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pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 e9b1ce5e94 command hq: the web creation path, and a member could not have used it
`context: 'command-hq'` on a chat websocket turn now resolves to
getCommandersDir(email) regardless of any client cwd, and the row gets
written the moment a real transcript id is known — the same
session:claude/result seed chat_session_models already waits on, a sibling
closure (fileAsCommander) hung off the same two triggers.

found while wiring it, not guessed at: a member's commander turn would have
failed to spawn at all. getCommandersDir is a sibling of home, and
confineUserTree confines every sibling of home to 700 owned by the service
user — unreachable "even by name" — which is exactly wrong for a directory a
member's own turn needs to cd into via setpriv. same shape of bug
resolveChatCwd already tells a story about (general_chat_sessions,
abandoned for the same reason). fixed by chowning commanders/ to the member
the same way confineUserTree already chowns home, and excluding it from the
loop that confines every other sibling. no ACL needed, unlike home — command
hq reads a member's transcripts through listTranscriptsAs, the same
as-the-member read /chat already uses, never as the service user directly.

the gap this leaves: an account provisioned before this commit needs one
manual reprovision (provision-linux-route.ts / manage-users.ts, already
idempotent) before its first commander turn works. documented, not silently
left.

pulled COMMS/command-hq/{mobile,watchers-what-broke}.md from the mobile
side's session — apps/commandhq already exists and typechecks against the
router. their finding: mobile cannot create a commander the way the web
composer does (a context flag two independent clients would have to carry
correctly), and decided with the owner on POST /command-hq/commanders/new
instead. not built server-side yet — the real blocker is that claude does
not assign a transcript id until a turn actually runs, so the endpoint has
to run one and wait for session:claude, which means extracting the
turn-starting half of handleClaudeChat rather than a second copy of it.
replied in COMMS/command-hq/platform.md with the two open questions before
building it (prompt omitted, and wanting a second look at that refactor).

docs/command-hq.md updated throughout to say plainly what's built vs planned
per path (web vs mobile) rather than one blended status.

bunx tsgo clean. suite at baseline (same 7 pre-existing failures).
confineUserTree has no unit tests today (sudo/uid-dependent, matching this
file's existing coverage posture) — not inventing a new harness for one
block inside it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 06:58:23 +00:00
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COMMS

Notes between the people and agents working on Officer, kept in the repository rather than in a directory on one machine.

Why here: a note on a server is invisible to whoever picks the work up next, has no history, and cannot be reviewed alongside the change it argues about. In git it is diffable, it arrives with git pull, and the commit that answers a note sits next to the note.

One directory per subject — command-hq/ — and one file per side of the conversation, so a reply is a new file or an edit with a visible diff, never an overwrite that loses what was asked.

Write plainly. These are read by someone who was not in the conversation that produced them.