dsh-TUI 0.19.0 opens a setup guide ("Step 1 of 4") in every session
until a person has finished it once, and the guide's cursor is the same
glyph the skill waits for as the composer: the readiness mark matched on
it in 2 of 2 launches. An Enter there acts on the highlighted step,
which is a sign-in. A spawned worker was handed back "ready" on that
screen, and the first task prompt would have been typed into it.
After the mark, the rendered pane is now read once: a worker that shows
the guide is deleted and the spawn fails with what to do (finish the
guide once from the Run menu). For `local:deepseek` and for a plain
`deepseek` worker alike.
Also says which verb reads a local DeepSeek worker's answer: `sendmark`.
The harness reports the end of a turn, but dsh 0.2.2 renamed its
transcript file and Codeman reads an empty answer from it for now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`spawn_worker <name> local` started the one agent the model was
installed with. The server now lists every agent the model can be run
with, so the skill passes the choice on:
- `local_model` adds `agents` (each with its status, whether it is the
default, and the readiness mark the server measured) and `models`
(what is on the Mac; only the active one runs). A new reason,
`no-agent`: installed, but nothing that can run the model is there.
- `spawn_worker <name> local:<cli>` (`local:pi`, `local:deepseek`,
`local:opencode`, `local:claude`, also as `name:local:pi` in
`spawn_workers`) starts an agent whose status is `ready`. Anything
else fails the spawn before a session exists and names the agents
that are startable. No agent is ever installed from here: that stays
a person's click in the window. A Codeman that lists no agents knows
one, and only that one can be named.
- The readiness mark comes from the server when it names one, else from
what this skill measured (OpenCode `┃`, Pi `extended-keys`), and
`LOCAL_READY_MARK` overrides both.
- A Pi worker on the local model is started with
`piConfig.approveProjectTrust: false` (--no-approve). On a custom
model Pi keeps no home, so it asks to trust the folder in every
session with Trust preselected, and the task prompt's Enter would
answer that.
Pi's mark is the last line of its startup, a warning about tmux's
`extended-keys` option. Its composer rule is painted in the first frame,
before Pi takes Enter: a prompt sent at the rule stayed unsent, 2 of 2,
and one sent at the warning was submitted, 4 of 4 (pi 1.5.2, Linux). It
is a side effect, not a contract, so a Pi that stops printing it fails
the spawn and the worker is deleted, never handed back on a guess.
The preamble changed, so CODEMAN_PREAMBLE moves to 1.51.0 in the
preamble, the SKILL.md copy of it and every version check, and the
plugin mirror is synced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The opencode readiness and marker measurements were made on Linux, not
on a Mac, and the docs now say so. A worker whose pane ends after it
wrote its answer file but before the marker matched answers 3 with no
answer: the rc 3 row now says the file may still be in its folder. The
example's input folder is named input, so the prompt reads cleanly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured on opencode 1.3.0 in a private tmux socket, with a fake
OpenAI-compatible endpoint streaming the reply a character or two at a
time: the marker was on the screen, but the stripped client stream read
D, spinner, O, spinner, N, ... because opencode redraws its spinner
between the streamed pieces, so wait-output never matched it. sendmark
then waited its whole timeout and answered 2 for a reply that had
finished, with the answer file already written (opencode's write tool
wrote it without asking).
The marker wait now runs in rounds of at most 10 s, and between rounds
the answer file is a way out too: a non-empty regular file whose
checksum held still for one round is read, with matched false. The
marker stays the fast path. The answer-file wait after a marker no
longer spins when the exit wait gets no answer, and treats an ended
wait as the worker gone.
The same run measured the readiness mark: with a fresh home and a
custom provider, the first composer bar came with the composer and a
prompt pasted with its Enter at that moment was submitted, so the docs
say so instead of "not measured". The example keeps its input in a
subfolder, apart from the case's CLAUDE.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
sendmark's comment and verbs.md 5.5 listed six external modes by name,
and test/agent-skill-mode-lists.test.ts refuses any partial list of them
(the one a ninth CLI would silently miss). Both now say what the class
is: a hook-less claude, a worker on the local model, and every external
agent mode but deepseek.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SKILL.md gets a subsection after the DeepSeek Harness workers: why to hand
work to the model on this Mac (bulk work with no per-token bill, files
that stay on the machine, a second opinion, a worker that needs no
network), the copy-paste block (local_model, spawn_worker local, sendmark,
delete_session), and the limits as the code has them: a person installs
the model, one request at a time, slower than the cloud, markers not
hooks, a spawn can start a runtime the person stopped, admin only and
experimental.
