One argv string is capped at MAX_ARG_STRLEN (131,072 bytes on Linux), so a
prompt passed as --prompt could not reach the registry once it carried a
large diff. submit now takes --prompt-file and passes the same path to
`registry.py register --prompt-file`; the loop type's per-iteration update
goes by file too. --prompt keeps working unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review round 3 (planner-reviewer-codex-01, reviewer-opencode-01): R1 blocking,
R2 and the "ONE builder" wording non-blocking. All three reproduced; none
rebutted.
R1. _wait_started still returned 0 as soon as the record left `pending`,
ahead of the shared predicate, so `error`, `cancelled` and another dispatch's
`running` all acknowledged an injection that create's delegate_wait_started
rejects - the two contracts the ack-finding brief said must not diverge. Both
reviewers reproduced it with the real producer and no record manipulation;
my S7n had hidden it by resetting the record to `pending`.
The bypass and the console grep are gone. The wrapper's evidence is now
delegate_started_recorded alone, the same call create makes. For a remote
agent - no shared disk, so no line in events.log - the predicate reads the
subscriber's audit record of the `started` it received. That record is
attributable by construction: the subscriber verifies the HMAC and drops any
event whose data.dispatch_token differs from the job's expected token before
it writes anything. The token itself cannot go into the record (the audit
redactor masks token-named keys), so the subscriber now stamps a boolean
dispatch_verified, and with a token demanded only a verified record counts;
an untokened legacy record fails closed. The registry status is never
evidence; a terminal job is preserved by the terminal logic, not turned into
an acknowledgement.
Tests: W1/W2/W3 are the reviewers' three negatives and the positive, real
producer, record left exactly as it produced it; W4 runs create's wait and
the wrapper's wait side by side on all four and requires the same answer;
W5 pins the remote route (a verified record counts, an unverified or
non-started one does not); W6 drives the real _Watcher and shows it stamps
the flag on a matching started and records nothing for a mismatch; S7n no
longer resets the record. test_issue14's "registry ack over unconfirmed
inject" produced its ack with a bare status flip - the very bypass - and now
produces it the way an agent does, publish_event with the dispatch token;
its scenario and every other assertion are unchanged. test_issue18's remote
e2e accepted the status messages and now expects the shared one.
R2. _code_only blanked a docstring's whole line range, so code sharing that
line - `"""doc"""; call()` - vanished from the scan. It now removes only the
docstring node from the AST and unparses the rest (comments drop out with
it, code strings stay); test_g9b pins the four same-line shapes.
The builder comment claimed one builder for create and the wrapper; the
wrapper keeps _pub_cmd and S7l pins the two equal argument-for-argument. The
comment now says that.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Trial 2 of this branch: cross-server delivery was restored (f7cee00), the
agent completed its onboarding and published started and completed - and
create_session still waited 180 s, called the onboarding unconfirmed, and
tried to write `error` over the completed job (refused by the registry).
delegate_wait_started required the started line to carry data.dispatch_token
(review R1: a stale attempt's started must not vouch for this one). But
publish_event only writes that field when its command line carries
--expect-dispatch-token, and create_session's hand-rolled onboarding command
never did - the wrapper's _pub_cmd does, which is why every wrapper-dispatched
agent's started has the token and no create_session onboarding ever could.
Five reviewers missed it because the fixture wrote the token into the started
line by hand: a fake producer that differs from the real one.
Fix, along the wrapper's existing mechanism rather than a new one:
* delegate_publish_cmd (lib.sh) builds the publish command for an agent, with
--expect-dispatch-token and --attempt-id, and create_session uses it. The
agent's own started now names the dispatch, and publish_event's CAS check
refuses a stale dispatch's event at the source. S7l pins the builder
argument-for-argument against the wrapper's _pub_cmd.
* delegate_started_recorded (lib.sh) is the one definition of "this
dispatch's started is on disk" - JSON-parsed, token-matched when a token is
given - used by delegate_wait_started and by the wrapper's _wait_started in
place of its regex. The wrapper keeps its status and subscriber routes
(remote agents); the shared part is the evidence contract.
* An already-terminal job is left alone when the wait expires (req. 4): no
error over a completed/error/cancelled record.
The fixture now registers the record through registry.py and publishes
started through the real publish_event.py; the only synthetic line left (S7h)
exists to pin key-order independence and says so. S7i pins the trial-2 defect
as the negative it is (old command shape -> started without token -> not
acknowledged); S7j runs the builder's command through the real producer and
is acknowledged on the first probe; S7n shows the wrapper accepting the same
real line and rejecting a stale token; S7m pins no-write-over-terminal. S7f
moves from "publish error" to "leave the terminal job alone", per req. 4.
Option B (verify data.hmac_sig with the job's auth_token, plus record-token
still equal) was weighed and not taken: verify_hmac returns True with no
auth_token - PoC mode, which the trial and every sandbox run in - so it proves
nothing there; in production hmac_sig authenticates the signer but does not
identify the dispatch, so R1 would rest on a current-state check that a stale
line plus an unrotated token passes; and it would diverge from the wrapper
unless the wrapper changed too. Token exposure is not new: every wrapper-
dispatched instruction already carries the dispatch token in the pane, and it
is a per-dispatch CAS nonce, not the HMAC secret.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The injected prompt, the start/success/error commands and the brief's Output
Report Path used cwd-relative `.mam/jobs/...`, and the wrapper ignored
MAM_JOBS_DIR. A creator whose cwd is a git worktree could not run them as
written, and its audit log fell back to <cwd>/.mam/delegate_job_logs.
- REGISTRY_DIR defaults to ${MAM_JOBS_DIR:-.mam/jobs} and is made absolute
right after `cd "$WORKDIR"` (a relative value still resolves against WORKDIR)
- the publish command is shell-quoted (printf %q) and prefixed with
DELEGATE_JOB_LOGS_DIR=<abs>, resolved by the same get_logs_dir() the
wrapper's subscriber uses; the heartbeat timer inherits it
- direct and loop jobs share one _instructions helper; brief and report paths
are $REGISTRY_DIR/$JOB_ID/... (absolute)
- create --onboard: absolute publish_event.py, --registry-dir and log root
Tests T1-1..T1-5 (a space in the control root, commands run from another cwd
with no workspace env).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017R3Eg7MEpSWnm1oB9ZPP6G
The subscriber is started before the injection, and the injection itself
(idle handshake, quiescence, delivery grace) can take tens of seconds, so
a first-event budget of T + K x N measured from the subscription could
expire before `started` was even possible. The wrapper now passes
--ack-timeout <wall clock>: it judges delivery with _wait_started (T from
the injection) and reaps the subscriber on failure; K x N applies from the
first event on. A standalone subscriber keeps T + K x N. Documented in
MESSAGING.md 4.3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff
In the v4.5.0 review round grok read the brief and published `started`
70 s after the injection; with T = 60 the wrapper had already closed the
job as agent_blocked and refused its later PASS. T bounds delivery, not
work, so a generous default costs nothing when the agent answers fast.
Code, docs and the CLI snapshot updated together.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff
Review round 1 (claude NOT PASS) corrections:
- B2: the timer now watches a process - `--watch-pid`, or by default the
nearest agent-CLI ancestor of the publishing command - and stops within
one period once it is gone, so a crashed agent stops heartbeating and is
closed after K x N; a remote runner watches itself. Documented as process
liveness (an alive-but-stuck agent keeps heartbeating).
- R1: `_wait_started` accepts an events.log `started` only when it carries
the current dispatch token (loop jobs share one events.log).
- R2: the remote runner ignores a re-sent dispatch of an attempt that
already reached its terminal.
- R3: registry.md EOF blank line (git diff --check clean).
- R4: the ack error states the effective budget when the wall clock cut it.
- P3: stop_timer verifies the pidfile pid is this job's timer before
signalling; a retained state message keeps its own seq watermark so it
can never make the monotonic guard drop its own event.
- MULTI_AGENT_RULES.md timeout section updated for the contract.
- tests: agent-process death stops the timer, recycled-pid safety,
attempt-scoped started, re-sent dispatch; acceptance 3 now kills the
agent process instead of the timer. Help captures refreshed
(--watch-pid). The wrapper can be sourced with
MAM_DELEGATE_JOB_NO_MAIN=1 for helper-level tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff
Contract (no new event types): heartbeat every N s (automatic timer),
unresponsive after K x N s without an event, `started` within T s of the
injection, retained per-job state, and a remote transport.
- registry: heartbeat_sec / heartbeat_misses / ack_timeout_sec / transport
fields; idle_timeout_sec derives K x N unless explicit (defaults 30/4/60
keep the historical 120 s idle window).
- heartbeat.py + publish_event --heartbeat N: detached fixed-cadence timer
publishing signed `progress` heartbeats (threaded wire publish, local
record first); stopped by the terminal event via pidfile, by re-dispatch
and by lifetime. Terminal events refuse --heartbeat.
- publish_event: retained `<prefix>/state` (status, last_event, seq, HMAC)
sent on the same connection after every event (--no-state to skip);
publisher.publish_raw takes extra messages.
- job_subscriber: subscribes the state topic, recovers terminal status from
retained state, resets idle on any accepted message, records seq_gap and
reconnected in the audit log, idle budget before the first event is
T + K x N (--ack-timeout), --remote mirrors started/terminal events into
the registry through the transition boundary.
- lib.sh send_keys_safe: an accepted-but-unconfirmed submission is confirmed
by agent_status working or the job's own `started` (_sks_job_started);
pane change and busy token are no longer delivery signals.
- wrapper: --heartbeat/--heartbeat-misses/--ack-timeout (MAM_* env),
injected start command arms the timer, brief states the contract,
_wait_started (registry / events.log / subscriber log, bounded by T and
the wall clock) replaces the 10 s inject grace, R1 grace uses only the
on-disk event age (herdr/pane logged once as a diagnostic),
remote:<name> sessions skip preflight/idle/pane and dispatch over the
broker (remote_dispatch).
- remote.py (+ scripts shim): signed retained dispatch (MAM_DISPATCH_SECRET)
and a runner that mirrors the job into its own registry with the
orchestrator's identity, publishes started --heartbeat, runs --exec and
publishes the terminal event.
- loop runner: passes MAM_HEARTBEAT_SEC / MAM_HEARTBEAT_MISSES /
MAM_ACK_TIMEOUT_S through; YAML rows with transport: remote delegate as
remote:<name>.
- docs: MESSAGING.md 2.5 contract + remote transport, delegate-job SKILL.md,
registry.md, loop SKILL.md.
- tests: tests/test_issue18_liveness_contract.py (16); issue 14 pane-signal
tests flipped to started-based; issue 6 working-agent tests acknowledge
with started; CLI snapshot/help captures refreshed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff
Round-2 review of 952657e (reviewer-grok-01): R1's disk-heartbeat
evidence comes from events.log, but publish_event appended to it only
after with_retry(_publish_once) returned - after the broker ACK or all of
its retries. With the public broker at ~5 s per publish, an agent's
heartbeat reached the disk after the grace window and the live job was
closed as deadline_timeout (test_wrapper_idle_timeout_grace_accepts_disk_heartbeat
failed 2/2 on 952657e here, as it did for the reviewer).
- publish_event: new record_local_event appends the prepared payload to
events.log right after prepare_event (validation and seq allocation
first) and before the wire publish; record_outcome takes
local_event_recorded=True so the line is not written twice, while the
audit "published" entry and the status sync stay after the publish
- DelegationService.publish_event: the same local-first order
- wrapper comment and VERSIONS.md v4.4.2 item 6 now say the heartbeat is
on disk before the publish; new-test count 21
- tests: the heartbeat is already in events.log when the publish starts
(and is recorded once), and a publish failing on every retry leaves one
local record with published=False in the audit; both fail on 952657e.
The wrapper disk-heartbeat test keeps the real publish_event path and
now passes 3/3 at the same broker latency
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGpJXhSZasJLU38ksDghe
Round-2 review of d5a191c (planner-reviewer-claude-01, planner-reviewer-codex-01).
