Conflicts resolved as on test/desktop-macbook: install.sh usage() lists CODEMAN_NO_ADMIN=1 or 0 and #773's CODEMAN_AI_CLI and CODEMAN_PROGRESS=1; probe.rs keeps #781's agent() with TIMEOUT, MAX_BODY and probe_within all pub; the desktop README keeps both known-limits entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The logo said one thing: agents are working. It now has a style of its own
for each state the tabs show: at work, finished and waiting for you (yellow),
and stopped on a permission or a question (red), set under View > Blink Apple
Logo. The most urgent state with a style wins, red then yellow then work, and
a state set to Off falls through to the next instead of silencing the logo.
Red and yellow come from `GET /api/approvals`, the list the page rebuilds
those tabs from after a reload, read natively for the reason the session list
is: WebKit stalls a hidden page's stream. An idle item stops counting once it
is acknowledged, so the logo stops when the tab's colour goes. The request is
skipped while neither alert has a style, a 404 from an older server reads as
no alerts, and a request that fails keeps the last answer. A dialog on screen
costs the server one tmux capture per poll.
Alarm is new: three sharp flashes and a short rest. It stays under the limit
of three flashes in any second, so its urgency comes from its shape.
A style saved by the earlier version stays as the one for work, and yellow
and red start as Wink and Alarm, since whoever chose one asked for a logo that
talks. `SETTLE` goes from 2 s to 3 s, the time the server takes to judge a new
dialog, so a prompt answered before its hook landed never flashes red.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`GET /api/approvals` re-reads the pane of every pending dialog and resolves
one whose frame shows no dialog, either because its options vanished or
because the frame shows a turn running. `notePrompt` deliberately waits 3 s
before making that same judgement, since the Notification hook can land
before Ink paints the dialog and the working line is still on screen then.
The list did not wait. That rarely mattered while it ran once per page load,
but a client that polls it would resolve a live prompt as answered in the
terminal, clearing the red alert on every device and the push Approve button
with it. `sweepForList` skips a dialog younger than the delay.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR display, the lit Apple logo on the lid
can blink while agents work and stop when they finish, so a run can be
read from across the room. View > Blink Apple Logo While Agents Work
picks a style (Calm, Slow, Wink, Heartbeat, Fast). It is off by default,
and the menu exists only on a Mac that has the logo.
Apple documents one control for the logo, `sudo defaults write
com.apple.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode -int 0`. The same setting is a
property of BrightnessSystemClient in the private CoreBrightness
framework, which a process of the logged-in user can set with no
administrator, so nothing here needs a helper or a password.
The setting is system-wide and survives a reboot, and the release profile
has panic = "abort", so the work runs in a child process (this binary
with --logo-blink) tied to the app by a pipe. When the pipe closes,
however the app ended, the child restores the logo and exits. A marker
file covers power loss and a SIGKILL of the child itself.
The child asks api/sessions itself: WebKit stalls the event stream of a
hidden page, which lost whole turns and ran a blink 39 s past the end.
It sends the session cookie of its first answer with every poll, because
a good password without a cookie creates a login session each time and
Codeman evicts the oldest of 100.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a Codeman server of this user ran at an address the app could not open
as its default one, the This Mac tab only named host and port and sent the
user to Another machine to type the address again. A second instance beside
the one that answers (a beta, a `codeman web --port 4000` in a terminal) was
not shown at all.
The look at this Mac now works out an address for every listening socket of
this user's Codeman servers (`found_addresses`, pure): 127.0.0.1 for a bind
to loopback or to every interface, `[::1]` when that is the only loopback
socket, the address itself for a bind to one; `https` and the base path come
from `--https` and `--base-url` on the command line. A server at the default
address with no `--base-url` of its own keeps the default URL, since
install.sh's launchd job has the base path in its environment, where `ps`
does not show it. The default address comes first, then the others by port.
