The owner found the options confusing after the first test build. The
menu now reads Off / While Agents Work / Always, then on a MacBook
Only When Plugged In and With the Lid Closed…, then one status line.
- "Always While Codeman Is Open" is now "Always"; the status line says
"Awake: Codeman is open".
- "Only on Power Adapter" is now "Only When Plugged In".
- "Remove the Lid Helper…" is gone: the lid item is the helper.
Ticking it installs the helper behind the administrator prompt,
unticking it removes it behind another. The setting changes only
once the prompt's command ran, so a cancelled prompt leaves the item
as it was.
- Shorter status lines ("Awake: agents working, lid closed too",
"Paused: on battery", "Sleeps as usual: no agent working").
Config keys and values are unchanged, so a saved choice carries over.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- sync-case-state browser and stale-refresh tests use lastPickedCase (the stale test now fails without its guard)
- saveLastUsedCase runs on the case-sync chain, and the follow is skipped while this device's own pick was not stored
- _caseStateSyncOn tolerates a harness without loadAppSettingsFromStorage
- lastPickedCase added to the config-backup volatile-key test and docs; rename rollback tests cover caseSettings and lastPickedCase
- wiki row moved to System
Codeman > Keep This Mac Awake in the macOS app: While Agents Work (an
agent at work, plus 5 minutes after the last one stops) or Always While
Codeman Is Open. Off by default, and only for a Codeman on this Mac.
- Idle sleep needs no password: the app holds an NSProcessInfo activity
with IdleSystemSleepDisabled, which the kernel drops with the process.
While it only watches for work, an activity that still allows sleep
keeps App Nap from slowing its look at the server.
- On a MacBook, Only on Power Adapter (on by default) pauses it on
battery, and Also With the Lid Closed installs a small LaunchDaemon
behind macOS's administrator prompt. It sets pmset disablesleep only
while the app keeps a fresh request file with its live pid, only on
the power adapter, and undoes only what it set itself. The app writes
the script and plist as root from the copies built into it.
- A status line at the bottom of the submenu says what it does now.
This brings the macOS part of the keep-awake idea from PR #595 into the
app; the server-side setting and the Linux route are left out for now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- follow lastPickedCase (written by saveLastUsedCase while sync is on), not lastUsedCase, so a quick-start or an agent's spawned worker no longer moves other devices
- close the open case-options popover when the follow or an import changes what it shows; follow through selectQuickStartCase(save:false)
- failed save reuses _noteSettingsWriteResult and says the choice lasts until the next sync
- rename undo renames the shared entry back instead of restoring the whole map; lastPickedCase follows a rename
- caseSettings and lastPickedCase added to the redaction, rename and backup-volatile lists and the docs
The 1.50.0 blink switched LEBacklightMode on and off. Every style was a lit
logo with short dark blips that differed only in how many there were, and
Working (Heartbeat) looked busier than Waiting for you (Wink), so urgency
read backwards. Each change was also a write to a setting corebrightnessd
keeps in root's preferences, and new users had to pick a style in three
submenus before anything happened.
Now one rule: the more the logo moves, the more it needs you.
- View > Blink Apple Logo is one switch, off until turned on. It shows
Breathe while agents work, Calm for a yellow tab and Alarm for a red one.
Each state can take another style under View > Apple Logo Blink Styles.
Picking a style turns the switch on, and turning it on with every state
off brings back those three.
- Breathe is new: a slow fade out and back in, every 6.3 s.
- The logo moves on the LED's own hardware fades (LEPWMFactorFadeDuration,
then DisplayLogicalState Blank or Unblank), as LogoLight measured them on
the real logo (MIT, reimplemented in Rust, not copied). A blink writes no
setting and leaves nothing behind a restart. LEBacklightMode is only read,
so a logo the user switched off stays off.
- The direction of a fade is tracked, because the daemon ignores a write in
the direction it already heads and the state can't be read back. When the
direction is unknown, the logo is turned round with a 1e9 s fade first.
- After every Blank the keyboards alone are told Unblank, and only while
the built-in display is awake (CGDisplayIsAsleep). They are told Blank when
it sleeps and Unblank when it wakes. When it sleeps, the fade duration
also goes back to automatic, as LogoLight does.
- A rise from exactly dark waits for a display frame, up to 0.5 s. Short
dark beats (up to 0.35 s) turn round before their fall ends, so they never
reach 0. Long ones time their light from when the rise starts.
