claude-code-session-manager 0.75.2 → 0.76.0

package/src/main/lib/delegationReadiness.cjs

@@ -8,17 +8,29 @@
  * implements inline instead. See scripts/install-scheduler-mcp-user-scope.sh's
  * header for the incident this repeat-guards against (PRD 1024-1030).
  *
- * This module only computes the four checks below; surfacing them in the UI
- * or the Epic's grounding line is a dependent PRD (delegation-readiness-ui).
+ * This module only computes the checks below; surfacing them in the UI or
+ * the Epic's grounding line is a dependent PRD (delegation-readiness-ui).
+ * A registration key existing in ~/.claude.json is necessary but NOT
+ * sufficient — scheduler-mcp-live actually spawns the registered server and
+ * confirms it answers tools/list, closing the gap where a moved repo, a
+ * missing `node`, or a syntax error in the server showed GREEN forever.
  */
 
 const fs = require('node:fs');
 const path = require('node:path');
 const os = require('node:os');
+const { spawn } = require('node:child_process');
+const { writeJson, addAllowedRoot } = require('../config.cjs');
+const { cleanChildEnv, pathWithUserBins } = require('./cleanEnv.cjs');
 
 const SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME = 'session-manager-scheduler';
 const DEV_PLUGIN_ENABLED_KEY = 'session-manager-dev@session-manager';
 const SCHEDULER_MCP_SERVER_SCRIPT = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', '..', 'scripts', 'scheduler-mcp-server.cjs');
+const PRD_WRITE_GUARD_SCRIPT = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', '..', 'scripts', 'hooks', 'guard-prd-writes.cjs');
+const PRD_WRITE_GUARD_MATCHER = 'Write|Edit|NotebookEdit';
+const LIVE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000;
+const LIVE_PROBE_TTL_MS = 60_000;
+const REQUIRED_LIVE_TOOLS = ['scheduler_create_prd', 'session_manager_help'];
 
 /** Read + JSON.parse a file, returning `fallback` on any read/parse failure. */
 function readJsonSafe(absPath, fallback) {
@@ -29,27 +41,257 @@ function readJsonSafe(absPath, fallback) {
   }
 }
 
+const SCHEDULER_MCP_FIX_CMD = `claude mcp add ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} --scope user -- node ${SCHEDULER_MCP_SERVER_SCRIPT}`;
+
+/**
+ * `ok` must mean "an agent in this project can actually reach a working
+ * server", not "some entry named session-manager-scheduler exists somewhere".
+ * A user-scope entry whose script path is relative or points at a file that
+ * no longer exists (repo moved, worktree deleted) is exactly as dead as no
+ * entry at all — the difference is it shows GREEN under a substring check,
+ * which is the incident this PRD closes.
+ */
 function checkSchedulerMcp({ cwd, homeDir }) {
   const userConfig = readJsonSafe(path.join(homeDir, '.claude.json'), null);
-  const userHas = !!userConfig?.mcpServers?.[SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME];
+  const userEntry = userConfig?.mcpServers?.[SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME];
 
   const projectConfig = readJsonSafe(path.join(cwd, '.mcp.json'), null);
   const projectHas = !!projectConfig?.mcpServers?.[SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME];
 
