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docs(agents): refresh AGENTS.md and add scripts/ and shared/ guides - #575
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Adds invariants the existing files did not state (usage tokens, device gate, mirrored terminals, receipts, fonts, settings storage) and two new guides for scripts/ and shared/. Existing lines are kept; the root file corrects the mirroring and contract-test naming notes.
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WalkthroughAgent guidance files document repository practices and conventions for scripts, server code, shared code, and the client. Product documentation updates composer attachments, check modes, and message delivery conditions. ChangesAgent guidance
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Fact-checked every added or changed line of this PR against main, and the existing guides for statements the code no longer matches: attach_held instead of attach_conflict, mirrored panes drawn from pane.read and kept at the pane's grid, token before local access, Windows marker staleness, index.html caching, generate:types --check against the saved schema, background_tasks absent when none run, demo-build.ts argv, ui-regression try/finally, chat messages sent while an agent works (since #520), Confirm only for option picks, and attachments of any file type.
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- Line 363: Update the persistence sentence in the guide near the current-bridge
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## Change `scripts/ssh-integration.ts` (the Remote PC bundles workflow's `ssh` job) failed on #575's docs-only head (run 37683049615): ``` setup failed Connection failed AssertionError: ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 41579: Connection refused at scripts/ssh-integration.ts:110 ``` `startSshd()` spawned sshd and then slept a fixed 300 ms before the first setup used it. On a loaded runner sshd was not listening yet. It now waits until a TCP connect to `127.0.0.1:<port>` succeeds, polling every 100 ms with a 15 s deadline. The deadline fails with the content of `sshd.log`, and an sshd that exits still fails at once with its log, as before. The restart after the host-key change uses the same function. `stopSshd()` already waits for the old daemon to exit, so only the new one can answer the poll. ## Validation On this PC (`bun run check run bun scripts/ssh-integration.ts`, key mode), with scratch copies (not committed) whose sshd starts 1 s late (`sh -c 'sleep 1; exec /usr/sbin/sshd …'`), standing in for a slow start on a loaded runner: - Before (main): 2 of 2 failed at the first setup with the CI error, `AssertionError: ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port N: Connection refused`. - After: 2 of 2 passed, the restart after the host-key change included. 3 of 3 normal runs passed. - CI on this PR: Fast checks, Integration and browser and ssh (password mode) passed. No CHANGELOG entry: CI only.
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Independent review (merge-own lane). These files bind every future agent, so I checked every added or changed line of this PR against the code on main (a576111): 84 statement lines in five files. A second agent did the first pass, and I verified each finding I acted on myself. I also scanned the existing guides for statements the code contradicts. Corrections are in 7683215, after a merge with main.
Classification: documentation that every agent and PR review follow. It merges because a wrong rule here misleads every later change, and the corrections below make it match the code.
Corrected in this PR's new or changed lines
| File | Was | Now | Evidence |
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| server/AGENTS.md | this PC "always gets in" | gets in without pairing; once a token is set, every client needs it | server/access.ts decideAccess: tokenConfigured refuses before the local and Tailscale routes |
| server/AGENTS.md | only a refused connection proves herdr is gone | also, on Windows, a marker whose pid is gone, is not herdr, or started at another time | server/herdr-marker.ts staleMarker |
| server/AGENTS.md | no log line carries a key; provider text passed on without the key | voice scrubs the key; usage logs an exception's message as it is | server/voice.ts scrub (lines 115, 311, 328, 337); server/usage.ts:972 console.warn(... error.message) |
| server/AGENTS.md | index.html shell always revalidates |
the shell for / and unknown paths revalidates; a direct /index.html gets one day |
server/static.ts: REVALIDATED_PATHS is only sw.js and the manifest, an existing file gets SHORT_CACHE, the fallback gets no-cache |
| server/AGENTS.md | transcript-records.ts and skill-activity.ts answer null for a store | they parse what the store lookups find | both files are record/skill parsers, not path resolvers |
| src/AGENTS.md | a timed-out submit "is never sent later" | the client never sends it again | src/lib/ws.ts gives up client-side; a server that already accepted it is not told |
| shared/AGENTS.md | protocol.ts is the only index of the HTTP surface |
voice routes are catalogued in voice.ts |
shared/voice.ts:9-54 documents /api/voice*; protocol.ts has none |
| shared/AGENTS.md | a herdr upgrade surfaces as a failing --check |
--check compares with the saved scripts/herdr-schema.json; only --refresh reads the installed herdr |
scripts/generate-protocol-types.ts:226-242 |
| shared/AGENTS.md | background_tasks absent means unknown |
absent when none run; pane-status sends 0 to clear |
shared/protocol.ts:30 ("absent when none"); server/index.ts:687, :1117 |
| shared/AGENTS.md | tab notifications and push fire on exactly the same events | same rule; permission, preferences and subscriptions still differ | src/lib/notifications.ts permission gate; server/push.ts per-subscription delivery |
| shared/AGENTS.md | older bridges "are never Windows"; everything here is edited by both sides; every rule is written on its frame | removed or narrowed to what the code shows | shared/machines.ts has optional fields only; the generated file is regenerated |
| scripts/AGENTS.md | nothing here is typechecked | only build-xterm.ts, through vite.config.ts |
tsconfig.json includes vite.config.ts, which imports scripts/build-xterm.ts |
| scripts/AGENTS.md | every mode builds into dist/ |
fast and the browser lane do; check run runs only its command |
scripts/check.ts |
| scripts/AGENTS.md | demo-build.ts "builds whatever that variable says" |
