From aca8cf3eb48f5d8ce80183ded5ea821119fff4ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Stephens Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:43:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Grill #711: the Console and the CLI for live Commands Record the grilling rounds for #711 in .scratch, add the Console UI research note, ADR 0016 (the Console is a long-running reader), and the glossary terms Console, Command record, Stop, Console account and Console log. 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Or that thirdshift is like a gardener for your codebase, so maybe flora type visual elements and style in the UI - or alternatively it could just be kept less themed and more just basic informational. Maybe /prototype ui would be a useful skill to run on this at some point in this grilling to decide this. We could /handoff for another agent to create the prototypes. + +- + +maybe one of the prototypes could be the press floor style we already have for thirdshift.app. No /handoff skill? Are you sure? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/.scratch/grill-with-docs/711-live-runs.md b/.scratch/grill-with-docs/711-live-runs.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1e266185c --- /dev/null +++ b/.scratch/grill-with-docs/711-live-runs.md @@ -0,0 +1,480 @@ +# Grilling: #711, see every live Run, on every machine, and its stage + +Issue: https://github.com/JacobStephens2/thirdshift/issues/711 (gathers #368 and #574) +Research: [ADR 0009](../../docs/adr/0009-the-operating-system-schedules-thirdshift.md), [ADR 0011](../../docs/adr/0011-thirdshift-keeps-a-per-repository-activity-log.md), [ADR 0015](../../docs/adr/0015-security-findings-stay-private-until-fixed.md) + +## Round 1 (answered) + +*Pre-answer* I don't want the UI to be able to do anything the CLI or an API of thirdshift can't do. + +**Q1 - What the first version shows.** You asked for "the runs in progress and the logs from the runs". In the glossary, what's in flight is a **Command**. A Pickup run can be running a Spec run, which can be running three Ticket Runs at once. Each of those Runs is somewhere in implement, review, Repair, CI watch or Self-merge, with a Session log growing. The options: +- (a) **Live Commands only.** Each one has its child Runs under it. Each Run shows its issue, its stage, the Harness and Model of its current session, and links to its Command log and Session logs. +- (b) **As (a), plus Commands that ended recently,** say in the last 24 hours, with their outcome and logs. These come from the Activity logs. +- (c) **As (b), plus a Stop button** (#574's part). + +*Recommended:* (b). After a Run notification, or a morning of Weeding, a Run that just ended is usually the one you want to look at, and the Activity logs already have the data. Leave Stop for later. It is the only thing on the page that changes anything, so it needs an answer to Q4 that the read-only page doesn't. + +*Answer:* if there's anything from https://github.com/warpdotdev - any source for Warp Factories for example - we can take and use that or get inspiration for it. Or other software factory UI repos that are open source too - maybe OpenHands Agents? Not sure. /research may be useful here + +c, plus viewing all commands ever run on this host for which we have data to display + +*Checked:* An earlier survey found that Warp's Factories control plane is closed SaaS. Only the Warp terminal client is open source, under AGPL-3.0, which can't be copied into an MIT project like thirdshift. OpenHands' Agent Canvas, its "control center" UI, is MIT ([warp-factories-and-alternatives.md](../../docs/research/warp-factories-and-alternatives.md), [openhands-fit.md](../../docs/research/openhands-fit.md)). A research agent is now looking at what can be taken or borrowed from these and other factory UIs and Session log viewers (see Waiting on research). + +*Checked:* Corrected on 2026-10-18. Activity logs and Command logs begin on 2026-10-03, but Session logs go back to 2026-09-25. So for the first eight days, the only data left is Session logs. Confirmed by the stamps in the 528 Command log and 952 Session log names under `~/.thirdshift/logs/JacobStephens2/`. + +**Q2 - One page per machine, or one page for every machine.** The issue says "every machine". Logs live on the machine that ran the Command, and GitHub sees only the Claim: no stage, no logs, and nothing at all for a Ticket's Run or a Base fix. The options: +- (a) **Each machine serves its own page** at its own address. A new server gets the page by setting it up there, and doesn't need to know about any other machine. +- (b) **One page for every machine.** One host either asks the others for their state or receives it from them, so that host has to know every machine. Logs from other machines are either copied to it or fetched when someone opens them. +- (c) **(a), plus a short list of every machine's page** kept in one User config, or a page that finds the machines from the Claims on GitHub. + +*Recommended:* (a) now, and (c) once there's a third machine. (a) is the only option where setting up a new server touches nothing but that server, which you asked for. #574's problem, not knowing which host a Run is on, is solved if each Command's Activity log line names its machine. A Claim's label could carry that too. + +*Answer:* a + +**Q3 - Where a live Command's state comes from.** ADR 0009 rules out a daemon, so nothing remembers a Command except what it writes down. The Activity log has a start line with no end line, but it can't tell a live Command from one that `kill -9` or a reboot cut off, and it has no stage. The options: +- (a) **Read the Activity logs and Command logs,** and check the process table to see if each Command is still alive. +- (b) **Each Command keeps a live record on its machine.** This is a small file holding its process id, its issue, and each child Run's stage and current Session log. thirdshift rewrites it at every stage change and removes it when the Command ends. A record whose process is gone shows up as "died", with its last stage. +- (c) **(b), with the Activity log also getting a line at each stage change.** + +*Recommended:* (b). It's the only option where the page knows the stage without parsing Command log output meant for people. "Died at review" is exactly what #574 needed and couldn't get. (c) adds lines to a log that ADR 0011 worked to keep short. + +*Answer:* I think b, though I think about SQLite for example and wonder if that would be useful over files To enable easier analysis of aggregate data, for example. + +*Checked:* Files or SQLite is Q11 below. + +**Q4 - Who can reach the page.** The logs hold chart35's private code, every agent's reasoning, and Security sessions. Under ADR 0015, a Security finding's write-up stays private until it's fixed. The options: +- (a) **Only from inside a private network:** an SSH tunnel, a VPN like Tailscale, or localhost. There's no login, because nobody outside can reach it. +- (b) **The public internet, behind a login:** a password or a GitHub login, over HTTPS. +- (c) **(b), with Security sessions and findings left off the page.** + +*Recommended:* (c). The deciding question is yours: should the page open on your phone with no VPN running? Tailscale isn't installed here, so (a) would mean an SSH tunnel every time. Caddy already gets a certificate for any name on its own, and `*.thirdshift.app` already points at this host. (c) beats (b) because a leaked password then exposes no unfixed vulnerability. Security work stays in the command (Q7), behind SSH. How you sign in, Caddy's built-in password or a login in the page, is for Round 2. + +*Answer:* b + +**Q5 - What serves the page.** A page needs something listening. ADR 0009 rejected a long-running `thirdshift watch`. Its reasons were keeping it alive, its going stale after `thirdshift update`, and its hanging silently. They were aimed at a process that *starts* work. A viewer that only reads files could hang without losing anyone work. The options: +- (a) **`thirdshift serve`,** a read-only process kept up by a systemd user unit. It renders Session logs on the server and streams them as they grow. +- (b) **No thirdshift process.** thirdshift writes the live records (Q3), and the web server already on the machine serves them, the logs and one static page. The page's JavaScript reads them and renders the Session logs in the browser. Setup is one web server config block. +- (c) **(a), but started on demand** (`thirdshift serve` in a terminal or tunnel, stopped when you're done). + +*Recommended:* (a), listening on localhost only, with Caddy in front. Research changed this from (b), for two reasons: +- Caddy runs as its own user and can't enter `/home/jacob` (mode 750). (b) would mean opening your home folder to it, then writing deny rules in the Caddy config for every Security log folder, and a Security log kind added later would leak until someone remembered to add a rule. In (a), thirdshift runs as you and leaves Security logs out in code, under test. +- (a) is how tracewake's dashboard already works on this host: an app on 127.0.0.1, with one `/etc/caddy/sites/.caddy` file that reverse-proxies to it with `flush_interval -1`, so streaming works. + +On a new server it needs nothing at all to start with: `thirdshift serve` plus an SSH tunnel. A Caddy file comes in only when you want it from your phone. It contradicts ADR 0009, so it gets an ADR of its own: a reader runs all the time, but nothing that starts work does. To deal with the stale binary, `serve` re-executes itself when `thirdshift update` replaces it, or the unit restarts it. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q6 - What the page is called.** Its name ends up as the subdomain and in the glossary. A name for the thing works better than a name for the medium. The options: +- (a) **`floor`**, as in the shop floor, where you walk the line to see what each station is doing right now. It fits Day shift, Weeding and Fencing, and "the floor" reads naturally: "it's on the floor at review". +- (b) **`console`**: plain, and widely understood. But it suggests a place where you do things, and the page only shows. +- (c) **`dashboard`**: what #368 called it, and the most common word for it. It's generic, though, and suggests charts and history more than what's in flight. +- (d) `ui` or `web` name the medium, not the thing. `thirdshift.thirdshift.app` repeats itself and leaves no room for a name per machine (Q2). + +*Recommended:* (a) `floor`. Whatever you pick becomes the glossary term. The exact address (`floor.thirdshift.app`, `floor..thirdshift.app`, or the machine's own domain) waits on Q2 and Q4, so it's in Round 2. + +*Answer:* I might move third shift to more of an agricultural metaphor at some point, more garden-oriented. So I'm not sure how deeply I want to ingrain floor or shop floor type language, though I do like floor, but I also envision this web UI becoming something that has a possibly a way to to do things to third shifts such as start runs or stop runs. + +So that that part of console could work eventually. And I want to probably show charts and history eventually as well. So that opens up dashboard too. So in light of this, what what do we think might what do you think might fit? + +*Checked:* Answered as Q8 below. + +**Q7 - A command too.** The issue asks for "one command, or one page". A command that prints what the page shows works over SSH with no setup, and it's the obvious place for #574's stop. The options: +- (a) **Both, from the same live records:** a command such as `thirdshift floor`, and the page. +- (b) **The page only.** + +*Recommended:* (a). The command costs little once Q3's records exist. It's how an agent you ask "what's running?" would answer, and it's where Stop lands first, behind the terminal you're already logged into. + +*Answer:* agree, And this goes along with me wanting to have a all the information, for example, that's accessed on the web UI. I want there to be some kind of third shift API or CLI flag commands, I think, that can get that information and data or take that action action. + +And this will make it easier for agents to work with third shift with without them having to use a web UI to fully interact with and control it. + +## Round 2 (answered) + +**Q8 - The name, and its address here.** You plan to start and stop Runs from the page and to add charts and history, and the metaphor may move from factory to garden. That rules out a factory word like `floor`, and a word that only means watching. The options: +- (a) **`console`**: plain, and it works under either metaphor. It covers viewing and control, and charts sit naturally on a console. Here it would live at `console.thirdshift.app`, which already resolves to this host. +- (b) **`dashboard`**: fits charts and history, but suggests something you read rather than act from. +- (c) **A garden word,** chosen when the metaphor moves. If it never moves, you're left without a name. +- (d) **This host's name, `thirdshift.thirdshift.app`.** This would set the pattern for more machines (`.thirdshift.app`), but it repeats itself here, and Q2 already gives each machine its own address. + +*Recommended:* (a), `console.thirdshift.app`. Whatever you pick goes into `CONTEXT.md` as the **Console**. The address is a User config setting, so a second machine picks its own, and renaming one later means changing one Caddy file. Commands for the CLI are named in a later round, after Q10. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q9 - How you sign in.** This builds on Q4 (b) and Q1 (c). The page is on the public internet, it shows Security findings that aren't fixed yet, and it can stop a Run. So whoever gets in can see an open vulnerability and stop your work. The options: +- (a) **Caddy's built-in password** (`basic_auth`): one line in the Caddy file and no code. But browsers send it on every request, including requests other sites trigger, so Stop still needs its own CSRF guard. It has no sign-out, and you type the password on your phone. +- (b) **A password in the page,** as tracewake's dashboard does: a session cookie and CSRF tokens. You choose a password, and its hash is kept in the Credentials. +- (c) **Sign-in links from the CLI.** A command such as `thirdshift console login` prints a link that works once, for a few minutes. Opening it gives that browser a long-lived session, with CSRF tokens on Stop. Another command ends every session. There's no password to leak or guess, and signing in a new device takes SSH to the machine, the same access that already controls thirdshift. +- (d) **GitHub sign-in, limited to your account.** It needs an OAuth app registered for each server, and its secret stored there. + +*Recommended:* (c). It's the only option that adds no secret to choose, store or rotate, and none to set up on a new server. It also follows your rule: signing in is itself something you do from the CLI. + +*Answer:* b + +**Q10 - What "an API" means.** You want everything the page shows or does to be reachable by an agent without the page. The options: +- (a) **The CLI is the API.** Every view has a command with `--json`: list Commands, show one, print or follow its logs. Every action is a command too, starting with Stop. `serve` calls the same code in-process, and its HTTP routes exist only for the page; nobody else is promised them. A test pairs each page route with the CLI command it mirrors, so the page can't get ahead. +- (b) **A documented HTTP JSON API** from `serve`, which agents call with a token, and which the CLI calls too. +- (c) **Both documented.** + +*Recommended:* (a). An agent working on this machine already has a shell, so it needs no token and no running `serve`. An HTTP API for other machines can wait for Q2 (c), when something actually needs to read a machine from outside. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q11 - Files or SQLite for the records.** This builds on Q3 (b). Each Command keeps a record of its process id, its child Runs and their stages. Call it the **Command record**. You asked whether SQLite would make it easier to analyse many Commands together. The options: +- (a) **One file per Command,** next to its Command log, and kept after the Command ends. It holds every Run's stages with their start times and its outcome. History and charts come from scanning these files. That's about 300 files for the first two weeks, which takes a fraction of a second, and `jq` and agents read them directly. +- (b) **One SQLite database per machine,** which every Command writes to. The Activity log stays, so the two records have to keep agreeing. Eight Passes a minute, plus their child Runs, write to it at once. A locked or broken database must never fail a Run, the same rule as for Run notifications. Each release target also gets SQLite's C code built in (ADR 0003's static binaries). +- (c) **(a), plus a SQLite index** that `serve` builds from the files and can rebuild whenever it likes. Nothing is lost if the index is deleted. + +*Recommended:* (a) now, and (c) the day a chart or query is too slow on files. Files are how thirdshift keeps everything else: logs, config, the Activity log. A Command that crashes or writes at the same moment as another can't damage anyone else's record. And (c) adds SQLite later without moving any data. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q12 - What Stop does to the issue.** Today, stopping a Command (`SIGTERM`, as in #574) is an interruption that cleans up. Its Claim then follows the usual rules. If the cleanup pushed the Issue branch, the Claim stays, so nothing takes the issue again. If nothing reached `origin`, `ready-for-agent` is put back, and the next minute's Pickup run takes it again: the very thing you stopped it for. In every option, Stop waits until the Command has ended, then prints its outcome and any branch or pull request it left. The options: +- (a) **Labels follow the usual rules.** To keep the issue from being taken again, you remove `ready-for-agent` yourself. +- (b) **Stop leaves the issue for the Day shift.** `ready-for-agent` is not put back, and the issue gets `needs-triage`, which means you need to look at it again before an agent does. A flag such as `--requeue` puts it back in line instead. +- (c) **Stop asks each time.** The CLI asks at the prompt and the page shows a choice. That breaks a scripted stop. + +*Recommended:* (b). #574 is the case Stop exists for: the issue wasn't ready. A Stop that hands it straight back to the next Pickup run undoes itself within a minute. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q13 - Stopping one Ticket's Run, or only a whole Command.** Each Ticket's Run in a Spec run, and each Base fix, is its own child `thirdshift` process, so either can be signalled on its own. The options: +- (a) **Whole Commands only** in the first version. Stopping a Spec run stops its Tickets' Runs. +- (b) **Any Run, the child Runs included.** The Spec run then counts that Ticket as failed, and the Tickets it blocks never start. That's a new way for a Ticket to end, and Spec runs would need rules for it. + +*Recommended:* (a). It covers #574. (b) needs its own rules for how a Spec run accounts for a stopped Ticket, so it gets its own issue. + +*Answer:* agree. I at least want a way though in the console to observe the spec run's ticket runs, so I want to be able to see for example what ticket runs are working for a spec run. + +*Checked:* Watching a Spec run's Ticket Runs is already covered: Q16 (a) nests child Runs under their Command. Q20 asks whether Tickets that haven't started show too. + +**Q14 - Getting the Console running on a new server.** You want it easy to set up. `serve` (Q5) has to keep running and start again after a reboot, and Caddy has to point at it. Writing to `/etc/caddy` takes root, which thirdshift doesn't run as. The options: +- (a) **A command that installs it,** also offered by Setup. It writes and enables a systemd user unit, turns on lingering so `serve` runs with you logged out, and prints the Caddy site file for the address in the User config, with the "restart, don't reload" step. You paste that one file in with `sudo`. +- (b) **README steps only.** +- (c) **(a), with thirdshift writing the Caddy file itself** through `sudo`. + +*Recommended:* (a). It brings a new server down to one command and one paste. A server without Caddy still works over an SSH tunnel. (c) would make thirdshift ask for root, which nothing in it does today. + +*Answer:* agree. And I'll want thirdshift's console to be able to be served on servers using apache instead of caddy (such as my stephens.page server - I think you can connect to that server by `ssh jacob@stephens.page` to check its setup out. I'm interested in being able to run the console on macOS as well, such as on my laptop, but that's not essential in this pass, and if that is too much of an extra lift, maybe an issue can be filed to capture that idea. + +*Checked:* A sub-agent is looking at stephens.page's Apache over SSH, for Q22. macOS is Q21: thirdshift already ships an `aarch64-apple-darwin` build (`dist-workspace.toml`), so the open question is only the always-running part. On macOS that's launchd, not systemd. + +**Q15 - What the page is built with.** This builds on Q5 (`serve`) and on the research note. Whatever is built has to ship inside the binary. The options: +- (a) **HTML rendered by Rust, plus htmx.** That means htmx, its server-push extension and idiomorph, about 20 KB gzipped, all 0BSD, copied into the repo rather than loaded from a CDN. One small hand-written JS module covers the rest, and it's all embedded with `include_dir`, which thirdshift already uses for the Factory skills. A server push redraws the Commands list. Each open Session log gets only its new lines. Gas Town, the closest match the research found, is built this way. +- (b) **A React app built with npm and embedded,** as Vibe Kanban and agent-of-empires do. Every release build then needs Node, and the bundle runs 1 to 10 MB. +- (c) **Plain HTML and hand-written JS, with no library.** + +*Recommended:* (a). It has no build step, which matches how `site/` is built. It works with no internet connection and loads nothing from anyone else. Rendering on the server also keeps one copy of the logic, in Rust, next to the CLI that's meant to match it (Q10). Lifting OpenHands' UI is out: it's 10 MB of React that renders its own event format, not Claude's or Codex's. + +*Answer:* agree - I'm wondering if Axum is relevant here or, any Rust UI frameworks like Leptos or Dioxus, or if those are overkill for what I'm doing here. + +*Checked:* Answered as Q17. + +**Q16 - What the page borrows.** The research found patterns that recur across Warp, OpenHands, Symphony and Gas Town. The options: +- (a) **Take all of these:** + - Child Runs nested under their Command. + - Each Run's stage shown with how long it's been there ("review · 52 min"), so a stall shows without opening a log. + - A one-line latest event per live Run (`Bash: cargo test`). + - Stop shown only while the process is alive, with a confirm step on the page but none in the CLI. + - In a Session log: runs of tool calls folded into one, thinking collapsed, a renderer per tool with a plain fallback, and new lines appended rather than the whole log redrawn. The research found that redrawing a large log on every new line took 15 to 27 seconds. +- (b) **A plainer first version:** the Commands list, and Session logs as lightly formatted text. Rendering comes later. + +*Recommended:* (a), starting with the plain fallback renderer and adding renderers per tool as they're needed. Stage age is the cheapest way to spot what #574 had to dig for. The confirm step exists because the page is where a mis-tap on a phone can stop an hour of work. + +*Answer:* agree + +## Round 3 (answered) + +**Q17 - Axum, Leptos or Dioxus.** This builds on Q15 (a): HTML rendered by Rust, htmx in the browser, no build step. The rest of thirdshift is blocking code, and `tokio` and `hyper` are already compiled in, because `reqwest` uses them (`Cargo.lock`). The options: +- (a) **axum,** with templates checked at compile time (askama, or maud's macros). axum is a router on `tokio` and `hyper`. Its server push (`axum::response::sse`) is built in, which Q15 needs for the Commands list and for log tails. The async code stays inside `serve`, and the rest of thirdshift doesn't change. +- (b) **tiny_http,** which is blocking like the rest of thirdshift and lighter still. You write server push by hand, with a thread per open log, and the project has had no push since 2024-08. +- (c) **Leptos or Dioxus.** These are full-stack frameworks: Rust components compiled to WebAssembly that run in the browser, calling server functions. That's the right tool for an app that keeps a lot of state in the browser. Q15 chose to keep state on the server. Each release build would also need a WebAssembly target and the framework's own build tool (`cargo-leptos` or `dx`), which is the npm objection under another name. + +*Recommended:* (a). Leptos and Dioxus are overkill here: they solve client-side state, and Q15 deliberately has none. axum costs the least for what Q15 asked of the server, and the async code stays inside the Console. + +*Answer:* Agree on a. + +I don't have objection to npm, but I'm okay waiting on something like Leptos or Dioxus until client-side state gets large enough to warrant something like these. + +**Q18 - The password, in detail.** This builds on Q9 (b). It's one password, with no user names, since the Console is yours alone on each machine. The options: +- (a) **All of these:** + - It's set by a CLI command, such as `thirdshift console password`, which install (Q14) and Setup also offer. Only its argon2id hash is kept, in the Credentials. + - A session lasts 30 days from last use. Setting a new password, or a sign-out-everywhere command, ends every session. + - After five wrong passwords, sign-in slows to one try a minute. + - Every action (Stop, and later Start) needs a CSRF token. + - With no password set, `serve` refuses to start, unless it's run with a flag such as `--no-sign-in` for SSH-tunnel use only. +- (b) **As (a), but without the slowdown or the refusal to start.** + +*Recommended:* (a). The page is on the open internet guarding unfixed vulnerabilities, so guessing has to be slow. A Console that started without a password would be open to anyone the moment a Caddy file pointed at it. + +*Answer:* I want to have email / password login, and a way to reset password by email (using the Resend config for thirdshift on that server). But in user config I want a whitelist of email addresses which can login to the console. And if a user hasn't created a password with `thirdshift console password`, I want them to be able to set their first password using the email password reset - or maybe better a create account flow, but only allowing account creation through the ui for users with their email in the User config console whitelist, and requiring the user to confirm their email with an email verification code or something in order to complete account creation. Otherwise I agree with the recommendation. + +*Checked:* This replaces "one password, its hash in the Credentials" from Q9 (b) and Q18. The `CONTEXT.md` Credentials entry no longer says the Console checks a password against it; it now says the Resend key also sends the Console's sign-in emails. Where accounts live is Q28, and the flows are Q29 to Q31. The User config already has `email.to` and `email.from` (`src/config.rs`). + +**Q19 - The CLI commands.** This builds on Q10 (a), the CLI is the API, and on Q12. The name for a Command on the command line is the issue it's working on, written `chart35#239`, with the owner added only when two repositories share a name, or the issue URL. A Pass with no issue is named by its kind and Command log stamp, such as `architect-20261017T142101`. The options: +- (a) **Views and actions at the top level, and the Console's own commands under `console`:** + - `thirdshift status [--all] [--json]`: live Commands, then recent ones. `--all` lists the whole history. + - `thirdshift show [--json]`: one Command with its Runs, stages and log paths. + - `thirdshift logs [--session ] [--follow]` + - `thirdshift stop [--requeue]` + - `thirdshift console`, which serves the page and replaces Q5's `thirdshift serve`. With it go `console install`, `console password` and `console sign-out`. +- (b) **Everything under `console`** (`console status`, `console stop` and so on). But status and Stop aren't the Console's: agents use them with no Console running. +- (c) **(a), but keep `thirdshift serve`** as the name of the server command. + +*Recommended:* (a). The page is the `console` group, and the views and actions are thirdshift's own. That's your rule written into the command tree. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q20 - What a Spec run shows.** This builds on your note on Q13 and on Q16 (a)'s nesting. Running Ticket Runs show either way. The question is whether Tickets that haven't started show too. The options: +- (a) **Every Ticket in the Spec run:** running (with its stage and how long it's been there), merged into the Spec branch, failed, waiting on the Tickets that block it (named), or not started. +- (b) **Only Tickets that have started a Run.