The description now names the local model, so "use the local model"
reaches the skill. Section 2 gains a row, the hook-less row points at
sendmark, and reference/verbs.md gets 5.16 with every local_model reason,
the spawn steps and the sendmark exit codes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Conflicts resolved by keeping both sides:
- CLAUDE.md (Agent CLI): #694's opening (an HTTP client, the experimental
agent-session-routes behind agentCoordinationEnabled) with #708's clause
on the directory spawn and its two refusals.
- docs/api-reference.md (codeman agent): #708's spawn paragraph and --json
shape, with #694's inspect/stage/submit in the verb list and the guarded
endpoints named before "adds no route for the other verbs".
- src/cli-agent.ts (@fileoverview): #708's quick-start / directory spawn
routes and #694's experimental routes in one endpoint list; the two
node:fs/promises imports (#708's realpath+stat, #694's open+stat) merged
into one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stage now re-reads the pane after typing (every 50 ms, up to 1 s) and
issues a receipt only for a frame with the same generation, the input
revision its own write moved, and a composer hash equal to the
message's. Codex repaints 30 to 60 ms after the keys, so the first
capture was often stale and stage refused with the text already typed.
Every refusal after typing now says the message may be in the composer
and points at the Ctrl+U recovery. A visible-frame capture reads the
screen and the caret in one tmux invocation, with the old two calls as
the fallback.
Codex draws its suggestion popups above the composer and keeps the
footer, so a staged /stat verified and submit ran /status. Stage now
refuses a leading / or ! and a last word starting with @ or $ before
typing, and stage and submit refuse a frame with popup rows just above
the composer. The pattern and characters are registry data
(composerPopupLine, composerCommandPrefixes, composerCompletionSigils),
read from the codex 0.162.0 bottom_pane sources.
Submit waits until 250 ms after the staged keys: codex turns an Enter
within 120 ms of a typed burst into a newline. POST .../input answers
409 with its seq returned while a guarded submit holds the input lease,
instead of 200 for bytes it never wrote.
Also align the attribution memo comment with the code (a verified file
whose incremental scan fails is not re-walked, since the full walk
reads a superset), and list stage as a fromUser source in CLAUDE.md.
Gate inspect, stage and submit behind the synced agentCoordinationEnabled
setting (default OFF, App Settings > Cross-session features, zh-CN
strings). While off, all three routes answer 403 FORBIDDEN naming the
setting, checked before session lookup; the CLI verbs print it verbatim.
Remember the attributed Codex rollout per session and re-verify only its
head on later calls, rescanning only date directories not older than it
for a /new conflict. The first walk reads 1 KiB prefixes first, so a
store of 2,100+ unrelated rollouts still attributes.
Answer unexpected inspection errors with 422 OPERATION_FAILED and log
the session id and error code only.
Read the guarded composer glyph and footer from the CLI registry: codex
workDetect.promptGlyph and a new workDetect.composerFooterLine
capability, compiled through compileVersionRegex. Codex footer effort
words are one shared list with modelDetect.screenLine.
Fix the wiki API reference link, frame the versioning policy entry as a
case of the experimental rule, join the CLAUDE.md Agent CLI paragraph,
and update the changeset, skill reference and architecture notes.
`codeman agent spawn ""` (for example `spawn "$CASE"` with CASE unset)
used to launch a worker in the caller's cwd. Both case checks now test
`caseName !== undefined`, so an empty name reaches quick-start and is
refused by its schema as before.
Drop the `{ id }` fallback on the create answer: `POST /api/sessions`
answers `{ session: { id } }`, and the test fakes now use that shape.
Tests: an empty case name (unit and through the real argument parser
and HTTP transport), the claude `--ready` order create, /interactive,
wait-output on the created id, and a non-JSON failed start (id alone on
stdout, reason on stderr, exit 1).
Docs: the spawn mapping and directory-launch JSON shape in
docs/api-reference.md, the README and wiki `codeman agent` sections, the
cli-agent @fileoverview and the skill reference tables; reflow the new
SKILL.md paragraph (plugin mirror synced); the changeset notes the
local exit-4 refusal of an unknown mode for named cases.
- codeman agent post: accept text that starts with "-" (markdown from a
file), --json and -h stay options.
- DELETE /api/sessions/:id on a persisted-only row drops the inbox a detach
kept.
- inbox --wait: wait.ended is exit 3 only when the session list no longer has
the session; a restart or detach ending the wait is exit 2 (wait again).
- A read whose client hung up during ?wait= marks nothing seen.
- InboxPostSchema bound is 4x the byte cap, so every oversize message gets
the store's "post a file path" answer.
- Store: restore sorts oldest first; the TTL sweep checks every message,
not only the first.
- Docs: admins can act as any session of the receiver's owner (now tested
for admin and non-admin); a peek with ?wait= does not block; exit codes.
- Tests: partial PUT /api/settings keeps persistence on.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A coordinator can leave text for a worker without typing into its pane.
- Store (src/web/agent-inbox.ts): read until ack by id, seen only for the
receiver, 16 KiB/message, 512 KiB + 200 messages per inbox, full = 409
CONFLICT (never drops the oldest), 12 h TTL from each message's createdAt.
- Routes (routes/inbox-routes.ts): POST/GET /api/sessions/:id/inbox
(?wait= parks while nothing is unseen), POST .../inbox/ack (receiver
only, 403 otherwise), GET /api/agent-inbox/summary (owner-scoped counts,
not in toState()). Caller = resolveParentSessionId().
- Inbox waiters are the wait registry's third kind: same caps, ended by
cancelAll/cancelEverything.
- Opt-in snapshot (agentInboxPersistEnabled, synced, default off):
agent-inbox.json via dataPath(), 0600 tmp+rename, off deletes it, boot
prune only after a successful restore. Dropped on delete, kept on detach.
- CLI: codeman agent post | inbox [--wait] | ack, INBOX column in ls.
- waitCapacityResponse/abortOnClientHangUp moved to route-helpers.ts
unchanged.
- Docs: api-reference, README, CLAUDE.md, architecture-invariants, skill +
plugin mirror.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A prompt made only of blank lines joined to nothing, and sendwait then sent
a bare Enter onto whatever sat on the worker's composer. It now refuses
with "sendwait: empty prompt" (the test fails without the check).
reference/verbs.md still said sendwait takes one line and a multi-line
prompt can sit unsent; it now says sendwait joins the lines with a space,
which loses their layout, so long multi-line content belongs in a file.
Plugin mirror regenerated.
Co-Authored-By: Christian Haberl <116439789+christianhaberl@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
verbs.md section 5.3 (both copies): sendwait's Enter loop and the server's submit
check cannot reliably recognise a multi-line paste, so join the lines or use a file
(section 5.9). docs/tui.md gives the same reason instead of the composer one.
Co-Authored-By: Christian Haberl <116439789+christianhaberl@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tab layout's 512 refs also count pinned sessions kept as stopped records, so
the ceiling holds at the default MAX_WEBVIEWS and with no pinned closed sessions.
SKILL.md, verbs.md (both copies) and the cron guide no longer give a fixed 50/25.
Co-Authored-By: Christian Haberl <116439789+christianhaberl@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- sendInput's docstring said all text without `\r` is typed; that now holds
for single-line text only.
- The skill's big-input section still listed "the newline stripping" among
the hazards a workspace file avoids; it is the unconfirmed multi-line
paste now. Rewrapped, mirrored in plugins/codeman.
- The mobile composer's hand-back comment said the prompt transport strips
newlines. The hand-back writes to the terminal prompt, whose text reaches
the PTY as typed input, where a newline is a key; the behaviour (a
multi-line draft stays parked) is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first commit left the old rule standing in places: the gotchas list in
extending-codeman.md still said newlines were stripped and that
"echo A\necho B\r" ran `echo Aecho B`, and so did both READMEs and the
skill's big-input section. Those now describe the paste.
Newlines are only kept on the mux path, so the docs that describe the paste
say "with useMux": without it a multi-line body is not a plain prompt and is
written straight into the pane.
Cron keeps rejecting multi-line prompts, but its docs and the code comments
in cron-service.ts, schemas.ts and respawn-controller.ts gave a reason this
change removes (writeViaMux joining lines, a newline submitting in Ink). The
reason that remains is the submit check, which cannot recognise a
multi-line paste in the composer, and for cron's paste mode the newlines
reaching the CLI as keys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
TmuxManager.sendInput() removed every `\n` before the text reached tmux, so a
multi-line prompt sent with `useMux` (or a multi-line respawn prompt) arrived as
one line with its lines run together: `"echo A\necho B\r"` ran `echo Aecho B`.
The text half of a submit has gone in as one bracketed paste
(buildPasteTextCommands) since the Codex paste-burst fix, and inside the paste
markers Claude Code and Codex insert a pasted line break into the composer
instead of submitting. So the `\n` is now kept (`\r\n` loses only its `\r`) and
the existing paste carries the lines; the Enter stays a separate tmux call.
Multi-line text without an Enter is pasted too rather than typed with
`send-keys -l`, where every line break would reach the pane as a key.
Single-line input is unchanged.
The test-mode gate moves from the top of sendInput() into inputRunner(), as
readPaneRows() does, so a test subclass can record the commands sendInput()
would run instead of pinning the branch shapes on the source.
SubmitVerifier still compares the composer's last glyph line with the prompt
minus its newlines, so it does not reliably recognise a multi-line paste and
may not re-press an Enter that Claude Code ignored. `agent send` and the TUI
therefore keep refusing or joining multi-line input; the docs that described
the stripping now describe the paste and that limit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GitHub Copilot CLI (`copilot`) becomes a run mode: Run menu, welcome
screen, cron and CLI management once it is installed, tmux-backed like
the other agent CLIs, working/idle and the model read off its footer,
launch options through `copilotConfig` (model, resume, continue, the
multi-user-clamped allowAll), Custom Model Endpoints via Copilot's BYOK
variables, MCP sync of its mcp-config.json, a status probe, and the
`codeman agent` verbs (spawn waits for its composer, read returns its
last answer).
