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pastilhas 027b10bd6e step 4/4: the docs say permissions too, and capability means one thing again
44 files of prose — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, TODO.md, 20 docs, both plugin design
documents, and the comment surface the earlier steps could not reach.

Applied against an explicit keep-list, not swept, because the word turned out to
have SIX meanings in this repository rather than the three the offscale doc
recorded:

  permissions          renamed (steps 1–2)
  $OFFICER_ROOT/capabilities/  KEPT — the item store, and now the only thing
                               the word means that is ours
  sidecar routing keys renamed to `handles` (step 3)
  Lightning wallet     KEPT — a domain term, and on the wire to the mobile apps
  terminfo queries     KEPT — XTGETTCAP, in the pty sidecar
  InvoiceShelf         KEPT — per-resource { write, bulkDelete } flags

The sweep still falsified two things, both caught by checking rather than by
review, and both in prose that discusses more than one meaning at once:

CLAUDE.md began claiming the item store lives at `$OFFICER_ROOT/permissions`.
It does not; that directory is on disk and full of skills and tools.

And the offscale doc's own note about the collision became
"Named `permissions`, NOT `permissions`" — a sentence that had eaten the thing
it existed to warn about.

Both restored, and the note rewritten to say what is now true: capability means
one thing of ours, and three that belong to somebody else's vocabulary.

Verified live after restart: self and admin permission endpoints 200, gated
route 200, agent-status 200, 9 grants intact with 6 permissions offered.
tsgo clean, 797 tests, 787 pass, same 7.

The rename is done. Four steps, no data lost, no client break that survived
the step it was introduced in.
2026-08-15 16:31:11 +00:00
pastilhas 5ec354cfcb step 2/4: role_capabilities becomes role_permissions, without losing a grant
The dangerous one. `drizzle-kit push` does not understand renames — it sees a
table gone and a table added, and with --force it resolves that by dropping and
creating. The 9 live grants would have vanished silently and every member would
have lost terminal, chat and files until someone noticed and re-granted by hand.

So the database moved FIRST, by explicit ALTER, and the code followed:

  ALTER TABLE role_capabilities RENAME TO role_permissions
  ALTER TABLE role_permissions RENAME COLUMN capability TO permission
  ALTER INDEX uq_role_capabilities_role_capability RENAME TO uq_role_permissions_role_permission
  ALTER TABLE ... RENAME CONSTRAINT ck_role_capabilities_{role,level,not_owner} TO ck_role_permissions_*
  ALTER INDEX role_capabilities_pkey RENAME TO role_permissions_pkey

Seven objects, not one, and all in a single transaction: a partial rename would
leave drizzle-kit seeing a table it half-recognised, which is the same drop.
The names were read out of pg_indexes and pg_constraint rather than assumed.

`bun db:push` then reported **No changes detected** — which is the whole proof.
It means the ALTERs matched the schema code exactly, so there was nothing for
push to reconcile and nothing for --force to destroy.

Grants verified against a JSON backup taken before the first ALTER: 9 rows,
byte-identical, `role_capabilities` gone from the database.

No client noticed. Step 1 had already moved the wire to `permission` by mapping
in the route while the column still said `capability`, so this step deleted the
mapping rather than changing any response. The two call sites that carried a
`capability` key with a comment explaining why now say `permission` and the
comments are gone.

Also renamed officer_db/src/capabilities/ → permissions/, roleCapabilities →
rolePermissions, CapabilityLevelValue → PermissionLevelValue.

Verified live after restart: self 200, admin list 200, gated route 200, no
token 401, grants read back as {role, permission, level}, and a PUT round trip
left 9 grants intact.

tsgo clean. 797 tests, 787 pass, same 7.
2026-08-15 16:08:05 +00:00
pastilhas 2e8ec845c8 step 1/4: the permission engine is called permissions, not capabilities
The word meant four different things in this repo, not the three the offscale
doc records:

  1. the permission registry              → RENAMED here
  2. $OFFICER_ROOT/capabilities/ items    → kept; this is what capabilities are
  3. sidecar routing keys                 → step 3, becoming `handles`
  4. Lightning wallet features            → kept; a domain term, and on the wire
                                            to the mobile apps

The fourth was not in the doc and a global find-and-replace would have broken
the mobile wallet, which reads `{ kind, capabilities: Capability[] }` from the
wallet sidecar. So this renamed against an explicit file allowlist rather than
by sweeping the tree, and `CapabilityPage.tsx` — the UI for the item store, and
correctly named already — was left alone.

Moved: servers/capabilities/ → servers/permissions/, capability-gate.ts →
permission-gate.ts, users/capabilities-routes.ts → permissions-routes.ts,
hooks/useCapabilities.ts → usePermissions.ts. Identifiers follow.

Three breaks the typechecker could not see, all found by exercising it live.

The route paths moved with the prose sweep, so the server served
/user/permissions while the frontend still called /user/capabilities. A 404 on
every page load, and tsgo clean throughout.

The response FIELD moved too. `client.get<SelfPermissions>()` is an unchecked
cast, so `data.capabilities` became `undefined` at runtime with no compile
error — `can()` would have answered "no" to everything and the dock would have
emptied itself.

And the grants list was passed straight out of the database, so it arrived as
`{ role, capability, level }` while the screen read `grant.permission`. Every
role would have rendered as holding nothing. It is now mapped in the route:
the wire says `permission`, the column still says `capability`, and step 2
therefore changes nothing any client can see.

The stale react-query keys were the quiet one: two files still invalidated
['self-capabilities'] after the hook moved to ['self-permissions'], so
installing a plugin would have silently stopped refreshing the dock.

The database is untouched — `role_capabilities` and its `capability` column are
step 2, and the two call sites that cross that boundary say so in a comment.
Round-tripped the 9 live grants through the admin endpoint to prove the PUT
contract survived: 9 before, 9 after, Member's three intact.

Also reverted prettier churn on five landing-page files that a broad --write
picked up. Second time today; the lesson is not sticking.

tsgo clean. 797 tests, 787 pass, same 7 pre-existing failures — two of which
now read "path → permission" rather than "path → capability".
2026-08-15 16:03:22 +00:00
pastilhas f78abbe05a a plugin ships its own dock icon as a file, not a lucide name
The manifest's `icon` was a lucide NAME, resolved by `resolveIcon` — which
knows 106 glyphs out of lucide's ~1,500. A plugin naming one outside that set
silently rendered a neutral box, and a plugin from a marketplace had no way to
see the ceiling coming.

So the icon is a FILE now: `plugins/<name>/assets/icon.png`, discovered by
presence like everything else here. `manifest.icon` stays as an optional
fallback for a plugin with no artwork — example and offscale still use it — and
the file wins when both exist.

No new mechanism was needed. The app store already published sidecar assets:
`<dir>/assets/` → `public/plugins/<id>/`, served by a dynamic `/plugins/*`
route, with `DockItem.image` rendering an <img>. `pluginDockManifests()` simply
never emitted `image`. Install now publishes and uninstall unpublishes — the
one thing uninstall is allowed to delete, because these are copies whose
originals are still in the plugin's source.

Base64 in the manifest was considered and dropped. It would ride in every
/api/user/capabilities response for every user on every page load, can't be
cached separately, and puts a 5KB string literal in a source file — against the
rule this manifest keeps: what a directory listing can say, it says. It also
needs no support: `image` goes straight into <img src>, so a data: URL already
works for anyone who wants one.

Music ships OffMusic.png, resized 1254² → 256² (1.6MB → 108KB) with alpha
intact, sized for 3× DPI at the dock's 32px render. It also drops `icon` — the
artwork is a voxel duck in headphones, not a glyph.

The plugins page showed a generic Puzzle for every plugin; the list and detail
header now show the plugin's own icon when it has one.

Two bugs found while testing.

Dock.tsx imported 26 lucide icons and used 14. The twelve dead ones — Music,
Bitcoin, Receipt, Images, CalendarDays, Contact, Clapperboard, Mail, Network,
ArrowDownUp, FileText, FolderKanban, MonitorSmartphone — were residue from when
every feature had a hardcoded tile. Deleted.

And uninstalling a plugin left its icon URL answering 500, not 404. server.tsx
globs ./public at BOOT into one exact route per file, each holding a Bun.file
handle, spread into the route table AHEAD of the /plugins/* wildcard. So an
icon present at boot got an exact route that outlived the file, returning
ENOENT on every dock render with the error logged each time — exactly what the
wildcard's own comment says it exists to prevent. The comment covered the ADD
case; this is its mirror. `plugins/` is now excluded from the boot glob, so the
wildcard owns that prefix alone. Verified: 200 installed, 404 uninstalled, 200
reinstalled.

[open] A plugin's icon cannot be seen BEFORE installing it, which is the one
place an app store most wants to — assets are published at install by design,
and an authenticated icon route is no use to an <img>.
2026-08-15 15:10:17 +00:00
pastilhas a9bf51407e cliamp moves into the plugin, and the platform loses its last music file
The owner read the code and asked why `plugins/music/api/router.ts` was three
lines importing `@@/api/music/router` — platform code that knows the string
'music'. He was right, and tracing it found the justification was hollow.

The chain: server.tsx:20 imported the cliamp relay's two exports, which are
used only on commented-out lines; so the relay's functions were never invoked;
so its call to getMusicServerWsUrl never ran; and the file's other export,
getMusicServerUrl, had no consumers at all. A dead import held a music-named
file in the platform, and I documented that as a "seam" last night after
checking the import existed and stopping there.

Everything cliamp now lives in plugins/music/cliamp/:

  sidecar/music/{cliamp-ws,pulse-audio}.ts, asoundrc, the test
  api/cliamp/relay.ts
  apps/FileBrowser/{CliampPanel,AudioStreamPlayer}.tsx

src/servers/sidecar/music/, src/servers/api/cliamp/ and src/servers/api/music/
are gone. server.tsx has no cliamp import, provider name, handler entry or
route. The platform contains no file named for music or cliamp.

Two of the things that moved were live, not inert.

The file browser's `Play` context-menu item, on any audio file or folder, set
?play= and rendered a cliamp terminal pointed at /api/cliamp/ws — a route that
upgraded into a handlers entry that was commented out, so handlers[provider]!
asserted non-null on undefined. Using that menu item crashed the socket
handler. Removed: the action, the layout, the panel wiring and both menu
entries. Verified the routes now 404 rather than crash.