-  const ok = userHas || projectHas;
-  let detail;
-  if (userHas) detail = `${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} registered at user scope (~/.claude.json)`;
-  else if (projectHas) detail = `${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} registered at project scope (${cwd}/.mcp.json)`;
-  else detail = `no ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} entry in ~/.claude.json or ${cwd}/.mcp.json`;
+  if (userEntry) {
+    const args = Array.isArray(userEntry.args) ? userEntry.args : [];
+    const scriptArg = args[args.length - 1];
+    const isAbsolute = typeof scriptArg === 'string' && path.isAbsolute(scriptArg);
+    const exists = isAbsolute && fs.existsSync(scriptArg);
+    if (!isAbsolute || !exists) {
+      return {
+        id: 'scheduler-mcp',
+        label: 'Scheduler MCP server registered',
+        ok: false,
+        detail: !isAbsolute
+          ? `user-scope ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} registration points at a non-absolute script path (${scriptArg})`
+          : `user-scope ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} registration points at a script that no longer exists (${scriptArg})`,
+        fix: SCHEDULER_MCP_FIX_CMD,
+      };
+    }
+    return {
+      id: 'scheduler-mcp',
+      label: 'Scheduler MCP server registered',
+      ok: true,
+      detail: `${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} registered at user scope (~/.claude.json)`,
+      fix: null,
+    };
+  }
+
+  if (projectHas) {
+    return {
+      id: 'scheduler-mcp',
+      label: 'Scheduler MCP server registered',
+      ok: true,
+      detail: `${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} registered at project scope (${cwd}/.mcp.json)`,
+      fix: null,
+    };
+  }
 
