@openparachute/agent 0.1.2 → 0.2.0

package/src/sandbox/types.ts

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+/**
+ * Agent-spec + Sandbox contract types.
+ *
+ * The **agent spec** (design §4.1) is the single declaration of everything an
+ * arm may reach: its MCP surface (channels + vault), its network egress, and its
+ * filesystem view. Scope and isolation are both read off this one object, so
+ * there is exactly one place that says "what is this arm allowed to touch."
+ *
+ *   design/2026-06-14-sandboxed-agent-sessions.md §4.1, §4.4, §4.5
+ *
+ * The Sandbox **contract** (design §3.1) is held constant; the **mechanism**
+ * varies by platform (Seatbelt on macOS, bubblewrap on Linux) behind it. v1
+ * ships one backend (Anthropic's sandbox-runtime); the escalation rung (§3.4 —
+ * gVisor / full VM) is a second backend added later without touching callers.
+ */
+
+/** Read/write mode for a declared mount. */
+export type MountMode = "ro" | "rw";
+
+/**
+ * A filesystem bind beyond the implicit workspace + runtime/config. Each entry
+ * binds a host path to a mount path at `ro` or `rw` (design §4.5).
+ *
+ * On macOS the sandbox profile is glob-capable, so `hostPath` may contain glob
+ * patterns; on Linux it must be a literal path (the runtime does not glob there).
+ * For v1 we bind the host path directly (`mountPath` is recorded for the future
+ * bubblewrap bind-remap and for the spec→mandate seam, §4.6 — it does not change
+ * the v1 Seatbelt path, which has no path-remapping layer).
+ */
+export interface AgentMount {
+  /** Path on the host to expose into the session. */
+  hostPath: string;
+  /** Path the session sees it at. Recorded for the future bind-remap; see note above. */
+  mountPath: string;
+  /** Read-only or read-write. */
+  mode: MountMode;
+  /**
+   * Opt-in cross-session share by name (design §4.5). A deliberate hole in
+   * session-to-session isolation — honored here, but the trust caveat (prefer
+   * shared-`ro` from the producer, never shared-`rw` across a trust boundary) is
+   * doc-level for v1. Plumbed through so a future use is a considered decision.
+   */
+  shared?: string;
+}
+
+/** The vault binding for an arm: which vault, what access, optionally tag-scoped. */
+export interface AgentVaultSpec {
+  /** Vault instance name (e.g. "default"). */
+  name: string;
+  /** Access verb minted into the vault token. */
+  access: "read" | "write" | "admin";
+  /**
+   * Optional tag scope — narrows the minted vault token to these tags via the
+   * `permissions.scoped_tags` claim (e.g. `["#agent/message"]`). Omitted = the
+   * verb's full scope across the vault.
+   */
+  tags?: string[];
+}
+
+/** An additional MCP server to wire in, by URL (design §4.1 `otherMcps`). */
+export interface OtherMcpSpec {
+  /** Entry key in the generated `mcpServers` object. */
+  name: string;
+  /** Streamable-HTTP MCP URL. */
+  url: string;
+  /**
+   * Scope to mint a token for, if this MCP is hub-gated. Omitted = no token
+   * (an unauthenticated / externally-authenticated MCP).
+   */
+  scope?: string;
+  /** Audience to mint the token under. Defaults to inferred from scope by the hub. */
+  audience?: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * An agent spec — the complete least-privilege envelope for one launched arm
+ * (design §4.1). `egress` and `mounts` are additive to a non-removable base; the
+ * spec only ever *adds*.
+ */
+/**
+ * A channel binding for an arm. A bare string is shorthand for `{ name, access:
+ * "write" }` (back-compat — the common read+write single-threaded session); the object
+ * form scopes a channel read-only so an arm that only *watches* a channel mints
+ * `agent:read` and never `agent:write` (the "scope an arm to channel X
+ * read-only" use case).
+ */
+export interface AgentChannelSpec {
+  /** Channel name (the `/mcp/<channel>` segment). */
+  name: string;
+  /**
+   * Channel access. `"write"` (default) mints `agent:read agent:write`;
+   * `"read"` mints `agent:read` only — the arm can be woken + read the channel
+   * but cannot reply.