- Every end puts the logo back: lit, with the automatic fade duration. A
new marker file (logo-fade) covers a killed child. 1.50.0's marker
(logo-blink) still switches back on a logo that version left off.
- While LogoLight runs, Codeman leaves the logo to it (process-name check),
and the app says so when the switch is turned on.
- Settings from 1.50.0 keep their styles, with the switch on if any was
chosen. All three off was that version's default, so it reads as
untouched.
The tests run the blink against a fake corebrightnessd that moves in
17.5 ms frames on the measured spring curve. It starts each fade 19 ms
after the write, ignores a write in the direction it already heads, and
holds a rise from exactly dark back by a configurable delay. They pin these
cases:
- dips never reach 0
- long dark beats keep their light
- no keyboard is told to light while the display sleeps
- every end leaves the automatic duration and a lit logo
- a logo switched off or driven by LogoLight is left alone
- old settings are migrated
An ignored probe (what_this_mac_answers) reads a Mac's displays,
processes, keyboards and logo without writing anything.
Not measured on the real logo, since there was no MacBook to test on:
- how the 0.12 to 0.36 s fades of the hard styles look
- whether a rise from a dip (about 7%) really skips the frame wait
- the keyboard during Alarm
- the keyboards through a real display sleep
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fixes#529's review asked for, each with a test.
- No inline handler. The button quoted the path inside
onclick="...decodeURIComponent('<path>')", and encodeURIComponent leaves
' alone, so a file named x'-alert(1)-'.txt ran script in Codeman's
origin and it's.txt was a syntax error. It is now bound in the existing
.file-tree-item loops from the row's escaped data-path.
- Symbolic links are refused, never followed. validateSessionFilePath()
returns the realpath, so deleting AGENTS.md -> CLAUDE.md deleted
CLAUDE.md and left the link dangling. The path as named is lstat'ed,
a link answers 400, and the inode is compared again before the unlink.
- The edit route's confinement whole: validateLocalSessionFilePath()
behind withGuardedOutsideWorktree(), so an absolute path in a followed
outside worktree obeys the same rules, and the sensitive, blocked and
.git checks run on both the realpath and the path as named.
- Adopted sessions are refused like remote ones (the /tmp exception of
the older file surfaces is not copied to a new one); Docker workspaces
are allowed, as on the edit route. The workspace is probed bounded
first (#516). Errors are thrown with their status.
- Deleting from search results re-runs the search, the row buttons stay
visible on touch screens, the confirm and toasts have zh-CN text, and
no button is drawn for remote or adopted sessions.
- Docs: CLAUDE.md, architecture-invariants, api-reference and the
Working With Files wiki page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- session-ui.js: no GET /api/settings on a tab return unless this device's cached syncCaseState is true
- system-routes.ts: caseSettings is merged only while syncCaseState is true (as stored or set by the same PUT)
- sync-case-state tests cover both; wiki notes the stored options stay when sync is turned off
- Redact caseSettings for non-admins and never apply a shared map on a read-only page (CASE-SYNC-001)
- Send one case per save and merge it inside mutateSettingsFile, so devices cannot discard each other's cases; rapid saves keep their order (CASE-SYNC-002)
- Check HTTP status and the response body, keep the local choice, report an unsynced save and reuse the forbidden-write handling (CASE-SYNC-003)
- Let the server decide whether sync is on: refresh the cached switch, discard stale refreshes (CASE-SYNC-004)
- Carry shared options through case rename and drop them on delete or unlink
- Give the switch an accessible name; add server, client and two-browser tests
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The changeset, CLAUDE.md, the invariants, the agent control plan, both READMEs
and the wiki's Codeman Skill and Settings Reference pages said an install whose
App Settings were saved on an earlier version stays off until switched on. They
now say the first 1.50.0 start switches a stored off on once, and that turning
it off afterwards sticks. The changeset marks it "Behaviour change:", says the
migration cannot tell a chosen off from the old default, and tells users to
reload a tab left open from before the upgrade before saving App Settings in
it. CLAUDE.md lists the marker file among the data dir's state files, and the
invariants record why it stores true, why the marker is its own file, and
where it runs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The skill-on-by-default change ships in its own pull request with the self-ignoring copy, so this branch keeps the old default and its wording. The local models guide no longer says nothing leaves the machine: the prompts go to the local model, while the coding agent may still check for updates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This reverts commit 0aa34da8, which made the codeman agent skill default on here as well. That change lives in feat/agent-skill-default-on, together with the self-ignoring copy and the reference-folder symlink check it needs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Codeman Agent Skill setting is now on by default, and the per-case
copy it writes lists twice next to the Claude Code plugin (codeman and
codeman:codeman), the same as a codeman skill install would. The README
and the wiki now say so and tell plugin users to turn the setting off.
The README's local model bullet said the session "sends nothing off the
machine". The server keeps the runtime on loopback with its cloud
features off, but opencode itself is not configured offline (its model
catalogue and update checks are untouched), so the bullet now says what
the code does: the prompts and files go to a model on this Mac.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Copilot's registry entry takes no agent skill, like Pi and a plain shell, but
the changeset, the App Settings help text, the Settings Reference and
CLAUDE.md named only Pi (and the shell). The Agent CLIs wiki page still said
no CLI but Claude gets the bundled skill; every CLI except Pi and Copilot
gets it, in `.agents/skills/`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
agentSkillEnabled now reads an absent key as ON, the way
workspaceHooksEnabled does: only an explicit false turns it off. A new
session therefore finds the codeman skill in its folder without a
setting first, and with it the verbs that hand work to other CLIs and to
the local model on this Mac. Settings shows the switch on for the same
absent key.
The injection itself is unchanged: add-only, marker-owned, never through
a symlink, never for remote sessions or a plain shell. Turning the
setting off still removes nothing already written.
The quick-start test now pins the new default (injected on an absent
key, nothing after an explicit false), and the docs that said "default
off" say when that changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/local-models.md says how a Claude Code session drives the model on
this Mac through the skill (local_model, spawn_worker local, sendmark)
and what stays true: the skill never installs a model or answers a
confirmation, one request at a time, and Stop and Remove wait for the
workers it opened.
The README gets the local model as a feature with that pairing, and an
example prompt in the skill's table; the wiki's skill page gets the same
row and a short paragraph.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every place that called the Codeman Agent Skill setting off by default now
says it is on by default since 1.50.0, where to turn it off, and that turning
it off still removes no copy already written (`codeman skill uninstall --case
<name>` does). The README, the wiki's Codeman Skill page and the FAQ say an
agent inside Codeman usually has the skill without an install step, and that
the copy ignores itself in git.
Also written down: an install whose App Settings were saved on an earlier
version stored the old default and stays off until switched on; with the
Claude Code plugin installed, Claude Code lists the skill twice (both work);
and, in the invariants, the self-ignoring `.gitignore` rules and the
measurement that Claude Code 2.1.319 never runs `git check-ignore` on a skill
folder. The agent control plan keeps its original default-off decision and
gains a dated note for the flip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"A MacBook Pro whose Apple logo lights up" also describes the 2013 to 2015
Retina MacBook Pros, whose lid logo glows from the display backlight and which
run macOS 11 or 12, both of which the app supports. The View menu's Blink
Apple Logo exists only where CoreBrightness answers for the lid logo
(logo::available() in packages/desktop/src/logo.rs), which is a MacBook Pro
with a PROLED XDR display. The README, its Chinese mirror and the wiki now use
packages/desktop/README.md's wording, so the wiki's "the menu only exists on
such a Mac" holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The welcome screen's "Start Ralph Loop" button is gone (chore/remove-ralph-start-button), and it was the wizard's only entry point, so the page no longer offers the wizard as a second way in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Conflicts resolved as on test/desktop-macbook: config/test-suites.ts keeps both browser tests (desktop-connect-page and local-model-ui), and the CLAUDE.md state-files line keeps #778's cli-installed entry with the local model's local-model.json and local-model/ entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 1.50.0 release attaches Codeman.dmg to every release, so
https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/releases/latest/download/Codeman.dmg
always serves the newest app. This puts that link where a Mac user
looks first:
- README.md: one line under the install one-liner, and a short
"On a Mac: the Codeman app" section in Quick Start, after Docker
Compose. What the app does, the download, universal (Apple Silicon
and Intel), macOS 11.3, the WebKit of Safari 16.4 for Codeman's page,
macOS 15 (or a tmux already there) for the install from the app, and
how to update it.
- README.zh-CN.md: the same, translated.
- docs/wiki/Installation.md: a matching section with a First launch
list (the one "downloaded from the internet" question, the Local
Network question on macOS 15) and the limits that matter on day one.
Its anchors, #on-a-mac-the-codeman-app and #first-launch, are what
the website links for first-launch help. Route A points to it.
The limits are copied from packages/desktop/README.md. The app is
signed with a Developer ID and notarized, so no Gatekeeper workaround
and no per-update Keychain prompt is described.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/local-models.md is the guide: the steps, the layout on disk, what is
written outside the folder, the failures and their next steps. The API
reference documents the install object and the five verbs, and how the list
is ordered. The rules for the server side are in CLAUDE.md and
architecture-invariants.md, the user-facing pages in the wiki.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <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>
- docs/api-reference.md: GET /api/local-model is labeled experimental
until the step that sets a model up ships, so its payload is not a
stable /api/v1 contract one stage before that step changes it. The
section now describes the verdict as judged, the three sentences of
the memory reason, the notes, the speed rounding and which size to
show as the installed memory. The os-fallback description was wrong:
the free disk space is reported there too.
- docs/versioning-policy.md: the route is listed under the experimental
surfaces.
- docs/wiki/Settings-Reference.md: App Settings > Models > Model on this
Mac, in the words of a user.
- CLAUDE.md and src/web/CLAUDE.md: the invariants the code relies on
(read-only, the probe, harness rows as data, the meaning of limited,
the word Recommended, one unit, labels from the payload, when the
card and the group show).
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Clone Repo's picker now offers New folder, and with the field empty Browse
opens in the cases folder, so the first press there lands on this refusal.
It pointed at Add Case > Create New, which cannot clone. The sentence has to
read right from every picker that offers the button, so it names both tabs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clone Repo's custom folder became a parent that must already exist (#774),
while its picker still had no New folder button (#761 turned it on for
Create New only). A parent that does not exist yet was refused with no way
to make it from the form, so the same job worked on one tab and dead-ended
on the other.
The test pin that kept Clone off dated from when the field was the exact
target, which could be a folder not yet created. Clone moves to the on side
of that pin, so every picker in the file stays covered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A claude session on its own CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR launched on an endpoint with
<isolated>/projects linked to the server's tree. The resume pin looks there, so
apply found no transcript and started a new conversation, and on clear the
endpoint's transcript stayed behind in the server's tree.
The link now goes to <own dir>/projects when the session set one, so the
conversation and what the endpoint run adds stay on the session's own account
across an apply, a clear and a restart. It goes through linkRealHomeEntry(),
which also creates a missing projects folder instead of leaving a dangling
link, in the own dir and in ~/.claude/projects on the default path. A relative
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR of the server gets no link, since joining it would create
projects under the server's working directory.
Rule #516: guardSessionConfigDirHome() now covers configDirVar, so all three
apply sites (route, quick-start, boot recovery) probe the own dir bounded before
the apply touches it, and a dir that does not answer falls back to the server's
tree. Under test, HOME is a temp dir and CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is stripped by
test/setup.ts, which a new test pins.
Measured on a real Codeman server with a fake claude: apply and re-apply resume
under the isolated dir with the transcript landing in the own dir, a clear
resumes on the own dir, the isolated dir goes while the transcript stays, and the
same holds across a server restart. The documented limits come out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A remote host whose login shell is tcsh came up on 1.48.0, when the local
sh rewrote ${SHELL:-/bin/sh} to the Codeman host's shell. Since #770 the
launch reaches the far end verbatim and runs tcsh itself, and tcsh refuses
-i -l -c, -l -c and -i -l, so every stock launch left a dead pane.
The login flags are now picked on the far end, in the shape of
loginShellArgs(): set -- -i -l, cleared for csh and tcsh, then
exec "${SHELL:-/bin/sh}" "$@". The text is one brace group, so
cd <path> && { ...; } still starts nothing when the cd fails. bsd-csh takes
every flag combination, csh is listed because it is tcsh on macOS and the BSDs.
The version probe keeps its one statement: the login shell parses it, not
/bin/sh, so fish and tcsh refuse it either way, as they did on 1.48.0.
Measured with the real builder on a real sshd in a throwaway Debian container
(tcsh 6.24.07, bsd-csh, fish 3.6, bash) and through a fake sshd with
tcsh 6.24.10, fish, zsh, dash and bash, a real Codeman server on tcsh included.
The tcsh disclosure comes out of the docs and the changeset. They keep the two
limits 1.48.0 had too: tcsh has no export, so the PATH bootstrap only prints an
error, and the tmux probe needs a command executable, which Debian lacks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer