CLAUDE.md (Prompt uploads) and architecture-invariants still named
_promptAttachKind() as the filter every surface reads. That stays true, but
the surfaces now admit through _admitPromptAttachments(), which is what says
how many files a pick skipped. A new surface that filtered on the classifier
directly would drop files silently.
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The COPILOT_ prefix admits every variable Copilot reads, and the 1.0.98
bundle reads far more than `copilot help environment` lists. Only
COPILOT_HOME, COPILOT_ALLOW_ALL and the BYOK trio were privileged, so a
non-granted multi-user owner could still hand back what the allowAll
clamp removed:
- approval: COPILOT_PLAN_THEN_AUTOPILOT, COPILOT_ASSISTED_APPROVAL
- code with no approval row: COPILOT_CLI_DIST_DIR runs <dir>/index.js
in place of the CLI, the package caches choose the CLI build,
COPILOT_EDITOR, COPILOT_PROVIDER_API_KEY_COMMAND and
COPILOT_AHP_HOST_BIN are executed, skills, provider configs and hooks
are loaded from the named places (the DSH_HOME class)
- token redirects: COPILOT_API_URL and the other API bases receive the
CLI's sign-in token, which in multi-user mode is the operator's (all
users share the OS account and ~/.copilot), and the rest of the BYOK
provider family re-aims a Codeman custom endpoint (the
DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL / OMP_AUTH_BROKER_URL class)
All are now privilegedEnvKeys. The registry schema capped that list at 8;
the cap is now 48, since a longer deny list only takes more away from
non-granted owners. The test sends one of each class through the real
schema (they all pass it) and the real clamp. The docs say the list is
read from the 1.0.98 bundle and that a variable a later release adds is
not covered until it is listed.
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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.
The Quick Reference listed `npm run typecheck` as `tsc --noEmit` alone; the
script also type-checks the scripts via `tsc -p config/tsconfig.scripts.json`.
The circuit-breaker and ultracode pointers showed pre-rename anchor names as
their labels while the hrefs already pointed at the current headings.
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Review of 8659ba25..be987fbb:
- Usage: a Free account answers premium_interactions {entitlement: 0, remaining: 0,
percent_remaining: 0, unlimited: false, has_quota: false}, which read as 100% used. The parser now
returns null when has_quota is false or the entitlement is not positive, with that payload as a
fixture. Free meters chat (200) and completions (2000) too, so the comment no longer says they
are unlimited on every plan.
- agent read: rows were skipped until a `❯ <prompt>` row, so an answer taller than the pane
(prompt scrolled off the top) read as "". With no prompt row AND no banner / trust dialog on
screen, the rows above the composer are now the tail of the last answer. Text typed in the
composer (a prompt-shaped row between the two rules) is not a prompt row.
- Page keys: measured on 1.0.95 in tmux that Copilot pages on PageUp/PageDown (three PageUp moved
lines 109-140 to 010-042, PageDown returned) as well as on SGR wheel reports, so copilot joins
claude and opencode in _localScrollbackIsHollow(); the stale-tracking-flag fallback the comment
and docs describe is now true, for the main pane and a TerminalTile (same function), with tests.
- X-GitHub-Api-Version is 2022-11-28, a version GitHub supports (verified against the live
endpoint); readPlanUsageTelemetryEnabled() is checked before isCopilotAvailable() so a switched-off
chip skips the resolver probe too.
- Palette label for Copilot in panels-ui.js; stale comments in types/session.ts and stock.ts.
- Docs: Past Sessions continues with --continue (resumeSessionId is for API callers), nothing sets
continueSession on a respawn, and only a tab name the user set is passed as --name; the usage
wording for Free; the wheel and mouse-strip paragraphs in CLAUDE.md and
architecture-invariants; the changeset describes the whole feature.
