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› fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) ⎿ Read 6 lines ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) ⎿ Added 2 lines, removed 1 line ⏺ Bash(bun test) ⎿ 3 pass, 1 fail ● Done. refresh now rejects expired claims and logs an audit event. ✻ Worked for 42s · done 4:20 PM › /coordinator ⎿ coordinator-guard: Coordinator mode is off. Usage: /coordinator on | off | status ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

README

Pixel Office

A Claude Code mod that draws a live pixel-art office in the Claude desktop app. Every agent in the session is a character with a job title. Main is the coordinator: it talks with you, splits big jobs into parts and hires helpers for them. Helpers arrive by elevator, get briefed in the meeting room, walk to the station that matches the tool they are using, carry their report back to whoever hired them and leave. You can see who is waiting on whom, what each one was asked to do, and what each one found.

The picture above is the mod's own drawing of a made-up session, and it is animated. Main hired three helpers at once and is coordinating: its bubble says it is waiting on two of them. The Researcher has finished and is carrying its report to Main. The Assistant found a failing test and hired a helper of its own, so it is coordinating too, from the meeting room. To try it yourself, jump to Install.

A tour of the office

Each label names a zone. An agent walks to the zone that matches the tool it is using, so where a character stands tells you what it is doing. The same colours appear in the speech bubbles and in the legend under the picture.

Zone	Stands for	What you see there
Corner office	Main's home base: thinking, or coordinating its helpers	Main sits here and goes back after every errand. Main's own edits and writes happen at this desk too. While it waits on helpers, its bubble says who: "waiting on Researcher", or "waiting on 3".
Desks	Edit, Write, NotebookEdit	Eight desks. Each helper gets its own and returns to it between jobs.
Records library	Read, Grep, Glob, LSP, Skill, ToolSearch	Looking things up: reading files and searching code.
Phone booths	WebFetch, WebSearch	Going out to the web. A booth light comes on while someone is on a call.
Mailroom	Outside services (`mcp__` tools)	Calling connected services. A parcel appears in the pigeonholes while someone is there.
Server room	Bash, PowerShell, background shells	Running commands. The rack lights flash while a command runs.
Meeting room	Briefings, SendMessage	A new helper is briefed here, and the whiteboard shows what it was hired to do. When one agent messages another, the sender carries an envelope over to the recipient, or comes here if it cannot find them.
Task board	TodoWrite, Task tools, plan updates	A cork board on the wall. Green notes are done, amber notes are still open.
Reception	Waiting on you: questions, permissions, plan approval	A blinking "!" bubble means this agent cannot go on until you answer.
Elevator	Agents arrive and leave	Helpers step out of it when they are hired and step back in when they finish.
Break room	Idle agents, and Main between turns after a while	Where anyone with nothing to do goes to rest.

Who's on the team

Every helper is named for the job its kind of agent does, so you can tell what it can and cannot do at a glance. The name Claude Code uses for that kind of agent is in its details box.

In the office	Claude Code calls it	What it does
Main, the Coordinator	the main agent	Talks with you, splits the work into jobs, hires helpers and puts their reports together.
Researcher	`Explore`	Reads and searches, then reports what it found. Changes nothing.
Planner	`Plan`	Works out a step-by-step plan for a job. Changes nothing.
Assistant	`general-purpose`	Can read, edit and run commands to finish one job.
Clone	`fork`	A copy of its boss that knows everything its boss knew, sent off to do a side job.
Guide	`claude-code-guide`	Looks up how Claude Code itself works.
Contractor	(unknown)	A helper the office did not see being hired.

Any other kind of agent is named after its type: a code-reviewer is a "Code reviewer". A helper the engine gave a name keeps it ("Scout"), and its details box adds the role. A second helper of the same kind is named for its job, as in "Test fails" (a researcher hired to find why a test fails); with no job to go on, or the same job, it is numbered, as in "Researcher 2".

How they work together. A boss hires a helper in one of two ways, and the office shows which:

And waits for the report. The usual way. The feed says "Main hired Researcher and is waiting for its report". Until the reports come back, the boss is coordinating: it has nothing else in hand, so its speech bubble and its row say who it is waiting on. When the last one is back the feed says "Main has every report back and is reviewing the results".
To work alongside it, in the background. The boss carries on with its own work meanwhile.

