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# Agent CLIs
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Codeman drives ten run modes: nine agent CLIs plus a plain shell. This page covers picking
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Codeman drives eleven run modes: ten agent CLIs plus a plain shell. This page covers picking
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one, setting it up, and the differences that actually change how you work.
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## The ten modes
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## The eleven modes
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| Mode | CLI | Get it |
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| -------------------- | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| **Grok Build** | `grok` | [github.com/xai-org/grok-build](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build) |
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| **DeepSeek Harness** | `dsh` | [github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness) |
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| **OMP** | `omp` | [github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi) |
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| **GitHub Copilot** | `copilot` | [github.com/github/copilot-cli](https://github.com/github/copilot-cli) |
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| **Terminal / Shell** | your `$SHELL` | Already installed. |
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Any combination works, including all of them. The run mode is chosen per session from the
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precisely to avoid this; a hand-written plist or unit will not.
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3. Restart the server after installing a new CLI.
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`pi`, `grok`, `omp` and `dsh` are additionally identity-probed rather than trusted by name:
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`pi`, `grok`, `omp`, `copilot` and `dsh` are additionally identity-probed rather than trusted by name:
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`pi` and `omp` are generic enough that something else on your PATH may answer to them,
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`grok` has npm squatters, and Debian ships an unrelated `dsh` (dancer's shell). Each has a
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status endpoint (`/api/grok/status`, `/api/deepseek/status`, `/api/omp/status`) that reports
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status endpoint (`/api/grok/status`, `/api/deepseek/status`, `/api/omp/status`, `/api/copilot/status`) that reports
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the path and version that actually resolved, so a misresolution is visible rather than
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presenting as "the mode just does not work".
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@@ -69,15 +70,15 @@ output. The other CLIs expose no equivalent.
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| Respawn cycling and unattended runs | Yes | Yes |
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| Cron jobs | Yes | Yes |
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| Docker cases, remote SSH cases | Yes | Yes |
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| Precise idle detection | Yes | Codex, Pi, OpenCode, OMP and Gemini: same screen check, via their own prompt and working line. DeepSeek: reports its state itself. Others: output stabilization, coarser |
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| Precise idle detection | Yes | Codex, Pi, OpenCode, OMP, Copilot, Gemini and Antigravity: same screen check, via their own prompt and working line. DeepSeek: reports its end of turn itself. Grok: generic cues only, unreliable |
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| Auto-resume when a usage limit resets | Yes | No |
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| Plan usage chip | Yes | No |
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| Approvals Inbox | Yes | DeepSeek yes; others no |
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| Approvals Inbox | Yes | DeepSeek and Codex as alerts (answer in the terminal); others no |
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| Read My Mind | Yes | No |
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| Ralph loop and its task tracker | Yes | No |
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| Subagent and team windows | Yes | No |
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| Model, effort, advisor, and ultracode controls | Yes | No |
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| `stop` and `blocked` wait signals | Yes | DeepSeek yes; elsewhere 400 if you ask for them explicitly |
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| `stop` and `blocked` wait signals | Yes | DeepSeek yes; Codex `blocked` only; elsewhere 400 if you ask for them explicitly |
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| The bundled agent skill | Yes | No |
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Everything that makes a session a session works everywhere. What is Claude-only is mostly
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does; before 1.26.1 every Codex session reported idle for its whole life. Codex
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conversations also appear in Past Sessions and can be resumed, and on phones the keyboard
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bar grows `⇧←` / `⇧→` for Codex's queued-message editing and prompt stack.
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- **A dialog waiting for you turns the tab red.** Codex is launched with its approvals on
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unless you tick the bypass option, and it has no hooks to say it stopped, so Codeman reads
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its dialogs off the screen: a command, edit or network approval, a question it asks you
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(Plan mode), and the "Trust this folder?" prompt when it starts in a new folder. Each one
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raises the same red "needs you" alert a Claude permission prompt does, with the desktop
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notification, web push, webhook, the phone overview's NEEDS YOU row and an Approvals Inbox
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card, and the alert clears a few seconds after you answer. Answer in the terminal: Codeman
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never answers a Codex dialog for you, so the inbox card and the push carry no Approve or
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Deny buttons. While such a dialog is up the session shows as idle (a question used to show
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as working), and agents can wait on it with the `blocked` signal. "Implement this plan?"
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at the end of a plan is not counted, since the turn has ended there.
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### Gemini
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in `~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/`, so the credential handling that applies to Gemini applies
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to it as well.
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- **Work detection reads its spinner row.** While a turn runs, `agy` animates an 8-dot braille
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frame and a label one row above the composer (`⣯ Generating...`; `Working...` and
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`Loading...` too), and its footer reads `esc to cancel`. Codeman matches that row, which is
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what puts the activity indicator on the tab. The frames are not the braille set Claude and
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Gemini use, which is why the tab used to look idle through a whole turn.
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- **At rest the footer hint is the idle mark.** The composer's `>` is no good for that, since
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the submitted prompt is echoed as `> <text>` as well. `? for shortcuts` is drawn only at
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rest, and the turn's last repaint carries it. A shell call that waits for approval replaces
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the composer and the footer hint is not drawn there, so the tab keeps reading as working
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until you answer.
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### Pi
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Pi needs the opposite instincts from every other CLI here.
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Guide: [`docs/omp-integration.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/omp-integration.md).
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### GitHub Copilot CLI
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GitHub's `copilot`, installed with `npm install -g @github/copilot` (CLI management can run
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that for you). Codeman recognises it only when `--version` answers `GitHub Copilot CLI`, and
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`GET /api/copilot/status` reports the path and version that resolved.
