@enderfga/claw-orchestrator 7.13.0 → 7.15.0

package/skills/references/acp.md

@@ -1,25 +1,30 @@
 # Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
 
-Claw Orchestrator can run **as an ACP agent**: a coding agent that any ACP client
-drives over JSON-RPC stdio. Zed, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Emacs and the VS Code ACP
-extension are clients; so is `dsh`, whose `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-acp` provider
-spawns an arbitrary command as a subagent.
-
-The model selector spans several engines, and session modes select the
-orchestration shape: a single agent, a council, a planning pass, or a review.
+Claw Orchestrator speaks ACP in both directions:
+
+- **As an ACP agent** (`clawo acp`): a coding agent that any ACP client drives over
+  JSON-RPC stdio. Zed, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Emacs and the VS Code ACP extension
+  are clients; so is `dsh`, whose `@deepseek-ai/dsh-subagent-acp` provider spawns an
+  arbitrary command as a subagent. The model selector spans several engines, and
+  session modes select the orchestration shape: a single agent, a council, a
+  planning pass, or a review. Most of this page covers this direction.
+- **As an ACP client** (the `acp` engine): the orchestrator drives an agent that
+  serves ACP, such as `kimi acp` or `dsh --profile acp`, as one of its own sessions.
+  See [The `acp` engine](#the-acp-engine-driving-other-acp-agents) below.
 
 ```bash
 clawo acp          # or the dedicated binary:
 clawo-acp
 # without a global install:
-npx -y @enderfga/claw-orchestrator acp
+npx -y -p @enderfga/claw-orchestrator clawo-acp
 ```
 
 Requires Node ≥ 22 and at least one engine CLI (`claude`, `codex`, `agy`,
 `grok`) installed and logged in.
 
 Both read the protocol from stdin and write it to stdout. **Stdout carries nothing
-but protocol frames** — all logging goes to stderr.
+but protocol frames** — all logging goes to stderr. The agent exits when the client
+closes its stdin, stopping the engine processes it started.
 
 ## Protocol version
 
@@ -31,13 +36,25 @@ Implemented: `initialize`, `authenticate`, `session/new`, `session/resume`,
 `session/list`, `session/prompt`, `session/set_mode`, `session/set_config_option`,
 `session/cancel`.
 
+`session/new` requires an absolute `cwd`.
+
 ## Configuration
 
-| Env var                | Default             | Meaning                                                                                         |
-| ---------------------- | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `CLAWO_ACP_MODEL`      | `claude-sonnet-4-6` | Model (and therefore engine) for a new session                                                  |
-| `CLAWO_ACP_PERMISSION` | `acceptEdits`       | `plan` \| `acceptEdits` \| `bypassPermissions`; an unrecognised value is ignored with a warning |
-| `OPENCLAW_LOG_LEVEL`   | `info`              | Set `warn` to quieten the stderr channel                                                        |
+| Env var                       | Default             | Meaning                                                                                         |
+| ----------------------------- | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `CLAWO_ACP_MODEL`             | `claude-sonnet-4-6` | Model (and therefore engine) for a new session                                                  |
+| `CLAWO_ACP_PERMISSION`        | `acceptEdits`       | `plan` \| `acceptEdits` \| `bypassPermissions`; an unrecognised value is ignored with a warning |
+| `OPENCLAW_SERVE_MAX_SESSIONS` | `32`                | Maximum number of engine sessions running at once                                               |
+| `OPENCLAW_SERVE_TTL_MINUTES`  | `60`                | Idle minutes before an engine session is stopped                                                |
+| `OPENCLAW_LOG_LEVEL`          | `info`              | Set `warn` to quieten the stderr channel                                                        |
+
+## Prompt content
+
+Only `text` and `resource_link` blocks are read from a prompt. `text` blocks are
+concatenated; a `resource_link` becomes a textual `[resource_link name=… uri=…]`
+reference that the engine may open with its own tools; other blocks are dropped
+(`initialize` advertises no image, audio or embedded-context support). A prompt
+that yields no text this way is refused with `invalid params`.
 
 ## Session modes
 
@@ -52,12 +69,15 @@ slash command, advertised through `available_commands_update` when the session o
 
 That is the only way to reach a mode in a client that does not draw the picker.
 
-| Mode          | What a turn does                                                                                                                                                          |
-| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `single`      | One engine answers. Text streams as `agent_message_chunk`; tool use becomes `tool_call`.                                                                                  |
-| `council`     | Several engines debate in isolated git worktrees. Each agent becomes a `tool_call` the client can collapse, each round emits a `plan`, and the synthesis arrives as text. |
-| `ultraplan`   | Long-horizon planning pass. Result arrives as a `plan` update and as text.                                                                                                |
-| `ultrareview` | Parallel reviewers sweep the working tree; findings arrive the same way.                                                                                                  |
+| Mode          | What a turn does                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `single`      | One engine answers. Text streams as `agent_message_chunk`; tool use becomes `tool_call`. The turn ends with a `usage_update` (context used and size, session cost) when the model's context window is known. |
+| `council`     | Several engines debate in isolated git worktrees. Each agent becomes a `tool_call` the client can collapse, each round emits a `plan`, and the synthesis arrives as text.                                    |
+| `ultraplan`   | Long-horizon planning pass. Result arrives as a `plan` update and as text.                                                                                                                                   |
+| `ultrareview` | Parallel reviewers sweep the working tree; findings arrive the same way.                                                                                                                                     |
+
+A `council`, `ultraplan` or `ultrareview` turn gives up after 30 minutes; a council
+is aborted at that point.
 
 ### Council
 
@@ -72,28 +92,37 @@ Treat council as a deliberate action, not a default.
 Agent deltas are buffered per agent and delivered on that agent's `tool_call_update`
 rather than streamed into the text channel. Several agents speak at once, and a
 consumer that only reads text — `dsh`'s ACP subagent reads nothing else — would
-otherwise receive them interleaved into one unreadable blob.
-
-Council requires a git repository at the session `cwd`; it creates one worktree and
-branch per agent. Its guardrails (non-git directory, too-short task, and others)
-surface as an `invalid params` error naming the reason.
+otherwise receive them interleaved into one unreadable blob. An agent that fails a
+round has its `tool_call_update` marked `failed` with the error; the council carries
+on with the others.
+
+Council works in git at the session `cwd`: a directory that is not a repository, or
+has no commits yet, is initialised and given an initial commit of what it holds,
+and each agent gets its own worktree under `.worktrees/` and a `council/<agent>`
+branch. A run that fails before any agent answers — a too-short task, a `cwd`
+inside the orchestrator's own install directory, a worktree that cannot be
+created — ends the prompt with an `invalid params` error naming the reason. A run
+that fails later reports the reason as text and ends with stop reason `refusal`.
 
 **Consensus parks the run rather than finishing it.** The turn ends at the gate, and
-the decision becomes a slash command, advertised through `available_commands_update`:
+the decision becomes a slash command, advertised through `available_commands_update`.
+Neither command merges anything: the agents merge their own work into the main branch
+during the rounds.
 
-| Command                      | Effect                                                      |
-| ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `/council_accept`            | Merge the winning agent's worktree.                         |
-| `/council_reject <feedback>` | Discard the result; the text is passed through as feedback. |
+| Command                        | Effect                                                                                                                                                   |
+| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `/council_accept`              | Accept the work the agents have merged on the main branch, and clean up: the worktrees, the `council/*` branches, `plan.md` and `reviews/` are removed.  |
+| `/council_reject [<feedback>]` | Reject the work: `plan.md` is rewritten with the feedback and committed. Worktrees and branches are kept so the council can retry. Feedback is optional. |
 
-Any other prompt while a council is parked is refused, so a second run cannot start
-over the same worktrees.
+Any other prompt while a council is parked is answered with a reminder of these two
+commands and runs nothing, so a second run cannot start over the same worktrees.
+Either command with no council parked is refused with `invalid params`.
 
 ### Ultraplan and ultrareview
 
 Neither emits events — they are started and then polled — so progress is reported as
-`agent_thought_chunk` heartbeats. Ultraplan has **no abort path at all**, so
-cancelling one abandons the poll rather than stopping the work.
+`agent_thought_chunk` heartbeats. The agent does not stop either run on a cancel:
+cancelling one abandons the poll, and the run carries on.
 
 ## Cross-engine model selector
 
@@ -106,20 +135,22 @@ another engine starts a new one, since one engine cannot read another's.
 
 Other engines are absent for different reasons:
 
-- **`gemini`** — the Gemini CLI is sunset and superseded by Antigravity. It still
-  works for callers that name it directly; it is not offered in a new picker.
-- **`cursor`** — a legacy engine, superseded by Grok Build in this lineup. Same
-  treatment: callers that name it still work.
-- **`opencode`** — its models are open-ended `provider/model` strings passed
-  straight through, so there is nothing in the registry to enumerate. An opencode
-  session is reachable by naming the model, just not by picking it from this list.
+- **`gemini`** and **`cursor`** — legacy engines (the Gemini CLI is sunset and
+  superseded by Antigravity; Cursor is superseded by Grok Build in this lineup).
+  Their models are filtered out of the list; a model name that routes to one, set
+  through `CLAWO_ACP_MODEL`, still works.
+- **`opencode`** — its models are open-ended `provider/model` strings with nothing
+  in the registry to enumerate, and no model name routes to it (a `provider/model`
+  string resolves to the Claude Code engine), so the ACP agent does not start
+  opencode sessions.
+- **`acp`** — an ACP agent picks its own model.
 