Each address other than the default one is asked once, all at the same time,
with no login. The default probe's answer is reused for its own row. When
nothing answers at the default address, the first found server that answers
is still what Open is for, so each gets the probe's usual 5 s; next to a
Codeman that answers they are only listed and get 2 s. `LocalStatus.found`
replaces `elsewhere`.
The tab lists them: "Codeman is already running on this Mac." with a row
each when none answers at the default address, and "Also running on this
Mac" under Open otherwise. A row has the address, the version and Connect,
or the reason the app cannot open it. Connect fills the address in and runs
the page's one connect(), so the app checks it, uses its saved login and
remembers it like an address typed under Another machine. Nothing connects
by itself, and a refused connect from a row never arms the reopen that Open
has for a starting server.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The owner asked for it to go for the next release. The button, its two
style rules and its translation entry are removed; nothing else changes.
The Ralph wizard itself stays in the code, but this button was its only
entry point, so the wizard can no longer be opened from the interface.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The symlinked .git folder test now also runs from a session in the main
checkout, as well as from a linked worktree. A new pane-watcher test
checks that an unparseable docker-cases.json follows nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keep the 1.49.0 API meaning: liveWorktree and root=live stay inside the
session folder, and an outside worktree is published as outsideWorktree
and walked only with root=live-any.
Refuse a symlinked .git folder as the main worktree, sensitive files
inside a followed worktree, and any outside worktree while attachment
confinement is on or around a blocked tree. The file routes re-check
the guard settings on every request, and a throwing rule check refuses.
The panel keeps its Back to worktree button while pinned to the session
folder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#772 made the Files panel follow an agent into a worktree inside the
session's folder. A worktree beside the repository (git worktree add
../feature, or an EnterWorktree into one that already exists there)
stayed unfollowed, since serving it needs a second confinement root.
findOutsideWorktree() answers that case without running git. The
nearest .git above the pane must name <common dir>/worktrees/<id> of the
session's own repository, and that registry entry must name the
candidate back (or the .git folder must be the common dir itself). It
refuses /, the home folder and above, any folder holding workingDir and
Docker case workspaces, and multi-user mode applies the owner's
folderAllowedForUser rule. The answer is liveWorktree with outside: true
and the folder's real path.
The file routes serve an absolute path inside that worktree, and only
while the folder still resolves to the recorded path. A relative path
still resolves against workingDir alone. The browser routes such paths
to the editable preview, and root-relative markdown refs resolve from
the top of the worktree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a Mac without the developer tools, /usr/bin/git is a placeholder: running
it, even as `git --version`, makes macOS open its "install the command line
developer tools" window. The server asked "is git here?" exactly that way on
the first page load (isGitAvailable() from renderIndexHtml), so a no-admin
install on such a Mac ended with that window one second after the server
started, and it would have come back at every start. Found on a new MacBook
on 2026-11-06: the system log names the Codeman server as the parent of that
git process.
One gate now stands in front of every git the server starts
(src/utils/git-availability.ts). On macOS it resolves git on the PATH itself;
when that is the placeholder, `xcode-select -p` must name a developer folder
that holds a git of its own. xcode-select only prints and never opens a
window. Without the tools, git counts as absent and is never started: every
caller gets the ENOENT it already answers with "git is not installed".
A refusal is asked again after a minute, so installing the tools later needs
no server restart for the git features, and isGitAvailable() no longer
memoizes that one refusal.
Gated: the clone and worktree runners, the Git panel's status and fetch, the
update check and repository status, and Read My Mind's workspace signals.
test/git-spawn-gate.test.ts covers the decision and scans src/ for a git spawn
in a file that does not call the gate, with the reviewed list of sites pinned.
Checked for real on macOS 27. With the developer tools present (Command
Line Tools on one Mac, Xcode on another) the gate resolves /usr/bin/git,
finds the tools and allows git, in 3 to 5 ms. On a MacBook with no
developer tools, a fresh no-admin install with this fix started the server
and loaded the page with git reported as absent, no window opened, and the
system log holds no request to install the tools; the same install without
the fix logged that request one second after the server started.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A running Codeman remembers a missing CLI for up to 5 minutes, so a status
poll never spawns a login shell, and its Run button reads that same memory.
