An install that discovers a missing dependency halfway through has already made a directory, possibly
started a container and written a row, and then has to unwind — leaving the user with something that
neither works nor uninstalls. A 30ms check first is worth most of that.
Verified while writing this: nothing in scripts/ installs Docker, and nothing checks for it.
setup-dockers.sh invokes `docker compose` with no preflight, so a fresh host without Docker fails
partway through setup with a bare "command not found". Recorded in the design doc rather than fixed
here — the intended fix is a setup.sh per sidecar, which is also what a sidecar needs once it ships from
its own repository.
`docker compose version` is the probe, not `docker --version`: the latter passes with a dead daemon,
which is the failure people actually hit. "Not installed" and "daemon unreachable" are reported
separately because the remedies differ.
Checked per MODE, not per entry. A host without Docker can still install Photos by pointing at an Immich
somewhere else; refusing the whole entry is the over-strict check that makes people work around the
installer instead of using it.
Dropped `requires: 'docker'` from the catalogue type. Needing Docker is exactly "this entry can
provision", which `modes` already says, so declaring it twice invites the two to disagree. Derived by
needsDocker instead, and a test asserts the derivation matches every entry.
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The install layout a machine should have, seasoned owner or not:
~/officerdev/
platform/ the app
data/ DATA_PATH
dockers/ services the app store provisioned
capabilities/ the file-based item store
One root, everything under it. OFFICER_ROOT derives from DATA_PATH rather than being a second variable
that has to agree with the first.
Deliberately not `~/dockers`, where a seasoned user already keeps their own estate — 47 services on this
machine. That separation buys two things. Containers the app store created are distinguishable from the
user's own structurally, rather than by a naming convention we would have to enforce and they could
break. And we never reason about someone else's compose files: the store does not scan, adopt or modify
anything outside its own directory.
That also simplifies "I already have one of these" — it is answered by the user giving a URL, never by
us finding a directory and guessing whose it is. An earlier draft had the installer adopting existing
directories, which meant reading, and potentially writing over, services Officer did not create.
This development machine predates the convention and derives an ugly-but-correct path, since the project
sits inside ~/dockers/officer.dev. Still isolated, still one root. New installs get the clean shape.
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First slice, on a worktree branch so none of it touches the tree the live server runs from.
`sidecar_installs` — server-level, no userId, because a sidecar is one process serving the machine.
That is the line that keeps the model coherent for several users: installed is server-level and
owner-only, configured is per user in service_connections. A member can use Gitea without being able to
install it or point it somewhere else.
`installed` and `enabled` are separate because they answer different questions, which is what gives the
reversible middle ground: disable stops the process and keeps container, config, schema and data.
`completedSteps` makes install resumable rather than merely retryable — the failure mode being designed
against is a half-installed service that neither works nor uninstalls.
The catalogue is data, not code: no functions, no compile-time coupling, because the same shape has to
arrive as JSON from marketplace.officer.dev later. Its test pins it to the real estate — it offers
exactly the processes the light profile excludes, names processes that exist, and claims capabilities
that exist. That last check earned itself immediately: it caught `vault` (no capability at all — it is
EXEMPT because Bitwarden clients carry a Vaultwarden bearer, not a platform JWT) and `notify` (which
does have one, where I had written null).
Docker templates follow the convention already in use across 47 services in ~/dockers: a directory per
service, compose inside, relative bind mounts so data sits beside it, USER_UID/USER_GID as the owner.
An existing directory is evidence of an existing install and must be adopted, never overwritten.
Records what Phase 0 must not foreclose: a remote marketplace, sidecars moving to their own
repositories, and third-party plugins — including the note that catalogue.test.ts pins Phase 0's
invariant rather than the design's, since that relationship inverts once sidecars leave this repo.
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The previous commit migrated only when SQLite was completely empty, on the assumption that a non-empty
file is an authoritative one. A real account disproved that within minutes of it landing.
The older Gmail backfill had already written SOME keys into SQLite — last_sync_at and the uidvalidity
set — and never the imap_lastuid ones. So the file was non-empty and half-migrated at the same time,
all-or-nothing skipped the migration, and nine imap_lastuid keys stayed only in Postgres. A missing
lastuid makes the next sync refetch that folder from UID 1: on the mailbox this was found on, 18,755
messages and 6.9 GB.
Now merged per key with the file always winning a conflict. That keeps the property all-or-nothing was
protecting — a restored older emails.db still overrides a newer Postgres row for every key it has, so it
cannot be advanced past mail it does not contain — and adds the keys the file never had, which are
exactly the ones whose absence is expensive.
Verified against the live account: all 22 Postgres keys present afterwards, imap_lastuid:INBOX restored
to 208407, and last_sync_at left at the file's older value, so it re-checks a fortnight rather than
skipping it.
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I concluded a few commits ago that the serve new /api/session pipeline accepts prompts and
never executes them, and kept turns on opencode run. Wrong. Every probe behind that passed
an explicit model claude-sonnet-4-6, and THAT model silently does not run on the new
surface — no error, no event, no assistant message. Drop the field and the same request
completes.
One broken variable in every experiment, read as a property of the system.
Measured on 1.18.16, both machines upgraded today: delivery steer injects into a running
turn (verified, output changed to order), delivery queue runs after it (verified, ONE then
TWO, zero errors), and model selection works via POST /model — just not with sonnet.
So the fork is reopened and worth taking, targeting the new surface rather than the legacy
message path, which generates fine but has neither steer nor queue. Blocked only on why
sonnet dies there while working under opencode run.
Third time this project has hit the same trap: opencode accepts input it does not honour
and says nothing — directory in the body, location.directory that never existed, now model.
A probe that changes one thing and sees nothing has not learned the feature is missing.
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The messages were in emails.db and the position — last_sync_at, and per-folder uidvalidity/lastuid —
was a jsonb column on email_accounts in Postgres. Two stores for one fact, with an edge that only shows
up when you try to move a mailbox to another machine.
The expensive part of an email account is the first sync: hours of IMAP for a large mailbox, which is
exactly why "copy emails.db to the new server" is the obvious way to bring one across. With the position
in Postgres that silently does not work — the new server's column is empty, !last_sync_at says first
sync, and the whole mailbox downloads again on top of the one just restored.
The other direction is quieter and worse. Restore an OLDER emails.db while Postgres holds a NEWER
position and the sidecar skips every message between the two, permanently, because nothing looks below
lastuid again. Re-syncing is slow; skipping mail is data loss nobody notices.
Not a new idea — the Gmail path already read SQLite and fell back to Postgres, backfilling so the
fallback was taken once. Only the IMAP path had not followed. This extracts that pattern so both use one
copy, and unifies the isFirstSync fork in accounts.ts, which is how the two drifted apart to begin with.
The file wins over Postgres, always, and only migrates when it holds nothing at all. Topping up a
partial position from Postgres would reintroduce precisely the divergence this removes.
email_accounts.sync_meta is kept and marked legacy rather than dropped: it is the one-time backfill
source for every account created before this, and dropping it would strand any that has not synced
since. Nothing writes to it now.
11 tests on the migration, aimed at both expensive failures — migrating when we should not, and failing
to migrate an account that predates the change.
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The serve has a second, newer API surface nobody here had looked at, and it publishes
exactly what the parity doc calls impossible under stdin ignore: delivery steer and queue
on POST /prompt, an interrupt that does not tear down, and a per-session event stream with
an after cursor — the durable-replay machinery officer hand-built for claude, as a
primitive. That would have made migrating obvious.
It does not execute. A prompt is accepted with an admittedSeq, stored, emits
prompt.admitted and prompted, and then never steps. Ruled out separately: the model, the
permissions (build is *:allow, no pending requests), the per-request location (the surface
is location-scoped via header or a deepObject query, supplied everywhere, no change), and a
config gate. The legacy POST /session/id/message?directory= generates fine in 17s, so the
serve itself works — only the new pipeline is inert. session.next.* is the tell.
And not a version problem, which is the part everything here had backwards: this Mac runs
1.18.11 and alpha runs 1.17.9, measured. The dead pipeline was tested on the NEWER binary.
The original "this server runs 1.17.9" meant alpha and was copied to a machine where it was
false; corrected in runner.ts and the test.
So building against it now would produce code that looks finished and does nothing, which
is the failure mode this project keeps rediscovering. One request reopens the question
after any upgrade, and the doc names it.
Also de-flakes the lifecycle tests: they spawn real processes, and a fixed sleep(750) went
red once on a machine busy running these probes. Presence assertions poll now.
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They were permanently unnamed, and the two halves needed to name them already existed on
officer: the sidecar reports its own sessionKey because that is all it has, while the ses_ id
arrives separately over opencode:session and is recorded in opencode/state.ts. Nothing joined
them. /chat/live joins them now, so no protocol or sidecar change — widening
LiveOpenCodeSession would have meant sending the sidecar a fact it told officer in the first
place.
One list call names every row rather than one transcript load each, and it is skipped when
nothing is running or no id has been reported, so an idle Live panel never touches the serve.
Verified against a real turn, which also showed the design working as intended: the first
poll has no id yet and shows nothing, the next shows title and cwd. That window is real and
short, and showing nothing beats showing a key the user has never seen.
Worth knowing: opencode titles its own sessions "New session - <ISO timestamp>", so the row
is located but not meaningfully named. That is genuinely its title, not a bug here.
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B8 done, so every defect that made opencode behave wrongly is fixed. Notes what that does
not mean: bucket 1 is capability gaps, and the visible ones are downstream of the phase 2
fork, which is still unstarted and still Andre to call.
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B8, both halves. They share index.ts, so they share a commit.
In-flight turns: `opencode run` is spawned, not supervised, so pm2 restart officer-opencode
left every turn ALIVE — reparented, still spending tokens, still writing files as the agent,
with the only reader of its stdout gone. The transcript stopped mid-tool-call, which reads
as the agent hanging.
stopAllOpenCodeTurns kills them and settles each synchronously, because the caller is about
to process.exit and nothing waiting on proc.exited would ever run. Settling writes a reason,
so a reload after a restart explains itself instead of trailing off. Turns are stopped BEFORE
the connection is destroyed — that write travels over it — and the flush is bounded, since
losing the explanation is bad but hanging the restart is worse.
Stale serves: the sweep read /proc, so it was a no-op on macOS and orphaned serves piled up,
one per unclean exit, each holding a port. Added a pidfile sweep alongside it. A pid we wrote
ourselves needs no cwd guard to prove it is ours, which is the part ps cannot answer portably
(macOS would need lsof), and a serve started by hand is never in the file.
The guard checks command AND subcommand: matching the word serve anywhere in the line would
sweep a running turn whose prompt merely mentioned it. Fixtures are real ps output from both
machines, not invented. Split into serve-sweep.ts because index.ts spawns a serve at module
scope, so a test importing it would start one.
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The bucket-0 table had no status anywhere; it lived in the report docs, which means the
list itself still reads as eight open defects. Says B1-B7 are done and where.
Also corrects B7 in place: the table describes the spurious cut-off only, and the same
default was mis-adopting the session into the wrong harness entirely.
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B7. `msg.model || DEFAULT_MODEL` declared every session without an explicit model to be
claude-code, and the parity doc recorded only the visible half of what that cost.
The durable false cut-off is real: endTurnIfAgentIsGone asked the claude sidecar about a
key it had never held, was told false, and wrote "the agent went away" into a turn that
was running fine. It survives reload, because surviving reload is what that row is for.
The same default also handed the session to adoptOrphanedSession as a claude one, which
subscribes it to that sidecar bus and pins session.model — so an opencode turn output
never arrived, and stopping it called killClaude on a key that sidecar never had. A stop
button that silently does nothing.
decideResume makes both rules explicit: the server record beats the client claim, and an
unknown harness stays unknown — no adoption, no cut-off check, just the replay. Silence
is the safe failure when the wrong answer is written durably.
DEFAULT_MODEL stays in handleAttach and is now commented as to why: that path reached its
sessionId by asking the claude sidecar to resolve a claudeSessionId, so only claude could
have answered.
First test in api/chat, which had none. websocket.ts has no seam to drive the handler
through, so the decision is extracted and tested; the wiring around it is not covered.
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Agreed in conversation, nothing implemented. Light stops being a variant and becomes the baseline —
chat, terminal, file browser — and the other fourteen sidecars arrive by the user asking for them from
an app store, eventually including sidecars the user did not write.
Mostly not a rewrite, for three reasons already true: every API route stays mounted regardless of which
sidecars run, officer already spawns nothing, and service_connections already solves the multi-user
case. What is new is provisioning, per-sidecar schema, and persisted install state.
Docker: officer is the installer, never the owner. Real compose files in the user's own directory,
started as him, found again by label. `docker compose down` works, and the containers outlive Officer.
Per-sidecar schema is right here specifically because third-party plugins are a real goal, and the
dependency graph makes it tractable: measured across 19 schema files, every sidecar depends on auth.ts
and nothing else, with no sidecar-to-sidecar edges anywhere. So the plugin contract is "you may
reference users.id" — which also makes full uninstall well-defined, since nothing else points at a
plugin's tables.
service_connections stays core and shared rather than per-service, because it already does the part
nobody would get right alone: a NULL url means "inherit the instance", so the owner's row is the
instance and members hold only their own credential, making "members never see the instance URL" a
property of the schema instead of a filter someone has to remember.
Records six open questions rather than settling them, including plugin migrations, ID namespacing for a
marketplace, and where plugin-specific config lives.
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The review was written as a handover; it became a fixed tree instead. Records what
landed, including the two leaks that only showed up while fixing it, and leaves the
original reasoning untouched so it still reads as the argument it was.
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Two comments describing behaviour the code does not have.
LiveOpenCodeSession had been inserted between LiveClaudeSession and its docblock, so a
comment about isGenerating, pendingTasks and the idle GC read as documentation for the
OpenCode type — where it is contradicted by the correct comment directly beneath it.
Moved below, and it now states that it carries no ses_ id.
That absence is the point: /chat/live claimed title and cwd come from the session store
"so a turn whose id has not been reported yet shows unnamed". Nothing is looked up, and
there is no id here to look one up with. They are null permanently, not until-known.
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A replaced turn is killed but dies asynchronously, so its proc.exited fired long after
the replacement was registered under the same sessionKey — and then ran the whole
completion path against it: emitted "OpenCode exited with code 143", which the sidecar
commits to chat_session_events so a false failure became permanent history, then deleted
the replacement from `running`. That blinded the new Live panel, made the stop button a
no-op and orphaned a process nothing could reach.
Mark the handle before killing it, retire it silently, and identity-check the delete —
a superseded turn does not own that key any more.
Two leaks in the same family, found while fixing it. An early return would not have been
enough: both watchdogs call finish, so the armed 10-minute hardTimer would have fired an
error at whichever turn held the key by then. And handleLine had no `done` guard, so
stdout still draining from the killed process was emitted under the replacement key.
Reproduced before fixing. The lifecycle tests need no real opencode — RunnerConfig.bin
takes a shell script that sleeps. The control test pins that an ordinary non-zero exit
still reports an error, so the guard cannot overreach.
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`ecosystem.light.config.cjs` did not mention officer-gitea, so `defineProfile` threw while the file was
being loaded and pm2 could start NOTHING from it — not the app, not the agent, not the terminal. The
profile has been dead on arrival since gitea was added to ecosystem.config.cjs and to the mac profile
but not to this one.
That is the drift check doing its job rather than a flaw in it: the alternative is a light install that
silently starts less than it claims. The cost is that adding a sidecar breaks every profile until each
one classifies it, which is the trade the file already documents.
Included rather than excluded, matching the mac profile's reasoning: this sidecar fronts a REMOTE Gitea
whose URL and token live in `service_connections`, so it installs nothing locally. That is the line
between it and the excluded sidecars, which supervise a local daemon or container.
Both light profiles now load and contain the same six processes.
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Phase 1 accepted and phase 2 answered well. One real defect: the supersede path in
runOpenCodeTurn kills a stale turn without marking it, so the dead process late-fires
finish() against the turn that replaced it — committing a false "OpenCode exited" to
chat_session_events, deleting the live handle from `running`, killing the stop button
and orphaning the process.
Predates this pass; reported now because e8bd946 is what made the map load-bearing.
Reproduced with a stub binary rather than argued — the transcript is in the doc.
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Investigation notes, written as they were gathered rather than after the fact. No code changes.
Covers how a sidecar comes into existence: PM2 peer, dials in to /api/sidecar/register, reports an
ephemeral port, officer proxies to it. Officer spawns nothing — the only startup problem left is
ordering, handled by waiting on a capability rather than failing the first request.
The finding worth having: `sidecar/claude/` is TWO processes, and they register as different sidecars.
`claude/index.ts` is officer-anthropic-proxy and registers capability `proxy`; `claude/user-instance.ts`
is officer-agent and registers capability `claude`. So `isConnected()` — defined as "a sidecar with
capability proxy exists" — means the Anthropic proxy is up, not the agent, which is not what the name
suggests. It has no callers today, so nothing is misreading it yet.
Marks what is unverified and what is still open rather than presenting the lot as settled: the
bind-read-release race in getFreePort, whether the `PORT ?? 5000` fallback is reachable, what a partial
boot looks like, and whether the sidecar-side boilerplate is worth factoring the way create-proxy.ts
factored officer's side.
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Implementation report for whoever wrote opencode-parity.md and opencode-phase0-review.md: what landed,
the three places the specs were wrong and how the reproduce-first rule caught each, the three places I
deliberately did not follow them, and what is unverified.
Phase 2's blocking question is answered in full — the serve takes a per-request `?directory=`, so the
coupling is gone in both architectures. The migration is not started; that decision is framed in
opencode-serve-path.md and left open.
Flags `opencode:list` as the one new capability whose happy path is unproven, and B7 as newly more
masked: the B2 fix makes the client send `model` more reliably, which hides the spurious cut-off rather
than removing it.
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The Live panel asked `claude:list` and nothing else, so a running OpenCode turn was invisible — the panel
claimed to show what the agent is doing and silently omitted half of it.
Adds `opencode:list` / `opencode:sessions` and merges both harnesses in `/chat/live`, asked in parallel,
each failing toward empty so one sidecar being down contributes nothing rather than breaking the panel.
The OpenCode row is deliberately thinner than the Claude one rather than faked into parity:
isGenerating always true — a subprocess exists only while it generates, so there is no "merely open"
pendingTasks always 0 — `opencode run` has no background-task concept; reporting a number would
suggest a capability that does not exist
title / cwd null — the session store is keyed on the `ses_…` id the runner reports, not on
our sessionKey, so an unreported turn shows unnamed rather than guessed
This is the incremental option from docs/opencode-serve-path.md — enumeration without moving turns onto
the serve, so it buys the Live panel with no warm sessions, no SSE loop and no lifetime questions.
NOT verified end to end: no OpenCode turn was running to enumerate, so the verb is wired and typechecked
but has never returned a non-empty list. See COMMS/BLOCKERS.md.
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Path names: the serve's cwd is DATA_PATH/opencode_server, not opencode-sidecar. Two comments said
otherwise and would send the next reader to a directory that does not exist.
Version pin: the comment claimed "verified live against 1.17.9" as though that were a property of the
code. It is a property of whichever binary is installed, and this project already runs two — 1.17.9 here,
1.18.11 on the other machine. Says so now, and points at the test as the thing that actually enforces it.
Tests, the first on the OpenCode path. `runner.ts`'s NDJSON → ChatEvent mapping was described as pure and
untested; it was untested but not pure — it lived inside `handleLine` as a closure over `emit`, the
accumulated cost and a reported-session flag, so it could not be called without spawning a binary.
Extracted as `mapRunLine`, genuinely pure: line in, {sessionId, events, costDelta} out. The two concerns
that span lines stay with the caller, because they are not properties of a line — emitting the session id
exactly once, and accumulating cost across steps. Behaviour is unchanged.
11 tests over what the mapping forwards, what it drops and what it must not turn into NaN. The last one
matters: a missing `cost` on a step_finish would otherwise propagate NaN into the turn total.
Phase 1 is complete: dead code deleted (previous commit), comments corrected, tests added.
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Phase 1 item 7, done in the order the parity doc asks: read the dead design into a note, then delete it.
`docs/opencode-serve-path.md` records what `event-mapper.ts` and the SSE half of `client.ts` did, and
what a rebuild would want back from them — the delta model and tool-state transitions, which are exactly
parity Phase 3's token streaming rather than new work.
Deleted: `event-mapper.ts` entirely, and `subscribe`/the shared `GET /event` SSE loop, `createSession`,
`postMessage`, `abort` from the client, plus `isServerHealthy` from server-manager. All had no callers.
`client.ts` goes 200-odd lines to 99. What stays is the REST reads the chat list and transcript use:
listSessions, getSession, getMessages, deleteSession, renameSession.
While in there, Phase 2's blocking question turned out to be cheap to settle, so it is answered rather
than left open. The review asked whether the serve can take a per-request directory, since without one a
serve-based turn path would reintroduce the single-directory coupling that shelved this work:
POST /session?directory=/tmp/oc-phase2-probe -> directory: "/tmp/oc-phase2-probe" honoured
POST /session with directory in the BODY -> directory: "<serve cwd>" ignored
It is a query parameter on every /session* route. So the coupling is gone on both architectures and the
blocker is cleared. The note does NOT start the migration: which of the three options to take is a
product call, and it lays them out rather than presuming one.
The first probe put `directory` in the body and appeared to prove the opposite. Recorded in the note,
because it is the obvious way to test this and it gives a confident wrong answer.
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The sidecar seeded an AGENTS.md into the serve's project root telling the agent to read its working
directory from the "Working directory for this session" line in its system prompt. The run path sends no
system prompt, so there was no such line and the instruction had been inert since turns moved off the
serve to `opencode run --dir`.
What it was standing in for, `--dir` does properly — tested rather than assumed
(docs/opencode-phase0-review.md): `--dir` anchors the agent's own file operations, not just the process
cwd, and the anchor survives a multi-step turn with a write in the middle. Nothing replaces it.
The generated file is removed from disk too, not only from the code that wrote it; leaving it would have
kept feeding standing instructions to every session while looking, in the source, as though it were gone.
Also corrects the claim that all OpenCode sessions live in one server's project. True when turns
inherited the serve's directory, false now: one serve lists 7 sessions across several directories, which
is why the cwd filter has to read `directory` rather than assume a single one.
docs/opencode-phase0-review.md, item 2 — Phase 1.
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Regression from the fold change. Scroll-up paging is driven by a scroll listener, and a scroll listener
only fires on a list that actually scrolls. That was always true and never mattered, because the turn you
were looking at rendered in full and was tall enough on its own.
Folding on reload broke it. A window of twenty messages can be one turn with eighteen tool calls, which
collapses to three short rows: no overflow, no scroll event, and paging never starts. The whole
transcript above becomes unreachable — which reads as lost history rather than as a fetch that never
fired.
So don't wait for a scroll that cannot happen: after each render, if there is more to load and the
content does not overflow its viewport, load the next page. Terminates because each pass either fills the
viewport or exhausts the transcript.
This also fixes a latent case that predates folding — any first window short enough to fit on screen
could never be paged past.
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Reopened B4. Flipping `images: false` for OpenCode models made the metadata honest but changed nothing
on screen, because no code read the capability: the drop zone, the paste handler and the attach menu all
accepted images on every harness. The lie B4 described — drop a screenshot, watch it render in your own
bubble, have it discarded before the model sees it — was still there.
The flag is now load-bearing. Three entry points gated on `supportsImages`:
- the drop zone does not claim the drag at all (no highlight, no preventDefault), so the browser keeps
it rather than the composer swallowing a file it will drop on the floor
- an image paste falls through to the default
- the attach menu's Image entry is absent
`selectedModel || model` mirrors ModelSelector's `displayModel`, so the gate and the model name on screen
can never disagree. An unknown model allows images: a missing capability should not remove a working
control, and the flag is only false where we know it is false. Nothing to undo when images are plumbed
through OpenCodeRunParams later — the gate stops firing once the capability is true.
docs/opencode-phase0-review.md, item 1.
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Phase 0 accepted except B4, which is reopened: flipping images to false made the metadata honest but
nothing reads that capability, so the composer still accepts a drop and the image is still discarded
before the model sees it. The defect described a user-visible lie and the lie is unchanged. Gate the
composer on the flag, or plumb images through — the first is the Phase 0 one-liner.
The cwd question is answered empirically rather than argued. Against opencode 1.18.11: --dir anchors the
agent's file operations, not just the process cwd, and the anchor survives a four-step turn with a write
in the middle. So the single-server constraint that shelved this work is already gone — it went away when
turns moved off the serve to `opencode run --dir`.
Two consequences. Per-directory servers are unnecessary; don't build them. And the injected AGENTS.md
telling the agent its working directory is safe to delete — it points at a system prompt the run path
never sends, and --dir does the job it was standing in for.
Phase 2's fork also narrows: moving turns onto the serve would reintroduce the original coupling unless
the serve takes a per-request directory, so that is the question to answer, not why it was replaced.
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Three defects and one honest removal. Each was reproduced before being changed, as the doc asks.
B4 — images were offered and silently discarded. Every OpenCode model advertised `images: true`, the
composer gates on that flag, the bubble rendered the attachment, and `handleOpenCodeChat`'s message type
has no `images` field, so it never left officer. Flipped to false: 61 OpenCode models now decline, the
three Claude ones still accept. Plumbing them through OpenCodeRunParams stays Phase 4; advertising a
capability that does not exist is the part worth fixing today.
B5 — every OpenCode turn overwrote the previous turn's subscription handle without detaching it, so the
old session-scoped listener stayed attached and delivery doubled, tripled, and so on for any termination
that is not result/error/stopped. Deliberately NOT the Claude guard: Claude keeps one persistent session
and skips re-subscribing, while OpenCode spawns a fresh `opencode run` per turn, so a new subscription
each time is correct — detaching the old one is what was missing.
B6 — the sessionKey → `ses_…` map had no writer of deletions, so it grew for the process lifetime and a
reused key resumed a stale OpenCode session. Cleared in `deleteSession` only, never in `releaseSession`:
releasing means "let go, leave it running", and a returning browser must find the same `ses_…` again.
Phase 0 item 1 — the thinking toggle is removed rather than fixed. `thinking` is accepted on the wire
and forwarded by neither channel, so the control changed its own label and nothing else. Out of scope
for both harnesses by decision. The inert plumbing beneath it is left for a follow-up that touches the
socket contract; the props stay accepted-and-unread so no call site had to change.
Phase 0 is complete: B1, B2, B3 landed earlier; B4, B5, B6 and the selector here.
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22bcd7d fixed both, and found the fix this document suggested was written against a field that does not
exist: opencode 1.17.9 returns `directory` at the top level, not `location.directory`, and sends no
`metadata` at all. The type declared two fields the server never returns, which is the single cause of
both defects.
Worth recording rather than quietly editing, because it generalises: the surveys behind this document
read types and call sites, not a running server, so every field name in it is a hypothesis. The
'check the installed version first' warning was the load-bearing part of the handover, not boilerplate.
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Resuming an OpenCode conversation dispatched it to the Claude CLI: a `ses_…` id handed to
`claude --resume`. Wrong harness, not degraded output.
The whole six-hop chain, confirmed rather than inferred, because the endpoints alone do not show which
hop drops the value:
/chat/:id fetches detail and sets `selected.model` = `opencode/big-pickle` ← the value exists
ChatDetailPanel renders <NewChat …> without a `model` prop ← dropped here
NewChat reads `initialModel={locationState?.model}` ← unrelated source
nothing in the tree ever writes `location.state.model` ← so always undefined
useChat therefore holds no model and the socket sends none
websocket.ts falls back to the user default, `isClaudeModel` is true
So the model was resolved correctly at the top and read from somewhere else at the bottom. `selected`
has carried `model` all along.
`locationState.model` stays as a fallback rather than being deleted: it is declared on
ChatLocationState and costs nothing to keep for a caller that navigates with one deliberately.
docs/opencode-parity.md B2, which flagged this as the one to verify hop by hop. Its account is accurate;
the added detail is that the value is produced and then dropped, not never produced.
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Two defects, one cause: the session type declared two fields opencode 1.17.9 does not return.
`GET /session` returns `directory` at the top level. There is no `location` object and no `metadata`.
Re-verified by reading the live server rather than the type.
So `metadata.officer.cwd` was compared against `undefined` for every session and the list filter matched
nothing — and since `cwdOf` substitutes a default when no `?cwd=` is given, the `!cwd` escape never fired
either. There was no configuration in which an OpenCode session appeared in /chat. Confirmed against the
running server: 7 sessions present, 0 returned, and the `OpenCode` badge in SessionList was unreachable
code. Now 1 of 7 is listed under the default chat dir, the other 6 correctly filtered to their own
directories.
And `location?.directory ?? ''` was likewise always '', so resuming a session reported no cwd and
relocated the conversation to the default chat dir — which matters because OpenCode rebuilds its
working-directory system prompt every turn. Detail now reads the session's own record via a new
`getSession`, alongside the transcript.
`officerMeta` and the `metadata` tag are gone rather than fixed: the only writer of that tag
(`client.createSession`) has no callers, because the sidecar creates sessions with `opencode run --dir`.
Tagging would have been a second source of truth for something `directory` already answers.
docs/opencode-parity.md B1 and B3. Its suggested fix — derive from `location.directory` — was written
against a field that does not exist; the doc asked for the version to be checked first, and this is why.
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`label ?? override ?? route` made a typed tab name permanent. That is right for navigation — you named
the window to find it again — and wrong the moment you rename the conversation itself: the tab kept the
old name, and kept it across reloads, because the stale one is in sessionStorage. The rename looked like
it had failed.
Both are deliberate acts, so the newer wins. The hard part is telling a rename from ordinary navigation:
from the outside, "same conversation, new title" and "different conversation, different title" are the
same event — a changed override. Clearing the tab name on any change would have wiped it every time you
clicked a chat.
So the override now carries the id of the thing it names. Same id with a new title is a rename and drops
the tab name; a new id is navigation and leaves it alone.
The alternative was to have the panel clear the label directly, which needs a QueryClient dragged across
the workspace boundary the bridge exists to avoid — the shell owns the tab name, so the shell decides
when to drop it.
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Phases 0 and 1 only, phase 2 is a decision, and open /chat first to confirm B1 before trusting the rest.
All of it was already in the document, near the end, which is not where someone handed a file starts
reading.
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Phases 0 and 1 are implementable as written; phase 2 is a decision and should not be handed over as
work. More importantly: reproduce each defect before fixing it. The B-list came from read-only surveys
and only the event-path claim was re-verified at source — one of those surveys reasoned from a dead file
for part of its report, so a confident inventory here is not the same as a checked one.
B1 is the cheap provenance test: open /chat and look. Either no OpenCode session is listed, which
confirms the survey was reading the current tree, or one is, and the whole list needs re-checking.
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Three read-only surveys — the Claude sidecar as the reference, the OpenCode sidecar as it stands, and
every officer/frontend branch on harness. No code changed.
The headline is not a missing feature. OpenCode sessions never appear in the chat list at all: the list
filters on `metadata.officer.cwd`, and the only writer of that tag has zero callers, because sessions are
created by `opencode run --dir` rather than the API that would tag them. Resuming one is worse — the
model is dropped between the resolver and the chat hook, so a `ses_…` id reaches `claude --resume`. That
is wrong-harness dispatch, not degradation. Eight such defects are catalogued before any parity work.
Everything else hangs off one decision: OpenCode turns are a one-shot subprocess with `stdin: 'ignore'`,
while Claude turns live inside a persistent streaming session. Token streaming, mid-turn injection,
background tasks, live-session enumeration and reattach-by-id are all downstream of that, and the serve
that could support them is already running and used only for CRUD. The doc refuses to plan past that
fork until someone establishes why the serve-based turn path was replaced.
Four buckets rather than one list: broken now, Claude-has-it, neither-has-it, and what OpenCode has that
Claude does not — the last because it is what disappears in a project framed as catching up.
Thinking is out of scope for both harnesses by decision, and the selector is hidden rather than
implemented: it renders today and does nothing on either path.
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An upload over a few MB came back as a 400 with an empty body, no message anywhere, and nothing logged
by Immich, the sidecar or officer. It was a race, not a size limit. Immich judges an asset from its
first few KB and rejects immediately, then closes; both our hops were still writing the body; Node
treats the leftover bytes as a protocol violation and replaces the application's answer with a bodyless
`400 Bad Request` + `Connection: close`. The real message never reached the wire.
Measured before the change: streamed lost the message 1/4 at 8 MB and 4/4 at 32 MB — probability rising
with size, which is why small photos usually worked and a phone's video never did.
Both hops needed it. Fixing only the sidecar took 32 MB from 4/4 failing to 2/4, because the platform
proxy was losing it one hop up.
