Seen on a MacBook (M5 Pro, 2026-11-12): pressing Use on a model in "Models on this Mac"
ran the switch and then showed the screen that ends an install, "X is ready on this Mac"
with Start a session alone. The list was gone, so deleting the model just switched away
from meant closing the window and opening it again.
That screen is right after a download: the person installed a model and wants a session.
A switch is pressed IN the list by someone who is tidying it. A switch is a job without a
`model` step, so the window now tells the two apart from the job it just watched and ends a
switch on the whole installed screen: the list with "In use" on the other row, Add a model,
Stop and Remove.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The local model window could hold one model. A second install was refused
(409 already-installed), and a model a Remove kept could never be freed
from the window again. The store can now hold several models, and exactly
one of them is the model in use: the one the endpoint record lists, the
runtime is started for and a session may be launched on.
Server
- LocalModelStateFile.library lists every model that passed the check
(id, label, context, digest, size, coding agent). The service writes
the entry when verify passes; the reducer carries it and remove drops
it. An installed file of an earlier build counts its one model.
- POST /api/local-model/install is allowed from installed: it adds a
model, and the earlier one stays. A replaced job no longer deletes a
model of the library, only an unchecked or partial download.
- POST /api/local-model/use switches to a checked model: a job of the
two steps verify and connect. The stored digest is compared before
anything is loaded (model-changed otherwise). Nothing is downloaded.
- DELETE /api/local-model/models deletes one model by its name, through
the runtime's own delete, never by a path, never the model in use.
- Adding and switching answer 409 sessions-open while a live session
uses the endpoint. Until such a job ends installed, a session start is
refused with the new code job-unfinished.
- The view carries library (the state's entries joined with what the
running runtime lists: ready, changed, missing, unverified) and store
(the size of the blob folder). Both are cached and refreshed in the
background, never read on the one-second poll.
- With nothing installed, remove is offered while the store still holds
models an earlier Remove kept.
Window
- The installed screen lists the models on this Mac with the context
each was checked with, its state and its size on disk, with Use and
Delete per row (Delete asks once, in the row) and Add a model.
- In the chooser a model that is on this Mac already says so and is
switched to without a download or a confirm screen.
- A paused or failed job that has a checked model beside it shows the
way back to that model.
Every route is admin only in multi-user mode, like the existing ones.
Not run on a Mac: the tests use fakes and the fake runtime, and the
listing, store size and delete were checked against a real Ollama 0.13.0
on Linux, not the pinned 0.40.15 build for macOS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every App Settings Save up to 1.49.0 wrote `agentSkillEnabled: false`, chosen
or not (the switch loaded an absent key as off and Save sends the whole form),
so the new default never reached an install that had ever saved. On its first
start the server now replaces a stored false with true, once per data dir, and
logs one line when it does. It cannot tell a deliberate off from the old
default; that is accepted and stated in the release notes. An off set after it
ran stays off.
It stores true rather than deleting the key: the page's merge overwrites only
the synced keys the server has, so every device that saved on 1.49 kept its own
false, showed the switch off and wrote false back on its next Save (measured in
the JSDOM harness). True wins on every device, including a browser still on a
cached settings-ui.js. For a server with no key the page now drops the device's
copy as well, so the switch shows the default.
The "done" marker is its own file, `agent-skill-default-migrated.json` in the
data dir: it is not a setting, so GET /api/settings never returns it, no Save
can send it back (the strict schema would refuse it) or drop it (which would
re-arm the migration), and a config-backup restore leaves it alone. It is
checked before anything is read and written only after the settings write
landed. The migration runs in WebServer.start() before the first settings read
and before listen (skipped in test mode, like the other boot-time writes),
writes only through mutateSettingsFile(), drops the 2 s settings cache, and
leaves a settings.json that does not parse alone with no marker, so the next
start after the fix runs it.
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>
An absent `agentSkillEnabled` now means on, on the server
(`getAgentSkillEnabled()` reads `!== false`, like `workspaceHooksEnabled`)
and on the page (the App Settings switch loads `!== false`, so a Save of any
other setting no longer writes the old default back). Only an explicit false
turns it off. A partial settings PUT that omits the key leaves it as stored,
since the route merges the request into the file.
The switch's help text says it is on by default, that the copy stays out of
git, and that turning it off removes no copy already written. The shared
route-test mock now defaults to on too, so route tests see what a user sees.