   return {
     id: 'scheduler-mcp',
     label: 'Scheduler MCP server registered',
-    ok,
-    detail,
-    fix: ok
+    ok: false,
+    detail: `no ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} entry in ~/.claude.json or ${cwd}/.mcp.json`,
+    fix: SCHEDULER_MCP_FIX_CMD,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * A project-scope `.mcp.json` entry is never wrong by itself, but once a
+ * user-scope entry also exists it is pure risk: `.mcp.json` commonly carries
+ * a RELATIVE script path (this repo's own copy did, until this PRD), and a
+ * relative path resolves against the process's cwd — which is the worktree
+ * root for an Epic, not this repo root — silently shadowing the working
+ * user-scope registration with a broken one. Reported as a warning, never a
+ * failure: enabling/disabling project-scope servers is the human's call
+ * (enableAllProjectMcpServers), not something this probe decides.
+ */
+function checkSchedulerMcpProjectDuplicate({ cwd, homeDir }) {
+  const userConfig = readJsonSafe(path.join(homeDir, '.claude.json'), null);
+  const userHas = !!userConfig?.mcpServers?.[SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME];
+
+  const projectConfig = readJsonSafe(path.join(cwd, '.mcp.json'), null);
+  const projectHas = !!projectConfig?.mcpServers?.[SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME];
+
+  const warn = userHas && projectHas;
+  return {
+    id: 'scheduler-mcp-project-duplicate',
+    label: 'No project-scope duplicate of the scheduler MCP',
+    ok: true,
+    warn,
+    detail: warn
+      ? `${cwd}/.mcp.json ALSO registers ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} — user scope is canonical; this project entry can shadow it (e.g. via a relative script path resolved against a worktree cwd) instead of adding coverage`
+      : `no project-scope duplicate of ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} in ${cwd}/.mcp.json`,
+    fix: warn
+      ? `Remove the ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} entry from ${cwd}/.mcp.json — the user-scope registration already covers every project`
+      : null,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Cache key: a fresh registration signature (command+args+env) always misses. */
+function liveProbeSignature({ command, args, env }) {
+  return JSON.stringify({ command, args, env: env || {} });
+}
+
+const liveProbeCache = new Map(); // signature -> { result: Promise, expiresAt }
+
+/** Test-only: forces the next probe for every signature to actually spawn. */
+function clearLiveProbeCache() {
+  liveProbeCache.clear();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Spawns the registered command+args with the registered env (via
+ * cleanChildEnv/pathWithUserBins — the same env the scheduler gives
+ * `claude -p`, so this fails the way a real session would fail, not the way
+ * the Electron process would), sends an initialize + tools/list JSON-RPC
+ * pair over stdin, and resolves once a tools/list result naming every entry
+ * in REQUIRED_LIVE_TOOLS arrives, or the 10s bound is hit. Never rejects,
+ * never leaves the child running — every path clears the timer and kills it.
+ */
+function probeSchedulerMcpLive({ command, args, env }) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    let child;
+    try {
+      child = spawn(command, args, {
+        cwd: os.homedir(),
+        env: cleanChildEnv({ PATH: pathWithUserBins(), ...(env || {}) }),
+        stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+      });
+    } catch (err) {
+      resolve({ ok: false, detail: err?.message ?? String(err) });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    let settled = false;
+    let stdoutBuf = '';
+    let firstStderrLine = null;
+
+    const finish = (result) => {
+      if (settled) return;
+      settled = true;
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+      try { child.kill('SIGKILL'); } catch { /* already gone */ }
+      resolve(result);
+    };
+
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => finish({ ok: false, detail: 'timeout' }), LIVE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+
+    child.on('error', (err) => finish({ ok: false, detail: err?.message ?? String(err) }));
+
+    child.stderr?.on('data', (chunk) => {
+      if (firstStderrLine != null) return;
+      const line = chunk.toString('utf8').split('\n').find((l) => l.trim());
+      if (line) firstStderrLine = line.trim();
+    });
+
+    child.stdout?.on('data', (chunk) => {
+      stdoutBuf += chunk.toString('utf8');
+      let idx;
+      while ((idx = stdoutBuf.indexOf('\n')) !== -1) {
+        const line = stdoutBuf.slice(0, idx).trim();
+        stdoutBuf = stdoutBuf.slice(idx + 1);
+        if (!line) continue;
+        let msg;
+        try { msg = JSON.parse(line); } catch { continue; }
+        if (msg && msg.id === 2) {
+          const tools = Array.isArray(msg.result?.tools) ? msg.result.tools.map((t) => t?.name) : null;
+          if (!tools) {
+            finish({ ok: false, detail: msg.error?.message ? `tools/list error: ${msg.error.message}` : 'tools/list returned no tools array' });
+            return;
+          }
+          const missing = REQUIRED_LIVE_TOOLS.filter((t) => !tools.includes(t));
+          if (missing.length > 0) {
+            finish({ ok: false, detail: `tools/list did not include: ${missing.join(', ')}` });
+          } else {
+            finish({ ok: true, detail: `tools/list returned ${tools.length} tool(s) including ${REQUIRED_LIVE_TOOLS.join(', ')}` });
+          }
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+    });
+
+    child.on('close', () => {
+      finish({ ok: false, detail: firstStderrLine || 'process exited before answering tools/list' });
+    });
+
+    try {
+      const initialize = {
+        jsonrpc: '2.0',
+        id: 1,
+        method: 'initialize',
+        params: { protocolVersion: '2024-11-05', capabilities: {}, clientInfo: { name: 'sm-readiness', version: '1' } },
+      };
+      const toolsList = { jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 2, method: 'tools/list', params: {} };
+      child.stdin.write(`${JSON.stringify(initialize)}\n`);
+      child.stdin.write(`${JSON.stringify(toolsList)}\n`);
+    } catch (err) {
+      finish({ ok: false, detail: err?.message ?? String(err) });
+    }
+  });
+}
+
+function probeSchedulerMcpLiveMemoized({ command, args, env }) {
+  const sig = liveProbeSignature({ command, args, env });
+  const now = Date.now();
+  const cached = liveProbeCache.get(sig);
+  if (cached && cached.expiresAt > now) return cached.result;
+
+  const result = probeSchedulerMcpLive({ command, args, env });
+  liveProbeCache.set(sig, { result, expiresAt: now + LIVE_PROBE_TTL_MS });
+  return result;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Answers "does the server process actually answer", which
+ * checkSchedulerMcp's static-config check cannot — a registration can point
+ * at a script that spawns and dies on a syntax error, or at `node` when
+ * `node` isn't on PATH for a real session's env, and both show GREEN there.
+ * Skipped (not failed) when the registration check already failed, so a
+ * missing entry produces one red row, not two.
+ */
+async function checkSchedulerMcpLive({ cwd, homeDir, schedulerMcpCheck }) {
+  const base = { id: 'scheduler-mcp-live', label: 'Scheduler MCP server answers tools/list' };
+
+  if (!schedulerMcpCheck.ok) {
+    return { ...base, ok: true, skipped: true, detail: 'skipped — scheduler-mcp registration check already failed', fix: null };
+  }
+
+  // ONLY ever spawn the USER-scope entry. A project-scope `.mcp.json` is
+  // attacker-controllable (any repo a human points Session Manager at) and
+  // Claude Code deliberately gates running it behind the human's own
+  // enabledMcpjsonServers/enableAllProjectMcpServers approval — a gate this
+  // probe has no way to check. checkDelegationReadiness runs unattended
+  // (New Epic banner on mount, session_manager_help), so falling back to a
+  // project-scope command here would let a malicious repo's .mcp.json get
+  // executed the moment its cwd is merely probed, bypassing that approval
+  // entirely. Auto-approving project-scope servers is explicitly out of
+  // scope for this probe — see this PRD's "Out of scope".
+  const userConfig = readJsonSafe(path.join(homeDir, '.claude.json'), null);
+  const entry = userConfig?.mcpServers?.[SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME];
+
+  if (!entry?.command) {
+    return { ...base, ok: true, skipped: true, detail: 'skipped — no user-scope registration to safely run (a project-scope-only .mcp.json entry is not auto-executed)', fix: null };
+  }
+
+  const command = entry.command;
+  const args = Array.isArray(entry.args) ? entry.args : [];
+  const env = entry.env && typeof entry.env === 'object' ? entry.env : {};
+
+  const result = await probeSchedulerMcpLiveMemoized({ command, args, env });
+  return {
+    ...base,
+    ok: result.ok,
+    detail: result.detail,
+    fix: result.ok
       ? null
-      : `claude mcp add ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME} --scope user -- node ${SCHEDULER_MCP_SERVER_SCRIPT}`,
+      : `Run \`${command} ${args.join(' ')}\` by hand in a fresh shell to see the startup error directly, or \`claude mcp get ${SCHEDULER_MCP_NAME}\``,
   };
 }
 