+   */
+  access?: "read" | "write";
+}
+
+/** A channel entry: a bare name (= write access) or the scoped object form. */
+export type AgentChannel = string | AgentChannelSpec;
+
+/**
+ * Which backend drives the agent (design 2026-06-16-pluggable-agent-backend.md +
+ * 2026-06-18-channel-backend.md). There are exactly TWO — the `interactive` (tmux)
+ * backend was RETIRED 2026-06-19 (design 2026-06-19-retire-interactive-backend.md);
+ * `channel` is what it was reaching for, done right:
+ *
+ *  - `"programmatic"` (the DEFAULT): NO resident process. An inbound message becomes
+ *    one on-demand `claude -p --resume <sid>` turn ({@link AgentBackend}); the reply
+ *    is posted back as an outbound `#agent/message/outbound` note. No idle session →
+ *    nothing to go deaf, no reconnect, no replay, no consent gate. The reliable
+ *    primary path; best for clean per-message "do a task, report back" turns.
+ *  - `"attached"` (design 2026-06-18-channel-backend.md; the backend value was named
+ *    `"channel"` before this rename — see the BACK-COMPAT note below): the turn is
+ *    delivered over a channel to a Claude Code session the OPERATOR runs themselves
+ *    (their machine, their env/creds, unsandboxed) and has connected (is "attached") to
+ *    the channel's MCP endpoint. The daemon runs NO `claude -p`; the inbound
+ *    `#agent/message/inbound` notes accumulate as a durable queue (the vault IS the
+ *    queue). The connected session PULLs the next message (an MCP tool), works, and
+ *    REPLYs (an MCP tool) — the daemon writes the outbound note + marks the inbound
+ *    handled. Routed to the {@link AttachedQueueRegistry}, entirely bypassing the
+ *    programmatic serial worker (the daemon routing fork). Claim state lives on the
+ *    inbound note's `status` (`pending | in-flight | handled`), so it's restart-safe.
+ *
+ * BACK-COMPAT (backend VALUE rename `"channel"` → `"attached"`): an already-persisted
+ * def (or `spec.json`) whose `backend` is the legacy `"channel"` is DUAL-READ —
+ * normalized to `"attached"` on read (`parseAgentDef` in agent-defs.ts; the daemon
+ * routing fork also accepts a legacy un-normalized value defensively). Only the new
+ * `"attached"` value is ever WRITTEN. (Note: the ROUTING KEY `channel` — the agent's
+ * address, the `/mcp/<channel>` URL segment, `metadata.channel` on notes — is a
+ * SEPARATE concept and is deliberately unchanged.)
+ *
+ * BACK-COMPAT (retired `interactive`): a persisted `spec.json` that carries the retired
+ * `backend:"interactive"` value (or omits `backend` entirely — pre-field specs were
+ * interactive) is no longer re-registered on boot (the boot re-register reads
+ * `spec.backend === "programmatic"` exactly; anything else is skipped — see daemon.ts),
+ * so a stale interactive spec on disk is inert, never migrated and never launched.
+ */
+export type AgentBackendKind = "programmatic" | "attached";
+
+/**
+ * How a channel's {@link AgentSpec.systemPrompt} composes with Claude Code's own
+ * default system prompt (design 2026-06-16-channel-system-prompt.md):
+ *
+ *   - `"append"` (DEFAULT): KEEP Claude Code's capable default system prompt
+ *     (~2.4k tokens of tool/agentic instruction) and ADD the channel's role on top
+ *     — `claude -p --append-system-prompt(-file) <X>`. The right default: the
+ *     channel gets strong specificity without losing CC's base competence.
+ *   - `"replace"`: REPLACE the default entirely with the channel's prompt —
+ *     `claude -p --system-prompt(-file) <X>`. A fully-custom persona for an
+ *     operator who wants total control of the system layer (and leanness on the
+ *     subscription — fewer base tokens per turn).
+ *
+ * Either mode is orthogonal to CLAUDE.md, which is a SEPARATE context layer
+ * unaffected by both flags (only `--bare` would drop it — and `--bare` is
+ * deliberately NOT implemented; see the design note: it is API-key-only by design
+ * and would force metered billing off the subscription).
+ */
+export type SystemPromptMode = "append" | "replace";
+
+/**
+ * The agent's EXECUTION-LIFECYCLE mode — how a turn relates to the agent's
+ * conversation thread (the architecture synthesis, Phase 3 prerequisite). The UNIFIED
+ * model is `definition -> thread -> message`: EVERYTHING is a thread, and BOTH modes
+ * materialize a `#agent/thread` note (the structural unification — a "run" was always a
+ * thread with one turn). An agent is either SINGLE-THREADED or MULTI-THREADED; the
+ * distinction is defined entirely by `claude -p` session-id semantics + the thread's
+ * identity:
+ *
+ *  - `"single-threaded"` (DEFAULT; = today's behavior): ONE persistent session id
+ *    per channel. Each turn `--resume`s the stored id and persists the returned id
+ *    after — the channel transcript IS the thread. It materializes exactly ONE
+ *    `#agent/thread` note per channel, named after the definition, UPSERTED in place
+ *    each turn; the note body holds a rolling SUMMARY of the conversation (turn_count +
+ *    cumulative usage roll up). A scheduled runner job for a single-threaded def is a
+ *    synthetic inbound that RESUMES that one thread (continuing the chat). This is
+ *    exactly what every agent does today (plus the now-materialized thread note).
+ *
+ *  - `"multi-threaded"`: turns are THREAD-KEYED. TODAY — because no inbound carries
+ *    a thread id yet — every fire mints a FRESH thread: do NOT read the prior session
+ *    id (no `--resume`) and do NOT persist the returned id to the channel store, so
+ *    each fire is a clean, independent invocation with no conversation continuity. It
+ *    materializes ONE `#agent/thread` note per FIRE (the per-fire record: input + reply
+ *    + status + timing). This is what an operator reaches for when a scheduled job
+ *    should be a clean task run, NOT a silent continuation of the chat thread.
+ *
+ *    ("one-shot" was the prior name for this mode — it was only ever the DEGENERATE
+ *    FIRST-TURN of a multi-threaded agent, so the term retires. Continuation-by-
+ *    thread-id — resuming a SPECIFIC prior thread — is a DEFERRED increment: it needs
+ *    thread-id routing on the inbound, a thread-keyed session store, per-thread drain
+ *    serialization, and recording the minted session/thread id into the thread note so
+ *    a thread becomes resumable. When it lands, the SAME mode simply gains continuation
+ *    with NO operator-facing change and NO migration; the fresh-per-fire shape that ships
+ *    now is its degenerate case.)
+ */
+export type AgentMode = "single-threaded" | "multi-threaded";
+
+export interface AgentSpec {
+  /** Human-readable arm name; used as the tmux session + workspace slug. */
+  name: string;
+  /**
+   * Channels to attach (one MCP entry each). Each entry is a bare name (read+write,
+   * back-compat) or `{ name, access: "read" }` to scope a channel read-only.
+   */
+  channels: AgentChannel[];
+  /**
+   * WORKING DIRECTORY — a real host path the agent operates from (design
+   * 2026-06-16-agent-filesystem-and-sharing.md, the working-directory axis). When
+   * set, this absolute path becomes the agent's CWD and an rw working-root in the
+   * sandbox (it's bound rw + readable, exactly like an `rw` mount that is also the
+   * cwd). It is SHAREABLE — two agents (or a runner job, or a plain script) can
+   * point at the same dir (shared-rw concurrency is a known, deferred caveat; the
+   * agents step on each other like humans in a repo without git discipline).
+   *
+   * CRITICAL — the working dir is DECOUPLED from the agent's PRIVATE RUNTIME HOME.
+   * The seeded `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` (`seedAgentHome`), `tmp`, `spec.json`,
+   * `system-prompt.txt`, and ESPECIALLY `.mcp.json` (which inlines the scoped
+   * vault/channel tokens — secrets) STAY in the per-agent private `sessions/<name>/`
+   * dir, 0600, NEVER written into this shared `workspace`. The governing principle
+   * (the design note's "line"): capability/credential/state is per-agent private;
+   * the working dir is shareable. `--mcp-config` / `--system-prompt-file` point at
+   * the private dir by ABSOLUTE path, so they're unaffected by the cwd change.
+   *
+   * Unset → today's behavior EXACTLY: the cwd is the private `sessions/<name>` dir
+   * (which is also the synthetic workspace).
