize.js`(6.5) → `terminal-ui.js`(7) → `terminal-split.js`(7.5) → `respawn-ui.js`(8) → `ralph-panel.js`(9) → `orchestrator-panel.js`(9.5) → `cron-ui.js`(9.7) → `settings-ui.js`(10) → `panels-ui.js`(11) → `readmymind-ui.js`(11.3) → `ultracode-panel.js`(11.5) → `approvals-ui.js`(11.6) → `reboot-restore-ui.js`(11.65) → `admin-ui.js`(11.7) → `session-ui.js`(12) → `host-wake-ui.js`(12.2) → `webview-tabs.js`(12.5) → `mobile-overview.js`(12.55) → `home-sessions.js`(12.56) → `entrance-animations.js`(12.6) → `ralph-wizard.js`(13) → `api-client.js`(14) → `subagent-windows.js`(15) → `ultracode-windows.js`(15.5) → `session-lineage.js`(15.6) → `image-input.js`(16). `i18n.js` translates static + newly inserted application DOM while skipping terminal/response/file/user-name surfaces; `input-cjk.js` handles CJK IME composition via an always-visible textarea below the terminal (`window.cjkActive` blocks xterm's onData). `terminal-keycode229-recovery.js` forwards a committed `input` event that xterm's `_inputEvent` guard drops (Chrome-on-Android soft keyboards send `composed: true` after a keydown), and only when xterm emitted no canonical data for that keystroke. ⚠️ **That decision is settled at the NEXT keydown as well as on its own zero-delay timer** (#441): the drain runs from xterm's custom key handler, which fires BEFORE xterm processes that key, so a soft keyboard that commits the last character and sends Enter in one InputConnection transaction puts the character on the wire ahead of the `\r`. On the timer alone that character is not merely late, it is LOST: xterm emits the `\r` first and bumps the canonical counter past the candidate's snapshot, so the candidate stands down (measured, `hell\r` where the user typed `hello`). The trade is that a keydown decides with less evidence than the timer did, since xterm's own keyCode-229 rescue has not run yet; that is safe for Enter, which clears the textarea so the pending diff emits nothing. Ordering is pinned by `test/terminal-keycode229-recovery.browser.test.ts`, which the CI gate does NOT run.
Frontend JS modules have `@fileoverview` with `@dependency`/`@loadorder` tags. Load order: `constants.js`(1) → `i18n.js`(1.5) → `mobile-handlers.js`(2) → `voice-input.js`(3) → `notification-manager.js`(4) → `keyboard-accessory.js`(5) → `input-cjk.js`(5.5) → `sanitize-html.js`(5.6) → `app.js`(6) → `terminal-ui.js`(7) → `respawn-ui.js`(8) → `ralph-panel.js`(9) → `orchestrator-panel.js`(9.5) → `cron-ui.js`(9.7) → `settings-ui.js`(10) → `panels-ui.js`(11) → `readmymind-ui.js`(11.3) → `ultracode-panel.js`(11.5) → `approvals-ui.js`(11.6) → `admin-ui.js`(11.7) → `session-ui.js`(12) → `webview-tabs.js`(12.5) → `mobile-overview.js`(12.55) → `home-sessions.js`(12.56) → `entrance-animations.js`(12.6) → `ralph-wizard.js`(13) → `api-client.js`(14) → `subagent-windows.js`(15) → `ultracode-windows.js`(15.5) → `image-input.js`(16). `i18n.js` translates static + newly inserted application DOM while skipping terminal/response/file/user-name surfaces; `input-cjk.js` handles CJK IME composition via an always-visible textarea below the terminal (`window.cjkActive` blocks xterm's onData).
**Entrance animations** (`entrance-animations.js`, all OFF by default): opt-in animations for tabs, terminal, windows and connection lines, chosen via `data-tab-anim` / `data-term-anim` / `data-win-anim` / `data-line-anim` on `<html>`; the default `legacy` theme short-circuits every hook. ⚠️ Tabs and lines are destroyed mid-animation on re-render, so re-apply to the fresh element by id with a negative `animation-delay` (resume, never restart). ⚠️ Terminal-pane styles may animate only transform / opacity / clip-path (anything else resizes the PTY via FitAddon); `blur` is the ONE sanctioned `filter` exception, do not generalise it. ⚠️ Line glow lives in `--line-glow` so blur keyframes interpolate. Persisted per-device in `codeman:*Anim` localStorage keys, never in `SettingsUpdateSchema`; lab at `?animlab=1`. Test: `test/entrance-animations.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#entrance-animations](docs/architecture-invariants.md#entrance-animations)
**Entrance animations** (`entrance-animations.js`, all OFF by default): opt-in animations for the four things that appear when work starts, chosen per surface via `data-tab-anim` / `data-term-anim` / `data-win-anim` / `data-line-anim` on `<html>`. Defaults are the `legacy` theme, so an untouched install behaves exactly as before and every hook short-circuits on its first line. ⚠️ Tabs and connection lines are **destroyed mid-animation** on every re-render (`_fullRenderSessionTabs()` replaces the strip's innerHTML; `_updateConnectionLinesImmediate()` does `svg.innerHTML = ''`), so both are tracked by id and re-applied to the fresh element with a **negative `animation-delay`** to resume rather than restart. ⚠️ The terminal-pane styles may animate **transform / opacity / clip-path only**, xterm's FitAddon derives rows+cols from `getComputedStyle(parent).width/height`, so animating width/height/padding there would resize the PTY. ⚠️ Window styles other than `beam` transform the window, which moves the rect its connection line is aimed at; `beam` deliberately animates opacity/filter only so its line can draw toward a stable target. Persisted to its own `codeman:*Anim` localStorage keys (per-device, deliberately NOT in the `.strict()` `SettingsUpdateSchema`); picker in App Settings → Appearance, full per-surface lab at `?animlab=1`.
**Mobile tab strip scrolling** (issue #257): under 768px the tab strip scrolls horizontally, so the active tab must be kept reachable. `_updateActiveTabImmediate()` reveals it via `computeTabScrollLeft()` (constants.js, rect math on the strip's own `scrollLeft`, never `scrollIntoView()`, which scrolls the document under the fixed header); `_fullRenderSessionTabs()` must restore `scrollLeft` across rebuilds and re-reveal only when the active tab changed (`_lastRenderedActiveTabId`). ⚠️ The phone-block `min-width` on `.session-tab.active .tab-name` keeps the tab's centre off the gear/close icons, sized for numberless tabs 10+ (floor 40px); do not shrink it. ⚠️ Never reintroduce hoisting the active session to the front of the strip. Test: `test/mobile-tab-tap-zones.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#mobile-tab-strip-scrolling](docs/architecture-invariants.md#mobile-tab-strip-scrolling)
**Phone overview home screen** (`mobile-overview.js`, phones only, per-device `mobileOverviewEnabled`, default ON): under 430px the "C" logo shows a session overview (NEEDS YOU / CURRENT SESSIONS / PAST SESSIONS) instead of the welcome overlay; tablet and desktop are unchanged. The branch lives in `showWelcome()`/`hideWelcome()` (terminal-ui.js) behind `shouldUseMobileOverview()`, which is **width-driven** (`getDeviceType() === 'mobile'`) because this is a layout decision, unlike the settings namespace which stays handheld-based. ⚠️ The container ships with the `hidden` attribute and only this module removes it: never give `.mobile-overview` a bare `display` rule, since desktop does not load `mobile.css` (`media="(max-width: 1023px)"`) and would then render it unstyled. Live re-renders ride on the tail of `_renderSessionTabsImmediate()` (every state change it needs already funnels there); PAST rows come from one `_fetchUnifiedSessions(60)` per home-screen visit and resume through the shared `resumeHistorySession()`, so they behave exactly like the welcome screen's Resume list. ⚠️ Two things must stay in lockstep with surfaces outside this module, because divergence reads as a bug rather than a style: the split Run button carries the **toolbar's own classes** (`btn-toolbar btn-run mode-<backend>` / `btn-run-gear`) so the per-backend gradient and the light-skin overrides apply unchanged (mobile.css must therefore set no `background`/`color` on it), and row status uses the **session-tab language** (green dot when fine, `pulse` while working, yellow blinking row when waiting for input, red blinking row when a question is pending, mirroring `tab-alert-idle`/`tab-alert-action`). The picker mirrors the toolbar run-mode menu (`setRunMode()` + `run()`, `openWebviewFromMenu()` for saved dashboards) and deliberately omits its Recent-Sessions block, since PAST SESSIONS is that. Status pills carry `data-i18n-skip` (generic words like "idle" collide with state strings elsewhere).
**Session list layout: header strip or left sidebar** (`sessionListLayout`, default `header`; per-device via `displayKeys`, also in `SettingsUpdateSchema`): the list can move into a collapsible `<aside>` (Alt+B, `toggleSessionSidebar`) or, via `tabOrientation`, a resizable vertical `#tabRail` (desktop/tablet only). ⚠️ There is ONE `#sessionTabs`, MOVED between hosts, never a second list: `applySessionListLayout()` runs first, then `applyTabOrientation()`, both BEFORE `applyTabWrapSettings()`, and both arm/disarm `_startSidebarRichClock()`. ⚠️ Axis decisions use `_isVerticalTabList()`, never `isSessionSidebarActive()` alone. ⚠️ Rich rows share one gate, `isRichTabRows()`; rich CSS pairs sidebar+rail with comma-grouped selectors, never `:is()`, and card rules stay rail-scoped. ⚠️ Rail sort (`tabRailSort`, default `activity`) is the flex `order` property only, never a DOM reorder; the arrow-key walk alone follows computed `order`. ⚠️ Leaving sidebar mode clears `_sidebarFilter`; the handheld overlay drawer is `inert` when closed, the docked rail never. → [architecture-invariants#session-list-layout-header-strip-vs-left-sidebar](docs/architecture-invariants.md#session-list-layout-header-strip-vs-left-sidebar)
**Desktop home tab column** (`home-sessions.js`, desktop only): the welcome overlay centers ~560px of content in a ~1400px window, so its left gutter is dead space; it now carries the open tabs as a vertical list. Rows are in **tab order**, not sorted by urgency like the phone overview, because the row badges are the Alt+1..9 indices. State classification is REUSED from mobile-overview.js (`_mobileOverviewState`/`_mobileOverviewCaseFor`), which is why the module loads after it. ⚠️ The column is `position: absolute` so the centered content never moves, which is exactly why it needs a **width gate in two places** — `HOME_SESSIONS_MIN_WIDTH` (1180) in the JS plus a `max-width: 1179px` media query as the backstop for a resize that outruns the matchMedia listener; drift between them means a column overlapping the search panel, and `test/home-sessions.test.ts` pins them equal. ⚠️ `.home-sessions` is `display: flex`, so `[hidden]` must be re-asserted as `display: none` or the module's only visibility lever does nothing. Working state is deliberately byte-identical to the phone's: pulsing green dot + the `tab-load-spin` ring reused from the tab strip + the same green halo (added to `.mobile-overview-dot--working` at the same time), so "working" reads the same on every surface. Live re-renders ride the tail of `_renderSessionTabsImmediate()` alongside the phone overview.
**Phone overview home screen** (`mobile-overview.js`, per-device `mobileOverviewEnabled`, default ON): under 600px the "C" logo shows NEEDS YOU / CURRENT / PAST SESSIONS instead of the welcome overlay, branched in `showWelcome()`/`hideWelcome()` via width-driven `shouldUseMobileOverview()`. ⚠️ The container ships `hidden` and only this module removes it: never give `.mobile-overview` a bare `display` rule (desktop does not load `mobile.css`). ⚠️ The split Run button must carry the toolbar's own classes (`btn-toolbar btn-run mode-<backend>` / `btn-run-gear`) and mobile.css must set no `background`/`color` on it; row status must mirror the session-tab alert language. PAST rows resume through the shared `resumeHistorySession()`. Status pills carry `data-i18n-skip`. → [architecture-invariants#phone-overview-home-screen](docs/architecture-invariants.md#phone-overview-home-screen)
**Desktop home tab rail** (`home-sessions.js`, desktop only): the welcome overlay's left gutter carries the open tabs as a rail docked flush left, full height, in overview order, each row showing `created … · <state> <duration>` from `_mobileOverviewSince()`; state classification is reused from mobile-overview.js (so it loads after it). ⚠️ The number badge is the Alt+1..9 tab-strip index, never renumber it to row position. ⚠️ The width gate lives in two places that must stay equal: `HOME_SESSIONS_MIN_WIDTH` (1180) and a `max-width: 1179px` media query. ⚠️ `.home-sessions[hidden]` must re-assert `display: none`. ⚠️ Size all children in `em` off the one `clamp()` knob, never `rem`/px. Age stamps tick in place (`_tickHomeSessionsTimes()`), never by re-render. Test: `test/home-sessions.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#desktop-home-tab-rail](docs/architecture-invariants.md#desktop-home-tab-rail)
**Home-screen session order** (`CodemanSessionOrder` in constants.js, pure): BOTH home screens (phone overview, desktop rail) must order rows through this ONE comparator. Rank `needs` → `error` → `waiting` → `working` → `idle` → `done`. ⚠️ The tiebreak flips: states a session is still IN sort oldest-first, states it has STOPPED sort newest-first. ⚠️ The running group keys off `lastSubmitAt`, never `lastActivityAt` (a working pane repaints constantly). ⚠️ A 0 stamp means unknown and sorts last within its state. Final tiebreak is `orderIndex`, so the list never shuffles. The tab strip itself is NOT sorted by this. Test: `test/session-overview-order.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#home-screen-session-order](docs/architecture-invariants.md#home-screen-session-order)
**Welcome "Resume Conversation" list** (terminal-ui.js): `loadHistorySessions()` fetches once and caches the corpus on `_historyAll`/`_historyCases`; every subsequent view (filter box, sort select, expand, the periodic refresh in panels-ui.js) goes through `_renderHistoryList()`, so never append rows to `#historyList` directly or re-fetch to re-sort. ⚠️ The box height is **class-driven**: expanding the list without `.history-list.expanded` leaves the collapsed `max-height` in place and just deepens a scroll well, which is the bug #260 reported (35 sessions in a ~4-row box). ⚠️ The A–Z sort keys off `_historyRowLabel()`, the SAME string the row renders (`name || firstPrompt || path`), most rows are transcript-backed and have no session name, so sorting on `name` alone silently does nothing. ⚠️ A filter implies expansion, and `_renderSearch()` hides `#historyHeader` (title + controls) as one unit while a search is active. Tests: `test/history-list-controls.test.ts`.
**Command palette + shortcut registry**: `Ctrl/Cmd/Alt+K` opens the session palette; shortcuts live in a rebindable registry (`DEFAULT_SHORTCUTS`/`getShortcutRegistry()`/`matchesShortcutEvent()` in app.js, overrides in `settings.shortcutOverrides`). ⚠️ Palette-chord keys must ALSO be swallowed in `attachCustomKeyEventHandler` (terminal-ui.js) or xterm writes the control byte into the PTY. ⚠️ `saveAppSettings()` rebuilds settings from the DOM, so keys edited elsewhere (`shortcutOverrides`, `showTokenCount`, `showCost`) need explicit `_prev` carry-over. ⚠️ **Smart copy (`Ctrl+C`)**: with no selection it must `return true` without `preventDefault()` or the interrupt is lost; keep `copyTerminalSelection` out of `SHORTCUT_ACTIONS`. The gate tests the CLEANED selection (`CodemanCopySelection.clean`: trailing padding, plus a LEADING margin only up to the width the CLI declares in `capabilities.transcriptGutter`, never one derived from the pane); the strip is not idempotent, so clean once and pass the RAW selection on, and leave Alt+drag column selections untouched. → [architecture-invariants#command-palette-and-shortcut-registry](docs/architecture-invariants.md#command-palette-and-shortcut-registry)
**Command palette + shortcut registry**: `Ctrl/Cmd/Alt+K` opens the session palette; shortcuts live in a rebindable registry (`DEFAULT_SHORTCUTS`/`getShortcutRegistry()`/`matchesShortcutEvent()` in app.js, overrides in `settings.shortcutOverrides`). ⚠️ Palette-chord keys must ALSO be swallowed in `attachCustomKeyEventHandler` (terminal-ui.js) or xterm writes the control byte (0x0B) into the PTY. ⚠️ `saveAppSettings()` rebuilds settings from the DOM, so keys edited elsewhere (`shortcutOverrides`, `showTokenCount`, `showCost`) need explicit `_prev` carry-over. ⚠️ **Smart copy (`Ctrl+C`)** lives in that same handler: with a selection it copies, with none it must `return true` **without** `preventDefault()` or the interrupt is lost. `copyTerminalSelection` is deliberately absent from `SHORTCUT_ACTIONS` because the generic capture loop preventDefaults every match it dispatches. → [architecture-invariants#command-palette-and-shortcut-registry](docs/architecture-invariants.md#command-palette-and-shortcut-registry)
**Per-device vs synced settings**: the `displayKeys` set in settings-ui.js is a **client-side merge policy**, not a wire filter. A display key seeds from the server only when localStorage has no value for it, which is what prevents one device overwriting another; `showPlanUsageLimits` is additionally `delete`d from the incoming payload outright. Separately, `SettingsUpdateSchema` is `.strict()` and simply **does not declare** `skin`, `showFileViewerButton`, `showCronButton`, `webglRendererEnabled`, `localEchoEnabled`, `cjkInputEnabled`, or `extendedKeyboardBar`, so sending one of those is a validation error. The rest (`showResponseViewer`, `showPlanUsageLimits`, `language`, and most `show*` keys) ARE in the schema and do persist server-side; they are per-device by client policy only. ⚠️ Adding a new per-device setting means deciding **both** questions: membership in `displayKeys`, and presence in the schema.
**Settings surface** (`#appSettingsModal` + `#sessionOptionsModal` + `#createCaseModal`): one `set-*` language shared through a single `:is(...)` id scope in styles.css. App Settings' rail is a table of contents over ONE scrolling document (`switchSettingsTab` scrolls); Session Options and Add Case really switch (`switchOptionsTab` / `switchCaseModalTab`), and their larger per-modal size blocks are the design, not drift. ⚠️ **The load/save contract is `getElementById` by id**: renaming or dropping a control id silently stops it loading or saving. ⚠️ The Session Options "Session" entry still keys off `context` (label-only rename). ⚠️ Add Case keeps its legacy `.form-row` markup via an adapter; every `<details>` there needs `.set-adv-chev` plus both marker suppressions. ⚠️ Model cards and the effort segment are views over hidden `<select>`s, which stay the source of truth. ⚠️ `.modal-tabs*` classes are retired; `admin-ui.js` needs `.set-rail-items` + `.set-doc` to survive any restructure. Guard: `test/app-settings-structure.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#settings-surface-app-settings-session-options-add-case](docs/architecture-invariants.md#settings-surface-app-settings-session-options-add-case)
**Header button visibility**: most header controls are opt-in and hidden by a marker class (`btn-multimonitor--hidden`, `btn-response-viewer-header--hidden`, `btn-file-viewer--hidden`, `btn-cron--hidden`) that `applyHeaderVisibilitySettings()` (settings-ui.js) toggles after settings load; the multi-monitor button is instead stripped at render by `renderIndexHtml`. ⚠️ Hiding must go through the marker class: the base rules are `display:inline-flex !important`, so an inline style cannot override them. Current desktop default is WS/CPU/MEM + File Viewer + gear, with the token chip and lifecycle-log button OFF. ⚠️ New header controls must not leak onto phones; `test/mobile-header-buttons-policy.test.ts` is the static guard. → [architecture-invariants#header-button-visibility-multi-monitor-response-viewer-file-viewer-cron](docs/architecture-invariants.md#header-button-visibility-multi-monitor-response-viewer-file-viewer-cron)
**Gesture control** (camera hand-tracking overlay, opt-in, default OFF): `CODEMAN_GESTURE=1` makes the feature *available*; `gestureControlEnabled` turns it on. The bundle is injected by `renderIndexHtml` only when enabled, which is why that method is `async` and reads settings with `readSettings(true)` (a fresh read: a post-save reload lands inside the 2s cache TTL and would otherwise render the pre-toggle state). **Source lives in `packages/gesture-control/`; edit there, run `npm run build:gesture`, and commit the regenerated bundle** because dev serves the committed bundle with no runtime bundler. The MediaPipe wasm + model are fetched separately and gitignored. ⚠️ Keep `MP_VERSION` in `fetch-gesture-assets.mjs` in sync with `@mediapipe/tasks-vision`. → [architecture-invariants#gesture-control-the-source-package](docs/architecture-invariants.md#gesture-control-the-source-package)
**Terminal font weight** (`terminalFontWeight` / `terminalFontWeightBold`, per-device, default = xterm's own `normal`/`bold`): Claude Code's markdown bold is a bare `ESC[1m`, so the weight step is its only cue. `CodemanTerminalFont.resolveWeights()` (constants.js, pure) resolves each slot against **its own** xterm default. ⚠️ The `@font-face` for `fonts/jetbrains-mono-variable.woff2` must stay declared `100 800` (the browser synthesizes from the descriptor, not the file); narrowing it silently makes the setting a no-op. ⚠️ A live save must reach both echo overlays (`refreshFont()`) and open Agent Teams panes. ⚠️ Leave `_awaitTerminalFont()` untouched. Test: `test/terminal-font-weight.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#terminal-font-weight](docs/architecture-invariants.md#terminal-font-weight)
**Theme skins / branding / i18n**: `skin` selects a palette via `data-skin` on `<html>`, applied by an **inline pre-paint script** in `index.html` reading `localStorage['codeman:skin']` to avoid a flash of wrong theme. ⚠️ A skin is **four things that must stay in sync**, and missing any one degrades silently: 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` is the static guard. Light skins additionally need `color-scheme: light` and xterm `minimumContrastRatio: 4.5`, and `applyTerminalSkin()` must call the local-echo overlay's `refreshFont()` because it caches the terminal fg/bg. `displayName` changes user-facing browser branding only and must NEVER rename npm package, CLI, API, storage, CSS, or protocol identifiers. `language` (`en`/`zh-CN`) keeps English as the canonical source so live switching stays reversible. User display names flow through `textContent`/attribute APIs and the server title's HTML escaper, never `innerHTML`. → [architecture-invariants#theme-skins](docs/architecture-invariants.md#theme-skins)
**Foldable settings identity**: responsive layout is width-driven via `MobileDetection.getDeviceType()`, but the localStorage namespace uses `MobileDetection.isHandheldDevice()` so an unfolded Android foldable keeps `codeman-app-settings-mobile`. ⚠️ Do not switch per-device settings namespaces from instantaneous viewport width: a posture-triggered WebView reload would lose opt-in UI. Regression profile: `OPPO Find N5 (unfolded)` in `test/mobile/devices.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#foldable-settings-identity](docs/architecture-invariants.md#foldable-settings-identity)
**Folding devices: a fold is not a keyboard, and dialogs avoid the hinge**: ⚠️ in `handleViewportResize()`, a visual-viewport resize that changes the WIDTH is a shape change (rotation, fold) and must never be read as the keyboard; it re-baselines instead, or `keyboardVisible` latches with no keyboard. ⚠️ `init()` must seed `lastViewportWidth`. ⚠️ With the keyboard up, a shape change baselines to `window.innerHeight`, never the shrunk visual height. ⚠️ The hinge is reserved via `--fold-inline-end`/`--fold-block-end` (0px when unfolded): each overlay fold rule must re-state its own gutter, a base gutter overridden by a later `@media` block needs its own fold restatement there on a zero base, and dialogs use physical sides (left/top segment) in every language. Guard: `test/foldable-layout.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#folding-devices](docs/architecture-invariants.md#folding-devices)
**WebGL renderer toggle** (`webglRendererEnabled`, per-device): the GPU-stall watchdog's sticky `codeman-webgl-disabled` marker survives page loads and is cleared only by an explicit OFF→ON save or `?webgl=force`. `?nowebgl` forces the DOM renderer per-load. → [architecture-invariants#webgl-renderer-toggle](docs/architecture-invariants.md#webgl-renderer-toggle)
**Shell keyboard accessory bar + one-shot Ctrl** (`keyboard-accessory.js`): a shell-mode session swaps the mobile accessory bar for terminal controls; `setMode()` records `extendedKeyboardBar` as the base layout and `refreshForActiveSession()` resolves base-vs-shell. ⚠️ Ctrl is a one-shot modifier applied in `terminal.onData` (after `shouldSuppressTerminalQueryResponse`, before every send path), and must skip `isTerminalFocusOrMouseReport()` chunks. ⚠️ It must disarm on use, second tap, any other accessory key, session switch, keyboard dismissal and layout swap. ⚠️ `_handleCjkInput()` must apply it too (the CJK textarea bypasses onData). Mapping: `ctrlByteFor()`. ⚠️ mobile.css's light-skin repaint must keep excluding `.accessory-btn:not(.armed)` or the armed state is invisible. → [architecture-invariants#shell-keyboard-accessory-bar-and-one-shot-ctrl](docs/architecture-invariants.md#shell-keyboard-accessory-bar-and-one-shot-ctrl)
**Mobile prompt composer** (`keyboard-accessory.js`): the agent bars' Paste key is **Compose**, a native multiline dialog where only **Send** submits (the shell bar keeps plain Paste). Opening it adopts the whole terminal prompt (`_takePendingLocalEcho`), erasing the flushed prefix with backspaces counted in code points. ⚠️ Drafts are per-session and in memory only (`_composerDrafts`), never persisted (prompts carry secrets). ⚠️ Delivery is a hand-built bracketed-paste frame via `_sendInputAsync` WITHOUT `useMux`, then a separate delayed Enter WITH it; never `terminal.paste()`, and the frame must never take the mux fallback (it strips newlines). ⚠️ `_composerMaxLength` must stay derived from `MAX_INPUT_LENGTH` minus the markers, or an oversized frame wedges the durable queue. ⚠️ The composer overlay needs its own gutter restatement after the fold rules. Test: `test/mobile-prompt-composer.test.ts`. → [architecture-invariants#mobile-prompt-composer](docs/architecture-invariants.md#mobile-prompt-composer)
**PTY and browser terminal geometry** (#464): a browser terminal whose width differs from the PTY's garbles Claude's redraws, so `syncTerminalGeometry()` (terminal-ui.js) is the ONE function that may resize the main terminal (never a bare `fitAddon.fit()`), a font change is a geometry change, and the fit is withheld wherever the SIGWINCH is. ⚠️ Resize is answered with `Session.ptyGeometry`, and a client adopts its COLUMNS only (never rows); `ptyGeometry` is null without a live pane. → [architecture-invariants#pty-and-browser-terminal-geometry](docs/architecture-invariants.md#pty-and-browser-terminal-geometry)
**Terminal resilience**: a replay clear is the queued in-stream `\x1bc` in `_resetTerminalForReplay()`, never `reset()`/`clear()` (queued bytes fuse into the snapshot); the renderer watchdog `_kickRenderer()` reads xterm privates, pinned by `test/xterm-private-api.test.ts` against the resolved lockfile version; every terminal capture fetch has a deadline that covers the BODY (`_fetchTerminalCapture`). → [architecture-invariants#terminal-resilience-replay-clears-renderer-liveness-fetch-deadlines](docs/architecture-invariants.md#terminal-resilience-replay-clears-renderer-liveness-fetch-deadlines)
**WebSocket output-gap reconcile** (`_wsOutputGapSession`, app.js): output frames carry no sequence number, so an unintentional WS close while SSE stays up marks the session and the next open reconciles. ⚠️ The marker is cleared only once a repaint actually happened (`_markTerminalBufferReconciled()`, never in a `finally`). → [architecture-invariants#websocket-output-gap-reconcile](docs/architecture-invariants.md#websocket-output-gap-reconcile)
**Service worker precache** (`sw.js` + `scripts/build.mjs`): `BUILD_ID` and `HASHED_ASSETS` are build-generated and the build THROWS unless each declaration appears exactly once; `caches.match` must pass `ignoreSearch: true` because `cacheBustAssets` appends `?v=` to hashed names. → [architecture-invariants#service-worker-precache-and-cache-key](docs/architecture-invariants.md#service-worker-precache-and-cache-key)
**Dismissing the on-screen keyboard** (`terminal-ui.js`): two gestures blur the terminal's hidden textarea. (1) `_installMobileKeyboardDismiss()`, a document `touchend` that must never fire inside `#terminalContainer` or on a control (`MOBILE_KEYBOARD_DISMISS_EXEMPT_SELECTOR`, via `closest()`). (2) In `_handleMobileTerminalTap`, a second tap on inert `content` blurs; the prompt row keeps focus-then-position. ⚠️ A scroll also ends in `touchend`: both classifiers must share one threshold (`TAP_THRESHOLD` reads `MOBILE_KEYBOARD_DISMISS_TAP_SLOP`), and multi-touch is never a tap. ⚠️ CI cannot see the only test for (1): run `npm run test:mobile -- test/mobile/keyboard.test.ts` by hand and diff the FAIL list against master. → [architecture-invariants#dismissing-the-on-screen-keyboard](docs/architecture-invariants.md#dismissing-the-on-screen-keyboard)
**Phone toolbar: Enter replaces Shell** (post-1.8.0): inside `@media (max-width: 599px)` `btn-shell` is `display:none` and `btn-enter` takes its slot (`order: 4`); starting a shell moved into the Run dropdown (`Terminal / Shell` → `setRunMode('shell')` → `run()` → `runShell()`, button label "Run SH"). `runMode` is `z.string().max(20)` server-side, so new modes need no schema change. Desktop and tablet keep the green Run Shell button unchanged.
**Phone toolbar: Enter replaces Shell** (post-1.8.0): inside `@media (max-width: 430px)` `btn-shell` is `display:none` and `btn-enter` takes its slot (`order: 4`); starting a shell moved into the Run dropdown (`Terminal / Shell` → `setRunMode('shell')` → `run()` → `runShell()`, button label "Run SH"). `runMode` is `z.string().max(20)` server-side, so new modes need no schema change. Desktop and tablet keep the green Run Shell button unchanged.
⚠️ **`sendEnterKey()` MUST go through `terminal._core.coreService.triggerDataEvent('\r', true)`** — not `sendInput()`, and never a raw POST to `/api/sessions/:id/input`. `localEchoEnabled` defaults to `MobileDetection.isTouchDevice()`, so on every phone the characters you type are buffered in the `LocalEchoOverlay` and have **never reached the PTY**; the `onData` Enter branch in terminal-ui.js is what flushes `pendingText` first and only then sends `\r` (after an 80ms delay so text lands first). Sending a bare `\r` submits an empty line and strands the typed text on screen, so the button looks dead. Replaying the keypress reuses the overlay flush, the flushed-offset cleanup and the ordering instead of reimplementing them. `KeyboardAccessory.sendKey()` is for escape sequences (arrows/Esc) and is the WRONG template to copy for input.
@@ -375,13 +278,11 @@ Frontend JS modules have `@fileoverview` with `@dependency`/`@loadorder` tags. L
**Connection-loss UI** (`computeConnectionLossUi()` in constants.js, writer `_updateConnectionLossUi()` in app.js): the service worker serves the cached app shell, so an unreachable server (phone off the tailnet, VPN down, server stopped) used to render a normal-looking empty dashboard whose only tell was the 8px header dot, which reads as "no sessions", not "no connection". Two surfaces now: a full-screen **overlay** while no server state has loaded this page load (nothing behind it is worth preserving), and a non-blocking **banner** once it has (the terminal scrollback stays readable). ⚠️ A **2.5s grace** is load-bearing: a COM deploy restarts the server and SSE is back in ~200ms, and a banner on every deploy trains the user to ignore it. `navigator.onLine === false` skips the grace, since that is never a blip. Retry re-arms SSE **and** the terminal WS (`planWsReconnect` can 'give-up', and the SSE backoff caps at 30s).
**SSE staleness watchdog** (`computeSseStale()` in constants.js, `_checkSseStale()` + a 5s interval in app.js): an `EventSource` can stop delivering without erroring, so the client forces a reconnect when nothing arrives. ⚠️ The server keepalive must stay the named `sse:heartbeat` event (`cleanupDeadClients()`, sse-stream-manager.ts), never an SSE comment, which `EventSource` cannot observe; its no-op client listener must stay registered. ⚠️ Judge staleness only while `connected` and online (the loop breaker). ⚠️ The liveness stamp lives inside `addListener`. ⚠️ Clear the interval only at the top of `connectSSE()`, or intervals stack. → [architecture-invariants#sse-staleness-watchdog](docs/architecture-invariants.md#sse-staleness-watchdog)
**Z-index layers** (keep new overlays consistent with this stack): local echo overlay (7), terminal touch-selection bar (900, below floating agent windows), subagent windows + split picker menu (1000), plan agents (1100), mobile/tablet fixed header (1200), modals on ≤768px (1300, must beat the fixed header), log viewers (2000), connection-loss overlay (2500), image popups (3000), response viewer (5000, backdrop 4999), file-preview overlay (5100, must outrank the response viewer that launches it), toasts/path picker (10000+), custom-model center-status banner (10001; its `[hidden]` must re-assert `display: none` or `dismiss()` leaves an invisible click-blocker), custom-model swap-confirm/context-warning modals (10010). → [architecture-invariants#z-index-layers](docs/architecture-invariants.md#z-index-layers)
**Z-index layers**: subagent windows (1000), plan agents (1100), mobile/tablet fixed header (1200, `mobile.css`), modals on ≤768px (1300 — must beat the fixed header or the modal close button is buried), log viewers (2000), connection-loss overlay (2500, above the fixed header and modals), image popups (3000), local echo overlay (7).
**Respawn presets**: `solo-work` (3s/60min), `subagent-workflow` (45s/240min), `team-lead` (90s/480min), `ralph-todo` (8s/480min), `overnight-autonomous` (10s/480min).
**Keyboard shortcuts**: Escape (close), Ctrl+? (shortcut overlay), Ctrl/Cmd/Alt+K (session palette), Ctrl+W (kill), Ctrl+Tab (next), Alt+[/] (prev/next tab), Alt+1-9 (switch tab), Ctrl+Shift+{/} (move tab left/right), Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter (newline), Ctrl+C (copy selection, else interrupt) / Ctrl+Shift+C (copy, never interrupts), Ctrl+L (clear), Ctrl+Shift+R (restore size), Ctrl+Shift+V (voice input), Ctrl/Cmd +/- (font), Shift+Wheel (local scrollback when mouse passthrough is active), Shift+drag (start a selection in a stripped-DECSET pane, where xterm's own Shift branch is unreachable and a Shift+drag used to select nothing; `_installShiftDragSelection`), right-click (copy the selection, the mintty/PuTTY convention, since xterm paints into a canvas and the native menu has no Copy for it; with nothing selected the native menu is left alone). Rebindable via the registry.
**Keyboard shortcuts**: Escape (close), Ctrl+? (shortcut overlay), Ctrl/Cmd/Alt+K (session palette), Ctrl+W (kill), Ctrl+Tab (next), Alt+[/] (prev/next tab), Alt+1-9 (switch tab), Ctrl+Shift+{/} (move tab left/right), Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter (newline), Ctrl+C (copy selection, else interrupt) / Ctrl+Shift+C (copy, never interrupts), Ctrl+L (clear), Ctrl+Shift+R (restore size), Ctrl+Shift+V (voice input), Ctrl/Cmd +/- (font), Shift+Wheel (local scrollback when mouse passthrough is active). Rebindable via the registry.
### Security
@@ -397,20 +298,19 @@ Frontend JS modules have `@fileoverview` with `@dependency`/`@loadorder` tags. L
| **Sessions** | 24h cookie (`codeman_session`), auto-extend, device context audit |
| **Rate limit** | 10 failed auth/IP → 429 (15min decay). QR and hook-secret have separate buckets, so neither can lock out login |
| **Hook bypass** | `/api/hook-event` + `/api/status-telemetry` skip Basic auth (localhost-only, schema-validated), but when auth is active the loopback bypass requires `X-Codeman-Hook-Secret` **unconditionally** (Codeman cannot detect a user's own loopback reverse proxy) |
| **Lost-frame page** | The THIRD unauthenticated 200, beside the two hook routes, and the only one decided by request headers alone: a `GET`/`HEAD` carrying `Sec-Fetch-Dest: iframe\|frame`, `Accept: text/html` and mode `navigate` (or none), for a path that is NOT a registered route (never `/api/`, `/ws/`, `/q/`), is answered BEFORE the credential checks with the static web-tab recovery page (`lostWebviewFramePage`: no reflected input, `default-src 'none'` plus its own script hash, `no-store`). `/` is the one registered route also admitted, only when the request carries neither `codeman_session` nor `Authorization` (nothing in Codeman frames its own root; a sandboxed frame has neither), since the landing page masks to exactly `/` and its reload otherwise rendered Codeman inside the web tab. ⚠️ A non-browser client can set those headers, so an unauthenticated caller can tell a registered route (401) from a non-route (200) and enumerate the route table; accepted, the routes are public in `docs/api-reference.md`. Pinned by `test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts` + `test/webview-lost-root-frame.test.ts` |
| **Tunnel** | Enabling a tunnel **refuses** without `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` unless exposure is acknowledged via `CODEMAN_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_NETWORK=1` or the per-request `acknowledgeUnauthTunnel:true` action field (never persisted) |
| **Validation** | Zod schemas, Unicode-aware path allowlist regex, env prefix allowlist (`CLAUDE_CODE_*`/`OPENCODE_*`/`CODEX_*`/`GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*`/`ANTIGRAVITY_*`/`PI_*`/`GROK_*`/`XAI_*`/`DSH_*`/`DEEPSEEK_*`) |
| **Validation** | Zod schemas, Unicode-aware path allowlist regex, env prefix allowlist (`CLAUDE_CODE_*`/`OPENCODE_*`/`CODEX_*`/`GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*`/`ANTIGRAVITY_*`) |
| **Headers** | CORS localhost-only, CSP, X-Frame-Options, HSTS if HTTPS |
**Security-relevant env vars**: `CODEMAN_MUX` (managed session), `CODEMAN_API_URL` (auto-set for hooks), `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS` (extra Host/Origin allowlist entries for reverse proxies; bare `.suffix` matches subdomains), `CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=1` (opt-in hooks-only listener on the docker bridge gateway).
### SSE Event Registry
Event constants live in `src/web/sse-events.ts` (backend) and `SSE_EVENTS` in `constants.js` (frontend). **Both must be kept in sync**; `test/sse-registry-parity.test.ts` pins it. ⚠️ `hook:agent_working` is the one hook event with no Claude Code hook behind it — the DeepSeek status bridge reports it (see External CLI modes). The backend file's `@fileoverview` carries the per-category breakdown, including the two Web tab events.
154 event constants in `src/web/sse-events.ts` (backend) and `SSE_EVENTS` in `constants.js` (frontend). **Both must be kept in sync** — they are currently exactly in sync, and the backend file's `@fileoverview` carries the per-category breakdown.
### API Routes
One module per domain in `src/web/routes/` (plus a barrel; `ls src/web/routes/` for the current list). Beyond the `/api` routes: the `/webview/:cap/*` proxy, the `/ws/voice/stream` relay and the terminal WebSocket. Each file has `@fileoverview` with endpoint details.
~200 handlers across 23 route files in `src/web/routes/`: system (45), sessions (34), cases (29), files (16), orchestrator (10), ralph (9), cron (9), admin (8), plan (8), respawn (7), webviews (6 + the `/webview/:cap/*` proxy), mux (5), push (4), scheduled (4, legacy `ScheduledRun`), approvals (3), readmymind (4), me (2), teams (2), search (1), hooks (1), clipboard (1), status-telemetry (1), ws (1 WebSocket). Each file has `@fileoverview` with endpoint details.
**HTTP contract** (stable since 0.9.x, see `docs/versioning-policy.md`; full envelope/status/error-code/SSE spec in `docs/api-reference.md`): responses use the `ApiResponse<T>` envelope — `{ success: true, data? }` or `{ success: false, error, errorCode }` (`src/types/api.ts`). `/api/v1/*` is a versioned alias of `/api/*` (URL rewrite in `server.ts`).
@@ -428,38 +328,26 @@ One module per domain in `src/web/routes/` (plus a barrel; `ls src/web/routes/`
## State Files
All in `~/.codeman/`: `state.json` (sessions, settings, respawn, orchestrator, cron jobs/runs, owner tab layouts), `mux-sessions.json` (tmux recovery), `settings.json` (user prefs), `push-keys.json` + `push-subscriptions.json`, `session-lifecycle.jsonl` (audit log), `update-status.json` (self-updater progress, polled across the service restart), `docker-env-applied.json` (Compose deployment only: sha256 of the Dockerfile + compose file the running container was built from, written by `Start-Codeman.sh`, read by the self-updater's environment gate), `docker-build-source.json` (Compose deployment only: the checkout's HEAD commit and `package-lock.json` hash the `codeman-node-modules`/`codeman-dist` volumes currently reflect, written by both `Start-Codeman.sh` and a successful in-place self-update, compared to detect and refresh a volume left stale by an externally-triggered rebuild), `linked-cases.json`, `webviews.json` (saved web-tab dashboard URLs), `remote-hosts.json` + `remote-cases.json`, `docker-hosts.json` + `docker-cases.json` + `docker-exports/`, `subagent-window-states.json` + `subagent-parents.json` (subagent window layout, GET/PUT `/api/subagent-window-states`/`-parents`), `hook-secret` (per-instance), `users.json` (multi-user, mode 0600) + `admin-audit.jsonl`, `intents.json` (Read My Mind intent profiles, mode 0600), `certs/` (self-signed TLS for `--https`), `.env` (CODEMAN_USERNAME/PASSWORD fallback for the `codeman attach` CLI), `install.log` (installer step output, written by `install.sh`'s `run_step`) and `tailscale-rename` (the node name before `install.sh` renamed it, so uninstall can offer it back; both installer-route only). Transient: `self-update-runner.sh`. Multi-user case spaces live OUTSIDE the data dir at `~/codeman-users/<username>/cases` (shared across instances like `~/codeman-cases`, override `CODEMAN_USER_SPACES_DIR`).
All in `~/.codeman/`: `state.json` (sessions, settings, respawn, orchestrator, cron jobs/runs), `mux-sessions.json` (tmux recovery), `settings.json` (user prefs), `push-keys.json` + `push-subscriptions.json`, `session-lifecycle.jsonl` (audit log), `update-status.json` (self-updater progress, polled across the service restart), `linked-cases.json`, `webviews.json` (saved web-tab dashboard URLs), `remote-hosts.json` + `remote-cases.json`, `docker-hosts.json` + `docker-cases.json` + `docker-exports/`, `subagent-window-states.json` + `subagent-parents.json` (subagent window layout, GET/PUT `/api/subagent-window-states`/`-parents`), `hook-secret` (per-instance), `users.json` (multi-user, mode 0600) + `admin-audit.jsonl`, `intents.json` (Read My Mind intent profiles, mode 0600), `certs/` (self-signed TLS for `--https`), `.env` (CODEMAN_USERNAME/PASSWORD fallback for the `codeman attach` CLI). Transient: `self-update-runner.sh`. Multi-user case spaces live OUTSIDE the data dir at `~/codeman-users/<username>/cases` (shared across instances like `~/codeman-cases`, override `CODEMAN_USER_SPACES_DIR`).
**Generated top-level dirs** (all gitignored — don't edit or commit): `dist/` (esbuild output), `out/`, `coverage/`, `test-results/`, `tmp/`, `screenshots-echo-diag/`. The committed gesture bundle (`src/web/public/gesture/gesture-codeman.js`) IS tracked, but its runtime wasm/model assets (`src/web/public/gesture/wasm/`, `*.task`) are fetched and gitignored.
## Testing
**`npm test` is the gate and is safe to run bare** — it runs `config/vitest.ci.config.ts`, exactly what CI runs, so local green means CI green.
**Never run the bare full suite** (`npm test` with no file argument): the default config includes the browser-driven suites (`test/mobile/**` and 3 other Playwright tests), which need a live server + chromium + environment-specific PNG baselines and will fail/hang locally. Run individual files, or `test:ci` for a broad sweep:
```bash
npm test # The gate — what CI runs
npm test -- test/<specific-file>.test.ts # Single file
npm test -- -t "pattern" # By name
npm test -- test/<specific-file>.test.ts # Single file (SAFE, uses config/vitest.config.ts)
npm test -- -t "pattern" # By name (SAFE)
npm run test:ci # Everything except browser/perf suites — what CI runs
# npm test # DON'T — includes browser/visual suites
```
Three suites are deliberately left out, because they cannot pass on an arbitrary machine. Each has its own runner, and a failure there means "not runnable here", not a regression:
Raw `npx vitest` skips `config/vitest.config.ts`; always use `npm test --` or pass `--config config/vitest.config.ts`.
```bash
npm run test:browser # Playwright + chromium, live server; codex-predictive-echo also needs a real codex binary
npm run test:mobile # the above plus environment-specific PNG baselines (own config, own pretest vendor step)
npm run test:perf # wall-clock benchmarks — need an otherwise idle machine
npm run test:all # literally everything; fails ~87 tests on a clean master here, which is why it is not the default
```
**Config**: Vitest with `globals: true`, `fileParallelism: false`. Timeout 30s, teardown 60s. `config/vitest.ci.config.ts` = same minus the browser/perf excludes — keep the two configs in sync when changing shared options.
⚠️ **`npm test` cannot see those suites**, so a change touching mobile/gesture/terminal-render behaviour needs the matching runner by hand — diff its FAIL list against master rather than reading it as pass/fail. That blind spot is what let two semantically-conflicting PRs merge green (see the on-screen-keyboard note above).
⚠️ **A file filter must match the runner.** `npm test -- test/mobile/keyboard.test.ts` matches nothing and exits GREEN having run zero tests, because the gate's config excludes that path — an excluded file needs its own runner (`npm run test:mobile -- <file>`, `npm run test:browser -- <file>`, `npm run test:perf -- <file>`). Vitest treats "no files matched a filter" as success, so read the file count, not just the colour.
Raw `npx vitest` skips the config (and with it `setup.ts`); always use `npm test --` or pass `--config`.
**Config**: Vitest with `globals: true`, `fileParallelism: false`. Timeout 30s, teardown 60s. `config/vitest.config.ts` is the everything-config behind `test:all`; `config/vitest.ci.config.ts` is the gate and derives its excludes from `config/test-suites.ts`, which is also what `vitest.browser.config.ts` and `vitest.perf.config.ts` derive their includes from — so the exclusions and the runners cannot drift apart. Keep shared options in sync across them.
**Tmux safety**: under vitest (`VITEST`), `TmuxManager` no-ops ALL shell commands (`IS_TEST_MODE` in `src/tmux-manager.ts`), docker IO is no-op'd likewise, and `Session` spawns an echo PTY (`TEST_PTY_SCRIPT`) instead of attaching tmux. `test/setup.ts` gives each file a temp `HOME`/`USERPROFILE` and strips `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`/`CODEMAN_USERNAME`, `CODEMAN_GESTURE` and `CODEMAN_INSTANCE`/`CODEMAN_DATA_DIR`/`CODEMAN_TMUX_SOCKET` (pinned by `test/test-env-isolation.test.ts`). ⚠️ `CODEMAN_DATA_DIR` overrides the temp HOME, so never drop its strip; strip `CODEMAN_INSTANCE` in the setup file, never in a hook (captured at first import). ⚠️ Delete case trees only via `safeRmHomeTree()`. ⚠️ Raw `npx vitest` without `--config` skips `setup.ts` and its isolation. → [architecture-invariants#test-isolation-tmux-docker-and-home](docs/architecture-invariants.md#test-isolation-tmux-docker-and-home)
**Tmux safety**: under vitest (`VITEST` env var, set automatically), `TmuxManager` no-ops ALL shell commands and becomes a pure in-memory mock — tests physically cannot create/kill/attach real tmux sessions (`IS_TEST_MODE` in `src/tmux-manager.ts`). Every docker IO path is no-op'd the same way. `Session` is test-gated too: instead of attaching a real tmux client, it spawns a raw-mode echo PTY (`TEST_PTY_SCRIPT` in `src/session.ts`), so integration tests get a live input/output loop that echoes each byte exactly once. `test/setup.ts` gives every test file a temporary `HOME`/`USERPROFILE` (all `homedir()`-derived state, `~/.codeman` and `~/codeman-cases` included, resolves into a per-file fixture; the Playwright browser cache path is preserved), and additionally strips `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`/`CODEMAN_USERNAME` (so auth state from the running instance can't leak into tests) and `CODEMAN_GESTURE` (a shell-exported gesture flag would flip render-injection assertions). ⚠️ Raw `npx vitest` without `--config` skips `setup.ts` and with it the temp-HOME isolation.
**Ports**: Pick unique ports manually, 3150+. Search `const PORT =` before adding new tests. Never 3000 (the live instance).
@@ -467,15 +355,15 @@ Raw `npx vitest` skips the config (and with it `setup.ts`); always use `npm test
**Testing against the live instance**: prod is HTTPS-only on :3000 (`curl -sk https://localhost:3000/...`). ⚠️ `w1`/`w2`/`w3` are the user's REAL sessions — never send input to them. Create your own throwaway session (`POST /api/sessions` then `POST /api/sessions/:id/shell`; creation alone leaves `pid: null` and no pane), test against that, and `DELETE` it by exact id when done.
**Respawn tests**: Use `MockSession` from `test/mocks/index.ts` (defined in `test/mocks/mock-session.ts`). **Route tests**: `app.inject({ method, url, payload })` in `test/routes/` — no live port needed. **Mobile tests**: Playwright suite in `test/mobile/` (device profiles in `test/mobile/devices.ts`). Browser-testing infra and practices: `docs/browser-testing-guide.md`.
**Respawn tests**: Use `MockSession` from `test/mocks/index.ts` (defined in `test/mocks/mock-session.ts`). **Route tests**: `app.inject({ method, url, payload })` in `test/routes/` — no live port needed. **Mobile tests**: Playwright suite in `test/mobile/` (136 device profiles). Browser-testing infra and practices: `docs/browser-testing-guide.md`.
## Debugging
```bash
tmux -L codeman list-sessions # Codeman's own socket (bare `tmux` shows the default one)
curl -sk https://localhost:3000/api/sessions | jq # Check sessions (prod is HTTPS-only; dev on :3000 is plain http)
curl -sk https://localhost:3000/api/status | jq # Full app state
curl -sk https://localhost:3000/api/subagents | jq # Background agents
tmux list-sessions # List tmux sessions
curl localhost:3000/api/sessions | jq # Check sessions
curl localhost:3000/api/status | jq # Full app state
curl localhost:3000/api/subagents | jq # Background agents
cat ~/.codeman/state.json | jq # Persisted state
```
@@ -485,12 +373,12 @@ Mobile screenshots: `~/.codeman/screenshots/`, accessed via `GET/POST /api/scree
Target: 20 sessions, 50 agent windows at 60fps. Limits live in `src/config/` (terminal 32MB, text 1MB, messages 1000, max agents 500, max sessions 50, max SSE clients 100), most env-overridable.
Two constraints worth knowing before you touch them: the env-derived PTY buffer trim is **clamped to ≤75% of max**, because a trim ≥ max would disable `BufferAccumulator` trimming entirely and make memory unbounded; and browser xterm scrollback is a **separate hardcoded 50k** (`DEFAULT_SCROLLBACK` in constants.js), deliberately lower than tmux's 100k history because 100k per tab is a mobile-memory hazard. tmux <3.7 allocates `history-limit` at pane creation, while tmux 3.7+ can resize live panes (lowering the value can discard retained lines); already-evicted lines never return. The settings keys `terminalScrollbackLines`/`terminalBufferMaxBytes`/`terminalBufferTrimBytes` are schema-validated but **inert**; only `tmuxHistoryLimit` is wired. → [architecture-invariants#buffers-uploads-and-terminal-history](docs/architecture-invariants.md#buffers-uploads-and-terminal-history), `docs/terminal-anti-flicker.md`
Two constraints worth knowing before you touch them: the env-derived PTY buffer trim is **clamped to ≤75% of max**, because a trim ≥ max would disable `BufferAccumulator` trimming entirely and make memory unbounded; and browser xterm scrollback is a **separate hardcoded 50k** (`DEFAULT_SCROLLBACK` in constants.js), deliberately lower than tmux's 100k history because 100k per tab is a mobile-memory hazard. The settings keys `terminalScrollbackLines`/`terminalBufferMaxBytes`/`terminalBufferTrimBytes` are schema-validated but **inert**; only `tmuxHistoryLimit` is wired live. → [architecture-invariants#buffers-uploads-and-terminal-history](docs/architecture-invariants.md#buffers-uploads-and-terminal-history), `docs/terminal-anti-flicker.md`
**Memory leaks (24+ hour sessions)**: use `CleanupManager`, clear Maps in `stop()`, guard async with `if (this.cleanup.isStopped) return`. Frontend: store handler refs, clean in `close*()`. Use `LRUMap` for bounded caches, `StaleExpirationMap` for TTL cleanup. Verify: `npm test -- test/memory-leak-prevention.test.ts`.
## Scripts & Tunnel
**`install.sh`** (repo root) is the public `curl | bash` installer: it installs Node/tmux/git/build tools, clones to `~/.codeman/app`, builds, and offers a systemd/launchd service, asking every question BEFORE the unattended build (log in `~/.codeman/install.log`). Network access is Tailscale / LAN / local-only; re-runs preserve the existing binding AND password (`read_existing_binding()`). ⚠️ Compose the hand-start env only in `start_command_hint`/`export_bind_env`, and call `stop_background_helpers` before `exec`. ⚠️ Tailscale rename is opt-in (default NO, never under `--yes`/non-interactive); NEVER `tailscale serve reset`, touch a mapping it did not create, run `tailscale funnel` or advertise a Service (`test/install-sh-invariants.test.ts`). ⚠️ Stay **bash 3.2** clean (no `declare -A`, `mapfile`, namerefs, `${x,,}`, here-strings, empty-array expansion under `set -u`). ⚠️ Execute only commands from the generated CLI block (`CLI_INSTALL_CMD_TRUSTED`, `npm run generate:cli-catalog`). → [architecture-invariants#installsh-the-public-installer](docs/architecture-invariants.md#installsh-the-public-installer)
**`install.sh`** (repo root, 69KB) is the public entry point: `curl -fsSL <raw url> | bash` installs Node/tmux if missing, clones to `~/.codeman/app`, builds, and offers a systemd/launchd service. The network-access prompt is 3-way: **Tailscale** (loopback bind + guided `tailscale serve --bg <port>` HTTPS setup: install/login/operator/tailnet-HTTPS-toggle, then curl-verified end-to-end), **LAN** (0.0.0.0 + password prompt), or **local-only**; it preserves the existing binding on re-runs via `read_existing_binding()`. Tailscale state is detected dynamically from `tailscale serve status --json` (no marker files); the installer must NEVER `tailscale serve reset` or touch serve mappings other than 443→Codeman's port (users have unrelated serve config). `install.sh update`, `install.sh uninstall`, and `install.sh tailscale` (retrofit Tailscale access onto an existing install) also exist; `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1` approves system changes for automation, `CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1` presets the Tailscale choice (never installs Tailscale non-interactively).
Other key scripts: `scripts/tmux-manager.sh` (safe tmux mgmt), `scripts/tunnel.sh [quick|named] start|stop|status|url` (quick = random trycloudflare URL, default; `named setup|enable` = fixed-hostname tunnel via `scripts/codeman-tunnel-named.service`; bare `start|stop|url` still means quick), `scripts/run-beta.sh` (isolated beta instance), `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs` (docker base image), `scripts/self-update.sh` (detached updater). Production services: `scripts/codeman-web.service`, `scripts/codeman-tunnel.service`. **Always set `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`** before exposing via tunnel.
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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; Grok &bull; DeepSeek &bull; OMP &bull; Terminal - One Dashboard &bull; Any Device</em>
<em>Claude Code &bull; OpenCode &bull; Codex &bull; Antigravity &bull; Gemini &bull; Terminal - One Dashboard &bull; Any Device</em>
</p>
<p align="center">
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@
<a href="https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/commits/master"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/commit-activity/t/Ark0N/Codeman?style=flat-square&color=1e3a5f" alt="Total commits"></a>
</p>
<p align="center">
⭐ <strong>Like Codeman? <a href="https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman">Give it a star on GitHub!</a></strong> It takes one click and helps more people find the project. ⭐
</p>
<p align="center">
<strong>English</strong> &bull; <a href="README.zh-CN.md">简体中文</a>
</p>
@@ -31,7 +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, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek Harness, 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.
**Codeman** is a self-hosted mission control for AI coding agents. It spawns Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, or Gemini CLI 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):
@@ -46,7 +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, nine CLIs** - run [Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek, or OMP](#more-features) per session (plus plain shell), locally, [in Docker](#isolated-docker-sessions), or [over SSH](#remote-ssh-sessions), with your own dashboards open as [web tabs](#more-features) beside them
- **One dashboard, five CLIs** - run [Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, or Gemini](#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
@@ -65,15 +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, 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. It looks at what is already on the machine, asks at most three questions, then does all the work unattended and ends on the URL with a QR code for your phone. A few things worth knowing:
This installs Node.js and tmux if missing, clones Codeman to `~/.codeman/app`, and builds it. A few things worth knowing:
- **Three questions, all up front.** How the dashboard is reached, optionally what to call this machine on your tailnet, and whether to run Codeman as a background service (systemd/launchd, auto-start on boot; Enter says yes). Everything that needs you, including one consent for all missing packages, one sudo password, and the Tailscale login, happens before the build, so you can walk away while it compiles.
- **How it's reachable, your choice.** **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 connected, your existing binding on a re-run), and a bare Enter never pulls in new software. If another app already owns `:443` on your node, Codeman goes under `https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net/codeman` or on a second port instead of replacing it. A bare `codeman web` started by hand still defaults to loopback.
- **The name is yours to choose.** By default the URL uses the machine's existing tailnet name. Answering yes to the second question renames the machine to `codeman-<hostname>` (which also renames it for SSH, so the default is no); `install.sh name` does it later.
- **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 status` prints the URLs and the QR code again; `install.sh update`, `install.sh tailscale` and `install.sh uninstall` also exist.
- **Flags for the impatient.** `curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash -s -- --tailscale --service` answers the questions from the command line (`--lan`, `--local`, `--run`, `--no-start`, `--name <n>`, `--port <n>`, `--yes` too). **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.
- **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.
- **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), [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 any of them from a menu (DeepSeek excepted, since its npm package installs only a launcher with no runnable profile), 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), or [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) (any combination works; Gemini CLI is enterprise-only since Google's consumer cutover, and Antigravity is its successor). The installer detects whichever of the five 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
@@ -87,8 +82,6 @@ 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. After updating, run the script again rather than a plain `docker compose up`, so the rebuilt image, refreshed volumes and entrypoint arrive together. 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>
@@ -178,7 +171,7 @@ 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), [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.
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), or [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli)). After installing, `http://localhost:3000` is accessible from your Windows browser.
</details>
@@ -214,17 +207,17 @@ The most responsive AI coding agent experience on any phone. Full xterm.js termi
<tr><td>Password typing on phone</td><td><b>QR code scan — instant auth</b></td></tr>
</table>
- **Keyboard accessory bar** — `/init`, `/clear`, `/compact` quick-action buttons above the virtual keyboard; destructive commands require a double-press to confirm, so you never fire one by accident; on Codex sessions the bar also shows `⇧←` / `⇧→` (Shift+Left / Shift+Right: edit the last queued message / return through the prompt stack)
- **Keyboard accessory bar** — `/init`, `/clear`, `/compact` quick-action buttons above the virtual keyboard; destructive commands require a double-press to confirm, so you never fire one by accident
- **Dedicated Enter button** — replays the keypress through the terminal, so text buffered by local echo is flushed first rather than stranded
- **Swipe navigation & smart keyboard handling** — swipe left/right to switch sessions; toolbar and terminal shift up when the keyboard opens (`visualViewport` API)
- **Built for phones** — safe-area insets for notch and home indicator, 44px touch targets, bottom-sheet case picker, native momentum scrolling; on a folding phone (iPhone Duo) dialogs stay clear of the hinge, and opening or closing the device is never mistaken for the keyboard
- **Built for phones** — safe-area insets for notch and home indicator, 44px touch targets, bottom-sheet case picker, native momentum scrolling
```bash
codeman web --https
# Open on your phone: https://<your-ip>:3000
```
> `localhost` works over plain HTTP. Use `--https` when accessing from another device, or use [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com/) (recommended): the installer can set it up for you (choose **Tailscale** at the network-access prompt, or run `bash ~/.codeman/app/install.sh tailscale` on an existing install). That gives you `https://<your-machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net` with a real certificate: private to your tailnet, no password required, and PWA install + push notifications work on your phone. The installer ends on that URL with a QR code to scan, and `bash ~/.codeman/app/install.sh status` prints it again any time.
> `localhost` works over plain HTTP. Use `--https` when accessing from another device, or use [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com/) (recommended): the installer can set it up for you (choose **Tailscale** at the network-access prompt, or run `bash ~/.codeman/app/install.sh tailscale` on an existing install). That gives you `https://<your-machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net` with a real certificate: private to your tailnet, no password required, and PWA install + push notifications work on your phone.
### Secure QR Code Authentication
@@ -259,16 +252,16 @@ 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`, `Grok`, `DeepSeek`, `OMP`, or `Terminal` (plain shell). |
| **Model** | Per-session model (App Settings → Models → New Claude sessions). A soft default — `/model` still works in-session. |
| **Working directory / case** | The folder the agent operates in. A "case" is just a named working dir Codeman remembers. |
| **CLI / run mode** | `Claude` (default), `OpenCode`, `Codex`, `Antigravity`, `Gemini`, or `Terminal` (plain shell). |
| **Model** | Per-session model (App Settings → Claude Model). 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`. |
Hit start — Codeman spawns the CLI via a real PTY and streams it to your browser over SSE.
### 3. Read the dashboard
- **Tabs (top)** — one per session. `Alt+1`-`9` to jump, `Ctrl+Tab` for next, drag to reorder (tab order syncs across your devices). Prefer a list? **App Settings → Appearance → Tabs** moves it into a left sidebar with a filter box (`Alt+B` collapses it) or a vertical rail whose rows sort by activity: blocked on you first, then longest running, then most recently quiet.
- **Tabs (top)** — one per session. `Alt+1`-`9` to jump, `Ctrl+Tab` for next, drag to reorder (tab order syncs across your devices).
- **Terminal (center)** — a real `xterm.js` terminal; full TUIs render correctly. Type directly and press **Enter** to send. `Shift+Enter` inserts a newline.
- **Side panels** — Respawn, Orchestrator, Cron, Subagents, Settings (toggled from the toolbar).
@@ -276,10 +269,8 @@ Hit start — Codeman spawns the CLI via a real PTY and streams it to your brows
- **Type prompts** straight into the terminal — input is delivered exactly-once even across reconnects (a dropped link never loses or double-sends a prompt).
- **Paste or drag-and-drop images** directly into the session.
- **Voice input** — `Ctrl+Shift+V` (Deepgram Nova-3, or this machine's Claude Code login with no API key; auto-silence stop).
- **Attachments** — register external files/docs and preview Office/PDF inline; any file path an agent prints is clickable, in the terminal and in the chat view.
- **When it needs you** — the tab turns yellow (waiting for input) or red (a question is blocking). The **Approvals Inbox** _(opt-in)_ queues every pending prompt across sessions, answerable from the header bell or the phone home screen, and 🧠 **Read My Mind** _(opt-in)_ drafts your next prompt from the case's goals and recent work.
- **Copy what you see** — `Shift+drag` selects text even while the CLI owns the mouse, right-click copies it, and Auto Copy _(opt-in)_ copies a selection the moment you release it.
- **Voice input** — `Ctrl+Shift+V` (Deepgram Nova-3, with auto-silence stop).
- **Attachments** — register external files/docs and preview Office/PDF inline.
### 5. Make it autonomous
@@ -287,20 +278,20 @@ Hit start — Codeman spawns the CLI via a real PTY and streams it to your brows
| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Respawn** | Long unattended runs — auto-restarts the CLI on idle/limit, with adaptive timing. Presets: `solo-work`, `overnight-autonomous`, … | Respawn tab |
| **Orchestrator** | Turn one goal into a phased plan and drive it to completion across agents. | Orchestrator panel |
| **Cron** | Saved, named jobs on a schedule (`once`/`interval`/`daily`/`weekly`) that spawn a session and send a prompt when due. | ⏰ Cron button _(opt-in: App Settings → Header & Panels → Scheduling)_ |
| **Cron** | Saved, named jobs on a schedule (`once`/`interval`/`daily`/`weekly`) that spawn a session and send a prompt when due. | ⏰ Cron button _(opt-in: App Settings → Display → Header Displays)_ |
| **Auto-resume** | Automatically continue after a subscription rate-limit resets. | Respawn tab (top) |
### 6. Reach it from anywhere
- **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** — `codeman tui` is a full-screen dashboard in the terminal (`codeman tui --list` to list, `codeman tui 2` to attach straight to one).
- **SSH** — the `sc` chooser attaches to any session from a terminal (`sc` interactive, `sc 2` quick-attach, `sc -l` list).
### 7. Operate & maintain
- **App Settings** — model, effort, permission startup mode, theme/skin, terminal font family and weight, entrance animations, notifications, display toggles, per-CLI options, a synced custom display name, and per-device English/Simplified Chinese UI language.
- **App Settings** — model, effort, permission startup mode, theme/skin, notifications, display toggles, per-CLI options, a synced custom display name, and per-device English/Simplified Chinese UI language.
- **Run it in the background** — `codeman web -d` detaches from your shell (`--status`, `--stop`); `codeman service install` makes it a systemd user unit / macOS LaunchAgent that survives reboots. Both verify the server actually answers before reporting success, and both refuse to start a second server on one data dir. See [Keep it running in the background](#quick-start---installation).
- **Self-update** — git-clone installs update in place from **App Settings → System → Updates**.
- **Self-update** — git-clone installs update in place from **Settings → Updates**.
- **Deploy your own changes** — see [Development](#development).
> ⚠️ **Safety:** if you're working _inside_ a Codeman-managed session (`echo $CODEMAN_MUX` → `1`), never run `tmux kill-session` / `pkill claude` directly — use the web UI or `./scripts/tmux-manager.sh`.
@@ -415,14 +406,6 @@ 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.
@@ -444,23 +427,17 @@ PTY Output → 16ms Server Batch → DEC 2026 Wrap → SSE → Client rAF → xt
## More Features
- **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**, **Pi**, **Grok**, **DeepSeek Harness**, 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 `DSH_*`/`DEEPSEEK_*` 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), [`docs/deepseek-integration.md`](docs/deepseek-integration.md) and [`docs/omp-integration.md`](docs/omp-integration.md)
- **Custom model endpoints** _(new in 1.29.0, HTTP API for now)_ — point a session's CLI at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint instead of its native backend: a local llama.cpp, llama-swap, Ollama or vLLM box, or a cloud gateway such as Azure AI Foundry or OpenRouter. Save an endpoint once (`POST /api/model-endpoints`; its models are discovered from `/v1/models`), apply it to a session (`POST /api/sessions/:id/custom-model`), and the CLI restarts in place on that endpoint. Verified live for Claude, OpenCode, Pi, Grok and OMP; Codex, Gemini and DeepSeek have documented gaps, Antigravity has no mechanism. A toolbar picker is the follow-up. See [`docs/custom-model-endpoints.md`](docs/custom-model-endpoints.md)
- **Web tabs** — open Grafana, Uptime Kuma, a Vite dev server or any dashboard URL as a tab beside your sessions (Run dropdown → **Web / URL** → **Add URL**). Dashboards are proxied through Codeman's own origin, so an `http://` target works from a phone over HTTPS and through the tunnel, single-page apps route on their own paths, and a frame that reloads recovers itself. A `localhost` link an agent prints opens as a web tab automatically. See [`docs/web-tabs.md`](docs/web-tabs.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, or attach a case to a container you already run; 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; file previews and downloads come over the same ssh connection. See [`docs/remote-sessions.md`](docs/remote-sessions.md)
- **Self-update** — git-clone installs under systemd/launchd update in place from **App Settings → 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)
- **Multi-CLI** — run **Claude Code**, **OpenCode**, **Codex**, **Antigravity**, or **Gemini** per session; env-var prefixes auto-gate (`CLAUDE_CODE_*` vs `OPENCODE_*` vs `CODEX_*` vs `ANTIGRAVITY_*` vs `GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*`). See [`docs/opencode-integration.md`](docs/opencode-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
- **Voice input** — dictate prompts with Deepgram Nova-3, or through this machine's Claude Code login with no API key at all (App Settings → Voice; Web Speech API fallback): toggle recording, auto-silence stop, live level meter (`Ctrl+Shift+V`)
- **Voice input** — dictate prompts with Deepgram Nova-3 (Web Speech API fallback): toggle recording, auto-silence stop, live level meter (`Ctrl+Shift+V`)
- **Image input** — paste or drag-and-drop images straight into a session
- **Gesture control** _(opt-in)_ — a MediaPipe hand-tracking overlay to grab/drag session windows and pinch buttons, hands-free. Enable with `CODEMAN_GESTURE=1` + App Settings → Terminal & Input
- **Gesture control** _(opt-in)_ — a MediaPipe hand-tracking overlay to grab/drag session windows and pinch buttons, hands-free. Enable with `CODEMAN_GESTURE=1` + App Settings → Display
- **Multi-monitor span** _(macOS)_ — one click opens a browser window maximized across all displays, so floating agent/gesture panels can cross the physical seam
- **File Viewer button** _(opt-in)_ — a header button that toggles the built-in file browser panel with one tap; enable under App Settings → Header & Panels → Header buttons
- **CJK / IME input** — full composition support for Chinese / Japanese / Korean, with Ctrl- and Alt-modified navigation keys passed through to the CLI
- **Plan usage in the header** — live Claude subscription usage (the 5-hour and weekly windows) from a statusline exporter Codeman hands to `claude` at spawn and never writes into your settings files, plus Codex limits from its own app-server; per device, on for desktops and off for phones
- **Session list, your way** — the header strip, a left sidebar with a filter box, or a vertical rail whose detailed rows carry created and state stamps and sort by activity; the phone home screen and the desktop home rail use the same order
- **Terminal looks** — seven skins, four of them light, per-device font family and weight (the bundled JetBrains Mono covers weights 100 to 800), and opt-in entrance animations for tabs, agent windows, the terminal pane and connection lines
- **File Viewer button** _(opt-in)_ — a header button that toggles the built-in file browser panel with one tap; enable under App Settings → Display → Header Displays
- **CJK / IME input** — full composition support for Chinese / Japanese / Korean
- **OS notifications & hostname-aware titles** — desktop alerts and tab titles are prefixed `codeman:<host>` so multi-host setups stay unambiguous
---
@@ -473,8 +450,7 @@ Run a case inside its own hardened Docker container instead of directly on your
- **Resource templates** — expand the checkbox for a **Small / Medium / Large / GPU** preset (memory, CPUs, GPU), or set your own. **Disk is elastic** — storage grows as data flows in, no fixed cap.
- **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 / Grok / 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.
- **Attach to a container you already run** — tick **Attach to an existing container** on the Docker panel to link a case to it instead of creating one. Codeman only `exec`s into it and never starts, stops, restarts or removes it; one adopted container can back several cases at different directories, and **copy an existing case** pre-fills the form from a sibling. Admin-only in multi-user mode, since the container's mounts belong to whoever started it.
- **Seamless auth, isolated credentials** — your host Claude / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / OpenCode 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.
@@ -491,7 +467,6 @@ Point a case at another machine and run the agent **there**, over SSH, with the
- **Discover & attach**: list the `codeman-*` sessions already running on a host (started by that machine's own Codeman, or by another operator) and attach to one. Attached sessions you don't own **detach on tab close, never kill**.
- **Shared sessions**: several clients can attach the same remote session at different window sizes without clamping each other; discovery shows a "shared" badge with the client count.
- **Injection-safe**: every ssh command line flows through a single shell-escaping builder, and host/path/identity fields are schema-guarded.
- **Files too**: previews, downloads and text reads in a remote case go over the same ssh connection (one `realpath` + `stat` probe, then a streamed `cat`, `Range` seeking included), so a clicked path opens the file on the machine the agent is on. Nothing is copied to the Codeman host; editing and Office previews answer a clear 400 instead of a misleading 404.
Set it up under **New Case → Remote** (host, user, identity file, optional jump host). Full design: [`docs/remote-sessions.md`](docs/remote-sessions.md).
@@ -545,7 +520,7 @@ The script auto-installs a systemd user service on first run. The tunnel URL is
systemctl --user enable codeman-tunnel
loginctl enable-linger $USER
# Or via the Codeman web UI: App Settings → System → Remote access → Cloudflare Tunnel
# Or via the Codeman web UI: Settings → Tunnel → Toggle On
```
</details>
@@ -647,7 +622,7 @@ By default Codeman launches sessions with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`, so t
- **Loopback by default** — the server binary binds `127.0.0.1`, reachable only from the same machine, so the no-password default is safe out of the box (the guided installer asks about network access and configures the binding + password for you). Binding a non-loopback host without `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` _starts but prints a loud warning_ with three concrete fixes (set a password, loopback + an authenticated tunnel, or explicitly acknowledge with `--allow-unauthenticated-network`)
- **Optional auth, real sessions** — HTTP Basic via `CODEMAN_USERNAME` (default `admin`) / `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`. Success issues an opaque 256-bit `codeman_session` cookie (`randomBytes(32)`) — validated server-side, not client-signed, so it can't be forged offline (24h TTL, auto-extend, device-context audit log)
- **Per-IP rate limiting** — 10 failed attempts → `429` with `Retry-After` (15-min decay). A valid cookie or correct password recovers _immediately_ even while an attacker hammers the same IP — important because all tunnel traffic shares one loopback IP. QR auth has its own separate limiter
- **Configurable permission mode** - `--dangerously-skip-permissions` is only the default. **App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Claude → Startup Mode** can switch new sessions to Anthropic's classifier-guarded `auto` mode (low-prompt, needs Claude Code 2.1.207+), `normal` prompting, or an explicit allowed-tools list. In multi-user mode, non-granted users are forced to `auto`, and shell sessions / skip-permissions require an explicit per-user grant
- **Configurable permission mode** - `--dangerously-skip-permissions` is only the default. **App Settings → Claude CLI → Startup Mode** can switch new sessions to Anthropic's classifier-guarded `auto` mode (low-prompt, needs Claude Code 2.1.207+), `normal` prompting, or an explicit allowed-tools list. In multi-user mode, non-granted users are forced to `auto`, and shell sessions / skip-permissions require an explicit per-user grant
### Always-on browser hardening (v0.9.5)
@@ -661,8 +636,8 @@ 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_*` / `PI_*` / `GROK_*` / `XAI_*` / `DSH_*` / `DEEPSEEK_*` / `OMP_*` env-prefix allowlist gates which settings each CLI can receive, and the keys that could redirect a CLI's traffic (base URLs, config homes) are clamped for non-admin users
- **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 / 2 GB raw & download (`CODEMAN_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES`; bodies stream and answer `Range` requests, so the cap is a sanity bound rather than memory protection); `/api/download` blocklists sensitive paths (`.env`, `*credentials*`, `~/.ssh/`, `.aws/credentials`). SVG/HTML is served `octet-stream` + `nosniff` + attachment so it downloads rather than executes
- **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
- **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`
### Supply chain & isolation
@@ -674,19 +649,17 @@ These run for **every** request — before auth, even on the default no-password
---
## Terminal UI (`codeman tui`)
## SSH Alternative (`sc`)
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:
If you prefer SSH (Termius, Blink, etc.), the `sc` command is a thumb-friendly session chooser:
```bash
codeman tui # the dashboard
codeman tui --list # numbered session list, then exit (scriptable)
codeman tui 2 # attach straight to session 2 of that list
sc # Interactive chooser
sc 2 # Quick attach to session 2
sc -l # List sessions
```
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.
Single-digit selection (1-9), color-coded status, token counts, auto-refresh. Detach with `Ctrl+A D`.
---
@@ -701,21 +674,15 @@ The web UI remains the primary surface; see **[docs/tui.md](docs/tui.md)** for t
| `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) |
| `Ctrl/Cmd+V` | Paste, or upload a clipboard image and paste its path |
| `Ctrl/Cmd+L` | Clear terminal |
| `Ctrl+Shift+R` | Restore terminal size |
| `Ctrl+Shift+V` | Toggle voice input |
| `Ctrl/Cmd +` / `-` | Font size |
| `Ctrl/Cmd+?` | Keyboard help |
| `Shift+Enter` | Insert newline (sent to terminal) |
| `Shift+drag` | Select text in a pane whose mouse events go to the CLI |
| Right-click | Copy the selection (the native menu stays when nothing is selected) |
| `Shift+Wheel` | Scroll the local scrollback while the wheel is forwarded to the CLI |
| `Ctrl+Z` | Swallowed in agent sessions so a running CLI cannot be suspended; normal job control in a shell |
| `Escape` | Close panels & modals |
---
@@ -724,78 +691,17 @@ The web UI remains the primary surface; see **[docs/tui.md](docs/tui.md)** for t
For AI agents and automation that control Codeman without a browser: an agent that spins up worker sessions, a CI bot, or **Claude Code running _inside_ a Codeman session orchestrating other sessions**. Everything the UI does is HTTP + a CLI, so an agent can do it too.
### The agent skill (start here)
> **Shortcut: install the packaged agent skill.** Everything below (plus worked multi-worker recipes) ships as a Claude Code skill in [`skills/codeman`](skills/codeman/SKILL.md), so an agent inside a session can drive Codeman without you pasting docs into the prompt. Three ways to get it:
>
> - `npx skills add Ark0N/Codeman --skill codeman -g`: global, works for any skills-aware agent
> - `codeman skill install` (global) or `codeman skill install --case <name>`: for npm installs that never cloned the repo; `codeman skill uninstall` reverses it
> - **App Settings → Agent Skill** (`agentSkillEnabled`, default off): Codeman then injects the skill into each case on Claude session create; a user-authored `skills/codeman` in the case is never overwritten
>
> A global install (`codeman skill install`, or `npx skills add`) is picked up by **every new Claude Code session on the machine**, inside Codeman or not. The skill self-gates: outside a Codeman session (`CODEMAN_MUX` unset) it refuses to act, so a global install costs an idle session nothing.
>
> ⚠️ Turning `agentSkillEnabled` back off **does not remove already-injected copies** (a create-time sweep would yank the skill out from under other live sessions sharing that `.claude/` dir). Remove them per case with `codeman skill uninstall --case <name>`.
Everything in this section also ships as a **Claude Code skill** in [`skills/codeman`](skills/codeman/SKILL.md). Install it once and you never paste API docs into a prompt again. You ask for what you want in plain English, and the agent already sitting inside a Codeman session loads the recipes and drives the API itself.
#### Step 1: install it
| How | Command | Scope |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Skills CLI | `npx skills add Ark0N/Codeman --skill codeman -g` | Global, works for any skills-aware agent |
| Claude Code plugin | `/plugin marketplace add Ark0N/Codeman` then `/plugin install codeman@codeman` | Global, through Claude Code's plugin manager; `/plugin update codeman` follows releases. Pick this OR a `codeman skill install`, not both: a Claude Code with both lists the skill twice (`codeman` and `codeman:codeman`) |
| Bundled CLI | `codeman skill install` | Global (`~/.claude/skills/codeman`), for npm installs that never cloned the repo |
| Bundled CLI | `codeman skill install --case <name>` | One case only |
| Web UI | App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Claude → **Agent Skill** | Auto-injects into each case on Claude session create (`agentSkillEnabled`, SYNCED, default off) |
`codeman skill uninstall [--case <name>]` reverses the CLI installs, and never touches a `skills/codeman` you wrote yourself.
#### Step 2: ask for things
That is the entire interface. No curl, no endpoint names, no session ids. These prompts work as written:
| You say | The skill does |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| _"What sessions are running right now?"_ | Lists them with name, mode and status. Read-only, safe to ask anytime. |
| _"Start a shell worker on the `myapp` case, run the test suite, tell me if it passes."_ | Spawns, waits on a split completion marker, reads back the exit code, cleans up. |
| _"Spin up 3 workers for lint, typecheck and tests. Run them in parallel, report failures."_ | The fan-out flow: one session per task, all started first, then gathered as each finishes. |
| _"Have a claude worker on `refactor-auth` summarize `src/session.ts`, then close it."_ | Spawns, runs the readiness ladder (first-run trust dialog included), send-and-wait, reads the clean transcript answer, deletes. |
| _"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**. It never answers another session's prompt itself. |
#### Step 3: nothing
The agent deletes every session it started. Watch the tabs appear and disappear in the dashboard while it works.
#### A real run, start to finish
> **You:** spin up 3 shell workers, run lint / typecheck / the frontend syntax check in parallel, and tell me which failed.
```text
lint -> 9f2d8e5f dispatched
typecheck -> aff9c691 dispatched 3 tabs appear in the dashboard
syntax -> be9f1f15 dispatched
lint DONE_lint_17909 rc=0
typecheck DONE_typecheck_3409 rc=0 gathered as each one finishes
syntax DONE_syntax_18501 rc=0
deleted 9f2d8e5f, aff9c691, be9f1f15 tabs disappear
```
Those `DONE_<task>_<random>` strings are the skill's **split marker** trick, and they are why the fan-out is reliable on hook-less `shell` sessions: the typed line contains `${M}_17909`, so only the command's real *output* ever contains `DONE_17909`. An unsplit marker would match the echo of your own keystrokes before the command had even run.
#### What's in the box
| File | Contents |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [`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) | 8 worked flows: claude, DeepSeek Harness and shell workers, 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. |
Every recipe in there was verified against a live server, and the comments record the failure modes that were measured rather than guessed.
#### Two things worth knowing
- **It self-gates.** Outside a Codeman session (`CODEMAN_MUX` unset) the skill refuses to act and does not guess an API URL, so a global install costs an unrelated Claude Code session nothing.
- **It is deliberately conservative.** Unprompted, it may only spawn sessions, prompt them, and delete ones **it created in that same conversation, by exact id**, through a fail-closed guard that refuses to delete the agent's own session. Deleting a case (which erases a real directory of your code), bulk kills, respawn/ralph/cron/orchestrator changes and settings writes all require you to ask, naming the target.
⚠️ Turning `agentSkillEnabled` back off **does not remove already-injected copies** (a create-time sweep would yank the skill out from under other live sessions sharing that `.claude/` dir). Remove them per case with `codeman skill uninstall --case <name>`.
---
**The rest of this section is the manual path**: the same operations as raw HTTP, for a CI bot, a shell script, or any agent without skill support.
### Detect that you're inside Codeman
@@ -816,7 +722,7 @@ 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` and `deepseek` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`.** Those two come from hooks (Claude Code's own, and the DeepSeek Harness status bridge); `shell` and the other external CLIs (opencode/codex/gemini/antigravity/pi/grok/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.
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.
### Recipes
@@ -884,20 +790,9 @@ curl -sG "$API/api/sessions/$SID/wait-output" \
--data-urlencode "match=DONE_$N" --data-urlencode 'from=buffer' \
--data-urlencode 'timeout=60000' | jq '.data.wait'
# 5. Read the answer. claude / codex / deepseek sessions have last-response: it comes
# from the transcript, not the screen, so no TUI frames or repaint noise.
# ⚠️ Poll rather than read once: the transcript lands slightly after the stop
# signal, so a read right after send-and-wait returns often comes back empty.
for _ in $(seq 1 10); do
TXT=$(curl -s "$API/api/sessions/$SID/last-response" | jq -r '.data.text')
[ -n "$TXT" ] && break; sleep 1
done
printf '%s\n' "$TXT"
# 5b. Other modes (shell/opencode/gemini/antigravity/pi/grok/omp) have no transcript:
# read the terminal. ⚠️ Use terminal?tail=, NOT /output: the latter's textOutput
# is empty for every tmux-backed (i.e. every interactive) session. tail counts
# BYTES, and what comes back is terminal data, ANSI included.
# 5. Read the terminal back. ⚠️ Use terminal?tail=, NOT /output: the latter's
# textOutput is empty for every tmux-backed (i.e. every interactive) session.
# tail counts BYTES, and what comes back is terminal data, ANSI included.
curl -s "$API/api/sessions/$SID/terminal?tail=8000" | jq -r '.data.terminalBuffer'
# 6. Stream live events (session output, agent activity, status)
@@ -928,9 +823,7 @@ 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> # 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
codeman attach <path> # attach a Claude hook context
```
### Hooks (events flowing _back_ to Codeman)
@@ -943,7 +836,7 @@ Codeman registers Claude Code hooks that `POST /api/hook-event` (`permission_pro
## API
REST over Fastify — **~230 handlers across 25 route modules**, plus an SSE stream and a WebSocket terminal channel. All responses use the `ApiResponse<T>` envelope (`{success, data}` / `{success, error, errorCode}`); `/api/v1/*` is a stable alias. A representative subset:
REST over Fastify — **~200 handlers across 21 route modules**, plus an SSE stream and a WebSocket terminal channel. All responses use the `ApiResponse<T>` envelope (`{success, data}` / `{success, error, errorCode}`); `/api/v1/*` is a stable alias. A representative subset:
### Sessions
@@ -954,13 +847,11 @@ REST over Fastify — **~230 handlers across 25 route modules**, plus an SSE str
| `POST` | `/api/sessions/:id/input` | Send input (`{input, useMux?, clientId?, seq?, wait?, waitTimeout?}`: `clientId`+`seq` = exactly-once; `wait` blocks until the turn ends) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/terminal` | Read terminal output (`?tail=<bytes>`, `?full=1`); the read path for interactive sessions |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/output` | Parsed one-shot output (`textOutput` is empty for tmux-backed sessions) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/last-response` | The last answer as clean text, read from the transcript (claude, codex, deepseek) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/wait` | Block until a signal fires (`?until=stop,idle,exit&timeout=&fresh=`); a timeout is a `200` |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/wait-output` | Block until a literal string appears (`?match=&nocase=&from=now\|buffer&timeout=`) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/unified` | Unified live + history list (Session Manager) — `?q=&limit=` |
| `POST` | `/api/sessions/:id/pin` | Pin/unpin in the Session Manager (`{pinned}`) |
| `PUT` | `/api/session-order` | Sync tab order across devices (`{order: [ids]}`) |
| `POST` | `/api/sessions/:id/custom-model` | Restart the session's CLI on a saved custom endpoint (`{endpointId, modelId}`; `{clear: true}` returns to the native backend) |
| `DELETE` | `/api/sessions/:id` | Delete session |
### Respawn
@@ -1009,7 +900,6 @@ REST over Fastify — **~230 handlers across 25 route modules**, plus an SSE str
| `GET` | `/api/system/update/check` | Check for a new release |
| `POST` | `/api/system/update` | Self-update (git-clone installs) |
| `POST` | `/api/clipboard` | Push text to all connected browsers (`{text}`) |
| `GET` / `POST` | `/api/model-endpoints` | List / save custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints (`PUT` / `DELETE` `/:id`; admin-only in multi-user mode) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/run-summary` | Timeline + stats |
> **Building something on top of Codeman?** [`docs/extending-codeman.md`](docs/extending-codeman.md) is the integration guide: render your own UI as a tab, subscribe to the SSE event stream to react when an agent needs you, drive Codeman from a script, and the traps worth knowing before you start. Codeman has no plugin runtime on purpose, so an integration is just your own process talking HTTP.
@@ -1046,7 +936,7 @@ flowchart TB
end
subgraph External["External"]
CLI["AI CLI<br/><small>Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / Pi / Grok / DeepSeek / OMP</small>"]
CLI["AI CLI<br/><small>Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini</small>"]
BG["Background Agents<br/><small>(Task tool)</small>"]
end
end
@@ -1077,19 +967,13 @@ flowchart TB
npm install
npx tsx src/index.ts web # Dev mode
npm run build # Production build
npm test # Run tests (same suite CI runs; browser/mobile/perf suites have their own commands)
npm run test:ci # Run tests (the CI suite; browser suites need extra setup)
```
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:
@@ -1113,7 +997,7 @@ Full details: [`docs/archive/code-structure-findings.md`](docs/archive/code-stru
[![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/xterm-zerolag-input?style=flat-square&color=22c55e)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/xterm-zerolag-input)
Instant keystroke feedback overlay for xterm.js. Eliminates perceived input latency over high-RTT connections by rendering typed characters immediately as a pixel-perfect DOM overlay. Zero dependencies, 6.1 kB gzipped, configurable prompt detection, CJK/emoji wide-character support, full state machine with 238 tests.
Instant keystroke feedback overlay for xterm.js. Eliminates perceived input latency over high-RTT connections by rendering typed characters immediately as a pixel-perfect DOM overlay. Zero dependencies, 6.1 kB gzipped, configurable prompt detection, CJK/emoji wide-character support, full state machine with 175 tests.
```bash
npm install xterm-zerolag-input
+59 -206
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<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; Grok &bull; DeepSeek &bull; OMP &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; 终端 —— 统一仪表盘 &bull; 任意设备</em>
</p>
<p align="center">
@@ -17,23 +17,19 @@
<a href="https://nodejs.org/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Node.js-22%2B-22c55e?style=flat-square&logo=node.js&logoColor=white" alt="Node.js 22+"></a>
<a href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/TypeScript-5.9-3b82f6?style=flat-square&logo=typescript&logoColor=white" alt="TypeScript 5.9"></a>
<a href="https://fastify.dev/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Fastify-5.x-1e3a5f?style=flat-square&logo=fastify&logoColor=white" alt="Fastify"></a>
<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/aicodeman"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/aicodeman?style=flat-square&label=npm&color=22c55e" alt="npm version"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/stargazers"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Ark0N/Codeman?style=flat-square&color=eab308" alt="GitHub stars"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/graphs/contributors"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/Ark0N/Codeman?style=flat-square&color=3b82f6" alt="Contributors"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/commits/master"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/commit-activity/t/Ark0N/Codeman?style=flat-square&color=1e3a5f" alt="Total commits"></a>
</p>
<p align="center">
⭐ <strong>喜欢 Codeman?<a href="https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman">在 GitHub 上给它点个 Star 吧!</a></strong>只需轻点一下,就能帮助更多人发现这个项目。⭐
</p>
<p align="center">
<img src="docs/images/subagent-demo-20260724.gif" alt="Codeman — 并行子智能体可视化" width="900">
</p>
> 本文档由英文版 [`README.md`](README.md) 翻译而来。如有出入,以英文版为准。
<p align="center">
<img src="docs/images/codeman-tour-20260724.png" alt="Codeman 仪表盘导览:按项目分组的会话标签页、一键 Run 启动新智能体、页头实时用量" width="900">
</p>
**Codeman** 是一个自托管的 AI 编程智能体任务控制中心。它在持久化的 tmux 会话里拉起 Claude Code、OpenCode、Codex、Antigravity、Gemini、Pi、Grok、DeepSeek Harness 或 OMP,把真实的终端流式传到任意浏览器,并在你离开之后让智能体继续干活:空闲时重新提示、用量限额重置后自动续跑、按计划执行任务,还能实时展示每一个后台智能体的工作。
> 本文档由英文版 [`README.md`](README.md) 翻译而来。如有出入,以英文版为准。
一行命令即可安装(macOS 和 Linux,Windows 通过 WSL):
@@ -48,17 +44,6 @@ codeman web
安装器在每次系统改动前都会先询问;重跑同一条命令即可原地更新。详见[快速开始 — 安装](#快速开始--安装)。
- **一个仪表盘,九个 CLI**:每个会话可选 [Claude Code、OpenCode、Codex、Antigravity、Gemini、Pi、Grok、DeepSeek 或 OMP](#更多特性)(外加普通 shell),在本机、[Docker 容器](#隔离的-docker-会话)或 [SSH 远程主机](#远程-ssh-会话)上运行,你自己的仪表盘也能作为 [Web 标签页](#更多特性)并排打开
- **真正的手机友好**:[触控优化的终端](#移动端优化的-web-ui),即时本地回显、二维码登录、滑动导航与推送通知
- **睡觉时也在跑**:[空闲检测 + 重生循环](#重生控制器respawn-controller),订阅限额重置后自动续跑,支持 24 小时以上的无人值守运行
- **看见智能体在想什么**:每个子智能体和团队成员都有[实时浮动窗口](#实时智能体可视化),附带实时活动记录
- **什么都不会丢**:tmux 让会话挺过重启和断网,输入精确一次送达,完整的回滚缓冲区回放
- **自托管、私有**:默认仅环回、MIT 许可、无遥测,完全运行在你自己的机器上
<p align="center">
<img src="docs/images/codeman-tour-20260724.png" alt="Codeman 仪表盘导览:按项目分组的会话标签页、一键 Run 启动新智能体、页头实时用量" width="900">
</p>
---
## 快速开始 — 安装
@@ -67,14 +52,13 @@ codeman web
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash
```
该脚本会在缺失时自动安装 Node.js、tmux 和一套构建工具链(node-pty 没有 Linux 预编译包,需要从源码编译),把 Codeman 克隆到 `~/.codeman/app` 并完成构建。几点须知:
该脚本会在缺失时自动安装 Node.js 和 tmux,把 Codeman 克隆到 `~/.codeman/app` 并完成构建。几点须知:
- **先询问,后改动。** 所有系统级改动(安装软件包、下载 AI CLI)都会先征求确认;结束时的菜单可选择:直接在本终端运行、安装为后台服务(systemd/launchd,开机自启),或暂不启动。不选就不会有任何后台进程。
- **怎么访问,由你决定。** 安装器提供三种到达仪表盘的方式:**Tailscale**(环回绑定,由 `tailscale serve` 代理,得到带真实证书的 `https://<机器名>.<tailnet>.ts.net`,用你的 tailnet 当登录,无需密码)、**局域网内任意设备**(`0.0.0.0`,会提示设置一个强烈推荐的密码),或**仅本机**(`127.0.0.1`,最安全)。绑定网络却跳过密码需要显式确认,并以醒目警告收尾。高亮的默认项反映机器上已有的状态(已在用 Tailscale 时默认 Tailscale,重跑时沿用现有绑定),直接回车绝不会引入新软件。手动运行的 `codeman web` 仍默认仅环回。
- **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)、[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,会给出一个菜单让你安装其中任意一个(DeepSeek 除外,它的 npm 包只装一个启动器,没有可运行的 profile),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) 或 [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli)(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五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
@@ -88,34 +72,12 @@ codeman users add alice --admin # 创建第一个管理员账号
codeman web --multiuser # 命名登录 + 按用户隔离的案例空间
```
**更喜欢 Docker Compose?** `docker/` 里附带一套本地镜像的 Compose 部署:把 `docker/.env.example` 复制为 `docker/.env`,设置 `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`,然后在 Linux 上运行 `bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh`。Codeman 自己跑在容器里,并通过宿主机的 socket 把 Docker 案例作为并列容器拉起。更新之后请再跑一次这个脚本,而不是直接 `docker compose up`,这样重建的镜像、刷新的卷和新的入口脚本会一起就位。直接的 Compose 命令、存储与网络选项见 [Docker 部署指南](docker/README.md)(英文)。
详见下文[多用户模式](#多用户模式可选启用)。
<details>
<summary><strong>让它在后台一直运行</strong></summary>
<summary><strong>作为后台服务运行</strong></summary>
想让它活过你启动它的那个 shell,而且什么都不用配置:
```bash
codeman web -d # 脱离终端;日志写到 ~/.codeman/web.log
codeman web --status # 是否在运行,pid 是多少
codeman web --stop # 优雅的 SIGTERM;智能体继续留在 tmux 里运行
```
`-d` 会等到服务器真正应答后才报告成功,并且拒绝在同一个数据目录上启动第二个(两个服务器共用一个 tmux socket 会互相附着对方的会话)。
想让它在重启后自动回来,就装成服务。安装器结尾的菜单(选项 2)会替你完成;`codeman service` 是 `npm i -g aicodeman` 安装的等价物:
```bash
codeman service install # systemd 用户单元(Linux)或 LaunchAgent(macOS)
codeman service status
codeman service uninstall
```
`service install` 会把你当前的 PATH 写进单元文件,这比听起来重要得多:launchd 只给任务 `/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin`,所以手写的 plist 根本找不到 Homebrew 或 nvm 装的 `node`、`tmux` 或 `claude`。它绝不会把 `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` 复制进单元文件;服务需要认证的话请自行添加。
如需手动编写单元文件:
安装器结尾的菜单(选项 2)可以帮你完成这一步,并在宣告成功前校验服务确实已启动。如需手动配置:
**Linux(systemd):**
@@ -179,7 +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)、[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`。
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) 或 [Gemini CLI](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli))。安装完成后,即可从 Windows 浏览器访问 `http://localhost:3000`。
</details>
@@ -215,17 +177,17 @@ Codeman 依赖 tmux,因此 Windows 用户需要 [WSL](https://learn.microsoft.
<tr><td>在手机上手打密码</td><td><b>扫二维码 —— 即时认证</b></td></tr>
</table>
- **键盘配件栏** —— 在虚拟键盘上方提供 `/init`、`/clear`、`/compact` 快捷按钮;破坏性命令需双击确认,绝不误触;在 Codex 会话上还会显示 `⇧←` / `⇧→`(Shift+Left / Shift+Right:编辑上一条排队的消息 / 在提示栈里回退)
- **键盘配件栏** —— 在虚拟键盘上方提供 `/init`、`/clear`、`/compact` 快捷按钮;破坏性命令需双击确认,绝不误触
- **独立的 Enter 按钮** —— 以按键方式回放,先冲刷本地回显缓冲的文本,不会让内容滞留在屏幕上
- **滑动导航与智能键盘处理** —— 左右滑动切换会话;键盘弹出时工具栏与终端整体上移(`visualViewport` API)
- **为手机而生** —— 刘海与 Home 指示条的安全区适配、44px 触控目标、底部抽屉式 case 选择器、原生惯性滚动;折叠屏手机(iPhone Duo)上对话框会避开铰链,开合设备也绝不会被误判成键盘弹出
- **为手机而生** —— 刘海与 Home 指示条的安全区适配、44px 触控目标、底部抽屉式 case 选择器、原生惯性滚动
```bash
codeman web --https
# 在手机上打开:https://<你的IP>:3000
```
> `localhost` 走纯 HTTP 即可。从其他设备访问时请使用 `--https`,或使用 [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com/)(推荐):安装器可以替你配好(在网络访问提示处选择 **Tailscale**,或在已有安装上运行 `bash ~/.codeman/app/install.sh tailscale`)。这样你会得到带真实证书的 `https://<你的机器>.<tailnet>.ts.net`:只对你的 tailnet 可见、无需密码,手机上的 PWA 安装和推送通知也都能用。
> `localhost` 走纯 HTTP 即可。从其他设备访问时请使用 `--https`,或使用 [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com/)(推荐)—— 它提供私有网络,让你无需 TLS 证书即可从手机访问 `http://<tailscale-ip>:3000`。
### 安全的二维码认证
@@ -248,8 +210,6 @@ codeman web # localhost:3000(仅环回 —— 安全默
codeman web --port 8080 # 自定义端口(或设置 CODEMAN_PORT)
codeman web --https # 自签名 TLS(仅远程访问时需要)
codeman web -H 0.0.0.0 # 绑定局域网 —— 必须设置 CODEMAN_PASSWORD(见「安全」)
codeman web -d # 脱离终端:关掉 shell 也在跑(--status、--stop)
codeman service install # systemd/launchd 服务:重启后自动回来
```
打开打印出的 URL。整个页面是一个单一仪表盘;下面的一切都在这里完成。
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| 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。**Add Case** 可以从零创建、链接一个已有文件夹,或把一个 GitHub 仓库直接克隆成 case(**Clone Repo**)。 |
| **CLI / 运行模式** | `Claude`(默认)、`OpenCode`、`Codex`、`Antigravity`、`Gemini`、`Pi`、`Grok`、`DeepSeek`、`OMP` 或 `Terminal`(普通 shell)。 |
| **模型** | 每会话模型(App Settings → Models → New Claude sessions)。软默认值 —— 会话内 `/model` 依然有效。 |
| **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` 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。 |
点击启动 —— Codeman 通过真实 PTY 拉起 CLI,并经 SSE 流式传输到你的浏览器。
### 3. 读懂仪表盘
- **标签(顶部)** —— 每个会话一个。`Alt+1`–`9` 跳转,`Ctrl+Tab` 下一个,拖拽排序(标签顺序会跨设备同步)。更喜欢列表?**App Settings → Appearance → Tabs** 可以把它挪进左侧边栏(带筛选框,`Alt+B` 折叠)或一条竖向导轨,导轨的行按活动状态排序:先是等你处理的,然后是跑得最久的,最后是刚刚安静下来的。
- **标签(顶部)** —— 每个会话一个。`Alt+1`–`9` 跳转,`Ctrl+Tab` 下一个,拖拽排序(标签顺序会跨设备同步)。
- **终端(中央)** —— 真实的 `xterm.js` 终端;完整 TUI 正常渲染。直接输入并按 **Enter** 发送。`Shift+Enter` 插入换行。
- **侧边面板** —— Respawn、Orchestrator、Cron、Subagents、Settings(从工具栏切换)。
@@ -277,10 +237,8 @@ codeman service install # systemd/launchd 服务:重启后自动回
- **直接在终端输入提示** —— 即使跨越重连,输入也是精确一次送达(连接中断绝不会丢失或重复发送提示)。
- **粘贴或拖放图片**,直接进入会话。
- **语音输入** —— `Ctrl+Shift+V`(Deepgram Nova-3,或者直接用这台机器的 Claude Code 登录、不需要任何 API key;自动静音停止)。
- **附件** —— 注册外部文件/文档,并内联预览 Office/PDF;智能体打印出的任何文件路径都可以点击,终端里和对话视图里都行。
- **需要你的时候** —— 标签会变黄(等待输入)或变红(有个问题挡住了它)。**审批收件箱(Approvals Inbox)**(可选启用)把所有会话里等着你的提示排成一个队列,可以从页头的铃铛或手机首页直接作答;🧠 **Read My Mind**(可选启用)会根据这个 case 的目标和最近的工作替你起草下一条提示。
- **看到什么就能复制什么** —— `Shift+拖动` 在 CLI 接管了鼠标时也能选中文本,右键复制选中内容,自动复制(Auto Copy,可选启用)在松开鼠标的瞬间就复制。
- **语音输入** —— `Ctrl+Shift+V`(Deepgram Nova-3,自动静音停止)。
- **附件** —— 注册外部文件/文档,并内联预览 Office/PDF。
### 5. 让它自主运行
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| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Respawn** | 长时间无人值守运行 —— 空闲/限额时自动重启 CLI,带自适应时序。预设:`solo-work`、`overnight-autonomous` 等 | Respawn 标签页 |
| **Orchestrator** | 把一个目标变成分阶段计划,并跨多个智能体推动完成。 | 编排器面板 |
| **Cron** | 已保存的、命名的定时任务(`once`/`interval`/`daily`/`weekly`),到期时拉起会话并发送提示。 | ⏰ Cron 按钮(可选启用:App Settings → Header & Panels → Scheduling) |
| **Cron** | 已保存的、命名的定时任务(`once`/`interval`/`daily`/`weekly`),到期时拉起会话并发送提示。 | ⏰ Cron 按钮(可选启用:App Settings → Display → Header Displays) |
| **Auto-resume** | 订阅限额重置后自动继续。 | Respawn 标签页(顶部) |
### 6. 随时随地访问
- **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** —— `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)。
- **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)。
### 7. 运维与维护
- **App Settings** —— 模型、effort、权限启动模式、主题/皮肤、终端字体与字重、入场动画、通知、显示开关、各 CLI 的专属选项,以及跨设备同步的自定义显示名称和按设备保存的英文/简体中文界面语言。
- **让它在后台运行** —— `codeman web -d` 脱离你的 shell(`--status`、`--stop`);`codeman service install` 把它装成 systemd 用户单元 / macOS LaunchAgent,重启后自动回来。两者都会先确认服务器真正应答再报告成功,也都拒绝在同一个数据目录上启动第二个服务器。见[让它在后台一直运行](#快速开始--安装)。
- **自更新** —— git-clone 安装可在 **App Settings → System → Updates** 中原地更新。
- **App Settings** —— 模型、effort、权限启动模式、主题/皮肤、通知、显示开关、各 CLI 的专属选项,以及跨设备同步的自定义显示名称和按设备保存的英文/简体中文界面语言。
- **自更新** —— git-clone 安装可在 **Settings → Updates** 中原地更新。
- **部署你自己的改动** —— 见[开发](#开发)。
> ⚠️ **安全提示:** 如果你正在 Codeman 受管会话*内部*工作(`echo $CODEMAN_MUX` → `1`),绝不要直接运行 `tmux kill-session` / `pkill claude` —— 请使用 Web UI 或 `./scripts/tmux-manager.sh`。
@@ -416,14 +373,6 @@ codeman web --title-hostname dev-box # codeman:dev-box(用于覆盖嘈
| **110k tokens** | 自动 `/compact` | 上下文被摘要,工作继续 |
| **140k tokens** | 自动 `/clear` | 以 `/init` 全新开始 |
### 标签提醒(Tab Alerts)
<p align="center">
<img src="docs/images/tab-alerts-glow-20260815.gif" alt="会话标签:一个普通的活动标签,旁边是黄色的等待输入标签和红色的需要决定标签,都带着呼吸式光晕" width="900">
</p>
每个标签一眼就能看出状态。运行中的会话保持绿色状态点。会话停下来等待输入时,标签变**黄**:稳定的描边、着色的背景、黄色的点,上面叠一层缓慢的呼吸光晕。当权限提示或提问**挡住**了智能体,标签变**红**,脉动更快。底色永远不会闪灭,所以哪怕只瞥一眼(或截一张图)也能读到真实状态;标签被选中时描边依然可见,页面刷新后会从服务端重新装载待处理的提醒,因此一个被挡住的会话绝不可能藏在一个看起来正常的标签后面。
### 通知
当会话需要关注时实时桌面提醒 —— `permission_prompt` 与 `elicitation_dialog` 触发关键的红色标签闪烁,`idle_prompt` 触发黄色闪烁。点击任意通知即可直接跳转到相关会话。Hook 按 case 目录自动配置。
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## 更多特性
- **后台守护进程与服务安装** —— `codeman web -d` 以脱离终端的方式运行服务器,带 pid 文件、`~/.codeman/web.log` 和经过校验的启动(它会轮询到服务器应答为止,所以端口冲突绝不会被当成成功);`codeman service install` 写入一个 systemd 用户单元(Linux)或 LaunchAgent(macOS),并把你 shell 的 PATH 一并写进去,这样 nvm 或 Homebrew 装的 `node`、`tmux` 和 `claude` 才真的找得到。机密永远不会写进单元文件
- **自更新** —— systemd/launchd 管理下的 git-clone 安装可在 **App Settings → System → 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)
- **把 GitHub 仓库克隆成 case** —— 在 **Add Case → Clone Repo** 里粘贴一个仓库 URL,Codeman 会把它克隆到 `~/codeman-cases/<name>` 并注册为普通 case,随时可以跑智能体。输入时它会预检 URL(告诉你能否匿名克隆,并为可选的分支/标签字段提供仓库真实的分支与标签),从 URL 里填好 case 名,还让你选 Run 按钮该用哪个 CLI。支持 `https://` 的公开仓库;Codeman 绝不收集或保存凭据
- **多 CLI** —— 每个会话可选 **Claude Code**、**OpenCode**、**Codex**、**Antigravity**、**Gemini**、**Pi**、**Grok**、**DeepSeek Harness** 或 **OMP**;环境变量前缀自动隔离(`CLAUDE_CODE_*`、`OPENCODE_*`、`CODEX_*`、`ANTIGRAVITY_*`、`GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*`、`PI_*`、`GROK_*`/`XAI_*`、`DSH_*`/`DEEPSEEK_*` 与 `OMP_*`)。详见 [`docs/opencode-integration.md`](docs/opencode-integration.md)、[`docs/pi-integration.md`](docs/pi-integration.md)、[`docs/grok-integration.md`](docs/grok-integration.md)、[`docs/deepseek-integration.md`](docs/deepseek-integration.md) 与 [`docs/omp-integration.md`](docs/omp-integration.md)
- **自定义模型端点**(1.29.0 新增,目前仅 HTTP API)—— 让某个会话的 CLI 指向任意 OpenAI 兼容端点,而不是它自己的官方后端:本地的 llama.cpp、llama-swap、Ollama 或 vLLM 机器,也可以是 Azure AI Foundry、OpenRouter 这类云端网关。端点只需保存一次(`POST /api/model-endpoints`,模型列表从它的 `/v1/models` 自动发现),再应用到会话(`POST /api/sessions/:id/custom-model`),CLI 就会在原地重启并接上该端点。Claude、OpenCode、Pi、Grok 与 OMP 已实测通过;Codex、Gemini 与 DeepSeek 存在已记录的缺口,Antigravity 没有可用机制。工具栏选择器是下一步。详见 [`docs/custom-model-endpoints.md`](docs/custom-model-endpoints.md)
- **Web 标签页** —— 把 Grafana、Uptime Kuma、一个 Vite 开发服务器或任何仪表盘 URL 作为标签页打开在会话旁边(Run 下拉菜单 → **Web / URL** → **Add URL**)。仪表盘通过 Codeman 自己的源代理,因此 `http://` 目标在手机上走 HTTPS 也能用、走隧道也能用;单页应用能在自己的路径上正常路由,页面自己重载后也能自行恢复。智能体打印出的 `localhost` 链接会自动以 Web 标签页打开。详见 [`docs/web-tabs.md`](docs/web-tabs.md)
- **Docker 会话** —— 在隔离且加固的容器中运行 case。**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 case 的多个会话共享一个容器,也可以把 case 挂到你已经在跑的容器上;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 case 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;文件预览与下载走同一条 ssh 连接。详见 [`docs/remote-sessions.md`](docs/remote-sessions.md)
- **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** 或 **Gemini**;环境变量前缀自动隔离(`CLAUDE_CODE_*`、`OPENCODE_*`、`CODEX_*`、`ANTIGRAVITY_*` 与 `GEMINI_*`/`GOOGLE_*`)。详见 [`docs/opencode-integration.md`](docs/opencode-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
- **语音输入** —— 用 Deepgram Nova-3 口述提示,或者干脆用这台机器的 Claude Code 登录、不需要任何 API key(App Settings → Voice;带 Web Speech API 回退):切换录音、自动静音停止、实时音量表(`Ctrl+Shift+V`)
- **语音输入** —— 用 Deepgram Nova-3 口述提示(带 Web Speech API 回退):切换录音、自动静音停止、实时音量表(`Ctrl+Shift+V`)
- **图像输入** —— 直接把图片粘贴或拖放进会话
- **手势控制** _(可选)_ —— 一个 MediaPipe 手部追踪叠加层,可徒手抓取/拖动会话窗口并捏合按钮。用 `CODEMAN_GESTURE=1` + App Settings → Terminal & Input 启用
- **手势控制** _(可选)_ —— 一个 MediaPipe 手部追踪叠加层,可徒手抓取/拖动会话窗口并捏合按钮。用 `CODEMAN_GESTURE=1` + App Settings → Display 启用
- **多显示器横跨** _(macOS)_ —— 一键打开一个横跨所有显示器最大化的浏览器窗口,让浮动的智能体/手势面板可以跨越物理拼接缝
- **文件查看器按钮** _(可选)_ —— 页头新增一个按钮,一键切换内置文件浏览器面板;在 App Settings → Header & Panels → Header buttons 中启用
- **CJK / 输入法支持** —— 完整支持中文 / 日文 / 韩文的组合输入,Ctrl、Alt 修饰的导航键也会原样透传给 CLI
- **页头里的套餐用量** —— 页头实时显示 Claude 订阅用量(5 小时窗口与每周窗口),数据来自 Codeman 在拉起 `claude` 时临时交给它的 statusline 导出器,绝不会写进你的设置文件;Codex 的限额则来自它自己的 app-server。按设备生效:桌面默认开,手机默认关
- **会话列表,随你摆** —— 页头横条、带筛选框的左侧边栏,或一条竖向导轨,导轨的详细行带有创建时间与状态时长并按活动状态排序;手机首页和桌面首页导轨用的是同一套顺序
- **终端外观** —— 七套皮肤(其中四套浅色)、按设备保存的字体与字重(内置的 JetBrains Mono 覆盖 100 到 800 的字重),以及可选启用的入场动画,覆盖标签、智能体窗口、终端面板和连接线
- **文件查看器按钮** _(可选)_ —— 头部新增一个按钮,一键切换内置文件浏览器面板;在 App Settings → Display → Header Displays 中启用
- **CJK / 输入法支持** —— 完整支持中文 / 日文 / 韩文的组合输入
- **操作系统通知与主机名感知标题** —— 桌面提醒与标签标题以 `codeman:<host>` 为前缀,使多主机配置不再含糊
---
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- **资源模板** —— 展开复选框可选 **Small / Medium / Large / GPU** 预设(内存、CPU、GPU),也可以完全自定义。**磁盘是弹性的** —— 存储随数据增长,没有固定上限。
- **按案例共享容器** —— 多个会话可以 `docker exec` 进同一个容器;结束某个会话绝不会影响其他会话所在的容器。
- **默认加固** —— 非 root、`--cap-drop ALL`、`no-new-privileges`、PID/内存上限,绝不使用 `--privileged` 或 docker socket;**密封(sealed)** 配置(不注入主机凭据、关闭网络)只需一个开关。
- **无感认证、凭据隔离** —— 主机上的 Claude / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / OpenCode / Pi / Grok / OMP 登录在容器内开箱即用:凭据在启动时以只读种子方式复制注入,onboarding/信任提示已预先答复,不会弹出登录向导。容器保留自己的副本,绝不回写主机的凭据存储;跨边界共享的只有对话转录,导出文件也绝不包含机密。
- **挂到你已经在跑的容器上** —— 在 Docker 面板勾选 **Attach to an existing container**,就能把 case 链接到一个现成容器,而不是新建一个。Codeman 只 `exec` 进去,绝不启动、停止、重启或删除它;一个被接管的容器可以在不同目录下支撑多个 case,**复制一个已有 case** 会用同一容器上的兄弟 case 预填表单。多用户模式下仅管理员可用,因为容器的挂载属于启动它的人。
- **无感认证、凭据隔离** —— 主机上的 Claude / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / OpenCode 登录在容器内开箱即用:凭据在启动时以只读种子方式复制注入,onboarding/信任提示已预先答复,不会弹出登录向导。容器保留自己的副本,绝不回写主机的凭据存储;跨边界共享的只有对话转录,导出文件也绝不包含机密。
- **迁移到另一台机器** —— 把容器的完整环境(工具链 + 工作区)导出为可移植的 `.tar.gz`,在另一台机器上导入到新案例即可继续。
- **持久耐用** —— Codeman 重启后重连会回到同一个存活的智能体;容器停止/重启后则从绑定挂载的转录恢复对话。
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- **发现与附着**:列出主机上已在运行的 `codeman-*` 会话(由那台机器自己的 Codeman 或其他操作者启动)并附着其一。非你所有的已附着会话在关闭标签时**只分离,绝不杀掉**。
- **共享会话**:多个客户端可以以不同窗口尺寸同时附着同一个远程会话而互不挤压;发现列表会显示带客户端计数的「shared」徽标。
- **注入安全**:所有 ssh 命令行都经由单一的 shell 转义构建器生成,主机/路径/身份文件字段均有模式校验。
- **文件也行**:远程 case 里的预览、下载和文本读取走同一条 ssh 连接(一次 `realpath` + `stat` 探测,然后流式 `cat`,支持 `Range` 拖动进度),所以点一个路径打开的就是智能体所在那台机器上的文件。什么都不会复制到 Codeman 主机;编辑和 Office 预览会明确返回 400,而不是一个误导性的 404。
在 **New Case → Remote** 中配置(主机、用户、身份文件、可选跳板机)。完整设计:[`docs/remote-sessions.md`](docs/remote-sessions.md)。
@@ -546,7 +486,7 @@ codeman users list
systemctl --user enable codeman-tunnel
loginctl enable-linger $USER
# 或通过 Codeman Web UI:App Settings → System → Remote access → Cloudflare Tunnel
# 或通过 Codeman Web UI:Settings → Tunnel → 切换为开
```
</details>
@@ -648,7 +588,7 @@ Codeman 默认用 `--dangerously-skip-permissions` 启动会话,因此 Web UI
- **默认仅环回** —— 绑定 `127.0.0.1`,仅可从本机访问,因此「无密码」默认配置开箱即安全。在未设置 `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` 的情况下绑定非环回主机会*启动但打印一条醒目警告*,并给出三个具体修复方案(设置密码、环回 + 一个带认证的隧道,或用 `--allow-unauthenticated-network` 显式确认)
- **可选认证,真实会话** —— 通过 `CODEMAN_USERNAME`(默认 `admin`)/ `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` 的 HTTP Basic 认证。成功后签发一个不透明的 256 位 `codeman_session` cookie(`randomBytes(32)`)—— 服务端校验,而非客户端签名,因此无法离线伪造(24h TTL、自动延长、设备上下文审计日志)
- **按 IP 速率限制** —— 失败 10 次 → `429` 并带 `Retry-After`(15 分钟衰减)。即便攻击者在同一 IP 上猛攻,有效 cookie 或正确密码也能*立即*恢复 —— 这很重要,因为所有隧道流量共享同一个环回 IP。二维码认证有自己独立的限制器
- **可配置的权限模式**:`--dangerously-skip-permissions` 只是默认值。**App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Claude → Startup Mode** 可以把新会话切换为 Anthropic 的分类器护栏 `auto` 模式(低打扰,需要 Claude Code 2.1.207+)、`normal` 提示模式,或一份显式的允许工具列表。多用户模式下,未获授权的用户会被强制为 `auto`,shell 会话与跳过权限需要按用户显式授权
- **可配置的权限模式**:`--dangerously-skip-permissions` 只是默认值。**App Settings → Claude CLI → Startup Mode** 可以把新会话切换为 Anthropic 的分类器护栏 `auto` 模式(低打扰,需要 Claude Code 2.1.207+)、`normal` 提示模式,或一份显式的允许工具列表。多用户模式下,未获授权的用户会被强制为 `auto`,shell 会话与跳过权限需要按用户显式授权
### 始终开启的浏览器加固(v0.9.5)
@@ -662,8 +602,8 @@ 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_*` / `PI_*` / `GROK_*` / `XAI_*` / `DSH_*` / `DEEPSEEK_*` / `OMP_*` 环境变量前缀允许列表把控每个 CLI 能接收哪些设置,而那些能把 CLI 流量改道的键(base URL、配置目录)对非管理员用户会被钳制
- **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 / 2 GB 原始与下载(`CODEMAN_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES`;响应体是流式的并支持 `Range` 请求,所以这个上限只是合理性边界,不是内存保护);`/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
- **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
- **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
### 供应链与隔离
@@ -675,19 +615,17 @@ Codeman 默认用 `--dangerously-skip-permissions` 启动会话,因此 Web UI
---
## 终端界面(`codeman tui`)
## SSH 替代方案(`sc`)
一个在终端里运行的全屏会话仪表盘。状态与 Web UI 完全一致,因为它就是同一个服务器的客户端:
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
codeman tui # 仪表盘
codeman tui --list # 带编号的会话列表,随即退出(可用于脚本)
codeman tui 2 # 直接附着到列表里的第 2 个会话
sc # 交互式选择器
sc 2 # 快速附着到会话 2
sc -l # 列出会话
```
会话按 **NEEDS YOU → WORKING → IDLE → RECENT** 分组,等得最久的排最前。`↑↓`/`j`/`k` 选择,`1`-`9` 与 `[`/`]` 切换会话,`Enter` 附着进 tmux 面板(按 **`F1`** 回来)。在面板里,顶部的横条会一直显示会话条,`Alt+1`-`Alt+9` 不用离开就能切换。`y`/`n`/数字可以直接在列表里回答待处理的权限对话框,`p` 发送一行提示,`n` 新建会话并直接进入,`x` 杀掉一个(`y` 确认),`/` 搜索,`g` 显示离开摘要,`?` 是帮助,`q` 退出。窄于 72 列时它会去掉预览面板、变成单列列表,所以在手机上的 Termius 里依然好用。没有服务器在跑时,它仍会以仅附着的降级模式启动。
Web UI 仍是主要界面;完整指南见 **[docs/tui.md](docs/tui.md)**(英文)。
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。
---
@@ -702,21 +640,15 @@ Web UI 仍是主要界面;完整指南见 **[docs/tui.md](docs/tui.md)**(英
| `Ctrl/Cmd+Tab` | 下一个会话 |
| `Alt/Option+[` / `Alt/Option+]` | 上一个 / 下一个会话 |
| `Alt/Option+1`–`Alt/Option+9` | 切换到第 N 个标签(按物理键位,macOS Option 布局也适用) |
| `Alt/Option+B` | 折叠 / 展开会话侧边栏(仅侧边栏布局) |
| `Ctrl+Shift+{` / `Ctrl+Shift+}` | 将当前标签左移 / 右移 |
| `Ctrl/Cmd+C` | 复制选中内容;未选中时中断代理 |
| `Ctrl+Shift+C` | 复制选中内容(永不中断) |
| `Ctrl/Cmd+V` | 粘贴,或上传剪贴板里的图片并粘贴其路径 |
| `Ctrl/Cmd+L` | 清屏 |
| `Ctrl+Shift+R` | 恢复终端尺寸 |
| `Ctrl+Shift+V` | 切换语音输入 |
| `Ctrl/Cmd +` / `-` | 字体大小 |
| `Ctrl/Cmd+?` | 键盘帮助 |
| `Shift+Enter` | 插入换行(发送到终端) |
| `Shift+拖动` | 在鼠标事件交给 CLI 的面板里选中文本 |
| 右键 | 复制选中内容(没有选中时保留原生菜单) |
| `Shift+滚轮` | 滚轮被转发给 CLI 时,滚动本地回滚缓冲区 |
| `Ctrl+Z` | 在智能体会话里被吞掉,运行中的 CLI 不会被挂起;shell 里照常是作业控制 |
| `Escape` | 关闭面板与模态框 |
---
@@ -725,78 +657,15 @@ Web UI 仍是主要界面;完整指南见 **[docs/tui.md](docs/tui.md)**(英
面向不经浏览器控制 Codeman 的 AI 智能体与自动化:一个拉起工作会话的智能体、一个 CI 机器人,或是**运行在 Codeman 会话*内部*、编排其他会话的 Claude Code**。UI 能做的一切都是 HTTP + CLI,因此智能体也能做。
### 智能体技能(从这里开始)
这一节的所有内容也打包成了一个 **Claude Code 技能**,位于 [`skills/codeman`](skills/codeman/SKILL.md)。装一次,就再也不用把 API 文档粘进提示词。你用大白话说想要什么,已经坐在 Codeman 会话里的智能体会自己加载配方并驱动 API。
#### 第 1 步:安装
| 方式 | 命令 | 范围 |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Skills CLI | `npx skills add Ark0N/Codeman --skill codeman -g` | 全局,任何支持技能的智能体都能用 |
| Claude Code 插件 | `/plugin marketplace add Ark0N/Codeman`,然后 `/plugin install codeman@codeman` | 全局,通过 Claude Code 自带的插件管理器;`/plugin update codeman` 跟随新版本。与 `codeman skill install` 二选一:两者都装会让技能出现两次(`codeman` 和 `codeman:codeman`) |
| 内置 CLI | `codeman skill install` | 全局(`~/.claude/skills/codeman`),给那些从 npm 安装、从未克隆过仓库的用户 |
| 内置 CLI | `codeman skill install --case <name>` | 仅一个 case |
| Web UI | App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Claude → **Agent Skill** | 每次在某个 case 创建 Claude 会话时自动注入(`agentSkillEnabled`,跨设备同步,默认关闭) |
`codeman skill uninstall [--case <name>]` 可以撤销 CLI 安装,并且绝不会碰你自己写的 `skills/codeman`。
#### 第 2 步:开口要
整个界面就这么多。不用 curl,不用端点名,不用会话 id。下面这些提示照原样就能用:
| 你说 | 技能做的事 |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| _「现在有哪些会话在跑?」_ | 列出它们的名字、模式和状态。只读,随时可以问。 |
| _「在 `myapp` case 上起一个 shell 工作会话,跑测试套件,告诉我过没过。」_ | 拉起、等待一个拆开的完成标记、读回退出码、清理。 |
| _「起 3 个工作会话分别跑 lint、typecheck 和测试。并行跑,报告失败的。」_ | 扇出流程:每个任务一个会话,先全部启动,再逐个收集完成的。 |
| _「让一个 claude 工作会话在 `refactor-auth` 上总结 `src/session.ts`,然后关掉它。」_ | 拉起、走完就绪阶梯(包括首次运行的信任对话框)、发送并等待、读取干净的 transcript 答案、删除。 |
| _「盯着会话 w4,如果它卡在权限提示上就告诉我。」_ | 阻塞在 `blocked` 信号上,并把问题交给**你**。它绝不会替另一个会话回答提示。 |
#### 第 3 步:没有了
智能体会删掉它启动的每一个会话。你可以在仪表盘里看着标签出现又消失。
#### 一次真实的运行,从头到尾
> **你:** 起 3 个 shell 工作会话,并行跑 lint / typecheck / 前端语法检查,告诉我哪个失败了。
```text
lint -> 9f2d8e5f dispatched
typecheck -> aff9c691 dispatched 仪表盘里出现 3 个标签
syntax -> be9f1f15 dispatched
lint DONE_lint_17909 rc=0
typecheck DONE_typecheck_3409 rc=0 每完成一个就收集一个
syntax DONE_syntax_18501 rc=0
deleted 9f2d8e5f, aff9c691, be9f1f15 标签消失
```
那些 `DONE_<task>_<random>` 字符串就是技能的**拆分标记**技巧,也是扇出在没有 hook 的 `shell` 会话上依然可靠的原因:敲进去的那一行只含 `${M}_17909`,因此只有命令真正的*输出*里才会出现 `DONE_17909`。不拆开的标记会在命令还没跑之前就匹配到你自己按键的回显。
#### 盒子里有什么
| 文件 | 内容 |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [`SKILL.md`](skills/codeman/SKILL.md) | 安全规则、现成的快速路径(起 N 个工作会话、派任务、收集)和动词索引。始终加载。 |
| [`reference/verbs.md`](skills/codeman/reference/verbs.md) | 14 个动词的详细说明:就绪、发送并等待、标记、中断、清理。按需加载。 |
| [`reference/recipes.md`](skills/codeman/reference/recipes.md) | 8 个完整流程:claude、DeepSeek Harness 与 shell 工作会话、扇出、盯住被卡住的工作会话、消息扇出。按需加载。 |
| [`reference/endpoints.md`](skills/codeman/reference/endpoints.md) | 完整端点表、错误码、各模式的信号表、容量限制。按需加载。 |
| [`reference/messaging.md`](skills/codeman/reference/messaging.md) | 通过 Claude Code 跨会话消息直接和 claude 工作会话对话。按需加载。 |
里面的每一个配方都在真实服务器上验证过,注释记录的是实测出来而不是猜出来的失败模式。
#### 两件值得知道的事
- **它会自我门禁。** 不在 Codeman 会话里(`CODEMAN_MUX` 未设置)时,技能拒绝动作,也不去猜 API 地址,所以全局安装对无关的 Claude Code 会话没有任何代价。
- **它刻意保守。** 未经提示,它只会拉起会话、给它们发提示,并删除**它在同一段对话里自己创建的**会话(按精确 id,经由一个拒绝删除智能体自身会话的失败即关闭守卫)。删除 case(会抹掉一个真实的代码目录)、批量杀会话、改动 respawn/ralph/cron/orchestrator 以及写设置,都需要你开口并指名目标。
⚠️ 把 `agentSkillEnabled` 关回去**不会删掉已经注入的副本**(在创建时做清扫,会把技能从共用同一个 `.claude/` 目录的其他活动会话脚下抽走)。要删就按 case 删:`codeman skill uninstall --case <name>`。
---
**这一节余下的部分是手动路径**:同样的操作用裸 HTTP 来做,适合 CI 机器人、shell 脚本,或任何不支持技能的智能体。
> **捷径:装上打包好的智能体技能。** 下面这一整套(外加多工作会话的实战配方)已经作为 Claude Code 技能随仓库发布在 [`skills/codeman`](skills/codeman/SKILL.md),会话内部的智能体不必等你把文档粘进提示词就能驱动 Codeman。三种获取方式:
>
> - `npx skills add Ark0N/Codeman --skill codeman -g`:全局安装,任何支持技能的智能体都能用
> - `codeman skill install`(全局)或 `codeman skill install --case <name>`:给那些从 npm 安装、从未克隆过仓库的用户;`codeman skill uninstall` 可撤销
> - **App Settings → Agent Skill**(`agentSkillEnabled`,默认关闭):开启后,Codeman 会在每次于某个 case 中创建 Claude 会话时把技能注入该 case;case 里用户自己写的 `skills/codeman` 永远不会被覆盖
>
> 全局安装(`codeman skill install` 或 `npx skills add`)会被**本机每一个新建的 Claude Code 会话**读到,无论它在不在 Codeman 里。技能自带门禁:不在 Codeman 会话中(`CODEMAN_MUX` 未设置)时它拒绝动作,所以全局装上它对无关会话没有代价。
>
> ⚠️ 把 `agentSkillEnabled` 关回去**不会删掉已经注入的副本**(在创建时做清扫,会把技能从共用同一个 `.claude/` 目录的其他活动会话脚下抽走)。要删就按 case 删:`codeman skill uninstall --case <name>`。
### 检测自己身处 Codeman 内部
@@ -817,7 +686,7 @@ deleted 9f2d8e5f, aff9c691, be9f1f15 标签消失
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` 与 `deepseek` 会话会发出 `stop` 与 `blocked`。** 这两个来自 hook(Claude Code 自己的,以及 DeepSeek Harness 的状态桥接);`shell` 与其他外部 CLI(opencode/codex/gemini/antigravity/pi/grok/omp)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)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
@@ -882,7 +751,7 @@ curl -sG "$API/api/sessions/$SID/wait-output" \
--data-urlencode "match=DONE_$N" --data-urlencode 'from=buffer' \
--data-urlencode 'timeout=60000' | jq '.data.wait'
# 5. 读回答案。claude / codex / deepseek 会话用 last-response:它取自 transcript 而不是屏幕,
# 5. 读回答案。claude / codex 会话用 last-response:它取自 transcript 而不是屏幕,
# 因此不带 TUI 的画框与重画噪声。⚠️ 要轮询,别只读一次:transcript 落盘比 stop
# 信号稍晚,紧跟着「发送并等待」返回后立刻读,常常拿到空串。
for _ in $(seq 1 10); do
@@ -891,7 +760,7 @@ for _ in $(seq 1 10); do
done
printf '%s\n' "$TXT"
# 5b. 其他模式(shell/opencode/gemini/antigravity/pi/grok/omp)没有 transcript,读终端。
# 5b. 其他模式(shell/opencode/gemini/antigravity)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'
@@ -924,9 +793,7 @@ codeman session start -d /path/to/repo # (s) 启动会话
codeman session list # 列出会话
codeman session logs <id> # 查看输出
codeman task add "fix the failing test" # (t) 排入任务
codeman attach <path> # 为本地文件显示一张附件卡片
codeman tui --list # 带编号的会话列表(管道输出时为纯文本)
codeman tui 3 # 附着到该列表里的第 3 个会话
codeman attach <path> # 附着 Claude hook 上下文
```
### Hook(事件*回流*到 Codeman)
@@ -939,7 +806,7 @@ Codeman 会注册 Claude Code hook,它们 `POST /api/hook-event`(`permission
## API
基于 Fastify 的 REST —— **25 个路由模块中约 230 个处理器**,外加一条 SSE 流和一条 WebSocket 终端通道。所有响应都使用 `ApiResponse<T>` 信封(`{success, data}` / `{success, error, errorCode}`);`/api/v1/*` 是稳定别名。以下是一个有代表性的子集:
基于 Fastify 的 REST —— **21 个路由模块中约 200 个处理器**,外加一条 SSE 流和一条 WebSocket 终端通道。所有响应都使用 `ApiResponse<T>` 信封(`{success, data}` / `{success, error, errorCode}`);`/api/v1/*` 是稳定别名。以下是一个有代表性的子集:
### 会话(Sessions)
@@ -950,13 +817,11 @@ Codeman 会注册 Claude Code hook,它们 `POST /api/hook-event`(`permission
| `POST` | `/api/sessions/:id/input` | 发送输入(`{input, useMux?, clientId?, seq?, wait?, waitTimeout?}`:`clientId`+`seq` = 精确一次;`wait` 阻塞到这一回合结束) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/terminal` | 读取终端输出(`?tail=<bytes>`、`?full=1`):交互式会话的读取路径 |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/output` | 一次性的解析输出(tmux 承载的会话里 `textOutput` 为空) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/last-response` | 从 transcript 读出的最后一条回答,纯文本(claude、codex、deepseek) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/wait` | 阻塞到某个信号触发(`?until=stop,idle,exit&timeout=&fresh=`);超时是 `200` |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/wait-output` | 阻塞到某个字面串出现(`?match=&nocase=&from=now\|buffer&timeout=`) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/unified` | 统一的活动 + 历史清单(会话管理器):`?q=&limit=` |
| `POST` | `/api/sessions/:id/pin` | 在会话管理器中置顶 / 取消置顶(`{pinned}`) |
| `PUT` | `/api/session-order` | 跨设备同步标签顺序(`{order: [ids]}`) |
| `POST` | `/api/sessions/:id/custom-model` | 让会话的 CLI 在一个已保存的自定义端点上原地重启(`{endpointId, modelId}`;`{clear: true}` 回到官方后端) |
| `DELETE` | `/api/sessions/:id` | 删除会话 |
### 重生(Respawn)
@@ -1005,7 +870,6 @@ Codeman 会注册 Claude Code hook,它们 `POST /api/hook-event`(`permission
| `GET` | `/api/system/update/check` | 检查新发行版 |
| `POST` | `/api/system/update` | 自更新(git-clone 安装) |
| `POST` | `/api/clipboard` | 把文本推送到所有已连接浏览器(`{text}`) |
| `GET` / `POST` | `/api/model-endpoints` | 列出 / 保存自定义的 OpenAI 兼容端点(`PUT` / `DELETE` `/:id`;多用户模式下仅管理员) |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/run-summary` | 时间线 + 统计 |
> **想在 Codeman 之上做集成?**[`docs/extending-codeman.md`](docs/extending-codeman.md)(英文)是集成指南:把你自己的界面作为标签页嵌入、订阅 SSE 事件流以便在 agent 需要你时做出响应、用脚本驱动 Codeman,以及动手前值得先了解的那些坑。Codeman 刻意不提供插件运行时,所以一个集成就是你自己的进程在讲 HTTP。
@@ -1042,7 +906,7 @@ flowchart TB
end
subgraph External["外部"]
CLI["AI CLI<br/><small>Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini / Pi / Grok / DeepSeek / OMP</small>"]
CLI["AI CLI<br/><small>Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini</small>"]
BG["后台智能体<br/><small>(Task 工具)</small>"]
end
end
@@ -1073,19 +937,13 @@ flowchart TB
npm install
npx tsx src/index.ts web # 开发模式
npm run build # 生产构建
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)
npm run test:ci # 运行测试(CI 套件;浏览器套件需要额外环境)
```
完整文档见 [CLAUDE.md](./CLAUDE.md)。
---
## 社区
提问、安装求助和想法都在 [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions):[Q&A 板块](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/q-a)回答了最常见的那些(手机访问、通宵运行、更新),路线图则在 [Ideas](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/categories/ideas) 里决定。Bug 请提到 [issues](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues);报告通常一天内会得到回复,每个发行版都会点名感谢报告者和贡献者。想参与贡献?[CONTRIBUTING.md](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) 是地图:皮肤、翻译和文档都是很好的第一个 PR,更大的特性先从一个 Discussion 开始。如果你对自己的配置很自豪,发到 [Show and tell](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/discussions/300) 来。
---
## 代码库质量
本代码库经历了一次全面的 7 阶段重构,消除了上帝对象、集中了配置,并建立了模块化架构:
@@ -1109,7 +967,7 @@ npm test # 运行测试(与 CI 相同;浏览器/移动端
[![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/xterm-zerolag-input?style=flat-square&color=22c55e)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/xterm-zerolag-input)
为 xterm.js 提供即时按键反馈的叠加层。通过把输入的字符立即渲染为像素级精准的 DOM 叠加层,消除高 RTT 连接下的感知输入延迟。零依赖、gzip 后 6.1 kB、可配置的提示符检测、CJK/emoji 宽字符支持、带 238 个测试的完整状态机。
为 xterm.js 提供即时按键反馈的叠加层。通过把输入的字符立即渲染为像素级精准的 DOM 叠加层,消除高 RTT 连接下的感知输入延迟。零依赖、可配置的提示符检测、带 78 个测试的完整状态机。
```bash
npm install xterm-zerolag-input
@@ -1132,8 +990,3 @@ MIT —— 见 [LICENSE](LICENSE)
<p align="center">
<strong>跟踪会话。可视化智能体。掌控重生。让它在你睡觉时持续运行。</strong>
</p>
<p align="center">
如果 Codeman 帮你省了时间,<a href="https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/stargazers">点个 star</a> 能让更多人找到它。<br>
欢迎到 <a href="https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues">Issues</a> 报告 bug 和提出特性想法。
</p>
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[
{
"id": "claude",
"label": "Claude Code",
"shortBadge": "CC",
"enabled": true,
"order": 0,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"claude"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.local/bin",
"~/.claude/local",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/.npm-global/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash",
"darwin": "curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash",
"wsl": "curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash"
},
"npmPackage": "@anthropic-ai/claude-code",
"docsUrl": "https://docs.claude.com/claude-code"
}
}
},
{
"id": "shell",
"label": "Shell",
"shortBadge": "SH",
"enabled": true,
"order": 1,
"kind": "shell",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [],
"searchDirs": [],
"install": {
"command": {}
}
}
},
{
"id": "opencode",
"label": "OpenCode",
"shortBadge": "OC",
"enabled": true,
"order": 10,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"opencode"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.opencode/bin",
"~/.local/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/go/bin",
"~/.bun/bin",
"~/.npm-global/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash",
"darwin": "curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash"
},
"npmPackage": "opencode-ai",
"docsUrl": "https://opencode.ai/docs"
}
}
},
{
"id": "codex",
"label": "Codex",
"shortBadge": "CX",
"enabled": true,
"order": 20,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"codex"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.codex/bin",
"~/.local/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/.bun/bin",
"~/.npm-global/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "npm install -g @openai/codex",
"darwin": "npm install -g @openai/codex"
},
"npmPackage": "@openai/codex",
"docsUrl": "https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli"
}
}
},
{
"id": "gemini",
"label": "Gemini",
"shortBadge": "GM",
"enabled": true,
"order": 30,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"gemini"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.gemini/bin",
"~/.local/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/.bun/bin",
"~/.npm-global/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "npm install -g @google/gemini-cli",
"darwin": "npm install -g @google/gemini-cli"
},
"npmPackage": "@google/gemini-cli",
"docsUrl": "https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli"
}
}
},
{
"id": "antigravity",
"label": "Antigravity",
"shortBadge": "AG",
"enabled": true,
"order": 40,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"agy"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.local/bin",
"~/.antigravity/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "curl -fsSL https://antigravity.google/cli/install.sh | bash",
"darwin": "curl -fsSL https://antigravity.google/cli/install.sh | bash"
},
"docsUrl": "https://antigravity.google/cli"
}
}
},
{
"id": "pi",
"label": "Pi",
"shortBadge": "PI",
"enabled": true,
"order": 50,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"pi"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.local/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/.bun/bin",
"~/.npm-global/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent",
"darwin": "npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent"
},
"npmPackage": "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent",
"docsUrl": "https://pi.dev",
"agentImageLayer": {
"kind": "dedicated",
"reason": "installed with --ignore-scripts in its own layer, so the flag cannot leak to the shared block"
}
}
}
},
{
"id": "grok",
"label": "Grok",
"shortBadge": "GK",
"enabled": true,
"order": 70,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"grok"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.grok/bin",
"~/.local/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash",
"darwin": "curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash"
},
"docsUrl": "https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build"
}
}
},
{
"id": "deepseek",
"label": "DeepSeek",
"shortBadge": "DS",
"enabled": true,
"order": 80,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"dsh"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.local/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/.npm-global/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"identity": {
"arg": "--help",
"regex": "DeepSeek\\s+Harness"
},
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh",
"darwin": "npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh"
},
"npmPackage": "@deepseek-ai/dsh",
"docsUrl": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness",
"agentImageLayer": {
"kind": "dedicated",
"reason": "needs pnpm alongside it (dsh plugin, issue #352) and a dsh-tui profile install"
}
}
}
},
{
"id": "omp",
"label": "OMP",
"shortBadge": "OM",
"enabled": true,
"order": 90,
"kind": "agent",
"discovery": {
"binaries": [
"omp"
],
"searchDirs": [
"~/.local/bin",
"~/.omp/bin",
"/usr/local/bin",
"~/.bun/bin",
"~/.npm-global/bin",
"~/bin"
],
"install": {
"command": {
"linux": "curl -fsSL https://omp.sh/install | sh",
"darwin": "brew install can1357/tap/omp"
},
"docsUrl": "https://omp.sh"
}
}
}
]
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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/terminal-keycode229-recovery.browser.test.ts',
'test/capture-load-window.browser.test.ts',
'test/capture-geometry-retry.browser.test.ts',
'test/codex-predictive-echo.test.ts', // also needs a real codex binary
'test/split-pane-terminal.browser.test.ts',
'test/split-pane-orchestration.browser.test.ts',
'test/split-pane-auto-collapse.browser.test.ts',
];
/**
* 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/test-local-llm-harnesses.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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@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
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, '..');
/**
* 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.
