* fix(daemon): self-heal a stale run-file instead of refusing to start
On Windows the desktop supervisor can only TerminateProcess the daemon
(no POSIX signal reaches a detached child), so the daemon's graceful
shutdown never runs and ~/.ao/running.json is never removed. The leaked
file survives into the next launch, and because Windows reuses PIDs
aggressively the recorded PID usually belongs to an unrelated process.
The startup pre-flight trusted PID liveness alone (runfile.CheckStale ->
processalive.Alive), so it concluded a daemon was "already running" and
exited with "refusing to start" on every restart. A dead daemon then
makes the renderer's loopback REST calls (e.g. Spawn Orchestrator) fail
silently.
Verify the recorded port is actually served by an AO daemon with the
recorded PID (a /healthz probe matching service + pid, the same ground
truth inspectDaemon already uses) before refusing. A run-file left by a
crashed, hard-killed, or reused-PID predecessor is treated as stale and
overwritten, so startup is robust to a leaked run-file from any cause.
Fixes#256
* fix(release): build the desktop daemon natively on each target OS
build-daemon.mjs compiles the bundled `ao` daemon with the build host's
GOOS and names it off the host platform (ao.exe only when the builder is
Windows). The release workflow ran only on macos-latest, so a Windows
package would ship a macOS binary named `ao` with no `ao.exe`, and the
app could not launch a valid Windows daemon ("This program cannot be run
in DOS mode" / binary not found).
Run the release as a per-OS matrix (macOS + Windows) so host == target
and each installer bundles a daemon compiled for its own platform, and
pin the Go toolchain with setup-go since build-daemon needs it on every
runner.
Fixes#235
* feat(terminal): Windows ConPTY support for /mux attach
Replaces the Windows stub in internal/terminal/pty_windows.go with a real ConPTY implementation backed by github.com/aymanbagabas/go-pty, so the daemon's /mux attach can stream a live terminal to the renderer on Windows.
PTYSource.AttachCommand now returns (argv, env, err). On Windows the zellij attach is spawned directly (no powershell.exe wrapper) — wrapping ConPTY startup around a shell surfaces as modal application-error dialogs — and the per-session ZELLIJ_SOCKET_DIR is delivered via the spawn's CreateProcess env block instead of an 'env -u NO_COLOR' shim. Unix continues to use the env-shim wrapper and returns nil env.
Adds go-pty v0.2.3 (+ bumps golang.org/x/sys to v0.44.0 transitively). Updates the in-process test fakes (terminal/fakes_test.go, httpd/terminal_mux_test.go) for the new signature.
* feat(zellij): discover zellij binary on Windows and raise command timeout
Defaults the zellij binary to whatever exec.LookPath finds first (preferring zellij.exe on Windows), falling back to LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\zellij\zellij.exe and ProgramFiles{,(x86)}\{zellij,Zellij}\zellij.exe so a fresh-installed Windows user gets a working runtime without setting Options.Binary.
Raises the per-command timeout from 5s to 30s on Windows: the first zellij invocation after install routinely takes longer than 5s on Windows due to filesystem/AV warmup, which was causing benign DeadlineExceeded failures during session create.
* feat(zellij,cli): Windows agent launcher trampoline for codex argv
On Windows, zellij's KDL `args` quoting cannot round-trip codex's --config key=value flags (or any argv with embedded quotes), and shell-wrapping the agent in powershell/cmd quoting is equally unsound. This adds a small launch trampoline so zellij runs a known-fixed argv and the real argv is delivered out-of-band.
How it works on Windows:
1. zellij.Runtime.writeLayout persists cfg.Argv to a temp JSON spec via the new agentlaunch package (AO_LAUNCH_SPEC env var points at the file).
2. The KDL layout runs the trampoline as `<ao.exe> launch` (windowsLaunchArgv); PATH is augmented so the trampoline resolves.
3. The new hidden `ao launch` subcommand reads the spec, deletes the temp file, and execs the real agent with cfg.Argv inside cfg.WorkspacePath.
Also adds:
- runner.Start fire-and-forget path (process_windows.go uses powershell.exe -EncodedCommand + Start-Process -WindowStyle Hidden with CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE so the daemon is not blocked on zellij's --create-background settling).
- powerShellEncodedCommand helper and switch from -Command to -EncodedCommand for the existing powershell shellLaunchSpec (avoids brittle KDL→PowerShell quoting round-trips).
Unix is unchanged: writeLayout passes cfg.Env straight through, createSession stays synchronous via runner.Run, and process_other.go is a stub that returns an error if anyone calls into the background path.