+   */
+  workspace?: string;
+  /** Optional vault binding. */
+  vault?: AgentVaultSpec;
+  /** Additional MCP servers, by URL. */
+  otherMcps?: OtherMcpSpec[];
+  /**
+   * Filesystem READ scope — ONE of Anthropic's two containment boundaries
+   * (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-sandboxing). Orthogonal to
+   * {@link network} — the agent's reach into the local disk and its reach onto the
+   * network are independent controls, deliberately NOT bundled.
+   *
+   *   - `"workspace"` (DEFAULT): SCOPED reads. The home tree (`/Users` on macOS,
+   *     `/home` on Linux) is DENIED, then re-allowed ONLY for the per-session
+   *     workspace + the claude runtime + declared mounts. The agent literally
+   *     cannot read the operator's secrets — `~/.parachute/operator.token` (the
+   *     hub bearer), SSH keys, other projects — even though the network is open.
+   *     This is the security-correct default: scoped disk, exfiltration surface
+   *     removed at the source.
+   *
+   *   - `"full"`: BROAD reads (the runtime default — the whole filesystem is
+   *     readable). An explicit, deliberate escape hatch for the rare agent that
+   *     genuinely needs to read across the operator's disk AND is trusted not to
+   *     leak it. Combined with `network: "open"` this is the maximum-reach posture
+   *     — only choose it knowingly.
+   *
+   * WRITES are confined to the per-session workspace + rw mounts in BOTH cases
+   * (the agent can never corrupt the operator's files or escape its workspace),
+   * exactly per Anthropic's "read/write the cwd, block outside" model.
+   */
+  filesystem?: "workspace" | "full";
+  /**
+   * Network egress — the SECOND containment boundary, orthogonal to
+   * {@link filesystem}:
+   *
+   *   - `"open"` (DEFAULT): full internet, no restriction. The right default for
+   *     an owner-operated agent on a trusted box (claude needs the network to be
+   *     useful) — SAFE because the `"workspace"` filesystem default already keeps
+   *     local secrets unreadable, so "open network" can't exfiltrate what the
+   *     agent can't see.
+   *
+   *   - `"restricted"`: egress confined to a non-removable base
+   *     (`{ Anthropic API, hub/vault }`) UNIONed with {@link egress}. For an agent
+   *     fed FOREIGN/untrusted input, where you want to bound where it can reach
+   *     even for data it legitimately holds.
+   */
+  network?: "open" | "restricted";
+  /**
+   * Network egress hosts ADDITIVE to the non-removable base — only meaningful
+   * under `network: "restricted"` (when the network is `"open"` this is ignored).
+   * A restricted code-building agent opens exactly the package/source hosts it
+   * needs here.
+   */
+  egress?: string[];
+  /**
+   * Filesystem mounts — ADDITIVE to the default private per-session workspace
+   * (rw) + the implicit runtime/claude-config (ro). Under `filesystem:
+   * "workspace"` (the default) these are the ONLY host paths re-allowed for
+   * reads beyond the workspace — mount the project you want the agent to work on.
+   */
+  mounts?: AgentMount[];
+  /**
+   * Which stored Claude credential to inject (design §6). Default = "operator".
+   * This stream injects the credential as a passed-in param/placeholder; Stream 3
+   * builds the real per-channel secret store.
+   */
+  credentialRef?: string;
+  /**
+   * Which backend drives the agent (design 2026-06-16-pluggable-agent-backend.md +
+   * 2026-06-18-channel-backend.md) — `"programmatic"` (the default; on-demand
+   * `claude -p` turns, no resident process) or `"attached"` (handled by a Claude Code
+   * session the operator connects — "attaches" — to the channel's MCP endpoint; the
+   * value was named `"channel"` before the rename, dual-read on load). The `interactive`
+   * (tmux) backend was retired 2026-06-19. See {@link AgentBackendKind}. Persisted in
+   * spec.json so a daemon restart re-registers a programmatic agent on boot.
+   */
+  backend?: AgentBackendKind;
+  /**
+   * Which model the PROGRAMMATIC backend runs the turn on — passed verbatim to
+   * `claude -p --model <value>`. Accepts a Claude Code alias (`opus` / `sonnet` /
+   * `haiku`) or a full model id (e.g. `claude-opus-4-8`). Unset → no `--model`
+   * flag, so the turn inherits Claude Code's own default (Sonnet today). Only the
+   * programmatic backend reads this (a `channel`-backend turn runs in the
+   * operator's own session, whose model the operator controls). Set from the def's
+   * `metadata.model`; persisted in spec.json. NOT shell-interpolated — it's a
+   * discrete argv element, so an arbitrary string can't inject.
+   */
+  model?: string;
+  /**
+   * Per-channel system prompt — the operator gives the channel a specific role,
+   * backend-visible, so the agent gets strong specificity decoupled from the
+   * workspace + CLAUDE.md (design 2026-06-16-channel-system-prompt.md). Set when
+   * creating/configuring the channel; written to a per-session file and passed on
+   * EVERY `claude -p` turn (the flags are per-invocation, not persistent — a
+   * `--resume` turn re-passes it too). Unset → today's behavior (CC's default
+   * prompt, untouched). Persisted in spec.json.
+   */
+  systemPrompt?: string;
+  /**
+   * How {@link systemPrompt} composes with Claude Code's default system prompt —
+   * `"append"` (DEFAULT, keep CC's base + add the role) or `"replace"` (full
+   * custom persona). Only meaningful when `systemPrompt` is set. See
+   * {@link SystemPromptMode}.
+   */
+  systemPromptMode?: SystemPromptMode;
+  /**
+   * The execution-lifecycle mode (the Phase-3 prerequisite). `"single-threaded"`
+   * (DEFAULT, = today): one persistent session per channel, `--resume`d + persisted
+   * each turn, the channel transcript is the thread. `"multi-threaded"`: thread-keyed —
+   * today (no inbound thread id yet) every fire mints a fresh thread (no `--resume`, the
+   * returned session id is NOT persisted to the channel store). BOTH modes now materialize
+   * an `#agent/thread` note (the unified model `definition -> thread -> message`): a
+   * single-threaded agent upserts ONE thread note per channel (named after the def, rolling
+   * summary); a multi-threaded agent writes one thread note per fire. Read at the
+   * session-handling chokepoint (the programmatic backend's `deliver` resume block) +
+   * governs the thread note's identity (one-per-channel upsert vs one-per-fire). Persisted
+   * in spec.json (set from the def's `metadata.mode`). See {@link AgentMode}.
+   */
+  mode?: AgentMode;
+  /**
+   * The `#agent/definition` note id this agent was instantiated from — the
+   * provenance carried into the `#agent/thread` note a turn materializes (so a thread
+   * record links back to its def; BOTH modes). A plain id STRING for now (interim — typed
+   * link fields are a future vault feature). Set by {@link parseAgentDef} from the note
+   * id; unset for a spec not sourced from a def note (then the thread note carries no
+   * definition link).
+   */
+  definition?: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The default workspace + runtime binds the contract always grants, independent
+ * of any spec. The caller supplies the concrete paths (resolved against the
+ * session's state dir + the runtime/config location) — keeping this module
+ * free of filesystem-layout assumptions and test-sandboxable.
+ */
+export interface BaseBinds {
+  /** Private per-session workspace (rw). */
+  workspace: string;
+  /**
+   * Read-only runtime/claude-config paths the session needs to run `claude`
+   * (e.g. the claude config dir). Always bound `ro`.
+   */
+  runtimeReadOnly: string[];
+}
+
+/** Platform the Sandbox config is being built for. */
+export type SandboxPlatform = "darwin" | "linux";
+
+/**
+ * Normalize a channel entry (bare name or object) to `{ name, access }`. A bare
+ * string defaults to `write` (back-compat); the object form defaults to `write`
+ * when `access` is omitted.
