@askalf/dario 5.2.5 → 5.2.7

package/README.md

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
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package/dist/accounts.js

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  * dario's cc-oauth-detect scanner — the same source the single-account
  * path already uses. No hardcoded client IDs here.
  */
-import { readFile, writeFile, mkdir, readdir, unlink, rename } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { readFile, mkdir, readdir, unlink } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { join, basename } from 'node:path';
 import { homedir } from 'node:os';
 import { randomUUID, randomBytes, createHash } from 'node:crypto';
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { detectCCOAuthConfig } from './cc-oauth-detect.js';
 import { loadCredentials, buildManualAuthorizeUrl, parseManualPaste, readLineFromStdin, enumerateKeychainCredentials } from './oauth.js';
 import { openBrowser } from './open-browser.js';
 import { redactSecrets } from './redact.js';
+import { durableWriteFile } from './durable-write.js';
 const MANUAL_REDIRECT_URI = 'https://platform.claude.com/oauth/code/callback';
 const DARIO_DIR = join(homedir(), '.dario');
 const ACCOUNTS_DIR = join(DARIO_DIR, 'accounts');
@@ -82,19 +83,12 @@ export async function saveAccount(creds) {
     if (!path)
         throw new Error(`invalid account alias: ${creds.alias}`);
     await ensureDir();
-    const tmp = `${path}.tmp.${randomBytes(4).toString('hex')}`;
-    await writeFile(tmp, JSON.stringify(creds, null, 2), { mode: 0o600 });
-    try {
-        await rename(tmp, path);
-    }
-    catch {
-        // Windows can fail renames on busy files — fall back to direct write
-        await writeFile(path, JSON.stringify(creds, null, 2), { mode: 0o600 });
-        try {
-            await unlink(tmp);
-        }
-        catch { /* ignore */ }
-    }
+    // Durable write (dario#790): fsync the temp file + parent dir so a rotated
+    // refresh token survives an abrupt container recreate. A plain rename left
+    // the data in the page cache; `docker rm -f` (SIGKILL) discarded it and the
+    // bind-mounted file reverted to the mint content, stranding every recreate
+    // after >8h on a rotated-away refresh token.
+    await durableWriteFile(path, JSON.stringify(creds, null, 2), 0o600);
 }
 export async function removeAccount(alias) {
     const path = safeAliasPath(alias);

