From e02b04196fea66f74ac22c0997ba47c927ab6271 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sam Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 11:25:43 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Startup commands: how office, project-reset and board decide the machine and the session Host resolution order, the local-machine check, the address table, when the host is remembered, why --host appears twice when starting from scratch, the three rebuild levels, and the six traps that produced every startup fault so far. --- .../paperclip-harness/20-context/home.md | 104 +++++++ ...layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups.md | 89 ++++++ ...ry-structure-and-configuration-patterns.md | 270 ++++++++++++++++++ ...ons-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-.md | 54 ++++ ...rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18.md | 123 ++++++++ AGENTS.md | 4 + docs/DOCMAP.md | 1 + docs/STARTUP-COMMANDS.md | 117 ++++++++ 8 files changed, 762 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-.md create mode 100644 .pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18.md create mode 100644 docs/STARTUP-COMMANDS.md diff --git a/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home.md b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home.md index a602527..9edbbb5 100644 --- a/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home.md +++ b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home.md @@ -794,3 +794,107 @@ Committed as `d2cf643` and pushed to Gitea. - action: [[packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups|Paperclip Harness: docs published to Outline, Obsidian note updated, repo pushed]] - session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-link-2026-11-11-21-45-49|Rich discovery: link. 2026-11-11 21:45:49]] - context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|link.]] + + +--- + +## Update (2026-11-11 23:32:18) + +## Rich discovery update (2026-11-11 23:32:18) + +## What I did with sessions, plainly + +A **session lives on a daemon, and a daemon runs on one machine**. A session is not "started in a directory" — the directory is where its *panes* run. That is the source of the confusion. + +Tonight I created three sessions, none of them by restarting anything: + +- `fresh-project-2026-11-11` — from `bin/office` adopting a test folder. I killed it during cleanup. +- `dryrun-alpha` — created by a bug: `--dry` still created the session. Fixed, then killed. +- `harness-repo` — not created yet; that is Test 2, which you have not run. + +Your working session `paperclip-harness` was never restarted. `R` rebuilds its panes; it does not touch the sessions list. + +**For your `email_agent` case**, the chain is: + +1. The folder `/home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` is on `.13`. +2. The Paperclip project exists: **Email Agent**, id `b4edee39-…`, workspace `local_path` at that folder. +3. A session must live on `.13`'s daemon, because the panes run there. + +From `.27`, the two ways: + +**A — create the session from `.27`, then adopt on `.13`:** + +```sh +# on .27, creates the session on .13's daemon and attaches you +tuios new --host nixos-desktop email-agent + +# then, in a pane of that session (which runs on .13): +cd ~/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness +bin/office ~/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent --no-switch +``` + +`--no-switch` matters: it stops `office` from trying to create a second session, and it does not try to move your client. + +**B — one command from `.27`, if ssh reaches `.13`:** + +```sh +bin/office --remote 192.168.20.13 /home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent +``` + +`--remote` runs `office` on the other machine over ssh, so the session and its panes are created there. I added it tonight and it dry-ran on `.13`; from `.27` it needs your ssh key to be accepted (the attempt I made from `.13` to itself failed on ssh auth, which is expected for a self-connection). + +Either way the last step is yours: TUIOS's session switcher, or `tuios attach --host nixos-desktop email-agent`. A program cannot move your client — the daemon refuses `switch-session` from a pane, and that refusal is correct. + +## Test 3 — dry runs + +Two changes are needed together: bump the lock, and rename the one home-manager option. + +| | lock bumped | `initExtra` → `initContent` | dry-run build | Pi | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `.13` | 2026-07-29 → 2026-11-07 | applied | **passes** | **1.5.0** | +| `.27` | same | applied | **fails**, eval error inside the new nixpkgs | 1.5.0 | +| `.51` | not yet done | not checked | — | 0.87.1 today | + +So `.13` is ready to rebuild; `.27` needs its eval error looked at before it can go anywhere; `.51` would also need the bump to reach the same version. All of this was done in `/tmp/nixos-dryrun` copies — no system was touched and no lock was changed in `/etc/nixos`. + +The `.13` rebuild, when you want it: + +```sh +# in /etc/nixos: nix flake update nixpkgs home-manager +# then in home.nix: initExtra = -> initContent = +sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop +``` + +I can apply those two edits to `/etc/nixos` on `.13` now so the rebuild is one command, if you want. For `.27` I would rather find the eval error first — do you want me to chase it, or leave `.13` aligned and the other two where they are for now? + +Committed as `9631cdd` and pushed. + +## Source paths observed + +- `home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin/office` +- `home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` +- `nix/store/lslq5ihfblb905y8jazs15isad5zh97z-source/home.nix` +- `HOME/.cargo/bin` +- `nix/store/34mc2s7mv2gp2zahqi25ssqj2ajcyakb-zstd-1.5.7-dev` +- `nix/store/b136dy5k1l4bv6b7vcb7asqdbriwir05-zstd-1.5.7-man` +- `nix/store/mqkxl25hjsc6qjalgrv804jys7945nyp-zvbi-0.2.46` +- `nix/store/s2px6whypbb9s66jhr8arx7z94rxvkgq-zvbi-0.2.46` +- `nix/store/9c0jqdv2wbm7nnhqxc19kppjc9pfpkfg-zxing-cpp-3.1.1` +- `NixOS/nixpkgs/f4a03c008967841f2a0b3cb7c436fc6fc31671f6` +- `tmp/dryrun-alpha/.harness/harness.toml` +- `gitea.lab.audasmedia.com.au/sam/paperclip-harness.git` +- `paseo/projects/paperclip-harness` +- `paseo/projects/email_agent` + +## Evidence + +- Confidence: 84% +- Reason: Update component/repository context with detailed discovered structure and configuration + +## Related learned memories + +- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|home-manager zsh option rename: initExtra → initContent]] +- action: [[packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups|Fixed --dry session-creation bug in bin/office; committed 9631cdd and pushed]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-|Paperclip/TUIOS sessions across hosts, initExtra→initContent fix, and dry-runs]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18|Rich discovery: home 2026-11-11 23:32:18]] +- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|home]] diff --git a/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups.md b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups.md index b7663f6..e8b7a05 100644 --- a/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups.md +++ b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups.md @@ -979,3 +979,92 @@ Follow-up flagged but not performed: bumping Pi `pi-coding-agent` Nix package on - action: [[packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups|Paperclip Harness: docs published to Outline, Obsidian note updated, repo pushed]] - session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-link-2026-11-11-21-45-49|Rich discovery: link. 2026-11-11 21:45:49]] - context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|link.]] + + +--- + +## Update (2026-11-11 23:32:18) + +In the paperclip-harness repo (`gitea.lab.audasmedia.com.au/sam/paperclip-harness`), fixed a bug where `bin/office --dry` still created a TUIOS session (`dryrun-alpha`); dry run now prints intended actions (create project, write `/.harness/harness.toml`, create/reuse session and build eight panes) and writes nothing. Added `--remote ` to run office over ssh on another machine (dry-ran on `.13`; cross-host use needs ssh key trust). `bin/office` adopt behavior: writes only `/.harness/harness.toml`, never overwrites existing folders, adopts (never creates) an existing Paperclip project record, and remembers the machine so the flag is stated once. Committed as `9631cdd` (range 08a4b4e..9631cdd) on `main` and pushed to gitea. + +## Detailed deliverable from completed turn + +## What I did with sessions, plainly + +A **session lives on a daemon, and a daemon runs on one machine**. A session is not "started in a directory" — the directory is where its *panes* run. That is the source of the confusion. + +Tonight I created three sessions, none of them by restarting anything: + +- `fresh-project-2026-11-11` — from `bin/office` adopting a test folder. I killed it during cleanup. +- `dryrun-alpha` — created by a bug: `--dry` still created the session. Fixed, then killed. +- `harness-repo` — not created yet; that is Test 2, which you have not run. + +Your working session `paperclip-harness` was never restarted. `R` rebuilds its panes; it does not touch the sessions list. + +**For your `email_agent` case**, the chain is: + +1. The folder `/home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` is on `.13`. +2. The Paperclip project exists: **Email Agent**, id `b4edee39-…`, workspace `local_path` at that folder. +3. A session must live on `.13`'s daemon, because the panes run there. + +From `.27`, the two ways: + +**A — create the session from `.27`, then adopt on `.13`:** + +```sh +# on .27, creates the session on .13's daemon and attaches you +tuios new --host nixos-desktop email-agent + +# then, in a pane of that session (which runs on .13): +cd ~/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness +bin/office ~/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent --no-switch +``` + +`--no-switch` matters: it stops `office` from trying to create a second session, and it does not try to move your client. + +**B — one command from `.27`, if ssh reaches `.13`:** + +```sh +bin/office --remote 192.168.20.13 /home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent +``` + +`--remote` runs `office` on the other machine over ssh, so the session and its panes are created there. I added it tonight and it dry-ran on `.13`; from `.27` it needs your ssh key to be accepted (the attempt I made from `.13` to itself failed on ssh auth, which is expected for a self-connection). + +Either way the last step is yours: TUIOS's session switcher, or `tuios attach --host nixos-desktop email-agent`. A program cannot move your client — the daemon refuses `switch-session` from a pane, and that refusal is correct. + +## Test 3 — dry runs + +Two changes are needed together: bump the lock, and rename the one home-manager option. + +| | lock bumped | `initExtra` → `initContent` | dry-run build | Pi | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `.13` | 2026-07-29 → 2026-11-07 | applied | **passes** | **1.5.0** | +| `.27` | same | applied | **fails**, eval error inside the new nixpkgs | 1.5.0 | +| `.51` | not yet done | not checked | — | 0.87.1 today | + +So `.13` is ready to rebuild; `.27` needs its eval error looked at before it can go anywhere; `.51` would also need the bump to reach the same version. All of this was done in `/tmp/nixos-dryrun` copies — no system was touched and no lock was changed in `/etc/nixos`. + +The `.13` rebuild, when you want it: + +```sh +# in /etc/nixos: nix flake update nixpkgs home-manager +# then in home.nix: initExtra = -> initContent = +sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop +``` + +I can apply those two edits to `/etc/nixos` on `.13` now so the rebuild is one command, if you want. For `.27` I would rather find the eval error first — do you want me to chase it, or leave `.13` aligned and the other two where they are for now? + +Committed as `9631cdd` and pushed. + +## Evidence + +- Confidence: 85% +- Reason: Completed code fix with commit hash and behavioral contract for future work.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable + +## Related learned memories + +- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|home-manager zsh option rename: initExtra → initContent]] +- action: [[packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups|Fixed --dry session-creation bug in bin/office; committed 9631cdd and pushed]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-|Paperclip/TUIOS sessions across hosts, initExtra→initContent fix, and dry-runs]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18|Rich discovery: home 2026-11-11 23:32:18]] +- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|home]] diff --git a/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns.md b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns.md index e2710f3..21ae114 100644 --- a/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns.md +++ b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns.md @@ -4032,3 +4032,273 @@ Committed as `08a4b4e` and pushed. Which of the three for Pi, and do you want me - session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-harness-new-existing-dry-runs-clean-test-plan-pi-v|paperclip-harness: --new/--existing dry runs, clean test plan, Pi version dry-run on .13/.27]] - session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-root-2026-11-11-22-37-01|Rich discovery: root 2026-11-11 22:37:01]] - context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/paperclip-harness|root]] + + +--- + +## Update (2026-11-11 23:32:18) + +When bumping nixpkgs/home-manager past the version in use (lock 2026-07-29 → 2026-11-07), the assertion fails: "The option definition `programs.zsh.initExtra' in `.../home.nix' no longer has any effect; please remove it. Use `programs.zsh.initContent` instead." The zsh block in /etc/nixos/home.nix (imported by flake.nix as `./home.nix`) at ~line 17 uses `initExtra = ''...''` containing PATH export, optional `~/.secrets` source, and p10k instant-prompt hook. Rename `initExtra` to `initContent` to fix. Confirmed 0 remaining occurrences after edit in dry-run copy. + +## Detailed observations from completed turn + +## What I did with sessions, plainly + +A **session lives on a daemon, and a daemon runs on one machine**. A session is not "started in a directory" — the directory is where its *panes* run. That is the source of the confusion. + +Tonight I created three sessions, none of them by restarting anything: + +- `fresh-project-2026-11-11` — from `bin/office` adopting a test folder. I killed it during cleanup. +- `dryrun-alpha` — created by a bug: `--dry` still created the session. Fixed, then killed. +- `harness-repo` — not created yet; that is Test 2, which you have not run. + +Your working session `paperclip-harness` was never restarted. `R` rebuilds its panes; it does not touch the sessions list. + +**For your `email_agent` case**, the chain is: + +1. The folder `/home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` is on `.13`. +2. The Paperclip project exists: **Email Agent**, id `b4edee39-…`, workspace `local_path` at that folder. +3. A session must live on `.13`'s daemon, because the panes run there. + +From `.27`, the two ways: + +**A — create the session from `.27`, then adopt on `.13`:** + +```sh +# on .27, creates the session on .13's daemon and attaches you +tuios new --host nixos-desktop email-agent + +# then, in a pane of that session (which runs on .13): +cd ~/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness +bin/office ~/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent --no-switch +``` + +`--no-switch` matters: it stops `office` from trying to create a second session, and it does not try to move your client. + +**B — one command from `.27`, if ssh reaches `.13`:** + +```sh +bin/office --remote 192.168.20.13 /home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent +``` + +`--remote` runs `office` on the other machine over ssh, so the session and its panes are created there. I added it tonight and it dry-ran on `.13`; from `.27` it needs your ssh key to be accepted (the attempt I made from `.13` to itself failed on ssh auth, which is expected for a self-connection). + +Either way the last step is yours: TUIOS's session switcher, or `tuios attach --host nixos-desktop email-agent`. A program cannot move your client — the daemon refuses `switch-session` from a pane, and that refusal is correct. + +## Test 3 — dry runs + +Two changes are needed together: bump the lock, and rename the one home-manager option. + +| | lock bumped | `initExtra` → `initContent` | dry-run build | Pi | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `.13` | 2026-07-29 → 2026-11-07 | applied | **passes** | **1.5.0** | +| `.27` | same | applied | **fails**, eval