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agentctl-remote-control

Restarts this session's Remote Control bridge when agentctl asks after a live account swap, and reports the bridge's presence with /agentctl-rc.

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› fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call ● agentctl-remote-control: inactive: the session has no messaging socket naming its process ⏺ 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 › /agentctl-rc ⎿ agentctl-remote-control: agentctl-remote-control is inactive: the session has no messaging socket naming its process. ⎿ agentctl-remote-control: Surfaces: terminal ⎿ agentctl-remote-control: Claude Code: 2.1.289 ⎿ agentctl-remote-control: remote-control command: not listed ⎿ agentctl-remote-control: Provenance: ⎿ agentctl-remote-control: HOME set ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts
README

agentctl-remote-control

A Claude Code mod that restarts a session's Remote Control bridge after agentctl claude use --live <id> --restart-remote-control (or --undo --restart-remote-control) has changed the account under it. Claude Code drops the bridge by itself when the credential changes; this mod starts the new one inside the same process, with the same session id and transcript, without typing into the terminal. It also works on its own through /agentctl-rc.

Install

Typed at the prompt of a terminal Claude Code session:

/plugin install agentctl-remote-control --marketplace zchee/agentctl

Answer y to add the zchee/agentctl marketplace, then pick a scope (the user scope makes it load in every session started afterwards). Each session that should be reconnected by agentctl needs the mod loaded.

Requirements and limits

  • Claude Code 2.1.287 or newer. On an older release the mod stays inactive: it registers only /agentctl-rc, which says why.
  • macOS only, like agentctl's credential swap. At session start the mod checks its own registry record with /usr/bin/stat -f '%u %Lp %HT'; any other answer (a Linux stat among them) keeps it inactive.
  • First-party sessions only. A session behind a gateway or a third-party provider, or one whose credential comes from CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, answers unavailable and runs nothing.

Commands

  • /agentctl-rc prints whether this session's registry record shows a Remote Control bridge, how many distinct bridges the mod has seen it hold (its generation), the surfaces the session draws on, the Claude Code release, and whether each environment variable the session's keychain item name derives from is set. It never prints a bridge id, a URL or a directory spelling.
  • /agentctl-rc reconnect asks for the same guarded reconnect agentctl asks for and answers requested. The result appears as a toast when it is final: reconnected, already connected, unavailable, not confirmed, or expired.

How agentctl talks to the mod

agentctl writes <id>.request.json (mode 0600, written to a temporary name and renamed) into <configHome>/agentctl/remote-control/<pid>/, a 0700 directory it creates under the session's own configuration home, where <pid> is the session's process id. Every 500 ms the mod lists that directory, checks each request (name, real path, owner uid and mode 600 through /usr/bin/stat, contract version, action, expiry, id, subject), writes <id>.ack.json once, and writes <id>.response.json once the answer is final. A status request is answered at once with bridge presence and generation, surfaces, the release, and the provenance above. A reconnect request runs /remote-control only when the session is idle and its registry record, read on the same tick, shows no bridge; it then watches the record for up to 30 seconds for a new bridge. Requests live in the session's $.state, so a hot reload of the mod neither answers one twice nor runs /remote-control twice. A refused request is remembered in $.state too, in a list of at most 256 entries, so a file answered busy while the mod's table was full is not admitted later, after a reload included. The bound has one residual: when 256 unexpired refusals are held, the newest is still answered and recorded by forgetting the oldest, and a file of that forgotten id still in the directory is examined again; it can be answered a second time and, if it was refused only as busy and has not expired, admitted. The mod creates no directory, deletes nothing, and never reads the *.key files beside the registry records. The full contract is in docs/research/remote-control-mod.md at the repository root.

The remaining race

The mod issues /remote-control only from a poll tick on which no turn is running and the registry record shows no bridge, so the command runs within milliseconds of that observation. A person who types /remote-control in that same instant can still start a bridge first; the mod's command then finds a connected bridge and Claude Code opens its Remote Control dialog (Disconnect, Show QR code, Continue), which Escape dismisses without disconnecting. The mod cannot close this window: Claude Code offers no way to issue the command conditionally.

Development

claude plugin validate --strict plugins/remote-control
claude plugin test plugins/remote-control

tsconfig.json extends .claude-plugin/types/tsconfig.json, which Claude Code writes when it loads the mod from a folder it hot-reloads (for example claude --plugin-dir plugins/remote-control); that directory is not committed.

