moshcode 0.32.0 → 0.33.0

package/README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ or miss one that does. A test fails the build when it drifts.
 |---|---|---|
 | `moshcode agents` | engines | list engines or launch one autonomously |
 | `moshcode start` | engines | launch an engine with its native defaults |
+| `moshcode herd` | runtime | run agent sessions that outlive this terminal |
+| `moshcode ps` | runtime | list herd sessions and what each one is doing |
+| `moshcode attach` | runtime | attach this terminal to a herd session |
+| `moshcode kill` | runtime | end a herd session |
+| `moshcode wait` | runtime | block until a session is blocked, done, or idle |
+| `moshcode restore` | runtime | rebuild the herd's sessions after a reboot |
 | `moshcode install` | engines | install an engine or workflow tool |
 | `moshcode uninstall` <br>`remove` | engines | take an engine or workflow tool off this machine |
 | `moshcode upgrade` <br>`update` | engines | update moshcode, engines, or tools |
@@ -102,6 +108,103 @@ is shorthand for `moshcode start claude`. In the TUI, use `/agents <engine>` for
 autonomous mode or `/start <engine>` for raw mode. Running `moshcode agents` or
 `/agents` without an engine still lists engines and their install status.
 
+## The herd — sessions that outlive your terminal
+
+Every launch above hands an engine the whole terminal and waits. That is why
+they feel native, and it is also why the pit can only do one thing at a time and
+why closing the lid kills the work.
+
+The herd inverts it. Add `-d` and the session runs in a runtime that outlives
+the pit, so you get your prompt back immediately:
+
+```sh
+moshcode start claude -d --name api      # runs in the background, prompt returns
+moshcode agents codex -d                 # autonomous, and still detached
+moshcode ps                              # who is running, and who wants you
+moshcode attach api                      # step in; Ctrl-b d steps back out
+moshcode kill api                        # end it
+```
+
+Close the terminal, drop the SSH link, come back tomorrow — `moshcode ps` still
+answers, and `moshcode attach` puts you back inside. In the pit the same verbs
+are `/ps`, `/attach`, `/kill`, and the roster prints on the way in.
+
+### Which one needs you
+
+Every session carries a state: `working`, `blocked`, `done`, `idle`, or
+`unknown`. `blocked` means a human decision is the only thing missing.
+
+```
+  api       claude  blocked   ~/src/coinpay        12m
+  web       codex   working   ~/src/ugig.net        4m
+  audit     opencode  done    ~/src/moshpit-dns     1h
+```
+
+State comes from one authority per session, never two. An engine that reports
+through a lifecycle hook (`moshcode herd report <name> <state>`) is believed and
+its screen is not second-guessed; everything else is classified from the bottom
+of its screen. Nothing recognisable reads `unknown`, which is a safe answer —
+detection never gates a launch. Patterns that go stale can be fixed in
+`~/.moshcode/herd/rules.json` without waiting for a release.
+
+Blocked can also come and find you, using the same notification fan-out as
+`notify()`/`ask()`:
+
+```sh
+moshcode herd notify on --ask            # email/SMS/Slack/Telegram/push
+moshcode herd start claude --name watch  # then run `moshcode herd watch` in the herd
+```
+
+With `--ask`, whatever you reply is typed into the session that was waiting.
+
+### Driving it from a script or another agent
+
+There is no second API — every verb takes `--json`, and that is what a machine
+reads. `wait` exists to be branched on: exit `0` matched, `2` timed out, `3` no
+such session.
+
+```sh
+moshcode herd start claude --name api --json
+moshcode herd prompt api "port the auth routes" --wait
+moshcode herd read api --lines 40
+moshcode wait api --state blocked --timeout 1h
+```
+
+moshscript gets the same surface as values rather than exit codes, which is what
+makes fan-out practical:
+
+```js
+herdStart("claude", { name: "api" });
+herdStart("codex",  { name: "web" });
+herdPrompt("api", "port the auth routes");
+herdPrompt("web", "port the dashboard");
+await herdWait("api"); await herdWait("web");
+say(herdRead("api", { lines: 20 }));
+```
+
+### After a reboot
+
+```sh
+moshcode restore --dry-run       # what would come back
+moshcode restore --resume        # and ask each engine to reopen its conversation
+```
+
+This brings back the *shape* — the sessions, in their directories, on their
+engines. The processes are new. Work that was in flight is not still running,
+and `--resume` only reaches engines that have a resume flag of their own.