The plan-usage quota row that earlier rounds carried was split out on
review and is not part of this merge.
Merge-time commits on top: the wider COPILOT_* clamp and the zh-CN
README rows (maintainer), the Docker sign-in docs, divider rows inside
an answer kept by `agent read`, route tests for the screen-read
last-response branch, and doc drift (Past Sessions, wheelForward JSDoc,
COPILOT_/OMP_ in the env prefix lists).
Verified before merge on Copilot CLI 1.0.98: injected keystrokes,
bracketed paste and Enter reach the TUI in tmux (github/copilot-cli#4180
does not reproduce), a shell tool call completes inside tmux (#4223 does
not reproduce), and a session driven through this branch answered over
send-and-wait.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add pinCliSessionName (synced, default OFF), re-read at each spawn and respawn.
Off keeps the #457 behaviour; on pins every non-blank tab name as --name.
Update the docs, JSDoc and changeset that stated the old rule.
Copilot (`copilot`, npm @github/copilot) as a stock CLI entry with the same launch options as the other agent CLIs: model (--model), resume (--resume), continue (--continue) and allow-all (--yolo, clamped off for non-granted multi-user owners). Adds a resolver and GET /api/copilot/status probe, the agent-image package, Run-menu/mobile/logo entries, skill docs and tests.
Document what the two previous commits changed for users and for whoever
adds the field to another CLI:
- docs/cli-registry.md: the `blockedLine`/`blockedLines` fields, how codex's
pattern was measured, and the three rules any declaring CLI keeps (end on
chrome only the CLI draws, alert only; raise on one reading, clear on two;
hooks win).
- docs/architecture-invariants.md: a "Screen-read blocked dialogs (codex)"
entry, plus the wait-signal, idle-detection, watching and Approvals Inbox
entries it changes.
- docs/api-reference.md, docs/extending-codeman.md and the wiki (Agent CLIs,
Notifications and Approvals, Hooks, HTTP API, Driving Codeman From An
Agent): `blocked` now fires for codex, `stop` still does not, codex
approvals are alert-only cards answered in the terminal.
- CLAUDE.md: `stop` and `blocked` are no longer one rule, the config-regex
list gains `blockedLine`, and a short pointer that a codex dialog match is
only ever an alert.
- The codeman skill's signal table and verbs note, mirrored into
plugins/codeman by scripts/sync-plugin.mjs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- hooks-config: a probe the bulk cap refused gets ONE bounded re-probe past the
cap (probeBeforeTouching), and whatever is still unknown is skipped. The
per-spawn hook and statusLine helpers used to fall back to an unbounded
lstat/readFile there, which on a dead workspace never settled and could take
the last threadpool workers (and hang the boot hook sweep). New test: cap
engaged, stat/lstat/readFile hanging on two more paths; both helpers return.
- describeUnknownPath()/unknownPathReason(): POST /api/sessions, quick-start and
GET /api/cases/:name now say a folder was not checked (other mounts are still
not answering) instead of blaming a healthy folder at the stall ceiling.
errorCodes unchanged.
- #535 x #516: Create in a custom folder probes the parent through the bounded
probe before realpath/stat/lstat/readdir touch it; an unknown parent is 422
OPERATION_FAILED (UNREACHABLE) within the probe timeout. New test.
- Docs: MAX_STALLED default is 2 (follows UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE), CaseInfo
.unreachable covers a refused probe, the boot sweep skips an unanswering
workspace, a CLAUDE.md gotcha for bounded probes, verbs.md documents the 422
(plugin mirror synced), api-reference documents the custom-folder 422.
- Tests: the launcher case-lookup describe is no longer nested in the Grok
block, and the cap-below-ceiling test no longer depends on an inherited
UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE / CODEMAN_PATH_PROBE_MAX_STALLED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(sessions): stop pinning the w1-myapp placeholder as Claude's /resume title
Local claude spawns passed the tab name as `--name`. That flag is not only the
cross-session peer name: it is also the prompt-box label, the `/resume` picker
entry and the terminal title, and a pinned title stops Claude generating its own
(`customTitle ?? aiTitle`). So every conversation of a case was listed in
`/resume` as the same `w1-myapp`, and none of them got a generated title. On one
workspace, 34 of 34 conversations spawned with `--name` had no ai-title, while
every conversation spawned without it had one.
Only a name the user chose is pinned now: `Session.cliPinnedName` is the name
when `nameSource === 'manual'`, carried to the builders as a separate `cliName`
so the tab/mux name is untouched. Placeholder and auto names let Claude title
the conversation again.
A rename in Codeman also reaches `/resume`: the new name is appended to the
conversation's transcript as the `custom-title` row `/rename` writes (never
creating the file, never writing an empty title). For a pane spawned without
`--name` this holds immediately; a pane spawned with one re-appends its own
title each turn, so there the new name holds from the next spawn.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(sessions): skip no-op renames and docker sessions when syncing the /resume title
A same-name PUT (the Session Options field saves on blur and recomposes the
unchanged placeholder) no longer flips nameSource to manual or appends a
custom-title row, and docker sessions skip the host transcript scan since their
transcript lives in the container. The skill pages no longer use a w<N>- name
as the peer-name example, and the changeset notes the re-append caveat.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: record that nameSource decides --name and renames reach /resume
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---------
Co-authored-by: codeman-local <codeman@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A long orchestration creates one case directory per worker and deleting the
sessions never removed them, so ~/codeman-cases accumulated scratch folders
that were indistinguishable from real projects. They are now labelled and
have a cleanup path.
- src/agent-case-marker.ts: a case dir quick-start CREATES for an agent-driven
spawn gets a .codeman-agent-case.json marker (when, by whom, parent session,
mode). Only the create branch writes it, so a linked case, a cloned repo or
any pre-existing path is never labelled; reading is total, so a malformed
marker means "not agent-created" rather than a half-trusted entry.
- The signal is the new X-Codeman-Agent-Origin header the skill preamble sets
on its shared curl (preamble bumped to 1.22.0), or an agentOrigin body
field, falling back to a resolved parentSessionId so a worker spawned by a
stale skill copy is still labelled.
- GET /api/cases publishes it as agentCreated; GET /api/cases/agent-created is
a read-only cleanup listing adding inUse and modifiedAt; Add Case -> Manage
badges each case and offers a review-then-delete sweep that names every
directory in its confirm and skips any case a live session is working in.
Removal stays on the existing DELETE /api/cases/:name.
- Agent preamble caches are collected too: ~/.cache/codeman-agent-<id>.sh was
written per claude session and never removed (236 leftovers measured on a
working machine). Now deleted with the session and swept at boot, guarded by
a live-session keep set plus a 7-day age floor.
Verified end to end on an isolated instance: marker written for header, body
and lineage-only spawns, absent with no agent signal and for a pre-existing
directory; inUse flipping on session end; badge, sticky bar, confirm and sweep
driven in a browser; preamble seeded on create, removed on delete, boot sweep
taking only the aged orphans.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Claude reader concatenated every assistant row between two human prompts
into one card, fusing up to 74 distinct model messages into a single card, and
it never read the attachment rows that hold a prompt typed while the agent was
working. Measured over 57 real transcripts on 2026-09-01, the viewer shows
1,806 messages instead of 356 and 353 user cards instead of 178, with the
assistant text sequence unchanged row for row and the response without
?context=full byte-identical on all 57 files.
One assistant row IS one whole model message: in that corpus no assistant row
carries more than one content block and no message id carries more than one
text block, so there was nothing to reassemble. Each row becomes its own
message carrying an additive {kind, label, turn}, and the frontend renders a
same-role run inside one turn as badge-less continuation segments — which is
what keeps a p90 of 11 messages per turn from reading as card spam. A numeric
turn gates that rendering, so Codex, the external-CLI pane parser and an older
server keep one badge per card.
A prompt typed while Claude is working is recorded ONLY as an
attachment/queued_command row. Taking it when origin.kind is 'human' and
commandMode is 'prompt' recovers 162 user cards from 163 such rows — one is a
verbatim repeat inside an unanswered user run and is collapsed by the existing
dedup guard — and restores the turn boundary whose absence let the assistant
runs fuse. The CLI's own queue entries are cleanly separable: of 322
queued_command rows, 159 are commandMode 'task-notification' and not one of
them carries an origin key.
This narrows #169 rather than reverting it: sidechain exclusion, the
restored-<uuid8> rebind, replayed-snapshot dedup and synthetic-row filtering
are all unchanged and still asserted.
Every claude session in a directory claude had not seen before died about six
seconds after it started (`Pane is dead (status 1)`), before the agent drew a
composer. Reproduced on a fresh case and measured.
Claude Code 2.1.252 rewrote the dialog. It used to be
❯ 1. Yes, I trust this folder
2. No, exit
and is now unnumbered, reversed, and highlights the option that quits:
❯ No, exit
Yes, I trust this folder
Detection still worked (the confirm affordance carries the match once the
numbered option text is gone), so the failure was entirely in the answer: the
auto-accept pressed Enter on the highlighted default, which is now exit.
trustDialogNextKey() reads the ❯ marker off the rendered pane and returns ONE
keystroke at a time: an arrow while the cursor is on the wrong option, Enter
only once the screen shows it on the trust option, and null for a frame that
does not say. Both layouts are handled, and which way the trust option lies is
read from the frame rather than assumed, so a further reordering costs a
repaint instead of a session. The last marked option wins, because the
direct-PTY fallback reads an append-only buffer where an older frame must not
out-vote the freshest one.
