@timqi/pier 0.0.29 → 0.1.1

package/dist/web/server.js

@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ import { registerConfigRoutes } from "./config.js";
 import { registerExplorerRoutes } from "./explorer.js";
 import { fileHeaders, MAX_FILE_BYTES, registerFsRoutes } from "./fs.js";
 import { guarded } from "./route.js";
-import { isThinkingLevel } from "../core/types.js";
-import { SESSION_TITLE_MAX } from "../limits.js";
+import { isThinkingLevel, SESSION_TITLE_MAX } from "../core/types.js";
 import { saveInbound } from "../core/inbox.js";
 import { MAX_INBOUND_BYTES } from "../core/inbound-file.js";
 import {} from "./session-state.js";
@@ -35,33 +34,47 @@ async function queueResponse(action, status = 200) {
         return Response.json({ error: String(err) }, { status: code });
     }
 }
-/** A transcript without the bytes nobody has asked to see yet. A step's `args`
- *  and `output` are ~90% of a long session's snapshot and sit inside a
- *  collapsed group; the client fetches one turn's worth when it is opened. */
+/** A step's `args` and `output` are ~90% of a long session's snapshot and sit
+ *  in a collapsed group; the client fetches one turn's worth when opened. */
 const slim = (turn) => turn.steps
     ? { ...turn, steps: turn.steps.map(({ args: _args, output: _output, ...step }) => step) }
     : turn;
-/** What goes in front of `Pier` in the tab: `$PIER_TITLE`, then the machine.
- *  The label leads because a tab is narrow and "which instance is this" is the
- *  question it has to answer before the browser truncates — `staging - g1`. */
+/** `$PIER_TITLE`, then the machine: the label leads because a tab is narrow
+ *  and "which instance" must survive truncation. */
 export const tabPrefix = (title, host) => [title?.trim(), host.trim()].filter(Boolean).join(" - ").slice(0, 60);
-/** `<title>staging - g1 - Pier</title>`. Nothing to say, or a shell that does
- *  not say `Pier`: leave it exactly as built. */
 export const withTabPrefix = (html, prefix) => prefix
     ? html.replace("<title>Pier</title>", `<title>${prefix.replace(/&/g, "&amp;").replace(/</g, "&lt;")} - Pier</title>`)
     : html;
 const HEARTBEAT_MS = 15_000;
-/** A reader that stopped reading must not queue frames without bound. Past
- *  this much frame text in flight the stream is dropped with a line in the
- *  log; EventSource reconnects and replays from its Last-Event-ID. */
+/** Past this much frame text in flight a stream is dropped. */
 const SSE_HIGH_WATER = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
+/** Both SSE routes: Hono queues every write, so backpressure alone never stops
+ *  a caller from adding more. Neither stream needs durable replay to recover —
+ *  the session stream resumes from Last-Event-ID, the workspace stream re-lists
+ *  — so a reader past the ceiling is dropped instead of buffered. */
+function boundedWriter(stream, who) {
+    let queued = 0; // frame chars written but not yet drained by the reader
+    return (frame) => {
+        if (stream.aborted || stream.closed)
+            return;
+        if (queued > SSE_HIGH_WATER) {
+            log.warn(`dropping slow event client for ${who} — ${queued} chars queued`);
+            stream.abort(); // unsubscribes; the client reconnects
+            return;
+        }
+        queued += frame.length;
+        void stream
+            .write(frame)
+            .catch((err) => log.warn(`event write for ${who} failed: ${String(err)}`))
+            .finally(() => (queued -= frame.length));
+    };
+}
 // Canonical base64 only: Buffer.from(.., "base64") happily "decodes" garbage.
 const BASE64_RE = /^[A-Za-z0-9+/]+={0,2}$/;
 export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, providers, settings, catalog, names, onToolsChanged, validateCustomTools, secrets, onUnlocked, reload, updates, updater, backgroundRuns, activeBackgroundRunCounts, taskSessions, channelOf, }) {
     const app = new Hono();
     const epoch = randomUUID();
-    // One frame shared by synchronous fan-out to every watching tab. The epoch
-    // and wire encoding stay here; core only stamps transport-blind events.