Bounded at 512 MB, above which the body streams exactly as before. That ceiling is not a refusal and is
deliberately not a 413: a file Immich ACCEPTS is read to the end and never races, so a 4 GB video is
unaffected. All that is given up above the cap is the error message on a file that was going to be
rejected anyway. A first attempt refused over-cap uploads outright and would have broken the working
4 GB case to improve diagnosis of the doomed one.
`bufferRequestBody` is opt-in and off by default: the vault and wallet proxies must keep streaming so a
passphrase or macaroon never lands in the platform's heap.
Also adds the proxy error logging that made this findable at all — status and two byte counts from
headers, never the bodies. `responseBytes: "unknown"` is what exposed the stripped response.
Verified live at 32/256 MB (buffered) and 640 MB (streamed, passes through).
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Sending a message used to collapse the turn above it, live, while you were still reading it. Watching
your own conversation fold up under you as you typed the next message is worse than the scrolling it
saved.
Folding now keys off `historicalCount` — how many messages at the front of the list came from the server
rather than from this sitting. Nothing collapses while you are watching, however many turns you send;
reload, and all of it has become history and folds at once, which is where the grouping actually earns
its place.
A count rather than a set of ids because everything historical is contiguous and at the front: the
preload seeds it, paging older messages prepends to it, live turns append past it, and a resume replaces
the list with a transcript that is history in its entirety.
Two consequences worth stating rather than discovering.
The last turn is no longer exempt. It used to be excluded from folding for being the live one by
definition; now it is an ordinary turn, so a reloaded conversation folds its final turn too — except
while it is still generating, since hiding work as it arrives is the exact thing being undone.
And folding is no longer a pure derivation over the message list, so a reload does NOT render identically
to a live session. That property was deliberate and is deliberately given up; it is the feature. The
state it costs is one number in useChat, never on the wire and never on disk.
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The agent's input is a streaming iterable, and a message pushed onto it mid-turn is picked up at the
next step boundary — the running turn reads it and carries on with the added context. Verified rather
than assumed: a probe pushed a sentinel four seconds into a turn busy with `sleep` calls, and that
turn's own final answer quoted the late instruction and obeyed it. One turn, one result, nothing
interrupted.
So the design this was heading for — stop the turn, then re-send the message wrapped in "please
continue, but…" — is not needed. Nothing is abandoned mid-flight, no tool call dies half-applied, and
the agent is never told to stop something it was part-way through.
Enter on an empty composer delivers the queue now instead of waiting for the turn to end. That keystroke
was free: handleSend has always returned immediately on empty input. The queue still fills and still
shows as it did, so the default behaviour is unchanged — this is the impatient path, not a replacement.
Officer needed nothing: handleChat already pushes onto the live session rather than opening a new one
whenever `_claudeKill` is set, which is exactly the injection. The only thing in the way was the
client's own refusal to send while generating.
The affordance is stated above the queue because the keystroke is otherwise undiscoverable — Enter on an
empty box has never done anything, so nobody would try it.
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The file-browser API does not filter them — readdir returns everything — so browsing for a working
directory opened onto .cache, .local, .npm and thirty more before anything worth picking.
Hidden by default, one toggle in the footer to reveal, and shown dimmed when revealed so they read as a
different class of thing. The count sits on the toggle and the empty state names it too: a folder
holding only dot-directories used to say 'No subfolders here', which is a lie with no way to notice it.
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Every live row read 'Starting…' and linked nowhere, because the title lookup searched for a transcript
named after the session KEY. It isn't. The key is officer's handle for a conversation; the transcript is
named after Claude's own session id, and the mapping between them exists only inside the agent
(setClaudeSession/getClaudeSession). I assumed the two were the same and never checked — confirmed wrong
by looking for the ids from the officer log under ~/.claude/projects and finding nothing.
claude:list now reports claudeSessionId beside the key, the route resolves titles by that, and rows link
to it. Null means the first turn has not reported one yet, which is a genuinely unwritten conversation
and stays unlinked.
Needs the agent sidecar restarted to take effect — the new field comes from there.
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The titles were looked up client-side against the sessions query already in cache, which only covers the
group being browsed — so anything running in another directory rendered as a truncated uuid, which is
most of them.
Resolved server-side now. The agent reports keys and nothing else, so liveSessionTitle finds the
transcript by scanning the project slugs, takes the cwd off its own first entry, and hands that to
claudeSessionContext — the same path the list uses, so the two agree on naming, /clear chains merged
included, rather than offering a second opinion.
A null title means no transcript has been written yet. That row says 'Starting…' and is deliberately not
a link: pointing at a session you cannot open yet is worse than plainly not being a link.
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The previous commit added it to defaultLayout, which anyone who has ever opened /chat never sees:
useDashboardState seeds its default only when the key is ABSENT, so a stored layout keeps the shape it
had when it was first written. appTypes/normalizeLayout does not cover this — it repairs which app a
panel runs, never the tree — so the change was visible only on a fresh account. It was shipped with a
note to reset the layout by hand, which is not a fix.
The screen now replaces a layout with no chat-live panel. Replacing outright is safe here specifically
because the screen is locked: the structure is dictated by code, and the only user contribution is
column sizes. Terminates because the replacement contains the panel it tests for.
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The /chat sidebar is now a vertical split: live sessions on top, the transcript list below. They look
similar and answer completely different questions — the list reads conversations from disk, thousands of
them, while this reads the agent's in-memory map over `claude:list`. Only the second can tell you a
conversation is still working while nothing is on screen, which is exactly the state that has been
invisible: after a `pm2 restart officer`, or from a browser that has never seen the session, officer has
no record of a live turn and only the agent can say.
`pendingTasks` is surfaced per row because it is the load-bearing number. It is what keeps a session
alive with nothing on screen, and what makes restarting the agent sidecar unsafe at that moment.