** + +*Recommended:* (a). "What's working, and what's waiting on what" is how you see why a Spec run is slow, and the Spec run already knows its graph. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q21 - macOS.** You want the Console on your laptop eventually, but not necessarily in this pass. thirdshift already ships a macOS build. On a laptop there's no proxy and no password, because it's served to localhost only, and `--no-sign-in` (Q18) covers that. What's missing is keeping `serve` running: launchd, not systemd. The options: +- (a) **Keep the Console's code portable now:** nothing tied to `/proc` or systemd outside `console install`. `console install` handles systemd only, and an issue is filed for launchd. +- (b) **launchd in this pass too.** +- (c) **Linux only,** with no care for portability. + +*Recommended:* (a). Running `thirdshift console` by hand already works on a Mac, if the code stays portable. launchd is small, but there's no Mac here to test it on, so it's better as an issue you can try on your laptop. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q22 - The Apache site file.** This builds on Q14 and your note on it. stephens.page runs Apache 2.4.58 with `proxy`, `proxy_http`, `headers` and `ssl` on, and certbot's Apache plugin issues one certificate per name. About 50 sites there already proxy to `127.0.0.1` apps. One of them, `baby.stephens.page`, already streams server push through Apache with `flushpackets=on` and gzip turned off on that path, which is what the Console's streams need. The options: +- (a) **`console install` sees which server is running, Caddy or Apache, and prints that one's file.** For Apache, that's a port-80 virtual host that proxies to `serve`, with `flushpackets=on` and gzip turned off on the stream paths. Then `sudo certbot --apache -d ` writes the HTTPS one, as for every other site there. nginx and anything else get a README section. +- (b) **Always print both files.** +- (c) **Caddy only, with Apache in the README.** + +*Recommended:* (a). It keeps "one command and one paste" true on both machines you run, and a server with neither still gets the SSH tunnel. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q23 - Two machines, not one.** Correction: Round 1 said this was the only machine running thirdshift. That was wrong, because the research only looked at this host. stephens.page runs thirdshift 0.11.2, with 15 crontab lines. Those include Pickup runs on thirdshift and clave, which this host also picks up from. So #574's "which machine is it on?" is live today, and Q2 was answered on a wrong fact. The options: +- (a) **Keep Q2 (a) as it is.** Each machine has its own Console, and you check both. +- (b) **Q2 (c): each Console links to the others.** A short list of the other Consoles' addresses goes in the User config, and the page header links them. Nothing is fetched from another machine, so Q10's "no HTTP API promised" stands. +- (c) **(b), plus the Claim says which machine took the issue,** for example in the comment thirdshift leaves on the issue, so GitHub alone answers "where is it?". + +*Recommended:* (b) now, and (c) as its own issue. (b) turns "check both" into one tap and touches nothing outside the Console. (c) changes what every Claim writes to GitHub, and that needs its own look. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q24 - A user unit or a system unit.** This revisits Q14 (a) with what stephens.page shows. Lingering is off for you there. Both machines keep long-running apps as **system** units with a `User=` line: on this host, the site publisher runs as `thirdshift-site`; on stephens.page, 50 apps run as `jacob`. Turning lingering on can also need root, depending on the machine's policy. The options: +- (a) **A user unit with lingering,** as Q14 said. No root is needed where lingering is allowed, but it isn't how either machine does it. +- (b) **A system unit with `User=` you.** `console install` prints one script to run with `sudo`, which writes the unit and the proxy's site file, enables the unit, and restarts the proxy. +- (c) **`console install` asks which one.** + +*Recommended:* (b). It's one `sudo` paste either way, because the proxy file needs root already. It matches how both machines already run apps, and it survives reboots and log-outs whatever the lingering policy is. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q25 - The Console's address on stephens.page.** `console.stephens.page` is taken: it redirects to `dashboard.stephens.page`, where muxboard's console lives, and it sits behind Cloudflare's proxy. `*.stephens.page` is a DNS wildcard to that machine, so any other name works without touching DNS. No site there uses `thirdshift`. The options: +- (a) **`thirdshift.stephens.page`.** +- (b) **A name under thirdshift.app,** such as `stephens.console.thirdshift.app`. That needs a DNS record at Porkbun, because `*.thirdshift.app` points at this host. +- (c) **Something else** you choose. + +*Recommended:* (a). It resolves already, certbot handles it like any other name there, and it says what it is in your own domain. + +*Answer:* agree, maybe in setup there should be a question to the user about what address will be used on that machine for the thirdshift console to make this process more extensible to other peoples' machines who I don't know what address they will want to use. The suggestion by thirdshift perhaps can be , checking the local machine perhaps for domain.tld to suggest, or just leave it totally up to the user to enter the whole thing for simplicity. + +*Checked:* Setup's questions are Q32. + +**Q26 - Logs in the old layout.** This builds on Q1's "all commands ever run". stephens.page still has Session logs from before ADR 0011, flat in `~/.thirdshift/logs/` and named like `JacobStephens2-chart35-issue-62-20260930T201407Z-implement.jsonl`. ADR 0011 left them where they were. The options: +- (a) **The Console reads them too,** grouped by repository, issue and stamp, like this host's earliest Session logs. +- (b) **Only the current layout.** You'd move the old files by hand if you want them shown. + +*Recommended:* (a). They're part of "all commands ever run for which we have data", their names hold the repository, issue and stamp, and reading them moves nothing. + +*Answer:* b, we only need to support the latest data format / log layout. The user can reorganize their older logs if they want to make them in the format that works for thirdshift console. + +**Q27 - The Console's look: garden, or plain.** From your message on 2026-10-18. You lean toward a garden metaphor for thirdshift: tending software that improves itself, where a construction metaphor invites big plans up front. The Console could show that, with flora in its visual elements, or stay plain and informational. What it shows is settled (Q1, Q16, Q20), so variations can be drawn now. The options: +- (a) **Prototype first, decide after.** A background agent uses the `prototype` skill's UI branch to build several very different variations of the Commands list and a Session log, on made-up data shaped like real Command records, switchable from one bar at the bottom of the page. For example: + - fully garden: the beds, the season and the growth are the frame; + - plain and informational; + - plain, with a light garden accent in colour, icons and empty states; + - the press floor, as on thirdshift.app: process inks (cyan, magenta, yellow, black), halftone fills, 1px misregistration, scanlines, Big Shoulders headings over JetBrains Mono, built from `site/styles.css`'s tokens. A Run's stages could read as the press line's units. + + They're throwaway, and get published as private pages you can open on your phone. You pick from those. +- (b) **Decide now: plain and informational,** and revisit once the metaphor itself has moved. +- (c) **Decide now: garden-themed.** + +*Recommended:* (a), started as soon as you say yes, so it runs while you answer the rest of Round 3. A look is quicker to judge than to describe. The press floor variation shows whether the Console should look like the site it's sold from, and a plain layout with a light accent may turn out to be the version that can follow the metaphor wherever it goes. Two ways to start it: +- **You type `/claude-handoff`,** naming the prototypes as the focus. It starts a fresh background session, which you manage with `claude agents`. `/handoff` and `/claude-handoff` are marked user-only, so I can't run them myself. +- **I start a background agent** with the `prototype` skill. It reports back here, so I can fold the result into this file. + +The variations would live in `.scratch/prototypes/711-console/` and go on a throwaway branch afterwards, as the prototype skill asks. + +*Answer:* I'm having an agent on my laptop /prototype from /tmp/handoff-711-console-prototypes.md right now. + +*Checked:* Open until you pick a variant (see Waiting on research). The handoff predates Q18's accounts, so its prototype sign-in is a single password field. An email field and the code step (Q30) are worth a look in whichever variant you pick. + +## Round 4 (answered) + +**Q28 - Where Console accounts are kept.** This builds on your Q18 answer: email and password accounts, for the addresses the User config allows. Each account is an email, a password hash, and whether the address has been verified. Its sign-ins need to survive a restart of `thirdshift console`, since a session lasts 30 days. Accounts change from the page (create, reset), but the Credentials are written by Setup and hold the Resend key. The options: +- (a) **A file of its own beside the Credentials,** readable only by you. It holds each account's argon2id hash and each session's hashed token. Only `thirdshift console` and its CLI commands read or write it. +- (b) **Inside the Credentials file.** +- (c) **SQLite.** + +*Recommended:* (a). The page writes accounts, so they shouldn't share a file with the key that only Setup writes. If a bug in the page corrupts the file, you lose sign-ins, not Run notifications. It also matches Q11's choice of files, and no record here needs a query. The term goes into `CONTEXT.md` as **Console account**. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q29 - When an address leaves the allowlist.** The User config lists the emails that may sign in. The options: +- (a) **Removing an address ends its sessions and blocks it at once,** but its account is kept, so adding the address back restores it. With nobody on the list, `thirdshift console` refuses to start, unless `--no-sign-in` is given for SSH-tunnel use (Q18). +- (b) **Removing an address deletes its account too.** + +*Recommended:* (a). The allowlist is the one switch that decides who may sign in, so taking an address off it has to work right away, whatever else is stored. Keeping the account means an edit made by mistake costs nothing. + +*Answer:* agree, and I might want a way to track a user's activity in the console, or to log their actions in the console (and perhaps their actions on the command line too). + +*Checked:* Taken up as Q33. + +**Q30 - Creating an account and resetting a password.** You asked for both, by email. Both need to prove you hold the address and then set a password, so they can be one flow. The options: +- (a) **One flow, "set your password",** for both cases: + - You enter an email. + - The page always answers the same way, "If that address may sign in, a code is on its way", so it never reveals who is allowed. + - An allowlisted address gets a 6-digit code by email, valid for 15 minutes, with 5 tries. + - You enter the code and a new password. That creates the account, or resets its password, and signs you in. + - Codes can be sent at most once a minute and 10 times a day per address. + - On the CLI, `thirdshift console password --email
` does the same for any allowlisted address, with no email needed. +- (b) **Two flows,** create and reset, each with a link in the email instead of a code. +- (c) **(a), with links instead of codes.** + +*Recommended:* (a). A code works when the email opens on a different device from the page, which a link doesn't, and you'll often be on your phone. One flow means one set of rules to get right. The CLI command keeps your rule that the page does nothing the CLI can't. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q31 - With no Resend key.** A machine may have no Resend key: someone who doesn't use Run notifications. The options: +- (a) **The email flows are off.** The page says to ask whoever runs the machine to run `thirdshift console password --email
