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>
Adds packages/desktop, a small native app (Rust: tao, wry/WKWebView, muda,
objc2) that opens Codeman in its own window. The universal app is about 5 MB
(3.2 MB as a DMG) and runs on macOS 11.3 or later.
- Connect screen with two tabs. This Mac finds the local Codeman and offers
Open, Start or Install. Start uses launchd for a LaunchAgent install and
codeman web -d otherwise. It never starts a second server while one runs,
because two servers on one data dir share live sessions. Another machine
connects by address (recent servers, Keychain logins) and can install
Codeman there over SSH.
- Installs run Codeman's install.sh in Terminal from a self-deleting
.command script. The installer needs a terminal for sudo, Homebrew and
ssh. A local install uses --local --service and the first free port from
3000, and the app opens Codeman once it answers.
- The local Codeman's login is read from its LaunchAgent or
~/.codeman/.env. It is sent only to 127.0.0.1 on that port, only while
the user's own Codeman process holds it, and is never saved.
- Native JS dialogs (alert, confirm, prompt) and HTTP Basic challenge
answers, both scoped to Codeman's own pages, so the page keeps working
after a server restart. App cookies are cleared before every connect.
- Pop-outs through window.CodemanHost, with an allowlist (webview/ never
opens a window), external links in the default browser, downloads to
~/Downloads, real full screen and window state that is remembered.
- The connect page refuses a WebKit older than Safari 16.4, which Codeman's
terminal needs.
Codeman side: viewSubagentTranscript shows a toast when the pop-up is
refused instead of failing, with zh-CN strings and a test that pins them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codeman maintainer