* 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.
*
* Keep the rest in sync with config/vitest.config.ts.
*/
@@ -21,7 +17,16 @@ export default defineConfig({
globals: true,
environment: 'node',
include: ['test/**/*.test.ts'],
exclude: [...configDefaults.exclude, ...NON_CI_TEST_GLOBS],
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
],
setupFiles: ['./test/setup.ts'],
fileParallelism: false,
testTimeout: 30000,
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@@ -3,17 +3,6 @@ import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config';
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=codeman
# Optional Git identity for commits made by Codeman and Docker-case agents. These values
# are written to each image's system Git configuration when it is rebuilt, so
# deployments can configure a consistent default. Set both values together.
# GIT_USER_NAME=
# GIT_USER_EMAIL=
# 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/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/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/codeman/codeman-cases.
CODEMAN_CASES_PATH=/mnt/user/appdata/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. Extra Host-header allowlist entries for a reverse-proxied domain
# (comma-separated; a bare `.suffix` matches every subdomain). Without it a
# proxied request is rejected with `403 Forbidden: host not allowed`. See
# README.md, "Reverse-proxy host allowlist".
# CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS=codeman.example.com,.internal.example.com
# The GitHub CLI (gh) and the Azure CLI (az, with the azure-devops extension)
# can be built into the images as git credential helpers, so Codeman can clone
# private GitHub and Azure DevOps repositories. Both are OFF by default and are
# NOT set here: turn them on in docker-compose.override.yml with the build args
# CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH / CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ and, for the Docker-case agent image,
# the environment variables CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH / _AZ. See
# README.md, "Private repositories".
# 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 commands instead. Running Compose from inside `docker/` with no `-f` lets it discover `docker-compose.override.yml` on its own (see [Local customisation](#local-customisation)); naming the file with `-f docker/docker-compose.yaml` from the repository root silently drops the override unless it is named too.
```powershell
Copy-Item docker/.env.example docker/.env
Set-Location docker
docker compose --env-file .env up --build -d
```
Every required value is defined and explained in `.env.example`. `GEMINI_API_KEY` is intentionally optional and may remain blank.
The container starts as root so `entrypoint.sh` can correct the ownership of a bind source the Docker daemon created (it creates a missing one as `root:root`), then drops to `PUID:PGID` with `setpriv` before the server starts, so Codeman itself never runs privileged. That drop needs `cap_add: [CHOWN, DAC_OVERRIDE, KILL, SETGID, SETUID]` against the file's `cap_drop: ALL`; a compose file written elsewhere (Unraid's Compose Manager, a hand-written unit) must carry the same additions, and the entrypoint names them when they are missing. A directory owned by neither root nor `PUID:PGID` is never re-owned: it is probed for writability as the runtime account and refused with a clear message if that fails. Setting `user:` in Compose skips the whole step.
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 `codeman`. 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).
### Major updates
`Start-Codeman.sh` rebuilds the image on every start, but with the layer cache,
and it refreshes the build-artefact volumes selectively: `codeman-dist` when
the checkout's HEAD moved, `codeman-node-modules` only when `package-lock.json`
changed. That is right for an ordinary `git pull`. It is not enough when a
`server.Dockerfile` change bumps the Node base image without touching the
lockfile: `node-pty` is compiled from source (there is no Linux prebuild), so
the old `codeman-node-modules` volume would keep a build made for the previous
Node version. For that case, or whenever you want to be certain of what ships,
`docker/Update-Codeman.sh` force-rebuilds the image with no layer cache, stops
the stack, removes the `codeman-node-modules` and `codeman-dist` volumes, then
hands off to `Start-Codeman.sh` for the usual start:
```sh
bash docker/Update-Codeman.sh
```
Pass `--keep-volumes` to skip clearing them (safe only if you know the
rebuilt image's `node_modules`/`dist` did not change). The scripted default
is the "Resetting the build artefacts" procedure in
[`../docs/docker-self-update.md`](../docs/docker-self-update.md). Only those
two volumes are removed, by name within this Compose project; any volume a
`docker-compose.override.yml` adds is left alone, and application data and
case workspaces are host bind mounts, never touched either way.
## Git commit identity
Set `GIT_USER_NAME` and `GIT_USER_EMAIL` in `docker/.env` before rebuilding:
```sh
GIT_USER_NAME='Your Name'
GIT_USER_EMAIL='you@example.com'
```
Compose passes the values to the Codeman server build, and to the server process
when it builds Docker-case agent images. Both images write the pair to Git's
system configuration during their build, so commits retain the same identity
after a container or agent image is recreated. Set both values together; an
image build with only one value fails rather than using a partial identity. An
identity already present in `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH`'s `~/.gitconfig` overrides
the server image's system-level default.
Run `bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh` after changing the server values. Rebuild an
existing agent image with `node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache` in the
server container, then recreate any Docker cases that should use it.
## Private repositories (GitHub and Azure DevOps)
The images can include the GitHub CLI (`gh`) and the Azure CLI (`az`, with the `azure-devops` extension), wired into the system Git configuration as credential helpers, so Codeman can clone private repositories. Both are **opt-in and off by default**, and are turned on per host in `docker-compose.override.yml`.
### Turning them on
Add the build arguments to `docker-compose.override.yml` (see [Local customisation](#local-customisation)), then rebuild with `Start-Codeman.sh`. Set only the one you need:
```yaml
services:
codeman:
build:
args:
CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH: '1'
CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ: '1'
environment:
# The same two switches for the Docker-case agent image Codeman builds.
CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH: '1'
CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_AZ: '1'
```
The `build: args:` pair controls the Codeman server image. The `environment:` pair controls the agent image for [Docker cases](../docs/docker-cases.md), which Codeman builds on the first Docker case; an agent image that already exists is not rebuilt by this, so run `node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache` inside the container afterwards. The same variables work in front of that command when building it by hand. Values must be `0` or `1`; anything else stops the build with an error naming the argument.
They are not `.env` settings: turning a CLI on is a per-host choice, which is what the override file is for, and a new `.env.example` key makes the in-app updater refuse to update every existing installation until its `.env` gains the key.
The Azure CLI is the large one, about 600 MB of the roughly 670 MB the pair adds. A CLI left off leaves nothing functional behind: no apt repository, no package, no `azure-devops` extension and no credential-helper entry, so git for that host behaves exactly as it does without this feature. With both off the image is functionally unchanged; it still carries the `AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR` variable, an empty extensions directory and one small layer that copies and then removes the helper script.
### Signing in
With a CLI on, the system Git configuration routes credentials through it:
| Host | Credential helper | Sign in with |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| `https://github.com`, `https://gist.github.com` | `gh auth git-credential` | `gh auth login` |
| `https://dev.azure.com`, `https://*.visualstudio.com` | `/usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli` | `az login --use-device-code` |
Codeman itself still collects no Git credentials. Sign the container in once from a **Terminal / Shell** session (Run menu). The session runs as the runtime account, so the sign-in is stored under `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH` (`~/.config/gh`, `~/.azure`) and survives rebuilds and container recreation:
```sh
gh auth login # GitHub.com -> HTTPS -> "Login with a web browser" (device code)
az login --use-device-code # then: az devops configure --defaults organization=https://dev.azure.com/<org>
```
After that, **Add Case → Clone Repo** accepts private `https://` URLs on those hosts, and `git clone` works from any session. Until a CLI is signed in its helper prints nothing, so a private clone fails immediately with the usual authentication error rather than waiting on a prompt.
**Multi-user mode:** every Codeman user's git runs as the same server account, so these sign-ins would otherwise be shared. Clone Repo therefore runs a **non-admin**'s clone and preflight with every git credential helper cleared (`git -c credential.helper=`): a non-admin can clone public repositories and anything their own SSH setup allows, but not a private https repository through the admin's `gh`/`az` sign-in. Admins, and single-user mode, keep the helpers. A non-admin's own agent sessions still run as that same account, and with the agent-image `gh`/`az` switches on, a non-admin's Docker case with credential seeding on also receives the server account's `gh`/`az` sign-in, the same as the Claude and Codex credentials; see `docs/security-architecture.md`, multi-user mode.
Azure DevOps is authenticated with an Entra ID access token that the helper requests from `az` for each Git operation, so nothing is written to disk beyond `az`'s own sign-in. An account that has to use a personal access token can set `AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT` for the container instead (for example under `environment:` in `docker-compose.override.yml`); the helper prefers it when present. SSH remotes are unaffected by any of this and keep using the account's own keys.
Docker cases copy these sign-ins into a case container only when the matching agent-image switch is on (`CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH=1` for `~/.config/gh/hosts.yml` and `config.yml`, `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_AZ=1` for the sign-in files from `~/.azure`) and the case has credential seeding on. With a switch off they are never copied, even when the files exist, because a GitHub token or an Azure refresh token is usable by anything in the container. The copies are made when the container is **created**, so an existing case container never picks them up: after turning a switch on, signing in, or rebuilding the agent image, **recreate the case container** (remove it; the next session in that case creates a fresh one).
The GitHub agent skill for `gh` installs into the runtime account's home in the same session:
```sh
gh skill install cli/cli gh --scope user
gh skill update gh # after a later gh release
```
### Versions
Both CLIs, and the extension, are installed from their vendors' repositories with no version pinned, so they arrive at whatever is current when that build step runs. Docker caches the step, though: `Start-Codeman.sh` rebuilds with the cache, which keeps the versions from the first build until the Dockerfile changes at or above that step or the image is rebuilt with `--no-cache`. They are apt packages owned by root, so they cannot be upgraded from a session; `az extension update --name azure-devops` is the exception and works without a rebuild.
## Local customisation
Compose merges `docker-compose.override.yml` on top of `docker-compose.yaml`. Keep host-specific changes there rather than editing `docker-compose.yaml`, so this repository can be updated without losing them. Both `docker-compose.override.yml` and `docker-compose.override.yaml` are ignored by Git.
`Start-Codeman.sh` names the Compose file explicitly, which disables Compose's automatic discovery of the override file, so the script adds it back when one is present and prints the file it used. Running `docker compose` from this folder without any `-f` option finds it automatically. When passing `-f docker/docker-compose.yaml` from the repository root, add `-f docker/docker-compose.override.yml` as well, or the override is silently ignored.
An override file adds to and replaces individual settings. It cannot delete a key from `docker-compose.yaml`, and Compose concatenates rather than replaces `ports`, so removing a published port still requires editing `docker-compose.yaml`. The example below replaces the restart policy and adds a mount, leaving every other setting in place:
```yaml
services:
codeman:
restart: always
volumes:
- /srv/projects:/srv/projects
```
### Reverse-proxy host allowlist
Codeman rejects any request whose `Host` header is not on its own allowlist - a
DNS-rebinding guard, not a Compose or Docker concern. Loopback, any IP literal,
the configured `--host`, and a few tunnel-provider suffixes are allowed by
default; a reverse-proxied domain is not, and is rejected with
`403 Forbidden: host not allowed` before the request reaches any handler.
Add the domain with `CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS` in `.env`:
```sh
CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS='codeman.example.com,.internal.example.com'
```
`docker-compose.yaml` forwards it into the container (Compose only passes
through the environment keys it explicitly lists, and this is one of them, with
an empty default so the line is optional in `.env`).
See the application's own `docs/wiki/Remote-Access.md` for the full allowlist
format and the tunnel providers it accepts by default.
## 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/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/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 from `docker-compose.yaml` and add the following to the `codeman` service. The service and network additions can instead be placed in `docker-compose.override.yml`, but the `ports:` removal cannot, as described under [Local customisation](#local-customisation):
```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' "$script_dir" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Naming a Compose file explicitly disables Compose's automatic discovery of
# the override file, so it has to be added back by hand. Without this, local
# customisation in docker-compose.override.yml is silently ignored. The
# candidates are checked in Compose's own precedence order - measured on
# Compose v5.5.0 with both present: it uses `.yml` and ignores `.yaml`.
override_yml="$script_dir/docker-compose.override.yml"
override_yaml="$script_dir/docker-compose.override.yaml"
if [[ -f "$override_yml" && -f "$override_yaml" ]]; then
printf 'Warning: both %s and %s exist; Compose uses .yml and ignores .yaml.\n' \
"$override_yml" "$override_yaml" >&2
fi
compose_files=(-f "$compose_file")
for override_file in "$override_yml" "$override_yaml"; do
if [[ -f "$override_file" ]]; then
compose_files+=(-f "$override_file")
printf 'Using Compose override file: %s\n' "$override_file"
break
fi
done
compose_command=(docker compose --env-file "$env_file" "${compose_files[@]}")
appdata_path=$(
"${compose_command[@]}" config --environment |
awk -F= '$1 == "CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH" { sub(/^[^=]*=/, ""); print; exit }'
)
cases_path=$(
"${compose_command[@]}" config --environment |
awk -F= '$1 == "CODEMAN_CASES_PATH" { sub(/^[^=]*=/, ""); print; exit }'
)
docker_socket=$(
"${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 -- "$appdata_path"
fi
if [[ -z "$cases_path" ]]; then
printf 'Error: CODEMAN_CASES_PATH is not set in %s\n' "$env_file" >&2
exit 1
fi
# `stat -c` is GNU, `stat -f` is BSD/macOS; the bind sources live on the Docker
# host, so both need to work.
owner_of() {
stat -c '%u:%g' -- "$1" 2>/dev/null || stat -f '%u:%g' "$1" 2>/dev/null
}
if ! owner_ids=$(owner_of "$appdata_path"); then
printf 'Error: Cannot determine the owner of CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH: %s\n' "$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
# Pre-creating this here, exactly like CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH above, means Compose
# never has to materialise a missing bind source itself - which it does as
# root:root - so the in-container entrypoint's chown never has to run for this
# path at all. It happens AFTER PUID/PGID are known (they come from the appdata
# directory just above) so the new directory can be given that exact owner: a
# plain `mkdir -p` lands as the invoking user's uid and PRIMARY gid, and on a
# host set up the way the README suggests (`chown -R 99:100 <appdata>`) that gid
# is not PGID, which the container would then refuse to run on. Unlike appdata,
# an EXISTING cases directory is left exactly as it is: the README explicitly
# allows pointing this at a normal projects directory the host account already
# owns, and the container checks that it is WRITABLE as PUID:PGID rather than
# who owns it.
if [[ ! -d "$cases_path" ]]; then
mkdir -p -- "$cases_path"
if [[ "$(owner_of "$cases_path")" != "$PUID:$PGID" ]]; then
# As root this always succeeds; as a member of PGID a chgrp does; anyone
# else gets the clear error here, where the fix is obvious, rather than a
# restart loop from the container.
if ! chown -- "$PUID:$PGID" "$cases_path" 2>/dev/null; then
printf 'Error: created CODEMAN_CASES_PATH (%s) but could not make it %s:%s (the owner of CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH).\n' \
"$cases_path" "$PUID" "$PGID" >&2
printf 'Run `chown %s:%s %s` as root, or create the directory as that account, then retry.\n' \
"$PUID" "$PGID" "$cases_path" >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
fi
if [[ -z "$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
# Reads HEAD without requiring a `git` binary on the host — this script
# otherwise checks the checkout only by testing for `.git` as a directory, and
# resolving refs by hand keeps that the same "no host git needed" guarantee.
# ⚠️ A worktree checkout has `.git` as a FILE (`gitdir: <path>`), not a
# directory, so this returns nothing there and the volume-refresh check below
# silently no-ops — consistent with the `-d .git` test used everywhere else in
# this script, not a special case, but worth knowing if a worktree checkout
# stops picking up a stale-volume refresh it should have caught.
git_head_commit() {
local git_dir="$1/.git" head_ref ref_path
[[ -d "$git_dir" ]] || return 1
head_ref=$(cat -- "$git_dir/HEAD" 2>/dev/null) || return 1
if [[ "$head_ref" == ref:* ]]; then
ref_path="${head_ref#ref: }"
if [[ -f "$git_dir/$ref_path" ]]; then
cat -- "$git_dir/$ref_path"
else
# Packed after a `git gc`; the loose ref file above is gone.
awk -v ref="$ref_path" '$2 == ref { print $1; exit }' "$git_dir/packed-refs" 2>/dev/null
fi
else
printf '%s' "$head_ref"
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" "$state_dir/docker-env-applied.json"
fi
else
printf 'Warning: no sha256 tool found; in-app updates will not detect environment changes.\n' >&2
fi
# codeman-node-modules and codeman-dist (docker-compose.yaml) are seeded from
# the image only while EMPTY, so a rebuilt image's fresh output sits unused
# behind old volume content until something clears it. The in-app self-updater
# never hits this — it rebuilds INSIDE the running container, into the very
# volume already in use — but a `docker compose build` triggered from outside
# it (this script, after a `git pull`) does: the container comes back up
# looking unchanged. Detect that here and clear just the affected volume(s) so
# the build below actually takes effect. Best-effort: with no sha256 tool this
# quietly does nothing, same as the environment-gate block above.
volumes_to_refresh=()
if [[ -n "$dockerfile_sha" ]]; then
repo_head=$(git_head_commit "$repo_path" || true)
lockfile_sha=$(sha256_of "$repo_path/package-lock.json" 2>/dev/null || true)
source_state_file="$state_dir/docker-build-source.json"
prev_head=''
prev_lockfile_sha=''
if [[ -f "$source_state_file" ]]; then
prev_head=$(sed -n 's/.*"headCommit": *"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' "$source_state_file")
prev_lockfile_sha=$(sed -n 's/.*"lockfileSha256": *"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' "$source_state_file")
fi
[[ -n "$repo_head" && "$repo_head" != "$prev_head" ]] && volumes_to_refresh+=('codeman-dist')
[[ -n "$lockfile_sha" && "$lockfile_sha" != "$prev_lockfile_sha" ]] && volumes_to_refresh+=('codeman-node-modules')
fi
if [[ ${#volumes_to_refresh[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
exec "${compose_command[@]}" up --build -d
fi
# Runs even on this script's very first invocation against an EXISTING
# deployment, deliberately: that deployment's volumes may already be stale
# (there was no earlier version of this check to have caught it), and clearing
# an already-empty or nonexistent volume is a harmless no-op, so there is no
# fresh-install case this needs to avoid.
printf 'Source changed since the last start; refreshing: %s\n' "${volumes_to_refresh[*]}"
# Build BEFORE taking the stack down: the image build is the slow part and needs
# no container stopped, so the deployment is offline only for the recreate.
"${compose_command[@]}" build
# `com.docker.compose.volume` is the volume KEY, not a project-qualified name -
# a second stack on the same host (a beta instance started with a different
# COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME, say) that also declares a volume keyed `codeman-dist`
# shares that label, and `head -n1` would pick whichever the daemon happens to
# list first. Scope the lookup to THIS stack's own resolved project name so it
# can only ever match this stack's volume. The name is read from the resolved
# config's top-level `name` key, indentation-agnostic (the formatting is not a
# contract), and the FIRST `name` in the output is the project's: nested ones
# (a network's `name:`) come later. `--format json` needs Compose v2.3+.
project_name=$(
"${compose_command[@]}" config --format json 2>/dev/null |
sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*"name":[[:space:]]*"\([^"]*\)".*$/\1/p' | head -n1
)
"${compose_command[@]}" down
# Track whether the volumes were actually cleared. The marker below is written
# ONLY on success: with an unresolvable project name the label filter would
# match nothing, nothing would be removed, and a marker recording the new HEAD
# would stop this check from ever firing again while the stale volume kept
# serving old code. A failed removal likewise leaves the marker alone, so the
# next start retries, and the stack is brought back up regardless rather than
# left down.
refreshed=1
if [[ -z "$project_name" ]]; then
# The documented reset (docs/docker-self-update.md): both volumes re-seed from
# the image by a plain copy, so clearing the extra one costs a copy, not data.
printf 'Warning: could not resolve the Compose project name; clearing both build-artefact volumes with `down --volumes` instead.\n' >&2
"${compose_command[@]}" down --volumes || refreshed=0
else
for key in "${volumes_to_refresh[@]}"; do
volume_name=$(
docker volume ls -q \
--filter "label=com.docker.compose.volume=$key" \
--filter "label=com.docker.compose.project=$project_name" |
head -n1
)
if [[ -n "$volume_name" ]] && ! docker volume rm -- "$volume_name"; then
printf 'Warning: could not remove volume %s; it will be retried on the next start.\n' "$volume_name" >&2
refreshed=0
fi
done
fi
if [[ "$refreshed" == '1' ]]; then
printf '{\n "headCommit": "%s",\n "lockfileSha256": "%s"\n}\n' \
"$repo_head" "$lockfile_sha" >"$source_state_file.tmp"
mv -- "$source_state_file.tmp" "$source_state_file"
if [[ "$EUID" == '0' ]]; then
chown -- "$PUID:$PGID" "$source_state_file"
fi
else
printf 'Warning: the build-artefact volumes were NOT refreshed; the container may serve stale code until the next successful start.\n' >&2
fi
# Already built above, so no --build here: a second build would only re-check
# the cache.
exec "${compose_command[@]}" up -d
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@@ -1,255 +0,0 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# The scripted major-update path for the Docker Compose deployment.
#
# docker/README.md and docs/docker-self-update.md both point operators here for
# anything the in-app updater itself refuses to apply: a changed
# `server.Dockerfile`, a changed `docker-compose.yaml`, or a new required
# `.env.example` key. None of those can be applied by a container restarting
# itself — a restart reuses the existing image and configuration (see "The
# environment gate" in docs/docker-self-update.md) — so this script does the
# three things an in-place update cannot: force a real image rebuild with no
# layer cache, stop the stack, then hand off to Start-Codeman.sh for the same
# careful PUID/PGID, override-file and fingerprint handling every other start
# goes through.
#
# ⚠️ Build BEFORE stopping the stack, deliberately, same reasoning as
# Start-Codeman.sh's own build-then-down ordering: the build needs nothing
# stopped, so a slow --no-cache rebuild costs no downtime, and a build failure
# (a bad Dockerfile edit, a network blip pulling a base image) leaves the
# ALREADY-RUNNING stack untouched instead of stopped with nothing to bring it
# back.
#
# ⚠️ Clears the codeman-node-modules/codeman-dist named volumes by DEFAULT.
# Docker seeds a named volume from the image only while that volume is EMPTY,
# so a rebuilt image's fresh node_modules/dist otherwise sit unused behind a
# volume's old content and the container comes back up looking unchanged —
# exactly wrong for a script whose whole point is "be certain of what ships".
# Start-Codeman.sh clears codeman-dist when the checkout's HEAD moved and
# codeman-node-modules only when `package-lock.json` changed. A released
# server.Dockerfile change arrives through `git pull`, so HEAD moves and dist
# is refreshed, but a Dockerfile change that bumps the Node base image leaves
# the lockfile untouched while every native module (node-pty is compiled from
# source, there is no Linux prebuild) has to be rebuilt against the new Node
# ABI. Start-Codeman.sh would keep the old codeman-node-modules volume, and it
# never builds with --no-cache. This script clears BOTH volumes, and ONLY
# those two (targeted `docker volume rm` by Compose label, never
# `down --volumes`, which would also take any volume an override file adds).
# Pass --keep-volumes to opt out and reuse whatever is already in them.
#
# Usage: docker/Update-Codeman.sh [--keep-volumes]
# --keep-volumes Do not clear codeman-node-modules/codeman-dist. Safe to
# combine with a source change Start-Codeman.sh's own
# detection would have cleared anyway; unsafe if the reason
# you are here is a change to server.Dockerfile alone.
set -euo pipefail
script_dir=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
env_file="$script_dir/.env"
compose_file="$script_dir/docker-compose.yaml"
keep_volumes=0
for arg in "$@"; do
case "$arg" in
--keep-volumes)
keep_volumes=1
;;
--help | -h)
printf 'Usage: bash %s [--keep-volumes]\n' "$0"
exit 0
;;
*)
printf 'Error: unrecognised argument: %s\n' "$arg" >&2
printf 'Usage: bash %s [--keep-volumes]\n' "$0" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
done
if [[ ! -f "$env_file" ]]; then
printf 'Error: Docker environment file is missing: %s\n' "$env_file" >&2
printf 'Create it from %s/.env.example before running this script.\n' "$script_dir" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Same override-file discovery as Start-Codeman.sh, and deliberately kept in
# step with it: a stack built here and started there must resolve to the exact
# same Compose files, or this script's build could target a configuration the
# handoff's own `up` never actually uses. Compose's own precedence (measured on
# v5.5.0 with both present: it uses .yml and ignores .yaml).
override_yml="$script_dir/docker-compose.override.yml"
override_yaml="$script_dir/docker-compose.override.yaml"
if [[ -f "$override_yml" && -f "$override_yaml" ]]; then
printf 'Warning: both %s and %s exist; Compose uses .yml and ignores .yaml.\n' \
"$override_yml" "$override_yaml" >&2
fi
compose_files=(-f "$compose_file")
for override_file in "$override_yml" "$override_yaml"; do
if [[ -f "$override_file" ]]; then
compose_files+=(-f "$override_file")
printf 'Using Compose override file: %s\n' "$override_file"
break
fi
done
compose_command=(docker compose --env-file "$env_file" "${compose_files[@]}")
# Collision guard. Start-Codeman.sh has no equivalent; this is the only one,
# and it has to run before this script's own --no-cache build, `down` and
# volume removal below. docker-compose.yaml hard-codes `name: codeman`, so a
# second checkout run without COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME resolves to the SAME Compose
# project as any other checkout on the host and would operate on ITS
# containers and volumes.
#
# The project name is read from the resolved config's top-level `name` key
# (the first `name` in the output; nested ones come later), the same parse
# Start-Codeman.sh uses. `--format json` needs Compose v2.3+. This is the first
# `docker` call the script makes, so its failure is reported here rather than
# left to `set -e`, which would exit with no output at all.
if ! project_config=$("${compose_command[@]}" config --format json); then
printf 'Error: `docker compose config --format json` failed (see the message above, if any).\n' >&2
printf 'Check that Docker and Compose v2.3+ are installed and on PATH, and that\n' >&2
printf '%s and the Compose files in %s are valid.\n' "$env_file" "$script_dir" >&2
exit 1
fi
project_name=$(
printf '%s\n' "$project_config" |
sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*"name":[[:space:]]*"\([^"]*\)".*$/\1/p' | head -n1
)
if [[ -n "$project_name" ]]; then
# `|| true` on the pipeline's LAST command: under `set -o pipefail`, `grep -v`
# exits 1 when nothing survives the filter — the ordinary, no-collision case,
# since `docker ps` finds nothing at all on a first-ever deployment or a
# single matching (own) working_dir gets filtered out. Without it, that exit
# status propagates through the command substitution and `set -e` aborts the
# WHOLE script right here, every time, regardless of whether a collision
# actually exists — caught only by actually running this end-to-end (a
# static text/regex check on the source cannot see it). The empty-line
# filter keeps a container with no working_dir label from winning head -n1
# and hiding a real collision behind it.
other_working_dir=$(
docker ps -a --filter "label=com.docker.compose.project=$project_name" \
--format '{{.Label "com.docker.compose.project.working_dir"}}' 2>/dev/null |
grep -v -F -x -- "$script_dir" | grep -v '^$' | head -n1 || true
)
if [[ -n "$other_working_dir" ]]; then
printf 'Error: Compose project "%s" is already in use by a DIFFERENT checkout:\n' "$project_name" >&2
printf ' %s\n' "$other_working_dir" >&2
printf 'This checkout is:\n' >&2
printf ' %s\n' "$script_dir" >&2
printf '\n' >&2
printf 'docker-compose.yaml hard-codes `name: %s`, so two checkouts on the same host\n' "$project_name" >&2
printf 'collide unless each one sets a distinct COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME. Continuing would\n' >&2
printf 'rebuild and stop the OTHER checkout'"'"'s running container and, by default,\n' >&2
printf 'delete its codeman-node-modules/codeman-dist volumes.\n' >&2
printf '\n' >&2
printf 'Fix: export COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=<something-unique-to-this-checkout> before\n' >&2
printf 'running this script, then retry.\n' >&2
printf '\n' >&2
printf 'If instead THIS checkout was moved or renamed after its container was created,\n' >&2
printf 'the path above is its own old location: remove the old container (for example\n' >&2
printf '`docker rm -f <container>` for the codeman container) and retry, rather than\n' >&2
printf 'setting COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME, which would start a second project beside it.\n' >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
# Same owner-detection Start-Codeman.sh uses to derive PUID/PGID for its own
# build — without it, the --no-cache build below gets Compose's untouched
# default of 1000:1000, and on any host whose appdata owner differs (99:100 on
# Unraid, per docker/README.md's chown example), Start-Codeman.sh's own
# correctly-PUID'd build during the handoff then rebuilds those layers with the
# right values anyway — so the "no cache, certain of what ships" image this
# script produces is not the one that actually ends up running.
#
# Deliberately NOT the same as Start-Codeman.sh's own handling of a MISSING
# appdata directory (which creates it): this script updates an EXISTING
# deployment, so a missing appdata path means there is nothing here yet to
# update, and creating one would just be this script quietly doing
# Start-Codeman.sh's first-run job worse.
appdata_path=$(
"${compose_command[@]}" config --environment |
awk -F= '$1 == "CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH" { sub(/^[^=]*=/, ""); print; exit }'
)
if [[ -z "$appdata_path" || ! -d "$appdata_path" ]]; then
printf 'Error: CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH is not set or does not exist: %s\n' "${appdata_path:-<unset>}" >&2
printf 'Run docker/Start-Codeman.sh first to set up a new deployment.\n' >&2
exit 1
fi
# `stat -c` is GNU, `stat -f` is BSD/macOS; the bind source lives on the Docker
# host, so both need to work. Identical to Start-Codeman.sh's own helper.
owner_of() {
stat -c '%u:%g' -- "$1" 2>/dev/null || stat -f '%u:%g' "$1" 2>/dev/null
}
if ! owner_ids=$(owner_of "$appdata_path"); then
printf 'Error: Cannot determine the owner of CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH: %s\n' "$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
# --no-cache, always: a plain `build` reuses cached layers (npm install, apt
# packages, the CLI installs baked into the image) and can silently keep them
# frozen at whatever they were the day the cache was populated — exactly wrong
# for a major update, whose whole point is being certain of what actually
# ships. `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs` makes the same call for the same
# reason (see its entry in CLAUDE.md's Additional Commands table). Runs BEFORE
# the stack is stopped — see the header comment for why.
printf 'Building a fresh image (--no-cache)...\n'
"${compose_command[@]}" build --no-cache
printf 'Stopping the stack...\n'
if [[ "$keep_volumes" == '1' || -n "$project_name" ]]; then
"${compose_command[@]}" down
else
# No resolvable project name means the label filter below could match
# nothing, so fall back to Compose's own removal, and say what it really does.
printf 'Warning: could not resolve the Compose project name; clearing EVERY named volume\n' >&2
printf 'in this Compose project (override file included) with `down --volumes` instead.\n' >&2
"${compose_command[@]}" down --volumes
fi
# Targeted removal of exactly the two build-artefact volumes, scoped by label to
# THIS project (the volume key alone is shared by any other stack declaring the
# same key). Same lookup as Start-Codeman.sh's refresh. A failure is reported,
# not fatal: the stack is already down, and the handoff below is what brings
# it back up.
if [[ "$keep_volumes" != '1' && -n "$project_name" ]]; then
printf 'Clearing the codeman-node-modules/codeman-dist volumes (pass --keep-volumes to skip).\n'
for key in codeman-node-modules codeman-dist; do
volume_name=$(
docker volume ls -q \
--filter "label=com.docker.compose.volume=$key" \
--filter "label=com.docker.compose.project=$project_name" |
head -n1
) || volume_name=''
if [[ -n "$volume_name" ]] && ! docker volume rm -- "$volume_name"; then
printf 'Warning: could not remove volume %s; the container may keep serving the\n' "$volume_name" >&2
printf 'previous build from it. Remove it by hand and rerun this script.\n' >&2
fi
done
fi
# Start-Codeman.sh does everything a plain `up -d` does not: re-derives
# PUID/PGID, pre-creates CODEMAN_CASES_PATH with the right ownership, resolves
# DOCKER_SOCKET_GID, records the server.Dockerfile/docker-compose.yaml
# fingerprint the in-app updater's gate reads on every future update, and
# starts the (already freshly built) image. Reimplementing any of that here
# would only risk drifting out of step with it — hand off instead, exactly as
# docs/docker-self-update.md's own reset procedure does.
#
# ⚠️ `bash`, not a bare exec of the path: Start-Codeman.sh is committed
# non-executable (100644), the same as this script, and is documented
# everywhere as `bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh` rather than
# `./docker/Start-Codeman.sh` — execing the bare path fails with EACCES.
printf 'Handing off to Start-Codeman.sh...\n'
exec bash "$script_dir/Start-Codeman.sh"
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@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ FROM node:22-bookworm-slim
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
git \
libsecret-1-0 \
tmux \
ripgrep \
curl \
@@ -27,111 +26,13 @@ RUN apt-get update \
openssh-client \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# GitHub CLI and Azure CLI (+ the azure-devops extension) with the same system
# git credential helpers as docker/server.Dockerfile, so an agent in a Docker
# case can clone and push to private GitHub / Azure DevOps repositories. The
# sign-ins themselves are NOT baked in: `~/.config/gh` and `~/.azure` are seeded
# per container at launch like every other CLI's credentials (CRED_STORES in
# src/docker-hosts.ts), and a helper whose CLI is not signed in prints nothing,
# so git fails fast instead of prompting. See server.Dockerfile for why the
# vendor apt repositories are configured here rather than via deb_install.sh.
#
# Each is OPT-IN and OFF by default, like the server image: CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH=1
# / CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ=1 turn one on; off leaves no repository, package,
# extension or helper entry. scripts/build-agent-image.mjs and the in-app
# auto-build pass them from CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH / _AZ in their own
# environment (for the Compose deployment: `environment:` in
# docker-compose.override.yml), and pass nothing when those are unset, so
# these defaults (off) apply.
ARG CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH=0
ARG CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ=0
RUN set -eux; \
for flag in "CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH=${CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH}" "CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ=${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}"; do \
case "${flag#*=}" in 0|1) ;; *) echo "${flag%%=*} must be 0 or 1, got '${flag#*=}'" >&2; exit 1;; esac; \
done; \
codename="$(. /etc/os-release && echo "${VERSION_CODENAME}")"; \
arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"; \
pkgs=""; \
install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH}" = 1 ]; then \
curl -fsSL -o /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg; \
chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg; \
echo "deb [arch=${arch} signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" \
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list; \
pkgs="${pkgs} gh"; \
fi; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}" = 1 ]; then \
curl -fsSL -o /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.asc \
https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc; \
chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.asc; \
echo "deb [arch=${arch} signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.asc] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ ${codename} main" \
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list; \
pkgs="${pkgs} azure-cli"; \
fi; \
if [ -n "${pkgs}" ]; then \
apt-get update; \
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ${pkgs}; \
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
fi; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH}" = 1 ]; then gh --version; fi; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}" = 1 ]; then az version --output none; fi
# Outside HOME so the seeded `~/.azure` (auth files only) never has to carry
# extensions. gid 0 + group-writable, the same arbitrary-uid convention as HOME
# below, so `az extension update` works as whatever uid the container runs as.
# Created even without az; an empty directory costs nothing.
ENV AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR=/opt/az-extensions
RUN set -eux; \
install -d -m 0755 "${AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR}"; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}" = 1 ]; then \
az extension add --name azure-devops --only-show-errors; \
rm -rf /root/.azure; \
fi; \
chgrp -R 0 "${AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR}"; \
chmod -R g=u "${AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR}"
# Only an installed CLI gets a helper entry (see server.Dockerfile).
COPY docker/git-credential-azure-cli /usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli
RUN set -eux; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH}" = 1 ]; then \
for host in https://github.com https://gist.github.com; do \
git config --system "credential.${host}.helper" '!/usr/bin/gh auth git-credential'; \
done; \
fi; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}" = 1 ]; then \
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli; \
for host in https://dev.azure.com 'https://*.visualstudio.com'; do \
git config --system "credential.${host}.helper" /usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli; \
git config --system "credential.${host}.useHttpPath" true; \
done; \
else \
rm -f /usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli; \
fi
# The npm-published agent CLIs, supplied by scripts/build-agent-image.mjs from
# config/clis.stock.json so a new stock CLI needs no edit here. The default is
# today's literal list, so a bare `docker build` still produces the same image.
#
# ⚠️ Expanded UNQUOTED on purpose: word splitting is what turns the list into
# several arguments. Every token is validated against
# ^[@A-Za-z0-9][@A-Za-z0-9/._-]*$ on the producing side
# (scripts/lib/cli-catalog.mjs) precisely because of that.
#
# ⚠️ Filtered on each entry's `enabled` flag, so a CLI that ships disabled is
# never baked into every image.
#
# Pinning is left to the rebuild cadence (see docs/docker-cases-plan.md,
# user-decision 2).
# ⚠️ The default is in REGISTRY order, byte-identical to what the generator emits.
# A different order is a different RUN string, which is a different layer hash and
# so a needless cache miss between a bare `docker build` and a scripted one.
ARG CLI_NPM_PACKAGES="@anthropic-ai/claude-code opencode-ai @openai/codex @google/gemini-cli"
# uv/uvx: MCP servers are commonly launched with `uvx <package>` (e.g. the Nginx
# Proxy Manager MCP), and Codex failed to enable them with "uvx not found". Copied
# from the pinned upstream image into root-owned /usr/local/bin, never pip-installed.
COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:0.9 /uv /uvx /usr/local/bin/
RUN npm install -g ${CLI_NPM_PACKAGES} \
# The npm-published agent CLIs. Pinning is left to the rebuild cadence (see
# docs/docker-cases-plan.md, user-decision 2).
RUN npm install -g \
@anthropic-ai/claude-code \
@openai/codex \
@google/gemini-cli \
opencode-ai \
&& npm cache clean --force
# Antigravity (`agy`) is NOT on npm — Google ships a standalone binary through its
@@ -143,66 +44,6 @@ RUN curl -fsSL https://antigravity.google/cli/install.sh | bash -s -- --dir /usr
&& chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/agy \
&& agy --version
# Pi (pi.dev). Upstream documents --ignore-scripts (pi needs no lifecycle scripts);
# kept out of the shared npm block above so the flag cannot silently change how the
# rest of that block's CLIs install — a fixed count would go stale here since
# CLI_NPM_PACKAGES (above) is now a generated, dynamic list rather than a hand-kept one.
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
@@ -220,55 +61,12 @@ 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` 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/.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 \
/home/agent/.claude/projects /home/agent/.codex/sessions \
&& chgrp -R 0 /home/agent \
&& chmod -R g=u /home/agent
# Docker cases have a fresh, container-owned home directory. Declare the
# optional identity here so changing it invalidates only this final layer, then
# configure Git's system defaults. A user-level config still takes precedence.
ARG GIT_USER_EMAIL=
ARG GIT_USER_NAME=
RUN set -eux; \
if [ -n "${GIT_USER_NAME}" ] || [ -n "${GIT_USER_EMAIL}" ]; then \
if [ -z "${GIT_USER_NAME}" ] || [ -z "${GIT_USER_EMAIL}" ]; then \
echo 'Git user name and email must both be set when configuring Git identity' >&2; \
exit 1; \
fi; \
git config --system user.name "${GIT_USER_NAME}"; \
git config --system user.email "${GIT_USER_EMAIL}"; \
fi
USER agent
WORKDIR /home/agent
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name: codeman
services:
codeman:
build:
context: ..
dockerfile: docker/server.Dockerfile
args:
CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER: ${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}
GIT_USER_EMAIL: ${GIT_USER_EMAIL:-}
GIT_USER_NAME: ${GIT_USER_NAME:-}
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}
# Passed through only so Codeman can use the same identity when it builds
# the Docker-case agent image.
CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_GIT_USER_EMAIL: ${GIT_USER_EMAIL:-}
CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_GIT_USER_NAME: ${GIT_USER_NAME:-}
# Extra Host-header allowlist entries for a reverse-proxied deployment
# (docker/README.md, "Reverse-proxy host allowlist"). Optional, so it
# defaults to empty rather than requiring a line in every .env.
CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS: ${CODEMAN_ALLOWED_HOSTS:-}
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: ${CODEMAN_REPO_PATH:-..}
target: /opt/codeman
# Build artefacts live in named volumes layered OVER the repo bind mount,
# so `npm install` and `npm run build` inside the container never write
# into the host checkout. That keeps container-compiled native modules
# (node-pty is built from source here) out of a checkout that may also be
# used to run Codeman natively, and keeps `git status` clean. Docker seeds
# an EMPTY named volume from the image, so the first start inherits the
# image's already-built node_modules and dist rather than paying for a
# bootstrap build.
- type: volume
source: codeman-node-modules
target: /opt/codeman/node_modules
- type: volume
source: codeman-dist
target: /opt/codeman/dist
extra_hosts:
- "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges:true
cap_drop:
- ALL
cap_add:
# The entrypoint corrects bind-mount ownership as root before dropping to
# PUID:PGID. Everything not listed here remains dropped by cap_drop above.
# test/docker-entrypoint.test.ts pins this list against what the
# entrypoint and `init: true` actually need, so a capability cannot go
# missing silently again.
- CHOWN
- DAC_OVERRIDE
# `init: true` makes tini PID 1, and tini stays ROOT while the entrypoint
# drops the server to PUID. Signalling a process of a different uid needs
# CAP_KILL; without it tini's SIGTERM forward fails ("Unexpected error
# when forwarding signal: 'Operation not permitted'"), tini dies, and the
# PID namespace teardown SIGKILLs the server instead of letting
# `server.stop()` flush state on every `docker compose down`/`restart`.
- KILL
- SETGID
- SETUID
healthcheck:
test:
- CMD-SHELL
- >-
node -e "fetch('http://127.0.0.1:${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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#!/bin/sh
# Corrects ownership - host bind mounts, and the image-baked CLI prefix -
# then drops to PUID:PGID.
#
# Compose binds CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH and CODEMAN_CASES_PATH from the host. When
# either path does not exist yet - a first run, a cleared application-data
# directory, a restored backup - the Docker daemon creates it owned by root,
# and an unprivileged server cannot then create its own state directory. The
# result is a container that restarts forever on:
#
# Failed to start web server: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/<user>/.codeman'
#
# Running this as root and dropping afterwards removes that failure mode without
# leaving the server privileged. The same root start also lets it re-assert
# /opt/codeman-cli's ownership on every start, not just at image build time -
# see the comment at that chown below for why that matters for anyone who
# runs the compose file directly rather than through Start-Codeman.sh.
#
# Capabilities this script needs against the compose file's `cap_drop: ALL`
# (test/docker-entrypoint.test.ts pins the list against docker-compose.yaml):
# CHOWN + DAC_OVERRIDE the chown of a root-owned bind source below
# SETUID + SETGID the setpriv drop itself
# KILL NOT used here, but required by the container: with
# `init: true` tini is PID 1 and runs as root while the
# server runs as PUID, and signalling a process of a
# different uid needs CAP_KILL. Without it every
# `docker compose down`/`restart` ends in tini dying with
# "Unexpected error when forwarding signal" and the
# server being SIGKILLed instead of stopping cleanly.
set -eu
# Honour an explicit `user:` in Compose: when the container was not started as
# root there is nothing to correct and no privilege to drop.
if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then
exec "$@"
fi
# Everything below runs as root and calls stat, chown, id, setpriv and friends
# by bare name, so the lookup path must not contain a directory the runtime
# account can write to. /opt/codeman-cli/bin is exactly that (it is chowned to
# PUID:PGID so sessions can update the agent CLIs in place), and the image
# appends it to PATH for the server's sake. Resolve root's commands through the
# system directories only, and hand the image's full PATH back to the server at
# the exec below, since Codeman resolves the agent CLIs through it.
runtime_path=$PATH
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
export PATH
: "${PUID:=1000}"
: "${PGID:=1000}"
# The capabilities the compose file must grant, named in the diagnosis below so
# an out-of-tree compose file (Unraid's Compose Manager, a hand-written unit)
# fails with a one-line fix instead of a restart loop.
required_caps='CHOWN, DAC_OVERRIDE, KILL, SETGID, SETUID'
# Pre-flight the drop itself before touching anything. A container started with
# `cap_drop: ALL` and none of the additions above fails here, and would otherwise
# die at the final exec with a bare "setpriv: setresuid failed: Operation not
# permitted" after chown had already failed, or worse, misreport a perfectly
# writable directory as unwritable because the probe below could not drop
# privileges to test it.
if ! setpriv --reuid "$PUID" --regid "$PGID" --clear-groups true 2>/dev/null; then
printf 'entrypoint: cannot drop privileges to PUID:PGID (%s:%s).\n' "$PUID" "$PGID" >&2
printf 'entrypoint: this image starts as root and drops with setpriv, which needs\n' >&2
printf 'entrypoint: cap_add: [%s]\n' "$required_caps" >&2
printf 'entrypoint: on top of cap_drop: ALL (see docker/docker-compose.yaml). Add them to the\n' >&2
printf 'entrypoint: compose file that started this container, or set `user:` to skip the drop entirely.\n' >&2
exit 1
fi
# Preserve the supplementary groups Compose granted through group_add - that is
# how the Docker socket stays reachable - while discarding root's own group.
supplementary=$(id -G | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -vx 0 | paste -sd, -)
[ -n "$supplementary" ] || supplementary="$PGID"
# Writable as the account the server is about to become? A real probe, run as
# exactly the identity the final exec below produces (PUID, PGID, the same
# supplementary groups, capabilities dropped), rather than a comparison of
# owners: ownership is not writability. A group-writable tree owned by another
# account, an ACL, or a CIFS/NFS mount that reports some unrelated uid are all
# fine to run on and would all fail an owner check.
writable_as_runtime() {
setpriv --reuid "$PUID" --regid "$PGID" --groups "$supplementary" test -w "$1" 2>/dev/null
}
for target in "${HOME:-}" "${CODEMAN_CASES_PATH:-}"; do
[ -n "$target" ] && [ -d "$target" ] || continue
owner=$(stat -c '%u:%g' "$target")
[ "$owner" = "${PUID}:${PGID}" ] && continue
# Only ever correct a directory the DAEMON created: root-owned, because
# neither PUID nor PGID existed yet when it materialised the missing bind
# source. Anything else - a host tree that legitimately belongs to some
# OTHER account, such as an existing CODEMAN_CASES_PATH the README already
# allows pointing at a normal project directory - is not this container's
# to reassign; recursively chowning it on every mismatch silently rewrote
# a credentials tree or a projects directory to PUID:PGID with one log
# line to explain it. Such a directory is left alone and only PROBED below.
#
# The chown is deliberately not fatal. A bind mount backed by NFS, CIFS or a
# rootless daemon can refuse chown while still being perfectly writable, and
# the probe below is what decides whether the server can run on it.
if [ "${owner%%:*}" = '0' ]; then
if chown -R "${PUID}:${PGID}" "$target" 2>/dev/null; then
printf 'entrypoint: corrected ownership of %s to %s:%s\n' "$target" "$PUID" "$PGID"
else
printf 'entrypoint: warning: cannot change ownership of %s to %s:%s; checking whether it is writable anyway\n' \
"$target" "$PUID" "$PGID" >&2
fi
fi
if writable_as_runtime "$target"; then
if [ "${owner%%:*}" != '0' ]; then
printf 'entrypoint: %s is owned by %s, not %s:%s, but is writable as the runtime account; leaving its ownership alone\n' \
"$target" "$owner" "$PUID" "$PGID"
fi
continue
fi
printf 'entrypoint: %s is not writable as PUID:PGID (%s:%s); it is owned by %s.\n' \
"$target" "$PUID" "$PGID" "$owner" >&2
printf 'entrypoint: refusing to change ownership of a directory this container did not create.\n' >&2
printf 'entrypoint: either chown it on the host, make it writable to %s:%s, or set PUID/PGID to match its owner.\n' \
"$PUID" "$PGID" >&2
exit 1
done
# /opt/codeman-cli (the four agent CLIs) is chowned to PUID:PGID once, at
# image BUILD time, from the PUID/PGID build args - server.Dockerfile's own
# comment on that RUN step explains why it lives in its own prefix rather than
# /usr/local. Unlike HOME/CODEMAN_CASES_PATH above, that bake happens only
# when the image is actually rebuilt (`docker compose up --build`, which
# Start-Codeman.sh always does) - a deployment that instead runs the compose
# file directly (Unraid's Compose Manager, a native Debian systemd unit, any
# `docker compose up`/`restart` with no --build) can change PUID/PGID in .env
# and restart without ever rebuilding, at which point the container runs as
# the NEW uid while the CLI directory is still owned by the OLD one baked into
# the image layer - silently breaking the very "self-update a CLI in place"
# fix this directory exists for. Re-assert it here, every start, unconditionally:
# unlike the host bind mounts above, this is pure image content Codeman itself
# populated, never host data that might legitimately belong to someone else,
# so there is no ownership to be careful about - it is always correct for it
# to be owned by whoever this container is about to run as.
if [ -d /opt/codeman-cli ] && [ "$(stat -c '%u:%g' /opt/codeman-cli)" != "${PUID}:${PGID}" ]; then
chown -R "${PUID}:${PGID}" /opt/codeman-cli
fi
# Discarding group 0 is right for root's own group, but it also discards a
# `group_add: 0` that was there to reach a Docker socket owned by root:root.
# The previous image ran as PUID with that group kept, so say so rather than
# letting Docker-case support vanish silently on such a host.
if [ -S /var/run/docker.sock ] && [ "$(stat -c '%g' /var/run/docker.sock)" = '0' ]; then
printf 'entrypoint: warning: /var/run/docker.sock is owned by group 0, which is dropped along with root;\n' >&2
printf 'entrypoint: warning: Docker cases will not work from this container. Give the socket a dedicated\n' >&2
printf 'entrypoint: warning: group on the host and set DOCKER_SOCKET_GID to it.\n' >&2
fi
# No `--bounding-set -all` here: it is a silent no-op without CAP_SETPCAP, which
# the compose file deliberately does not grant, and `no-new-privileges` already
# makes the bounding set moot. The reuid/regid drop leaves CapPrm/CapEff empty.
# The image's full PATH goes back to the server here; see the top of the file.
exec setpriv --reuid "$PUID" --regid "$PGID" --groups "$supplementary" \
env PATH="$runtime_path" "$@"
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#!/bin/sh
# Git credential helper for Azure DevOps, backed by the signed-in Azure CLI.
#
# Configured in the image's system gitconfig for https://dev.azure.com and
# https://*.visualstudio.com (see server.Dockerfile). On `get` it answers with
# an Entra ID access token for the Azure DevOps resource as the password, the
# same token type Git Credential Manager uses for Azure Repos. It never prompts:
# when `az` is not signed in it prints nothing, so git fails fast with its own
# authentication error instead of hanging a request that has no terminal.
#
# AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT, the azure-devops extension's own PAT variable, is used
# instead when it is set, for accounts that authenticate with a PAT.
# `store` and `erase` are no-ops: the token belongs to az, which refreshes it.
[ "$1" = "get" ] || exit 0
# Drain the request git writes on stdin; the host scoping is in gitconfig.
cat >/dev/null
if [ -n "${AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT:-}" ]; then
printf 'username=pat\npassword=%s\n' "$AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT"
exit 0
fi
command -v az >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
# 499b84ac-1321-427f-aa17-267ca6975798 is the fixed application ID of Azure
# DevOps: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/integrate/get-started/authentication/service-principal-managed-identity
token="$(az account get-access-token \
--resource 499b84ac-1321-427f-aa17-267ca6975798 \
--query accessToken --output tsv 2>/dev/null)" || exit 0
[ -n "$token" ] || exit 0
printf 'username=azure-cli\npassword=%s\n' "$token"
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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=codeman
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 \
libsecret-1-0 \
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
# GitHub CLI and Azure CLI (with the azure-devops extension), so a user can sign
# this container in to GitHub and Azure DevOps from a Codeman shell session and
# then clone PRIVATE repositories, both from that session and through Add Case
# -> Clone Repo. Codeman still collects no Git credentials itself: the clone
# path (src/git-clone.ts) only inherits HOME and git's config, so whatever the
# user signs in to here is what authenticates, and nothing when they have not
# (the clone then fails fast with AUTH_REQUIRED, exactly as before).
#
# Each is OPT-IN and OFF by default: the image is functionally unchanged
# unless the build gets CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH=1 and/or CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ=1, which
# a deployment sets under `build: args:` in docker-compose.override.yml
# (docker/README.md, "Private repositories"). Off installs no apt repository,
# package, extension or credential-helper entry; all that remains is the
# AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR variable, its empty directory and one layer that copies
# and then removes the helper script. The Azure CLI is the heavy one (~600 MB,
# mostly its bundled Python). The base docker-compose.yaml
# and .env deliberately do not carry them: turning a CLI on is a per-host
# choice, which is what the override file is for, and a new .env.example key
# would make the self-updater refuse existing installs until their .env gained
# it (docs/docker-self-update.md).
#
# Both come from their vendors' own apt repositories, the same ones the
# documented one-liners configure (https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md
# and https://learn.microsoft.com/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-linux?pivots=apt).
# Microsoft's `deb_install.sh` is deliberately not piped into the build: it does
# exactly this plus a `gnupg` install, and a remote script run at build time is
# the one step a reviewer cannot read in this file. apt reads an ASCII-armoured
# `.asc` key directly, which is what keeps `gnupg` out of the image.
#
# Not pinned, unlike the agent CLIs below: nothing in Codeman depends on a
# particular gh or az behaviour, so the pinning argument there does not apply.
# The layer cache still keeps whatever version the first build fetched until a
# --no-cache rebuild.
ARG CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH=0
ARG CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ=0
RUN set -eux; \
for flag in "CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH=${CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH}" "CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ=${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}"; do \
case "${flag#*=}" in 0|1) ;; *) echo "${flag%%=*} must be 0 or 1, got '${flag#*=}'" >&2; exit 1;; esac; \
done; \
codename="$(. /etc/os-release && echo "${VERSION_CODENAME}")"; \
arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"; \
pkgs=""; \
install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH}" = 1 ]; then \
curl -fsSL -o /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg; \
chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg; \
echo "deb [arch=${arch} signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" \
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list; \
pkgs="${pkgs} gh"; \
fi; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}" = 1 ]; then \
curl -fsSL -o /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.asc \
https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc; \
chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.asc; \
echo "deb [arch=${arch} signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft.asc] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ ${codename} main" \
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list; \
pkgs="${pkgs} azure-cli"; \
fi; \
if [ -n "${pkgs}" ]; then \
apt-get update; \
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ${pkgs}; \
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
fi
# The azure-devops extension goes into a SYSTEM directory rather than the
# default ~/.azure/cliextensions: HOME is the application-data bind mount, which
# hides anything installed there at build time. The directory is handed to the
# runtime account below (next to /opt/codeman-cli) so `az extension update`
# works from a session. Nothing that runs as root executes from it. It is
# created even without az, so the chown below does not have to know.
ENV AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR=/opt/codeman-az-extensions
RUN set -eux; \
install -d -m 0755 "${AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR}"; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}" = 1 ]; then \
az extension add --name azure-devops --only-show-errors; \
rm -rf /root/.azure; \
fi
# Git credential helpers, in the SYSTEM gitconfig so they apply to every
# account and survive a fresh application-data directory. Each one answers only
# for its own host and prints nothing when its CLI is not signed in, so git
# falls through to its normal non-interactive failure. Only an installed CLI
# gets an entry: a helper naming a missing binary would print an error on every
# clone from that host.
# github.com `gh auth git-credential`, what `gh auth setup-git` configures.
# Azure DevOps an Entra ID token from `az login` (git-credential-azure-cli),
# for both dev.azure.com and the legacy *.visualstudio.com hosts.
COPY docker/git-credential-azure-cli /usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli
RUN set -eux; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH}" = 1 ]; then \
for host in https://github.com https://gist.github.com; do \
git config --system "credential.${host}.helper" '!/usr/bin/gh auth git-credential'; \
done; \
fi; \
if [ "${CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ}" = 1 ]; then \
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli; \
for host in https://dev.azure.com 'https://*.visualstudio.com'; do \
git config --system "credential.${host}.helper" /usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli; \
git config --system "credential.${host}.useHttpPath" true; \
done; \
else \
rm -f /usr/local/bin/git-credential-azure-cli; \
fi
# Keep credentials out of the image. Users authenticate these CLIs at runtime
# through Codeman sessions, and the configured host bind mount retains state.
#
# Installed into a DEDICATED prefix, /opt/codeman-cli, not the base image's
# default /usr/local. A session needs write access to wherever these CLIs live
# so it can self-update one in place (observed via Codex's own
# `npm install -g @openai/codex`, which renames the old package directory
# aside before installing the new one — a rename needs write access to the
# PARENT directory, not just the target, so the runtime account needs that
# access at the directory level). Chowning /usr/local/bin and
# /usr/local/lib/node_modules directly to get it would ALSO hand away
# entrypoint.sh (COPY'd to /usr/local/bin below, root-owned, executed as root
# on every container start with CHOWN/DAC_OVERRIDE/SETUID/SETGID) and the node
# binary: owning the DIRECTORY is enough to rename it aside and drop a
# replacement, even though the file itself stays root-owned, which would let a
# compromised session arrange for its own script to run as root at the next
# restart — undoing the "the server itself never runs privileged" guarantee
# the entrypoint exists to provide. /opt/codeman-cli holds nothing else to
# escalate through, so owning it is exactly the CLI-update access it needs and
# no more.
#
# ⚠️ 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.
# The prefix is APPENDED to PATH, never prepended: it is chowned to the runtime
# account below, and entrypoint.sh runs as root calling stat/chown/setpriv by
# bare name. A prefix ahead of /usr/bin would let a session drop a `setpriv`
# there and have it run as root at the next container start (measured with a
# minimal image of this exact shape). The four CLIs live only in this prefix,
# so they still resolve; entrypoint.sh additionally pins its own PATH to the
# system directories for the root part of the start.
# uv/uvx: MCP servers are commonly launched with `uvx <package>` (e.g. the Nginx
# Proxy Manager MCP), and Codex failed to enable them with "uvx not found". Copied
# from the pinned upstream image into root-owned /usr/local/bin, never pip-installed.
COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:0.9 /uv /uvx /usr/local/bin/
ENV NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/opt/codeman-cli
ENV PATH=$PATH:/opt/codeman-cli/bin
# CLIs installed at runtime (Settings -> CLIs, npm redirected to ~/.local by installEnv()) live on the
# persistent home mount, so they survive a container recreate. Appended for the same reason as above.
ENV PATH=$PATH:/home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}/.local/bin
# pnpm is not an agent CLI: it is here because `dsh plugin` (DeepSeek Harness, which
# this image leaves to be installed at runtime, see SERVER_INTENTIONAL_OMISSIONS in
# test/docker-agent-image-coverage.test.ts) spawns a literal `pnpm` with no npm
# fallback, so the Run menu's "DeepSeek - add a terminal profile" button failed
# with `dsh: pnpm not found on PATH` (exit 127) on this image. The agent image
# already carries it for the same reason (#352). It lives in the same
# runtime-writable prefix as the CLIs, so a session can update it in place.
RUN npm install --global \
@anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.258 \
@google/gemini-cli@0.58.0 \
@openai/codex@0.152.1 \
opencode-ai@1.18.26 \
pnpm@12.6.0 \
&& npm cache clean --force
# Keep the web server and every local Codeman session unprivileged. PUID and
# PGID match the host-owned application-data directory mounted by Compose. The
# requested GID may not exist in the base image, and a host UID such as 1000 may
# already belong to the baked `node` account, so handle both cases explicitly.
#
# The trailing chown hands the CLI prefix (/opt/codeman-cli, populated above)
# to that same account, so a session can self-update one of the CLIs in place.
# /usr/local stays root-owned throughout — see the comment on the npm install
# above for why that boundary matters.
RUN set -eux; \
case "${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 \
"${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER}"; \
fi; \
chown -R "${PUID}:${PGID}" /opt/codeman-cli /opt/codeman-az-extensions
WORKDIR /opt/codeman
COPY --from=build /opt/codeman /opt/codeman
# CODEMAN_IN_CONTAINER tells the self-updater it must restart by exiting rather
# than by asking an init system that is not here (src/web/self-update.ts).
# NODE_ENV stays `production`; the updater passes `npm install --include=dev`
# explicitly, since that value would otherwise omit the build toolchain.
ENV CODEMAN_IN_CONTAINER=1 \
CODEMAN_PORT=3000 \
HOME=/home/${CODEMAN_RUNTIME_USER} \
NODE_ENV=production
# Runtime defaults for the entrypoint, matching the account created above.
ENV PGID=${PGID} PUID=${PUID}
EXPOSE 3000
# The container starts as root so the entrypoint can correct the ownership of
# the host bind mounts, which the daemon creates as root whenever they do not
# already exist. The entrypoint then drops to PUID:PGID with setpriv, so the
# server itself never runs privileged. Setting `user:` in Compose bypasses both
# steps, leaving the caller in full control.
COPY docker/entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
RUN chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
# Declare the optional identity immediately before configuring it so a change
# invalidates only this final layer. This is declarative setup: a persisted
# ~/.gitconfig in CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH still overrides the system-level values.
ARG GIT_USER_EMAIL=
ARG GIT_USER_NAME=
RUN set -eux; \
if [ -n "${GIT_USER_NAME}" ] || [ -n "${GIT_USER_EMAIL}" ]; then \
if [ -z "${GIT_USER_NAME}" ] || [ -z "${GIT_USER_EMAIL}" ]; then \
echo 'Git user name and email must both be set when configuring Git identity' >&2; \
exit 1; \
fi; \
git config --system user.name "${GIT_USER_NAME}"; \
git config --system user.email "${GIT_USER_EMAIL}"; \
fi
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh"]
CMD ["node", "dist/index.js", "web"]
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@@ -757,13 +757,3 @@ works, and its replies arrive tagged `from-name="w9-msgtest"` (a derived-name
worker's replies carry no `from-name`). A quick-start without `sessionName` has an
empty Codeman name, so the peer name stays derived: agents should name their
workers. Tests: `test/name-flag-injection.test.ts`.