+ */
+export function normalizeChannel(ch: AgentChannel): { name: string; access: "read" | "write" } {
+  if (typeof ch === "string") return { name: ch, access: "write" };
+  return { name: ch.name, access: ch.access ?? "write" };
+}

package/src/services-manifest.test.ts

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+import { describe, test, expect } from "bun:test";
+import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, existsSync } from "fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "os";
+import { join } from "path";
+import { resolveManifestPath, upsertService, listVaultNames, type ServiceEntry } from "./services-manifest.ts";
+
+function tmp(): string {
+  return join(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "pc-manifest-")), "services.json");
+}
+
+const AGENT: ServiceEntry = {
+  name: "parachute-agent",
+  port: 1941,
+  paths: ["/agent"],
+  health: "/health",
+  version: "0.1.0",
+  displayName: "Agent",
+  stripPrefix: true,
+};
+
+describe("resolveManifestPath", () => {
+  test("honors PARACHUTE_HOME (sandbox for tests/e2e)", () => {
+    expect(resolveManifestPath({ PARACHUTE_HOME: "/tmp/sandbox" })).toBe("/tmp/sandbox/services.json");
+  });
+  test("falls back to HOME/.parachute", () => {
+    expect(resolveManifestPath({ HOME: "/home/x" })).toBe("/home/x/.parachute/services.json");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("upsertService", () => {
+  test("creates the manifest with the entry on first write", () => {
+    const path = tmp();
+    upsertService(AGENT, path);
+    const m = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
+    expect(m.services).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(m.services[0].name).toBe("parachute-agent");
+    expect(m.services[0].paths).toEqual(["/agent"]);
+    expect(m.services[0].stripPrefix).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  test("carries startCmd so the hub supervisor can start/restart/adopt the module (agent#34)", () => {
+    const path = tmp();
+    upsertService({ ...AGENT, startCmd: ["parachute-agent"] }, path);
+    const m = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
+    expect(m.services[0].startCmd).toEqual(["parachute-agent"]);
+  });
+
+  test("is idempotent — re-registering the same name does not duplicate", () => {
+    const path = tmp();
+    upsertService(AGENT, path);
+    upsertService({ ...AGENT, version: "0.1.1" }, path);
+    const m = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
+    expect(m.services).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(m.services[0].version).toBe("0.1.1"); // module wins for fields it owns
+  });
+
+  test("merges — preserves hub-stamped fields the module doesn't author", () => {
+    const path = tmp();
+    // hub stamped installDir onto the row; module re-registers without it.
+    writeFileSync(path, JSON.stringify({ services: [{ ...AGENT, installDir: "/hub/stamped" }] }));
+    upsertService(AGENT, path);
+    const m = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
+    expect(m.services[0].installDir).toBe("/hub/stamped");
+  });
+
+  test("preserves other modules' entries", () => {
+    const path = tmp();
+    writeFileSync(path, JSON.stringify({ services: [{ name: "parachute-vault", port: 1940, paths: ["/vault/default"], health: "/vault/default/health", version: "0.5.2" }] }));
+    upsertService(AGENT, path);
+    const m = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
+    expect(m.services).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(m.services.map((s: ServiceEntry) => s.name).sort()).toEqual(["parachute-agent", "parachute-vault"]);
+  });
+
+  test("throws on a malformed manifest rather than clobbering it", () => {
+    const path = tmp();
+    writeFileSync(path, JSON.stringify({ not_services: true }));
+    expect(() => upsertService(AGENT, path)).toThrow(/malformed/);
+    expect(existsSync(path)).toBe(true); // original left intact
+    expect(JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"))).toEqual({ not_services: true }); // content untouched
+  });
+});
+
+describe("listVaultNames", () => {
+  test("extracts vault names from the vault module's /vault/<name> paths, default first", () => {
+    const path = tmp();
+    writeFileSync(path, JSON.stringify({ services: [
+      { name: "parachute-vault", port: 1940, paths: ["/vault/boulder", "/vault/default", "/vault/techne"], health: "x", version: "1" },
+      { name: "parachute-agent", port: 1941, paths: ["/agent"], health: "x", version: "1" },
+    ] }));
+    expect(listVaultNames(path)).toEqual(["default", "boulder", "techne"]);
+  });
+
+  test("dedupes across services and ignores non-vault paths", () => {
+    const path = tmp();
+    writeFileSync(path, JSON.stringify({ services: [
+      { name: "a", port: 1, paths: ["/vault/x", "/other"], health: "x", version: "1" },
+      { name: "b", port: 2, paths: ["/vault/x", "/vault/y"], health: "x", version: "1" },
+    ] }));
+    expect(listVaultNames(path).sort()).toEqual(["x", "y"]);
+  });
+
+  test("returns [] when the manifest is absent or unreadable", () => {
+    expect(listVaultNames(join(tmpdir(), "does-not-exist-" + Math.floor(performance.now()), "services.json"))).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});

package/src/services-manifest.ts

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+/**
+ * Self-registration into `~/.parachute/services.json` on daemon boot.
