@ours.network/fleet 0.15.7 → 0.16.0

package/README.md

@@ -237,8 +237,27 @@ Security boundaries:
 - tests use temporary fleet homes, fake supervisors/identity providers, and
   isolated tmux sockets—never active role state.
 
-Permanent spawns are written to `~/fleet.d/<Name>.yaml` — your hand-written
-`~/fleet.yaml` is **never** machine-edited. `ours-fleet rm <Name>` unspawns.
+Permanent spawns are written to `~/fleet.d/<Name>.yaml`; the CLI never edits your
+hand-written `~/fleet.yaml`. `ours-fleet rm <Name>` unspawns.
+
+The web console is the one writer that can touch the base file, and it saves the
+file as a whole document: its setup wizard and configuration editor may create,
+change or remove any top-level block, including `vars:`, `defaults:`, `roles:`,
+`watchdogs:` and `loops:`. (`defaults:`, `watchdogs:` and `loops:` can only live
+in the base file — a `~/fleet.d/*.yaml` drop-in may declare `roles:` and nothing
+else.) Top-level keys the console does not recognise are round-tripped untouched.
+
+Console edits are applied as surgical splices against the file's exact bytes, so
+an unchanged save is a byte-for-byte no-op and lines outside the edit keep their
+comments, spacing and quoting. One bounded exception: changing the *length* of a
+block sequence — adding or removing an entry under `watch:`, `oversee:`, `roles:`
+or `wake_sources:` — rewrites that one collection as a whole, which drops inline
+comments written on its individual items. The loss is confined to the collection
+you edited, is shown in the diff before anything is written, and can be declined
+by not saving. Each write is revision-guarded, reviewed as a diff of the real
+file, validated with the real loader, and preceded by a timestamped backup.
+Values under `env:` — and the `vars:` entries they interpolate — are masked in
+the diff and never leave the host.
 
 From inside Claude Code, Codex, or Hermes with the core `ours` plugin installed,
 say **"spawn an ours agent …"**. The core skill checks for `ours-fleet`, installs

package/dist/docs.d.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * Keep this concise enough to place directly in an agent context. Unlike
  * Commander's per-command help, this describes how the pieces compose.
  */
-export declare const AI_DOCS = "# ours-fleet reference\n\nours-fleet runs persistent or temporary, identity-bound AI roles. A role selects\na harness independently from its session backend:\n\n- harness: `claude-code` or `codex`\n- session: `tmux` (default) or `acp`\n- lifetime: permanent (supervised, restartable) or `spawn --temp`\n\n## Discover and validate\n\n```sh\nours-fleet docs                         # this complete reference (`man` is an alias)\nours-fleet help <command>               # exact flags for one command\nours-fleet config [-c FILE]             # validate and print the merged plan; no changes\nours-fleet doctor [-c FILE] [--harness codex|claude-code]\n```\n\nDefault configuration is `~/fleet.yaml` plus sorted `~/fleet.d/*.yaml` role\ndrop-ins. An explicit `-c FILE` replaces `~/fleet.yaml`; fleet.d still adds\nroles. Validate with `config` and `doctor` before starting or restarting.\n\n## Lifecycle and console commands\n\n```sh\nours-fleet init\nours-fleet up|down [Name...]\nours-fleet restart [Name...]            # preserve/resume harness context\nours-fleet force-restart [Name...]      # fresh context; briefing is reloaded\nours-fleet ls\nours-fleet status|peek|attach|logs Name\nours-fleet logs -f Name\nours-fleet send Name \"prompt\"\nours-fleet send Name --key Enter        # tmux only\nours-fleet rm Name\nours-fleet watchdog-report <name> [run-id] [--list] [--json]\nours-fleet watchdog-run <name>\n```\n\n`peek`, `attach`, and text `send` work with tmux and ACP. ACP attachment\nalso accepts `/permit <permission-id> <option-id>`, `/interrupt`, and\n`/detach`. Raw `--key` input is tmux-only.\n\n## Local web console\n\nThe npm package includes the web console; installed users do not clone the repo\nor run `npm run build`:\n\n```sh\nnpm i -g @ours.network/fleet\nours-fleet init\nours-fleet doctor\nours-fleet web                         # install/update service, start, pair browser\n```\n\nThe normal command uses stable `http://127.0.0.1:49271/`, installs an\nowner-level systemd user service (Linux) or LaunchAgent (macOS), and opens a\nfive-minute one-use pairing link in the local browser. After pairing, bookmark\nthe plain URL or install the PWA. To pair a new, signed-out, or revoked browser,\nrun `ours-fleet web open`.\n\n```sh\nours-fleet web status\nours-fleet web start|stop|restart\nours-fleet web open\nours-fleet web revoke-all              # revoke every browser and active session\nours-fleet web uninstall\nours-fleet web serve --port 0 --no-open # isolated foreground/testing mode\n```\n\nThe console is IPv4-loopback-only by default. Both `localhost` and\n`127.0.0.1` are accepted locally. For an nginx/TLS reverse proxy, keep the\ndefault bind and declare the exact browser origin:\n\n`ours-fleet web install --public-origin https://fleet.example.com --password-file /secure/fleet-password`\n\nFleet reads the password file during setup and persists only a salted scrypt\nverifier. New browsers authenticate and retain rotating HttpOnly/SameSite\ntrusted-device credentials. If nginx already authenticates, the operator may\ndeliberately select `--no-password`; the CLI and browser warn that anyone\nreaching the origin can control the fleet. First setup requires an explicit\nchoice: `--password-file` or `--pairing` for protected access, or\n`--no-password` for intentional unprotected access.\n\nUse `--bind ADDRESS` only for an intentional direct listen. A non-loopback\nbind is rejected unless `--public-origin` is also present. Host/Origin checks\nuse the declaration and do not trust forwarded headers. Configure nginx to\nproxy HTTP and WebSocket upgrades to `127.0.0.1:49271` and terminate TLS;\nfleet accepts nginx's loopback upstream Host, so no Host rewrite is required.\nBrowser credentials add Secure for HTTPS, and `revoke-all` invalidates all\ntrusted devices. Role creation offers harness-scoped known-model choices\nwhile still accepting a typed model ID; blank explicitly uses the selected\nharness's own default.\n\n## Spawn\n\n```sh\nours-fleet spawn [--temp] [Name | --role Name] \\\n  --harness codex|claude-code --session tmux|acp \\\n  --mission \"one line\" --cwd /absolute/path --identity Identity \\\n  --coordinator Coordinator --model MODEL \\\n  --approval ask|auto|allow \\\n  --filesystem read-only|workspace|unrestricted \\\n  --unattended deny|wait \\\n  --bio-file /path/bio.md --persona-file /path/persona.md\n```\n\nPermanent spawn writes `~/fleet.d/Name.yaml` and starts a supervised role.\n`--temp` writes ephemeral state, starts a detached supervisor, and removes the\nrole after exit/reboot. Both lifetimes support `--session acp`.\n\nTemporary-role identity bootstrap is capability-based. The generated briefing\nfirst tries to bind the exact assigned identity and preserves it when it already\nexists. If missing, it uses ours MCP `create_temporary_identity` when that tool\nis exposed, tying a newly-created identity to the connector session lifecycle;\nolder servers fall back to `create_identity`. Collisions and creation errors\nstop safely without force-adopting or deleting identity state. Permanent roles\nretain normal `create_identity` behavior.\n\nInside a managed ACP role, the same CLI automatically routes a real `spawn`\nthrough that role's authenticated supervisor control socket. `--role Name` is\naccepted as an alternative to the positional name, so a minimal delegated call\nis `ours-fleet spawn --role DeveloperX --temp`. The supervisor records the\ncalling role, performs creation, and only after success sends a structured\nspawn notice through the caller's owner channel when one is configured.\n\nOmitted harness, session, working directory, coordinator, neutral permissions,\nfleet monitor policy, and (when the harness is unchanged) model inherit from the\ncalling role. Explicit options always win. Selecting a different harness without\n`--model` leaves model selection to that harness/fleet defaults rather than\ncopying an incompatible caller model. This automatic proxy is a convenience and\nattribution mechanism, not an isolation boundary: an unrestricted role can still\ninvoke another binary path directly. Tmux roles and host/operator shells keep the\nordinary direct CLI behavior.\n\nCodex-specific spawn flags: `--sandbox`, `--permission-mode`, `--launcher`,\n`--profile`, `--search`, repeatable `--codex-config key=value`, repeatable\n`--add-dir`, and legacy `--monitor` (consent for the native Codex monitor,\nnot the `monitor.mode` wake-owner selector). Run `ours-fleet help spawn` for\nexact values.\n\n## fleet.yaml\n\n```yaml\nvars:\n  work_root: /home/me/work\nstart_stagger_ms: 0\ndefaults:\n  harness: codex\n  session: acp\n  model: gpt-model-id\n  permissions:\n    approval: ask\n    filesystem: workspace\n    unattended: deny\n  monitor:\n    mode: fleet                          # fleet (default) | native\nroles:\n  Coordinator:\n    harness: codex\n    session: acp\n    identity: Coordinator\n    cwd: ${work_root}/project\n    mission: Coordinate work and delegate implementation.\n    model: gpt-model-id\n    permissions:\n      approval: ask\n      filesystem: workspace\n      unattended: deny\n    session_options:                    # advanced overrides; normally omit\n      # acp:\n      #   command: [/custom/codex-acp, --flag]\n      tmux:\n        boot_grace_ms: 10000\n    monitor:\n      mode: fleet                        # fleet supervisor | native harness monitor\n      interrupt: false                    # true cancels active work before every configured wake\n      wake_sources: [message_received, file_received, local_contact_request, pending_message]\n      batch_ms: 2000\n      inject: notification\n      turn_fail_threshold: 3\n    harness_options:\n      launcher: auto\n      sandbox: workspace-write\n      approval: on-request\n      search: false\n      profile: fleet\n      add_dirs: [/data/shared]\n      config:\n        model_reasoning_effort: high\n    bio: Public role card and when peers should engage it.\n    persona: Local operating contract, boundaries, and escalation policy.\n    briefing_file: /absolute/custom-briefing.md\n    coordinator: AnotherCoordinator\n    env:\n      KEY: value\n    oversee:\n      - { role: Worker, interval: 5m }\nwatchdogs:\n  nightwatch:                       # [A-Za-z0-9_-], must not collide with a role name\n    coordinator: FleetCoordinator   # required \u2014 where alerts go\n    # everything below is optional\n    enabled: true                   # default true; false = configured but never scheduled\n    interval: 10m                   # default 10m; 30s | 10m | 2h, minimum 1m\n    watch: [Alice, CodexReviewer]   # explicit lists are exact; omit for configured + live temp roles\n    harness: claude-code            # default: defaults.harness\n    model: claude-fable-5           # default: same resolution rule roles use (resolveRoleModel)\n    session: acp                    # default: defaults.session\n    identity: Watchdog-nightwatch   # default: Watchdog-<name>\n    timeout: 5m                     # default 5m; a run past this is killed and recorded as error\n    keep_reports: 50                # default 50 reports retained per watchdog\n    alert_cooldown: 60m             # default 60m before the same finding alerts again\n    prompt_file: /abs/extra.md      # optional extra focus, APPENDED to the fixed contract\n    isolation:                      # optional; omitted means no OS sandbox, like an ordinary role\n      backend: bubblewrap           # when present, the ordinary role isolation schema applies\n      network: broker\n      fs: { read: [/opt/watch-data] }\n```\n\nA watchdog observes and reports; it never restarts, stops, spawns, or removes a\nrole, answers a pending permission, edits a workspace, or approves anything on\nthe owner's behalf. `watchdogs:` may appear only in the base config\n(`~/fleet.yaml` or `-c FILE`), not in `~/fleet.d/*.yaml` drop-ins.\nWatchdogs are not isolated by default. An explicit watchdog `isolation:` block\nuses the same policy schema as a role and is applied unchanged; declare every\nextra filesystem access required by a custom prompt there.\nWhen `watch:` is omitted, each run watches the configured roles plus temporary\nfleet roles that are live when the run starts. An explicit `watch:` list is\nnever augmented.\n\nRole values override defaults. `${name}` substitutes entries from `vars`.\nOther role fields include `max_tokens`, `autocompact_pct`, and `isolation`.\nUse README.md for the complete isolation policy and resource-cap schema.\n\n## Permissions\n\nPrefer the harness-neutral `permissions` block:\n\n- `approval: ask|auto|allow`: portable permission policy. `deny` remains a\n  deprecated, fail-closed compatibility alias for existing fleet files.\n- `filesystem: read-only|workspace|unrestricted`: filesystem intent\n- `unattended: deny|wait`: what ACP does when no console can answer a request\n\nThe backend translates this common intent. Harness-native settings in\n`harness_options` take precedence where supplied. Do not choose\n`allow`/`unrestricted`, Codex `never`/`danger-full-access`, or Claude\n`bypassPermissions` without explicit authorization.\n\n### Creation-time isolation\n\n`ours-fleet spawn --isolation-file <path>` supplies a role's sandbox policy at\ncreation, so the FIRST launch is already confined \u2014 a role that only gains\n`isolation:` on a later `up` ran unsandboxed until then.\n\nThe file holds exactly the `isolation:` mapping documented above and nothing\nelse \u2014 the same schema, validated by the same code, so a policy written here\ncannot mean something different from the identical block in fleet.yaml:\n\n```yaml\nnetwork: deny\nfs:\n  read: [/opt/reference]\nresources:\n  mem: 2G\n```\n\nInvalid files are rejected before anything is created: no config, no state\ndirectory, no identity reservation. Works for both permanent and `--temp` roles.\n\n### Never-prompt failure\n\nThe failure this section exists to prevent leaves no error message anywhere.\n\nAn unattended role has no console. When the harness needs a permission decision\nthere is nobody to ask, so the request is refused INSIDE the harness \u2014 no\nprompt, no error, no log line. The agent simply does less than its briefing told\nit to, reports success, and nothing distinguishes that from having done the\nwork. Two settings produce it:\n\n1. a permission mode that suppresses the prompt without granting the action\n   (Claude `dontAsk`, which is why neutral `allow` maps to\n   `bypassPermissions` instead); and\n2. `unattended: deny`, which refuses every request that reaches it.\n\n**Automatic decisions are now recorded.** Every permission request decided\nwithout a human emits a completed event into\n`~/.ours-fleet/agents/<Name>/.session-events.jsonl` carrying the decision,\nwhether policy or a person made it, the policy that produced it\n(`permissions.unattended=deny` vs `permissions.approval=deny`/`=allow`),\nthe reason, and the option selected. `ours-fleet peek` and `attach` render\nthem. Automatic denial asks for a one-shot rejection, never a standing one, so a\nsingle unattended refusal cannot disable a tool for the rest of the session.\n\nA role that can auto-deny logs one line at startup saying so.\n\nTo detect an under-permissioned role BEFORE it runs, use the capability floor\nbelow: `ours-fleet doctor` fails such a role rather than letting it discover\nthe problem silently at work.\n\n### The unattended capability floor\n\nAn unattended role has no console, so a permission request cannot be answered \u2014\nit is refused, silently, inside the harness. The agent then does less than it\nwas told to and reports no error. To make that visible before launch,\n`ours-fleet config` and `ours-fleet doctor` resolve each role's neutral\npermissions through its harness and check the result against a fixed floor:\n\n- `read-state` \u2014 read its briefing, ROUTINES.md, and WORKLOG.md\n- `write-state` \u2014 append its WORKLOG and its own state files\n- `messaging` \u2014 bind its identity, send and receive ours mail\n- `monitor` \u2014 arm and observe its mail monitor\n- `workspace-edit` \u2014 edit and test files in its working directory\n- `status-commands` \u2014 run the inspection commands its briefing prescribes\n\n`doctor` reports this per role as `unattended floor: <Role>`. A role with\n`unattended: deny` that cannot meet the floor FAILS doctor, because it will\ndeny those requests with nobody to see it; with `unattended: wait` it warns,\nbecause a human can still attach and answer.\n\nSecurity meaning: `ask` maps to Codex `untrusted` and Claude `default`;\n`auto` maps to Codex `on-request` and Claude `acceptEdits`; and\n`approval: allow` maps to Codex `never` and Claude `bypassPermissions`,\nwhich genuinely permits the actions the role was authorized to take \u2014\n`dontAsk` only suppresses the prompt while still refusing the action. Nothing\nother than an explicit `allow` becomes non-interactive. Legacy `deny` keeps\nits conservative Codex `on-request` / Claude `plan` translation. `allow` is therefore a real grant and\nrequires explicit authorization; per-role `isolation:` remains the outer\nboundary that a permission mode cannot cross.\n\nACP carries agent-advertised session mode IDs and `session/set_mode`, but those\nIDs are agent-specific and ACP defines no portable permission-policy capability.\nFleet therefore uses the ACP primitive where an adapter exposes a matching mode\nand otherwise performs the harness translation above. The live session reports\nboth its effective normalized mode and exact harness-native mode.\n\nSee also: `spawn --approval/--filesystem/--unattended` set this intent at\ncreation, and `ours-fleet config` prints each role's neutral settings, their\nnative translation, and any warning \u2014 the same text `doctor` reports.\n\nClaude `harness_options`: `permission_mode` (default, acceptEdits, plan,\ndontAsk, bypassPermissions), `plugins`, `mem_palace`, and\n`mem_palace_midsession_autosave`.\n\nCodex `harness_options`: `launcher` (auto, ours-codex, codex), `sandbox`\n(read-only, workspace-write, danger-full-access), `approval` or\n`permission_mode` (untrusted, on-request, never), `profile`, `search`,\n`config`, `add_dirs`, and `monitor`.\n\n## ACP adapters\n\nThe maintained `@agentclientprotocol/codex-acp` and\n`@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp` runtimes are bundled automatically as\noptional ours-fleet dependencies. The supervisor resolves their executable\nentrypoints internally, so default ACP roles do not depend on global PATH.\nThe maintained Claude adapter requires Node 22; tmux and Codex ACP continue to\nwork on the ours-fleet core minimum of Node 20.\n\nOverride an adapter only when necessary with `session_options.acp.command`\n(string or argv list). If optional dependencies were deliberately omitted,\nours-fleet falls back to a compatible globally installed `codex-acp` or\n`claude-agent-acp`. `ours-fleet doctor -c FILE` verifies the resolved adapter.\n\n## Reliable mail wake\n\n`monitor.mode` selects exactly one wake owner:\n\n- `fleet` (default): the ours-fleet supervisor consumes body-free daemon\n  events and advances its durable cursor only after delivery is accepted. ACP\n  uses live steering when supported and falls back to structured\n  `session/prompt`; tmux uses verified console injection.\n- `native`: ours-fleet starts no supervisor monitor; the generated briefing\n  instructs Claude Code or Codex to arm its harness-native wake mechanism.\n\nSet `monitor.interrupt: true` in fleet mode to cancel active work before every\nconfigured wake. The policy is content-blind because the supervisor cannot\ninspect encrypted message bodies. Message bodies are released only when the\nrole calls the ours `get_messages` tool.\n\nThe default is `false`. For a temporary role whose mission intentionally arrives\nafter its readiness announcement, set `mode: fleet` and `interrupt: true`\nexplicitly. The readiness announcement does not change the transport: the\nmission remains ordinary ours mail, fleet injects only the body-free wake, and\nthe role calls `get_messages` before acting. Every later configured wake uses\nthe same interruption policy.\n\nLegacy `monitor.enabled: true|false` remains accepted as an alias for\n`mode: fleet|native`; use `mode` in new configuration. Codex's separate\n`harness_options.monitor: true` is native-monitor consent, not monitor-owner\nselection.\nInspect `ours-fleet status Name`, `peek Name`, role logs, and\n`~/.ours-fleet/agents/Name/.monitor-status` when diagnosing delivery.\n\n## Trusted owner channel\n\nAn ACP role may declare a separate, existing ours identity which fleet \u2014 never\nthe agent \u2014 binds:\n\n```yaml\nowner_channel:\n  identity: Coordinator Owner Channel\n  owners: [authenticated-owner-contact-cid]\n  agent: authenticated-managed-agent-cid\n  interrupt: false\n  progress_interval_ms: 30000\n  comments: true\n  attachments:\n    enabled: true\n    max_files_per_request: 4\n    max_file_bytes: 10485760\n    max_request_bytes: 20971520\n    retention_ms: 86400000\n    allowed_mime: [application/pdf, text/plain, image/png, audio/ogg]\n```\n\nThis does not replace the role identity. Normal identity mail remains untrusted\npeer input: the agent reads it through `get_messages` and replies through\n`send_message`. Mail arriving on the dedicated channel from a CID in `owners`\nis injected as a direct `[fleet-owner]` prompt. Mail from the exact `agent`\nCID is forwarded as a new message to the latest authenticated owner conversation;\nits files may also be relayed through this channel. A reply reference selects the\nowner of that authenticated source wire instead of the latest conversation.\nEvery other CID is rejected and warned about without reflecting its body. Fleet sends\naccepted/queued/progress/interrupted/failure notices and routes the ACP turn's\nfinal assistant text back to the authenticated sender with its source wire ID.\nFor file replies, fleet injects a request-specific outbox path into the owner\nprompt. The agent copies completed artifacts there; fleet sends every regular\nfile from the channel identity with the same source wire ID and removes the\ntemporary outbox only after successful delivery. For proactive or in-turn agent\nattachments, the agent calls ours `send_file` to the channel identity and may\npair it with a reply-linked caption; fleet, not the agent, chooses the owner.\nOwner messages whose trimmed text starts with `/` are deterministic\nsupervisor commands and never enter the model: `/help` (alias `/commands`),\n`/status`, `/comments [status|on|off]`, `/interrupt`, `/clear`,\n`/compact`, `/model <model-id>`, `/restart`, `/force-restart`, `/ls`,\n`/peek`, `/worklog`, and\n`/version`. Unknown or malformed commands answer with the help text instead of\nbeing forwarded; plain messages reach the agent unchanged. `/clear`,\n`/compact`, and `/model` are forwarded only when the role's bundled ACP\nadapter executes them locally (claude-code: all three; codex: `/compact`\nonly) and are otherwise refused with a notice, so slash text never reaches the\nmodel as a prompt.\n\nWhile a request runs, the agent's live ACP commentary is relayed as messages\nprefixed with the single stable label `\uD83D\uDFE1 Live update:`, so an owner can see\nexactly which messages the setting controls. `owner_channel.comments`\n(default `true`, so existing channels keep their current behavior) is the\nRESTART BASELINE; `/comments on|off` changes only the running session and is\ndeliberately not persisted, so a restart always returns to the checked-in\nconfiguration. `/comments status` reports the live value, the baseline, and\nwhether the backend emits live comments at all. Suppressing live comments never\nsuppresses receipts, progress notices, or the final answer.\n\nOwner documents, images, and voice messages use the same authenticated sender\nand source-wire boundary. Fleet inspects body-free metadata first and rejects\ndisabled, over-count, over-size, or disallowed-MIME requests before selective\nretrieval. Unauthorized CIDs are never retrieved or answered. Reply-linked text\nand files from the same sender become one ordered request; a file-only wake also\nstarts a turn. Retrieved bytes must match their structured size and SHA-256,\ntheir content signature must match the declared MIME, and symlinks or non-regular\npaths fail closed. Sanitized copies live only in a mode-0700 request directory as\nmode-0600 files and are removed after completion or bounded stale retention.\n\nVoice prompts include a bounded transcript only when ours-mcp reports success.\nFailure or unavailability is explicit and preserves the private audio path as the\nfallback. Run `ours-mcp voice-status --json` to inspect the host configuration.\nA mode-0600 crash journal contains only authenticated CID and wire routing data;\nit never stores captions, filenames, paths, transcript text, or bytes. Journaled\npost-retrieval files resume selectively through `save_file`. A deferred agent\ncaption is replayed with its processed files before the group is admitted. Fleet\nresolves one authenticated owner route before retrieving bytes, admits every file\nbefore emitting the caption or any file, and sends every part to that same route.\nUnknown correlated routes remain queued without retrieval and receive one bounded\ncorrelated notice. Admission rejection consumes the whole group with one NACK;\nonce emission starts, a transport error becomes terminal uncertain delivery and\nthe group is never blind-retried. Bounded v2 source-wire routing state is migrated\nfrom v1 on read. Corrupt state disables attachment admission rather than weakening\nprovenance checks.\n\nThe channel identity must be unique and must not be a role identity. The bridge\npersists bounded wire IDs only, never message/reply plaintext, and requeues input\nbefore starting its turn for at-least-once crash recovery. It currently requires\n`session: acp`: tmux has no structured, turn-correlated final answer, and pane\nscraping cannot provide the same reliable reply guarantee.\n\n### Live contact and owner administration\n\nThe supervisor which is already running the ACP role remains the sole binder of\n`owner_channel.identity`. The CLI reaches that exact live `OwnerChannel`\nthrough the role's token-authenticated, mode-0600 Unix control socket for contact\ninspection and setup; it never starts another ours client and never force-binds:\n\nRapid supervised restart is serialized by a role-scoped single-binder lease.\nThe predecessor closes its authenticated control socket and MCP proxy before\nreleasing ownership. The replacement waits at most five seconds and retries the\ndaemon bind only when PID/start-marker metadata proves the holder was the same\nrole and owner-channel identity. Foreign, live, corrupt, or otherwise\nunverifiable ownership remains fail-closed; fleet never uses `force=true`.\n\nIf that matching predecessor misses the bound, its still-authenticated control\nroute may send one fixed, digest-deduplicated recovery notice through the latest\nauthenticated owner conversation (or the sole configured owner). Notice\nplaintext is never persisted. With no safe deterministic route fleet guesses no\nrecipient and leaves the actionable failure in the web console and role logs.\nThe remote recovery action is `/restart`; inspect repeated failures with\n`ours-fleet logs <Role>` or the web console.\n\n```sh\nours-fleet owner-channel contact list <Role>\nours-fleet owner-channel contact invite <Role> [--name <label>]\nours-fleet owner-channel contact add <Role> (--invite-file <path> | --invite-stdin) [--name <label>]\nours-fleet owner-channel owner list <Role>\nours-fleet owner-channel owner authorize <Role> <exact-64-hex-contact-cid>\nours-fleet owner-channel owner revoke <Role> <exact-64-hex-contact-cid>\n```\n\nContact establishment and owner authorization are separate security steps.\n`contact add` never authorizes: invite redemption is pending until the peer\nverifies it. Once `contact list` reports the established contact, authorize\nits exact immutable CID explicitly. Invite creation emits invite material only\non stdout; acceptance reads it from a file or stdin, not argv.\n\nConfigured `owners` remain the baseline. On legacy channels without `agent`,\nlive authorizations/revocations are an immediately effective, restart-persistent\noverlay. Managed-agent CID gating makes fleet configuration authoritative and\ndisables live owner mutation and direct control-socket sends. `owner list` labels\nbaseline versus dynamic entries and effective status. The atomic mode-0600 file\ncontains bounded CIDs and audit actions only. Corruption disables all effective\nowners and refuses mutation rather than resurrecting authority; revoking the\nlast effective owner is always refused.\n\nA missing/stopped role, tmux session, role without `owner_channel`, unavailable\nMCP client, or a role entering shutdown returns an actionable error with no\nside effects. Management uses no network listener and never logs or persists\ninvite material.\n\nFor any non-final message\u2014progress, blocker, suggestion, or later proactive note\u2014\nthe managed agent calls ordinary ours `send_message` to the channel identity.\nFleet checks only that the authenticated sender CID exactly equals `agent`, then\nforwards the text as a new message. There is no task/request/update type, phase,\nreply correlation, or owner recipient argument. A sole owner is the safe fallback;\nwith multiple owners and no inbound route history the relay fails closed. Devices\nsharing one identity share its CID; separate owner identities hand off the route\nwhen either sends channel mail. The ACP final is separate: fleet extracts it from\nthe completed turn and deterministically replies to the initiating owner wire.\n\nThe bounded mode-0600 route state stores CIDs, wire IDs, timestamps, delivery state,\nand hashes but never message plaintext. Unauthorized attempts produce a bounded\nCID-only owner warning; attempted bodies are neither reflected nor persisted.\n\nFor a mobile owner, establish the contact first, wait for peer verification,\nauthorize its exact CID, and revoke that same CID when access ends. The bounded\nmode-0600 CID overlay survives supervisor restart and remains fail-closed on\ncorruption. Update bodies remain memory-only. After a crash/restart, unfinished\ndeferred owner input follows the existing at-least-once replay path; the restarted\nsupervisor remains the sole binder.\n\n## Stable config and YAML migration\n\n`ours-fleet config --json` emits schemaVersion 1 resolved plans. Environment\nvalues and mission/persona/bio bodies are withheld; environment keys are sorted\nand values are marked redacted. Additive fields may appear in schema 1, while a\nremoval or semantic reuse requires a new schema version.\n\nYAML parsing always rejects duplicate keys. The current default\n`--yaml-mode compat` warns with file/line/column for anchors, aliases, explicit\ntags, non-scalar keys, and multiple documents. Use `--yaml-mode strict` in CI\nnow; strict becomes the next-major default and compat is the temporary migration\nescape hatch.\n\n## Bounded worklogs, auth proxy, and model recovery\n\nAn optional `worklog: { max_kb, keep_tail_kb, max_archives }` policy rotates a\nstable snapshot at fleet-owned lifecycle points. Concurrent changes defer\nrotation. Archives remain beside WORKLOG.md with the same sensitive-state\nboundary; retention deletes only recognized fleet archive names.\n\n`auth_proxy: { kind: anthropic, base_url, required, health_url }` is Claude-only\nand loopback-only. Fleet injects only ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and doctor rejects\ncredential env keys. The privileged reference companion is\n`contrib/anthropic-auth-proxy.mjs`; deploy it separately as a dedicated account\nwith a 0600 token file and per-role listener access. Fleet never installs it or\nreads its credential.\n\n`model_chain` is an ordered authorization list and its first entry must equal\n`model`. Only sustained high-confidence entitlement/quota 429 evidence advances\none entry. Transient 429, overload, auth, policy, and unknown errors never\ndown-shift. Runtime state is atomic in .model-recovery.json; exhaustion is\nfail-closed and held down. Change the declared chain/model and restart to\nreconcile explicitly; no chain preserves detection-only behavior.\n";
+export declare const AI_DOCS = "# ours-fleet reference\n\nours-fleet runs persistent or temporary, identity-bound AI roles. A role selects\na harness independently from its session backend:\n\n- harness: `claude-code` or `codex`\n- session: `tmux` (default) or `acp`\n- lifetime: permanent (supervised, restartable) or `spawn --temp`\n\n## Discover and validate\n\n```sh\nours-fleet docs                         # this complete reference (`man` is an alias)\nours-fleet help <command>               # exact flags for one command\nours-fleet config [-c FILE]             # validate and print the merged plan; no changes\nours-fleet doctor [-c FILE] [--harness codex|claude-code]\n```\n\nDefault configuration is `~/fleet.yaml` plus sorted `~/fleet.d/*.yaml` role\ndrop-ins. An explicit `-c FILE` replaces `~/fleet.yaml`; fleet.d still adds\nroles. Validate with `config` and `doctor` before starting or restarting.\n\nThe CLI never writes the base file: `spawn` writes `~/fleet.d/Name.yaml`. The\nweb console does write it, as a whole document \u2014 its setup wizard and\nconfiguration editor may create, change or remove any top-level block, including\n`vars:`, `defaults:`, `roles:`, `watchdogs:` and `loops:`. Only the base\nfile may hold `defaults:`, `watchdogs:` and `loops:`; a fleet.d drop-in may\ndeclare `roles:` and nothing else. Unrecognised top-level keys are round-tripped\nuntouched. Console edits are applied as surgical splices against the file's exact\nbytes, so an unchanged save is byte-identical and lines outside the edit keep their\ncomments and spacing. One exception: changing the length of a block sequence\n(`watch:`, `oversee:`, `roles:`, `wake_sources:`) may replace that collection\nwholesale and drop inline comments written on its items; lines outside that\ncollection remain byte-preserved. Each save is revision-guarded, reviewed as a diff\nof the real file before anything is written, validated by the real loader, and\nbacked up next to the file first.\n\n## Lifecycle and console commands\n\n```sh\nours-fleet init\nours-fleet up|down [Name...]\nours-fleet restart [Name...]            # preserve/resume harness context\nours-fleet force-restart [Name...]      # fresh context; briefing is reloaded\nours-fleet ls\nours-fleet status|peek|attach|logs Name\nours-fleet logs -f Name\nours-fleet send Name \"prompt\"\nours-fleet send Name --key Enter        # tmux only\nours-fleet rm Name\nours-fleet watchdog-report <name> [run-id] [--list] [--json]\nours-fleet watchdog-run <name>\n```\n\n`peek`, `attach`, and text `send` work with tmux and ACP. ACP attachment\nalso accepts `/permit <permission-id> <option-id>`, `/interrupt`, and\n`/detach`. Raw `--key` input is tmux-only.\n\n## Local web console\n\nThe npm package includes the web console; installed users do not clone the repo\nor run `npm run build`:\n\n```sh\nnpm i -g @ours.network/fleet\nours-fleet init\nours-fleet doctor\nours-fleet web                         # install/update service, start, pair browser\n```\n\nThe normal command uses stable `http://127.0.0.1:49271/`, installs an\nowner-level systemd user service (Linux) or LaunchAgent (macOS), and opens a\nfive-minute one-use pairing link in the local browser. After pairing, bookmark\nthe plain URL or install the PWA. To pair a new, signed-out, or revoked browser,\nrun `ours-fleet web open`.\n\n```sh\nours-fleet web status\nours-fleet web start|stop|restart\nours-fleet web open\nours-fleet web revoke-all              # revoke every browser and active session\nours-fleet web uninstall\nours-fleet web serve --port 0 --no-open # isolated foreground/testing mode\n```\n\nThe console is IPv4-loopback-only by default. Both `localhost` and\n`127.0.0.1` are accepted locally. For an nginx/TLS reverse proxy, keep the\ndefault bind and declare the exact browser origin:\n\n`ours-fleet web install --public-origin https://fleet.example.com --password-file /secure/fleet-password`\n\nFleet reads the password file during setup and persists only a salted scrypt\nverifier. New browsers authenticate and retain rotating HttpOnly/SameSite\ntrusted-device credentials. If nginx already authenticates, the operator may\ndeliberately select `--no-password`; the CLI and browser warn that anyone\nreaching the origin can control the fleet. First setup requires an explicit\nchoice: `--password-file` or `--pairing` for protected access, or\n`--no-password` for intentional unprotected access.\n\nUse `--bind ADDRESS` only for an intentional direct listen. A non-loopback\nbind is rejected unless `--public-origin` is also present. Host/Origin checks\nuse the declaration and do not trust forwarded headers. Configure nginx to\nproxy HTTP and WebSocket upgrades to `127.0.0.1:49271` and terminate TLS;\nfleet accepts nginx's loopback upstream Host, so no Host rewrite is required.\nBrowser credentials add Secure for HTTPS, and `revoke-all` invalidates all\ntrusted devices. Role creation offers harness-scoped known-model choices\nwhile still accepting a typed model ID; blank explicitly uses the selected\nharness's own default.\n\n## Spawn\n\n```sh\nours-fleet spawn [--temp] [Name | --role Name] \\\n  --harness codex|claude-code --session tmux|acp \\\n  --mission \"one line\" --cwd /absolute/path --identity Identity \\\n  --coordinator Coordinator --model MODEL \\\n  --approval ask|auto|allow \\\n  --filesystem read-only|workspace|unrestricted \\\n  --unattended deny|wait \\\n  --bio-file /path/bio.md --persona-file /path/persona.md\n```\n\nPermanent spawn writes `~/fleet.d/Name.yaml` and starts a supervised role.\n`--temp` writes ephemeral state, starts a detached supervisor, and removes the\nrole after exit/reboot. Both lifetimes support `--session acp`.\n\nTemporary-role identity bootstrap is capability-based. The generated briefing\nfirst tries to bind the exact assigned identity and preserves it when it already\nexists. If missing, it uses ours MCP `create_temporary_identity` when that tool\nis exposed, tying a newly-created identity to the connector session lifecycle;\nolder servers fall back to `create_identity`. Collisions and creation errors\nstop safely without force-adopting or deleting identity state. Permanent roles\nretain normal `create_identity` behavior.\n\nInside a managed ACP role, the same CLI automatically routes a real `spawn`\nthrough that role's authenticated supervisor control socket. `--role Name` is\naccepted as an alternative to the positional name, so a minimal delegated call\nis `ours-fleet spawn --role DeveloperX --temp`. The supervisor records the\ncalling role, performs creation, and only after success sends a structured\nspawn notice through the caller's owner channel when one is configured.\n\nOmitted harness, session, working directory, coordinator, neutral permissions,\nfleet monitor policy, and (when the harness is unchanged) model inherit from the\ncalling role. Explicit options always win. Selecting a different harness without\n`--model` leaves model selection to that harness/fleet defaults rather than\ncopying an incompatible caller model. This automatic proxy is a convenience and\nattribution mechanism, not an isolation boundary: an unrestricted role can still\ninvoke another binary path directly. Tmux roles and host/operator shells keep the\nordinary direct CLI behavior.\n\nCodex-specific spawn flags: `--sandbox`, `--permission-mode`, `--launcher`,\n`--profile`, `--search`, repeatable `--codex-config key=value`, repeatable\n`--add-dir`, and legacy `--monitor` (consent for the native Codex monitor,\nnot the `monitor.mode` wake-owner selector). Run `ours-fleet help spawn` for\nexact values.\n\n## fleet.yaml\n\n```yaml\nvars:\n  work_root: /home/me/work\nstart_stagger_ms: 0\ndefaults:\n  harness: codex\n  session: acp\n  model: gpt-model-id\n  permissions:\n    approval: ask\n    filesystem: workspace\n    unattended: deny\n  monitor:\n    mode: fleet                          # fleet (default) | native\nroles:\n  Coordinator:\n    harness: codex\n    session: acp\n    identity: Coordinator\n    cwd: ${work_root}/project\n    mission: Coordinate work and delegate implementation.\n    model: gpt-model-id\n    permissions:\n      approval: ask\n      filesystem: workspace\n      unattended: deny\n    session_options:                    # advanced overrides; normally omit\n      # acp:\n      #   command: [/custom/codex-acp, --flag]\n      tmux:\n        boot_grace_ms: 10000\n    monitor:\n      mode: fleet                        # fleet supervisor | native harness monitor\n      interrupt: false                    # true cancels active work before every configured wake\n      wake_sources: [message_received, file_received, local_contact_request, pending_message]\n      batch_ms: 2000\n      inject: notification\n      turn_fail_threshold: 3\n    harness_options:\n      launcher: auto\n      sandbox: workspace-write\n      approval: on-request\n      search: false\n      profile: fleet\n      add_dirs: [/data/shared]\n      config:\n        model_reasoning_effort: high\n    bio: Public role card and when peers should engage it.\n    persona: Local operating contract, boundaries, and escalation policy.\n    briefing_file: /absolute/custom-briefing.md\n    coordinator: AnotherCoordinator\n    env:\n      KEY: value\n    oversee:\n      - { role: Worker, interval: 5m }\nwatchdogs:\n  nightwatch:                       # [A-Za-z0-9_-], must not collide with a role name\n    coordinator: FleetCoordinator   # required \u2014 where alerts go\n    # everything below is optional\n    enabled: true                   # default true; false = configured but never scheduled\n    interval: 10m                   # default 10m; 30s | 10m | 2h, minimum 1m\n    watch: [Alice, CodexReviewer]   # explicit lists are exact; omit for configured + live temp roles\n    harness: claude-code            # default: defaults.harness\n    model: claude-fable-5           # default: same resolution rule roles use (resolveRoleModel)\n    session: acp                    # default: defaults.session\n    identity: Watchdog-nightwatch   # default: Watchdog-<name>\n    timeout: 5m                     # default 5m; a run past this is killed and recorded as error\n    keep_reports: 50                # default 50 reports retained per watchdog\n    alert_cooldown: 60m             # default 60m before the same finding alerts again\n    prompt_file: /abs/extra.md      # optional extra focus, APPENDED to the fixed contract\n    isolation:                      # optional; omitted means no OS sandbox, like an ordinary role\n      backend: bubblewrap           # when present, the ordinary role isolation schema applies\n      network: broker\n      fs: { read: [/opt/watch-data] }\n```\n\nA watchdog observes and reports; it never restarts, stops, spawns, or removes a\nrole, answers a pending permission, edits a workspace, or approves anything on\nthe owner's behalf. `watchdogs:` may appear only in the base config\n(`~/fleet.yaml` or `-c FILE`), not in `~/fleet.d/*.yaml` drop-ins.\nWatchdogs are not isolated by default. An explicit watchdog `isolation:` block\nuses the same policy schema as a role and is applied unchanged; declare every\nextra filesystem access required by a custom prompt there.\nWhen `watch:` is omitted, each run watches the configured roles plus temporary\nfleet roles that are live when the run starts. An explicit `watch:` list is\nnever augmented.\n\nRole values override defaults. `${name}` substitutes entries from `vars`.\nOther role fields include `max_tokens`, `autocompact_pct`, and `isolation`.\nUse README.md for the complete isolation policy and resource-cap schema.\n\n## Permissions\n\nPrefer the harness-neutral `permissions` block:\n\n- `approval: ask|auto|allow`: portable permission policy. `deny` remains a\n  deprecated, fail-closed compatibility alias for existing fleet files.\n- `filesystem: read-only|workspace|unrestricted`: filesystem intent\n- `unattended: deny|wait`: what ACP does when no console can answer a request\n\nThe backend translates this common intent. Harness-native settings in\n`harness_options` take precedence where supplied. Do not choose\n`allow`/`unrestricted`, Codex `never`/`danger-full-access`, or Claude\n`bypassPermissions` without explicit authorization.\n\n### Creation-time isolation\n\n`ours-fleet spawn --isolation-file <path>` supplies a role's sandbox policy at\ncreation, so the FIRST launch is already confined \u2014 a role that only gains\n`isolation:` on a later `up` ran unsandboxed until then.\n\nThe file holds exactly the `isolation:` mapping documented above and nothing\nelse \u2014 the same schema, validated by the same code, so a policy written here\ncannot mean something different from the identical block in fleet.yaml:\n\n```yaml\nnetwork: deny\nfs:\n  read: [/opt/reference]\nresources:\n  mem: 2G\n```\n\nInvalid files are rejected before anything is created: no config, no state\ndirectory, no identity reservation. Works for both permanent and `--temp` roles.\n\n### Never-prompt failure\n\nThe failure this section exists to prevent leaves no error message anywhere.\n\nAn unattended role has no console. When the harness needs a permission decision\nthere is nobody to ask, so the request is refused INSIDE the harness \u2014 no\nprompt, no error, no log line. The agent simply does less than its briefing told\nit to, reports success, and nothing distinguishes that from having done the\nwork. Two settings produce it:\n\n1. a permission mode that suppresses the prompt without granting the action\n   (Claude `dontAsk`, which is why neutral `allow` maps to\n   `bypassPermissions` instead); and\n2. `unattended: deny`, which refuses every request that reaches it.\n\n**Automatic decisions are now recorded.** Every permission request decided\nwithout a human emits a completed event into\n`~/.ours-fleet/agents/<Name>/.session-events.jsonl` carrying the decision,\nwhether policy or a person made it, the policy that produced it\n(`permissions.unattended=deny` vs `permissions.approval=deny`/`=allow`),\nthe reason, and the option selected. `ours-fleet peek` and `attach` render\nthem. Automatic denial asks for a one-shot rejection, never a standing one, so a\nsingle unattended refusal cannot disable a tool for the rest of the session.\n\nA role that can auto-deny logs one line at startup saying so.\n\nTo detect an under-permissioned role BEFORE it runs, use the capability floor\nbelow: `ours-fleet doctor` fails such a role rather than letting it discover\nthe problem silently at work.\n\n### The unattended capability floor\n\nAn unattended role has no console, so a permission request cannot be answered \u2014\nit is refused, silently, inside the harness. The agent then does less than it\nwas told to and reports no error. To make that visible before launch,\n`ours-fleet config` and `ours-fleet doctor` resolve each role's neutral\npermissions through its harness and check the result against a fixed floor:\n\n- `read-state` \u2014 read its briefing, ROUTINES.md, and WORKLOG.md\n- `write-state` \u2014 append its WORKLOG and its own state files\n- `messaging` \u2014 bind its identity, send and receive ours mail\n- `monitor` \u2014 arm and observe its mail monitor\n- `workspace-edit` \u2014 edit and test files in its working directory\n- `status-commands` \u2014 run the inspection commands its briefing prescribes\n\n`doctor` reports this per role as `unattended floor: <Role>`. A role with\n`unattended: deny` that cannot meet the floor FAILS doctor, because it will\ndeny those requests with nobody to see it; with `unattended: wait` it warns,\nbecause a human can still attach and answer.\n\nSecurity meaning: `ask` maps to Codex `untrusted` and Claude `default`;\n`auto` maps to Codex `on-request` and Claude `acceptEdits`; and\n`approval: allow` maps to Codex `never` and Claude `bypassPermissions`,\nwhich genuinely permits the actions the role was authorized to take \u2014\n`dontAsk` only suppresses the prompt while still refusing the action. Nothing\nother than an explicit `allow` becomes non-interactive. Legacy `deny` keeps\nits conservative Codex `on-request` / Claude `plan` translation. `allow` is therefore a real grant and\nrequires explicit authorization; per-role `isolation:` remains the outer\nboundary that a permission mode cannot cross.\n\nACP carries agent-advertised session mode IDs and `session/set_mode`, but those\nIDs are agent-specific and ACP defines no portable permission-policy capability.\nFleet therefore uses the ACP primitive where an adapter exposes a matching mode\nand otherwise performs the harness translation above. The live session reports\nboth its effective normalized mode and exact harness-native mode.\n\nSee also: `spawn --approval/--filesystem/--unattended` set this intent at\ncreation, and `ours-fleet config` prints each role's neutral settings, their\nnative translation, and any warning \u2014 the same text `doctor` reports.\n\nClaude `harness_options`: `permission_mode` (default, acceptEdits, plan,\ndontAsk, bypassPermissions), `plugins`, `mem_palace`, and\n`mem_palace_midsession_autosave`.\n\nCodex `harness_options`: `launcher` (auto, ours-codex, codex), `sandbox`\n(read-only, workspace-write, danger-full-access), `approval` or\n`permission_mode` (untrusted, on-request, never), `profile`, `search`,\n`config`, `add_dirs`, and `monitor`.\n\n## ACP adapters\n\nThe maintained `@agentclientprotocol/codex-acp` and\n`@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp` runtimes are bundled automatically as\noptional ours-fleet dependencies. The supervisor resolves their executable\nentrypoints internally, so default ACP roles do not depend on global PATH.\nThe maintained Claude adapter requires Node 22; tmux and Codex ACP continue to\nwork on the ours-fleet core minimum of Node 20.\n\nOverride an adapter only when necessary with `session_options.acp.command`\n(string or argv list). If optional dependencies were deliberately omitted,\nours-fleet falls back to a compatible globally installed `codex-acp` or\n`claude-agent-acp`. `ours-fleet doctor -c FILE` verifies the resolved adapter.\n\n## Reliable mail wake\n\n`monitor.mode` selects exactly one wake owner:\n\n- `fleet` (default): the ours-fleet supervisor consumes body-free daemon\n  events and advances its durable cursor only after delivery is accepted. ACP\n  uses live steering when supported and falls back to structured\n  `session/prompt`; tmux uses verified console injection.\n- `native`: ours-fleet starts no supervisor monitor; the generated briefing\n  instructs Claude Code or Codex to arm its harness-native wake mechanism.\n\nSet `monitor.interrupt: true` in fleet mode to cancel active work before every\nconfigured wake. The policy is content-blind because the supervisor cannot\ninspect encrypted message bodies. Message bodies are released only when the\nrole calls the ours `get_messages` tool.\n\nThe default is `false`. For a temporary role whose mission intentionally arrives\nafter its readiness announcement, set `mode: fleet` and `interrupt: true`\nexplicitly. The readiness announcement does not change the transport: the\nmission remains ordinary ours mail, fleet injects only the body-free wake, and\nthe role calls `get_messages` before acting. Every later configured wake uses\nthe same interruption policy.\n\nLegacy `monitor.enabled: true|false` remains accepted as an alias for\n`mode: fleet|native`; use `mode` in new configuration. Codex's separate\n`harness_options.monitor: true` is native-monitor consent, not monitor-owner\nselection.\nInspect `ours-fleet status Name`, `peek Name`, role logs, and\n`~/.ours-fleet/agents/Name/.monitor-status` when diagnosing delivery.\n\n## Trusted owner channel\n\nAn ACP role may declare a separate, existing ours identity which fleet \u2014 never\nthe agent \u2014 binds:\n\n```yaml\nowner_channel:\n  identity: Coordinator Owner Channel\n  owners: [authenticated-owner-contact-cid]\n  agent: authenticated-managed-agent-cid\n  interrupt: false\n  progress_interval_ms: 30000\n  comments: true\n  attachments:\n    enabled: true\n    max_files_per_request: 4\n    max_file_bytes: 10485760\n    max_request_bytes: 20971520\n    retention_ms: 86400000\n    allowed_mime: [application/pdf, text/plain, image/png, audio/ogg]\n```\n\nThis does not replace the role identity. Normal identity mail remains untrusted\npeer input: the agent reads it through `get_messages` and replies through\n`send_message`. Mail arriving on the dedicated channel from a CID in `owners`\nis injected as a direct `[fleet-owner]` prompt. Mail from the exact `agent`\nCID is forwarded as a new message to the latest authenticated owner conversation;\nits files may also be relayed through this channel. A reply reference selects the\nowner of that authenticated source wire instead of the latest conversation.\nEvery other CID is rejected and warned about without reflecting its body. Fleet sends\naccepted/queued/progress/interrupted/failure notices and routes the ACP turn's\nfinal assistant text back to the authenticated sender with its source wire ID.\nFor file replies, fleet injects a request-specific outbox path into the owner\nprompt. The agent copies completed artifacts there; fleet sends every regular\nfile from the channel identity with the same source wire ID and removes the\ntemporary outbox only after successful delivery. For proactive or in-turn agent\nattachments, the agent calls ours `send_file` to the channel identity and may\npair it with a reply-linked caption; fleet, not the agent, chooses the owner.\nOwner messages whose trimmed text starts with `/` are deterministic\nsupervisor commands and never enter the model: `/help` (alias `/commands`),\n`/status`, `/comments [status|on|off]`, `/interrupt`, `/clear`,\n`/compact`, `/model <model-id>`, `/restart`, `/force-restart`, `/ls`,\n`/peek`, `/worklog`, and\n`/version`. Unknown or malformed commands answer with the help text instead of\nbeing forwarded; plain messages reach the agent unchanged. `/clear`,\n`/compact`, and `/model` are forwarded only when the role's bundled ACP\nadapter executes them locally (claude-code: all three; codex: `/compact`\nonly) and are otherwise refused with a notice, so slash text never reaches the\nmodel as a prompt.\n\nWhile a request runs, the agent's live ACP commentary is relayed as messages\nprefixed with the single stable label `\uD83D\uDFE1 Live update:`, so an owner can see\nexactly which messages the setting controls. `owner_channel.comments`\n(default `true`, so existing channels keep their current behavior) is the\nRESTART BASELINE; `/comments on|off` changes only the running session and is\ndeliberately not persisted, so a restart always returns to the checked-in\nconfiguration. `/comments status` reports the live value, the baseline, and\nwhether the backend emits live comments at all. Suppressing live comments never\nsuppresses receipts, progress notices, or the final answer.\n\nOwner documents, images, and voice messages use the same authenticated sender\nand source-wire boundary. Fleet inspects body-free metadata first and rejects\ndisabled, over-count, over-size, or disallowed-MIME requests before selective\nretrieval. Unauthorized CIDs are never retrieved or answered. Reply-linked text\nand files from the same sender become one ordered request; a file-only wake also\nstarts a turn. Retrieved bytes must match their structured size and SHA-256,\ntheir content signature must match the declared MIME, and symlinks or non-regular\npaths fail closed. Sanitized copies live only in a mode-0700 request directory as\nmode-0600 files and are removed after completion or bounded stale retention.\n\nVoice prompts include a bounded transcript only when ours-mcp reports success.\nFailure or unavailability is explicit and preserves the private audio path as the\nfallback. Run `ours-mcp voice-status --json` to inspect the host configuration.\nA mode-0600 crash journal contains only authenticated CID and wire routing data;\nit never stores captions, filenames, paths, transcript text, or bytes. Journaled\npost-retrieval files resume selectively through `save_file`. A deferred agent\ncaption is replayed with its processed files before the group is admitted. Fleet\nresolves one authenticated owner route before retrieving bytes, admits every file\nbefore emitting the caption or any file, and sends every part to that same route.\nUnknown correlated routes remain queued without retrieval and receive one bounded\ncorrelated notice. Admission rejection consumes the whole group with one NACK;\nonce emission starts, a transport error becomes terminal uncertain delivery and\nthe group is never blind-retried. Bounded v2 source-wire routing state is migrated\nfrom v1 on read. Corrupt state disables attachment admission rather than weakening\nprovenance checks.\n\nThe channel identity must be unique and must not be a role identity. The bridge\npersists bounded wire IDs only, never message/reply plaintext, and requeues input\nbefore starting its turn for at-least-once crash recovery. It currently requires\n`session: acp`: tmux has no structured, turn-correlated final answer, and pane\nscraping cannot provide the same reliable reply guarantee.\n\n### Live contact and owner administration\n\nThe supervisor which is already running the ACP role remains the sole binder of\n`owner_channel.identity`. The CLI reaches that exact live `OwnerChannel`\nthrough the role's token-authenticated, mode-0600 Unix control socket for contact\ninspection and setup; it never starts another ours client and never force-binds:\n\nRapid supervised restart is serialized by a role-scoped single-binder lease.\nThe predecessor closes its authenticated control socket and MCP proxy before\nreleasing ownership. The replacement waits at most five seconds and retries the\ndaemon bind only when PID/start-marker metadata proves the holder was the same\nrole and owner-channel identity. Foreign, live, corrupt, or otherwise\nunverifiable ownership remains fail-closed; fleet never uses `force=true`.\n\nIf that matching predecessor misses the bound, its still-authenticated control\nroute may send one fixed, digest-deduplicated recovery notice through the latest\nauthenticated owner conversation (or the sole configured owner). Notice\nplaintext is never persisted. With no safe deterministic route fleet guesses no\nrecipient and leaves the actionable failure in the web console and role logs.\nThe remote recovery action is `/restart`; inspect repeated failures with\n`ours-fleet logs <Role>` or the web console.\n\n```sh\nours-fleet owner-channel contact list <Role>\nours-fleet owner-channel contact invite <Role> [--name <label>]\nours-fleet owner-channel contact add <Role> (--invite-file <path> | --invite-stdin) [--name <label>]\nours-fleet owner-channel owner list <Role>\nours-fleet owner-channel owner authorize <Role> <exact-64-hex-contact-cid>\nours-fleet owner-channel owner revoke <Role> <exact-64-hex-contact-cid>\n```\n\nContact establishment and owner authorization are separate security steps.\n`contact add` never authorizes: invite redemption is pending until the peer\nverifies it. Once `contact list` reports the established contact, authorize\nits exact immutable CID explicitly. Invite creation emits invite material only\non stdout; acceptance reads it from a file or stdin, not argv.\n\nConfigured `owners` remain the baseline. On legacy channels without `agent`,\nlive authorizations/revocations are an immediately effective, restart-persistent\noverlay. Managed-agent CID gating makes fleet configuration authoritative and\ndisables live owner mutation and direct control-socket sends. `owner list` labels\nbaseline versus dynamic entries and effective status. The atomic mode-0600 file\ncontains bounded CIDs and audit actions only. Corruption disables all effective\nowners and refuses mutation rather than resurrecting authority; revoking the\nlast effective owner is always refused.\n\nA missing/stopped role, tmux session, role without `owner_channel`, unavailable\nMCP client, or a role entering shutdown returns an actionable error with no\nside effects. Management uses no network listener and never logs or persists\ninvite material.\n\nFor any non-final message\u2014progress, blocker, suggestion, or later proactive note\u2014\nthe managed agent calls ordinary ours `send_message` to the channel identity.\nFleet checks only that the authenticated sender CID exactly equals `agent`, then\nforwards the text as a new message. There is no task/request/update type, phase,\nreply correlation, or owner recipient argument. A sole owner is the safe fallback;\nwith multiple owners and no inbound route history the relay fails closed. Devices\nsharing one identity share its CID; separate owner identities hand off the route\nwhen either sends channel mail. The ACP final is separate: fleet extracts it from\nthe completed turn and deterministically replies to the initiating owner wire.\n\nThe bounded mode-0600 route state stores CIDs, wire IDs, timestamps, delivery state,\nand hashes but never message plaintext. Unauthorized attempts produce a bounded\nCID-only owner warning; attempted bodies are neither reflected nor persisted.\n\nFor a mobile owner, establish the contact first, wait for peer verification,\nauthorize its exact CID, and revoke that same CID when access ends. The bounded\nmode-0600 CID overlay survives supervisor restart and remains fail-closed on\ncorruption. Update bodies remain memory-only. After a crash/restart, unfinished\ndeferred owner input follows the existing at-least-once replay path; the restarted\nsupervisor remains the sole binder.\n\n## Stable config and YAML migration\n\n`ours-fleet config --json` emits schemaVersion 1 resolved plans. Environment\nvalues and mission/persona/bio bodies are withheld; environment keys are sorted\nand values are marked redacted. Additive fields may appear in schema 1, while a\nremoval or semantic reuse requires a new schema version.\n\nYAML parsing always rejects duplicate keys. The current default\n`--yaml-mode compat` warns with file/line/column for anchors, aliases, explicit\ntags, non-scalar keys, and multiple documents. Use `--yaml-mode strict` in CI\nnow; strict becomes the next-major default and compat is the temporary migration\nescape hatch.\n\n## Bounded worklogs, auth proxy, and model recovery\n\nAn optional `worklog: { max_kb, keep_tail_kb, max_archives }` policy rotates a\nstable snapshot at fleet-owned lifecycle points. Concurrent changes defer\nrotation. Archives remain beside WORKLOG.md with the same sensitive-state\nboundary; retention deletes only recognized fleet archive names.\n\n`auth_proxy: { kind: anthropic, base_url, required, health_url }` is Claude-only\nand loopback-only. Fleet injects only ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and doctor rejects\ncredential env keys. The privileged reference companion is\n`contrib/anthropic-auth-proxy.mjs`; deploy it separately as a dedicated account\nwith a 0600 token file and per-role listener access. Fleet never installs it or\nreads its credential.\n\n`model_chain` is an ordered authorization list and its first entry must equal\n`model`. Only sustained high-confidence entitlement/quota 429 evidence advances\none entry. Transient 429, overload, auth, policy, and unknown errors never\ndown-shift. Runtime state is atomic in .model-recovery.json; exhaustion is\nfail-closed and held down. Change the declared chain/model and restart to\nreconcile explicitly; no chain preserves detection-only behavior.\n";
 /**
  * What every shipped spawn-skill variant must say, and must not say (7.1).
  *

package/dist/docs.js

@@ -26,6 +26,21 @@ Default configuration is \`~/fleet.yaml\` plus sorted \`~/fleet.d/*.yaml\` role
 drop-ins. An explicit \`-c FILE\` replaces \`~/fleet.yaml\`; fleet.d still adds
 roles. Validate with \`config\` and \`doctor\` before starting or restarting.
 
+The CLI never writes the base file: \`spawn\` writes \`~/fleet.d/Name.yaml\`. The
+web console does write it, as a whole document — its setup wizard and
+configuration editor may create, change or remove any top-level block, including
+\`vars:\`, \`defaults:\`, \`roles:\`, \`watchdogs:\` and \`loops:\`. Only the base
+file may hold \`defaults:\`, \`watchdogs:\` and \`loops:\`; a fleet.d drop-in may
+declare \`roles:\` and nothing else. Unrecognised top-level keys are round-tripped
+untouched. Console edits are applied as surgical splices against the file's exact
+bytes, so an unchanged save is byte-identical and lines outside the edit keep their
+comments and spacing. One exception: changing the length of a block sequence
+(\`watch:\`, \`oversee:\`, \`roles:\`, \`wake_sources:\`) may replace that collection
+wholesale and drop inline comments written on its items; lines outside that
+collection remain byte-preserved. Each save is revision-guarded, reviewed as a diff
+of the real file before anything is written, validated by the real loader, and
+backed up next to the file first.
+
 ## Lifecycle and console commands
 
 \`\`\`sh

package/dist/web/fleet-config-service.js

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 import { createHash, randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';
 import { chmodSync, existsSync, lstatSync, readFileSync, rmSync, } from 'node:fs';
 import { basename, dirname, join } from 'node:path';
-import { stringify } from 'yaml';
 import { replaceFileAtomically, withFileLock } from '../atomic-file.js';
 import { loadConfig } from '../config.js';
 import { parseFleetDocument } from '../config-yaml.js';
 import { defaultConfigPath } from '../paths.js';
 import { FleetError } from '../application/errors.js';
+import { redactSourceSecrets, renderModelOntoSource } from './yaml-document-edit.js';
 export const REDACTED_ENV_VALUE = '__OURS_FLEET_SECRET_REDACTED__';
 const MAX_CONFIG_BYTES = 256 * 1024;
+const DIFF_CONTEXT_LINES = 3;
 const emptyReport = () => ({ ok: true, checks: [] });
 export class FleetConfigService {
     path;
@@ -32,13 +33,13 @@ export class FleetConfigService {
         this.assertRevision(baseRevision, currentSource);
         const current = parseFleetDocument(this.path, currentSource, 'strict').value;
         const restored = restoreRedactions(assertModel(model), current);
-        const source = serialize(restored);
-        const candidate = this.validateCandidate(source);
-        const [redactedCurrent, redactedNext] = [redactModel(current), redactModel(restored)];
+        const nextSource = render(currentSource, restored);
+        const candidate = this.validateCandidate(nextSource);
+        const redactedNext = redactModel(restored);
         const preflight = await this.preflight(candidate.path).finally(candidate.remove);
         return {
             valid: true, revision: digest(currentSource), normalizedModel: redactedNext.model,
-            diff: exactDiff(serialize(redactedCurrent.model), serialize(redactedNext.model)),
+            diff: sourceDiff(currentSource, nextSource),
             redactions: redactedNext.paths,
             impact: restartImpact(current, restored), preflight,
         };
@@ -49,13 +50,12 @@ export class FleetConfigService {
             this.assertRevision(baseRevision, currentSource);
             const current = parseFleetDocument(this.path, currentSource, 'strict').value;
             const restored = restoreRedactions(assertModel(model), current);
-            const nextSource = serialize(restored);
+            const nextSource = render(currentSource, restored);
             const candidate = this.validateCandidate(nextSource);
             const preflight = await this.preflight(candidate.path).finally(candidate.remove);
             // The lock coordinates trusted web/agent writers. An operator's editor does
             // not take it, so re-check immediately before replacement as well.
             this.assertRevision(baseRevision, this.readSource());
-            const redactedCurrent = redactModel(current);
             const redactedNext = redactModel(restored);
             let backup;
             if (existsSync(this.path)) {
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ export class FleetConfigService {
             return {
                 saved: true, valid: true, revision: digest(currentSource), newRevision: digest(nextSource),
                 normalizedModel: redactedNext.model,
-                diff: exactDiff(serialize(redactedCurrent.model), serialize(redactedNext.model)),
+                diff: sourceDiff(currentSource, nextSource),
                 redactions: redactedNext.paths, impact: restartImpact(current, restored), preflight,
                 backup,
             };
@@ -110,8 +110,17 @@ function assertModel(value) {
         throw new FleetError('invalid_request', 'model must be a JSON object');
     return structuredClone(value);
 }
-function serialize(model) {
-    return stringify(model, { lineWidth: 0, sortMapEntries: false });
+/**
+ * Apply the edited model onto the user's own document rather than re-serializing
+ * it, so comments, key order and formatting outside the edit survive the save.
+ */
+function render(currentSource, model) {
+    try {
+        return renderModelOntoSource(currentSource, model);
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        throw new FleetError('invalid_request', error.message);
+    }
 }
 function digest(source) {
     return createHash('sha256').update(source).digest('hex');
@@ -173,12 +182,39 @@ function restoreRedactions(next, current) {
         }
     return next;
 }
-function exactDiff(before, after) {
-    if (before === after)
+/**
+ * Unified-style diff of the real file text with env secrets masked. Common
+ * leading/trailing lines are trimmed, so a surgical edit reviews as a small
+ * hunk instead of the whole configuration twice.
+ */
+function sourceDiff(beforeSource, afterSource) {
+    const before = splitLines(redactSourceSecrets(beforeSource, REDACTED_ENV_VALUE));
+    const after = splitLines(redactSourceSecrets(afterSource, REDACTED_ENV_VALUE));
+    let head = 0;
+    while (head < before.length && head < after.length && before[head] === after[head])
+        head += 1;
+    let tail = 0;
+    while (tail < before.length - head && tail < after.length - head
+        && before[before.length - 1 - tail] === after[after.length - 1 - tail])
+        tail += 1;
+    if (head === before.length && head === after.length)
         return '';
-    return ['--- fleet.yaml (current)', '+++ fleet.yaml (proposed)',
-        ...before.trimEnd().split('\n').map(line => `-${line}`),
-        ...after.trimEnd().split('\n').map(line => `+${line}`), ''].join('\n');
+    const start = Math.max(0, head - DIFF_CONTEXT_LINES);
+    const trailing = Math.min(DIFF_CONTEXT_LINES, tail);
+    const beforeSpan = before.length - tail + trailing - start;
+    const afterSpan = after.length - tail + trailing - start;
+    return [
+        '--- fleet.yaml (current)', '+++ fleet.yaml (proposed)',
+        `@@ -${start + 1},${beforeSpan} +${start + 1},${afterSpan} @@`,
+        ...before.slice(start, head).map(line => ` ${line}`),
+        ...before.slice(head, before.length - tail).map(line => `-${line}`),
+        ...after.slice(head, after.length - tail).map(line => `+${line}`),
+        ...before.slice(before.length - tail, before.length - tail + trailing).map(line => ` ${line}`),
+        '',
+    ].join('\n');
+}
+function splitLines(source) {
+    return source.replace(/\n$/, '').split('\n');
 }
 function objectKeys(value) {
     return value && typeof value === 'object' && !Array.isArray(value) ? Object.keys(value) : [];

package/dist/web/runtime.js

@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ import { AuditSink } from './audit.js';
 import { FleetEventBus } from './events.js';
 import { buildWebServer } from './server.js';
 import { FleetConfigService } from './fleet-config-service.js';
-import { deriveTopology } from './topology.js';
+import { mergeTopology } from './topology-model.js';
+import { TopologyDraftStore } from './topology-draft-store.js';
+import { TopologyPromoteService } from './topology-promote.js';
 import { doctor } from '../doctor.js';
 import { TerminalBridgeManager } from './terminal/bridge.js';
 import { acquireWebServerLock } from './lock.js';
@@ -148,11 +150,16 @@ export async function startWebConsole(options) {
         configPath: options.configPath,
         preflight: path => doctor({ configPath: path, yamlMode: 'strict' }),
     });
+    const topologyDrafts = new TopologyDraftStore({ dir: webDir });
+    const readTopology = async () => mergeTopology(loadConfig(options.configPath), await query.list(), topologyDrafts.read());
+    const topologyPromote = new TopologyPromoteService({
+        drafts: topologyDrafts, configuration, topology: readTopology,
+    });
     let server;
     try {
         server = await buildWebServer({
             query, repository, logs, commands, creation, removal, audit, events, watchdogs, configuration,
-            topology: async () => deriveTopology(loadConfig(options.configPath), await query.list()),
+            topology: readTopology, topologyDrafts, topologyPromote,
             terminalUpgrade: terminalAvailable
                 ? async (socket, _request, roleId, _ticket, hello) => terminals.connect(socket, roleId, hello)
                 : undefined,

package/dist/web/server.d.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ import { AuditSink } from './audit.js';
 import { WebAuth } from './auth.js';
 import { FleetEventBus } from './events.js';
 import type { FleetConfigService } from './fleet-config-service.js';
-import type { TopologySnapshot } from './topology.js';
+import type { MergedTopology } from './topology-model.js';
+import type { TopologyDraftStore } from './topology-draft-store.js';
+import type { TopologyPromoteService } from './topology-promote.js';
 import type { RoleRemovalService } from '../application/role-removal-service.js';
 export interface WebServices {
     query: FleetQueryService;
@@ -24,7 +26,9 @@ export interface WebServices {
     events?: FleetEventBus;
     watchdogs?: WatchdogQueryService;
     configuration?: FleetConfigService;
-    topology?: () => Promise<TopologySnapshot>;
+    topology?: () => Promise<MergedTopology>;
+    topologyDrafts?: TopologyDraftStore;
+    topologyPromote?: TopologyPromoteService;
     removal?: RoleRemovalService;
     terminalUpgrade?: (socket: WebSocket, request: FastifyRequest, roleId: string, ticket: string, hello: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<void>;
 }

package/dist/web/server.js

@@ -159,6 +159,46 @@ export async function buildWebServer(services, boundary, options = {}) {
             throw new FleetError('capability_unavailable', 'fleet topology is unavailable');
         return services.topology();
     });
+    const drafts = () => {
+        if (!services.topologyDrafts)
+            throw new FleetError('capability_unavailable', 'topology sketching is unavailable');
+        return services.topologyDrafts;
+    };
+    app.get('/api/v1/topology/draft', async (request) => {
+        auth.authenticate(request);
+        return drafts().read();
+    });
+    app.put('/api/v1/topology/draft', async (request) => {
+        const session = auth.authenticate(request, true);
+        const body = request.body;
+        const result = await drafts().write(String(body?.revision ?? ''), body?.draft);
+        events.publish('topology.draft.changed', { revision: result.revision });
+        await audit.record({
+            requestId: request.id, browser: session.id, action: 'topology.draft.save', result: 'succeeded',
+        });
+        return result;
+    });
+    const promotion = () => {
+        if (!services.topologyPromote)
+            throw new FleetError('capability_unavailable', 'adding sketches to the fleet is unavailable');
+        return services.topologyPromote;
+    };
+    app.post('/api/v1/topology/promote/preview', async (request) => {
+        auth.authenticate(request, true);
+        return promotion().preview(promoteRequest(request.body));
+    });
+    // Writes configuration only. Nothing here starts a process: `Launch` is a
+    // separate, explicit action, so adding to the fleet can never launch by surprise.
+    app.post('/api/v1/topology/promote', async (request) => {
+        const session = auth.authenticate(request, true);
+        const result = await promotion().promote(promoteRequest(request.body));
+        events.publish('configuration.changed', { revision: result.newRevision });
+        events.publish('topology.draft.changed', { revision: result.draftRevision });
+        await audit.record({
+            requestId: request.id, browser: session.id, action: 'topology.promote', result: 'succeeded',
+        });
+        return result;
+    });
     app.get('/api/v1/roles/:id', async (request) => {
         auth.authenticate(request);
         return services.query.detail(request.params.id);
@@ -454,6 +494,16 @@ function clearAuthCookies(reply) {
         'ofs_device=; HttpOnly; SameSite=Strict; Path=/api; Max-Age=0',
     ]);
 }
+function promoteRequest(body) {
+    const value = (body ?? {});
+    if (!Array.isArray(value.ids) || value.ids.some(id => typeof id !== 'string'))
+        throw new FleetError('invalid_request', 'ids must be a list of sketch ids');
+    return {
+        ids: value.ids,
+        configRevision: String(value.configRevision ?? ''),
+        draftRevision: typeof value.draftRevision === 'string' ? value.draftRevision : undefined,
+    };
+}
 function cryptoRandomId() { return randomBytes(12).toString('hex'); }
 function escapeHtml(value) {
     return value.replace(/[&<>"']/g, char => ({ '&': '&amp;', '<': '&lt;', '>': '&gt;', '"': '&quot;', "'": '&#39;' }[char]));

package/dist/web/topology-draft-store.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+import type { Problem } from '../application/types.js';
+import type { TopologyNodeKind } from './topology.js';
+/**
+ * Durable storage for *sketches*: nodes the owner has drawn but not yet added to
+ * the fleet, and where every node sits on the canvas.
+ *
+ * This file is deliberately invisible to `loadConfig`. An incomplete agent in
+ * `roles:` would be started by `ours-fleet up`, and an incomplete watchdog or
+ * loop is a hard `ConfigError` that makes the entire fleet unloadable — so a
+ * draft cannot live in fleet.yaml at all. Being outside the config also makes
+ * "visible but not launchable" true at the daemon level rather than in the UI.
+ *
+ * Nothing here is authoritative and nothing here is a secret: the schema admits
+ * only presentational coordinates and a small allowlist of plain draft fields,
+ * so `env:`/`vars:` values can never reach it.
+ */
+export declare const TOPOLOGY_DRAFT_VERSION = 1;
+export type DraftFieldValue = string | number | boolean;
+export interface DraftPosition {
+    x: number;
+    y: number;
+}
+export interface DraftNode {
+    id: string;
+    kind: TopologyNodeKind;
+    fields: Record<string, DraftFieldValue>;
+}
+export interface DraftEdge {
+    kind: 'oversees' | 'watches' | 'targets';
+    from: string;
+    to: string;
+}
+export interface DraftTutorial {
+    step: number;
+    dismissed: boolean;
+}
+export interface TopologyDraft {
+    version: number;
+    positions: Record<string, DraftPosition>;
+    drafts: {
+        nodes: DraftNode[];
+        edges: DraftEdge[];
+    };
+    tutorial: DraftTutorial;
+}
+export interface TopologyDraftRead {
+    draft: TopologyDraft;
+    revision: string;
+    /** Set when the stored file was unusable and an empty draft is being served. */
+    problem?: Problem;
+    /** False when the file was written by a newer console and must not be clobbered. */
+    writable: boolean;
+}
+export interface TopologyDraftWriteResult {
+    draft: TopologyDraft;
+    revision: string;
+}
+export declare const emptyDraft: () => TopologyDraft;
+export interface TopologyDraftStoreOptions {
+    dir?: string;
+}
+export declare class TopologyDraftStore {
+    readonly path: string;
+    private readonly dir;
+    constructor(options?: TopologyDraftStoreOptions);
+    /**
+     * Never throws. A missing, unreadable, oversized, malformed or future-version
+     * sidecar degrades to an empty draft plus a `problem` the console can show as
+     * a banner — losing sketches is bad, but blocking the console on them is worse.
+     */
+    read(): TopologyDraftRead;
+    /**
+     * Revision-guarded, atomic, 0600. Strict on the way in: an out-of-bounds
+     * coordinate, an unknown field or an unparseable id is refused with a reason
+     * rather than silently dropped, because the caller is the console's own
+     * editor and a silent drop would look like data loss.
+     */
+    write(baseRevision: string, next: unknown): Promise<TopologyDraftWriteResult>;
+    private readRaw;
+}