Later narrowing: `--name` is not only the peer name but also the `/resume` picker
entry and the terminal title, and a pinned title stops Claude generating its own, so
pinning the `w1-myapp` placeholder listed every conversation of a case under the same
name in `/resume`. Only a manual name is pinned now (`Session.cliPinnedName`,
`nameSource === 'manual'`, carried to the builders as `cliName`); placeholder and auto
names leave Claude to title the conversation. A rename in Codeman appends a
`custom-title` row to the conversation's transcript (`claude-session-title.ts`), the
row `/rename` writes. Tests: `test/claude-resume-title.test.ts`,
`test/routes/session-name-routes.test.ts`.
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@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ a genuine tunnel failure looks like, and `204` cannot carry `waitedMs` / `status
**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`, `pi`) render their own TUIs and post
CLIs (`opencode`, `codex`, `gemini`, `antigravity`) 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`
@@ -204,16 +204,11 @@ 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.
⚠️ **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
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
[`extending-codeman.md`](extending-codeman.md#seam-3-http-api-and-cli).
### `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/wait`
@@ -311,15 +306,6 @@ worker's prompt but never submitted, and the wait then runs its full timeout on
turn that never started. Verified live; this is the most common silent failure on
this endpoint.
A **plain prompt** (printable text followed by exactly one `\r`, nothing else) is
delivered through tmux even without `useMux`: the text is typed, Enter is pressed as
a separate key, and the server re-presses Enter while the prompt is still visibly
sitting on the composer. Written straight into the pane in one piece, a prompt of
about a hundred characters or more is taken as a paste by Claude Code, its `\r`
becomes a newline, and the prompt stays unsent (measured on 2.1.283). Any other
input (escape sequences, a bracketed-paste frame, a line feed, a bare `\r`) keeps
the raw write, and an explicit `"useMux": false` forces it.
```bash
curl -s -X POST "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID/input" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
@@ -333,30 +319,6 @@ from the session's current state rather than requiring a new transition: the
original turn may be long over. It comes back as
`"delivered": false, "duplicate": true`.
**Wake-on-LAN hosts** (`docs/remote-sessions.md` §Wake-on-LAN): when the session's
remote host has a wake target and is asleep, the non-wait form answers `200` with
`{"buffered": true}` — the bytes are held and flushed after the host is back — or
`{"buffered": true, "dropped": true}` for a chunk over the 4 KB wake buffer, which
is gone (never delivered as a fragment). Both fields are additive to the historical
bare `{}`. With `wait`, the route blocks on the wake instead and answers
`422 OPERATION_FAILED` ("did not come back after a wake-on-LAN request — nothing was
sent") when the host never returns, rather than writing into the stalled pane and
reporting `delivered:true` plus a timeout.
Two endpoints back that flow directly, both scoped to one session's remote host and
both refusing a session that is not remote (`400 INVALID_INPUT`):
| Method | Path | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `GET` | `/api/sessions/:id/reachability` | Whether the session's remote host answers SSH right now, plus whether a wake target is configured. Read-only: it never wakes. `{"reachable": true\|false\|null, "wakeConfigured": "mac"\|"command"\|"none"}`, where `null` means the answer is unknown (a proxied host, where a TCP probe proves nothing). |
| `POST` | `/api/sessions/:id/wake` | Wake the host and wait for it to accept SSH again, bounded by the request budget. `422 OPERATION_FAILED` when it does not come back; `400 INVALID_INPUT` with "No wake-on-LAN target configured for this host" when nothing is set. |
⚠️ Waking is deliberately reachable only from an explicit user action (this route, a
session create/attach, or typing into a sleeping session). No watcher, dropped-session
handler or boot-recovery path may wake a host, or a suspended machine would be woken
again seconds after every suspend; `test/remote-wake.test.ts` pins that as an import
fence around `src/remote-wake.ts`.
### Response
All three nest the wait result under `data.wait`, so one client helper works against
@@ -445,31 +407,6 @@ count against the same 16, not 16 of each. An abandoned request no longer holds
slot, because the routes release the waiter when the client disconnects, but a
client that opens many concurrent waits against one session will still hit the cap.
## Session lineage (`parentSessionId`)
A create request may name the session that spawned it, which the web UI draws as a
line between the two tabs. Accepted on `POST /api/v1/sessions` and
`POST /api/v1/quick-start`, either way:
```bash
# as a body field
-d '{"caseName":"worker-1","mode":"claude","parentSessionId":"'"$CODEMAN_SESSION_ID"'"}'
# or as a header, which is what an agent driving many spawns should use: set it once
# on the curl invocation and every spawn call carries it
-H "X-Codeman-Parent-Session: $CODEMAN_SESSION_ID"
```
The body field wins if both are present. The value is resolved against live sessions
(exact id, or a unique prefix of at least 8 characters) and must belong to the same
owner as the session being created.
**It cannot fail your spawn.** An unknown, stale, foreign or malformed value is
silently dropped and the session is created without lineage — never a `400`. It is
also pure decoration: it confers no permission, and a child is unaffected by its
parent exiting. It appears on session state as `parentSessionId` (absent when
unresolved) and survives a server restart.
## Approvals Inbox
Cross-session queue of prompts waiting on a human (permission dialogs,
@@ -480,16 +417,9 @@ 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}[],
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).
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.
- `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
@@ -498,62 +428,12 @@ 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, or the item acknowledged), `approval:resolved` (`{ id, sessionId, kind, resolution }` with
re-captured), `approval:resolved` (`{ id, sessionId, kind, resolution }` with
`resolution` one of `answered | resolved_in_terminal | superseded |
session_ended | dismissed | expired`).
## Reboot restore
A host reboot takes the tmux server down with it, so every pane dies and the
board comes up empty. At boot Codeman works out which sessions the reboot
destroyed and holds that plan in memory, and these endpoints let a client offer
it to the user. Nothing creates a pane until the user asks: the boot-time reboot
heuristic decides whether to ASK, never whether to act.
Claude-mode sessions only (others carry their conversation id in their own
config object); remote and docker sessions are never offered, because both need
another host or container to be up. The plan is in-memory, so a server restart
drops it and the offer is gone; the conversations themselves are unaffected,
since they live in the CLI's own transcript store and stay reachable from the
Resume list. A plan nobody spends expires after 24 hours.
- `GET /api/v1/reboot-restore` → `{ sessions: RestorableSession[],
scrollbackRestored: false }`, ownership-scoped in multi-user mode.
`RestorableSession`: `{ id, name?, workingDir, mode, owner? }`. The persisted
record itself is never sent. `scrollbackRestored` is always `false` and exists
so a client states it: a restored session is a NEW pane, so the conversation
continues and the terminal history does not.
- `POST /api/v1/reboot-restore/restore` with `{ sessionIds?: string[] }` (omit
to restore everything the caller can see) → `{ restored: RestorableSession[],
skipped: { sessionId, reason }[] }`. `reason` is one of `workspace-missing`
(the directory is gone), `workspace-forbidden` (in multi-user mode it is
outside the workspace of the user the session belongs to, re-checked against
that owner's current grant rather than the caller's), `already-live` (the conversation is already
open, typically resumed by hand from the Resume list), `capacity-reached`
(the global or per-user session cap), or `rebuild-failed` (the agent would not
start, most often a CLI binary missing from the server's PATH).
`409 CONFLICT` when that caller already has a restore running. Entries are
removed from the plan before any pane is built, so a double-click cannot put
two panes on one conversation; anything that never became a pane goes back on
offer, except `already-live`, which cannot stop being true. A restored session
comes back attached, idle and disarmed: respawn controllers and Ralph loops
are never re-armed automatically.
- `POST /api/v1/reboot-restore/dismiss` → `{ dismissed: n }`. Drops the offer
for everything the caller can see.
Each rebuilt session also emits the ordinary `session:created` SSE event, so
clients other than the one that clicked pick it up without refetching.
## Read My Mind intent profiles
Per-case profiles of what the user is trying to accomplish: user/agent-stated
@@ -591,150 +471,6 @@ All four enforce session ownership in multi-user mode; a foreign session id
answers `404 NOT_FOUND` (no existence leak), and profiles of two owners of the
same directory are distinct by construction.
## Custom Model Endpoints
Points a session's harness at a user-configured OpenAI-compatible endpoint —
local (llama.cpp, vLLM, DGX Spark) or cloud (Azure AI Foundry, OpenRouter) —
instead of its native cloud backend, gated by the opt-in
`customModelEndpointsEnabled` setting (default OFF). Endpoints are
machine-level infra, like remote/docker hosts: writes are admin-only in
multi-user mode. Design: [`custom-model-endpoints-plan.md`](custom-model-endpoints-plan.md);
user guide: [`custom-model-endpoints.md`](custom-model-endpoints.md).
- `GET /api/v1/model-endpoints` -> `CustomModelHost[]`, an unwrapped bare
array like every other list route (still riding the standard `{success,
data}` envelope on the wire — unwrap it the same way). Answers `[]` for a
non-admin in multi-user mode. `apiKey` is never returned; `apiKeySet:
boolean` reports whether one is stored, so a client can render "unchanged
if left blank" without ever holding the real value.
- `POST /api/v1/model-endpoints` with `{ id, label, baseUrl, apiKey?,
authStyle?, defaultModelId? }` creates one. `id` must match
`^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$`; `authStyle` is `bearer` (default) or `api-key`, never
both (a real server hung indefinitely when sent both headers on one
request); `baseUrl` must be `http(s)`, carry no embedded credentials, and
is refused if it points at (or resolves to) a link-local or
cloud-metadata address. `409 ALREADY_EXISTS` on a duplicate id.
- `PUT /api/v1/model-endpoints/:id` updates one. An **absent** `apiKey`
keeps the stored one rather than clearing it — the client never receives
the real value to resend deliberately unchanged, so omission is the only
way to say "leave it alone"; there is no way to clear a key back to unset
this way. `defaultModelId`, when set, must be one of that endpoint's own
`models` (`400 INVALID_INPUT` otherwise).
- `DELETE /api/v1/model-endpoints/:id` removes one.
- `POST /api/v1/model-endpoints/:id/discover-models` fetches the endpoint's
own `GET /v1/models` and stores the result as `models`, updating
`lastDiscoveredAt`, plus (best-effort, only for a model llama-swap's own
response already reports loaded) `modelContextLengths` and `modelSizesGB`.
A `defaultModelId` that no longer appears in the fresh list is dropped
rather than carried forward invalid. Failures answer `422 OPERATION_FAILED`
with the underlying connection error, or a named egress refusal if the
resolved address turned out to be blocked. The same refresh also runs
automatically for every saved endpoint every 5 minutes in the background
(`refreshAllCustomModelHosts()`, `custom-model-routes.ts`, started from
`server.ts`), so there is no route for triggering "refresh all" — one
endpoint being unreachable on a cycle never blocks the others.
- `GET /api/v1/model-endpoints/:id/running-status` -> `{ isLlamaSwap,
running: [{model, state}], logLine? }`, read-only, no admin gate
(any session owner who could already point a session at this endpoint can
equally ask what it currently has loaded). `isLlamaSwap` is
feature-detected via the endpoint's own `GET /running` — a plain
llama.cpp/OpenAI-compatible server has none and always answers `false`.
`logLine`, present only when `isLlamaSwap` is true, is the most recent
REAL backend `llama-server` process log line (`load_model: ...`,
`llama_server: model loaded`, etc.), sourced from the endpoint's own
`GET /api/events` SSE stream and filtered to `source: "upstream"` frames
only (never llama-swap's own `source: "proxy"` request-access log) — one
connection is held open per endpoint and reused across every poller,
idle-closed after 30s of nobody asking. This is what the Run-menu
picker's loading banner polls once a second while a model is loading.
- `POST /api/v1/sessions/:id/custom-model` with `{ endpointId, modelId,
confirmed? } | { clear: true }` applies (or clears) the session's
selection and **restarts the session's CLI process in place** — every
supported harness reads its endpoint config at process start, never per
turn, so there is no live hot-swap. (`POST /api/v1/quick-start`'s own
`customModel: { endpointId, modelId, confirmed? }` field is the
no-restart equivalent for a session that doesn't exist yet — see below.)
A Claude session resumes its existing conversation across the restart;
pi/omp/grok additionally get a forced `--model`/`-m` value, since for
those three the config file alone does not select it. `400 INVALID_INPUT`
for a remote (SSH) or Docker session — both restart their agent
differently under the hood, and applying to one would report success
while changing nothing. Two more responses replace the normal
`{customModel, restarted}` shape, neither an error, and neither restarts
or creates anything on the first ask. ⚠️ **Each is answered by its OWN
flag on the retry, and answering one is not consent to the other**: they
are questions about different people, and while they shared a single flag
a caller who confirmed the context warning silently agreed to evict
another session's model as well. Send `confirmedContext: true` to proceed
past the context warning, `confirmedSwap: true` past the swap conflict,
and both when both were asked (they accumulate, so the second retry still
carries the first answer). The original `confirmed: true` still means
BOTH and is still accepted, because it shipped in this feature's
HTTP-API-only cut; new callers should send the specific one:
- `{requiresConfirmation: true, currentlyLoadedModel, affectedSessions}` —
llama.cpp/llama-swap only runs one model at a time, and switching would
unload a model another **live session's own selection** is actively
using. Never returned for a plain (non-llama-swap) server, and never
just because a swap is needed at all — only when it would disrupt
someone else.
- `{requiresContextWarning: true, modelId, contextLength,
minSafeContextTokens}` — Claude Code's own fixed per-turn overhead
(system prompt + tool schemas) can exceed a small model's entire
discovered context on its own, before any conversation history exists
to compact, guaranteeing the very first message fails regardless of
`CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS`. Gated on the CLI registry declaring a
`contextLengthVar` (claude only today), so it never fires for another
harness.
- `POST /api/v1/quick-start`'s `customModel: { endpointId, modelId,
confirmed?, confirmedContext?, confirmedSwap? }` field (alongside its
normal `caseName`/`mode`/etc. body)
computes the same injection **before** the session exists and launches
directly on the endpoint — no restart, because there was never a
native-backend boot to restart away from. Runs the identical checks as
the dedicated route above (`requiresConfirmation`/`requiresContextWarning`,
same shapes, same per-question `confirmedContext`/`confirmedSwap` retry),
and is refused the same way
for a remote or Docker case. This is what the Run-menu picker uses for
opencode, Codex, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek and OMP; Claude still uses the
dedicated restart route above (its `--resume`-based restart is far less
jarring than a full relaunch, and folding it into the one-shot path is
separate work — see `docs/custom-model-endpoints-plan.md`).
## CLI management
Read and write the CLI registry (`docs/cli-registry.md`). Every **write** route answers `403 FORBIDDEN` while `cliManagementEnabled` is off (the default), and for a non-admin in multi-user mode. A write that would overwrite a `clis.json` which does not parse, or which has group/world permission bits, is refused with `409 CONFLICT` and a message naming the fix; the file is left untouched.
| Method | Path | Body | Notes |
| -------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `GET` | `/api/clis` | none | Every entry, disabled ones included: `id`, `label`, `shortBadge`, `order`, `kind`, `enabled`, `stock`, `installed`, and `installCommand` for a stock entry. Not gated; a non-admin in multi-user mode gets `[]`. |
| `PUT` | `/api/clis/:id` | `{ enabled }` | Toggle an existing entry, stock or custom. `404` for an unknown id; `400 INVALID_INPUT` when disabling a `kind: 'shell'` entry. |
| `POST` | `/api/clis/:id/install` | none | Run a **stock** entry's install command (never a custom one: `400`). `409 CONFLICT` while an install for the same id is running; `422 OPERATION_FAILED` with the output tail when it fails. Never enables the entry. |
| `POST` | `/api/clis` | `{ id, label, shortBadge, binaries, argv, enabled? }` | Create a custom entry. `409 ALREADY_EXISTS` for a stock id or an existing custom id. `enabled` defaults to `true`. |
| `PUT` | `/api/clis/custom/:id` | `{ label, shortBadge, binaries, argv, enabled? }` | Replace an existing custom entry. An absent `enabled` keeps the entry's current state. `400` for a stock id, `404` for an unknown one. |
| `DELETE` | `/api/clis/:id` | none | Delete a custom entry. `400` for a stock id, `404` for an unknown one. |
## Voice dictation
Browser dictation transcribed through this server's Claude Code login, i.e. the
same speech-to-text service the CLI's own `/voice` mode uses. Gated on the synced
`claudeVoiceEnabled` setting (default OFF). Design:
[`claude-voice-plan.md`](claude-voice-plan.md).
- `GET /api/v1/voice/status` -> `{ available, reason?, subscriptionType?,
expiresAt? }`. `reason` is `disabled` (setting off), `no-credentials` (nobody
signed in to Claude Code on the server), `expired` (the access token elapsed;
running any Claude session refreshes it) or `malformed`. The OAuth token
itself is never returned by this or any other endpoint.
- `GET /ws/voice/stream?language=&keyterms=` (WebSocket, not under `/api`)
relays one dictation. Client sends binary frames of signed 16-bit
little-endian PCM, 16 kHz mono (<= 64 KB per frame), plus JSON control frames
`{"t":"finalize"}` (ask for the final transcript) and `{"t":"stop"}`. Server
sends `{"t":"ready"}`, `{"t":"transcript","text","final"}` (each frame is the
WHOLE running transcript, not a delta), `{"t":"error","message"}` and
`{"t":"closed"}`. Close codes: `4003` disallowed Host/Origin, `4004`
unavailable (reason in the close reason), `4008` too many concurrent streams.
Streams are capped in count and length (`src/config/voice.ts`).
## Authentication
Optional HTTP Basic (`CODEMAN_USERNAME`/`CODEMAN_PASSWORD`) → opaque
@@ -751,29 +487,6 @@ 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). 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.
- `GET /api/approvals` → pending items, multi-user filtered by `canAccessOwned` (same policy as session lists).
- `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).
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ 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
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ 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). 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`.
- **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).
- **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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.xterm // Terminal container
#helpModal // Help modal
#appSettingsModal // Settings modal
#sessionOptionsModal // Session Options (same set-* surface)
#createCaseModal // Add Case (same set-* surface)
.set-rail-item // Rail entry: scrolls in App Settings, switches in the other two
.set-section // A settings section (`.hidden` on the inactive ones outside App Settings)
.set-row // One setting: label + description left, control right
.modal-content // Modal content
.modal-close // Modal close button
.header-brand .logo // Logo text
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# Claude voice dictation in Codeman
Wire Codeman's existing mic button to the same speech-to-text service Claude Code's own
`/voice` mode uses, so dictation works with **no third-party API key** for anyone already
signed in to Claude Code on the server.
## Why the CLI's own voice mode cannot be reused directly
Claude Code 2.1.x ships voice input: `/voice hold|tap|off` arms it, the CLI opens the
**host's** microphone (native `audio-capture-napi`, falling back to `sox`/`arecord` on Linux
after probing `/proc/asound/cards`), streams PCM upstream and types the transcript into its
own composer.
Every part of that is on the wrong machine for Codeman. The CLI runs inside a tmux pane on
the server, which is typically headless and has no sound card at all, while the human is in
a browser on a phone somewhere else. Toggling `/voice` in the pane from Codeman would arm a
microphone nobody is sitting in front of. So Codeman keeps capturing audio in the browser,
where the user actually is, and only borrows the CLI's **transcription backend**.
## The backend, as the CLI uses it
Extracted from the 2.1.226 binary (`connectVoiceStream`):
| | |
| --- | --- |
| URL | `wss://api.anthropic.com/api/ws/speech_to_text/voice_stream` |
| Query | `encoding=linear16`, `sample_rate=16000`, `channels=1`, `endpointing_ms=300`, `utterance_end_ms=1000`, `language=<lang>`, `use_conversation_engine=true`, `stt_provider=deepgram-nova3` |
| Headers | `Authorization: Bearer <Claude Code OAuth access token>`, `User-Agent`, `x-app: cli`, `anthropic-client-platform`, optional `x-config-keyterms` |
| Audio | raw binary frames, PCM signed 16-bit little-endian, 16 kHz, mono |
| Keepalive | `{"type":"KeepAlive"}` on open, then every 8 s |
| Finalize | `{"type":"CloseStream"}`, then wait for the endpoint frame |
| Downstream | `{"type":"TranscriptText"\|"TranscriptInterim","data":"…"}` (running interim), `{"type":"TranscriptEndpoint"}` (promotes the pending interim to final), `{"type":"TranscriptError",…}`, `{"type":"error","message":…}` |
Deepgram Nova-3 runs server-side, so the Deepgram-quality result arrives without a Deepgram
account. Verified against the live endpoint before this design was written: connect, stream
PCM, receive interims and an endpoint frame.
## Architecture
The browser cannot call that endpoint itself: it would need the OAuth bearer token in page
JavaScript (and CORS would refuse anyway). So the audio goes browser → Codeman → Anthropic,
and Codeman is the only thing that ever touches the token.
```
mic → AudioWorklet (Float32 → PCM16 @16 kHz)
→ wss://<codeman>/ws/voice/stream [cookie/basic auth, Origin+Host guarded]
→ VoiceStreamRelay (reads ~/.claude/.credentials.json per connect)
→ wss://api.anthropic.com/api/ws/speech_to_text/voice_stream
← {"t":"transcript","text":…,"final":…} → existing _insertText() path
```
Nothing about the insert path changes: the transcript lands in the same preview overlay,
the same direct/compose insert modes, the same green Send button.
### Server pieces
- **`src/claude-credentials.ts`** — locate and parse the Claude Code OAuth credentials.
`parseClaudeCredentials()` is pure (JSON string + `now` → status) and unit-tested;
`readClaudeOAuthToken()` wraps it with IO: `$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/.credentials.json` or
`~/.claude/.credentials.json`, and on macOS the login keychain
(`security find-generic-password -s "Claude Code-credentials"`).
**Read-only, always.** Codeman never writes credentials and never refreshes the token: a
refresh rotates the refresh token, and racing Claude Code's own refresh could sign the
user out of their CLI. An expired token surfaces as a plain "run a Claude session to
refresh" error instead.
The token is never logged, never returned by any endpoint, and never sent to the browser.
- **`src/web/voice-stream.ts`** — pure `buildVoiceStreamUrl()` / `buildVoiceStreamHeaders()` /
`sanitizeKeyterms()` (ASCII-only, deduped, 1024-char cap, mirroring the CLI), plus
`VoiceStreamRelay`, which owns one upstream socket: keepalive timer, audio passthrough,
transcript translation, finalize, and the caps below.
- **`src/web/routes/voice-routes.ts`**
- `GET /api/voice/status` → `{ available, reason, subscriptionType?, expiresAt? }`. Never
the token. `available:false` with a machine-readable `reason` (`disabled`, `no-credentials`,
`expired`) is what the settings row and the provider resolver read.
- `GET /ws/voice/stream?language=&keyterms=` → the relay. Same upgrade guard as
`/ws/sessions/:id/terminal`: allowed Host, same-site Origin, and the global auth hook has
already run on the handshake.
Caps, because an open mic is an open pipe: one stream per connection, `MAX_VOICE_STREAMS`
concurrent server-wide, a hard `MAX_STREAM_MS` per stream, and a per-frame size cap. A tab
left recording cannot bill an unbounded amount of upstream audio.
### Frontend pieces
- **`voice-pcm-worklet.js`** — an `AudioWorkletProcessor` converting Float32 blocks to PCM16
and posting ~256 ms frames back. `MediaRecorder` cannot produce raw PCM, which is why the
existing Deepgram path (container audio, auto-detected) cannot be reused as-is. Falls back
to `ScriptProcessorNode` where AudioWorklet is unavailable.
- **`ClaudeVoiceProvider`** in `voice-input.js` — mirrors `DeepgramProvider`'s shape
(`start({language, keyterms, onStream, onResult, onError, onEnd})`) so `VoiceInput` treats
the three providers uniformly.
- **Provider resolution** — new `voiceSettings.provider`: `auto` (default) | `claude` |
`deepgram` | `webspeech`. `auto` picks Claude when `/api/voice/status` reports it
available, else Deepgram when a key is set, else Web Speech. Pinning a provider always
wins, so an existing Deepgram user can keep exactly what they have.
### Settings
- `claudeVoiceEnabled` — synced, **default OFF**, gating the whole server side. Off is the
honest default: turning it on means this machine's Claude subscription starts paying for
transcription for whoever can reach the UI, and the audio goes to Anthropic rather than to
wherever it went before. One switch in Settings → Voice, and the mic works with no key.
- `voiceSettings.provider` — per the resolution table above; joins the existing synced
`voiceSettings` object.
## Things worth knowing
- **This uses an undocumented endpoint with subscription credentials.** It is the user's own
token, on the user's own machine, driving the user's own Claude Code install, but it is not
a published API and Anthropic can change or restrict it. Default-OFF is deliberate; the
Deepgram and Web Speech paths stay untouched as the supported fallbacks.
- **Multi-user mode**: every user's dictation would run on the server owner's Claude
credentials, exactly as every user's *sessions* already run on them. Consistent, but worth
stating out loud in the settings copy.
- **Token lifetime** is about 8 hours, refreshed by Claude Code itself whenever it runs. The
relay re-reads the file on every connect rather than caching, so a refresh is picked up on
the next press of the mic.
- **HTTPS or localhost**: `getUserMedia` needs a secure context. Prod is HTTPS behind
`tailscale serve`, so this is already satisfied; the existing error copy covers the rest.
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# CLI management Settings UI + write API — plan
> Tracked separately from `DEPLOYMENT_PLAN.md` (PR B2, merged) and `docs/copilot-integration-plan.md`
> (parked). This is "PR C" from the original #343 review: *"settings UI + write endpoints +
> auto-install, once we've settled the trust model... I want to make that call on its own, not
> inside a 100-file diff."*
>
> **Phase 0 is CLOSED as of 2026-09-21** — all three original pieces are IN SCOPE (expanded from
> this plan's first draft, which recommended #2/#3 as separate/out-of-scope; the user chose full
> scope instead, with the risk called out explicitly for #3 before confirming). See "Decisions"
> below for the full record.
## Status as of 2026-09-22
**Phases 1–6 are ALL IMPLEMENTED** (commits `da07b38c` "add cliManagementEnabled flag and GET
/api/clis" and `db4557d9` "Phases 3-6 - write API + custom entries + Settings UI", both on this
branch, `feat/cli-management`). Confirmed present in the tree: `cliManagementEnabled` in
`SettingsUpdateSchema`; `GET /api/clis`, `PUT /api/clis/:id`, `POST /api/clis/:id/install`,
`POST /api/clis`, `PUT /api/clis/custom/:id`, `DELETE /api/clis/:id` in
`src/web/routes/cli-registry-routes.ts`; the `shell`/`claude` `UNDISABLEABLE_IDS` backend guard;
`isAdmin(req)` gating on both the list and write routes; `appendAdminAudit` wired into the install
route; tmp+rename+`0o600` writes in `registry-writer.ts`; the full Settings UI (row list, toggle,
Install button, custom-entry create/edit/delete form) in `settings-ui.js` + `index.html`.
`test/routes/cli-registry-routes.test.ts` (425 lines) and `test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts`
cover it. This status section, plus the fix and gap below, is the one piece of that work done in
a *different* session from the one that wrote Phases 1–6 — reviewed by reading the diff and
verifying each claim against the actual routes/tests, not by re-implementing anything.
### Gotcha found and fixed (commit `0c77dd0a`)
**Toggling a CLI off in Settings had no effect anywhere except the Settings row itself.**
`window.__codemanCliAvailable` — the flag `isCliAvailable()` reads client-side to gate the
welcome-screen buttons, the Run-menu dropdown and the mobile overview — is injected **once**, at
initial page render (`server.ts`), built purely from each CLI's own installed-on-PATH resolver
(`isClaudeAvailable()` etc.), with **no reference to the registry's `enabled` flag at all**. So
disabling a CLI here updated its own row and nothing else — every launch surface kept offering it,
both live and after a full page reload, since even a *fresh* render never consulted the registry.
Root-caused and reported by the user testing the live feature ("toggle those off, they still
appear in that menu and on the front main screen").
Fixed two places:
- `server.ts`: after building `available`, intersect the nine real `SessionMode` ids against
`enabledClis()`. `git`/`cloudflared` (utility binaries, not CLI registry entries) and
`deepseekBinary` (a secondary installed-only flag for the "add a profile" affordance) are
deliberately left alone — they were never registry-gated to begin with.
- `settings-ui.js`: `toggleCliEnabled()` now patches `window.__codemanCliAvailable` in place and
refreshes the welcome screen, the mobile overview and an already-open Run menu, mirroring the
existing `installDeepSeekProfile()` pattern for the same "injected once, needs an explicit
patch" reason — the server-side fix alone still left every surface stale until the next reload.
New test in `test/render-index-html.test.ts`: an installed-but-disabled CLI (codex, forced via
`clis.json` + `reloadCliRegistry()`) reads as unavailable, while an installed-and-enabled one
(claude) is unaffected by the override.
**Verified on the Debian devbox** (`codeman-devbox`, real tmux — this sandbox has none and
`WebServer`'s constructor hard-requires it): typecheck clean, the new test passes (17/17 in
`render-index-html.test.ts`), the CLI-registry suites pass (86/86), and the **full CI gate is
green — 415 test files, 7855 tests, 0 failures**.
### Launch-surface registry integration — completed
The welcome screen, desktop Run menu and mobile Run picker now use the same injected CLI catalog.
Every enabled registry entry is rendered; unavailable binaries remain hidden as before. Settings
updates the catalog and availability flags in place after enable/disable, create, edit or delete,
so the launch surfaces update without a page reload. A custom entry uses the generic quick-start
path, while stock entries retain their existing per-CLI launch settings.
Not otherwise re-verified line-by-line against every Phase 1–6 checklist item below (e.g. the
exact wording of toasts, the "same PR" sequencing notes) — the checklists are left as originally
written; treat the **Status** section above as authoritative for what exists.
---
## Background
`src/config/cli-registry/registry.ts` is READ-ONLY today, and says so in its own header comment:
> "⚠️ READ-ONLY. Nothing in this module writes, creates or migrates the file... there is no
> settings UI and no write API yet... A `seededStockIds` ratchet belongs with the write API that
> needs it."
Confirmed on `master` (2026-09-21): no `/api/clis` route exists at all (read or write);
`~/.codeman/clis.json` is hand-edit-only; `resolveInstallCommandForPlatform()` is documented
"Display text only — never executed" — nothing runs an install command server-side today. The
original #343 review flagged the opposite (`spawn(command, {shell: true})`, `env.allowedPrefixes`
contributed from a write) as needing its own trust-model decision; that decision was never made
after the split, just dropped. This plan makes it.
**Closest existing precedent, and the template this plan follows for the read/write API**:
`src/web/routes/custom-model-routes.ts` + `src/custom-model-hosts.ts` (#393/#430/#459) — a small
per-item JSON store, Settings-UI-driven, admin-gated in multi-user mode, tmp+rename+0600 writes.
**Precedent for the new master feature flag (Phase 1)**: `customModelEndpointsEnabled` —
`z.boolean().optional()` in `SettingsUpdateSchema` (`schemas.ts:1319`), a checkbox read/written by
id in `openAppSettings()`/`saveAppSettings()` (`settings-ui.js:401`/`:2120`). SYNCED, not
per-device (present in the schema, absent from `displayKeys`), default OFF.
**Spec refs for the whole plan:**
- `src/config/cli-registry/registry.ts` — the read path; `resolveRegistry()`'s merge semantics
(`deepMerge`, `UNMERGEABLE_KEYS`) apply unchanged to whatever this plan writes
- `docs/cli-registry.md` — registry shape, "The override file", "Arg-template safety" (the four
layers Phase 5's custom-entry validation must not weaken), "Adding a CLI" (the 5-step recipe a
custom entry does NOT get to skip just because it arrives via UI instead of a stock.ts edit)
- `src/web/routes/custom-model-routes.ts` + `src/custom-model-hosts.ts` — read/write API template
- `docs/multi-user-plan.md`, `docs/security-architecture.md` — admin-gating conventions
- `CLAUDE.md` §Multi-user mode, §"Settings surface", §"Per-device vs synced settings"
---
## Decisions (Phase 0, closed 2026-09-21)
1. **Enable/disable a stock CLI's `enabled` flag** — IN SCOPE. Plus a **master feature flag**
(`cliManagementEnabled`, synced, default OFF) gating the whole Settings UI section's visibility,
matching this codebase's standing convention for new admin-facing surfaces.
2. **Auto-install** (stock CLIs' already-shipped, already-vetted install commands) — IN SCOPE,
same PR.
3. **Custom CLI entries via the UI** — IN SCOPE, **typed-argv only**: a custom entry goes through
the exact same schema/argv-safety path stock entries do (named token patterns, no raw shell-text
field). Its install command stays **display-only text**, same as every stock entry today — Phase
4's auto-install NEVER executes a custom entry's install command, only a stock one's. This is
the one place scope was deliberately narrowed relative to what was agreed in principle, because
`docs/cli-registry.md`'s arg-template-safety section exists specifically to keep config free of
shell text, and a free-text install command for a user-defined entry would reopen exactly that.
4. **`shell`/`claude` un-disableable** — enforced at the **backend**, not just the UI (a
frontend-only guard is bypassable with curl).
5. **Non-admin visibility in multi-user mode** — the CLI-management Settings section is **hidden
entirely** for a non-admin, not shown-empty.
6. **`seededStockIds` ratchet** — not needed. `deepMerge()` only overrides a key the file actually
sets, so a CLI absent from `clis.json.clis` always falls through to its stock `enabled` value
with no special-casing. (Carried over from the first draft, not re-litigated.)
---
## Phase 1 — Master feature flag: `cliManagementEnabled`
**Status:** DONE (commit `da07b38c`) — verified present in `SettingsUpdateSchema`, `index.html`,
`openAppSettings()`/`saveAppSettings()`.
**Spec refs:**
- `schemas.ts:1319` (`customModelEndpointsEnabled`) — the exact pattern to mirror: `z.boolean().optional()`
in `SettingsUpdateSchema`
- `settings-ui.js:401`/`:2120` — checkbox read/write by id in `openAppSettings()`/`saveAppSettings()`
- `CLAUDE.md` §"Adding Features" → "App setting" — decide per-device vs synced FIRST (this one is
synced: a feature toggle, not a display preference) and add to `displayKeys` NEVER for a synced
setting
**Checklist:**
- [x] Add `cliManagementEnabled: z.boolean().optional()` to `SettingsUpdateSchema`
- [x] Add the checkbox to `index.html`'s `#settings-clis` section, above where Phase 6's per-CLI
list will render — reads/writes via `openAppSettings()`/`saveAppSettings()` by id, same as
`customModelEndpointsEnabled`
- [x] `readCliManagementEnabled()` helper (mirrors `readCustomModelEndpointsEnabled()` in
`custom-model-routes.ts:609`) for the route file(s) in Phases 2-5 to gate on
- [x] When OFF: `GET /api/clis` still exists but the Settings UI section stays hidden
(`applyCliManagementVisibility()`); the write endpoints reject (see Phase 3)
**Verify:** `npm run typecheck` passes; a unit test confirms `SettingsUpdateSchema` accepts/rejects
the field correctly; toggling it in a fresh browser profile shows/hides the Settings section with
no server restart.
---
## Phase 2 — Read endpoint: `GET /api/clis`
**Status:** DONE (commit `da07b38c`) — verified present in `src/web/routes/cli-registry-routes.ts`.
**Spec refs:**
- `src/web/routes/custom-model-routes.ts:730` (`GET /api/model-endpoints`) — multi-user read
gating: empty list for a non-admin, never a 403
- `src/config/cli-registry/registry.ts` — `listClis()` (every entry, including disabled stock
ones — this is an admin/settings surface, unlike `enabledClis()`)
- `window.__codemanCliAvailable`'s resolvers (`isClaudeAvailable()` etc.) — candidate `installed`
source; confirm whether to reuse directly or the response needs its own probe (Open Question 4,
carried from the first draft — still genuinely open, decide during this phase not before)
**Checklist:**
- [x] New route file `cli-registry-routes.ts`
- [x] Response excludes `launch`/`env`/`capabilities`/`overlays`/`discovery`
- [x] `isMultiUserMode() && !isAdmin(req)` → `[]`
- [x] Unit tests in `test/routes/cli-registry-routes.test.ts` (admin/non-admin/single-user,
disabled stock CLI still present)
**Verify:** `npm test -- test/routes/cli-registry-routes.test.ts` passes; `curl localhost:3000/api/clis | jq`
shows every stock CLI including disabled ones.
---
## Phase 3 — Write endpoint: `PUT /api/clis/:id` (stock enable/disable)
**Status:** DONE (commit `db4557d9`) — `UNDISABLEABLE_IDS`, admin gate, tmp+rename+0600 all
confirmed present.
**Spec refs:**
- `src/web/routes/custom-model-routes.ts:753` + `src/custom-model-hosts.ts:91` — write-path
template: `adminOnly` gate, read-modify-write the WHOLE file, tmp+rename+0600
- `registry.ts:47` (`filePath()` = `dataPath(...)`) and `reloadCliRegistry()` — write to the same
resolved path, invalidate the cache on every successful write or the change is invisible until
restart
**Checklist:**
- [x] Body: `{ enabled: boolean }`. Zod schema in `schemas.ts`
- [x] Gate order: `cliManagementEnabled` → `adminOnly` → shell/claude guard → stock-only guard
- [x] Rejects disabling `shell` or `claude` (`UNDISABLEABLE_IDS`)
- [x] Rejects a write for an id that isn't a stock CLI
- [x] Deep-merges `{ clis: { [id]: { enabled } } }`, preserving other override keys
- [x] tmp+rename+0600 write, `reloadCliRegistry()` on success
- [x] Unit tests (`test/routes/cli-registry-routes.test.ts`)
**Verify:** `npm test` full gate green; `curl -X PUT localhost:3000/api/clis/grok -d '{"enabled":false}'`
then `GET /api/clis` shows the change with no restart; same against `shell`/`claude` returns an
error and changes nothing; `ls -la ~/.codeman/clis.json` shows mode 0600.
---
## Phase 4 — Auto-install: `POST /api/clis/:id/install` (stock CLIs only)
**Status:** DONE (commit `db4557d9`) — route present, `appendAdminAudit` wired in.
**Spec refs:**
- `registry.ts:231` (`resolveInstallCommandForPlatform`) — currently "Display text only — never
executed"; this phase is what changes that, for stock entries only, with Decision 2's sign-off
- Original #343 review's exact concern re: `env.allowedPrefixes` contributed from a write — stays
out of scope; this phase only ever runs a command, never touches the env allowlist
**Checklist:**
- [x] Separate endpoint from Phase 3's toggle
- [x] Gate order: `cliManagementEnabled` → `adminOnly` → stock-entry-only guard
- [x] `resolveInstallCommandForPlatform(entry)` for the target
- [x] Bounded execution (timeout, captured stdout/stderr)
- [x] Does NOT auto-enable on successful install
- [x] Audit-logged via `appendAdminAudit`
- [x] Unit tests
**Verify:** a real install triggered via the endpoint against a CLI not currently installed,
`GET /api/clis`'s `installed` field flips true with no restart; audit log entry present; attempting
install against a custom entry's id fails with a clear error; full CI gate green.
---
## Phase 5 — Custom CLI entries: create / update / delete via API
**Status:** DONE (commit `db4557d9`) — `POST /api/clis`, `PUT /api/clis/custom/:id`,
`DELETE /api/clis/:id` all present. Open Question 2 resolved: a **separate** endpoint
(`PUT /api/clis/custom/:id`), not Phase 3's `PUT /api/clis/:id` widened.
**Spec refs:**
- `docs/cli-registry.md` §"Arg-template safety" (all four layers), §"Adding a CLI" (the 5-step
recipe) — a custom entry created via this API must satisfy the SAME schema (`CliEntrySchema`)
every stock entry does; there is no relaxed path for UI-originated entries
- `registry.ts`'s `resolveRegistry()` — the custom-entry branch (`stock: false`, dropped with a
warning on validation failure, never falls back silently) already exists and is unchanged by
this phase; this phase only adds a way to WRITE what that branch reads
**Checklist:**
- [x] `POST /api/clis` (create), full `CliEntrySchema` validation
- [x] `PUT /api/clis/custom/:id` (update) — separate endpoint from Phase 3's stock toggle
- [x] `DELETE /api/clis/:id` refuses for any stock id
- [x] `id` collision check against existing stock ids
- [x] `discovery.install.command` on a custom entry stays DISPLAY-ONLY
- [x] Same tmp+rename+0600 write pattern, `reloadCliRegistry()` on every successful mutation
- [x] Unit tests
**Verify:** `npm test` full gate green; create a custom entry via curl, confirm it appears in
`GET /api/clis` — **confirm it appears in the Run menu is UNVERIFIED and currently FALSE, see
"Outstanding" above**; delete it, confirm it's gone and `clis.json` no longer references it.
---
## Phase 6 — Settings UI
**Status:** DONE (commit `db4557d9`) — `#cliListGroup`, row rendering, toggle, Install button,
custom-entry create/edit/delete form all present in `settings-ui.js`/`index.html`. Manual browser
verification per the phase's own "Verify" step (flag on/off, non-admin hidden, toggle stops the
Run menu offering a CLI, create/enable/launch a custom entry, delete it, shell/claude undisableable)
has **not** been re-run in this session — the toggle→Run-menu leg specifically was BROKEN until the
gotcha fix above, and the create→launch leg for a custom entry is the confirmed gap in
"Outstanding".
**Spec refs:**
- `index.html:2357` (`#settings-clis`) — the existing home; Phase 1's master toggle at the top,
then the per-CLI list, then (if `cliManagementEnabled`) a "custom CLI" creation form, all above
the existing Codex-only groups
- `CLAUDE.md` §"Settings surface" — App Settings scrolls, it does not tab-switch
- `admin-ui.js` — pattern for an admin-only-VISIBLE section (not just admin-only-writable),
needed here per Decision 5
**Checklist:**
- [x] Whole section hidden when `cliManagementEnabled` is OFF, and separately hidden for a
non-admin in multi-user mode (`_applyCliManagementAdminGate`)
- [x] Fetches `GET /api/clis` when the section becomes visible; renders one row per CLI
- [x] Stock rows: enabled toggle only; `shell`/`claude` rows show the toggle disabled/greyed
- [x] Custom rows: enabled toggle plus edit/delete affordances
- [x] "Add custom CLI" form (id/label/badge/binary/argv)
- [x] Toggle/edit/delete update the row in place
**Verify:** manual browser test per `CLAUDE.md`'s "Always Test Before Deploying" rule — **not yet
re-run end-to-end in this session**; do this before considering the feature ready to ship, and
expect the custom-entry-launch step to fail until the Outstanding gap above is closed.
---
## Remaining Open Questions
1. **Phase 2's `installed` source** — resolved: reuses `window.__codemanCliAvailable`'s existing
resolvers via `GET /api/clis`'s own probe (confirmed by reading the route).
2. **Phase 5's `PUT` endpoint shape** — resolved: a **separate** endpoint
(`PUT /api/clis/custom/:id`), not Phase 3's toggle route widened.
3. **Sequencing against the parked Copilot plan** — unchanged, still not blocking.
4. **NEW: custom-CLI Run-menu integration** — see "Outstanding" above. Not decided or started.
---
Implementation is underway (see Status above); this line is left for history rather than removed —
the plan was originally approved before Phases 1–6 landed.
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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 after a change made through CLI management (below).
## Managing CLIs from Settings
App Settings → Agents & CLIs → **CLI management** (`cliManagementEnabled`, default OFF; admin-only in multi-user mode) lists every entry with an installed/not-installed badge and:
- toggles any entry on or off. A `kind: 'shell'` entry cannot be disabled, and the row shows no switch for it. A disabled CLI disappears from the Run menu, the welcome screen and the phone overview, and new session requests for it are rejected.
- installs a missing **stock** CLI by running its shipped install command, after a confirm that names the exact command. Only one install per CLI runs at a time, and the command runs without any `CODEMAN_*` variable in its environment. A custom entry's install command is never executed.
- adds, edits and deletes **custom** entries (id, label, badge, binaries, launch argv). The server re-validates the whole assembled entry through `CliEntrySchema`, so the form cannot bypass the load-time rules.
These are the only writes to `clis.json`. They are serialized, and a file that does not parse or has unsafe permissions is refused rather than overwritten; fix it (or `chmod 600` it) and retry. The HTTP routes are listed in `docs/api-reference.md` under *CLI management*.
## 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
// .workDetect?: { promptGlyph, workingLine, watchingLine?, watchingLines?, awaitingLine? }
// — how this CLI's pane shows work, work it started in the background, and a turn
// that ended waiting for workers it will resume from
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.
### Regexes that come from config
Four capability fields carry a regular expression an override file can set: `discovery.version.regex`, `capabilities.workDetect.workingLine`, `capabilities.workDetect.watchingLine` and `capabilities.workDetect.awaitingLine`. All four go through `compileVersionRegex()`, which caps the source at 200 characters, refuses the nested-quantifier shapes that cause catastrophic backtracking, and returns `null` rather than throwing so every caller degrades instead of crashing.
`workingLine` is the one that matters most, because it is compiled once per session and then run against every accumulated PTY chunk and every pane capture. A nested quantifier there is a ReDoS against the event loop for the whole server, not just that session. The guard therefore runs in two places, and neither is redundant: `schema.ts` rejects the entry at LOAD time so a bad pattern never reaches a session, and `_workingLinePattern()` in `session.ts` compiles through the same helper so the runtime cannot end up with a pattern the schema would have refused.
`watchingLine` reads a different row of the same screen. A CLI draws it while work the agent
itself started is still running — Claude prints `⏵⏵ bypass permissions on · 1 monitor · ← for
agents` while a monitor, a backgrounded shell or a cloud session is live. Codeman turns that
into `Session.watching`, and an idle prompt from such a session opens already acknowledged,
so a pane waiting for its own background work never raises an alert a human cannot answer.
Group 1 is the label, and a CLI that declares no pattern reports no background work.
Claude's Artifact comment monitor is the one chip that does not count. It waits for a human
to comment on a page the agent published, so Claude's pattern refuses any footer that
carries it, and the idle alert goes out as usual.
Two CLIs declare such a row today, and they put it in different places. Claude writes its
chip on the last row of the screen, so it keeps the default one-row window and anchors on
the `·` its footer joins items with. Codex pins
`1 background terminal running · /ps to view · /stop to close` ABOVE its composer, which
puts the row third from the bottom once the status line and the composer are counted, so its
entry declares `watchingLines: 3` and matches that row end to end. Both were measured
against live panes rather than read out of a binary, which is the standard for adding a
third.
`awaitingLine` covers the quiet pane that is neither idle nor watching: a turn that ENDED
to wait for workers the CLI will resume from by itself. When background agents or an
ultracode workflow are still running at turn end, Claude closes the turn with
`✻ Waiting for 1 dynamic workflow to finish` instead of `✻ Brewed for 1m 18s`, and a pane
showing that row counts as working. ⚠️ Claude renders the row once and never redraws it, so
the words are still on screen after the workers report back and the follow-up turn ends.
The pattern is therefore never run over the whole pane: `isAwaitingWorkers()`
(`session-activity.ts`) walks up from the composer past blank, framed and indented rows and
tests only the first row that starts in column 0, which is the newest transcript row. Claude
starts its own rows in column 0 and the agent's prose never does, so the anchor also keeps an
agent from holding its own session busy.
That label is the one value in the registry that an AGENT can influence, because it comes off
the agent's own screen. Two things keep it honest, and both belong to whoever adds a pattern
for a new CLI. `watchingLabel()` in `session-activity.ts` searches only the last few
non-blank rows, which should be the part of the screen the CLI draws rather than the agent,
and the pattern should anchor on chrome only that CLI can produce. Keep the window as small
as the layout allows, since every row it adds is another row the agent may be able to write.
The label is also ANSI-stripped and length-capped at the source, and every interpolation of
it into markup goes through `escapeHtml()`, since it ends up on a badge and in an approval
card.
The two shipped entries do not sit equally well behind that rule, and the difference decides
what a pattern is allowed to do. Claude's chip is the last row, so its one-row window holds
nothing the agent can write — not even the status line above it, whose command a session
running with permissions bypassed can write into its own `.claude/settings.json`. Codex's row
shares its slot with the last row of the transcript whenever no terminal is running, so a
message ending in that exact line is matched. What keeps that harmless is `hooks: 'none'`: no
hook event from a codex session reaches the approvals inbox, so a forged label costs a wrong
badge and cannot silence an alert. Before giving a CLI both hook signals and a pattern, make
sure its row is one the agent cannot write.
### 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).
`test/frontend-cli-no-id-branching.test.ts` is the same guard for the two frontend files the CLI registry's Run-menu consolidation touches, `session-ui.js` and `mobile-overview.js` — deliberately not the rest of `src/web/public/`, whose per-CLI rules stay out of scope for now (see "Fields declared for later" below). Its allowlist keys on `<file>::<expression>` with no line number, since a single unrelated edit to a contended file would otherwise shift every subsequent line and make every entry go stale at once, and each entry additionally carries the exact number of approved call sites — a bare key would let a brand-new branch reusing an already-approved expression land unreviewed. Its comparison shape differs from the backend guard's in one respect: the left-hand side may be any identifier, not only one named `mode`, `id` or `agentType`, because the review of #458 found `const m = this._runMode; if (m === 'codex')` slipping past the named form while the scanned file already filters with `(m) => m !== 'shell'`.
## 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
`accent`, `capabilities.echo`, `capabilities.wheelForward`, `capabilities.keyboardAccessory` and `capabilities.maxFrameBytes` are **declared but not yet read**. (`shortBadge` was on this list until the CLI management list in Settings started showing it.) 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, so re-measure before wiring one up. `accent` is the one exception: it was measured against styles.css on 2026-09-21 (method in the comment above `CLAUDE` in `stock.ts`), though nothing keeps it in step with the CSS either. 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.
## Consumers outside the server
Two things need the catalogue but cannot import TypeScript, so `npm run generate:cli-catalog`
(`scripts/generate-cli-catalog.mts`) emits two artifacts from `stock.ts`. Both are committed,
and `test/cli-catalog-sync.test.ts` fails if either drifts from a fresh generation.
| Artifact | Consumer | Why it exists |
| ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `config/clis.stock.json` | `scripts/lib/cli-catalog.mjs` (Docker build args), tests | A `.mjs` cannot import the registry. |
| a marked block inside `install.sh` | the installer itself | It runs via `curl \| bash` before any checkout exists, so it can read neither. |
Only `id`, `label`, `shortBadge`, `enabled`, `order`, `kind` and `discovery` are exported.
`launch`, `env`, `capabilities` and `overlays` are spawn-time concerns the server alone
interprets, and a test asserts they never leak into the artifact — a second reading of the
launch model in a consumer that cannot be tested against a real spawn is exactly what this
registry exists to prevent.
The install.sh copy is **embedded, not fetched**, and is the FULL catalogue. An earlier design
fetched it and fell back to a hardcoded two-CLI list, which degraded silently on an empty
response; there is no degraded mode to fall into now, and no network fetch either — a `curl |
bash` from master already carries a catalogue exactly as fresh as the script itself, so there is
nothing a refresh would buy that isn't already true. An earlier draft added an opt-in refresh
with a `TRUSTED`/`DISPLAY` array split to keep it from ever writing the executed command; it was
dropped before merge rather than shipped half-verified — the split's only actual write was the
label, `DISPLAY` never diverged from `TRUSTED` in practice, and the added surface (a second
array, a fetch path, three failure shapes to warn on) bought nothing the embedded copy didn't
already have.
### The install-command trust boundary
Three rules, and the middle one is why the embed matters:
1. **The server never executes an entry's `install.command`.** Unchanged, and still enforced by nothing executing it: the field is display text (`CliDiscovery.install.command`).
2. **`install.sh` executes only commands embedded in itself.** Those arrive in the same file, over the same TLS fetch, in the same commit as the `curl \| bash` line that fetched the script — identical trust to the hardcoded vendor one-liners it replaces.
3. **Nothing fetched at install time is ever executed.** There is no second code path that fetches anything after the script itself has been fetched.
That is mechanical rather than a promise. `CLI_INSTALL_CMD_TRUSTED` is written only from the
generated block and is the only array the installer ever runs or displays — there is no second
array a refresh could rewrite, because there is no refresh. `test/cli-catalog-sync.test.ts`
asserts that the embedded commands are exactly the registry's, and
`test/install-sh-invariants.test.ts` that nothing in `install.sh` `eval`s.
### bash 3.2
macOS ships bash 3.2 and the documented install is `curl -fsSL <url> | bash` under
`set -euo pipefail`, so a bash-4 construct is not a warning there — it kills the install. The
generated block therefore uses parallel indexed arrays with **offset/length windows** into one
flat array instead of delimiters (a `$HOME` containing a space needs no `IFS` handling, and an
entry with nothing to contribute gets length 0 and is never iterated). CI runs `bash -n` and
executes the script inside a real `bash:3.2` container, because the empty-window case is a
runtime `set -u` abort that `bash -n` cannot see.
## 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. Run `npm run generate:cli-catalog` and commit **both** artifacts (`config/clis.stock.json` and `install.sh`). The installer's detection, its install menu, its reminder text and the Docker agent image all follow from that one step — this is what makes upstream `b6d0f1fa` ("wire OMP into install.sh's CLI detection, it had none") impossible rather than merely fixed.
3. Add a golden spawn-command pin to `test/cli-registry-spawn-golden.test.ts`, a row to `test/cli-capability-predicates.test.ts`, its remote/docker commands to `test/location-overlay-commands.test.ts`, and its search paths to `test/install-sh-detection-parity.test.ts`.
4. Only if it cannot install with a plain `npm install -g <pkg>`: give it a layer in `docker/agent.Dockerfile` and set `discovery.install.agentImageLayer: { kind: 'dedicated', reason }` on its entry in `stock.ts`. `test/docker-agent-image-coverage.test.ts` requires both, so an exclusion cannot quietly become an omission. An entry with no `npmPackage` needs only the Dockerfile layer, since it never enters the shared npm layer in the first place.
5. 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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## 2. Where agent/session types are defined
- `type SessionMode = 'claude' | 'shell' | 'opencode' | 'codex' | 'gemini' | 'antigravity' | 'pi'`
- `type SessionMode = 'claude' | 'shell' | 'opencode' | 'codex' | 'gemini' | 'antigravity'`
(`src/types/session.ts:43-44`). `shell` covers the brief's "Terminal/custom".
- CLI availability resolvers in `src/utils/{claude,codex,gemini,antigravity,opencode,pi}-cli-resolver.ts`.
- CLI availability resolvers in `src/utils/{claude,codex,gemini,antigravity,opencode}-cli-resolver.ts`.
- **Integration point:** the job's `agentType` reuses `SessionMode` verbatim.
## 3. Where input is sent into a session
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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 / Pi) session on a schedule and
spin up a Claude (or shell / OpenCode / Codex / Antigravity / Gemini) 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."_
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| 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` \| `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). |
| `agentType` | ✅ | `claude` \| `shell` \| `opencode` \| `codex` \| `gemini` \| `antigravity` | Reuses Codeman's `SessionMode`. `shell` = a plain terminal. |
| `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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# Custom Model Endpoint Profiles (all harnesses, local or cloud)
## Context
The author pays for Claude Code but also runs a capable local model behind an
OpenAI-compatible server (llama.cpp) — and wants the same mechanism to work
against a **cloud** OpenAI-compatible endpoint too (e.g. Azure AI Foundry's
OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint, OpenRouter, a self-hosted gateway).
Right now every Codeman session mode defaults to its native cloud backend
with no way to redirect a session at any other endpoint from the UI — the
closest existing precedent is DeepSeek's server-env-sourced
`DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`, which isn't user-facing.
**Scope note**: this plan originally said "local LLM." It now covers any
OpenAI-compatible endpoint the user configures — local (llama.cpp, Ollama,
vLLM) or cloud (Azure AI Foundry, OpenRouter, a company gateway). The
mechanism is identical (a base URL Codeman probes via `GET /v1/models`); the
only real differences are auth-header convention (cloud endpoints often want
an `api-key` header, e.g. Azure, rather than `Authorization: Bearer`) and
that a cloud "model" may actually be a deployment name distinct from the
underlying model family (Azure AI Foundry deployments) — both are called out
where they matter below. Naming throughout this plan is **"custom model
endpoint,"** not "local model," to keep that scope explicit.
### Additional use case: on-premises AI hardware
"Local" isn't limited to a desktop running llama.cpp — a growing category of
purpose-built, on-premises AI hardware exists specifically to run a serious
model on-site with an OpenAI-compatible server, and this feature is exactly
the on-ramp for pointing Codeman at one:
- **NVIDIA DGX Spark** (and the DGX Spark-class "Spark" mini-supercomputer
line) — a compact on-prem inference/training box aimed at running large
local models with an OpenAI-compatible API surface.
- **AMD "Strix Halo" (Ryzen AI Max)** on-prem AI mini-PCs — unified-memory
APU hardware marketed for local LLM inference, typically fronted by
llama.cpp/Ollama/vLLM the same way a home server would be.
Neither needs anything new from this design: both present a standard
`/v1/models` + `/v1/chat/completions` OpenAI-compatible surface once the
inference server is running, so they're just another `baseUrl` entry in the
custom-model-hosts store, same as llama.cpp or a cloud endpoint. The
justification for building this generically (rather than hardcoding "point
Claude at my llama.cpp box") is precisely this: **the same endpoint registry
and per-CLI injection mechanism should work unmodified for any current or
future OpenAI-compatible box or service** — a home GPU rig today, a Spark or
Strix Halo appliance tomorrow, a company's on-prem inference cluster after
that — without Codeman needing to know or care what's actually serving the
model on the other end of that URL.
A concrete example worth naming: **[Ark0N/Qwen5090](https://github.com/Ark0N/Qwen5090)**
(from the same GitHub account as this project's owner) is a one-click
Windows / one-command Linux installer that stands up Qwen3.8-27B locally on
an RTX 5090 (or another RTX 50-series card with ≥24GB) behind an
OpenAI-compatible API, served by any of vLLM, NInfer, or llama.cpp — MIT-
licensed tooling over Apache-2.0 Qwen weights. It's a direct, ready-made
target for this feature: point a custom-model-hosts entry at whichever
backend it's running, and it needs nothing further from Codeman's side. It's
also notable for already wiring up DeepSeek Harness and Claude Code as
coding agents against that local server itself, which is effectively the
same "point a Codeman-supported harness at a local endpoint" idea this
feature is generalizing — worth using as a real-world reference/test target
once chunk 5 (session integration) exists, alongside the author's own llama.cpp
box.
Each harness has its own (different-shaped) mechanism for pointing at a
custom OpenAI-compatible base URL + model — env vars for Claude, a JSON
config blob for opencode, a TOML file for Codex, etc. The author gave the
starting recipes for those three; the rest (Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek, OMP,
Antigravity) were researched for this plan and are flagged by confidence
below. A real end-to-end pass against the author's own llama-swap server
(`scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts`, inside a `codeman/agent:llm-test`
Docker image with all 9 CLIs installed) then confirmed **claude and
opencode work end-to-end**, corrected a real Codex config.toml schema bug
the given recipe had (see the Codex row below), and surfaced that Codex's
_protocol_ — not just its config shape — does not work against a plain
OpenAI-Chat-Completions server like llama.cpp/llama-swap at all. Confidence
below reflects what was actually observed, not just what was planned.
The feature must be:
- **Off by default**, one settings toggle turns it on.
- Endpoint entry: user gives a base URL — a LAN address or a cloud URL —
plus an optional API key, and Codeman calls `GET <baseUrl>/v1/models` to
discover and store the available model (or deployment) list.
- A **new toolbar selector** (separate from the existing Run-mode menu, since
it's a modifier on top of whichever harness is already selected/running)
lets the user pick "Cloud (default)" — the harness's own native backend —
or a model discovered from one of the configured custom endpoints.
- Picking a custom-endpoint model for an **already-running session restarts
that session's CLI process** with the injected env/config pointed at that
endpoint (confirmed with the maintainer — these harnesses read endpoint config at
process start, not per-turn, so a live hot-swap isn't possible).
- **New sessions always default back to the harness's native cloud backend.**
A custom-endpoint selection is a per-session override, not a sticky global
default — starting a fresh CLI (any mode) always launches against its
native backend unless the user explicitly picks a custom endpoint for that
new session too. The toolbar selector is scoped to "this session," never
carried forward as the default for future sessions.
This follows the repo's existing data-driven CLI-registry philosophy
(`test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts`): per-CLI behavior is a
declared capability, never an `if (mode === 'claude')` branch.
## Per-CLI injection recipes (confidence-ranked)
| CLI | Mechanism | Confidence |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `claude` | Env vars: `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL`/`_HAIKU_MODEL`/`_OPUS_MODEL` (all set to the chosen model/deployment name) | **Verified end-to-end** against a real llama-swap server — a real "hello world" reply came back. ⚠️ Non-interactive (`-p`) invocations also fire an async session-title-generation call that reuses `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL` and validates it against Claude Code's OWN internal recognized-model list, printing `[claude-code:unrecognized_model]` and, in `-p` mode, hanging the whole invocation rather than just warning. `--settings '{"autoTitle":false}'` does NOT stop this (confirmed); `--bare` does (the warning still prints, but the real prompt runs) — but `--bare` ALSO disables hooks, LSP, plugin sync, and CLAUDE.md auto-discovery, so it is only safe for the standalone one-shot test script, NEVER for a real interactive Codeman session (which depends on hooks for idle detection, trust-dialog auto-accept, etc. — see the External CLI modes section of CLAUDE.md). Whether an INTERACTIVE claude session with a custom model hits the same hang (vs. just a background warning) is untested and should be checked before calling chunk 5/6 done for claude |
| `opencode` | `OPENCODE_CONFIG_CONTENT` env var (already a registry mechanism, `stock.ts:342`) holding a JSON blob: `{"provider":{"custom":{"options":{"baseURL":...,"apiKey":...},"models":{"<name>":{}}}},"model":"custom/<name>"}` | **Verified by user** |
| `codex` | TOML `config.toml`: top-level `model = "<id>"` + `[model_providers.custom]` (`base_url`, `env_key` naming an env var the real API key rides in — never a literal TOML field, since codex's schema has no such field). Written to an isolated dir via `CODEX_HOME` (`stock.ts:405-415`) so the user's own `~/.codex/config.toml` is never touched | **Config STRUCTURE verified** against a real codex binary (an earlier `[model].default` table shape was rejected: "invalid type: map, expected a string" — caught live). **Protocol picture more nuanced than a flat break, re-verified live twice on 2026-09-17 against a llama-swap deployment that DOES answer `/v1/responses`** (an earlier test's `Reconnecting...`/`high demand` failure does not reproduce against every llama-swap setup): a plain, no-tool-call chat turn (`codex exec 'reply with just OK'`) returned a real reply. But a real tool-call attempt (`run the shell command: echo hello`) came back as an `agent_message` TEXT item — the tool-call JSON printed as the model's answer, not a `function_call` item codex would actually execute (confirmed via `codex exec --json`'s raw event stream: `item.completed`/`agent_message`, never `function_call`). Since tool execution is what makes codex a coding agent at all, this remains **not usable for real work**, just with a different, more specific failure mode than previously documented — still do not present this as working. Separately, EVERY custom-endpoint codex session also prints `warning: Model metadata for '<id>' not found. Defaulting to fallback metadata...` on launch (confirmed harmless — the successful plain-text reply above still had it): codex's per-model metadata (reasoning tiers, system-prompt templates, context-window figures) comes from `models_cache.json`, a LOCAL CACHE of OpenAI's own hosted model catalog that a custom model can never appear in by construction. No config.toml override exists for it, and the isolated `CODEX_HOME` never gets a `models_cache.json` written into it at all (confirmed: inspected a live, actively-used isolated dir — codex evidently can't reach OpenAI's catalog endpoint for this session and just falls back silently every time, with no file left behind to fix or clean up). Fabricating a fake catalog entry to suppress the warning would mean copying the _shape_ of OpenAI's own proprietary schema — including their real per-model system-prompt content, visible in a genuine `models_cache.json` — for a warning confirmed to have no effect on the actual (broken) tool-calling outcome; not worth building |
| `gemini` | Env vars `GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL` + `GEMINI_API_KEY` + `GEMINI_MODEL`; CLI needs a restart to pick them up | **Confirmed BROKEN against llama.cpp/llama-swap, unresolved after real investigation.** Setting `GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL` makes gemini-cli internally select an `AuthType.GATEWAY` auth path (undocumented — inferred from behaviour) with validation requirements distinct from every normal auth mode; a real run against llama-swap fails with `Invalid auth method selected` regardless of what key/format is supplied. Tried and all failed: a Google-format dummy API key, `GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI=false`, a `GEMINI_DEFAULT_AUTH_TYPE` override, and hand-writing `settings.json` directly. `--skip-trust` was a real, separate fix (without it a trust-folder check silently overrides `--approval-mode yolo` back to `default`) but does not touch this auth failure. Documented as an open gap, not shipped as working — the registry entry and injection code exist and are exercised by the test script, but end-to-end gemini support needs upstream investigation of `GATEWAY` AuthType before it can be called done |
| `pi` | Config file `~/.pi/agent/models.json` with a custom provider whose `models` is an **array** of `{id}` objects (not an object keyed by id) plus `authHeader: true`. Redirected via the child process's own `HOME` env var, isolated per test/session — **not** `PI_CONFIG_DIR`, which does nothing for pi (grepped pi's entire bundled JS source: the string appears nowhere) | **Verified end-to-end** against a real llama-swap server — real "hello world" reply came back. Two real bugs found and fixed before this worked: (1) `PI_CONFIG_DIR` is not read by pi at all — pi hardcodes `~/.pi/agent/models.json` with no dedicated override, so the actual redirect has to be the child process's `HOME`; (2) `models` must be an array of `{id}` objects per pi's own bundled `docs/models.md`, not an object keyed by model id (silently loaded zero models). Also requires an explicit `--model custom/<id>` on invocation — without it pi falls back to its own default provider and fails with "No API key found for the selected model" |
| `grok` | TOML `config.toml`: a fixed `[model.codeman-custom]` block (`base_url`, `env_key` naming an env var the key rides in, never a literal TOML field) written to an isolated dir via `GROK_HOME`. Invoked with `-m codeman-custom` | **Verified end-to-end** against a real llama-swap server — real "hello world" reply came back. The ORIGINAL recipe in this table (env vars `GROK_BASE_URL`/`XAI_API_KEY`/`GROK_MODEL`) was flat-out **wrong**, not just unverified: it produced "Not signed in" against a real binary. Grok's real mechanism, confirmed against xAI's own docs and a live binary, is a `config.toml` with a `[model.<name>]` block, redirected via `GROK_HOME`; the key still rides as an env var (`XAI_API_KEY` via `env_key`), just referenced from the TOML rather than read directly |
| `deepseek` | Reuse the **existing** `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL` + `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` keys (already declared in `stock.ts`), now with `appendV1Suffix: true` (see confidence). Only `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL` is in `privilegedEnvKeys` — `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` deliberately stays clamp-exempt, since a non-granted owner supplying their OWN key removes privilege rather than granting it (adding it to the clamp list was a real regression, caught by `test/deepseek-mode.test.ts` and fixed before merge). No model-selection var — dsh model is a profile composition entry, not a flag/env var | **Root cause of the original `HTTP_404` found and fixed, by reading dsh's own bundled source — the same bar pi/grok's fixes were held to.** Installed `@deepseek-ai/dsh` (all its real published dependencies) into a scratch directory purely to read `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek/lib/index.js`: it builds its request as `fetch(\`${connection.baseURL}/chat/completions\`, ...)`with`baseURL`read straight from`DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`(or defaulting to DeepSeek's real public API root,`https://api.deepseek.com`, which also carries no `/v1`) — no `/v1` insertion of dsh's own, unlike the OpenAI-SDK convention this recipe originally assumed. llama-swap/llama.cpp only ever serves the OpenAI-conventional `/v1/chat/completions`. Confirmed live: `POST <baseUrl>/chat/completions` → `404`, `POST <baseUrl>/v1/chat/completions` → `200`, on the exact same endpoint — and dsh's own error-message template, `DeepSeek API error (HTTP ${status})`, reproduces the originally reported `dsh: HTTP_404: DeepSeek API error (HTTP 404)` precisely. Fixed by adding `appendV1Suffix` (env kind only, deepseek's entry alone — claude/gemini must NOT get it, since claude was already confirmed working against the unmodified `baseUrl`), which runs `endpoint.baseUrl` through the same `withV1Suffix()` helper `configDir`-kind CLIs already use. ⚠️ Not yet re-run end-to-end with a real `dsh` binary — no install available in this environment (no npm-installed CLI binary in `PATH`, and the `codeman-test-picker` container doesn't bundle it either); the fix is source-confirmed and live-verified at the HTTP level, but a genuine "hello world" reply through `dsh` itself is the remaining step before promoting this to **verified** alongside claude/opencode/pi/grok/omp |
| `omp` | Config file `~/.omp/agent/models.yml` with the same array-shaped `models` + `authHeader: true` fix as pi. Redirected via `HOME`, same reasoning as pi (`PI_CONFIG_DIR` does not relocate omp's config either, despite an earlier CLAUDE.md note claiming it does) | **Verified end-to-end** against a real llama-swap server — real "hello world" reply came back, after applying the same two fixes as pi (array-shaped `models`, `HOME`-redirect instead of `PI_CONFIG_DIR`) plus an explicit `--model custom/<id>` on invocation. Unverified against omp's own official docs (none are bundled in the install), but empirically confirmed working live |
| `antigravity` | No CLI/env/config mechanism found — Antigravity's docs describe only a GUI settings panel, and explicitly say a custom endpoint "cannot currently" become the core reasoning model. **Not implemented**; toolbar entry stays disabled for this mode with an explanatory tooltip | No known mechanism |
Everything web-researched-but-unverified gets implemented but must be
smoke-tested against real installs of those CLIs before being called done —
call this out explicitly when implementing, don't just ship on faith.