Source 2 files
hooks/register.ts 777 lines
1import type { EngineInterface, Register } from 'claude-code'
2
3import type {
4  AgentctlRcAck,
5  AgentctlRcAction,
6  AgentctlRcEntry,
7  AgentctlRcProvenance,
8  AgentctlRcRejected,
9  AgentctlRcRejectReason,
10  AgentctlRcResponse,
11  AgentctlRcResult,
12} from '../types'
13
14// Claude Code 2.1.287 is the first release with the hooks this mod stands on.
15const FLOOR = [2, 1, 287] as const
16const POLL_MS = 500
17// How long an issued `remote-control` is watched for a new bridge id.
18const OBSERVE_MS = 30_000
19// The lifetime of a reconnect asked for with `/agentctl-rc reconnect`, the
20// same as agentctl gives its own reconnect requests.
21const COMMAND_LIFETIME_MS = 75_000
22// The longest lifetime a request may ask for, eight times agentctl's longest.
23// A refusal of a file whose body was not read is remembered this long, so a
24// request file still lying there afterwards is refused again, as expired when
25// its body is readable, and is never admitted.
26const MAX_LIFETIME_MS = 600_000
27// Bounds on the table: entries not yet answered, and entries of any phase.
28const MAX_PENDING = 64
29const MAX_ENTRIES = 1024
30// Bound on the list of refused request files.
31const MAX_REJECTED = 256
32// agentctl reads registry records with the same bound.
33const MAX_RECORD_BYTES = 64 * 1024
34const MAX_REQUEST_BYTES = 64 * 1024
35const REQUEST_NAME = /^([0-9a-f]{32})\.request\.json$/
36const ID_COMMAND = '/usr/bin/id'
37const STAT_COMMAND = '/usr/bin/stat'
38// The darwin `stat -f '%u %Lp %HT'` answer: owner uid, permission bits in
39// octal, file type in words. A non-darwin `stat` cannot print this shape.
40const STAT_SHAPE = /^(\d+) ([0-7]{1,4}) ([A-Za-z ]+)$/
41
42type Timer = ReturnType<EngineInterface['clock']['every']>
43type Table = Record<string, AgentctlRcEntry>
44
45/** What the mod established about its own process at session start. */
46type Context = {
47  pid: number
48  configHome: string
49  recordPath: string
50  transportDir: string
51  uid: number
52  versionBase: string
53}
54
55/**
56 * The registry record as the mod uses it. The bridge id itself never leaves
57 * `readRecord`: only a digest, compared to tell one bridge from the next.
58 */
59type Record_ = {
60  pid: number | undefined
61  sessionId: string | undefined
62  status: string | undefined
63  messagingSocketPath: string | undefined
64  bridgeMark: string | undefined
65}
66
67type Bridge = { present: boolean; generation: number }
68
69/** What one poll reads once and every entry of that poll shares. */
70type Inputs = {
71  record: Record_ | undefined
72  bridge: Bridge
73  isListed: () => Promise<boolean>
74  isAuthorized: () => Promise<boolean>
75  surfaces: () => Promise<string[]>
76  provenance: () => Promise<AgentctlRcProvenance>
77}
78
79// Module variables are rebuilt by every session.start, which is also what a
80// hot reload re-fires; everything a request needs to survive a reload lives
81// in $.state instead.
82let ticker: Timer | undefined
83let context: Context | undefined
84let refusal: string | undefined
85let turns = new Set<string>()
86let isPolling = false
87let bridgeMark: string | undefined
88let sawAbsent = false
89let queue: Promise<unknown> = Promise.resolve()
90
91/** Replaces Remote Control URLs and bridge ids in text bound for a log or an answer. */
92export function redact(text: string): string {
93  return text
94    .replace(/https?:\/\/\S+/g, '[URL redacted]')
95    .replace(/\b(?:session|cse|bridge)_[A-Za-z0-9_-]+/g, '[bridge id redacted]')
96}
97
98/** Reports whether a release base such as `2.1.296` or `2.1.296-dev` is at or above the floor. */
99export function meetsFloor(base: string | undefined): boolean {
100  const match = /^(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/.exec(base ?? '')
101  if (match === null) return false
102  const parts = [Number(match[1]), Number(match[2]), Number(match[3])]
103  for (let i = 0; i < FLOOR.length; i++) {
104    const have = parts[i] ?? 0
105    const want = FLOOR[i] ?? 0
106    if (have !== want) return have > want
107  }
108  return true
109}
110
111// Joins a name onto a directory without cleaning the directory's spelling,
112// exactly as agentctl builds the same paths, so both sides name one file.
113function joinPath(dir: string, name: string): string {
114  if (dir === '') return name
115  return dir.endsWith('/') ? `${dir}${name}` : `${dir}/${name}`
116}
117
118// The configuration home as Claude Code and agentctl derive it: a non-empty
119// CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR as spelled, else HOME's .claude, NFC-normalized.
120function configHomeOf(home: string | undefined, configDir: string | undefined): string | undefined {
121  if (configDir !== undefined && configDir !== '') return configDir.normalize('NFC')
122  if (home === undefined || home === '') return undefined
123  return joinPath(home, '.claude').normalize('NFC')
124}
125
126function isNonEmpty(value: string | undefined): boolean {
127  return value !== undefined && value !== ''
128}
129
130function log($: EngineInterface, text: string): void {
131  $.ui.log(redact(text), { to: 'debug' })
132}
133
134// Runs table mutations one at a time, so the poll, the command and a
135// rejected run never interleave a read and a write of $.state.
136function serial<T>(work: () => Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
137  const run = queue.then(work, work)
138  queue = run.catch(() => undefined)
139  return run
140}
141
142async function sha256(text: string): Promise<string> {
143  const digest = await crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-256', new TextEncoder().encode(text))
144  return Array.from(new Uint8Array(digest), (b) => b.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('')
145}
146
147function newId(): string {
148  return Array.from(crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(16)), (b) => b.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('')
149}
150
151function isObject(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
152  return typeof value === 'object' && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value)
153}
154
155function stringOf(value: unknown): string | undefined {
156  return typeof value === 'string' ? value : undefined
157}
158
159async function readRecord($: EngineInterface, path: string): Promise<Record_ | undefined> {
160  const stat = await $.fs.stat(path).catch(() => undefined)
161  if (stat === undefined || stat.kind !== 'file' || stat.isLink || stat.size > MAX_RECORD_BYTES) return undefined
162  const text = await $.fs.read(path).catch(() => undefined)
163  if (typeof text !== 'string') return undefined
164  let raw: unknown
165  try {
166    raw = JSON.parse(text)
167  } catch {
168    // The parser's message can quote the record, bridge id included, so it is dropped.
169    return undefined
170  }
171  if (!isObject(raw)) return undefined
172  const bridge = stringOf(raw.bridgeSessionId)
173  return {
174    pid: typeof raw.pid === 'number' ? raw.pid : undefined,
175    sessionId: stringOf(raw.sessionId),
176    status: stringOf(raw.status),
177    messagingSocketPath: stringOf(raw.messagingSocketPath),
178    bridgeMark: bridge === undefined || bridge === '' ? undefined : await sha256(bridge),
179  }
180}
181
182// Counts distinct bridges: a new digest, or a bridge seen after an absence,
183// is a new generation. After a reload the first bridge seen is taken as the
184// one already counted unless the mod saw it absent first.
185async function observeBridge($: EngineInterface, record: Record_ | undefined): Promise<Bridge> {
186  const held = await $.state.get({ plugin: 'agentctl-remote-control', key: 'generation' })
187  let generation = held.value ?? 0
188  const mark = record?.bridgeMark
189  if (mark === undefined) {
190    if (record !== undefined) sawAbsent = true
191    return { present: false, generation }
192  }
193  if (mark !== bridgeMark) {
194    const isNew = bridgeMark !== undefined || generation === 0 || sawAbsent
195    bridgeMark = mark
196    sawAbsent = false
197    if (isNew) {
198      generation += 1
199      await $.state.set({ plugin: 'agentctl-remote-control', key: 'generation' }, generation)
200    }
201  }
202  return { present: true, generation }
203}
204
205async function provenanceOf($: EngineInterface): Promise<AgentctlRcProvenance> {
206  const configDir = await $.env.get('CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR')
207  const secureStorageDir = await $.env.get('CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR')
208  return {
209    home: (await $.env.get('HOME')) ?? '',
210    configDir: { set: configDir !== undefined, value: configDir ?? '' },
211    secureStorageDir: { set: secureStorageDir !== undefined, value: secureStorageDir ?? '' },
212    oauthTokenSet: isNonEmpty(await $.env.get('CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN')),
213    apiKeySet: isNonEmpty(await $.env.get('ANTHROPIC_API_KEY')),
214    baseUrlSet: isNonEmpty(await $.env.get('ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL')),
215    authorized: (await $.session.authorize()) !== null,
216  }
217}
218
219function once<T>(work: () => Promise<T>): () => Promise<T> {
220  let held: Promise<T> | undefined
221  return () => (held ??= work())
222}
223
224async function inputsOf($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context): Promise<Inputs> {
225  const record = await readRecord($, ctx.recordPath)
226  const bridge = await observeBridge($, record)
227  return {
228    record,
229    bridge,
230    isListed: once(async () => (await $.command.list()).some((c) => c.name === 'remote-control')),
231    isAuthorized: once(async () => (await $.session.authorize()) !== null),
232    surfaces: once(async () => [...(await $.session.surfaces())]),
233    provenance: once(() => provenanceOf($)),
234  }
235}
236
237/** The owner uid, mode and type `/usr/bin/stat` reports for a path, or undefined when it answers anything else. */
238async function hostStat($: EngineInterface, path: string): Promise<{ uid: number; mode: string; type: string } | undefined> {
239  const ran = await $.process.run([STAT_COMMAND, '-f', '%u %Lp %HT', path], { timeoutMs: 5_000 }).catch(() => undefined)
240  if (ran === undefined || ran.exitCode !== 0) return undefined
241  const match = STAT_SHAPE.exec(ran.stdout.replace(/\n$/, ''))
242  if (match === null) return undefined
243  return { uid: Number(match[1]), mode: match[2] ?? '', type: match[3] ?? '' }
244}
245
246async function ownUid($: EngineInterface): Promise<number | undefined> {
247  const held = await $.state.get({ plugin: 'agentctl-remote-control', key: 'uid' })
248  if (typeof held.value === 'number') return held.value
249  const ran = await $.process.run([ID_COMMAND, '-u'], { timeoutMs: 5_000 }).catch(() => undefined)
250  if (ran === undefined || ran.exitCode !== 0 || !/^\d+\n?$/.test(ran.stdout)) return undefined
251  const uid = Number(ran.stdout.trim())
252  await $.state.set({ plugin: 'agentctl-remote-control', key: 'uid' }, uid)
253  return uid
254}
255
256// Establishes the process's own identity and the platform, or says why the
257// mod must stay inactive in this session.
258async function establish($: EngineInterface): Promise<Context | string> {
259  const version = await $.session.version()
260  if (!meetsFloor(version.base)) return `Claude Code ${version.base ?? version.version} is older than 2.1.287`
261  const socket = await $.env.get('CLAUDE_CODE_MESSAGING_SOCKET')
262  const pidMatch = /\/(\d+)\.sock$/.exec(socket ?? '')
263  if (socket === undefined || pidMatch === null) return 'the session has no messaging socket naming its process'
264  const pid = Number(pidMatch[1])
265  const configHome = configHomeOf(await $.env.get('HOME'), await $.env.get('CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR'))
266  if (configHome === undefined) return 'neither CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR nor HOME is set'
267  const recordPath = joinPath(joinPath(configHome, 'sessions'), `${pid}.json`)
268  const record = await readRecord($, recordPath)