+
+### What it runs on
+
+`tmux` when the box has it: real resizing, scrollback, native attach. Without
+tmux, sessions run under `script(1)` with their input on a FIFO — they work and
+they persist, but their size is fixed when they start. With neither, launches
+stay in the foreground and say so once. moshcode does not turn a soft dependency
+into a hard one, so `-d` never fails; at worst it degrades and tells you what
+would fix it.
+
+The session manifest and every transcript are written `0600`: engine argv and
+engine output both carry secrets.
+
 ### Parallel pit tabs
 
 At the mosh prompt, `/new` opens and switches to another independent moshcode

package/bin/moshcode.mjs

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ import { createPrd, listPrds, authoringPrompt } from "../src/prd.mjs";
 import { loginAuto, whoami, logout } from "../src/auth.mjs";
 import { tui } from "../src/tui.mjs";
 import { consoleCommand } from "../src/console.mjs";
+import { herdCommand, herdStart, splitDetachArgs } from "../src/herd-cli.mjs";
+import { detectSubstrate, substrateNote } from "../src/herd.mjs";
 import { dnsCommand } from "../src/dns.mjs";
 import { templateCommand } from "../src/templates.mjs";
 import { serveCommand } from "../src/serve.mjs";
@@ -117,6 +119,23 @@ function printEngineStatus(json = false) {
 }
 
 async function launchEngine(key, engine, args, { agentMode = false } = {}) {
+  const { detach, name, rest: engineArgs } = splitDetachArgs(args);
+  if (detach) {
+    const substrate = detectSubstrate();
+    if (substrate) {
+      const code = herdStart([
+        key, ...(name ? ["--name", name] : []), ...(agentMode ? ["--agent"] : []), ...engineArgs,
+      ]);
+      if (code) process.exitCode = code;
+      if (!process.stdin.isTTY || process.env.MOSHCODE_NESTED === "1") return;
+      return tui();
+    }
+    // R2: degrade, loudly, once — and then still do the thing that was asked
+    // for. A launch that refuses because the box has no tmux would be a worse
+    // answer than a launch that works and ends with this terminal.
+    console.error(`⚠ ${substrateNote(null)}`);
+  }
+  args = engineArgs;
   if (agentMode) {
     const note = `agent mode: ${key} ${agentLaunchArgs(engine).join(" ")}`;
     console.error(engine.agentsView
@@ -314,6 +333,18 @@ async function main() {
     const [key, engine] = resolved;
     return launchEngine(key, engine, rest.slice(1));
   }
+  // The herd (PRD 0009). `herd` is the namespace; the five verbs people reach
+  // for most often are also top-level, because `moshcode ps` is what someone
+  // types when they want to know what is running and nobody should have to
+  // learn a namespace to ask that.
+  if (cmd === "herd") {
+    process.exitCode = (await herdCommand(rest)) || 0;
+    return;
+  }
+  if (["ps", "attach", "kill", "wait", "restore"].includes(cmd)) {
+    process.exitCode = (await herdCommand([cmd === "ps" ? "ps" : cmd, ...rest])) || 0;
+    return;
+  }
   if (cmd === "tools") {
     const asJson = rest.includes("--json");
     printStatus(toolStatus(), asJson);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "moshcode",
-  "version": "0.32.0",
+  "version": "0.33.0",
   "type": "module",
   "description": "moshcode — a metal wrapper for coding engines and native UGig/CoinPay workflow CLIs, with OpenPRD and moshscript",
   "repository": {

package/prd/0009-persistent-agent-runtime.md

@@ -0,0 +1,362 @@
+---
+openprd: "0.2"
+id: "0009"
+title: "Keep the herd alive — a persistent runtime, semantic agent state, and one control surface for humans and agents"
+status: Accepted
+authors:
+  - anthony@profullstack.com
+created: 2026-08-09
+updated: 2026-08-09
+repo: https://github.com/moshcoder/moshcode
+discussion: https://github.com/moshcoder/moshcode/pull/341
+implementation: src/herd.mjs, src/herd-state.mjs, src/herd-cli.mjs
+tags: [runtime, sessions, agents, tui, notify]
+supersedes:
+superseded-by:
+---
+
+## Problem
+
+moshcode is a *launcher*. `openPassthrough` hands the whole terminal to an
+engine with inherited stdio, which is exactly why `moshcode agents claude` feels
+native — and exactly why everything about that session is tied to the terminal
+that started it. Three consequences, all of them daily:
+
+**Work dies with the window.** Close the lid, drop the VPN, lose the SSH link,
+reboot for a kernel update — every running engine goes with it. `tabs.mjs`
+already reaches for tmux, but it starts a *private server keyed to the pit's
+pid* (`moshcode-${pid}-${stamp}`, `-f /dev/null`), so the tabs are as mortal as
+the pit that spawned them. There is no way to walk away from a long agent run
+and come back to it.
+
+**You cannot see which agent needs you.** The pit knows an engine is running; it
+does not know whether that engine is thinking, waiting on a permission prompt,
+or finished twenty minutes ago. With one engine you notice. With four tabs you
+tab-cycle and squint. The information exists on the screen and moshcode throws
+it away.
+
+**The mirror is blind at the only moment that matters.** `mirror.mjs` documents
+its own limit: *"once an engine takes the terminal (`/agents claude`), the child
+writes straight to the tty on its own fd — those bytes never pass through this
+process. The mirror shows the hand-off, not the engine's screen."* So
+`/sessions` on app.moshcode.sh, the PWA, and `moshcode console` all watch a pit
+that has stopped saying anything interesting. `pty.mjs` was built to solve this
+and is not yet load-bearing.
+
+[herdr](https://herdr.dev) attacks the same problem from the other end: *"a
+server owns the terminals; every UI is a client of it."* Terminals live in a
+background server, panes carry a semantic agent state (`idle` / `working` /
+`blocked` / `done`), and the CLI and socket API are one surface so agents drive
+it the same way people do. That inversion — the runtime outlives the client — is
+the idea worth taking. Its implementation (a 10MB Rust multiplexer with mouse
+drag, pane splits, and a plugin marketplace) is not.
+
+This PRD ports the ideas, not the binary.
+
+## Goals
+
+- An agent session survives the terminal that started it — closing the lid, an
+  SSH drop, or a reboot costs you nothing but a reattach.
+- Opening the pit answers "what is running and what needs me?" before you type
+  anything.
+- A blocked agent reaches the human wherever they are, and the answer comes
+  back into the session. moshcode already has `notify()`/`ask()` fan-out to
+  email/SMS/Slack/Telegram/push; a runtime that knows what "blocked" means is
+  what turns that into an unattended-agent story.
+- The browser (`console`, `/sessions`, the PWA) becomes a real client of the
+  same runtime, showing the engine's actual screen instead of the hand-off line.
+- One agent can start, prompt, and wait on another without a human, through the
+  same verbs a human types.
+- None of the above changes what `moshcode start claude` feels like today.
+
+## Non-Goals
+
+- **Writing a multiplexer.** No pane splits, no mouse drag, no border
+  resizing, no right-click menus, no theme engine. tmux exists, is already the
+  substrate in `tabs.mjs`, and is better at this than we will be.
+- **A native binary or a compiler in the install path.** `install.sh` untars a
+  release and runs node; `pty.mjs` explicitly rejects node-pty for this reason.
+  The runtime must hold that line — zero-dependency ESM, capability detection,
+  graceful degradation.
+- **A pane-plugin marketplace.** moshcode already ships plugins, skills, and MCP
+  servers on the *engine* axis (PRD 0003, PRD 0008). A second plugin system for
+  panes is not a gap we have.
+- **Windows.** Same posture as today: POSIX first, and the capability check
+  fails soft everywhere else.
+- **A worktree/diff review UI.** Interesting, adjacent, and a different PRD.