Helpers can hire helpers of their own, so a chain of delegation shows up as a deeper indent in the panel and as a second coordinator on the floor. Teammates (helpers started as part of a team) are standing colleagues rather than errands: nobody waits on them, and they rest in the break room between jobs.

The life of a helper

A helper is a subagent: a short-lived agent that Main (or another agent) hires for one job. In the picture it goes through these steps.

Hired. Main hands over a one-line job description and a fuller brief. The feed says who hired whom and whether the boss is waiting ("Main hired Researcher and is waiting for its report: find the login code"), and a new row appears in the panel.
Arrives by elevator. The elevator doors open and the helper steps out.
Briefed in the meeting room. The helper walks to the meeting room and the whiteboard shows its objective, cut short if it is long. Its boss walks over to join it unless the boss is busy.
Works at stations. Each time the helper uses a tool it walks to the matching station. A speech bubble above its head says what it is doing, for example auth.ts or Test the code. It sets off with the helper, so you see the task before it arrives, and the furniture it is using is outlined in the station's colour until it leaves. Helpers standing close together get their bubbles in rows, one above the other; where the top of the floor leaves no room for another row, that helper's bubble is left out and the panel still says what it is doing. The feed says it in words: "Researcher is reading auth.ts", "Assistant is running a command to run the test suite" (a command is shown by what it is for, not by how it starts. Claude usually describes a command when it runs one, and that description is used when it fits the bubble. Without one the office reads the command: it skips the setup in front (cd, variables, mkdir), follows a chain, a pipe or a heredoc to the first real step, and names it, such as "Open a pull request", "Write bar.ts" or "Search for sceneTimeOf". It knows git, GitHub, the package managers, scripts, file and text tools, the network, containers and PowerShell; a program it does not know is shown as typed. A to-do list update shows the item being worked on, a search shows where it looks, and a call to an outside service shows what it is about).
Carries its report to its boss. When it is done, the helper walks over to its boss holding a yellow folder and hands it over. The feed quotes the start of the report, and the helper's details box keeps it.
Leaves by elevator. The helper rides away and its row in the panel turns grey and says how the job ended: "handed in its report", "was stopped" or "ran into a problem". A teammate goes to the break room instead of leaving, ready for its next job.

Two signs worth knowing. A red puff above a character means a tool call just hit an error. A blinking "!" bubble at reception means that agent is waiting on you, for a question, a permission or a plan to approve.

Reading the panel

The numbers below match the numbers in the picture.

The office. The animated picture. Every character has a name tag, and the speech bubble shows what it is doing right now.
What's happening. A plain-English feed with the time of each line, newest at the bottom, eight lines long. It keeps the story: who hired whom, who messaged whom, who reported back, who needs you and what went wrong. Routine work (reading, editing, running a command) gets one line per agent, its latest, so a few busy helpers cannot push the story out of view.
Who's doing what. The team, as an org chart: indentation shows who reports to whom. Each row reads name, status, and what it is doing right now in words ("reading session.ts", "waiting on Planner and Assistant"). Green is working, teal is coordinating (waiting on helpers), yellow is "needs you" (waiting on your answer or permission), grey is idle or done. The dim line with an arrow under a helper is its objective, the job it was hired to do. Once two helpers of a kind have handed in a report, a helper of that kind still on the job also shows how long its predecessors took ("about 20s left", or "taking longer than usual"). That is a guess from earlier helpers, never a promise. In the picture the same estimate is a thin bar under the helper's feet that fills over the time left (it stays full and pulses amber once the helper is past what is usual); the words stay in the panel. A long chart ends with a "+N more" line.
Details. Click a name to open its details: its role and what that kind of agent does, its job, the start of the brief its boss wrote, what it is doing now, who it reports to and whether that boss is waiting on it, the start of its report once it has handed one in, what its work cost once it has (tokens, and the model it ran on), an "On the job" timer that counts up while it works, and, when the office has the examples for it, how long helpers of its kind usually take. A brief or report too long for one line has a "Read the full brief" (or report) link under it that opens the whole text, formatted. Click the name again to close the box.
Show legend. A button that lists every zone with its colour and the tools it stands for. It is the same list as the table above.
Show this job. A button that opens the recap of the job in front of you: see below.

The office picture is drawn as one picture by default. There is an experimental layered mode, where the scenery is one picture and each agent is its own transparent picture stacked on top of it, so one agent doing something would never restart another agent's walk. A walker is left alone from the moment its walk starts until it arrives, and the cat is its own picture so nothing else restarts it. Its first version did not show the agents in the author's pane, because their pictures were laid out with no room. They are given the whole region now, but that has not been checked in a pane yet, so treat it as an experiment; set the picture option to layered to try it (see Commands and options).

The office cat

There is a cat in the office. It has nothing to do with your session: it patrols the corridor, sits for a while at a few favourite spots, and naps on the break-room couch, on a loop of about a minute. It is drawn as animations inside the picture, so it costs no extra redraws, and it carries on from the same point of its loop whenever the picture is drawn again. It is left out only when the picture is too large to draw the decorations.

The recap of a job

A job is everything from a message you send until the next one. A notice from a background helper or another session that wakes Main is not a new message, so it carries on the same job. Once you have sent one, a Show this job button sits beside the legend button. It opens a recap that answers the question delegation raises: did splitting the work up help? If Main edited files itself rather than through a helper, the recap counts those edits too, so a coordinator that is not delegating shows.

The summary says how long the job took, how many helpers it used and how many were at work at once, and what it cost in tokens. With two or more helpers whose work overlapped, it adds the time their work would have taken one after another, compared with the time it took together.
The timeline has one bar per agent, indented by who hired whom, from when it started to when it handed in its report. Orange is Main, blue a helper Main waited for, green a helper working alongside. A tick, a square or a cross at the end says whether it handed in its report, was stopped, or ran into a problem. The colours were checked to stay apart for colour-blind readers, and the picture has a dark version for a dark screen.
One line per agent under the timeline gives the same facts in words.

The recap only shows the job in front of you. To keep a short record of each job across sessions, set the history option to last-20 (see Commands and options): the recap then lists your earlier jobs too. It is off unless you switch it on.

The recap also shows a This session line: the jobs, helpers, time and tokens of every job since the conversation started or was cleared, with the tokens split between Main and its helpers. It is kept in memory only, unless the history option is on, in which case each saved job keeps its token split too. Each agent shows its share of the job's tokens next to its time bar. An agent that is still running shows "running" there, because the engine only reports its tokens when it finishes.

In a terminal session the pane shows the same feed and team as plain text, under a line telling you to open the session in the Claude desktop app to see the picture.

Requirements

Claude Code 2.1.295 or newer. Older versions report that the mod failed to load.
The Claude desktop app for the pixel picture. In a terminal you get a text version of the same office.

Install

Option 1: Using only the Claude desktop app? The desktop app's Code tab has no /plugin install and usually no claude on your PATH, but the app bundles its own Claude Code CLI. Start a Code session in the app and paste this prompt:

Install the "Pixel Office" Claude Code mod for me. Use the Claude Code CLI bundled with this desktop app: on Windows it is under `%APPDATA%\Claude\claude-code\<version>\…\claude.exe`, on macOS under `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude-code/<version>/` (pick the newest version folder; use `claude` on PATH only if it is 2.1.295 or newer). Run `<that claude> --version` and confirm it is 2.1.295 or newer. Then run `<that claude> plugin marketplace add sb2403/pixel-office` and `<that claude> plugin install pixel-office@pixel-office --config autoOpen=session-start`, show me `<that claude> plugin list`, and tell me to start a new session.

Approve the commands when Claude asks. The --config autoOpen=session-start in that prompt makes the office open at the start of every session; to change that, see Commands and options below. If the bundled version is older than 2.1.295, update the Claude desktop app first. Then start a new session and the office opens.

Option 2: From a terminal.

Check your version. Run claude --version in a terminal. It must show 2.1.295 or newer. If it is older, run claude update first.

Install from a terminal. Run these two commands in PowerShell, Command Prompt, or the macOS/Linux Terminal, not in the Claude chat box:

claude plugin marketplace add sb2403/pixel-office
claude plugin install pixel-office@pixel-office

The same two steps also work inside a terminal Claude Code session, as /plugin marketplace add sb2403/pixel-office then /plugin install pixel-office@pixel-office.