@@ -98,39 +340,172 @@ function checkAgentPersonas({ cwd, homeDir }) {
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Pull the guard script's path out of a hook `command` string.
+ *
+ * Commands are `node <script>` (optionally quoted). We only care about the
+ * token naming guard-prd-writes — anything else is not this hook.
+ */
+function extractGuardScriptPath(command) {
+  const match = String(command).match(/(?:"([^"]*guard-prd-writes\.cjs)"|'([^']*guard-prd-writes\.cjs)'|(\S*guard-prd-writes\.cjs))/);
+  if (!match) return null;
+  return match[1] || match[2] || match[3] || null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `ok` must mean "a hook that will actually run", not "the settings file
+ * mentions guard-prd-writes somewhere".
+ *
+ * The failure mode this guards against: a PreToolUse command that exits
+ * non-zero WITHOUT exit code 2 is a non-blocking error, so a hook pointing at
+ * a script that doesn't exist in this project silently guards nothing — while
+ * a substring match would flip this check green. That is strictly worse than
+ * an honest red. So we resolve the command's script path (relative resolves
+ * against the project cwd, which is what the harness runs the hook with) and
+ * require the file to exist on disk.
+ */
 function checkPrdWriteGuard({ cwd }) {
   const settings = readJsonSafe(path.join(cwd, '.claude', 'settings.json'), null);
   const preToolUse = Array.isArray(settings?.hooks?.PreToolUse) ? settings.hooks.PreToolUse : [];
-  const ok = preToolUse.some((matcher) =>
-    Array.isArray(matcher?.hooks) &&
-    matcher.hooks.some((h) => typeof h?.command === 'string' && h.command.includes('guard-prd-writes'))
-  );
+
+  let mentioned = false;
+  let resolvedScript = null;
+  for (const matcher of preToolUse) {
+    if (!Array.isArray(matcher?.hooks)) continue;
+    for (const h of matcher.hooks) {
+      if (typeof h?.command !== 'string' || !h.command.includes('guard-prd-writes')) continue;
+      mentioned = true;
+      const raw = extractGuardScriptPath(h.command);
+      if (!raw) continue;
+      const abs = path.isAbsolute(raw) ? raw : path.resolve(cwd, raw);
+      if (fs.existsSync(abs)) { resolvedScript = abs; break; }
+    }
+    if (resolvedScript) break;
+  }
+
+  const ok = !!resolvedScript;
+  let detail;
+  if (ok) detail = `guard-prd-writes PreToolUse hook found in ${cwd}/.claude/settings.json, resolving to ${resolvedScript}`;
+  else if (mentioned) detail = `guard-prd-writes PreToolUse hook in ${cwd}/.claude/settings.json names a script that does not exist — it would silently guard nothing`;
+  else detail = `no guard-prd-writes PreToolUse hook in ${cwd}/.claude/settings.json`;
 