+- **Owning the user's tmux.** People with a tmux config keep it. The runtime is
+  a separate named server, exactly as `tabPlan()` already reasons about.
+
+## Users
+
+- **The solo operator running several agents at once** — the pit's core user.
+  Wants to fire off three long tasks, close the laptop, and find out later which
+  one stopped to ask a question.
+- **A moshcoder on a rented box.** Runs the pit over SSH on a Hetzner/Railway
+  dev box. Every dropped connection currently kills a run. Wants `moshcode` over
+  SSH to reattach to what was already going.
+- **The agent itself.** A `moshscript` or a Claude Code session that needs to
+  spawn a helper on a second engine, hand it a prompt, and block on the result —
+  today that means `tabs.mjs` and hope.
+- **The phone.** Someone away from the desk who gets a push saying "codex is
+  blocked on a permission prompt in ~/src/coinpay" and answers from the PWA.
+
+## Requirements
+
+### Phase 1 — the runtime survives you
+
+- **R1 [P0] A named, detached runtime.** `moshcode runtime` starts (or reports)
+  a single long-lived tmux server on a stable socket (`moshcode`, not
+  `moshcode-${pid}-${stamp}`), started with `-f /dev/null` so advertised
+  keybindings stay true. Sessions inside it outlive every pit that attaches.
+  `moshcode runtime status|stop --json` for the machine.
+- **R2 [P0] Capability detection, and a soft floor.** Follow `pty.mjs`'s
+  discipline exactly: probe for a usable tmux once, cache the verdict, and when
+  it is missing fall back to today's foreground `openPassthrough` with a single
+  honest line (`no tmux — this session ends with the terminal`). moshcode must
+  never harden a soft dependency into a hard one.
+- **R3 [P0] Named sessions.** `moshcode start`/`moshcode agents` accept
+  `--name <slug>` (`[a-z][a-z0-9_-]{0,31}`, herdr's shape) and default to
+  `<engine>-<basename-of-cwd>` with a numeric suffix on collision. The name is
+  the handle for everything that follows.
+- **R4 [P0] Attach and detach.** `moshcode attach <name>` drops you into the
+  live session; the detach key returns you to the pit and leaves the engine
+  running. Detaching is the default exit path; killing is explicit
+  (`moshcode kill <name>`). Bare `moshcode` with exactly one detached session
+  offers to reattach rather than opening an empty prompt.
+- **R5 [P0] The roster.** `moshcode ps` lists every session: name, engine,
+  state, cwd, age, attached-client count. `--json` for automation. The pit's
+  banner shows the same roster in miniature when anything is running, so opening
+  moshcode answers "what's alive?" before you type.
+
+### Phase 2 — the runtime knows what the agents are doing
+
+- **R6 [P0] Semantic state.** Every session carries one of `idle`, `working`,
+  `blocked`, `done`, `unknown`. `blocked` means "a human decision is the only
+  thing missing" — the permission prompt, the plan approval, the y/n. This is
+  the vocabulary the roster, the notifications, and `wait` all share.
+- **R7 [P0] Two-tier detection with one authority per session.** Adopt herdr's
+  rule verbatim in spirit: *"each pane has one status authority."*
+  - Tier 1, authoritative: engine-native lifecycle hooks. moshcode already
+    installs across engines (`plugins.mjs`, `skills.mjs`, `mcp.mjs`, PRD 0003) —
+    reuse that machinery to drop a status reporter into each engine's hook
+    config, and let it report state directly.
+  - Tier 2, fallback: classify the tail of the session's screen against a
+    per-engine rule table declared next to `ENGINES` in `engines.mjs`, so a new
+    engine ships its detection rules with its install spec.
+  - A session with a working tier-1 hook does **not** also run tier-2. Two
+    sources of truth is the failure mode herdr calls out and it is a real one.
+- **R8 [P1] Unknown is a first-class answer.** An engine with no hook and no
+  matching rule reports `unknown` and still runs perfectly. Detection is a
+  feature of the roster, never a gate on launching anything.