run with a directory, it builds into that directory whatever HERDR_DEMO_BUILD says |
scripts/demo-build.ts import.meta.main branch builds process.argv[2] |
| scripts/AGENTS.md | ui-regression behind a single try/catch | one outer try/finally | scripts/ui-regression.ts:59, :1558 |
| scripts/AGENTS.md | a long file "cannot" start last; timeline "hand-measured"; an unwired script "never runs again" | worded as what the code guarantees (sorted by size, fixed timestamps, never runs in CI) | scripts/ci-tests.ts; film/timeline.ts |
Corrected in existing guides
| File | Was | Now | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| docs/guide.md:363 | queued messages: "status changes and reconnects never send them automatically" | on a current bridge a message sent while the agent works goes to its next turn on its own while its connection stays open; reload or reconnect never resumes it | docs/guide.md:174-181 and the root AGENTS.md invariant (since #520); server/pending-input.ts |
| docs/guide.md:364 | every typed prompt answer waits for Confirm | only an option pick of an approval, plan or menu | src/lib/promptAnswer.ts needsConfirmation |
| AGENTS.md (Testing) | the second server gets attach_conflict |
gets attach_held and waits |
attach_conflict does not exist in the code; server/index.ts:516, :963, :1935 send attach_held |
| AGENTS.md (invariants), .github/REVIEW.md | never rebuild the terminal from pane.read / viewport snapshots |
never for an attached terminal; only a mirrored pane is drawn that way | server/mirror.ts, the Windows invariant in the same file |
| AGENTS.md (conventions) | scripts/ is not typechecked |
except build-xterm.ts |
as above |
server/AGENTS.md (resize, spawn, input) |
geometry and input rules written for a pty only |
a mirrored pane keeps the pane's grid (fixed: true), spawns at the pane's rect, and input goes to pane.send_text |
server/index.ts spawnAttachment (forObserver || mirrored), attach handler sends pane-geometry with fixed: true |
| docs/development.md | every mode builds into dist/ |
fast and the browser lane |
scripts/check.ts |
| DESIGN.md (attachments) | png/jpeg/gif/webp only | any file; an image as a paste, others under their sanitised name | src/lib/api.ts uploadPaneImage ("Any file") |
Checked and kept (a finding I did not accept): the mirror's late-joiner replay (server/mirror.ts:222 sends the last whole screen to a joining client), HERDR_TEST_LIVE=1 as the only way back to the user's herdr (without a herdr binary there is none to reach), and the stated reasons that cite code comments (OAuth rotation, OpenUsage, the KaTeX size).
What I ran: bun run check fast on 7683215 : 1715 pass, 0 fail, and Fast checks and Integration and browser are green on f94d61d, which includes main after #583. #582 changed how Codex's stored Windows paths are read; server/AGENTS.md's "canonical store paths only" still holds, since the \\?\ prefix is stripped before the same realpath and in-store checks. CodeRabbit's one thread, on the new guide.md:363 wording, was valid: unsaved browser-held messages do not survive a reload (PendingMessages.tsx says so). I narrowed the sentence in 786eb85, replied, and resolved the thread. A second thread asked for the pane lease as a condition of automatic delivery, which the root AGENTS.md invariant states. I added it in fdf41d6 and resolved that thread too. After #580 merged, I also corrected the browser-lane line in scripts/AGENTS.md to match its new ci-browser.sh (install-deps through ci-bounded-retry.sh) in 76a44d8.
A third thread was valid as well: a connection-bound copy comes back only to copy or discard (PendingMessages.tsx offers Send now only when the copy is not uncertain). I fixed that in 1b1fd19 and resolved it.
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🟡 Minor · Qualify which images are stored as pastes. · DESIGN.md:896-898
DESIGN.md:896-898
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winQualify which images are stored as pastes.
The server stores only PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WebP uploads as pastes. SVG and other image MIME types use the sanitized ordinary-file naming path. Update this sentence so the design document matches the reachable composer and server behavior.
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-Paste, picker or drag/drop accepts up to four files per action; an image is stored as a paste, any other +Paste, picker or drag/drop accepts up to four files per action; a PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP image is stored as a paste, any other file under its own sanitised name. Each uploads through `POST /api/pane/image` and inserts a removable🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 363-364: Clarify the guide’s distinction between connection-bound
saved copies and the ordinary held-message queue: after disconnect or reload,
describe saved copies as uncertain and available only to copy or discard, and
reserve **Send now** or **Discard** for the separate held-message queue.
Preserve the existing guidance about unsaved held messages.
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Review comments at @DESIGN.md:
- Around line 896-898: Update the DESIGN.md sentence about files accepted
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WebP images are stored as pastes; preserve the ordinary sanitized-name path for
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Refreshes the agent guides from a full scan of the tree (init-deep, update mode).
AGENTS.md: lists the two new guides in Scope; mirroring also applies to a Linux or macOS PC without Node for the sidecar; the*.contract.test.tsrule now names the exceptions inscripts/ci-tests.ts; three new notes (demo imports the client, demo fixtures stay fictional,THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.mdships indist/).server/AGENTS.md: +15 lines, none removed. Anti-patterns forusage.ts(never refresh an OAuth token), the device gate,herdr-marker.ts, API keys andstatic.tscache headers; conventions for mirrored terminals, shell agents and submit receipts; six new WHERE TO LOOK rows.src/AGENTS.md: +17 lines, one corrected (role="alert"is used for more than the sidebar error block).scripts/AGENTS.md(new, 35 lines) andshared/AGENTS.md(new, 34 lines).Scope kept
The files still hold only what the code and the docs do not show: no structure trees, command lists or generated headers were added.
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