+    // One frame shared by synchronous fan-out to every watching tab.
     let lastEvent = null;
     let lastFrame = "";
     const sseFrame = (e) => {
@@ -71,11 +84,12 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         }
         return lastFrame;
     };
-    // A finished turn marks its session unread until some client reports it was
-    // seen (session selected + tab visible → POST read below). Server-side so
-    // every client shows the same attention state. Streaming → idle is the
-    // trigger — same transition the client notification uses — and it needs a
-    // start we witnessed, so a session that boots idle stays untouched.
+    // Server-side so every client shows the same attention state; it needs a
+    // start we witnessed, so a session that boots idle stays untouched. Only the
+    // workbench's own sessions: an IM turn or a subagent's was delivered
+    // elsewhere, and nothing could ever clear the mark (the ack needs the session
+    // on screen).
+    const workbenchOwn = (id) => (channelOf?.(id) ?? "web") === "web" && !(taskSessions?.().has(id) ?? false);
     const runningNow = new Set();
     hub.subscribeWorkspace((e) => {
         if (e.type !== "session-state")
@@ -86,26 +100,20 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         }
         if (!runningNow.delete(e.sessionId))
             return;
+        if (!workbenchOwn(e.sessionId))
+            return;
         state.setUnread(e.sessionId, true);
         hub.emitWorkspace({ type: "sessions-changed" });
     });
-    /** Background runs still in flight, per launching session. One query for a
-     *  whole list: asking row by row loaded every run object of every session to
-     *  draw one dot each. */
+    /** One query for a whole list, not one per row. */
     const activeRuns = () => activeBackgroundRunCounts?.() ?? new Map();
-    /** The web channel's session for `id` — every session route resolves here. */
     const ensure = (id) => router.ensure({ channelId: "web", conversationId: id });
-    // Sessions created here that Pi doesn't list yet — it persists a session
-    // only once the first assistant message lands. Merged into the list below
-    // so every client sees a new session immediately; dropped once Pi lists it.
+    // Pi persists a session only once the first assistant message lands; until
+    // then the rail lists it from here.
     const nascent = new Map();
-    /** `ensure`, plus ghost cleanup. A session created and never messaged does
-     *  not survive a restart or an eviction (Pi persisted nothing), but while
-     *  this process lives it is in `nascent` and therefore in the rail — left
-     *  alone, clicking it 404s forever. The load path is where a ghost is
-     *  discovered, so it is where the entry and its row are dropped and every
-     *  rail told; the 404 then says what happened instead of looking like a
-     *  crash (§5b). */
+    /** A session created and never messaged does not survive an eviction (Pi
+     *  persisted nothing) but is still in `nascent`; left alone, clicking it 404s
+     *  forever. Dropped here, and the 404 says what happened (§5). */
     const ensureLoadable = async (id) => {
         try {
             return await ensure(id);
@@ -120,35 +128,31 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
             throw err;
         }
     };
-    // A listing stats every session file and parses whatever grew — milliseconds
-    // warm, one scan cold. Concurrent consumers share it, whatever the factory
-    // behind the seam retains of its own; nothing here is cached past the last
-    // of them.
+    // Concurrent consumers share one scan; nothing is cached past the last of them.
     let listing;
     const listSessions = () => listing ??= factory.list().finally(() => {
         listing = undefined;
     });
-    /** Every session the rail may show: what Pi has written, plus the ones
-     *  created here that it has not persisted yet, minus the ones task runs
-     *  made for themselves. */
     const allSessions = async () => {
         const sessions = await listSessions();
         for (const s of sessions)
             nascent.delete(s.id);
-        // A session created but never prompted would otherwise be listed forever.
-        for (const [id, n] of nascent)
-            if (Date.now() - n.createdAt > 86_400_000)
+        // A session created but never prompted would otherwise hold a working-set
+        // slot forever.
+        for (const [id, n] of nascent) {
+            if (Date.now() - n.createdAt > 86_400_000) {
                 nascent.delete(id);
+                state.forget(id);
+            }
+        }
         const owned = taskSessions?.() ?? new Set();
         return [
             ...[...nascent].map(([id, n]) => ({ id, ...n })),
             ...sessions.filter((s) => !owned.has(s.id)),
         ];
     };
-    // One session as every list renders it: the summary, what the workbench
-    // decided about it, and what is true of it right now. `rank` is the place in
-    // the rail's working set, when it has one; `modified` rides along for the
-    // row's tooltip, and orders nothing.
+    // `rank` is the place in the rail's working set; `modified` is for the
+    // row's tooltip and orders nothing.
     const present = (s, own, active) => ({
         ...s,
         ...(own?.rank === undefined ? {} : { rank: own.rank }),
@@ -158,9 +162,9 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         activeRuns: active.get(s.id) ?? 0,
     });
     // The rail's top rows are maintained here and nowhere else: a session a
-    // human speaks to and that is not in the working set already takes the front
-    // slot (web/session-state.ts). No route — there is no gesture to make, and
-    // an IM message has no browser to make it from.
+    // human speaks to — or creates, below — and that is not in the working set
+    // already takes the front slot (web/session-state.ts). No route — there is no
+    // gesture to make, and an IM message has no browser to make it from.
     router.onSpokenTo((id) => {
         if (state.promote(id))
             hub.emitWorkspace({ type: "sessions-changed" });
@@ -170,20 +174,42 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         const active = activeRuns();
         return c.json((await allSessions()).map((s) => present(s, flags.get(s.id), active)));
     });
+    // One session by id, the listing's filters aside: a task run's own session is
+    // never a row (allSessions), and the pane that opened it from Runs still has
+    // a header to name and a session info panel to fill.
+    app.get("/api/sessions/:id", async (c) => {
+        const id = c.req.param("id");
+        const n = nascent.get(id);
+        const summary = n ? { id, ...n } : (await listSessions()).find((s) => s.id === id);
+        if (!summary)
+            return c.json({ error: `no session ${id}` }, 404);
+        return c.json(present(summary, state.flags().get(id), activeRuns()));
+    });
+    // What was said, across every session: the palette's Messages section. The
+    // factory owns the index and the ranking; an empty query is an empty answer,
+    // not a listing of everything.
+    app.get("/api/search", async (c) => {
+        const q = (c.req.query("q") ?? "").trim();
+        return c.json({ hits: q ? await factory.search(q) : [] });
+    });
     app.post("/api/sessions", async (c) => {
         const body = await c.req.json().catch(() => ({}));
-        // A session always starts in its project directory — never in pier's own.
+        // Never in pier's own directory.
         if (typeof body.cwd !== "string" || !body.cwd)
             return c.json({ error: "cwd required" }, 400);
-        const session = await factory.create({ cwd: body.cwd });
+        // Resolved like the seam does (agent/pi.ts), or the nascent row is the one
+        // place a symlinked directory still looks like a project of its own.
+        const cwd = await realpath(body.cwd).catch(() => body.cwd);
+        const session = await factory.create({ cwd });
         const createdAt = Date.now();
-        nascent.set(session.id, { cwd: body.cwd, createdAt });
+        nascent.set(session.id, { cwd, createdAt });
         router.attach({ channelId: "web", conversationId: session.id }, session);
+        // Created is as good as spoken to: a row born below the working set would
+        // jump on the first message.
+        state.promote(session.id);
         hub.emitWorkspace({ type: "sessions-changed" });
         return c.json({ id: session.id }, 201);
     });
-    // Seen = read: a client with the session selected and the tab visible acks
-    // here; the broadcast moves every other client's dot back to idle.
     app.post("/api/sessions/:id/read", (c) => {
         const id = c.req.param("id");
         if (state.unread(id)) {
@@ -192,13 +218,10 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         }
         return c.json({ ok: true });
     });
-    // The two responses big enough to matter: a transcript, and one turn's tool
-    // detail. Scoped to these routes on purpose — compressing the SSE streams
-    // would sit on events until the encoder's buffer filled.
+    // Only these two: compressing the SSE streams would sit on events until the
+    // encoder's buffer filled.
     app.use("/api/sessions/:id/history", compress());
     app.use("/api/sessions/:id/turns/:index/steps", compress());
-    // Snapshot: everything a fresh client needs before it starts consuming
-    // deltas from SSE — transcript, live state, pending queue, model.
     guarded(app, "GET", "/api/sessions/:id/history", 404, async (c) => {
         const id = c.req.param("id");
         const session = await ensureLoadable(id);
@@ -236,21 +259,15 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         const turn = (await (await ensure(c.req.param("id"))).history())[index];
         if (!turn)
             return c.json({ error: `no turn at index ${index}` }, 404);
-        // Already capped at MAX_STEP_OUTPUT by the transcript rebuild: this route
-        // hands back what a surface shows, not the untruncated tool result.
         return c.json({ steps: turn.steps ?? [] });
     });
-    // Attachments, both directions: the agent links a file it produced, the chat
-    // renders a file the user sent. Read-only, and any readable file — the
-    // boundary here is the Console password (web/fs.ts), not the session's cwd:
-    // a cwd is chosen by whoever creates the session, so confining to it stopped
-    // nothing and left a report the agent wrote elsewhere as a dead card.
+    // Any readable file: the boundary is the Console password (web/fs.ts), not
+    // the session's cwd, which is chosen by whoever creates the session.
     guarded(app, "GET", "/api/sessions/:id/files", 400, async (c) => {
         const raw = c.req.query("path");
         if (!raw)
             return c.json({ error: "path required" }, 400);
-        // Absolute only: a link into a session's files is written by the agent or
-        // by Pier, and neither of them writes a path relative to anything.
+        // Absolute only: neither the agent nor Pier writes a relative link.
         const file = isAbsolute(raw) ? await realpath(raw).catch(() => null) : null;
         const info = file ? await stat(file).catch(() => null) : null;
         if (!file || !info?.isFile())
@@ -263,9 +280,7 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
             "cache-control": "private, max-age=60",
         });
     });
-    // Composer attachments: bytes land in the inbox, the message carries the
-    // path as a `[name](file:///…)` line the client builds itself — upload
-    // first, so the text it sends (and optimistically renders) is final.
+    // Upload first, so the text the client sends and optimistically renders is final.
     guarded(app, "POST", "/api/inbox", 400, async (c) => {
         const body = await c.req.json().catch(() => null);
         if (typeof body?.data !== "string" ||
@@ -282,8 +297,7 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
             return c.json({ error: "invalid file" }, 400);
         return c.json({ path: await saveInbound("web", name, body.mimeType, bytes) });
     });
-    // Backend model catalog, no session needed: surfaces that configure what a
-    // *future* session launches with (IM chats) have none to ask.
+    // No session needed: surfaces configuring a *future* session have none to ask.
     app.get("/api/models", async (c) => {
         try {
             return c.json(await factory.availableModels());
@@ -331,19 +345,15 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         const { sessionId } = await router.dispatch({
             key: { channelId: "web", conversationId: id },
             senderId: "web",
-            // Named, not anonymous: a session reached from a group chat as well as
-            // from here attributes an unheaded message to whoever spoke last
-            // (core/identity.ts), which is the operator's own words in someone
-            // else's mouth.
+            // Named: in a session also reached from a group chat, an unheaded message
+            // is attributed to whoever spoke last (core/identity.ts).
             sender: { id: "web", name: "operator" },
             text: body.text,
             mode,
         });
         return c.json({ sessionId }, 202);
     });
-    // Edit a user turn: rewind the transcript to just before it, then re-send
-    // the edited text as a fresh dispatch. Pi keeps the old branch in the
-    // session file but out of context — the "deleted" message stops polluting.
+    // Edit a user turn: rewind to just before it, then re-dispatch the edited text.
     guarded(app, "POST", "/api/sessions/:id/turns/:index/edit", 400, async (c) => {
         const id = c.req.param("id");
         const index = Number(c.req.param("index"));
@@ -351,8 +361,7 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         if (!Number.isInteger(index) || index < 0 || typeof body?.text !== "string" || !body.text.trim()) {
             return c.json({ error: "index and text required" }, 400);
         }
-        // Asked before touching anything: the dispatch below would be refused by
-        // the drain gate, and by then the transcript is already rewound.