Tests: quick-start against a real server (absent key injects, a partial PUT
keeps it on, an explicit false stays off through a later partial PUT), the
real openAppSettings/saveAppSettings in JSDOM (absent shows on, explicit false
shows off, a Save on a never-touched install sends true and passes the
schema), and the plain create route at the mock's default.
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>
The violet button was the one thing on the start screen outside the app's
blue, and it carried white text and a see-through disc where its neighbour
has dark ink and a solid disc. It is now white with dark ink and a solid
disc, the same on the Install button, and the chooser's selected row, tile
and model bar follow. Light skins turn it over to dark, since a white button
vanishes on a pale page. The context takes the app's blue.
The tokens are named for what they mean now (--lm-brand, --lm-context).
Brings test/local-model-ui.browser.test.ts up to the redesign it had fallen
behind: it is outside the gate, so the button's 46 px, the 12 px bar and the
memory panel's edges had gone unnoticed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The owner's verdict on the chooser: nice, but not nice enough, too much just
blue. He also wants "Run a local model" on top of the start screen, above
Run Claude Code.
The memory bar is now a map: the model, its context and the brief peaks side
by side on the track of what this Mac can give a model, each with its size in
a legend, and the verdict on the fit beside the figure. recommend() sends what
the need is made of as `Candidate.memory`.
Colour now carries meaning: green for good and tested, amber for tight, orange
for slow, teal for the context. Violet is the feature's own colour, on its
start screen button and its main action. Every row has a size tile and a speed
gauge scaled to the fastest row in the list. The light skins get deeper values
of the same colours, and the window is 40 px taller to hold it without
scrolling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The owner asked for it much bigger and in the middle. The button keeps the
chip's markup and takes the primary button's height, radius and weight, with
an accent outline and its glyph in a disc, so a model on this Mac is offered
as a main way in rather than as a footnote under the launchers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The window is one frame for the whole flow: a fixed height on desktop, App
Settings' boxed close button, the buttons in a foot of their own outside
the part that scrolls, so a click never moves the next button away and
nothing is cut off; the short screens are centred in it on desktop and sit
above the buttons on a phone.
The chooser lists the pick first and then the other models by download
size, largest first, a column the reader can see. A pick that only just
fits says "Best fit, tight". The memory figure is an estimate and says so
once, in whole GB; its legend names the peak, and the installed line uses
the same words beside what the model takes now, so the two figures are not
read as a contradiction. The legend, the column headers and the foot's
promise are set in --text-dim, the bar's track in --text-muted so its free
part can be seen, and only the download figure keeps tabular figures.
The consent screen is the download as a table: the chosen row, the runtime,
the coding agent with its installer's command as the row's second line, the
total in the strong weight, then where it goes in one line. The download bar
means the model download alone and is gone once the model is in; the screen
that ends an install shows "Start a session" alone; an error on an installed
model is the headline with a grey dot; an error's first sentence is the
headline; Remove is quiet everywhere but red in its own question. The
no-recommendation reasons are one sentence each, and the untested note is
in Codeman's voice. A refusal the server names is printed from its sentence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only the two session routes asked launchRefusalMessage(). The attach that
finds no pane, the respawn of a dead pane (a click on the tab, a respawn
start, the boot recovery), restartCli() and the reboot-restore rebuild
started an agent on the endpoint unasked. Session gains setLaunchGuard(),
asked right before a NEW agent process is started and never for an attach to
an agent that runs; WebServer.setupSessionListeners() sets it for every
session; a refusal is a LaunchRefusedError that never falls back to a direct
PTY. The reboot-restore route asks before it builds and skips the entry with
its own reason, left on offer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The read-only card is gone. The welcome screen has one button, "Run a local
model" ("Local model" once one is installed), and App Settings > Models has
one row; both open the same window.
The window follows `install.state`: choose a model (a radio group, with a
memory bar filled to what the selected model needs), confirm the sizes and
the folder, watch the download and the steps, and end on "Start a session".
Paused, failed, installed (running or stopped), Remove and "no model fits"
are screens of the same window. It polls the GET once a second while open.
Every dynamic string goes in through textContent, labels and sentences come
from the payload, no CLI id is compared, and every new string has a zh-CN
entry.
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>
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>
Review fixes for the read-only recommendation and its card.
Recommendation (pure):
- `limited` is now a statement about the Mac: no model with 12 billion
parameters or more fits. It is judged on everything that fits, before
the disk filter and whatever the pick is. A 32 or 36 GB Mac whose pick
is a 9B model no longer reads "This Mac can run a small model" above a
list of 20B, 27B and 35B models, and knowing the chip no longer lowers
the verdict. A small pick under `ok` carries a note that says so.
- A model that fits the memory but has no room on the disk is no longer
dropped in silence: the best-ranked one is named in a note with the GB
that are missing. A full disk cannot turn a 48 GB Mac into a
small-model Mac.
- "Models fit, but not at a context a harness needs" has its own
sentence with the budget and the need, worded as an estimate. The
16 GB Mac mini misses by 1.3 points (10.3 of 10.4 GB) and was told
flatly that its memory is too little, the sentence of an 8 GB Mac.
- The installed memory is named by the size the Mac is sold as (48, not
51.5): the hardware line and the memory sentence. Every computed size
stays decimal GB from the one formatter. An unknown memory size is no
longer reported as "0.0 GB".
- Slow is graded on the unrounded speed: 9.95 to 9.9996 tokens per
second printed as 10 and read ok.
- The disk sentence names the 10 GiB that must stay free, so its
numbers add up for the reader.
Card and Settings group:
- The Settings group "Model on this Mac" is hidden on a server that is
not a Mac, and until the first answer says it is one.
- Only `403 FORBIDDEN` is a refusal. `403 PASSWORD_CHANGE_REQUIRED`
(an admin who must change the password) is a failed request and is
asked again, so that admin no longer loses the card until a reload.
- Each fit and speed label carries what it measures as its tooltip and
accessible name, an alternative with a speed estimate prints it, and
the count beside "Other models that fit" is gone (it was the number
of rows, capped at four, not the number of models that fit).
- The line saying nothing can be set up yet sits right under the pick,
in the colour of every other line (it was 3.9:1), and says whose step
it is.
- The dismissal key is named for this stage, so hiding the read-only
card does not hide the install offer later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The read-only face of GET /api/local-model: what the Mac the server runs on
can run as a local coding model.
- local-model-ui.js: one builder paints both containers from the same
payload: the hardware line, the server's headline, the pick with its numbers
(context, download, memory need against the budget, speed), the server's
notes, the other models that fit with their Good, Tight, Slow or Speed
unknown labels, and one line saying that setting it up from Codeman is the
next step and is not built yet.
- The welcome card ships hidden and shows only once the server answered for a
Mac. It stays hidden for not-macos, for a refused request (a non-admin in
multi-user mode) and after "Hide", a per-device localStorage key. The App
Settings group "Model on this Mac" (Models) carries the loading and failure
sentences and is the way back after a Hide.
- Every dynamic string goes in through textContent, both containers are
data-i18n-skip and the module translates its own sentences, repainting on a
language change. Sizes are printed as sent. Labels and harness names come
from the payload: the module names no CLI and the word "Recommended" is not
in it.
- One request a minute at most, shared while in flight; a failed refresh keeps
the last answer on screen.
- i18n.js: zh-CN entries for the module's strings and for every server label.
- frontend-cli-no-id-branching.test.ts scans the new module.
Tests: test/local-model-ui.test.ts (JSDOM over the real markup),
test/local-model-i18n.test.ts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The contract three builders code against in parallel. Nothing is recommended
yet: the route answers 501 and the catalogue is empty.
- src/types/local-model.ts: HardwareFacts, the catalogue rows, HarnessFact,
Candidate, Recommendation, LocalModelStatus, and LOCAL_MODEL_LABELS, the one
list of sentences the server may put into the payload (the zh-CN dictionary
is keyed by them).
- src/local-model/format.ts: formatGb, the one place a byte count becomes a
size a person reads (decimal GB), and memClassGb.
- src/config/local-model-catalog.ts: the Zod schema (model ids are name:tag,
lowercase, no slash) and an empty stock catalogue. No override file.
- Skeletons with their final signatures: hardware.ts, recommend.ts,
harness-facts.ts, routes/local-model-routes.ts (injectable dependencies),
public/local-model-ui.js with its script tag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
The Edit history panel told an adopted session it needed to be a Claude
session outside Docker, and a stop wait blamed the missing Claude Code hooks
on the mode. Both refusals are right, only the words misled. Each now says
Codeman did not start the session, with a zh-CN entry for the panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The attach line now takes the rule #770 gave remote and docker launches: bashCArg() single-quotes it at both respawn-pane sites, so it reaches bash verbatim. quoteAdoptLaunch is retired, since its double quotes kept the same $ and backtick safety but lost a real newline. #510's no-cd condition stays.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "Will clone into" line named a folder the request would not use: the
preflight replaces the page's guessed case name with the server's (for a
URL such as .../repo?tab=readme the guess is repo-tab-readme and the server
says repo) and nothing refreshed the preview, so it stayed on the old name
while the field and the request moved on. It is now refreshed there too.
The Browse picker's title and the empty-field toast still said "Choose the
folder to clone into", the old exact-target meaning. Both now ask for the
parent folder, matching the field's label.
CLAUDE.md and the invariants paragraph split the two meanings: path on the
API is the exact folder, the Clone Repo tab's field is a parent and the page
sends <folder>/<case name>.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_renderMarkdown` wrote dir="auto" into its string, before the code pins and
the linkifier. An element carrying dir="auto" re-resolves its direction on
every insertion under it, and a block whose letters all sit in `dir` children
walks its whole subtree each time, so a code-only or path-only document went
quadratic, English ones included.
Measured in real Chromium through the real File Viewer, before and after:
9000 inline-code items 8.7 s to 0.35 s, 9000 bare paths 5.6 s to 0.23 s, a
209 KB out-of-workspace list 41.9 s to 1.4 s. All three now match master.
The pass is now `_applyBlockDirection()`, run last on the DOM by both
consumers. The direction results are unchanged. Tests pin that the rendered
string holds no dir="auto" and that the pass runs after the linkifier.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Names tmux reads as target syntax (`@1`, `%1`, `=eq`, a bare `~`) passed the
has-session guard by name and then joined something else in new-session -t:
another session, or a fresh shell on the foreign server. They are refused at
discovery now, and take the existing skipped note.
One stopped tmux server emptied the whole local list and left a stuck client
per scan. Each server now gets a bounded ping with stdout at /dev/null first,
because a tmux client hands dups of its stdout to the server: a stopped server
holds our pipe open after the client is dead, so a watchdog around list-panes
cannot work. The probe runs in its own process group, all three transports
keep the rows read before a failure, and a missed ping becomes a note.
The attach and the probe pass -u, so a POSIX-locale container no longer garbles
the tab or lists a non-ASCII name as underscores. A docker attach gets the same
TERM and COLORTERM an owned container's exec gets.
A missing tmux no longer reads as "session is gone", and the launch line's `$`
now reaches bash unexpanded, so the ssh attach's PATH line is expanded at the
far end, as the probe's already was.
fix-plan/write, fix-plan/read and ralph-prompt/write refuse an adopted session:
its workingDir is the neutral /tmp, so they read and wrote a predictable name
in a folder anyone can write to.
FOREIGN_MAX_SOCKETS is gone: it capped nothing, and a real cap in glob order
would never reach `default` on a box with many `codeman-*` sockets (this one
has 212). Closing an adopted tab re-reads the outside-sessions list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cases-folder refusal grew to 143 characters, and the status line is one
line with an ellipsis and no title, so at 513px on desktop it ended at "or
make the case with Ad..." and lost the instruction. .path-picker-status.error
now wraps: 2 lines on desktop, 4 on a phone, measured clear in Chromium at
both, and it covers the picker's other refusals too.
Tests: a pin on that rule (fails without the fix), and the option check now
reads each picker's whole options object instead of a fixed 400 characters,
which stopped short of the container-workdir picker's 829. Retitled to say
what it checks: Create New has the flag too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two routes are public under /api/v1, so they get an API reference section.
The overlay gets an architecture note and a CLAUDE.md rule: an adopted session
has session.remote and session.docker undefined and a neutral workingDir, so any
new code that reads workingDir as a workspace must also test isAdopted. That is
the class of bug this round fixed a dozen times.
Records a measured limit: while the view exists an owner's kill-session leaves
the window alive under it until the tab closes.
Comments that still called workingDir the foreign pane's cwd now say what is
true since the wrapper got its neutral folder. Also drops a zh-CN key that
duplicated an existing one, and updates the two structure tests pinned on the
lines this round changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer