command hq: the web creation path, and a member could not have used it

`context: 'command-hq'` on a chat websocket turn now resolves to
getCommandersDir(email) regardless of any client cwd, and the row gets
written the moment a real transcript id is known — the same
session:claude/result seed chat_session_models already waits on, a sibling
closure (fileAsCommander) hung off the same two triggers.

found while wiring it, not guessed at: a member's commander turn would have
failed to spawn at all. getCommandersDir is a sibling of home, and
confineUserTree confines every sibling of home to 700 owned by the service
user — unreachable "even by name" — which is exactly wrong for a directory a
member's own turn needs to cd into via setpriv. same shape of bug
resolveChatCwd already tells a story about (general_chat_sessions,
abandoned for the same reason). fixed by chowning commanders/ to the member
the same way confineUserTree already chowns home, and excluding it from the
loop that confines every other sibling. no ACL needed, unlike home — command
hq reads a member's transcripts through listTranscriptsAs, the same
as-the-member read /chat already uses, never as the service user directly.

the gap this leaves: an account provisioned before this commit needs one
manual reprovision (provision-linux-route.ts / manage-users.ts, already
idempotent) before its first commander turn works. documented, not silently
left.

pulled COMMS/command-hq/{mobile,watchers-what-broke}.md from the mobile
side's session — apps/commandhq already exists and typechecks against the
router. their finding: mobile cannot create a commander the way the web
composer does (a context flag two independent clients would have to carry
correctly), and decided with the owner on POST /command-hq/commanders/new
instead. not built server-side yet — the real blocker is that claude does
not assign a transcript id until a turn actually runs, so the endpoint has
to run one and wait for session:claude, which means extracting the
turn-starting half of handleClaudeChat rather than a second copy of it.
replied in COMMS/command-hq/platform.md with the two open questions before
building it (prompt omitted, and wanting a second look at that refactor).

docs/command-hq.md updated throughout to say plainly what's built vs planned
per path (web vs mobile) rather than one blended status.

bunx tsgo clean. suite at baseline (same 7 pre-existing failures).
confineUserTree has no unit tests today (sudo/uid-dependent, matching this
file's existing coverage posture) — not inventing a new harness for one
block inside it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -209,6 +209,13 @@ export const getEmailAttachmentCacheDir = (ownerEmail: string) =>
* normal chat runs in `getOwnerHomeDir` (their real login home). Commanders use the managed directory
* instead, on both sides of the account split, which is what keeps them out of the owner's own project
* transcripts as surely as `command_hq_sessions` keeps them out of the `/chat` list. See `docs/command-hq.md`.
*
* **A sibling of `home`, but reachable like `home` — not confined like every other sibling.** Every other
* directory alongside a member's `home` (`attachments`, `email_accounts`, …) is 700 and owned by the
* SERVICE user, unreachable by the member "even by name" — correct for platform-written data, and exactly
* wrong for a directory a member's own `claude` must `cd` into via `setpriv`. `confineUserTree`
* (`os-user.ts`) chowns this one to the member the same way it chowns `home`. An account provisioned
* BEFORE this existed will not have that chown until it is re-provisioned once — see `docs/command-hq.md`.
*/
export const getCommandersDir = (email: string) => join(DATA_PATH, email, 'commanders');