**Cloud-endpoint specifics** to keep in mind per recipe above: an Azure AI
Foundry-style endpoint typically wants the API key in an `api-key` header
rather than (or in addition to) `Authorization: Bearer`, and its "model" is
often a deployment name rather than the underlying model family name — the
discovery step (`GET /v1/models`) still works the same way against Azure AI
Foundry's OpenAI-compatible endpoint shape, but a user may need to type the
deployment name manually if it isn't returned as expected.
## Architecture
### 1. Registry: new `capabilities.customModelInjection` field
Extend `src/config/cli-registry/types.ts` / `schema.ts` with a discriminated
union on each `CliEntry.capabilities`:
```ts
type CustomModelInjection =
| { kind: 'env'; baseUrlVar: string; apiKeyVar: string; modelVars: string[] }
| { kind: 'configContentEnv'; envVar: string; template: 'opencode-json' }
| {
kind: 'configDir';
dirEnvVar: string;
fileName: string;
template: 'codex-toml' | 'pi-models-json' | 'omp-models-yml';
}
| { kind: 'unsupported' };
```
Declared per stock.ts entry per the table above. A pure function in a new
`src/custom-model-injection.ts` (`buildCustomModelInjection(entry, endpoint, modelId)`)
turns `(CliEntry, endpoint, modelId)` into either an `envOverrides` object
(kind `env`/`configContentEnv`) or a `{ dirEnvVar, files: [{path, content}] }`
descriptor (kind `configDir`) — unit-testable with no IO, mirroring how
`session-cli-builder.ts` is pure. The `configDir` kind additionally needs an
IO wrapper that writes those files under
`dataPath('custom-model-configs/<sessionId>/')` (new dir, cleaned up on
session delete — same lifecycle as other per-session generated state).
### 2. Endpoint registry: `src/custom-model-hosts.ts`
Same read-array/write-array shape as `src/remote-hosts.ts` /
`src/webview-store.ts`: `~/.codeman/custom-model-hosts.json` holding
`CustomModelEndpoint[] = { id, label, baseUrl, apiKey?, authStyle?: 'bearer'|'api-key'|'both', models?: string[], lastDiscoveredAt? }`.
`authStyle` defaults to `'both'` (send both header conventions on the
discovery probe, same approach the smoke-test script below uses) so one
endpoint entry works whether it's llama.cpp or Azure without the user having
to know which header their box wants in advance.
New route file `src/web/routes/custom-model-routes.ts` (registered in the
routes barrel), mirroring `case-routes.ts`'s remote/docker-host CRUD
(`GET/POST/PUT/DELETE /api/model-endpoints`, admin-gated in multi-user mode
the same way) plus:
- `POST /api/model-endpoints/:id/discover-models` — fetches
`${baseUrl}/v1/models`, stores the `data[].id` list, returns it. Bounded
timeout, and run the target through the **same SSRF egress guard already
used for web tabs** (`webview-egress-policy.ts` — reject link-local/cloud
metadata addresses) — this still matters for a cloud URL too, since the
guard is about preventing a redirect to internal infra, not about
local-vs-cloud.
**Why discovery rather than a free-text model field**: it removes the one
piece of configuration most likely to trip a user up — hand-typing the
exact model identifier a given inference server expects, which varies by
server and is an easy source of a silent "model not found" failure with no
useful error surfaced back through a CLI's own startup. Discovery also
means this design is not limited to a single-model box: a **multi-model
gateway** such as **[llama-swap](https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap)**
(hot-swaps between several loaded llama.cpp model configs behind one
OpenAI-compatible endpoint) or a vLLM/LiteLLM/Ollama instance serving
several models advertises ALL of them through the same `/v1/models` call —
so one endpoint entry surfaces every model that gateway can serve, with no
extra per-model configuration on Codeman's side at all.
### 3. Settings
- New synced boolean `customModelEndpointsEnabled` in `SettingsUpdateSchema`
(`src/web/schemas.ts`), default `false`, documented inline like
`readMyMindEnabled`/`workspaceHooksEnabled`.
- New `.set-group` "Custom Model Endpoints" inside the **Agents & CLIs**
section (`settings-clis`, `index.html:2150+`) with the enable toggle plus
a list-editor (add/refresh-models/delete rows) for endpoints — closest
existing precedent is the respawn-presets array editor
(`schemas.ts:1285-1305`, `index.html:1243-1244`) for add/apply/delete-by-id
semantics, backed by the new CRUD routes above.
### 4. Toolbar UI
> **Superseded.** This section describes the toolbar-button design as originally
> planned. What actually shipped is a Run-menu picker instead: one generated entry
> per (capable harness, saved endpoint) pair directly in the existing `#runModeMenu`
> dropdown, rather than a separate `#customModelBtn`/`#customModelMenu` surface. See
> [`docs/custom-model-endpoints.md`](custom-model-endpoints.md#the-run-menu-picker)
> for the current design; the sections below (session-restart mechanics, security)
> remain accurate regardless of which UI calls the underlying route.
- New header/toolbar button (e.g. `#customModelBtn`, `btn-toolbar
btn-custom-model`), marker-hidden by default (`btn-custom-model--hidden`)
and revealed by `applyHeaderVisibilitySettings()` only when
`customModelEndpointsEnabled` is on — same pattern as the File
Viewer/Cron buttons.
- Clicking opens a dropdown (`#customModelMenu`, same `.run-mode-menu`-style
markup as the existing Run-mode gear menu) listing "Cloud (default)" plus
every discovered model, grouped by endpoint. An entry is disabled with a
tooltip when the active session's CLI has `customModelInjection.kind ===
'unsupported'` (Antigravity) or none declared.
- Selecting an entry calls a new route:
`POST /api/sessions/:id/custom-model { endpointId, modelId } | { clear: true }`.
Server: resolve the CLI entry for `session.mode`, build the injection via
§1, persist it as a new `session.customModel` state field (surfaced in
`toState()`/SSE so the tab can show a small badge, e.g. "🖥 qwen3 (local)"
or "☁ gpt-4o-mini (azure)", and the choice survives reload), merge into
the session's `envOverrides`, and **respawn the pane's CLI process**
through the same respawn/interactive-restart path
`session.ts`/`tmux-manager.ts` already use for effort/model changes
(`_configureCliEnv()` + `applyEnvOverrides()` at spawn time) — reuse,
don't reinvent, the existing kill-and-relaunch-in-pane machinery.
- New-session creation deliberately does **not** inherit a prior custom-
endpoint choice: `buildEnvOverrides()` (session-ui.js) never carries the
toolbar selection forward to the next `run()` call. Every new session
starts on its native backend; picking a custom endpoint in the toolbar for
a session applies only to that session (and, if done before Run is
clicked, to the one session about to be created — not to sessions created
afterward).
### 5. Multi-user security clamp
Every new env var this feature introduces that can redirect a session's
traffic (and thus wherever its credentials go) — `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`,
`GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL`, `GROK_BASE_URL`, the `CODEX_HOME`/`PI_CONFIG_DIR`
dir-redirects, plus the already-privileged `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL` — must be
added to each CLI's `capabilities.privilegedEnvKeys` so
`clampEnvOverridesForOwner()` strips them for a non-granted multi-user
owner, exactly the precedent already documented for `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`/
`OMP_AUTH_BROKER_URL`. This matters _more_, not less, now that endpoints can
be cloud URLs: redirecting a non-granted user's session to an attacker's
cloud endpoint is a credential-exfiltration path, not just a mischief
redirect to a LAN box. Endpoint CRUD itself stays admin-only in multi-user
mode, same as remote/docker hosts.
## Files touched (representative, not exhaustive)
- `src/config/cli-registry/types.ts`, `schema.ts`, `stock.ts` — new capability + per-entry declarations
- `src/custom-model-injection.ts` (new) — pure per-CLI descriptor builder + unit tests
- `src/custom-model-hosts.ts` (new) — endpoint store
- `src/web/routes/custom-model-routes.ts` (new) — CRUD + discovery route
- `src/web/routes/session-routes.ts` — `POST /api/sessions/:id/custom-model`, clamp wiring
- `src/web/schemas.ts` — `customModelEndpointsEnabled`, endpoint/discover payload schemas, privileged-key updates
- `src/session.ts` — `customModel` state field, `toState()` surface
- `src/web/public/index.html`, `settings-ui.js`, `session-ui.js`, `styles.css` — settings group, toolbar button/menu, badge, accent CSS
- `src/web/sse-events.ts` + `constants.js` — if a dedicated SSE event is warranted for the badge (or just ride existing session-update broadcasts)
- `test/fixtures/mock-openai-server.ts` (new) + `test/custom-model-injection-contract.test.ts` (new) — see Mock-server validation below
- `scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts` (already added, this branch; run via `npx tsx`) — the standalone real-CLI-and-real-endpoint smoke test, supporting any `--base-url` (local or cloud). Dynamic: derives its harness list and every env var/config it injects from the live CLI registry + `buildCustomModelInjection()` rather than a second hand-maintained copy — only the one-shot invocation flags (`ONE_SHOT` table) are CLI-specific info the registry doesn't model and stay hand-maintained
- `docs/custom-model-endpoints.md` (new) + a CLAUDE.md pointer bullet under External CLI modes / envOverrides
## Mock-server validation strategy (CI-runnable, no real CLI binaries needed)
Spawning nine real CLI binaries in CI isn't realistic, and neither the author's
llama.cpp box nor a real cloud subscription can be a CI dependency. So the
injection _logic_ gets a tier of automated coverage that sits between the
pure unit tests and the live manual checks in Verification:
1. **`test/fixtures/mock-openai-server.ts`** — a small in-process HTTP
server (plain `http.createServer`, no external deps, port picked per the
existing `const PORT = 3150+` convention) that:
- Serves `GET /v1/models` → a fixed fake model list (`{data:[{id:'qwen3'},...]}`),
for testing the discovery route.
- Serves `POST /v1/chat/completions` (OpenAI shape) **and**
`POST /v1/messages` (Anthropic Messages-API shape, since that's what
`ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` traffic looks like) and records every request it
receives (headers, body, path) into an array the test can assert on —
including which auth header style it saw, so the `authStyle: 'both'`
default and Azure's `api-key` convention both get real coverage.
- Returns a minimal valid completion so a client library doesn't choke
on the response shape.
2. **`test/custom-model-injection-contract.test.ts`** — for every CLI with a
`customModelInjection` capability (i.e. every row in the table above
except `antigravity`):
- Point a fixture `CustomModelEndpoint` at the mock server's URL.
- Call `buildCustomModelInjection(entry, endpoint, modelId)` (the pure
function from §1) to get the real env vars / config-file content that
would be injected into that CLI's session.
- Replay those exact values through a minimal HTTP request shaped the
way that CLI is documented to send it (Anthropic Messages shape for
claude; OpenAI chat-completions shape for opencode/codex/pi/grok/omp;
`GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL`'s OpenAI-compat shape for gemini; dsh's
provider call for deepseek) against the mock server.
- Assert the mock server received the request **at the injected
`baseUrl`**, with **the injected API key** in the expected header, and
**the injected model id** in the body/path — i.e. prove the values
Codeman computes are internally consistent and would reach the right
place with the right identifiers, end to end, in CI, on every push.
- Also cover the `configDir` kind (codex/pi/omp): assert the written
`config.toml`/`models.json`/`models.yml` file parses and contains the
same base URL/key/model, and that it's written under the isolated
per-session dir rather than the user's real config path.
3. **Explicit, stated limitation** (goes in the test file's `@fileoverview`
and in this doc, not left implicit): this proves _"if the CLI honors its
documented env/config contract, it will hit the right endpoint with the
right model."_ It does **not** prove the real CLI binary actually reads
that env var / config file the way its docs say — that's still the job
of the live manual checks in Verification step 4-5 below, and is exactly
why the confidence table above did not stop at "researched" — every CLI
except antigravity (no mechanism at all) has since been run against a
real llama-swap server via `scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts`:
claude/opencode/pi/grok/omp are confirmed PASS end-to-end, codex is
confirmed FAIL for a real documented protocol reason (Responses-API-only
since Feb 2026), and gemini/deepseek are confirmed reaching the server
but failing for reasons not yet root-caused (see their table rows). The
mock-server suite catches regressions in Codeman's own logic; it cannot
catch a CLI changing its env-var name in a future release, or a real
cloud endpoint behaving differently from a local llama.cpp box.
## Verification
1. `npm run typecheck && npm test` after each slice — this now includes the
mock-server contract suite from above, so injection-logic regressions
are caught automatically without touching real infrastructure.
2. Unit tests for `buildCustomModelInjection()` per CLI kind (pure, no IO).
3. Route tests (`app.inject`) for the new CRUD + discover-models endpoint
(mock `fetch` for `/v1/models`), and for the multi-user clamp on the new
privileged keys (mirror `test/routes/external-cli-bypass-clamp.test.ts`).
4. **Standalone real-binary smoke test**: `scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts`
exercises every harness the CLI registry declares `customModelInjection`
support for against a real `--base-url` — local or cloud — outside of
Codeman's UI entirely, and is DYNAMIC (reads `enabledClis()` + calls the
real `buildCustomModelInjection()`, so a future registry change is picked
up automatically with zero edits to the script). Already run to
completion against the author's llama-swap server (a LAN address,
inside a `codeman/agent:llm-test` Docker image with all 9 CLI binaries):
claude/opencode/pi/grok/omp **PASS**, codex **partially works and still
isn't usable** (plain chat succeeds against a llama-swap deployment that
answers `/v1/responses`, but a real tool-call attempt comes back as
inert text rather than an executable `function_call` — see the
confidence table row for the full, re-verified picture), gemini/deepseek
**UNCONFIRMED**
(reach the server, fail for undiagnosed reasons — see their table rows),
antigravity **SKIP** (no mechanism). Re-run this against a real cloud
endpoint (e.g. an Azure AI Foundry deployment) once one is available, to
prove the `authStyle`/deployment-name handling holds up outside llama.cpp.
5. Once the full feature (not just the standalone script) is built: add an
endpoint via the real UI, hit discover-models, confirm the returned model
list, pick Claude + the model on a real session, confirm via
`tmux -L codeman capture-pane`/`tmux showenv -t <pane>` that
`ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`/`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`/`ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL` are
set post-restart, and confirm the endpoint's own logs show the next
prompt actually landing there. Repeat for opencode and Codex at minimum
before considering this shippable; spot-check the web-researched CLIs
and correct the plan's confidence table with what's actually observed.
6. `npm run lint && npm run format:check`.
7. Update `CHANGELOG.md`/changeset per the COM workflow when shipping.
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# Custom Model Endpoint Profiles
Point any Codeman-supported harness — Claude, opencode, Codex, Gemini, Pi,
Grok, DeepSeek, or OMP — at a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint instead of
its native cloud backend, for a given session. "Custom endpoint" covers both
**local** hardware (llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, a home GPU rig, or purpose-built
boxes like NVIDIA DGX Spark or AMD Strix Halo mini-PCs) and **cloud**
services (Azure AI Foundry's OpenAI-compatible endpoint, OpenRouter, a
company gateway) — anything answering `GET /v1/models` and
`POST /v1/chat/completions` in the standard shape. Design doc, per-CLI
recipe confidence table, and security reasoning:
[`custom-model-endpoints-plan.md`](custom-model-endpoints-plan.md).
> **Status**: fully wired end to end — registry capability, the injection
> engine, the endpoint store + discovery route, both the restart-in-place
> apply route (Claude) and the one-shot quick-start launch path (every
> other supported harness), a settings-panel CRUD surface, and the Run-menu
> picker described below. Antigravity has no known custom-endpoint
> mechanism and is not supported. The HTTP API (examples below) still works
> directly and is what the picker itself calls under the hood.
## Turning it on
App Settings → Models → **Custom model endpoints** (synced setting
`customModelEndpointsEnabled`, default **OFF**). Turning it on does two
things: it reveals the endpoint list/add/edit/discover panel in that same
settings section, and it makes the Run menu offer a generated entry per
(harness, endpoint) pair — see "The Run-menu picker" below. The API
equivalent:
```bash
curl -sk -X PUT https://localhost:3000/api/settings \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"customModelEndpointsEnabled": true}'
```
## Adding an endpoint
Via App Settings → Models → Custom model endpoints → **+ Add endpoint**, or
directly:
```bash
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/model-endpoints \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"id": "llama-box", "label": "Home llama.cpp", "baseUrl": "http://192.168.1.50:8080"}'
```
`apiKey` is optional (most local servers don't check it). `authStyle`
(`bearer` | `api-key`, default `bearer`) controls which auth header
convention discovery uses: `bearer` is `Authorization: Bearer <key>`
(llama.cpp, OpenAI-compatible servers, most gateways), `api-key` is the
`api-key: <key>` header Azure AI Foundry wants. There is deliberately no
"send both" option: measured against a real llama-swap server, a request
carrying both headers hung indefinitely. `baseUrl` must be `http(s)`, carry
no embedded credentials, and may not point at a link-local or cloud-metadata
address; discovery re-checks the address the name actually resolves to.
Discover its available models:
```bash
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/model-endpoints/llama-box/discover-models
```
This calls the endpoint's own `GET /v1/models` and stores the returned list
on the endpoint record; `GET /api/model-endpoints` lists everything
configured, `PUT`/`DELETE /api/model-endpoints/:id` update or remove one.
Endpoint management is admin-only in multi-user mode, same as remote/docker
hosts — these are machine-level infra, not per-user settings.
**Context length is discovered too, opportunistically and safely.** The plain
`GET /v1/models` response has no context-window field. Discovery only ever
looks for one for a model llama-swap's own response already reports
`status.value === "loaded"` for — never for an unloaded one, because
llama-swap treats `?model=` as a routing hint and asking about a model that
isn't loaded risks triggering an actual (slow, GPU-swapping) load as a side
effect of what should be read-only discovery. A server with no `status` field
on any entry at all (not llama-swap) gets no context-length enrichment,
rather than guessing. A model's previously-learned context length survives a
later cycle where it wasn't the loaded one; it's dropped only once the model
disappears from the endpoint's list entirely. Stored per model in
`modelContextLengths` and applied automatically (see "Applying a model to a
session" below) so a CLI that would otherwise assume a large default context
window for an unrecognized model id stops silently overflowing a much
smaller real one.
**Where that number actually comes from matters, and got this wrong once
already.** The first cut read it from llama.cpp's own
`GET /props?model=<id>` (`n_ctx`) — plausible, and it worked in testing, but
confirmed live to be actively WRONG for a `--fit-ctx`-launched llama-swap
backend: `/props` reported `n_ctx: 154112` for a model llama-swap itself had
launched with `--fit-ctx 16384`, and the real server then refused a request
right at that real 16384-token limit — `/props`'s `n_ctx` appears to report
the model's theoretical/trained maximum there, not the runtime-configured
one. Discovery now parses the REAL configured size straight out of
llama-swap's own launch command instead (`GET /running`'s `cmd` field —
`--fit-ctx <N>` first, then the plain llama.cpp `-c`/`--ctx-size` a
hand-written command might use), and only falls back to the `/props` probe
when `cmd` states no recognizable flag at all.
**File size is discovered too, when the server states one.** llama-swap
writes a GB figure into an auto-discovered model's own `description`
(`"Auto-discovered 16.35 GB - parameters auto-fitted by llama.cpp"`), parsed
into `modelSizesGB` — unlike context length, this needs no `/props` probe
(the figure is right there in the `/v1/models` response) and so is populated
for every model regardless of loaded state. A hand-configured profile's own
description has no such figure and correctly gets no entry, never a guess.
Used only to label the Run-menu picker's "loading model" banner (e.g.
"Loading qwen3.8-27b-ud-q4_k_xl (16.4 GB) on llama-swap..."); never anything
a server-side check relies on.
**The loading banner is unbounded by design, and says so — no countdown, no
automatic give-up.** An earlier version scaled an expected-time estimate and
a timeout off the model's file size and auto-closed the session once that
elapsed, but a real load's actual duration depends on hardware this feature
has no way to know (VRAM, storage speed, whatever else is contending for the
GPU) — any fixed number was a guess dressed up as a fact, and a model that
genuinely takes 10+ minutes on slower hardware would just get killed
mid-load by its own display. The banner now says outright that it can take a
while depending on hardware and model size, polls
`GET /api/model-endpoints/:id/running-status` every second for as long as it
takes, and carries a **Cancel** button (rendered on the banner itself) that
ends the wait and closes the session the load was for — the user's own call
on when it's taking too long, not a fixed number baked into the client.
**The banner's second line is the real backend log line, not a guess.**
llama-swap's `GET /api/events` SSE stream carries the actual `llama-server`
process's own stdout — `load_model: loading model '<path>'`,
`llama_server: model loaded`, tokenizer warnings, all of it — tagged
`source: "upstream"`, distinct from llama-swap's own `source: "proxy"`
request-access lines. `running-status`'s response now includes `logLine`
(via `getLatestLlamaSwapLogLine`), and the banner shows it on its own line
under the disclaimer, e.g. "llama.cpp: load_model: loading model '...'" —
confirmed live end-to-end through a real forced swap, sequentially showing
the model path, a tokenizer warning, then staying on whatever llama.cpp last
printed once the load goes quiet (never cleared back to blank). ⚠️
**`GET /logs` — the endpoint this feature's own first cut was built
against — turns out to carry ONLY llama-swap's own proxy request-access
log.** Confirmed live it never showed a single backend line, even seconds
after a real, verified model swap; `/api/events`'s `logData` frames are the
only source that actually has it, and its own `source` field (`upstream` vs
`proxy`) is what `getLatestLlamaSwapLogLine` filters on. One `/api/events`
connection is held open per endpoint and reused across every session
watching a load on it (confirmed live to stay open indefinitely, unlike
`/logs`, which closes after a fixed ~100KB), idle-closed after 30s of nobody
polling it (`pruneIdleLlamaSwapLogTails`, same 20s sweep as the
swap-displacement check below).
`defaultModelId` names which discovered model the picker pre-marks for that
endpoint — the settings panel's Edit form exposes it as a select populated
from the endpoint's own discovered `models`, and the route refuses a value
that isn't one of them. It is applied automatically only when the endpoint
has exactly one discovered model (nothing to choose); with two or more it
is a pre-selection in the model-picker dialog below, never a silent default.
Re-discovering drops a default that no longer appears in the fresh list
rather than carrying an invalid one forward.
**Model lists refresh themselves.** A background sweep (`server.ts`,
`CUSTOM_MODEL_REDISCOVER_INTERVAL_MS`, every 5 minutes) re-discovers every
saved endpoint the same way the manual `POST .../discover-models` route
does, best-effort per endpoint — one being unreachable on a given cycle
never blocks the others. Off under `npm test`, same reasoning as the Codex
plan-usage poll it sits beside: no real network to hit, no server instance
to keep the timer alive for.
## The Run-menu picker
With the setting on and at least one endpoint carrying a discovered model,
the toolbar's Run dropdown grows a **Custom Endpoints** section: one entry
per (harness that can redirect to a custom endpoint, saved endpoint) pair,
e.g. "Claude Code (llama.cpp)". The harness list is read off the CLI
registry's own `capabilities.customModelInjection` at page render
(`window.__codemanCustomModelClis`, `server.ts`) — never a hardcoded id list
in the frontend — so a CLI whose injection recipe lands later shows up with
no frontend change, and Antigravity (`unsupported`) never does.
Picking an entry re-fetches the endpoint (`selectCustomModelEntry()`,
`session-ui.js`) rather than trusting anything cached from the dropdown's
own render — the model list can have changed via the 5-minute sweep above
or a settings-panel edit since the menu opened. With exactly one discovered
model it runs straight away; with two or more, a small modal
(`#customModelPickModal`) lists them and asks which one to use for this
launch, with the endpoint's `defaultModelId` marked but not auto-chosen —
the point of asking is letting one launch deliberately differ from the
saved default, not just confirming it.
The modal promotes exactly one row to the top of the list rather than
always showing raw discovery order, so the zero-wait choice is the one
under your thumb:
- **"Currently loaded"** — a model from this host's own list that
llama-swap reports `ready` right now, queried via
`GET /api/model-endpoints/:id/running-status`. Bounded client-side to
~800ms (`Promise.race`), on top of the route's own 5s server-side
timeout, so an endpoint that is asleep or firewalled cannot leave the
modal invisible for the full 5s after the Run menu has already closed.
- **"Last used"** — shown only when nothing is currently loaded: the model
actually launched last for this exact (harness, endpoint) pair, read
from the per-device `codeman:customModelLastUsed:<mode>:<endpointId>`
localStorage key. Written by `_runCustomModelEntryViaRestart` (claude)
and `_quickStartWithCustomModelConfirm` (every one-shot launch; the
`runCustomModelEntry` entry point itself only dispatches between the
two) only once the model is actually applied, never on the mere click —
declining the context-window warning means this exact model cannot work
with this CLI at all, so promoting it next time would be actively wrong,
not just premature.
Neither tag reorders anything past that one promoted row. The "Default"
pill is a separate span, not a third value of the same slot: a promoted
row that is also the endpoint's `defaultModelId` shows both tags (on a
single-purpose GPU box that is the common case, and an exclusive slot
silently dropped the Default marking for exactly that row), and a row
with neither promotion nor default shows no tag at all.
**How the launch itself applies the endpoint depends on the harness.** For
opencode, Codex, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek and OMP (`runCustomModelEntry` →
`_runCustomModelEntryOneShot`), the endpoint/model is folded into the SAME
`POST /api/quick-start` call that creates the session (`customModel` field),
so the session launches directly on the endpoint — no restart, no visible
relaunch. Claude (`_runCustomModelEntryViaRestart`) still uses the original
two-step design: the launch runs a single native session exactly the way its
own Run-menu entry would, then **waits for the new session to go idle**
(`GET .../wait?until=idle`, bounded at 20s — a normal 200 either way, never
an error, per the wait endpoint's own contract) before applying the endpoint
via the restart route below. That wait exists because a freshly launched CLI
reports itself as `busy` for its own startup (a boot spinner, a
workspace-trust check) well before the apply call would otherwise reach it,
and the apply route correctly refuses to restart a session mid-turn — a
fresh boot looks exactly like one from the outside. A session still busy
after the wait reaches the apply call anyway and gets that route's own
honest `SESSION_BUSY` error, now visible as a sticky toast with a close
button rather than a generic message that vanished in three seconds. Claude
stays on this path because its own restart (`--resume`-based, keeping the
conversation) is far less jarring than the other seven's, and `runClaude()`'s
multi-tab launch and docker-config-drift confirm/retry loop make folding it
into the one-shot path separate work. It is a
one-off "try this endpoint" action, not a sticky mode: the plain Run button
still means "this harness, native cloud" afterward. Entries are hidden
entirely for a remote or Docker active case, since the apply route refuses
both (see the next section).
## Launching directly on an endpoint (no restart)
```bash
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/quick-start \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"caseName": "myapp", "mode": "codex", "customModel": {"endpointId": "llama-box", "modelId": "qwen3"}}'
```
`POST /api/quick-start`'s `customModel` field (`{endpointId, modelId,
confirmed?}`) computes the same injection the restart route below does, but
BEFORE the session exists — the session is minted its own id up front
(`crypto.randomUUID()`), the injection (env vars, and for a `configDir`-kind
CLI, the written config file) targets that real id, and the session launches
already pointed at the endpoint. No restart, because there was never a
native-backend launch to restart away from. Runs the same llama-swap
conflict check as the restart route (below) — a `409`-shaped
`{requiresConfirmation, currentlyLoadedModel, affectedSessions}` response
with no session created, resolved by retrying with `confirmedSwap: true` — and
is refused the same way for a remote or Docker case. This is what the
Run-menu picker uses for opencode, Codex, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek and OMP;
Claude still uses the restart route below (see "The Run-menu picker" above
for why).
## Applying a model to an ALREADY-RUNNING session
```bash
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/sessions/<sessionId>/custom-model \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"endpointId": "llama-box", "modelId": "qwen3"}'
```
This computes the CLI-specific env vars / config for that session's mode
(see the recipe table in `custom-model-endpoints-plan.md`) and **restarts the session's
CLI process in place** — same pane, same tmux session, fresh env. That
restart is necessary, not incidental: every supported harness reads its
endpoint config at process start, not per-turn, so there is no live
hot-swap. A Claude session is relaunched with `--resume <conversation> ||
--session-id <id>`, so it continues the conversation it was on; pi, omp and
grok are relaunched with the `--model` value that selects the injected
provider (`custom/<modelId>` for pi and omp, `codeman-custom` for grok),
since for those three the config file alone does not switch the model.
**Remote (SSH) and Docker sessions are refused** (400) for now: their restart
reattaches the durable remote/in-container tmux rather than relaunching the
agent, so the selection would report success and change nothing.
**Claude gets two more env vars when known/applicable, both declared on its
registry entry (`contextLengthVar`/`configDirVar`), not hardcoded here:**
- `CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS` is set to `modelId`'s discovered context
length (see the discovery section above) whenever one is known. Without
it, Claude Code assumes a large (200k) window for any unrecognized custom
model id and never compacts, which reliably overflows a much smaller real
local context — confirmed live: a stock ~33.7K-token system prompt against
a 16384-token llama-swap model failed with `exceeds the available context
size`. No entry for the model in `modelContextLengths` means the var is
simply omitted, never a guess. ⚠️ **This var only affects when Claude
Code compacts conversation _history_ — it cannot fix a model whose real
context is smaller than Claude Code's own fixed per-turn overhead**
(system prompt + tool schemas, empirically ~36.4K tokens, confirmed live
via an `in:0 out:0` failure on the very first message, before any
history exists to compact). No context-length declaration changes that
fixed overhead, so a model below the safe floor fails outright on
message one regardless of what this var says. See "Context-window floor
warning" below for how Codeman catches this case before launching
instead of after.
- `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` is pointed at the same isolated per-session directory
the `configDir`-kind CLIs use (empty, no files written into it), so the
injected `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` never shares a directory with a stored
claude.ai OAuth login. Claude Code still prints "Both claude.ai and
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set" when the two coexist in the same config directory —
cosmetic (confirmed live: the API key wins for actual requests either way,
visible in the terminal's own `API Usage Billing` line) but worth
eliminating rather than living with. The directory's `projects`
subdirectory is symlinked (a junction on Windows) back to the real
`~/.claude/projects` so the response viewer, subagent windows and Read My
Mind keep working for that session — the same trade-off and fix documented
for a manually-set `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` in
[`docs/wiki/Agent-CLIs.md`](wiki/Agent-CLIs.md), just applied
automatically here. Best-effort: a platform that refuses the symlink keeps
the pre-existing blind-response-viewer side effect rather than failing the
whole custom-model apply over it. ⚠️ **This relocates the whole `.claude`
tree, not just transcripts**: a custom-model Claude session also loses the
user's global `settings.json`, user-level skills (the codeman agent skill
included), user-level agents and commands, and the MCP servers configured
in `~/.claude.json` — none of those are symlinked back, only `projects` is.
A fine trade for "point this session at my local llama.cpp," but worth
knowing before it surprises you mid-session.
**That isolated directory needed one more fix to actually be usable
non-interactively.** An otherwise-empty `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` has none of a
real profile's prior "Detected a custom API key — use it?" approvals, so
without more, Claude Code stops and asks that on _every single launch_ —
confirmed live, and with nobody at a TTY to answer, its own default answer
("No") silently refuses the very key this feature just injected, which
looks like the endpoint being ignored entirely. `customModelInjection`'s
`apiKeyTrustFile` (`{ relPath: '.claude.json', shape:
'claude-api-key-responses' }` on claude's entry) pre-seeds that exact
approval: the apply step merges `customApiKeyResponses.approved: [apiKey]`
into `<configDir>/.claude.json`, the same field a real answered prompt
itself writes to (confirmed against a real file after answering by hand
once) — this answers the prompt in advance rather than bypassing it. The
merge preserves whatever else the CLI already wrote into that file on an
earlier launch in the same isolated directory (`userID`, `numStartups`,
earlier approved keys), and a missing or corrupt file is treated as empty
rather than failing the apply.
**A fresh `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` isn't just missing that one approval — Claude
Code treats it as a brand-new profile and replays its ENTIRE first-run
sequence on every launch: the theme picker, the security-notes screen, the
per-project "trust this folder?" dialog, and (running with
`--dangerously-skip-permissions`) a one-time warning about bypassing
permissions.** Confirmed live: none of these show up again for a real,
already-onboarded profile, but every custom-model session gets a fresh,
otherwise-empty isolated directory, so it saw all four every single time.
`customModelInjection`'s `skipFirstRunPrompts` (`true` on claude's entry,
requires `apiKeyTrustFile` since it reuses the same file) pre-seeds the
state a real profile accumulates from answering all of that once:
`hasCompletedOnboarding: true` and the launching session's own
`projects[workingDir].hasTrustDialogAccepted: true` go into the same
`<configDir>/.claude.json` the API-key approval above already merges into
(other projects, and other fields on this session's own project entry, are
left untouched), and `skipDangerousModePermissionPrompt: true` goes into
`<configDir>/settings.json` — a different file, merged the same
corrupt-tolerant way. `workingDir` is used exactly as the session was
launched with as its cwd, never realpath'd or slash-normalized, since
that's the literal string Claude Code itself uses as the project key.
**llama-swap gets two more fixes on top of the context-length/config-dir
ones above, both from watching a real switch live.** llama.cpp only ever
runs one model at a time; llama-swap swaps the backing process on demand,
which can take anywhere from a few seconds to well over a minute:
- **The conflict check.** Both apply routes (the restart one here and the
one-shot `POST /api/quick-start` above) call llama-swap's own
`GET /running` first — feature-detected, so a plain llama.cpp/OpenAI-
compatible server (no such endpoint) is simply never checked. If a
_different_ model is currently loaded and ready, and another **live
session's own selection** is using it, the apply returns
`{requiresConfirmation: true, currentlyLoadedModel, affectedSessions}`
instead of silently switching — nothing is applied or created yet.
Retrying with `confirmedSwap: true` skips the check (the legacy `confirmed: true`
still means both questions). Switching with nothing
else affected proceeds immediately; this is a warning about disrupting
another session, never a gate on the switch itself.
- **Actually starting the load.** llama-swap has no "switch model" admin
call — the only thing that starts a swap is a real inference request
naming the model, and confirmed live: applying a selection alone never
reached llama-swap at all (nothing in its own server logs), since nothing
had actually asked it to load anything yet. Both apply routes now also
send the smallest real request that will —
`POST <baseUrl>/v1/chat/completions` with `max_tokens: 1` and one
throwaway message — whenever the
target model isn't already the one loaded and ready, fire-and-forget (its
response is never read; `GET /api/model-endpoints/:id/running-status`,
polled client-side, is what actually confirms readiness). The response
also carries `modelSwapInProgress: true` in that case, which is what
drives the Run-menu picker's own "loading model" status banner.
## Catching a swap after the fact
The conflict check above only runs at the moment a session is created or a
model is applied — it has no way to catch a swap that happens **later**.
Confirmed live: a session created while nothing else conflicted at that
exact instant can still get silently displaced afterward, once a
_different_ session's own normal use (or its own create-time load trigger)
asks llama-swap to load something else. llama-swap has no push
notification of its own for this, so a background sweep
(`detectCustomModelSwapDisplacements`, `CUSTOM_MODEL_SWAP_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS`
= 20s in `server.ts`) polls `GET /running` once per distinct endpoint that
has at least one live custom-model session, and compares each such
session's own `modelId` against what is actually loaded. A session whose
model is no longer in that list gets a `custom-model:swapped-out` SSE event
(`{sessionId, sessionName, endpointId, previousModel, currentlyLoadedModel}`),
shown as a global toast — global rather than tied to that session's tab,
since the whole point is telling the user before they type into it
expecting the model they picked. Notifies **once per displacement**: the
same de-dupe `Set` clears a session's flag once its own model is loaded and
ready again, so a later, genuinely new displacement notifies again rather
than the session staying silently un-notified forever after the first one.
## Context-window floor warning
Claude Code's own fixed per-turn overhead (system prompt + tool schemas,
empirically ~36.4K tokens) can exceed a small local model's _entire_ real
context on its own, before any conversation history exists to fill it —
confirmed live twice, both as an `in:0 out:0` failure on the very first
message sent. `CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS` (above) cannot fix this: it
only governs when Claude Code compacts conversation history, and there is
no history yet on message one. Applying such a model would look like the
endpoint being ignored, or the wrong model being used, when in fact the
endpoint applied correctly and the model is simply too small for this CLI.
Both apply routes (the restart route and the one-shot `POST
/api/quick-start`) now check for this **before** launching or restarting
anything, gated on the CLI's registry entry declaring a `contextLengthVar`
(currently only claude — the check is a no-op for every other CLI by
construction, never a hardcoded mode check). If the model's discovered
context (`modelContextLengths`, from discovery above) is below
`CLAUDE_MIN_SAFE_CONTEXT_TOKENS` (40000, comfortably above the measured
~36.4K overhead), the response is `{requiresContextWarning: true, modelId,
contextLength, minSafeContextTokens}` instead of applying — nothing is
restarted or created yet. A context length that was never discovered at
all skips the check entirely (nothing to compare, so it fails open rather
than warning on every model an endpoint hasn't reported a size for).
Retrying with `confirmedContext: true` launches anyway (the legacy `confirmed: true` still means both questions).
The Run-menu picker shows this as an in-app modal
(`#customModelContextWarningModal`, matching the llama-swap conflict
modal's look) naming the model, its discovered context, and the safe
floor, and explaining the fix: reconfigure llama-swap to give that model
(or a smaller one) an explicit larger context instead of relying on
auto-fit (`--fit-ctx`), which optimizes for the biggest _model_ that fits
rather than the biggest _context_ — e.g. adding `-c 65536` (or as large a
`--ctx-size` as the hardware holds) to that model's llama-swap config
entry. A smaller model at a much larger explicit context often fits in
the same VRAM a bigger model's auto-fit context gets shrunk to make room
for.
Clear back to the harness's native cloud default with:
```bash
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/sessions/<sessionId>/custom-model \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"clear": true}'
```
Clearing also removes the env vars the selection injected from the tmux
session (they persist there and would otherwise be inherited by the
relaunched CLI) and deletes the per-session config directory
(`~/.codeman/custom-model-configs/<sessionId>`, written 0600 because pi and
omp embed the API key in it). That directory is also removed when the
session is deleted. The selection survives a Codeman restart: the endpoint
id, model and injected key NAMES are persisted, the values are re-derived
from the endpoint store on recovery, and the pane keeps running against the
endpoint in between because tmux retains its environment.
⚠️ Clearing removes injected keys **by name**, and `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` is one
of the names claude's selection injects — so a session that ALSO had
`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` set through the generic `envOverrides` field (the
per-client-account case) loses that override on clear too, and silently
falls back to the server's default Claude account. If you route a session
to a specific account this way, re-apply the override after clearing a
custom-model selection from it.
**New sessions always default back to the harness's native backend.** A
custom-endpoint selection is a per-session choice, never a sticky global
default — starting a fresh session doesn't inherit whatever the last one was
pointed at.
## Confidence per harness
Every harness except Antigravity has now been run end-to-end against a real
llama-swap server via `scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts` (a dynamic
script that reads the live CLI registry, so a registry change is picked up
automatically). Results:
- **Claude, opencode, Pi, Grok, OMP** — verified: a real "hello world" reply
came back through the endpoint.
- **Codex** — the config is structurally correct, and against a llama-swap
server that DOES answer `/v1/responses` (confirmed live: a plain,
no-tool-call chat turn returned a real reply), the picture is more
nuanced than a flat failure. A real tool-call attempt (`run the shell
command: echo hello`) came back as `agent_message` TEXT — literally the
tool-call JSON printed as the model's answer — instead of a
`function_call` item Codex would actually execute (confirmed via `codex
exec --json`'s raw event stream). So plain chat can work while the thing
that makes Codex a coding agent — actually running commands and editing
files — does not; treat Codex as still unreliable for real work against a
llama.cpp/llama-swap endpoint, tool-calling gap included, not just the
earlier-documented `wire_api` mismatch (which not every deployment hits
the same way — some legitimately have no `/v1/responses` route at all).
Separately, EVERY custom-endpoint Codex session prints `Model metadata
for '<id>' not found. Defaulting to fallback metadata...` on launch —
confirmed harmless (the reply above still came back correctly): Codex's
model metadata (reasoning-tier options, per-model system-prompt
templates, context-window figures) comes from `models_cache.json`, a
local cache of OpenAI's own hosted model catalog that a custom local
model can never appear in by construction, since it isn't one of
OpenAI's models. There's no config.toml override for a model's metadata,
and fabricating a fake catalog entry would mean copying the _shape_ of
OpenAI's own proprietary schema (their per-model system-prompt content
included) for a warning that doesn't otherwise affect behavior — not
something to build into discovery.
- **Gemini** — fails with `Invalid auth method selected`, traced to an
undocumented `GATEWAY` auth path gemini-cli selects once
`GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL` is set. Unresolved after real investigation
(several auth workarounds were tried and ruled out); do not rely on
Gemini support yet.
- **DeepSeek** — root cause of the `HTTP_404` found and fixed. DeepSeek
Harness's own bundled provider module (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek`)
builds its request URL as `${DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL}/chat/completions` with no
`/v1` insertion of its own (its real public API, `https://api.deepseek.com`,
expects the caller's base URL to already carry any needed prefix) —
confirmed by reading its own source and, live, that
`POST <baseUrl>/chat/completions` 404s against llama-swap while
`POST <baseUrl>/v1/chat/completions` succeeds; the harness's own error
template (`DeepSeek API error (HTTP ${status})`) matches the originally
reported symptom exactly. `customModelInjection`'s new `appendV1Suffix`
(deepseek's entry only — claude/gemini must NOT get it, since claude was
already confirmed working against the raw `baseUrl`) fixes it by writing
`DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL` with `/v1` appended. Not yet re-run end-to-end with a
real `dsh` binary (no install available in this environment) — the fix
is source-confirmed and live-verified at the HTTP level, but a real
"hello world" reply through `dsh` itself is still outstanding before
calling this fully verified like the harnesses above.
- **Antigravity** — no known custom-endpoint mechanism at all; unsupported.
See the confidence table in `custom-model-endpoints-plan.md` for the full detail behind
each result. `scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts` is the standalone script
used to check a harness against a real endpoint outside the web UI
entirely; see its own `--help` for usage.
## Security note
Every env var this feature can set that redirects a session's traffic
(`ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`, `GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL`, `CODEX_HOME`, etc.) is
listed in that CLI's `privilegedEnvKeys` in the CLI registry, so a
non-granted multi-user owner cannot set one directly via the generic
`envOverrides` API field — only through this feature's own route, which
computes the value from an admin-configured, SSRF-guarded endpoint rather
than trusting arbitrary client input. See the "Multi-user security
hardening" section of `custom-model-endpoints-plan.md` for the full reasoning; several
of these were reachable via the generic `envOverrides` field even before
this feature existed, and building this surfaced and closed that gap.
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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`. The Compose server image (`docker/server.Dockerfile`) does not
ship `dsh`, since it is installed at runtime, but it does ship pnpm so the UI
button works there too.
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` / `grok` / `deepseek` / `omp` 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` all work inside the container.
## One-time setup: build the base image
@@ -21,69 +21,14 @@ The image is **secret-free**: credentials are delivered at runtime (bind mounts
node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache
```
### Which CLIs the image contains
The npm-published CLIs come from `ARG CLI_NPM_PACKAGES`, which `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs`
fills from `config/clis.stock.json` (generated from `src/config/cli-registry/stock.ts`). Adding
a stock CLI that installs with a plain `npm install -g` needs no Dockerfile edit. The ARG
defaults to the same list in the same order, so a bare `docker build` produces a byte-identical
layer — a different order would be a different `RUN` string and so a needless cache miss.
⚠️ It reads the **stock** catalogue, never the merged registry. A user's `~/.codeman/clis.json`
must not change what is inside an image tagged `codeman/agent:base`, or two machines holding
that tag hold different images and every cache decision downstream is a lie. Each entry's
`enabled` flag IS honoured, so a CLI that ships disabled is never baked in.
Five CLIs keep hand-written layers, for two different reasons that are easy to conflate.
`antigravity`, `grok` and `omp` declare no `npmPackage` at all, so they never enter the shared
npm layer and each gets a vendor-installer layer instead. `pi` and `deepseek` ARE on npm but
carry `discovery.install.agentImageLayer` in `stock.ts` (a REGISTRY field, rather than an
id-keyed table duplicated between the two producers of the image's build args), which pulls
them out of the shared layer because a plain `npm install -g` is not enough for them:
| CLI | Why it is not in the shared npm layer |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `pi` | Installs with `--ignore-scripts`, kept in its own layer so the flag cannot leak to the others. |
| `deepseek` | Needs `pnpm` alongside it (`dsh plugin`, issue #352) plus a `dsh-tui` profile install. |
| `antigravity` | Not on npm — Google ships a standalone binary (~190MB, the largest layer). |
| `grok`, `omp` | Not on npm — standalone vendor installers. |
`test/docker-agent-image-coverage.test.ts` requires every special case to carry a written
reason AND still be present in the Dockerfile, so an exclusion cannot silently become an
omission — which is the same failure upstream `b6d0f1fa` hit in `install.sh`.
Two things build this image: `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs` (a human) and
`ensureAgentBaseImage()` in `src/docker-hosts.ts` (the app, on the first Docker case). They
assemble the argv independently, because a `.mjs` cannot import TypeScript, so
`test/agent-image-build-args-parity.test.ts` pins them together. Without it, an image built by
hand and one built by the app could hold different CLIs under the same tag.
A zero exit code only proves the layers ran, not that the toolchain works. Verify by actually executing each CLI in the image, and check the build log for `Using cache` lines:
```bash
docker run --rm codeman/agent:base bash -lc \
'for c in claude codex gemini opencode agy pi grok dsh omp; do printf "%-9s " $c; $c --version 2>&1 | head -1; done'
'for c in claude codex gemini opencode agy; do printf "%-9s " $c; $c --version 2>&1 | head -1; done'
```
⚠️ `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:
```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).
The image can also carry the GitHub CLI (`gh`) and the Azure CLI (`az` + the `azure-devops` extension, in `AZURE_EXTENSION_DIR=/opt/az-extensions` so it stays out of the seeded HOME), wired into the system git config as credential helpers for github.com and dev.azure.com / *.visualstudio.com, exactly as in `docker/server.Dockerfile`. Their sign-ins are seeded per-FILE like pi's: `~/.config/gh/{hosts.yml,config.yml}` and `~/.azure/{azureProfile.json,msal_token_cache.json,service_principal_entries.json,clouds.config,config}`, never `~/.azure`'s logs, command index or extensions. A token kept in a desktop keyring, or in the encrypted MSAL cache az uses on Windows/macOS, is not in those files and does not carry. None of the three is version-pinned; the `--no-cache` rebuild recommended above is also what refreshes them. Both CLIs are opt-in and OFF by default: `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH=1` / `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_AZ=1` in the environment of `scripts/build-agent-image.mjs`, or of the Codeman server for its own auto-build (in the Compose deployment, `environment:` in `docker-compose.override.yml`), become the `CODEMAN_INSTALL_GH` / `CODEMAN_INSTALL_AZ` build args and put that CLI, its extension and its helper entry into the image. Unset passes nothing, so a default build's argv is unchanged and the image has neither. The sign-in seeds follow the same switches, read when a case container is created: `.config/gh` only with `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH=1`, `.azure` only with `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_AZ=1` (`enabledByEnv` in `CRED_STORES`), never merely because the files exist. Seeds are create-time mounts and deliberately not part of the config hash (hashing them would trip the drift gate for every case), so an existing case container picks them up only when it is recreated.
Set `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_GIT_USER_NAME` and `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_GIT_USER_EMAIL` together to configure the agent image's Git identity. Rebuild an existing `codeman/agent:base` with `node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache`, then recreate Docker-case containers so they use the rebuilt image.
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.
## Quickest path: one-click "Run in Docker"
@@ -119,49 +64,6 @@ 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.
CLIs installed from **App Settings → Agents & CLIs → CLI management** (DeepSeek Harness, Pi, and the other npm-based ones) go to `~/.local` on the `CODEMAN_APPDATA_PATH` mount, so they survive an image rebuild and a container recreate. Releases up to 1.33.1 installed them into the image instead, so a CLI installed from Settings on one of those has to be installed again once after the rebuild. The same applies to a hand-run `npm install -g` inside a session: it writes to the image prefix (`/opt/codeman-cli`) and is lost on the next rebuild, so use `npm install -g --prefix ~/.local <package>` instead.
It can also include the GitHub CLI (`gh`) and the Azure CLI (`az`) with the `azure-devops` extension, wired in as Git credential helpers, so Clone Repo and `git clone` reach private GitHub and Azure DevOps repositories once they are signed in. Both are off by default; [Turning them on](../docker/README.md#turning-them-on) shows the `docker-compose.override.yml` settings.
## 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/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. Naming the file with `-f` disables Compose's own discovery of `docker/docker-compose.override.yml`, so add a second `-f` for it when you keep one (see `docker/README.md`, Local customisation).
```sh
docker compose --env-file docker/.env -f docker/docker-compose.yaml up --build -d
```
The container starts as root, corrects the ownership of a bind source the daemon had to create, and drops to `PUID:PGID` with `setpriv` before Codeman starts; the capabilities that needs are declared in `docker/docker-compose.yaml` and named by the entrypoint when a compose file written elsewhere lacks them.
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. For a major update, or a base-image change `Start-Codeman.sh` does not fully pick up, `docker/Update-Codeman.sh` rebuilds with no layer cache and clears the two build-artefact volumes before handing off to it (see "Major updates" in `docker/README.md`).
`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` |
| A major update, or a Node base-image bump | `docker/Update-Codeman.sh` on the host (no-cache rebuild + fresh build volumes) |
The in-app updater detects the three middle rows itself and refuses with a
message naming what changed, so you never have to work out which case you are in.
`Update-Codeman.sh` is the heavier option for when `Start-Codeman.sh` is not
enough: see "Major updates" in `docker/README.md`.
## 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. |
| `docker-build-source.json` | What HEAD/`package-lock.json` the build artefact volumes currently reflect. Written by both `Start-Codeman.sh` and this in-place update, so the two agree on whether those volumes are stale. |
### 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.
That seeding-only-while-empty behaviour has a second, less obvious edge: it also
means a plain `docker compose build` triggered from OUTSIDE the container (for
example `Start-Codeman.sh`, after a `git pull` done by hand rather than through
this in-app updater) produces a fresh image whose freshly-built `dist`/
`node_modules` then sit unused behind the volumes' OLD content — the container
comes back up looking unchanged. `Start-Codeman.sh` detects this by comparing the
checkout's current HEAD and `package-lock.json` hash against `docker-build-source.json`,
and clears just the affected volume(s) before its own `--build` if they moved.
This in-place update writes that same file after a successful build precisely so
that comparison does not fire on stale information: without it, the next plain
`Start-Codeman.sh` run would see the HEAD this update just checked out, not
recognise it as already accounted for, and wipe the volumes this update just
correctly rebuilt right back to the OLDER image.
### 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. `docker/Update-Codeman.sh` scripts the same reset by default for the two
build-artefact volumes (`codeman-node-modules`, `codeman-dist`) only, plus an
unconditional `--no-cache` rebuild, which a plain `Start-Codeman.sh` run does not
force on its own. See "Major updates" in `docker/README.md`.
## 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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@@ -228,14 +228,6 @@ window: the wait resolves on `idle` in a couple of seconds with `timedOut: false
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
@@ -252,36 +244,24 @@ 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. 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.
# 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).
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' <<<"$R" >/dev/null; then
ESC=$(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="$ESC[B"
T=$("${CURL[@]}" -G "$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 && \
"${CURL[@]}" -X POST "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID/input" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d "$(jq -nc --arg i "$IN" '{input:$i,useMux:true}')" >/dev/null
[ "$K" = confirm ] && break
sleep 1 # re-read: confirm the arrow landed
done
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"input":"\r","useMux":true}' >/dev/null
"${CURL[@]}" -G "$API/api/v1/sessions/$SID/wait-output" \
--data-urlencode 'match=bypass' --data-urlencode 'from=buffer' \
--data-urlencode 'timeout=45000' >/dev/null
@@ -397,8 +377,8 @@ 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`,
`antigravity` or `pi` sessions.** They come from Claude Code hooks, which no other mode
- **`stop` and `blocked` never fire for `shell`, `opencode`, `codex`, `gemini` or
`antigravity` 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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- **Docker cases**: the workspace is a host directory bind-mounted at the same absolute path, so a host-side
write is visible in the container immediately. Edit mode works and needs nothing special. Worth one line
in the docs.
- **Remote SSH cases**: `workingDir` is a path on the remote host, and the READ routes now
resolve it over ssh (`src/remote-files.ts`, same `buildSshConnectionArgs` discipline as the
launch path — #415). What stays unsupported is the WRITE side: an `edit=1` / `PUT` answers
`400` "editing is not supported for files in a remote (SSH) case", `editable` is always
`false`, office previews and generated thumbnails answer `400`, and no remote file is ever
copied to the server's disk. Do not attempt an SFTP write path.
- **Remote SSH cases**: `workingDir` is a path on the remote host. `validateSessionFilePath` realpaths it
locally, which fails, so the write returns 404 exactly like the read routes do today. Confirm the viewer
shows a clean empty/error state rather than an unexplained failure, and do not attempt an SFTP path.
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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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# Installer v2: three questions, then a URL you can open on your phone (Plan)
Status: **Phase 1 IMPLEMENTED (2026-09-20)**, phases 2 and 3 open. It builds on
`docs/tailscale-installer-plan.md` (implemented 2026-08-04), which made Tailscale a
guided option; this round makes it the thing the install ENDS on, and makes the whole
installer shorter to sit through. Owner decisions taken before implementation: rename
is opt-in and **defaults to no everywhere** (the machine name is used for other things);
the URL keeps the node name unless asked; `codeman-<hostname>` is the suggested name;
sub-path is the default for an occupied `:443`.
Verification record for phase 1 (all on the maintainer's box, 2026-09-20):
- `test/install-sh-invariants.test.ts` (28 tests, incl. the new Tailscale safety pins)
and the detection-parity test pass; `bash -n` passes.
- Every new decision function driven with stubbed tailscale state under **bash 5.2 and
bash 3.2** (the `bash:3.2` container CI uses): flags, the launch default, the serve
shape for free / ours / occupied `:443` (all four answers plus the non-interactive
default), the three serve commands, the rename question (Enter keeps the name; `--yes`
and non-interactive never rename; `codeman-*` nodes are skipped; `--name` is
sanitized), `run_step` success/failure/stdin, the unit round-trip of
`CODEMAN_BASE_URL`/`CODEMAN_PORT`/an escaped password, and the done screen.
- A full non-interactive install into a sandboxed `HOME` with `CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1`:
preflight summary, kept the existing prod mapping (no serve mutation), clone 2 s,
`npm install` 18 s, build 23 s, symlink, done screen; `install.sh status` on a pty
renders the QR code. Nothing on the real system changed.
- **Sub-path mode end to end over the real tailnet**: an isolated Codeman
(`CODEMAN_INSTANCE`, port 3999, `--base-url /codeman`) behind
`tailscale serve --https=8445 --set-path /codeman 3999` answered `/codeman/api/status`,
`/codeman/` (with `<base href="/codeman/">` and `__CODEMAN_BASE__="/codeman"`), the
hashed CSS/JS, `/codeman` without a slash, and the SSE stream; mapping and server
removed afterwards. **Correction to section 2**: serve STRIPS the mount prefix
before proxying (a direct `/codeman/api/status` on the server is 404 while the same
path through serve is 200). That is fine because Codeman's ingress tolerates
unprefixed requests; `--base-url` is needed for the URLs Codeman EMITS, not for
what it receives.
- Not yet exercised on a fresh machine (unchanged from the previous plan): Tailscale
absent / logged out / HTTPS toggle off, the rename against a real node (the
off-rename-re-add order is implemented but only unit-driven), macOS, uninstall. The
Mac mini and a throwaway VM are the venues; see section 8.
- **Review fixes (2026-09-21)**, from the two reviews on PR #460 (DeepSeek Harness, then
Claude): the done screen's Start line is composed from every non-default value
(`start_command_hint`, shared with the exec branch as `export_bind_env`), so "do not
start" under a sub-path or a custom port no longer prints a bare `codeman web`; the
`--lan`/`--tailscale`/env preset paths keep an existing password instead of rewriting
the unit open; `--password`/`--port` flip `RECONFIGURE` so they reach the unit;
`install.sh name` re-syncs the unit's base URL after a rename; the sudo keepalive is
ended before the `exec` into the foreground server; Ctrl+C in the HTTPS-toggle poll
skips Tailscale instead of killing the run; `uninstall` asks before removing a
LaunchDaemon it never wrote; a foreign LaunchDaemon gets a restart hint and the done
screen stops claiming the new build is running; the preflight summary reads the
Tailscale state without node; the LAN security notice uses the configured port; a
bare re-run ends on the done screen; a build failure after a rename names the
`install.sh tailscale` recovery; `TS_JOINED_HERE` is gone.
Goal, in one sentence: a user runs the one-liner, answers at most three questions, walks
away during the build, and comes back to `https://<name>.<tailnet>.ts.net` printed with a
QR code, already answering, on every device in their tailnet. That is exactly the
maintainer's own production setup (`tnode.tailf80371.ts.net` fronting `127.0.0.1:3000`),
and the installer should produce it without the user knowing what `tailscale serve` is.
## 1. Where the installer is today
Facts from reading `install.sh` (2886 lines, 19 `prompt_yes_no` sites) and the live
Tailscale state on the maintainer's box (tailscale 1.102.2, user-owned node, MagicDNS +
HTTPS certs on, serve mapping `443 -> https+insecure://localhost:3000`).
**The order is backwards for a human.** The flow is: detect -> ask about git -> ask about
node -> ask about tmux -> ask about build tools -> AI CLI menu -> ask about cloudflared ->
clone -> `npm install` -> build (minutes) -> **then** the network-access question -> the
Tailscale sub-steps (install? login URL, sudo for operator, admin-console toggle loop) ->
the launch menu (no default; a bare Enter re-prompts) -> tunnel-service question. A fresh
Ubuntu server taking the Tailscale route answers roughly ten prompts plus two to four sudo
password prompts, split around a multi-minute build. The user cannot walk away at any
point, and the question that matters most (how do I reach it) comes last.
**The Tailscale flow works but was never exercised on a fresh machine.** The previous
plan's manual matrix still lists items 1-4, 7 and 10-12 (Tailscale absent, logged out,
HTTPS toggle off, port 443 occupied, macOS, uninstall, phone PWA) as untested. The
maintainer's own verification was the idempotent "kept as-is" path.
**The URL is the machine's name, full stop.** `setup_tailscale_serve` derives it from
`.Self.DNSName`, and nothing lets the user influence it. A second Codeman on the same
tailnet is `macminis-mac-mini.tailf80371.ts.net`, which tells you nothing about Codeman.
**Port 443 taken means give up or clobber.** If another app already owns the root of
`:443`, the only offer is "replace it?" (default no), and declining falls back to
local-only. Codeman already supports running under a sub-path (`--base-url`), and
Tailscale serve supports mounting a path (`--set-path`), so there is a third answer nobody
is offered.
**The result is invisible afterwards.** Once the terminal scrolls away, nothing in the app
or the CLI tells the user their Tailscale URL again. `codeman doctor` does not probe
Tailscale; App Settings -> Remote access shows only the Cloudflare tunnel.
**Two service writers exist.** `install.sh` carries its own plist/unit generator (~180
lines) next to `codeman service install` (`src/service-installer.ts`). They agree on the
job name by design, but the bash copy is the one that writes `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` into the
unit, so they cannot simply be merged. Left as-is in this plan (see section 9).
## 2. What Tailscale makes possible for the name (researched 2026-09-20)
| Option | Resulting URL | What it needs | Side effects | Verdict |
| ------ | ------------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------- |
| **A. Node name** (today) | `https://tnode.tailf80371.ts.net` | `tailscale serve --bg 3000` | none | **Default.** Zero admin-console work, matches the maintainer's prod. |
| **B. Rename the node** | `https://codeman-tnode.tailf80371.ts.net` | `tailscale set --hostname codeman-<host>` (operator or root) | Renames the machine tailnet-wide: ssh targets, other serve URLs, the admin console entry. Tailscale de-dups a clash as `-1`. The cert follows the new name. | **Opt-in, default NO everywhere** (owner decision 2026-09-20: the machine is used for other things, so a bare Enter never renames it). The proposal was YES when the installer itself had just joined the tailnet; rejected. |
| **C. Tailscale Service** | `https://codeman.tailf80371.ts.net` | tailscale >= 1.86 on the host; the host must have a **tag-based identity** ("You cannot use a device authenticated with a user account as a Service host"); the service is defined in the admin console first; the host is then approved there (or via `autoApprovers.services`). Public beta since 2025-10-28, all plans. | Re-authenticating a personal machine as a tagged node changes its identity (SSH ACLs, user attribution). Known daemon quirk: approval is not picked up until `serve clear` + re-advertise (tailscale/tailscale#18821). | **Detect and hint only** in this round. The maintainer's own node has `Self.Tags: null`, so it could not host one without re-tagging. Worth a real flow once someone with a tagged fleet asks. |
| **D. Sub-path** | `https://tnode.tailf80371.ts.net/codeman` | `tailscale serve --bg --set-path /codeman 3000` plus `--base-url /codeman` on the server | Codeman runs under a prefix. Hooks are unaffected (they hit the raw port with no prefix, which `rewriteUrl` already tolerates). Serve forwards the prefix unchanged, which is exactly the shape `--base-url` was built for. | **The answer when `:443` root is already taken.** Replaces today's replace-or-nothing prompt. |
| **E. Second port** | `https://tnode.tailf80371.ts.net:8443` | `tailscale serve --bg --https=8443 3000` | Port in the URL; the beta-preview recipe already uses this. | Fallback when the user rejects D. |
| Funnel (public internet) | `https://tnode.tailf80371.ts.net` from anywhere | `tailscale funnel` | Public exposure; different risk class. | **Out of scope**, as before. Docs only, with the password warning. |
Sources: Tailscale Services docs (`tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-services`), the
Services beta announcement (`tailscale.com/blog/services-beta`), machine names
(`tailscale.com/kb/1098/machine-names`), the serve CLI reference
(`tailscale.com/docs/reference/tailscale-cli/serve`), the macOS variants page
(`tailscale.com/docs/concepts/macos-variants`), and `tailscale serve --help` on 1.102.2
(which lists `--service`, `--set-path`, `--yes`, `advertise`, `get-config`/`set-config`).
**Trap for option B (verify on the Mac mini before shipping):** the serve config is keyed
by `host:port` using the DNS name at configuration time (`"Web": {"tnode.tailf80371.ts.net:443": ...}`
in `serve status --json`). Renaming a node after serve is configured most likely orphans that
entry: the handler lookup uses the current name and never matches the old key, and the only
tool that removes a stale key is `serve reset`, which this installer must never run. So the
order is **rename first, then configure serve** on a fresh install, and on a retrofit
(`install.sh name`) **turn our mapping off, rename, wait for `.Self.DNSName` to change,
re-add**.
## 3. Target UX
### 3.1 Three questions, then walk away
```
Codeman installer
Found: git, Node 22.14, tmux 3.4, build tools Missing: nothing
AI CLIs: Claude Code (~/.local/bin/claude)
Tailscale: connected as tnode (tailf80371.ts.net)
Existing: none
1/3 How should the dashboard be reachable?
1) Tailscale https://tnode.tailf80371.ts.net (recommended, already connected)
2) Any device on your network (0.0.0.0, password required)
3) This machine only (127.0.0.1)
Choose [1/2/3] (default 1):
2/3 Name this machine "codeman-tnode" on your tailnet? [y/N]
(only shown for option 1; default no, always)
3/3 Run Codeman as a background service that starts on boot? [Y/n]
Installing… this takes a few minutes. You can leave this running.
✓ dependencies ✓ clone ✓ build (2m 41s) ✓ service ✓ tailscale serve
```
Rules that make this work:
- **Every step that needs a human runs BEFORE the build.** The dependency consent, the
AI CLI menu, the Tailscale install consent, the `tailscale up` login URL, the operator
grant, and the tailnet HTTPS toggle all move into the question phase. The build, the
service, `tailscale serve` and the verification are unattended.
- **One consent for all missing system packages.** "Install git, Node 22 and build tools
now? [Y/n]" replaces four separate prompts. Each package still runs its own
distro-specific installer.
- **One sudo prompt.** When anything needs root (packages, the Tailscale installer,
`tailscale up`, the operator grant), the installer says so once, runs `sudo -v`, and keeps
the timestamp alive in a background loop until it exits. macOS needs no sudo for the
Tailscale GUI-app CLI and the pattern still holds for Homebrew packages.
- **Service is the default.** Enter on the last question installs the service; "run in
this terminal" and "don't start" stay reachable by answering, and by flag.
- **The cloudflared question is gone from the main flow.** It is optional, defaults to
no, and has an in-app toggle (App Settings -> Remote access). The done screen mentions it
only when `cloudflared` is already installed. The Linux tunnel-service prompt goes with it.
