the process that runs claude (sidecar/claude/user-instance.ts) had no pm2 entry
and was spawned on demand by the main server, with stdout/stderr inherited. that
made every agent session a grandchild of officer, so pm2's tree-kill took the
session down on every `pm2 restart officer` — the single thing that makes it
impossible to work on the platform while an agent is running.
give it its own entry (officer-agent) and delete the spawn machinery:
ensureClaudeSidecar, spawnAndWaitForRegistration, the 50ms registration poll and
the per-email claudeProcs/claudeSpawnWaiters maps, ~77 lines. officer now spawns
no sidecar at all.
for that to work the sidecar had to stop needing officer to start:
- it resolves the owner from the database (getOwnerUser) instead of reading
CLAUDE_USER_EMAIL out of the env officer built. single-user is a hard
invariant, so there is nothing to fan out over. CLAUDE_USER_EMAIL still wins
when set, for manual runs, and a fresh install waits for bootstrap rather
than exiting into a restart loop.
- it reads the anthropic proxy secret from the proxy sidecar's own state file
rather than being handed it in env. lazily, because ensureProxySecret
persists on a 30s debounce and pm2 starts both processes together.
it registers as 'agent' with capability 'claude', so the registry finds it the
way it finds every other sidecar. that removes the email argument from
killClaude, interruptClaude and clearClaudeSession, which only ever existed to
locate a per-email sidecar by name.
what officer keeps is a short wait-for-capability, because pm2 brings peers up
together and the first request after a boot can beat the sidecar's registration.
also align the two officer port fallbacks in the sidecar (5000 for the socket,
9010 for the rest base) — same instance, so they cannot disagree.
this fixes R1 and R2 from CLAUDE_SIDECAR_ISOLATION.md. events produced while
officer is down are still lost; that is stage 2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
the pm2 entry named officer-claude never ran an agent. it starts
sidecar/claude/index.ts, which registers as capabilities: ['proxy'] and only
holds the anthropic proxy secret and forwards api traffic. the process that
actually spawns claude is sidecar/claude/user-instance.ts, which had no pm2
entry at all and was spawned on demand by the main server.
that misnomer is how both CLAUDE.md files ended up claiming that restarting
officer does not disturb a running agent session. it does: the agent was a
grandchild of officer and died with it. correct the name so the next reader
starts from a true model, and fix the claim in both files.
no behaviour change — officer-agent arrives in the next commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The orientation layer above platform/CLAUDE.md and capabilities/CLAUDE.md: which
of the three directories a change belongs in, the two-repo git rules, how to run
and verify without disturbing the running server, and the task system's
conventions — including the ones capabilities/CLAUDE.md omits, like INPUT_INCLUDE
and inline: ask.
Also records failure modes found by running things rather than reading them: the
vision model inventing text for images that have none, Whisper's translate being
English-only, and the Host header that protected routes require.
Lives here rather than at the deployment root so it is versioned and reaches
every install; the root CLAUDE.md points at it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pastilhasandClaude Opus 4.8