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**Signing in.** Codeman does not log it in: run `copilot` once and use `/login`, or sign in
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inside a Codeman tab. Copilot keeps the token in the OS keychain when there is one; a headless
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server has none, so it offers to save it as **plain text in `~/.copilot/config.json`**, which is
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what a service ends up with. To keep a token out of a file, give the service
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`COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN` (Copilot reads it first, then `GH_TOKEN`, `GITHUB_TOKEN`). The token is
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never copied into a [Docker case](Docker-Cases): sign in inside the container.
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**Run button and permissions.** Run starts `copilot --yolo` (allow every tool, path and URL),
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the same bypass switch the other agent CLIs get, so an unattended session never stops on an
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approval. A multi-user user without the bypass grant gets a plain `copilot`, which is
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Copilot's own Manual Approval mode. Model, permission mode and the rest are also changeable
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inside its TUI.
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**Options and resume.** `--model` is sent only by an API caller that sets `copilotConfig.model`; the Run menu has no Copilot model picker (a saved custom endpoint sets `COPILOT_MODEL` instead). A session from
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Past Sessions continues with `--continue`, which resumes the most recent Copilot conversation
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in that directory. A tab name you set yourself is passed as `--name`, so Copilot's own session
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list reads like that tab (an automatic `w1-myapp` name is not pinned); Copilot refuses `--name`
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together with `--resume`/`--continue`, so a continued session keeps the name it had.
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**Your own endpoint.** With [custom model endpoints](Custom-Model-Endpoints) on, a saved
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endpoint appears in the Run menu for Copilot. It is launched with Copilot's BYOK variables
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(`COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL` with the `/v1` an OpenAI route needs, `COPILOT_PROVIDER_API_KEY`,
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`COPILOT_MODEL`), needs no GitHub sign-in, and applies at launch with no restart.
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**Working and idle.** A turn shows `◉ Working` in the footer, which is what Codeman reads;
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a tool waiting for your approval replaces the composer and reads as idle. The model name is
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read from the footer too. Copilot has no hooks, so the `stop` and `blocked` wait signals are
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not available: wait on `idle`, `exit` or an output marker.
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**Selecting and scrolling.** Copilot turns mouse tracking on itself. Codeman strips that, so a
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plain drag selects text (and Auto Copy works) and clicks still reach Copilot. The wheel, and a
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swipe on a phone, scroll Copilot's own transcript; Shift+wheel scrolls Codeman's local history.
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**MCP servers.** [MCP server sync](Settings-Reference) includes Copilot's
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`~/.copilot/mcp-config.json` (relocated by `COPILOT_HOME`), as a target and a source.
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**From another agent.** The `codeman agent` verbs work from inside a Copilot tab and against
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Copilot workers: `spawn` waits for the composer (not the folder-trust dialog), `send --wait`
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resolves on `idle`, and `read` returns the last answer from the pane's visible screen. Tool-call
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rows are not modelled and read as part of the answer, and `--until stop` is refused as for
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every hook-less mode.
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**Not available.** Auto-resume on a usage limit, the Approvals Inbox, Read My Mind and the
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Ralph tracker, as for the other non-Claude CLIs.
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Guide: [`docs/copilot-integration.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/copilot-integration.md).
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### Terminal / Shell
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A plain shell in a tmux session. No agent, no hooks, no idle detection.
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| Grok | `GROK_*`, `XAI_*` |
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| DeepSeek | `DSH_*`, `DEEPSEEK_*` |
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| OMP | `OMP_*` |
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| Copilot | `COPILOT_*` (a token goes in `COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN`; `GH_TOKEN` and `GITHUB_TOKEN` are not accepted as per-session overrides) |
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Anything outside the allowlist is rejected at the schema. This is intentional: the allowlist
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is one global list, so widening it for one CLI widens it for all of them. In multi-user mode
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- **Claude Code** if you want every Codeman feature. Unattended overnight runs, usage-limit
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auto-resume, the Approvals Inbox, and subagent visualization all assume it.
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- **Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Antigravity, Grok, OMP** when you prefer that agent or that
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- **Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Antigravity, Grok, OMP, GitHub Copilot** when you prefer that agent or that
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model. You get the session layer, respawn, cron, Docker, and remote SSH; you do not get the
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hook-driven features.
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hook-driven features (Codex dialogs still raise the red alert and an alert-only inbox card,
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see [Codex](#codex) above).
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- **DeepSeek Harness** if you want DeepSeek's models with real status signals. It is the one
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non-Claude mode that reports idle, working and blocked to Codeman itself.
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- **Pi** if you want a fast, unsandboxed agent and you understand what project trust does.
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- Images are referenced from the main repository over raw URLs rather than being copied into
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the wiki.
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- Say what the default is, especially when it is off. Most of Codeman is opt-in.
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- Label Claude-only behaviour every time it appears. Nine of the ten run modes are not
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- Label Claude-only behaviour every time it appears. Ten of the eleven run modes are not
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Claude.
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## Conduct
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event use.
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Several sessions can share one case. That is the normal way to parallelize: three workers
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in the same repo, three tabs, one case.
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in the same repo, three tabs, one case. They then also share one folder; when the workers
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edit and commit in parallel, give each its own checkout with [Git Worktrees](Git-Worktrees).
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A session carries state the case does not:
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## Run mode
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The **run mode** is which CLI the session runs: `claude`, `opencode`, `codex`, `gemini`,
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`antigravity`, `pi`, `grok`, `deepseek`, `omp`, or `shell`. It is chosen at start and does not change afterwards; to
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`antigravity`, `pi`, `grok`, `deepseek`, `omp`, `copilot`, or `shell`. It is chosen at start and does not change afterwards; to
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switch, start another session.