The Claude desktop app's built-in plugin browser won't find this mod; use Option 1 or Option 2 above. Once installed, it loads in desktop sessions too.

Nothing asks you anything: the install goes ahead at user scope, which is the default, and then prints a note that options are not set yet. That is fine: each stays at its default. autoOpen, the option for when the office opens by itself, stays at on-first-subagent, and history stays off. To pick another value, add --config autoOpen=session-start (or never) to the install line, or set it later with /plugin configure pixel-office@pixel-office or the --values-stdin form under Commands and options below. Start a new session: the office opens the first time a subagent is hired, or any time with /office.

Fallback. If those commands do not work, download the repository from GitHub (Code → Download ZIP, then unzip it) or run git clone https://github.com/sb2403/pixel-office. Then run these two commands in a terminal, with the path set to the unzipped or cloned folder:

claude plugin marketplace add "<path-to-the-unzipped-folder>"
claude plugin install pixel-office@pixel-office

The quotes are needed if the path has spaces in it, and harmless if it does not.

Commands and options

/office shows or hides the office pane. Type it in any session, whatever autoOpen is set to. Its one-line reply is the only thing the mod ever adds to your conversation.

autoOpen decides when the office opens by itself:

on-first-subagent (default): the first time a subagent is hired.
session-start: as soon as a session starts.
never: only when you run /office.

history decides whether the office keeps a record of your jobs across sessions:

off (default): nothing is kept once the session ends.
last-20: the newest 20 jobs are kept on this computer, in the mod's own store: the start of the message that began each one (up to 120 characters), when it started, how long it took, how many helpers and how many at once, and its tokens. The recap lists them under "Earlier jobs".

notify decides whether the office reminds you when an agent is waiting on you:

off (default): no reminders.
after-30s: once an agent has waited 30 seconds for your answer, permission or plan approval, the office says so once, naming the agent ("Researcher is waiting for your permission"). It shows a toast over the conversation, and raises a notification through your notification setting. In a terminal that is a desktop notification or a bell, as your terminal does them; the Claude desktop app shows the toast, and only your own notification hooks run there. Claude Code may already notify you when it needs you; if the two double up, leave this off.

picture decides how the office is drawn:

single (default): one picture for everybody. The cost is that every change to the picture starts the walks in it again, so walkers jump a little whenever the app takes longer or shorter to show one picture than it took for the one before.
layered (experimental): each agent is its own picture stacked over the scenery, so one agent moving never restarts another one walking. Its first version drew the scenery but not the agents. That is fixed, but not yet checked in a pane, so go back to single if the agents do not show; with debug on, the log says how much room the agents' pictures got.

debug is for troubleshooting (for example, walkers that jump), and is off by default:

off (default): nothing is recorded, and nothing extra runs.
on: the mod keeps a log of what it does and writes it to pixel-office/debug/log.jsonl inside the plugin's folder, rewritten at most once a second and capped at the newest 3000 lines. It also draws two invisible one-cell probes in the pane (top and bottom) that report when the app mounts them, which happens again after the app unmounts and remounts them (for example when you scroll), and once a second the size of their region. With the layered picture there is a third probe, in a box laid out as an agent's picture is, so the log says how much room those pictures get: no rows means the app gave them none. Only event kinds, agent ids, tool names, counts, sizes and timings are logged: never commands, file names, labels, briefs, reports or any of your text. Send the file when asked to look into a problem, and set debug back to off afterwards.
How to read it: one JSON object per line, with t (milliseconds) and kind: render (the pane was drawn, with its scroll and panel state), draw (a picture was drawn again, and why), layers (how many agent pictures a render had and how many were redrawn), event (something an agent did), flush (a batch of events applied, and how long it took), turn-start, turn-ignored (a helper's own turn, which is not a new task) and probe (what the pane reported back).