   return {
     id: 'prd-write-guard',
     label: 'PRD-write guard hook installed',
     ok,
-    detail: ok
-      ? `guard-prd-writes PreToolUse hook found in ${cwd}/.claude/settings.json`
-      : `no guard-prd-writes PreToolUse hook in ${cwd}/.claude/settings.json`,
+    detail,
     fix: ok
       ? null
-      : `Add a PreToolUse hook to ${cwd}/.claude/settings.json matching Write|Edit|NotebookEdit that runs node scripts/hooks/guard-prd-writes.cjs`,
+      : `Add a PreToolUse hook to ${cwd}/.claude/settings.json matching Write|Edit|NotebookEdit that runs node ${PRD_WRITE_GUARD_SCRIPT}`,
+    // The one check with a sanctioned one-press install (installPrdWriteGuard).
+    fixAction: ok ? null : 'install-prd-write-guard',
   };
 }
 
+
 /**
- * Runs all four delegation-readiness checks for `cwd`. Every filesystem read
+ * Install the PRD-write guard into `<cwd>/.claude/settings.json`.
+ *
+ * ── The standardized approach is REFERENCE, not vendor ────────────────────
+ * The hook command points at session-manager's own copy of
+ * scripts/hooks/guard-prd-writes.cjs by ABSOLUTE path. We deliberately do NOT
+ * copy the script into the adopting repo:
+ *
+ *  - Vendoring drifts. It already did, with exactly one adopter
+ *    (social-signals-trader's copy is missing the 26-line adoption header).
+ *  - The thing being guarded is `session-manager-operations/scheduler/` —
+ *    Session Manager's own territory in someone else's repo. The enforcement
+ *    logic belongs with the owner, not forked into every consumer.
+ *  - Adopting repos need no Node toolchain of their own; `node` plus this
+ *    absolute path is the entire dependency.
+ *
+ * The liability of reference — a silently-no-op hook if the script ever moves
+ * — is closed by checkPrdWriteGuard() above, which resolves the command's
+ * script path and fails the check when the file is gone.
+ *
+ * Merges into any existing hooks block rather than clobbering it: other
+ * PreToolUse matchers, other hooks under the same matcher, and every unrelated
+ * settings key are preserved. Idempotent — a healthy guard is a no-op, and a
+ * guard entry pointing at a missing script is repaired in place.
+ */
+async function installPrdWriteGuard({ cwd }) {
+  const settingsPath = path.join(cwd, '.claude', 'settings.json');
+  // config.cjs's validateWrite only permits `<registered project root>/.claude/**`,
+  // and a project the user is merely *pointing* the New Epic dialog at may
+  // never have spawned a pty — same cold-boot hazard config.cjs:73-81 already
+  // documents for PromptSession archive writes. `cwd` here IS a project root.
+  addAllowedRoot(cwd);
+
+  const existing = fs.existsSync(settingsPath) ? readJsonSafe(settingsPath, undefined) : {};
+  if (existing === undefined) {
+    // Unparseable settings — refuse rather than silently discarding whatever
+    // the human has in there.
+    return { ok: false, action: 'error', error: `${settingsPath} is not valid JSON — fix it by hand before installing the guard` };
+  }
+  const settings = (existing && typeof existing === 'object' && !Array.isArray(existing)) ? existing : {};
+
+  const command = `node ${PRD_WRITE_GUARD_SCRIPT}`;
+  const hooks = (settings.hooks && typeof settings.hooks === 'object') ? settings.hooks : {};
+  const preToolUse = Array.isArray(hooks.PreToolUse) ? hooks.PreToolUse.slice() : [];
+
+  // Already healthy? Nothing to do.
+  if (checkPrdWriteGuard({ cwd }).ok) {
+    return { ok: true, action: 'already-installed', settingsPath, command };
+  }
+
+  // Repair a broken entry in place, wherever it sits, before appending.
+  let repaired = false;
+  for (const matcher of preToolUse) {
+    if (!Array.isArray(matcher?.hooks)) continue;
+    for (const h of matcher.hooks) {
+      if (typeof h?.command === 'string' && h.command.includes('guard-prd-writes')) {
+        h.command = command;
+        h.type = 'command';
+        repaired = true;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (!repaired) {
+    const target = preToolUse.find((m) => m?.matcher === PRD_WRITE_GUARD_MATCHER);
+    if (target) {
+      target.hooks = Array.isArray(target.hooks) ? target.hooks : [];
+      target.hooks.push({ type: 'command', command });
+    } else {
+      preToolUse.push({ matcher: PRD_WRITE_GUARD_MATCHER, hooks: [{ type: 'command', command }] });
+    }
+  }
+
+  const next = { ...settings, hooks: { ...hooks, PreToolUse: preToolUse } };
+  await writeJson(settingsPath, next);
+
+  return { ok: true, action: repaired ? 'repaired' : 'installed', settingsPath, command };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Runs all six delegation-readiness checks for `cwd`. Every filesystem read
  * is wrapped (readJsonSafe / try-catch) so a missing or unparseable file
- * yields ok:false with a detail, never a thrown exception.
+ * yields ok:false with a detail, never a thrown exception. Async because
+ * scheduler-mcp-live genuinely spawns a process and waits on it (bounded by
+ * LIVE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS, and memoized per registration signature so repeat
+ * callers — the New Epic banner, session_manager_help — don't each pay for
+ * a fresh spawn).
  */
-function checkDelegationReadiness({ cwd, homeDir = os.homedir() }) {
+async function checkDelegationReadiness({ cwd, homeDir = os.homedir() }) {
+  const schedulerMcpCheck = checkSchedulerMcp({ cwd, homeDir });
+  const schedulerMcpLiveCheck = await checkSchedulerMcpLive({ cwd, homeDir, schedulerMcpCheck });
+
+  // `fixAction: null` / `warn: false` are the defaults — only a check with a
+  // sanctioned one-press installer overrides fixAction (today: prd-write-guard),
+  // and only scheduler-mcp-project-duplicate ever sets warn.
   const checks = [
-    checkSchedulerMcp({ cwd, homeDir }),
+    schedulerMcpCheck,
+    schedulerMcpLiveCheck,
+    checkSchedulerMcpProjectDuplicate({ cwd, homeDir }),
     checkDevPlugin({ homeDir }),
     checkAgentPersonas({ cwd, homeDir }),
     checkPrdWriteGuard({ cwd }),
-  ];
+  ].map((c) => ({ fixAction: null, warn: false, ...c }));
 
   return {
     ok: checks.every((c) => c.ok),
@@ -138,4 +513,11 @@ function checkDelegationReadiness({ cwd, homeDir = os.homedir() }) {
   };
 }
 