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Claude is the reference mode. Nine of the ten are not Claude, and a number of Codeman
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@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ Where a case runs is **separate from** which CLI it runs. There are three locati
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| **Remote SSH** | A durable tmux server on the remote host, fronted by a local pane running `ssh`. See [Remote SSH Sessions](Remote-SSH-Sessions). |
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This matters because it is a common source of confusion: Docker is **not** an eleventh run
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mode. All ten run modes work in all three locations. A case is docker-backed or
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mode. All eleven run modes work in all three locations. A case is docker-backed or
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ssh-backed; a session is claude or codex or shell.
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**Web tabs** are the other thing that is not a session. A saved dashboard URL renders as a
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task completed. Those events drive tab alerts, the Approvals Inbox, notifications, and the
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wait primitives.
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This is why some features are Claude-only. The one partial exception is DeepSeek Harness,
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This is why some features are Claude-only. One partial exception is DeepSeek Harness,
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whose terminal front door reports idle, working and blocked to Codeman over the harness's
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own supervisor contract, so it gets the hook-driven signals without a hook file. The other
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own supervisor contract, so it gets the hook-driven signals without a hook file. Codex gets
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one of them from its screen: Codeman reads its approval, question and trust dialogs off the
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pane and raises the same red "needs you" alert a `permission_prompt` hook raises. The other
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CLIs have no equivalent, so for them Codeman falls back to watching terminal output, which
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is coarser: it can see that something happened, not what it was.
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| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| **Case** | Named working directory. |
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| **Session** | One CLI in one tmux session. |
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| **Run mode** | Which CLI: claude, opencode, codex, gemini, antigravity, pi, grok, deepseek, omp, shell. |
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| **Run mode** | Which CLI: claude, opencode, codex, gemini, antigravity, pi, grok, deepseek, omp, copilot, shell. |
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| **Respawn** | Restarting the CLI on idle to keep an unattended run going. |
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| **Ralph loop** | An autonomous single-session task loop. |
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| **Orchestrator**| A phased plan driven across multiple agents. |
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## Read next
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- [The Dashboard](The-Dashboard) - what the UI is showing you.
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- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) - the ten run modes in detail.
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- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) - the eleven run modes in detail.
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- [Keeping Agents Running](Keeping-Agents-Running) - respawn, idle detection, usage limits.
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- [`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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in both cases, and nothing is ever auto-chosen: the promoted row is simply the one under your
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thumb.
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**For opencode, Codex, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek and OMP, picking an entry launches
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**For opencode, Codex, Gemini, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek, OMP and GitHub Copilot, picking an entry launches
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straight onto the endpoint** — no restart, because the endpoint is applied before the
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session's process ever starts. **Claude still restarts the harness's process in place** —
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same tab, same conversation (`--resume`) — after a normal native launch, since that restart
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is far less jarring for Claude than for the other seven, whose own TUI can fully
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is far less jarring for Claude than for the others, whose own TUI can fully
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reinitialize on a restart. Either way, every supported harness reads its endpoint config at
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process start, never per turn, so there is no live hot-swap while a turn is running.
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| Harness | Status |
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| ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| **GitHub Copilot CLI** | Verified at the CLI level (1.0.95) against a local OpenAI-compatible endpoint: it posts to `/v1/chat/completions` with your key and model name and needs no GitHub sign-in. Tool calls through a custom endpoint were not exercised. |
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| **Claude Code, opencode, Pi, Grok, OMP** | Verified end-to-end against a real local server. |
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| **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. |
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| **Gemini** | Fails with an auth error gemini-cli raises once redirected. Unresolved; don't rely on it yet. |
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reproducible toolchain, and for the ability to pick the whole environment up and move it to
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another machine.
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A docker case is a **location overlay**, not a run mode. All ten run modes work inside a
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A docker case is a **location overlay**, not a run mode. All eleven run modes work inside a
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container. See [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts).
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## One-time setup: the base image
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container's history). OMP's `sessions/` is the exception and is shared read-write, because
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Codeman reads it host-side for history and resume.
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GitHub Copilot CLI is not seeded: on a host without a keyring its sign-in token sits in plain
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text in `~/.copilot/config.json`, and there is no Docker credential row for it. Sign in inside
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the container (`copilot login`). A `COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN` cannot be handed in instead: a docker
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case refuses per-session environment overrides, and Copilot forwards no server variable into
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the container.
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**Git hosts.** The agent image can also include the GitHub CLI (`gh`) and the Azure CLI (`az`,
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with the `azure-devops` extension), off by default, and its git then uses them as credential
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helpers for github.com and Azure DevOps. When the matching switch is on, their sign-ins are
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5. **Wait instead of polling, and a timeout is not an error.** The wait endpoints answer
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`200` with `wait.timedOut: true`. Loop over short waits rather than one long call, because
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tunnels cut idle connections.
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6. **Only `claude` and `deepseek` sessions emit `stop` and `blocked`.** Claude's come from
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Claude Code hooks, DeepSeek's from the harness reporting its state to Codeman. Shell and
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the other external CLIs accept only `idle`, `working`, and `exit`; asking for `stop`
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explicitly there is a `400`, while omitting `until` is always safe. On a shell session
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6. **Only `claude` and `deepseek` sessions emit `stop`; `blocked` also fires for `codex`.**
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Claude's come from Claude Code hooks, DeepSeek's from the harness reporting its state to
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Codeman, and Codex's `blocked` from Codeman reading its approval, question and trust
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dialogs off the screen (a wait that asks for `blocked` while such a dialog is already up
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answers at once). Shell and the other external CLIs accept only `idle`, `working`, and
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`exit`; asking for `stop` explicitly there (codex included) is a `400`, while omitting
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`until` is always safe. On a shell session
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`idle` fires **once at startup and never again**, so synchronize hook-less sessions with an
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output marker instead.