Optional. To set it while installing, instead of answering the options screen, run this in place of the second install command (after claude plugin marketplace add sb2403/pixel-office):

claude plugin install pixel-office@pixel-office --config autoOpen=session-start

To change it later, run /plugin configure pixel-office@pixel-office inside Claude Code, or save the value from a terminal by piping a JSON object to configure:

echo '{"autoOpen":"never"}' | claude plugin configure pixel-office@pixel-office --values-stdin

That one-liner is for PowerShell and for macOS/Linux shells. In Command Prompt (cmd.exe) the single quotes would be passed through as part of the text, so use /plugin configure there, or run it from PowerShell.

Either way the new value applies to sessions you start afterwards. claude plugin configure pixel-office@pixel-office on its own only shows the options and whether each is set; it changes nothing.

What does it mean when...

Main is "idle" instead of "working"? Main is working from the moment you send a message until it finishes its turn. A working Main with no speech bubble is thinking between tools, in the corner office. When the turn ends Main reads "idle" and stays where it stood. A few s

Source 3 files

hooks/register.ts 74 lines

1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { Register } from 'claude-code'
3
4import { isExempt, writesFile } from './rules'
5
6// Off until it is switched on, for the session: `/coordinator on` makes Main hire helpers for file changes,
7// `/coordinator off` lets it edit again. Only Main is held to it: the main loop has no agentId, a helper's loop does.
8const enabledAtom = atom({ plugin: 'coordinator-guard', key: 'enabled' } as const, false)
9
10export const WHY =
11  'coordinator-guard: Main is the coordinator and does not change files itself while /coordinator is on. Hire a helper with the Agent tool, give it this job and its brief, and put its report together. (/coordinator off lets Main edit again.)'
12
13export const whyShell = (what: string): string =>
14  `coordinator-guard: this command writes a file (${what}), which is a helper's job while /coordinator is on. Hire a helper with the Agent tool for it. Main may still read, search, run tests and git, and write to its scratchpad. (/coordinator off lets Main write again.)`
15
16const HELP = 'Usage: /coordinator on | off | status'
17
18export const register: Register = on => {
19  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
20    try {
21      await $.command.register({ name: 'coordinator', description: 'Keep Main a coordinator: on, off or status' })
22    } catch {
23      // The command is a convenience; the guard still works without it.
24    }
25    return next(e)
26  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
27
28  on('command.run', { command: 'coordinator' }, async ($, e) => {
29    const word = (e.args ?? '').trim().toLowerCase()
30    const isOn = await read($, enabledAtom)
31    if (word === 'on' || word === 'off') {
32      const wants = word === 'on'
33      await update($, enabledAtom, () => wants)
34      return {
35        text: wants
36          ? 'Coordinator mode is on: Main will hire helpers instead of changing files itself.'
37          : 'Coordinator mode is off: Main may change files itself.',
38      }
39    }
40    if (word === '' || word === 'status') return { text: `Coordinator mode is ${isOn ? 'on' : 'off'}. ${HELP}` }
41    return { text: HELP }
42  })
43
44  // Editing tools: Main is refused anywhere but its own scratch places. A failure of the guard itself lets the call
45  // through: it is a convenience, not a lock.
46  on('tool.call', { tool: 'Edit' }, async ($, e, next) => {
47    if (e.agentId !== undefined || !(await read($, enabledAtom)) || isExempt(e.file_path)) return next(e)
48    return { deny: WHY }
49  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
50
51  on('tool.call', { tool: 'Write' }, async ($, e, next) => {
52    if (e.agentId !== undefined || !(await read($, enabledAtom)) || isExempt(e.file_path)) return next(e)
53    return { deny: WHY }
54  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
55
56  on('tool.call', { tool: 'NotebookEdit' }, async ($, e, next) => {
57    if (e.agentId !== undefined || !(await read($, enabledAtom)) || isExempt(e.notebook_path)) return next(e)
58    return { deny: WHY }
59  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
60
61  // Shell commands that write a file: a redirect, tee, an in-place edit, a PowerShell writer.
62  on('tool.call', { tool: 'Bash' }, async ($, e, next) => {
63    if (e.agentId !== undefined || !(await read($, enabledAtom))) return next(e)
64    const what = writesFile(e.command)
65    return what === null ? next(e) : { deny: whyShell(what) }
66  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
67
68  on('tool.call', { tool: 'PowerShell' }, async ($, e, next) => {
69    if (e.agentId !== undefined || !(await read($, enabledAtom))) return next(e)
70    const what = writesFile(e.command)
71    return what === null ? next(e) : { deny: whyShell(what) }
72  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e))
73}
74