`, and sign-in still works. +- (b) **`thirdshift console` refuses to start without a Resend key.** + +*Recommended:* (a). Email is a convenience on top of accounts, not what makes them safe. The sign-in emails come from `email.from`, as Run notifications do. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q32 - What Setup asks about the Console.** From your note on Q25. Setup (`thirdshift setup`) would ask whether to run the Console. If yes, it asks for its address and the emails allowed to sign in. Then it offers `console install` (Q14, Q24). The options for the address: +- (a) **You type the whole address,** with `thirdshift.example.com` shown as an example. Nothing is detected. +- (b) **Suggest `thirdshift.`,** with the domain guessed from the machine: its full hostname, or the names the proxy already serves. On this host, though, the guess would be `thirdshift.thirdshift.app`, the name you passed over for `console.thirdshift.app`. +- (c) **(b), with an exception** that suggests `console.` when the domain itself contains "thirdshift". + +*Recommended:* (a). A guess has to be right for people whose machines you've never seen. This host already shows how a guess goes wrong, and typing a whole address once costs little. Allowed emails default to the Run notification address, `email.to`. + +*Answer:* agree + +## Round 5 (answered) + +**Q33 - Recording who did what.** From your note on Q29. Today the Activity log records what the factory did in each repository, but not who asked. There are two kinds of event: +- **Actions on a Command:** Stop now, and Start later. They belong to a repository's story. +- **Account events:** sign-in, failed sign-in, code sent, password set, sign-out. These belong to the machine's Console. + +The options: +- (a) **Actions go in the repository's Activity log, naming who.** For example `Pickup run #239 stopped from the Console by `, or `... stopped from the CLI by jacob`, using the Unix user. Account events go in a **Console log**, one per machine, beside the Console accounts, one line each. `thirdshift console log` prints it, and the page shows it too. +- (b) **Everything in one Console log,** CLI Stops included, with nothing added to the Activity log. +- (c) **(a), plus page views:** which Commands and logs each account opened. + +*Recommended:* (a). A Stop changes what happened to an issue, so it belongs where you already read that history. In #574 you would have wanted "stopped by me at 9:22" next to "started at 9:17". Account events are about the machine, not a repository. Page views are mostly noise, and recording them watches the reader more than it guards anything. + +*Answer:* agree + +**Q34 - How the work is published.** This is a lot more than #711 asked for. In the order the parts depend on each other: +1. the Command record; +2. `status`, `show` and `logs`, with `--json`; +3. Stop; +4. `thirdshift console`, read-only, with the Session log view; +5. accounts and sign-in; +6. Stop on the page; +7. `console install` for Caddy and Apache; +8. Setup's questions; +9. the look, once Q27 is decided. + +The options: +- (a) **Rewrite #711 as a Spec** from this file, labelled `needs-triage`, then publish its Tickets with their blocking links, following `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`. Also file the follow-up issues on their own: launchd on macOS, stopping a single Ticket's Run, a Claim that names its machine, and an Activity log line naming the machine. Write the ADR for `thirdshift console` as an exception to ADR 0009 before the Tickets, so they can cite it. +- (b) **Two Specs.** #711 for parts 1 to 3, the CLI, which agents can use with no page. A new Spec for the Console, parts 4 to 9. +- (c) **Keep #711 as one issue** and attach this file to it. + +*Recommended:* (b). Parts 1 to 3 are useful by themselves and answer #574 completely from a terminal. They also give a Pickup run a small Spec to finish before the larger one starts. The Console Spec waits on Q27 only for its last Ticket. The rest of (a) applies to both Specs: the labels, the follow-up issues and the ADR. + +*Answer:* we'll run /to-spec to create the specs, then /to-tickets for each spec + +*Checked:* Read as (b), two Specs, since `/to-tickets` runs "for each spec". The ADR is written: [ADR 0016](../../docs/adr/0016-the-console-is-a-long-running-reader.md). + +## Settled by earlier answers (shout if any is wrong) + +- Nothing schedules itself to keep the Console current. State comes from what each Command writes as it goes (ADR 0009). +- Logs keep their place, `///`, and their names. The Console reads them where they are (ADR 0011). +- The Console can't assume `thirdshift.app`. Someone else running thirdshift has their own domain, or none, so the address is a setting, not built in. Here it's `console.thirdshift.app` (Q8). +- **The page does nothing the CLI can't** (your note before Q1, Q10). Every view and action reaches the CLI first or at the same time, Stop included, and a test pairs each page route with its command. The CLI's `--json` is the only API anyone is promised. +- **The first version can act, so it's more than a viewer** (Q1 c). It lists every Command on this host, live ones first, with their logs, and it can Stop a live one. +- **History goes back as far as the logs in the current layout do** (Q1, Q26 b). From 2026-10-03, Commands come from the Activity logs and Command logs, without stages until the Command record exists. From 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-02 there are only Session logs, grouped by issue and stamp, with no outcome. +- **Each machine serves its own Console** (Q2 a). Nothing needs a list of machines. Finding from GitHub which machine a Run is on is left for when there's a second machine. +- **Each Command keeps a Command record:** one file beside its Command log, kept after it ends, with its process id, its issue, each child Run's stages and when each began, and its outcome (Q3 b, Q11 a). One whose process is gone, with no outcome, shows as died at its last stage. A SQLite index built from these files can come later, if a query gets slow. The term is now in `CONTEXT.md`. +- **Security sessions and findings appear on the Console,** behind the sign-in (Q4 b). ADR 0015 keeps write-ups away from third parties, and your own server isn't one. +- **`thirdshift console` serves the page** as you, on 127.0.0.1, with a proxy in front (Q5 a, Q19 a). It's built on axum, with templates checked at compile time, and the async code stays inside the Console (Q17 a). It re-executes itself when `thirdshift update` replaces the binary. It's an exception to ADR 0009, a reader that runs all the time where nothing that starts work does, so it gets an ADR of its own: [ADR 0016](../../docs/adr/0016-the-console-is-a-long-running-reader.md). +- **Sign-in is by email and password, for the addresses an allowlist in the User config names** (Q9 b, replaced by your Q18 answer). It has a session cookie, CSRF tokens on every action, and 30-day sessions. After five wrong passwords, sign-in slows to one try a minute. Setting a new password, or `console sign-out`, ends that account's sessions. An account is created, or its password reset, through a code sent by email (Q30), or with `thirdshift console password`. Where accounts are kept is Q28. +- **Agents use the CLI, not the page** (Q7). +- **Stop** leaves the issue for the Day shift: `needs-triage`, with `ready-for-agent` not put back, unless `--requeue` (Q12 b). It waits for the end and reports the outcome and anything left behind. It works on whole Commands, and a Spec run's Stop stops its Tickets' Runs (Q13 a). Stopping a single Ticket's Run gets its own issue. `CONTEXT.md` now has Stop, and the Claim entry says a Stop doesn't put `ready-for-agent` back. +- **Setting up a new server is one command and one `sudo` paste** (Q14 a, Q22 a, Q24 b). `console install` sees whether Caddy or Apache is running and prints one script for `sudo`. The script writes a system unit that runs as you, and the proxy's site file. For Apache, that's a port-80 virtual host with `flushpackets=on` and gzip off on the stream paths, followed by `certbot --apache -d `. Then it enables the unit and restarts the proxy. nginx and others get a README section, and a machine with no proxy uses an SSH tunnel. +- **This host's Console is `console.thirdshift.app`, and stephens.page's is `thirdshift.stephens.page`** (Q8, Q25). Each Console's User config lists the others' addresses, and its header links to them. Nothing is fetched from another machine (Q23 b). An issue will propose that a Claim say which machine took the issue (Q23 c). +- **The page is HTML rendered in Rust, with htmx, its server-push extension and idiomorph copied into the repo,** embedded with `include_dir`, with no npm and no CDN (Q15 a). The page's files live under `src/`, since the crate publishes only `/src`, `/skills`, `README.md` and `LICENSE`. +- **The CLI commands** (Q19 a): + - `thirdshift status [--all] [--json]`, `show [--json]`, `logs [--session ] [--follow]` and `stop [--requeue]`; + - `thirdshift console`, with `console install`, `console password` and `console sign-out`. + + A Command is named by its issue, such as `chart35#239` or the issue URL, or for a Pass with no issue, by its kind and stamp. +- **A Spec run shows every Ticket:** running (with its stage and age), merged, failed, waiting on named blockers, or not started (Q20 a). +- **The code stays portable,** with systemd only in `console install`. An issue will be filed for launchd on macOS (Q21 a). +- **Only the current log layout is read** (Q26 b). stephens.page's flat Session logs from before ADR 0011 aren't shown unless you move them. This host's earliest Session logs, from 2026-09-25, are already in the current layout, so they still show. +- **Console accounts are kept in a file of their own** beside the Credentials, readable only by you, holding argon2id hashes and hashed session tokens (Q28 a). Taking an address off the allowlist ends its sessions and blocks it at once, but keeps the account. With nobody on the list, `thirdshift console` refuses to start unless `--no-sign-in` is given (Q29 a). +- **One "set your password" flow by email code creates an account or resets its password** (Q30 a). The page answers the same way whether or not an address is allowed. A code is 6 digits, valid for 15 minutes, with 5 tries, and codes go out at most once a minute and 10 times a day per address. `thirdshift console password --email
` does the same on the CLI. Without a Resend key, the email flows are off and the CLI is how accounts get passwords (Q31 a). Sign-in emails come from `email.from`. +- **Setup asks whether to run the Console,** its whole address (with an example), and the allowed emails, which default to `email.to`. Then it offers `console install` (Q32 a). +- **A Command record that can't be written is a warning, and never changes a Run's outcome,** the same rule as for Run notifications. Shout if you'd rather it fail the Run. +- **Who did what** (Q33 a). A Stop writes an Activity log line naming who asked: the account's email from the Console, or the Unix user from the CLI. Account events go in a **Console log** per machine, which `thirdshift console log` prints and the page shows. Page views aren't recorded. `CONTEXT.md` has the Console log, and the Activity log and Stop entries now mention who asked. +- **Two Specs, made with `/to-spec`, then `/to-tickets` for each** (Q34 b). #711 is the CLI: the Command record, `status`/`show`/`logs`, then Stop. A new Spec covers the Console: the read-only page with the Session log view, accounts and sign-in, Stop on the page, `console install`, Setup's questions, the Console log, and the look last, once Q27 is decided. The follow-up issues are filed separately: launchd on macOS, stopping a single Ticket's Run, and a Claim that names its machine. The CLI Spec goes first and doesn't wait on Q27; the Console Spec's last Ticket, the look, does (your note on 2026-10-18). +- **ADR 0016 records `thirdshift console` as a reader that runs all the time,** next to ADR 0009's "nothing schedules itself". +- **The page borrows** nested child Runs, each stage with its age, a one-line latest event, and Stop only while the process is alive, with a confirm step on the page. Session logs get folded tool calls, collapsed thinking, a renderer per tool over a plain fallback, and appends rather than redraws (Q16 a). + +## Research results (2026-10-17) + +- The Activity log has start and end lines, and no stage. Example: `Pickup run #740 started: commands/pickup/740-….log, on codex · gpt-6.1-sol · high`, then `ended: failed: git push … failed` an hour later. Confirmed by `~/.thirdshift/logs/JacobStephens2/thirdshift/activity.log`. +- Logs for eight repositories sit under `~/.thirdshift/logs/JacobStephens2/`, each with `activity.log`, `commands/` and `sessions/`, and for Security, `audits/`, `reproductions/` and `security-reviews/`. `credentials.toml` sits in `~/.thirdshift/`, beside `logs/`. Confirmed by `ls`. +- #574's Run was stopped by `SIGTERM` to the Pickup's parent process. Cleanup then ran, pushed the branch, and wrote `ended: failed: interrupted`. So a graceful stop already exists; it just has no command. Confirmed by #574's body. + +- **Caddy 2.6.2 is the only web server here.** `/etc/caddy/Caddyfile` is managed by tracewake's Ansible and imports `/etc/caddy/sites/*.caddy`. Every other site is one file there, which Ansible leaves alone: `thirdshift.app` (with `www`) and `staging.thirdshift.app`. Caddy gets one certificate per name on its own; there's no certbot. After adding a site you restart Caddy rather than reload it, or HTTP/3 fails on Android (`site/deploy/README.md` step 4). Confirmed by `systemctl`, the Caddy files and the README. +- **`*.thirdshift.app` is a wildcard CNAME to `thirdshift.app`, at 137.184.138.99, this host.** So any subdomain already resolves here, and DNS needs no change. Nameservers are Porkbun. Confirmed by `dig`. +- **No proxy-level login exists on this host,** and Tailscale, oauth2-proxy and cloudflared aren't installed. The one app with a login, tracewake's dashboard, does it in the app: email and password, session cookie, CSRF tokens, on 127.0.0.1:8100 behind Caddy. Confirmed by `which`, the Caddy files and `/srv/tracewake/web/app.py`. +- **Caddy runs as user `caddy`, and `/home/jacob` is mode 750,** so Caddy can't read `~/.thirdshift/logs` today. Confirmed by `systemctl cat caddy`, `id caddy` and `ls -ld`. +- **Wrong, corrected 2026-10-18 (see Q23): "This is the only machine running thirdshift."** The check only looked at this host. Its hostname has been `thirdshift` since 2026-10-16; "tracewake" was its earlier name, and is also a separate project deployed here. Nothing in the repo or `~/.thirdshift` lists hosts. thirdshift knows only its own hostname (`src/host.rs`), which it uses in Run notifications and failed-run commits. Confirmed by `hostname`, the capacity memory note and `rg`. +- **thirdshift has no HTTP server code.** Its only web dependency is `reqwest` (a blocking client). Confirmed by `Cargo.toml` and `rg` for listeners. +- **The crontab on this host** runs a Pickup run every minute in seven repositories, and an Architect run (`--plan-only`) every minute in thirdshift. Confirmed by `crontab -l`. + +## Research results (2026-10-18) + +- **Each Ticket's Run in a Spec run, and each Base fix, is a child `thirdshift` process** started from the same Launch directory, so either can be signalled on its own. Confirmed by `src/child_run.rs`, lines 1 to 40. +- **`needs-triage` means a maintainer needs to evaluate the issue,** and `ready-for-human` means it needs a human to do the work. Confirmed by `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`. + +- **What the Console can take or borrow,** from [console-ui-inspiration.md](../../docs/research/console-ui-inspiration.md). Licences were read from `gh api` and the LICENSE files; code is cited at a commit. + - **Warp:** nothing of the Factories UI is public. Its run panel is in the client, which is AGPL-3.0 and drawn natively, so it's off-limits to copy and doesn't fit a web page. From its docs: children nest under their parent, and Stop shows only while a run can be cancelled. Cancelling a parent doesn't cancel its children, which bears on Q13: in Q13 (a), stopping a Spec run stops its Tickets' Runs. + - **OpenHands Agent Canvas** is MIT, but heavy: React 19, Vite, Tailwind, Monaco, a 10.3 MB build. It renders its own event format. Its ideas carry over: phase plus time in phase, folded tool calls, a renderer per tool. + - **Symphony** has a read-only dashboard, served from a JSON API and bound to localhost, with no Stop. + - **Gas Town** (MIT, Go) is the closest match. It's server-rendered htmx compiled into the binary, and its only actions are an allowlist of its own CLI commands, each marked Safe or Confirm. + - Off-limits to copy: Claude Squad, opcode and claudecodeui (AGPL), Superset (Elastic licence), and claude_code_agent_farm (MIT with an extra restriction). + - **Session log viewers** mostly read Claude's saved transcripts or Codex's rollout files, not the `stream-json` and `codex exec --json` output that thirdshift keeps. The message shapes match, so rendering ideas carry over but file readers don't. Vibe Kanban's Rust types (Apache-2.0) parse exactly the Claude stream thirdshift keeps. + - **The crate publishes only `/src`, `/skills`, `README.md` and `LICENSE`,** so the page's files have to live under one of those (`Cargo.toml` `include`). + +- **Session log names give the kinds of session,** which are most of a Run's stages: `implement` (435), `spec-review` (34), `repair` (33), `security-review` (12), `implement-resume`, `architecture-review`, `security-audit`, `security-reproduction` and `security-fix-publishing`. Delivery, CI watch, Self-merge and cleanup run no session, so only the Command record will show them. Confirmed by counting names under `~/.thirdshift/logs/JacobStephens2/*/sessions/`. +- **The code is mostly portable already.