That closed the totality drift as a side effect. server.tsx's route table and
its handlers map agree again for the first time since 2026-08-13, and
registry.test.ts now asserts it rather than pinning the hole.

The proxy is built in the plugin now, and its prefix is DERIVED. It was the
literal '/api/music', which the proxy uses to strip characters off the path —
correct only because mountPrefix returns /music for a first-party publisher.
The same plugin published by anyone else mounts at /api/p/<publisher>/music and
would have forwarded /alice/music/stream to a sidecar expecting /stream. A
latent bug only third parties would ever hit, and a quiet violation of the rule
that mountPrefix is the one function allowed to know about provenance. Offscale
has the identical hardcode and still needs it.

Still open there: appName is passed as a literal, because a plugin's router
cannot see its own directory name — the platform imports the module and reads
`router`, so there is nowhere to inject it. The fix is a factory the installer
calls with the plugin's identity.

Plugin backend coupling is down to 7 imports, all of them "a plugin talks to
its host": data-path, sidecar/connect, sidecar/protocol, officer-url, the
manifest type, officerdb/db and the users.id FK. Nothing music-shaped left.

bunx tsgo clean. 797 tests, 787 pass, same 7 pre-existing failures. Verified
live: manifest 200, favorites 200, stream 206, /api/cliamp/ws 404.
2026-08-15 13:52:53 +00:00
pastilhas e930586878 plugins declare the host binaries they need, and the installer checks
Offscale was self-sufficient. Music is not — it shells out to ffmpeg and
ffprobe — and the way it fails without them is the reason this is a check
rather than a line in a README.

It does not fail. Missing ffprobe means the indexer catches the spawn error
and returns a track carrying its filename and nothing else: no title, artist,
album, duration or embedded lyrics. It then walks the whole library, writes a
complete cache tree and reports success. Five swallowed catches, no log, no
counter, and the only tell is coversSaved: 0 in a report nobody reads.

So `osDependencies` is a manifest field: the binary to probe on PATH, why it
is needed, and a package name per package manager. The shape is taken from
scripts/setup-old/setup.sh rather than invented — probe the binary, case on
$PM — and the names are per-manager rather than canonical-with-overrides
because lib/packages.sh already recorded why that indirection was rejected.
Probing the binary is what makes "built-in on this OS" free: on PATH means the
package map is never consulted.

Four decisions worth naming.

Missing and uninstallable REFUSES the install, first, before a table is
created or a row written — so there is nothing to undo, and the alternative is
a plugin that installs, answers 200 and quietly produces nothing.

The status is on GET /api/plugins and rendered before the button, because the
owner is deciding whether to let the server run a package manager as root and
that needs answering first. Installing by hand and watching it flip to present
is the escape hatch on a machine without passwordless sudo.

Package names get a deliberately narrow regex and reach Bun.spawn as an argv
ARRAY, never a shell. Both halves are load-bearing: the regex means a
metacharacter cannot get there, argv means it would be an argument rather than
syntax if it did. Narrower than package managers actually accept — no `:`, no
`+` version pins — because a plugin needing one wants a conversation.

Success is OBSERVED, not inferred: after installing, the binaries are re-probed.
A package manager exiting 0 having installed something that does not provide
the binary is exactly the failure this exists to catch.

installCommand mirrors lib/packages.sh's pkg_install_now exactly, including
apt's non-interactive environment, so there is one definition of "install a
package" rather than two that drift. sudo always gets -n: under PM2 a password
prompt is not a slow path, it is a hang. brew never escalates.

Verified live. ffmpeg and ffprobe were absent on this machine all evening; the
page showed both missing with the exact root command, the install streamed
`dependencies: installing ffmpeg with apt` then `ffprobe, ffmpeg now on PATH`,
and X-Audio-Duration appeared on a stream response for the first time. The
refusal path was exercised against a temporary probe dependency: HTTP 400,
steps: [], reason named.

THIS CHANGED THE MACHINE: ffmpeg 6.1.1-3ubuntu5 is now installed via apt.

Found on the way: a manifest is read once per process. Discovery does
`await import()` and the module cache holds it, so editing a manifest changes
nothing until pm2 restart officer — including `outdated`. Cost ten minutes and
is now in the runbook.

bunx tsgo clean. 797 tests, 787 pass, 7 fail — the same seven, +25 new.
2026-08-15 02:33:18 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 8b6cb34ae0 plugins contribute dock tiles, and the doc says what is actually built
offscale had no dock tile: that field comes from the app store's catalogue, so a
plugin installed through the plugin system was reachable only by typing its url
or following the link on /plugins.

built at runtime rather than baked into the generated bundle, deliberately —
WHO sees a tile is a permission question, and a grant takes effect on the next
request rather than the next build. presentation comes from the manifest and the
route from mountPrefix, so there is one source for both, and  is the
plugin's first permission so the endpoint can filter a tile out for an account
that cannot reach the screen.

two sources for tiles today, because the app store still has its own catalogue.
one when it is rebuilt on this.

the doc now records the system as complete rather than half-stubbed, including
the three bugs the extraction found — the sidecar-before-mount ordering, the
missing tailwind, and the build that could delete its own shell — and what is
genuinely still open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 00:31:54 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 e13128846b offscale is a plugin
headscale leaves the platform. 45 files move to plugins/offscale/ and the
platform stops knowing it exists.

  api/router.ts   the thin auth-gated proxy, now at /api/offscale
  sidecar/        18 files, the whole headscale contract and its admin keys
  db/             schema + queries, offscale_servers
  web/            26 files as panels and a layout — no screen, per the rule

removed from the platform: the hono mount, the `headscale` capability, the
App.tsx route pair, the screen and its barrel, the AppRegistry spread, the
officerdev re-exports, the dock tile, the page-title rule, and both database
barrels. tsgo is clean and nothing references it.

the imports tell the story of what the plugin↔host API actually is. the sidecar
takes @@/sidecar/protocol, @@/sidecar/connect, @@/data-path and
@@/officer-url.mjs; the queries take officerdb/db and officerdb/crypto; the
schema takes officerdb/auth/schema for the one reference a plugin may make; the
web half takes useClient, copyToClipboard, WorkspaceView and TerminalView from
the officerdev barrel. all of it resolves because a plugin lives inside the repo
— no publishing, no version negotiation.

AND IT FOUND A REAL BUG IN THE INSTALLER. createSidecarProxy learns its port
from a one-shot `<name>:server` event and subscribes when the plugin's router is
first imported — at mount. install started the sidecar BEFORE mounting, so the
announcement fired into a void: process online, routes mounted, every request
answering `503 sidecar not available` until something forced a reconnect. it
would have hit every plugin with an http sidecar. `example` never caught it
because it has no listener to announce.

install and enable now mount before starting; disable still unmounts before
stopping. neither direction leaves a mounted route in front of a sidecar that
cannot be reached.

verified live: /api/offscale/_officer/servers answers {"servers":[]}, /offscale
and /offscale/nodes serve, the old /api/headscale is 404, the offscale
capability is registered from the manifest, and officer-offscale is online.

757 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 00:15:38 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 4d4606d4a2 close the owner's dotfiles once somebody else has a shell
ubuntu's default umask is 002 with user-private groups, so everything the owner
creates lands 775/664. alone on a machine that is harmless. it stops being
harmless the moment a member has a login — and member homes are NESTED inside
the owner's, so the owner's home must stay traversable AND readable (the
ancestor-read requirement bun exposed today) and every dotfile in it is legible
by default.

measured as green before writing this: ~/.pm2/logs (all 12 files, every log the
platform has written), ~/.pm2/dump.pm2, ~/.claude/projects (names every
directory the owner works in), ~/.config, ~/.local, ~/.cache, ~/.npm, ~/.bun,
~/.opencode — all listable. assertSecretsClosed was already holding the line
that matters: .env, .ssh, .zsh_history, .claude.json and the credentials are
denied, and dump.pm2 turned out to hold no secret values because bun loads .env
at runtime rather than through pm2.

so this is the tier below fatal: not tokens, but logs and the shape of the
owner's work.

it runs from PROVISIONING, not from setup, and that is the point. ~/.claude does
not exist until the agent has run once; a chmod at install time finds half the
list missing and silently does nothing — the same failure mode as the ACL mask
earlier today. every member's arrival re-closes whatever appeared since.

two directories are left open on purpose, and both are the same latent bug:

    /usr/local/bin/bun -> /home/pastilhas/.bun/bin/bun
    /usr/local/bin/gh  -> /home/pastilhas/.local/bin/gh

system-wide tools installed into one user's home, so every member resolves them
through it. i found this by closing them and breaking bun and gh for green.
~/.local/share and ~/.local/state ARE closed; only the bin directory is
reachable. the honest fix is installing them outside the owner's home.

verified both directions on this host: green is denied .claude, .pm2, .config,
.local/share, .local/state, .cache — and still has working bun, gh, psql, their
own claude, and their own project tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 21:59:45 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 a220342b22 stream the install, so it reads like a log instead of a spinner
each verb now reports its steps as they complete, over server-sent events, and
the detail panel renders them arriving.

POST rather than GET, so EventSource is unavailable — it sends no Authorization
header and these routes are owner-only. The client reads the body and parses
frames by hand, which is what useCompanionLogStream already does for the
headscale container logs; the parser only has to understand what our own
endpoint emits.

the runner does not know whether anyone is listening. it takes an optional
onStep and calls it, so the non-streaming path is the same code with no callback
rather than a second implementation of the same four verbs.

there is a 220ms beat between steps and it is cosmetic — worth saying out loud.
pm2 start genuinely takes ~770ms, measured, but writing a row and rebuilding the
router do not, and four lines landing in one frame look like a stall followed by
a jump. small enough not to matter to a script, long enough to follow.

writing to a closed stream is caught rather than fatal: navigating away
mid-install must not abort the install, because by then it is the server's work
and half an install is the one outcome the ordering was designed to avoid.

verified over the wire with timestamps — frames arrive incrementally, the
sidecar step showing its real duration rather than the beat. afterwards pm2
holds the five core apps, plugin_installs is zero, and ecosystem.config.cjs is
byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 21:50:50 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 2634df7a04 the install runner: ecosystem entry, sidecar, row, mounts
closes the hole app-store/pm2.ts has carried since 2026-08-13 — "installing a
plugin has to append its entry here before starting it, that is the plugin
system's job and it is not built". this is that job, and it is why nothing in
the app-store catalogue installs end to end either.

verified against a running server with a sidecar in the tree:

  install    ecosystem added · sidecar started · recorded · mounted /example
             route 200, pm2 online
  disable    sidecar stopped · unmounted
             route 404, pm2 stopped
  enable     sidecar started · mounted
             route 200, pm2 online
  uninstall  record removed · unmounted · sidecar stopped, deleted, entry gone
             route 404, not in pm2, tables untouched

afterwards ecosystem.config.cjs is byte-identical to before, pm2 holds the same
five core apps, and plugin_installs is back to zero rows.

the ecosystem file is edited rather than regenerated: the core entries come from
officer-setup's shell array, so the platform does not know that list and a copy
here would be a second thing to drift. the header above module.exports is
preserved verbatim too — officer-setup's explains that bun auto-loads .env from
the working directory and that data-path derives the install root from its
PARENT, so a wrong cwd relocates the whole install rather than failing. losing
that to a plugin install would be a poor trade.

order is the design. bringing up goes outside-in, taking down goes inside-out,
so the worst intermediate state is "recorded but not running" — visible, and
fixed by a retry — never "running but forgotten", which nothing can see.

each verb returns what it actually did, in order, and the detail panel shows it.
an install that mounted routes but could not start a sidecar is a different
outcome from one that worked, and a spinner that stops cannot say which.

the schema push is still deliberately not wired, and the reason is now in the
code: db:push DROPS tables absent from the schema it is given, so an uninstall
that regenerated the barrel would delete a plugin's data as a side effect of
stopping it. offscale does not need it — headscale_servers already ships in the
platform schema.

720 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 21:38:21 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 282a64a637 plugins install, enable, disable and uninstall at runtime
the rest of the mechanism, and it works end to end. against a real server, with
no restart at any point:

  /api/example/ping BEFORE install   404
  AFTER install                      200  {"plugin":"example","ok":true}
  AFTER disable                      404
  AFTER enable                       200
  AFTER uninstall                    404
  core route throughout              200

plugin_installs is a new table rather than a reuse of sidecar_installs. that one
belongs to the app store's model, where installing means provisioning a
container or pointing at a remote instance, and it carries mode, compose_dir and
completed_steps to say so. a plugin install has none of those, and reusing it
would have meant a `mode` that lies about every plugin. the two models coexist
until the app store is rebuilt on this one.

the row is needed because presence is not installation: plugins live in the
repository, so a developer writing one has the directory there and has installed
nothing. the tree says what could run, the table says what does.

mount.ts joins the two and rebuilds. an install row whose directory has gone is
dropped from the snapshot rather than reported — but the row is left in the
database, because deleting it there would turn "somebody moved the checkout"
into silent data loss. a plugin whose router will not load stays unmounted and
says why, rather than taking the other nine down with it.

/api/plugins is owner-only in its own right, like /api/app-store, and its
capability guards the MANAGEMENT surface only — a plugin's own permissions come
from its manifest, so a member can hold one at read without being able to
install anything.

plugins/example is the reference implementation and is meant to be read: the
smallest thing that is still a real plugin, with the directory layout as its own
documentation.

not wired yet, and marked [open] in the router: the schema push and the
sidecar's pm2 entry. a plugin with db/schema.ts or sidecar/ needs both before it
works end to end.

full suite: 719 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 20:22:18 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 327783532e reach a member's transcripts by listing them, not just by reading them
yesterday's fix routed transcript CONTENT through the member's identity and
stopped there, on the strength of a comment in ChatIdentity saying enumeration
never needed it — "their directories are 775 and the platform holds an ACL
entry, so readdirSync and statSync have always worked".

there are no 775 directories on this path. claude creates ~/.claude/projects/
and every project group at mode 700, and a 700 directory clamps the ACL mask to
--- exactly as a 600 file does:

    user:officer:rwx    #effective:---
    mask::---

measured against a real member home:

    existsSync(projects)        -> true     (stat only needs traverse on .claude)
    readdirSync(projects)       -> EACCES
    existsSync(projects/<slug>) -> false
    statSync(<transcript>)      -> EACCES

existsSync answering false rather than throwing is why this was invisible: every
caller read it as "no such session". one root cause, three reported symptoms —
an empty conversation list, no title on a new chat, and a /chat/<id> deep link
that never restored the conversation. a fourth nobody had reported yet: delete
removed nothing and still answered ok, because unlink needs w+x on the group
directory too.

so enumeration goes through the same door as content, as ONE call rather than a
spawn per entry: listTranscriptsAs runs a single `find` as the member and
returns every transcript with its mtime, which readdir+stat could not do without
dozens of setpriv forks per request and a matching pile of auth.log lines. the
owner keeps a fork-free path — that process already IS the owner. removeAs does
the same for unlink, and readTailAs no longer stats a file it cannot stat.

summarizeTranscript now takes the mtime it is given instead of stat'ing again,
which is both the fix and one less syscall per file.

verified against jg@pertento.ai on this machine: 6 conversations listed with
titles from their first prompts, and a deep link by id alone loads 71 messages.
owner path re-checked and unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 19:48:06 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 1292a5c5ab opencode is owner-only until it carries an identity
a turn on the opencode harness ran as the owner, in the owner's home, whoever
asked. handleOpenCodeChat resolves its cwd against getOwnerHomeDir(email), which
discards the email it is given, and the sidecar runs one shared `opencode serve`
as the service user — sendOpenCodeStreaming accepts userId/email/username and
forwards none of them. it carried a comment calling itself owner-only; nothing
enforced it.

reachable by any account with the `chat` grant, which every role holds by
default (DEFAULT_ROLE_CAPABILITIES), and isClaudeModel is a startsWith, so a
typo'd model string landed there too. the model is client-supplied and never
checked against the catalogue.

the same gap on the read side: opencode's session store has no per-user scoping
at all, so loadOpenCodeSession/delete/rename take an id and no identity, and the
list and live routes returned other people's conversations.

so: ChatIdentity carries isOwner as its own fact (not inferred from
osUser === null, which holds only while resolveHomeDir refuses a member without
one), and every opencode door in chat.ts checks it — list, load, live, delete,
rename — plus a refusal on the execution path in handleChat. /chat/models hides
opencode from non-owners as a courtesy; the socket refuses regardless.

a stopgap, not a design. the fix is to thread identity through the opencode
sidecar the way spawnClaudeAsMember does, and TODO.md has been saying so.

not fixed here, and worth knowing: a member's session list is still empty and
/chat/pwds still 500s, because readdirSync on their ~/.claude/projects is EACCES
— claude creates it at mode 700, which zeroes the ACL mask. visible in
officer-error.log right now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 19:27:54 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 88a44ec4a7 delete /api/vpn
it had no caller. verified three ways before removing: nothing in the mobile
monorepo reaches it (enrollVpn's only call site is behind `if (embedded)`, and
the one app rendering VpnScreen never passes embedded), nothing in the officer
web app references it, and the live database holds no vpn grants. the companion
was checked separately by its own author — zero references there either.

and it will not come back. offscale is permanently standalone: the thing that
gets you to the platform cannot itself need the platform, or a broken tailnet
locks you out of both.

gone: api/vpn/router.ts, its mount, and the `vpn` capability. the registry keeps
a comment where the capability was, because its removal has a cost worth
recording — headscale is admin-only, so no member-grantable headscale surface
remains, and reintroducing one is a deliberate act rather than an oversight.

kept: the sidecar's enroll.ts. its bare POST /_officer/enroll handler is now
unreachable, but the file is also the dispatcher for /enroll/invites, which is
live and fundamental. the header comment now says so, so nobody deletes it
looking for dead code.

also records the third component in the doc. two of the three have an "enroll"
surface and only one is ours: /api/v1/enroll/* belongs to the companion, is
where the phone actually goes, and must not be collapsed into /api/offscale/*.

capabilities tests: 17 pass / 8 fail both before and after, stash-verified — the
8 are pre-existing, in totality and path-to-capability, which is precisely the
machinery dynamic mounting will rework.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 17:40:44 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 336e718463 read a member's transcripts as the member
a provisioned member could chat normally and had no conversation list. every
refresh came back empty, so nothing could be resumed, and a new chat never
became a saved one.

nothing was wrong with the logic. the turn runs as them, writes its transcript
into their home, and the platform looks in exactly the right place — it just
cannot read what it finds.

confineUserTree grants the service user a named acl entry on every member home,
with d: defaults so anything created later inherits it. that entry is real and
getfacl shows it. it does not survive a file created at mode 600, because posix
derives the acl mask from the group bits of the creation mode:

    user:officer:rwx    #effective:---
    mask::---

claude writes every transcript at exactly that mode — .claude and projects/ are
775, every *.jsonl is 600. so readdir and stat worked, every read raised eacces,
and summarizeTranscript catches eacces and returns null. the sessions did not
fail, they vanished.

no acl can fix this. the creation mode ands the mask down, so d: defaults cannot
raise it, and the only way up is through `other`, which is every account on the
box. a 600 file has two readers: its owner, and root.

so read as the owner of the file, through the same runAsArgv the terminal and
the agent already use. spawnSync keeps it synchronous, which is what lets it
drop into a 914-line synchronous parser reached from five modules instead of
rippling await through all of it.

the privileged surface turned out to be seven call sites, not the file: stat
needs traverse and readdir needs read, and the 775 directories give both. only
content needed identity.

also fixes a 500. parseClaudeTranscript read the file uncaught after an
existsSync that passes, so deep-linking /chat/<id> as a member threw rather than
404ing. it returns null now, like the list path always did.

verified against a throwaway linux account provisioned the same way a member is
— 700 home, named acl, transcript written as them at 600. before: 0 sessions and
loadClaudeSession null. after: the session, its title, its messages, and a
rename that leaves the file owned by the member at 600.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 15:58:36 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 b6feca8350 owner can reset a member's platform password
The gap at the other end of create-user.ts: the owner could set a password once, at
creation, and never again. Losing it meant a hand-written UPDATE with an argon2
hash — the same "edit Postgres by hand" hole that creating accounts used to have.

POST /api/users/:id/password, owner-gated, with a button on the row.

GENERATED, not typed. The failure this exists for is "I created the account and
forgot to copy the password down", and an owner typing a replacement can lose it the
same way on the second go. Shown once in a dialog built to be copied — a dialog and
not a toast, because a toast that times out while somebody finds a pen loses the one
thing they came for.

The generator satisfies validatePassword BY CONSTRUCTION rather than by luck: one
character drawn from each of the four required classes, the rest from the union,
then Fisher-Yates shuffled so the first four positions are not always
lower/upper/digit/special. Rejection sampling throughout — `% n` on a byte biases
the early characters. Then it runs validatePassword on its own output, so if the
rules ever gain a requirement the alphabets do not cover it throws at the one call
site instead of minting passwords the login form rejects. Measured: 20,000
generations, all four classes present every time.

l, I, 1, O and 0 are absent from the alphabets. This gets read off a screen and
typed somewhere else.

Signs them out everywhere, as asked: passwordChangedAt = now, and userMiddleware
already refuses any token whose iat predates it. That overwrites the null
create-user leaves to mean "the owner chose this, not them" — checked, nothing reads
that column except the token check.

The Linux account is deliberately untouched, and the dialog says so. Members have no
Linux password and never had one: ensureOsUser runs useradd with no -p, so it is
created locked. Their terminal goes through setpriv, which does not authenticate;
their SSH is the key the owner pasted; `su - <member>` as root does not ask. And
machine-setup sets PasswordAuthentication no — verified on this host — so one could
not be used to log in even if it existed. Setting one would be a new way in, not a
repair.

The owner is excluded: they have change-password, which asks for the current one,
and resetting themselves here would end the session doing it.

Verified: transpiles, all lucide icons exist, 20k generator runs. tsgo next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 12:07:43 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 fb0286e1a9 put rootless docker back, behind the developer gate
Uncommented at all three sites: the call and import in provisionOsAccount, the
~/.local/dockers bind-mount directory in confineUserTree, and the DOCKER_HOST block in
the member zshrc.

Not restored unconditionally, which is how it was before. It now sits behind the same
Developer check as the Postgres role — the gate that prompted disabling it in the first
place. So rolePermitsDatabase is renamed rolePermitsDevTools: it gates two things now
and a name saying "database" while deciding whether you get containers is the kind of
comment that goes stale silently.

~/.local/dockers is created for EVERY account rather than only Developers. It is two
install calls, and confineUserTree is the function that places the layout, not the one
that knows who is a Developer — so a member promoted later finds it already correct.

Postgres role work is untouched and still in place.

Verified: transpiles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 12:49:32 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 bf7e919593 only a Developer gets a postgres role
The gate rootless Docker was under, which I did not know about when the Postgres role
replaced it. It inherits the rule along with the purpose: a member not trusted to run
containers is not thereby trusted to run databases.

rolePermitsDatabase() is the single place that rule is written. Admin is deliberately
NOT included — administering the platform is not developing on it, and they are
separate roles precisely so they can be held separately. Say so if that is wrong.

provisionOsAccount now takes the role. Two call sites: create-user passes what the
owner picked, provision-linux-route reads it from the row — which makes that route
the way a member promoted to Developer gets the database role they did not qualify
for when their account was made.

The half that makes the gate real is in updateUserRoleHandler. Without it the rule
would decide what a Developer gets at creation and never look again, so demoting one
would leave their role, their databases and a working password in their ~/.zshenv —
a permission surviving its own revocation, with the UI then saying something untrue.

Revoke before recording, grant after: the drop runs BEFORE updateUser so a failure
aborts with the role unchanged and the whole thing retryable. Promotion runs after and
is non-fatal, like every other provisioning step.

Demotion keeps their data, same as deletion — databases are reassigned to the platform
role, not dropped — and logs where it went, so it does not look deleted.

KNOWN, not handled: a demoted member keeps a stale ~/.pgpass and ~/.zshenv naming a
role that no longer exists. Harmless (the connection just fails) but untidy, and it
means `cat ~/.zshenv` shows a password that no longer works.

Verified: transpiles, both call sites updated. Still no tsgo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 12:30:33 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 2ac58e2007 drop the postgres role when a member is decommissioned
It was written and never called — dropPostgresRole had zero call sites, so deleting a
member left their role and databases on the cluster.

That is the uid trap in a different id space, and worse. provisionPostgresRole ADOPTS
an existing role, so a role left behind is inherited whole, with its databases, by the
next member who gets the same username. useradd hands out the lowest free uid by
accident; the owner hands out usernames on purpose, so reuse is likelier here, not
less.

Rewritten to PRESERVE rather than destroy. The first version dropped the databases,
which is inconsistent with severMemberTree three files away — that chowns a member's
files to the service user rather than deleting them, and a database is the same kind
of thing. The owner removing an account has not necessarily asked to destroy the work
in it, and dropping is the one choice that cannot be walked back.

Needs the full idiom, per database, and both halves matter:

  ALTER DATABASE .. OWNER TO         REASSIGN OWNED does not move database ownership
  REASSIGN OWNED BY .. TO ..         moves tables, schemas, functions
  DROP OWNED BY ..                   removes what is left, which after a reassign is
                                     only the GRANTS — without it DROP ROLE still
                                     refuses, an ACL entry is a dependency too

Both statements act only on the database they are connected to, so it is a connection
per database rather than a loop over `db`.

Ordered after the Linux teardown (which can fail and abort, and must not do so after
something irreversible) and before deleteUser (the row is what remembers there is
anything to clean up).

Verified live: a member with a database, a table, a row and a schema. Naive DROP ROLE
refused with "2 objects in database carol_app". After the sequence: role gone, row
intact, table owned by postgres. Then recreated the same username and confirmed she is
REFUSED from the old database — the login trigger holds because ownership moved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 12:27:13 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 2273941e71 give each member a postgres role instead of a docker daemon
A Postgres login role named the same as their Linux account, with CREATEDB, plus a
~/.pgpass so psql never prompts. This is what replaces rootless Docker: the case it
was really there for was "let me run a database to develop against", and a container
per member answered it with a daemon, an image cache and a subuid range each.

Measured on postgres:18-alpine before writing any of it, because three things I
asserted turned out to be wrong:

  - a fresh LOGIN role CAN connect to `officer` (datacl NULL = PUBLIC has CONNECT),
    but CANNOT read any application table — privileges are owner-only, so
    has_table_privilege('users','UPDATE') is false. The capability model was never
    reachable from here.
  - the `trust` line in pg_hba does not cover host connections: Docker's NAT rewrites
    the source, so they fall through to scram-sha-256. Verified with a wrong password.
  - revoking from the ROLE does nothing. Privileges are additive and there is no DENY;
    only revoking from PUBLIC is a lock.

So ensureAppDatabaseClosed revokes CONNECT+TEMPORARY on the platform's own database
from PUBLIC, and it runs inside provisionPostgresRole rather than in the setup script
— an install set up before today, or restored from a dump, then still cannot end up
with a member who can connect to `officer`.

Password is generated per member, 40 chars, rejection-sampled over an alphanumeric
alphabet: CREATE ROLE is a utility statement and cannot take a bind parameter, so the
safety comes from the alphabet rather than from escaping. Not stored anywhere — it
lives in their 600 ~/.pgpass, the same posture as their SSH key, where we keep only
the public half. Only (re)set when .pgpass is missing, so a reprovision does not
rotate a credential they may have pasted into an app config.

KNOWN RESIDUE, not handled: a database one member creates is metadata-readable by
another. datacl is not inherited from the template (measured: closing template1 and
creating from it still produced NULL), and CREATE DATABASE fires no event trigger, so
nothing can close it at creation. A second member can read table and column NAMES from
the catalogue. They cannot read a row and cannot create anything. Closing it needs a
sweep or a pg_hba rule per member; both are decisions, not details.

Verified live against the running cluster: role creation, refusal on `officer`,
creating and using two databases, and the DROP ... WITH (FORCE) teardown. All probe
roles and databases dropped afterwards.

NOT verified: bunx tsgo, still — node_modules is empty in this tree. The drizzle
return shape was checked by reading PostgresJsQueryResultHKT (RowList<T[]>, extends
Array) rather than by running it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 12:14:02 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 7b32f5bc2f don't provision rootless docker for new members
Commented out at the call site in provisionOsAccount, with the import. The code in
os-user-docker.ts stays and is now unreferenced — turning it back on is uncommenting
two blocks.

Only affects NEW accounts. Members provisioned before this keep their daemon, and
deprovisionOsAccount still tears one down, which is what those accounts need.

Verified: transpiles. tsgo has still not run in this tree (node_modules is empty).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 11:56:16 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 595dd082a7 delete Task Logs
A complete read path over a table nothing could write to. task-logger.ts exported
createTaskLog, appendToLog and finalizeLog, and none of the three was called
anywhere in the tree — so `task_logs` could never gain a row, and the screen was
permanently empty for everyone.

The read half was fully wired: mounted router, capability claim, dock icon, two
routes and a page-title rule. That is why it looked alive.

Gone, in the order it was reached:

  Screens/Dashboard/TaskLogs/       the screen
  App.tsx                           /task-logs and /task-logs/:id
  Dashboard/index.tsx               the export
  Layout/Dock.tsx                   the 'Logs' icon, and ScrollText with it
  state/usePageTitle.ts             the title rule
  api/task-logs/task-logs.ts        the router, and its mount in hono.ts
  api/task-logger.ts                101 lines of orphaned writer
  officer_db/src/operations/        the directory
  officer_db/src/schema.ts          the export line
  officer_db/src/types.ts           TaskLogSelect / TaskLogInsert

capabilities/registry.ts loses '/task-logs' from the `tasks` capability's `api`
AND `routes`. The api half is not optional: assertCapabilityTotality check 2
refuses to boot on a capability claiming a prefix nothing mounts, so unmounting
the router while leaving the claim would have stopped the server starting.

db:push now creates 21 tables, down from 43 at the start of the evening.

officer_db/src/operations was one of the two lopsided directories the
schema/queries merge exposed. integrations/ is the remaining one, and it is
legitimate — it spans server and user-data.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 01:56:07 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 8207824a81 build the secret store: one key per purpose, none in .env
.env now holds PORT and POSTGRES_URL. Every encryption and signing key lives in
$OFFICER_ROOT/secrets/officer-keys.db — 0600, 0700 directory, owned by the
service user, created on first use.

The design doc planned to move ONE at-rest key into the store. What shipped
splits it: headscale, wallet, photos, jellyfin, invoiceshelf, vault and
service-connections each get their own, plus jwt. VAULT_STORE_KEY encrypted all
seven, so one leak opened all of them — and it was named after whichever plugin
needed it first, which is why it read as safe to change if you did not run a
vault. A core install bootstraps two, jwt and headscale; the rest appear when
their plugin first asks.

The file IS the secret. No second key unlocks it, because a key beside the store
it opens buys nothing. The gain was never secrecy, it is blast radius: bun
auto-loads .env into all twenty pm2 processes, so a key there is readable from
/proc/<pid>/environ of twenty processes — officer-music held the key that
decrypts wallet seed envelopes.

Two defects found by testing the store rather than reading it, both of which
would have shipped:

  The WAL was 0644. Enabling WAL creates -wal and -shm at 0644 rather than
  inheriting the database's mode, and a freshly written key lives in the WAL
  before checkpoint — so the 0600 on the database was decorative. The 0700
  directory covered it, but only until someone loosened the directory.

  PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL takes an exclusive lock, and busy_timeout was set
  AFTER it. With twelve concurrent openers, six died on that line with
  SQLITE_BUSY. Every sidecar opens this store at boot, so they open it
  simultaneously by definition: most of them would have failed to start on a cold
  boot and none on a warm one. Fixed by ordering the pragmas; re-tested with
  twelve racing processes, one key, one row.

crypto.ts takes a purpose as its first argument now, which the design doc had
explicitly promised would not happen — 32 call sites across seven query modules.
That promise is corrected in the doc rather than quietly dropped.

Also live, not just comments: wallet/upstream.ts gated wallet storage on
process.env.VAULT_STORE_KEY and would have reported "unconfigured" forever. It
asks the store now, and the question it answers changed — not "did somebody set a
variable" but "can this process open the store", since the key is created on
demand.

assertSecretsClosed covers the store, its directory and its WAL. The jwt key
mints owner tokens, so a member's shell reading it is strictly worse than the
.env leak that check was written for.

Not typechecked: node_modules is empty and installs are frozen, so the
officerdb/secret-store subpath could not be resolved at runtime here — verified
that officerdb/types fails identically, so it is the empty tree and not the new
export. The store module itself was tested directly: creation, idempotence across
processes, hasKey not creating, permissions, and the twelve-way race. Every
changed file parses; the setup section runs and degrades correctly when the
import is unavailable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 01:00:12 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 571d0a62ff delete the bug-report discord webhook, and the last dead HOME_DIR reads
DISCORD_BUG_REPORT_WEBHOOK is gone, with sendToDiscord and its helpers. Reports
still land in DATA_PATH/bug-reports — the disk write always happened first and
the webhook was only a ping about it, so nothing about the report is lost.

It was a personal notification channel living in deployment config, on a platform
whose owner is the only person who files reports. It was also never in
.env.example: the setup script wrote a variable nothing documented, which is the
same drift as PORT, in the other direction.

Note DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL is a DIFFERENT variable — the notify sidecar's own
channel — and is untouched.

Then a parity sweep of setup / .env.example / what the code reads, which turned
up two leftovers from earlier today:

HOME_DIR was still read in six files, each with its own `?? homedir()` fallback.
Dead since nothing sets it, but a dead read is worse than none — it reads as a
supported override. They take homedir() directly now. user-instance.ts gets a
comment on why its line stays where it is: it sits above `process.env.HOME =
homeDir`, and homedir() reads $HOME, so a read moved below that assignment would
return whichever member was last spawned into. Two of the six had fallback chains
ending in process.cwd() and '' — the second would have silently disabled whatever
consumed it rather than failing.

VAULTWARDEN_URL was uncommented in .env.example among the variables setup writes,
though it is a plugin variable setup has never written. Commented out with the
other plugin entries.

The three files now agree: setup writes PORT, BROWSER_RELAY_PORT and
POSTGRES_URL; .env.example lists those plus JWT_SECRET and VAULT_STORE_KEY, which
are required by code and deliberately unwritten until the secret store lands.

Not typechecked (empty node_modules, frozen installs). Every changed file parses;
the setup section was run and writes three variables.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 00:23:32 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 f063fc0c08 remove origin validation
ALLOW_ANY_ORIGIN, ALLOW_ANY_ORIGIN_MUSIC, and everything they gated. The flag
defaulted to ON, so none of it ran on a real install — what comes out is
documented defence in depth that was already switched off. The file said so
itself: "Both flags and their call sites come out once the tailnet is the
perimeter."

Origin was never authentication here in any case. An app's `officer://<hex>`
origin is chosen by the client, forgeable outside a browser, and extractable from
a shipped binary.

Gone: the two flags, isOriginAllowed, isOriginCheckDisabled, isMusicOriginExempt,
originValidationMiddleware, ORIGIN_RULES and the whole OFFICER_<APP>_ORIGIN
scheme, PUBLIC_URL's origin/host derivation, and origin-validation.test.ts, which
existed only to pin them. CORS now echoes whatever Origin it is given, which is
what every install already did.

What SURVIVES is the reason this needed care. origin-validation.ts held two
unrelated things, and the second was the global authorization gate — a valid
non-owner token reaches only what its role grants, deliberately NOT under the
flag because it is account-based rather than origin-based. Its own comment called
it "the airtight half". Deleting the file wholesale would have deleted
authorization.

So it moves to _middlewares/capability-gate.ts as capabilityGateMiddleware, with
the name matching what it does: nothing in it reads an Origin header any more.
hono.ts mounts it in the same position, ahead of every router.

origin-middleware.ts stays and is untouched — it extracts the Origin for six auth
handlers that log it, and for passkeys. Extraction, not validation.

Also updates every claim that rested on the old model: CLAUDE.md's security
section and repo map, docs/secret-store.md, docs/mobile-api-keys.md, and five
messages in machine-setup's Tailscale section which told the owner to set
ALLOW_ANY_ORIGIN=false when declining a tailnet. That advice is now impossible to
follow, and the honest version is different: with no tailnet the token is the
whole lock, so put a proxy in front and restrict who can reach it.

Not typechecked (empty node_modules, frozen installs). Every changed file parses;
the setup section was run and writes four variables now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 00:15:25 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 c5adb4aa08 the anthropic proxy binds PORT + 1
ANTHROPIC_PROXY_PORT is gone. It was 5051 hardcoded in four files: proxy.ts,
which binds it, and three others that guessed the same constant to find it.

It is the only sidecar that binds a fixed port, and that part is a real
constraint rather than an oversight. Every other one binds `port: 0`, lets the
kernel choose and reports back over the registration socket — which works because
their consumer is the platform. The proxy's consumer is `claude`, spawned by a
different pm2 process that needs ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL at spawn time and has no
channel to ask what port the proxy landed on. Two processes with nothing between
them have to agree in advance.

So the number must be predictable, but it need not be 5051 — a value chosen
against nothing, in the registered range, free to collide with anything the owner
installs later. The symptom of that collision would have been chat failing while
the rest of the platform looked healthy.

PORT + 1 keeps the predictability and drops both the constant and the variable.
Nothing to set, no second number to keep in agreement with the first, and the
pair moves together when the install moves.

Also corrects .env.example, which said the proxy "holds the API credential, which
lives in the host env". It does not. The upstream credential is the OAuth token
claude writes to ~/.claude/.credentials.json, and the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY the agent
presents is the proxy's own generated secret.

Verified the derivation at PORT=9000 and PORT=10000; all four consumers now import
it; every edited file parses. Still not typechecked — empty node_modules, frozen
installs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 23:51:03 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 3c7f52ab77 PORT is read in one place, and it has no default
officer-url.mjs is now the only file in the tree that touches process.env.PORT.
Twenty-two others read it and supplied their own default; a value with
twenty-two sources is not configuration, it is twenty-two things to keep in sync,
and they had already drifted three ways.

It throws when PORT is unset rather than guessing. A default only covers the case
where .env was never loaded — which is not a machine anyone wants running,
because POSTGRES_URL is missing in the same breath. What the default bought was a
process that starts, binds somewhere unexpected, and fails later for a reason
that does not name the cause. Same posture as jwt.ts with JWT_SECRET.

It is .mjs, not .ts, and that is the whole reason this could be one file. pm2
launches officer-pty with node (ecosystem.config.cjs) and everything else with
bun; node cannot import TypeScript, so a .ts module would have left the pty
sidecar holding the only surviving copy of the default — precisely the thing
being removed. allowJs is already on, so the TS callers still get types. Verified
both runtimes import it, and that PUBLIC_URL-style overrides still work.

It also exports API_URL and OFFICER_API_URL, because nineteen sidecars were
independently building `ws://127.0.0.1:${PORT}` and two more were building the
http form. Those are one listener described in two protocols — no sidecar binds
anything — so they belong beside the port rather than being rediscovered per
file.

server.tsx now takes PORT as a number, so Number(PORT) at the serve site is gone.

Not typechecked (empty node_modules, frozen installs). Every edited file parses
under `bun build --no-bundle`; node and bun both load the new module; the unset
and non-numeric paths were exercised; the pm2 profile still loads.

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2026-08-12 23:43:39 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 e72cae4830 one default port, and it is 9000
Every PORT fallback in the tree now says 9000. There were three answers to one
question, each defensible where it was written and none of them visible from the
others:

  server.tsx and 19 sidecars   5000    a default from before there was an installer
  user-instance.ts             9010    what scripts/setup-old/setup.sh really wrote
  .env.example                 9000    what we told people to write

5000 goes first because macOS binds it — AirPlay Receiver has owned it since
Monterey, so a dev server there fails to bind or gets shadowed by something that
answers.

All 22 sites moved together, which is the point. Changing the app alone would have
turned a consistent-but-wrong default into a split one: the app on 9000 while
nineteen sidecars still dialled 5000.

9010 was the interesting one. It was the only value that ever matched a real
machine, because it is what the old installer wrote — and it was in the single
file whose disagreement would have broken chat alone, with nothing else looking
wrong. Its own comment records the same bug being fixed once already, within the
file, by a change that left it disagreeing with everything outside it.

Note what these defaults actually are: the sidecars bind nothing. user-instance.ts
has no listener at all — it builds ws:// and http:// URLs that both address the
app's single listener. So every one of these numbers is a guess at where the app
is, for a value that .env always supplies. Worth removing rather than aligning,
which is a separate change.

