classification/ with a directory per category and an unclassified/ that
always exists, plus procedures/, reports/ and state/.
named for the SHAPE, not the payload. the voice-memos commander called it
transcripts/, which bakes one job into the layout — the same structure has
to hold for a commander over email or photos, and none of those produce
transcripts.
and the distinction that makes the two records make sense together: the
ledger says whether an item was HANDLED, the directory says where it
BELONGS. unclassified/ is finished work waiting on a person rather than a
failure, so nothing re-runs the action on it.
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trigger, action, ledger — settled with the owner over several turns and
true of every commander, so it belongs in the file each one reads at
session start rather than being re-derived in conversation each time.
the part that took the longest to see: an action that takes ONE item all
the way through means a half-finished item never exists, so there is
nothing to queue and no second watcher needed to notice it. this commander
was built as two cycles — transcribe everything, then file everything —
and the second cycle existed only to clean up after the first stopped
early.
and the ledger keys on a hash of the SOURCE. names change (a memo renamed
from a phone), outputs move (a transcript filed into a category folder),
and both of those had already caused the same file to be handled twice.
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the voice-memos commander was asked for a notification and reached for its
harness's own push tool — a different channel, which refuses to interrupt a
live terminal. it did that because nothing had told it Officer has a route
of its own. that rule is the harness's; the platform's route has none, and
had already pushed to a phone twice with the owner sitting at the terminal.
so the notify part is its own section now, appendable on its own, and the
backfill lands it on a commander that already has a credential — which is
every commander that predates this, i.e. the ones that need it.
the backfill also stopped being all-or-nothing. it skipped everything after
the credential check, so a commander with an officer.env could never
receive anything added later. each section is now appended independently,
keyed on a marker the section itself contains.
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"it should always say Commander: <name>" was left to whether the commander
remembered to write it. that is not a structure, it is a hope — and the
producer's title reached the lock screen untouched, because both transports
built the alert from n.title rather than from the renderer.
so the code owns the shape and the producer only supplies values.
officer/core:commander is `Commander: {title}` / `{body}`; the commander
sends "Voice Memos", never the prefix. interpolation gains {title} and
{body} alongside {n} and {id}, for the same reason the others exist.
apns-payload and fcm now send the RENDERED text. that was the actual
delivery bug: the catalogue could say whatever it liked and neither
transport read it.
a placeholder that resolves to nothing takes its punctuation with it, or
`Commander: {title}` with no title ships `Commander: ` and every template
has to assume its values are always present.
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asked whether the voice-memos commander could send a notification, the
answer was no, three times over. the platform skill gives it the prefix
/notify and not the route. the route wants a catalogue code, not a title
and a message. and of the six codes that exist, none means "a commander has
something to tell you" — the nearest renders "Test notification".
so: officer/core:commander, one entry rather than one per commander, with
the commander travelling as {id}. arming a new one needs no catalogue
change and no app resync.
and `title`/`body` on the notification itself, which override the
catalogue. this is a deliberate exception to the rule the whole design
rests on — content does not travel — and it is the owner's decision, made
2026-08-24. a commander's output is one sentence only it could write; there
is no entry to render it from, and "1 item" is not worth waking a phone
for. sendoff.landed already carries the same relaxation for the same kind
of reason.
the control sits at the PRODUCER, not the transport. the commander's
CLAUDE.md now says what may go in those two fields and what may never — and
that a notification is an interruption, so send few. this file cannot judge
what is sensitive and does not try.
`title` is the opt-in, not `body`. the existing smuggle test passes a stray
`body` and asserts it does not reach the wire; a body that travelled on its
own would have silently defeated it. pinned on both transports.
FCM gets a `notification` block only for producer text — data-only is what
lets the app compose from its catalogue, and text with no entry to compose
from would arrive and show nothing.
worth recording: there is NO Notification Service Extension, in this repo
or the mobile one. mutable-content: 1 is set for something never built, so
aps.alert is what the phone actually shows and this works with no app
release. i said the opposite an hour ago, from the comments rather than
from looking.
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a commander made before credentials existed has no officer.env and no key
row, so it cannot reach the platform at all — the state that made the first
one curl whisper directly. deleting and recreating it would fix that and
throw away the conversation, which is the one thing a commander IS: a
long-running agreement about a job.
so this is additive and re-runnable. a commander that already has one is
left alone. CLAUDE.md is APPENDED to, never rewritten — it is a living
document its commander has been extending, and surviving is the whole
point of not recreating it — and only when it does not already mention
officer.env, so a hand-edited one does not end up with the section twice.
the credential section moved out of commanderClaudeMd for this: it is now
written in two places, and the backfill needs a self-contained section
rather than a slice of one file's layout.
verified locally: minted for the one commander here, second run reported
"already has a credential" and changed nothing, file is 0600.
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the allow list shipped an hour ago was a snapshot. plugin permissions
register at mount, so a plugin installed after a commander was created was
missing from its list and failed as a bare 403 with nothing saying why —
and every future thing a commander is meant to do is exactly that shape:
notify a device, send mail, spawn a sub-agent, hand a transcription to an
idle one, reach a plugin that does not exist yet.
so a credential now narrows two ways, and both only subtract:
permissions an ALLOW list. exact, a snapshot. right for a credential
with one job.
excludedKinds kinds it may never reach, resolved against the LIVE
registry on every request. right for a credential whose
job is open-ended.
a commander gets the second: every kind except admin. bounded away from
installing plugins, managing users and roles and changing server settings,
forever — and open to everything the platform learns to do, with nothing
to re-issue. still intersected with the account, so for a member it
narrows itself against their role.
verified against the running server with a commander-shaped key: tasks,
notify, file-browser and the transcribe PLUGIN all reach their routes;
/api/users, /api/plugins and /api/roles are 403. the plugin case is the
one an allow list could not have passed — it was mounted long after any
key was minted.
the commander's CLAUDE.md says what it cannot do in the rule's own terms,
and that a 403 is an answer rather than a problem to route around.
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a commander is an agent working unattended for months, and the only
credential in the tree lived in the MCP tool server's environment where
the agent's own shell cannot see it. so the first one built here curled
the whisper container directly on localhost: right answer, wrong door, and
a door the platform does not control.
api_keys.permissions. null is what every key a human minted still is —
their full authority, exactly what the password that made it could do. a
list narrows: the credential reaches only those permission keys, and still
only where the account itself could. intersection, never union.
checked BEFORE the owner bypass, which is the whole point. a Super Admin
consults no grants table, so a token carrying the owner's identity is
unbounded by construction — fine for a browser session somebody is sitting
in front of, not fine for a process that runs for months. this is the only
thing in the platform that can bound them. verified against the running
server: an owner key scoped to [account] gets 200 on /api/user/settings
and 403 on /api/users, /api/tasks and /api/plugins.
it propagates. a narrowed credential can write a task and run it, so the
token buildTaskApiEnv hands that script carries the same narrowing —
otherwise the script comes back through the API with full authority and
the limit bought nothing. the gate stashes it on the request for the one
kind of route that passes authority onward.
POST /tasks/:name/run: runs a script task, waits, returns code and output.
both existing runners need something watching them — the socket needs a
live connection, a job needs somebody to open Jobs. a commander has
neither. deliberately not a job: transcribing a memo takes seconds and
produces a file, and a queue plus a row plus a progress bar is a screen
nobody opened between the request and the result.
script-run.ts is the third thing this needed and the one worth having on
its own. the socket runner, the job runner and now this each carried the
same twenty lines — materialize, INPUT_ env, positional args, resolve cwd,
mint the api env — identical, with nothing saying they had to stay that
way. they differ in how they REPORT, which is real and stays with each of
them. what the script SEES is now decided once.
a commander gets its key at creation, in officer.env at 0600 inside its own
directory, and CLAUDE.md tells it where and says plainly that a sidecar
listening on localhost with no auth is still the wrong door. a file rather
than an env var because the detached loop a commander arms is spawned by
the agent and inherits nothing the platform chose. deleting the commander
revokes the row — the directory removal takes the secret, not the thing
that makes it work.
default scope is everything except `admin`: a commander that can reach
nothing gets widened in a hurry rather than thought about, and installing
plugins, managing users and changing server settings are never part of a
watcher's job. it is a default, stored per key, and for a member it
narrows itself against their role.
also fixed: POST /command-hq/commanders/new never awaited
createCommanderDirectory, so a turn could spawn before its CLAUDE.md
existed — the exact ordering that redesign was for — and the cwd it
returned was a Promise serialising as {}.
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Implements phase 1 of docs/commander-directory.md. The row owns its own identity
and its own directory; session_id becomes a nullable pointer to whichever
conversation is current.
The ordering was the bug. POST /command-hq/commanders took a sessionId the caller
already held, so a chat existed first and was filed as a commander second — and
the working directory is fixed when that session spawns, before any id exists. It
now takes {name, referencePath}, creates the row, its directory and its CLAUDE.md,
and returns the cwd to start the chat in. Nothing waits on the CLI.
commander-block.ts is deleted. Claude Code reads a CLAUDE.md from the working
directory, so what it injected per turn is written once at creation and the
commander extends it as the job is agreed. resolveChatCwd no longer trusts
msg.cwd at all: it looks the row up server-side. The containment reasoning that
made a client-chosen path safe still holds — it just no longer applies, because
the client has nothing left to choose.
Four things found in review, none of which the build had.
Ownership. confineUserTree chowns commanders/ once, at provisioning, so anything
created afterwards belongs to the service user — a MEMBER's commander directory
would be one their own claude cannot write into, failing as an agent that dies on
its first command in a directory it can see. Invisible because it works perfectly
for the owner, who has no osUser. Handed over on creation, best effort, and the
error is returned as well as logged.
getCommanderDir is guarded. Two callers rm -rf what it returns, and createCommander
inserts dir_name as '' before fixing it up from the serial id — an empty name
resolves to the commanders ROOT and would take every commander the account has.
The transaction closes that window; the guard means it does not have to.
The fallback in resolveChatCwd was silent. A commander whose row is not found runs
in the account's home with no CLAUDE.md, which reads as an agent that forgot its
job rather than a lookup that missed. It says so now.
And sv-SE is renamed alongside the other five locales. It did not exist when this
work was written.
Verified: SQL applied against a scratch database first — idempotent, several
commanders can hold a null pointer at once, one-per-transcript still enforced.
Then here: db:push emits no DDL and does not prompt, officer restarts clean, and
POST /commanders returns a real directory holding state/ and a CLAUDE.md.
1428 pass, tsgo clean.
The single existing commander was deleted rather than migrated, per the design.
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