269  if (record === undefined || record.pid !== pid || record.messagingSocketPath !== socket) {
270    return 'the session registry record does not match this process'
271  }
272  const uid = await ownUid($)
273  if (uid === undefined) return '/usr/bin/id -u did not answer a uid'
274  const probe = await hostStat($, recordPath)
275  if (probe === undefined || probe.uid !== uid || probe.type !== 'Regular File') {
276    return 'the host stat probe did not answer the macOS shape for the registry record'
277  }
278  const transportDir = joinPath(joinPath(joinPath(configHome, 'agentctl'), 'remote-control'), String(pid))
279  return { pid, configHome, recordPath, transportDir, uid, versionBase: version.base ?? '' }
280}
281
282async function loadTable($: EngineInterface): Promise<Table> {
283  const held = await $.state.get({ plugin: 'agentctl-remote-control', key: 'requests' })
284  return { ...(held.value ?? {}) }
285}
286
287async function save($: EngineInterface, table: Table): Promise<void> {
288  await $.state.set({ plugin: 'agentctl-remote-control', key: 'requests' }, table)
289}
290
291// Drops published entries whose expiry has passed. An entry whose expiry has
292// not passed is kept whatever its phase, because its request file may still
293// lie in the directory and would otherwise be admitted, and run, a second
294// time; once it has passed, such a file can only be refused again. An
295// entry not yet published is kept until its answer is delivered.
296function evict(table: Table, now: number): boolean {
297  let changed = false
298  for (const [id, entry] of Object.entries(table)) {
299    if (now < entry.expiresAt || entry.phase !== 'published') continue
300    delete table[id]
301    changed = true
302  }
303  return changed
304}
305
306function pendingCount(table: Table): number {
307  return Object.values(table).filter((entry) => entry.phase !== 'published').length
308}
309
310function isFull(table: Table): boolean {
311  return pendingCount(table) >= MAX_PENDING || Object.keys(table).length >= MAX_ENTRIES
312}
313
314function isBusy(record: Record_ | undefined): boolean {
315  return turns.size > 0 || (record?.status !== undefined && record.status !== 'idle')
316}
317
318async function responseText(inputs: Inputs, ctx: Context, id: string, action: AgentctlRcAction, result: AgentctlRcResult, now: number, reason?: string): Promise<string> {
319  const response: AgentctlRcResponse = {
320    v: 1,
321    id,
322    action,
323    result,
324    answeredAt: now,
325    bridge: { present: inputs.bridge.present, generation: inputs.bridge.generation },
326    surfaces: await inputs.surfaces(),
327    version: ctx.versionBase,
328    remoteControlListed: await inputs.isListed(),
329    provenance: await inputs.provenance(),
330  }
331  if (reason !== undefined) response.reason = reason
332  return JSON.stringify(response)
333}
334
335function toastText(result: AgentctlRcResult, reason: string | undefined): string {
336  switch (result) {
337    case 'reconnected':
338      return 'Remote Control reconnected.'
339    case 'already_connected':
340      return 'Remote Control is already connected; nothing was run.'
341    case 'unavailable':
342      return `Remote Control is unavailable in this session (${reason ?? 'unknown'}); nothing was run.`
343    case 'not_confirmed':
344      return `Remote Control was started, but no new bridge was seen (${reason ?? 'unknown'}).`
345    case 'expired':
346      return 'The reconnect expired before the session was idle; nothing was run.'
347    case 'cancelled':
348      return 'The reconnect was cancelled; nothing was run.'
349    case 'ok':
350      return 'Remote Control status answered.'
351  }
352}
353
354// Writes into the transport directory only when it still exists, because
355// $.fs.write would create it and the directory is agentctl's to create.
356async function writeTransport($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, name: string, text: string): Promise<boolean> {
357  if (!(await $.fs.exists(ctx.transportDir))) return false
358  await $.fs.write(joinPath(ctx.transportDir, name), text)
359  return true
360}
361
362// A delivery counts as published only once the file was written; while the
363// directory is missing it stays pending and the same text is tried again.
364async function deliverAck($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, table: Table, id: string, entry: AgentctlRcEntry): Promise<void> {
365  if (entry.ack === undefined || entry.ack.published) return
366  if (!(await writeTransport($, ctx, `${id}.ack.json`, entry.ack.text))) return
367  entry.ack.published = true
368  await save($, table)
369}
370
371async function deliverFinal($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, table: Table, id: string, entry: AgentctlRcEntry): Promise<void> {
372  const terminal = entry.terminal
373  if (terminal === undefined) {
374    // A rejection has only its acknowledgement to deliver.
375    if (entry.ack !== undefined && !entry.ack.published) return
376    entry.phase = 'published'
377    await save($, table)
378    return
379  }
380  if (!terminal.published) {
381    if (entry.origin === 'file') {
382      if (!(await writeTransport($, ctx, `${id}.response.json`, terminal.response))) return
383    } else {
384      const answer = JSON.parse(terminal.response) as AgentctlRcResponse
385      $.ui.toast(toastText(answer.result, answer.reason))
386    }
387  }
388  terminal.published = true
389  entry.phase = 'published'
390  await save($, table)
391}
392
393// Stores the final answer before delivering it, so a reload in between
394// delivers the identical text instead of computing a new one.
395async function finish($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, table: Table, inputs: Inputs, id: string, entry: AgentctlRcEntry, result: AgentctlRcResult, now: number, reason?: string): Promise<void> {
396  entry.phase = 'final'
397  entry.terminal = { response: await responseText(inputs, ctx, id, entry.action, result, now, reason), published: false }
398  await save($, table)
399  log($, `request ${id}: ${result}${reason === undefined ? '' : ` (${reason})`}`)