Not typechecked (empty node_modules, frozen installs). Every edited file parses
under `bun build --no-bundle`; the pm2 profile loads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 23:38:15 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 3f071c0b24 the install root is derived, not configured
Seven variables out of .env. DATA_PATH, OFFICER_ITEMS_DIR and HOME_DIR are gone
from the code entirely; PUBLIC_URL, PUBLIC_BUILD_ENV, JWT_SECRET and
VAULT_STORE_KEY are no longer written by the setup script.

data-path.ts now derives OFFICER_ROOT as dirname(process.cwd()), with data/,
capabilities/ and dockers/ as fixed names under it. The direction used to run the
other way — DATA_PATH from env, then OFFICER_ROOT = dirname(DATA_PATH) in
app-store/paths.ts — which meant three environment variables that had to agree
with each other and with the tree on disk.

Eight files re-read process.env.DATA_PATH independently, each with its own
`?? cwd()/data` fallback. They import the one value now, which is what made
removing it safe: otherwise each would have derived its own and drifted.

Three things this turned up.

The cwd pin in ecosystem.profile.cjs was broken. It set `cwd: __dirname` under a
comment asserting "__dirname is the repo root — this file sits beside
ecosystem.config.cjs", which stopped being true when these files moved into
ecosystem-files/. It walks up to the platform's package.json now, which holds
wherever the file lives. That was a live bug before this change and a load-bearing
one after it, since cwd now decides where the install is.

assertInstallLayout joins the other two boot assertions. A wrong cwd does not
error — it computes a plausible root somewhere else and writes managed homes and
agent runs into it, so the install looks empty and the data looks lost with
nothing naming the cause. It throws before serve(), first of the three, because a
wrong answer there makes the other two check the wrong files.

getOwnerHomeDir captures homedir() once at module load rather than per call.
Measured on bun 1.3.10: both os.homedir() and os.userInfo().homedir return $HOME
when set rather than reading passwd, and user-instance.ts assigns process.env.HOME
on its way to spawning an agent. A lazy read would have returned the owner's home
on the first call and a member's afterwards. data-path.ts imports only node
builtins, so it is evaluated before any of that runs.

JWT_SECRET and VAULT_STORE_KEY leaving .env means an install made by this script
does not boot — jwt.ts throws at module load without one. That is the agreed
sequencing: they move to the SQLite store (docs/secret-store.md), and writing them
here meanwhile would create a second origin for a secret the store then has to be
reconciled with. Said plainly in .env.example and in lib/env.sh rather than left
to be discovered.

Not typechecked: node_modules is empty here and installs are frozen. Every edited
file parses under `bun build --no-bundle`; the profile loads and pins the right
cwd; assertInstallLayout was exercised from both the repo and /tmp; the setup
section was run and writes five variables. Prettier was NOT run — 3.9.6 via bunx
is not the pinned resolution and reformatted unrelated unions and line wraps in
six files, so those were reverted and the edits re-applied by hand.

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2026-08-12 23:18:48 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 040ea41dbc per-user linux accounts are not optional any more
OFFICER_OS_USERS is gone. The platform behaves as it always would have with the
flag on, and there is nothing to enable.

Six conditionals, five of which were dead weight — provisionOsAccount,
deprovisionOsAccount and the create/delete paths each opened with an early
"not enabled on this server" return, and the API told the frontend whether to
render the Linux controls at all. Those go, along with the 'disabled'
DeprovisionResult stage, which nothing can produce now.

The sixth is the one with teeth. assertSecretsClosed opened with
`if (!OS_USERS_ENABLED) return`, described in its own comment as "a no-op when
the feature is off, so an existing install is unaffected until the owner opts
in". It is now unconditional: the server refuses to boot while any .env in the
project root is group- or world-readable. A member's shell reading .env and
printing JWT_SECRET was confirmed exploitable when this check was written, and a
prerequisite that only holds when somebody remembers to set a variable is not a
prerequisite.

Nothing to remove on the environment side — the flag was never in .env.example
or in the setup script.

Not typechecked: node_modules is empty in this tree and installs are frozen, so
tsgo could not run. All six files parse under `bun build --no-bundle`, and the
changes are deletions of dead branches plus one removed early return. Formatted
with prettier 3.9.6 via bunx rather than the pinned resolution, for the same
reason; its one unrelated reformat was reverted by hand.

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2026-08-12 22:58:35 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 cec8fbe57e the acl check could not fail, because sudo drops DATA_PATH
Review of 76cd7c2. The ACL finding is right and the fix is correct — verified here that `setfacl -R -P -b`
removes the default entries as well as the access ones, which the man page splits between -b and -k and
does not settle. `acl` is already a core package in setup.sh, so the new hard dependency is real.

But the checker it added cannot fail in the way it is documented to be run.

`assert-uid-free.sh` is invoked as `sudo ./assert-uid-free.sh --check ...`, and sudo's env_reset DROPS
DATA_PATH, so the script falls back to the hardcoded `/home/pastilhas/officerdev/data` — which is not this
machine's data directory and does not exist. Every check in the file is "look for X, report ok when nothing
is found", so a missing root reports clean without looking. Demonstrated: a tree carrying both
`user:65534:rwx` and `default:user:65534:rwx` was reported as `ok  no ACL entries naming uid 65534`.

The ACL check is the one that fails silently and completely, because it is the only one scoped to DATA_PATH
alone — the uid and subuid scans still walk /home and would catch something. So the check just added to
catch the hazard ownership cannot see is the check a wrong DATA_PATH disables.

Fixed by refusing rather than passing:

  require_roots       every search root must exist, or exit 2 naming it and showing the sudo invocation
                      that preserves DATA_PATH
  numeric guard       uid/start/count must be numbers. deprovisionOsAccount logs '<no-subuid-range>' in
                      that position for an account with no /etc/subuid entry, and pasting that log line in
                      — which is exactly how it is meant to be used — made sub_end empty and turned the
                      range scan into a no-op.

The handler's audit line now prints DATA_PATH inside the command it tells the operator to copy, and says
so explicitly when there is no subuid range rather than emitting a command that cannot work.

Verified: bogus root exits 2, non-numeric range exits 2, and the ACL check FAILS on a specimen tree
carrying the entries — the "make it fail before trusting it to pass" step from the spec's own subuid
section, now done for the ACL half too.

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2026-08-12 04:34:30 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 46799dada8 deprovision a member's linux account when the platform account goes
Implements docs/deprovision-os-account.md. Until now deleteUserHandler removed the row, cascaded the
database, and left the entire Linux side running — measured on production on 2026-08-12: working login
shell, healthy postgres container, 454M of data, uid queued for the next useradd to reissue along with
everything still owned by it.

The load-bearing rule from the spec: sever the data from the uid BEFORE releasing the uid, and if
severing fails, do not release. A failed deprovision is not a broken account, it is a trap for whoever
is created next.

Sequence: disable-linger, terminate-user, reap-and-prove, chown -R, userdel (never -r).

  reap    terminate-user is not a barrier. Production measured a three-hour-old `/bin/zsh -i` surviving
          it AND the removal of /run/user/<uid>. So: pkill, bounded wait, pkill -9, bounded wait, and a
          final count that must be zero or the account is not released.
  chown   fixes the uid and subuid halves in one pass — it rewrites every file it walks whatever owned
          it. The range is still captured first, because userdel removes the /etc/subuid entry and after
          that nothing on the machine remembers what it was. It is returned on every path including the
          failures, and logged as the exact assert-uid-free.sh command line.

Two guards the spec did not ask for, both pure and unit-tested:

  guardDeletable    ensureOsUser's adoption rule backwards. Deletable only if the passwd home is the one
                    the platform would have confined, and uid >= 1000. Without it `userdel root` is one
                    bad users.osUser away and nothing else in the sequence would object.
  guardMemberTree   the tree must resolve to a direct child of DATA_PATH. The email reaches join() from a
                    database row and the result is the argument to a recursive chown.

chown runs with -h. Measured here that `chown -R` already declines to follow a symlink out of the tree and
re-owns the link itself, but the argv should say so rather than rest on traversal semantics — and
re-owning links is what makes `find -uid` (lstat) a meaningful check afterwards.

destroy exists, has no call site, and is chown-then-delete-as-the-service-user rather than sudo rm -rf, so
a recursive root delete built from a database column does not exist in this codebase.

deleteUserHandler now runs this FIRST and refuses to delete the row if it fails: the row is what remembers
there is anything to clean up, so deleting it first makes a failure unrecoverable through the UI.

NOT YET RUN AGAINST A REAL ACCOUNT. Only the pure guards have tests. The five-step validation is in the
doc; it needs the production host, a shell left open, and a container writing as a non-root user — the two
cases the quiet path passes vacuously.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 04:19:50 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 ec1997fd0e a chat with no chosen directory runs in the caller's own home
The default was DATA_PATH/<email>/general_chat_sessions, a dedicated directory so /chat
sessions formed their own Claude project group instead of cluttering the home. It is a sibling
of the home, and confineUserTree makes every sibling the platform's at 0700 because the others
are attachments and email_accounts. So it was unreachable for a member: the first live member
turn started there and every Bash call failed on its own working directory before doing
anything.

A per-member copy inside each home fixed the symptom and left two rules to remember. The owner
chose one rule instead — the account's own home, whoever they are — and accepted the trade
knowingly: /chat sessions now share a project group with anything else run from that home,
which was the reason the dedicated directory existed.

Removed rather than left dangling: getGeneralChatSessionsCwd, ensureGeneralChatSessionsCwd,
ensureMemberChatCwd, and general_chat_sessions from USER_DIRS so new accounts stop getting it.
Existing directories are untouched and their transcripts stay where they are — Claude groups by
cwd, so the owner's old /chat history remains under its own project slug rather than moving.

The UI labels move with it: the default group now reads "home" rather than naming a directory
that no longer has a role.

ChatIdentity keeps carrying both email and home. The pairing was justified in the comment by
general_chat_sessions being email-derived, which is now gone — but the distinction it encodes
is real (the email says who, the home says where), so the comment explains that instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 01:54:19 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 6c84c74c91 give a member a chat cwd they can actually enter
host captured the first live member turn: uid 1001, nine env vars, zero
ANTHROPIC_*, zero POSTGRES_URL, zero JWT_SECRET. The privilege drop and the
allowlist both held. One defect.

The default chat cwd was DATA_PATH/<email>/general_chat_sessions — a sibling of
the member's home, which confineUserTree deliberately makes the platform's at
0700 because the other siblings are attachments and email_accounts. So the turn
ran in a directory the member cannot enter, and every Bash call failed on its
own cwd. The agent reported its shell as broken, which was true.

A member's default is now ~member/general_chat_sessions, created as them through
runAs. mkdir -p, so it is idempotent per turn and needs no reprovision. The
owner's path does not change, and the sibling stays 0700 — loosening it would
trade a broken shell for an open directory holding attachments and mail.

29 said this path is email-derived and therefore stays email-derived. True, and
it did not follow that it is usable: an email-derived path under DATA_PATH is
precisely the set a member is locked out of. Splitting identity from filesystem
path was right; assuming the identity side was inert was not.

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2026-08-12 01:44:43 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 532ad15ac1 drop the import the gate left behind
c59df4f removed the isSuperAdmin middleware and left its import, so the only two
matches in the file were the dead import and the comment explaining what used to
be there. Harmless and misleading: a grep for isSuperAdmin should not find chat.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 01:12:35 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 c59df4f866 let members use chat
The owner authorized this explicitly. Two refusals removed together, because
they were always one guard in two places: the wholesale isSuperAdmin middleware
in api/chat/chat.ts, and the chat socket's 403 in server.tsx.

They were right for the day they stood. A turn spawned claude as the OWNER and
every transcript path resolved through the owner's home, so a granted member
would have read the owner's sessions and run an agent as them.

What replaced them, rather than what deleted them:

  the turn runs as the member    spawnClaudeAsMember through sudo setpriv,
                                 proven against a real account by reading file
                                 ownership rather than trusting the process
  the credential is theirs       --reset-env plus an allowlist, so the owner's
                                 proxy variables cannot cross
  the transcripts are theirs     ChatIdentity carries a home from resolveHomeDir
                                 and claude-sessions cannot invent one
  the sessions are theirs        every session records its owner and all six
                                 sidecar commands refuse a mismatch

Also adds the precondition host asked for in 10: a member whose claude is not
signed in gets the instruction rather than a turn that dies on an auth error and
reads as a broken agent. Not installed and not signed in are separate messages
because they need different actions.

registry.ts and registry.test.ts now describe chat as confined in fact rather
than ahead of its implementation. The comments at both former guards say what
had to exist first, and that a revert should go back to a refusal rather than to
a narrower one.

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2026-08-12 01:12:00 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 1575df3f78 stop building cwds out of an email address
host found a live regression from 95951fb, on the owner's own paths.

resolveBaseCwd used to take an email and resolve its own root. 95951fb made the
first parameter the home itself, and three callers outside that diff kept
passing an email: pipeline-executor twice and agent-handoff once. Both
parameters are string, so tsgo had nothing to say. Every pipeline step and
handoff with a relative cwd, a `~`, or no cwd was building a path out of an
address, resolving it against the platform's own working directory — the
checkout. Absolute paths kept working, which is what would have made it look
intermittent.

All three are owner-only, so they now pass getOwnerHomeDir(email) explicitly,
the way agent-runner does. The definition of resolveBaseCwd carries the warning:
an absolute path, NOT an email, with the reason.

Not done: the branded type this argues for. Two strings meaning "identity" and
"filesystem path" sat adjacent through a refactor and the compiler could not
help, which is a real gap — but it reaches every path function in the server,
and doing it at 01:00 on the back of a bug caused by a hasty refactor would be
the joke telling itself.

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2026-08-12 00:51:09 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 95951fbe5a resolve transcripts and cwd against the caller's home, not the owner's
The history layer, and the last change that could be made without a live member.

claude-sessions.ts had `claudeHome = process.env.HOME_DIR ?? join(DATA_PATH,
email, 'home')`, which discards its argument whenever HOME_DIR is set — always,
on a real install. Every transcript read therefore resolved to the OWNER'S
~/.claude no matter who asked, and the comment above it asserted "single-user
platform" as though that were a property rather than an assumption. A member
reaching these functions would have been handed the owner's conversation list.

Now every read takes a ChatIdentity {email, home} with the home resolved from
resolveHomeDir(userId), and this file has no way to invent one. Both fields
travel together because they are genuinely different: general_chat_sessions
lives under DATA_PATH/<email>, not under a home. Collapsing them would be the
same class of mistake as undefined meaning "the owner".

websocket.ts's resolveCwd takes a home, so `~` expands against the caller's own.
Identity is resolved BEFORE the cwd — expanding `~` before knowing whose home it
is would be exactly the bug being removed — which also let a duplicate
resolveTurnIdentity call from 6aeb304 be deleted.

chat.ts resolves per request and throws FORBIDDEN rather than falling back, same
posture as resolveTurnIdentity. agent-runner passes the owner's home explicitly
rather than inheriting it, since that path really is owner-only.

Made at 01:00 after saying it should not be. Three things I am least sure of are
listed in COMMS 29 rather than left for the reviewer to find: chat routes now
have a failure mode they did not have, resolveBaseCwd's exported parameter
changed meaning rather than shape, and the bare-email rewrite in chat.ts was
mechanical with hand repair.

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2026-08-12 00:48:09 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 6aeb304f56 never spell "I don't know whose turn this is" as "the owner"
host caught that resolveMemberRun failed open. Returning undefined means "run as
the server owner" downstream — their binary, their ~/.claude credential, their
HOME, their MCP config carrying OFFICER_AUTH_TOKEN — and three different inputs
produced it: the caller being the owner, resolveHomeDir failing, and a member
whose osUser is null. The last two mean "could not determine", and answering
them with the owner's identity is the single thing this feature exists to
prevent.

23's own comment said the caller must not fall back to the owner. The code did
exactly that. The prose was right.

Now a discriminated TurnIdentity: owner, member, or refuse-with-a-reason. The
call site ends the turn on refuse instead of spawning. The owner's identity is
reachable only by positively establishing isOwner, never by failing to establish
anything else — resolveHomeDir already reported it as a positive fact and the
funnel through undefined was the only thing discarding it.

The null-osUser case is not hypothetical: provisionOsAccount is non-fatal at
every stage and records the account either way, as its own source says. Tonight
provisioning failed three separate ways on a real member and the account
survived each time.

No test yet, and the reason is in COMMS rather than hidden: it needs database
fakes this repo has no pattern for, and inventing one at 01:00 to cover four
branches is how the next defect gets written. The union is exhaustive, so tsgo
catches a missing case — not the same thing, not nothing.

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2026-08-12 00:38:39 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 311b2ea55c populate member from the authenticated socket
The last mechanical link: chat socket -> resolveMemberRun(userId) ->
ClaudeSpawnStreamingParams.member -> claude-manager's branch ->
spawnClaudeAsMember -> sudo setpriv. The path from a request to a privilege drop
is now complete.

Resolved from the authenticated socket, never from the client message — the same
rule server.tsx applies to the pty sidecar, where it deletes any client-supplied
osUser/home from the query string before setting its own.

resolveMemberRun returns undefined rather than throwing when a home cannot be
resolved, because undefined means "the owner" downstream: an account with no
Linux user has nothing to confine a turn to, and falling back to the owner is
the one wrong answer that must not happen by accident. A separate function with
that reasoning attached rather than an inline ternary.

Still inert. Both gates refuse non-owners before this line is reached, so the
only path that reaches it today returns undefined via isOwner.

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2026-08-12 00:33:03 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 d59adbf1f2 scope the six sessionKey commands to their caller
The control surface half of 7cb402b, and the code-side blocker on the gates.
kill, interrupt, clear-session, is-generating, find-session and list all took a
bare sessionKey, so any caller who could reach them could act on whichever
session happened to match — and list returned every session in the sidecar,
which host rightly called a disclosure on its own, before anyone kills anything.

All six now carry userId, resolved from the authenticated request and never
taken from the client, and every handler enforces it through one ownedSession
helper. list is filtered rather than labelled. find-session is scoped because it
is the reattach hinge: a browser holding a transcript uuid it should not have
would otherwise be handed the session key that drives it.

"Not yours" and "does not exist" answer identically everywhere, which is the
same choice getClaudeSession made: every caller treats them the same, and a
distinct answer for the second confirms to a guesser that a session exists under
a key they do not own.

One behaviour change beyond the scoping. endTurnIfAgentIsGone sweeps sessions on
a sidecar restart, and a session with no recorded userId now has no safe id to
ask as — asking as the owner would answer a member's orphaned session with the
owner's authority. It is skipped, so it stays marked generating until the next
reconnect corrects it, which is what happened before that loop existed.

This removes the code-side reason the gates cannot move. It does not make them
movable: no member has signed in, no member turn has run, spawnClaudeCodeProcess
has still never been called, and lifting them was never mine to decide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 00:17:53 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 9833822625 pass the member's gid instead of reusing their uid
host caught that provisionRootlessDocker had no gid field, so the new
install -d passed uid in the group position. Correct on this host only because
useradd allocates a per-user group; wrong on any account whose gid is not its
uid — one created by hand, one on a host whose login.defs uses a shared group,
or one ensureOsUser adopted rather than created.

Mode 700 means the group triad grants nothing, so nothing breaks today. That is
what makes it worth fixing now rather than later: it would surface only after
somebody widened the mode for an unrelated reason, and then not obviously.

The call site already held account.gid from ensureOsUser — the same value the
.local fix used correctly earlier the same night. Threaded through rather than
derived, and the field carries a comment saying why it is separate from uid,
since they are equal here and a reader would ask.

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2026-08-12 00:13:50 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 2bd96a9a98 tell a member why their agent is not working, instead of 403
f0af723 granted chat to every role by default, which is right, but the route
still refuses non-owners — so a new member gets a tile that resolves and an API
that 403s, the exact broken state b4f88ec and eda004a were built to remove.

The fix is not to withdraw the grant. It is to answer the question the member
actually has, which is "what do I do about it": their own claude, in their own
home, needs them to sign in once with their own Anthropic account. The platform
cannot do that for them — logging in is an interactive act against an account
that is theirs, and the alternative, pointing them at the owner's credential
proxy, spends the owner's subscription on their turns.

GET /api-status returns two booleans about the caller's own home plus the one
instruction that fits their case, so the UI can render a terminal saying "run
claude once" rather than an error.