* feat(codex): Windows binary resolution, terminal compat flags, TOML literal strings
Three Windows-targeted refinements to the codex agent plugin so a default Windows install lands in a working state:
1. ResolveCodexBinary now follows .cmd/.ps1 shims to the underlying codex.exe (resolveNativeWindowsCodex + windowsNativeCodexCandidatesForShim). The npm-distributed codex shim cannot be exec'd directly under ConPTY without a shell wrapper; jumping straight to the .exe avoids that wrapper.
2. appendTerminalCompatibilityFlags adds Windows-specific args (e.g. --no-alt-screen) so codex's TUI renders correctly inside zellij's pane without the alternate-screen buffer churn that breaks ConPTY redraws.
3. hooks.go gains codexTOMLLiteralString / codexTOMLConfigString / containsTOMLControl so paths and other values with backslashes and quotes round-trip through codex's --config TOML parser using literal strings ('...') when basic strings would require unsafe escaping.
* fix(lint): paramTypeCombine in pty_unix.go, revive doc comments in agentlaunch, codex test quotes
* fix: stabilize windows zellij sessions
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Co-authored-by: Madhav <madhavkumar@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Vaibhaav <user@example.com>
* fix(codex): deliver activity hooks via -c session flags, trust worktree at launch
Codex (0.136+) never loads hook config from AO's per-session worktrees:
project-local .codex/ layers only load from trusted directories, and for
linked git worktrees codex sources hook declarations from the matching
folder in the root checkout — so the workspace-local .codex/hooks.json AO
wrote was dead config and codex sessions never reported activity.
Deliver the hooks on the launch/resume command instead:
- -c 'hooks.<Event>=[...]' session-flag config for SessionStart,
UserPromptSubmit, PermissionRequest, and Stop; the session-flags layer
is not trust-gated and aggregates with the user's own hooks. The
existing --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust flag lets them run without a
persisted trust hash.
- -c 'projects={"<worktree>"={trust_level="trusted"}}' (inline-table
form; the dotted projects."<path>".trust_level key is corrupted by
codex's naive -c dot-split) so spawns into never-trusted repos don't
hang invisibly on the interactive directory-trust prompt. Both the
literal and symlink-resolved worktree paths are trusted.
- -c notice.hide_rate_limit_model_nudge=true so the "switch to a cheaper
model?" dialog can't hang a headless pane and swallow the spawn prompt.
GetAgentHooks no longer writes workspace files (worktrees stay clean); it
only strips entries older AO versions left in .codex/hooks.json,
preserving user hooks. UninstallHooks/AreHooksInstalled now operate on
those legacy files only.
Verified with a real spawn into a fresh untrusted repo: activity
transitions idle -> active -> idle hands-free, no .codex dir in the
worktree, no hook delivery failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(sessions): activity-signal watchdog + hook delivery hardening
A codex upgrade broke activity tracking silently: sessions showed a
confident "idle" forever while the agent worked. This bundle makes hook
delivery verifiable end to end and makes any future breakage loud
instead of invisible.
Watchdog (no_signal status):
- sessions.first_signal_at (migration 0010) records the FIRST hook
callback per spawn/restore — raw signal receipt, independent of the
derived activity state. lifecycle.ApplyActivitySignal stamps it (and
writes through same-state repeats until stamped, e.g. Codex
SessionStart reporting idle on an idle-seeded row); MarkSpawned clears
it so every relaunch re-proves its hook pipeline.
- deriveStatus downgrades a live session with no receipt to the new
no_signal display status after a 90s grace, instead of idle.
Terminated/PR-derived statuses still win. The sessions CDC update
trigger now also fires on first-signal receipt so the dashboard
transition is pushed live.
- frontend maps no_signal -> needs_you (a human should look at the pane).
Hook callback hardening (re-landed from the closed redesign PR #156):
- the session manager pins each spawned session's PATH with the daemon
executable's directory first, so the bare `ao` in hook commands
resolves to the daemon that installed them, with a spawn-time warning
when the pin cannot apply.
- `ao hooks` failures append to $AO_DATA_DIR/hooks.log (size-capped);
`ao doctor` gains a hooks-log check that warns on failures from the
last 24h, and an ao-binary identity check.
Codex launch-surface canary:
- `ao doctor` gains codex-launch-flags: it runs probes exported by the
codex adapter (built from the same flag builders as the real spawn
argv) against the installed binary, warning when codex rejects the
hook-trust bypass flag or AO's -c session-flag overrides.
- codex hook callback timeout drops 30s -> 5s so a hung daemon cannot
stall the agent's turn.
Docs: the agent PRD callback section now describes the implemented flow
(derive state, POST /sessions/{id}/activity, hooks.log) instead of the
unbuilt SQLite/metadata merge, and notes that hook-derived metadata
persistence (codex resume) is still not implemented.
Frontend note: main's renderer test suite has 7 pre-existing failing
files and a vite-config typecheck error unrelated to this change;
workspace.test.ts (the only frontend file touched) passes 26/26.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(store): restore TestSessionWorktreesRoundTrip lost in the re-landing port
The branch ported store_test.go wholesale from the closed redesign
branch, whose copy predates #165 — silently dropping the
session-worktrees round-trip test #165 added. Restore main's file and
re-apply only this branch's addition (TestSessionFirstSignalRoundTrip).
No other ported file lost main-side content (audited per-file against
main; the remaining deletions are this branch's intended refactors).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(status): only derive no_signal for harnesses that have a hook pipeline
Review finding: the no_signal downgrade had no harness-capability gate, but
first_signal_at can only ever be stamped by an `ao hooks` callback. Ten
spawnable harnesses (amp, aider, crush, grok, kimi, devin, auggie, continue,
vibe, pi) install no hooks at all, so every live session of theirs would have
flipped from idle to a permanent no_signal -> needs_you after the 90s grace.
The session service now takes a SignalCapable predicate; daemon wiring injects
activitydispatch.SupportsHarness (the deriver registry is the source of truth
for "this harness can signal"). Left nil, the service never claims no_signal.
A new dispatch test pins that every deriver token is a known harness name.
Also from the same review:
- lifecycle/manager.go and the 0010 migration claimed Codex's SessionStart
reports idle as the first signal; both codex and claude-code derivers
deliberately return no signal for session-start, so the comments now cite a
real case (a lost "active" POST followed by a Stop hook landing idle).
- docs/agent/README.md documents the gate and the restore caveat: a restored
session the user never prompts has nothing to signal, so it shows no_signal
after the grace until a receipt-only session-start signal exists.
- 0010 migration uses DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS per house style.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* fix(cdc): emit pr_review_thread_resolved on replace polls (#152 bug 5)
writePRRows was DELETE-then-UPSERT on the Replace path, so every poll's
upserts hit the INSERT branch and the AFTER UPDATE trigger that emits
pr_review_thread_resolved never fired in production. Replaces the
blanket delete with a set-diff: upsert observed threads first (so
unchanged thread_ids go through ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE and fire the
UPDATE trigger when resolved flips), then delete orphans whose
thread_id is not in the observed set, all inside the existing tx.
Adds DeletePRReviewThread query (sqlc-generated form hand-edited; no
sqlc binary available locally — sqlc generate from backend/ produces an
identical file).
Tests: TestPRReviewThreadsCDC_EmitsResolvedOnReplacePoll (regression —
fails without fix) and TestPRReviewThreadsReplace_PrunesOrphansWithoutReinserting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(observe): emit scm-disabled log on startup with no subjects (#152 bug 7)
checkCredentials lived only inside Poll, which short-circuits when
discoverSubjects is empty. On a fresh daemon with no tracked PRs the
documented "scm observer disabled: provider credentials unavailable"
warn was unreachable, leaving users with no signal that the SCM
observer was a no-op.
Calls checkCredentials once in Observer.loop before the first Poll.
The existing credentialsChecked guard preserves once-per-process
semantics; provider construction still uses SkipTokenPreflight so
daemon readiness doesn't block on gh.
Test: TestStart_LogsDisabledWarningWhenNoTokenAndNoSubjects with a
race-safe syncBuffer for capturing slog from the observer goroutine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(api,spawn): typed errors + project/branch/binary preflight (#152 bugs 1-4,6)
Closes the long tail of opaque-500-and-orphan-row failures that
discussion #149's smoke walk surfaced. The common shape: spawn created
the session row before validating preconditions, and the underlying
errors weren't typed, so toAPIError defaulted to INTERNAL_ERROR.
Bug 1 (orphan row + opaque 500 on unknown projectId):
Service.Spawn / SpawnOrchestrator now call store.GetProject first and
return apierr.NotFound("PROJECT_NOT_FOUND", ...) before manager.Spawn,
eliminating the create-row-then-fail-workspace ordering.
Bug 2 (Restore opaque 500 on half-spawned/terminated session):
Manager.Restore gained the ErrIncompleteHandle guard that Kill has at
manager.go:189-193. toAPIError now maps both restore and kill to the
same SESSION_INCOMPLETE_HANDLE 409 envelope.