 ## Generated images
 
 When the engine generates an image in a turn (Codex does, when asked for one), the agent names the
 file's path in a text chunk and then sends the image itself as an `image` content block, so a client
-that renders images shows it and one that does not still gets the path. Files over 8 MB are named
-only.
+that renders images shows it and one that does not still gets the path. Files over 8 MB, and files
+that are not PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF, are named only.
 
 ## Resuming sessions
 
@@ -131,7 +162,9 @@ Sessions outlive the agent process. `initialize` advertises
 - **`session/resume`** reattaches a session by id after the editor or the agent
   restarts, on the engine and model it was using, and the next prompt continues
   its conversation. The `cwd` must be the one the session was created in — the
-  engines keep conversations per directory.
+  engines keep conversations per directory. A session resumed into a new agent
+  process starts from the default permission setting and mode again
+  (`CLAWO_ACP_PERMISSION`, `single`).
 
 `session/load` is not offered (`loadSession: false`): it requires replaying the
 earlier conversation to the client, and no engine returns its history in a form
@@ -139,6 +172,11 @@ that can be replayed. A resumed session therefore opens with an empty view in th
 client while the engine still remembers it. Sessions are kept for 7 days after
 their last use.
 
+Within a running agent, the session layer stops an engine session that has sat
+idle for `OPENCLAW_SERVE_TTL_MINUTES` (default 60) and keeps its resume handle. The
+next prompt or `session/resume` on that ACP session starts it again on the same
+engine, model and permission, and the conversation continues.
+
 ## Permission
 
 ACP can ask the user mid-turn through `session/request_permission`. This agent does
@@ -147,20 +185,36 @@ permission is resolved once into engine CLI flags at session start, and
 `permissionPromptTool` routes to an MCP tool the caller hosts rather than back
 through the manager. Offering a prompt that cannot be honoured would be worse than
 saying so, so the choice is a session config option instead — which also suits
-`dsh-subagent-acp`, whose default is to auto-reject permission requests.
+`dsh-subagent-acp`, whose default is to auto-reject permission requests. The option
+accepts `plan`, `acceptEdits` and `bypassPermissions`; any other value is refused
+with `invalid params` and the session is left as it was. Changing it restarts the
+underlying session on the same engine, which continues the conversation.
 
 ## Cancellation
 
-`session/cancel` settles the in-flight prompt as `cancelled` immediately, then tears
-the underlying session down and recreates it. The recreated session resumes the
-engine's conversation from the saved resume handle. Codex, codex-app, agy, cursor and
-opencode report theirs during a turn, so a cancel in the very first turn of a session
-can still start a fresh conversation. A cancel with **nothing in flight does
-nothing**.
+What `session/cancel` does depends on the mode:
+
+- **`single`** — the in-flight prompt settles as `cancelled` immediately. The
+  underlying session is torn down and recreated, and the recreated session
+  resumes the engine's conversation from the saved resume handle. The handle
+  exists only once the engine has reported it, so a cancel in the very first turn
+  of a session can leave the next prompt on a fresh conversation.
+- **`council`** — the council run is aborted, and the turn ends with the
+  council's status message and stop reason `end_turn` or `refusal`, not
+  `cancelled`.
+- **`ultraplan`** / **`ultrareview`** — the poll, which checks every 3 seconds,
+  stops at its next check and the prompt settles as `cancelled`; the run carries
+  on.
+
+A cancel with **nothing in flight does nothing**.
+
+In council mode a cancel aborts the run, which removes its worktrees, and the prompt
+ends with `cancelled`. In ultraplan and ultrareview mode it ends the prompt with
+`cancelled` and abandons the poll.
 
 The session layer has **no mid-turn cancel** — `stopSession()` is the only lever and
-it destroys the session rather than pausing the turn. So the ACP turn returns
-promptly while the engine subprocess may take a moment longer to die, and any
+it destroys the session rather than pausing the turn. So in `single` mode the ACP
+turn returns promptly while the engine subprocess may take a moment longer to die, and any
 partial work in that turn is lost.
 