-module.exports = { checkDelegationReadiness };
+module.exports = {
+  checkDelegationReadiness,
+  installPrdWriteGuard,
+  probeSchedulerMcpLive,
+  clearLiveProbeCache,
+  PRD_WRITE_GUARD_SCRIPT,
+  PRD_WRITE_GUARD_MATCHER,
+};

package/src/main/lib/ephemeralCwd.cjs

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * ephemeralCwd.cjs — fail-closed predicate for "this cwd must never receive a
+ * written ops-state tree."
+ *
+ * Verified live 2026-09-01: a worktree cwd slipped past project-discovery and
+ * queueStore.writeSplit materialized a per-project scheduler shard INSIDE an
+ * ephemeral epic/job worktree
+ * (/tmp/session-manager-epic-worktrees/<id>/<epic>/session-manager-operations/
+ * scheduler/state/queue.json, rewritten every reconcile pass) plus a stray
+ * /tmp/session-manager-operations/logs/ tree. A worktree is torn down when its
+ * Epic/job ends, so any state written there is silently destroyed — and while
+ * it exists it duplicate-answers "does this project have jobs" for a cwd that
+ * isn't really a distinct project.
+ *
+ * Three independent refusal conditions, any one is enough:
+ *   - cwd IS os.tmpdir() itself (exact match — the bare-root case behind the
+ *     stray /tmp/session-manager-operations/logs/ tree).
+ *   - cwd resolves inside one of the two MANAGED worktree roots
+ *     (gitWorktree.cjs's KIND_CONFIG job/epic roots under os.tmpdir()) — a
+ *     prefix match here is safe because nothing but managed worktree
+ *     checkouts is ever created under these two roots (same reasoning
+ *     activeSessions.cjs's TMP_DROP_ROOTS already relies on).
+ *   - cwd IS a linked git worktree's own root anywhere on disk —
+ *     worktreeMainRootOf(cwd) resolves to a DIFFERENT path than cwd itself.
+ *     (When cwd is itself an ordinary main-tree repo root, worktreeMainRootOf
+ *     (cwd) resolves back to cwd unchanged, which is not a redirect and must
+ *     not be refused.)
+ *
+ * Deliberately NOT a blanket "anywhere under os.tmpdir()" prefix match: this
+ * codebase's own scheduler test suite routinely mkdtemp()s a fake project cwd
+ * under os.tmpdir() (documented convention — see e.g.
+ * scheduler-clear-queue-history.test.cjs's header comment), a legitimate,
+ * unrelated use that a blanket match would wrongly refuse.
+ */
+
+const os = require('node:os');
+const path = require('node:path');
+const { worktreeMainRootOf } = require('../../../scripts/lib/activeSessions.cjs');
+const { KIND_CONFIG } = require('./gitWorktree.cjs');
+
+const TMPDIR = path.resolve(os.tmpdir());
+const MANAGED_WORKTREE_ROOTS = [KIND_CONFIG.job.root, KIND_CONFIG.epic.root].map((p) => path.resolve(p));
+
+function isExactlyTmpdir(absCwd) {
+  return absCwd === TMPDIR;
+}
+
+function isUnderManagedWorktreeRoot(absCwd) {
+  return MANAGED_WORKTREE_ROOTS.some((root) => {
+    const rel = path.relative(root, absCwd);
+    return rel === '' || (!rel.startsWith('..') && !path.isAbsolute(rel));
+  });
+}
+
+function isLinkedWorktreeRoot(absCwd) {
+  const mainRoot = worktreeMainRootOf(absCwd);
+  return Boolean(mainRoot) && path.resolve(mainRoot) !== absCwd;
+}
+
+/**
+ * isEphemeralCwd(cwd) → true when `cwd` must never have ops state written
+ * into it (tmpdir-resident, or a linked git worktree root). Pure, synchronous,
+ * never throws — an unresolvable or non-absolute cwd is treated as NOT
+ * ephemeral so this predicate only ever adds refusals, never masks the
+ * existing "cwd must be absolute" checks callers already perform.
+ */
+function isEphemeralCwd(cwd) {
+  if (!cwd || typeof cwd !== 'string' || !path.isAbsolute(cwd)) return false;
+  const absCwd = path.resolve(cwd);
+  if (isExactlyTmpdir(absCwd)) return true;
+  if (isUnderManagedWorktreeRoot(absCwd)) return true;
+  if (isLinkedWorktreeRoot(absCwd)) return true;
+  return false;
+}
+
+module.exports = { isEphemeralCwd };