Bug 3 (--branch unfetched / checked-out-elsewhere → opaque 500):
gitworktree pre-checks listRecords for branch-in-other-worktree, falls
back to refs/tags on missing local/remote head, and emits two new port
sentinels (ErrWorkspaceBranchCheckedOutElsewhere,
ErrWorkspaceBranchNotFetched) mapped to BRANCH_CHECKED_OUT_ELSEWHERE
(409) and BRANCH_NOT_FETCHED (400).
Bug 4 (orphan terminated row on claim-pr rollback):
Adds Store.DeleteSession gated to seed-state rows only (preserves the
no-resurrection guarantee for live sessions), transactional change_log
cleanup, Manager.RollbackSpawn (delete-then-fallback-to-kill), a new
POST /sessions/{id}/rollback endpoint, and rewires
cli/spawn.rollbackSpawnedSession to use it. The exit-0 sub-symptom was
unreproducible from current source and is left unaddressed.
Bug 6 (agent binary not on PATH → silent idle session):
Drops the "return name, nil" anti-pattern from all 21 agent adapters
and returns the new ports.ErrAgentBinaryNotFound on exec.LookPath miss.
Manager.Spawn gained a validateAgentBinary pre-flight (with injectable
LookPath so tests don't need real binaries on PATH) that aborts before
runtime.Create. Mapped to AGENT_BINARY_NOT_FOUND (400). Integration
tests in internal/integration/ stub LookPath to /usr/bin/true.
Tests cover each bug end-to-end. OpenAPI regenerated for /rollback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: gofmt + regen frontend schema.ts for /rollback
CI fixes for #153:
- gofmt/goimports on kilocode and kiro adapters that the bug 6 audit
left mis-grouped.
- openapi-typescript regen against the new /rollback endpoint added in
the Lane A commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(store): guard change_log delete behind seed probe + regen sqlc (#152, PR #153 review)
Addresses @greptile-apps P1 and P2 review feedback on PR #153.
P1 (CDC events deleted for live sessions in rollback fallback):
DeleteChangeLogForSession ran unconditionally inside the transaction
before DeleteSeedSession's seed-state predicates filtered the session
delete to a no-op. For a live session reaching DeleteSession (the
delete-then-kill fallback path inside RollbackSpawn), the seed delete
returned 0 rows but the session_created/session_updated CDC events
had already been purged. Now probes via a new SessionIsSeed query
first and short-circuits the whole tx — including the change_log
cleanup — when the row is not in seed state.
P2 (regen sqlc): installed sqlc 1.31.1 and ran `sqlc generate` from
backend/, replacing the hand-edited pr_review_threads.sql.go (and
producing minor format-only churn in models.go, pr.sql.go,
sessions.sql.go, changelog.sql.go).
The regen surfaced two issues:
1. GetPR / ListPRsBySession had their return types hand-changed to
gen.PR by the previous PR; sqlc actually emits GetPRRow /
ListPRsBySessionRow when queries enumerate columns. Fixed by
collapsing those two queries to `SELECT * FROM pr` so sqlc returns
gen.PR (which is what the store's prRowFromGen converter expects),
and pr.last_nudge_signature now lands in the result alongside the
existing 37 columns.
2. sqlc 1.31.1's SQLite parser silently strips trailing `?`
placeholders and string literals from DELETE statements (reproduced
with sqlc.arg, IFNULL, rowid subquery, and second-predicate
workarounds — all eaten). DeleteSeedSession and
DeleteChangeLogForSession both tripped it. They are now run as
plain tx.ExecContext calls inside Store.DeleteSession, inside the
same write transaction as SessionIsSeed; both queries are removed
from the queries/ directory and the workaround context is
documented inline in queries/sessions.sql and queries/changelog.sql
to keep future contributors from re-adding them.
Verified: go build ./... clean, go test -race ./... 1097/1097 pass.
Introduces the shared platform that per-agent adapters plug into, wired for the
three shipped harnesses (claude-code, codex, opencode):
- adapters/agent/registry: single source of truth for shipped adapters
(Constructors), consumed by the daemon to resolve a session's harness.
- adapters/agent/activitydispatch + 'ao hooks' command: maps an agent's native
hook callbacks onto AO activity states (active/idle/waiting/...).
- claudecode/codex/opencode: emit SessionStart/UserPromptSubmit/Stop activity.
- HTTP + OpenAPI: report session activity state.
- db: single migration widening sessions.harness to all shipped harnesses, so
adding an adapter needs no further migration.
- domain: harness constants + --agent alias for 'ao spawn'.