400  await deliverFinal($, ctx, table, id, entry)
401}
402
403async function onRunRejected($: EngineInterface, id: string): Promise<void> {
404  const ctx = context
405  if (ctx === undefined) return
406  const table = await loadTable($)
407  const entry = table[id]
408  if (entry?.phase !== 'running') return
409  await finish($, ctx, table, await inputsOf($, ctx), id, entry, 'unavailable', await $.clock.now(), 'run_rejected')
410}
411
412// The rule list for a reconnect that has not been run yet, in the order the
413// transport contract fixes; `remote-control` is issued only from an idle
414// session whose record, read this tick, shows no bridge.
415async function applyRules($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, table: Table, inputs: Inputs, id: string, entry: AgentctlRcEntry, now: number): Promise<void> {
416  if (now >= entry.expiresAt) return finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'expired', now)
417  if (!(await inputs.isListed())) return finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'unavailable', now, 'command_not_listed')
418  if (!(await inputs.isAuthorized())) return finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'unavailable', now, 'not_authorized')
419  if (inputs.bridge.present) return finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'already_connected', now)
420  const record = inputs.record
421  if (record === undefined || isBusy(record)) {
422    // An unreadable record is treated like a running turn: nothing is
423    // issued without seeing the bridge absent, and expiry ends the wait.
424    if (entry.phase !== 'waiting_idle') {
425      entry.phase = 'waiting_idle'
426      await save($, table)
427    }
428    return
429  }
430  entry.phase = 'running'
431  entry.runStartedAt = now
432  entry.observeUntil = now + OBSERVE_MS
433  if (record.sessionId !== undefined) entry.runSessionId = record.sessionId
434  await save($, table)
435  log($, `request ${id}: running remote-control`)
436  // Not awaited: the command's own text can carry the bridge URL and is
437  // never read; the registry record is what confirms the bridge.
438  void $.command.run({ command: 'remote-control' }).catch(() => serial(() => onRunRejected($, id)))
439}
440
441// The one rule for a run already issued: it is observed, never issued again.
442async function observeRun($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, table: Table, inputs: Inputs, id: string, entry: AgentctlRcEntry, now: number): Promise<void> {
443  const record = inputs.record
444  if (record === undefined || record.pid !== ctx.pid || record.sessionId !== entry.runSessionId) {
445    return finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'not_confirmed', now, 'record_changed')
446  }
447  if (inputs.bridge.present) return finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'reconnected', now)
448  if (now >= (entry.observeUntil ?? 0)) return finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'not_confirmed', now, 'window_elapsed')
449}
450
451async function step($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, table: Table, inputs: Inputs, id: string, entry: AgentctlRcEntry, now: number): Promise<void> {
452  await deliverAck($, ctx, table, id, entry)
453  switch (entry.phase) {
454    case 'published':
455      return
456    case 'final':
457      return deliverFinal($, ctx, table, id, entry)
458    case 'running':
459      return observeRun($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, now)
460    case 'accepted':
461    case 'waiting_idle':
462      if (entry.action === 'status') return finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'ok', now)
463      return applyRules($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, now)
464  }
465}
466
467// The transport directory as it really lies, or undefined when it is
468// missing, not a directory, or resolves anywhere but where agentctl makes it.
469async function transportReal($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context): Promise<string | undefined> {
470  if (!(await $.fs.exists(ctx.transportDir))) return undefined
471  const dir = await $.fs.stat(ctx.transportDir, { resolve: true }).catch(() => undefined)
472  const home = await $.fs.stat(ctx.configHome, { resolve: true }).catch(() => undefined)
473  if (dir?.realPath === undefined || home?.realPath === undefined || dir.kind !== 'dir' || dir.isLink) return undefined
474  const expected = joinPath(joinPath(joinPath(home.realPath, 'agentctl'), 'remote-control'), String(ctx.pid))
475  return dir.realPath === expected ? dir.realPath : undefined
476}
477
478// The acknowledgement of a refused file. `action` is empty when the body was
479// not read or cannot be trusted, and the request's own action otherwise.
480function rejectedAck(id: string, action: string, reason: AgentctlRcRejectReason, now: number): string {
481  const ack: AgentctlRcAck = { v: 1, id, action, state: 'rejected', reason, answeredAt: now }
482  return JSON.stringify(ack)
483}
484
485/** Why one file is refused, the action its acknowledgement names, and how long the refusal is remembered. */
486type Refusal = { reason: AgentctlRcRejectReason; action: string; expiresAt: number }
487
488function refuse(reason: AgentctlRcRejectReason, action: string, expiresAt: number): Refusal {
489  return { reason, action, expiresAt }
490}
491
492// How long a refusal of a readable body is remembered: until the request's
493// own expiry when that is valid, after which the file can only be refused as
494// expired, else for the longest lifetime a request may ask for.
495function lifetimeOf(expiresAt: unknown, now: number): number {
496  const isValid = typeof expiresAt === 'number' && Number.isFinite(expiresAt) && expiresAt > now && expiresAt - now <= MAX_LIFETIME_MS
497  return isValid ? expiresAt : now + MAX_LIFETIME_MS
498}
499
500async function loadRejected($: EngineInterface): Promise<AgentctlRcRejected[]> {
501  const held = await $.state.get({ plugin: 'agentctl-remote-control', key: 'rejected' })
502  return [...(held.value ?? [])]