package/src/main/lib/epicDelegationStats.cjs

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ const APPLICATION_SOURCE_PREFIXES = ['src/', 'scripts/', 'plugins/', 'bin/'];
 function countPrdsQueued(cwd, epicId, deps = {}) {
   const readdirSync = deps.readdirSync || fs.readdirSync;
   try {
-    const dir = path.join(cwd, 'session-manager-operations', 'scheduler', 'epics', epicId, 'prds');
+    const { opsPath } = require('./opsOwnership.cjs');
+    const dir = opsPath(cwd, 'scheduler', 'epics', epicId, 'prds');
     return readdirSync(dir).filter((name) => name.endsWith('.md')).length;
   } catch {
     return 0;

package/src/main/lib/epicMint.cjs

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ const crypto = require('node:crypto');
 const { resolveEpicPrdWriteDir } = require('./prdLocations.cjs');
 const { assertOpsWrite } = require('./opsOwnership.cjs');
 const { appendAuditEvent } = require('./auditLog.cjs');
+const { mirrorEpicStatus, removeEpicMirror } = require('./epicStatusMirror.cjs');
 // Required as the module object (not destructured) so a test can
 // monkeypatch promptSessionSchema.assertValidPromptSession in place to
 // simulate a corrupted construction — the real construction below is
@@ -74,7 +75,10 @@ const MINT_AUTHORITIES = Object.freeze([
 ]);
 
 function activeIndexPath(cwd) {
-  return path.join(cwd, 'session-manager-operations', 'prompt-sessions', 'active-index.json');
+  // Lazy: opsOwnership → ephemeralCwd → activeSessions; this module is
+  // required early by several of those neighbours.
+  const { opsPath } = require('./opsOwnership.cjs');
+  return opsPath(cwd, 'prompt-sessions', 'active-index.json');
 }
 
 function readActiveIndex(cwd) {
@@ -362,6 +366,13 @@ function ensureEpic(cwd, { goalText, tag, epicId: explicitEpicId, status = 'prop
     index.sessions[epicId] = session;
     index.events[epicId] = [firstEvent];
     writeActiveIndex(cwd, index);
+    // Status mirror (see epicStatusMirror.cjs's header) — every Epic is born
+    // 'proposed', so this is the FIRST mirror write for this id, inside the
+    // same withPathLock task the index write above just ran in. Carries the
+    // full validated `session` object (not just status) so a later rebuild
+    // (activeIndexRebuild.cjs) can reconstruct a complete row from this file
+    // alone.
+    mirrorEpicStatus(cwd, epicId, { session, status });
 
     // Every mint is logged — the trace-back point for "who created this Epic"
     // (see auditLog.cjs).
@@ -416,6 +427,10 @@ function removeEpic(cwd, epicId) {
     delete index.sessions[epicId];
     delete index.events[epicId];
     writeActiveIndex(cwd, index);
+    // Undo the mirror written by ensureEpic's mint branch too — otherwise
+    // the rolled-back id would linger as an orphan_file (a mirrored status
+    // with no index row and no tombstone) in health.cjs's epic_index check.
+    removeEpicMirror(cwd, epicId);
     return true;
   });
 }
@@ -429,6 +444,7 @@ module.exports = {
   removeEpic,
   activeIndexPath,
   readActiveIndex,
+  writeActiveIndex,
   personaFileExists,
   resolvePersonaPaths,
   // Exported so lib/activeIndexMerge.cjs's renderer-facing merge IPC handler