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7. **Nothing reports "ready", so wait for it explicitly.** A new session answers
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`{"signal":"exit","immediate":true}` until its PID exists, and that means *not started*,
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not *crashed*. A Claude worker in a fresh case then sits on the CLI's trust dialog; prompt
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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.
|
||||
not *crashed*. A Claude worker in a fresh case then sits on the CLI's trust dialog, whose
|
||||
highlighted option is `No, exit`: prompt it there and your Enter quits the CLI. Codeman
|
||||
holds `idle` while the dialog is on screen, but that is not a readiness signal either.
|
||||
|
||||
### Recipes
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
+2
-2
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ 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
|
||||
Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok Build, DeepSeek Harness,
|
||||
OMP and GitHub Copilot CLI, 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?
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
|
||||
# Git Worktrees
|
||||
|
||||
Sessions in one case share its folder. That is fine for one agent, but three agents in the
|
||||
same checkout edit the same files, overwrite each other's builds, and commit each other's
|
||||
half-finished work. A **git worktree** gives each of them a checkout of its own: same
|
||||
repository, same history, a separate folder on a separate branch.
|
||||
|
||||
Codeman creates worktrees for a case whose folder is a git repository, starts sessions in
|
||||
them, and removes them again when the work is done.
|
||||
|
||||
## Where they live
|
||||
|
||||
`<case>/.claude/worktrees/<name>`, on a new branch `worktree-<name>`. That is exactly where
|
||||
Claude Code's own `claude --worktree <name>` puts them, so a worktree made in Codeman is one
|
||||
Claude Code recognizes, and the other way round. Codeman's Recent Sessions and Session Manager
|
||||
lists mark a session that runs in one with a `⑂ <name>` pill.
|
||||
|
||||
The main checkout does not show the worktrees as untracked: Codeman adds `/.claude/worktrees/`
|
||||
(and `/.claude/settings.local.json`, the hooks file it writes for every Claude session, plus the
|
||||
`codeman` folder it writes when **Codeman Agent Skill** is on) to the repository's local
|
||||
`.git/info/exclude` when git does not ignore them already. Without that, those files would make
|
||||
every worktree look modified and git would refuse to remove it. Your tracked `.gitignore` is
|
||||
never touched.
|
||||
|
||||
## Creating one and starting a session in it
|
||||
|
||||
1. Pick the case in the toolbar's case picker.
|
||||
2. Open the picker again and choose **Git worktrees…** (on a phone: the case sheet's
|
||||
**Worktrees** button).
|
||||
3. Under **New worktree**, type a name (letters, digits, `.`, `_`, `-`, up to 64 characters).
|
||||
4. Pick the CLI under **Start sessions with** (Claude Code, Codex, a shell, any installed run
|
||||
mode).
|
||||
5. **Create & start session**.
|
||||
|
||||
The worktree is created from the case's current commit, and the session opens in it as a tab
|
||||
named `w1-<name>`. Under **Branch and start point** you can name the branch yourself or start
|
||||
from another branch, tag or commit. An existing branch is never reused or reset: pick another
|
||||
name.
|
||||
|
||||
**Open** on a worktree's row starts another session in it, with the CLI chosen above.
|
||||
|
||||
## Removing one
|
||||
|
||||
Two ways, and both use `git worktree remove` **without** `--force`:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Remove…** on the worktree's row in the dialog.
|
||||
- Closing a session that runs in a worktree: the Close Session dialog offers **Kill & remove
|
||||
worktree**, which kills the session and then removes its worktree.
|
||||
|
||||
git refuses to remove a worktree that still holds uncommitted or untracked files, and Codeman
|
||||
shows that refusal as git worded it and leaves everything in place. Commit, stash or delete the
|
||||
work first, then remove again. A worktree a live session still runs in is refused too.
|
||||
|
||||
**Also delete its branch** deletes the branch with `git branch -d`, which keeps a branch whose
|
||||
commits are not merged yet. The worktree is still removed, and the message says the branch was
|
||||
kept.
|
||||
|
||||
If a worktree's folder was deleted by hand, its row says **missing** and offers only
|
||||
**Remove…**: that clears the record git keeps of it, so the name can be used for a new worktree.
|
||||
|
||||
## What is not supported
|
||||
|
||||
- **Docker cases and remote (SSH) cases.** A container can write to its workspace, and creating
|
||||
a worktree runs the repository's hooks and checkout filters on the Codeman machine, so git is
|
||||
never run there. A remote case's repository is on another machine. For the same reason a
|
||||
worktree that a Docker case uses as its workspace (or that holds one) is never removed from
|
||||
here: remove the Docker case first.
|
||||
- A case folder that is not the top of a repository (a subfolder of one), a bare repository, or
|
||||
an empty repository with no commit yet.
|
||||
- Worktrees outside `.claude/worktrees/` (made by hand with `git worktree add`) are listed, but
|
||||
Codeman neither starts sessions in them from the dialog nor removes them.
|
||||
|
||||
The HTTP endpoints are in the [HTTP API](HTTP-API) reference (`/api/cases/:name/worktrees`).
|
||||
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Roughly 235 handlers across 26 route modules. By domain:
|
||||
| ------------------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
|
||||
| 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. |
|
||||
| Cases | 37 | Create, link, clone, worktrees, remote and docker cases. |
|
||||
| Files | 17 | Preview, edit, raw, attachments, path picker. |
|
||||
| Orchestrator | 10 | Plans and phases. |
|
||||
| Ralph | 9 | Loop control and configuration. |
|
||||
@@ -142,9 +142,10 @@ Three semantics that break callers who assume otherwise:
|
||||
`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`.
|
||||
Only `claude` and `deepseek` sessions emit `stop`: Claude's come from Claude Code hooks,
|
||||
DeepSeek's from the harness reporting its state to Codeman. `blocked` fires for those two
|
||||
and for `codex`, whose approval, question and trust dialogs Codeman reads off the screen.
|
||||
Shell and the other external CLI sessions accept `idle`, `working`, and `exit`.
|
||||
|
||||
## SSE
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
+4
-3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
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
|
||||
Grok, DeepSeek Harness, OMP, or GitHub Copilot CLI 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.
|
||||
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ codeman web # then open http://localhost:3000
|
||||
|
||||
**Already running it**
|
||||
|
||||
- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) - the ten run modes, their setup, and which features are Claude-only.
|
||||
- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) - the eleven 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.
|
||||
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ codeman web # then open http://localhost:3000
|
||||
| [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs) | Which agent should this session run, and how do I set it up? |
|
||||
| [Custom Model Endpoints](Custom-Model-Endpoints) | How do I point a session at my own OpenAI-compatible endpoint? |
|
||||
| [Working With Files](Working-With-Files) | How do I read, edit, and attach files? |
|
||||
| [Git Worktrees](Git-Worktrees) | How do several agents work on one repository without sharing a folder? |
|
||||
| [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? |
|
||||
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ codeman web # then open http://localhost:3000
|
||||
| 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. |
|
||||
| An agent CLI | At least one of Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok Build, DeepSeek Harness, OMP, GitHub Copilot CLI. 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
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ terminal into something that can notify you.
|
||||
| `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
|
||||
This is why several Codeman features are Claude-only. 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.
|
||||
file. Codex gets one of them from its screen: Codeman reads its approval, question and
|
||||
trust dialogs off the pane and raises the same red "needs you" alert a `permission_prompt`
|
||||
hook raises (see [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs#codex)). 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
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -27,12 +27,14 @@ 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.
|
||||
**For the other CLIs** it depends on what the CLI tells Codeman. Codex, OpenCode, Gemini
|
||||
CLI, Pi, OMP and Antigravity each declare their own prompt marker and working line, so they
|
||||
get the same screen check Claude does (before 1.26.1 every Codex session reported idle for
|
||||
its whole life). DeepSeek Harness reports its end of turn and its dialogs to Codeman itself,
|
||||
which is as precise as hooks; its working and idle display still comes from its output.
|
||||
Grok Build declares neither. Codeman calls a new grok pane idle 3 seconds after launch, and
|
||||
after that it has only generic cues to go on (Claude's `❯` prompt marker, a braille spinner
|
||||
glyph), which grok may not draw, so its working and idle status is unreliable.
|
||||
|
||||
## The Respawn Controller
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -161,8 +163,10 @@ run summary and lifecycle log carry the detail.
|
||||
- **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.
|
||||
- **Non-Claude sessions can respawn**, but with no usage-limit auto-resume, and with
|
||||
output-based idle detection except on DeepSeek Harness, whose own end-of-turn report
|
||||
reaches the respawn controller the way Claude's `stop` hook does while its status bridge
|
||||
is on (a local session, by default).
|
||||
- **Do not run respawn on a session you are actively typing in.** It will send prompts
|
||||
underneath you.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ default. See [Tile Grid](Tile-Grid).
|
||||
|
||||
**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.
|
||||
Previous Session (`Alt+[`) and Next Session (alternate, `Alt+]`) are rows like any other,
|
||||
so they can be rebound too.
|
||||
|
||||
A chord another action already uses is refused, and the message names that action. The same
|
||||
check runs when you re-enable a disabled shortcut and when you press Reset: if its chord was
|
||||
given to something else in the meantime, it stays as it was. `Alt+1` to `Alt+9`,
|
||||
`Shift+Enter`/`Ctrl+Enter` and `Ctrl+V`/`Cmd+V` are reserved.
|
||||
|
||||
Two things are deliberately not rebindable:
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -79,8 +86,11 @@ Two things are deliberately not rebindable:
|
||||
|
||||
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.
|
||||
as triggering the action. A chord **you** rebind an action to is kept out of the terminal
|
||||
too, so rebinding Previous Session to `Alt+J` switches the session and sends nothing to the
|
||||
CLI. The built-in defaults are deliberately not held back this way: `Ctrl+L` clears the
|
||||
screen and also reaches the CLI, which redraws on it. Binding an action back onto its own
|
||||
default behaves like the default.
|
||||
|
||||
`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.
|
||||
|
||||
+19
-13
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ as the keyboard appearing.
|
||||
|
||||
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.
|
||||
1. **NEEDS YOU** first: sessions blocked on a question, with answer strips (Approvals Inbox
|
||||
on) so you can resolve a Claude dialog without opening the session. A Codex or DeepSeek
|
||||
Harness row offers **Answer in terminal** instead, which opens the session.
|
||||
2. **CURRENT SESSIONS** with live status.
|
||||
3. **PAST SESSIONS**, resumable.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -66,7 +67,8 @@ autocorrect: Enter adds a new line, and only Send delivers the text, as one past
|
||||
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 or videos and puts their paths into the draft.
|
||||
is parked. The editor's Attach button attaches photos, videos or documents 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.
|
||||
@@ -103,12 +105,16 @@ into the Run dropdown.
|
||||
## The Attach button
|
||||
|
||||
The toolbar's **Attach** button (the picture icon beside the mic) is the keyboard-down way to
|
||||
hand the agent a photo or a video. One tap opens the camera and photo library sheet, nothing
|
||||
else: no editor, no keyboard. The chosen files upload and their paths land on the prompt, so
|
||||
you then tap the terminal, write the rest of your message and press Enter. Videos (mp4, webm,
|
||||
mov, m4v, ogv) upload as recorded, up to 1 GB each by default
|
||||
(`CODEMAN_MAX_PASTE_VIDEO_BYTES` on the server changes it), so a long 4K clip takes a moment
|
||||
on the way up.