- delegate wrapper: the R1 idle grace and the broker_unavailable re-check
counted only their sleeps against TIMEOUT, so python/herdr probe time plus
fresh disk heartbeats let a job run far past --timeout (55 s for a 20 s
budget in the new test). Both loops now end at START_TIME + TIMEOUT read
off the clock on every pass; heartbeats extend only the idle window, and
the herdr probe is cut off at the deadline (_within_deadline)
- document the window policy d5a191c actually implements: an agent with no
evidence is closed ~2 x IDLE_TIMEOUT after its last wire event (Issue #6
promised IDLE_TIMEOUT + 5 s) and heartbeats may be ~2 x IDLE_TIMEOUT apart;
correct the claim that publish_event records a heartbeat on disk before
the wire publish - it records right after the publish attempt
- shim ls: every failed `agent list` other than a structured
server_not_running now exits nonzero with a "state unknown" diagnostic
instead of reaching the list parser, where an error document on stdout
read as an empty list and let drift A terminate live rows
- tests: stdout variants for down and unrelated errors, reconcile keeping
herdr_confirmed False on an unrelated failure, and a wall-clock upper bound
under continuous heartbeats and slow probes; the three new checks fail on
d5a191c
- VERSIONS.md v4.4.2: items 3 and 6 and the test count (19)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGpJXhSZasJLU38ksDghe
The R1 grace after a subscriber idle timeout only continued while herdr
reported `working` or the pane showed a busy token, and gave up the moment
that evidence vanished. Two live jobs in the v4.4.2 review loop were closed
as deadline_timeout that way: a grok review whose heartbeat gap was 147 s,
and the creator running the full suite in a background shell (idle to herdr,
no busy token) while publishing progress every 45 s. Both later published
`completed`, which the terminal record refused.
- `_recent_disk_heartbeat`: publish_event appends every event to the job's
events.log before the wire publish, so a heartbeat the subscriber never saw
is still on disk; treat one at most IDLE_TIMEOUT old as liveness
- R1 loop: any evidence (herdr working, pane busy token, disk heartbeat)
opens a new IDLE_TIMEOUT window; a job with no evidence for a whole window
is closed as before, still inside the wall clock
- test: a human-agent job whose subscriber idles out stays open across five
disk heartbeats and picks up the out-of-band completion (rc 0)
- VERSIONS.md v4.4.2 item 6 and test count updated
Refs #14
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff
The ls translation searched stderr and the whole stdout for the substring
server_not_running, so a successful `agent list` that merely carried the text
(an agent named server_not_running-codex, or metadata) made the shim report
"no server running". reconcile.sh reads that as a confirmed-empty server, and
drift A would then mark every live row on it terminated (codex review of
0918917).
- keep the RPC exit code and translate only a failed call whose error
envelope (the whole stream or any line of it) has
error.code == "server_not_running"; every other failure keeps the unknown
path (nonzero exit, herdr_confirmed False) as before
- tests: the real herdr 0.9 envelope, a successful list carrying the
substring in a name and in metadata, other failures staying unknown, and
reconcile keeping both live rows with no drift A; the new cases fail on
0918917
- delegate wrapper: log a non-pending status seen during the inject ack
grace as "registry advanced" instead of attributing it to the agent
- VERSIONS.md v4.4.2: describe the structured check and count 16 new tests
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGpJXhSZasJLU38ksDghe
The R1 grace after a subscriber idle timeout only asked herdr whether the
agent was still `working`. herdr never reports that for codex, so a codex
review longer than the idle timeout was closed as deadline_timeout mid-turn
and its eventual `completed` refused - the same status blindness behind the
agent_blocked misjudgement. `_agent_still_working` now also accepts the pane's
own busy token, the evidence send_keys_safe already uses to confirm delivery.
Adds a wrapper test where a codex-like agent (idle per herdr, busy per pane)
idles out the subscriber and completes out of band afterwards.