+- **R9 [P0] Blocked reaches the human.** A session entering `blocked` (and
+  optionally `done`) fires `notify()` through the existing approvals app with
+  the session name, engine, cwd, and the tail of the prompt that blocked it.
+  When the operator answers via `ask()`, the reply is typed into the session.
+  This is the piece herdr structurally cannot do — it can colour a pane; we can
+  text you and take the answer back. Off by default, `moshcode notify on`, and
+  rate-limited so a chatty engine cannot page someone forty times.
+- **R10 [P1] Wait instead of poll.** `moshcode wait <name> --state blocked,done
+  --timeout 30m` blocks until the transition and exits with a distinct code per
+  outcome. Both a human in a shell script and an agent in a moshscript get to
+  stop screen-scraping.
+
+### Phase 3 — one surface for humans and agents
+
+- **R11 [P0] Agent verbs.** `moshcode agent start|prompt|read|send-keys|
+  wait|stop`, every one accepting a session name and every one supporting
+  `--json`. `prompt --wait` submits input and blocks until the session leaves
+  `working` — the single most useful composite. herdr's framing is the target:
+  *"the cli and socket api are the same surface agents drive."* moshcode's
+  version of that is simply that there is no second surface; the CLI *is* the
+  API, and `--json` is how a machine reads it.
+- **R12 [P0] moshscript verbs.** Every verb in R11 is exposed in `runtime.mjs`'s
+  vocabulary, so a `.mosh` script can fan work out across engines and join on
+  the results. This is what PRD 0004 was for and what it has been missing.
+- **R13 [P1] The browser sees the real screen.** Route a session's output
+  through `pty.mjs` into `mirror.mjs`, closing the documented blind spot, and
+  point `console.mjs`'s ttyd at `moshcode attach <name>` so the browser terminal
+  is a genuine second client of the same live session. Multiple clients on one
+  runtime, which is herdr's axis and one moshcode is already three-quarters
+  built for.
+- **R14 [P1] Restore the shape after a reboot.** Persist a manifest
+  (`~/.moshcode/runtime.json`, mode `0600`) of sessions: name, engine, cwd, and
+  the engine's own resume reference where it has one. On the next `moshcode`,
+  re-open the sessions in their directories and offer
+  `moshcode restore [--resume]` to resume native engine conversations
+  (`claude --resume`, `codex resume`, and per-engine equivalents declared in
+  `ENGINES`). Structure comes back automatically; *processes* do not, and the
+  UI must say so rather than implying the work continued.
+- **R15 [P2] Scrollback replay, off by default.** Restoring screen contents
+  across a reboot means writing engine output to disk. The same reasoning that
+  put `.moshcode_history` at `0600` — *"the pit records whatever was typed at
+  the prompt, and that includes secrets by design"* — applies harder here, since
+  engine output includes tokens the user never typed. Opt-in flag, `0600`, and a
+  documented retention cap. herdr ships this the same way (`[experimental]
+  pane_history`) and that is the right call.
+
+## UX Notes
+
+**New verbs, in the existing shape.** The command table is generated from
+`cli-schema.mjs` and a test fails the build on drift, so these land as real
+entries in a new `runtime` group:
+
+| command | what it does |
+|---|---|
+| `moshcode herd` | the namespace: status, start, prompt, read, send-keys, report, notify, watch, prune, stop |
+| `moshcode ps` | list sessions with state |
+| `moshcode attach <name>` | attach to a session |
+| `moshcode kill <name>` | end a session |
+| `moshcode wait <name>` | block until a state transition |
+| `moshcode restore` | rebuild sessions from the manifest |
+
+The namespace is `herd`, not the `runtime` / `agent <verb>` this document first
+proposed. Two reasons, both found while building it. `agent` is already a
+registered alias of `agents` in `PIT_COMMANDS`, and a test pins
+`suggest("agent") === "agents"` — so `moshcode agent start` would have meant two
+different things depending on where it was typed. And `runtime` is what
+`src/runtime.mjs` already calls the moshscript interpreter. The five verbs
+people reach for most are top-level anyway, which is what the original table was
+really asking for: nobody should have to learn a namespace to ask what is
+running.