So "Run fails, add the agent, Run again" kept saying the CLI was not
installed, right after the app had said it was ready.
install.sh now touches `cli-installed` in the data dir once a CLI has landed,
and resolve() leaves the backoff when that file's mtime changes. It is one
stat, inside the backoff branch, and buys one run of the chain, so a resolved
CLI never pays for it and a CLI that is still missing goes back to waiting.
Re-walking PATH during the backoff would have found hand installs too, but it
would put a synchronous stat of every PATH entry on the request path, where
one dead network mount freezes the server (#516), and execute candidates that
were already refused.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After "Skip for now" there is no other agent, so a failed add hit
install_offered_cli's gate first, and the app showed its first-install text
("re-run the installer") instead of naming the agent and its command. That
is the main path of adding an agent.
run_offered_cli now runs a trusted command and looks again; the gate stays in
install_offered_cli for the install, and `agent` judges its own run. The one
line that executes a trusted command is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The agent chooser only appeared during the install, and only on a Mac with
no agent. After "Skip for now", or with Codeman already installed, there was
no screen for it.
The same chooser now works after the install: "Add a coding agent" on the
This Mac tab, "Add a Coding Agent to This Mac..." in the app menu (it also
works from a Codeman page), and after a Skip the app says Codeman has no
agent yet before it opens Codeman.
`install.sh agent <id>` installs one agent and nothing else. It checks that
THAT agent landed: install_offered_cli is fatal only when no CLI is left, so
with another one present a failed install would have reported success.
The app runs it as a run of its own (`gui_install::Run::Agent`), in its own
temporary folder, so `ps` never reads it as "Codeman is being installed". It
may run next to a live server, which an install must refuse, and stops only
for another run. `--no-admin` goes to both `preflight` and `agent`: it decides
what counts as installable, so the two must agree.
CI: the bash 3.2 preflight check never tested anything. Its child run
inherited CODEMAN_INSTALL_SH_LIB and stopped at the sourcing guard, and a
false [[ ]] does not trip set -e on bash 3.2. Both are fixed for that check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
changesets/action copies a CHANGELOG.md section into the release as it stands,
so a whole release rendered as one bullet behind its commit hash, with
`### Thanks` as literal text and "Minor Changes" as the only real heading.
The Release workflow now rebuilds the body from that section: Thanks first,
then What's new with a heading per change, Fixes, Also in this release and a
compare link, with "Behaviour change:" and "Breaking:" in bold. The release is
titled `Codeman <x.y.z>`; the tag stays `codeman@<x.y.z>`, which is what the
updater and the update toast read.
This cannot be written into CHANGELOG.md instead: `### <Type> Changes` is
hardcoded upstream, and a `## ` line would end the section for changesets/action
and versionSection(). So the changelog keeps its format and the toast is
unaffected. npm has already published when the step runs, so a formatter failure
leaves the changesets text with a warning and the retag still happens.
SECTION_LABELS is now shared with whats-new.mjs so the toast and the page agree
on what counts as a headline. docs/releasing.md records the changeset shape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The registry does not follow npm, so every release waited on a by-hand
mcp-publisher publish, behind a browser login that expires between
releases.
Release now calls publish-mcp.yml once npm took a release. It signs in
with the workflow's OIDC token, which the registry accepts for the
io.github.Ark0N/ namespace, so it needs no secret and no browser. It skips
a version the registry already has, waits until npm serves a new one, and
can be run by hand with gh workflow run publish-mcp.yml.
The id-token right sits on its own job, which runs nothing from the
repository: it reads server.json and runs one pinned, checksummed binary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Quick-start wrote a selection's launchModel into the session's stored
<Mode>Config, which is what a clear falls back to, so a clear relaunched
the CLI with the endpoint's model id on its native backend. Only API
callers can reach that, since no page sends a clear.
The first launch now takes the forced model from the session's selection,
through the same _withCustomModelLaunchModel() the respawn path uses, so
the stored config keeps the model chosen at create. That also carries the
model onto a new tmux session for a selection applied to a running
session, which the create path used to lose.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four tests failed on a machine with a de_DE locale and a global git ignore
file, with no product change involved:
- custom-model-run-menu-ui (3): the warning formats counts with the runtime
locale (131.072 under de_DE) and the tests hard-coded 131,072. The
expectations now ask the same runtime through toLocaleString().
- git-worktrees (1): git also reads $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore, which
GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL does not cover. A global ignore of
.claude/settings.local.json kept the exclude line from being appended. The
test now points XDG_CONFIG_HOME and GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL away for the code
under test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner decision for 1.49.0: a container or ssh tab keeps using this
host's /tmp and paths, with gating planned as a follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The button sat empty in the page while its strip was hidden, which the
mobile accessibility suite counts as a button with no name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
classifyDotGit() checked with lstat and then opened by name, so a FIFO
swapped in between the two blocked a threadpool worker. The open itself
now refuses both, and the handle is judged.
Reported on #772.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Takes the contributor's wording for the picker title and the toast, the
preview refresh after the preflight and the clearer 409 text, and keeps
the fuller tests and the invariants paragraph from the release branch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1.48.0 reads an adopted tab as an ordinary session and drops every adoption
guard, and nothing in 1.49.0 can change what an older server does, so it takes
a line in the release notes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Compose deployment still on the example password can no longer restart or
update through this script, and no changeset said so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The poll had no hidden-tab gate, and the local scan's 5 s cache sits under the
8 s interval, so a single tab never hit it: every tick was a full socket sweep
(1.1 s and 772 forks on a box with 212 sockets) for a list nobody was reading.
`_foreignPollTick()` is now the one gate for the first load, the timer and the
return to a visible tab. The `visibilitychange` listener is stored and removed
in `stopForeignPolling()`, since this runs on every trip to the home screen.
Checked in real chromium with document.hidden stubbed: 2 polls in 9.5 s visible,
0 in 17.5 s hidden, 1 on return, and a tab opened in the background makes none
until it is shown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A subfolder whose bounded probe answered `unknown` came back as `children: []`
with no `incomplete` and `truncated` false, so a dead mount, or a healthy one
slower than the 1.5 s probe on first touch, read as an empty folder and a
search missed it in silence. `unknown` is never `absent` (#516).
Such a folder now goes on the walk's `unread` list, which flags the node and
sets `truncated` in both walks. A folder the filesystem says is gone drops out
quietly as before. The row said "file limit reached", which would be false
here, so it now reads "Not fully scanned" for either reason.
Reproduced on a real disk with a parent at mode 0444, where the child's stat
answers EACCES: the API, the search and the panel all report it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
That description is the only warning that the switch weakens Codex's
sandbox, and it had no zh-CN entry. The test runs the real translator over
the real index.html.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
README.md was corrected when remote Edit history shipped. The Chinese line
still said nothing is copied to the Codeman host, while a remote session's
diffs are stored there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
resolve_admin_mode keeps a non-admin Mac account on the system route when it
can write to Homebrew. The wiki and both READMEs left that out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The field had no mention. It opens the sandbox's network and does not touch
codex's approvals, so it sits beside the sentence about them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adopting a tmux session is admin-only and Codex Allow network access needs a
grant. The multi-user page listed neither.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A session named codeman-* or claudeman-* on any socket is dropped with no
note, which contradicted the docs. paneCwd is absent for an adopted session,
and only a claude wrapper reports statusLineExporter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The adoption section said every git route answers unsupported, but git-diff
and git-fetch-settings answer 400, and the Git status section listed only
remote and docker. Edit history's `adopted` reason was documented nowhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
105 new em-dashes sat in comments, test names and one test fixture from the
foreign tmux adoption work. Replaced by hand with commas, colons or
parentheses, one reading at a time. The fixture now quotes the real refusal
text, which says "It may still be running, try again."
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer