`apply_allowlist_change` used `docker restart <bundle>` to make
pipelock reload, which bounced ALL four daemons — including
supervise, whose MCP socket the agent's claude-code client had
open. That dropped the connection. A second apply works because
supervise has come back up by then.
Fix: per-daemon restart via SIGUSR1.
- New `_Supervisor.restart_daemon(name)` terminates one named
child and spawns a replacement in place. Other daemons keep
running.
- main() wires SIGUSR1 → `restart_daemon("pipelock")`. Pipelock
has no in-process reload, so this is its analog of egress's
SIGHUP-reload-addon path. Pipelock is the only daemon that
currently needs hot-config reload via restart; if others
acquire the need, add a new signal.
- `apply_allowlist_change` now `docker kill --signal USR1
<bundle>` instead of `docker restart`. Supervise / egress /
git-gate keep running across the apply.
Tests:
- New `_Supervisor.restart_daemon` cases: replaces in place
(different pid post-restart, sibling daemon unchanged),
unknown name is a no-op, restart-during-shutdown is a no-op.
- `test_pipelock_apply` rewritten to bring up the bundle image
with `CLAUDE_BOTTLE_SIDECAR_DAEMONS=pipelock` so the
supervisor is PID 1 and handles SIGUSR1. The previous
standalone-pipelock setup wouldn't survive SIGUSR1 (pipelock
default disposition is terminate). Test builds the bundle
image in setUpClass (cached layers make repeat runs fast).
531 tests passing locally (unit + integration).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two bugs surfaced when applying an egress route change:
1. egress_apply.py still targeted claude-bottle-egress-<slug> —
the legacy per-sidecar container that no longer exists (it's
a docker-network alias on the bundle now). Switched it to
sidecar_bundle_container_name(slug), matching the chunk-5
fix already made to pipelock_apply.py.
2. `docker kill --signal HUP <bundle>` lands SIGHUP on the
supervisor (PID 1 in the bundle), which previously had no
SIGHUP handler — the signal was ignored. Added
`_Supervisor.forward_signal(sig, daemon_name)` and a SIGHUP
handler in main() that forwards to the egress daemon so
mitmdump's addon reload still works under the bundle.
Tests:
- New _Supervisor.forward_signal cases: forwards to the named
child (Python subprocess as the SIGHUP target — bash trap +
stdout=PIPE deferral interferes with the production-style
test); unknown-daemon name is a no-op.
Stale-reference cleanup (separate issue surfaced while looking
at this):
- claude_bottle/{egress,git_gate,egress_addon,
egress_addon_core,supervise_server}.py: Dockerfile.egress /
Dockerfile.git-gate / Dockerfile.supervise references updated
to Dockerfile.sidecars (the old per-sidecar Dockerfiles were
deleted in PRD 0024 chunk 5).
- tests/README.md: dropped the entry for
test_pipelock_sidecar_smoke (deleted in chunk 3) and added
the new bundle integration tests.
- git_gate.py: stale `DockerGitGate.start via docker cp`
reference (the method was deleted in chunk 3) rewritten to
the bind-mount path the renderer uses now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three deliverables:
1. Rewrite test_pipelock_apply bringup with a direct `docker run`.
Replaces the .start-based bringup deleted in chunk 3. Stages
the yaml + CAs to the real pipelock_state_dir so the bind-
mount target matches what apply_allowlist_change writes to —
the legacy .start path did this implicitly because it lived
inside the production flow; the new bringup needs to be
explicit about the path. All 4 cases pass.
2. New tests/integration/test_sidecar_bundle_compose.py: end-
to-end smoke with CLAUDE_BOTTLE_SIDECAR_BUNDLE=1. Brings up
a real bottle via the compose path and verifies the agent
can reach pipelock + supervise through the bundle's legacy
aliases (no agent-side config changes between flag positions).
Skipped under act_runner — multi-stage build + bind mounts.
3. Two bundle-path bugs surfaced and fixed while running PRD
0022 with the flag on:
- egress_entrypoint.sh: add `--set confdir=/home/mitmproxy/
.mitmproxy` so mitmdump finds the bind-mounted CA. The
legacy Dockerfile.egress runs as user mitmproxy (~mitmproxy
resolves correctly); the bundle runs as root and otherwise
would look in /root/.mitmproxy/ and mint a NEW CA the agent
doesn't trust. Symptom: PRD 0022 attack-3 curl failed with
"unable to get local issuer certificate".
- sidecar_init.py: add `--listen 0.0.0.0:8888` to pipelock's
argv. Without it pipelock defaults to 127.0.0.1, so the
in-bundle egress's upstream connect to the
`claude-bottle-pipelock-<slug>` alias arrives over the
docker network and gets refused. The legacy renderer
passed this flag verbatim; the bundle dropped it. Symptom:
egress returned HTTP 502 with "Connect call failed
('172.x.x.x', 8888)".
PRD 0022's 5-attack sandbox-escape suite now passes with the
bundle flag on AND off.
Test status:
- Unit: 533 passing.
- Integration: 9 passing locally with flag off, 5 passing with
flag on. Bundle compose smoke + PRD 0022 sandbox-escape both
green under CLAUDE_BOTTLE_SIDECAR_BUNDLE=1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Compose-up has owned per-container lifecycle since PRD 0018 ch3;
the .start() / .stop() methods on DockerPipelockProxy /
DockerEgress / DockerGitGate / DockerSupervise (and their
abstractmethod declarations in the four base ABCs) were already
documented as vestigial. With the bundle path in flight
(PRD 0024 ch2), they are truly dead — collapse to nothing.
Changes:
- Removed start/stop methods from the four DockerSidecar
classes. Plan dataclasses, image/path constants,
container-name helpers, and the .prepare() methods all stay
(the renderer + apply path still need them).
- Removed the matching @abstractmethod declarations in the
base ABCs so concrete subclasses don't have to stub them.
- launch.launch() and prepare.resolve_plan() no longer take
proxy/git_gate/egress/supervise instance parameters. backend.py
loses the four instance attributes it threaded through.
prepare.resolve_plan() instantiates the four classes itself
to call their .prepare() methods.
- Deleted four integration tests that only exercised the
removed lifecycle: test_pipelock_sidecar_smoke,
test_supervise_sidecar, test_git_gate_sidecar,
test_git_gate_mirror.
- Dropped the .stop-idempotency case in test_orphan_cleanup;
the network-cleanup cases stay (those test real production
code).
- Marked test_pipelock_apply @skip pending chunk 4 — its
bringup helper used .start; chunk 4 rewrites it with direct
`docker run`.
Dockerfile deletion deferred to chunk 5 (when the bundle flag
default flips) — the legacy compose path still needs
Dockerfile.{egress,git-gate,supervise} until then.
Net: 708 lines removed, 80 added.
533 unit tests + 27 integration tests passing (5 skipped: the
chunk-4-pending case + existing GITEA_ACTIONS guards).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The docker backend's compose renderer now emits a single
`sidecars` service in place of the four per-sidecar services
when CLAUDE_BOTTLE_SIDECAR_BUNDLE is truthy. Default (unset/0/
false) keeps the legacy five-service shape so existing operators
don't have to migrate atomically; chunks 4-5 flip the default
and delete the flag.
New module claude_bottle/backend/docker/sidecar_bundle.py owns
the bundle image constant (CLAUDE_BOTTLE_SIDECAR_IMAGE env var
override + claude-bottle-sidecars:latest default), the
Dockerfile reference, the container-name helper, and the
flag-parser.
The bundle service:
- joins both internal + egress networks with aliases for every
legacy shortname + per-slug long form so the agent's
HTTPS_PROXY URL (which dials `egress` or
`claude-bottle-pipelock-<slug>`) keeps resolving with no
agent-side change
- carries CLAUDE_BOTTLE_SIDECAR_DAEMONS=<csv> for the init
supervisor to narrow which daemons to start
- carries the union of the four prior services' daemon-private
env vars (EGRESS_UPSTREAM_PROXY, SUPERVISE_*, token env names)
- does NOT carry HTTPS_PROXY/HTTP_PROXY/NO_PROXY — those would
route git-gate's git fetches through pipelock by mistake
- union'd bind-mounts at the same in-container paths as before
HTTPS_PROXY scoping moved into egress_entrypoint.sh so only
mitmdump's subprocess sees it. In the legacy four-sidecar shape
the env vars also lived in the egress service's compose env;
the shell script's export is additionally defensive.
Tests:
- All 44 existing TestCompose cases pass unchanged (flag off →
legacy shape).
- 20 new TestSidecarBundleShape cases assert on the bundle's
services / aliases / env / volumes / depends_on under the
flag.
- 8 new TestSidecarBundleFlag cases lock down the env-var
parser (unset / 0 / false / no / off → disabled; everything
else → enabled).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverts the earlier removal — EXPOSE is doc-only on the
renderer-driven publish path, but keeping it in the Dockerfile
(with the comment naming it as such) documents the bundle's
port surface for anyone reading the file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverses chunk 1's "any unexpected child death tears down the
rest" policy. New behavior: a daemon dying is logged but does
NOT initiate shutdown — the surviving daemons keep running and
whatever the dead one served starts failing visibly on the
agent side. The supervisor exits only when (a) it receives
SIGTERM/SIGINT, or (b) every child has died on its own.
Eventual design is restart-the-dead-daemon plus a notification
to the supervise sidecar so the operator sees the event
explicitly; this commit ships only the "log and leave alone"
half. PRD 0024 open question 1 updated to reflect the new
intent.
Tests updated: replaced "crash propagates exit code via
auto-teardown" with three cases that exercise the new policy
(crash without shutdown leaves survivors up, crash-then-signal
surfaces the nonzero code, all-children-die-unattended still
converges the loop).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
EXPOSE doesn't publish ports — the compose renderer does that.
Carrying it just to document the in-container port set adds
noise without doing work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New Dockerfile.sidecars multi-stage build: pulls the pinned
pipelock and gitleaks binaries into a mitmproxy-base final image,
installs git + openssh-client, and ships the project's egress
addon + supervise server alongside a stdlib-Python init at
/app/sidecar_init.py.
The init supervisor (claude_bottle/sidecar_init.py) is PID 1 in
the bundle. It spawns the daemons named in
CLAUDE_BOTTLE_SIDECAR_DAEMONS (or all four by default),
propagates SIGTERM/SIGINT to children with an 8s grace before
SIGKILL, and exits with the first-unexpected-child exit code so
a daemon crash tears down the bundle (per PRD 0024 open
question 1's default).
claude_bottle/egress_entrypoint.sh extracted verbatim from
Dockerfile.egress's prior inline sh -c so the supervisor can
call it as a normal child.
Tests:
- unit: _selected_daemons env-var subset behavior (7 cases),
_Supervisor signal/exit-code semantics including SIGKILL
escalation, and end-to-end main() via subprocess.
- integration: builds the image and probes that pipelock,
gitleaks, mitmdump, and the supervise Python module are
present + executable, plus a no-daemons-selected smoke test
of the entrypoint wiring. Skipped under act_runner (200+MB
base pulls + multi-stage build).
Renderer collapse and the deletion of Dockerfile.{egress,git-gate,
supervise} land in chunk 2 + 3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace pipelock + egress + git-gate + supervise as four
separate containers with one bundle image
(claude-bottle-sidecars) running all four daemons under a small
stdlib Python init supervisor. Compose file collapses from five
services to two; same daemons, same ports, same protocols, one
container.
Sized: bundle image + init → renderer collapse (feature-flagged)
→ backend Python trim → integration sweep → flag removal.
Prerequisite for PRD 0023 chunk 3 (smolmachines backend reuses
the same bundle as its sole host-side sidecar container).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the four host-side sidecar processes (pipelock + egress +
git-gate + supervise) with a single bundled container per bottle,
defined in PRD 0024 and consumed here. egress is internal to the
bundle as pipelock's upstream; only pipelock, git-gate, and
supervise are externally addressable, and only when the bottle
uses them.
gvproxy port_forwards collapse from one-per-process to one-per-
external-port, all pointing into the one bundle container.
Sizing: chunk 3 becomes "sidecar bundle lifecycle" and depends
on PRD 0024 having landed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TSI's --outbound-localhost-only is permissive on all of
127.0.0.0/8 with no destination-port filter, so any host
loopback service (local Postgres, IDE plugins, another bottle's
sidecar) is reachable from the guest. That's the wrong default
for the malicious-agent threat model.
Reworked the network design around gvproxy + VFKT unixgram
attachment: the guest gets a virtio-net device, gvproxy is the
userspace TCP/IP stack on the host side, and the only thing
reachable from the guest is the explicit port-forward list
(typically just pipelock). Host LAN, host loopback, and the
public internet directly are gone by construction.
VMM choice (smolmachines vs PyObjC + Virtualization.framework)
is an open question contingent on whether libkrun's virtio-net
mode lets us point at a custom unixgram socket. Backend name
stays "smolmachines" either way per the original spec.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Specs a second concrete BottleBackend selectable via
CLAUDE_BOTTLE_BACKEND=smolmachines: per-agent libkrun microVM on
macOS, sidecars relocated to host-side loopback ports plumbed via
Smolfile env, PRD 0022's sandbox-escape suite as the acceptance
gate (the env-var flip is the only change required). Docker
backend ships unchanged and remains default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Gitea CI runner shares the host docker socket but not its
filesystem, so pipelock_tls_init's host bind-mount path for CA
files is invisible to the runner container — the same constraint
that already gates the other bottle-bringup integration tests.
PRD 0022's test suite was missing this guard; it failed on the
post-merge main build with "pipelock tls init did not produce ca
files". Mirror the existing skipIf pattern at the class level.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two related changes the PRD 0022 sandbox-escape test surfaced:
1. `pipelock_build_config` now emits
`request_body_scanning.scan_headers: true` and
`header_mode: all`. Pipelock's default `header_mode:
sensitive` only checks Authorization / Cookie / X-Api-Key
/ X-Token / Proxy-Authorization / X-Goog-Api-Key — an
agent attempting exfil could trivially pick a
non-sensitive header (`X-Custom: $SECRET`) and slip
through. `all` closes the gap; pipelock caps it by the
same max_body_bytes the body scan uses.
2. Test 3 (HTTP exfil shapes) now targets
raw.githubusercontent.com instead of api.anthropic.com.
api.anthropic.com is in `DEFAULT_TLS_PASSTHROUGH` —
pipelock can't MITM it because real LLM conversation
bodies false-positive on DLP scanners (BIP-39 etc.). The
trade-off is documented in `pipelock.DEFAULT_TLS_PASSTHROUGH`;
the test now exercises a host where the sandbox is
actually supposed to block.
All 5 sandbox-escape attacks now produce HTTP 403 with the
expected sandbox marker (`egress:`, `pipelock`, or `blocked:`):
- Attack 1 (non-allowlisted host) ✓ egress
- Attack 2 (non-allowlisted IP + spoof) ✓ egress
- Attack 3a (URL path) ✓ pipelock DLP
- Attack 3b (URL query) ✓ pipelock DLP
- Attack 3c (request body) ✓ pipelock DLP
- Attack 3d (request header) ✓ pipelock DLP (scan_headers)
- Attack 4a (crafted subdomain) ✓ egress
- Attack 4b (direct dig @8.8.8.8) ✓ network isolation
- Attack 5 (README push, 3 secret shapes) ✓ gitleaks (pre-upstream)
489 unit tests pass (1 updated for the new request_body_scanning
shape). Full integration suite passes in ~6s.
End-to-end test that brings up a real bottle with allowlisted
egress + git-gate + three planted secrets, then runs five
attacks from inside the agent container.
Chunks 1-5 implemented in one pass against the Docker backend:
Attack 1 — non-allowlisted hostname (curl evil.example.com)
✓ blocked by egress
Attack 2 — non-allowlisted IP literal (198.51.100.1) + host-
header spoof via curl --resolve
✓ both blocked by egress
Attack 3 — HTTP exfil to allowlisted destination via path /
query / body / header
✗ ALL FOUR LEAK — request reaches api.anthropic.com
with the secret embedded. Pipelock's DLP doesn't
catch the anthropic-key shape in the body, and
nothing scans path / query / headers.
Attack 4 — DNS exfil via crafted subdomain + direct
dig @8.8.8.8 query
✓ both blocked (egress rejects subdomain, internal
network has no path to 8.8.8.8)
Attack 5 — README push through git-gate with secret-bearing
attacker URL (parameterized over anthropic / AWS /
generic shapes); ordering check that gitleaks fires
BEFORE any upstream attempt
✓ all three secret shapes blocked by gitleaks
Per PRD 0022 Q1 the assertion in attack 3 is authoritative —
HTTP 403 with an egress/pipelock marker in the body is the only
acceptable outcome. Any 4xx from upstream means the secret
reached the network. The four failing sub-tests are real
sandbox gaps that need their own remediation PRDs before this
test merges green.
Also adds `dnsutils` (dig) to the base agent image so attack 4's
direct-DNS check has a tool to run.
CI: no changes needed — `.gitea/workflows/test.yml` already runs
`tests/integration/` and the suite skip_unless_dockers cleanly
when the runner has no Docker socket.
All seven open questions now have decisions baked in:
- Q1 (HTTP-exfil scope): authoritative. Every shape MUST
block; chunk 3 expands into remediation sub-PRDs if
any of path/query/header leak today.
- Q3 (fake secret): multiple shapes, parameterized.
Three env vars (TEST_SECRET_ANTHROPIC, _AWS, _GENERIC);
test 5 loops via subTest. Resilient to gitleaks rule
renames.
- Q6 (missing backend): die. `get_bottle_backend()`'s
current behavior surfaces clearly; surprise-skips are
worse than loud failures for new-backend branches.
- Q7 (tool deps): preflight check. setUpClass runs
`which curl && which git && which dig`; SkipTest with
the missing list catches future backends shipping
thinner base images.
Updated implementation chunks + test-5 sketch to match.
No remaining open questions.
User feedback:
- Q2 (direct DNS resolver test): yes — test 4 grows a
second sub-assertion verifying `dig @8.8.8.8` from the
agent has no path out, alongside the existing
crafted-subdomain check.
- Q4 (gitleaks ordering): test 5 grows an ordering check
— asserts the rejection mentions `gitleaks` AND does
NOT mention upstream-network-phase phrases (resolve /
refused / unreachable / upstream). Confirms gitleaks
rejects BEFORE git-gate tries any upstream push.
- Q5 (CI): try it, accept fallback. New chunk 6 adds a
Gitea Actions job marked `continue-on-error: true` —
runs the suite if the runner can host compose, doesn't
block the workflow if docker-in-docker prevents it.
Three open questions remain (1: pipelock's actual DLP
coverage for non-body shapes; 3: realistic fake secret
shape vs. gitleaks regex; 6+7: backend-agnostic invocation
+ required tools — for the smolmachines work).
Draft a PRD for a composite integration test that brings up
a real bottle with a known allowlist + planted secret and
runs five attacks from inside the agent container:
1. Request to non-allowlisted hostname
2. Request to non-allowlisted IP (incl. host-header spoof)
3. Secret exfil via HTTP — path / query / body / headers
4. Secret exfil via crafted DNS subdomain
5. Secret exfil via README link pushed through git-gate
Each attack passes only when blocked with a permissions
error. The suite is backend-agnostic — runs against
whatever CLAUDE_BOTTLE_BACKEND selects — so it becomes the
gate the upcoming smolmachines spike has to pass before that
backend can substitute for Docker.
Sized into 5 chunks (fixture → attacks 1+2 → attack 3 →
attack 4 → attack 5). Seven open questions called out,
biggest being: today's pipelock probably leaks via header /
path / query because DLP only scans bodies — the test will
expose this as a real gap (chunk 3 lands with
`expectedFailure` markers if so).
When a fresh proposal arrives, the dashboard now also:
- Runs `tmux select-pane -t \$TMUX_PANE` (the dashboard's own
pane id, captured at startup) so tmux focus jumps to the
dashboard from wherever the operator was (typically claude
in the right pane).
- Flips internal focus to PANE_PROPOSALS so j/k navigates the
queued items immediately.
- Lands the selected cursor on the first new proposal —
proposals are sorted by arrival ascending, so the earliest
new arrival in the batch gets the cursor.