- **The HTTPS-certificates toggle no longer asks "re-check now?"** The installer prints the
admin URL, opens it in a browser when one is available (`xdg-open` / `open`, never on a
headless box), and polls `tailscale status --json` every 5 s for up to 5 minutes. Ctrl+C or
the timeout falls back exactly as today.
- **Progress, not silence.** `npm install` and `npm run build` run behind one line each
with elapsed time; their output goes to `~/.codeman/install.log` and is printed only on
failure, with the exact retry command.
### 3.2 The done screen
One block, the URL first, a QR code the phone can scan, and nothing the user does not need
right now.
```
✓ Codeman 1.31.0 is running
Your tailnet: https://codeman-tnode.tailf80371.ts.net (HTTPS, any of your devices)
This machine: http://localhost:3000
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
█ ▄▄▄ █ ▄▄▀ ▄ █ ▄▄▄ █ scan with your phone
█ ███ █ ███▀▀ █ ███ █
█▄▄▄▄▄█ █ ▄ █ █▄▄▄▄▄█
Manage systemctl --user restart codeman-web · journalctl --user -u codeman-web -f
Update re-run the install line, or App Settings → System → Updates
Docs https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/wiki
Security: Codeman binds 127.0.0.1. Tailscale authenticates every device before a
packet reaches it. Details: docs/security-architecture.md
```
The QR comes from the `qrcode` package Codeman already depends on
(`node -e "require('qrcode').toString(url, {type:'terminal', small:true}, …)"` from
`$INSTALL_DIR`, verified locally: 17 rows by 45 columns). Skipped when the terminal has no
color support or fewer than 50 columns. The QR encodes the plain URL, not an auth token:
the tailnet is the login.
### 3.3 Express mode and flags
Env vars stay (`CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1`, `CODEMAN_HOST`, `CODEMAN_PASSWORD`,
`CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1`, `CODEMAN_PORT`). Flags are added because they are
discoverable from the one-liner and pipe through `bash -s --`:
```bash
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash -s -- --tailscale --service
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash -s -- --lan --password 'x' --service
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash -s -- --local --run
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash -s -- --tailscale --name codeman-build --yes
```
| Flag | Meaning |
| ---- | ------- |
| `--tailscale` / `--lan` / `--local` | Answer 1/3 (same semantics as `CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1`, `CODEMAN_HOST=0.0.0.0`, `CODEMAN_HOST=127.0.0.1`) |
| `--name <n>` / `--no-rename` | Answer 2/3: rename the node to `<n>`, or never ask |
| `--service` / `--run` / `--no-start` | Answer 3/3 |
| `--yes` | Accept every default, still prompt for a login URL (a human must open it) |
| `--password <p>` | Same as `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` |
| `--port <n>` | Same as `CODEMAN_PORT`; the serve target follows it |
`--yes` differs from `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1`: it is the interactive user saying "I trust
the defaults", so it may install software and may wait on a login URL. Non-interactive stays
the CI contract and never installs Tailscale.
## 4. The Tailscale flow, v2
The state machine from the previous plan stays; these are the changes.
1. **Preflight, before the build** (`tailscale_preflight`): installed? -> install
(Linux: official script; macOS: brew cask, else download link and wait). Logged in? ->
`tailscale up` with the URL printed prominently and a 5-minute poll. Operator (Linux):
grant once under the single sudo session. HTTPS certs: poll instead of ask (Ctrl+C
during the poll skips Tailscale for this run rather than ending the installer). The
rename default does not depend on whether this run performed the login (decided NO
everywhere), so nothing records it.
2. **Name** (`tailscale_choose_name`, question 2/3): shown only on the Tailscale route.
Default `codeman-<oshostname>` sanitized to `[a-z0-9-]`, max 63. Applied with
`ts_cmd_serve set --hostname`, then poll `.Self.DNSName` until it carries the new name
(up to 60 s). Order matters: this runs before any serve mutation (section 2 trap).
Declining keeps the node name. On a re-run against a node already named `codeman-*`,
the question is skipped.
3. **Serve, after the service is up** (`setup_tailscale_serve`): unchanged idempotent
"kept as-is" path first. When `:443` root belongs to another target, the new prompt is:
```
tailscale serve already sends https://tnode.tailf80371.ts.net to port 8080.
1) Add Codeman under a path: https://tnode.tailf80371.ts.net/codeman (default)
2) Use another port: https://tnode.tailf80371.ts.net:8443
3) Replace the existing mapping with Codeman
4) Skip Tailscale for now
```
Option 1 writes `--base-url /codeman` into the service unit (it is a `WebLaunchOptions`
field already, and `buildWebArgs` carries it) and runs
`tailscale serve --bg --set-path /codeman <port>`. Option 2 runs `--https=8443`.
`detect_tailscale_serve_url` learns to recognize all three shapes (root, path, port) so
uninstall, the security notice and the re-run default keep working.
4. **Warm the certificate.** Right after serve is configured, fire one background
`curl -sk https://<url>/api/status` so Let's Encrypt issuance overlaps the rest of the
install instead of adding 30 s to the verify step.
5. **Verify** as today (200 or 401 on `/api/status`), with the path-aware URL.
6. **Services hint** (option C): when `.Self.Tags` is non-empty and `serve --help`
lists `--service`, the done screen adds one line: "This is a tagged node, so it can also
host `https://codeman.<tailnet>.ts.net` as a Tailscale Service: see Remote Access in the
wiki." No flow, no prompt.
7. **macOS**: the App Store and Standalone variants cannot run before login, so a
LaunchAgent plus serve only comes back after someone logs in. The done screen says so on
macOS. The Mac mini (`arbbot`, headless, system LaunchDaemon) is the reference for the
"headless Mac" caveat, and `install.sh` must keep refusing to replace a LaunchDaemon it
did not write (today it removes one; that is a bug for the Mac mini and is fixed here:
detect `UserName` in the daemon plist and leave it alone with a message).
8. **Uninstall** additionally offers to restore the original node name when this installer
renamed it (the original is recorded in `~/.codeman/install.json`, the one marker file
this feature adds, because tailscaled does not remember previous names).
9. **Subcommands**: `install.sh tailscale` (unchanged purpose, now runs the v2 flow),
`install.sh name [<n>]` (rename with the off/rename/re-add dance), `install.sh status`
(prints the done screen again, URL and QR included, for the "what was my URL" moment).
## 5. In-app: the URL stays discoverable
Small, read-only, and the first server-side code this feature has ever needed.
- **`GET /api/system/remote-access`** returns
`{ tailscale: { installed, connected, dnsName, url, mode: 'root'|'path'|'port'|null } }`
by running `tailscale status --json` and `tailscale serve status --json` through
`execFile` with the existing exec timeout, cached 30 s, resolved through the same
`get_tailscale_path` search as the installer (PATH, then the macOS app bundle), and a
no-op under `VITEST` like every other IO probe. Never mutates serve config.
- **App Settings -> Remote access** gains a **Tailscale** row above the Cloudflare toggle:
the URL as a copy chip, a QR button reusing `showTunnelQR`'s modal, and when nothing is
configured a one-line hint with `bash ~/.codeman/app/install.sh tailscale`. The welcome
screen's "open on your phone" affordance shows the same QR.
- **`codeman doctor`** grows a `tailscale` entry under `other` in
`config/dependency-registry.ts`: installed, connected, serving Codeman (URL). Pure
engine, injectable probe host, like the existing rows.
- No new SSE event, no settings key, no state.json change.
## 6. Security posture
Nothing widens. The bind stays loopback; the tailnet is the authentication boundary;
`.ts.net` is already in `DEFAULT_TRUSTED_HOST_SUFFIXES`. New surfaces are read-only
probes. `install.sh` still never runs `tailscale serve reset`, still touches only the
mapping it created, and gains one more never: it never advertises a Tailscale Service or
runs `tailscale funnel`. The sudo keep-alive loop is killed by the existing `cleanup` trap.
The rename records the previous name locally and offers the reversal at uninstall.
## 7. Implementation inventory
| File | Change |
| ---- | ------ |
| `install.sh` | New `parse_flags`, `preflight_summary`, `ask_everything` (the three questions), `sudo_session`, `run_step` (spinner + log), `tailscale_preflight`, `tailscale_choose_name`, `tailscale_rename_node`, `print_done_screen`, `print_qr`, `status` subcommand, `name` subcommand. Modified: `main` (reordered into ask -> work -> done), `choose_network_binding` (question 1/3, same defaults), `setup_tailscale_serve` (path/port options), `detect_tailscale_serve_url` (three shapes), `setup_systemd_service`/`setup_launchd_service` (`--base-url`, LaunchDaemon guard), `uninstall` (rename reversal), header docs (flags). Removed from the main flow: the cloudflared prompt, the tunnel-service prompt. bash 3.2 rules unchanged. |
| `src/web/routes/system-routes.ts` | `GET /api/system/remote-access` |
| `src/tailscale-status.ts` (new) | Pure parser for the two JSON shapes + the IO wrapper; unit-tested against captured `serve status --json` fixtures (root, path, port, foreign target, none) |
| `src/config/dependency-registry.ts`, `src/utils/dependency-checker.ts` | `tailscale` doctor row |
| `src/web/public/index.html`, `settings-ui.js`, `panels-ui.js` | Tailscale row + QR, welcome-screen QR |
| `test/install-sh-invariants.test.ts` | Extend: flags documented in the header, no `serve reset`, no `funnel`, no `--service` advertise, every serve mutation goes through `ts_cmd_serve`, rename happens before serve in `main` (static order check) |
| `.github/workflows/ci.yml` | The bash 3.2 step additionally sources the script with stubbed `ts_cmd`/`ts_cmd_serve`/`read_reply` and drives `ask_everything` through all three answers and the 443-occupied menu |
| `test/tailscale-status.test.ts`, `test/routes/system-routes-remote-access.test.ts` | Parser + route |
| Docs | README install + remote-access sections, `docs/wiki/Installation.md`, `Remote-Access.md` (naming options table, Services caveat, path/port variants), `Mobile-Guide.md`, `Running-As-A-Service.md` (macOS login caveat), `FAQ.md`, `docs/security-architecture.md` §A, CLAUDE.md Scripts & Tunnel paragraph, `docs/tailscale-installer-plan.md` gets a pointer here. getcodeman.com copy lives outside the repo (maintainer handbook). |
Changeset: `minor` (new flags, new subcommands, new API route).
## 8. Test plan
Automated (the gate): the static invariants above, the bash 3.2 container drive of the
question phase, the JSON parser fixtures, the route test.
Manual matrix, on a fresh Ubuntu 24 VM and on the Mac mini, since the previous plan's
items never ran on a fresh machine:
1. Tailscale absent, declined -> local-only, done screen shows the retrofit command.
2. Tailscale absent, accepted -> install, login URL, operator, certs toggle polled, rename
question shown (default no), service, serve, URL verified, QR scans on a phone, PWA installs.
3. Tailscale present and logged in on a pre-existing node -> rename default NO, URL is the
node name, `serve status` gains exactly one entry.
4. `:443` root occupied -> path option -> `https://<node>/codeman` answers, hooks still
fire (raw port), `install.sh status` prints the path URL.
5. Rename on a node that already has our serve mapping (`install.sh name`) -> off, rename,
re-add, `serve status` has no stale key.
6. Re-run the one-liner -> quiet update, binding and name preserved, no prompts.
7. `--yes` end to end; `CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1` end to end (no software installed).
8. Uninstall -> mapping removed, other mappings intact, rename reversal offered.
9. Mac mini: LaunchDaemon left alone with the message; done screen carries the login caveat.
## 9. Phasing and open decisions
**Phase 1 (this round):** the reorder, the three questions, one consent + one sudo, flags,
the done screen with QR, Tailscale preflight-before-build, the path/port answer for an
occupied 443, the rename step, `status` and `name` subcommands, docs.
**Phase 2:** the in-app Tailscale row + QR, `codeman doctor` row, the `remote-access`
route. Independent of phase 1 and useful on its own for existing installs.
**Phase 3 (optional):** replace the bash service writers with `codeman service install`
once that command can carry `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` behind an explicit flag; and a Tailscale
Services flow if a tagged-fleet user asks for `codeman.<tailnet>.ts.net`.
Decisions for the maintainer:
1. **Rename default.** Decided 2026-09-20: always NO; the yes answer, `--name` and
`install.sh name` are the ways in. (The proposal was YES only when this run had joined
the tailnet, NO otherwise; rejected because the host is used for other things.)
2. **Name pattern.** `codeman-<hostname>` (proposed; unique per machine, and two Codemans
on one tailnet stay distinguishable) versus plain `codeman` (nicer once, collides on the
second install, Tailscale silently appends `-1`).
3. **Path versus port** as the default answer for an occupied 443. Proposed: path, because
the URL has no port and `--base-url` already exists for exactly this proxy shape.
4. **Whether Phase 2 ships in the same release.** It is the part that helps people who
installed months ago.
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| Breakpoint | Class | Description |
|------------|-------|-------------|
| < 600px | `device-mobile` | Phone - most features hidden/simplified |
| 600-768px | `device-tablet` | Tablet - intermediate layout |
| < 430px | `device-mobile` | Phone - most features hidden/simplified |
| 430-768px | `device-tablet` | Tablet - intermediate layout |
| > 768px | `device-desktop` | Desktop - full features |
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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.
⚠️ A **respawn or reattach** of a remote omp session runs `omp --continue`, not a
bare `omp`, so it lands back in the same conversation. It is deliberately
`--continue` rather than the exact `--resume <id>` the local and docker paths
pin: `omp-session-resolver.ts` only ever reads THIS host's `~/.omp/agent/sessions/`,
and a remote conversation's session file lives on the remote host under the
remote user's home, so resolving locally would pin a stranger's id. See
[Respawn / reattach continuation](remote-sessions.md#respawn--reattach-continuation).
## 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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# Pi (pi.dev) Run Mode: Implementation Plan
Tracking issue: [#206 "Plans to support pi.dev?"](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues/206)
Status: **IMPLEMENTED 2026-08-13** (see `docs/pi-integration.md` for the user-facing
guide). Everything below is the design record; the open questions were resolved
empirically against pi 0.84.1 and the answers are recorded inline as **RESULT**
notes. Originally reworked 2026-08-06; **rechecked 2026-08-13 against master @
`f39beb3` (v1.17.0)**, and every line anchor below was re-verified at that commit (the 1.11.2-era
anchors drifted heavily: six releases landed in between, including the settings-surface overhaul and
the codex predictive-echo work, both of which added new pi touchpoints, §2.10 and the Brain picker in
Phase 3). Upstream facts verified against `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent` **v0.84.1** (npm latest,
published 2026-08-07) and the [`earendil-works/pi`](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi) repo (cite
that name: upstream docs still contain stale `pi-mono` links from a repo rename). Line numbers are
anchors for orientation, not contracts; they drift.
---
## 1. What Pi is
[Pi](https://pi.dev) (MIT) is a minimal, extensible coding-agent harness. Facts below are verified
against the upstream docs in `packages/coding-agent/docs/`.
| Property | Value |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Binary | `pi` (`bin: { pi: 'dist/cli.js' }`) |
| npm package | `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`, latest **0.84.1** (2026-08-07; 0.84.0 was 2026-08-06); `legacy-node20` dist-tag at 0.74.2 |
| Install | `npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`, or `curl -fsSL https://pi.dev/install.sh \| sh` (the curl installer also goes through global npm, so both uninstall via npm) |
| Config dir | `~/.pi/agent` (override: `PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR`). Holds `auth.json`, `trust.json`, `settings.json`, `models.json` (user-defined providers), `models-store.json` (cached catalogs), `keybindings.json`, `extensions/`, `skills/`, `prompts/`, `themes/`, `AGENTS.md`, `SYSTEM.md`, and the package trees `npm/` + `git/` |
| Sessions | `~/.pi/agent/sessions/--<cwd with / replaced by ->--/<timestamp>_<uuid>.jsonl`, tree-structured (`id`/`parentId`), format v3. Overrides: `PI_CODING_AGENT_SESSION_DIR`, `--session-dir` |
| Credentials | `~/.pi/agent/auth.json` (OAuth subscriptions + API keys, auto-refresh), plus ~34 provider env vars with **no common prefix**. 0.84.1 adds `pi auth check` (auth preflight with optional credential output) |
| TUI | Default: **main screen with terminal-owned scrollback**. Since **0.84.0** an experimental fullscreen mode exists, selectable via `--tui-mode fullscreen` **or at runtime through `/settings`**; the default remains the main-screen mode |
| Providers | 15+ (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral, Groq, xAI, OpenRouter, Copilot, Baseten since 0.84.0, ...). OAuth subscription login via `/login` for six: ChatGPT Plus/Pro, Claude Pro/Max, GitHub Copilot, xAI, OpenRouter, Radius |
| Permission model | **No permission prompts at all.** No built-in sandbox, no MCP (none planned), no sub-agents, no plan mode, no to-dos, no background bash. Tools run with the user's own permissions |
| Trust model | "Project trust" gates **loading** of project-local `.pi/` config/extensions/skills and **installing missing project packages**, not tool execution. Triggered only when the cwd (or an ancestor) contains `.pi/settings.json`, `.pi/extensions\|skills\|prompts\|themes`, `.pi/SYSTEM.md`/`.pi/APPEND_SYSTEM.md`, or `.agents/skills`; a bare `.pi/` directory does NOT prompt. Global `defaultProjectTrust`: `ask` (default) / `always` / `never` |
Three consequences shape the whole integration:
1. **There is no `--dangerously-skip-permissions` analog and none is needed.** Pi never prompts for
tool approval. The Claude/Codex/Gemini/Antigravity pattern of "send the bypass flag so the session
is not stuck on a modal" does not apply. Codeman must not invent a flag here.
2. **The one privileged knob is `--approve` / `-a`** (trust project-local files for this run), which
makes pi load and execute project `.pi/extensions` TypeScript **and run an npm install of missing
project packages**. That is the field the multi-user clamp has to cover. Its explicit inverse
`-na` / `--no-approve` exists, which lets the clamp force-deny rather than merely omit (§3, §5.2).
3. **Provider keys cannot ride the env allowlist.** Pi's provider key vars (`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`,
`OPENAI_API_KEY`, `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`, `HF_TOKEN`, `BASETEN_API_KEY`, ...) share no prefix, so
there is no way to admit them through `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` without widening the list for every
mode (§2.4).
---
## 2. Design decisions
### 2.1 Mode identity
`SessionMode` gains `'pi'`. Not a location overlay (unlike Docker/remote-SSH cases), not a web tab:
a real sixth CLI backend with its own PTY, tmux session and respawn behaviour, exactly like
`antigravity`. Append `pi` after `antigravity` in every enum/list to keep ordering consistent.
| Surface | Value |
| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `SessionMode` | `'pi'` |
| Display label | `Pi` |
| Tab badge | `pi` (two-letter lowercase, like `sh`/`oc`/`cx`/`gm`/`ag`) |
| Run button label | `Run PI` (short-label ternary in `_applyRunMode`, pattern `Run AG`) |
| Kill-menu label | `Kill Tmux & Pi` |
| Identity color | **`#f472b6` (rose-400)**. Verified free: live computed values on the default skin are claude `#38b6f0`, opencode `#44b993`, codex `#2b8fd9`, gemini `#8ab4f8`, antigravity `#22d3ee`, shell `#98a2b1`, web `#38bdf8`; purple is codex's base hex and amber reads as the shell tab badge, so pink/rose (or orange `#fb923c`) are the only genuinely free hues. No `pi` CSS identifier collides anywhere (`mode-pi`, `.tab-mode.pi`, `.run-mode-dot.pi` all grep clean, re-checked at f39beb3) |
| Env prefix | `PI_` |
| Dependency id | `pi` |
| Status endpoint | `GET /api/pi/status` |
### 2.2 `isExternalCliMode()` yes, `isAltScreenStripMode()` no
Pi joins `isExternalCliMode()` (`session.ts:164-167`): its own TUI, its own output format, so the
Ralph tracker, `BashToolParser`, token/CLI-info scraping and the `❯` readiness probe all stay off
(gates at `session.ts:1100`, `:1701`, `:2000`, `:2103`), and readiness falls back to the output
stabilization used by the other external CLIs.
Pi stays **out** of `isAltScreenStripMode()` (`session.ts:197-199`, currently codex/claude/gemini;
antigravity and opencode are deliberately excluded). Pi's default TUI renders into the main screen
with terminal-owned scrollback, so there is nothing to strip. The fullscreen mode **shipped in
0.84.0 and is runtime-switchable via `/settings`**, so Codeman cannot assume a pi session stays
main-screen for its lifetime; staying out of the strip list is exactly what makes that safe (the alt
screen is load-bearing when the user flips to fullscreen, as it is for `opencode`). Putting pi IN
the strip list would corrupt fullscreen sessions. Three mirrors must stay consistent (all unchanged
for pi, i.e. pi appears in none of them): the replay-side strip in `session-routes.ts:2275`, the
live-stream twin in `session.ts`, and the frontend `_sessionUsesServerMouseStrip()` in
`terminal-ui.js` (usages `:3432`, `:3697`).
### 2.3 tmux required, no direct-PTY fallback, no per-mode configurator
Same rule as the other external CLIs: `pi` mode throws if tmux is unavailable. Add a fourth block to
the guard chain at `session.ts:1751-1768` (antigravity's is `:1765-1768`).
**No `_configurePi()` is needed.** Opencode/codex/gemini each have a tmux-`setenv` configurator
(`tmux-manager.ts:1709-1727`), but antigravity has none: it relies entirely on the generic
`applyEnvOverrides()` (`tmux-manager.ts:1643`, `VALID_KEY = /^[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*$/`), which runs for
every mode in both create (`:1880`) and respawn (`:2107`) and injects via socket-scoped
`tmux setenv`, never the spawn command line. Pi follows the antigravity precedent: `PI_*` overrides
flow through `applyEnvOverrides()` and nothing else.
Pi joins the truecolor branches: `buildEnvExports()` (`tmux-manager.ts:1604-1609`,
`export COLORTERM=truecolor` + `unset NO_COLOR` for codex/gemini/antigravity) and the attach-env
condition at `session.ts:1400-1402` (`buildMuxAttachEnv(...)`, whose comment says it must mirror
`buildEnvExports`). Add `|| mode === 'pi'` to both, or the tmux session and the attach client
disagree about color depth.
### 2.4 Env prefix: `PI_` only
Add `'PI_'` to `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` (`schemas.ts:125`) and to the prose error message at `:163`
(two edits: the message hardcodes the list, and since 1.12+ it also names the exact-key allowlist,
currently `...ANTIGRAVITY_* keys and CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR are allowed.`; there is now a separate
`ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS` exact-key set alongside the prefix list, which pi does not need to touch). That
covers every documented variable pi reads: `PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR`, `PI_CODING_AGENT_SESSION_DIR`,
`PI_PACKAGE_DIR`, `PI_OFFLINE`, `PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK`, `PI_TELEMETRY`, `PI_CACHE_RETENTION`,
`PI_SHARE_VIEWER_URL`, `PI_HARDWARE_CURSOR`, `PI_EXPERIMENTAL` (whose meaning 0.84.0 extended to
strict JSON-schema tool sampling). (Pi also *sets* `PI_CODING_AGENT=true` and `AI_AGENT=pi` in child
processes; those are output markers, not inputs, and need nothing from us.)
**Deliberately not added:** `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `GEMINI_API_KEY`, `XAI_API_KEY`,
`GROQ_API_KEY`, `MISTRAL_API_KEY` and the other ~28 provider keys. `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` is a
single global list applied by one Zod refine with no mode context (`safeEnvOverridesSchema`,
`schemas.ts:153-165`), so allowlisting bare provider keys for pi would widen the allowlist for
**every** mode at once, violating the multi-CLI prefix discipline in CLAUDE.md. Users authenticate
pi through `/login` (stored in `~/.pi/agent/auth.json`, auto-refreshed) or by exporting the key in
the Codeman server process's own environment.
Making the allowlist mode-aware is the clean fix, listed as a follow-up in §9. Do not smuggle it
into this change.
### 2.5 Docker credential policy: seed files, not the whole dir
`CRED_STORES` (`docker-hosts.ts:597-605`; file unchanged since the 2026-08-06 verification) gets a
`.pi/agent` entry. Nested `rel` paths already work (`.config/gcloud` maps to seed name
`.config-gcloud` via the `replace(/\//g, '-')` at `:620`). Unlike antigravity, which needed **no**
entry (`agy` nests all state under `~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/`, already covered by the `.gemini`
policy, per the comment at `:599-602`), pi has its own top-level dir and needs its own entry. Use
`seedFiles`, **not** `seedWhole`:
```ts
{ rel: '.pi/agent', seedFiles: ['auth.json', 'settings.json', 'trust.json', 'models.json', 'models-store.json'] },
```
Rationale: `~/.pi/agent` also contains `sessions/`, `extensions/`, `skills/` and the installed
package trees (`npm/`, `git/`), which on an active host is easily gigabytes; `seedWhole` would
`cp -a` all of it into every container start. The five seeded files are what pi needs to
authenticate and behave consistently: `models.json` is in the list because it holds user-defined
custom providers, and omitting it would silently strip those inside containers. Seeding (RO mount
then copy) also means the in-container pi never writes refreshed OAuth tokens back to the host,
which is the whole point of the seeding policy, and bind mounts stay excluded from `docker commit`
so exports remain secret-free.
Trade-off to accept and document: in-container pi sessions are not visible host-side, so `pi -c`
inside a Docker case only sees that container's own history. Codex shares `sessions/` RW precisely
because Codeman reads it host-side for the response viewer; there is no such reader for pi yet
(the response-viewer follow-up in §9 would justify flipping this).
### 2.6 The `pi` binary name is generic
Unlike `agy`/`codex`/`gemini`, `pi` is a short, common name (Raspberry Pi tooling, personal scripts,
`$PATH` accidents). The resolver must not blindly trust a hit. None of the existing external-CLI
resolvers execute their binary (only `claude-cli-resolver.ts` does, via the cached
`getClaudeCliVersion()`, skipped under vitest), so the sanity check is new ground: model it on
`getClaudeCliVersion()`. Run `pi --version` once via `execFileSync`, cache the result module-level,
skip under `VITEST`, and require output matching `/^\d+\.\d+\.\d+/`; on mismatch treat the binary as
unavailable and log the rejected path. Surface `{ available, path, version }` from
`GET /api/pi/status` so a misresolution is diagnosable from the UI (additive relative to the sibling
endpoints' `{ available, path }`). The `dependency-registry` entry carries `versionArg: '--version'`
for `codeman doctor`.
### 2.7 tmux extended keys (a real pi-specific footgun)
Pi documents (`docs/tmux.md`, verified verbatim) that without
```tmux
set -g extended-keys on
set -g extended-keys-format csi-u
```
tmux collapses `Shift+Enter` and `Ctrl+Enter` into a plain `\r` (and `Alt+Enter` into `\x1b\r`), and
pi's editor uses those for newline vs submit. `extended-keys-format` requires tmux 3.5+; tmux
3.2-3.4 works with `extended-keys on` alone (pi then falls back to xterm `modifyOtherKeys`).
Codeman's own browser input path sends `\r` for submit, so basic use works unconfigured, but
newline-in-editor is degraded both for a user typing in an attached terminal (`sc`) and potentially
for the browser Shift+Enter path.
Upstream recommends `~/.tmux.conf` and notes the setting may need a full `tmux kill-server` restart
to take effect. **Codeman must NEVER run `kill-server` on its socket** (it would kill every live
session, including `w1`/`w2`/`w3`). Action: attempt to set both options **server-scoped on
Codeman's own socket only** (`tmux -L codeman set -s ...`, never `-g` on the user's default socket)
at the point the tmux server is first started, verify with `tmux -L codeman show-options -s` and an
empirical Shift+Enter test which scope actually takes for the installed tmux version, and fall back
to a documented manual step in `docs/pi-integration.md` (a `~/.tmux.conf` snippet plus the
kill-server caveat) if it cannot be applied safely to an already-running server. Upstream does not
discuss socket- or server-scoped configuration at all, so this verification is original work, not a
doc lookup.
**RESULT (measured, tmux 3.4 + pi 0.84.1):** `tmux -L <socket> set -s extended-keys on` takes effect
on an **already-running** server with **no `kill-server`** — pi's own startup warning
(`Warning: tmux extended-keys is off…`, a convenient in-band probe) disappears for the next session
started afterwards. `extended-keys-format` does **not exist on tmux 3.4** and errors with
`invalid option: extended-keys-format`, so the two options must be issued independently rather than
chained. Decision: Codeman does **not** set this itself — it is a server-wide tmux option affecting
every session of every backend, so silently changing key encoding is not Codeman's call. It is
documented as a user step in `docs/pi-integration.md` instead, carrying the measured facts.
### 2.8 The completeness trap: which mode tables fail loud vs silent
Adding `'pi'` to the `SessionMode` union makes some omissions compile errors and leaves others
silent. The plan calls this out so review can focus on the silent ones.
**Loud (typecheck fails until edited):** `getModeLabel()` (`session.ts:168-183`, exhaustive switch
with no default), `defaultDockerCommandForMode` and `defaultRemoteCommandForMode` (both typed
`Record<...CommandMode, string>`), **but only after** `RemoteCommandMode` (`types/session.ts:48-51`)
and `DockerCommandMode` (`:157-161`) are widened: both are `Extract<SessionMode, '...'>` with every
member spelled out, so forgetting the `Extract` lists keeps `tsc` green while docker/remote pi cases
silently fall back to `exec bash -l` via the `|| commands.shell` on the lookup. Edit union + both
`Extract` lists + both `Record` literals together.
**Silent (compiles clean, mode just doesn't work):**
- `appendResumeFlag()` (`tmux-manager.ts:1030-1042`) has a `default:` arm; a missing `case 'pi'`
silently drops docker resume.
- `buildSpawnCommand()` (`:770-825`) and `buildPathExport()` (`:1680-1707`) are if-chains with
fallthrough returns; a missing branch spawns pi as a login shell / with no PATH augmentation.
- `isExternalCliMode()` / `isAltScreenStripMode()` are boolean chains.
- The `runMode` accessor's **setter whitelist** (`session-ui.js:2949-2960`) coerces any unknown mode
to `'claude'`. Omitting `pi` there makes the mode **unselectable while every other edit appears to
work**: this is the single most deceptive omission in the frontend.
- `window.__codemanCliAvailable` (injected by `renderIndexHtml`, `server.ts:1375-1407`): the client
treats a **missing key as available** (`isCliAvailable` in settings-ui.js), so forgetting the
injection un-gates pi on boxes without the CLI instead of hiding it.
### 2.9 The Daylight skin cascade eats per-mode run-button colors
A finding that changes the CSS work (verified empirically with computed styles on the live
instance, re-confirmed at f39beb3): `styles.css:13681` opens a nested skin block,
`html:not([data-skin="og"]) { ... }`, and the **default skin is `daylight-blue`, not `og`**, so the
block is live for every default-skin user. Inside it, `.btn-toolbar.btn-run` is re-declared
generically and per-mode only for claude/opencode/codex (codex at `:13787`). CSS nesting adds the
wrapper's specificity (the nested rules resolve to (0,3,1) vs (0,3,0) for
`.btn-toolbar.btn-run.mode-X`), so **gemini's and antigravity's toolbar gradients are dead on the
default skin**: both render the generic claude gradient today, still unfixed as of f39beb3. The
base-sheet rules (gemini/antigravity at `:4406`/`:4420`) only ever render on the `og` skin. Since
1.12+ styles.css itself documents this trap in comments (`:9214`, `:11091`), which confirms the
mechanism.
Consequences for pi:
- The toolbar gradient needs **two** rules: one in the base sheet (`:4420` area, for `og`), and one
**inside** the `13681` block next to codex's (`:13787` area), using the block's own idiom
(or the color is invisible to the average user).
- `mobile.css` phone-toolbar colors need `!important` on `background`/`border-color`/`color`,
exactly as the CLAUDE.md gotcha prescribes. Antigravity's phone block (`mobile.css:895-910`,
inside the `@media (max-width: 430px)` opened at `:338`) has no `!important` and is dead on the
default skin; do not copy that mistake.
- Three surfaces work from base rules alone (verified): run-mode **dots** (list at `:4506-4516`;
the skin block overrides only claude/opencode/codex/shell dots, so a base-sheet
`.run-mode-dot.pi` renders as authored), **tab badges**, and the **welcome button** (the skin
block overrides only claude/opencode/tunnel welcome buttons).
- Optional, separate cleanup (not this change): gemini/antigravity could get the same in-block
treatment to resurrect their colors.
### 2.10 Local-echo policy: pi lands on the buffer overlay by default
New since the first draft of this plan: the codex predictive-echo work (1.13+) introduced a
per-session echo policy in `_updateLocalEchoState()` (terminal-ui.js, `_localEchoPolicy` set at
`:2837`): `codex → 'predict'` (write-through predictive echo), `shell → 'off'`, **everything else
→ 'buffer'** (the `LocalEchoOverlay` that buffers typed text until Enter). Pi therefore gets the
buffer overlay on touch devices with zero edits, via the fallthrough.
That default is a real open question, not a freebie: the codex history (issues #218/#219/#220/#222)
shows that a composer which re-renders per keystroke (live-filtering slash picker, server-side
cursor movement, wrap-as-you-type) is starved by buffer-until-Enter, and pi's editor is exactly
such a composer. Decision for v1: ship with the default `'buffer'` policy but make phone-profile
typing an explicit E2E gate (§7 step 4); if pi's editor mis-renders under the overlay, the cheap
fallback is forcing `'off'` for pi (one branch in `_updateLocalEchoState`), and teaching the
predict path pi's composer row is a follow-up, not a v1 requirement.
`test/local-echo-codex-gating.test.ts` pins the per-mode policy via
`it.each(['claude', 'gemini', 'opencode'])` lists (`:193`, `:376`); add `'pi'` to those lists once
the buffer decision is confirmed (or pin the `'off'` branch if that is the outcome).
**RESULT (measured, pi 0.84.1, iPhone 14 Pro profile + a PTY-level A/B):** the buffer policy
**holds**; codex's failure mode does **not** reproduce. Pi's slash picker re-filters on the **whole
composer content**, not on per-keystroke deltas: a one-shot literal write of `/set` (what the overlay
flush does) filters the picker to `settings` **identically** to sending `/ s e t` as five separate
keystrokes, and the delayed `\r` then selects it and opens the settings menu. Prose prompts buffer
correctly (`pendingText` right, nothing on the PTY before Enter), flush on Enter, and are accepted as
a single prompt. `'pi'` was added to both `it.each` lists. The `'off'` fallback stays documented but
unused.
---
## 3. Config surface: `PiConfig` to CLI flags
```ts
/** Pi CLI session configuration */
export interface PiConfig {
/** Model pattern or ID. Supports `provider/id` and a `:<thinking>` suffix (e.g. `sonnet:high`). Passed via --model. */
model?: string;
/** Provider name (anthropic, openai, google, ...). Passed via --provider. */
provider?: string;
/** Reasoning level. Passed via --thinking. */
thinking?: 'off' | 'minimal' | 'low' | 'medium' | 'high' | 'xhigh' | 'max';
/** Continue the most recent session (-c). Per-cwd scoping is strongly implied upstream but not documented; treat as probable. */
continueSession?: boolean;
/** Resume a specific session by ID or partial UUID (--session). Codeman deliberately accepts ids only, never paths. */
resumeSessionId?: string;
/**
* Tri-state project trust (repo-local `.pi/` settings/extensions/skills, plus installing
* missing project packages):
* true -> --approve (trust for this run; loads and EXECUTES repository TypeScript)
* false -> --no-approve (force-deny; the trust prompt never appears)
* absent -> pi's own defaultProjectTrust (ask).
* Multi-user: MATERIALIZED to false for non-granted owners (§5.2).
*/
approveProjectTrust?: boolean;
}
```
Flag mapping in `buildPiCommand()` (new, `tmux-manager.ts`, directly after `buildAntigravityCommand`
at `:718-736`; every builder there regex-allowlists each user value and silently drops failures
because the result lands in a `bash -c "..."` string):
| Field | Flag | Validation |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `approveProjectTrust` | `--approve` / `--no-approve` / nothing | tri-state boolean, clamped (§5.2) |
| `model` | `--model <v>` | `/^[a-zA-Z0-9._\-/:]+$/` (`:` for `sonnet:high`, `/` for `openai/gpt-4o`) |
| `provider` | `--provider <v>` | `/^[a-z0-9-]+$/` |
| `thinking` | `--thinking <v>` | runtime allowlist of the 7 enum values (defense in depth beyond Zod) |
| `resumeSessionId` | `--session <v>` | `/^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$/` (same shape as `RESUME_ID_SAFE`, `:1021`; excludes paths on purpose) |
| `continueSession` | `-c` | boolean; **skipped when a valid `resumeSessionId` is present** (the two conflict) |
**Not** wired in v1, with reasons:
- `--api-key <key>`: ⚠️ **never wire this.** It puts a provider secret on the spawn command line,
which is exactly what the socket-scoped `tmux setenv` discipline exists to prevent (visible in
`ps`, tmux server state, and logs). Listed here so nobody "helpfully" adds it later.
- `--tui-mode` (released in 0.84.0): never passed by Codeman. The main-screen default is the
friendly case for the browser terminal, and fullscreen remains the user's own runtime choice via
`/settings` (§2.2 is designed for that). `--use-theme` (still unreleased) likewise.
- `--name <name>` (`-n`): nice for `/resume` readability, but names contain spaces and would be the
first user-controlled value needing real shell quoting in `buildSpawnCommand`. Defer.
- `--no-session`: ephemeral mode fights respawn/resume. Defer.
- `-p`/`--print`, `--mode json`, `--mode rpc`: non-interactive transports, a different product shape
(§9). Note upstream already shipped a breaking change to JSON-mode `message_update` framing, so
any future consumer must assemble deltas.
- `--tools` / `--exclude-tools` / `--no-tools` / `--no-builtin-tools` (`-t`/`-xt`/`-nt`/`-nbt`): a
genuinely useful "read-only session" affordance (0.84.0 also added a `defaultTools` setting), but
it needs UI design. Follow-up.
- `-r`/`--resume` (interactive picker), `--fork`, `-e`/`--extension`, `--skill`, `--system-prompt`,
`--append-system-prompt`, `--export`, `--models`, `--list-models`: not session-manager concerns in
v1. (`-e` matters later: §9's extension follow-up notes CLI extensions load before trust
resolution.)
---
## 4. Implementation phases
### Phase 1: Backend core
| File | Change |
| ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `src/utils/pi-cli-resolver.ts` | **New**, mirror `antigravity-cli-resolver.ts` (65 lines: search-dir list, module-level cache with `''` negative sentinel, `which pi` first). Search dirs: `~/.local/bin`, `/usr/local/bin`, `~/.bun/bin`, `~/.npm-global/bin`, `~/bin`. Add the `pi --version` sanity probe from §2.6 (execFileSync, cached, vitest-skipped). Export `resolvePiDir()`, `isPiAvailable()`, `getPiCliVersion()` |
| `src/utils/index.ts` | Re-export the three (resolver block `:30-36`) |
| `src/types/session.ts` | `SessionMode` union `:46`; **both `Extract` lists**: `RemoteCommandMode` `:48-51`, `DockerCommandMode` `:157-161` (§2.8); new `PiConfig` after `AntigravityConfig` (`:325-333`); `SessionState.piConfig` after `:486`; `@fileoverview` mode list `:11` + config list `:17` |
| `src/mux-interface.ts` | `piConfig?: PiConfig` on `CreateSessionOptions` (config block ends `:78`) and `RespawnPaneOptions` (ends `:109`) |
| `src/session.ts` | `isExternalCliMode()` `:164-167` (+pi); `getModeLabel()` `:168-183` (+`'Pi'`); `_piConfig` field decl `:466-470`; ctor option `:556-563` + apply `:652-654`; `toState()` `:1227-1230`; `_buildRespawnPaneOptions()` `:1466-1469` (single source of truth shared by `startInteractive` and `reattachRemote`); `startInteractive()` createSessionOptions `:1680-1683`; COLORTERM attach-env condition `:1400-1402` (+pi); requires-tmux guard chain `:1751-1768` (new block: "Pi sessions require tmux for env override injection via setenv") |
| `src/tmux-manager.ts` | `buildPiCommand()` after `:736` per §3; `buildSpawnCommand()` signature `:770-779` + dispatch branch after `:822-825`; `appendResumeFlag()` `:1030-1042` (`case 'pi': return \`${modeCommand} --session ${resumeId}\`;`); `buildEnvExports()` truecolor branches `:1604-1609` (+pi); `buildPathExport()` `:1680-1707` (+pi branch calling `resolvePiDir()`); missing-CLI error chain in `createSession` `:1788-1806` (+pi, install hint `npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`; note `respawnPane` deliberately has no such check); `piConfig` threading at the four sites `:1748`, `:1817`, `:2041`, `:2080`. **No `_configurePi`** (§2.3) |
| `src/config/dependency-registry.ts` | New entry after antigravity's (`:101-108`; file unchanged since 2026-08-06): `{ id: 'pi', label: 'Pi CLI', category: 'core', required: false, usedBy: ['Pi sessions'], resolvers: [{ match: ALL, resolver: { kind: 'path', bins: ['pi'], versionArg: '--version' } }] }` |
| `src/docker-hosts.ts` | `defaultDockerCommandForMode` `:138-149`: `pi: 'exec pi'`. `CRED_STORES` `:597-605`: the `.pi/agent` seedFiles entry per §2.5 (nested `rel` already handled at `:613-645`). File unchanged since 2026-08-06 |
| `src/remote-hosts.ts` | `defaultRemoteCommandForMode` `:92-118`: `pi: remoteLoginShellCommand('pi')` (`remoteLoginShellCommand` at `:88-90`). Login-shell routing is mandatory (the #209/e803186 lesson: ssh remote-command exec sees only sshd's minimal PATH, and npm's global bin is usually only on PATH via rc files) |
### Phase 2: Web layer
| File | Change |
| ---------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `src/web/schemas.ts` | `'PI_'` in `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` `:125` **and** the prose error message `:163` (which now also names `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`; the `ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS` exact-key set needs no change); new `PiConfigSchema` after `AntigravityConfigSchema` (`:256-271`), mirroring §3's regexes, `.optional()`, not `.strict()`; `piConfig` on `CreateSessionSchema` (`:299` area) and `QuickStartSchema` (`:712` area); `'pi'` in all three mode enums (`:285`, `:708`, cron `agentType` `:1214`; they are byte-identical and there is no fourth); `pi` key in `RemoteCommandOverridesSchema` `:426-436` (it is `.strict()`, so an unknown key is a hard error today; one edit covers both remote `:501` and docker `:577` reuse) |
| `src/web/routes/session-routes.ts` | Thread `piConfig` through create (`POST /api/sessions`): disk-strip exclusion chain `:705-712`, availability gate `:782-790` (+`isPiAvailable` with install-hint error), model resolution `:825-838` (`mode === 'pi' ? body.piConfig?.model : ...`), clamp call `:845`, Session ctor `:860` (`piConfig: mode === 'pi' ? gatedPiConfig : undefined`). Quick-start (`POST /api/quick-start`, handler `:2559`): remote-case config rejection `:2614-2621` and docker-case `:2645-2652` (+`piConfig`: per-CLI config does not cross ssh or the bind mount), hooks-scaffold exclusions `:2801`/`:2809`, availability gate `:2744-2752` (local-case branch only), env-strip chains `:2833`/`:2863`, model resolution `:2885`, clamp `:2897`, ctor `:2913`. **Extend `clampExternalCliBypassForOwner()`** (`:305-336`, doc comment above): fifth param + return field; pi joins the **materialize** branch per §5.2. Alt-screen replay-strip at `:2275` unchanged (pi not in it, §2.2) |
| `src/web/routes/system-routes.ts` | `GET /api/pi/status` after the antigravity handler (`:418-426`; file unchanged since 2026-08-06), same shape plus `version` (§2.6); update the "CLI Integrations" prose comment `:377` |
| `src/web/server.ts` | Restore path: `piConfig: muxSession.mode === 'pi' ? savedState?.piConfig : undefined` after `:2636`. **`renderIndexHtml` CLI-availability injection `:1375-1407`**: add `isPiAvailable` to the dynamic-import tuple (`:1382`) and a `pi` key to the injected object (`:1399`). Per §2.8 a missing key reads as *available*, so this is a correctness edit, not polish |
### Phase 3: Frontend
The antigravity touchpoints are the template. Since the first draft, the settings-surface overhaul
moved most anchors and added one **new touchpoint** (the clone-repo Brain picker below).
`constants.js`, `api-client.js`, `ralph-wizard.js`, `cron-ui.js`, `webview-tabs.js` and `sw.js`
still need **no** changes (re-verified zero mode coupling at f39beb3; cron-ui reads the `<select>`
generically and special-cases only `shell`).
| File | Change |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `index.html` | Welcome button `welcomePiBtn` after Gemini's (antigravity's is `:347`; there is deliberately no codex welcome button), `display:none` default, `onclick="app.setRunMode('pi'); app.runPi()"`, text `Run Pi`; run-mode-option row with `.run-mode-dot.pi` after antigravity's (`:526-528`), before the `.run-mode-sep` `:529`; cron `<option value="pi">Pi</option>` after `:803`; **NEW: the clone-repo "Brain" picker** (`cloneCaseBrain`, `:2476-2486`): add `<option value="pi" data-cli="pi">Pi</option>` after the antigravity option `:2483` (gating is automatic: session-ui.js `:2107-2115` hides options whose `data-cli` fails `isCliAvailable`, and `:2250` reads the value at clone time); docker image hint `:2624` (`claude/codex/gemini/opencode/agy` + pi). No per-CLI remote-command override field needed (only codex has one, `:2559`) |
| `session-ui.js` | `@fileoverview` mode list `:2`; `run()` dispatch branch after `:400-402`; `_refreshRunModeAvailability` list `:468` (+`'pi'` as a quoted literal, the static test in §6 demands it); short-label ternary `:565` (+`'Run PI'`); **the `runMode` setter whitelist `:2949-2960`** (§2.8, the deceptive one); new `runPi()` modeled on `runAntigravity()` `:1170-1219`: same remote/docker skip, same `_beginSessionLaunchStatus` frame, probes `/api/pi/status` reading `(await res.json()).data.available` (envelope!), **sends no `piConfig` at all** (no bypass exists and trust defaults are pi's own; envOverrides still sent for local cases), install-hint error text matching Phase 1's; `isAltMode` `:1233` and `isExternalCli` `:1263` four-way comparisons (+pi) |
| `settings-ui.js` | `applyWelcomeCliVisibility()` `:1176-1191`: add `['welcomePiBtn', 'pi']` |
| `app.js` | Response-viewer agent label `:1998-2009` (+pi -> `'Pi'`); tab badge ternary `:3884` (`<span class="tab-mode pi" aria-hidden="true">pi</span>`; claude stays badge-less); kill-title ternary `:5046-5057` (`Kill Tmux & Pi`) |
| `panels-ui.js` | Command-palette `labels` map `:430` (+`pi: 'Pi'`; the `\|\| mode` fallback means this is cosmetic, not load-bearing) |
| `mobile-overview.js`| `MOBILE_OVERVIEW_RUN_MODES` `:55-62`: `{ mode: 'pi', label: 'Pi', short: 'Pi' }` after antigravity `:60`, before the shell entry. Nothing else: the Run-button badge (`:499`) and menu builder (`:554-556`) consume the list generically, and the buttons carry `btn-toolbar btn-run mode-pi`, which is exactly why they inherit the §2.9 cascade problem and its fix |
| `terminal-ui.js` | Badge-row comment `:1750` only (the badge itself is a raw `s.mode` passthrough, no list to extend). `_sessionUsesServerMouseStrip` unchanged (§2.2). `_updateLocalEchoState` unchanged for v1 (§2.10: pi lands on `'buffer'` via the fallthrough; only touch it if E2E forces the `'off'` fallback) |
| `i18n.js` | `'Run Pi': '运行 Pi'` in the zh-CN table (`:102-107`, matches the welcome-button text; short labels like `Run PI` are deliberately untranslated, as are the other modes') |
| `styles.css` | Tab badge `.session-tab .tab-mode.pi` after `:2157` (`background: rgba(244,114,182,0.2); color: #f472b6;`); add `.session-tab .tab-mode.pi` to the light-skin ink list `:325-336` (gemini + antigravity are its precedent, `:332`); welcome `.welcome-btn-pi` + `:hover` after antigravity's `:3366` block, rose family (e.g. base `linear-gradient(135deg, #33121f 0%, #9d174d 55%, #be185d 100%)`, border `rgba(244,114,182,0.4)`, text `#fce7f3`); toolbar gradient pair `.btn-toolbar.btn-run.mode-pi, .btn-toolbar.btn-run-gear.mode-pi` + `:hover` after `:4420`'s antigravity block; `.run-mode-dot.pi { background: #f472b6; }` in the dot list `:4506-4516`; **and the §2.9 rule inside the Daylight block** next to codex's `:13787` (e.g. `background: linear-gradient(135deg, #be185d, #f472b6); border-color: #be185d; color: #fff1f7;`). The dot needs no skin-block entry (the block overrides only claude/opencode/codex/shell dots; gemini/antigravity dots already fall through correctly) |
| `mobile.css` | Phone toolbar block after `:910` inside the `@media (max-width: 430px)` opened at `:338`: `mode-pi` base + `:active`, **with `!important` on background/border-color/color** (§2.9; antigravity's block `:895-910` omits it and is dead); light-skin override entry after `:2985` with the same four-skin `html:is(...)` prefix as its siblings |
### Phase 4: Docker image and installer
Both files are unchanged since the 2026-08-06 verification; all anchors stand.
- `docker/agent.Dockerfile`: a **separate** `RUN` step after the antigravity block (`:38-45`), not a
fifth line in the shared npm block (`:31-36`), because pi documents `--ignore-scripts` and that
flag must not silently change how the other four install:
```dockerfile
# Pi (pi.dev). Upstream documents --ignore-scripts (pi needs no lifecycle scripts);
# kept out of the shared npm block above so the flag cannot affect the other CLIs.
RUN npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent \
&& npm cache clean --force \
&& pi --version
```
Implementation checklist item: the gid-0 pre-created dirs at `:64-68` include `.claude/projects`
and `.codex/sessions`; verify whether the cred-seed copy into `~/.pi/agent` creates its target
dir in a fresh container or whether `.pi/agent` must join that `mkdir` line. Rebuild with
`node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache` (the script itself needs no change; nothing in it
is CLI-specific). The cached npm layer has silently frozen a CLI at a broken version before; see
`docs/docker-cases.md`.
- `install.sh` (six edit sites, all verified): `PI_SEARCH_PATHS` block after `:125` (mirror the
resolver's dirs); `check_pi` / `get_pi_path` pair inserted at `:531` (antigravity's pair spans
`:504-530`); the satisfying-AI-CLI chain `:2032-2063` (`has_pi` local at `:2037` area, detect
block after `:2059`, widen the five-way test at `:2061` and the warn text at `:2063`); the menu
option-4 text `:2070`; the skip-path hints `:2115-2116` (add
`npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent (Pi)`); the final no-CLI
reminder `:2416-2423` (add `check_pi` to the condition and a pi line to the echo block).
Detection plus a hint only; do **not** add an auto-install path in this change.
### Phase 5: Docs
- `docs/pi-integration.md` (**new**, user-facing): install (both installers uninstall via npm), auth
(`/login` OAuth for six providers vs API keys; `pi auth check` for preflight; Claude Pro/Max
third-party harness usage bills as Anthropic "extra usage" per token, not plan limits; OpenRouter
login supports pasting the redirect URL, which matters over remote SSH), what Codeman wires up
and deliberately does not (§3, incl. never passing `--tui-mode`), the tmux extended-keys note
from §2.7 with the manual `~/.tmux.conf` fallback, Docker/remote behaviour (in-container sessions
invisible host-side), the trust model in §1 words, known gaps.
- `CLAUDE.md`: tech-stack line (six CLIs + `SessionMode` union), the env-prefix gotcha bullet, the
multi-CLI prefix-discipline bullet, the "External CLI modes" key-pattern paragraph (note it now
also carries the codex predictive-echo block; pi's echo-policy decision from §2.10 belongs in the
same paragraph), the `src/utils/` resolver list.
- `docs/architecture-invariants.md`: the external-CLI-modes section. ⚠️ Its anchor was already
renamed once to `#external-cli-modes-opencode-codex-gemini-antigravity` while CLAUDE.md's link
text still shows the old name; when renaming again for pi, update every inbound link (CLAUDE.md
and this file).
- `docs/docker-cases.md` (cred-seeding table + supported modes + image contents),
`docs/remote-sessions.md` (`RemoteCommandMode`), `docs/cron-guide.md` + `docs/cron-discovery.md`
(`agentType` enum; note the readiness caveat from §6's cron paragraph),
`docs/security-architecture.md` (env prefix allowlist row).
- `README.md` + `README.zh-CN.md`: six CLIs.
- `package.json` keywords: `pi`.
- Update the issue #206 thread when it ships.
---
## 5. Security checklist
1. **Command injection.** Every `PiConfig` value is regex-validated in `buildPiCommand()` before
entering the `bash -c "..."` string; anything failing validation is dropped, not escaped
(matching the four existing builders). No user string reaches the spawn line unvalidated. Pinned
by a "rejects unsafe values" test per field.
2. **Multi-user clamp, materialize branch.** `approveProjectTrust` is the privilege-shaped field: it
makes pi execute repository-supplied TypeScript and install project packages.
`clampExternalCliBypassForOwner()` (`session-routes.ts:305-336`) has two branches, and pi belongs
in the **gemini-style materialize branch**, not the codex/antigravity only-if-sent branch:
pi's absent-config default is an *interactive trust prompt the session user can answer
themselves in the terminal*, so merely omitting `--approve` is not a clamp. For a non-granted
owner, materialize `{ ...(piConfig ?? {}), approveProjectTrust: false }` so `buildPiCommand`
always emits `--no-approve` and the prompt never appears. Both call sites (`:845`, `:2897`)
widen. This helper still has **zero test coverage** (re-confirmed at f39beb3); §6 adds the first
tests.
3. **Secrets stay off the command line.** `PI_*` overrides flow through `applyEnvOverrides()` /
socket-scoped `tmux setenv`, never inlined into the spawn string. No `-e` at container create
time. And `--api-key` is never wired (§3): it would put a provider secret into `ps`/tmux state.
4. **Env allowlist not widened.** Only the `PI_` prefix is added; the provider keys stay out (§2.4)
and `ALLOWED_ENV_KEYS` is untouched. Pinned by a test that `PI_OFFLINE` passes and
`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` still fails validation.
5. **Docker seeding, not sharing.** Per §2.5: RO mount then copy, so refreshed OAuth tokens never
write back to the host; bind mounts stay excluded from `docker commit` so exports remain
secret-free.
6. **Remote SSH.** `pi` mode goes through `defaultRemoteCommandForMode` and therefore
`buildSshConnectionArgs()`. No hand-built ssh line anywhere.
7. **No sandbox claims.** Pi documents that it has no sandbox and no permission prompts, and that
extensions run with the user's full permissions. Codeman docs must say plainly that a pi session
can read, write and execute anything the Codeman user can, and point at Docker cases as the
isolation story. Do not imply the trust prompt is a safety boundary (upstream itself says it is
not). Worth one doc sentence: `pi auth print-api-key` / `print-bearer-token` (0.83.0) and
`pi auth check` (0.84.1) mean a pi session can print its own provider credentials by design;
isolation, again, is Docker.
8. **Loud-vs-silent audit.** Before review, walk §2.8's silent list and confirm each site has its
pi branch; the loud ones the compiler already caught.
---
## 6. Test plan
- `test/pi-mode.test.ts` (**new**, modeled on `test/antigravity-mode.test.ts`, 125 lines, no port;
file unchanged since 2026-08-06 so its structure remains the template):
`CreateSessionSchema`/`QuickStartSchema` accept a pi config; unsafe `model`/`provider`/
`resumeSessionId` values are rejected (`'pi; rm -rf /'` shapes); `buildSpawnCommand({ mode: 'pi', ... })`
emits expected flags, drops invalid ones, emits `--no-approve` for `approveProjectTrust: false`
and `--approve` for `true`, and skips `-c` when a `resumeSessionId` is present;
`defaultDockerCommandForMode('pi') === 'exec pi'` and
`defaultRemoteCommandForMode('pi') === 'exec "${SHELL:-/bin/sh}" -i -l -c \'pi\''`;
`isExternalCliMode('pi') === true`, `isAltScreenStripMode('pi') === false`; the env pair
(`PI_OFFLINE` accepted, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` rejected), mirroring antigravity-mode `:49-63`.
- **First-ever coverage for `clampExternalCliBypassForOwner`** (still nothing in `test/` touches
it): cover pi's materialize branch (absent config still yields `approveProjectTrust: false` for a
non-granted owner; a sent `true` is forced to `false`; granted owner passes through) and, while
there, pin the three existing modes' behavior. Prefer exporting the helper for direct unit tests
over a heavier multi-user route fixture; either way it lives under `test/routes/`.
- `test/run-mode-ui.test.ts`: extend `loadUi()`'s stub lists (welcome-button ids, mode buttons,
`ALL_OFF`) and add pi welcome/dropdown gating cases; note the static parser test
`'gates every mode the run-mode menu actually offers'` (`:433-456`) picks up the new
`data-mode="pi"` from index.html automatically and **fails until** `_refreshRunModeAvailability`
contains a quoted `'pi'`, which is exactly the regression it exists for. Add a
`describe('Pi quick start')` modeled on the antigravity one (`:840`) driving `runPi()` against a
stubbed `/api/pi/status` + `/api/quick-start`, asserting the posted body has `mode: 'pi'` and
**no `piConfig`**, and that the envelope is unwrapped. (The short-label assertion pattern is at
`:82`, `'Run AG'`.)
- `test/render-index-html.test.ts` `:141`: the injected `window.__codemanCliAvailable` is asserted
with an exact `toEqual` and now carries **seven** keys (claude, opencode, codex, gemini,
antigravity, cloudflared, and since 1.12+ `git`), so it **must** gain the `pi` key (and the
resolver mock an `isPiAvailable`); its comment explains why: a dropped key silently un-gates
(§2.8).
- `test/routes/system-routes.test.ts`: `GET /api/pi/status` shape, modeled on the antigravity
describe (`:816-838`) + resolver mock (`:84-87`); file unchanged since 2026-08-06.
- `test/mobile-overview.test.ts`: `:375` is an exact-array `toEqual` over the run-menu modes and
**will fail until updated** to include `'pi'` (the second exact-array at `:366`,
`['claude', 'shell']`, is a gating case and stays as-is); the sibling static parser then covers
the new entry automatically. The no-hex-literals guard only scans `.mobile-overview*` rules, so
pi's `mode-pi` colors in mobile.css do not trip it.
- `test/local-echo-codex-gating.test.ts` (§2.10): once the buffer-policy decision is confirmed in
E2E, add `'pi'` to the `it.each(['claude', 'gemini', 'opencode'])` lists (`:193`, `:376`) so the
chosen policy is pinned.
- `test/skin-themes.test.ts`: will NOT trip (it enumerates skins, not modes); run it anyway since
styles.css is touched. `test/mobile-header-buttons-policy.test.ts`: trips only if a header
button is added; pi adds none (welcome button and run-menu rows are outside `header-right`).
- Cron: schema-level acceptance of `agentType: 'pi'` (the service consumes `SessionMode`
generically; `src/cron/` is unchanged since the first draft). Known, documented degradation: the
readiness poll (`cron-service.ts:515`) looks for `❯`/`tokens`, which pi never prints, so cron pi
jobs burn the ready-poll attempts and then send anyway. Acceptable for v1; note it in
`docs/cron-guide.md`.
- Sweep with `npm run test:ci`. Never bare `npm test`. No new ports needed (all new/extended suites
are portless).
---
## 7. End-to-end verification (required before COM)
Unit tests passing is not evidence the mode works (pi is not currently installed on the dev box, so
step 1 is a real step). Before shipping:
1. Install pi (`npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`), authenticate once
with `/login`.
2. `curl -sk https://localhost:3000/api/pi/status | jq` reports `available: true`, the right path,
and a sane `version`.
3. Create a **throwaway** case, launch a pi session from the Run dropdown, send a prompt from the
browser, confirm the reply renders and scrollback survives a tab switch. Do not touch
`w1`/`w2`/`w3`.
4. **Local-echo policy gate (§2.10):** on a phone profile, type into the pi editor through the
buffer overlay (drive with `page.keyboard.type()`, never `app.sendInput()`, and force
`app._localEchoEnabled = true`; headless Chromium reports touch as false) and confirm pi's
composer renders the flushed text correctly on Enter. If it mis-renders, flip pi to the `'off'`
branch in `_updateLocalEchoState` and pin that instead.
5. Visual pass on the **default skin** (the §2.9 finding makes this the load-bearing check, not a
formality): run-button gradient actually renders rose (not generic claude blue), dot, tab badge,
welcome button, kill-menu label; then a phone profile (toolbar `!important` colors and light-skin
overrides are the usual regressions).
6. Kill and respawn the session; confirm `piConfig` round-trips through `state.json` and the pane
comes back with the same flags. Then `/clear`-style respawn via the Respawn tab.
7. Extended keys (§2.7): in an attached terminal, verify whether Shift+Enter inserts a newline in
pi's editor with and without the socket-scoped options; record the outcome in
`docs/pi-integration.md` either way. While attached, also flip `/settings` to the fullscreen TUI
and back to confirm the no-strip decision holds (§2.2).
8. Trust model: point a throwaway case at a repo containing `.pi/extensions`, confirm the trust
prompt appears interactively and that a multi-user non-granted session instead launches with
`--no-approve` (prompt never shown, extensions not loaded).
9. **NOT RUN in this pass — an honest gap.** Docker case with `mode: 'pi'`: rebuild the agent image with `--no-cache`, confirm `pi --version`
inside the container **as the `agent` user**, confirm seeded auth works and a session starts
(this is exactly where the antigravity Docker path broke in 1.11.2: the CLI was never installed
in the image).
10. **NOT RUN in this pass — the other gap.** Remote SSH case with `mode: 'pi'`: confirm the
login-shell wrapper resolves the npm global bin.
11. Only then: changeset, `COM minor` (new capability, additive to the API surface).
**Verification actually performed** (2026-08-13, pi 0.84.1, isolated `CODEMAN_INSTANCE=pi-beta`
server on :5055 with its own tmux socket and data dir): steps 1-8 pass. Highlights:
`/api/pi/status` resolved through the **search-dir fallback** (pi installed to `~/.npm-global/bin`,
deliberately not on PATH) and reported
`{available:true, path:'/home/arkon/.npm-global/bin', version:'0.84.1'}`; the real spawn line came
out as `… COLORTERM=truecolor … && pi --approve --provider anthropic --thinking high`; `piConfig`
round-tripped through `state.json` across a **full server restart**; the trust prompt appeared for a
case containing `.pi/extensions` + `.pi/settings.json`, and `--no-approve` suppressed it
(`This project is not trusted. Project .pi resources and packages are ignored.`); on the **default
`daylight-blue` skin** the toolbar Run button computed to
`linear-gradient(135deg, rgb(190,24,93), rgb(244,114,182))` — genuinely rose and **distinct from
claude's blue**, so the §2.9 cascade trap is avoided; and flipping `/settings` to the fullscreen TUI
put the pane into the alt screen (`alternate_on=1`), **empirically confirming §2.2**: had pi been in
the strip list, Codeman would have stripped that switch and corrupted the session. Steps 9-10 need a
Docker daemon and a remote host respectively.
---
## 8. Effort estimate
Calibrated against the real antigravity history, which is the honest baseline: the feature commit
`26cbbe0` was 24 files, +638/-63, and it then took **four follow-up commits** (`e803186` login-shell
routing, `292ba2c` ownership helpers, `5d28999` CLI gating incl. tests, `0d0b772` docs/installer/UI
propagation) totaling roughly +600/-170 across ~43 file-touches to make the mode actually
first-class. Budgeting only the feature-commit shape under-scopes by ~40%. This plan folds all four
follow-up surfaces in from the start (login-shell routing in Phase 1, availability gating in Phases
2-3, installer/docs propagation in Phases 4-5), so expect the full footprint in one pass:
| Phase | Size |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 1. Backend core | ~260 lines across 9 files, one new file (resolver incl. version probe) |
| 2. Web layer | ~110 lines across 4 files (incl. the clamp widening + availability inject) |
| 3. Frontend | ~175 lines across 10 files (enumerations + CSS in two sheets + skin block + the Brain picker option) |
| 4. Docker + installer | ~45 lines, plus one `--no-cache` image rebuild |
| 5. Docs | one new doc, ~10 files touched |
| 6. Tests | one new test file, 6 extended (2 of which fail loudly until updated), plus the first clamp coverage |
---
## 9. Out of scope, tracked as follow-ups
- **A Codeman pi extension for real idle/completion events (highest value, now fully de-risked).**
Pi extensions are TypeScript modules with Node built-ins and npm deps available, so an HTTP POST
to `/api/hook-event` is trivial. The **`agent_settled`** event **shipped in 0.84.0** and is
documented for exactly this use case (fires only when pi will not continue on its own: after
auto-retries, auto-compaction and queued follow-ups; `ctx.isIdle()` is true inside the handler).
That is a genuine idle signal replacing output-silence heuristics, i.e. the same class of upgrade
hooks give Claude sessions. The bash tool exposes five env vars (`PI_SESSION_ID`,
`PI_SESSION_FILE`, `PI_PROVIDER`, `PI_MODEL`, `PI_REASONING_LEVEL`), injected per command. Bonus:
an extension can own the **`project_trust`** event (first yes/no wins, and CLI `-e` extensions
load *before* trust resolution), so Codeman could answer the trust prompt programmatically, a
cleaner mechanism than the `--approve` flag for both the single-user convenience case and the
multi-user deny case.
- **Response viewer for pi.** Sessions are JSONL v3 under
`~/.pi/agent/sessions/--<cwd-dashed>--/<timestamp>_<uuid>.jsonl` with an `id`/`parentId` tree and
typed content blocks (text, image, thinking, toolCall); the cwd-derived dir name is trivially
computable host-side. Feasible, and it would justify flipping the Docker cred policy to share
`sessions/` RW like Codex.
- **Mode-aware env allowlist.** Would let pi sessions accept provider keys without widening the
global list. Needs `ALLOWED_ENV_PREFIXES` to become a per-mode map plus mode context inside the
Zod refine.
- **`--tools` / `--exclude-tools` / `--no-tools` / `--no-builtin-tools` read-only sessions** (plus
the 0.84.0 `defaultTools` setting). Real product value, needs UI.
- **Predictive echo for pi's composer** if the §2.10 buffer decision does not hold up in practice:
teach `PredictiveEchoAddon` pi's composer row the way `isCodexComposerRow` handles codex's.
- **`--mode json` / `--mode rpc`, and upstream's experimental remote-session client APIs**
(transport-neutral `PiClient`, CBOR protocol, Unix-socket transport, `RemoteSession` controller,
still unreleased as of 0.84.1). A potential non-PTY integration path, a different architecture
from the tmux+PTY model. Note the already-shipped breaking change to `message_update` framing
(delta-only): any consumer must assemble deltas between `message_start`/`message_end`.
- **`--name` for session labels.** Blocked on shell-quoting a user string in `buildSpawnCommand`.