503}
504
505async function saveRejected($: EngineInterface, rejected: AgentctlRcRejected[]): Promise<void> {
506  await $.state.set({ plugin: 'agentctl-remote-control', key: 'rejected' }, rejected)
507}
508
509// Adds a refusal to the bounded list, oldest first. Room is made by evicting
510// the oldest entry whose expiry has passed; when none has, the oldest entry
511// goes, so the newest refusal is still recorded and answered.
512function remember(rejected: AgentctlRcRejected[], entry: AgentctlRcRejected, now: number): void {
513  while (rejected.length >= MAX_REJECTED) {
514    const expired = rejected.findIndex((r) => now >= r.expiresAt)
515    rejected.splice(expired === -1 ? 0 : expired, 1)
516  }
517  rejected.push(entry)
518}
519
520// Writes a refusal's acknowledgement once the directory exists, then forgets
521// its text; until then the same bytes are tried again on every poll.
522async function deliverRejection($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, rejected: AgentctlRcRejected[], entry: AgentctlRcRejected): Promise<void> {
523  if (entry.ack === undefined) return
524  if (!(await writeTransport($, ctx, `${entry.id}.ack.json`, entry.ack))) return
525  delete entry.ack
526  await saveRejected($, rejected)
527}
528
529// Stores the refusal before answering it, so a reload in between delivers the
530// identical bytes and never examines the file again.
531async function reject($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, rejected: AgentctlRcRejected[], id: string, refusal: Refusal, now: number): Promise<void> {
532  const entry: AgentctlRcRejected = { id, reason: refusal.reason, expiresAt: refusal.expiresAt, ack: rejectedAck(id, refusal.action, refusal.reason, now) }
533  remember(rejected, entry, now)
534  await saveRejected($, rejected)
535  log($, `request ${id}: rejected (${refusal.reason})`)
536  await deliverRejection($, ctx, rejected, entry)
537}
538
539// The owner uid, mode, type and size checks, which come before anything else
540// is decided about a file whose name and real path passed.
541async function isOwnFile($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, path: string, size: number): Promise<boolean> {
542  const meta = await hostStat($, path)
543  return meta !== undefined && meta.uid === ctx.uid && meta.mode === '600' && meta.type === 'Regular File' && size <= MAX_REQUEST_BYTES
544}
545
546// Validates the body of one request file whose name, real path and metadata
547// already passed, in the contract's order, and answers the entry to store or
548// the refusal. `known` holds every id the session admitted or refused.
549async function validate($: EngineInterface, known: (id: string) => boolean, id: string, path: string, now: number): Promise<AgentctlRcEntry | Refusal> {
550  const text = await $.fs.read(path).catch(() => undefined)
551  let body: unknown
552  try {
553    body = typeof text === 'string' ? JSON.parse(text) : undefined
554  } catch {
555    body = undefined
556  }
557  // A body under an unknown version cannot be trusted to name its action.
558  if (!isObject(body) || body.v !== 1) return refuse('version', '', now + MAX_LIFETIME_MS)
559  const rawAction = stringOf(body.action) ?? ''
560  if (rawAction !== 'status' && rawAction !== 'reconnect') return refuse('action', rawAction, lifetimeOf(body.expiresAt, now))
561  const action: AgentctlRcAction = rawAction
562  const expiresAt = body.expiresAt
563  // A lifetime beyond the cap would keep its entry, and the table slot,
564  // longer than the table's eviction rule allows for.
565  if (typeof expiresAt !== 'number' || !Number.isFinite(expiresAt) || expiresAt <= now || expiresAt - now > MAX_LIFETIME_MS) {
566    return refuse('expired', action, now + MAX_LIFETIME_MS)
567  }
568  if (body.id !== id) {
569    const other = stringOf(body.id)
570    if (other !== undefined && known(other)) return refuse('duplicate', action, expiresAt)
571    return refuse('name', action, now + MAX_LIFETIME_MS)
572  }
573  const subject = body.subject
574  if (!isObject(subject) || typeof subject.service !== 'string' || subject.service === '') return refuse('subject', action, expiresAt)
575
576  const ack: AgentctlRcAck = { v: 1, id, action, state: 'accepted', answeredAt: now }
577  return { phase: 'accepted', action, origin: 'file', admittedAt: now, expiresAt, ack: { text: JSON.stringify(ack), published: false } }
578}
579
580// Admits the request files neither in the table nor in the refused list. A
581// file whose name or real path fails is ignored without an answer; one whose
582// metadata fails is refused as such; past that, a full table answers `busy`
583// without reading the body, and admits nothing.
584async function admit($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context, table: Table, rejected: AgentctlRcRejected[], inputs: Inputs, now: number): Promise<void> {
585  const realDir = await transportReal($, ctx)
586  if (realDir === undefined) return
587  const refused = new Set(rejected.map((r) => r.id))
588  const known = (id: string): boolean => id in table || refused.has(id)
589  const ids = new Map<string, string>()
590  for (const entry of await $.fs.list(ctx.transportDir)) {
591    const match = entry.isLink ? null : REQUEST_NAME.exec(entry.name)
592    if (match !== null) ids.set(entry.name, match[1] ?? '')
593  }
594  for (const name of [...ids.keys()].sort()) {
595    const id = ids.get(name) ?? ''
596    if (known(id)) continue
597    try {
598      const path = joinPath(ctx.transportDir, name)
599      const stat = await $.fs.stat(path, { resolve: true }).catch(() => undefined)
600      if (stat?.realPath !== joinPath(realDir, name)) continue
601      let outcome: AgentctlRcEntry | Refusal
602      if (!(await isOwnFile($, ctx, path, stat.size))) outcome = refuse('metadata', '', now + MAX_LIFETIME_MS)
603      else if (isFull(table)) outcome = refuse('busy', '', now + MAX_LIFETIME_MS)
604      else outcome = await validate($, known, id, path, now)
605      if ('reason' in outcome) {
606        refused.add(id)
607        await reject($, ctx, rejected, id, outcome, now)
608        continue
609      }
610      table[id] = outcome
611      await save($, table)
612      log($, `request ${id}: accepted ${outcome.action}`)
613      await step($, ctx, table, inputs, id, outcome, now)
614    } catch {
615      log($, `request file ${name}: admission failed`)
616    }
617  }
618}
619
620async function poll($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context): Promise<void> {
621  const now = await $.clock.now()
622  const inputs = await inputsOf($, ctx)
623  const table = await loadTable($)
624  if (evict(table, now)) await save($, table)
625  for (const [id, entry] of Object.entries(table)) {
626    if (entry.phase === 'published') continue
627    try {
628      await step($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, now)
629    } catch {
630      log($, `request ${id}: delivery failed; retrying on the next poll`)
631    }
632  }
633  const rejected = await loadRejected($)
634  for (const entry of rejected) {
635    try {
636      await deliverRejection($, ctx, rejected, entry)
637    } catch {
638      log($, `request ${entry.id}: delivery failed; retrying on the next poll`)
639    }
640  }
641  await admit($, ctx, table, rejected, inputs, now)
642}
643
644function tick($: EngineInterface): void {
645  const ctx = context
646  if (ctx === undefined || isPolling) return
647  isPolling = true
648  serial(() => poll($, ctx))
649    .catch((error: unknown) => log($, `poll failed: ${String(error)}`))
650    .finally(() => {
651      isPolling = false
652    })
653}
654
655async function statusText($: EngineInterface): Promise<string> {
656  const lines: string[] = []
657  const version = await $.session.version()
658  const ctx = context
659  if (ctx === undefined) {
660    lines.push(`agentctl-remote-control is inactive: ${refusal ?? 'not started'}.`)
661  } else {
662    const bridge = await observeBridge($, await readRecord($, ctx.recordPath))
663    lines.push(`Remote Control bridge: ${bridge.present ? 'present' : 'absent'}, generation ${bridge.generation}`)
664  }
665  const provenance = await provenanceOf($)
666  const setOrNot = (value: boolean): string => (value ? 'set' : 'unset')
667  // The directory spellings name the account layout of the machine and are
668  // kept out of the transcript; only the response file carries them.
669  lines.push(
670    `Surfaces: ${(await $.session.surfaces()).join(', ') || 'none'}`,
671    `Claude Code: ${version.base ?? version.version}`,
672    `remote-control command: ${(await $.command.list()).some((c) => c.name === 'remote-control') ? 'listed' : 'not listed'}`,
673    'Provenance:',
674    `  HOME                             ${setOrNot((await $.env.get('HOME')) !== undefined)}`,
675    `  CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR                ${setOrNot(provenance.configDir.set)}`,
676    `  CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR  ${setOrNot(provenance.secureStorageDir.set)}`,
677    `  CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN          ${setOrNot(provenance.oauthTokenSet)}`,
678    `  ANTHROPIC_API_KEY                ${setOrNot(provenance.apiKeySet)}`,
679    `  ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL               ${setOrNot(provenance.baseUrlSet)}`,
680    `  first-party authorization        ${provenance.authorized ? 'yes' : 'no'}`,
681  )
682  return redact(lines.join('\n'))
683}
684
685// Enqueues a reconnect through the same table a request file goes through;
686// the poll applies the rules, because $.command.run is refused inside a hook
687// the turn is waiting on.
688async function requestReconnect($: EngineInterface): Promise<string> {
689  if (context === undefined) return redact(`agentctl-remote-control is inactive: ${refusal ?? 'not started'}.`)
690  return serial(async () => {
691    const table = await loadTable($)
692    if (Object.values(table).some((e) => e.origin === 'command' && e.phase !== 'published')) return 'A reconnect is already requested.'
693    if (isFull(table)) return 'Too many requests are pending; try again shortly.'
694    const now = await $.clock.now()
695    table[newId()] = { phase: 'accepted', action: 'reconnect', origin: 'command', admittedAt: now, expiresAt: now + COMMAND_LIFETIME_MS }
696    await save($, table)
697    return 'requested'
698  })
699}
700
701// Marks what is still pending as ended when the session ends for good.
702async function endPending($: EngineInterface, ctx: Context): Promise<void> {
703  const now = await $.clock.now()
704  const table = await loadTable($)
705  const inputs = await inputsOf($, ctx)
706  for (const [id, entry] of Object.entries(table)) {
707    if (entry.phase === 'accepted' || entry.phase === 'waiting_idle') {
708      await finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'cancelled', now, 'session_ended').catch(() => undefined)
709    } else if (entry.phase === 'running') {
710      await finish($, ctx, table, inputs, id, entry, 'not_confirmed', now, 'session_ended').catch(() => undefined)
711    }
712  }
713}
714
715export const register: Register = (on) => {
716  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
717    ticker?.cancel()
718    ticker = undefined
719    context = undefined
720    refusal = undefined
721    turns = new Set<string>()
722    isPolling = false
723    bridgeMark = undefined
724    sawAbsent = false
725    queue = Promise.resolve()
726
727    await $.command.register({
728      name: 'agentctl-rc',
729      description: 'Show this session\'s Remote Control bridge status, or "reconnect" it.',
730      argumentHint: '[reconnect]',
731      immediate: true,
732    })
733    const established = await establish($).catch((error: unknown) => `start-up failed: ${String(error)}`)
734    if (typeof established === 'string') {
735      // Stored redacted: a host error can quote a URL or a bridge id, and
736      // the refusal is repeated in command answers.
737      refusal = redact(established)
738      log($, `inactive: ${refusal}`)
739      return next(e)
740    }
741    context = established
742    ticker = $.clock.every(POLL_MS, () => tick($))