|
||||
hand the agent a photo, a video or a document. One tap opens the system's sheet (camera,
|
||||
photo library, or a file from Files or a cloud drive), nothing else: no editor, no keyboard.
|
||||
The chosen files upload and their paths land on the prompt, so you then tap the terminal,
|
||||
write the rest of your message and press Enter. Videos (mp4, webm, mov, m4v, ogv)
|
||||
upload as recorded, up to 1 GB each by default (`CODEMAN_MAX_PASTE_VIDEO_BYTES` on the
|
||||
server changes it), so a long 4K clip takes a moment on the way up. Documents are PDFs,
|
||||
Office files (docx, pptx, xlsx), zips and plain-text formats such as txt, md, csv and json;
|
||||
a document keeps the plain-letters part of its name in the saved file, so the agent and you
|
||||
can tell the uploads apart. See [Working With Files](Working-With-Files) for where they land and how long they
|
||||
stay.
|
||||
|
||||
If the keyboard was up when you tapped Attach, iOS closes it to show the photo sheet and does
|
||||
not bring it back, so the tap on the terminal is how you get it again. That is the system's
|
||||
@@ -120,7 +126,7 @@ anything you had already typed, so you can write in front of a path, fix a word,
|
||||
**Use terminal keyboard** hands a single-line message back the other way, onto the prompt,
|
||||
so neither surface holds a half of your message. A multi-line message cannot make that trip
|
||||
(the prompt is a single line), so it stays parked as a draft and the dot on the Compose key
|
||||
shows it is waiting. The Compose editor's own Image button remains for the times you are
|
||||
shows it is waiting. The Compose editor's own Attach button remains for the times you are
|
||||
already writing in the editor.
|
||||
|
||||
## Tapping, links and copying
|
||||
@@ -162,9 +168,9 @@ 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.
|
||||
Push notifications reach you with no tab open, and with the Approvals Inbox on, those for a
|
||||
Claude permission prompt carry **Approve** and **Deny** buttons handled by the service
|
||||
worker, so you can unblock a Claude agent from the lock screen.
|
||||
|
||||
Setup in [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals).
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -60,6 +60,36 @@ 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.
|
||||
|
||||
## Server-wide settings are admin only
|
||||
|
||||
There is one set of server settings (`~/.codeman/settings.json`) for everyone: the feature
|
||||
switches, the run mode, respawn presets, the case order, the Cloudflare tunnel, the default
|
||||
models. Every user can **read** them, but only an **admin** can change them. For a regular
|
||||
user the settings write routes answer `403 FORBIDDEN` (see the
|
||||
[HTTP API](HTTP-API) and [`docs/api-reference.md`](https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/blob/master/docs/api-reference.md)).
|
||||
A regular user reads them without what is the admin's: the Deepgram key an admin saved for
|
||||
voice dictation, and the admin's case names (case order, last used case).
|
||||
|
||||
In the browser this means:
|
||||
|
||||
- **App Settings → Save** still keeps a regular user's per-device settings (skin, fonts,
|
||||
header buttons, keyboard bar and the rest of the per-device keys) on that device. If they
|
||||
also changed a server-wide setting, one notice says it can only be changed by an admin,
|
||||
and the setting keeps the server's value.
|
||||
- A regular user's run-mode pick and respawn presets are their own: kept in that browser
|
||||
under their name, not sent to the server, and still theirs on the next visit (over what
|
||||
an admin set). Their last used case is not recorded server-wide.
|
||||
- Reordering cases and switching the tunnel on or off are admin actions.
|
||||
- If the page could not tell yet who is signed in (a slow or failed sign-in check), the
|
||||
server's refusal is read the same way: the same notice, and nothing more is sent.
|
||||
|
||||
The operations that act on the whole server are admin actions too: updating Codeman,
|
||||
opening the multi-display window, regenerating the tunnel QR code (it clears every user's
|
||||
pending QR login) and cleaning up stale session state. **Revoke All** signs a regular user
|
||||
out of their own logins only, and the tunnel panel lists only their own.
|
||||
|
||||
Per-user server settings are not part of this version.
|
||||
|
||||
## Safer defaults for regular users
|
||||
|
||||
Non-admins get tighter defaults, and lifting them is an explicit per-user grant:
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ opening the session.
|
||||
| Desktop notification | Another window on the same machine | Opt-in |
|
||||
| Push notification | Anywhere, even with no tab open | Opt-in |
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| Webhook (ntfy, Slack, Discord) | Anywhere, with no browser or subscription at all | Opt-in |
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| Approvals Inbox | One queue across every session | Opt-in |
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| Approvals Inbox | One queue for Claude, Codex and DeepSeek prompts | Opt-in |
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| Phone overview | Phone home screen, NEEDS YOU section | On |
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| Away Digest | Afterwards, as a summary | Opt-in |
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@@ -34,8 +34,13 @@ reloading the dashboard while a permission dialog is blocking a session does not
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with a normal-looking tab.
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For Claude sessions, these come from Claude Code's hooks and are precise about *why* the
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session stopped; DeepSeek Harness sessions report the same states themselves. For the other
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CLIs there are no hooks, so you get the coarser output-based signal.
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session stopped; DeepSeek Harness sessions report the same states themselves. Codex has no
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hooks, but its dialogs are distinctive enough to read off the screen, so a Codex session
|
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waiting on an approval, a question or the "Trust this folder?" prompt turns red too, and
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clears a few seconds after you answer. For the other CLIs there are no hooks and no dialog
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reading, so you get only the coarser working and idle state: read off the screen for
|
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OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Pi, OMP and Antigravity, and unreliable for Grok Build, which
|
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declares nothing Codeman can read it from.