+
+TUI equivalents follow the existing convention: `/herd`, `/ps`, `/attach <name>`,
+`/kill <name>`, `/wait`, `/restore`. `/agents <engine>` and `/start <engine>`
+keep their meaning and simply gain `-d` / `--name`.
+
+**The pit's front door changes.** Today `moshcode` prints a banner and a prompt.
+With anything running it prints the herd first:
+
+```
+  mosh ▸ 3 running
+    coinpay-fix    claude    blocked   ~/src/coinpay        12m
+    ugig-tests     codex     working   ~/src/ugig.net        4m
+    dns-audit      opencode  done      ~/src/moshpit-dns     1h
+```
+
+State is the column that earns its place — colour it with the existing `ui.mjs`
+palette (`acid` working, `warn` blocked, `ok` done, `ash` idle). One line per
+session, no box drawing, no full-screen takeover: the pit stays a prompt.
+
+**Detach must be discoverable.** The single biggest confusion risk is a user who
+thinks they quit and left an engine burning tokens. Print the detach key on
+attach, and on detach print what is still running and how to get back:
+`detached — coinpay-fix still working · moshcode attach coinpay-fix`.
+
+**Naming is optional.** `--name` is there for scripts and for people who want
+it. A user who never types it still gets `claude-coinpay` and can attach by it.
+
+**Notifications are opt-in and quiet.** Default off. When on, one notification
+per state transition into `blocked`, coalesced within a window, and never for
+`working`. The approval link deep-links to the session in the PWA.
+
+**Degradation is loud once, then silent.** Without tmux, the first session in a
+pit prints one line explaining that sessions end with the terminal, then behaves
+exactly like today. No repeated nagging, no failure.
+
+## Success Metrics
+
+- **Survival:** a session started in a pit is still running and reattachable
+  after the terminal is closed and the machine is left for an hour — measured by
+  an integration test that kills the parent pit and reattaches.
+- **Reattach adoption:** share of pit launches that begin with a reattach rather
+  than a cold start. If nobody reattaches, the runtime is not earning its
+  complexity.
+- **Time-to-unblock:** median wall-clock between a session entering `blocked`
+  and a human answering, before vs after R9. This is the number that says
+  whether the notification path is real.
+- **Detection quality:** on the top five engines, `blocked` is reported within
+  three seconds of the prompt appearing, with no false `blocked` in a
+  thirty-minute unattended run.
+- **Zero-regression:** `moshcode start <engine>` launch time and native feel
+  unchanged; the runtime adds no measurable startup cost when no session exists.
+- **Install stays clean:** `install.sh` gains no dependency, and the tmux-less
+  path passes the full test suite.
+
+## Risks & Open Questions
+
+- **tmux is a soft dependency that this PRD leans on hard.** R2 is the mitigation
+  and it must be honoured in code, not just in prose: every runtime call site
+  needs a tested fallback. Open question: is a second substrate
+  (`script(1)` + a detached child, reusing `pty.mjs`) worth building for
+  tmux-less boxes, or is the honest degradation enough? Recommendation: enough,
+  for now.
+- **Screen-scraping state is fragile by construction.** Engines change their
+  prompts between releases and the rules rot silently. Mitigations: rules live
+  beside each engine in `ENGINES` so they version together; `unknown` is
+  always safe; and tier-1 hooks are the real answer — prioritise hook coverage
+  for `claude`, `codex`, and `opencode` over broad rule tables.
+- **A long-lived runtime is a longer-lived attack surface.** The tmux socket is
+  filesystem-permissioned to the user and that is the whole boundary. Anything
+  that widens it — R13 pointing ttyd at a session, R15 writing scrollback —
+  inherits `console.mjs`'s existing rule: loopback only, token-gated, `0600` on
+  disk. A reboot-surviving runtime holding engine scrollback is a materially
+  different secret-exposure profile from today's ephemeral pit, and the PRD
+  should not pretend otherwise.
+- **Notification fatigue kills the feature.** Get the coalescing window and the
+  `blocked` definition right, or users turn it off in a day and never turn it
+  back on. Open question: should `done` notify by default? Leaning no — `done`
+  is what the roster is for.
+- **Two ways to open a session is a real cost.** Detachable sessions plus the
+  existing `tabs.mjs` tmux tabs is one concept too many. Open question: does
+  `openNewTab` become a thin wrapper over the runtime (a tab is just an attach
+  to a new session), and does that break the "fresh pit, never repeats argv"
+  contract? Leaning yes, it should be folded in — a second tmux server per pit
+  stops making sense once a stable one exists.
+- **Reboot restore promises more than it delivers.** Users will read "restore"
+  as "my agent kept going." It did not. The copy has to distinguish *the shape
+  came back* from *the work continued*, and `--resume` has to be an explicit,
+  visible act.
+- **Scope.** Phases 1–3 are independently shippable and should ship that way.
+  Phase 1 alone — sessions that survive the terminal — is the bulk of the value
+  and does not require a single line of state detection.
+
+## Implementation Notes
+
+Written after the build, so the document and the code agree.
+
+**A second substrate, which this PRD did not ask for.** R2 promised only to
+degrade gracefully without tmux. That was not good enough: `/new` already
+required tmux and it is the wart people notice. So there are two substrates
+behind one interface — tmux when the box has it, and otherwise `script(1)` with
+the session's stdin on a FIFO, reusing the capability detection `pty.mjs`
+already does. The FIFO is opened `O_RDWR` before the spawn so the child is its
+own writer and never sees EOF when the pit exits, which is the whole trick. Its
+one real limit: nothing outside a pty can ioctl its master, so the size is fixed
+at launch (set from inside by `stty`) and a later resize does not reach it.
+`MOSHCODE_HERD=pty` forces it, which is how the fallback is tested on a box that
+has tmux.
+
+**Two bugs the survival test caught**, both of which would have shipped as
+"finished agents report `gone`". tmux's `remain-on-exit` was being set in a
+second call, and a fast command finishes before that process starts — fixed by
+making the session and its option one invocation using tmux's `;` argument. And
+the pty substrate could not tell "the agent finished" from "the box rebooted",
+since both are a dead pid — fixed by having the session's own shell record its
+exit code on the way out.
+
+**Delivered:** R1–R12 and R14. Both substrates are covered by an integration
+test that starts a session in one process, exits it, and talks to the session
+from another.
+
+**Not delivered, deliberately:**
+
+- **R7 tier-1 hook installation.** The protocol ships and works —
+  `moshcode herd report <name> <state>` takes authority, suppresses screen
+  classification entirely while it is live, and expires so a crashed agent
+  cannot read `working` forever. What is not built is auto-installing that call
+  into each engine's hook config via the `plugins.mjs` / `skills.mjs` fan-out.
+  Until then tier 1 is opt-in and tier 2 carries the roster.
+- **R13, the browser as a real client.** `console.mjs` still points ttyd at a
+  shell rather than at `moshcode attach <name>`, and `mirror.mjs` keeps its
+  documented blind spot. The runtime it would attach to now exists, so this is a
+  small follow-up rather than a design question.
+- **R15, scrollback replay.** P2 and opt-in in this document; still the right
+  call not to write engine output across a reboot by default.
+
+**Rules will rot, and that is planned for.** The shipped patterns are
+conservative and anchored to things a terminal draws — brackets, selectors, line
+anchors — never bare English words, and a test asserts that. `unknown` is
+common and safe. `~/.moshcode/herd/rules.json` lets a rotted pattern be fixed on
+the box it rots on, and a malformed entry there loses that pattern rather than
+the file.

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@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@ Start one with `moshcode prd "<idea>"` (TUI: `/prd`).
 | [0006](0006-help.md) | --help | Draft |
 | [0007](0007-profullstack-site-init.md) | Generate batteries-included Profullstack sites for Moshpit names | Draft |
 | [0008](0008-ticker-research-and-plugin-marketplace.md) | Bring equity research into the pit, and ship the pit's slash commands as a plugin | Draft |
+| [0009](0009-persistent-agent-runtime.md) | Keep the herd alive — a persistent runtime, semantic agent state, and one control surface for humans and agents | Accepted |
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