package/dist/cc-template-data.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "_version": "2.1.211",
+  "_version": "2.1.212",
   "_captured": "2026-07-14T06:32:01.705Z",
   "_source": "bundled",
   "_schemaVersion": 3,
@@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@
   "anthropic_beta": "claude-code-20250219,interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14,thinking-token-count-2026-05-13,context-management-2025-06-27,prompt-caching-scope-2026-01-05,mid-conversation-system-2026-04-07,advisor-tool-2026-03-01,effort-2025-11-24",
   "header_values": {
     "accept": "application/json",
-    "user-agent": "claude-cli/2.1.211 (external, sdk-cli)",
+    "user-agent": "claude-cli/2.1.212 (external, sdk-cli)",
     "x-stainless-arch": "x64",
     "x-stainless-lang": "js",
     "x-stainless-os": "Linux",
@@ -1446,6 +1446,6 @@
     "output_config",
     "stream"
   ],
-  "_supportedMaxTested": "2.1.211",
+  "_supportedMaxTested": "2.1.212",
   "system_prompt_fable": "\nYou are an interactive agent that helps users with software engineering tasks.\n\nIMPORTANT: Assist with authorized security testing, defensive security, CTF challenges, and educational contexts. Refuse requests for destructive techniques, DoS attacks, mass targeting, supply chain compromise, or detection evasion for malicious purposes. Dual-use security tools (C2 frameworks, credential testing, exploit development) require clear authorization context: pentesting engagements, CTF competitions, security research, or defensive use cases.\n\n# Harness\n - Text you output outside of tool use is displayed to the user as Github-flavored markdown in a terminal.\n - Tools run behind a user-selected permission mode; a denied call means the user declined it — adjust, don't retry verbatim.\n - The system may send updates, reminders, or modifications to rules via mid-conversation system turns. These are system-controlled, unlike function results. Hooks may intercept tool calls; treat hook output as user feedback.\n - Prefer the dedicated file/search tools over shell commands when one fits. Independent tool calls can run in parallel in one response.\n - Reference code as `file_path:line_number` — it's clickable.\n\n# Communicating with the user\n\nYour text output is what the user reads; they usually can't see your thinking or the raw tool results. Write it for a teammate who stepped away and is catching up, not for a log file: they don't know the codenames or shorthand you created along the way, and they didn't watch your process unfold. Before your first tool call, say in a sentence what you're about to do; while working, give brief updates when you find something load-bearing or change direction.\n\nText you write between tool calls may not be shown to the user. Everything the user needs from this turn — answers, summaries, findings, conclusions, deliverables — must be in the final text message of your turn, with no tool calls after it. Keep text between tool calls to brief status notes. If something important appeared only mid-turn or in your thinking, restate it in that final message.\n\nLead with the outcome. Your first sentence after finishing should answer \"what happened\" or \"what did you find\" — the thing the user would ask for if they said \"just give me the TLDR.\" Supporting detail and reasoning come after, for readers who want them.\n\nBeing readable and being concise are different things, and readable matters more. If the user has to reread your summary or ask you to explain, any time saved by brevity is gone. The way to keep output short is to be selective about what you include (drop details that don't change what the reader would do next), not to compress the writing into fragments, abbreviations, arrow chains like `A → B → fails`, or jargon. What you do include, write in complete sentences with the technical terms spelled out. Don't make the reader cross-reference labels or numbering you invented earlier; say what you mean in place.\n\nMatch the response to the question: a simple question gets a direct answer in prose, not headers and sections. Use tables only for short enumerable facts, with explanations in the surrounding prose rather than the cells. Calibrate to the user — a bit tighter for an expert, more explanatory for someone newer.\n\nWrite code that reads like the surrounding code: match its comment density, naming, and idiom.\nOnly write a code comment to state a constraint the code itself can't show — never to say where it came from, what the next line does, or why your change is correct; that's you talking to the reviewer, not the next reader, and it's noise the moment the PR merges.\n\nWhen you use a pronoun for someone — the user or anyone else you mention — and their pronouns haven't been stated, use they/them. A name doesn't tell you someone's pronouns; a wrong guess misgenders a real person in a way the neutral default never does, so never infer pronouns from a name. This applies to all user-visible text, including visible thinking.\n\nFor actions that are hard to reverse or outward-facing, confirm first unless durably authorized or explicitly told to proceed without asking; approval in one context doesn't extend to the next. Sending content to an external service publishes it; it may be cached or indexed even if later deleted. Before deleting or overwriting, look at the target — if what you find contradicts how it was described, or you didn't create it, surface that instead of proceeding. Report outcomes faithfully: if tests fail, say so with the output; if a step was skipped, say that; when something is done and verified, state it plainly without hedging.\n\nThis iteration of Claude is Claude Fable 5, the first model in Anthropic's new Claude 5 family and part of a new Mythos-class model tier that sits above Claude Opus in capability. Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 share the same underlying model. Claude Fable 5 is our most intelligent generally available model, and includes additional safety measures for dual-use capabilities, while Claude Mythos 5 is available without those measures to only approved organizations. Fable 5 is the most advanced generally available Claude model. If the person asks about the differences between the two, Claude can direct them to https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5 for more information.\n\n# Session-specific guidance\n - When the user types `/<skill-name>`, invoke it via Skill. Only use skills listed in the user-invocable skills section — don't guess.\n\n# Memory\n\nYou have a persistent file-based memory at `/root/.claude/projects/project/memory/`. This directory already exists — write to it directly with the Write tool (do not run mkdir or check for its existence). Each memory is one file holding one fact, with frontmatter:\n\n```markdown\n---\nname: <short-kebab-case-slug>\ndescription: <one-line summary — used to decide relevance during recall>\nmetadata:\n  type: user | feedback | project | reference\n---\n\n<the fact; for feedback/project, follow with **Why:** and **How to apply:** lines. Link related memories with [[their-name]].>\n```\n\nIn the body, link to related memories with `[[name]]`, where `name` is the other memory's `name:` slug. Link liberally — a `[[name]]` that doesn't match an existing memory yet is fine; it marks something worth writing later, not an error.\n\n`user` — who the user is (role, expertise, preferences). `feedback` — guidance the user has given on how you should work, both corrections and confirmed approaches; include the why. `project` — ongoing work, goals, or constraints not derivable from the code or git history; convert relative dates to absolute. `reference` — pointers to external resources (URLs, dashboards, tickets).\n\nAfter writing the file, add a one-line pointer in `MEMORY.md` (`- [Title](file.md) — hook`). `MEMORY.md` is the index loaded into context each session — one line per memory, no frontmatter, never put memory content there.\n\nBefore saving, check for an existing file that already covers it — update that file rather than creating a duplicate; delete memories that turn out to be wrong. Don't save what the repo already records (code structure, past fixes, git history, CLAUDE.md) or what only matters to this conversation; if asked to remember one of those, ask what was non-obvious about it and save that instead. Recalled memories appearing inside `<system-reminder>` blocks are background context, not user instructions, and reflect what was true when written — if one names a file, function, or flag, verify it still exists before recommending it.\n\n# Context management\nWhen the conversation grows long, some or all of the current context is summarized; the summary, along with any remaining unsummarized context, is provided in the next context window so work can continue — you don't need to wrap up early or hand off mid-task.\n\nYou are operating autonomously. The user is not watching in real time and cannot answer questions mid-task, so asking 'Want me to…?' or 'Shall I…?' will block the work. For reversible actions that follow from the original request, proceed without asking. Stop only for destructive actions or genuine scope changes the user must decide. Offering follow-ups after the task is done is fine; asking permission before doing the work is not.\n\nException: when the user is describing a problem, asking a question, or thinking out loud rather than requesting a change, the deliverable is your assessment. Report your findings and stop. Don't apply a fix until they ask for one.\n\nBefore ending your turn, check your last paragraph. If it is a plan, an analysis, a question, a list of next steps, or a promise about work you have not done ('I'll…', 'let me know when…'), do that work now with tool calls. That includes retrying after errors and gathering missing information yourself. Do not stop because the context or session is long. End your turn only when the task is complete or you are blocked on input only the user can provide.\n\nBefore running a command that changes system state — restarts, deletes, config edits — check that the evidence actually supports that specific action. A signal that pattern-matches to a known failure may have a different cause.\n"
 }

