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The record instruction lived in one place: the preamble the background-job dialog composes. Fine while the dialog was the only way to arm a commander, and wrong for the flow being built — the commander arming itself from the conversation, with the owner never touching the launcher. An agent starting its own background job never sees that preamble, so it would record nothing, and delete would quietly go back to leaving orphaned loops. So the paths are compiled into a commander's session preamble, beside the affordances and the skills index. THE SPLIT, which is the part worth keeping: the METHOD lives in the Commanders skill — read on demand, as long as it needs to be — and the PATHS are compiled in always, because they are a fact about this session that the agent cannot derive. That is exactly the line between a skill and an always-loaded block, and it falls in the same place here as everywhere else. The account is derived from the CWD rather than passed in, because the caller does not have it: the sidecar knows a member's osUser and home, and an owner's turn carries no email at all. A commander's cwd is DATA_PATH/<email>/commanders, so the email is in the path — and it is verified by reconstructing the directory from it, so a coincidentally-shaped path cannot pass. Keyed on the cwd rather than a database lookup, for the same reason every other surface uses isCommandersDir: a session must not be a commander in one place and not another. It also works before the row exists, which a lookup would not — and the first turn is when the row does not exist yet. Stated in the file rather than left to be found: a brand-new commander's FIRST turn gets no block, because the transcript id does not exist until that turn begins. In practice the first turn is the conversation about what to watch and the loop starts on a later one, but a commander that armed itself on its opening message would not have been told where to record. Verified on the three cases: a real commanders cwd renders the block with both paths, an ordinary chat gets null, and a session with no id yet gets null. 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.