---
## 10. Risks
| Risk | Mitigation |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `pi` resolves to an unrelated binary | `pi --version` + semver-shape check in the resolver (§2.6); path and version shown in `/api/pi/status` |
| Pi's TUI repaints in a way the browser terminal handles badly | Test scrollback and repaint early (step 3 of §7); pi's default is main-screen with terminal-owned scrollback, which is the friendly case |
| Fullscreen TUI mode (shipped 0.84.0, runtime-switchable) | Already designed for: pi stays OUT of the strip list, so a user flipping `/settings` to fullscreen gets opencode-like alt-screen behavior, not corruption. §7 step 7 tests the flip explicitly |
| The buffer local-echo overlay fights pi's live composer | §2.10: explicit E2E gate (§7 step 4) with the one-line `'off'` fallback; predictive echo for pi is a tracked follow-up, not a v1 blocker |
| Pi moves fast (pre-1.0; 9 releases in the 7 weeks before 0.84.1) | Keep the flag surface small; every flag validated and droppable; nothing pinned in the Dockerfile beyond the `--no-cache` rebuild cadence. Live example of the hazard: `--tui-mode` went from main-only docs to released between the two drafts of this plan |
| Docker image grows | Pi is an npm package; the layer is modest next to the ~190MB `agy` binary |
| Trust prompt blocks a session | Narrower than feared: only fires when `.pi/settings.json`, `.pi/extensions\|skills\|prompts\|themes`, `.pi/SYSTEM.md`/`APPEND_SYSTEM.md` or `.agents/skills` exists (bare `.pi/` does not). Documented; `approveProjectTrust` is the opt-in escape hatch; multi-user forces `--no-approve` (§5.2); the `project_trust` extension follow-up removes the prompt entirely |
| Interactive `/login` OAuth can't complete headlessly | Document: authenticate once interactively (or seed `auth.json`); `pi auth check` verifies credentials preflight; OpenRouter's paste-the-redirect-URL flow covers remote SSH |
| Provider auth is awkward without key prefixes in the allowlist | `/login` writes `~/.pi/agent/auth.json` once and Docker seeds it; the mode-aware allowlist follow-up removes the friction |
| Cron pi jobs mis-detect readiness | Known degradation, documented in §6; readiness falls through after the poll budget and the prompt still sends |
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# Pi (pi.dev) sessions
Codeman can drive [Pi](https://pi.dev) (`@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`, MIT) as a
session backend, alongside Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini and Antigravity.
`pi` is a sixth **run mode**: its own PTY, its own tmux session, its own tab colour
(rose). It is not a location overlay like Docker or remote-SSH cases, and it is not
a web tab.
Tracking issue: [#206](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues/206). The design
rationale behind each decision below lives in `docs/pi-integration-plan.md`.
## Install
```bash
npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
# or
curl -fsSL https://pi.dev/install.sh | sh
```
Both installers end up going through global npm, so either one uninstalls with
`npm uninstall -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`.
Codeman finds the binary via `which pi` and then the usual global-bin locations
(`~/.local/bin`, `/usr/local/bin`, `~/.bun/bin`, `~/.npm-global/bin`, `~/bin`).
**`pi` is a short, generic name**, so unlike the other CLI resolvers Codeman does
not trust a `which` hit on its own: it runs `pi --version` once and requires
semver-shaped output. Anything else is rejected as "not installed" and the
rejected path is logged. Check what it resolved:
```bash
curl -s localhost:3000/api/pi/status | jq
# { "available": true, "path": "/home/you/.local/bin", "version": "0.84.1" }
```
That endpoint carries `version` on top of the shape the sibling `/api/*/status`
endpoints return, precisely so a misresolution is visible rather than presenting
as "the mode just doesn't work".
## Authenticate
Pi supports 15+ providers. Two ways in:
- **OAuth subscription login** — run `/login` inside a pi session. Six providers
support it: ChatGPT Plus/Pro, Claude Pro/Max, GitHub Copilot, xAI, OpenRouter
and Radius. Credentials land in `~/.pi/agent/auth.json` and pi refreshes them
itself. OpenRouter's flow accepts a pasted redirect URL, which is what makes it
workable over remote SSH.
- **API keys** — exported in the environment of the **Codeman server process**.
⚠️ **Provider API keys cannot be sent as per-session `envOverrides`.** Pi reads
about 34 provider variables (`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`,
`DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`, `HF_TOKEN`, `BASETEN_API_KEY`, …) that share no common prefix.
Codeman's env allowlist is a single global list applied to every mode at once, so
admitting bare provider keys for pi would widen the allowlist for Claude, Codex,
Gemini and everything else too. Only the **`PI_*`** prefix was added, which covers
every documented pi input: `PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR`, `PI_CODING_AGENT_SESSION_DIR`,
`PI_PACKAGE_DIR`, `PI_OFFLINE`, `PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK`, `PI_TELEMETRY`,
`PI_CACHE_RETENTION`, `PI_SHARE_VIEWER_URL`, `PI_HARDWARE_CURSOR`,
`PI_EXPERIMENTAL`.
`pi auth check` verifies credentials before you start a long run.
Note if you authenticate with a Claude Pro/Max subscription: third-party harness
usage bills as Anthropic "extra usage" per token rather than against plan limits.
## What Codeman wires up
`PiConfig` (per session, persisted in `state.json`, round-trips through respawn):
| Field | Flag | Notes |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `model` | `--model <v>` | Accepts `provider/id` and a `:<thinking>` suffix (`sonnet:high`) |
| `provider` | `--provider <v>` | `anthropic`, `openai`, `google`, … |
| `thinking` | `--thinking <v>` | `off`/`minimal`/`low`/`medium`/`high`/`xhigh`/`max` |
| `continueSession` | `-c` | Skipped when `resumeSessionId` is set (the two conflict) |
| `resumeSessionId` | `--session <v>` | Ids only, never paths |
| `approveProjectTrust` | `--approve` / `--no-approve` / nothing | Tri-state, see below |
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 **no `PiConfig` at all**: pi has no permission prompts to
bypass, and project trust is a decision the person at the terminal makes.
## What Codeman deliberately does NOT wire up
- **`--api-key`.** Never. It would put a provider secret on the spawn command
line, visible in `ps`, tmux server state and logs. `PI_*` overrides go through
socket-scoped `tmux setenv` for exactly this reason.
- **`--tui-mode`.** Pi's default main-screen TUI is the friendly case for a
browser terminal. The fullscreen mode (0.84.0) stays your own runtime choice via
`/settings`.
- **`--name`, `--no-session`, `-p`/`--print`, `--mode json`, `--mode rpc`,
`--tools`/`--exclude-tools`, `-e`/`--extension`, `--skill`,
`--system-prompt`.** Tracked as follow-ups in the plan doc.
## Permission and trust model — read this
**Pi has no permission prompts and no sandbox.** There is no
`--dangerously-skip-permissions` analog and none is needed: tools run with the
user's own permissions, always. A pi session can read, write and execute anything
the Codeman user can. If you need isolation, use a **Docker case** — that is the
isolation story, here as everywhere else in Codeman.
Pi's "project trust" prompt is **not** a safety boundary (upstream says so too).
It gates *loading* repo-local `.pi/` config, extensions and skills, and
*installing* missing project packages. It only appears when the cwd or an ancestor
contains `.pi/settings.json`, `.pi/extensions|skills|prompts|themes`,
`.pi/SYSTEM.md`/`.pi/APPEND_SYSTEM.md`, or `.agents/skills`. A bare `.pi/`
directory does not trigger it.
`approveProjectTrust: true` answers it with `--approve`, which means pi **loads
and executes repository-supplied TypeScript** and runs an npm install for missing
project packages. Treat it exactly as seriously as that sounds.
**Multi-user mode:** for an owner without the privileged-command grant, Codeman
materializes `approveProjectTrust: false` so the pane launches with
`--no-approve` and the prompt never appears. Merely *omitting* `--approve` would
not be a clamp, since pi's own default is to ask and the session user could just
answer yes.
Also worth knowing: `pi auth print-api-key` / `print-bearer-token` and
`pi auth check` mean a pi session can print its own provider credentials by
design. Isolation is Docker.
## tmux extended keys (Shift+Enter)
Pi's editor uses `Shift+Enter` / `Ctrl+Enter` for newline-vs-submit. Without
extended keys, tmux collapses both into a plain `\r`. Upstream recommends:
```tmux
set -g extended-keys on
set -g extended-keys-format csi-u
```
`extended-keys-format` needs tmux 3.5+; on 3.2–3.4 `extended-keys on` alone works
(pi falls back to xterm `modifyOtherKeys`).
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 (`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
session, `w1`/`w2`/`w3` included.
**Measured (tmux 3.4, pi 0.84.1): no `kill-server` is needed.** Setting the option
server-scoped on Codeman's own socket takes effect on the ALREADY-RUNNING server;
the next pi session starts without the warning. Existing sessions keep the old
setting until they respawn.
```bash
tmux -L codeman set -s extended-keys on
tmux -L codeman set -s extended-keys-format csi-u # tmux 3.5+ only, see below
tmux -L codeman show-options -s | grep extended # verify
```
On **tmux 3.4 and older, `extended-keys-format` does not exist** and the second
line fails with `invalid option: extended-keys-format`. That is harmless — pi
falls back to xterm `modifyOtherKeys` and `extended-keys on` alone silences the
warning. Run the two lines independently rather than chained.
Pi tells you which state it is in: an unconfigured session prints
`Warning: tmux extended-keys is off. Modified Enter keys may not work.` in its
startup banner, so you can verify the change by starting a new pi session.
⚠️ Use `-L <socket>` and `-s`, never `-g` on your default socket, and never
`kill-server`. Codeman does not set this for you: it is a server-wide tmux option
and silently changing key encoding for every session of every backend is not
Codeman's call to make.
## Typing from the browser (local echo)
On touch devices Codeman buffers typed characters in the `LocalEchoOverlay` and
flushes them to the PTY on Enter. Pi gets that `'buffer'` policy, the same as
Claude, Gemini and OpenCode.
This was an explicit open question, because that policy is exactly what broke
Codex (issues #218/#219/#220/#222): Codex's composer reacts per keystroke, so
buffer-until-Enter starved it. **Measured against pi 0.84.1: it does not
reproduce.** Pi's slash-command picker re-filters on the whole composer content
rather than on per-keystroke deltas, so a one-shot flush of `/set` filters the
picker down to `settings` identically to typing it character by character, and
the delayed `\r` then selects it. Prose prompts flush and submit correctly too.
If a future pi release changes that, the cheap fallback is one `'off'` branch in
`_updateLocalEchoState` (terminal-ui.js); teaching `PredictiveEchoAddon` pi's
composer row is the larger follow-up.
## Docker cases
The agent image (`docker/agent.Dockerfile`) installs pi in its own `RUN` step with
`--ignore-scripts`, kept out of the shared npm block so the flag cannot change how
the other four CLIs install. Rebuild with:
```bash
node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs --no-cache # --no-cache is mandatory
```
Credentials are **seeded**, not shared: `~/.pi/agent/auth.json`, `settings.json`,
`trust.json`, `models.json` and `models-store.json` are mounted read-only and
copied into the container's own `~/.pi/agent`. So an in-container pi never writes
refreshed OAuth tokens back to the host, and `docker commit` exports stay
secret-free. `models.json` is in the list because it holds user-defined custom
providers, which would otherwise silently vanish inside containers.
Only those five files are seeded because `~/.pi/agent` also holds `sessions/`,
`extensions/`, `skills/` and the installed package trees (`npm/`, `git/`), which
on an active host is easily gigabytes.
**Trade-off:** in-container pi sessions are invisible host-side, so `pi -c` inside
a Docker case only sees that container's own history.
## Remote SSH cases
`pi` mode is routed through an interactive login shell
(`exec "$SHELL" -i -l -c 'pi'`), because sshd's remote-command PATH does not
include npm's global bin on most hosts. 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.** Pi has no hook system Codeman can install into, so
idle detection falls back to output-stabilization like the other external CLIs.
Pi 0.84.0 shipped an `agent_settled` extension event that is a genuine idle
signal; a Codeman pi extension using it is the highest-value follow-up.
- **No response viewer.** Pi writes JSONL v3 session files under
`~/.pi/agent/sessions/`; nothing reads them yet.
- **Cron jobs mis-detect readiness.** The cron readiness poll looks for `❯` or a
token count, neither of which pi prints, so a pi 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 pi, as for every external CLI.
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## Phases
1. **Intent store + capture + intent endpoints + skill docs.** Immediately useful to agents even before any UI exists.
2. **Context assembler + predictor + predict endpoint + desktop button/modal.** The feature as pitched. The assembler ships with all collectors it can serve from day one (transcript, intent, git, run-summary, siblings); the approvals collector activates when PR #245 lands.
3. **Phone accessory key, rethink steering, alternates row.** Part 1 (shipped): the alternates row (tappable, swap into the field without losing edits; Rethink rejects the whole shown set), the phone 🧠 keyboard-accessory key (both bar templates, `rmm-enabled` marker class on the bar), and a phone-sized modal (small dialog, not full-screen). Part 2 (shipped): rethink steering, the free-text steer note under the suggestions, sent as `steer`, visible whenever Rethink is live (ready and empty-result phases), cleared on each open; the empty-result copy points at the note, and the footer buttons moved to the styled `btn-toolbar` convention (the bare `btn btn-*` classes they shipped with match no CSS in this codebase and rendered as unstyled UA buttons).
4. Explicitly later: proactive predict-on-idle (ghost suggestion chip), auto-compaction of `recentPrompts` into `goals` via a cheap model, codex/gemini capture, cross-case "global" intent.
1. **Intent store + capture + intent endpoints + skill docs.** Immediately useful to agents even before any UI exists. Shipped 1.16.1 (PR #253).
2. **Context assembler + predictor + predict endpoint + desktop button/modal.** The feature as pitched. The assembler ships with all collectors it can serve from day one (transcript, intent, git, run-summary, siblings); the approvals collector activates when PR #245 lands. Shipped 1.16.2 (PR #256).
3. **Phase 3, PR 1: alternates row, rethink steering, phone surfaces.** Alternate suggestions as tappable rows that swap into the field; Rethink records everything displayed as rejected and carries the optional steer note; keyboard-accessory 🧠 key (`refreshReadMyMind()`, re-derived after every innerHTML rebuild, settings apply, and session switch); `🧠 Suggest` strip on the phone overview's YELLOW waiting rows only. Red rows deliberately get no shortcut yet: a dialog is on screen there and text sent via `POST /input` would land in its menu.
4. **Phase 3, PR 2: the approvals fusion** (the Cloudflare OS learnings tie-in, items 1-2 of `cloudflare-os-learnings-plan.md`). `GET /api/sessions/:id/recap`: a deterministic "what was done, simplified" catch-up (last assistant tail + recent tool one-liners + git state) reusing the phase-2 collectors verbatim; no model call, effectively an observation-ledger v0 whose data source can later swap to a real ledger. Surfaces: collapsible "What happened" on approval cards (lazy-fetched), recap in the modal's loading phase (read while opus thinks), 🧠 on approval cards and red overview rows. Answer-aware Send: the predictor output gains an optional `answer` option number (validated against the pending dialog's parsed options, dropped when invalid) and the modal routes dialog answers through `POST /api/approvals/:id/answer` (option digits / idle text), keeping `POST /input` only for dialog-free sessions.
5. Explicitly later: proactive predict-on-idle (ghost suggestion chip), auto-compaction of `recentPrompts` into `goals` via a cheap model, codex/gemini capture, cross-case "global" intent, a model-written prose recap (deterministic-only in v1).
## Open questions
- Should Rethink's rejected-suggestion memory persist across modal closes, or reset each open?
- ~~Should Rethink's rejected-suggestion memory persist across modal closes, or reset each open?~~ Decided in phase 2 and kept: reset each open (a fresh open is a fresh question); the steer note resets with it.
- Is a composer-adjacent placement (next to the toolbar Run controls) better than the header for discoverability?
- Pending-dialog input (source #1) consumes the approvals-inbox store (PR #245, merged): the phase-2 collector reads pending items directly from `src/approval-inbox.ts`.
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## Turning it on
App Settings → Header & Panels → Cross-session features → **Read My Mind** (synced setting `readMyMindEnabled`, default **OFF**). It gates everything: capture, the header button, and nothing shows anywhere while it is off. The API equivalent:
App Settings → Panels → **Read My Mind** (synced setting `readMyMindEnabled`, default **OFF**). It gates everything: capture, the header button, and nothing shows anywhere while it is off. The API equivalent:
```bash
curl -sk -X PUT https://localhost:3000/api/settings \
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ Add `-u user:password` if your install has `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` set, and drop `-k`
## The 🧠 button
On a Claude session, press the brain button in the header (desktop) or the 🧠 key on the keyboard accessory bar (phones and tablets; it appears when the setting is on). Codeman assembles everything it already knows: your goals, your recent prompts (with your voice: length, tone, shorthand), the tail of the last assistant reply, recent tool activity, git state (branch, dirty files, pending changesets), how long you have been away and what happened meanwhile, sibling sessions in the same case, and any dialog the session is currently waiting on. A one-shot model call (opus by default, `readMyMindModel` to override) turns that into 1-3 suggestions; the top one lands in an editable field with its rationale, and the others render as tappable alternate rows: tap one to swap it into the field (edits you already made are kept on the row you leave).
On a Claude session, press the brain button in the header (desktop). On phones the same modal opens from the 🧠 key on the keyboard accessory bar, or from the `🧠 Suggest` strip under a yellow waiting row on the phone overview home screen (steer a session without opening its tab). Codeman assembles everything it already knows: your goals, your recent prompts (with your voice: length, tone, shorthand), the tail of the last assistant reply, recent tool activity, git state (branch, dirty files, pending changesets), how long you have been away and what happened meanwhile, sibling sessions in the same case, and any dialog the session is currently waiting on. A one-shot model call (opus by default, `readMyMindModel` to override) turns that into 1-3 kind-diverse suggestions (continue / verify / redirect); the top one lands in an editable field with its rationale, and the others render as tappable alternate rows that swap into the field.
- **Send** submits it to the session (with Enter).
- **Insert** drops it on the CLI composer *without* Enter, so you can edit it in the terminal before sending.
- **Rethink** re-runs with everything shown (the field and the alternates) recorded as rejected. An optional steer note below the suggestions ("no, I meant the mobile bug") rides along as your own words, the highest-authority signal the predictor gets; it stays in the field across re-runs until you clear it or reopen the modal.
- **Rethink** re-runs with everything currently displayed recorded as rejected. The optional steer field above the buttons ("no, I meant the mobile bug") tells the re-run what you actually meant; it is your own words and outranks everything the predictor observed.
- **Dismiss** closes; nothing happens.
A prediction takes 5-90 seconds and costs real tokens; one runs per session at a time. If the session is sitting on a permission/question dialog, the suggestion is usually an answer to that dialog: that is intentional.
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ A prediction takes 5-90 seconds and costs real tokens; one runs per session at a
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, Antigravity, and Pi sessions are never captured (they have no transcript watcher).
- **Claude-mode sessions only.** Shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, and Antigravity 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).
@@ -85,15 +85,16 @@ A case with nothing recorded answers an empty profile with `updatedAt: 0`; reads
The `codeman` agent skill documents the same verbs (SKILL.md §3 plus `reference/endpoints.md`), with the ground rules: read the profile to understand what the user wants, record goals the user actually stated, merge instead of blind-writing (PUT replaces), never delete a profile unprompted, and never send a predicted suggestion into a session unless the user asked. It is the user's memory, not the agent's.
## What comes next
## What comes next (phase 3+)
Explicitly later: proactive predict-on-idle, auto-compaction of the prompt history into goals, non-Claude capture. See the phases section of [`readmymind-plan.md`](readmymind-plan.md).
The approvals fusion: a per-session catch-up recap ("what was done, simplified", derived from the same collectors the predictor uses), shown on Approvals Inbox cards next to a 🧠 button, plus answer-aware Send that routes dialog answers through the approvals endpoint instead of typing into a menu. Explicitly later: proactive predict-on-idle, auto-compaction of the prompt history into goals, non-Claude capture. See the phases section of [`readmymind-plan.md`](readmymind-plan.md).
## Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Cause / fix |
| ------- | ----------- |
| No 🧠 button in the header | `readMyMindEnabled` is OFF (App Settings → Header & Panels → Cross-session features), you are on a phone (there it is a key on the keyboard accessory bar instead, visible while typing), or the active session is not claude-mode |
| No 🧠 button in the header | `readMyMindEnabled` is OFF (App Settings → Panels), you are on a phone (the header button is desktop-only; phones use the keyboard-accessory 🧠 key and the overview waiting rows), or the active session is not claude-mode |
| No 🧠 key on the phone keyboard bar | `readMyMindEnabled` is OFF, or the active session is not claude-mode (the key hides itself for codex/gemini/opencode/antigravity/shell sessions) |
| Prediction feels generic | The profile is thin: record goals (PUT or ask your agent to), and let capture accumulate a few real prompts first |
| "A prediction is already running" (409) | One per session at a time; wait for the current one (up to 90 s) |
| Prediction fails (502) | The model returned no usable JSON, or the CLI could not start; retry. Check `readMyMindModel` if you overrode it |
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@@ -50,47 +50,13 @@ each `(clientId, seq)` at most once, so a resend can't type the prompt twice.
last-applied is seen. A replayed/lower seq returns `false`. Bounded MRU map
(`MAX_INPUT_DEDUP_CLIENTS = 256`).
- **WS route** (`ws-routes.ts`) — parses optional `cid`/`seq` on `{t:'i'}`; applies
via `shouldApplyInput`. An applied frame is ACKed with `{t:'ia',seq}`; a duplicate is
ACKed as `{t:'ia',seq,dup:true,last:<watermark>}`, where `last` is the server's
highest applied seq for that `clientId` (`Session.lastInputSeq`). The client drops
the record either way, and on `dup` it lifts its own counter to `last` first and
re-sends a FIRST-attempt record (a retry being called a duplicate is the mechanism
working: the original landed). Without `last`, a tab killed between a send and the
persisted counter write came back counting BELOW the server's watermark, and every
later keystroke was dropped-but-ACKed: a silently dead terminal a reload could not
fix, since the stale counter was restored from localStorage too. The client now
persists the counter synchronously on every send for the same reason. Untagged
frames apply unconditionally (no behavior change).
via `shouldApplyInput` (skips a duplicate, still ACKs with `{t:'ia',seq}` so the
client drops it). Untagged frames apply unconditionally (no behavior change).
- **POST route** (`/api/sessions/:id/input`) — optional `seq`/`clientId` in
`SessionInputWithLimitSchema`; a deduped duplicate returns 200 without writing
(the 200 is the client's ACK). `curl`/legacy callers omit the fields and always
apply.
## Oversized input (issue #484)
Delivery has a third outcome besides "applied" and "retry": **refused for good**.
Both transports refuse a frame longer than `MAX_INPUT_LENGTH` (64 KiB,
`src/config/terminal-limits.ts`; the POST schema uses the same constant). Before
#484 the client treated that like a transient failure, so an oversized paste sat
at the head of the queue, was re-sent every 2 s forever, blocked every later
input for the session, and came back from localStorage on each reload.
- `_sendInputAsync()` splits a paste over the frame limit into in-limit frames
(`CodemanInputLimit.split`, constants.js, never cutting a surrogate pair). They
go out in seq order, so the PTY sees one contiguous stream. A paste over
`PASTE_MAX_CHARS` (1 MiB), or an oversized `useMux` write (line-oriented, never
split), is refused with a toast and never queued.
- The WebSocket answers an oversized sequenced frame with
`{t:'ia', seq, err:'too_large', max}`; the client drops it with a toast. A
client that predates `err` reads it as a plain ACK and drops it too.
- The POST drain drops a frame answered `400`/`413` (`401`/`403` stay transient:
an expired login delivers once the user signs in again).
- `_loadReliableState()` prunes persisted frames over the limit, so a queue
poisoned by an older build heals on the first load after upgrading.
- ⚠️ The frontend limit (`INPUT_FRAME_MAX_CHARS`) and the composer's
`COMPOSER_INPUT_FRAME_LIMIT` must equal `MAX_INPUT_LENGTH`; pinned by
`test/input-size-limit.test.ts`.
## Known limitation
Dedup state is in-memory on the server. A **server restart** between a write and
@@ -104,5 +70,3 @@ across the narrow restart window.
semantics (monotonic, per-client, gap-tolerant, eviction-safe).
- `test/routes/session-routes.test.ts` — POST `/input` applies a tagged
`(clientId, seq)` once on redelivery; untagged input always applies.
- `test/input-size-limit.test.ts`: one input limit on both sides, frame
splitting, and dropping (never retrying) a frame refused for good (#484).
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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, Grok, or a plain shell)
local machine. The agent (Claude, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, 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' \| 'grok' \| 'deepseek' \| 'omp'>` — the modes that can run remotely. |
| `RemoteCommandMode` | `Extract<SessionMode, 'shell' \| 'claude' \| 'opencode' \| 'codex' \| 'gemini' \| 'antigravity'>` — 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:
@@ -116,11 +116,6 @@ Key points:
the agent. The per-mode command comes from `remote.commands?.[mode]` or
`defaultRemoteCommandForMode(mode)` (`exec claude` / `exec opencode` /
`exec codex` / `exec gemini` / `exec agy` / `exec bash -l`).
⚠️ **claude and omp no longer take that path**: both have their own arm in
`buildRemoteLaunchCommand` so a respawn can continue the same conversation
(see [Respawn / reattach continuation](#respawn--reattach-continuation)), and
because the claude arm is an `a || b` pair under `-c`, its pane PID is the
**login shell**, not the agent.
- The **whole tmux invocation is a single shell-quoted ssh argument**, and the
pane command is independently quoted, so a `remotePath` with spaces is safe.
- Connection options come from the **same `buildSshConnectionArgs(remote)`** as
@@ -207,322 +202,6 @@ The early return is a structural guarantee that **no code path can ever issue a
remote `kill-session` for a session we don't own** — the only `kill-session` run is
on the local socket, which never reaches the remote socket.
## Respawn / reattach continuation
A dropped connection or a dead pane must reconnect to the **same conversation**,
not launch a fresh one — the whole point of a durable remote session.
- **Claude**: the launch command is idempotent — `claude --session-id <id> ||
claude --resume <id>` (see `buildRemoteLaunchCommand`'s claude branch). The
first run creates the conversation under the deterministic session id; every
later reattach/respawn re-runs the same line, `--session-id` fails
("already in use"), and the `||` fallback resumes it.
- **OMP**: `omp` has no equivalent idempotent single-line form, so
`Session._pinOmpRespawnId()` resolves and pins an explicit `--resume <id>`
before a respawn (mirroring the local/docker builders, rendered through the
same `buildSpawnCommandFromRegistry` engine — not a hand-rolled command and
not `appendResumeFlag()`, which is docker-only and cannot work here: appending
a flag after the quoted `-c 'omp'` hands the id to the login shell as `$0`
instead of to `omp`). ⚠️ **The resolver only ever reads THIS host's local
`~/.omp/agent/sessions/`**, which is meaningless for a remote session — the
conversation and its session file live on the remote host, under the remote
user's home. For a remote session, `_pinOmpRespawnId()` therefore skips local
resolution entirely and falls back to `omp`'s own ambiguous `--continue`
(`ompConfig.continueSession`), which the remote pane command already renders.
This is a known, accepted degradation versus the local/docker paths' exact
`--resume` pin — safe in practice because each remote respawn talks to
exactly one remote pane's own omp history, so "most recent" is normally
correct, but it can drift the same way `--continue` always could if two
remote sessions ever share one remote directory.
## Auto-reconnect vs. a clean agent exit
`remoteAutoReconnect` (default ON) watches for a dropped SSH connection and
reconnects with bounded backoff. It must **never** revive a session whose agent
exited cleanly (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-D, `exit`) — that tears down the durable remote
tmux session itself, and a transport-level `isPaneDead()` cannot tell that apart
from a plain network drop. `remoteTmuxSessionAlive()` (#355) resolves this by
probing the remote host directly: `tmux -L codeman-remote has-session -t
codeman-ssh-<id8>` over the same `buildSshConnectionArgs` as launch, classified
by **exit status alone** (`classifyRemoteAliveExit`: `0` = alive, ssh's `255` or
a timeout = unknown, anything else = gone) — `has-session` prints nothing on
success, so reading stdout would misclassify every live session as gone. An
unreachable host answers "unknown", which also means do not revive. The answer
is cached per session and cleared whenever the pane is next seen alive, so a
stale `true` from one transport drop can never revive the NEXT clean exit.
## File access over SSH
A remote case's `workingDir` is an absolute path on the **remote** host
(`Session.workingDir = RemoteCase.remotePath`), so the file routes cannot use local
`fs`: a local `realpathSync` on a remote-only path fails by construction, which is why
previewing a file used to answer `404 File not found` for a case that was working
perfectly (#415). `src/remote-files.ts` is the one module that reads remote bytes,
and it follows the same rule as the launch path: every ssh command line comes from
`buildSshConnectionArgs()` — **never** a hand-built ssh line.
| Request | What happens |
|---------|--------------|
| `GET /api/sessions/:id/file-raw` | Streamed over `ssh` (`cat`, or `tail -c +N \| head -c L` for a `Range`); the same 200/206/416 contract as a local file, so `<video>`/`<audio>` seeking works |
| `GET /api/sessions/:id/file-content` | `cat` into memory, capped by the existing text limit; `edit=1` answers `400` (see below) and `editable` is always `false` |
| `PUT /api/sessions/:id/file-content` | `400` before any path is looked at: the guard sits AHEAD of the local path validation, because with a same-named directory on the Codeman host (an `sshfs` mount) the write would otherwise land on the local twin |
| `GET /api/sessions/:id/file-preview` | Non-office files redirect to `file-raw` (which works remotely); docx/pptx answer `400` |
| `GET /api/sessions/:id/file-thumbnail` | `400` for remote files |
| `POST /api/sessions/:id/attachments` | Registers an absolute path that lives on the **remote** host (a clicked link pointing outside the case directory) by probing it there |
| `GET /api/sessions/:id/attachments/:attachmentId/raw` | Streams the registered remote file over ssh, same 200/206/416 contract; `preview` (office) and `thumbnail` answer `400` |
| `GET /api/sessions/:id/attachments/:attachmentId`, `GET …/attachments` (history) | Size/mtime/existence resolved over ssh, so a remote entry is not reported `missing`; the history list resolves EVERY entry in one batched probe, never one connection per entry |
⚠️ The attachment route is the one a clicked path takes when it is **outside** the case
directory (a remote `/tmp` scratchpad capture, a screenshot elsewhere in the home dir):
the frontend's `_isExternalPreviewPath()` sends every absolute path that is not under
`workingDir` there, so fixing only `file-raw` would leave exactly that half broken.
Guard order is deliberately **the same as locally**, and the checks are not weakened
by the transport:
1. Ownership (`findSessionOrFail` / the scope helper) — unchanged.
2. Lexical containment of `workingDir + path` — a `../` escape is refused before any
connection is opened.
3. ONE ssh round trip that returns `realpath` **and** `stat` for the path **and** the
workspace root (`remoteProbePaths`). Resolving the root remotely is what keeps the
boundary honest for a symlinked `remotePath`. The probe uses `readlink -f` when
available; on a host without it (macOS before 12.3) a POSIX fallback canonicalizes
the directory chain with `cd -P`/`pwd -P` and then follows the LAST component with
plain `readlink` for a bounded number of hops. ⚠️ **The fallback fails closed**: a
path it cannot fully resolve (a loop, a `readlink` failure, the hop cap) is reported
as unresolvable and answers 404, never as its own unresolved string. An earlier
version resolved only the directory chain, so `ws/notes.txt -> ~/.ssh/id_rsa` passed
containment under the link's own path while `cat` followed it to the key.
Records come back NUL-separated and index-keyed (`<index>|kind|size|mtime|realPath`,
after a leading NUL that fences off any login banner), so a filename containing a
newline cannot shift the alignment.
4. Containment of the remote realpath against the remote root. The sensitive-path
blocklist then applies on whichever routes already apply it locally (`/api/download`,
attachment registration, edit mode — where resolving symlinks first is what makes it
meaningful); the remote branch neither drops a guard the local path has nor invents a
stricter one. One entry of that blocklist is host-bound by construction: the three
home-anchored members (`~/.claude.json`, `~/.claude/settings.json`,
`~/.claude/settings.local.json`) are compared against the **Codeman host's** home
directory, so they do not match a remote home at a different path. Everything else in
the list is depth-anchored (`/.ssh/`, `/.aws/credentials`, `/.claude/.credentials.json`,
`/etc/shadow`, ...) and applies to a remote path unchanged.
5. Size cap (`CODEMAN_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES`) applied to the **remote** size, before the
body is requested.
The path arrives from the browser (`?path=`) and is interpolated as a single
`shellescape`-quoted token, in a command that is itself shellescaped into the ssh
line; `BatchMode=yes` means a host needing a passphrase fails fast instead of hanging.
A failed connection is reported as **502** with the remote reason — never a 404, which
used to make an unreachable host look like a typo in the agent's output. The reason is
the first stderr line, the timeout, or the exit code; never Node's `Command failed: …`
message, which would carry the identity-file path and the probe script into the body.
**Connections are bounded.** Every probe and buffered read runs through a small global
semaphore (`src/remote-ssh-limiter.ts`, default 4, `CODEMAN_MAX_REMOTE_FILE_SSH`), the
attachment-history list resolves its whole history in one batched probe instead of one
handshake per entry, and probes are chunked at 40 paths per round trip. Terminal output
in a remote session is written on the remote host, so a prompt-injected agent printing
hundreds of `codeman://attach` links used to make the server fork one `ssh` per link,
each holding a 20 s probe timeout, and a 100-entry history re-listed on every
`attachment:detected` event tripped OpenSSH's default `MaxStartups 10:30:100`. Streams
(`file-raw`, by-id `raw`) are not counted: one is held per browser request for the life
of a playback, and each is gated behind a counted probe anyway.
⚠️ **There is deliberately NO local fallback.** A remote case reads the remote bytes or
fails, even when a file with the same absolute name exists on the Codeman host — which
is the ordinary case for the documented stop-gap workaround, an `sshfs` mount of the
remote tree at the identical path. Serving the local twin instead would silently hand
back a DIFFERENT filesystem's bytes under a name the user believes is the remote file
(a stale mount, a different checkout, a leftover file), and the failure would be
invisible. An existing mount therefore stops being load-bearing for previews and
downloads but is harmless, and a missing remote file stays a 404 even if the mount
still has it.
**Not available over ssh (by choice, not by accident):** editing a file (writes would
need SFTP; `docs/file-viewer-edit-plan.md` §6), office-document previews and
generated thumbnails (both need the bytes on the server's disk — no remote file is ever
spilled onto the server), the file-tree/picker listings, and `tail-file`. Those routes
are still local-only, so with an `sshfs` mount in place they read the mounted copy —
the two views can only disagree when that mount is stale. Docker cases are unaffected:
their workspace is bind-mounted at the same absolute path, so local `fs` reads real bytes.
⚠️ A remote record stores the **remote** path, and the same absolute path STRING means a
different file on each host. What decides which host to read is therefore never the
path but the SESSION (`session.remote`): a remote session never falls back to local
`fs`, and a local session never opens an ssh connection — including for attachment
records, which are keyed to the session that registered them.
## Wake-on-LAN from user input
A durable remote session survives an SSH drop (COD-104/108), but nothing brought the
HOST back. When the remote machine suspended, the local pane's `ssh` child **stalled**
rather than exited: `tmux send-keys` SUCCEEDS against a stalled pane, so typed input
vanished with no error anywhere, and without a keepalive the pane could look alive for
the OS TCP timeout. The only recovery was waiting for the reconnect watcher, which
gave up after ~13 minutes and, once exhausted, never retried.
An **optional** `wakeMac` (one or more MAC addresses, comma-separated) or `wakeCommand` on a
remote host closes that: on user input, `POST /api/sessions/:id/input` probes the host, and if
it is unreachable it wakes it, polls until the host answers, reattaches the pane
(`Session.reattachRemote()`, which idempotently attaches the still-running remote tmux — the
agent conversation is not restarted), and flushes the input that arrived meanwhile.
Implementation: `src/remote-wake.ts`.
The same wake path also serves **opening** a session, which is where a sleeping host used to
be a dead end: pressing Run on a remote case (`POST /api/quick-start`) or Attach on a
discovered remote tmux session (`POST /api/sessions` + `attachRemoteSession`) probes the host
first, and on a sleeping one wakes it, waits for SSH and only then runs the tmux prereq probe.
Without that the run failed with `could not verify tmux on remote host …` — an ssh error that
blames tmux for a machine that is merely suspended. The wait is **blocking** (the caller gets
the session or the error) but bounded by `REMOTE_WAKE_REQUEST_READY_TIMEOUT_MS` (40 s) rather
than the 90 s session default, because the dashboard sits behind a reverse proxy whose default
`proxy_read_timeout` is 60 s: a longer wait would be cut off at the proxy while the session was
still being created. The budget covers the whole request, not just the wait (40 s wake + 1.5 s
probe + the tmux prereq probe's own 15 s timeout = 56.5 s worst case). A host with no wake target is not even probed on this path, so nothing
changes for it, and `remote:hostWaking` is broadcast without a `sessionId` (the toast then reads
"the session starts when it is back" — there is no session yet, and no input queued behind it).
Two wake paths, `wakeCommand` first because it is the explicit override:
- **`wakeMac`** — Codeman builds the magic packet itself (`buildMagicPacket`, six `0xFF`
bytes then the MAC repeated 16×; the shape is asserted byte-for-byte) and broadcasts it
over UDP port 9 (`sendWakePackets`). This is the normal case: no external script, and one
MAC list per host instead of one per consumer.
- **`wakeCommand`** — a single executable path, run WITHOUT a shell. For hosts that need a
router/another machine to send the packet.
**UI**: a banner (`#hostWakeBanner`, `host-wake-ui.js`) appears while the ACTIVE remote
session's host is unreachable — amber, since the Codeman session is healthy and only the
machine is asleep. With a wake target the action is **Wake** (`POST /api/sessions/:id/wake`);
with none it is **Configure WoL** and opens `#wakeConfigModal`, a small form for that host's
`wakeMac`/`wakeCommand` that saves with `PUT /api/remote-hosts/:id` (in multi-user mode that
GET is admin-only, so a non-admin is told the setting is admin-only instead of "host not
found"). Reachability for the banner comes from `GET /api/sessions/:id/reachability`: once
when the remote tab is activated (a user action), and every 30 s while the tab is visible
**only for a host with a wake target** — each poll is a TCP connect to the host, and a timer
that connects to a host Codeman could not wake anyway is exactly the timer-driven traffic
the keepalive rule below rejects (it cannot wake a host, but it can keep an activity-based
suspend timer from firing). A host the probe cannot reach (see the next section) is never
polled. ⚠️ The button is pressed from the SAME
dashboard as Run/Attach, so it holds its request open under the same proxy and uses the same
40 s budget — and it **queues nothing**: browser keystrokes travel over the WebSocket, which
deliberately does not pass through the registry (that is the hot path this feature keeps its
hands off), so the banner says "waiting for the host to come back" for the button and only
claims "input is queued" when the HTTP input path actually buffered bytes
(`queuedInput` on the two SSE events).
**Hosts behind a jump host or SOCKS proxy are reachability-UNKNOWN.** The probe is a bare
TCP connect to `host:port`, and a host reached through `jumpHost`, `socksProxy` or a
`ProxyCommand`/`ProxyJump` in `extraSshOptions` does not answer that even while ssh works —
the direct address may not route at all (the cloudflared case). Acting on the resulting
"unreachable" verdict was wrong three times over: a permanent banner over a healthy session,
a create-path error that replaced a genuine "needs tmux" with "not reachable", and — with a
wake target configured — every HTTP input buffered for the life of the session, because the
readiness poll could never succeed. `isProbeable()` (`remote-wake.ts`) decides from the
proxy fields, which travel on `WakeableRemote`; for such a host the registry delivers input
unchanged, `GET …/reachability` answers `reachable: null, probeable: false` (unknown is not
`false`, and only a proven `false` raises the banner), the create/attach path is not gated
(`ensureHostAwake` → `'unprobeable'`, handled like `'no-target'`), and the quick-start
"not reachable" message is reserved for a **proven** unreachable host (`=== false`). A wake
target can still be fired for it through `POST /api/sessions/:id/wake`, blind: the packet or
command goes out and the response says only whether it did — no readiness poll, no reattach
(the COD-108 watcher owns the pane once ssh works again), no "waking" toast.
The invariants worth keeping:
- **Authorization comes before the wake.** In multi-user mode the attach path
(`POST /api/sessions` + `attachRemoteSession`) answers `403` to a non-admin BEFORE the
host is looked up or probed: remote hosts are admin-only infrastructure everywhere else
(the list is `[]` for a non-admin, write and discovery routes are `adminOnly`), and the
wake spawns the host's `wakeCommand` or broadcasts a packet — a gate that came after the
wake handed an unprivileged account a way to run that executable for any configured
`hostId`, hold the request for the wake budget, and only then be refused for the
workingDir. The quick-start path resolves its remote case through `canAccessOwned`
first. Pinned in `test/routes/session-remote-wake.test.ts` (wake spy stays empty).
- **The caller is told what happened to its bytes.** The non-wait input route answers
`{buffered:true}` when the registry took the chunk and `{buffered:true, dropped:true}`
when it was over the cap and is gone; the send-and-wait route answers `OPERATION_FAILED`
when the host never comes back, like the create and attach paths, instead of writing
into the stalled pane and reporting `delivered:true` plus a timeout. Flushed chunks are
written with `fromUser`, so a first prompt that was buffered through a wake can still
name the tab.
- **Only an EXPLICIT request may wake a host:** user input on an established session, the wake
button, or the user's own session create/attach request (`ensureHostAwake`). Everything that
runs on a TIMER must never wake one — the COD-108 watcher, the server's dropped-session
handler, boot recovery and session discovery have no access to the wake registry, and neither
has the shared session service, because `cron-service.ts` builds sessions there with nobody
waiting on the answer; a wake on such a path would re-wake the host seconds after every
suspend, so it could never stay asleep (the same failure `hufflepuff-mcp-lazy` exists to
prevent for MCP keepalives). A reachability check, a discovery listing and the tmux prereq
probe never wake: they are questions, not actions. All of it is enforced by tests in
`test/remote-wake.test.ts` (two wiring guards: one pins the importers — the route module and
`server.ts`, which holds the registry for its LIFETIME only, `drop()` on session cleanup and
`stop()` on shutdown — and one asserts `server.ts` calls nothing but those two, while
`ensureHostAwake` has exactly one caller file) and `test/routes/session-remote-wake.test.ts`,
not by comments.
- **Detection is a bare TCP connect** to the SSH port (then the configured `port`, else 22),
throttled per session, and only for wake-enabled hosts. No `ServerAliveInterval` is added to
the launch command: keepalives push bytes into an otherwise idle connection every interval,
which is exactly what a byte-threshold idle detector must not count as activity. A probe is
~200 bytes per 30 s, orders of magnitude below any such threshold, and the SYN alone cannot
wake a host.
- **Input is buffered while a wake is in flight** (`REMOTE_WAKE_PENDING_MAX_BYTES`,
oldest whole chunks dropped, bounded so user input cannot grow memory) and flushed in
order after the reattach, with a settle delay so bytes cannot land in a still-connecting
pane. ⚠️ A chunk LARGER than the cap (one big paste is one `input` value) is dropped
**outright**, never trimmed: it was never typed character by character, so its tail is not
"what the user just typed" but a fragment of a command they never sent — the drop is logged
instead. ⚠️ Only the HTTP input route reaches the registry; the **WebSocket keystroke path
is deliberately NOT wake-aware**, so typing into a sleeping host sends nothing and queues
nothing (the banner's Wake button is the recovery for that case, which is why it must not
promise queued input). The **send-and-wait** path blocks on the wake instead — its response
is open anyway, and buffering would break the wait contract. ⚠️ A flush write that FAILS
drops the whole remaining buffer (logged) rather than retaining it: the wake still resolves
and marks the host reachable, so the next input takes the deliver path while a retained
chunk would wait for the NEXT wake — replayed hours later, after everything typed since,
possibly ending in a carriage return. Same policy as the oversized paste.
- **The command runs without a shell** (`spawn(path, [], { stdio: 'ignore' })` — `shell`
defaults to `false`), the schema
requires a single executable path (no arguments, no `$`/backtick), and `wakeMac` is a
structural hex-pair allowlist. A broken or missing wake target fails the wake, never the
input route.
- **`wakeMac`/`wakeCommand` are host-level config, refreshed on recovery AND live**
(`rehydrateRemoteHostFields` in `src/remote-hosts.ts` plus `RemoteWakeDeps.resolveRemote`).
A session's `remote` block is persisted at launch time, so a field added to
`remote-hosts.json` later would otherwise never reach an already-running session — not even
across a Codeman restart, and certainly not right after saving the banner's config dialog.
Recovery rehydration covers restarts, the (throttled, cache-backed) resolver covers the live
session; the host config is authoritative for both (removing the field disables the feature
again). Other host-level fields deliberately stay as persisted, so neither path can
silently re-point an existing pane's SSH options.
- **UI/SSE**: `remote:hostWaking` and `remote:hostWakeFailed` (plus the reused
`remote:sessionReconnected`) drive the banner and toasts, all from `host-wake-ui.js` —
its handlers are the ONLY definitions, since a second one in another mixin would be
silently shadowed by script order. Both carry `queuedInput`, which is true only when the
server actually holds bytes for that session — the wording keys off that, not off "a wake
is running", so the button path never claims input is queued. In multi-user mode the
whole `remote:` family is **session-scoped** (`deriveSseHint`, `server.ts`): an event with
a `sessionId` reaches that session's owner, and the create/attach wake — which has no
session yet — carries the requesting `username` instead (`ensureHostAwake({ requestedBy })`),
since its payload names a `hostId`/`label` that `GET /api/remote-hosts` withholds from
non-admins. With neither, it reaches admins only.
- **No real IO under vitest.** `probeRemoteHostReachable`, `runRemoteWakeCommand` and the
default UDP socket of `sendWakePackets` throw under `VITEST` (as `remote-files.ts` does),
so a test that reaches the defaults fails loudly instead of connecting, spawning or
broadcasting from CI. Every consumer injects its IO (`RemoteWakeDeps`, the socket
factory); `createDefaultRemoteWakeDeps({ probe })` also polls readiness with THAT probe,
which is the leak the guard found.
Tests: `test/remote-wake.test.ts` (decision/throttle table, single-flight registry,
buffering + flush order, MAC parsing/magic packet, live host-config resolution, the proxied
host, SSE payload routing, the vitest IO guard, and the wiring guard),
`test/routes/session-remote-wake.test.ts` (the input route buffers instead of writing into a
sleeping host — and writes straight into a proxied one —, the reachability route never wakes
and reports a proxied host as unknown, and the wake route reports the no-target case the UI
turns into "configure WoL"), `test/sse-routing-remote.test.ts` (multi-user routing of the
`remote:` family) and `test/host-wake-banner.test.ts` (banner visibility and when the poller
may connect).
## API
Routes are registered in `src/web/routes/case-routes.ts`:
@@ -536,10 +215,6 @@ Routes are registered in `src/web/routes/case-routes.ts`:
| `GET` | `/api/remote-hosts/:hostId/sessions` | Discover `codeman-*` sessions on the host (COD-105; `listRemoteCodemanSessions`, never errors) |
| `POST` | `/api/cases/remote-link` | Link a case to a remote host (creates the `RemoteCase`) |
`RemoteHost` accepts the optional `wakeMac` (magic packet, sent by Codeman) and `wakeCommand`
(single executable path, run without a shell, takes precedence) — see **Wake-on-LAN from user
input** above.
Attaching to a discovered session is a **session-create** path, not a host route:
`POST /api/sessions` accepts `attachRemoteSession: { hostId, remoteSessionName }`
(schema in `schemas.ts`; `remoteSessionName` must match `^codeman-[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$`),
+10 -21
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@@ -125,9 +125,7 @@ loopback bind matters. The auth pipeline (`src/web/middleware/auth.ts`,
`onRequest` hook) runs in this order:
1. **Localhost‑only exemptions** (always first): `POST /api/hook-event` and the QR
`/q/` short‑code path are exempt when `req.ip` is loopback (see §3). The three
web‑tab exemptions (§10b: the capability in the path, the `Referer` form, and
the lost‑frame recovery page) sit in this same slot, ahead of the credential checks. While the
`/q/` short‑code path are exempt when `req.ip` is loopback (see §3). While the
**managed tunnel is running**, the hook‑event exemption additionally requires
the per‑instance `X-Codeman-Hook-Secret` header (COD‑54); failed presentations
are rate‑limited in a **dedicated bucket** (separate from Basic‑Auth failures)
@@ -270,15 +268,9 @@ tailscale serve --bg 3000 # HTTPS at https://<node>.<tailnet>.ts.net
Only devices on your tailnet can reach it; Tailscale handles identity and
terminates TLS with a real Let's Encrypt certificate (so PWA install and web
push work). No app password and no `0.0.0.0` bind required. (This is the
maintainer's production setup.) `CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1` or `--tailscale` presets
the choice for automation. When `:443` on the node already belongs to another
app, the installer mounts Codeman under `/codeman` (`tailscale serve --set-path`
plus `--base-url`, which keeps the loopback bind and the same host guard) or on a
second port rather than replacing it. The installer never runs `tailscale serve
reset`, never touches serve mappings other than the one it created, never opens a
`tailscale funnel` (public internet, a different risk class) and never advertises
a Tailscale Service. Renaming the node (`--name`, `install.sh name`) is opt-in
and defaults to no, because the tailnet name is also the machine's SSH identity.
maintainer's production setup.) `CODEMAN_TAILSCALE=1` presets the choice for
automation; the installer never runs `tailscale serve reset` and never touches
serve mappings other than `443 -> Codeman's port`.
### B. Authenticated cloudflared tunnel + password
@@ -320,8 +312,8 @@ TOCTOU window.
| Route | Cap | Notes |
|-------|-----|-------|
| `file-content` | 10 MB | text preview |
| `file-raw` | 2 GB (`CODEMAN_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES`, `0` = unlimited) | 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) |
| `GET /api/download` | same cap | forced `attachment`; sensitive‑path blocklist; streamed, `Range`-aware |
| `file-raw` | 50 MB | inline MIME map; **`X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff` on all responses** |
| `POST /api/download` | 50 MB | forced `attachment`; sensitive‑path blocklist |
### SVG / content‑type XSS
@@ -348,7 +340,7 @@ the attachment guard below.
Live external attachments (`src/attachment-registry.ts`) mint an `att_<uuid>` id
for a host file so browser requests carry the id, never an absolute path. Serving
is by id (`GET /api/sessions/:id/attachments/:attachmentId/raw`, same download cap,
is by id (`GET /api/sessions/:id/attachments/:attachmentId/raw`, 50 MB cap,
`nosniff`) and re‑resolves the symlink + re‑checks the **attachment guard**
(`src/config/attachment-guard.ts`: the shared sensitive‑path blocklist **plus**
the `/root` and `/etc` trees, extendable via `attachmentBlockedPaths` /
@@ -497,7 +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}`, five seeded files from `~/.pi/agent`, three from `~/.grok`, and, only when their opt-in switches `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH` / `_AZ` are `1`, `~/.config/gh/{hosts.yml,config.yml}` and the sign-in files from `~/.azure`) 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 — and `~/.config/{gcloud,opencode}`) 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.
@@ -516,19 +508,17 @@ Full feature guide: [`docker-cases.md`](docker-cases.md).
- **Auth is a parallel branch** (`middleware/auth.ts`) that leaves the single‑user path untouched: per‑user scrypt verify (`timingSafeEqual`, timing‑equalized against user enumeration), identity‑carrying cookies, a per‑username failure bucket (a botnet can't brute one account across IPs; one NATed user can't lock out the rest), and a `mustChangePassword` lockbox. The hook‑secret loopback bypass, host guard, and Origin/CSRF guard are unchanged (hooks authenticate the INSTANCE, not a user).
- **Ownership is enforced server‑side only** and fails closed: `req.authUser` (a synthetic admin in single‑user), `findSessionOrFail` returns NOT_FOUND (never 403) for a foreign session, list/SSE/WS/file‑preview/search all filter by `session.owner`, and SSE routing defaults session‑scoped events to their owner (unresolved owner → withheld). The load‑bearing rule is **non‑admin `workingDir` confinement**: a non‑admin's session/one‑shot working dir must realpath‑resolve inside `~/codeman-users/<name>/cases`, checked BEFORE any disk write.
- **Privileged actions are a one‑bit grant** (`canBypassPermissions`, default off): only granted users (and admins) get `--dangerously-skip-permissions` (others are silently downgraded to `--permission-mode auto`), shell‑mode sessions, cron `launchCommand`, and other CLIs' bypass flags. Machine‑level resources (remote/Docker host definitions, tunnel, self‑update, settings writes) are admin‑only.
- **Clone Repo does not lend the server's git sign-in to non-admins.** A clone writes only inside the caller's own case space, so it is not admin-gated, but the server account's git credential helpers (the Docker image's opt-in `gh`/`az` helpers, or any `gh auth setup-git`) are shared by every user. A non-admin's clone and preflight therefore run with `git -c credential.helper=`, which empties the helper list including the URL-scoped entries (`cloneWithoutCredentialHelpers` in `case-routes.ts`, argv pinned in `test/git-clone.test.ts`). This closes the Clone Repo path only: the account's SSH keys still apply to an `ssh://` URL, and a non-admin's agent sessions run as the same account, consistent with the first bullet above. Docker cases are a second route to the same sign-in: with `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH`/`_AZ` on, a non-admin's Docker case with credential seeding on (the default) receives a copy of the server account's `gh`/`az` sign-in, exactly as it receives the Claude and Codex credentials.
- **Admin actions are audited** append‑only to `~/.codeman/admin-audit.jsonl` (acting admin, action, target, IP). Passwords set by an admin create/reset are one‑time (returned once, force change). Under Basic auth, `logout` only truly ends QR‑issued sessions — to lock someone out, disable the account or reset the password (a proper login form is a deferred Phase 6).
---
## 10b. Web tabs (dashboard proxy)
A saved dashboard URL renders as a tab, served through Codeman's own origin at `/webview/<capability>/`. User guide: [`web-tabs.md`](web-tabs.md). Four properties carry the security weight:
A saved dashboard URL renders as a tab, served through Codeman's own origin at `/webview/<capability>/`. User guide: [`web-tabs.md`](web-tabs.md). Three properties carry the security weight:
- **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`.
- **The lost‑frame recovery page is the third unauthenticated 200, and the only one decided by request headers alone.** The proxy's runtime shim masks `/webview/<cap>/` off the page's own URL so a single‑page app routes on the path it expects; a navigation the page then starts itself (`location.reload()`, a root‑absolute `location.href`) lands on Codeman's root with no capability anywhere, no cookie (opaque origin) and a Referer naming the masked page. `serveLostWebviewFrame()` in `middleware/auth.ts` recognises it by shape (`GET`/`HEAD`, `Sec-Fetch-Dest: iframe` or `frame`, `Accept: text/html`, `Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate` or absent) and answers, BEFORE the credential checks and without counting an auth failure, with a static page whose only content is a `postMessage` of the lost path to the parent tab (`default-src 'none'` plus the hash of that one script, `no-store`, `referrer: no-referrer`, no reflected input). It is fenced to paths that are NOT registered routes and never `/api/`, `/ws/` or `/q/`, with one carve‑out: `/` itself, because the landing page masks to exactly `/` and its reload otherwise rendered Codeman's app shell inside the web tab. `/` is admitted only when the request carries neither the `codeman_session` cookie nor an `Authorization` header: nothing in Codeman frames its own root and a sandboxed frame has neither, while a framed `/` that does carry credentials still gets the shell. On a passwordless install no auth hook runs, so the index route applies the same test itself (`isLostWebviewRootFrame`). ⚠️ Known property, accepted rather than mitigated: those headers are trivially set by a non‑browser client, so an unauthenticated caller can distinguish a registered route (401) from a non‑route (200) and enumerate the route table; the routes are public in `docs/api-reference.md`, so nothing is learned. Pinned by `test/webview-auth-exemption.test.ts` (password) and `test/webview-lost-root-frame.test.ts` (passwordless).
- **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). 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.
- **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).
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| `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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# Session lineage lines (spawn lines between tabs)
**Goal:** when a session spawns another session (the `codeman` agent skill starting a
worker, or anything else that says who it is), draw the same kind of glowing connection
line the subagent windows already use, but **tab → tab**, so a glance at the strip shows
which tab spawned which.
Status: PLAN. Nothing implemented yet.
---
## 1. The blocking fact: no parent relationship exists today
There is no spawn-parent link between sessions anywhere in the codebase:
- `SessionState` (`src/types/session.ts:388`) has no `parentSessionId` / `spawnedBy` /
`createdBy`.
- `POST /api/quick-start` and `POST /api/sessions` record only `owner = ownerFor(req)`,
which is the multi-user **human**, not the calling session.
- The only parent links that do exist are `TeamConfig.leadSessionId` (agent teams) and
`subagent-parents.json` (a frontend **window-layout** store for subagent windows).
Neither says "session A spawned session B".
- Nothing in the HTTP request identifies the caller: an agent's spawn call is plain
`curl` from inside a tmux pane, so there is no socket-level identity to recover
(`SO_PEERCRED` needs a unix socket; the API is TCP).
So the caller has to **tell** us. It already knows its own id: every managed pane gets
`CODEMAN_SESSION_ID` exported by `session-cli-builder.ts` (and the skill's §0 preamble
already binds it to `$SELF`).
## 2. Wire format
Two ways in, because they serve different callers. Body wins when both are present.
| Where | Shape | Who uses it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| body field | `"parentSessionId": "<uuid>"` | anything hand-writing one create call |
| request header | `X-Codeman-Parent-Session: <uuid>` | the skill: added **once** to the `CURL` array in the §0 preamble, so every present and future create call carries it with no per-recipe edit |
Rules, all of them deliberate:
- **Advisory decoration only.** It never grants access, never scopes anything, never
affects lifecycle. A child is not killed when its parent dies; the line just stops
being drawn once the parent tab is gone.
- **Never fails a spawn.** An unknown / stale / foreign parent id is silently dropped
(field ends up `undefined`), not a `400`. A cosmetic field must not be able to break
worker creation.
- **Resolved, not trusted.** The id must match a live session the caller can already
see (`canAccessOwned`), and the resolved parent's `owner` must equal the new
session's `owner`. Otherwise a user could staple their session under another user's
tab in multi-user mode.
- Exact id match first; a `>= 8`-char **unique** prefix match as a fallback (ids appear
truncated in mux names and UI surfaces; ambiguous prefixes resolve to nothing).
## 3. Server changes
| File | Change |
| --- | --- |
| `src/types/session.ts` | `SessionState.parentSessionId?: string` with a doc comment saying it is UI decoration and never a permission signal |
| `src/session.ts` | constructor option `parentSessionId` → `_parentSessionId`, public getter, emitted from `toState()` (~line 1170) |
| `src/web/schemas.ts` | `parentSessionId: z.string().max(100).optional()` on `CreateSessionSchema` (272) and `QuickStartSchema` (680). Neither is `.strict()`, so this is additive |
| `src/web/route-helpers.ts` | new `resolveParentSessionId(ctx, req, bodyValue, owner)` implementing §2's rules; returns `string \| undefined`, never throws |
| `src/web/routes/session-routes.ts` | pass it into the three `new Session({...})` sites: `POST /api/sessions` (846), `POST /api/run` (2522), `POST /api/quick-start` (2896) |
| `src/web/server.ts` | recovery path (~2617): `parentSessionId: savedState?.parentSessionId` so the link survives a restart |
**No new SSE event.** `session_created` / `session_updated` broadcast
`getSessionStateWithRespawn(session)`, which is `toState()`-derived, so the field rides
along to the browser for free — and the frontend already does
`this.sessions.set(data.id, data)`, so `session.parentSessionId` is simply there.
Optional follow-up: surface it on `/api/sessions/unified` rows so the Session Manager
and the home rails can show "spawned by w3-claudeman".
## 4. Frontend rendering
### 4.1 Where the code goes
`_updateConnectionLinesImmediate()` (`subagent-windows.js:242`) is a strict
**batched read → batched write** pass, and it already has an extension point:
ultracode appends its own layer via `_appendUltracodeConnectionLines(svg, rects)` at
the end, sharing the `rects` cache so no layer forces a second reflow.
Lineage lines follow that exactly: a new module `src/web/public/session-lineage.js`
(load order 15.6, after `ultracode-windows.js`) exporting
`_appendLineageConnectionLines(svg, rects)` onto `CodemanApp.prototype`, called from the
same tail. **The core function keeps ownership of the read/write split**; the new layer
only reads through the shared `rects` map and only appends paths.
The path math itself lives in `constants.js` as a pure
`computeLineagePath(parentRect, childRect, stripRect, depth)` — same treatment as
`computeTabScrollLeft`, so the geometry is unit-testable without a browser.
### 4.2 Geometry
Both endpoints are tabs in one horizontal strip, so the subagent shape (tab-bottom →
window-top) does not apply. **One case**, a **U-bridge hanging below the strip** that
touches both tabs on their bottom edge:
```
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
```
`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`,
`data-child-tab`, and `data-agent-id="lineage:<childId>"` — that last one is what makes
the existing entrance machinery (`markConnectionLineEntering` / `_applyLineEntrances`,
keyed on `data-agent-id`) work on these lines with **zero** new animation code,
including the negative-`animation-delay` resume across the `svg.innerHTML = ''` rebuild.
### 4.3 Clipping
`.session-tabs` is `overflow-x: auto`, so a tab scrolled out of the strip still has a
rect — one that lies outside the strip box and would draw an arc across the logo or the
header buttons. **Skip any edge whose parent or child center falls outside
`stripRect` (4px tolerance).** Skipping is honest; clamping would draw a line to a tab
that is not there.
### 4.4 Redraw triggers
`updateConnectionLines()` already coalesces through `scheduleBackground`, so extra
callers are cheap. Needed:
- `_fullRenderSessionTabs()` — already calls it (app.js:3912). Free.
- `_renderSessionTabsImmediate()` — does **not**. A badge appearing widens a tab and
moves every tab after it, which slides the arcs off their anchors. Add the call,
guarded on `this._lineageEdgeCount > 0` so nobody pays for it without the feature.
- **strip `scroll`** (passive listener on `#sessionTabs`) — the arcs must track the
scroller. This is new; no existing line layer needed it.
- window `resize` — piggyback the throttled handler in `terminal-ui.js:930`.
- `_onSessionCreated` — `markConnectionLineEntering('lineage:' + data.id)` so a new
child draws in **if** the user has a line-entrance theme on (all entrance styles are
`legacy`/off by default, so this is a no-op for an untouched install).
### 4.5 Styling
`.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.
Optional signal worth having: `.lineage-line--working` (a slow `stroke-dashoffset`
march) only while the **child** session is working, wrapped in
`prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference`. Static otherwise — a permanently marching line
per tab pair is noise and battery.
### 4.6 Desktop only, and why
The SVG overlay is `z-index: 999`. On desktop the header is `z-index: 100`, so arcs
paint **over** the header and can touch tab bottoms. Under 1024px `mobile.css` makes the
header `position: fixed; z-index: 1200`, which would **bury** the arcs — and the phone
strip is a scroller where both endpoints are rarely on screen together anyway. So the
layer returns early unless `MobileDetection.getDeviceType() === 'desktop'`.
Raising the SVG to ~1250 (above the fixed header, below modals at 1300) is a possible
phase 2, but it needs a real check against the mobile overview and the drawer.
### 4.7 Setting
`sessionLineageLines`, **per-device** — so it goes in the `displayKeys` set in
`settings-ui.js` and must **not** be added to `SettingsUpdateSchema` (`.strict()`;
sending an undeclared key fails the whole PUT). Rendered as a switch in
App Settings → Appearance, beside the entrance-animation pickers.
**Default: ON for desktop** (phones never render it). This is the one deliberate
departure from the "new visual surfaces ship OFF" convention — the feature is the
request, and a user with 12 unrelated tabs has a one-click off switch. Flag for the
owner if the convention should win instead.
## 5. Optional extras (call them separately, none are required)
1. **Order children after their parent** in `sessionOrder` on create, so arcs stay short
and the strip reads as a tree. Real cost: it renumbers the Alt+N badges and moves
tabs under the user's cursor, so it should be its own toggle, default OFF.
2. **Lineage hover focus**: hovering a tab dims unrelated arcs and brightens its own
subtree.
3. **"Spawned by" in the Session Manager / home rails**, once `parentSessionId` is on
the unified rows.
4. **Inherited tab tint**: children pick up a faded version of the parent's tab color.
## 6. Tests
- `test/session-lineage.test.ts` (route-level, `app.inject`): round-trips through
`POST /api/sessions` + `POST /api/quick-start`, header path, body-wins-over-header,
unknown id dropped without failing the spawn, cross-owner parent dropped in
multi-user, field present in `GET /api/sessions` and persisted state.
- `test/session-lineage-lines.test.ts` (jsdom, pure): `computeLineagePath` — same-row U,
wrapped-row bezier, sibling nesting depth, off-strip skip, degenerate zero-width rects.
- Browser check (not in `test:ci`): spawn two workers with a parent, assert two
`path.lineage-line` elements anchored to the right tabs, then scroll the strip and
assert they moved.
- Existing guards that must stay green: `test/mobile-header-buttons-policy.test.ts`
(nothing new on phones), `test/app-settings-structure.test.ts` (the new switch pairs
with its rail section).
## 7. Skill side (owned by the release session, not this plan)
One line in the `codeman` skill's §0 preamble covers every spawn recipe:
```bash
CURL=(curl -sk "${AUTH[@]}" -H "X-Codeman-Parent-Session: $SELF")
```
plus a `CODEMAN_PREAMBLE` version bump so stale cached preambles fail loudly instead of
silently spawning unparented workers. Recipes that build a create payload by hand can
alternatively send `"parentSessionId":"'"$SELF"'"`.
## 8. Docs to update when it lands
`CLAUDE.md` (a Key Patterns bullet), `docs/architecture-invariants.md` (new anchor: the
resolve-don't-trust rule, the desktop-only z-index reason, the shared `rects` pass),
`docs/api-reference.md` (the new field + header on the create endpoints).
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# Split-Pane Sessions — Design Spec
**Status**: Implemented (v1)
**Author**: Claude (session with Tim), 2026-09-15
**Scope**: v1 only. v2 items are named and explicitly deferred, not designed.
## Problem
Codeman's terminal area shows exactly one active session (pane) at a time —
switching panes re-binds the single xterm instance and the single WebSocket
to a different session. Multi-monitor spanning (`scripts/span-codeman.sh` /
`span-codeman.ps1`) turned out to solve a different problem: it makes one
browser window bigger, but that window still shows one session; floating
subagent windows are draggable overlays on top of it, not tiled panes. There
is no way today to see two live sessions (e.g. `w1-codeman` and
`w1-mcp-memory`) side-by-side in one window, even on a monitor wide enough to
fit both.
## Goal (v1)
From the active session, open a **second, independent, fully live session**
in a pane beside it — draggable divider, side-by-side only. Closing the
second pane collapses back to today's normal single-pane view. No
persistence: a page reload always returns to single-pane. Floating
subagent/Ultracode windows keep their current behavior unchanged (global,
unconstrained across the whole viewport, split or not).
Explicitly out of scope for v1 (v2 candidates, not designed here):
- More than 2 panes / grid layouts
- Vertical (stacked) splits
- Drag-a-tab-to-split as a trigger (v1 trigger is an explicit button + picker)
- Persisting the split layout across reload or across devices
- Mobile/tablet layouts (viewport is too narrow for this to make sense; gated
to desktop widths the same way `home-sessions.js`'s rail is)
- Feature parity between the two panes (see "Pane B is deliberately plainer"
below)
## Current architecture (why this isn't a CSS change)
`terminal-ui.js` is built entirely around **singleton** state: `this.terminal`
(one xterm instance), `this._ws`/`this._wsSessionId` (one WebSocket, rebound
on every pane switch via `_disconnectWs()` + `_connectWs(newId)`), a
`this._xtermSnapshots` map used only to restore scrollback into that one
terminal when switching back to a session. Roughly 280 references to this
singleton state exist across the file (input handling, resize/fit, sizing-
token claims, mobile touch gestures, CJK IME, local-echo overlay wiring,
keyboard accessory bar, link providers, etc.).