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## Window title and OS notifications
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@@ -109,11 +114,13 @@ Behaviour worth knowing:
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## The Approvals Inbox
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|
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**Opt-in, off by default. Claude sessions, plus DeepSeek Harness sessions, whose terminal
|
||||
front door reports its prompts to Codeman.**
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front door reports its prompts to Codeman, and Codex sessions, whose dialogs Codeman reads
|
||||
off the screen.** DeepSeek and Codex cards are alerts: they say "Answer in the terminal" and
|
||||
carry no answer buttons, because Codeman cannot verify a keystroke into those dialogs.
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|
||||
One queue of every prompt currently waiting on a human, across all your sessions, answerable
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||||
in place. When you have eight workers running, this is the difference between checking eight
|
||||
tabs and checking one list.
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||||
One queue of the prompts currently waiting on a human, across all your sessions, with the
|
||||
Claude ones answerable in place. When you have eight workers running, this is the difference
|
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between checking eight tabs and checking one list.
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||||
|
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Turn it on in **App Settings**. Surfaces:
|
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|
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@@ -134,17 +141,20 @@ Behaviour worth knowing:
|
||||
sending, and refuses with a conflict if the dialog is no longer there. Otherwise your
|
||||
keystroke would land in the composer as stray text.
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- **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.
|
||||
dialog completing, an answer, a supersede, the session exiting, or a 12 hour timeout. A
|
||||
Codex item also clears a few seconds after its dialog leaves the screen, and a DeepSeek
|
||||
Harness item when the harness reports it is working again. 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 enabled, push notifications for a Claude permission prompt 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. A Codex or DeepSeek Harness
|
||||
notification carries no Approve or Deny, since those dialogs are answered in the terminal.
|
||||
|
||||
With the inbox off, the buttons are stripped from the notification payload entirely rather
|
||||
than being shown and failing.
|
||||
@@ -184,8 +194,9 @@ current sessions, then past ones. Rows use the same language as the tab strip: a
|
||||
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.
|
||||
With the Approvals Inbox on, answer strips let you resolve a Claude permission or question
|
||||
dialog straight from the home screen without opening the session. A Codex or DeepSeek
|
||||
Harness strip offers **Answer in terminal** instead, which opens the session.
|
||||
|
||||
## The Away Digest
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -214,7 +225,8 @@ from the lock screen.
|
||||
- **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.
|
||||
DeepSeek Harness reports itself, and on Codex's dialogs as its screen shows them; the
|
||||
other CLIs give 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.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Point a case at another machine and the agent runs **there**, with the same dash
|
||||
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
|
||||
Like Docker, this is a **location overlay** on a case, not a run mode. All eleven run modes
|
||||
work remotely. See [Core Concepts](Core-Concepts).
|
||||
|
||||
## Why bother
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ The practical rule: **appearance and input are per device, behaviour is shared.*
|
||||
did not follow you, it is in one of the first two rows, and you change it again on that
|
||||
device.
|
||||
|
||||
In [Multi-User Mode](Multi-User-Mode) the server's settings are shared by every user, so
|
||||
only an **admin** can change them. A regular user's **Save** keeps their per-device settings
|
||||
as usual and tells them that server-wide settings can only be changed by an admin.
|
||||
|
||||
## App Settings
|
||||
|
||||
### Updates
|
||||
@@ -146,6 +150,7 @@ instead of its native cloud backend. See [Custom Model Endpoints](Custom-Model-E
|
||||
| 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. |
|
||||
| Pin tab names on the CLI | Launches every Claude session with `--name` set to its tab name, so Claude Code's prompt label and `/resume` list match your tabs. Claude then stops generating its own titles for those sessions, and a rename in Codeman holds only until the next turn. Synced, off by default; applies from the next session start or respawn. |
|
||||
| Codeman Agent Skill | Under **All agent CLIs**. Injects the agent skill into each new session's case, where that session's CLI looks for skills (every CLI except Pi and a plain shell). Off by default. See [The Codeman Skill](Codeman-Skill). |
|
||||
| Remote auto-reconnect | Reattaches dropped remote SSH sessions. On by default. |
|
||||
| Nice priority / value | Runs agent processes at a lower CPU priority. |
|
||||
@@ -217,7 +222,7 @@ Some things are configured before the server starts, not in the UI:
|
||||
| `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_PASTE_IMAGE_BYTES` | Cap on one pasted, dropped or attached image. 50 MB by default. |
|
||||
| `CODEMAN_MAX_PASTE_IMAGE_BYTES` | Cap on one pasted, dropped or attached image or document. 50 MB by default. |
|
||||
| `CODEMAN_MAX_PASTE_VIDEO_BYTES` | Cap on one attached video (phone Attach, drop). 1 GB by default; videos stream to disk, so this bounds disk use, not memory. |
|
||||
| `CODEMAN_MAX_REMOTE_FILE_SSH` | Concurrent ssh reads for files in remote cases. 4 by default. |
|
||||
| `CODEMAN_PATH_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS` | How long a linked case's folder may take to answer before it is shown as unreachable. 1500 ms by default; raise it for a slow but healthy mount. |
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -202,6 +202,15 @@ Both wait about 2.5 seconds before appearing, so a deploy that restarts the serv
|
||||
flash a warning at you every time. If the browser reports itself offline, the grace period
|
||||
is skipped.
|
||||
|
||||
**The transport readout.** With a session open, the header shows how its terminal is
|
||||
connected: `WS` (WebSocket, the normal case), `WS…` (connecting or reconnecting) or `HTTP`
|
||||
(the WebSocket is unavailable and input goes over HTTP). If typed or pasted input is backing
|
||||
up faster than it is acknowledged, the readout grows a suffix such as `WS · 1.2KB queued`.