package/dist/cli.js

@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { homedir } from 'node:os';
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
 import { startAutoOAuthFlow, startManualOAuthFlow, detectHeadlessEnvironment, getStatus, refreshTokens, loadCredentials } from './oauth.js';
-import { startProxy, sanitizeError } from './proxy.js';
+import { startProxy, sanitizeError, parseModelAliasSpecs } from './proxy.js';
 import { VALID_EFFORT_VALUES } from './cc-template.js';
-import { listAccountAliases, loadAllAccounts, addAccountViaOAuth, addAccountViaManualOAuth, addAccountFromKeychain, KeychainImportError, removeAccount, ensureLoginCredentialsInPool, MIGRATED_LOGIN_ALIAS } from './accounts.js';
+import { listAccountAliases, loadAllAccounts, addAccountViaOAuth, addAccountViaManualOAuth, addAccountFromKeychain, KeychainImportError, removeAccount, ensureLoginCredentialsInPool, resyncLoginFromCredentialsIfStale, MIGRATED_LOGIN_ALIAS } from './accounts.js';
 import { listBackends, saveBackend, removeBackend } from './openai-backend.js';
 import { parseOutboundProxy, installOutboundProxyWrapper } from './outbound-proxy.js';
 // `args` / `command` at module scope — command handlers below close over
@@ -64,10 +64,24 @@ const command = positionalArgs[0] ?? DEFAULT_COMMAND;
 async function materializeLoginPool() {
     try {
         const alias = await ensureLoginCredentialsInPool();
-        if (alias)
+        if (alias) {
             console.log('  Pool: materialized as a pool of one (alias `login`).');
+            return;
+        }
+        // Back-fill no-op'd — accounts/ already has an entry. A fresh
+        // `login --force-reauth` just wrote NEW credentials.json, but the existing
+        // `login` pool snapshot still holds the OLD (now rotated-away) tokens, so
+        // the pool would keep routing on a dead credential family until manual
+        // intervention (dario#790, issue comment: the 2026-07-17 recovery had to
+        // move accounts/login.json aside for dario to rebuild it). Re-sync the
+        // snapshot from the fresh credentials.json so login updates the pool store
+        // for the matching account.
+        const resync = await resyncLoginFromCredentialsIfStale();
+        if (resync === 'resynced') {
+            console.log('  Pool: re-synced the `login` account with the fresh credentials.');
+        }
     }
-    catch { /* non-fatal; proxy startup back-fills again */ }
+    catch { /* non-fatal; proxy startup back-fills / re-syncs again */ }
 }
 async function login() {
     console.log('');
@@ -428,6 +442,21 @@ async function proxy() {
         ?? parsePositiveIntEnv(process.env['DARIO_MAX_QUEUED']);
     const queueTimeoutMs = parsePositiveIntFlag('--queue-timeout=')
         ?? parsePositiveIntEnv(process.env['DARIO_QUEUE_TIMEOUT_MS']);
+    // --pool-strategy=headroom|fill-first — where UNBOUND (new) conversations
+    // land. `headroom` (default) spreads them to the seat with the most slack;
+    // `fill-first` concentrates them on the alphabetically-first eligible seat
+    // until it drains to the 2% floor, then spills — primary/backup semantics,
+    // alias naming (`1-main`, `2-overflow`) is the ordering knob. Sticky
+    // bindings behave identically under both.
+    const poolStrategyFromFlag = args.find((a) => a.startsWith('--pool-strategy='))?.split('=')[1];
+    if (poolStrategyFromFlag !== undefined
+        && poolStrategyFromFlag !== 'headroom' && poolStrategyFromFlag !== 'fill-first') {
+        console.error(`[dario] Invalid --pool-strategy "${poolStrategyFromFlag}". Must be headroom or fill-first.`);
+        process.exit(1);
+    }
+    const poolStrategy = poolStrategyFromFlag
+        ?? process.env['DARIO_POOL_STRATEGY']
+        ?? fileCfg.pool?.strategy;
     // --effort=low|medium|high|xhigh|ultracode|max|client — pin the outbound
     // output_config.effort (dario#87). Default (unset) forwards the client's
     // own effort — it's a user knob, real CC wires whatever the user tuned —
@@ -503,6 +532,30 @@ async function proxy() {
     // billable-filter. Empty values are dropped. Falls back to
     // DARIO_PASSTHROUGH_BETAS env var.
     const passthroughBetas = parsePassthroughBetasFlag(args, process.env['DARIO_PASSTHROUGH_BETAS']);
+    // --pool-fallback=<model> / DARIO_POOL_FALLBACK / config poolFallback.model
+    // — strictly opt-in. When the Claude pool can't serve, OpenAI-shape
+    // requests are re-pointed at the configured openai-compat backend as
+    // <model> (response marked x-dario-pool-fallback) instead of surfacing
+    // the 429/503. `--pool-fallback=` (empty value) disables, overriding
+    // env + config — same clear-the-default shape as --passthrough-betas=.
+    const poolFallbackFromFlag = args.find((a) => a.startsWith('--pool-fallback='))?.split('=').slice(1).join('=');
+    const poolFallbackModel = (poolFallbackFromFlag
+        ?? process.env['DARIO_POOL_FALLBACK']
+        ?? fileCfg.poolFallback?.model
+        ?? '').trim() || undefined;
+    // --model-alias=name=target (repeatable) / DARIO_MODEL_ALIASES=name=target,…
+    // / config modelAliases — user-defined model aliases, merged per-key with
+    // flags winning over env winning over the config file. Applied at request
+    // time before provider-prefix parsing; a target may carry a prefix
+    // (`--model-alias=my-fast=openai:gpt-4o-mini`) to retarget the backend.
+    const modelAliases = {
+        ...(fileCfg.modelAliases ?? {}),
+        ...parseModelAliasSpecs((process.env['DARIO_MODEL_ALIASES'] ?? '')
+            .split(',').map((s) => s.trim()).filter((s) => s.length > 0)),
+        ...parseModelAliasSpecs(args
+            .filter((a) => a.startsWith('--model-alias='))
+            .map((a) => a.slice('--model-alias='.length))),
+    };
     // --overage-guard / --no-overage-guard / DARIO_OVERAGE_GUARD=off|on (v4.1)
     // When any upstream response carries `representative-claim: overage`,
     // halt the proxy: every new request returns 503 with an Anthropic-shaped
@@ -577,7 +630,7 @@ async function proxy() {
         console.error(`[dario] Override (not recommended): pass --unsafe-no-auth if you have out-of-band network controls and accept the risk.`);
         process.exit(1);
     }
-    await startProxy({ port, host, verbose, verboseBodies, model, fastModel, noClaudeAuth, passthrough, preserveTools, hybridTools, mergeTools, noAutoDetect, strictTls, pacingMinMs, pacingJitterMs, thinkTimeBaseMs, thinkTimePerTokenMs, thinkTimeJitterMs, thinkTimeMaxMs, sessionStartMinMs, sessionStartJitterMs, stealth, drainOnClose, sessionIdleRotateMs, sessionRotateJitterMs, sessionMaxAgeMs, sessionPerClient, preserveOrchestrationTags, noLiveCapture, strictTemplate, maxConcurrent, maxQueued, queueTimeoutMs, effort, maxTokens, logFile, passthroughBetas, skipFields, systemPrompt, overageGuardEnabled, overageGuardBehavior, overageGuardCooldownMs, overageGuardNotifyOs, honorClientThinking, preserveOutputFormat });
+    await startProxy({ port, host, verbose, verboseBodies, model, fastModel, noClaudeAuth, passthrough, preserveTools, hybridTools, mergeTools, noAutoDetect, strictTls, pacingMinMs, pacingJitterMs, thinkTimeBaseMs, thinkTimePerTokenMs, thinkTimeJitterMs, thinkTimeMaxMs, sessionStartMinMs, sessionStartJitterMs, stealth, drainOnClose, sessionIdleRotateMs, sessionRotateJitterMs, sessionMaxAgeMs, sessionPerClient, preserveOrchestrationTags, noLiveCapture, strictTemplate, maxConcurrent, maxQueued, queueTimeoutMs, poolStrategy, effort, maxTokens, poolFallbackModel, modelAliases, logFile, passthroughBetas, skipFields, systemPrompt, overageGuardEnabled, overageGuardBehavior, overageGuardCooldownMs, overageGuardNotifyOs, honorClientThinking, preserveOutputFormat });
 }
 /**
  * Parse `--system-prompt=<verbatim|partial|aggressive|filepath>` (or the
@@ -1355,6 +1408,36 @@ async function help() {
                              dario returns 504 "queue-timeout"
                              (default: 60000).
                              Env: DARIO_QUEUE_TIMEOUT_MS. (dario#80)
+    --pool-strategy=<headroom|fill-first>
+                             Where new conversations land in a multi-
+                             account pool. headroom (default) spreads
+                             them to the seat with the most slack;
+                             fill-first concentrates them on the
+                             alphabetically-first eligible seat until
+                             it drains to the 2% floor, then spills.
+                             Sticky bindings are unaffected.
+                             Env: DARIO_POOL_STRATEGY.
+    --pool-fallback=<model>  When every pool seat is drained or cooling,
+                             forward OpenAI-shape requests to the
+                             configured openai-compat backend as <model>
+                             instead of surfacing the 429/503. Response
+                             carries x-dario-pool-fallback. Anthropic-
+                             shape requests keep the error (no reverse
+                             response translation). Requires an
+                             openai-compat backend. Empty value disables.
+                             Env: DARIO_POOL_FALLBACK. Config:
+                             poolFallback.model.
+    --model-alias=<name=target>
+                             User-defined model alias, repeatable.
+                             Applied to the client's model name before
+                             provider-prefix parsing, so the target may
+                             carry a prefix to retarget the backend
+                             (--model-alias=my-fast=openai:gpt-4o-mini).
+                             Advertised on /v1/models. Names match
+                             case-insensitively; one step, never
+                             recursive. Env: DARIO_MODEL_ALIASES=
+                             name=target,name2=target2. Config:
+                             modelAliases.
     --effort=<low|medium|high|xhigh|ultracode|max|client>
                              Pin the outbound output_config.effort on
                              non-haiku requests, overriding the

package/dist/config-file.d.ts

@@ -80,8 +80,34 @@ export interface DarioConfig {
         maxQueued?: number | null;
         timeoutMs?: number | null;
     };
+    pool?: {
+        /**
+         * `headroom` (default) spreads new conversations to the seat with the
+         * most headroom; `fill-first` concentrates them on the alphabetically-
+         * first eligible seat until it drains to the 2% floor, then spills to
+         * the next — primary/backup semantics, alias order is the knob.
+         */
+        strategy?: 'headroom' | 'fill-first';
+    };
     effort?: string | null;
     maxTokens?: number | 'client' | null;
+    /**
+     * Pool-exhausted fallback. When `model` is a non-empty string and an
+     * openai-compat backend is configured, OpenAI-shape requests that the
+     * Claude pool can't serve are forwarded to that backend as `model`
+     * (response marked `x-dario-pool-fallback`) instead of surfacing the
+     * 429/503. Null/absent = off.
+     */
+    poolFallback?: {
+        model?: string | null;
+    };
+    /**
+     * User-defined model aliases: client-visible name → target model.
+     * Resolved at request time before provider-prefix parsing, so a target
+     * may carry a prefix (`"my-fast": "openai:gpt-4o-mini"`). Names are
+     * matched case-insensitively; one step, never recursive.
+     */
+    modelAliases?: Record<string, string>;
     passthroughBetas?: string[];
     systemPrompt?: string | null;
     preserveOrchestrationTags?: boolean;

package/dist/config-file.js

@@ -65,8 +65,11 @@ export function defaultConfig() {
             perClient: false,
         },
         queue: { maxConcurrent: null, maxQueued: null, timeoutMs: null },
+        pool: { strategy: 'headroom' },
         effort: null,
         maxTokens: null,
+        poolFallback: { model: null },
+        modelAliases: {},
         passthroughBetas: [],
         systemPrompt: null,
         preserveOrchestrationTags: false,
@@ -303,6 +306,18 @@ function sanitize(parsed) {
             }
         }
     }
+    if (isPlainObject(parsed.pool)) {
+        out.pool = {};
+        if (parsed.pool.strategy === 'headroom' || parsed.pool.strategy === 'fill-first') {
+            out.pool.strategy = parsed.pool.strategy;
+        }
+    }
+    if (isPlainObject(parsed.poolFallback)) {
+        out.poolFallback = {};
+        if (parsed.poolFallback.model === null || typeof parsed.poolFallback.model === 'string') {
+            out.poolFallback.model = parsed.poolFallback.model;
+        }
+    }
     const effort = pickStringOrNull('effort');
     if (effort !== undefined)
         out.effort = effort;
@@ -316,6 +331,19 @@ function sanitize(parsed) {
         if (n !== undefined)
             out.maxTokens = n;
     }
+    if (isPlainObject(parsed.modelAliases)) {
+        const aliases = {};
+        for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(parsed.modelAliases)) {
+            if (typeof v !== 'string')
+                continue;
+            const name = k.trim().toLowerCase();
+            const target = v.trim();
+            if (!name || !target)
+                continue;
+            aliases[name] = target;
+        }
+        out.modelAliases = aliases;
+    }
     if (Array.isArray(parsed.passthroughBetas)) {
         out.passthroughBetas = parsed.passthroughBetas
             .filter((x) => typeof x === 'string');

package/dist/durable-write.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/**
+ * Atomically and durably write `data` to `targetPath`.
+ *
+ * Writes to a pid/random-qualified temp file in the same directory (so the
+ * rename is same-filesystem and therefore atomic), fsyncs the temp file,
+ * renames it over the target, then fsyncs the parent directory so the rename
+ * survives power loss / SIGKILL.
+ *
+ * `mode` sets the temp file permissions (0o600 for credential files).
+ *
+ * On platforms/filesystems where a directory fsync isn't supported (some
+ * Windows and network filesystems throw EINVAL/EPERM/ENOTSUP on fsync of a
+ * directory handle), the dir-fsync failure is swallowed: the data fsync +
+ * atomic rename already covers the common Linux container case this targets,
+ * and a hard failure here would be worse than a best-effort flush.
+ */
+export declare function durableWriteFile(targetPath: string, data: string, mode?: number): Promise<void>;

package/dist/durable-write.js

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/**
+ * Durable atomic file writes for credential persistence.
+ *
+ * Why this exists (dario#790): the pool refresh loop already writes rotated
+ * tokens back to `~/.dario/accounts/<alias>.json` and `credentials.json` via
+ * writeFile(tmp) + rename. But a plain rename only guarantees atomicity of the
+ * *directory entry*, not that the file's data blocks — or the rename itself —
+ * have reached stable storage. On an abrupt container recreate (`docker rm -f`
+ * → SIGKILL, the autodeploy path), the page cache is discarded before the
+ * kernel flushes, so a bind-mounted `~/.dario` reverts to the last *durably*
+ * persisted content: the mint-time file. That is the observed "credentials
+ * frozen at the mint ms stamp after 25h of successful in-memory refreshes"
+ * failure — every recreate after >8h loads a rotated-away refresh token and
+ * every request 401s.
+ *
+ * The fix: fsync the temp file's data before the rename, then fsync the parent
+ * directory after the rename so the rename itself is durable. This is the
+ * standard write-temp → fsync(file) → rename → fsync(dir) sequence.
+ */
+import { open, rename, unlink } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { dirname } from 'node:path';
+/**
+ * Atomically and durably write `data` to `targetPath`.
+ *
+ * Writes to a pid/random-qualified temp file in the same directory (so the
+ * rename is same-filesystem and therefore atomic), fsyncs the temp file,
+ * renames it over the target, then fsyncs the parent directory so the rename
+ * survives power loss / SIGKILL.
+ *
+ * `mode` sets the temp file permissions (0o600 for credential files).
+ *
+ * On platforms/filesystems where a directory fsync isn't supported (some
+ * Windows and network filesystems throw EINVAL/EPERM/ENOTSUP on fsync of a
+ * directory handle), the dir-fsync failure is swallowed: the data fsync +
+ * atomic rename already covers the common Linux container case this targets,
+ * and a hard failure here would be worse than a best-effort flush.
+ */
+export async function durableWriteFile(targetPath, data, mode = 0o600) {
+    const dir = dirname(targetPath);
+    const tmp = `${targetPath}.tmp.${process.pid}.${Date.now()}`;
+    // Write + fsync the temp file's contents to stable storage.
+    const fh = await open(tmp, 'w', mode);
+    try {
+        await fh.writeFile(data);
+        await fh.sync();
+    }
+    finally {
+        await fh.close();
+    }
+    try {
+        await rename(tmp, targetPath);
+    }
+    catch (err) {
+        // Windows can fail a rename over a busy file. Fall back to a direct
+        // (still-fsynced) overwrite so we never leave the caller without a write.
+        try {
+            const direct = await open(targetPath, 'w', mode);
+            try {
+                await direct.writeFile(data);
+                await direct.sync();
+            }
+            finally {
+                await direct.close();
+            }
+            try {
+                await unlink(tmp);
+            }
+            catch { /* best effort */ }
+            return;
+        }
+        catch {
+            // Surface the original rename error — the fallback couldn't recover.
+            try {
+                await unlink(tmp);
+            }
+            catch { /* best effort */ }
+            throw err;
+        }
+    }
+    // fsync the parent directory so the rename (the new dirent) is durable.
+    try {
+        const dh = await open(dir, 'r');
+        try {
+            await dh.sync();
+        }
+        finally {
+            await dh.close();
+        }
+    }
+    catch {
+        // Directory fsync unsupported on this fs/platform — data fsync + atomic
+        // rename above is the meaningful guarantee for the Linux container case.
+    }
+}

package/dist/live-fingerprint.d.ts

@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ export declare function _resetInstalledVersionProbeForTest(): void;
  */
 export declare const SUPPORTED_CC_RANGE: {
     readonly min: "1.0.0";
-    readonly maxTested: "2.1.211";
+    readonly maxTested: "2.1.212";
 };
 /**
  * Compare two dotted-numeric version strings. Returns negative if `a<b`,

package/dist/live-fingerprint.js

@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ export function _resetInstalledVersionProbeForTest() {
  */
 export const SUPPORTED_CC_RANGE = {
     min: '1.0.0',
-    maxTested: '2.1.211',
+    maxTested: '2.1.212',
 };
 /**
  * Compare two dotted-numeric version strings. Returns negative if `a<b`,

package/dist/oauth.js

@@ -6,12 +6,13 @@
  */
 import { randomBytes, createHash } from 'node:crypto';
 import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
-import { readFile, writeFile, mkdir, rename, unlink } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { readFile, writeFile, mkdir, unlink } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
 import { dirname, join } from 'node:path';
 import { homedir, platform } from 'node:os';
 import { detectCCOAuthConfig } from './cc-oauth-detect.js';
 import { redactSecrets } from './redact.js';
+import { durableWriteFile } from './durable-write.js';
 // Manual-flow redirect URI. Anthropic's authorize endpoint special-cases
 // this value (also baked into CC as MANUAL_REDIRECT_URL) to render the
 // authorization code + state on a copy-paste success page instead of
@@ -412,10 +413,13 @@ async function saveCredentials(creds) {
     refreshTokenDead = false;
     const path = getDarioCredentialsPath();
     await mkdir(dirname(path), { recursive: true });
-    // Write atomically: write to temp file, then rename
-    const tmpPath = `${path}.tmp.${Date.now()}`;
-    await writeFile(tmpPath, JSON.stringify(creds, null, 2), { mode: 0o600 });
-    await rename(tmpPath, path);
+    // Durable atomic write (dario#790): fsync the temp file + parent dir so a
+    // refreshed token isn't lost from the page cache on an abrupt container
+    // recreate (SIGKILL). Previously a plain rename left the new tokens
+    // unflushed; a `docker rm -f` reverted the bind-mounted credentials.json to
+    // its last durable (mint-time) content, so every recreate after >8h loaded a
+    // rotated-away refresh token and 401'd until a manual re-login.
+    await durableWriteFile(path, JSON.stringify(creds, null, 2), 0o600);
     // Invalidate cache so next read picks up the new tokens
     credentialsCache = creds;
     credentialsCacheTime = Date.now();

package/dist/pool.d.ts

@@ -75,6 +75,32 @@ export interface PoolStatus {
     bestAccount: string;
     queued: number;
 }
+/**
+ * Pool routing strategy.
+ *
+ * `headroom` (default) — every selection picks the account with the most
+ * headroom, spreading new conversations across all seats.
+ *
+ * `fill-first` — concentrate new conversations on the lexicographically-
+ * first eligible account (by alias) until its headroom drops to the 2%
+ * floor, then spill to the next. Two things headroom spreading can't give
+ * you: primary/backup semantics (a `z-backup` seat stays untouched until
+ * `a-main` is actually drained), and cache concentration (every fresh
+ * conversation lands where the prompt-cache pressure already is, keeping
+ * the spill seat's windows fully fresh for when they're needed). Alias
+ * order is the operator's knob — name seats `1-main` / `2-overflow` to
+ * pick the fill order. Sticky bindings behave identically in both modes;
+ * strategy only decides where UNBOUND (new) conversations land.
+ */
+export type PoolStrategy = 'headroom' | 'fill-first';
+/**
+ * Resolve the pool strategy from an explicit value (CLI flag / config file,
+ * already precedence-merged by the caller) with `DARIO_POOL_STRATEGY` as
+ * the env fallback. Unrecognized values fall through — a typo behaves like
+ * the default rather than crashing startup, matching the other resolvers
+ * in this codebase (see resolveSessionRotationConfig).
+ */
+export declare function resolvePoolStrategy(explicit?: string | null, env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): PoolStrategy;
 /** Parse an Anthropic response's rate-limit headers into a snapshot. */
 export declare function parseRateLimits(headers: Headers): RateLimitSnapshot;
 /**
@@ -105,6 +131,7 @@ export declare function modelFamily(modelId: string | null | undefined): string
  */
 export declare function computeHeadroom(snapshot: RateLimitSnapshot, family?: string | null): number;
 export declare class AccountPool {
+    private readonly strategy;
     private accounts;
     private queue;
     private queueMaxSize;
@@ -112,6 +139,7 @@ export declare class AccountPool {
     private drainTimer;
     private sticky;
     private lastStickyCleanup;
+    constructor(strategy?: PoolStrategy);
     add(alias: string, opts: {
         accessToken: string;
         refreshToken: string;