Showing two sessions at once therefore requires a second, independently
alive xterm + WebSocket pair running concurrently — not a layout change to
one shared instance.
**Related prior art**: `detachSession(id)` (app.js) already opens one session
in a genuinely separate browser window (`isSoloWindow` mode) with its own
independent WebSocket, and two of those can already be snapped side-by-side
today with zero new code. That covers "two sessions visible at once" but not
what this spec is for: one Codeman window with two panes and a divider you
can drag without leaving your seat, each still a full participant in that
window's floating subagent windows, header, and settings. This spec builds
past detach, not a duplicate of it.
**Server-side check (done, not just assumed)**: `MAX_WS_PER_SESSION = 5`
(`src/web/routes/ws-routes.ts`), scoped by `clientId:tabNonce`
(`ws-connection-registry.ts`). Splitting always opens a *different* session
in the second pane (self-splitting is disallowed, see below), so this is two
sessions each getting their normal one connection — the existing cap is
irrelevant here and needs no server change.
## Key design decision: Pane B is deliberately plainer than Pane A
Porting all ~280 singleton behaviors to a second, symmetric pane is not
worth it for v1 — most of that code is input-quality-of-life for **mobile/
touch** (local-echo overlay, CJK IME textarea, touch gesture handling,
keyboard accessory bar), and this feature is desktop-only by nature (a split
view needs a wide viewport). So:
- **Pane A** (the session that was already active when you opened the split)
stays exactly what it is today — `this.terminal`, `this._ws`, unchanged
code path, zero regression risk.
- **Pane B** is a new, smaller `SplitTerminalPane` object: its own xterm
instance + fit addon, its own WebSocket to `/ws/sessions/:id/terminal`,
resize-on-divider-drag, and plain keyboard input. It does **not** get the
local-echo overlay, CJK IME composition, touch/mobile handlers, or the
keyboard accessory bar. On a desktop, typing directly into an xterm
instance with no overlay is exactly how Codeman behaved before the local-
echo overlay existed for touch devices — normal, not degraded, for a
keyboard-and-mouse user.
If this asymmetry actually bothers you in daily use, promoting Pane B to full
parity is a scoped v2 (extract the shared logic already once you have two
call sites to compare, rather than guessing the right abstraction now).
One more asymmetry worth naming here rather than discovering by surprise:
while both panes accept keyboard input, the global capture-phase shortcut
handler (`app.js`) always resolves against Pane A — it has no notion of
which pane currently has focus. So Ctrl+L or Ctrl+W typed while Pane B has
focus clears or closes Pane A, not the session you were actually typing
into. Not fixed for v1, same reasoning as the rest of this section.
## Components
### 1. `SplitTerminalPane` (new, `terminal-split.js`)
A small class, one instance per secondary pane:
- `constructor(sessionId, mountEl)`
- `connect()` — creates the xterm instance (same theme/font config as the
primary, read from the same settings so it doesn't visually clash), opens
`/ws/sessions/:id/terminal`, wires input → WS, WS → terminal write
- `fit()` — calls the fit addon; called on divider drag (rAF-throttled) and
on window resize
- `destroy()` — disposes the xterm instance, closes the WS cleanly
No snapshot/scrollback-restore map is needed the way `_xtermSnapshots` exists
for Pane A — Pane B is destroyed on close, not hidden-and-restored, since
there's no persistence requirement.
### 2. Split container (layout)
```
.terminal-split-container (flex row, only rendered when split is active)
├── .terminal-wrap (existing element, Pane A — untouched)
├── .split-divider (new, draggable seam)
└── .terminal-pane-b (new, hosts SplitTerminalPane's xterm + a
small header: session name + × close button)
```
When not split, `.terminal-wrap` renders exactly as it does today (no
wrapping container at all, to keep the no-split path byte-identical to
current behavior). Splitting inserts the container and reparents
`.terminal-wrap` into it as the first child — same reparenting pattern
already used by `applySessionListLayout()` for `#sessionTabs`, so this isn't
a new pattern for the codebase.
Default split is 50/50 (`flex-basis: 50%` each). Divider drag updates both
panes' `flex-basis` live (rAF-throttled) and calls `fit()` on **both**
terminals per tick, clamped to 20%/80% so neither pane can be dragged into an
unusably thin sliver.
### 3. Trigger UI
A **"Split"** button (header, opt-in like the other header buttons —
`showSplitButton`, default off, same pattern as `showMultiMonitorButton`)
opens a small picker listing your other open sessions (reuses
`this.sessions`/`sessionOrder`, filtered to exclude the currently active
session — you cannot split a session against itself). Picking one:
1. Creates the split container, reparents `.terminal-wrap`
2. Instantiates `SplitTerminalPane` for the chosen session in `.terminal-pane-b`
3. Button state flips to "close split" (or Pane B's own header × does it)
Closing (via Pane B's × or the header button toggling off):
1. `SplitTerminalPane.destroy()`
2. Removes `.terminal-split-container`, reparents `.terminal-wrap` back to
its original location at 100% width
3. Fires a resize/fit on Pane A (same `ResizeObserver`-driven fit already in
place today — no new code needed here, it fires naturally once the
container's size changes)
v2 note (not designed): dragging a session tab onto the active pane as an
alternate trigger. You confirmed right-click doesn't work today (Codeman
doesn't intercept it) and declined a keybind, so v1 is button+picker only.
### 4. Failure / edge cases
- **The Pane B session ends or is deleted while split is active** → treat
identically to the user closing Pane B manually: destroy the pane, collapse
to Pane A at full width.
- **The Pane A session ends while split is active** → Pane B is promoted:
it becomes the new single full-width pane (reusing today's normal
single-pane code path means Pane B's `SplitTerminalPane` must hand off to
a real `this.terminal`/`this._ws` binding — simplest correct approach is
to just collapse the split and let normal session-select logic reopen
Pane B's session as the new primary, rather than trying to promote the
lightweight pane object in place).
- **Both end** → falls through to today's normal "no active session" /
welcome-screen state.
- **Subagent/Ultracode floating windows** → no design work needed; they're
already positioned independent of `.terminal-wrap`'s layout, so they
continue to float over whichever pane(s) are on screen, unconstrained,
exactly as today.
## Testing
- Unit: `SplitTerminalPane` connect/fit/destroy lifecycle (mock WS, like
existing terminal tests use `TEST_PTY_SCRIPT`).
- Route/integration: opening two WS connections to two different sessions
from one simulated client concurrently — confirms the existing per-session
cap and connection registry need no changes.
- Browser (Playwright, `test/browser` since this is desktop-viewport-gated
UI): open split via button+picker, verify both panes render live output
independently, drag divider and confirm both refit, close Pane B and
confirm Pane A returns to full width, kill the Pane B session externally
and confirm auto-collapse.
## Open questions for review
None blocking — the scope-narrowing decisions above (Pane B feature parity,
no persistence, side-by-side only, button+picker trigger) came directly from
your answers during brainstorming. Flag anything here you want reconsidered.
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# Tailscale Setup in the Installer (Plan)
> Superseded in part by [`installer-v2-plan.md`](installer-v2-plan.md) (2026-09-20), which
> moved every human step before the build, added the sub-path / second-port answer for an
> occupied `:443`, the opt-in rename, flags, and the done screen with a QR code. The
> state machine and safety rules below still hold.
Goal: make "Codeman over Tailscale, with real HTTPS" a first-class, guided path in
`install.sh`, instead of a one-line hint pointing at the docs. Today the safest
recommended deployment (loopback bind + `tailscale serve`) is exactly what the
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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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> **Status: SHIPPED — deployed to prod + pushed to master, not yet released (2026-06-14).** App Settings → Display → **Plan Usage Limits** (`showPlanUsageLimits`). **Default changed in 1.9.3: desktop now defaults ON, handhelds stay OFF, resolved via `planUsageChipEnabled()`.** The per-device notes further down describing it as opt-in/synced record the original 2026-06-14 shape, not current behavior. Commits `c82f6c8` (feature) → `4d9d93d` (end-to-end fixes) → `eae225b` (per-user reconcile) → `95fb5fc` (init-snapshot replay). Full suite green (2869), CI green. No changeset/version bump yet.
>
> **2026-09-07 rework — the "Injection lifecycle" section below (disk-write reconcile via `applyStatusLineConfig`) is SUPERSEDED and describes the OLD mechanism, kept for history.** That disk write let a Codeman-marked `statusLine.command` in `.claude/settings.local.json` take precedence over the user's own global/project statusline for ANY `claude` run in that directory — including entirely outside Codeman — with no disclosure and no way to undo it (real bug, found 2026-08-31). The exporter is now injected as an EPHEMERAL `claude --settings` CLI flag at spawn (`resolveStatusLineCliCommand`/`ensureStatusLineExporterScript`, hooks-config.ts) — never written to disk — and it WRAPS the user's own real statusline (`findEffectiveUserStatusLineCommand`) rather than replacing it. `showPlanUsageLimits` now doubles as the telemetry COLLECTION switch too: `readPlanUsageTelemetryEnabled()` reads it fresh from `settings.json` at every claude session create/respawn (`TmuxManager.createSession`/`respawnPane`), so it applies uniformly across every claude-creation path — interactive Run, cron, the Ralph Loop API, quick-start — with no per-session state (a Codeman restart cannot silently kill it) and no per-request field on the wire at all. An absent key reads as ON (the reader resolves the default; `GET /api/settings` never writes), and a settings save carries the key only when it flips the chip on that device, so a handheld with the chip off cannot switch collection off for a desktop by saving something unrelated. The exporter prints nothing on failure rather than the bare word `codeman` (discussion #405).
>
> Two surfaces from one `statusLine` callback:
> - **Header chip** (top-right) — account-wide **plan limits**: `5h 35% · 7d 38%`, per-window green/yellow/red.
> - **In-terminal statusline footer** — the **current session's** status: `Opus 4.8 (1M context) in:562,411 out:1,188 ctx:56%`.
@@ -112,33 +110,33 @@ Fixed path (sessionId in the **body**, not the URL) so the auth exemption is an
2. **Fresh load / reconnect:** server stores the latest in `plan-usage-latest.ts`; `getLightState()` includes it as `planUsage`; the per-connection **init snapshot** replays it; `handleInit` paints the chip immediately (authoritative over localStorage). Null until the first telemetry of the process.
3. **Offline / cross-restart:** `restorePlanUsageChip()` reads `localStorage` on load (12h freshness guard).
### 5. Injection lifecycle (SUPERSEDED 2026-09-07 — see header note; kept for history)
### 5. Injection lifecycle — works for *any* user, never self-destructs
The setting `showPlanUsageLimits` is **synced** (in `settings.json`, not a per-device `displayKey`).
- ~~**On toggle** (`PUT /api/settings`, `system-routes.ts`): reconcile the exporter across **all active Claude sessions' working dirs** — inject on enable, remove on disable.~~ There is nothing to (re)inject into an already-running session under the new CLI-flag mechanism — the NEXT respawn (a Ralph cycle, `/clear`, a PTY-exit restart) already reads the setting fresh.
- ~~**On session create** (`session-routes.ts`): **ADD-ONLY** — inject when `statusLineTelemetry` is true; **never remove**.~~ There is no `statusLineTelemetry` request field anymore. `TmuxManager.createSession`/`respawnPane` read `readPlanUsageTelemetryEnabled()` fresh at spawn instead, uniformly across every claude-creation path.
- ~~`applyStatusLineConfig()` is **`isOurs`-guarded**~~ — `applyStatusLineConfig` still exists but only for the SELF-HEAL path now (`resolveStatusLineCliCommand` strips a legacy disk-written exporter the first time a session starts in a workspace an older Codeman build touched).
- **On toggle** (`PUT /api/settings`, `system-routes.ts`): reconcile the exporter across **all active Claude sessions' working dirs** — inject on enable, remove on disable. Server-side and authoritative, so existing sessions get the footer + feed the chip *immediately*, no new session needed, no dependency on a client's synced localStorage.
- **On session create** (`session-routes.ts`): **ADD-ONLY** — inject when `statusLineTelemetry` is true; **never remove**. Sessions in a repo share one `settings.local.json`, so a single create-with-false (e.g. a client whose synced setting hadn't loaded) must not yank the statusLine out from under other live sessions. Removal happens only via the explicit toggle.
- `applyStatusLineConfig()` is **`isOurs`-guarded** (matches `/api/status-telemetry`), so a user's own hand-authored statusLine is never touched, and it **updates an out-of-date ours-command** so fixes (e.g. `-k`) propagate. **No `CASES_DIR` gate** — runs for linked cases / real repos (where sessions actually run), mirroring `updateCaseModel`.
## Codeman-specific considerations
1. **Account-global limits.** The 5h/7d pools are shared across all sessions on the account → one shared header chip (freshest sample wins), not a per-tab bar.
2. **The footer is owned, by necessity.** A statusLine command always replaces Claude's default footer. Since `rate_limits` *only* arrives via statusLine, we reconstruct a useful **session-status** footer (model · tokens · ctx %) from the same payload rather than showing the limits there.
3. **Never overwrites, now WRAPS.** The exporter composes with a user's own real statusline (`findEffectiveUserStatusLineCommand`) rather than replacing it; `applyStatusLineConfig`'s `isOurs`-guard now only backs the legacy self-heal removal path.
3. **`isOurs`-guarded.** Never removes/overwrites a user's own statusLine on disable; only manages the Codeman exporter.
4. **Security envelope unchanged.** The exporter runs arbitrary shell every render — same trust model as the hook curls (localhost + `$CODEMAN_HOOK_SECRET_FILE`); reuses the hook-secret gate.
5. **Claude-only, registry-gated.** Injection is gated on `getCli(mode)?.capabilities.statusLineTelemetry` (currently `true` only for claude) rather than a hardcoded `mode === 'claude'` string.
5. **Claude-only.** OpenCode/Codex emit no `rate_limits` JSON; injection is gated to `mode === 'claude'`.
6. **Future — auto-resume synergy.** Live percentages would let `SessionAutoOps` pre-arm *before* the wall instead of reacting to the stall footer. Not built.
## Files shipped
- `src/usage-telemetry.ts` — pure parse/format (`parseStatusTelemetry`, `parseSessionStatus`, `formatSessionStatusText`, `telemetrySignature`) + `test/usage-telemetry.test.ts`.
- `src/hooks-config.ts` — `resolveStatusLineCliCommand()`/`ensureStatusLineExporterScript()` (ephemeral CLI-flag injection, never disk), `findEffectiveUserStatusLineCommand()` (wrap the user's real statusline), `readPlanUsageTelemetryEnabled()` (fresh global-setting read), `applyStatusLineConfig()` (legacy self-heal removal only now).
- `src/session-cli-registry-bridge.ts` — merges the exporter path into the SAME `--settings` JSON object as effort/ultracode (Claude Code accepts only one `--settings` flag per invocation).
- `src/hooks-config.ts` — `generateStatusLineCommand()` (`curl -sk`), `applyStatusLineConfig()` (add/update/remove, `isOurs`-guarded).
- `src/web/routes/status-telemetry-routes.ts` — `POST /api/status-telemetry`.
- `src/web/plan-usage-latest.ts` — process-wide last-known store for init replay.
- `src/web/schemas.ts` — `StatusTelemetrySchema` + `showPlanUsageLimits` (no separate create-payload or action field anymore).
- `src/web/schemas.ts` — `StatusTelemetrySchema` + `showPlanUsageLimits` + create-payload `statusLineTelemetry`.
- `src/web/middleware/auth.ts` — exemption extended to `/api/status-telemetry`.
- `src/tmux-manager.ts` — `createSession`/`respawnPane` read `readPlanUsageTelemetryEnabled()` fresh at spawn.
- `src/web/routes/session-routes.ts` — add-only create-time injection.
- `src/web/routes/system-routes.ts` — settings-toggle reconcile.
- `src/web/server.ts` — `getLightState().planUsage` (init snapshot).
- `src/web/sse-events.ts` + `constants.js` — `session:statusTelemetry`.
- Frontend: `app.js` (`_onSessionStatusTelemetry`, `updatePlanUsageChip`, `restorePlanUsageChip`, `handleInit`), `settings-ui.js` (toggle + `applyHeaderVisibilitySettings`), `index.html` (chip + toggle row), `styles.css` (chip + colors), `session-ui.js` (create payload).
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@@ -52,37 +52,6 @@ sandbox, cookies, CORS, CSP, or any reverse proxy sitting in front of Codeman, s
passing Test does not guarantee the embedded page will render (see the
cookie-authenticated reverse proxy caveat below).
## Links to `localhost` from another device
An agent prints `http://localhost:5173/` (a dev server, a preview, a report it just
served) and you tap it on your phone. That address only exists on the Codeman box, so
the phone's browser can never load it — but the web-tab proxy fetches from the server,
where it works.
So a **loopback** link (`localhost`, `127.0.0.0/8`, `0.0.0.0`, `::1`) clicked
in the terminal or in the Response Viewer opens as a **proxied web tab** whenever the
Codeman page itself is not on that box. A saved proxied dashboard on the same origin is
reused (one tab per dev server, with the link's own path opened inside it, and one tab
per dev server rather than per host spelling, so `localhost:5173` and `127.0.0.1:5173`
share it); otherwise one is saved under its `host:port` so it is in the Run dropdown
next time, and a toast tells you it was saved. Sandboxed by default, like any other web
tab.
⚠️ **`*.localhost` is deliberately not auto-routed**, even though a browser treats it as
loopback. Every other name in that list is an address literal that can only mean this
box; a `*.localhost` DNS name is not one, and on a resolver with a search domain
configured `evil.localhost` can be retried as `evil.localhost.<search domain>`, which
someone else can control. Since the links come from agent output, one tap would then
make Codeman fetch an agent-chosen origin server-side and save it. If you really run
`api.localhost` dev hosts, add that dashboard by hand: doing so is an explicit action,
which is the difference that matters here. A **trusted** (non-sandboxed) dashboard is
likewise never auto-reused by a tapped link, for the same reason.
Only loopback is routed this way. A LAN or tailnet address (`192.168.…`, `100.…`,
`box.ts.net`) may well be reachable from the device — a VPN, the same Wi-Fi — and a
direct open is the cheaper, richer path, so those links still open in a new browser tab.
On the box itself (a browser on `localhost`) every link opens directly.
## The sandbox, and when to turn it off
Because a proxied dashboard is served from Codeman's own address, it is
@@ -159,24 +128,6 @@ layers cooperate so a dashboard talking to its own backend just works:
using its `Referer` to identify the dashboard. This only fires for a request
that already missed every Codeman route, and never for one that resolves to a
real route, which is what keeps it from being an authentication bypass.
5. The same script **masks the proxy prefix off the page's own URL** before any
of the page's code runs (`history.replaceState` to the path the page would see
on its own origin). A single-page app routes on `location.pathname` at boot,
and `/webview/<cap>/` is a path no app has a route for: without this, a React
Router / Vue Router / Next dev server painted its HTML and CSS and then replaced
them with its own "page not found" the moment its script ran. The page only
*reads* the masked path; every URL it emits still goes through the layers above.
6. A navigation the page starts **itself** after that — `location.reload()` (a dev
server's full-reload HMR), a root-absolute `location.href = '/login'` — now
targets Codeman's root with no capability anywhere on it. Codeman recognises
that request by shape (a top-level `<iframe>` navigation asking for HTML, for a
path it does not serve) and answers a static page that does nothing but tell
the owning tab which path was lost; the tab remounts the frame inside the
prefix at that path. It never counts as a failed login, so a dev server that
reloads on every save cannot rate-limit its user out of Codeman. The landing
page is the one served path that gets the same answer: it masks to exactly
`/`, and a reload there is admitted as long as the request carries no Codeman
credentials, which a sandboxed frame never does.
On top of that, the proxy answers those requests with CORS headers. That sounds
wrong for same-host requests, but a sandboxed iframe has an *opaque* origin, so the
@@ -190,22 +141,10 @@ then every API call fails, which looks like the dashboard being broken.
EventSource, normal markup, the DOM sinks a page uses to build markup at runtime,
and `url()` inside stylesheets. Something that constructs requests by an unusual
route can still slip through. Symptom: the page renders but a panel stays empty.
- **A root-absolute `url()` inside an inline `<style>` is not rescued.** Masking the
page's URL (layer 5) trades away the `Referer` safety net of layer 4 for
requests the shim cannot see, and only HTML is rewritten server-side. An
external stylesheet is fine: a `url()` it references is fetched with the
stylesheet's own URL as `Referer`, which is still inside the prefix. A
root-absolute `url(/img.png)` written directly into a `<style>` block in the
document has the masked document as its `Referer`, so it 404s where the
fallback used to rescue it. Symptom: one background image missing while
everything else renders. Narrow, and a `url()` the page sets from script is
still covered by layer 3.
- **Root-absolute `location` navigation is recovered, not prevented.** `Location`
is unforgeable, so `location.href = '/login'` or `location.reload()` really does
leave the prefix; the frame comes back through the recovery hop in layer 6 above,
which needs a browser that sends `Sec-Fetch-Dest` (every current one; iOS Safari
since 16.4). Older browsers show Codeman's 404 in the frame; the tab's **Reload**
button puts it back.
- **Root-absolute `location` navigation.** A dashboard that navigates itself with
`location.href = '/login'` escapes the prefix, because `Location.href` is
unforgeable and cannot be patched the way the other sinks are. A relative
`location.href = 'login'` is fine (`<base>` covers it).
- **Cross-origin redirects are not followed.** If a dashboard bounces to a different
host (an external SSO provider, say), the proxy hands the redirect back unchanged
rather than relaying it, because relaying would make this an open proxy. Use
@@ -222,21 +161,10 @@ then every API call fails, which looks like the dashboard being broken.
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, 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.
- **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.
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# Agent CLIs
Codeman drives ten run modes: nine agent CLIs plus a plain shell. This page covers picking
one, setting it up, and the differences that actually change how you work.
## The ten 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) |
| **Grok Build** | `grok` | [github.com/xai-org/grok-build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build) |
| **DeepSeek Harness** | `dsh` | [github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness) |
| **OMP** | `omp` | [github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi) |
| **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`, `grok`, `omp` and `dsh` are additionally identity-probed rather than trusted by name:
`pi` and `omp` are generic enough that something else on your PATH may answer to them,
`grok` has npm squatters, and Debian ships an unrelated `dsh` (dancer's shell). Each has a
status endpoint (`/api/grok/status`, `/api/deepseek/status`, `/api/omp/status`) that reports
the path and version that actually resolved, so a misresolution is visible rather than
presenting as "the mode just does not work".
## 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 | Yes | Codex: same screen check, via its own prompt and working line. DeepSeek: reports its state itself. Others: output stabilization, coarser |
| Auto-resume when a usage limit resets | Yes | No |
| Plan usage chip | Yes | No |
| Approvals Inbox | Yes | DeepSeek yes; others 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 | DeepSeek yes; elsewhere 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.
- **Work detection is Codex's own.** Codex declares its `›` composer glyph and its
`esc to interrupt` working line, so it gets the same screen-checked idle detection Claude
does; before 1.26.1 every Codex session reported idle for its whole life. Codex
conversations also appear in Past Sessions and can be resumed, and on phones the keyboard
bar grows `⇧←` / `⇧→` for Codex's queued-message editing and prompt stack.
### 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).
### Grok Build
xAI's `grok`, installed with `curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash` into
`~/.grok/bin`. Codex-shaped on permissions and OpenCode-shaped on rendering:
- **Its bypass switch is `--always-approve`**, Grok's own `bypassPermissions` mode, and the
Run button sends it the way it sends Codex's. In multi-user mode a user without a grant
has it stripped.
- **Authentication is Grok's own**: browser OAuth on first run (a device-code screen inside
a Codeman pane), `grok login --device-auth` for headless hosts, or `XAI_API_KEY` as a
per-session environment override.
- It renders a full-screen TUI, so scrolling is local scrollback.
Guide: [`docs/grok-integration.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/grok-integration.md).
### DeepSeek Harness
The mode wired least like the others, for two reasons worth knowing before you use it.
**`dsh` is a launcher, not an agent.** It boots a *profile*, and the three DeepSeek ships
(`web`, `headless`, `base`) cannot drive a terminal pane. So "installed" and "runnable" are
different questions: the Run menu offers **DeepSeek** only once a pane-capable profile
exists, and until then shows **DeepSeek — add a terminal profile…**, which installs the
community `dsh-tui` with one click (`pnpm` must be on PATH, because the launcher spawns it
directly).
**Permissions are an environment variable, not a flag.** The harness has no
skip-permissions switch. `DSH_PERMISSION_MODE` (`read-only`, `workspace-write`,
`danger-full-access`) is the whole control, and it is the one setting Codeman deliberately
carries as an environment variable, because the harness reads it as a soft boot-time
default. In multi-user mode a user without a grant is clamped to `workspace-write`.
The reward for the odd wiring: **DeepSeek is the one non-Claude mode with real signals.**
Its terminal front door reports idle, working and blocked to Codeman, so a DeepSeek
session gets precise idle detection, the `stop` and `blocked` wait signals, and Approvals
Inbox items. Answers are read from the harness's own transcript on disk rather than
scraped off the pane. The model is not a session setting; it is part of the profile.
Guide: [`docs/deepseek-integration.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/deepseek-integration.md).
### OMP
Oh My Pi, installed with `curl -fsSL https://omp.sh/install | sh` into `~/.local/bin`.
OMP owns its auth, provider routing and approval mode entirely in `~/.omp`: there is no
Codeman-side login, key field, or bypass switch. Run `omp` once outside Codeman to finish
its own onboarding, and every session started through Codeman inherits that config. Its
documented default approval mode is `yolo`, so an OMP pane auto-approves tool use with no
flag from Codeman; change that in OMP's own config, not here.
OMP conversations appear in Past Sessions and can be resumed, and a respawn continues the
same conversation with `--continue`.
Guide: [`docs/omp-integration.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/omp-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_*` |
| Grok | `GROK_*`, `XAI_*` |
| DeepSeek | `DSH_*`, `DEEPSEEK_*` |
| OMP | `OMP_*` |
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. In multi-user mode
the keys that could redirect a CLI's traffic or move its config home (`DSH_PERMISSION_MODE`,
`DSH_HOME`, `DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`, `OMP_AUTH_BROKER_URL`, and the base URLs and config
directories of the others) are dropped for a user without the bypass grant.
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, Grok, OMP** 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.
- **DeepSeek Harness** if you want DeepSeek's models with real status signals. It is the one
non-Claude mode that reports idle, working and blocked to Codeman itself.
- **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.
## Pointing one at your own server
Most of these harnesses can also run against a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint instead of
their native cloud backend, for one session at a time, an opt-in feature covered in full on
[Custom Model Endpoints](Custom-Model-Endpoints).
## Read next
- [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts) - run modes versus location overlays.
- [Custom Model Endpoints](Custom-Model-Endpoints) - run a harness against your own server.
- [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 run check:browser-excludes
npm test -- test/<file>.test.ts # one file, the normal way
npm run test:ci # the full CI sweep
```
`npm install` installs a `pre-push` git hook that runs the static checks above (about 10-40s,
machine-dependent) and blocks a push that would fail them. It skips itself when you push
something other than the checked-out HEAD, or when the tree has uncommitted changes the
checks would read. Skip it once with `CODEMAN_SKIP_PREPUSH=1 git push`; a
`pre-push` hook of your own is never overwritten.
**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. Nine of the ten 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 repo cloned into `~/codeman-cases/<name>` and registered as a case. Private repos need this machine's own git credentials (see below). |
| **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.
**Clone Repo never asks for credentials.** It uses whatever the server's own git already has:
an ssh key, or a credential helper such as `gh auth setup-git`. The Docker image can include
helpers for GitHub (`gh`) and Azure DevOps (`az`), turned on in `docker-compose.override.yml`;
then signing those CLIs in once from a shell session is enough. See the private repositories
section of `docker/README.md`. Without credentials a private repo fails straight away with an
authentication error.
**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`, `grok`, `deepseek`, `omp`, or `shell`. It is chosen at start and does not change afterwards; to
switch, start another session.
Claude is the reference mode. Nine of the ten 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 eleventh run
mode. All ten 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 one partial exception is DeepSeek Harness,
whose terminal front door reports idle, working and blocked to Codeman over the harness's
own supervisor contract, so it gets the hook-driven signals without a hook file. The other
CLIs have no equivalent, 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, grok, deepseek, omp, 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 ten 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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# Custom Model Endpoints
Point a harness at your own OpenAI-compatible server instead of its native cloud backend, for
one session at a time. "Custom endpoint" covers **local** hardware (llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM,
a home GPU rig, DGX Spark, Strix Halo) and **cloud** services (Azure AI Foundry's
OpenAI-compatible endpoint, OpenRouter, a company gateway) alike, anything answering
`GET /v1/models` and `POST /v1/chat/completions` in the standard shape.
**Off by default.** Turn it on in App Settings → Models → **Custom model endpoints**.
## Adding an endpoint
Still in App Settings → Models → Custom model endpoints:
1. **+ Add endpoint** — give it an id, a label, and the base URL (`http://192.168.1.50:8080`,
say). An API key is optional; most local servers don't check one.
2. **Discover** — fetches the endpoint's own model list over `GET /v1/models` and stores it.
3. Pick a **default model** from what was discovered. This is the model the Run-menu entry
applies directly when only one model is discovered; with two or more, it's just the one
pre-marked in the picker dialog described below, not a silent default.
Endpoint management is admin-only in multi-user mode, the same as remote hosts and Docker
hosts — these are machine-level infra, not a per-user setting.
**Model lists refresh themselves.** Every saved endpoint is re-discovered automatically every
5 minutes in the background, so a model the server starts serving later — or stops serving —
shows up without another manual click of **Discover**. One endpoint being unreachable on a
given cycle (powered off, wrong network) never blocks the others from refreshing.
**Context length is picked up automatically where it can be, safely.** Against a
llama.cpp/llama-swap server, discovery also learns each _currently loaded_ model's real
context window and applies it to the launched session (Claude Code today — see below), so
the harness stops assuming a large default window for a model name it doesn't recognise and
overflowing a much smaller real one. It's deliberately never probed for a model that isn't
already loaded, since asking a llama-swap server about an unloaded model can trigger an
actual, slow model swap as a side effect — a model just not currently loaded keeps whatever
context length an earlier cycle already learned for it instead.
## Running a session against one
With the setting on and at least one endpoint carrying a discovered model, the **Run**
dropdown grows a **Custom Endpoints** section: one entry per harness that can redirect to a
custom endpoint, per saved endpoint, e.g. "Claude Code (llama.cpp)". Picking one starts a
session on that harness exactly the way its own entry would. It is a one-off "try this
endpoint" action, not a sticky mode — the plain **Run** button still means "this harness,
native cloud" afterward, and a fresh session never inherits whatever the last one was
pointed at.
**Which model it uses depends on how many the endpoint has discovered.** With exactly one,
the session launches straight away on that model — nothing to choose. With two or more, a
small dialog asks which one to use for this launch before starting the session; the
endpoint's default model, if set, is marked but not auto-picked, so a launch can deliberately
use a different one without changing the saved default. The list is not raw discovery order
either: the model llama-swap reports loaded and ready is moved to the top and tagged
**Currently loaded**, and when nothing is loaded, the model you last launched on this harness
and endpoint pair is moved up instead and tagged **Last used** (a per-device browser value, so
another device starts from its own history). The default model keeps its own **Default** pill
in both cases, and nothing is ever auto-chosen: the promoted row is simply the one under your
thumb.
**For opencode, Codex, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek and OMP, picking an entry launches
straight onto the endpoint** — no restart, because the endpoint is applied before the
session's process ever starts. **Claude still restarts the harness's process in place** —
same tab, same conversation (`--resume`) — after a normal native launch, since that restart
is far less jarring for Claude than for the other seven, whose own TUI can fully
reinitialize on a restart. Either way, every supported harness reads its endpoint config at
process start, never per turn, so there is no live hot-swap while a turn is running.
Picking an entry that launches a **brand-new** Claude session waits (up to 20 seconds) for it to
finish its own startup before applying — a freshly started CLI reports itself as busy for its
boot sequence, and applying to a genuinely busy session is refused so a real, in-progress
turn is never interrupted out from under you. A session that is still busy after that wait
(a very slow-starting CLI, or one you started typing into right away) surfaces that refusal
as an ordinary error, which now stays on screen with a close button instead of vanishing
after a few seconds — read it, it names the actual reason rather than a generic failure.
Entries are hidden entirely for a session in a **remote (SSH) or Docker case** — support for
redirecting those hasn't landed yet, see below. The picker also only appears in the desktop
**Run** dropdown; the phone home screen builds its own run picker separately and does not
currently offer these entries.
**Against llama-swap, applying a selection also starts the actual model load, rather than
waiting on your first prompt to do it.** llama-swap has no "switch model" button of its own
— the only thing that starts a swap is a real request naming the model, and confirmed live:
just applying a selection never reached llama-swap's own logs at all until something asked
it to load. Picking an entry now also sends the smallest real request that will trigger
that load, in the background, the moment the target model isn't already loaded and ready.
**The centred loading banner has no countdown and no automatic timeout — it waits as long as
it takes, and tells you so.** When it knows the model's discovered file size (its GB figure,
when llama-swap states one) it's shown too, e.g. "Loading qwen3.8-27b (16.4 GB) on
llama-swap — this can take a while depending on your hardware and the model size." An
earlier version tried to estimate and enforce a time limit, but real load time depends on
hardware this feature has no way to know, so a fixed number was always a guess — worse, one
that could kill a genuinely slow load partway through. If it really is taking too long, a
**Cancel** button right on the banner ends the wait and **closes the session that load was
for**, on your own call rather than a guessed deadline.
**The banner also shows a real, live second line of what llama.cpp itself is doing** — not
a made-up progress phase, the actual next line the `llama-server` process printed, e.g.
"llama.cpp: load_model: loading model '/models/.../Qwen3.8-27B.gguf'" then later
"llama.cpp: llama_server: model loaded". It comes straight from llama-swap's own event
feed, filtered down to just the backend process's own output (not llama-swap's own request
logging), and stays on whatever it last said once the load goes quiet, rather than
clearing back to nothing.
**You'll also be told if a session's model gets swapped out from under it later, not just
at launch.** The conflict warning above only fires at the moment you launch or apply a
model — llama.cpp only runs one model at a time, so if a DIFFERENT session using the same
endpoint later triggers its own load, whatever was loaded before (including a session you
already had running) gets silently evicted, with no warning at that instant since nothing
conflicted when it was first set up. A background check (every 20 seconds) catches this
after the fact and shows a toast naming which session lost its model and what's loaded now
— so you know before typing into that session that it's about to reload (and, in turn,
evict whatever displaced it).
**Claude Code specifically gets three extra fixes applied automatically:**
- Its discovered context length (see above) is passed through as
`CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS`, so it doesn't send a full-size prompt against a much
smaller real local context and overflow it.
- Its session runs with an isolated `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`, so the injected API key never sits
in the same directory as a stored claude.ai login — that combination is harmless for actual
requests (the API key wins) but the CLI still prints a "both claude.ai and
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set" warning about it, which this avoids entirely. The isolated directory
keeps a link back to your real session history so the response viewer and similar features
still work for that session. That isolated directory starts with no prior approvals of its
own, so Codeman also pre-approves the injected key the same way answering Claude Code's own
"Detected a custom API key" prompt once would — without it, that prompt would otherwise
reappear on every single launch with nobody there to answer it.
- **That same fresh isolated directory also looks like a brand-new Claude Code profile**, so
without this fix it replayed the WHOLE first-run sequence every single launch: the theme
picker, the security-notes screen, the "trust this folder?" dialog, and a one-time warning
about running with permissions bypassed — none of which a real, already-used profile shows
again. Codeman now pre-seeds that same "already been through this once" state (onboarding
completed, this session's own project marked trusted, the bypass-permissions warning
acknowledged) so a custom-model launch reaches the actual conversation exactly as fast as a
native cloud one does, instead of stopping at a wizard with nobody there to click through it.
**If a model's real context is too small for Claude Code to even get started, you get a
warning instead of a confusing failure.** Claude Code's own system prompt and tools take up
roughly 40K tokens on their own, before you've typed anything — a small local model with a
smaller real context than that fails outright on the very first message, no matter what
context size Codeman tells it to expect (raising the declared context only changes when
Claude Code trims _conversation history_, and there is none yet on message one). Picking
such a model now shows an in-app dialog naming the model, its discovered context and what's
needed, before anything launches or restarts, with the fix spelled out: reconfigure
llama-swap to give that model (or a smaller one) an explicit larger context instead of
relying on auto-fit (`--fit-ctx`), which sizes the context around fitting the biggest model
rather than the biggest context — for example adding `-c 65536` to that model's llama-swap
entry. "Launch anyway" is still there if you want to try regardless.
## Which harnesses actually work
| Harness | Status |
| ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Claude Code, opencode, Pi, Grok, OMP** | Verified end-to-end against a real local server. |
| **Codex** | Config is correct, and plain chat can work against a server that speaks the Responses API — but a real tool-call attempt comes back as inert text instead of running, so it's still not usable for real coding work. |
| **Gemini** | Fails with an auth error gemini-cli raises once redirected. Unresolved; don't rely on it yet. |
| **DeepSeek** | The original 404 is root-caused and fixed (DeepSeek Harness's own code was missing a `/v1` most local servers require) — not yet re-run against a real `dsh` install to confirm end-to-end. |
| **Antigravity** | No known custom-endpoint mechanism at all. Not offered. |
Which harnesses show up in the Run-menu picker is read live off Codeman's own CLI registry,
not a fixed list here, so this table can go stale before this page does — a greyed-out or
missing entry is the more current answer.
## What it does not do
- **No remote or Docker sessions yet.** Both restart their agent differently under the hood
(reattaching a durable tmux session rather than relaunching the process), so redirecting
them needs its own plumbing that hasn't been built.
- **No live hot-swap mid-conversation.** Applying a selection always restarts the process.
- **No button to un-point a session from the UI yet.** Clearing back to native cloud is an
HTTP call (`POST .../custom-model {"clear": true}`) or deleting the session; the settings
panel manages saved endpoints, not what a running session is currently pointed at.
- **Nothing is shared with your real cloud credentials.** The endpoint's own key, if any,
never touches your Anthropic/OpenAI/Google login — a custom endpoint is a separate,
explicit choice per session.
## Security
An endpoint's base URL can't point at a link-local or cloud-metadata address (both at save
time and against the address it actually resolves to), the same guard Web Tabs uses for
saved dashboards. Endpoint records and any per-session config files a harness needs are
written with owner-only permissions. See
[custom-model-endpoints-plan.md](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/custom-model-endpoints-plan.md)
in the repository for the full design reasoning, including why this feature closed a
pre-existing gap in how session environment overrides were guarded rather than opening a new
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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 ten 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 grok dsh omp; 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.
## Attaching to a container you already run
Tick **Attach to an existing container** on **Add Case → Docker** to link a case to a
container that already exists instead of creating one. Codeman only `exec`s into it and
never creates, starts, stops, restarts or removes it, so a container that is missing or
stopped fails with a message rather than being fixed for you. Drift detection does not
apply (the container carries no Codeman configuration label). The full-image export is
refused, since it would `docker commit` someone else's container, and the workspace export
skips the pause that keeps an owned container consistent during the capture.
One adopted container can back several cases at different in-container directories, and
**copy an existing case** pre-fills the form from a sibling on the same container. An exact
twin (the same container and the same directory) is refused, as is a container another
user adopted.
Adoption is **admin-only in multi-user mode**. Linking creates Codeman's own container
with one bind mount that has already been checked; an adopted container's mounts belong to
whoever started it, and one that mounts `/` hands the adopter the host.
## 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, Grok and OMP credentials are seeded per file rather than
as whole directories, because those directories also hold sessions, extensions, downloads and
installed packages, which can be gigabytes. So in-container Pi and Grok sessions are
invisible from the host (`pi -c` and `grok -c` inside a docker case see only that
container's history). OMP's `sessions/` is the exception and is shared read-write, because
Codeman reads it host-side for history and resume.
**Git hosts.** The agent image can also include the GitHub CLI (`gh`) and the Azure CLI (`az`,
with the `azure-devops` extension), off by default, and its git then uses them as credential
helpers for github.com and Azure DevOps. When the matching switch is on, their sign-ins are
seeded like everything else, file by file: `~/.config/gh/hosts.yml` and `config.yml`, and the
sign-in files from `~/.azure` (not its logs or extensions). With a switch off they are never
copied in, even if the files exist. So once a switch is on and `gh auth login` / `az login`
have been run where Codeman runs, agents in a Docker case can clone and push private repos on
those hosts. Two limits:
- A token held in a desktop keyring or an encrypted token cache (Windows, macOS) is not
inside those files and does not carry in. Sign in inside the container instead. The Docker
server image and a headless Linux host keep it in the files, so they carry.
- The sign-ins are mounted when a case container is **created**, so an existing container
never picks them up. After turning a switch on, signing in, or rebuilding the agent image,
**recreate the case container**: remove it, and the next session in that case creates a
fresh one. (Or sign in inside the existing container instead.)
This hands a GitHub token and an Azure sign-in to every agent in a seeded Docker case, the
same trust you already give it with Claude, Codex or gcloud. Turn seeding off for a case that
should not have them.
Both CLIs are opt-in. To build the agent image with them, set
`CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_GH=1` and/or `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_INSTALL_AZ=1` where the image
is built: in front of `node scripts/build-agent-image.mjs`, or in the Codeman server's
environment for the image it builds automatically (in the Docker deployment, `environment:`
in `docker-compose.override.yml`), then rebuild the image with `--no-cache`.
`docker/README.md` ("Private repositories") has the details and the matching switches for
the server image.
To give agents a fixed Git commit identity, set `CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_GIT_USER_NAME` and
`CODEMAN_AGENT_IMAGE_GIT_USER_EMAIL` together in that same environment (in the Docker
deployment, set `GIT_USER_NAME` and `GIT_USER_EMAIL` in `docker/.env` instead, which feeds
both images). An existing `codeman/agent:base` only picks it up after a `--no-cache` rebuild
and recreated case containers; `docker/README.md` ("Git commit identity") has the details.
## 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. |
| Claude Code plugin | `/plugin marketplace add Ark0N/Codeman`, then `/plugin install codeman@codeman` | Global, through Claude Code's plugin manager. `/plugin update codeman` follows releases. Pick this or `codeman skill install`, not both, or the skill is listed twice (`codeman` and `codeman:codeman`). |
| 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. It drives
DeepSeek Harness workers the same way it drives Claude ones (`spawn_workers alpha
beta:deepseek` is a mixed fleet in one call), since those are the two modes with real
completion signals.
## 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` and `deepseek` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`.** Claude's come from
Claude Code hooks, DeepSeek's from the harness reporting its state to Codeman. Shell and
the other 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/$ID/wait-output?contains=DONE_17909&from=buffer" | jq
# Read the last answer as clean text (claude, codex, deepseek sessions)
curl -s "$API/api/sessions/$ID/last-response" | jq -r '.data.text'
# Or read the terminal back
curl -s "$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
For `claude`, `codex` and `deepseek` sessions, read the answer from the transcript rather
than the screen: `GET /api/sessions/:id/last-response` returns the last reply as clean text
with no TUI frames or repaint noise. Poll it briefly rather than reading once, because the
transcript lands slightly after the `stop` signal, so a read immediately after send-and-wait
returns often comes back empty.
For everything else, 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.
### Which agent CLIs does it support?
Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok Build, DeepSeek Harness and
OMP, plus a plain shell, chosen per session. Claude is the reference mode and a few features
are Claude-only; [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) has the table.
### 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 235 handlers across 26 route modules. By domain:
| Domain | Handlers | Covers |
| ------------------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| System | 56 | Status, settings, digest, updates, tunnel. |
| Sessions | 34 | Create, input, terminal, wait, last response, kill. |
| Cases | 34 | Create, link, clone, remote and docker cases. |
| Files | 17 | 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. |
| Custom model endpoints | 5 | Saved OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and applying one to a session. |
| Push | 4 | Web push subscriptions. |
| Read My Mind | 4 | Intent profiles and prediction. |
| Scheduled | 4 | The legacy scheduled-run concept. |
| Approvals | 4 | The inbox, answering, acknowledging. |
| Tab layout | 2 | Named tab groups per owner. |
| 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` and `deepseek` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`: Claude's come from Claude
Code hooks, DeepSeek's from the harness reporting its state to Codeman. Shell and the other
external CLI sessions accept `idle`, `working`, and `exit`.
## SSE
`GET /api/events` is the live event stream. 158 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
# with ID set to a session id:
curl -s "$API/api/sessions/$ID/last-response" | jq -r '.data.text' # last answer, from the transcript (claude, codex, deepseek)
curl -s "$API/api/model-endpoints" | jq # saved custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints
curl -s -X POST "$API/api/sessions/$ID/custom-model" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"endpointId":"local-llama","modelId":"qwen3-27b"}' | jq # restart the CLI on that endpoint; {"clear":true} undoes it
```
## 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, Pi,
Grok, DeepSeek Harness, or OMP 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 ten 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, Grok Build, DeepSeek Harness, OMP. 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 one partial exception is DeepSeek
Harness, whose terminal front door reports idle, working and blocked to Codeman over the
harness's own supervisor contract, so it gets the hook-driven surfaces without any hook
file. The other CLIs have no equivalent, 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. 158 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+V` | Paste. A clipboard image uploads instead. |
| `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.
## Selecting and copying
Agent CLIs hold the mouse: clicks and drags are reported into the transcript rather than
selecting text. `Shift+drag` starts a selection anyway, right-click copies it (with nothing
selected the native context menu is left alone), and `Ctrl+Shift+C` copies without ever
interrupting. **Auto Copy Selection** in **App Settings → Terminal & Input**, off by
default, copies the moment you release the mouse. On phones, long-press selects; see
[Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide).
## 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.
Ctrl- and Alt-modified navigation keys typed through it reach the CLI as the modified
sequences, so word jumps and history keys keep working.
## 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), [Grok Build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build), [DeepSeek Harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness), [OMP](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi). 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, tmux and a build toolchain if they are missing (node-pty ships no
Linux prebuild, so it compiles from source), clones Codeman into `~/.codeman/app`, and
builds it.
It starts by printing what it found (git, Node, tmux, build tools, agent CLIs, Tailscale,
an existing install), then asks everything it needs up front, then does the work
unattended. You can leave while it builds. What it asks you:
1. **One consent for the missing packages.** Git, Node.js, tmux and (on Linux) the build
toolchain are installed after a single yes, and sudo asks for your password once for
the whole run. Nothing is installed silently. If no agent CLI is found, a menu offers
to install any of them (DeepSeek excepted: its npm package installs only a launcher
with no runnable profile), or you skip and install one yourself later.
2. **How the dashboard should be reachable.** Three choices:
- **Tailscale** (recommended for phone access): keeps the loopback bind, installs
Tailscale if needed, logs in, enables the tailnet HTTPS toggle (it opens the admin
page for you and waits; Ctrl+C there skips Tailscale for this run), then configures `tailscale serve` after the build and
verifies the result end to end. If another app already owns `:443` on your node,
you choose between a sub-path (`https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net/codeman`, the
default), a second port, replacing the other mapping, or skipping.
- **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 call this machine on your tailnet** (Tailscale route only). By default the URL
uses the machine's existing name. Answer yes to rename it `codeman-<hostname>`; the
default is no, because the tailnet name is also what SSH and everything else on that
machine are reached by.
4. **Whether to run Codeman in the background.** Enter installs a systemd user service or a
macOS LaunchAgent that starts on boot; answering no offers to start it in this terminal
instead, or not at all.
It ends on a screen with the URL (your tailnet, your network, or this machine), a QR code to
scan with your phone, and the two commands you need to manage the service.
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.
Other entry points:
```bash
install.sh status # print the URLs, the QR code and the manage commands again
install.sh update # update only
install.sh uninstall # remove (offers to undo a rename it performed)
install.sh tailscale # retrofit Tailscale access onto an existing install
install.sh name [<n>] # rename this machine on your tailnet (default codeman-<hostname>)
install.sh cloudflared # install cloudflared for the in-app Cloudflare tunnel
```
**Flags** answer the questions from the command line and pipe through `bash -s --`:
```bash
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash -s -- --tailscale --service
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash -s -- --lan --password 'x' --service
curl -fsSL https://getcodeman.com/install | bash -s -- --local --run
```
`--tailscale` / `--lan` / `--local` answer the access question, `--name <n>` / `--no-rename`
the name, `--service` / `--run` / `--no-start` the last one. `--yes` takes every default
(it still waits on a Tailscale login URL, and a network bind still asks for a password).
`--port <n>` moves Codeman off 3000; the service file and the serve mapping follow it. On an
existing install, `--port` and `--password` re-run the setup so the service file picks them up,
and a re-run with `--lan` or `--tailscale` keeps the password the service already has.
**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; a non-interactive run never renames the
machine and never starts a service. Everything the unattended steps print goes to
`~/.codeman/install.log`, and the last lines of it are shown when a step fails.
## 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.
## Route D: Docker Compose
Codeman itself can run in a container and spawn Docker cases as sibling containers through
the host's Docker socket. Copy `docker/.env.example` to `docker/.env`, set
`CODEMAN_PASSWORD`, then:
```bash
bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh
```
Run the script again after updating rather than a plain `docker compose up`, so the rebuilt
image, the refreshed volumes and the entrypoint arrive together. The full guide, including
storage and networking options, is
[`docker/README.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docker/README.md).
## 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. |
| **Grok Build** | `curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh \| bash` | xAI. Lands in `~/.grok/bin`; `grok login --device-auth` for headless hosts. |
| **DeepSeek Harness** | `npm i -g @deepseek-ai/dsh pnpm`, then a terminal profile | The npm package is only a launcher. Codeman's Run menu installs the community terminal profile for you. See [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs). |
| **OMP** | `curl -fsSL https://omp.sh/install \| sh` | Oh My Pi. Run it once by hand to finish its own onboarding. |
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. |
| Docker Compose | Re-run `Start-Codeman.sh`. The in-app updater works too, and refuses a release that changes the container definition until you re-run the script. |
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 the other CLIs** it depends on what the CLI tells Codeman. Codex declares its own
prompt glyph and working line, so it gets the same screen check Claude does (before 1.26.1
every Codex session reported idle for its whole life). DeepSeek Harness reports idle,
working and blocked to Codeman itself, which is as precise as hooks. Everything else 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 through a status line exporter that Codeman hands to `claude` as an ephemeral
setting when it spawns the session, never written to disk, which posts Claude's own rate
limit data back to Codeman. Your own status line (project-local, project, then
`~/.claude/settings.json`) is wrapped and printed through, and a `claude` you run by hand
outside Codeman sees nothing of it. Workspaces an older Codeman wrote the exporter into are
cleaned up the first time a session starts there. Codex limits come from a read-only poll of
its own app-server. Known limit: sessions inside a Docker case do not feed the chip yet.
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**. A
device writes the switch only when it flips the chip, so a phone (chip off by default)
saving its font size cannot switch collection off for your desktop.
## 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+V` | Paste. An image on the clipboard uploads and pastes its file path instead. |
| `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. |
| `Shift+drag` | Start a selection in a pane whose mouse events go to the CLI. |
| Right-click | Copy the selection. With nothing selected the native menu is left alone. |
| `Ctrl+Z` | Swallowed in agent sessions so a running CLI cannot be suspended. Normal job control in a shell. |
Anything you copy is cleaned on the way to the clipboard: each line loses the padding spaces a full-screen program paints across the rest of the row. Leading indentation is left exactly as it is, so indented code, a `git log` message body and `git diff` context lines paste back the way they looked on screen. An `Alt+drag` rectangular selection is copied exactly as it looks, so its columns stay lined up.
## 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. |
The phone layout applies up to 599px of viewport width, so the Plus and Pro Max iPhones,
the Pixel Pro and a folded Z Fold get it too; wider devices get the tablet layout. Layout
respects notch and home-indicator safe areas, touch targets are 44px, and the case picker is
a bottom sheet rather than a dropdown. On a folding phone (iPhone Duo) dialogs stay clear of
the hinge, and opening or closing the device is treated as the device changing shape, never
as the keyboard appearing.
**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 Compose key, `Esc`,
a path picker, and 🧠 when Read My Mind is on. Compose opens a multiline editor with
autocorrect: Enter adds a new line, and only Send delivers the text, as one paste followed
by Enter, so your line breaks reach the agent intact. Anything already typed on the terminal
prompt moves into the editor when it opens. Drafts are kept per session and in memory only,
so switching tabs keeps them and a page reload forgets them; a dot on the key shows a draft
is parked. The editor's Image button attaches photos and puts their paths into the draft.
Destructive commands need a double press, so you cannot fire `/clear` with a stray thumb. On
Codex sessions the bar also shows `⇧←` and `⇧→`, the Shift-modified arrows Codex binds to
editing the last queued message and walking the prompt stack.
**Shell sessions** automatically swap it for terminal controls: `Ctrl`, `Esc`, `Tab`, four
arrows, a direct Paste key (shell input is not an agent prompt, so there is no Compose
there), 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; DeepSeek Harness sessions report the same states themselves. For the 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, plus DeepSeek Harness sessions, whose terminal
front door reports its prompts to Codeman.**
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.
## When a session is watching its own work
An agent that starts a monitor, puts a shell in the background or hands a task to a cloud
session is told by its CLI to end the turn and wait to be notified. The pane then goes
quiet, and the CLI's idle notification arrives about a minute later — for a session that
wants nothing from you.
Codeman reads what the CLI prints about its own background work and treats that prompt
differently. It raises no tab alert, no desktop notification and no push, the session stays
out of NEEDS YOU on every surface, and the row wears a blue **watching** badge instead. Hover
it, or read it on a phone through your screen reader, and it says what is running: "1
monitor", "2 shells", "1 background terminal".
The prompt itself is not thrown away. It sits in the Approvals drawer as an ordinary card,
still answerable, with a line reading "quiet, watching 1 monitor" where a card you had
already looked at would say nothing. The next time that session goes quiet for an ordinary
reason, it alerts you exactly as before.
Two limits are worth knowing. A permission prompt or a question dialog still goes red
whatever else the agent started, because that one blocks it outright. A question asked in
plain prose is not a dialog, so an agent that starts a monitor and then writes "which branch
should I target?" is quiet along with the rest — check a watching session yourself if it has
been quiet longer than the work it is waiting for should take.
An agent waiting for your comments on an artifact it published never counts as watching.
Claude shows that as "1 Artifact comment monitor", but the agent hears nothing until you
comment, so the session alerts you like any other quiet session.
## 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 need real signals.** They are built on hook events, which Claude emits and
DeepSeek Harness reports itself; the other CLIs do neither.
- **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 repo: public, or private once this machine's git can authenticate (the Docker image can include `gh`/`az` helpers for this). 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. |
| **Grok Build** | xAI's CLI. |
| **DeepSeek Harness** | Needs a terminal profile; the menu offers to install one. |
| **OMP** | Oh My Pi, configured entirely through its own `~/.omp`. |
| **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. It ends on the URL with a QR code to
scan. To retrofit it onto an existing install, or to see the URL and QR code again:
```bash
install.sh tailscale
install.sh status
```
By hand:
```bash
tailscale serve --bg 3000
tailscale serve status
```
Then open `https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net` from any device on your tailnet.
### The name in the URL
The URL is the machine's MagicDNS name, so on a machine called `tnode` it is
`https://tnode.<tailnet>.ts.net`. Three ways to influence that, from least to most work:
| You want | How |
| ------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| The machine's existing name (default) | Nothing. This is what the installer does unless you say otherwise. |
| `https://codeman-<hostname>.<tailnet>.ts.net` | Answer yes to the installer's name question, pass `--name codeman-<hostname>`, or run `install.sh name`. This renames the machine tailnet-wide (SSH included), which is why the installer defaults to no. `install.sh uninstall` offers to rename it back. |
| `https://codeman.<tailnet>.ts.net` | A [Tailscale Service](https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-services). Only a **tagged** node can host one (a device signed in with a user account cannot), the service is defined and approved in the admin console, and the feature is in beta. The installer does not set this up; it is a `tailscale serve --service=svc:codeman --https=443 127.0.0.1:3000` on a tagged host once the service exists. |
If `:443` on your node already belongs to another app, the installer offers Codeman under
`https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net/codeman` (the default, via `tailscale serve --set-path`
plus Codeman's `--base-url`), on a second port (`https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net:8443`),
or replacing the other mapping. It never replaces anything without asking.
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. It also never opens a
`tailscale funnel` (that is the public internet) and never advertises a Tailscale Service.
- On macOS, the App Store and standalone Tailscale apps only run once someone is logged in,
so a headless Mac needs the open-source `tailscaled` for the URL to come back after a
reboot on its own.
## 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 ten 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. Neither is a clean
exit inside the pane (Ctrl-D, `exit`, Ctrl-C at the CLI's prompt): that tears the remote
tmux session down, and the watcher revives a session only when that durable session is
verifiably still alive. Only a transport drop is reconnected.
## 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.
## Files
Previews, downloads and text reads in a remote case go over the same ssh connection the
session uses, so a clicked path opens the file on the machine the agent is on, `Range`
seeking included. Nothing is copied to the Codeman host. Editing, Office previews,
thumbnails, the file tree and the tail viewer are not available remotely and answer a clear
400 rather than a misleading 404. Details in [Working With Files](Working-With-Files).
## 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 $USER
```
On macOS, a LaunchAgent starts when you log in, not at boot. A headless Mac (no GUI login)
needs a system LaunchDaemon instead, written by hand as root. The installer recognises an
existing `/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.codeman.web.plist` and leaves it alone rather than
installing a LaunchAgent next to it, since the two would fight over the port; remove the
daemon first if you want to switch. The same login caveat applies to the App Store and
standalone Tailscale apps, so on a headless Mac the Tailscale URL only comes back after a
reboot if the open-source `tailscaled` is used.
### Writing the unit by hand
**Linux (systemd user unit):**
```bash
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
cat > ~/.config/systemd/user/codeman-web.service << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Codeman Web Server
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=$(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. |
| Docker Compose | Re-run `Start-Codeman.sh`, or the in-app updater, which restarts the container in place. |
### 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.
## Running Codeman itself in Docker
The Compose deployment in `docker/` runs the server in a container and spawns Docker cases
as sibling containers through the mounted host socket. Start it with
`bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh` rather than a bare `docker compose up`: the script pre-creates
the bind-mounted directories with the right owner, honours a `docker-compose.override.yml`,
and refreshes the build volumes when the checkout moved under them. The in-app updater
applies code only and restarts by letting the container exit, so it refuses a release that
changes the Dockerfile, the compose file, or adds a new `.env` key, until you re-run the
script. Guide:
[`docker/README.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docker/README.md).
## 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. |
| **Remote cases** | Reads go over the session's own ssh connection and are resolved and contained on the remote host, with a bounded number of ssh children. Nothing is copied to the Codeman host; writes, Office previews and thumbnails are refused. |
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. |
| Trim The Pane Margin On Copy | On | Takes the left margin a full-screen agent CLI paints down its own edge off a copy, so the text pastes flush. Each CLI declares its own width, and the strip never exceeds the indent every selected line shares, so nesting is kept. Claude Code and Codex declare a margin; a shell does not. |
| Normal / Bold font weight | xterm defaults | Per device, each slot from 100 to 900. The bundled JetBrains Mono renders every step, so a lighter normal weight makes Claude's bold headings stand out. Applies live to the terminal, both echo overlays and open team panes. |
| 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, Split, 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. Split is desktop-only regardless of this
setting — the button and the feature both stay off below a ~1180px viewport, where two
resizable panes plus their divider have nowhere to go.
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), a collapsible left sidebar, or the sidebar with detailed rows. See [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard#session-list-layout). |
| Tab Orientation | Keeps the header list but turns the strip vertical beside the terminal, resizable, with detailed rows by default. Desktop and tablet only. |
| Vertical Rail Order | *By activity* (default) sorts the rail the way the home screens are sorted; *Manual* keeps your tab order and drag-reordering. |
| 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. |
| Auto-name Sessions | Titles a new tab after its first prompt, keeping the case prefix (`w3-myapp: fix the login redirect`). Synced, off by default. See [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard#automatic-session-names). |
| 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.
**Custom model endpoints** (off by default) adds a saved-endpoint list plus a matching
section to the Run dropdown, for pointing a harness at your own OpenAI-compatible server
instead of its native cloud backend. See [Custom Model Endpoints](Custom-Model-Endpoints).
### 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. |
| `CODEMAN_BASE_URL` | Mounts Codeman under a sub-path behind a reverse proxy that forwards the prefix unchanged. See [Remote Access](Remote-Access). |
| `CODEMAN_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES` | Cap on raw file bodies and downloads. 2 GB by default, `0` for none. |
| `CODEMAN_MAX_REMOTE_FILE_SSH` | Concurrent ssh reads for files in remote cases. 4 by default. |
## 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, and
**Tab Orientation** can turn the strip itself into a vertical rail.
| 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. A detailed variant adds the home screen's per-session line (`created 3d ago · working 12m`) and a status pill. |
| **Vertical rail** | The strip turned vertical beside the terminal, resizable, with detailed rows by default. **Vertical Rail Order** sorts it by activity (blocked on you first, then longest running, then most recently quiet), the same order as the home screens; pick *Manual* to get your own order and drag-reordering back. Desktop and tablet only. |
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. |
| Muted grey dot plus an `exited (137)` badge | The agent inside the pane has exited, with that exit code (or `exited (signal 9)`). A bare `exited` means tmux saw the pane die but did not report how, which is not the same as a clean `exited (0)`. Detailed sidebar and rail rows read `exited` in their pill. |
![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.
### Automatic session names
Off by default. Turn on **Auto-name Sessions** (App Settings → Appearance → Tabs; synced
across devices) and a tab that still carries its generated name, such as `w3-myapp`, takes a
title from the first real prompt you submit, keeping the prefix: `w3-myapp: fix the login
redirect`. The strip shows the title and keeps the prefix in the tooltip, and the next
session in that case still counts up to `w4-myapp`. It happens once per session, only for
prompts you type or send through the input API (never a Ralph, respawn, cron or approval
answer), and never for shells. Slash commands such as `/clear` do not become titles; the
next prompt gets its turn. A name you set yourself, before or after, is never touched. The
title is derived locally from the prompt's first sentence; no text leaves the machine.
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. |
| Split | Off, desktop only | View a second session beside the active one, with a draggable divider. |
| 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. Scrolling to the top of a Shell pane pulls the most recent 1 MiB of its tmux
history; press **Load full history** to pull the rest explicitly. Automatic output
recovery stays within the bounded browser buffer.
- **Wheel and touch scrolling** are forwarded into Claude's own transcript when a recent
Claude runs fullscreen (`CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1`, or `"tui": "fullscreen"` in
`~/.claude/settings.json`), so the wheel scrolls the conversation rather than the terminal.
Claude's default inline view keeps its history in the terminal and scrolls locally. `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.
- **Selecting where the CLI owns the mouse.** `Shift+drag` starts a selection even in a pane
whose mouse events are forwarded to the CLI, and right-click copies the selection (with
nothing selected the native menu is left alone). **Auto Copy Selection** in App Settings
copies the moment you release.
- **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
overview order (blocked on you first, then longest running, then most recently quiet),
with created and state-duration 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. Terminal
font family and weight are per device too: a normal and a bold weight, each from 100 to
900, and the bundled JetBrains Mono renders every step.
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.
### Typed prompts are silently ignored after restoring a tab
Update. A browser whose input sequence counter fell behind the server's (a restored tab,
cleared site data) used to have every prompt deduplicated away. Since 1.29.0 the duplicate
acknowledgement carries the watermark and the client re-sends.
### 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 running fullscreen (recent CLI with mouse tracking on), the wheel is
forwarded into Claude's own transcript, so it scrolls the conversation rather than the
terminal buffer. That is intended. Claude's default inline view scrolls locally; turn
fullscreen on with `CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1` or `"tui": "fullscreen"` in
`~/.claude/settings.json`.
- 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.
### Selected text is invisible on a light skin
Update. Every skin named its selection colour under a key xterm renamed in v5, so the four
light skins painted white at 30% over near-white. Fixed in 1.29.0.
### `Ctrl+Z` suspended my agent
Update. Since 1.28.0 `Ctrl+Z` is swallowed in agent sessions, so a running CLI cannot be
stopped by job control. Shell sessions keep it.
### `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.
### Every file in a remote case says "File not found"
Update. Before 1.29.0 the file routes resolved every path on the Codeman host, so in a
remote case every click failed while the file plainly existed on the other machine. Reads
now go over ssh; see [Working With Files](Working-With-Files). Editing and Office previews
stay unavailable remotely and say so with a 400.
### Compose: the server crash-loops with `EACCES` on first start
Start the stack with `bash docker/Start-Codeman.sh` rather than a plain `docker compose up`,
and update: since 1.29.0 the entrypoint corrects a root-owned bind mount before dropping
privileges. See [Running As A Service](Running-As-A-Service).
### 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, and neither is a clean exit inside the pane (Ctrl-D, `exit`): only
a transport drop is reconnected. 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.
## Single-page apps, reloads and links
A history-routed dashboard (React Router, Vue Router, a Vite dev server) sees the path it
would see on its own origin, not the proxy prefix, so it renders its real route instead of
its own "page not found". A navigation the page starts itself afterwards, a dev server's
full reload or a root-absolute `location.href`, would land outside the proxy with no
capability; Codeman recognises it, answers with a small recovery page, and remounts the
frame at the path that was lost, bounded to five recoveries a minute per frame. A reload on
the dashboard's landing page is recovered the same way.
A `localhost` or `127.0.0.1` link in agent output opens as a web tab automatically, reusing
a saved dashboard for the same server or saving one under its `host:port`. On a phone that
address only exists on the Codeman box, so the link would otherwise be a guaranteed
connection error. LAN and tailnet addresses still open directly. `*.localhost` names are
deliberately not auto-routed: they are DNS names rather than address literals, and the link
came from agent output. Add such a dashboard by hand instead.
## 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.
Saved URLs are refused when they point at a link-local or cloud-metadata address, at save
time and again against the address the name resolves to at connect time; loopback and
private ranges stay allowed, because a `localhost` Grafana is the feature. Capabilities are
revoked on logout, and proxied responses carry a same-origin referrer policy so a dashboard
cannot hand the capability-bearing URL to a third party.
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, 2 GB for raw and download (set `CODEMAN_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES`
to change it, `0` for no limit — these bodies are streamed, so a large file costs a read
stream rather than server memory). 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.
## Remote (SSH) cases
In a remote case the workspace lives on the other machine, and so do the files. Previews,
downloads, text reads and the clicked-path route all go over the same ssh connection the
session uses: one `realpath` plus `stat` probe for the file and the workspace root, then a
streamed `cat` (or a slice of it, so video seeking works). Symlinks are resolved on the host
that can resolve them, the size cap applies to the remote size before a byte is requested,
and an unreachable host answers 502 rather than pretending the file is missing. Nothing is
ever copied onto the Codeman host, and a same-named local file is never served under a
remote name.
Not available over ssh, and said so with a 400 instead of a misleading 404: editing in
place, Office previews and generated thumbnails (both need the bytes on the server's disk),
the file tree and path picker, and the tail viewer. Docker cases are unaffected, because
their workspace is bind-mounted at the same path.
## 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 current
folder is an editable field: type or paste a path and press Enter (or **Go**) to jump
straight there, and a full file path lands in its folder with that file selected. The
**Sort** control orders each listing by name or by modified time (newest first is the
quick way to the file an agent just wrote), with folders always ahead of files; the
choice is remembered per device. 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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