Refs #14
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff
- Drop per-session agent runtime markers (CLAUDECODE, CLAUDE_CODE_CHILD_SESSION,
CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID, Claude Code messaging/bridge/pid markers, and the
agy/hermes/grok/opencode session ids) from the environment lib.sh's shim hands
to a bootstrapped `herdr --session <name> server`; user configuration such as
CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR still inherits
- Add MAM_NO_AUTOSTART=1 so query-only callers never bootstrap a server as a side
effect; status.sh and reconcile.sh export it, and the shim's `ls` reports a down
server as "no server running" so reconcile keeps herdr_confirmed instead of
freezing drift detection for every server
- send_keys_safe: treat `timeout` / `agent_prompt_stalled` from `agent prompt
--wait` as an accepted submission and confirm delivery for SKS_DELIVERY_GRACE_S
(default 15 s) via agent_status working, a busy token the pane did not show
before, or the pane moving on from its pre-submit snapshot; no signal at all
still fails closed (rc 4). Codex under herdr 0.9.0 never reports `working`, so
every delivered prompt was closed as agent_blocked and its later
started/completed events refused
- delegate wrapper: before closing an unconfirmed inject as agent_blocked, honour
the registry's own acknowledgement for MAM_INJECT_ACK_GRACE_S (default 10 s)
- Switch T1-7's failure trigger to transport_error (timeout now means accepted);
add test_issue9_server_env.py (5 cases) and test_issue14_delivery_ack.py (7)
- Verified live: a freshly bootstrapped multi-agent-mux server carries no markers
and the claude panes save transcripts again; codex job d04ebcb5 had its
started/completed accepted with no agent_blocked
Closes#9Closes#14
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff
- Update .agents/MULTI_AGENT_RULES.md & .ko.md to align with TMUX concepts
- Add .agents/INSTALL.md guide for MAM setup and workflows
- Clean up legacy markdown reports under .agents/reports/
- Refactor MAM scripts in .agents/skills/ (rename resolve_herdr_session to resolve_herdr_workspace)
- Improve workspace pane splitting/re-use logic in lib.sh
- Reduce paste safety sleep in send_keys_safe and support linking ~/.claude.json
- Sanitize clean_session in loop path report-final.md Output Report Path to prevent colon characters in folders
- Reconcile automated reports path token in MULTI_AGENT_RULES.md and .ko.md from <agent-session> to <agent_name> or <clean_session_name>
- Extract load_state_json centralized helper inside lib.sh to unify state querying
- Refactor status, resume, stop, and monitor scripts to fetch state via MAM_STATE_JSON env var to avoid stdin pipeline collisions
- Restructure delegate-job to provision .mam/jobs/<job_id>/brief.md and direct agents to it, minimizing token size and preventing TUI paste freezes
- Harden send_keys_safe submission loop with was_popup state capture and edge case guards, preventing timing spin false-positives
- Passed cross-verification approved PASS from Planner Claude session
- OP-1: Implement reactive _wait_session_gone in lib.sh and stop_session.sh with set -e || true guard
- OP-2: Event-driven MQTT subscribe handshake with sub_pid liveness in delegate-job
- OP-3: Replace CPU time.sleep(0.5) spin with threading.Event wait in reconcile.sh
- OP-4: Define mam_tmux dispatcher targeting resolved _REAL_TMUX_PATH to prevent recursion
- OP-6 & OP-7: Add token variables and bash version source check in lib.sh
- Integrate approved optimization plan and PASS review reports from all agents
- Add send_keys_safe + quiescence/dialog-detection helpers to lib.sh:
keys are sent on pane evidence, never fixed timers; distinct exit
codes 1-4; dialogs are never blindly Enter-ed
- inject_instructions delegates to send_keys_safe; create --submit-job
publishes a terminal error event on delivery failure (no zombie jobs)
- wait_for_tui_ready: drop dialog-ambiguous tokens, treat open dialogs
as not-ready, return 1 on timeout instead of proceeding
- delegate-job wrapper: replace copy-pasted raw paste/C-m block with
lib.sh send_keys_safe (restores single source of truth)
- resume: conditional signature-gated dialog handling replaces blind
Enter/Down/Enter; stop --graceful delivers exitkey safely, fallback
chain unchanged
- create SKILL: passive capture-pane probe instead of stray Enter
- Mark FW-W2 resolved; add 3-agent analysis/plan reports
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