Two things only a live pane showed:
- The scan ran solely from the PTY onData handler. The arrow that moves the
cursor is the last output the pane produces, so the first fix parked every
session with the cursor sitting on the right option and no Enter ever sent.
It now schedules its own follow-up read (_trustDialogTimer, cleared in
_clearAllTimers()), offset past the scan throttle so the chain cannot break
on a boundary.
- The keystroke cap goes 3 -> 6, since answering is no longer one press.
The bundled codeman skill had the same blind \r as its bounded fallback, so
preamble 1.21.0 replaces it with _trust_key/_accept_trust: read
terminal?full=1, steer onto the trust option, re-read, then confirm. Those
keystrokes go out under their own clientId, because input sequence numbers are
monotonic per client and spending prompt numbers on dialog keys would make the
next send-and-wait look like a stale duplicate and vanish while reporting
success. The readiness recipes in docs/extending-codeman.md,
docs/api-reference.md and the skill's own reference carry the corrected answer,
plus a symptom-table entry for a worker whose pane is dead seconds after spawn.
Verified live on an isolated instance (own data dir and tmux socket): fresh
case -> arrow at 5 s -> Enter at 7 s -> composer, with hasTrustDialogAccepted
recorded. With the server-side auto-accept disabled in a throwaway copy, the
skill's fallback cleared a genuinely parked dialog in 1.1 s and spawn_worker
took a brand-new case to a live composer in 7.2 s; spawn_workers + sendwait +
last_text then ran end to end.
The agent skill could spawn a worker in any mode, but it could only
DRIVE a claude one: every other CLI has neither a real end-of-turn
signal nor an answer to read, so the recipes route them through output
markers.
dsh has both halves now -- its harness reports idle/working/blocked to
Codeman, and the previous commit reads its transcript -- so it joins
claude as a mode the four verbs work on unchanged. `spawn_workers alpha
beta:deepseek` is a mixed fleet in one call, and `sendwait` / `last_text`
/ `delete_session` need no per-mode variant.
Preamble 1.20.0 (SKILL.md's §0 heredoc regenerated from it):
- `spawn_worker` grows a deepseek branch that gates on the harness
composer. ⚠️ Readiness there is NOT the stop signal: the harness
reports idle at BOOT ~300 ms before its composer paints (measured
2.26 s vs 2.56 s after spawn), so a send-and-wait fired straight after
quick-start resolves on the boot edge, reports a turn that never ran,
and strands the prompt in a pane not yet taking input. Waiting for the
composer also spends that edge, since signals are edge-triggered.
- `spawn_workers` takes `name[:mode]`, so a mixed fleet stays one
concurrent call. Case names still have to be unique -- the mode never
disambiguates two workers that would share a directory.
- `sendwait` asks for `wait:"stop,exit"` instead of the `wait:true`
default set. That set also carries `idle`, which for an external CLI is
inferred from output stabilization: on a dsh worker whose TUI repaints
rarely, the re-wait resolved in 0 ms with `signal:"idle"` on a turn
with three minutes left to run. It also makes a wrong mode loud -- the
modes that cannot deliver `stop` answer 400 before writing anything,
instead of resolving on a flap.
- The self-heal resend carries `delivered:true` forward. The resend is a
tagged duplicate, so the server truthfully reports `delivered:false`
about a write it skipped, and §1's cleanup then read a completed turn
as an undelivered one and kept a finished worker forever.
- dsh workers spawn with the permission posture the Run button sends,
because the harness default still asks and a worker parked on an
approval row cannot finish a fan-out. The multi-user clamp still
applies.
Docs: a worked dsh flow in recipes.md, readiness and the signal rules in
verbs.md, and the corrections this makes necessary -- `stop`/`blocked`
are no longer claude-only, and `last-response` is no longer permanently
empty for deepseek. The integration guide gains a section on reading a
session back and driving one as a worker; its web-UI section was also
stale (that server moved out of a shell session).
The static guard that keeps those lists from naming some external CLIs but
not others is extended rather than exempted: it now knows the three real
classes inside that family (no transcript, no hook signals, and the
positive twin -- the modes whose answers can be read), with the hook class
derived from `hooksAvailableForMode()` so the predicate and the prose
cannot drift apart. Any other partial list still fails, and a new backend
belongs to none of the classes until someone says so.
