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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"Activity" (placeholder name — jobs/tasks were taken) = watch background tasks
scroll in parallel with chat. Built DB-free; NOT restarted — deploy + test in
the morning.
- NDJSON progress contract (activity/progress.ts): capabilities append
{job,cap,phase,status,pct,detail,ts,...} lines; tolerant parser treats any
JSON object with phase/status as structured progress, else a raw log line.
- Backend (activity/router.ts, owner-only, path-guarded):
- GET /api/activity/tasks — registry by scanning /tmp/claude-*/<cwd>/tasks/
*.output (harness run_in_background) + announced detached jobs.
- POST /api/activity/announce {name,path} — register a detached (setsid) job's
log so it's followable too (the setsid case is on the critical path, since
the warm worker now makes plain run_in_background the default for heavy jobs).
- GET /api/activity/stream?task=<id>|path=<abs> — SSE tail (poll + offset),
emitting {kind:'line'|'progress'} with NDJSON parsed.
- Frontend /activity screen + Radio nav item: task list (active dot) → live tail
with a phase/pct progress header + raw log, following the /system-monitor pattern.
- Retention: startChatEventRetention() prunes chat_session_events >7d every 6h
(wired in bootstrap) so the durable queue stays bounded.
Verified headlessly (no restart): parseTailLine classification, and the scan
finds 53 real task output files. Endpoints + UI untested until deploy.
Deferred (see handoff): cross-device sync + OpenCode parity (both touch the
now-stable chat path — won't ship un-restart-tested); task:progress into chat.
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