+ *
+ * Mirrors `parachute-scribe/src/services-manifest.ts` deliberately — the file
+ * shape is the contract between every Parachute module and the hub
+ * (`parachute-hub/src/services-manifest.ts` is the canonical reader). Hub reads
+ * this to know the module's port, the paths it should reverse-proxy
+ * (`/agent/*` over the expose → this daemon on loopback), and the version.
+ *
+ * Best-effort: any write error is logged + swallowed by the caller. The daemon
+ * still serves locally even if registration fails. Honors `PARACHUTE_HOME` so
+ * sandboxed/test/e2e daemons never touch the operator's real services.json.
+ */
+import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, renameSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { homedir } from "node:os";
+import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
+
+export interface ServiceEntry {
+  name: string;
+  port: number;
+  paths: string[];
+  health: string;
+  version: string;
+  displayName?: string;
+  tagline?: string;
+  installDir?: string;
+  stripPrefix?: boolean;
+  /** Hub-stamped fields (e.g. installDir) ride along; the upsert merges. */
+  [key: string]: unknown;
+}
+
+interface ServicesManifest {
+  services: ServiceEntry[];
+}
+
+/** Canonical services.json path. Honors PARACHUTE_HOME for sandbox/test runs. */
+export function resolveManifestPath(env: Record<string, string | undefined> = process.env): string {
+  const base = env.PARACHUTE_HOME ?? join(env.HOME ?? homedir(), ".parachute");
+  return join(base, "services.json");
+}
+
+function readManifest(path: string): ServicesManifest {
+  if (!existsSync(path)) return { services: [] };
+  const raw = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
+  if (!raw || typeof raw !== "object" || !Array.isArray((raw as { services?: unknown }).services)) {
+    throw new Error(`services manifest at ${path} is malformed (missing "services" array)`);
+  }
+  return raw as ServicesManifest;
+}
+
+/**
+ * List the vault instance names installed on this host, from the vault module's
+ * registered `paths` (`/vault/<name>` → `<name>`). Used by the agents page's vault
+ * picker so an operator chooses from real vaults instead of typing a name blind.
+ * Best-effort: returns `[]` if the manifest is absent/unreadable (the picker then
+ * falls back to free text). Deduped + sorted; `default` floated first if present.
+ */
+export function listVaultNames(path: string = resolveManifestPath()): string[] {
+  let manifest: ServicesManifest;
+  try {
+    manifest = readManifest(path);
+  } catch {
+    return [];
+  }
+  const names = new Set<string>();
+  for (const svc of manifest.services) {
+    for (const p of svc.paths ?? []) {
+      // `paths` are operator-registered route prefixes, not URLs — take the literal
+      // segment (no decodeURIComponent: a stray %2F could synthesize a slash-bearing
+      // vault name, and real vault names are plain slugs).
+      const m = /^\/vault\/([^/]+)/.exec(p);
+      if (m && m[1]) names.add(m[1]);
+    }
+  }
+  const sorted = [...names].sort((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b));
+  // Float "default" to the front — it's the conventional primary vault.
+  return sorted.sort((a, b) => (a === "default" ? -1 : b === "default" ? 1 : 0));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Idempotent upsert of a service entry. Merges into any existing row rather
+ * than replacing it — preserves hub-stamped fields the module doesn't own.
+ * Atomic write: stages to a tmp file, then renames over the target so a crash
+ * mid-write leaves the prior file intact.
+ */
+export function upsertService(entry: ServiceEntry, path: string = resolveManifestPath()): void {
+  mkdirSync(dirname(path), { recursive: true });
+  const manifest = readManifest(path);
+  const idx = manifest.services.findIndex((s) => s.name === entry.name);
+  if (idx >= 0) manifest.services[idx] = { ...manifest.services[idx], ...entry };
+  else manifest.services.push(entry);
+  const tmp = `${path}.tmp-${process.pid}-${Date.now()}`;
+  writeFileSync(tmp, `${JSON.stringify(manifest, null, 2)}\n`);
+  renameSync(tmp, path);
+}