743    return next(e)
744  })
745
746  on('session.end', async ($, e, next) => {
747    // A /clear ends the conversation but not the process: its registry
748    // record and transport directory stay, and no session.start follows, so
749    // the poll keeps running for the process's next conversation.
750    if (e.reason !== 'clear') {
751      ticker?.cancel()
752      ticker = undefined
753      const ctx = context
754      context = undefined
755      if (ctx !== undefined) await serial(() => endPending($, ctx)).catch(() => undefined)
756    }
757    return next(e)
758  })
759
760  on('turn.start', async ($, e, next) => {
761    turns.add(e.turnId)
762    return next(e)
763  })
764
765  on('turn.complete', async ($, e, next) => {
766    turns.delete(e.turnId)
767    return next(e)
768  })
769
770  on('command.run', { command: 'agentctl-rc' }, async ($, e) => {
771    const args = e.args.trim()
772    if (args === '') return { text: await statusText($) }
773    if (args === 'reconnect') return { text: await requestReconnect($) }
774    return { text: 'Usage: /agentctl-rc [reconnect]' }
775  }).catch(() => ({ text: '/agentctl-rc failed; the debug log has the reason.' }))
776}
777
types/index.d.ts 127 lines
1// The session state agentctl-remote-control keeps in `$.state`, and the
2// shapes of the files it exchanges with agentctl. Values in `$.state` are
3// readable by every plugin in the session, so nothing here ever holds a
4// bridge id, a URL or a credential.
5
6/** What a request asks for. */
7export type AgentctlRcAction = 'status' | 'reconnect'
8
9/** Where a request came from: a request file agentctl wrote, or `/agentctl-rc reconnect`. */
10export type AgentctlRcOrigin = 'file' | 'command'
11
12/**
13 * Where a request stands. `accepted` and `waiting_idle` still go through the
14 * rule list; `running` means `remote-control` was issued and is only
15 * observed; `final` holds a stored answer not yet delivered; `published`
16 * is done.
17 */
18export type AgentctlRcPhase = 'accepted' | 'waiting_idle' | 'running' | 'final' | 'published'
19
20/** The final answer of a request. `ok` answers `status`; the rest answer `reconnect`. */
21export type AgentctlRcResult = 'ok' | 'reconnected' | 'already_connected' | 'unavailable' | 'not_confirmed' | 'expired' | 'cancelled'
22
23/** Why a request file was rejected at admission. */
24export type AgentctlRcRejectReason = 'name' | 'expired' | 'duplicate' | 'metadata' | 'action' | 'subject' | 'version' | 'busy'
25
26/**
27 * An environment variable as the session sees it: whether it is set, and its
28 * spelling when it is. `value` is required only when `set` is true; for an
29 * unset variable it may be absent and is ignored.
30 */
31export type AgentctlRcEnvValue = { set: boolean; value?: string }
32
33/**
34 * The environment the session's keychain service name is derived from.
35 * Directory spellings and presence flags only, never a secret.
36 */
37export type AgentctlRcProvenance = {
38  home: string
39  configDir: AgentctlRcEnvValue
40  secureStorageDir: AgentctlRcEnvValue
41  oauthTokenSet: boolean
42  apiKeySet: boolean
43  baseUrlSet: boolean
44  authorized: boolean
45}
46
47/**
48 * The acknowledgement file `<id>.ack.json`, written once per admitted file.
49 * A rejection carries an empty `action` when the body was not read or its
50 * version is unknown.
51 */
52export type AgentctlRcAck = {
53  v: 1
54  id: string
55  action: string
56  state: 'accepted' | 'rejected'
57  reason?: AgentctlRcRejectReason
58  answeredAt: number
59}
60
61/** The response file `<id>.response.json`, written once per accepted request when final. */
62export type AgentctlRcResponse = {
63  v: 1
64  id: string
65  action: AgentctlRcAction
66  result: AgentctlRcResult
67  answeredAt: number
68  bridge: { present: boolean; generation: number }
69  surfaces: string[]
70  version: string
71  /** Whether `remote-control` is in the session's command list when the answer is written. */
72  remoteControlListed: boolean
73  provenance: AgentctlRcProvenance
74  reason?: string
75}
76
77/**
78 * A request file the mod refused. A file whose id is listed is never admitted.
79 * The entry is kept at least until `expiresAt`, and is evicted only to make
80 * room, oldest expired first.
81 */
82export type AgentctlRcRejected = {
83  id: string
84  reason: AgentctlRcRejectReason
85  expiresAt: number
86  /** The acknowledgement text while it is not yet written; absent once it is. */
87  ack?: string
88}
89
90/** A delivery that must happen exactly once: the exact text, and whether it went out. */
91export type AgentctlRcDelivery = { text: string; published: boolean }
92
93/** One request in the table, keyed by its 32-hex id. */
94export type AgentctlRcEntry = {
95  phase: AgentctlRcPhase
96  action: AgentctlRcAction
97  origin: AgentctlRcOrigin
98  admittedAt: number
99  /** When the request expires. No entry leaves the table before this time. */
100  expiresAt: number
101  /** When `remote-control` was issued. */
102  runStartedAt?: number
103  /** When an issued run stops being watched for a new bridge. */
104  observeUntil?: number
105  /** The session id the registry record showed when the run was issued. */
106  runSessionId?: string
107  /** The acknowledgement, for a request that came from a file. */
108  ack?: AgentctlRcDelivery
109  /** The final response; its text never changes once stored. */
110  terminal?: { response: string; published: boolean }
111}
112
113declare module 'claude-code' {
114  interface PluginState {
115    'agentctl-remote-control': {
116      /** Every request this session admitted: at most 1 024 entries, 64 of them not yet answered. */
117      requests: Record<string, AgentctlRcEntry>
118      /** The request files this session refused, oldest first: at most 256 entries. */
119      rejected: AgentctlRcRejected[]
120      /** How many distinct bridges this session has been seen to hold. */
121      generation: number
122      /** The uid `/usr/bin/id -u` answered at session start. */
123      uid: number
124    }
125  }
126}
127