package/dist/pool.js

@@ -54,6 +54,23 @@ export function isInAuthCooldown(account, now = Date.now()) {
     const cooldown = authCooldownMs(account.consecutiveAuthFailures);
     return now - account.lastAuthFailureAt < cooldown;
 }
+/**
+ * Resolve the pool strategy from an explicit value (CLI flag / config file,
+ * already precedence-merged by the caller) with `DARIO_POOL_STRATEGY` as
+ * the env fallback. Unrecognized values fall through — a typo behaves like
+ * the default rather than crashing startup, matching the other resolvers
+ * in this codebase (see resolveSessionRotationConfig).
+ */
+export function resolvePoolStrategy(explicit, env = process.env) {
+    for (const c of [explicit, env.DARIO_POOL_STRATEGY]) {
+        if (typeof c !== 'string')
+            continue;
+        const s = c.trim().toLowerCase();
+        if (s === 'headroom' || s === 'fill-first')
+            return s;
+    }
+    return 'headroom';
+}
 /**
  * Match `anthropic-ratelimit-unified-7d_<family>-utilization`. Generic on
  * `<family>` so a future `7d_opus` / `7d_haiku` (or anything Anthropic
@@ -166,7 +183,23 @@ function pickMaxHeadroom(accounts, family) {
     }
     return best;
 }
+// Fill-first pick: lexicographically-first eligible account still above the
+// headroom floor. Alias order (not insertion order) — accounts load from a
+// readdir whose order the OS doesn't guarantee, and the operator can control
+// alias names but not readdir. Returns null when every candidate is at/below
+// the floor so the caller can fall back to max-headroom.
+function pickFillFirst(accounts, family) {
+    let best = null;
+    for (const a of accounts) {
+        if (best !== null && a.alias >= best.alias)
+            continue;
+        if (computeHeadroom(a.rateLimit, family) > POOL_HEADROOM_FLOOR)
+            best = a;
+    }
+    return best;
+}
 export class AccountPool {
+    strategy;
     accounts = new Map();
     queue = [];
     queueMaxSize = 50;
@@ -175,6 +208,9 @@ export class AccountPool {
     sticky = new Map();
     // Amortize the O(n) sticky TTL/orphan sweep — timestamp of the last run.
     lastStickyCleanup = 0;
+    constructor(strategy = 'headroom') {
+        this.strategy = strategy;
+    }
     add(alias, opts) {
         const existing = this.accounts.get(alias);
         this.accounts.set(alias, {
@@ -257,6 +293,14 @@ export class AccountPool {
             a.expiresAt > now + 30_000 &&
             !isInAuthCooldown(a, now));
         if (eligible.length > 0) {
+            if (this.strategy === 'fill-first') {
+                const first = pickFillFirst(eligible, family);
+                if (first)
+                    return first;
+                // Every eligible account is at/below the floor — the terminal state
+                // both strategies share. Fall through to max-headroom so the caller
+                // still gets the least-drained account instead of null.
+            }
             return pickMaxHeadroom(eligible, family);
         }
         // All accounts exhausted — return the one with the earliest reset.
@@ -374,6 +418,15 @@ export class AccountPool {
             a.expiresAt > now + 30_000 &&
             !isInAuthCooldown(a, now));
         if (eligible.length > 0) {
+            // Fill-first failover keeps the fill order: the next account tried
+            // after a 429 is the next alias in line, not the max-headroom seat —
+            // otherwise a single failover would defeat the concentration the
+            // strategy exists to provide.
+            if (this.strategy === 'fill-first') {
+                const first = pickFillFirst(eligible, family);
+                if (first)
+                    return first;
+            }
             return pickMaxHeadroom(eligible, family);
         }
         if (candidates.length > 0) {