|
||||
That suffix appears only after the backlog has stayed up for about a second, so a paste or a
|
||||
fast burst that clears at once does not make the pill widen and shrink. (It is part of the
|
||||
text line, so you see it in the Compact and As before header styles; Tiles hides that line and
|
||||
shows `WS live`, and phones hide it too.)
|
||||
|
||||
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.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -116,9 +116,14 @@ seconds in. Current versions confirm against the actual screen before believing
|
||||
|
||||
### 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).
|
||||
For Grok Build the busy and idle status is unreliable: it exposes no hooks and declares no
|
||||
working line, so after launch Codeman has only generic cues to go on (Claude's `❯` prompt
|
||||
marker, a braille spinner glyph), which it may not draw. Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Pi,
|
||||
OMP and Antigravity get the same screen check Claude does, so a session of theirs that has
|
||||
genuinely gone quiet will settle. An Antigravity session waiting on a shell-command approval
|
||||
("Run this command?") shows busy until you answer it: `agy` draws nothing Codeman reads as
|
||||
"at rest" while that list is up. If a session never settles, interrupt it (`Ctrl+C` with
|
||||
nothing selected).
|
||||
|
||||
### The agent asks about bypass permissions every time
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -168,17 +168,41 @@ blocks sensitive trees. In multi-user mode a non-admin gets only their own user
|
||||
root, because per-user spaces live inside the home directory and a home-directory root would
|
||||
expose everyone.
|
||||
|
||||
## Images into a session
|
||||
## Files into a session
|
||||
|
||||
Paste from the clipboard or drag and drop straight onto the terminal. The image is written
|
||||
Paste from the clipboard or drag and drop straight onto the terminal. The file is written
|
||||
where the agent can read it and the reference is inserted into your prompt. On a phone, the
|
||||
toolbar's Attach button opens the camera or photo library, videos included, and puts the path
|
||||
on your prompt, where it behaves like text you typed; the Image button inside the Compose
|
||||
editor does the same into the editor. Dropping a video onto the terminal works the same way.
|
||||
toolbar's Attach button opens the camera, photo library or files, and puts the path on your
|
||||
prompt, where it behaves like text you typed; the Attach button inside the Compose editor
|
||||
does the same into the editor. Dropping a video or a document onto the terminal works the
|
||||
same way.
|
||||
|
||||
HEIC images from an iPhone are converted to JPEG on the way in.
|
||||
Videos (mp4, webm, mov, m4v, ogv) are stored as recorded, up to 1 GB each by default
|
||||
(`CODEMAN_MAX_PASTE_VIDEO_BYTES`); they stream to disk rather than through server memory.
|
||||
Images (png, jpg, gif, webp, bmp, heic) are re-encoded on the device before they go up (a GIF
|
||||
goes as is, so it keeps its frames), and HEIC from an iPhone is converted to JPEG. Videos (mp4, webm, mov, m4v, ogv) are stored as recorded,
|
||||
up to 1 GB each by default (`CODEMAN_MAX_PASTE_VIDEO_BYTES`); they stream to disk rather than
|
||||
through server memory. Documents are the office formats (pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx, zip) and the
|
||||
text family (txt, md, csv, tsv, json, log, yaml, yml, xml). Each is checked on the way in,
|
||||
against its file signature for the binary formats and against its encoding for text (UTF-8,
|
||||
no NUL bytes), so a script renamed to `.pdf` is refused while a `.txt` can hold any text at
|
||||
all. A text file in another encoding is refused with a message saying it is not UTF-8 (or that
|
||||
it is UTF-16, which Excel's "Unicode Text" and Notepad's "Unicode" produce); save it as UTF-8
|
||||
(in Excel, "CSV UTF-8") and attach it again. Files with script or page extensions (sh, py,
|
||||
js, html) are not accepted, since a prompt upload is something for the agent to read, not
|
||||
something for Codeman to store and serve. A document keeps a trimmed copy of its original
|
||||
name, letters, digits, dot, dash and underscore with anything else turned into a dash, so
|
||||
`Q3 report.pdf` is findable as `paste-<time>-<id>-Q3-report.pdf`; a name made entirely of
|
||||
other characters saves without one. Uploads are refused for remote (SSH) sessions, whose
|
||||
working directory is on the other host.
|
||||
|
||||
Uploads land in `.codeman-uploads/` inside the case, next to the code the agent is working
|
||||
on, because that is the one path a local agent and a Docker case (whose workspace is mounted
|
||||
at the same absolute path) both see the same way. The first upload writes a `.gitignore` of `*` into `.codeman-uploads/`, so the
|
||||
directory ignores itself and your repository never picks the files up, while your own ignore file is
|
||||
left alone; a `.gitignore` you already had there is never overwritten. Files older than seven
|
||||
days are swept hourly, and the directory goes when the last session of the case is closed (a
|
||||
session that is only detached keeps it). Earlier releases wrote to `.claude-images/`; that
|
||||
directory is still swept and cleaned up the same way for one release so a case in use before
|
||||
the move is not left with stray files.
|
||||
|
||||
## Generated artifacts
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
|
||||
- [Agent CLIs](Agent-CLIs)
|
||||
- [Custom Model Endpoints](Custom-Model-Endpoints)
|
||||
- [Working With Files](Working-With-Files)
|
||||
- [Git Worktrees](Git-Worktrees)
|
||||
- [Input And Voice](Input-And-Voice)
|
||||
- [Mobile Guide](Mobile-Guide)
|
||||
- [Keyboard Shortcuts](Keyboard-Shortcuts)
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in new issue
Block a user