** `/proc/self/exe` is used once, in `src/child_run.rs` line 375, inside a Linux-only branch. Confirmed by `rg`. + +- **stephens.page is a second thirdshift machine.** Hostname `stephens`, Ubuntu 24.04.3, 4 CPUs and 15 GiB. It has thirdshift 0.11.2 in `~/.local/bin`, its own `~/.thirdshift`, and 15 every-minute crontab lines (`secure`, `architect` and `pickup`) for thirdshift, stephens.page, clave, horarium, bountywell, fareloch and voice-agent-scheduling. Its oldest Session logs are in the layout from before ADR 0011. Confirmed by a read-only SSH check. +- **stephens.page's Apache:** + - Version 2.4.58 with the prefork MPM and mod_php. Sites use Debian's `sites-available` and `sites-enabled`, one `X.conf` and one certbot `X-le-ssl.conf` per name. + - `proxy`, `proxy_http`, `proxy_wstunnel`, `headers`, `ssl` and `rewrite` are on; `http2` is off. + - About 50 sites proxy to `127.0.0.1` apps run as system units with `User=jacob`. + - `baby.stephens.page` streams server push with `flushpackets=on` and `no-gzip` on its stream path. + - certbot 2.9.0 with the Apache plugin holds 101 certificates, one name each. + - Confirmed by a read-only SSH check (`apache2ctl`, the site files, `sudo -n certbot certificates`). +- **stephens.page's DNS:** Cloudflare, with a `*.stephens.page` wildcard to 68.183.62.24. `console.stephens.page` is taken: a redirect to `dashboard.stephens.page`, behind Cloudflare's proxy. No enabled site mentions `thirdshift`. Confirmed by `dig` and `grep` over `sites-enabled`. +- **Lingering is off for you on stephens.page,** and the long-running apps there are system units. `systemctl --user` works only because a desktop session is open. Confirmed by `loginctl` and `/etc/systemd/system/`. + +## Waiting on research + +- **Q27, the look:** an agent on your laptop is building the variations from `/tmp/handoff-711-console-prototypes.md`. They are garden, plain, plain with a garden accent, and the press floor. diff --git a/CONTEXT.md b/CONTEXT.md index 1c4a74cf5..bbc7cb3bb 100644 --- a/CONTEXT.md +++ b/CONTEXT.md @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ One invocation of the factory on a single issue that is not a **Spec**, from lau A factory-owned checkout, on an **Issue branch** for a **Run** or detached for an **Architecture review**. Acquisition accounts for partial local effects: failed-acquisition recovery rechecks clean-only, instance-specific authority before and after every destructive attempt, including retries, advances only on verified transitions, and retains and names remaining work or uncertain partial effects. Failed-acquisition retention survives later Architecture review attempts. Successful acquisition carries checkout and registration identity through its lifetime; ordinary synchronization, observations and Failed run preservation share acquired-instance checks before and after every Git subprocess attempt, including retries, acting only on that acquired checkout and selected Issue branch and refusing changed or uncertain ownership. Failed run preservation retains work when ownership has changed or is uncertain and finishes after Command interruption without clearing it; ordinary synchronization remains interruptible. Confirmed Self-merge branch deletion uses the captured Launch repository independently of checkout validity. Cleanup checks stage-specific disposal authority before and after every destructive Git attempt, including retries: acquired identity and the captured cleanup head for checkout removal, removed-path absence and an unused expected head for local branch removal, then ref absence and the exact original local subsection for branch configuration removal. Only successful, verified transitions advance disposal; partial failures retain and name every remaining or uncertain resource. Live cleanup finishes after Command interruption without clearing it; stale disposal stays interruptible. Stale Architecture review scratch is disposable only with evidence of successful detached acquisition and unchanged ownership; unmarked or uncertain checkouts are retained. **Claim**: -The mark that the factory has taken an issue: thirdshift labels the issue `in-progress`, in place of `ready-for-agent` if it has that, when a **Run** or a **Spec run** starts on it, whether started on its **Issue URL** or by an **Architect run**, a **Pickup run** or a **Security run**. A **Ticket**'s Run in a Spec run and a **Base fix** make none. Ending a Claim finishes even after Command interruption. A failed Security fix keeps its Claim even with nothing on `origin`, so it stays with the Day shift. For other Runs, a Claim is released, `ready-for-agent` put back, only when the Run ends with nothing on `origin` to take over: no **Issue branch** and no pull request. Otherwise it stays while the issue is open, whether its pull request is ready for review or the Run failed, until the **Day shift** relabels it, and thirdshift takes the label off once the issue is closed. +The mark that the factory has taken an issue: thirdshift labels the issue `in-progress`, in place of `ready-for-agent` if it has that, when a **Run** or a **Spec run** starts on it, whether started on its **Issue URL** or by an **Architect run**, a **Pickup run** or a **Security run**. A **Ticket**'s Run in a Spec run and a **Base fix** make none. Ending a Claim finishes even after Command interruption. A failed Security fix keeps its Claim even with nothing on `origin`, so it stays with the Day shift. For other Runs, a Claim is released, `ready-for-agent` put back, only when the Run ends with nothing on `origin` to take over and was not ended by a **Stop**: no **Issue branch** and no pull request. Otherwise it stays while the issue is open, whether its pull request is ready for review or the Run failed, until the **Day shift** relabels it, and thirdshift takes the label off once the issue is closed. _Avoid_: lock (a lock is per machine and ends with its process), assignment **Spec run**: @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ _Avoid_: completion email, alert The per-machine settings file in the user's home folder that sets thirdshift's defaults for every **Run** started on that machine, such as the **Run notification** address, whether every Run is a **Merge run**, whether a Run may start a **Base fix**, whether a Run first brings the **Launch directory**'s checkout of the **Base branch** up to date with `origin`, and the **Harness**, with a **Model** and **Effort** for each Harness. With no User config, or one that says nothing about a setting, a Run does only what its command asks for. **Credentials**: -The per-machine secrets file next to the **User config**, readable only by its owner, that holds the Resend API key a **Run notification** is sent with. The key in the environment wins over it; it is what lets a **Run** started from cron, `nohup` or an agent's shell find the key. Only commands that send email read it, so the User config holds no secret. +The per-machine secrets file next to the **User config**, readable only by its owner, that holds the Resend API key a **Run notification** is sent with, and the **Console**'s sign-in emails. The key in the environment wins over it; it is what lets a **Run** started from cron, `nohup` or an agent's shell find the key. Only commands that send email read it, so the User config holds no secret. _Avoid_: secrets file, key file **Setup**: @@ -228,5 +228,25 @@ Everything one **Run**, **Spec run**, **Architect run**, **Pickup run** or **Sec _Avoid_: cron log, output log, run log (a **Run** is one kind of command) **Activity log**: -One running record per repository of what the factory did there: a line when a **Run**, **Spec run**, **Architect run**, **Pickup run** or **Security run** starts work, naming its **Command log**, and a line when it ends, with its outcome. A skipped Architect run, Pickup run or Security run writes a line only when its reason differs from the last one recorded for its kind, so a repository that sits idle shows one line, not one per pass. It is what thirdshift writes about a scheduled pass, in place of output to the scheduler. +One running record per repository of what the factory did there: a line when a **Run**, **Spec run**, **Architect run**, **Pickup run** or **Security run** starts work, naming its **Command log**, a line when it is given a **Stop**, naming who asked and whether from the CLI or the **Console**, and a line when it ends, with its outcome. A skipped Architect run, Pickup run or Security run writes a line only when its reason differs from the last one recorded for its kind, so a repository that sits idle shows one line, not one per pass. It is what thirdshift writes about a scheduled pass, in place of output to the scheduler. _Avoid_: cron log, pass log, history + +**Console**: +The web page a machine serves that shows every **Command** started on it, live ones first, with each one's child **Runs**, their stages and their logs, and from which a live Command can be stopped. Each machine serves its own, behind a sign-in. It does nothing the CLI can't do: every view and action it offers is also a command. +_Avoid_: dashboard, floor, UI, web UI + +**Command record**: +What a **Command** keeps on its machine about where it is: its process, its issue if it has one, each child **Run** with the stages it has been through and when each began, and, once it ends, its outcome. Kept beside its **Command log** after the Command ends, so the **Console** and the CLI can show live and past Commands alike. A record whose process is gone, with no outcome, belongs to a Command that died at its last stage. +_Avoid_: live record, state file, status file + +**Stop**: +Ending a live **Command** on request, from the CLI or the **Console**. It is an interruption, and the Command cleans up as after any other, but its issue is left for the **Day shift**: labelled `needs-triage`, with `ready-for-agent` not put back, unless the Stop asks for the issue to go back in line. Stop waits for the Command to end, then reports its outcome and any branch or pull request it left. The **Activity log** records who asked for it. A Stop of a **Spec run** stops its **Tickets**' Runs with it. +_Avoid_: kill, cancel, abort + +**Console account**: +An email address allowed by the **User config** to sign in to a machine's **Console**, with its password. Created, and its password reset, by proving the address with a code sent to it, or from the CLI. Taking an address off the allowlist ends its sign-ins at once; the account is kept, so adding it back restores it. +_Avoid_: user, login + +**Console log**: +One running record per machine of what happened to its **Console accounts**: sign-ins, failed sign-ins, codes sent, passwords set and sign-outs, each naming the account. What people did to **Commands** goes in the **Activity log** instead, and what they only looked at is recorded nowhere. +_Avoid_: audit log, access log diff --git a/docs/adr/0016-the-console-is-a-long-running-reader.md b/docs/adr/0016-the-console-is-a-long-running-reader.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..45671410d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/adr/0016-the-console-is-a-long-running-reader.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# The Console runs all the time, but only reads and does what the CLI does + +ADR 0009 rejected a long-running `thirdshift watch`: it has to be kept alive, it keeps running the old binary after `thirdshift update`, and when it hangs nobody notices. The **Console** needs something listening, so `thirdshift console` runs all the time, on 127.0.0.1, behind the machine's own Caddy or Apache. It stays within the spirit of ADR 0009 for three reasons: +- **It never starts work.** Every Command is still started by the operating system's scheduler or by a person, and the Console's only action, **Stop**, is the CLI's `thirdshift stop`. +- **It survives updates.** It re-executes itself when `thirdshift update` replaces the binary. +- **A hang costs no work.** A Console that hangs loses no Run; the next request shows it's down. + +It reads what each Command writes about itself, its **Command record** and its logs, so it remembers nothing that a restart would lose, except sign-ins. + +## Considered Options + +- **No thirdshift process, with the web server serving the records, the logs and a static page.** Rejected: + - The web server runs as its own user and can't enter the home folder. + - Keeping **Security run** logs off the page would mean a deny rule in the web server's config for every Security log folder. A kind of log added later would leak until someone remembered its rule. + - In the Console, thirdshift runs as its owner and decides what to show in code, under test. +- **Started on demand in a terminal or tunnel.** Rejected as the main way: a page that is down whenever nobody remembered to start it is no use from a phone. It still works this way with `--no-sign-in` over an SSH tunnel. + +## Consequences + +- `console install` writes a system unit that runs as the user, the same way other long-running apps are kept on both machines today. It prints a script for `sudo` that writes the unit and the proxy's site file. +- Every view and action on the page is also a CLI command with `--json`, and a test pairs them. Agents use the CLI, not the page, and no HTTP API is promised to anyone. +- Async code (axum on tokio) lives only inside the Console. The rest of thirdshift stays blocking. diff --git a/docs/research/console-ui-inspiration.md b/docs/research/console-ui-inspiration.