Stacks with the bell + label highlight from the previous
commit. The operator gets:
1. Audible bell (or tmux activity marker)
2. Tmux focus on the dashboard pane
3. Dashboard's internal focus on the proposals list
4. Cursor on the actual new proposal
5. Pane label flashing `(new!)` in bold green
— all without leaving the keyboard.
When a fresh proposal lands in the supervise queue, the
dashboard:
1. Rings the terminal bell via `curses.beep()` so tmux's
`monitor-bell` (or the terminal's own bell-on-activity)
surfaces a notice in the dashboard pane even when the
operator is focused on claude in the right pane.
2. Bolds + green-attrs the `proposals:` pane label and
suffixes it with `(new!)` so a glance at the dashboard
screen catches the alert at a glance.
The highlight tracks the existing per-row green-highlight
window (`_NEW_PROPOSAL_HIGHLIGHT_SEC`). The bell only fires for
NEWLY arrived proposals after the first tick — pre-existing
queue entries on dashboard startup don't ring.
The new-agent (`n`) flow's tmux branch was leaving keyboard
focus in the dashboard pane after compose-up + provision
finished and claude landed in the right pane — same situation
as Enter re-attach before its `focus_right_pane` fix. The
operator just spun an agent up; they want to type at it.
Pass `focus_right_pane=True` to `_attach_in_tmux` from the
new-agent flow. `tmux select-pane` runs after the respawn.
`--continue` exits non-zero when an agent has been spun up but
never typed at — there's no transcript to resume. Re-attaching
to such an agent via Enter (tmux mode) was crashing the pane.
Wrap the resume invocation in `sh -c '<cmd> --continue || <cmd>'`
so a failed `--continue` cleanly falls through to a fresh
claude. The shell adds microseconds and the fallback only
kicks in when --continue would have failed anyway.
New `_build_resume_argv_with_fallback(bottle)` builds the
shell-wrapped docker exec argv with proper shlex quoting (so
paths-with-spaces in `--append-system-prompt-file` survive).
Only the tmux re-attach path uses it; first-attach + foreground
handoff are unchanged.
489 unit tests pass (4 new for the fallback builder).
The Enter key on a focused agents-pane row is the operator's
explicit "I want to interact with this agent" signal — after
respawning the right pane with claude, move tmux's keyboard
focus to that pane so the operator can start typing
immediately. Without this, every Enter required a manual tmux
nav (C-b →) to actually use the session.
Mechanics:
- `_attach_in_tmux` gains `focus_right_pane: bool = False`.
- When True, runs `tmux select-pane -t <pane_id>` after the
respawn.
- `_attach_to_bottle` (the Enter handler's helper) passes
True.
- Other callers (new-agent flow, stop's auto-attach) leave
it False so the operator stays in the dashboard for
follow-up navigation.
`_tmux_select_pane` is a small subprocess wrapper, best-effort
on failure.
After `x` stops a dashboard-owned bottle, slide focus to the
next agent in the agents pane (the one filling the stopped
row, or the new last row if the stopped was last) and respawn
the right pane with that agent's claude session via `--continue`.
If no agents remain, close the right pane via `tmux kill-pane`.
Two new helpers:
- `_tmux_close_right_pane(tmux_state)` — kills the tracked
pane (if it exists) and clears pane_id / slug.
- `_pick_next_after_stop(agents_before, selected_index,
stopped_slug)` — pure chooser returning (new_index, agent)
or None. Tested directly.
Outside tmux, only the selected_agent index slides; no
auto-attach (foreground handoff would take over the terminal,
disruptive). 485 unit tests pass (6 new for the pick helper).
The dashboard is primarily an agent-management surface
(PRD 0020 + 0021); landing on the proposals pane was a holdover
from when proposals were the only thing the dashboard showed.
Default focus is now `PANE_AGENTS`, so j/k navigates the agents
list immediately on launch — the operator Tabs to proposals
when something queues. Focus choice still persists across
operations.