Adds `mode: 'deepseek'` alongside claude/shell/opencode/codex/gemini/
antigravity/pi/grok, plus a shortcut that opens the harness's own browser UI
as a Codeman web tab.
DeepSeek is wired unlike its siblings in three ways, each of which is the
reason for a design decision rather than an accident:
1. The agent is a PROFILE, not the binary. `dsh` is a launcher over
$DSH_HOME/profiles/<name>, and DeepSeek ships only `web`, `headless` and
`base` -- the interactive terminal front door is always a third-party
plugin. So availability is two questions: `isDeepSeekAvailable()` (binary)
and `isDeepSeekRunnable()` (binary AND a pane-capable profile). The Run
button gates on the latter, because reporting only the binary would spawn a
pane that dies on arrival. When the binary is present but no profile is,
the run menu offers to install one (POST /api/deepseek/install-profile).
2. The permission switch is an env var, not a flag. The harness has no
command-line permission option; its sandbox/approval rows read
DSH_PERMISSION_MODE (read-only / workspace-write / danger-full-access).
Exported via `tmux setenv`, never on the spawn line. Absent = the harness's
own workspace-write, which still asks, so the multi-user clamp is the
only-if-sent branch and clamps to workspace-write, never read-only.
3. It is the only non-claude mode that passes hooksAvailableForMode(), and it
earned that. The terminal front door reports idle/working/blocked to a
supervising process over a generic env-gated contract; a generated shim
(deepseek-status-shim.ts) makes Codeman that supervisor and forwards each
report to /api/hook-event as stop / agent_working / permission_prompt. So a
dsh session gets definitive respawn triggers, real wait-endpoint signals and
real Approvals Inbox items instead of output-stabilization guesswork.
`agent_working` is new (157th SSE constant) and joins
APPROVAL_RESOLVING_EVENTS so a dialog answered in the terminal clears its
alert at once.
The resolver needs the strictest identity probe of the family: `dsh` is not
merely a squattable npm name, Debian ships an unrelated `dsh` (dancer's shell),
so `dsh --help` must print the harness's own banner before a candidate is
handed a spawn line.
Model is deliberately not a session field -- it is a composition entry in the
profile's config tree. Env allowlist gains DSH_* and DEEPSEEK_* only; provider
keys named by a settings-file `apiKeyEnv` stay out, which is pi's
34-provider-key problem in a new shape.
Verified live against dsh 0.1.1-rc.2 and @deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui: the
status endpoint's two-part answer, the no-profile refusal, the profile
bootstrap, a real session whose pane runs `dsh --profile dsh-tui` with the
permission mode injected via setenv, and the full status bridge -- a
send-and-wait returned signal "stop" from a real turn, and blocked/working
created and cleared an Approvals Inbox item.
Docs: docs/deepseek-integration.md (guide), docs/deepseek-integration-plan.md
(decisions + honest gaps). Tests: test/deepseek-mode.test.ts,
test/deepseek-cli-resolver.test.ts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
SessionMode gains 'grok', a first-class backend alongside Claude Code,
shell, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity and Pi: its own PTY, tmux
session, charcoal tab identity ('gk' badge), welcome button, run-mode
entry, cron agentType, Docker and remote-SSH command defaults, and
clone-repo Brain option. Flag surface verified live against grok 1.0.5.
Grok mixes two existing shapes and the wiring follows from that:
- Codex-shaped on permissions: the bypass switch is GrokConfig.alwaysApprove
(--always-approve, grok's bypassPermissions mode; config-level deny rules
still apply on top). The Run button sends it true, like runAntigravity(),
and clampExternalCliBypassForOwner() puts grok in the only-if-sent branch:
a bare grok spawn is grok's own ask-mode default, which is already safe,
so only a sent config needs the flag forced off. Cron needs nothing for
the same reason.
- OpenCode-shaped on rendering: grok is a fullscreen alternate-screen TUI
with mouse support, so it stays OUT of isAltScreenStripMode() and lands
on the narrow tmux-attach strip and the 'buffer' local-echo fallthrough
(unmeasured against an authenticated composer; documented fallback is the
'off' branch).
- Pi-shaped on resolution: 'grok' has npm squatters (@vibe-kit/grok-cli
also installs a grok bin), so grok-cli-resolver.ts version-probes every
candidate (grok --version, killSignal SIGKILL, VITEST-gated) and
GET /api/grok/status surfaces path AND version; GROK_VERSION_REGEX is
shared with the dependency registry so doctor and run mode cannot drift.
Env allowlist gains GROK_* plus the XAI_* vendor namespace (XAI_API_KEY is
grok's documented headless auth var), the same narrow-vendor reasoning as
GOOGLE_* for gemini. Resume is id-regexed on purpose: grok's own --resume
also matches session titles, which are arbitrary user strings that must
never reach the bash -c spawn line.
