retire the single-user claim from the docs it outlived

CLAUDE.md asserted "single-user is a hard invariant, not a stage" while
users held six rows and role_capabilities held grants. Every doc that
repeated it is corrected here, in prose and in the code comments that
carried the same claim.

The accurate statement is narrower: one owner who bypasses every check,
other accounts holding only what their role is granted, and a set of
capabilities — terminal, chat, files, tasks, items, desktop, browser — that
are structurally ungrantable because they execute as the owner's OS user.

TODO.md gains a Multi-user section for what the read turned up: no way to
create a second account, dashboards.id colliding across users, authorize.ts
untested, pty/vault/opencode taking no identity, Radicale still owner_only.

claude-sidecar-isolation.md's open question is answered rather than left
open — the per-email spawn model is dead weight, because chat is an
execution capability and no second account can ever reach it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -18,9 +18,13 @@ import { createSidecarConnector } from '../connect';
import { sign } from '../../jwt';
import { getUserByEmail, getOwnerUser, getEmailAccounts } from 'officerdb';
// PM2 starts this sidecar with no user in its env. Single-user platform, so resolve the owner from the
// database rather than being told who to run as by the main server — one less thing that has to come
// from `officer` before this process can work. CLAUDE_USER_EMAIL still wins when set, for manual runs.
// PM2 starts this sidecar with no user in its env, so resolve the owner from the database rather than
// being told who to run as by the main server — one less thing that has to come from `officer` before
// this process can work. CLAUDE_USER_EMAIL still wins when set, for manual runs.
//
// "The owner" is not a simplification that multi-user will later invalidate. `chat` is an `execution`
// capability (capabilities/registry.ts) and is never grantable at any level, so no account other than
// the owner can ever reach this sidecar, however many accounts exist.
async function resolveOwner() {
const explicit = process.env.CLAUDE_USER_EMAIL?.trim();
for (;;) {
@@ -46,9 +50,10 @@ const MCP_SERVER_SCRIPT = resolve(import.meta.dir, '../../mcp-tool-server.ts');
// Mint a long-lived JWT for this user so tools (e.g. gmail) can call back to dev-platform as them
const OFFICER_AUTH_TOKEN = await sign({ id: dbUser.id, email, username: dbUser.username }, '30d');
// Single-user platform: the owner runs Claude with no isolation — real HOME, real ~/.claude — so
// platform sessions have perfect parity with terminal sessions (same config, credentials and
// transcript store, interchangeable via `claude --resume`).
// The owner runs Claude with no isolation — real HOME, real ~/.claude — so platform sessions have
// perfect parity with terminal sessions (same config, credentials and transcript store,
// interchangeable via `claude --resume`). That absence of isolation is precisely why `chat` is an
// `execution` capability and can never be granted: this is a shell, not a feature flag.
const homeDir = process.env.HOME_DIR ?? homedir();
const globalToolsDir = join(DATA_PATH, 'tools');