feat(limits): make the global session cap configurable with CODEMAN_MAX_SESSIONS

The cap of 50 concurrent sessions was a hard-coded constant, so a machine
with the memory for more (or a small box that wants fewer) had to patch the
source. CODEMAN_MAX_SESSIONS now sets it at startup. The default stays 50,
and anything that is not a positive integer (empty, 0, negative, fractional,
1e3, out of safe-integer range) falls back to it, so a typo never locks
session creation.

Every site keeps reading MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS, so the session routes,
cron launches, the scheduled-run loop and the multi-user per-user cap (half
the global cap unless CODEMAN_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_USER is set) all follow the
variable. The test goes through sessionCapacityState and
sessionCapacityMessage, the check every session-creating route uses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Claudia[bot]andClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-10-21 03:46:55 +02:00
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@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Every JSON response: `{"success":true,"data":…}` or
| `UNAUTHORIZED` | 401 | auth required or failed (send `-u user:password`). ⚠️ The 401 body is plain text, NOT this envelope, see [Auth and credentials](#auth-and-credentials) |
| `FORBIDDEN` | 403 | authenticated but not permitted: an admin-only route in multi-user mode, a `workingDir`/case path outside your own workspace, or a shell session without the can-bypass-permissions grant. ⚠️ **Not** what an ownership miss on a session returns: a session you do not own answers 404 `NOT_FOUND`, identically to one that does not exist (deliberate, it leaks no existence) |
| `NOT_FOUND` | 404 | no such session, or one this caller does not own. Also quick-start's answer for an unknown remote or docker host |
| `SESSION_BUSY` | 409 | on a **wait**: this session's waiter cap (16, combined signal+output) is full. On **quick-start**: a session cap is full, so clean up before starting more. Two different caps can raise it: the global 50 (`MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS`), and in multi-user mode the per-user cap, which defaults to half of that, **25** (`maxSessionsPerUser()`, `config/multiuser.ts:59-63`). The message tells you which |
| `SESSION_BUSY` | 409 | on a **wait**: this session's waiter cap (16, combined signal+output) is full. On **quick-start**: a session cap is full, so clean up before starting more. Two different caps can raise it: the global 50 (`MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS`, env `CODEMAN_MAX_SESSIONS`), and in multi-user mode the per-user cap, which defaults to half of that, **25** (`maxSessionsPerUser()`, `config/multiuser.ts:59-63`). The message tells you which |
| `CONFLICT` / `ALREADY_EXISTS` | 409 | conflicts with current state |
| `OPERATION_FAILED` | 422 | well-formed but could not be completed |
| `RATE_LIMITED` | 429 | per-owner or process-wide waiter pool is full; back off, switching sessions will not help |
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ response echoes.
| `match` string | 1–200 characters, literal only | 400; `regex=` is rejected outright |
| `from=buffer` scan window | 256 KB tail of the terminal buffer | a marker older than that tail is invisible even with `from=buffer` |
| wait-output snippet context | 80 characters either side | `wait.snippet` is bounded, not the whole line |
| sessions, process-wide | 50 (`MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS`) | 409 `SESSION_BUSY` on quick-start |
| sessions, process-wide | 50 (`MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS`, env `CODEMAN_MAX_SESSIONS`) | 409 `SESSION_BUSY` on quick-start |
| sessions, per user | 25 in multi-user mode (half the global cap) | the same 409, with a different message |
| SSE clients, process-wide | 100 (`MAX_SSE_CLIENTS`) | plain-text `503 Too many SSE connections`; shared with every browser tab |
| active bash tools tracked | 20 per session | oldest entries drop off `active-tools` |