Three buttons in the expanded task panel, beside Stop. Not on the chip: the panel is where you decide what to do with a job, and a row of unlabelled glyphs on a pill is where you misclick. ── Pause / Resume ── SIGSTOP and SIGCONT — the only pair that means "stop doing things and keep everything". The process keeps its memory, its open files and its bound port, and picks up mid-instruction. Signals go to every pid holding the job's output file, because for a shell job that is the shell AND what it spawned, and freezing one of them would be worse than freezing neither. Verified by watching a job that writes a line a second: 3 lines, frozen at 3 across three seconds of pause, 6 after resume. Worth knowing before pressing it: a paused server does not REFUSE connections, it stops answering them, so a browser pointed at it hangs rather than erroring. That is what pausing is, not a shortcoming here. ── Restart, and the cost it accepts ── The command is recovered by joining the transcript to itself: the harness records the `tool_use` carrying `command`, and separately its result — the text `Command running in background with ID: <id>`. Neither alone is enough; together they are a join on `tool_use_id`, and that is the only place the command survives. The transcript is found FROM the output path rather than searched for, since a task file at `<tmp>/claude-<uid>/<slug>/<session>/tasks/<id>.output` names both. The respawned process appends to that same output file. That is what keeps everything else working untouched — the log view reads that file, and Stop finds the process by asking which pids hold it open. The real cost, chosen deliberately: the platform becomes a SECOND owner of a task. The harness stops watching when its own child dies, so the platform supervises what it spawned and emits the same `task:started` / `task:notification` pair everything downstream is built on. `emitToSession` is the seam, and it is the only one — nothing else learns that a task can have two kinds of parent. A restart re-announces an id already in the transcript, so `task:started` now RESETS an existing task row rather than appending a second one. Without that the tray showed the job twice, once finished and once running. Restart is offered for a finished job too, which is the case that matters most: a dev server that fell over is exactly what you want back without typing a sentence at an agent that may be mid-turn. Verified end to end against a planted task: command recovered, old process killed, new one spawned, output APPENDED (`first run output` then `RESTARTED-OK`), exit reported through the callback, supervision registry released afterwards. `[open]` A restarted job does not survive an `officer` restart — the platform is its parent now. The harness's own jobs never did either. tsgo clean, frontend builds, 890 pass / 7 fail unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The documentation, triaged
2026-08-13. A map of what is in here, what it is for, and what should happen to it. Made because there are 42 documents and 13,000 lines, and no way to tell from the filenames which describe the system as it is and which are a record of an afternoon in July.
How much I verified: the classifications below are from filenames, status lines, and greps for things that changed on 2026-08-13. Where I actually read the document or checked the code, it says so. The rest is a starting point for a conversation, not a verdict.
Living — these describe the system and must stay true
| doc | state |
|---|---|
working-on-officer.md |
updated 2026-08-13. Operational guide. |
secret-store.md |
updated 2026-08-13. Built; rotation still open. |
install-variants.md |
new. The branch tree, for discussion. |
http-secure-context-audit.md |
new. What breaks over plain http. |
install-container-testing.md |
new. First container pass and its findings. |
per-user-linux-accounts.md |
partly updated. OFFICER_OS_USERS is gone; check the rest. |
navigation-audit.md |
authoritative on routing. Unverified against tonight's route removals. |
workspace-panels.md + workspace-panel-todo.md |
the panel framework. 1,300 lines combined — likely the biggest cleanup here. |
agent-coordination.md |
the north star for panel work. |
deprovision-os-account.md |
implemented; the 'disabled' stage it may mention was deleted tonight. |
Stale — describe things that changed on 2026-08-13
Each of these references something that no longer exists. Not yet corrected.
sidecar-topology.md— "ecosystem.config.cjs is the source of truth". It is generated now, and holds six processes.sidecar-app-store.md— derives the catalogue fromfull − light. Those files are gone, andcatalogue.test.tswas rewritten.sidecar-bootstrapping.md— "20 PM2 entries, 18 sidecar dirs". Six entries now.mobile-api-keys.md— partly corrected; recheck the origin-checking claims.wallet-key-custody.md—VAULT_STORE_KEYis now the per-purposewalletkey.push-notifications.md— "agreed design, 2026-07-31". Notify is a plugin and unmounted.chat-session-lifetime.md,chat-ui-walkthrough.md— referenceofficer-agent, renamed.
Historical — a record of a moment, and should stay one
Do not rewrite these to match today's code. They document how a decision was reached, and editing them destroys the reasoning. If they mislead, add a dated header pointing forward.
sidecar-audit-2026-07.md(1,377 lines)claude-sidecar-isolation.md— records theofficer-claude→officer-agentrename that preceded tonight'sofficer-agent→officer-claude-codeopen-threads-after-per-user-claude.mdtwo-agent-field-report-2026-08-12.mdapi-method-changes-2026-08-06.md
The opencode cluster — nine documents for one migration
opencode-fork-decision · -parity · -api-2-assessment · -phase0-review · -phase1-report ·
-phase1-review · -serve-migration-plan · -serve-path · -testing-checklist
The migration landed — opencode serve is in the sidecar, verified. So
opencode-serve-migration-plan.md saying "Nothing here is implemented" is false.
This is the clearest consolidation candidate in the whole directory: one document recording what was decided and what shipped, replacing nine that describe stages of getting there. I did not do it because it needs reading all nine, and deleting documents unread is not a thing to do at 4am.
The mobile-dav thread — three documents, one conversation
mobile-dav-provisioning · -feedback · -reply. A correspondence. Almost certainly one document.
Unclassified — I have not looked
design-language-interface · file-sync · jobs-unification · mobile-photo-sync-api ·
nextcloud-replacement · agent-git-identity
The plugin split, which affects most of the above
A core install is six processes. Everything else is a plugin, switched off tonight but present on disk. Most documents here were written when the estate was twenty processes and every one of them was simply "there", so they describe availability that no longer holds.
The useful rewrite is usually one line, not a rewrite: say whether the thing described is core or a plugin, and if a plugin, that it is not mounted on a fresh install.