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..241d4ff46 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/research/console-ui-inspiration.md @@ -0,0 +1,318 @@ +# Console UI: what to take or borrow from open-source factory UIs and session-log viewers + +Research date: 2026-10-18. + +**Question.** What can thirdshift take (code, under a licence compatible with its MIT licence) or borrow (ideas, layouts, interaction patterns) from open-source software-factory and agent-control UIs, and from agent session-log viewers? It is for the page ("console", name not final) planned in #711 and #574. A read-only-ish `thirdshift serve` on localhost, behind Caddy, would show: + +- live Commands, each with its child Runs and the stage each is in (implement, review, Repair, CI watch, Self-merge); +- the full history of Commands on the host; +- their Command logs and Session logs; +- a Stop action. + +Starting runs and charts come later. The hard rule is that **the page may do nothing the CLI can't do**. The page ships inside the Rust binary. The host has 4 cores and 8 GB, and no Docker. + +This builds on [warp-factories-and-alternatives.md](warp-factories-and-alternatives.md) (the "earlier survey") and [openhands-fit.md](openhands-fit.md). Those two notes judged the products as replacements for thirdshift. This one looks only at their UIs, and at log viewers. + +**Method.** + +- Source was read from shallow clones made on 2026-10-18. Code citations link to a file at a fixed commit: + - `warpdotdev/docs@756982e`, and `warpdotdev/warp@1e6ef37` read through `gh api` + - `OpenHands/OpenHands@852132d` + - `openai/symphony@be10a1b` + - `BloopAI/vibe-kanban@d5cbb53` + - `gastownhall/gastown@649b832` + - `agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires@7086f81` + - `daaain/claude-code-log@9834d25` + - `simonw/claude-code-transcripts@316fd09` + - `ccusage/ccusage@b090428` + - `jhlee0409/claude-code-history-viewer@7f48907` + - `Brads3290/cclogviewer@951bad6` +- Licences and repository metadata come from `gh api repos//` and each repo's LICENSE file, read on 2026-10-18. Package sizes and licences come from `npm view` and `npm pack`. +- Warp docs pages are cited by their live URL. The same text and screenshots are in `warpdotdev/docs` at the commit above. +- thirdshift's own Session log formats were checked against real files under `~/.thirdshift/logs/` on this host. +- **[interpretation]** marks my reading. **[unverified]** marks a claim I could not confirm from a primary source. +- Nothing was installed or run, apart from `npm pack` to measure packages. + +**Out of scope.** Visual design (a prototype session), the live-record format (#711 Q3), and how the page is authenticated (#711 Q4). + +## TL;DR + +- **Warp: no Factories UI code is public.** The Factories dashboard is a closed web app at `platform.warp.dev`. The desktop Agent Management Panel is in the public client, but it is AGPL-3.0 Rust drawn with Warp's own GPU UI framework, so it is neither copyable into an MIT project nor usable in a browser. Worth borrowing: + - runs grouped under their parent, with a **Sub-agents** tab; + - a small status set (Working, Blocked, Failed, Succeeded, Cancelled); + - **Stop run** shown only while a run can be cancelled; + - an Inbox of what needs a human. (§1) +- **OpenHands Agent Canvas: MIT, but too heavy to embed.** It is React 19 + React Router 7 + Vite + Tailwind 4 + HeroUI + TanStack Query, with xterm, Monaco and i18next. The prebuilt frontend in the npm package is 10.3 MB, 6.5 MB of it JavaScript. Its components render OpenHands' own event schema, not Claude or Codex JSONL. Borrow the ideas: + - a run's **phase plus how long it has been in that phase**, which tells a moving run from a stalled one; + - cancel only when cancellable; + - consecutive tool calls folded into one group; + - a per-tool "visualizer" registry with a generic fallback. (§2) +- **Symphony: yes, a dashboard, but no Stop.** The SPEC makes the HTTP dashboard optional and requires it to be an observability surface only. The Elixir reference has a Phoenix LiveView page (metric cards, running, blocked and retry tables) and a terminal status view. Borrow: + - the read-only JSON API (`GET /api/v1/state`, `GET /api/v1/`), with the page reading that API rather than keeping its own state logic; + - binding to loopback by default. (§3) +- **Others.** Two are close in shape to thirdshift's page: + - **Gas Town** (MIT, Go): a server-rendered dashboard embedded in the binary. It uses htmx with idiomorph, and SSE nudges a morph re-render. Its actions are an **allowlist of CLI commands** with Safe or Confirm flags. That is the closest existing match to "the page may do nothing the CLI can't do". + - **Vibe Kanban** (Apache-2.0, Rust, sunsetting) and **agent-of-empires** (MIT, Rust): a React bundle built by npm and embedded with `rust-embed`. That is a working precedent, but it puts Node into the release build. + + Claude Squad and opcode are AGPL. Superset is ELv2. claude_code_agent_farm is MIT with an OpenAI/Anthropic rider. (§4) +- **Log viewers.** thirdshift's Session logs are Claude `--output-format stream-json` stdout and `codex exec --json` stdout. Most viewers parse something else: Claude's on-disk transcripts (`~/.claude/projects`) and Codex rollouts (`~/.codex/sessions`). The content blocks are the same Anthropic shape, so their *rendering* carries over. The parts worth taking or porting: + - Vibe Kanban's `ClaudeJson` serde types parse stream-json directly in Rust (Apache-2.0). + - simonw's Jinja macros (Apache-2.0) are about 190 lines. + - claude-code-log (MIT) has a complete tool-by-tool formatter set, and it measured that re-rendering a whole session per append doesn't scale. (§5) +- **Recommendation.** + - **Stack.** Server-rendered HTML from Rust, plus htmx and idiomorph (both 0BSD, about 20 KB gzipped together, vendored) and one small hand-written ES module. Compile it in with the `include_dir` crate thirdshift already depends on. SSE carries both the "something changed" signal and Session-log tails. No npm in the build, matching how `site/` is already built. + - **Order of work.** Add `thirdshift status --json` and `thirdshift stop` first, then build the page on them, Symphony- and Gas-Town-style. + - **Avoid.** Lifting the OpenHands or React-based UIs, and anything AGPL or ELv2. (§6) + +## 1. Warp + +### 1.1 Is any Factories, Oz or Automation Platform UI code public? + +**No.** The evidence: + +- **The dashboard is a hosted web app.** "The factory dashboard is the web app for operating a single factory". Its URL is `https://platform.warp.dev` ([factory dashboard](https://docs.warp.dev/factories/factory-dashboard/); `VARS.FACTORY_WEB_APP_URL` in [vars.ts](https://github.com/warpdotdev/docs/blob/756982e49a28058e6657616d262660b333aed779/src/data/vars.ts)). +- **None of the 100+ `warpdotdev` repositories holds that web app** (`gh api orgs/warpdotdev/repos`, 2026-10-18). + - The client repo `warpdotdev/warp` is 67 MB of Rust and 3.9 KB of TypeScript (`gh api repos/warpdotdev/warp/languages`). + - A code search for `platform.warp.dev` in it returns nothing. +- **What the client does have** is the desktop **Agent Management Panel**, under `app/src/ai/agent_management/` (`view.rs` alone is 97 KB). It is written against Warp's own `warpui` GPU UI framework. + - **Licence:** "Warp's UI framework (the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates) are licensed under the MIT license. The rest of the code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL v3" ([README](https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/1e6ef379bc9f51257c4243e8c4396a046cede8af/README.md)). + - So the panel's code is AGPL-3.0. Copying it into thirdshift would make the combined work AGPL, which conflicts with thirdshift's MIT licence ([Cargo.toml](../../Cargo.toml) `license = "MIT"`) **[interpretation]**. + - The MIT `warpui` framework draws native windows, not HTML, so it has no use in a browser page either. +- **Other public pieces with UI:** + - `oz-workspace` (Apache-2.0) is a *sample* chat-room-and-Kanban app on the Oz API. It is built on Next.js 16, Prisma with SQLite, NextAuth, Tailwind with shadcn/ui, Zustand and SSE ([README](https://github.com/warpdotdev/oz-workspace)). It is not the Factories UI, and its stack is far heavier than this page needs. + - `session-sharing-protocol` is AGPL-3.0 (its README). + - `power-fixer-server` (MIT, Rust) is an API server for an issue-triage demo, backed by Postgres ([README](https://github.com/warpdotdev/power-fixer-server)). +- **Nothing to take as code.** The earlier survey's §3.6 licence list still holds. + +### 1.2 What the Factories UI shows + +From the docs pages and their screenshots: + +- **Layout.** + - A sidebar holds team-wide pages (Runs, MCPs and apps, Secrets, Integrations) above a factory list. A global **Inbox** sits beside them. + - A factory's pages are **Dashboard** (metrics), Runs, Agents, Automations (with a Webhooks tab), Factory definition, Scorers, Self-improvement, Benchmarks and Settings ([factory dashboard](https://docs.warp.dev/factories/factory-dashboard/)). +- **Work items and stages.** + - "A work item is a single request the factory acts on … It keeps its identity from intake to handoff, however many agents contribute to it along the way." + - The stages are Intake, Triage, Planning, Building, Reviewing, Human handoff, then Complete or Cancelled ([how factories work](https://docs.warp.dev/factories/how-factories-work/)). + - The system diagram lists "Work items by stage" and "Runs and costs" as dashboard contents ([diagram](https://github.com/warpdotdev/docs/blob/756982e49a28058e6657616d262660b333aed779/src/assets/agent-platform/factories-work-item-flow.png)). + - I found no screenshot of a by-stage view in the docs. Its layout is **[unverified]**. +- **Runs.** + - "A single request can span several runs as different agents pick it up, and related runs group under their parent in the list." + - Opening a run shows "its timeline and cost, plus a **Sub-agents** tab for child runs". From there you can "view the agent's full session, stop or score the run" ([factory dashboard](https://docs.warp.dev/factories/factory-dashboard/#inspect-runs)). + - Run fields are Status, Title, Environment, Creator, Source, Artifacts (PRs, files) and Cost or credits. + - Quick filters are All, Mine, Active, Failed and Recurring, plus search ([web app Runs](https://docs.warp.dev/platform/oz-web-app/)). +- **Status set.** Working, Blocked, Cancelled, Failed/Errored and Success, each with its own icon ([managing cloud agents](https://docs.warp.dev/platform/managing-cloud-agents/)). + - "The parent's own status reflects only its work - a parent can finish successfully while a child is still running or has failed" (same page). + - The panel screenshot shows one row per run: a status icon, a title, then "Source · Run time · Credits used", a relative time and the creator's avatar, with a filter bar across the top ([screenshot](https://github.com/warpdotdev/docs/blob/756982e49a28058e6657616d262660b333aed779/src/assets/agent-platform/management-view-scannable-list.png)). +- **Logs.** + - The run's "shared session" shows "the prompt, plan, commands, logs, outputs, and follow-up messages", live while the run is going and as a transcript afterwards ([session sharing](https://docs.warp.dev/platform/viewing-cloud-agent-runs/)). + - Clicking a row opens it: "find the thing you care about, click once, and you're in the right context" ([managing cloud agents](https://docs.warp.dev/platform/managing-cloud-agents/)). +- **Stop.** + - "Open the run on the factory's Runs page and click **Stop run**. It takes effect immediately, with no confirmation prompt" ([troubleshooting](https://docs.warp.dev/factories/troubleshooting/)). + - The API is `POST /agent/runs/{runId}/cancel`. "Cancelling the parent does **not** automatically cancel its children." "Self-hosted, local, and GitHub Action runs cannot be cancelled through this endpoint" ([multi-agent runs](https://docs.warp.dev/platform/orchestration/multi-agent-runs/)). + - In the client, the Cancel button is configured only "if `display_status.is_cancellable()`" ([details_action_buttons.rs L42-L55](https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/1e6ef379bc9f51257c4243e8c4396a046cede8af/app/src/ai/agent_management/details_action_buttons.rs#L42-L55)). +- **Stale states.** A Warp spec plans to reconcile a "stale raw `InProgress` task with terminal matching conversation" into Done or Failed by a derived display status ([spec APP-4382, increment 3](https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/1e6ef379bc9f51257c4243e8c4396a046cede8af/specs/APP-4382/INCREMENT-3-agent-management-and-details.md)). That is the same problem as #711's "died at review". +- **Inbox.** Asked question, Answered question, Spec review, PR review, Blocked and Failed. "Items clear on their own once they stop being relevant", with read, unread and resolved states ([factory inbox](https://docs.warp.dev/factories/factory-inbox/)). + +### 1.3 What thirdshift can borrow + +| Warp idea | thirdshift equivalent | Note | +|---|---|---| +| Runs nested under a parent, with a Sub-agents tab | Command → Spec run → Ticket Runs, and Base fix | Show the parent's own outcome apart from its children's, as Warp does | +| One scannable row per run, with a filter bar | Command history | Filters: repo, kind (Run, Spec run, Pickup, Architect, Security), outcome, date | +| Work item keeps its identity across agents | An Issue keeps one row across implement, review, Repair and Self-merge | Stage as a column, not a new row per session | +| Stop only when cancellable; no confirm | Stop only on a live Command whose process is alive | thirdshift's Stop discards less than Warp's (the work is pushed on failure, per [README.md](../../README.md) "Failed runs"), so no confirm is defensible **[interpretation]** | +| Derived display status that fixes stale "in progress" | "Died" when the live record's process is gone (#711 Q3) | Same pattern | +| Inbox of what needs a human | Failed runs, Unaddressed findings, offered Base fixes | Later; out of scope for v1 | +| Cost per PR, autonomy, cycle time | Later charts | Session logs already carry usage (§5.1) | + +## 2. OpenHands Agent Canvas + +- **Repository facts.