Its own router, deliberately not on chatRouter: that router refuses every
non-owner wholesale and is right to — reads there leak the owner's project
directory names — which means an endpoint on it could not be read by the
accounts that need it most. Same `chat` capability, no owner gate, and nothing
in the response describes anyone but the caller.

Frontend not done: nothing calls this yet, so behaviour is still unchanged.

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2026-08-11 21:58:18 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 62e98dff2e a member's claude is their own binary and their own login
First half of per-user Claude. Provisioning and the privilege drop, not yet
wired to a turn — the chat gates stay up and behaviour is unchanged for
everyone. Committed unfinished on purpose so the reasoning is on the record
before the server agent runs any of it; the state is written up in
COMMS/sidecar-app-store/2026-08-11-per-user-claude-handoff.md.

THE CLAIM THAT CHANGED. docs/per-user-linux-accounts.md:226-229 says the Agent
SDK "has nowhere to put a uid", so a member's turn has to become its own
process — a change of shape rather than a flag. It is a flag:
sdk.d.ts:951 exposes spawnClaudeCodeProcess, documented for exactly this ("run
Claude Code in VMs, containers, or remote environments"), and node's spawn
already satisfies the SpawnedProcess shape it wants. So no second sidecar, no
PM2 entry, no inverted transport, and none of the registry rework a second
instance would have forced (registration is name-keyed and evicts its
namesake; the nine claude verbs resolve by capability with no selector).

THE PLATFORM NEVER RUNS AS A MEMBER. The tempting reading of "each member runs
their own Claude" is a second officer-agent under their uid, and it is wrong:
that sidecar needs POSTGRES_URL and the JWT signing secret, so a member-uid
process holding them could read every account and sign a token as the owner —
strictly more than their shell can do, and already forbidden by the .env boot
check. The harness stays the service user's; the thing that runs the member's
code and holds the member's credential is theirs. That is the pty sidecar's
shape, not a new one.

PER-MEMBER BINARY, deliberately, over one shared /usr/local/bin/claude. The
private part is the credential, not the executable — but claude updates itself,
and a root-owned binary is one a member cannot update, which turns "my agent is
a version behind" into a request to the owner. Same installer the owner's own
install uses, run as them, in their home. Idempotent by skipping when present
rather than re-running: the retry button reprovisions on every press.

ALLOWLIST, NOT A FILTER, for the child's environment. At the moment of the call
the calling process holds POSTGRES_URL, the JWT secret and the owner's
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY; setpriv --reset-env means nothing crosses unless written
into the argv, so an allowlist is the complete answer to what a turn can see,
and a denylist would have to be right about every variable added later.
NEVER_ENV throws rather than leaks if someone widens it.

Login is the member's own act against their own account. The platform cannot do
it for them and must not try — the alternative is lending them the owner's
credential. claudeLoginState only reports whether the credential has appeared,
and reads it as the member, so a true answer means their process can reach it.

NOT VERIFIED: any of it at runtime. tsgo passes; nothing has been provisioned
and the spawn hook has never been called. If it turns out setpriv breaks how
the SDK reaches the process, this approach is wrong and the fallback is the
earlier plan.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 21:32:15 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 f0af7237db terminal, chat and files are granted by default; permissions screen simplified
DEFAULTS. Every role now starts with the three confined capabilities at write, seeded in
bootstrap. These are what the platform is FOR — an account that signs in and reaches none of
them is not restricted, it is useless, and making the owner grant them by hand first is a
step with no decision in it.

Seeded as real rows rather than implied by absence, which keeps the table's one rule intact:
a missing row means no access, always, with no exception to remember. Revoking one therefore
works like revoking anything else — the row goes and nothing puts it back. Done in bootstrap
because that happens exactly once per install, so seeding can never fight a later revocation.
Non-fatal: an owner whose roles hold nothing is a one-click fix, while failing bootstrap over
it leaves a platform with no account at all.

`app` capabilities are deliberately not defaulted — they reach data the owner may not intend
to share, and each needs a sidecar before it means anything.

SCREEN. Role selection is tabs rather than a dropdown: three roles are the axis you move
along, and a select hid two of them behind a click while giving no sense of which one you are
editing. Row descriptions are gone — with three rows called Terminal, Chat and Files they
explained nothing — and the "needs a Linux account" warning went with them, since every
account now gets one at creation, so it was noise about a state that no longer occurs on its
own. `needsOsAccount` is removed from the API too, not just hidden.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 20:25:31 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 3bea46f2d7 rootless docker per member — provisioning works, running a container does not yet
Not finished. Committed because the diagnosis is worth more than the code.

WHY ROOTLESS AND NOT THE DOCKER GROUP. `usermod -aG docker <user>` is the one-line version
and it is root: `docker run -v /:/host -it alpine chroot /host` is a root shell, which reads
.env, every other member's home and the wallet seed. Every boundary from today, bypassed by
one documented command. Rootless gives what was actually asked for — a daemon per account,
containers in that account's user namespace, images in their own home.

VERIFIED on this host: provisioning succeeds, the server reports 29.5.0, the daemon runs as
the member, `docker pull` puts 403 MB under their own home, and `docker ps -a` shows nothing
while the owner has four containers. That last line is the isolation, measured.

NOT VERIFIED: actually running a container. It failed, and the cause is an interaction
between two things built today:

  failed to copy xattrs: failed to set xattr "system.posix_acl_default" on …/volumes/…/_data

Creating a volume copies xattrs, and the DEFAULT ACLs on a member's home — added so the file
browser could read their files — are inherited by Docker's storage, where a mapped id inside
a user namespace is not a valid id to set. Both features correct alone. The fix here strips
default ACLs from ~/.local/share/docker only, leaving the access ACLs the file browser needs.

That fix is UNPROVEN. The re-test failed for a different, environmental reason: probe users
recycle uid 1001, and a stale lingering systemd user manager from a previous probe answered
`systemctl --user`, so the unit appeared not to exist. Cleaned with `loginctl terminate-user`.
Retest on a machine that has not had a uid-1001 user, or on a fresh uid.

Also worth knowing before this ships: uid reuse after deleting a member is a real hazard, not
just a test artefact — the next member gets the previous member's uid, and anything left
lingering belongs to them.

setup.sh gains uidmap and dbus-user-session as core packages; the shell template exports
DOCKER_HOST from $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when the socket exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 20:01:17 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 71589aee99 a member's terminal looks like the owner's
A new Linux account opens a shell with nothing: useradd copies /etc/skel, which on Ubuntu
is a bash rc, and the account's shell is zsh — so it got no prompt, no history, no
completion, no colour. "Their own account" should not mean a worse terminal than the
owner's.

src/servers/shell-skel/zshrc is the template, and scripts/starship.toml is reused rather
than copied: setup.sh already deploys it for the owner, so one file serves both audiences
and they cannot drift. Seeded by provisionOsAccount, which means the retry button applies
it to accounts that already exist — no delete-and-recreate.

The template depends on nothing but zsh. Starship, eza, nvim, bun, deno and cargo are each
used only if present, and every path is $HOME-relative — the owner's own .zshrc has three
absolute /home/pastilhas paths in it, which is exactly what a template must not inherit.
Without starship it falls back to a zsh prompt showing the same information, because a
shell that opens with a broken prompt reads as a broken machine.

Never overwrites: written only when the file is ABSENT. ~/.zshrc.local is sourced last and
never written, so there is somewhere to put your own config that no future template can
reach.

Three fixes found by running it:

- install -D creates missing parents but applies -o/-g only to the FILE, so ~/.config came
  out root:root — readable but not writable by its owner, which would have surfaced weeks
  later as one tool mysteriously failing. The parent is now created explicitly.
- useradd took its shell from process.env.SHELL, which under PM2 is whatever PM2 was
  launched from. A member's shell depended on how the server happened to be started. Now
  chosen from what is installed: zsh, else bash.
- the pty sidecar spawned ITS $SHELL for a member, not theirs. It now execs their passwd
  shell via sh -c, so the login shell in /etc/passwd is the one they get.

starship moves out of the light-profile skip. The light profile exists to serve a file
browser, a terminal and chat — the terminal is one of its three reasons to be, and it is
what every member gets. Leaving starship out meant the fallback prompt on exactly the
installs most likely to have members. oh-my-zsh, eza and lazygit stay full-only.

Verified in a real member shell: zsh from passwd, HISTFILE in their own home, eza-backed
ll, starship active, EDITOR=nvim, and an edit to .zshrc surviving a reprovision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 19:43:55 +00:00
pastilhas e4acf19a35 Merge remote-tracking branch 'gitea/master' into sidecar-app-store 2026-08-11 19:10:52 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 4d4a253f72 terminal runs as the member; chat is grantable and still refused
TERMINAL is confined now, and the shell is genuinely theirs. The pty sidecar spawns it
through sudo setpriv as their own account, in their own home, with the platform's
environment cleared. Verified end to end against the sidecar's own socket:

  id -u                    1001, not 1000
  file the shell wrote      owned by ptyprobe
  ps -o user=,args=         ptyprobe /bin/zsh -i
  env | grep -c POSTGRES    0

osUser and home are resolved in upgradeWs from the authenticated account, and whatever
the browser sent under those names is DELETED first. The bridge forwards the query string
to the sidecar untouched and the sidecar starts a shell from what it finds there, so
trusting the client for either would let a member ask for the owner's uid in a query
parameter.

node-pty does support uid/gid, unlike Bun.spawn, and they are deliberately unused: they
set the ids without applying the account's groups or resetting the environment, so the
shell would keep the owner's groups and everything Bun loaded from .env.

Also closes the pty identity blindness in TODO.md. Sessions record whose they are, list
and kill scope to the caller, and re-attaching to a session belonging to another account
is refused — otherwise a member resumes someone else's shell by guessing an id that
travels in a query string. Measured: member killing the owner's session -> ok:false,
owner killing it -> ok:true.

CHAT is confined so the owner can grant it and the route resolves, and both execution
doors refuse a non-owner: the router wholesale, and the socket in server.tsx. The agent
has not moved — the SDK spawns claude itself with nowhere to put a uid, and every
transcript path resolves through the owner's home, so a member would read the owner's
session list and run an agent as the owner. Reads are refused too, because
listClaudePwds returns the names of the owner's projects.

A deliberate, temporary gap at the owner's request: permission and route now, function
when a turn can be spawned under runAs with the member's own HOME. Both guards say so,
and the registry test names them so a future edit cannot move one without the other.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 19:03:00 +00:00