- New docs/copilot-integration.md in the shape of the other CLI guides: install and identity
probe, authentication (keychain vs plain-text config.json, COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN), what Codeman
wires up (Run button --yolo and its clamp, model, resume, continue, --name rule), BYOK custom
endpoints, terminal behaviour (drag selection, wheel and touch), the codeman agent verbs
(ready mark, read), plan usage, Docker, Remote SSH, what is deliberately not wired, known gaps.
- Agent-CLIs wiki: the eleven-modes table, a GitHub Copilot CLI section, the env prefix row, the
feature-comparison rows and the status endpoint list.
- README, Home, FAQ, Core Concepts, Docker Cases, Remote SSH, Contributing, The Dashboard and
Custom Model Endpoints: mode lists and counts; CLAUDE.md: stack line, SessionMode, prefixes,
resolver list, external-CLI notes and the plan-usage source; api-reference MCP target wording;
the env allowlist error message names COPILOT_*.
Copilot's TUI turns mouse tracking on itself. Under `strip-mux-only` those DECSETs reached
xterm, which then reported a plain drag to the TUI instead of selecting (only Shift+drag
selected), so Auto Copy and copy-on-select did nothing. This is the failure opencode had and
`strip-mux-and-mouse` was added for: the DECSETs are stripped, a drag is a local selection and
clicks still reach the CLI through the browser's hand-encoded tap (`cliMouseTracking`).
Stripping them also stops xterm from encoding the wheel for the CLI, so
`_shouldForwardWheelToApp` now forwards it as SGR reports while Copilot is tracking the mouse
(the same bytes xterm sent natively, which is what scrolling was verified against). Shift+wheel
stays on local scrollback and a stale flag falls back to PageUp/PageDown.
Tests: the strip flavor for copilot (stripped DECSETs, 3J kept, cliMouseTracking, direct-PTY
untouched) and the wheel gate (forwards while tracking, no other non-claude mode changes).
CLAUDE.md and Contributing said raw npx vitest skips the config; state what happened when it did
(fixtures written into the real ~/.codeman) and that the root vitest.config.ts now makes a bare run
isolated, with the test that pins it.
An Excel or Notepad CSV/TXT export (UTF-16 with a BOM, or Windows-1252) was refused as "File bytes do not match declared type", which reads like a corrupt file. Name the encoding and tell the user to save it as UTF-8.
The browser cannot import the server's document allowlist, so the classifier, the three pickers' accept lists and the two file-path link patterns each carry a hand-kept copy. A missed copy fails silently: a file greyed out in the picker, an upload dropped client-side, or a pasted path that is no longer a link. Hoist the set to module scope so the test reads the shipped list.
- docs/api-reference.md: a non-admin's GET /api/settings omits
voiceSettings.apiKey, caseOrder and lastUsedCase; a new "System
operations" table for the admin-only routes and the scoped
POST /api/auth/revoke; the error-code table now lists FORBIDDEN and the
other multi-user codes (PASSWORD_CHANGE_REQUIRED, USER_NOT_FOUND,
USER_EXISTS, LAST_ADMIN).
- docs/wiki/Multi-User-Mode.md: what a regular user reads, that their run
mode and respawn presets stay theirs on the device, the slow sign-in
case, and the admin-only system operations.
- docs/multi-user-plan.md: Settings and System ops rows marked implemented.
- CLAUDE.md: the Multi-user mode paragraph names the new pieces and tests.
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api-reference gains a Settings section (GET/PUT /api/settings, the model
config, the case order and PUT /api/config, with the 403 FORBIDDEN a non-admin
gets in multi-user mode). The Multi-User Mode wiki page explains what a regular
user's App Settings save does now, Settings-Reference links it, the plan's
Settings row is marked implemented, and CLAUDE.md notes the gate for the
Multi-user paragraph and for anyone adding a settings write.
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feat(codex): raise codex approval, question and trust dialogs as BLOCKED
Conflict resolved against #634 in src/session.ts _probePaneWorking():
#624's assignment (a dialog on screen is never work) is kept, and #634's
trust-dialog verdict block (log the hold once, remember the reading)
follows it, before _readWatching().
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The wiki said .codeman-uploads/ is the one path "a local agent, a container
and a remote host all see the same way", two sentences after saying uploads
are refused for remote (SSH) sessions. Only a local agent and a Docker case
(workspace bind-mounted at the same absolute path) share it, which is why the
route refuses remote sessions; say that.
The same paragraph said every image goes in after a re-encode on the device,
but _normalizeImageForUpload passes a GIF through untouched to keep its
frames.
CLAUDE.md and a test comment described the image fallback as behaving
"as before 1.36", a release that never existed (1.35.0 was followed by
1.40.0). It means the image path as it was before this change.
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The dialog's own prompt glyph armed idle confirmation and the quiet dialog passed it, so a fresh case reported idle about 4 s in. An agent that waited for idle and then prompted typed into the dialog, and its Enter confirmed No, exit and killed the pane.
The scan must schedule its own next read rather than wait for PTY output, but a call inside the throttle was simply dropped. The dialog's own paint is often the last output a launching pane produces and lands inside that throttle, so the session sat on the dialog with no keystroke ever sent. A stopped session no longer scans, since the kill's own output kept it answering a dialog in a dead pane.
Claude Code's and Codex's selection dialogs ignore a bracketed paste, so
after the previous commit a pasted `3` + Enter confirmed the highlighted
option instead of option 3. sendInput() now types a single character with
`send-keys -l` as master did (submitsAsKeys()). One character cannot form
the burst Codex reads as a paste, so the Codex fix is unaffected.
The trailing-`;` escape moves into escapeTmuxTrailingSemicolon() and now
also covers every `send-keys -l` call in sendInput() and
sendInputToPane(); tmux 3.5a types `x;` for `send-keys -l 'x\;'`.
Docs: the @fileoverview lines and orchestrator-loop-architecture.md still
described `send-keys -l`; CLAUDE.md, architecture-invariants.md and
cron-guide.md name the single-character exception.
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sendInput() typed the text of a text+Enter pair with `send-keys -l` and
sent Enter 50 ms later. Codex detects an unmarked paste from a fast
character burst and folds an Enter inside that window into the paste as a
newline, so the prompt stays in the composer unsubmitted. Measured with
codex-cli 0.162.1 in a throwaway tmux pane: 1505 chars stuck 3/3 as
`[Pasted Content 1506 chars]`, a 98-char line stuck 1/4. SubmitVerifier
re-presses Enter for the short case, but it cannot match the long one: the
composer shows the placeholder instead of the prompt's head.
The text now goes in via set-buffer + `paste-buffer -p -d` (markers only
when the pane requested bracketed paste), followed by the separate Enter as
before. Same pane, same texts: 4/4 and 3/3 submitted. Each send gets its
own named buffer; a paste that fails (pane or server gone) deletes it,
since tmux never trims named buffers on its own.
Also escapes a trailing `;` in the text, which tmux treats as a command
separator (`send-keys -l 'x;'` typed `x`, a lone `;` typed nothing).
sendInputToPane() has no callers in src/ and is left as it was.
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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.
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Documents the worktree endpoints and quick-start's worktree field in
docs/api-reference.md, adds a Git Worktrees page to the wiki (sidebar,
Home index, a pointer from Core Concepts where sessions sharing one
case folder is explained), and records the rules that keep the feature
safe in docs/architecture-invariants.md with a short CLAUDE.md pointer:
only the managed .claude/worktrees path is ever touched, git never runs
over a Docker workspace, removal is never forced and branch delete is
-d only, and sessions start through the existing create paths.
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The Attach button, the Compose and paste-dialog pickers, terminal drop and the
clipboard now take documents beside images and videos: the office formats
pdf/docx/pptx/xlsx/zip and the text family txt/md/csv/tsv/json/log/yaml/yml/xml.
A document is admitted by its name's extension (the MIME a phone attaches to a
.md is anyone's guess), buffered under the same 50MB image cap, and judged on
its bytes by the same fail-closed sniffer: a magic-number signature for the
binary formats, UTF-8 with no NUL byte for text. It is saved under a sanitized
stem of its name, so Q3 report.pdf is findable as paste-<ts>-<hex>-Q3-report.pdf.
sh/py/js/html are refused by name with a clear 400. That is a scope choice, not
a security property: file-raw already serves non-media text inert, so this keeps
the server from storing what it would serve or an agent could run, and html and
svg are the ones deliberately kept out. One client classifier (_promptAttachKind)
now returns image, video or document, and the server's dispatch mirrors it: an
image MIME wins whatever the name says, a document extension takes the document
branch, and a foreign extension with no image MIME is refused only after the
image sniff fails, so nothing the image path accepted by its bytes is lost.
Only GIFs that a public page embeds stay in docs/images/: the five README
GIFs plus subagent-demo-20260724.gif, which the published "mission control"
article hotlinks from master. Seven GIFs nothing embeds leave the tree
(their masters are kept in the maintainer's local media library).
.gitignore now blocks *.mp4/*.webm/*.mov/*.m4v/*.mkv/*.avi/*.gif outside
docs/images/*.gif (and the promo branch's Remotion inputs), so a video can
only be committed with an explicit `git add -f`.
docs/media-assets.md records the rule: what is tracked and where it is
embedded, website media (pr/website/assets, deployed separately), release
clips on the design-assets branch, and the local library layout.
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The root CLAUDE.md had grown to 202 KB, all of it loaded into every
session. This lands the split drafted on 2026-10-10 (it sat uncommitted
in the shared checkout through two releases), redone on top of today's
master so nothing that landed since is lost:
- src/web/CLAUDE.md: the frontend invariants (every src/web/public/ UI
subsystem, the module notes, the XLSX preview limits, the z-index
stack). Claude Code loads it when a file under src/web/ is read; the
root file tells sessions to Read it before editing src/web/public/.
Its link targets are relative to the file so they resolve on GitHub.
- docs/releasing.md: the COM procedure (now nine steps, with the MCP
registry publish), behind a pointer in the root COM section. The
Version line stays in the root file.
- Root CLAUDE.md (130 KB): everything else, plus the split's trims: the
Core Files table, the reference-only rows of the Additional Commands
table, Data Flow and the respawn presets, whose rules already live in
the root's other paragraphs (the "Read before touching a subsystem"
line keeps the table's doc pointers).
Every other paragraph of master's CLAUDE.md lands in exactly one of the
three files, checked line by line; the paragraphs master changed since
the draft (tile grid, OSC 52, prompt uploads, file-path links and the
HTML view, markdown preview, z-index, MCP server, agent CLI and others)
are in their current form. Both new files join CLAUDE.md in
.prettierignore. Four code comments and docs/architecture-invariants.md
now point at src/web/CLAUDE.md for the moved sections.
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`codeman mcp` is listed in the official MCP registry as
io.github.Ark0N/codeman (first published for 1.41.1). The registry does
not follow npm, so without a step in the COM procedure the listing stays
on the version it was last published with. The step also records the
two traps hit on the first publish: the Snap Store mcp-publisher (1.1.0)
rejects the current server.json schema with a false "deprecated schema
detected", and older publishers save live login tokens into the current
directory as .mcpregistry_* files.
The announcement step becomes step 9.
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One consolidated patch changeset for the 24 PRs in this release (the PRs'
own changesets folded in), CHANGELOG, package and plugin manifest versions,
and the CLAUDE.md version line.
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Conflicts resolved against #604, #606 and #601:
- constants.js: the rooted link pattern takes html-md's `markdown` and
`html?` with #606's m4v/ogv; #604's relative pattern gets the same list
(link-provider-regex pins the two equal); #604's findFilePathLinks /
folder helpers and html-md's rendersAsPage() are both kept, and
window.CodemanFilePaths exports all of them.
- terminal-ui.js: #604's resolved `target` (relative, ~/ and folder links)
now also goes through rendersAsPage(), so every link kind routes .html to
the page preview; .md routes there through FILE_PREVIEW_EXTENSIONS.
- CLAUDE.md, api-reference, architecture-invariants: both sides' text kept.
- test/folder-grid-ui.test.ts (#604) stubs rendersAsPage() like the other
panels-ui harnesses.
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Conflicts resolved against #605 (and #602's test mock):
- CLAUDE.md Prompt uploads: #606's rewrite is kept and #605's bounded
workspace probe sentence follows the remote (SSH) refusal.
- test/routes/session-routes.test.ts: the remote-pane-history and
bounded-path-probe mocks are kept beside #606's _resetPasteRateBuckets
import, and both PRs' paste-image tests are kept.
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Conflict resolved in test/routes/session-routes.test.ts: #602's
remote-pane-history mock and #605's bounded-path-probe mock are both kept.
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When navigator.clipboard is missing (plain HTTP, install.sh's LAN option) or
refuses the write (an unfocused window), _copyText falls back to a hidden
textarea whose select() takes focus, and removing it left focus on <body>:
the next keystrokes after Claude Code's /copy went nowhere. The handler now
restores the element focused before the copy, as Auto Copy does.
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Conflict resolved in docs/api-reference.md: #607's prompt cache section and
#528's tabGroupId section are both kept.
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Conflicts resolved against #583 and #588:
- One history-depth field: #583's `historyLines` / `capturedHistoryLines`
(reported as `paneHistoryLines`) is kept, and #601's lines cut now reads it
instead of a second `capturedHistorySize`. #601's `alternateOn` /
`capturedAlternateOn` joins it, and the one display-message format string
ends `#{history_size} #{alternate_on}`.
- selectSession keeps #588's full=1 switch for panes with no scrollback, gated
off remote and Docker sessions, and #601's SHELL_LOAD_QUERY for shells.
- computeHistoryTruncationNotice names a line count when paneHistoryLines is
known (#583) and otherwise uses #601's remainder wording.
- docs: api-reference lists both historyLinesCut and paneHistoryLines; the
notice invariant keys on history_size while the shell's automatic load is
the one place alternate_on decides.
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Owner decision 2026-10-13 (#547): a rendered .html page behaves like a
file opened from disk in a browser. It may load scripts, styles, fonts,
images and media from any host and make fetch, XHR, WebSocket, beacon
and form requests to any host.
The /html-view Content-Security-Policy is therefore the `sandbox`
directive alone (HTML_VIEW_CSP, now exported and documented): the same
sandbox flags as before, never `allow-same-origin`, and no fetch
directive. It replaces Codeman's own `default-src 'self'` policy on these
responses. Everything that confines a page stays: the opaque origin (no
Codeman cookies or document, API writes with `Origin: null` refused, API
reads not readable cross-origin), and the capability serving only the
page's own folder under every path, symlink, dot, extension and
confinement rule.
A new test builds the route behind registerSecurityHeaders, as in
production, and pins the exact header: one `sandbox` directive with the
current flags, no `allow-same-origin`, no `-src` directive. The security
architecture, architecture invariants, API reference, CLAUDE.md and the
Working With Files wiki page now say what a page can do (reach the
network, read its own folder) and cannot do (Codeman's origin, cookies,
API, other folders), and that this is the owner's decision.
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An in-workspace .md path clicked in the terminal went to the log viewer
(tail -f, a "streaming" header over raw text), because md was kept out
of FILE_PREVIEW_EXTENSIONS on purpose; every other surface already
rendered it. Owner decision 2026-10-13: markdown is a document to read,
so md and markdown join FILE_PREVIEW_EXTENSIONS and a click or tap opens
the file preview, rendered by default with the MD pill for source. The
main pane, every grid tile and the split's Pane B share the link
provider, so all of them route the same way. Other in-workspace text
(.log, .txt, .json, code) keeps the log viewer and its live follow.
FILE_PATH_LINK_PATTERN now also links `.markdown` and `.htm`, which
were not clickable at all.
Tests: file-preview-markdown.test.ts now asserts md and markdown ARE
routed to the preview (and plain text is not); terminal-touch-tap pins a
tapped .md, .markdown and .html opening the preview while .log, .txt and
.json open the log viewer, and a tile-registered provider routing the
same way against the tile's own session. Docs: CLAUDE.md, the
architecture invariants and the wiki (Working With Files, Mobile Guide).
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A rendered page's own <video> or <audio> could not seek, because the
route streamed a plain 200 without Accept-Ranges. sendFileBody() and
localFileSource() are now exported from file-routes.ts and the serving
route uses them, so it advertises Accept-Ranges and answers a Range with
206 + Content-Range (or 416), exactly like file-raw, the attachment raw
route and /api/download. The body sender hijacks the reply and copies
every header set before it (the sandbox CSP, CORS, no-store), which the
new test pins on a 206.
Media types stay in ASSET_TYPES: with Range support they work, and they
are served under the same sandbox CSP as everything else.
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Conflicts resolved:
- CLAUDE.md: kept master's Prompt uploads paragraph and its longer
File-path links paragraph (XLSX admission limits), and inserted the
PR's html-view sentence after the download-only rule.
- src/web/public/terminal-ui.js: kept master's tile-aware
getSessionId() in the shared file-path link provider and added the
PR's .html routing to the file preview on top of it.
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xterm parses write() data after chunkedTerminalWrite has already cleared
_isLoadingBuffer, so the main terminal's replay gate never held: a tab switch
or reconnect re-copied the newest OSC 52 in the replayed history. Strip every
OSC 52 from the replay beside the DEC 2026 markers (OSC52_STRIP_RE). Tiles
keep their own _bufferLoading gate, which holds there.
One Claude Code copy arrives up to three times (its own OSC 52, tmux
load-buffer -w, set-clipboard forwarding), so identical text within
OSC52_DEDUPE_MS is dropped. The manual-copy fallback opens only in the
focused tab, so a background tab on the same session stays quiet.
The replay tests now drive the real chunkedTerminalWrite into
@xterm/headless and fail without the strip. Test harnesses that supply
DEC_SYNC_STRIP_RE by hand get OSC52_STRIP_RE too, and CLAUDE.md records
the rules next to Auto Copy.
Agents pick tools from MCP clients and registries, and Codeman had no MCP
surface: an assistant in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex or Gemini CLI could
not start or drive Codeman sessions without hand-written HTTP calls.
`codeman mcp` is a stdio MCP server and a CLIENT of the existing HTTP API
(it reuses codeman agent's transport and guards; no new route). Seven
tools: list_sessions, start_session, send_prompt, wait_for_session,
read_output, interrupt_session, delete_session.
- Dual-era: answers the legacy initialize handshake (2024-11-05 to
2025-11-25) and the 2026-07-28 revision (per-request _meta,
server/discover, resultType, and the ttlMs/cacheScope hints a modern
tools/list must carry: Claude Code 2.1.296 drops every tool without
them).
- Never guesses a server: the URL comes from --url or CODEMAN_API_URL.
Unconfigured, it still lists its tools and every call says how to
configure it.
- Prompting, interrupting and deleting are limited to sessions the process
started (or, inside a Codeman pane, that session's own workers) unless
--allow-any-session; never its own session. Control bytes are refused
before any request.
- Waits default to 45 s (Codex's MCP tool timeout is 60 s), max 600 s.
- read_output returns text only: a client that prefers structuredContent
otherwise showed the model metadata instead of the output.
- config/mcp-registry/server.json and package.json mcpName prepare the
official MCP registry listing; sync-plugin.mjs keeps its version.
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Codeman maintainer