+        // Before touching anything: a refused dispatch must not cost a rewound transcript.
         if (router.isDraining())
             return c.json({ error: "Pier is restarting — try again in a moment" }, 503);
         const session = await ensure(id);
@@ -364,8 +373,7 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         if (session.state !== "idle")
             return c.json({ error: "busy — stop the turn first" }, 409);
         await session.rewindToUserTurn(index);
-        // The rewind took the turns after this one out of the context, headers and
-        // all; what the model was told about who is speaking went with them.
+        // The rewind took the speaker headers out of the context too.
         router.forgetSender(id);
         await router.dispatch({
             key: { channelId: "web", conversationId: id },
@@ -376,9 +384,7 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         });
         return c.json({ ok: true }, 202);
     });
-    // Promote queued messages: "steer" delivers them into the running turn,
-    // "restart" aborts the turn and sends them as a fresh prompt. Core owns
-    // exclusion and retains originals through the asynchronous handoff.
+    // Core owns exclusion and retains originals through the asynchronous handoff.
     guarded(app, "POST", "/api/sessions/:id/queue/deliver", 404, async (c) => {
         const id = c.req.param("id");
         const body = await c.req.json().catch(() => null);
@@ -388,7 +394,6 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         }
         return queueResponse(async () => ({ submitted: await router.deliverQueue(id, mode) }), 202);
     });
-    // Recall: drop all pending queued messages and hand them back (composer restore).
     guarded(app, "POST", "/api/sessions/:id/queue/recall", 404, async (c) => {
         const id = c.req.param("id");
         return queueResponse(async () => {
@@ -400,36 +405,25 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         router.acknowledgeRecovery(c.req.param("id"), c.req.param("batchId"));
         return { ok: true };
     }));
-    // Shrink the context on demand: Pi summarizes the older transcript away and
-    // the session continues from the summary. Refused while streaming, like the
-    // edit route above and for the same reason — Pi's own compaction aborts a
-    // running turn to do it, and losing a turn is not what the button offered.
-    // The result is not in this response: it arrives on the session's stream as
-    // `context-compacted` (agent/events.ts), which is also the only place the
-    // automatic compaction can be seen.
+    // Refused while streaming: Pi's compaction aborts a running turn, and losing
+    // one is not what the button offered. The result arrives on the stream as
+    // `context-compacted`.
     guarded(app, "POST", "/api/sessions/:id/compact", 404, async (c) => {
         const session = await ensure(c.req.param("id"));
         if (session.state === "streaming")
             return c.json({ error: "busy — stop the turn first" }, 409);
-        // The check above is a courtesy, not the lock: two clicks pass it on the
-        // same tick, so the seam refuses the second one (agent/pi.ts) and its
-        // refusal keeps the status this route already uses for "not now" — a 404
-        // from `guarded` would have read as "no such session".
+        // The check above is not the lock: two clicks pass it on the same tick, and
+        // the seam's refusal must keep the "not now" status, not read as "no such session".
         return await session.compact().then(() => c.json({ ok: true }, 202), (err) => c.json({ error: String(err) }, 409));
     });
-    // A name, so a title is what you called it instead of the first 80
-    // characters you happened to type. Not refused while streaming: a rename has
-    // nothing to do with the turn running, and the transcript takes an append.
+    // Not refused while streaming: a rename has nothing to do with the turn running.
     guarded(app, "POST", "/api/sessions/:id/rename", 404, async (c) => {
         const body = await c.req.json().catch(() => null);
         if (typeof body?.name !== "string")
             return c.json({ error: "name required" }, 400);
         const id = c.req.param("id");
         await (await ensure(id)).rename(body.name.trim().slice(0, SESSION_TITLE_MAX));
-        // Nothing to write and nothing to report: the name went into the
-        // transcript, which is what every list reads. The event is how the
-        // surfaces learn to re-read it, and the seam dropped its retained scan on
-        // the way out so the re-read sees the new name.
+        // The transcript is the answer; the event tells surfaces to re-read it.
         hub.emitWorkspace({ type: "sessions-changed" });
         return c.json({ ok: true });
     });
@@ -438,11 +432,10 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         await router.abort(id);
         return c.json({ ok: true }, 202);
     });
-    // Workspace stream: one per client, keeps every session list in sync
-    // (created/promoted → re-list, run state → patch) without polling.
+    // One per client; keeps every session list in sync without polling.
     app.get("/api/events", (c) => streamSSE(c, async (stream) => {
-        // A write to a torn-down stream must not become an unhandled rejection.
-        const unsubscribe = hub.subscribeWorkspace((e) => void stream.writeSSE({ data: JSON.stringify(e) }).catch(() => { }));
+        const send = boundedWriter(stream, "workspace");
+        const unsubscribe = hub.subscribeWorkspace((e) => send(`data: ${JSON.stringify(e)}\n\n`));
         stream.onAbort(unsubscribe);
         while (!stream.aborted) {
             await stream.sleep(HEARTBEAT_MS);
@@ -459,29 +452,12 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
                 await stream.writeSSE({ event: "reset", data: "snapshot required" });
                 return;
             }
-            let queued = 0; // frame chars written but not yet drained by the reader
-            const send = (frame) => {
-                if (stream.aborted || stream.closed)
-                    return;
-                if (queued > SSE_HIGH_WATER) {
-                    log.warn(`dropping slow event client for ${id} — ${queued} chars queued`);
-                    stream.abort(); // unsubscribes; the client reconnects and replays
-                    return;
-                }
-                queued += frame.length;
-                void stream
-                    .write(frame)
-                    .catch((err) => log.warn(`event write for ${id} failed: ${String(err)}`))
-                    .finally(() => (queued -= frame.length));
-            };
-            // Subscribe before the replay write can wait on its reader: an event that
-            // arrives while that write is backpressured must queue behind it, not fall
-            // between replay() and subscribe(). Both snapshots happen synchronously,
-            // so live writes cannot overtake the replay write.
+            const send = boundedWriter(stream, id);
+            // Subscribe before the replay write can wait on its reader, or an event
+            // arriving during backpressure falls between replay() and subscribe().
             const unsubscribe = hub.subscribe(id, (e) => send(sseFrame(e)));
             stream.onAbort(unsubscribe);
-            // One write for the whole replay: a reconnect after a busy turn used to
-            // cost an await per event before the client saw any of them.
+            // One write for the whole replay, not an await per event.
             const missed = hub.replay(id, lastId);
             if (missed.length)
                 await stream.write(missed.map(sseFrame).join(""));
@@ -492,14 +468,10 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
             }
         });
     });
-    // Provider credentials, the agent files and the surface prompt are read when
-    // a session *opens*: a live one keeps what it opened with, so a Console save
-    // would otherwise reach nothing until the idle sweep got around to it half an
-    // hour later. Letting the idle sessions go is what `pier reload` does — the
-    // next message re-opens them with the configuration just written. Watched
-    // included, unlike the background sweep: the session open in the tab that
-    // just saved is the likeliest one to need it. A turn in flight is still never
-    // interrupted; it picks the change up at its next natural eviction.
+    // Credentials, agent files and the surface prompt are read when a session
+    // opens, so a Console save recycles idle sessions — watched included, since
+    // the tab that just saved is the likeliest to need it. A turn in flight is
+    // never interrupted.
     const recycle = (what) => {
         void router.evictIdle(0, Date.now(), { includeWatched: true })
             .then((n) => {
@@ -508,12 +480,8 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
         })
             .catch((err) => log.error(`recycling sessions after ${what} failed`, err));
     };
-    // `pier reload` on a button. The callbacks below already recycle when the
-    // Console is what changed the configuration; an agent editing AGENTS.md or a
-    // file edited over ssh has nothing to trigger them, and this is that trigger.
-    // `busy` is reported rather than waited on: a streaming session is never
-    // interrupted (core/router.ts evictIdle), so that count is the honest answer
-    // to "why is my change not live yet".
+    // `pier reload` on a button, for a file edited outside the Console. `busy`
+    // is the honest answer to "why is my change not live yet".
     app.post("/api/reload", async (c) => {
         try {
             const recycled = (await reload?.()) ?? 0;
@@ -541,64 +509,47 @@ export function createServer({ factory, router, hub, sessions: state, config, pr
     registerConfigRoutes(app, { factory, config, onConfigWritten: () => recycle("an agent file") });
     registerFsRoutes(app);
     registerExplorerRoutes(app);
-    // serveStatic resolves `root` against the *working directory*, and an
-    // installed Pier is started from wherever the operator happens to be. The
-    // bundle sits beside this module in both trees — src/web/public when tsx
-    // runs the source, dist/web/public in a build — so the path is derived from
-    // the module and handed over as the relative form the option wants.
+    // serveStatic resolves `root` against the working directory, and an installed
+    // Pier is started from wherever the operator happens to be.
     const bundle = fileURLToPath(new URL("./public", import.meta.url));
-    // The tab says which instance this is (`staging - g1 - Pier`): an operator
-    // keeps a workbench open per environment and they are otherwise identical,
-    // and mistaking the test one for production is the mistake worth a few lines.
-    // Both facts are known only at runtime, so they are patched into the shell
-    // here rather than built in — and served behind the auth guard, so a stranger
-    // at /login learns neither. Read once: neither can change under a process.
+    // The tab says which instance this is: mistaking staging for production is
+    // the mistake worth a few lines. Behind the auth guard, so a stranger at
+    // /login learns neither fact.
     const prefix = tabPrefix(process.env.PIER_TITLE, hostname().split(".")[0] ?? "");
     let shell = null;
-    // The one file the precompressed siblings below cannot cover: this route
-    // answers from the patched string, not from disk, and it is re-fetched on
-    // every navigation because it may not be cached. Exact path, like the two
-    // API routes above — never the SSE streams.
+    // Answers from the patched string, not from disk, so the precompressed
+    // siblings below cannot cover it. Exact path: never the SSE streams.
     app.use("/", compress());
     app.get("/", async (c, next) => {
-        // A release replaces hashed assets. Revalidate the shell on every
-        // navigation so a cached index cannot name bundles that no longer exist.
+        // A cached index must not name bundles a release has replaced.
         c.header("cache-control", "private, no-cache");
         if (shell === null) {
             try {
                 shell = withTabPrefix(await readFile(join(bundle, "index.html"), "utf8"), prefix);
             }
             catch (err) {
-                // A workbench that will not load is not worth a nicer tab: hand the
-                // request back to the static handler, which answers as it always did.
+                // A workbench that will not load is not worth a nicer tab.
                 log.warn(`shell unreadable, serving it unpatched: ${String(err)}`);
                 return next();
             }
         }
         return c.html(shell);
     });
-    // Same reasoning as the shell above, for the one asset that is not hashed:
-    // an installed app keeps its worker until the script it re-fetches differs,
-    // so a cached copy is a released fix that never ships.
+    // The one unhashed asset: an installed app keeps its worker until the
+    // re-fetched script differs, so a cached copy is a fix that never ships.
     app.get("/sw.js", async (c, next) => {
         c.header("cache-control", "private, no-cache");
         await next();
     });
-    // Hashed bundles never change under their name — a release writes new names,
-    // and the shell above is what re-points at them. Without this they carry only
-    // the auth layer's bare `private`, so a browser revalidates each one before it
-    // may reuse it: a round trip per bundle on a remote instance, every time the
-    // workbench is opened.
+    // Hashed bundles never change under their name; without this the auth
+    // layer's bare `private` costs a revalidation round trip per bundle per open.
     app.get("/assets/*", async (c, next) => {
         c.header("cache-control", "private, max-age=31536000, immutable");
         await next();
     });
-    // `precompressed` looks for a `.br`/`.gz` sibling of the file it is about to
-    // serve and hands that over when the request accepts the encoding; the build
-    // writes them (vite.config.ts). Without it the 325 kB bundle and the 87 kB
-    // stylesheet go out verbatim.
-    // serveStatic only sets Vary when it selects a sibling. Identity must carry
-    // it too, or a cache can reuse that response for a later Brotli request.
+    // The build writes `.br`/`.gz` siblings (vite.config.ts). serveStatic sets
+    // Vary only when it selects one; identity must carry it too, or a cache can
+    // reuse that response for a later Brotli request.
     app.use("/*", async (c, next) => {
         await next();
         c.header("Vary", "Accept-Encoding");