Polled at 10s rather than pushed: liveness changes without officer being told — a turn ends, a
background task reports — so there is no single event to subscribe to. The request is one map read.
Titles come from the sessions query already in cache, so they cost nothing, but that query only covers
the group being browsed and a live session can be in any of them. Unmatched rows show a short key rather
than inventing a name, and an unsaved chat renders unlinked rather than pointing at a transcript that
does not exist yet.
Closes the UI half of step 2 in docs/chat-session-lifetime.md.
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resolveOwner already retried forever — but only when the query SUCCEEDED and returned nothing, which is
a fresh install waiting on bootstrap. A query that THREW escaped the function, rejected the top-level
await and exited the process, into exactly the PM2 restart loop its own comment says it exists to avoid.
So any Postgres restart (57P03 'the database system is starting up') or moment of unavailability killed
every live agent session on the machine and spun the sidecar until the database answered.
That is what took a session down on 2026-08-10, and why this process showed 468 restarts against 0 for
every peer that starts without needing the database.
The loop now catches as well as checks. Still retries forever, matching the case beside it: a database
coming back is a matter of time, and an agent that gave up would need a human to notice.
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IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS dropped to 30s, a background ticker started, the tab closed. Officer logged the release
thirty seconds later and the job ticked straight through it — the exact point where deleteSession used
to call _claudeKill. Constant reverted.
Also worth writing down: restarting officer does not test this. The process dies outright and
releaseSession never runs, so that only exercises adoptOrphanedSession, which already worked.
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Officer's session records are in memory and die with `pm2 restart officer`, while the agent is a PM2
peer and keeps generating. `adoptOrphanedSession` rebuilds a binding — but only when a browser
reconnects to a session *by id*, which you can only do if you already knew the id. So a session that
survived a restart was invisible, and nothing could answer "what is running right now".
`claude:list` returns each live session with `isGenerating` and `pendingTasks` — the same two fields the
agent's own `armIdle` consults before collecting a session, so a caller can tell "busy" from "merely
open" the way it does. Surfaced as `GET /chat/live`, which sits beside `/chat/sessions`: those are
transcripts on disk, these are the ones with a process behind them.
`getActiveSessionKeys` is replaced rather than joined. It returned bare keys, could not distinguish a
session mid-turn from one merely open, and had never been called by anything.
`listLiveClaudeSessions` fails toward EMPTY, where `isClaudeGenerating` beside it fails toward alive.
The asymmetry is deliberate: not knowing there means leaving a spinner up, and not knowing here would
mean inventing sessions.
Step 2 of docs/chat-session-lifetime.md.
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Officer's hour-long idle timer was doing two unrelated jobs: collecting its own in-memory binding, which
is its business, and terminating the agent, which is the sidecar's. It could not do the first without
the second, because `unsub` was a closure reachable only through `kill`.
So a browser that went away killed a live agent an hour later — including one the sidecar had
deliberately protected. The sidecar already refuses to collect a session that is mid-turn or holding
background tasks: `task:started` disarms its idle GC, and `armIdle` re-checks and re-arms rather than
firing once. Officer had no view of any of that. A laptop running out of battery overnight took a
`run_in_background` job with it for no reason.
`detach` now sits beside `kill` on both streaming handles, and `_sidecarUnsub` — declared and called for
a long time, never once assigned — is populated at all three sites. `releaseSession` unsubscribes and
forgets the record without killing; the idle timer points at it. `deleteSession` is unchanged, so an
explicit disconnect still ends the session.
The third assignment site was not in the plan: `adoptOrphanedSession` sets `_claudeKill` but nothing
else, so an adopted session that later idled out would have dropped its record while the listener stayed
subscribed — a leak of one per adopt-then-leave.
No double subscription: releasing unsubscribes first, so a returning browser either adopts with a fresh
listener or starts a first turn with none behind it.
Step 1 of docs/chat-session-lifetime.md. Step 2 (a list verb, so running sessions can be found after a
restart) is still open.
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Investigation only, no code. The sidecar already protects sessions with background work in flight
(pendingTasks disarms its idle GC); officer's hour-long timer knows nothing about that and kills them
anyway, and does not survive its own restart. Plan is to have officer release its binding instead of
killing, and to add a list verb so running sessions can be found after a restart.
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The whole composer bar is the target, not just the textarea — a screenshot dragged out of the macOS
corner thumbnail is a small thing to aim with, and the bar is the biggest thing near where the cursor
already is. Paste already worked; this is the same attach path.
Three details, each of which breaks the drop silently if missed. `preventDefault` on dragover, or the
browser refuses the drop, never fires onDrop, and navigates to the file instead — taking whatever was
typed with it. A depth counter rather than a boolean, because dragenter/dragleave fire for every child
crossed and the highlight strobes as you move over the textarea. And only claiming drags that carry
files, so dragging selected text across the composer neither lights it up nor swallows the drop.
Non-image files in the same drag are ignored quietly: refusing the PDF among them with a toast would be
noise when the three screenshots you meant went in fine.
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Queued prompts are almost always one thought arriving in pieces — a correction, then the thing you
forgot. Answering them one turn at a time made the agent reply to the first without knowing the second
existed, then re-answer once it did. Joined with a blank line between, in the order written, which is
how they read anyway.
The tray is unchanged: they stay separate rows, each removable right up until they go. What merges is
the delivery, not the queue.
Only a lone prompt can still be a slash command. Joined to anything else it is text that happens to
start with a slash, and running it as a command would silently drop everything queued behind it. The
drain now takes the whole queue at once, so it loops twice at most — again only if the batch was a
handled command and something arrived while it ran.
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