 ## Use from `dsh`
@@ -174,20 +228,49 @@ needed:
   config:
     providerName: clawo
     command: npx
-    args: ['-y', '@enderfga/claw-orchestrator', 'acp']
+    args: ['-y', '-p', '@enderfga/claw-orchestrator', 'clawo-acp']
     permission: reject
 ```
 
+With a global install, `command: clawo-acp` and `args: []` does the same.
+
 That provider collects **only `agent_message_chunk` text** into its result — it
 ignores tool calls and other updates — and runs a fresh subprocess per run with no
 parent context. The adapter therefore keeps the text stream self-sufficient: an
 engine that never streams still gets its whole answer emitted as one final chunk.
 
+## The `acp` engine: driving other ACP agents
+
+In the other direction, `engine: 'acp'` starts an ACP agent as a session and drives
+it as a client. One wrapper covers every such agent, with no per-agent parsing:
+
+```bash
+clawo engines                                              # lists the bundled presets
+clawo session-start kimi -e acp --acp-agent kimi-code -d ./project
+clawo session-send kimi "Fix the failing test in tests/test_io.py"
+```
+
+- `acpAgent` names the agent: a bundled preset id (`kimi-code`, `dsh`), or, from a
+  local caller only, an inline config (`name`, `command`, and optionally
+  `commandEnv`, `args`, `env`, `contextWindow`, `pricing`).
+- One agent process per session; each send is one `session/prompt` on one ACP
+  session. The client advertises no `fs` or `terminal` capability, so the agent
+  reads, writes and runs commands with its own tools.
+- `session/request_permission` is answered at once from the session's permission
+  mode: `bypassPermissions`, `acceptEdits`, `auto` and `dontAsk` allow, any other
+  mode (such as `plan`) rejects.
+- A resumed session reattaches the agent's own session id with `session/resume`, or
+  `session/load` when that is all the agent offers.
+
+The full reference — turn outcomes, cost, each preset's environment — is in
+[multi-engine.md](./multi-engine.md#acp-agents-engine-acp).
+
 ## Development notes
 
-Unit tests cover the translation helpers and the config-option shapes
-(`src/__tests__/acp-server.test.ts`). They cannot catch a corrupted frame
-stream, so also drive the real binary:
+Unit tests cover the translation helpers, the config-option shapes, and session
+and council behaviour over an in-process client connection
+(`src/__tests__/acp-server.test.ts`, `src/__tests__/acp-session-resume.test.ts`).
+They cannot catch a corrupted frame stream, so also drive the real binary:
 
 ```bash
 npm run build

package/skills/references/autoloop.md

@@ -28,12 +28,14 @@ This page is the operator reference.
 | **Coder**    | claude / sonnet | workspace                                      | code changes, eval execution                     |
 | **Reviewer** | claude / sonnet | `<workspace>/tasks/<run_id>/reviewer_sandbox/` | distrust audit; advance / hold / rollback        |
 
-Each role can use any built-in engine, or a `custom` engine config supplied by a
-local caller (custom engines name an executable, so the HTTP API does not accept
-them — see [tools.md](./tools.md)). If a non-Claude role omits `model`, that CLI
-uses its own default model rather than receiving the Claude `opus` / `sonnet`
-defaults. Role instructions are included in-band for engines that do not expose a
-native system-prompt flag.
+Each role can use any built-in engine except `acp`, or a `custom` engine config
+supplied by a local caller (custom engines name an executable, so the HTTP API
+does not accept them — see [tools.md](./tools.md)). `acp` is refused for every
+role: a role is configured by engine name alone and has no field for the ACP
+agent to start. If a non-Claude role omits `model`, that CLI uses its own default
+model rather than receiving the Claude `opus` / `sonnet` defaults. Claude receives
+each role's instructions as its system prompt; every other engine receives them
+in-band, at the top of each message to that role.
 
 Each role also accepts an optional fixed reasoning effort at run start:
 `planner_effort`, `coder_effort`, and `reviewer_effort`. Accepted values are
@@ -46,14 +48,15 @@ their existing behavior.
 Engines without native multi-turn conversation (one-shot custom engines) spawn a
 fresh process per send with nothing to resume, so the dispatcher replays that
 role's transcript in-band as a `<conversation_history>` block, oldest turns dropped
-past a character budget. Claude, Codex, Antigravity, Grok and OpenCode each
-resume their own conversation by id and get no replay — see
+past a character budget. Claude, Codex (`codex` and `codex-app`), Antigravity,
+Grok and OpenCode each resume their own conversation and get no replay — see
 `engineHasNativeConversation` in `types.ts`, which is the single source of truth for
 this and is checked with a two-turn recall test per engine.
 
 The Planner runs read-only so strategy cannot turn into source edits, and that is
 enforced by the engine rather than requested politely: Claude uses plan mode,
-Antigravity uses its plan mode, and OpenCode gets a generated
+Antigravity uses its plan mode, Codex and Grok run in their own read-only
+sandbox, and OpenCode gets a generated
 `clawo-readonly` agent that denies `edit`/`bash`/`external_directory` (its built-in
 `plan` agent is a user-overridable preset that denies neither, so a "read-only"
 session could otherwise still author files through a shell heredoc). A custom
@@ -90,7 +93,9 @@ failing with "Session not found".
 ## UX flow
 
 ```
-1. autoloop_start { run_id, workspace }       → Planner session ready (refuses if the workspace Git tree already has tracked, staged, untracked, or submodule changes — including when repository status configuration hides them, `status.showUntrackedFiles=no`, or the porcelain listing is too large to buffer; unexpected `git status` failures also refuse; untracked (`??`) or index-clean worktree modifications (` M`) under `tasks/<id>/` with a regular `tasks/<id>/goal.json` are ignored so a second start can proceed after a committed ledger is appended, including when workspace is a nested repo subdirectory after stripping a verified `show-prefix`; dirt outside the workspace still refuses; ignored paths and non-repo workspaces still start). On a Git workspace, after that dirty check passes, start creates `tasks/<runId>/.gitignore` with `*` as the first ledger file (accepting an existing exact `*`, `*\n`, or `*\r\n` without overwrite), proves the ledger is ignored via `git check-ignore`, and refuses with one fixed generic error when the ledger is tracked, the ignore file is partial/deceptive, or `tasks`/`tasks/<runId>` is not a real in-workspace directory (e.g. a committed `tasks` symlink). Failed proofs and later start failures retain the run-local dirs/`.gitignore` (never deleted). Does not write `info/exclude` or any repository-wide ignore. The same fresh-start boundary runs on the first boot of a workflow `autoloop` node (`visits === 1`); `autoloopResume` / `workflowResume` and later visits skip it. Non-Git starts are unchanged.
+1. autoloop_start { run_id, workspace }       → Planner session ready
+                                                (a Git workspace must be clean,
+                                                see below)
 2. autoloop_chat { run_id, "<your goal>" }    → Planner reads workspace,
                                                 drafts plan.md + goal.json,
                                                 asks "ready to spawn?"
@@ -105,6 +110,38 @@ failing with "Session not found".
 Stopping at a target or at `max_iters` from `goal.json` is the Planner's
 decision: the runtime does not evaluate `goal.json`.
 
+### Starting on a Git workspace
+
+On a Git workspace, `autoloop_start` refuses with _Autoloop workspace has
+uncommitted changes; commit or stash them before starting_ when the worktree has
+any tracked, staged, untracked or submodule change. Repository configuration
+cannot hide a change from this check (`status.showUntrackedFiles=no` included),
+and a status listing too large to buffer, or any unexpected `git status` failure,
+also refuses. The one exception is an earlier run's ledger: untracked (`??`) or
+index-clean modified (` M`) files under `tasks/<id>/` are ignored when
+`tasks/<id>/goal.json` is a regular file, so a second run can start after a
+committed ledger was appended to. This also holds when the workspace is a
+subdirectory of the repository; changes outside the workspace still refuse.
+Ignored paths and non-Git workspaces start normally.
+
+Once that check passes, start keeps the run's ledger out of Git before writing
+anything else to it:
+
+- It creates `tasks/<runId>/.gitignore` containing `*` as the ledger's first
+  file. An existing file whose content is exactly `*`, `*\n` or `*\r\n` is
+  accepted without being overwritten.
+- It proves with `git check-ignore` that the ledger is ignored.
+- It refuses with the fixed error _Autoloop could not isolate the run ledger
+  from Git_ when the ledger is tracked, the ignore file holds anything else, or
+  `tasks` / `tasks/<runId>` is not a real directory inside the workspace (for
+  example a committed `tasks` symlink).
+
+Nothing is deleted on failure: a failed proof or a later start failure leaves the
+run's directories and `.gitignore` in place. Start never writes
+`.git/info/exclude` or any repository-wide ignore. The same boundary runs on the
+first boot of a workflow `autoloop` node (`visits === 1`); `autoloopResume` /
+`workflowResume` and later visits skip it.
+
 ## Timeout hierarchy and recoverable sends
 
 Autoloop has three independent start-time controls. Their bounds are inclusive,
@@ -261,7 +298,8 @@ for the `CustomEngineConfig` shape.
 | on_decision_needed     | decision / both                                       |
 
 The runtime fires five of these itself: `on_stall_30min` (30 minutes without
-activity), `on_metric_regression_2`, `on_reviewer_reject_2` (two in a row),
+activity), `on_metric_regression_2` (two `rollback` verdicts in a row),
+`on_reviewer_reject_2` (two `hold` or `rollback` verdicts in a row),
 `on_phase_error`, and `on_target_hit` (only when an acceptance contract passes,
 see [Acceptance contracts](#acceptance-contracts)). `on_start`,
 `on_iter_done_ok` and `on_decision_needed` are policy entries for the Planner's
@@ -302,7 +340,8 @@ CLIs expose no such command. The threshold is still meaningful there because
 `contextPercent` tracks real occupancy, but crossing it cannot free space:
 the session emits a single warning on its log channel the first time compaction
 is requested, then the thread keeps growing until the CLI refuses the request.
-Treat that warning as the signal to start a fresh session.
+Treat that warning as the signal to start a fresh session. `codex-app` does
+compact, through the app-server's own thread compaction.
 
 ## Phase-error circuit
 
@@ -344,6 +383,8 @@ decisions:
 | `update_push_policy`     | Planner mutates the policy                         |
 | `policy_silence_blocked` | Planner tried to silence a critical channel        |
 | `phase_error`            | Surfaced from dispatcher to runner                 |
+| `send_timeout`           | A role's send hit `send_timeout_ms`; run paused    |
+| `timeout_migration`      | A resume raised `send_timeout_ms` (see above)      |
 | `terminate`              | Run ends (planner reason or `phase_error_circuit`) |
 
 JSONL, one entry per line, ts-prefixed.
@@ -353,19 +394,18 @@ JSONL, one entry per line, ts-prefixed.
 ```
 <workspace>/tasks/<run_id>/
 ├── .gitignore           # run-local `*`; first file on Git start; keeps the ledger out of status/add
-├── plan.md              # Planner-authored (workspace-root copies are what iters commit)
-├── goal.json            # Planner-authored (workspace-root copies are what iters commit)
 ├── push_log.jsonl       # every notify_user attempt + channel used
 ├── decisions.jsonl      # runner / dispatcher audit trail (see above)
-├── chat.jsonl           # Planner-pane conversation, replayed by /chat_history
+├── chat.jsonl           # chat for all three panes (user, Planner, Coder, Reviewer), replayed by /chat_history
+├── coder_log.jsonl      # one row per Coder `coder_log` call: { ts, iter, message }
 ├── evidence/iter-<n>/   # acceptance-contract bundle, when a contract is configured
 ├── reviewer_sandbox/    # Reviewer cwd; restaged per iter
-│   ├── plan.md          # copy
-│   ├── goal.json        # copy
+│   ├── plan.md          # copy of the workspace-root file
+│   ├── goal.json        # copy of the workspace-root file
 │   ├── iter-N/          # this iter's directive + diff + eval
 │   ├── prior_verdict.json
 │   ├── reviewer_memory.md   # persistent (frozen-injected at session start)
-│   └── reviewer_log.jsonl   # persistent (Reviewer's append-only audit log)
+│   └── reviewer_log.jsonl   # persistent; one row per Reviewer `reviewer_log` call: { ts, iter, message }
 └── iter/<n>/
     ├── directive.json     # Planner → Coder        (schema_version: 1)
     ├── eval_output.json   # what Coder reported     (schema_version: 1)
@@ -374,9 +414,10 @@ JSONL, one entry per line, ts-prefixed.
     └── coder_summary.txt
 ```
 
-On a Git workspace, `autoloop_start` writes `.gitignore` before other ledger
-files and fails closed unless `git check-ignore` confirms the ledger is
-ignored. The run-local ignore is self-contained: it does not rely on
+`plan.md` and `goal.json` live at the workspace root, where `write_plan` /
+`write_goal` put them; the Reviewer gets copies in its sandbox. On a Git
+workspace the ledger is kept out of Git by its own `.gitignore` (see
+[Starting on a Git workspace](#starting-on-a-git-workspace)); it does not rely on
 `.git/info/exclude` or a root `.gitignore` entry for `tasks/`.
 
 The orchestrator git-commits each iter automatically. Coder must NOT call
@@ -393,18 +434,83 @@ Every JSON artifact in the ledger carries a `schema_version` field (currently
 
 ## Backend HTTP / SSE
 
-| Endpoint                                 | Returns                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `GET /autoloop/list`                     | `{ ok, runs: AutoloopState[] }`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `POST /autoloop/new`                     | `{ ok, run_id, planner_session }` — body `{ workspace, run_id?, planner_engine?, planner_model?, coder_engine?, coder_model?, reviewer_engine?, reviewer_model?, send_timeout_ms?, activity_lease_ms?, autoloop_hard_timeout_ms? }`. Timeout fields use the defaults and inclusive bounds documented above; malformed or out-of-range values return 400 before a run starts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| `GET /autoloop/<id>/state`               | `{ ok, state: AutoloopState, live }` — `live` is `true` only when the run is running in this process. For a run that is not live here, `state` is the last state recorded in the run store, so historical runs open with their real iteration count. 404 when there is no such run.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `GET /autoloop/<id>/push_log`            | `{ ok, entries: PushLogEntry[] }` — served from the ledger via `autoloopStatus`, so historical runs work the same as live ones.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `GET /autoloop/<id>/chat_history`        | `{ ok, entries: ChatEntry[] }` — replays `<ledger>/chat.jsonl`. The dashboard fetches this when opening a run so the Planner-pane conversation survives a page refresh / cross-process / re-opening a terminated run. Returns `[]` when the file doesn't exist.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `GET /autoloop/<id>/events`              | SSE: `snapshot` / `message` / `state` / `push` / `iter_done` / `planner_reply` / `planner_error` / `coder_reply` / `reviewer_reply` / `terminated`. For runs that are NOT in this process's memory (terminated, or live in another process), the endpoint emits a single-shot `snapshot` + `terminated` then closes — the dashboard's existing handlers render history without hanging. A run still in memory that has already reached `terminated` or `crashed` gets the same single-shot pair instead of an open stream that would never receive another event. Every such stream sets `retry: 864000000`, so an `EventSource` does not keep reconnecting to a stream that can only end again.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| `POST /autoloop/<id>/chat`               | **202** `{ ok, queued: true }` — body `{ text }`. Fire-and-forget: the Planner's reply streams back via the `/events` SSE channel as a `planner_reply` event (or `planner_error` on failure); the HTTP response intentionally does NOT wait for it, because first-contact replies routinely exceed reverse-proxy idle limits (e.g. Cloudflare Tunnel cuts at ~100s → 524). 400 on empty text. 404 when the run is not in this process's memory: if the store still holds it, the error says so and names `POST /autoloop/<id>/resume`; an unknown or malformed id is plain `not found`. The MCP `autoloop_chat` tool path keeps the synchronous await-and-return-reply semantics (it runs in-process).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
-| `GET /autoloop/<id>/resume-requirements` | `{ ok, runId, rolesNeedingCustomEngine }` — the roles whose engine was `custom`, so a caller knows which secret references a resume needs. Role names only; nothing sensitive. 404 when there is no such run.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
-| `POST /autoloop/<id>/resume`             | `{ ok, state }` — for a live ordinary or activity-lease pause (`pending_dispatch` null), an empty timeout body continues that run: the response returns once status is `planning` or `running` again, the lease re-arms, the hard deadline stays put, and parked Planner input is then delivered once, in order. A live `awaiting_resume` pause is unchanged unless the body increases the send timeout. Otherwise restore the role engine/model choices from the run's spec and re-create dispatcher + runner. For recoverable send timeouts, body fields `send_timeout_ms` and `pending_dispatch_id` apply the increase-only migration described above; `allow_decrease`, lease overrides, and hard-cap overrides are rejected. A custom-engine config is never persisted and is never accepted over HTTP, so a role using `custom` is re-supplied by **reference**: `plannerCustomEngineRef` / `coderCustomEngineRef` / `reviewerCustomEngineRef` name an environment variable `CLAWO_CUSTOM_ENGINE_<NAME>` on the orchestrator host, which the server reads and resolves. The name is not sensitive, the value never crosses the wire, and an unknown name is an error rather than a silent start without credentials. Existing engine-specific conversation resume behavior is reused where supported; `chat.jsonl` remains the visual history fallback. 404 when there is no such run. |
-| `POST /autoloop/<id>/delete`             | `{ ok }` — stops the loop if still live, deletes the run record from the run store, and purges the role sessions' persisted resume ids so the run cannot be resumed. The ledger directory under `<workspace>/tasks/<run_id>/` is kept on disk. 404 when there is no such run.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| Endpoint                                 | Returns                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| ---------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `GET /autoloop/list`                     | `{ ok, runs: AutoloopState[] }`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `POST /autoloop/new`                     | `{ ok, run_id, planner_session }` — see [Starting a run](#starting-a-run). 409 when the workspace refuses the start (see [Starting on a Git workspace](#starting-on-a-git-workspace)).                                                                                              |
+| `GET /autoloop/<id>/state`               | `{ ok, state: AutoloopState, live }` — `live` is `true` only when the run is running in this process. For a run that is not live here, `state` is the last state recorded in the run store, so historical runs open with their real iteration count. 404 when there is no such run. |
+| `GET /autoloop/<id>/push_log`            | `{ ok, entries: PushLogEntry[] }` — served from the ledger via `autoloopStatus`, so historical runs work the same as live ones.                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `GET /autoloop/<id>/chat_history`        | `{ ok, entries: ChatEntry[] }` — replays `<ledger>/chat.jsonl`, so the dashboard's panes survive a page refresh, another process, or re-opening a terminated run. `[]` when the file doesn't exist.                                                                                 |
