No proxy host, no certificate, no port opened. `/api/dev-proxy/5173/…` forwards to `http://127.0.0.1:5173/…` over the platform's own origin, and the panel maps what you type onto it. ── Why a proxy at all, when the ask was "just point at localhost" ── Neither direct route works from a browser on https://<platform>. `http://localhost:5173` resolves on the VIEWER's machine, not the server's, and `http://<server>:5173` is mixed content inside an https page and is blocked before it is even attempted. Both fail looking exactly like the dev server being down. The bytes have to arrive over an origin the page already trusts, which is the platform. A dev server can therefore stay bound to 127.0.0.1. The workflow this replaces — one NPM proxy host per app — needs it on 0.0.0.0 plus a firewall rule for the docker bridge, so this is both less setup and less exposure. ── What came back from `188b45c1^`, and what did not ── The 46-line HTML/asset rewrite, which is the hard-won part: absolute paths in the document, plus an injected script that intercepts fetch/XHR/WebSocket for the URLs built at runtime. Its JWT injection is deleted — those apps called the PLATFORM's API; a dev server proxied here talks to itself, and handing its process the owner's bearer token would be giving credentials to whatever is on that port. The other 314 lines are not back: spawning, port discovery, idle timers, log collection, a proxyId registry. The port is the id, and the background-job button already starts dev servers. ── HMR is bridged, because "see it" without "follow it" is half the feature ── The injected script rewrites the dev server's socket under the prefix; the relay dials `ws://127.0.0.1:<port>` and forwards frames both ways. Same shape as the vault relay including the non-obvious part — state registered synchronously and frames queued until the upstream opens, because Bun requires the upgrade to be synchronous and an HMR client speaks immediately. An upstream close closes the client, which is what makes a dev-server restart reconnect by itself. ── Access, which was not in the ask and is not optional ── This route reaches any loopback port on the machine, on a host that answers from the public internet. An iframe cannot carry a bearer token — it is a navigation — so the panel puts it in the URL once, the proxy verifies it is the OWNER through `resolveAuthToken`, and issues a short-lived cookie every sub-resource then carries. Anonymous and non-owner requests get 401, verified. Owner-only rather than a permission: reading an arbitrary loopback port is the `execution` power the registry says can never be granted. Both exemptions are registered with reasons, and the boot check earned its keep — it refused to start until the socket provider was claimed too. ── Verified against a real loopback-only server ── Confirmed unreachable from outside, then through the proxy: index served and rewritten, `/_bun/` chunk resolved, JSON passed through untouched, 401 anonymous, 401 with a bad token, "nothing is listening" on a dead port. Websocket: refused without the cookie, target parsed, frames relayed in both directions. One bug found by testing rather than reading: the upstream path was derived by slicing a hardcoded prefix, so every asset request returned the index page. It is found from the `/<port>` segment now. A test asserting `http://localhost:5173` is kept verbatim is now inverted, with the reason written beside it — that was correct when the panel only framed real hostnames. 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.