an opencode agent could not look at a calendar all afternoon. i treated it as a
framing problem, then a regression, then a free-vs-paid model problem, and it was
none of those. the documentation says all four, plainly.
1. A SKILL'S `name` IS AN IDENTIFIER, not a label. it must match
^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$ and equal its directory. every skill here carried a
human title there — "Calendar and contacts" — so every one was LISTED and none
could be LOADED. the agent found the skill, called
skill({name:"calendar-and-contacts"}), and got "Unable to load skill". `title`
is now a separate field and keeps the prose.
2. THERE IS NO `skills.paths` CONFIG KEY. it is in the binary's own config
example and not in the docs, and the difference is exactly this: skills
configured that way are offered to the agent and cannot be opened. skills load
from fixed discovery paths only, so each directory is now SYMLINKED into
~/.config/opencode/skills. links, not copies — one source of truth, and a skill
edited in its plugin is live immediately.
3. `prompt` IS A FILE REFERENCE — "{file:./path}". passing the text is parsed
without complaint and never applied. this is what made it look like a model
problem: the agent existed, the prompt was on its record, and the model had
never seen a word of it.
4. THE `skill` PERMISSION DEFAULTS TO ASKING, and a server session has nobody to
ask, so the call errors rather than waiting. {"skill":{"*":"allow"}}.
also: the platform cached opencode's model list for the lifetime of `officer`,
so signing into a provider and restarting the SIDECAR left the old catalogue in
the OTHER process — six free models, no paid ones, nothing saying why. the cache
is dropped when the sidecar reports a new port, which is the one event that
always accompanies a new serve.
verified: the prompt reaches the model — asked who it is, it answered "Officer,
running on your home server at officer-dev under your user account". 10 skills
discovered through the linked path with loadable names. NOT verified end to end:
a turn that opens the calendar skill and answers from it.
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Officer-Session: 656f5c85-e49a-4f1f-b9f3-042a04b4d043
Turns now run in the sidecar via `opencode run --dir <cwd> --format json
--dangerously-skip-permissions [-s <ses_>]` instead of the serve's
`POST /session/{id}/message` path. That path was unreliable at reporting
tool completion — tools finished but the turn stayed status=running,
wedging the UI at "Working…". `run` re-anchors tools to the chat cwd via
--dir, reports completion faithfully, and exits when done.
- runner.ts (new): spawn `run`, map its JSON events (text/tool_use/
step_finish) to ChatEvent, report the `ses_` id for resume, accumulate
cost; inactivity (120s) + hard-cap (10min) watchdogs kill a hung turn
and emit a clean error instead of hanging forever.
- protocol.ts: opencode:run-streaming/kill commands; opencode:spawned/
event/session events; OpenCodeRunParams.
- sidecar index.ts: wire run/kill; sweepStaleServes() on startup kills
only an `opencode serve` whose resolved /proc/<pid>/cwd == SERVE_CWD,
so an unclean prior exit can't leave two.
- sidecar-registry.ts: spawnOpenCodeStreaming/killOpenCode/onOpenCodeEvent/
onOpenCodeSession helpers.
- send-opencode.ts: rewritten to mirror send-claude-code (subscribe →
resolve resume id → spawn → kill handle).
- sidecar-server.ts: persist reported ses_ id into state for resume.
- list-models/server-manager: route to the sidecar's reported serve URL.
The serve stays up only for read-only calls that never hung (model
listing, session history).
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New officer-opencode sidecar (same philosophy as officer-claude): a singleton that owns
an `opencode serve` running from DATA_PATH/opencode-sidecar (created if missing) on a
random port, registers with the API as capability 'opencode', and reports its port via a
new `opencode:server` protocol event. The API stores it (sidecar-server.ts, wired in
server.tsx via getOpenCodeServerUrl). ecosystem.config.cjs runs the sidecar instead of a
bare pm2 serve. Turn-running + API rewiring come in later steps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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