Both `_new_agent_flow` (bringup) and `_stop_bottle_flow`
(teardown) were doing the same five-step dance: open the log
path, mkdir parents, empty the file, ensure the right pane is
tailing it, redirect fd 2 to the same file. Extract into a
context manager:
with _route_op_to_right_pane(tmux_state, slug, log_name) as routed:
if routed:
<run op>
Yields True when routing succeeded (fd 2 redirected, pane
tailing), False on fallback conditions (not in tmux, no
tmux_state, or tmux failed to spawn a pane). The fallback
paths still differ between callers — bringup follows up
with `_attach_in_tmux`, teardown does the curses-endwin
compose-down — so the helper stops at "is stderr routed
or not" and lets callers branch from there. Net diff:
~60 lines deleted, the routing-to-right-pane concept now
lives in one place.
PRD 0021 follow-up. Mirrors the bringup-into-right-pane fix
on the explicit-stop path: when `\$TMUX` is set, the stop
flow respawns the right pane with `tail -F
state/<slug>/teardown.log` (via `_ensure_right_pane` —
reuses the existing right pane if it's the agent's claude
session) and redirects fd 2 to that log for the duration of
`capture_session_state` + `cm.__exit__`. compose-down +
network-remove messages stream into the right pane.
After `settle_state` removes the state dir, the tail keeps
its buffered output visible (tail -F handles file removal
gracefully); the next attach respawns the pane with claude.
Falls back to the existing curses-endwin path on tmux
failure, or when the dashboard isn't in tmux at all.
After the operator pressed `y` on the preflight modal (or
picked an agent in the picker), the modal's curses sub-window
stayed on screen until the dashboard's main loop ticked again
— which during a 5-10s launch made it look like the
confirmation never registered.
Add `_erase_modal` (touchwin + refresh on stdscr) and call it
at every exit from `_preflight_modal` and `_picker_modal`.
The pre-modal frame buffered on stdscr immediately overwrites
the sub-window's area; the launch proceeds with a clean
dashboard underneath.
PRD 0021 follow-up. The new-agent flow was calling a dedicated
`_tmux_split_pane_tail` that ALWAYS created a new pane —
so every `n` start spawned a fresh right pane next to any
existing one, accumulating panes instead of reusing them.
Replace with a generic `_ensure_right_pane(tmux_state, argv)`
that respawns the dashboard's tracked right pane if one is
alive, splits a new one only when none is tracked or the
tracked pane was closed. Both the new-agent tail-during-
bringup path AND the existing claude-attach path now route
through this helper.
Net effect: starting a second agent reuses the same right
pane — bringup tail replaces the prior claude session,
then claude (for the new agent) replaces the tail. Closing
the right pane manually via `C-b x` still triggers a fresh
split on the next attach.
PRD 0021 follow-up. When starting a new agent via `n` while
in tmux, the dashboard now:
1. Pre-creates the right pane with `tail -F
state/<slug>/bringup.log`.
2. Redirects fd 2 (stderr) to that log file via dup2 — affects
both Python `info()` calls AND subprocess inheritors'
stderr (docker compose up, network creates, provision).
3. Runs `backend.launch().__enter__()` with the redirect in
place; everything streams into the right pane via tail.
4. Restores stderr.
5. Respawns the right pane (tail → claude session).
Net effect: dashboard pane stays uncluttered during bringup,
and the operator watches the compose-up + provision output in
the same pane that's about to hold the claude session — no
visual handoff between "starting" and "started."
Curses never needs to come down on the tmux path (the pane is
already created in the dashboard's neighbor pane, and stderr
is redirected away from the terminal entirely).
If `_tmux_split_pane_tail` fails (tmux missing, server died),
falls through to the existing curses-endwin handoff so the
operator still gets a session.
PRD 0021 chunk 4 (final). Two adjustments to close the
split-pane loop:
1. `_stop_bottle_flow` clears `tmux_state['slug']` when the
stopped bottle was the right-pane occupant. The pane itself
stays in place (claude exits with "container not found");
the operator presses Enter on a different agent to
repurpose it via respawn-pane.
2. `_render` accepts `right_pane_slug` and marks the matching
agents-pane row with a `*` prefix + A_BOLD (when it's not
also the focused row — focused selection still wins for
visibility). Gives the operator a clear visual link
between which agent the dashboard says is "active right
now" and which one is visible to their right.