** `OpenHands/OpenHands` is MIT ([LICENSE](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/LICENSE)). It is published as npm `@openhands/agent-canvas` 1.27.1 and needs Node ≥ 24 ([package.json](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/package.json)). +- **Stack** (same package.json): + - React 19.3 and React Router 7, built with Vite 8. + - Tailwind 4 and `@heroui/react`. + - TanStack Query and Zustand. + - `@xterm/xterm`, `monaco-editor`, `react-markdown` with remark and rehype, `react-syntax-highlighter`. + - i18next, `framer-motion`, and `posthog-js` for telemetry. +- **Size.** 665 `.tsx` files, about 176k lines of TypeScript under `src/`. + - The npm tarball unpacks to 77 MB in 11,654 files. + - Its prebuilt `build/` frontend is 10.3 MB: 6.5 MB of JavaScript in 309 files, plus a 440 KB CSS file. The largest chunks are vendor bundles of 0.5–0.6 MB each, a 472 KB markdown chunk and a 341 KB terminal chunk (`npm pack @openhands/agent-canvas@1.27.1`, measured 2026-10-18). + +### 2.1 What it shows + +- **Running automations and history.** + - The home page lists running automations. Each row has a health dot, an activity sparkline, its trigger (cron or event), a status tooltip, and a menu with Run now, **Cancel run**, View and Edit ([running-automations-list.tsx](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/components/features/home/featured-automations/running-automations-list.tsx); [build-home-automation-menu-items.tsx L60-L82](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/components/features/home/featured-automations/build-home-automation-menu-items.tsx#L60-L82)). + - Cancel appears only when `canCancel` is true. "Run now" is disabled while a run can be cancelled (same file). + - The backend call is `POST /api/automation/v1/runs/{run_id}/cancel` ([automation-service.api.ts L621-L625](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/api/automation-service/automation-service.api.ts#L621-L625)). +- **Run history.** + - An automation's detail page has an activity log. Each row shows a timestamp, a summary, a cost (`$0.0000`, with a real zero shown and an unknown cost hidden), a status badge, the phase, and a terminal icon that opens a stdout/stderr **logs modal** ([activity-log-item.tsx](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/components/features/automations/detail/activity-log-item.tsx); [run-logs-modal.tsx](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/components/features/automations/detail/run-logs-modal.tsx)). + - Run statuses are PENDING, RUNNING, COMPLETED, FAILED, CANCELLED and SKIPPED ([types/automation.ts L161-L168](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/types/automation.ts#L161-L168)). +- **Phase and phase age.** [run-phase.tsx](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/components/features/automations/detail/run-phase.tsx) is the most transferable idea in the repo: + - A phase is shown only for pending, running or failed runs. "It answers 'what is it doing now' or 'where did it stop'" (L17). + - Its age is shown only while the run is in flight. "Only its age says whether it entered that phase seconds ago or forty minutes ago" (L35, L114). + - Known phase codes are translated. Unknown ones fall back to the author's label, then to the raw code (L91). +- **Conversations (sessions).** + - Events are rendered by a registry of per-tool "visualizers": bash, file editor with a diff view, search and task. Anything else falls back to markdown ([dispatcher.tsx](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/components/features/chat/tool-visualizers/dispatcher.tsx)). + - Runs of two or more consecutive tool calls fold into one collapsible group. Finish, think, error and message events break a group ([group-events.ts L14-L40](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/components/conversation-events/chat/group-events.ts#L14-L40)). + - Thinking is collapsible (`collapsible-thinking.tsx`). + - Live events arrive over a WebSocket (`src/hooks/use-websocket.ts`). +- **Stop.** A conversation's stop button *pauses* the conversation (`usePauseConversation`, [chat-input-actions.tsx](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/852132d38dbc15e03d6825bbacbeb971c72575be/src/components/features/chat/components/chat-input-actions.tsx)). An automation run is *cancelled*. Two verbs for two kinds of object. + +### 2.2 Could components be lifted? + +- **Licence: fine.** MIT into MIT needs only the copyright notice kept. +- **Weight: no.** + - Lifting even one component brings React, HeroUI, Tailwind 4's Vite plugin, i18next and the `#/` path aliases. The release build would then need Node and npm, which thirdshift's `dist` release build doesn't have today ([ADR-0003](../adr/0003-static-binaries-through-github-releases.md)). + - The full bundle would add about 10 MB to the binary, or roughly 2–3 MB compressed **[unverified: not measured compressed]**. +- **Schema mismatch.** The visualizers take OpenHands `ActionEvent` and `ObservationEvent` types (`#/types/agent-server/core`), not Claude stream-json or Codex `exec --json`. Every component would need an adapter layer first. +- **[interpretation]** Port the *behaviour* (phase plus age, cancel-when-cancellable, grouping, a visualizer registry with fallback) into server-rendered Rust templates instead. Each of those is a few dozen lines of logic. + +## 3. OpenAI Symphony + +- **Licence.** Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE file ("Copyright 2025 OpenAI") ([LICENSE](https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/be10a1b79df723d6d7612b5651c8522704dafb2e/LICENSE), [NOTICE](https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/be10a1b79df723d6d7612b5651c8522704dafb2e/NOTICE)). +- **What the SPEC says** ([SPEC.md §13](https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/be10a1b79df723d6d7612b5651c8522704dafb2e/SPEC.md)): + - A status surface is optional. It "SHOULD draw from orchestrator state/metrics only and MUST NOT be REQUIRED for correctness" (§13.4). + - The HTTP extension "MAY serve server-rendered HTML or a client-side application". "The dashboard/API MUST be observability/control surfaces only" (§13.7). + - "Implementations SHOULD bind loopback by default" (§13.7). + - Endpoints "SHOULD be read-only except for operational triggers like `/refresh`". "If the dashboard is a client-side app, it SHOULD consume this API rather than duplicating state logic" (§13.7.2). + - The API is `GET /api/v1/state`, `GET /api/v1/` (per issue: workspace path, attempts, running session, log file paths, recent events, last error) and `POST /api/v1/refresh`, with suggested JSON shapes (§13.7.2). + - Token accounting should "prefer absolute thread totals" and "ignore delta-style payloads" (§13.5). +- **The reference implementation has two status views.** + - A **terminal dashboard** ([status_dashboard.ex](https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/be10a1b79df723d6d7612b5651c8522704dafb2e/elixir/lib/symphony_elixir/status_dashboard.ex), 1,941 lines). Its README screenshot shows a header (agents running out of the maximum, throughput, runtime, tokens in, out and total, rate limits, next refresh). Below it is a Running table with columns ID, STAGE, PID, AGE / TURN, TOKENS, SESSION and EVENT, and then a "Backoff queue" ([screenshot](https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/be10a1b79df723d6d7612b5651c8522704dafb2e/.github/media/elixir-screenshot.png)). The EVENT column is a humanized last event, such as "command output streaming: …" or "turn diff updated (152 lines)". + - A **Phoenix LiveView web page** at `/` ([dashboard_live.ex](https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/be10a1b79df723d6d7612b5651c8522704dafb2e/elixir/lib/symphony_elixir_web/live/dashboard_live.ex), 446 lines, plus a 471-line [dashboard.css](https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/be10a1b79df723d6d7612b5651c8522704dafb2e/elixir/priv/static/dashboard.css)). + - Metric cards: Running, Retrying, Blocked, Total tokens, Runtime. + - Then rate limits, a "Running sessions" table (Issue, State, Session, Runtime / turns, Codex update, Tokens) with a copy-session-ID button, a "Blocked sessions" table and a "Retry queue" (L81-L292). + - It updates by PubSub plus a once-a-second runtime tick (L19-L33). The router serves the Phoenix JS from the app itself, not a CDN ([router.ex](https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/be10a1b79df723d6d7612b5651c8522704dafb2e/elixir/lib/symphony_elixir_web/router.ex)). +- **No Stop.** Neither view nor the API has a stop, cancel or kill action (no matches in `dashboard_live.ex` or the controllers). The only write is `/refresh`. +- **What to take.** + - The API-first shape, and its JSON shapes, as the model for `thirdshift status --json` (§6). + - The humanized last-event column (a stalled Run reads as an old event). + - Code is portable under Apache-2.0 with NOTICE kept, but LiveView is Elixir-specific, so there is little to copy beyond CSS **[interpretation]**. + +## 4. Other open-source agent orchestration UIs + +All metadata from `gh api repos//` and the LICENSE file, 2026-10-18. "Copyable" means the licence allows copying into an MIT project with attribution. + +| Project | Licence | Copyable | UI and stack | What's worth a look | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| **Gas Town** (`gastownhall/gastown`, Go, 18k★) | MIT | Yes | `gt dashboard`: a Go `html/template` page with CSS and JS embedded by `//go:embed` ([handler.go L19](https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/blob/649b832b7672bc7a2dbef26f5983aba6198b819b/internal/web/handler.go#L19)). Uses htmx 1.9 and idiomorph from unpkg. SSE `dashboard-update` triggers `hx-get="/"` with `hx-swap="morph:outerHTML"`, and it polls every 30 s only when SSE is down ([convoy.html L8-L13](https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/blob/649b832b7672bc7a2dbef26f5983aba6198b819b/internal/web/templates/convoy.html#L8-L13); [dashboard.js L33-L46](https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/blob/649b832b7672bc7a2dbef26f5983aba6198b819b/internal/web/static/dashboard.js#L33-L46)) | **Actions are allowlisted CLI commands.** `AllowedCommands` maps `gt` subcommands to `Safe` or `Confirm`. `BlockedPatterns` refuses `--force`, `kill`, `rm`, `reset` and so on, which "require terminal access" ([commands.go L27-L110](https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/blob/649b832b7672bc7a2dbef26f5983aba6198b819b/internal/web/commands.go#L27-L110)). The page is 58 KB of template, 96 KB of CSS and 133 KB of JS: big, but with no build step | +| **Vibe Kanban** (`BloopAI/vibe-kanban`, Rust + React, 28k★) | Apache-2.0 | Yes, with NOTICE | Axum serves a Vite-built React SPA embedded with `rust-embed` ([frontend.rs L9-L11](https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/blob/d5cbb5380fa0b32e98ef9b8d987f63decce4be3a/crates/server/src/routes/frontend.rs#L9-L11)) | "**Vibe Kanban is sunsetting**" ([README](https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/blob/d5cbb5380fa0b32e98ef9b8d987f63decce4be3a/README.md)). Its Rust log normalizers are the useful part (§5.2) | +| **agent-of-empires** (`agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires`, Rust, 3.4k★) | MIT | Yes | `aoe serve`: Axum plus a React 19 SPA (Tailwind, shiki, `@pierre/diffs`, assistant-ui) behind a `web` cargo feature. `build.rs` runs `npm ci` and `npm run build`, then embeds `web/dist` with `rust-embed`. It panics if npm is missing ([build.rs L135-L205](https://github.com/agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires/blob/7086f811915af7df9005b952691bc377ba906aa2/build.rs#L135-L205); [Cargo.toml L154, L221](https://github.com/agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires/blob/7086f811915af7df9005b952691bc377ba906aa2/Cargo.toml#L154)) | The closest stack precedent (a Rust CLI with an embedded web dashboard usable on a phone), and a clear picture of the Node-in-the-build cost. Its "structured view" renders sessions over ACP: plan, tool-call cards, diffs ([structured-view.md](https://github.com/agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires/blob/7086f811915af7df9005b952691bc377ba906aa2/docs/structured-view.md)) | +| **agent-orchestrator** (`OrchestratorInc/agent-orchestrator`, Go, 13k★) | Apache-2.0 | Yes, with NOTICE | Desktop app plus a local daemon. "Follow every worker, pull request, CI run, and review in a live Kanban" (README) | Columns by live status, with PR, CI and review on the card. Desktop-only | +| **Cline Kanban** (`cline/kanban`, TS) | Apache-2.0 | Yes | `npx kanban`, "a local web app that runs CLI agents in parallel"; research preview (README) | A Kanban of agent tasks | +| **Paperclip** (`paperclipai/paperclip`, TS, 104k★) | MIT | Yes | "A Node.js server and React UI"; "track work and costs from one dashboard" (README) | Cost tracking per task; heavy | +| **Terragon** (`terragon-labs/terragon-oss`, TS) | Apache-2.0 | Yes | Next.js dashboard. "Task status and agent progress stream to your browser in real-time" (README). Shut down; needs Postgres, Redis and more (earlier survey §4.1) | Screenshots only | +| **Jean** (`coollabsio/jean`) | Apache-2.0 | Yes | Tauri 2 + React 19 + shadcn, plus a browser mode (README) | Desktop-first | +| **Emdash** (`generalaction/emdash`) | Apache-2.0 | Yes | Desktop ADE | Desktop-only | +| **Sculptor** (`imbue-ai/sculptor`) | MIT | Yes | Desktop app, "experimental research preview" (README) | Desktop-only | +| **ccmanager** (`kbwo/ccmanager`) | MIT | Yes | TUI session manager | Terminal, not web | +| **Claude Code UI / CloudCLI** (`siteboon/claudecodeui`) | AGPL-3.0 | **No** | Web and mobile UI for Claude Code, Codex and others | Ideas only | +| **opcode** (`winfunc/opcode`, formerly getAsterisk) | AGPL-3.0 | **No** | GUI for Claude Code | Ideas only | +| **Claude Squad** (`smtg-ai/claude-squad`) | AGPL-3.0 | **No** | TUI | Ideas only | +| **Superset** (`superset-sh/superset`) | ELv2 ([LICENSE.md](https://github.com/superset-sh/superset/blob/main/LICENSE.md)) | **No** (not open source) | Desktop agentic IDE | Avoid | +| **claude_code_agent_farm** (`Dicklesworthstone/...`) | "MIT License (with OpenAI/Anthropic Rider)" | **No** without reading the rider | tmux "real-time dashboard" | Avoid | +| **humanlayer / CodeLayer** | Apache-2.0 (LICENSE text; `gh api` reports NOASSERTION) | Yes | Desktop | Not looked at further | +| **coder/agentapi** | MIT | Yes | HTTP API over agent TUIs | **Archived** | + +Conductor is closed source (earlier survey §4.1). `wandb/catnip` returned 404. + +## 5. Session-log viewers + +### 5.1 First, what thirdshift's Session logs actually are + +Checked against files in `~/.thirdshift/logs///sessions/` on 2026-10-18: + +- **Claude Code.