Adding a new agent is now one adapter package plus a line in Constructors().
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Harshit Singh Bhandari <claudeagain@pkarnal.com>
* feat: add ao hooks activity command
* fix(activity): address review nits
- lcm: sameActivity ignores LastActivityAt so same-state repeats no-op
and don't churn UpdatedAt / CDC events.
- cli/hooks: surface stdin read errors to stderr for parity with the
daemon-error path; still exit 0 so a failed hook can't break the agent.
- claudecode: GetAgentHooks docstring covers Notification + SessionEnd
(the slice already included them; only the comment was stale).
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* feat(plugin): add agents plugin (first iteration)
Faithful copy of the agents plugin implementation from yyovil/better-ao
(internal/plugin/ -> backend/internal/plugin/) plus its PRD
(prds/plugins/agents/PRD.md), as a first-iteration proposal for review.
Imports are left at their original github.com/yyovil/better-ao/... paths and
are NOT yet reconciled to this repo's module; see PR description for the
integration deltas (module path, missing internal/utils dependency).
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Move agent adapters under backend adapters
* Keep daemon ports and session out of adapter move
* Remove Better-AO naming from flake
* Keep flake as dev shell only
* Use goimports for local formatting
* Wire session manager to per-session agent adapters
Move the Agent port into internal/ports and have the claude-code and
codex adapters implement it directly, alongside their workspace-local
activity hooks and a manifest-keyed adapter registry. Rename
RuntimeConfig.LaunchCommand to Argv and update the tmux and zellij
runtimes to match.
The session Manager now resolves a real agent adapter per session via a
new ports.AgentResolver: from cfg.Harness on Spawn and the stored harness
on Restore, so one daemon runs claude-code and codex sessions side by
side. The daemon backs the resolver with the registry; AO_AGENT selects
the default harness (default claude-code), validated at startup. Removes
the temporary noopAgent stub.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(agent): point the agent contract at internal/ports/agent.go
The Agent interface moved from internal/adapters/agent to internal/ports;
update the PRD's Goal and Agent Contract sections (and the SessionInfo
references) to match the code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Wire the session service into the daemon
daemon.Run now builds the controller-facing session service — a session
manager over the zellij runtime, a gitworktree workspace, the shared
store + LCM, and the per-session agent resolver (AO_AGENT default,
validated at startup) — and mounts it at httpd APIDeps.Sessions, so the
session REST routes are backed by a real service. startLifecycle moves
ahead of the HTTP server so both share one LCM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Address Greptile review: complete the live spawn path
- Spawn and Restore now install workspace-local activity hooks
(GetAgentHooks) and run the adapter's optional PreLaunch step before
launch, via a shared prepareWorkspace helper. PreLaunch is how Claude
Code records workspace trust, so its interactive "trust this folder?"
dialog can't hang the headless pane; the spawned env now also carries
AO_DATA_DIR so the installed hook commands find the store.
- claudecode and codex hook/config writes are now atomic (temp + rename)
instead of os.WriteFile, so a crash mid-write can't leave a partial
file the agent fails to parse.
- ensureWorkspaceTrusted serializes its read-modify-write under a package
mutex, so concurrent spawns to different workspaces don't drop each
other's ~/.claude.json trust entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(ports): pin MetadataKeyAgentSessionID to domain.SessionMetadata json tag
The equality between ports.MetadataKeyAgentSessionID and the json tag on
domain.SessionMetadata.AgentSessionID is a hand-maintained invariant; this
test fails loudly if either side drifts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(adapters): use ports.MetadataKeyAgentSessionID in claudecode + codex
The native session id metadata key is defined in ports for cross-package
consumption; drop the duplicated literals in each adapter so the constant
has one home.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(codex): cover ensureCodexHooksFeatureEnabled TOML edge cases
The helper is a string editor over config.toml; pin its content
transformation for missing/empty files, existing [features] blocks,
the no-op case, and the legacy codex_hooks=true migration paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(adapters): document Registry concurrency contract
Registry registration runs at daemon boot before any goroutine calls Get,
so the underlying map needs no lock; pin that contract in the doc comment
so a future change doesn't quietly introduce a race.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(codex): gofmt codex_test.go after constant rename
The previous commit (7c5b2a9) replaced codexAgentSessionIDMetadataKey with
ports.MetadataKeyAgentSessionID inside a map literal; the longer key threw
off gofmt's column alignment on the adjacent codexTitleMetadataKey /
codexSummaryMetadataKey lines. Caught by agent-ci's Check formatting step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: harshitsinghbhandari <dev@theharshitsingh.com>
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