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RandalixandClaude Opus 5.5 5bcec26066 fix(edit-history): a remote lookup takes the conversation written last, not the first id's
Review round 2: with the stored conversation tried before the launch id, a
respawn that resumed the launch conversation after a /clear was missed once
claude exited again: the cleared-to conversation still had a file and won,
so the edits made after the resume were never read. No fixed order of the
ids is right both after a /clear and after such a resume. Without a live
conversation the lookup now takes the most recently written transcript of
all known ids (stored, claudeSessionId, id); the live one still goes first.

Also from the review:
- the remote no-transcript note and the docs name login profiles too
  (.profile, .bash_profile): sshd's `bash -c` reads neither, like .zshrc;
- a wiring guard pins that server.ts looks a remote transcript up with
  remoteTranscriptIds and leaves the local lookup on the hook path;
- the browser tests undo the injected remote session in a finally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-05 11:20:01 +01:00

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/**
* @fileoverview Remote (SSH) file access for remote-SSH cases.
*
* A remote case's `workingDir` is an absolute path on ANOTHER host
* (`Session.workingDir = RemoteCase.remotePath`, see docs/remote-sessions.md). Every
* file route used to read it with local `fs`, which cannot work: the local
* `realpathSync` in `validateSessionFilePath` fails first, so the request died as a
* 404 "File not found" before a byte was read (#415). This module is the ONE place
* that reads remote bytes, mirroring how `remote-hosts.ts` is the one place that
* builds an ssh command line.
*
* Connection options come from `buildSshConnectionArgs()` — never a hand-built ssh
* line (the COD-107 discipline in docs/remote-sessions.md) — so a proxied,
* custom-port or jump-hosted case reaches its files with exactly the credentials the
* launch used, and `BatchMode=yes` means a host that needs a passphrase fails fast
* instead of hanging on a prompt nothing can answer.
*
* ⚠️ The path is the injection surface: it arrives from the browser (`?path=`). It is
* always interpolated as a single `shellescape`d token, and the whole remote command
* is itself shellescaped into the ssh line, so the local shell and the remote shell
* each see one opaque argument. Never build a command here by concatenating a raw
* path into the string.
*
* Read-only by design: previews, text reads and streaming. Writing to a remote file
* is deliberately NOT implemented (docs/file-viewer-edit-plan.md §6), nor are the
* office-conversion/thumbnail paths that would need the bytes on the server's disk.
*/
import { exec, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
import { promisify } from 'node:util';
import { PassThrough, type Readable } from 'node:stream';
import type { SessionRemote } from './types/session.js';
import { buildSshConnectionArgs, remoteSshTarget, shellescape } from './remote-hosts.js';
import { runWithRemoteSshLimit } from './remote-ssh-limiter.js';
import type { EditSourceReadOptions, EditSourceRequest, EditSources } from './edit-history-local-source.js';
const execAsync = promisify(exec);
/**
* Bound on the probe (realpath + stat) round trip. The connect itself is already
* bounded by `buildSshConnectionArgs`'s default `-o ConnectTimeout=10`; this covers
* a host that accepts the TCP connection and then never answers.
*/
const REMOTE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 20_000;
/** Bound on a buffered remote read (`cat`), on top of the caller's own size cap. */
const REMOTE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000;
/** Slack over the caller's byte cap so a file exactly at the limit still fits. */
const READ_BUFFER_SLACK_BYTES = 64 * 1024;
/** Marker a probe prints when the path does not exist on the remote host. */
const NOT_FOUND_MARKER = 'n';
/**
* Marker a probe prints when the path exists but could NOT be canonicalized (no
* `readlink -f`, and the portable fallback hit its hop cap or a `readlink` failure).
* Parsed as `null`, i.e. 404: a path whose real target is unknown must never be
* served, because every containment and blocklist check runs on the resolved path.
*/
const UNRESOLVABLE_MARKER = 'x';
/**
* Paths per ssh round trip. The whole remote script is ONE shellescaped argument,
* and Linux caps a single argv string at 128 KiB, so a 100-entry attachment history
* of long paths is split rather than risking `E2BIG` on the local `sh`.
*/
const REMOTE_PROBE_CHUNK_SIZE = 40;
/** Symlink hops the portable resolver follows before giving up (Linux uses 40). */
const REMOTE_SYMLINK_MAX_HOPS = 40;
/**
* Under vitest no real ssh connection may ever be opened (mirrors
* `checkRemoteTmuxAvailable` and friends in remote-hosts.ts). The route tests mock
* this module, so nothing reaches here today; this is what keeps the NEXT
* remote-session test that touches a file route from opening a connection from CI.
* A clear 502-shaped error, never a fake success: there are no fake bytes to return.
*/
function assertNotUnderTest(): void {
if (process.env.VITEST) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError('remote file access is disabled under test');
}
}
/** What a remote path turned out to be. `other` = symlink/socket/fifo/device. */
export type RemotePathKind = 'file' | 'directory' | 'other';
export interface RemoteProbe {
/** The path with symlinks resolved on the REMOTE host. */
realPath: string;
kind: RemotePathKind;
/** Size in bytes (0 for anything that is not a regular file). */
size: number;
/** mtime in ms since epoch (0 when the remote `stat` reported none). */
mtimeMs: number;
}
/**
* A remote file access failed for a reason that is NOT "the file is missing" —
* unreachable host, timeout, ssh error, unexpected probe output. Callers map this to
* a 5xx with the remote reason in the message; a missing file is reported separately
* as `null`/404 so the two cannot be confused.
*/
export class RemoteFileAccessError extends Error {
constructor(message: string) {
super(message);
this.name = 'RemoteFileAccessError';
}
}
/**
* Wrap a remote shell command in the shared, shellescaped ssh line.
*
* The single entry point for "run this on the remote host": connection args (port,
* identity, jump host, SOCKS ProxyCommand, extra `-o`) all come from
* `buildSshConnectionArgs`, and the command is ONE shellescaped token, so a path with
* spaces, quotes or `$(…)` cannot escape into the ssh command line.
*/
export function buildRemoteFileCommand(remote: SessionRemote, shellCommand: string): string {
return [...buildSshConnectionArgs(remote), remoteSshTarget(remote), shellescape(shellCommand)].join(' ');
}
/**
* `realpath + stat + existence` for one or more paths, in a SINGLE ssh round trip.
*
* One call instead of three matters: without a shared connection (no ControlMaster)
* every extra `ssh` is a fresh handshake, and the file routes need the path AND the
* workspace root canonicalized to compare them.
*
* Output format: the script first prints a lone NUL, then one NUL-terminated record
* per path, `<index>|n` (missing), `<index>|x` (exists but cannot be canonicalized) or
* `<index>|kind|size|mtime|realPath`. Records are keyed by INDEX and separated by NUL
* rather than newline so that a remote filename containing a newline cannot shift the
* alignment, and the leading NUL is what separates a login banner or an eager rc-file
* `echo` (which land before the script runs) from the records without any "last N
* lines" guesswork. `realPath` is the last field, so a `|` in a path still parses.
*
* A path starting with `~/` is taken relative to the remote user's `$HOME`: this
* server does not know that home, and a clicked `~/…` link means the host the
* session runs on. The record's `realPath` is absolute, as for any other path.
*
* Symlink resolution is portable AND fails closed. `readlink -f` where available
* (Linux, macOS >= 12.3); otherwise the fallback canonicalizes the directory chain
* with `cd -P`/`pwd -P` and then follows the LAST component with plain `readlink`
* (which the systems lacking `-f` do have) for a bounded number of hops. A path the
* fallback cannot resolve prints `x`, never the unresolved string: every containment
* and blocklist check downstream runs on `realPath`, and an earlier version of this
* fallback returned the directory-resolved path with the final symlink still in it,
* so `ws/notes.txt -> ~/.ssh/id_rsa` passed containment while `cat` served the key.
*/
export function buildRemoteProbeCommand(paths: readonly string[]): string {
const probes = paths.map((path, index) => `probe ${index} ${shellescape(path)}`).join('\n');
return [
'resolve_last() {',
' q=$1',
' hops=0',
' while :; do',
' d=$(cd -P "$(dirname "$q")" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P) || return 1',
' q=$d/$(basename "$q")',
' [ -L "$q" ] || break',
' hops=$((hops + 1))',
` [ "$hops" -le ${REMOTE_SYMLINK_MAX_HOPS} ] || return 1`,
' l=$(readlink "$q" 2>/dev/null) || return 1',
' [ -n "$l" ] || return 1',
' case $l in /*) q=$l ;; *) q=$d/$l ;; esac',
' done',
' if [ -d "$q" ]; then q=$(cd -P "$q" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P) || return 1; fi',
' printf %s "$q"',
'}',
'probe() {',
' i=$1',
' p=$2',
// `~/…` from a clicked link: THIS host's home (assignment, so no word splitting).
" case $p in '~/'*) p=$HOME/${p#??} ;; esac",
` if [ ! -e "$p" ]; then printf '%s|${NOT_FOUND_MARKER}\\0' "$i"; return; fi`,
` r=$(readlink -f "$p" 2>/dev/null) || r=$(resolve_last "$p") || { printf '%s|${UNRESOLVABLE_MARKER}\\0' "$i"; return; }`,
` [ -n "$r" ] || { printf '%s|${UNRESOLVABLE_MARKER}\\0' "$i"; return; }`,
' if [ -d "$r" ]; then t=d; elif [ -f "$r" ]; then t=f; else t=o; fi',
' s=0',
' if [ "$t" = f ]; then s=$(stat -c %s "$r" 2>/dev/null || stat -f %z "$r" 2>/dev/null); [ -n "$s" ] || s=0; fi',
' m=$(stat -c %Y "$r" 2>/dev/null || stat -f %m "$r" 2>/dev/null || printf 0)',
` printf '%s|%s|%s|%s|%s\\0' "$i" "$t" "$s" "$m" "$r"`,
'}',
"printf '\\0'",
probes,
].join('\n');
}
/**
* Parse one probe record (index prefix already stripped). `null` for the not-found
* and unresolvable markers or anything malformed.
*/
export function parseRemoteProbeRecord(record: string): RemoteProbe | null {
if (!record || record === NOT_FOUND_MARKER || record === UNRESOLVABLE_MARKER) return null;
const parts = record.split('|');
if (parts.length < 4) return null;
const [kindRaw, sizeRaw, mtimeRaw] = parts;
const kind: RemotePathKind | null =
kindRaw === 'f' ? 'file' : kindRaw === 'd' ? 'directory' : kindRaw === 'o' ? 'other' : null;
if (!kind) return null;
const realPath = parts.slice(3).join('|');
if (!realPath) return null;
const size = Number.parseInt(sizeRaw, 10);
const mtimeSeconds = Number.parseInt(mtimeRaw, 10);
return {
realPath,
kind,
size: Number.isFinite(size) && size > 0 ? size : 0,
mtimeMs: Number.isFinite(mtimeSeconds) && mtimeSeconds > 0 ? mtimeSeconds * 1000 : 0,
};
}
/**
* Parse the output of {@link buildRemoteProbeCommand} into one entry per requested
* path, in order. Throws when a path's record is missing: that means the transport
* or the remote shell did something unexpected, and silently treating it as "not
* found" would turn an infrastructure failure into a wrong 404.
*
* Everything before the first NUL is the remote shell's own chatter (banner, rc-file
* output) and is discarded; records are matched by their index prefix, so neither
* extra output nor a newline inside a filename can shift the mapping.
*/
export function parseRemoteProbeOutput(stdout: string, paths: readonly string[]): Array<RemoteProbe | null> {
const records = stdout.split('\0').slice(1);
const byIndex = new Map<number, string>();
for (const record of records) {
const match = /^(\d+)\|([\s\S]*)$/.exec(record);
if (!match) continue;
const index = Number.parseInt(match[1], 10);
if (!byIndex.has(index)) byIndex.set(index, match[2]);
}
return paths.map((_, index) => {
const record = byIndex.get(index);
if (record === undefined) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError('remote host returned no usable file information');
}
return parseRemoteProbeRecord(record);
});
}
/**
* Probe one or more remote paths. Entry is `null` for a path that does not exist (or
* could not be canonicalized, which is refused the same way).
*
* Large batches are split into round trips of {@link REMOTE_PROBE_CHUNK_SIZE}, each
* counted against the global ssh limiter, so an attachment history of 100 entries
* costs three connections in sequence rather than 100 at once.
*/
export async function remoteProbePaths(
remote: SessionRemote,
paths: readonly string[]
): Promise<Array<RemoteProbe | null>> {
assertNotUnderTest();
const results: Array<RemoteProbe | null> = [];
for (let offset = 0; offset < paths.length; offset += REMOTE_PROBE_CHUNK_SIZE) {
const chunk = paths.slice(offset, offset + REMOTE_PROBE_CHUNK_SIZE);
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, buildRemoteProbeCommand(chunk));
let stdout: string;
try {
const result = await runWithRemoteSshLimit(() =>
execAsync(command, { timeout: REMOTE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS, maxBuffer: 256 * 1024 })
);
stdout = result.stdout;
} catch (err) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError(
`remote host ${remote.label || remote.host} unreachable: ${describeExecError(err)}`
);
}
results.push(...parseRemoteProbeOutput(stdout, chunk));
}
return results;
}
/** One entry of a remote folder listing: a file (with size/mtime) or a subfolder. */
export interface RemoteFolderEntry {
kind: 'file' | 'directory';
name: string;
size: number;
mtimeMs: number;
}
/** A remote folder listing; `dir` is the folder with symlinks resolved on the remote host. */
export interface RemoteFolderListing {
dir: string;
entries: RemoteFolderEntry[];
truncated: boolean;
}
/**
* List one remote folder in a SINGLE ssh round trip: its canonical path, then every
* non-hidden subfolder and every regular file (symlinks followed) whose name ends in
* one of `extensions` (any case), up to `maxEntries`.
*
* Same output discipline as {@link buildRemoteProbeCommand}: a lone NUL first (so rc
* chatter before it is discarded), then NUL-terminated records — `E|n` (no such
* folder), `E|x` (cannot be canonicalized), `D|<dir>`, `d|0|0|<name>`,
* `f|<size>|<mtime>|<name>`, and `T|` when the cap cut the listing. The name is the
* last field, so a `|` in it still parses, and NUL is the one byte a filename cannot
* hold. A leading `~/` is the remote user's `$HOME`, as in the probe.
*/
export function buildRemoteFolderListCommand(dir: string, extensions: readonly string[], maxEntries: number): string {
// `[pP][nN][gG]`: any case, as the local listing compares lowercased (`shot.Png`).
const patterns = [...new Set(extensions.map((ext) => ext.toLowerCase()))]
.map((ext) => `*.${ext.replace(/[a-z]/g, (c) => `[${c}${c.toUpperCase()}]`)}`)
.join('|');
const script = [
`d=${shellescape(dir)}`,
"case $d in '~/'*) d=$HOME/${d#??} ;; esac",
"printf '\\0'",
'[ -d "$d" ] || { [ -e "$d" ] && printf \'E|f\\0\' || printf \'E|n\\0\'; exit 0; }',
'r=$(cd -P "$d" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P) || { printf \'E|x\\0\'; exit 0; }',
'printf \'D|%s\\0\' "$r"',
'n=0',
'for f in "$r"/*; do',
' [ -e "$f" ] || continue',
` [ "$n" -lt ${Math.max(1, Math.floor(maxEntries))} ] || { printf 'T|\\0'; break; }`,
' b=${f##*/}',
' if [ -d "$f" ]; then n=$((n + 1)); printf \'d|0|0|%s\\0\' "$b"; continue; fi',
' [ -f "$f" ] || continue',
` case $b in ${patterns || '*.__none__'}) ;; *) continue ;; esac`,
" sm=$(stat -L -c '%s %Y' \"$f\" 2>/dev/null || stat -L -f '%z %m' \"$f\" 2>/dev/null) || sm='0 0'",
' n=$((n + 1))',
' printf \'f|%s|%s|%s\\0\' "${sm% *}" "${sm#* }" "$b"',
'done',
].join('\n');
// ⚠️ sshd runs the command in the remote user's LOGIN shell, rc aliases included.
// On Hufflepuff `cd` is an alias that echoes the new directory (`$(cd -P "$d" &&
// pwd -P)` came back as two lines, then zsh aborted on the glob: "no matches found:
// /x\n/x/*"), so no folder listing worked over ssh. An explicit `sh` reads no rc
// file — the same wrapper the transcript read uses.
return `sh -c ${shellescape(script)}`;
}
/**
* Parse {@link buildRemoteFolderListCommand} output: null when nothing exists there
* (or it cannot be resolved), `'not-a-folder'` when it is a file.
*/
export function parseRemoteFolderListOutput(stdout: string): RemoteFolderListing | 'not-a-folder' | null {
const records = stdout.split('\0').slice(1);
let dir: string | null = null;
let truncated = false;
const entries: RemoteFolderEntry[] = [];
for (const record of records) {
if (record === 'E|f') return 'not-a-folder';
if (record.startsWith('E|')) return null;
if (record.startsWith('D|')) {
dir = record.slice(2);
continue;
}
if (record === 'T|') {
truncated = true;
continue;
}
const match = /^([fd])\|(\d*)\|(\d*)\|([\s\S]+)$/.exec(record);
if (!match) continue;
const size = Number.parseInt(match[2], 10);
const mtime = Number.parseInt(match[3], 10);
entries.push({
kind: match[1] === 'd' ? 'directory' : 'file',
name: match[4],
size: Number.isFinite(size) && size > 0 ? size : 0,
mtimeMs: Number.isFinite(mtime) && mtime > 0 ? mtime * 1000 : 0,
});
}
if (!dir) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError('remote host returned no usable folder listing');
}
return { dir, entries, truncated };
}
/** List a remote folder (see {@link buildRemoteFolderListCommand}). */
export async function remoteListFolder(
remote: SessionRemote,
dir: string,
extensions: readonly string[],
maxEntries: number
): Promise<RemoteFolderListing | 'not-a-folder' | null> {
assertNotUnderTest();
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, buildRemoteFolderListCommand(dir, extensions, maxEntries));
let stdout: string;
try {
const result = await runWithRemoteSshLimit(() =>
execAsync(command, { timeout: REMOTE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS, maxBuffer: 4 * 1024 * 1024 })
);
stdout = result.stdout;
} catch (err) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError(
`remote host ${remote.label || remote.host} unreachable: ${describeExecError(err)}`
);
}
return parseRemoteFolderListOutput(stdout);
}
/** Read a whole remote file into memory, capped by `maxBytes`. */
export async function remoteReadFile(remote: SessionRemote, remotePath: string, maxBytes: number): Promise<Buffer> {
assertNotUnderTest();
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, `cat ${shellescape(remotePath)}`);
try {
const result = await runWithRemoteSshLimit(() =>
execAsync(command, {
timeout: REMOTE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS,
maxBuffer: maxBytes + READ_BUFFER_SLACK_BYTES,
encoding: 'buffer',
})
);
return Buffer.isBuffer(result.stdout) ? result.stdout : Buffer.from(result.stdout);
} catch (err) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError(`failed to read remote file: ${describeExecError(err)}`);
}
}
/** Conversation ids are uuids; anything else never reaches the remote shell. */
const CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ID_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$/;
/** Exit status the edit-history scripts use for "no such transcript on that host". */
const TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT = 3;
/** Transcript files an edit-source request may name; nothing else reaches the shell. */
const EDIT_SOURCE_REL_PATH_PATTERN = /^(main|subagents\/agent-[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.jsonl)$/;
/** The meta record's relPath; group 1 is the agentId. */
const EDIT_SOURCE_META_REL_PATH_PATTERN = /^subagents\/agent-([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)\.meta\.json$/;
/** Cap on one subagent `.meta.json` record (outside the transcript budget), as in the local reader. */
const EDIT_SOURCE_META_MAX_BYTES = 8192;
/** Cap on all meta records of one read; a meta past it is sent with a later read. */
const EDIT_SOURCE_META_BUDGET_BYTES = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
/** Room for the record headers (one per transcript file) on top of budget and metas. */
const EDIT_SOURCE_HEADER_SLACK_BYTES = 1024 * 1024;
/**
* The slowest link an edit-history read is given time for. Such a read can carry megabytes
* (a forward pass its budget plus the metas, "Load older" up to three budgets), which a flat
* {@link REMOTE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS} would cut off below ~1 MiB/s. 256 KiB/s ≈ 2 Mbit/s.
*/
const EDIT_SOURCE_MIN_BYTES_PER_SEC = 256 * 1024;
/**
* Timeout of an edit-history read that may return up to `maxBytes`: the flat read timeout plus
* the transfer time at {@link EDIT_SOURCE_MIN_BYTES_PER_SEC}. It ends a hung read (a host that
* fell asleep mid-transfer; no keepalives, see the wake invariants), it does not cut a slow one.
*/
export function remoteEditSourcesTimeoutMs(maxBytes: number): number {
return REMOTE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS + Math.ceil((Math.max(0, maxBytes) / EDIT_SOURCE_MIN_BYTES_PER_SEC) * 1000);
}
const TMUX_NAME_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$/;
/** Where a remote session's agent runs: the remote tmux socket and session (`remoteTmuxLocation`). */
export interface RemoteClaudePane {
socket: string;
sessionName: string;
}
function isByteCount(value: unknown): value is number {
return typeof value === 'number' && Number.isSafeInteger(value) && value >= 0;
}
/** De-duplicated ids that match {@link CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ID_PATTERN}, in order. */
function safeClaudeTranscriptIds(ids: readonly string[]): string[] {
return [...new Set(ids)].filter((id) => CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ID_PATTERN.test(id));
}
/** A main transcript path the read script takes: absolute, `<id>.jsonl`, no NUL or newline. */
export function isRemoteClaudeTranscriptPath(path: string): boolean {
if (!path.startsWith('/') || !path.endsWith('.jsonl') || /[\0\n]/.test(path)) return false;
return CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ID_PATTERN.test(path.slice(path.lastIndexOf('/') + 1, -'.jsonl'.length));
}
/**
* Shell lines that set `cfg` to claude's config dir on the remote host: an absolute
* `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` from the ssh command's environment, else `$HOME/.claude` — claude's own
* rule. ⚠️ The remote claude runs under `$SHELL -i -l -c` (`remoteLoginShellCommand`), this
* script under a plain non-interactive `sh` from sshd's `$SHELL -c`: a `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` set
* only in a login or interactive profile (`.profile`, `.bash_profile`, `.zshrc`) is not seen
* here; one from `.zshenv`, sshd `SetEnv` or the system environment is.
*/
function claudeConfigDirLines(): string[] {
return ['cfg=$HOME/.claude', 'case ${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-} in /*) cfg=$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR ;; esac'];
}
/**
* Shell lines that set `live` to the conversation the claude in `pane` is writing NOW,
* or leave it empty; they need `cfg` ({@link claudeConfigDirLines}). Codeman launches a
* remote claude with `--session-id <id>`, but a `/clear` (or a resume picked inside claude)
* starts a new conversation, and with no hooks from a remote host Codeman never hears of it.
* claude itself keeps `<config dir>/sessions/<pid>.json` with the current `sessionId`, so: the
* pane's pid, its children and grandchildren (a wrapper shell may sit in between), the first
* of those with such a file. Only `[A-Za-z0-9._-]` survives the `sed`, the id pattern, so
* `$live` is safe unquoted. `ps -A -o pid= -o ppid=` is POSIX (no GNU `--ppid`).
*/
function liveClaudeIdLines(pane: RemoteClaudePane | undefined): string[] {
if (!pane || !TMUX_NAME_PATTERN.test(pane.socket) || !TMUX_NAME_PATTERN.test(pane.sessionName)) return [];
return [
'live=',
`pp=$(tmux -L ${shellescape(pane.socket)} list-panes -t ${shellescape(`=${pane.sessionName}`)} -F '#{pane_pid}' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)`,
"case $pp in ''|*[!0-9]*) pp= ;; esac",
'if [ -n "$pp" ]; then',
' tree=$(ps -A -o pid= -o ppid= 2>/dev/null)',
' kids=$(printf \'%s\\n\' "$tree" | awk -v p="$pp" \'$2 == p { print $1 }\')',
' grand=$(for k in $kids; do printf \'%s\\n\' "$tree" | awk -v p="$k" \'$2 == p { print $1 }\'; done)',
' for c in $pp $kids $grand; do',
' f="$cfg/sessions/$c.json"',
' [ -f "$f" ] || continue',
' live=$(sed -n \'s/.*"sessionId":"\\([A-Za-z0-9._-]*\\)".*/\\1/p\' "$f" | head -n 1)',
' [ -n "$live" ] && break',
' done',
'fi',
];
}
/**
* Script that finds a remote claude session's main transcript and prints `\0<path>\0`;
* exit {@link TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT} when there is none. First the conversation the
* claude in `pane` writes now ({@link liveClaudeIdLines}); without one, the most recently
* written transcript of ALL `ids`, not the first id that has one: the conversation claude
* wrote last is the current one whether a `/clear` moved on from the launch id or a respawn
* resumed it again, and no order of the ids gets both right. Each id is looked up as
* `<config dir>/projects/*\/<id>.jsonl` ({@link claudeConfigDirLines}). `$HOME` is expanded
* by the REMOTE shell: the transcript lives in the remote user's home, which the server
* cannot know.
*
* ⚠️ Runs under an explicit `sh` with `LC_ALL=C`: sshd runs a command in the remote user's
* LOGIN shell, and on a zsh host `ls` can be an alias and an unmatched glob aborts the whole
* script ("no matches found"). So: no `ls` at all, the newest file wins via `-nt`, and an
* `[ -f ]` guard on every glob. `C` makes bracket ranges and glob order plain bytes.
*/
export function buildRemoteClaudeTranscriptLocateCommand(ids: readonly string[], pane?: RemoteClaudePane): string {
const safeIds = safeClaudeTranscriptIds(ids);
if (safeIds.length === 0) return `exit ${TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT}`;
const liveLines = liveClaudeIdLines(pane);
const script = [
'LC_ALL=C',
'export LC_ALL',
'best=',
...claudeConfigDirLines(),
// newest <id>: `best` becomes that id's transcript if it is newer than the current best.
'newest() {',
' for f in "$cfg"/projects/*/"$1".jsonl; do',
' [ -f "$f" ] || continue',
' if [ -z "$best" ] || [ "$f" -nt "$best" ]; then best=$f; fi',
' done',
'}',
...liveLines,
...(liveLines.length ? ['[ -z "$live" ] || newest "$live"'] : []),
'if [ -z "$best" ]; then',
` for id in ${safeIds.map((id) => shellescape(id)).join(' ')}; do newest "$id"; done`,
'fi',
`[ -n "$best" ] || exit ${TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT}`,
'printf \'\\0%s\\0\' "$best"',
].join('\n');
return `sh -c ${shellescape(script)}`;
}
/** The path from {@link buildRemoteClaudeTranscriptLocateCommand} output; null when there is none. */
export function parseRemoteClaudeTranscriptLocate(stdout: Buffer): string | null {
const start = stdout.indexOf(0);
const end = start === -1 ? -1 : stdout.indexOf(0, start + 1);
if (end === -1) return null;
const path = stdout.toString('utf8', start + 1, end);
return isRemoteClaudeTranscriptPath(path) ? path : null;
}
/**
* Find a remote claude session's main transcript in ONE ssh round trip (see
* {@link buildRemoteClaudeTranscriptLocateCommand}). `null` when it has none; an unreachable
* host, an ssh failure or broken output is a `RemoteFileAccessError`. Never wakes a host: a
* sleeping one is a connect timeout, like every other read in this module.
*/
export async function remoteLocateClaudeTranscript(
remote: SessionRemote,
ids: readonly string[],
pane?: RemoteClaudePane
): Promise<string | null> {
assertNotUnderTest();
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, buildRemoteClaudeTranscriptLocateCommand(ids, pane));
let stdout: Buffer;
try {
const result = await runWithRemoteSshLimit(() =>
execAsync(command, { timeout: REMOTE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS, maxBuffer: READ_BUFFER_SLACK_BYTES, encoding: 'buffer' })
);
stdout = Buffer.isBuffer(result.stdout) ? result.stdout : Buffer.from(result.stdout);
} catch (err) {
if ((err as { code?: unknown }).code === TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT) return null;
throw new RemoteFileAccessError(
`remote host ${remote.label || remote.host} unreachable: ${describeExecError(err)}`
);
}
const path = parseRemoteClaudeTranscriptLocate(stdout);
if (!path) throw new RemoteFileAccessError('unexpected output from the remote transcript lookup');
return path;
}
/**
* Script that reads a remote claude session's main transcript at `mainPath` and its subagent
* transcripts (`<mainPath without .jsonl>/subagents/agent-<id>.jsonl`) in ONE ssh round trip,
* with exactly the local reader's rules (`readClaudeEditSources`):
*
* - a request without `len` reads from `offset` (clamped to the size);
* - a request with `len` is a block that ends at `offset + len`: short of budget, its end;
* - a file without a request (one the caller has not seen) reads its last bytes, and a new
* subagent's `.meta.json` (≤ {@link EDIT_SOURCE_META_MAX_BYTES}, outside the budget) comes
* along as its own record; with `onlyRequested` such files are left out.
*
* `budgetBytes` is shared by all transcript files, main first, then the subagents in byte
* order. A file that gets none of it still produces a zero-length record, because the caller
* needs its size. Exit {@link TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT} when `mainPath` is not a file.
*
* Output: `\0<transcriptId>\0`, then per record `<relPath>\0<size>\0<start>\0<len>\0`
* followed by exactly `<len>` raw bytes. Should a file shrink between `wc -c` and the read,
* the slice is NUL-padded to `<len>` so the framing never shifts.
*
* Inputs never reach the script unchecked: the path via {@link isRemoteClaudeTranscriptPath}
* (and shellescaped), relPaths via {@link EDIT_SOURCE_REL_PATH_PATTERN}, offsets and lengths as
* plain digits; anything invalid is dropped. A subagent file whose name the pattern would
* reject is skipped on the remote side too. Same `sh` + `LC_ALL=C` rules as the lookup.
*/
export function buildRemoteClaudeEditSourcesCommand(
mainPath: string,
requests: readonly EditSourceRequest[],
budgetBytes: number,
opts: EditSourceReadOptions = {}
): string {
if (!isRemoteClaudeTranscriptPath(mainPath)) return `exit ${TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT}`;
const transcriptId = mainPath.slice(mainPath.lastIndexOf('/') + 1, -'.jsonl'.length);
const byRelPath = new Map<string, { offset: number; len: number | null }>();
for (const request of requests) {
if (!request || typeof request.relPath !== 'string') continue;
if (!EDIT_SOURCE_REL_PATH_PATTERN.test(request.relPath)) continue;
if (!isByteCount(request.offset)) continue;
if (request.len !== undefined && !isByteCount(request.len)) continue;
if (byRelPath.has(request.relPath)) continue;
byRelPath.set(request.relPath, { offset: request.offset, len: request.len ?? null });
}
const budget = Number.isFinite(budgetBytes) ? Math.max(0, Math.floor(budgetBytes)) : 0;
const requestArgs = (request: { offset: number; len: number | null }): string =>
`r ${request.offset} ${request.len === null ? "''" : String(request.len)}`;
const main = byRelPath.get('main');
const mainLine = main
? `emit main "$best" ${requestArgs(main)}`
: opts.onlyRequested
? ''
: 'emit main "$best" t 0 \'\'';
const subagentCases = [...byRelPath.entries()]
.filter(([relPath]) => relPath !== 'main')
.map(([relPath, request]) => {
const name = relPath.slice('subagents/'.length);
return ` ${shellescape(name)}) emit "subagents/$b" "$f" ${requestArgs(request)} ;;`;
});
const newSubagent = opts.onlyRequested
? [' *) ;;']
: [
' *) emit "subagents/$b" "$f" t 0 \'\'',
' m=${f%.jsonl}.meta.json',
' if [ -f "$m" ]; then',
' fsize "$m"',
` mn=$s; [ "$mn" -le ${EDIT_SOURCE_META_MAX_BYTES} ] || mn=${EDIT_SOURCE_META_MAX_BYTES}`,
' if [ "$mn" -le "$mbudget" ]; then',
' mbudget=$((mbudget - mn))',
' printf \'%s\\0%s\\0%s\\0%s\\0\' "subagents/${b%.jsonl}.meta.json" "$s" 0 "$mn"',
' [ "$mn" -eq 0 ] || bytes "$m" 0 "$mn"',
' fi',
' fi ;;',
];
const script = [
'LC_ALL=C',
'export LC_ALL',
`best=${shellescape(mainPath)}`,
`[ -f "$best" ] || exit ${TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT}`,
`printf '\\0%s\\0' ${shellescape(transcriptId)}`,
`budget=${budget}`,
`mbudget=${EDIT_SOURCE_META_BUDGET_BYTES}`,
// Size via `wc -c <` (POSIX; BSD pads it with spaces, hence the tr).
'fsize() {',
' s=$(wc -c < "$1" 2>/dev/null | tr -d \' \\t\\n\')',
" case $s in ''|*[!0-9]*) s=0 ;; esac",
'}',
// Exactly $3 bytes of $1 from offset $2, NUL-padded if the file shrank meanwhile.
'bytes() {',
' { tail -c +$(($2 + 1)) "$1" 2>/dev/null | head -c "$3"; head -c "$3" /dev/zero; } | head -c "$3"',
'}',
// emit <relPath> <file> <r|t> <offset> <len|''>: r = a request, t = the tail of a new file.
'emit() {',
' fsize "$2"',
' if [ "$3" = r ] && [ -n "$5" ]; then',
' bs=$4; [ "$bs" -le "$s" ] || bs=$s',
' be=$(($4 + $5)); [ "$be" -le "$s" ] || be=$s',
' n=$((be - bs)); [ "$n" -le "$budget" ] || n=$budget',
' start=$((be - n))',
' elif [ "$3" = r ]; then',
' start=$4; [ "$start" -le "$s" ] || start=$s',
' n=$((s - start)); [ "$n" -le "$budget" ] || n=$budget',
' else',
' n=$s; [ "$n" -le "$budget" ] || n=$budget',
' start=$((s - n))',
' fi',
' budget=$((budget - n))',
' printf \'%s\\0%s\\0%s\\0%s\\0\' "$1" "$s" "$start" "$n"',
' [ "$n" -eq 0 ] || bytes "$2" "$start" "$n"',
'}',
mainLine,
'for f in "${best%.jsonl}"/subagents/agent-*.jsonl; do',
' [ -f "$f" ] || continue',
' b=${f##*/}',
' case $b in agent-.jsonl|agent-*[!A-Za-z0-9_-]*.jsonl) continue ;; esac',
' case $b in',
...subagentCases,
...newSubagent,
' esac',
'done',
].join('\n');
return `sh -c ${shellescape(script)}`;
}
/**
* Parse {@link buildRemoteClaudeEditSourcesCommand} output, byte-exact on the Buffer (a chunk
* may end mid UTF-8 sequence, so nothing here measures decoded strings). Everything before
* the first NUL is rc-file chatter. `null` = protocol broken: a missing or malformed header
* field, an unknown relPath, a slice outside the file or a body shorter than its length.
*/
export function parseRemoteClaudeEditSources(stdout: Buffer): EditSources | null {
let pos = stdout.indexOf(0);
if (pos === -1) return null;
pos += 1;
const readField = (): string | null => {
const end = stdout.indexOf(0, pos);
if (end === -1) return null;
const field = stdout.toString('utf8', pos, end);
pos = end + 1;
return field;
};
const readNumber = (): number | null => {
const field = readField();
if (field === null || !/^\d+$/.test(field)) return null;
const value = Number(field);
return Number.isSafeInteger(value) ? value : null;
};
const transcriptId = readField();
if (!transcriptId || !CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ID_PATTERN.test(transcriptId)) return null;
const files: EditSources['files'] = [];
const metas: Record<string, string> = {};
while (pos < stdout.length) {
const relPath = readField();
const size = readNumber();
const startOffset = readNumber();
const len = readNumber();
if (relPath === null || size === null || startOffset === null || len === null) return null;
if (startOffset + len > size || pos + len > stdout.length) return null;
const chunk = stdout.subarray(pos, pos + len);
pos += len;
const meta = EDIT_SOURCE_META_REL_PATH_PATTERN.exec(relPath);
if (meta) {
metas[meta[1]] = chunk.toString('utf8');
} else if (EDIT_SOURCE_REL_PATH_PATTERN.test(relPath)) {
files.push({ relPath, size, startOffset, chunk });
} else {
return null;
}
}
return { transcriptId, files, metas };
}
/**
* Read a remote claude session's transcripts (see {@link buildRemoteClaudeEditSourcesCommand}),
* the remote twin of `readClaudeEditSources`. `null` when `mainPath` does not exist; an
* unreachable host, an ssh failure or broken output is a `RemoteFileAccessError`. Never wakes.
*/
export async function remoteReadClaudeEditSources(
remote: SessionRemote,
mainPath: string,
requests: readonly EditSourceRequest[],
budgetBytes: number,
opts: EditSourceReadOptions = {}
): Promise<EditSources | null> {
assertNotUnderTest();
const budget = Number.isFinite(budgetBytes) ? Math.max(0, Math.floor(budgetBytes)) : 0;
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, buildRemoteClaudeEditSourcesCommand(mainPath, requests, budget, opts));
const maxBytes = budget + EDIT_SOURCE_META_BUDGET_BYTES + EDIT_SOURCE_HEADER_SLACK_BYTES;
let stdout: Buffer;
try {
const result = await runWithRemoteSshLimit(() =>
execAsync(command, {
timeout: remoteEditSourcesTimeoutMs(maxBytes),
maxBuffer: maxBytes,
encoding: 'buffer',
})
);
stdout = Buffer.isBuffer(result.stdout) ? result.stdout : Buffer.from(result.stdout);
} catch (err) {
if ((err as { code?: unknown }).code === TRANSCRIPT_NOT_FOUND_EXIT) return null;
throw new RemoteFileAccessError(
`remote host ${remote.label || remote.host} unreachable: ${describeExecError(err)}`
);
}
const parsed = parseRemoteClaudeEditSources(stdout);
if (!parsed || !mainPath.endsWith(`/${parsed.transcriptId}.jsonl`)) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError('unexpected output from the remote edit-history read');
}
return parsed;
}
/**
* Command that writes a remote file's bytes to stdout.
*
* ⚠️ Range reads use `tail -c +N | head -c L` (both POSIX, constant memory) because
* the alternative — `dd bs=1` — issues one read syscall per byte and would make video
* seeking unusable. The trade-off is that a `tail` failure (the file vanished
* mid-request) reports `head`'s exit status, i.e. a short body on an already-sent
* 206; the client retries. The uncompressed path (`cat`) reports its own failure
* correctly, so the streaming error path is still covered by the normal case.
*/
export function buildRemoteReadCommand(remotePath: string, range?: { start: number; end: number }): string {
const quoted = shellescape(remotePath);
if (!range) return `cat ${quoted}`;
const length = range.end - range.start + 1;
return `tail -c +${range.start + 1} ${quoted} | head -c ${length}`;
}
export interface RemoteFileStream {
/** The remote file's bytes, streamed from the ssh child's stdout. */
stream: Readable;
/**
* Abort the transfer and reap the ssh child. The caller MUST call this when the
* HTTP request ends — especially on a client disconnect — or the `ssh` process
* keeps running (and holding a connection open) after nobody is reading it.
*/
close(): void;
}
/**
* Stream a remote file (optionally a byte range) as a Node Readable.
*
* Nothing is buffered in server memory: the bytes go from `ssh`'s stdout straight to
* the HTTP response, which is what makes a multi-GB remote video cost one pipe.
*/
export function remoteCreateReadStream(
remote: SessionRemote,
remotePath: string,
range?: { start: number; end: number }
): RemoteFileStream {
if (process.env.VITEST) {
// Same rule as the buffered calls, in stream form: the consumer sees the error
// through the stream's normal failure path instead of a connection attempt.
const stream = new PassThrough();
process.nextTick(() => stream.destroy(new RemoteFileAccessError('remote file access is disabled under test')));
return { stream, close: () => stream.destroy() };
}
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, buildRemoteReadCommand(remotePath, range));
const child = spawn(command, { shell: true, stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });
let stderr = '';
child.stderr?.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => {
if (stderr.length < 2000) stderr += chunk.toString();
});
const stream = child.stdout;
let ended = false;
stream.on('end', () => {
ended = true;
});
stream.on('error', () => {
ended = true;
});
child.on('error', (err: Error) => {
stream.destroy(err);
});
child.on('close', (code: number | null) => {
// Only a truncated transfer is an error. A non-zero exit AFTER the body finished
// (e.g. a signal delivered as the last byte was flushed) must not destroy an
// already-complete response, or the browser reports a broken body for a file it
// received in full.
if (ended || code === 0 || code === null) return;
const detail = stderr.trim().split('\n')[0];
stream.destroy(new RemoteFileAccessError(`remote read failed (ssh exit ${code})${detail ? `: ${detail}` : ''}`));
});
return {
stream,
close(): void {
if (!stream.destroyed) stream.destroy();
child.kill('SIGTERM');
},
};
}
/**
* First useful line of an exec/stderr error, for a user-facing message.
*
* ⚠️ Never Node's `err.message`: for a failed `exec` it is `Command failed: <the whole
* ssh line>`, which carries the identity-file path and the probe script, and this
* string goes out in a 502 body. stderr, the timeout flag and the exit/spawn code are
* everything a user can act on.
*/
function describeExecError(err: unknown): string {
if (typeof err === 'object' && err !== null) {
const record = err as { stderr?: unknown; code?: unknown; killed?: unknown };
const stderr =
typeof record.stderr === 'string' ? record.stderr : Buffer.isBuffer(record.stderr) ? String(record.stderr) : '';
const line = stderr
.split('\n')
.map((entry) => entry.trim())
.find((entry) => entry.length > 0);
if (line) return line.slice(0, 300);
if (record.killed) return 'timed out';
if (typeof record.code === 'number') return `ssh exit ${record.code}`;
if (typeof record.code === 'string') return `ssh could not be started (${record.code})`;
}
return 'unknown error';
}