** The stdout of `claude -p --output-format stream-json --verbose` ([src/harness/claude.rs L97](../../src/harness/claude.rs)). + - Top-level `type` values in one Architecture review log: `system` (161, `init` among them), `assistant` (202), `user` (110), `tool_progress` (18), `rate_limit_event` (2) and `result` (1). + - Assistant content blocks: `thinking` (75), `tool_use` (108) and `text` (19). + - The `result` line carries `duration_ms`, `num_turns`, `total_cost_usd` and `usage`. +- **Codex.** The stdout of `codex exec --json` ([src/harness/codex.rs L91](../../src/harness/codex.rs)): `thread.started`, `turn.started`, `item.started` and `item.completed` (`command_execution`, `agent_message`), and `turn.completed` with `usage`. +- **Muse.** A different, thirdshift-specific envelope (`schema_version`, `stream`, `payload_type`, …). agy and Grok also write stream-json ([src/harness/agy.rs](../../src/harness/agy.rs), [src/harness/grok.rs](../../src/harness/grok.rs)). +- **Size.** Session logs run to about 5 MB each, and the host holds 696 MB of logs (`du`). +- **What this means for reuse.** + - Most viewers parse Claude's on-disk transcripts (`~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl`, whose lines carry `uuid`, `parentUuid` and `timestamp`) or Codex *rollout* files (`~/.codex/sessions`). Neither is the stream thirdshift keeps. + - The Claude `message.content` blocks are the same Anthropic shape in both, so rendering logic carries over but loaders don't **[interpretation]**. + - Codex `exec --json` and rollouts are different schemas. + +### 5.2 Viewers and parsers + +| Project | Licence | Language | Reads | Renders | Port or embed? | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| **claude-code-log** (`daaain/claude-code-log`, 1.2k★) | MIT | Python (Jinja2, Pygments) | Claude transcripts. Codex rollouts (beta) and agy (alpha) for single sessions ([README](https://github.com/daaain/claude-code-log/blob/9834d25c88dc4dbe8f8ade40ae4b74602ae7669d/README.md); [providers/codex.py](https://github.com/daaain/claude-code-log/blob/9834d25c88dc4dbe8f8ade40ae4b74602ae7669d/claude_code_log/providers/codex.py)) | User and assistant messages, tool use and results, thinking, images, token usage, sub-agents and forks as foldable branches, filter by message type, timeline, search. `serve --watch` makes an open session page grow | The most complete per-tool formatter set: Bash, Edit and MultiEdit diffs, Read, Write, Grep, TodoWrite, Task, WebFetch, AskUserQuestion, ExitPlanMode, Monitor and more ([tool_formatters.py](https://github.com/daaain/claude-code-log/blob/9834d25c88dc4dbe8f8ade40ae4b74602ae7669d/claude_code_log/html/tool_formatters.py)). Port the formatter list to Rust, not the code. Its Codex provider calls the rollout format "an implementation detail of Codex rather than a stable file-format API" | +| **claude-code-transcripts** (`simonw/...`, 1.7k★) | Apache-2.0 | Python (Jinja2) | Claude transcripts | Paginated, mobile-friendly pages. Write, Edit and Bash cards, thinking, tool results, TodoWrite, commit cards linked to GitHub, an index of prompts with tool stats ([macros.html](https://github.com/simonw/claude-code-transcripts/blob/316fd093aca3c9c0ad8aa70092711aee3adacc6e/src/claude_code_transcripts/templates/macros.html), 192 lines) | **Small enough to port**: the macros map almost one-to-one onto Rust templates. Keep the Apache NOTICE and attribution if copied | +| **Vibe Kanban executors** | Apache-2.0 | Rust (serde) | **Claude stream-json** (it launches `claude` with `--output-format=stream-json`, [claude.rs L190](https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/blob/d5cbb5380fa0b32e98ef9b8d987f63decce4be3a/crates/executors/src/executors/claude.rs#L190)), and Codex via `app-server` ([codex.rs L453](https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/blob/d5cbb5380fa0b32e98ef9b8d987f63decce4be3a/crates/executors/src/executors/codex.rs#L453)), not `exec --json` | A normalized entry model: UserMessage, AssistantMessage, ToolUse with an ActionType (FileRead, FileEdit with a diff, CommandRun with exit status, Search, WebFetch, TodoManagement, …), Thinking, ErrorMessage, TokenUsageInfo ([logs/mod.rs L73-L250](https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/blob/d5cbb5380fa0b32e98ef9b8d987f63decce4be3a/crates/executors/src/logs/mod.rs#L73)) | **The one directly reusable parser.** The `ClaudeJson` enum ([claude.rs L2258](https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban/blob/d5cbb5380fa0b32e98ef9b8d987f63decce4be3a/crates/executors/src/executors/claude.rs#L2258)) deserializes the exact stream thirdshift keeps. The normalized model is a good template for one renderer over every Harness. The files are large (claude.rs is 3,284 lines), so take the types and the mapping idea, not the file | +| **cclogviewer** (`Brads3290/cclogviewer`) | MIT | Go | Claude transcripts | Interactive HTML from one binary. Templates, CSS and about 190 lines of JS embedded with `//go:embed` ([templates.go L13](https://github.com/Brads3290/cclogviewer/blob/951bad64d7f9847981da6d676706a2f38c403e6a/internal/renderer/templates.go#L13)), about 5k lines in total | A stack model rather than code to take; last pushed 2025-08 | +| **claude-code-history-viewer** (`jhlee0409/...`, 2.3k★) | MIT | Rust (Tauri) + React | Claude, Codex rollouts and 30-odd other tools (`src-tauri/src/providers/`) | History, search, analytics, token stats. A headless `cchv-server --serve` mode uses Axum and `rust-embed` behind a `webui-server` feature ([Cargo.toml L19, L67](https://github.com/jhlee0409/claude-code-history-viewer/blob/7f48907081d93ad209b30e10ff640ea0b8ed0e24/src-tauri/Cargo.toml#L19)) | Another embedded-SPA precedent. Its Codex provider (3,918 lines) reads rollouts | +| **ccusage** (`ccusage/ccusage`, 19k★) | MIT (LICENSE; `gh api` reports NOASSERTION) | Rust (formerly TypeScript) | Claude, Codex and about 18 other CLIs' local data | Token and cost reports only: daily, weekly, monthly, session ([README](https://github.com/ccusage/ccusage/blob/b0904280a2c45972e594f01a44a5de154522efec/README.md)) | No rendering. A reference for the later charts. Its Codex adapter handles replayed and forked history and dedupe ([adapters/codex/README.md](https://github.com/ccusage/ccusage/blob/b0904280a2c45972e594f01a44a5de154522efec/rust/adapters/codex/README.md)) | +| **claude-run** (`nilbuild/claude-run`) | MIT | TS (Hono + React) | Claude transcripts | History browser | React; ideas only | +| **claude-code-viewer** (`d-kimuson/...`) | MIT | TS | Claude | A full web client (it sends messages, which is now opt-in because of Anthropic's terms, per its README) | Beyond scope | +| **yepanywhere** (`kzahel/yepanywhere`) | MIT | TS | Claude and Codex, including `codex exec --json` (test fixtures `packages/server/test/fixtures/codex/*.jsonl`) | A self-hosted web UI that drives sessions | Large; its Codex fixtures are useful test data for thirdshift's `exec --json` renderer | +| **raine/claude-history** | MIT | Rust | Claude transcripts | Fuzzy-search TUI (from the description; not read) | No | + +### 5.3 Lessons from claude-code-log's live mode + +- **Render the append, not the file.** On a 53 MB session, a one-line append took 15–27 s per tick, "against a documented target of 0.26 s". The causes were "three separate costs, each O(entries in the file), none O(append)" ([watch-live-sessions.md L95-L137](https://github.com/daaain/claude-code-log/blob/9834d25c88dc4dbe8f8ade40ae4b74602ae7669d/work/watch-live-sessions.md#L95-L137)). + - For thirdshift: tail a growing Session log by byte offset, render only the new lines, and append them to the page. +- **Watch only what's on screen.** Its live registry follows what is on screen: "the page polls every 1 s and stops when hidden" (same file, L208-L211). + - For thirdshift: tail only the Session logs someone is viewing. + +## 6. Recommendation + +### 6.1 Take (code, licence-compatible) + +- **Vendored JS, 0BSD.** Copy these into the repo and embed them; no CDN at runtime. + - htmx 2.0.7: 51 KB minified, 16 KB gzipped, published 2025-09-08. + - `htmx-ext-sse` 2.2.3: 2.8 KB minified, published 2025-02-13. + - idiomorph 0.7.4: 9.7 KB minified, 3.4 KB gzipped, published 2025-09-29. + - All from `npm pack`. 0BSD needs no attribution. +- **Optional:** diff2html 3.4.52 (MIT): 80 KB minified, 20 KB gzipped, plus a 17 KB CSS file. Use it only if Edit diffs need side-by-side rendering. A unified diff in `
` with line classes covers v1 **[interpretation]**.
+- **Claude stream-json types.** Base them on Vibe Kanban's `ClaudeJson` (Apache-2.0). Keep the attribution and NOTICE in a header comment, or rewrite from the observed shapes in §5.1. Either way, test against real Session logs.
+- **Small templates.** Port simonw's macro set (Apache-2.0, with attribution) as Rust templates for message, tool-use, tool-result, thinking and commit cards.
+
+### 6.2 Borrow (ideas, no code)
+
+| Idea | From | For the console |
+|---|---|---|
+| The page reads a JSON API, and the CLI serves the same data | Symphony SPEC §13.7.2 | Build `thirdshift status --json` first. The page renders what it returns. "Nothing the CLI can't do" then holds by construction |
+| Actions are an allowlist of CLI commands, with Safe or Confirm | Gas Town `commands.go` | Stop is `thirdshift stop ` run by the server. No other write path. Later "start runs" adds allowlisted `thirdshift ` and `thirdshift pickup` |
+| Stop only while cancellable; children not cancelled implicitly | Warp, OpenHands | Show Stop only when the live record's process is alive. Decide whether stopping a Spec run stops its Ticket Runs. Today SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP are recorded as an interrupt and the Command ends interrupted ([src/interrupt.rs](../../src/interrupt.rs)), so Stop is SIGTERM to the Command's process **[interpretation]** |
+| Phase plus time in phase | OpenHands `run-phase.tsx` | "review · 4 min" vs "review · 52 min": the stage column carries its age, so stalls show without logs |
+| Derived status that fixes stale "running" | Warp spec APP-4382 | "Died at review" when the process is gone (#711 Q3) |
+| Children nested under the parent, parent status separate | Warp Runs page | Pickup run → Spec run → Ticket Runs and Base fix |
+| Humanized last event | Symphony EVENT column | One-line latest tool call per live Run (`Bash: cargo test`, `Edit src/ci.rs`) |
+| Fold consecutive tool calls; collapsible thinking | OpenHands, claude-code-log | Session-log view |
+| Per-tool renderer registry with a generic JSON fallback | OpenHands visualizers, claude-code-log formatters | One registry keyed on tool name, shared by Claude and normalized Codex items |
+| SSE nudge plus morph re-render, polling fallback | Gas Town | The Commands list. Session-log tails use SSE appends instead (§5.3) |
+| Loopback bind by default | Symphony SPEC §13.7 | `thirdshift serve` binds 127.0.0.1. Caddy fronts it |
+| Cost and usage per Run | Warp Dashboard, OpenHands run cost, ccusage | Later charts, from the `result` and `turn.completed` usage in the Session logs |
+
+### 6.3 Avoid
+
+- **Copying from AGPL-3.0 code**: Warp's client including the Agent Management Panel, Claude Squad, opcode, claudecodeui. **ELv2** (Superset). The **rider-modified MIT** of claude_code_agent_farm.
+- **Lifting the OpenHands Canvas UI, or any React SPA** (Vibe Kanban, agent-of-empires, CCHV). The licences are fine. The cost is Node and npm in every release build (agent-of-empires' `build.rs` shows what that takes), a 1–10 MB bundle, and adapters from each project's own event schema.
+- **Loading scripts from a CDN at runtime**, as Gas Town does with unpkg. The console should work with no internet and leak nothing. Vendor the files.
+- **Re-rendering whole Session logs per update** (§5.3).
+
+### 6.4 Stack that fits a page embedded in the Rust binary
+
+- **Server.** Rust renders HTML. thirdshift already has tokio and hyper in its lockfile through reqwest (`Cargo.lock`), so a small hyper or axum server adds little. A sync server like `tiny_http` (Apache-2.0, last pushed 2024-08) is the lighter alternative. Choosing between them is for the design **[interpretation]**.
+- **Embedding.** Use `include_dir`, already a dependency for the Factory skills ([Cargo.toml](../../Cargo.toml) line 23; [ADR-0001](../adr/0001-rust-binary-with-embedded-skills.md)). `rust-embed`, as Vibe Kanban, agent-of-empires and CCHV use it, would be a second crate doing the same job.
+- **Client.**
+  - htmx, `htmx-ext-sse` and idiomorph, about 20 KB gzipped together.
+  - One hand-written ES module for the few interactions htmx doesn't cover: copy, collapse state, follow-tail.
+  - This matches the site's existing "plain HTML + CSS + one vanilla ES module, no build step" choice ([site-stack-for-communication.md](site-stack-for-communication.md) TL;DR).
+- **Live updates.** One SSE stream for "Commands changed", which triggers an htmx morph of the list. One SSE stream per open Session log that sends rendered HTML for new lines, reading from a byte offset.
+- **Why not a prebuilt SPA bundle via `include_dir`.**
+  - It would work technically.
+  - But it brings a JS toolchain into the repo, a bundle to rebuild whenever markup changes, and client-side state logic that Symphony's SPEC warns against duplicating.
+  - Every comparable dashboard that stays small (Gas Town, cclogviewer, Symphony's LiveView) renders on the server.
+
+## 7. Uncertainties
+
+- **Warp's by-stage view.** The docs list "Work items by stage" on the dashboard, but no screenshot or text shows its layout **[unverified]**.
+- **OpenHands bundle when compressed.** The 10.3 MB is uncompressed. Compressed size and what Monaco loads at runtime were not measured **[unverified]**.
+- **Stop semantics for nested Commands.** Whether stopping a Spec run should stop its running Ticket Runs is a design question. Warp deliberately doesn't cascade cancels. thirdshift's Ticket Runs and Base fixes are child `thirdshift` processes of the Command ([src/child_run.rs](../../src/child_run.rs)), so a signal to the parent could cascade **[interpretation]**. Also, the crate publishes only `/src`, `/skills`, `README.md` and `LICENSE` ([Cargo.toml](../../Cargo.toml) `include`), so embedded page assets must live under one of those paths.
+- **Vibe Kanban's sunset.** It may stop being maintained. Take types, not a dependency.
+- **Codex `exec --json` schema stability.** Codex documents neither the rollout format nor this stream as stable; claude-code-log says so of rollouts. Renderers should ignore unknown item types.
+- **Licence metadata.** `gh api` reports NOASSERTION for ccusage, humanlayer and claude_code_agent_farm. The LICENSE files were read directly. ccusage and humanlayer are plain MIT and Apache-2.0. The agent farm adds a rider.