hooks/rules.ts 157 lines

1// What the guard counts as Main doing a helper's job: changing a file itself.
2//
3// This is a nudge towards delegating, not a security boundary: it reads a command's text, so it cannot see what a
4// script does, and it does not resolve symbolic links.
5
6// Places Main may always write: its own memory and plans, and the temporary folder its scratchpad lives in.
7// Anything else is the work, and the work is for a helper. They are anchored to the home and temp folders, so a
8// `scratchpad` or `.claude/projects` folder inside a project is not exempt.
9const EXEMPT: readonly RegExp[] = [
10  /^(?:[A-Za-z]:)?\/(?:Users|home)\/[^/]+\/\.claude\/(?:projects|plans|dev-mods)\//,
11  /^\/root\/\.claude\/(?:projects|plans|dev-mods)\//,
12  /^(?:[A-Za-z]:)?\/Users\/[^/]+\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/claude\//,
13  /^\/(?:private\/)?var\/folders\/[^/]+\/[^/]+\/T\//,
14  /^\/tmp\//,
15]
16
17// A path with backslashes, repeated slashes, `.` and `..` made plain; null when `..` climbs out of the root.
18export function normalize(path: string): string | null {
19  const parts: string[] = []
20  const raw = path.replace(/\\/g, '/').replace(/\/+/g, '/')
21  const drive = /^[A-Za-z]:/.exec(raw)?.[0] ?? ''
22  for (const part of raw.slice(drive.length).split('/')) {
23    if (part === '' || part === '.') continue
24    if (part === '..') {
25      if (parts.pop() === undefined) return null
26      continue
27    }
28    parts.push(part)
29  }
30  return `${drive}/${parts.join('/')}${raw.endsWith('/') && parts.length > 0 ? '/' : ''}`
31}
32
33export const isExempt = (path: string): boolean => {
34  const normal = normalize(path)
35  return normal !== null && EXEMPT.some(pattern => pattern.test(normal))
36}
37
38// The command with heredoc bodies taken out: `cat <<'EOF' > f\nbody\nEOF\necho x` becomes `cat  > f\n\necho x`.
39// Only the body goes (the lines up to the line that is the delimiter): what is on the operator's line and what
40// follows the end of the body is still a command.
41export function withoutHeredocBodies(command: string): string {
42  let out = ''
43  let quote = ''
44  const pending: Array<{ delimiter: string; isTabbed: boolean }> = []
45  for (let i = 0; i < command.length; i++) {
46    const ch = command[i] as string
47    if (quote !== '') {
48      out += ch
49      if (ch === '\\' && quote === '"') {
50        out += command[i + 1] ?? ''
51        i++
52      } else if (ch === quote) quote = ''
53      continue
54    }
55    if (ch === '"' || ch === "'") {
56      quote = ch
57      out += ch
58      continue
59    }
60    // `<<<` is a here-string, one word: its last two characters are not a heredoc operator.
61    if (ch === '<' && command.startsWith('<<<', i)) {
62      out += '<<<'
63      i += 2
64      continue
65    }
66    if (ch === '<' && command[i + 1] === '<' && command[i + 2] !== '<') {
67      const found = /^<<(-?)\s*(?:'([^']*)'|"([^"]*)"|\\?([^\s;&|<>()]+))/.exec(command.slice(i))
68      if (found !== null) {
69        pending.push({ delimiter: found[2] ?? found[3] ?? found[4] ?? '', isTabbed: found[1] === '-' })
70        out += ' '
71        i += found[0].length - 1
72        continue
73      }
74    }
75    out += ch
76    if (ch === '\n' && pending.length > 0) {
77      // Skip the lines up to each pending delimiter, in order.
78      let at = i + 1
79      for (const { delimiter, isTabbed } of pending.splice(0)) {
80        for (;;) {
81          if (at >= command.length) break
82          const end = command.indexOf('\n', at)
83          const line = command.slice(at, end === -1 ? command.length : end)
84          at = end === -1 ? command.length : end + 1
85          if ((isTabbed ? line.replace(/^\t+/, '') : line) === delimiter) break