error inside the new nixpkgs | 1.5.0 | +| `.51` | not yet done | not checked | — | 0.87.1 today | + +So `.13` is ready to rebuild; `.27` needs its eval error looked at before it can go anywhere; `.51` would also need the bump to reach the same version. All of this was done in `/tmp/nixos-dryrun` copies — no system was touched and no lock was changed in `/etc/nixos`. + +The `.13` rebuild, when you want it: + +```sh +# in /etc/nixos: nix flake update nixpkgs home-manager +# then in home.nix: initExtra = -> initContent = +sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop +``` + +I can apply those two edits to `/etc/nixos` on `.13` now so the rebuild is one command, if you want. For `.27` I would rather find the eval error first — do you want me to chase it, or leave `.13` aligned and the other two where they are for now? + +Committed as `9631cdd` and pushed. + +## Evidence + +- Confidence: 90% +- Reason: Concrete, recurring upgrade gotcha with exact option and file location.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable + + +--- + +## Update (2026-11-11 23:32:18) + +After bumping flake.lock (nixpkgs, home-manager) and renaming zsh initExtra→initContent: +- `.13` (nixos-desktop): dry-run build PASSES; Pi 1.5.0. Ready to switch. +- `.27`: dry-run build FAILS with an eval error inside the new nixpkgs — `head` builtin called at nixpkgs lib/attrsets.nix:1711 (if length values == 1 || pred here (elemAt values 1) (head values)). Needs investigation before upgrading. +- `.51`: lock not yet bumped; still on Pi 0.87.1. Would need the bump to reach 1.5.0. +All tests done in `/tmp/nixos-dryrun` copies; no real system or `/etc/nixos` lock modified. + +## Detailed observations from completed turn + +## What I did with sessions, plainly + +A **session lives on a daemon, and a daemon runs on one machine**. A session is not "started in a directory" — the directory is where its *panes* run. That is the source of the confusion. + +Tonight I created three sessions, none of them by restarting anything: + +- `fresh-project-2026-11-11` — from `bin/office` adopting a test folder. I killed it during cleanup. +- `dryrun-alpha` — created by a bug: `--dry` still created the session. Fixed, then killed. +- `harness-repo` — not created yet; that is Test 2, which you have not run. + +Your working session `paperclip-harness` was never restarted. `R` rebuilds its panes; it does not touch the sessions list. + +**For your `email_agent` case**, the chain is: + +1. The folder `/home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` is on `.13`. +2. The Paperclip project exists: **Email Agent**, id `b4edee39-…`, workspace `local_path` at that folder. +3. A session must live on `.13`'s daemon, because the panes run there. + +From `.27`, the two ways: + +**A — create the session from `.27`, then adopt on `.13`:** + +```sh +# on .27, creates the session on .13's daemon and attaches you +tuios new --host nixos-desktop email-agent + +# then, in a pane of that session (which runs on .13): +cd ~/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness +bin/office ~/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent --no-switch +``` + +`--no-switch` matters: it stops `office` from trying to create a second session, and it does not try to move your client. + +**B — one command from `.27`, if ssh reaches `.13`:** + +```sh +bin/office --remote 192.168.20.13 /home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent +``` + +`--remote` runs `office` on the other machine over ssh, so the session and its panes are created there. I added it tonight and it dry-ran on `.13`; from `.27` it needs your ssh key to be accepted (the attempt I made from `.13` to itself failed on ssh auth, which is expected for a self-connection). + +Either way the last step is yours: TUIOS's session switcher, or `tuios attach --host nixos-desktop email-agent`. A program cannot move your client — the daemon refuses `switch-session` from a pane, and that refusal is correct. + +## Test 3 — dry runs + +Two changes are needed together: bump the lock, and rename the one home-manager option. + +| | lock bumped | `initExtra` → `initContent` | dry-run build | Pi | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `.13` | 2026-07-29 → 2026-11-07 | applied | **passes** | **1.5.0** | +| `.27` | same | applied | **fails**, eval error inside the new nixpkgs | 1.5.0 | +| `.51` | not yet done | not checked | — | 0.87.1 today | + +So `.13` is ready to rebuild; `.27` needs its eval error looked at before it can go anywhere; `.51` would also need the bump to reach the same version. All of this was done in `/tmp/nixos-dryrun` copies — no system was touched and no lock was changed in `/etc/nixos`. + +The `.13` rebuild, when you want it: + +```sh +# in /etc/nixos: nix flake update nixpkgs home-manager +# then in home.nix: initExtra = -> initContent = +sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop +``` + +I can apply those two edits to `/etc/nixos` on `.13` now so the rebuild is one command, if you want. For `.27` I would rather find the eval error first — do you want me to chase it, or leave `.13` aligned and the other two where they are for now? + +Committed as `9631cdd` and pushed. + +## Evidence + +- Confidence: 85% +- Reason: Per-host status and a specific eval-error signature are durable upgrade context.; enriched with final-answer detail because persistence should be reusable + + +--- + +## Update (2026-11-11 23:32:18) + +## Structural/configuration observations (2026-11-11 23:32:18) + +## What I did with sessions, plainly + +A **session lives on a daemon, and a daemon runs on one machine**. A session is not "started in a directory" — the directory is where its *panes* run. That is the source of the confusion. + +Tonight I created three sessions, none of them by restarting anything: + +- `fresh-project-2026-11-11` — from `bin/office` adopting a test folder. I killed it during cleanup. +- `dryrun-alpha` — created by a bug: `--dry` still created the session. Fixed, then killed. +- `harness-repo` — not created yet; that is Test 2, which you have not run. + +Your working session `paperclip-harness` was never restarted. `R` rebuilds its panes; it does not touch the sessions list. + +**For your `email_agent` case**, the chain is: + +1. The folder `/home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` is on `.13`. +2. The Paperclip project exists: **Email Agent**, id `b4edee39-…`, workspace `local_path` at that folder. +3. A session must live on `.13`'s daemon, because the panes run there. + +From `.27`, the two ways: + +**A — create the session from `.27`, then adopt on `.13`:** + +```sh +# on .27, creates the session on .13's daemon and attaches you +tuios new --host nixos-desktop email-agent + +# then, in a pane of that session (which runs on .13): +cd ~/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness +bin/office ~/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent --no-switch +``` + +`--no-switch` matters: it stops `office` from trying to create a second session, and it does not try to move your client. + +**B — one command from `.27`, if ssh reaches `.13`:** + +```sh +bin/office --remote 192.168.20.13 /home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent +``` + +`--remote` runs `office` on the other machine over ssh, so the session and its panes are created there. I added it tonight and it dry-ran on `.13`; from `.27` it needs your ssh key to be accepted (the attempt I made from `.13` to itself failed on ssh auth, which is expected for a self-connection). + +Either way the last step is yours: TUIOS's session switcher, or `tuios attach --host nixos-desktop email-agent`. A program cannot move your client — the daemon refuses `switch-session` from a pane, and that refusal is correct. + +## Test 3 — dry runs + +Two changes are needed together: bump the lock, and rename the one home-manager option. + +| | lock bumped | `initExtra` → `initContent` | dry-run build | Pi | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `.13` | 2026-07-29 → 2026-11-07 | applied | **passes** | **1.5.0** | +| `.27` | same | applied | **fails**, eval error inside the new nixpkgs | 1.5.0 | +| `.51` | not yet done | not checked | — | 0.87.1 today | + +So `.13` is ready to rebuild; `.27` needs its eval error looked at before it can go anywhere; `.51` would also need the bump to reach the same version. All of this was done in `/tmp/nixos-dryrun` copies — no system was touched and no lock was changed in `/etc/nixos`. + +The `.13` rebuild, when you want it: + +```sh +# in /etc/nixos: nix flake update nixpkgs home-manager +# then in home.nix: initExtra = -> initContent = +sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop +``` + +I can apply those two edits to `/etc/nixos` on `.13` now so the rebuild is one command, if you want. For `.27` I would rather find the eval error first — do you want me to chase it, or leave `.13` aligned and the other two where they are for now? + +Committed as `9631cdd` and pushed. + +## Source paths observed + +- `home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin/office` +- `home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` +- `nix/store/lslq5ihfblb905y8jazs15isad5zh97z-source/home.nix` +- `HOME/.cargo/bin` +- `nix/store/34mc2s7mv2gp2zahqi25ssqj2ajcyakb-zstd-1.5.7-dev` +- `nix/store/b136dy5k1l4bv6b7vcb7asqdbriwir05-zstd-1.5.7-man` +- `nix/store/mqkxl25hjsc6qjalgrv804jys7945nyp-zvbi-0.2.46` +- `nix/store/s2px6whypbb9s66jhr8arx7z94rxvkgq-zvbi-0.2.46` +- `nix/store/9c0jqdv2wbm7nnhqxc19kppjc9pfpkfg-zxing-cpp-3.1.1` +- `NixOS/nixpkgs/f4a03c008967841f2a0b3cb7c436fc6fc31671f6` +- `tmp/dryrun-alpha/.harness/harness.toml` +- `gitea.lab.audasmedia.com.au/sam/paperclip-harness.git` +- `paseo/projects/paperclip-harness` +- `paseo/projects/email_agent` + +## Evidence + +- Confidence: 82% +- Reason: Captured factual repo structure/configuration patterns from rich discovery + +## Related learned memories + +- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|home-manager zsh option rename: initExtra → initContent]] +- action: [[packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups|Fixed --dry session-creation bug in bin/office; committed 9631cdd and pushed]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-|Paperclip/TUIOS sessions across hosts, initExtra→initContent fix, and dry-runs]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18|Rich discovery: home 2026-11-11 23:32:18]] +- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|home]] diff --git a/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-.md b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..81fa5bf --- /dev/null +++ b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +type: session +id: session.paperclip-harness.paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent- +title: Paperclip/TUIOS sessions across hosts, initExtra→initContent fix, and dry-runs +status: active +source_of_truth: false +freshness: current +last_reviewed: 2026-11-11 +tags: + - pack/paperclip-harness + - agent-memory/session + - paperclip-harness + - tuios + - nixos + - sessions + - home-manager + - dry-run +--- + +# Paperclip/TUIOS sessions across hosts, initExtra→initContent fix, and dry-runs + +Sanitized discovery snapshot from the paperclip-harness turn. + +Sessions model (TUIOS): a session lives on a daemon which runs on one machine; the session's working directory is where its panes run, not where the session is started. Created sessions tonight: `fresh-project-2026-11-11` (from `bin/office` adopting a test folder; killed during cleanup), `dryrun-alpha` (accidentally created by a bug where `--dry` still created the session; fixed, then killed), `harness-repo` (not created yet). The working session `paperclip-harness` was never restarted; `R` rebuilds panes only. + +`email_agent` adoption recipe: +- Folder `/home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` is on host `.13` (nixos-desktop). +- Paperclip project "Email Agent" exists (id prefix `b4edee39-…`), workspace `local_path` at that folder. +- Session must live on `.13`'s daemon because panes run there. +- From `.27`: either (A) `tuios new --host nixos-desktop email-agent`, then in a pane: `cd ~/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness && bin/office ~/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent --no-switch` (`--no-switch` prevents a second session and client move); or (B) `bin/office --remote 192.168.20.13 /home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent` (requires ssh key trust; self-ssh from `.13` failed auth). Final step needs the user: TUIOS session switcher or `tuios attach --host nixos-desktop email-agent`. Daemon correctly refuses `switch-session` from a pane. + +NixOS dry-run (Test 3) in `/tmp/nixos-dryrun` copies; no system or `/etc/nixos` lock changed: +- `.13`: lock 2026-07-29 → 2026-11-07, `programs.zsh.initExtra` → `initContent` in home.nix; dry-run build passes; Pi 1.5.0. Ready to rebuild: `nix flake update nixpkgs home-manager` then `sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop`. +- `.27`: lock bumped, initContent applied, dry-run build FAILS with eval error inside new nixpkgs. +- `.51`: lock not yet bumped; Pi 0.87.1 today. + +The home.nix zsh block lives at `/nix/store/...-source/home.nix` (source `/etc/nixos/home.nix`), imported via `./home.nix` in flake.nix. + +## Evidence + +- Confidence: 85% +- Reason: Rich cross-host discovery snapshot with concrete recipes and per-host status. + +## Related + +- [[packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest|Memory Manifest]] + +## Related learned memories + +- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|home-manager zsh option rename: initExtra → initContent]] +- action: [[packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups|Fixed --dry session-creation bug in bin/office; committed 9631cdd and pushed]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-|Paperclip/TUIOS sessions across hosts, initExtra→initContent fix, and dry-runs]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18|Rich discovery: home 2026-11-11 23:32:18]] +- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|home]] diff --git a/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18.md b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8ca608 --- /dev/null +++ b/.pi/memory-vault/packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18.md @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +--- +type: session +id: session.paperclip-harness.rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18 +title: Rich discovery: home 2026-11-11 23:32:18 +status: active +source_of_truth: false +freshness: current +last_reviewed: 2026-11-11 +tags: + - pack/paperclip-harness + - agent-memory/session + - autolearn + - rich-discovery + - repo/home +--- + +# Rich discovery: home 2026-11-11 23:32:18 + +Sanitized rich discovery snapshot captured automatically from the completed turn. + + +## Source paths observed + +- `home/sam/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness/bin/office` +- `home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` +- `nix/store/lslq5ihfblb905y8jazs15isad5zh97z-source/home.nix` +- `HOME/.cargo/bin` +- `nix/store/34mc2s7mv2gp2zahqi25ssqj2ajcyakb-zstd-1.5.7-dev` +- `nix/store/b136dy5k1l4bv6b7vcb7asqdbriwir05-zstd-1.5.7-man` +- `nix/store/mqkxl25hjsc6qjalgrv804jys7945nyp-zvbi-0.2.46` +- `nix/store/s2px6whypbb9s66jhr8arx7z94rxvkgq-zvbi-0.2.46` +- `nix/store/9c0jqdv2wbm7nnhqxc19kppjc9pfpkfg-zxing-cpp-3.1.1` +- `NixOS/nixpkgs/f4a03c008967841f2a0b3cb7c436fc6fc31671f6` +- `tmp/dryrun-alpha/.harness/harness.toml` +- `gitea.lab.audasmedia.com.au/sam/paperclip-harness.git` +- `paseo/projects/paperclip-harness` +- `paseo/projects/email_agent` + +## Final answer snapshot + +## What I did with sessions, plainly + +A **session lives on a daemon, and a daemon runs on one machine**. A session is not "started in a directory" — the directory is where its *panes* run. That is the source of the confusion. + +Tonight I created three sessions, none of them by restarting anything: + +- `fresh-project-2026-11-11` — from `bin/office` adopting a test folder. I killed it during cleanup. +- `dryrun-alpha` — created by a bug: `--dry` still created the session. Fixed, then killed. +- `harness-repo` — not created yet; that is Test 2, which you have not run. + +Your working session `paperclip-harness` was never restarted. `R` rebuilds its panes; it does not touch the sessions list. + +**For your `email_agent` case**, the chain is: + +1. The folder `/home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent` is on `.13`. +2. The Paperclip project exists: **Email Agent**, id `b4edee39-…`, workspace `local_path` at that folder. +3. A session must live on `.13`'s daemon, because the panes run there. + +From `.27`, the two ways: + +**A — create the session from `.27`, then adopt on `.13`:** + +```sh +# on .27, creates the session on .13's daemon and attaches you +tuios new --host nixos-desktop email-agent + +# then, in a pane of that session (which runs on .13): +cd ~/paseo/projects/paperclip-harness +bin/office ~/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent --no-switch +``` + +`--no-switch` matters: it stops `office` from trying to create a second session, and it does not try to move your client. + +**B — one command from `.27`, if ssh reaches `.13`:** + +```sh +bin/office --remote 192.168.20.13 /home/sam/paseo/projects/email_agent --project "Email Agent" --session email-agent +``` + +`--remote` runs `office` on the other machine over ssh, so the session and its panes are created there. I added it tonight and it dry-ran on `.13`; from `.27` it needs your ssh key to be accepted (the attempt I made from `.13` to itself failed on ssh auth, which is expected for a self-connection). + +Either way the last step is yours: TUIOS's session switcher, or `tuios attach --host nixos-desktop email-agent`. A program cannot move your client — the daemon refuses `switch-session` from a pane, and that refusal is correct. + +## Test 3 — dry runs + +Two changes are needed together: bump the lock, and rename the one home-manager option. + +| | lock bumped | `initExtra` → `initContent` | dry-run build | Pi | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `.13` | 2026-07-29 → 2026-11-07 | applied | **passes** | **1.5.0** | +| `.27` | same | applied | **fails**, eval error inside the new nixpkgs | 1.5.0 | +| `.51` | not yet done | not checked | — | 0.87.1 today | + +So `.13` is ready to rebuild; `.27` needs its eval error looked at before it can go anywhere; `.51` would also need the bump to reach the same version. All of this was done in `/tmp/nixos-dryrun` copies — no system was touched and no lock was changed in `/etc/nixos`. + +The `.13` rebuild, when you want it: + +```sh +# in /etc/nixos: nix flake update nixpkgs home-manager +# then in home.nix: initExtra = -> initContent = +sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos#nixos-desktop +``` + +I can apply those two edits to `/etc/nixos` on `.13` now so the rebuild is one command, if you want. For `.27` I would rather find the eval error first — do you want me to chase it, or leave `.13` aligned and the other two where they are for now? + +Committed as `9631cdd` and pushed. + +## Evidence + +- Confidence: 86% +- Reason: Preserve full sanitized discovery detail from a rich investigation turn + +## Related + +- [[packs/paperclip-harness/00-system/pi-agent/memory-manifest|Memory Manifest]] + +## Related learned memories + +- observation: [[packs/paperclip-harness/60-observations/tmp-repository-structure-and-configuration-patterns|home-manager zsh option rename: initExtra → initContent]] +- action: [[packs/paperclip-harness/40-actions/2026-11-10-wrote-docs-ui-layout-md-and-three-live-layout-mockups|Fixed --dry session-creation bug in bin/office; committed 9631cdd and pushed]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/paperclip-tuios-sessions-across-hosts-initextra-initcontent-|Paperclip/TUIOS sessions across hosts, initExtra→initContent fix, and dry-runs]] +- session: [[packs/paperclip-harness/80-sessions/rich-discovery-home-2026-11-11-23-32-18|Rich discovery: home 2026-11-11 23:32:18]] +- context: [[packs/paperclip-harness/20-context/home|home]] diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md index 4db0284..5db21d5 100644 --- a/AGENTS.md +++ b/AGENTS.md @@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ Do not start the Go program until that passes. ## Operating rules +`docs/STARTUP-COMMANDS.md` explains how a project is opened: how the machine, the session and +the screens are chosen, why `--host` is sometimes stated twice, and the traps (ssh to +yourself, colour codes in names, workspace numbers, pages with no permanent pane). + `docs/OPERATING-RULES.md` is not optional reading. It has nine rules: the project folder convention, how a task is judged finished (a command agreed beforehand), approvals being content-bound, untrusted text being data, how secrets are handled, `ocr` review and diff --git a/docs/DOCMAP.md b/docs/DOCMAP.md index d40f935..6ebed58 100644 --- a/docs/DOCMAP.md +++ b/docs/DOCMAP.md @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ it is a pointer and should be deleted or replaced. | `CHECKLIST.md` | project root | the next session, step by step, with tick boxes | | `docs/OPERATING-RULES.md` | this project | the nine rules: project folder, how work is judged, approvals, untrusted text, secrets, review and merge, one project per machine, cost, existing commands | | `docs/TUIOS-RUNBOOK.md` | this project | how TUIOS works, the three machines, how to start a session, how to drive panes | +| `docs/STARTUP-COMMANDS.md` | this project | how `office`, `project-reset` and `board` decide the machine, the session and the screens, and the traps behind each rule | | `docs/MOUSE-1-NOTES.md` | this project | the decision model: how to call it, the cold start, and the four places it helps and the five it must not be used | | `docs/PLAN.md` | this project | the plan: four screens, five milestones, who owns what | | `docs/ENVIRONMENT-FACTS.md` | this project | ids, installed tools, the unproven heartbeat step | diff --git a/docs/STARTUP-COMMANDS.md b/docs/STARTUP-COMMANDS.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..977b935 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/STARTUP-COMMANDS.md @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +# The startup commands: how the system is opened, and why they look like this + +The previous attempt produced four commands. They work. This explains what each does, the +decisions behind them, and the traps — so a new session does not redesign them from scratch. + +## The four commands + +``` +office open a project on this machine +office --host nixos-desktop open a project that lives on another machine +project-reset start a project again from nothing +board create any missing screen in the current session +``` + +They live in `~/paseo/harness/bin` and are installed as small wrappers in `~/.local/bin`, +so they work from any directory. They are **wrappers, not symlinks**: a symlink made the +scripts think they lived in `~/.local/bin`, which broke every sibling command they call. + +## What `office` decides, in order + +1. **The folder.** Made absolute, `~` expanded, created if missing. Everything else hangs + off this. +2. **The session name.** `--session` if given, otherwise the folder's own name. One project, + one session. Not one session with many projects. +3. **Which machine.** In this order: + - `--host NAME` if given; + - otherwise the host remembered in `/.harness/host`; + - otherwise this machine. +4. **Is that machine this one?** If the name resolves to this machine's hostname or one of + its own addresses, it runs **locally** and says `host: nixos-desktop (this machine)`. + This check exists because the first version tried to `ssh` to the machine it was already + running on, which is refused, and looked like a login problem. +5. **If it really is another machine**, it tests the login first (`ssh -o BatchMode=yes +
true`) and, only if that works, runs the same command there, then prints the + attach lines for both a graphical and a terminal client. + +Host names map to addresses that ssh can actually reach: + +| Name you type | Address used | +|---|---| +| `nixos-desktop`, `.13` | `192.168.20.13` | +| `sam-4screen-desktop`, `.27` | `192.168.20.27` | +| `sam-thinkpad`, `.51` | `192.168.20.51` | + +The first version mapped names to the literal strings `.13`, `.27`, `.51`, which ssh cannot +resolve. That is why `office` used to fail with "Could not resolve hostname .13". + +**The host is only remembered when it is genuinely remote.** A local project never gets a +`.harness/host` file, because a stale "remote" entry is how a project starts rebuilding +itself on the wrong machine. + +## The rule that matters for the person + +> The session and the folder live on the same machine. +> If you are typing inside the session, on the machine that owns the folder, you type +> `office ` and nothing else. + +`--host` exists for one case only: the folder is on a different machine from the one your +shell is on. It is stated once, then remembered. + +## Why `--host` is stated twice when starting from scratch + +Because two separate things are being created, by two different tools: + +1. `tuios new --host nixos-desktop cookie` — TUIOS creates the **session** on that machine. +2. `office ~/src/cookie --host nixos-desktop` — the harness prepares the **folder** there. + +Neither tool can do the other's job. TUIOS cannot create a folder project; `office` cannot +create a session (measured: `tuios new` fails with "Standard output is not a terminal" when +run from anything but a real terminal). Once the folder has been prepared there, `office` +remembers the host and the second flag is never needed again. + +## What happens after the host is settled + +1. **Adopt the folder.** `new-project` writes only what is missing: the project settings, + the role files, one page note per screen, a to-do list, the verify command, the plan + stubs. It never overwrites a file that exists, so running it twice is safe. +2. **Check the session exists.** The session table is colour-coded, so names are matched + after stripping escape sequences. A plain ` name ` match fails on a live session and + made a running session look absent. +3. **Build the screens.** Pages are created in a fixed order, and each pane is claimed in a + workspace **by name**, never by number. TUIOS deletes a workspace whose last pane closes + and renumbers the rest, so a remembered number is always wrong eventually. +4. **Every page keeps one pane that never exits** (its notes pane). Without it, a page + disappears when its work finishes, which is exactly what made the factory seem to + restart. + +## The three rebuild levels + +``` +board create what is missing; close nothing +board --replace rebuild every page, in order +board --reset empty the session first, then rebuild (~20 s for 26 panes) +``` + +`--reset` lists the panes, closes each by id, **waits until the session reports zero panes**, +clears every workspace name, then builds. It exists because `--replace` on a half-built +session ran out of workspace slots and left pages short. + +In a running panel, `R` repairs every page (it runs `board`) and then restarts itself with +the code on disk. `q` exits and leaves the pane. + +## Traps, in short + +- A pane's own command must carry the project, or `board` rebuilds the wrong one. +- Compare host names against the machine's own addresses before ssh, or you will try to log + in to yourself. +- Strip colour codes before matching anything TUIOS prints. +- Never store a workspace number. +- A page with no permanent pane will vanish. +- A repair that does not carry the project name silently does nothing. + +## Relationship to the new project + +The four screens in `docs/PLAN.md` replace most of what `office` builds today. What survives +and must be kept: the host resolution above, the "same machine for folder and session" rule, +the wrapper-not-symlink detail, resolve-by-name, and the permanent notes pane per page.