+| `GET /autoloop/<id>/events`              | SSE — see [Event stream](#event-stream).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| `POST /autoloop/<id>/chat`               | **202** `{ ok, queued: true }` — see [Chat over HTTP](#chat-over-http).                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| `GET /autoloop/<id>/resume-requirements` | `{ ok, runId, rolesNeedingCustomEngine }` — the roles whose engine was `custom`, so a caller knows which secret references a resume needs. Role names only; nothing sensitive. 404 when there is no such run.                                                                       |
+| `POST /autoloop/<id>/resume`             | `{ ok, state }` — see [Resume over HTTP](#resume-over-http). 404 when there is no such run.                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `POST /autoloop/<id>/delete`             | `{ ok }` — stops the loop if still live, deletes the run record from the run store, and purges the role sessions' persisted resume ids so the run cannot be resumed. The ledger directory under `<workspace>/tasks/<run_id>/` is kept on disk. 404 when there is no such run.       |
+
+### Starting a run
+
+`POST /autoloop/new` takes `{ workspace, run_id?, planner_engine?, planner_model?,
+planner_effort?, coder_engine?, coder_model?, coder_effort?, reviewer_engine?,
+reviewer_model?, reviewer_effort?, send_timeout_ms?, activity_lease_ms?,
+autoloop_hard_timeout_ms? }`. A `run_id` that is missing or does not match
+`^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,64}$` is replaced by a generated `auto-<timestamp>-<hex>`.
+Timeout fields use the defaults and inclusive bounds documented above; malformed
+or out-of-range values return 400 before a run starts. Custom-engine configs are
+not accepted over HTTP, so a `custom` role can only be started by a local caller.
+
+### Event stream
+
+`GET /autoloop/<id>/events` emits `snapshot` / `message` / `state` / `push` /
+`iter_done` / `planner_reply` / `planner_error` / `coder_reply` /
+`reviewer_reply` / `compact` / `terminated`.
+
+For a run that is NOT in this process's memory (terminated, or live in another
+process), the endpoint emits a single-shot `snapshot` + `terminated` then closes —
+the dashboard's existing handlers render history without hanging. A run still in
+memory that has already reached `terminated` or `crashed` gets the same
+single-shot pair instead of an open stream that would never receive another
+event. Every such stream sets `retry: 864000000`, so an `EventSource` does not
+keep reconnecting to a stream that can only end again.
+
+### Chat over HTTP
+
+`POST /autoloop/<id>/chat` takes `{ text }` and is fire-and-forget: the
+Planner's reply streams back on `/events` as a `planner_reply` event (or
+`planner_error` on failure). The HTTP response intentionally does not wait for
+it, because first-contact replies routinely exceed reverse-proxy idle limits
+(e.g. Cloudflare Tunnel cuts at ~100s → 524). The MCP `autoloop_chat` tool keeps
+the synchronous await-and-return-reply semantics (it runs in-process).
+
+400 on empty text. 404 when the run is not in this process's memory: if the
+store still holds it, the error says so and names `POST /autoloop/<id>/resume`;
+an unknown or malformed id is plain `not found`.
+
+### Resume over HTTP
+
+`POST /autoloop/<id>/resume` returns `{ ok, state }`.
+
+- **A live ordinary or activity-lease pause** (`pending_dispatch` null): an empty
+  timeout body continues that run. The response returns once status is
+  `planning` or `running` again, the lease re-arms, the hard deadline stays put,
+  and parked Planner input is then delivered once, in order.
+- **A live `awaiting_resume` pause** is unchanged unless the body increases the
+  send timeout.
+- **Otherwise** the role engine/model choices are restored from the run's spec
+  and the dispatcher and runner are re-created. Existing engine-specific
+  conversation resume is reused where supported; `chat.jsonl` remains the visual
+  history fallback.
+
+For recoverable send timeouts, body fields `send_timeout_ms` and
+`pending_dispatch_id` apply the increase-only migration described above;
+`allow_decrease`, lease overrides, and hard-cap overrides are rejected.
+
+A custom-engine config is never persisted and never accepted over HTTP, so a role
+using `custom` is re-supplied by **reference**: `plannerCustomEngineRef` /
+`coderCustomEngineRef` / `reviewerCustomEngineRef` name an environment variable
+`CLAWO_CUSTOM_ENGINE_<NAME>` on the orchestrator host, whose value is the JSON
+custom-engine config; the server reads and resolves it. The name is not
+sensitive, the value never crosses the wire, and an unknown name is an error
+rather than a silent start without credentials.
 
 The dashboard's 3-pane autoloop view (`/dashboard`) consumes these endpoints:
 
@@ -519,8 +625,8 @@ retries it.
 - **One-way push.** Replies to a push are not routed back to the Planner;
   answer with `autoloop_chat`.
 - **No fork / population mode.** Single linear iter trajectory per run.
-- **Cross-run knowledge isolated.** Each run's `reviewer_memory.md` and
-  `coder_notes.md` live in that run's ledger; there is no shared store.
+- **Cross-run knowledge isolated.** Each run's `reviewer_memory.md` lives in
+  that run's ledger; there is no shared store.
 - **No cost cap.** `maxBudgetUsd` is not exposed for autoloop. Wall-clock time
   is bounded by `autoloop_hard_timeout_ms` (default 24 h); the iteration count
   is bounded only by the Planner honouring `max_iters` in `goal.json`.