86        }
87      }
88      i = at - 1
89    }
90  }
91  return out
92}
93
94const NOWHERE = /^(\/dev\/null|nul|\$null)$/i
95
96// The files a shell command writes with a redirect: `> out`, `>> log`, `1> out`, `&> out`, `>| out`, found
97// outside quotes and outside heredoc bodies, not counting `2>&1`, `>&2` or a write to /dev/null.
98export function redirectTargets(command: string): string[] {
99  const text = withoutHeredocBodies(command)
100  const out: string[] = []
101  let quote = ''
102  for (let i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
103    const ch = text[i] as string
104    if (quote !== '') {
105      if (ch === '\\' && quote === '"') i++
106      else if (ch === quote) quote = ''
107      continue
108    }
109    if (ch === '"' || ch === "'") {
110      quote = ch
111      continue
112    }
113    if (ch !== '>') continue
114    if (text[i + 1] === '&') {
115      i++
116      continue
117    }
118    let j = i + 1
119    if (text[j] === '>' || text[j] === '|') j++
120    while (text[j] === ' ' || text[j] === '\t') j++
121    let target = ''
122    let inQuote = ''
123    for (; j < text.length; j++) {
124      const c = text[j] as string
125      if (inQuote !== '') {
126        if (c === inQuote) inQuote = ''
127        else target += c
128      } else if (c === '"' || c === "'") inQuote = c
129      else if (/[\s;&|<>)]/.test(c)) break
130      else target += c
131    }
132    i = j - 1
133    if (target !== '' && !NOWHERE.test(target)) out.push(target)
134  }
135  return out
136}
137
138// Other ways a command writes a file, whatever its redirects: tee, an in-place edit, PowerShell's writers.
139const WRITERS: ReadonlyArray<readonly [RegExp, string]> = [
140  [/(^|[\s;&|(])tee(\s|$)/, 'tee'],
141  [/(^|[\s;&|(])(sed|perl|ruby)\s+(?:[^;&|]*\s)?-[A-Za-z]*i(\.\w+)?(\s|$)/, 'an in-place edit'],
142  [/(^|[\s;&|(])(Set-Content|Add-Content|Out-File|New-Item|Export-Csv|Export-Clixml)(\s|$)/i, 'a PowerShell file writer'],
143  [/(^|[\s;&|(])(git\s+apply|patch)(\s|$)/, 'a patch'],
144]
145
146// What in a command changes a file when Main is meant not to, or null when it does not: a redirect to a place Main
147// may not write, or one of the writers above. A redirect into an exempt place (the scratchpad) is allowed.
148export function writesFile(command: string): string | null {
149  const blocked = redirectTargets(command).find(target => !isExempt(target))
150  if (blocked !== undefined) return `a redirect to ${blocked}`
151  const text = withoutHeredocBodies(command).replace(/"[^"]*"|'[^']*'/g, '""')
152  for (const [pattern, name] of WRITERS) {
153    if (pattern.test(text)) return name
154  }
155  return null
156}
157

types/index.d.ts 9 lines

1// The one value the guard keeps for the session: whether Main is being held to coordinating.
2export type Switch = boolean
3
4declare module 'claude-code' {
5  interface PluginState {
6    'coordinator-guard': { enabled: boolean }
7  }
8}
9

Install

$claude plugin marketplace add sb2403/pixel-office

$claude plugin install coordinator-guard@pixel-office

Entry name may differ; see the README.

$claude plugin marketplace add https://www.slopshopper.com/community/marketplace.json

$claude plugin install coordinator-guard@slopshopper-community

Points at the author's repo. Nothing re-hosted.

$git clone https://github.com/sb2403/pixel-office

$claude --plugin-dir ./pixel-office/coordinator-guard

One session, nothing installed.

In the preview

adds /coordinator

Hooks

session.startcommand.run{command=coordinator}tool.call{tool=Edit}tool.call{tool=Write}tool.call{tool=NotebookEdit}tool.call{tool=Bash}tool.call{tool=PowerShell}

Reaches

$.command.register$.state.get$.state.set

Checks

validate: passed

Tests ✓ · State contract ✓ · first seen 2026-10-16