Wired through `_main_loop`: passes `tmux_state` to
`_stop_bottle_flow` on `x`, and `tmux_state.get('slug')` to
`_render` on every tick.
479 unit tests pass (1 new for the tmux_state-preservation
on non-owned stop). PRD 0021 implementation complete pending
merge.
PRD 0021 chunk 3. The `n` flow (PRD 0020 chunk 2) now routes
the first claude session of a freshly-started bottle into the
right tmux pane when `\$TMUX` is set — same `_attach_in_tmux`
state machine the Enter re-attach uses, just with
`resume=False` so claude starts fresh.
Outside tmux the existing foreground handoff is unchanged.
The compose-up phase (`backend.launch.__enter__`) still drops
curses for its stderr output; we restore curses BEFORE
spawning into the right pane so the dashboard re-renders
alongside the new claude session instead of waiting for
attach to return.
PRD 0021 chunk 2. New tmux integration: when `\$TMUX` is set
and the operator presses Enter on a focused agent row, the
dashboard spawns / respawns the right pane with that bottle's
claude session instead of taking over the terminal via
curses.endwin.
Mechanics:
- `_in_tmux()` — true when `\$TMUX` is set.
- `_tmux_split_pane_create` — first attach: `tmux split-window
-h -P -F '#{pane_id}'` opens a right pane and prints its id
for tracking.
- `_tmux_respawn_pane` — subsequent attaches: `tmux
respawn-pane -k -t <id>` swaps the content without
re-splitting.
- `_tmux_pane_exists` — `tmux list-panes` check before
respawn so a manually-closed pane gracefully falls back to
a fresh split.
- `_attach_in_tmux` — owns the create-or-respawn state
machine, mutates `tmux_state` ({pane_id, slug}) so the
main loop tracks the right-pane occupant.
- `_attach_via_handoff` — the previous curses-endwin path,
extracted as the fallback when tmux is missing or fails.
- `_attach_to_bottle` dispatches: in tmux + state available →
`_attach_in_tmux`; otherwise → handoff.
Main loop gets `tmux_state: dict = {"pane_id": None, "slug":
None}`. Chunks 3 + 4 wire it through the new-agent flow and
the stop hook.
`FileNotFoundError`-safe `subprocess.run` calls around every
tmux invocation — a missing tmux binary cleanly falls back to
the handoff for that keypress. 478 unit tests pass (10 new
for the pure argv builders + `_claude_runtime_args`).
PRD 0021 chunk 1. The tmux split-pane helpers (chunk 2+) need
the same docker-exec argv that `exec_claude` builds — including
the `--append-system-prompt-file <path>` flag the bottle's
provisioner copies into place. Extract the argv construction
into a pure `claude_docker_argv(argv, *, tty)` method so both
foreground (`subprocess.run`) and tmux paths
(`tmux respawn-pane …`) build from the same source.
`exec_claude` becomes a one-liner that runs subprocess.run on
the argv. No behavior change; 472 unit tests pass (7 new for
the pure builder).
PR #48 closed; treat the implementation as starting from
main, where no tmux integration exists yet. The PRD now
describes the full design (including the `_in_tmux` detection
+ helper scaffolding) as fresh work. Sized into 4 chunks:
`claude_docker_argv` refactor → tmux helpers + pane state +
`_attach_to_bottle` dispatch → new-agent flow → stop +
indicator.
Same design as before — opt-in by `\$TMUX`, split-window-then-
respawn, falls back to handoff on tmux failure or missing
binary. No external references to PR #48.
Draft a PRD that tightens PR #48's tmux integration from
"one new window per attach" to "one persistent right pane that
the dashboard's selection drives." Inside tmux (`\$TMUX` set):
dashboard in the left pane; pressing Enter or `n` spawns
claude in the right pane via `tmux split-window` on first
attach, then `tmux respawn-pane` on subsequent attaches so the
operator-focused agent is always the visible one.
Outside tmux: falls back to today's handoff. Opt-in by
environment; no flag.
Sized into 4 chunks (pane state + create → respawn → stop
integration → supersede PR #48's new-window). Seven open
questions called out, the biggest being whether the dashboard
should auto-exec into a fresh tmux session when launched
outside one (v1 says no — operators start tmux themselves).
didericis