Docker: grok is not on npm, so the agent image installs it in its own step
(xAI's installer has no --dir override; the binary is copied to
/usr/local/bin and root's ~/.grok dropped in the same layer), and
credentials are seeded per-file (auth.json, config.toml, pager.toml; the
dir also holds sessions/, memory/ and the ~160MB binary). Remote SSH routes
through the login-shell wrapper like the other agent CLIs.
Verified end to end on an isolated CODEMAN_INSTANCE with grok 1.0.5
installed: /api/grok/status resolves and reports the probed version,
quick-start spawns a pane whose command line ends in 'grok
--always-approve', the real TUI renders (OAuth device screen on an
unauthenticated box), and grokConfig round-trips through state.json.
Docs: docs/grok-integration.md (user guide) + docs/grok-integration-plan.md
(decisions, verification record, follow-ups).
Tests: test/grok-mode.test.ts, test/grok-cli-resolver.test.ts, plus
extended clamp/system-routes/render-index-html/run-mode-ui/mobile-overview/
local-echo-gating coverage. npm test (the CI gate) green: 5910 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The workspace-hooks install makes the skill's central hooks rule wrong in the
cautious direction. Six places told a worker that a linked case or a raw
workingDir has no `stop`/`blocked` and that send-and-wait cannot be trusted
there, so an agent would hand-roll output-marker synchronization in exactly the
workspaces where `wait:true` now works.
Rewritten against the setting rather than directory provenance:
- verbs.md §5.1: the where-to-spawn table, the rule paragraph (now naming
`workspaceHooksEnabled`, default ON, the add-only merge, and the boot sweep of
recovered sessions), and the silent-failure warning. The three cases that stay
hook-less regardless are called out: remote SSH sessions, docker cases that
opted out, and a workspace Codeman cannot write to.
- verbs.md §5.3: the send-and-wait precondition is "the workspace has the hooks
block", not "a case Codeman created".
- endpoints.md: the Signals-by-mode table is now keyed on the setting, with rows
for OFF, for remote/docker-opt-out, and for a session from an older server.
The old create-path grep list becomes a "before 1.18.x" note.
- SKILL.md §2 + the cost list, recipes.md Flow-1 contrast, messaging.md step 1.
"Check, do not assume" is kept and promoted to the load-bearing habit, because
the setting is not visible from the call and a session created by an older server
that has not restarted still has nothing.
The `spawn_worker` hooks grep STAYS: it guards the setting being off, remote
sessions, and older servers. Only its diagnostic changes, since "pick an unused
name" is no longer the fix. That text lives in both the §0 heredoc and
`preamble.sh`, which `test/agent-skill.test.ts` pins byte-identical, so both are
patched with the same bytes.
Docs only, no behavior change. 23 skill tests green, full test:ci 5109 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured against a live 1.18.1 server, the API does the whole job in about ten
seconds: two cold claude workers spawned and ready in 6.3s, both tasked and both
answers read in 4.0s more. The slowness users reported was agent-side.
Three causes, all of them things the skill taught:
- It taught serial spawning. Nothing in the main document showed `&`/`wait`, so
"spawn two workers" read as "do the readiness ladder twice", which is one model
turn per worker.
- It had no spawn primitive. The happy path had to be reassembled on every run from
where-to-spawn, a four-stage readiness ladder, send-and-wait, the fan-out caveats
and a recipe with two variants. Each is a decision, and most carry a warning.
- It cost ~16k tokens before the first call, at 3.6:1 prose to code, with 25 warning
glyphs and 55 occurrences of "never". A document that is mostly failure modes
teaches caution, and caution bills as thinking tokens.
The preamble now defines the verbs rather than describing them: spawn_worker,
spawn_workers (concurrent), sendwait, last_text. Section 1 composes them into the
whole job in one Bash call and says to stop reading there.
Two ceremonies the measurements retired: the pid poll (one iteration, 33ms, and
wait-output already blocks on the composer) and reading settings.local.json to check
hooks for a case quick-start creates, which always has them. That check stays
required for linked cases and raw paths, where its absence silently breaks
send-and-wait.
The bootstrap's write condition now greps the version stamp, so a stale or truncated
preamble self-heals rather than failing and asking for a manual rm. The stamp line is
kept bare because the grep anchors on it with $; an inline comment there would rewrite
the file on every bootstrap.
Section 5 moved to reference/verbs.md behind an index, cutting the always-paid
SKILL.md from ~16.4k to ~7.6k tokens. Section numbers and anchor slugs are unchanged,
so existing references still resolve; all 201 anchors across the five files were
checked, with the checker positive-controlled against an injected bad link.
Verified by extracting the code blocks from the shipped file and running them against
the live server: bootstrap plus full fast path, two workers resolving on the
definitive stop signal, answers read and sessions deleted, in 6.8s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer