feat(workers): the cross-platform worker companion - #534
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…ndows adapters Per-bot computer modes today are Linux-only (`vm`, `cloud/vps`, `cloud/box`) or the host Mac itself (`local`). There is no way to give bot A a macOS desktop and bot B a Windows desktop from one control plane, because `vps` and its siblings each hold a single app-level SSH alias. Add a named worker registry plus a shared remote transport, and two platform adapters over it: - server/computer-workers.ts — workers keyed by id, each an SSH alias plus a declared platform and public digests. Two ids may not share one alias: that would take two independent leases against a single real desktop and each would believe it held the screen exclusively. - server/remote-worker.ts — SSH invocation, an allow-listed child environment, the per-alias lease, and the shared fail-closed readiness ladder. The probe payload crosses a trust edge, so it is parsed with zod at that boundary; per-field `.catch` degrades one bad value to "not proven" rather than discarding the report a half-configured worker needs. - server/windows-worker.ts — PowerShell probe, Session 1+ window station, named-pipe channel, Administrators rule. - server/mac-worker.ts — POSIX probe, Aqua console session, unix-socket channel, admin-group rule, and TCC. Accessibility and Screen Recording are granted per-binary and are silently revoked when the driver binary is replaced, so the grant is read live on every poll and an absent grant fails closed. - server/worker-mcp.ts — stdio bridge pinned to the one CUA MCP invocation, running under the allow-listed environment so no provider credential or loopback control token reaches the ssh child. Leases key on the alias, so a macOS bot and a Windows bot hold their desktops at the same time, and an unreachable worker degrades to offline without touching the healthy one. Tests are fake-worker only: they inject the probe's stdout and need no real guest. The macOS probe was additionally run against real macOS to confirm it parses under /bin/sh and emits valid JSON. Refs milind-soni#508 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wires the worker registry into the product: a bot can now pick `worker` as its computer destination and name which worker it acts on, so one control plane can run a bot on a macOS guest and another on a Windows PC at the same time. Server: - `computer: "worker"` joins the per-bot destinations, with `workerId` naming the target. The bot stores only the id; the SSH alias never leaves the control plane, including from GET /api/workers. - The turn claims the worker's lease before its first await, matching Local VM. Otherwise two turns could both pass the readiness check and then both mount one physical desktop, interleaving real input on one screen. The lease renews while the turn streams and is released on completion, on error, and when the owning bot goes idle. - GET /api/workers probes every worker concurrently, so an unreachable worker neither delays nor fails the healthy one. - Editing a worker that a live turn holds is refused; one that is removed or repointed has its lease dropped, so no record keeps reporting `busy` for a machine the control plane no longer addresses. - Assignment and destination are validated together, because either field can arrive alone and `worker` without a resolvable id would otherwise fail at the start of the next turn, long after the person left Settings. Approval scope: a worker drives a real interactive desktop, so it gets the same treatment as `local` — a remembered always-allow grant does not cover it. `ApprovalScope` now names both cases rather than string-matching one. Auto mode is refused on a worker: every task is bounded by three explicit fences, so there is nothing for it to approve on its own. UI: a Worker destination and a picker showing each worker's platform and the first thing that is actually wrong, rather than a generic "not ready". Docs: docs/byo-macos.md is the guest runbook — non-admin worker account, auto-login, no screen lock, the pinned driver, and the one step nobody can script, granting Accessibility and Screen Recording to the driver binary. Verified: server and UI typecheck, production build, and the packaged-server smoke — all 10 spawned proxy paths resolve inside the packaged dir, which is the check that would have caught the new worker-mcp entry point going missing. Refs milind-soni#508 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both platforms get the same shape: a dedicated non-administrator account, an always-present interactive session, the pinned CUA Driver, a base policy the control plane pins by digest, and a parked capability manifest. The parked manifest grants no tools at all. It is what a worker holds between tasks: readiness requires the daemon to report a loaded capability manifest, so a machine without one never becomes ready, and with the parked one the worker is reachable and provably bounded while able to do nothing until a task capability is approved. The macOS runbook carries the step that cannot be scripted — Accessibility and Screen Recording are granted per binary, SIP blocks writing the permission database, and replacing the driver binary silently revokes them. Refs milind-soni#508 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The repo's anti-slop rules reject bare `unknown` parameters, runtime `typeof` narrowing, and `unknown` returns, and every worker file tripped them. The sanctioned pattern is server/schema.ts: a JSON-typed parse, then a zod schema. - `parseHealthReport` / `applyHealthReport` take `JsonValue`, and the two adapters feed them through `parseJson()` instead of a bare `JSON.parse`. - `findWorker` and `workerById` take `JsonValue` and run the worker-id regex as a zod schema rather than narrowing by hand. - `isValidWorkerId`, `isValidWorkerSshAlias` and `isSafeChannelPath` take `string`. Every caller already had one — the `unknown` was never doing work. - The bots PATCH route tracks the validated id in its own typed local, because `patch` is a `Record<string, unknown>` and reading the id back out of it lost the type the destination check needs. No behaviour change: the same inputs are accepted and the same ones rejected. Every file this branch touches now lints clean, against a repo-wide baseline of 1592 errors on main. Refs milind-soni#508 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both remote-worker adapters shell out to `openmausbot-worker-companion`, and the readiness ladder refuses any worker whose companion does not answer protocol 1 (server/remote-worker.ts). Nothing shipped that binary, so no worker could reach ready and `docs/byo-*.md` pointed at a `pnpm build:worker-companion` script that did not exist. This adds it, derived from the Windows-only companion and generalized: - `--version` answers protocol 1, parsed by both adapters' health probes. - `--permissions` is new. It reports the *driver binary's own* Accessibility and Screen Recording grants through the pinned CUA SDK's non-prompting `currentMacOsPermissionStatus()`. macOS TCC has no Windows analogue, so Windows reports null and its ladder never consults it. The read is live on every poll by design: grants are per-binary, SIP blocks writing the TCC database, and replacing the driver silently revokes them, so a grant made once during setup is not evidence of a grant now. It never calls `requestMacOsPermissions()` — an SSH-driven probe has nobody at the screen to answer a dialog, and a probe blocked on one reads as a hung worker. - `stdio` implements pause and resume, the two operations that bound a worker at rest. Resume writes the deny-all parked capability and requires the daemon to report back both that digest and the pinned base policy before it answers, so a driver that quietly loaded a different policy never passes. reset/validate/activate/run land with the server-side task layer. Parsing happens once, at the wire, following server/schema.ts: a JSON-typed parse then a zod schema, so nothing downstream inspects shapes and the wire can name an operation and a digest and nothing else. Unrecognized fields are dropped rather than forwarded, and the environment handed to the driver is a fixed allow-list. The parked manifests are embedded because the companion ships standalone, and a test asserts they stay byte-identical to docs/*-parked-capabilities.yaml — an operator installing the documented file and a companion writing a different one would disagree on the digest and the worker would never come up bounded. Further tests pin the exact stdout both adapters grep for; drift there would silently read as "not granted" forever. worker-companion/** is added to the vitest include globs. Without it the new tests would collect as zero and pass, which is the failure scripts/test-floor.mjs exists to catch. Refs milind-soni#508 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 3 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds named Windows and macOS CUA workers. It adds worker configuration, SSH health checks, readiness states, exclusive leases, a worker companion, bot routing, status APIs, UI selection, policies, and setup documentation. ChangesNamed remote CUA workers
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This PR enables remote desktop workers, but the current implementation can treat an unapproved or broader capability manifest as valid, report pause success after failed shutdown steps, and allow incompatible driver versions; worker controls may also target the wrong computer. These create material security, correctness, and availability risks, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BotSettings
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participant workerStatus
participant RemoteWorker
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BotSettings->>OpenMausBotAPI: select worker and save workerId
OpenMausBotAPI->>workerStatus: probe configured workers
workerStatus->>RemoteWorker: run platform health probe over SSH
RemoteWorker-->>workerStatus: return readiness and lease status
workerStatus-->>OpenMausBotAPI: return public worker status
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OpenMausBotAPI->>RemoteWorker: claim worker lease for turn
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73-80: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExpose the selected worker to assistive technology.
The selected row is marked only by
bg-control. A screen-reader user cannot tell which worker is active. Addaria-pressedand an explicit button type.♻️ Proposed fix
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In `@docs/byo-macos.md`:
- Around line 39-40: Update the setup command in the macOS guide to use a
reviewed immutable digest or fixed release instead of the mutable
macos-sequoia-base:latest tag, and document how that pinned image should be
reviewed and updated.
- Around line 21-22: Qualify the macOS guest licensing statement near the worker
guest guidance: specify that the allowance applies to up to two additional macOS
instances on an Apple-branded Mac already running macOS and only for permitted
purposes such as development, testing, macOS Server, or personal non-commercial
use. Instruct operators to verify their use case complies with the applicable
SLA.
- Around line 111-126: Update the macOS BYO guide to document creating the user
LaunchAgent for the CUA daemon, including all four CUA_DRIVER_* settings. Add
the required launchctl unload/reload commands and the cua-driver status check
using the specified socket path, while preserving the existing policy-copy and
digest-pinning instructions.
In `@docs/byo-windows.md`:
- Around line 16-18: Update the worker storage statement in the Windows setup
documentation to accurately include browserExecutable, browserProfile, and
ideExecutable alongside the alias and expected public configuration digests, or
remove “only”; ensure the operator-input guidance remains consistent with these
stored fields.
In `@server/computer-workers.ts`:
- Around line 83-85: Update the expectedDriverVersion validation used by
resolveWorker to reject any non-empty version that differs from
WORKER_DRIVER_VERSION (0.20.0), while preserving the current allowance for an
empty value and exact version format validation.
In `@server/remote-worker.ts`:
- Around line 398-405: Update evaluateSharedHealth and the worker configuration
to pin an expected parked capability digest, requiring an exact match when no
approved task capability is active. When a task is active, validate
capabilityDigest against the server-approved task manifest rather than accepting
any SHA-256 digest, and ensure both platform probes enforce the same
distinction. Add coverage using a valid non-parked manifest that must fail
readiness.
In `@src/components/ComputerPanel.tsx`:
- Around line 1064-1073: Update the computer panel mount effect to handle the
"worker" mode explicitly instead of falling through to the cloud/VPS path,
assigning it a dedicated phase. Add "worker" to the Phase type and emptyState
map, and preserve the exhaustive satisfies validation; ensure worker mode does
not probe, poll, or expose cloud computer controls.
Apply the same fix in `@src/components/ComputerPanel.tsx` around lines 1111 -
1116.
Apply the same fix in `@src/state/store.tsx` around lines 194 - 196: The persisted
worker mode reaches the same missing panel handling and should use the
worker-specific status and initialization path.
In `@worker-companion/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 51-60: Enforce MAX_REQUEST_BYTES before readline can buffer input
by counting raw stdin bytes and rejecting oversized data as it arrives; destroy
process.stdin immediately when the limit is exceeded. Update the request
handling around the readline interface so normal requests retain existing
behavior, and add a process-level test covering an oversized request without a
terminating newline.
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In `@src/components/WorkerPicker.tsx`:
- Around line 73-80: Update the worker-selection button in WorkerPicker so it
explicitly uses button type and exposes its selected state with
aria-pressed={selected}; keep the existing onClick behavior and styling
unchanged.
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Under the Apple macOS Sequoia Software License Agreement (SLA), you are permitted to install, use, and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Apple-branded computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software [1][2]. These virtualized instances are restricted to the following specific purposes [1]: (a) Software development; (b) Testing during software development; (c) Using macOS Server; or (d) Personal, non-commercial use. The license expressly prohibits using these virtualized copies in connection with service bureaus, time-sharing, terminal sharing, relay services, or other similar types of services [1]. Additionally, you may not use the Apple Software to run any other Apple operating systems (such as iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, or tvOS) in virtual operating system environments on your Mac [1]. It is important to note that this allowance requires that the host hardware itself be an Apple-branded computer that is already running the Apple Software [1][3]. While some users have historically explored technical methods to bypass the concurrent VM limit, the official license terms remain limited to two virtualized instances per host [4][5][6]. In macOS Sequoia, Apple also introduced improvements to the virtualization framework that allow virtual machines (when running macOS 15 or later on a macOS 15 or later host) to derive a unique identity from the host's Secure Enclave, enabling the use of iCloud and other Apple ID-related services within the virtualized environment [7][8].
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- 1: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSSequoia.pdf
- 2: https://www.scribd.com/document/802523916/macOSSequoia-0
- 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991723
- 4: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/08/04/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon-macs-8-how-apple-limits-vms/
- 5: https://khronokernel.com/macos/2023/08/08/AS-VM.html
- 6: https://developer.apple.com/forums/activities/1586080
- 7: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/apple-quietly-improves-mac-virtualization-in-macos-15-sequoia/
- 8: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/06/17/how-sequoia-changes-virtualisation-on-apple-silicon/
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In `@docs/byo-macos.md` around lines 21 - 22, Qualify the macOS guest licensing
statement near the worker guest guidance: specify that the allowance applies to
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Pin the guest image used by the setup guide.
macos-sequoia-base:latest can change between setups. Use a reviewed immutable digest or fixed image release, and document the update process.
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The Cua Driver is an open-source tool designed to enable background computer-use automation on macOS, Windows, and Linux [1][2]. Version 0.20.0, released in mid-August 2026, is a version of this driver [3][4]. Installation and Autostart Policy on macOS: The official installation for macOS is performed via the command: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://cua.ai/driver/install.sh)" [3][4] This installer places the CuaDriver.app bundle in /Applications and creates a symlink at ~/.local/bin/cua-driver [5][6]. Because the app bundle uses a consistent signing identity (com.trycua.driver), macOS Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) permissions for Accessibility and Screen Recording are maintained across upgrades [5][6]. Regarding autostart: The Cua Driver does not have a native autostart command for macOS [7][8]. Instead, you must manually create a launchd agent (a LaunchAgent) to ensure the daemon runs after reboots [8]. Official documentation recommends placing a plist file at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.trycua.cua-driver.plist [8]. Environment Variables and Configuration: Configuration options for the driver—such as permission modes, capability manifests, or policy files—are read only once when the daemon starts [9][8]. If you are configuring a custom autostart launchd plist, you must inject these configurations as EnvironmentVariables within the XML plist structure so they are active when the daemon starts automatically [10]. For example, to set a custom policy file path: EnvironmentVariables CUA_DRIVER_POLICY_FILE /path/to/your/policy.yaml [10] Similarly, if you need to pin specific permission modes (like bounded or unrestricted) or use other flags, these must be configured in the autostart entry itself rather than relying on system-wide environment variables, as the driver process fixes these modes at launch [9][8]. After modifying the launchd plist, you must reload the agent using launchctl: launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.trycua.cua-driver.plist launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.trycua.cua-driver.plist [10]
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- 2: https://trycua.com/
- 3: https://newreleases.io/project/github/trycua/cua/release/cua-driver-rs-v0.20.0
- 4: https://github.com/trycua/cua/releases
- 5: https://cua.ai/docs/cua-driver/guide/getting-started/installation
- 6: https://cua.ai/docs/cua-driver/guide/getting-started/introduction
- 7: https://cua.ai/docs/reference/cua-driver/cli-reference
- 8: https://cua.ai/docs/how-to-guides/driver/keep-running
- 9: https://github.com/trycua/cua/blob/HEAD/libs/cua-driver/README.md
- 10: https://cua.ai/docs/how-to-guides/driver/restrict-tool-access
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Document the macOS CUA daemon configuration.
The guide copies the policy files but does not create or reload the required user LaunchAgent. Add the plist with the four CUA_DRIVER_* settings, launchctl reload commands, and cua-driver status --socket "$HOME/.openmausbot/run/cua.sock". Without this setup, the daemon may not load the copied files, and readiness rejects the worker for missing policy, capability, or bounded mode.
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In `@docs/byo-macos.md` around lines 111 - 126, Update the macOS BYO guide to
document creating the user LaunchAgent for the CUA daemon, including all four
CUA_DRIVER_* settings. Add the required launchctl unload/reload commands and the
cua-driver status check using the specified socket path, while preserving the
existing policy-copy and digest-pinning instructions.
| The operator owns the Windows installation and the macOS OpenSSH alias. The | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the worker storage statement.
The workerConfigSchema in server/computer-workers.ts (Lines 49-126) also stores browserExecutable, browserProfile, and ideExecutable. Lines 140-143 ask the operator to enter those values. Therefore, “stores only the alias and expected public configuration digests” is inaccurate. List the stored worker fields or remove “only” so the privacy description matches the control-plane record.
Also applies to: 140-143
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In `@docs/byo-windows.md` around lines 16 - 18, Update the worker storage
statement in the Windows setup documentation to accurately include
browserExecutable, browserProfile, and ideExecutable alongside the alias and
expected public configuration digests, or remove “only”; ensure the
operator-input guidance remains consistent with these stored fields.
| expectedDriverVersion: z.string().max(32).refine((value) => value === "" || /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+$/.test(value), { | ||
| message: "must be an exact CUA Driver version", | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
🔎 Supported by static analysis
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Keep the driver version fixed.
resolveWorker accepts any syntactically valid expectedDriverVersion, and readiness compares the reported version only with that value. A worker can therefore pass the version check with a driver other than WORKER_DRIVER_VERSION (0.20.0), which is also the version named by both checked-in policy manifests.
Reject non-empty values that differ from WORKER_DRIVER_VERSION.
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In `@server/computer-workers.ts` around lines 83 - 85, Update the
expectedDriverVersion validation used by resolveWorker to reject any non-empty
version that differs from WORKER_DRIVER_VERSION (0.20.0), while preserving the
current allowance for an empty value and exact version format validation.
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Other (CWE-353)
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate
Pin the approved capability manifest before marking a worker ready.
evaluateSharedHealth accepts any SHA-256 capabilityDigest when capabilityLoaded is true. Both platform probes only compare the daemon's digest with the worker user's active-capabilities.yaml. The worker configuration pins the base-policy digest, but not the capability digest. A worker-profile user can replace the parked, no-tools manifest with another valid manifest and pass readiness.
Add an expected parked capability digest to the worker configuration. Require an exact match when no approved task capability is active. For active tasks, validate the capability digest against the server-approved task manifest. Add a test with a valid non-parked manifest.
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In `@server/remote-worker.ts` around lines 398 - 405, Update evaluateSharedHealth
and the worker configuration to pin an expected parked capability digest,
requiring an exact match when no approved task capability is active. When a task
is active, validate capabilityDigest against the server-approved task manifest
rather than accepting any SHA-256 digest, and ensure both platform probes
enforce the same distinction. Add coverage using a valid non-parked manifest
that must fail readiness.
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| (mode === "local" && !localSelectable); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Implement worker mode as a distinct ComputerPanel destination.
Worker mode is selectable and persisted, but the panel does not implement it separately: the mount effect falls through to cloud/VPS probing, the status and empty-state maps lack a worker phase, and no reachable flow selects a workerId before the server requires one. This can show cloud controls for a remote worker or fail assignment. Add worker-specific phase/status/empty-state handling, render WorkerPicker, submit the selected workerId with computer: "worker", and keep worker mode out of cloud initialization and labels.
📍 Affects 2 files
src/components/ComputerPanel.tsx#L1064-L1073(this comment)src/components/ComputerPanel.tsx#L1111-L1116src/state/store.tsx#L194-L196
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In `@src/components/ComputerPanel.tsx` around lines 1064 - 1073, Update the
computer panel mount effect to handle the "worker" mode explicitly instead of
falling through to the cloud/VPS path, assigning it a dedicated phase. Add
"worker" to the Phase type and emptyState map, and preserve the exhaustive
satisfies validation; ensure worker mode does not probe, poll, or expose cloud
computer controls.
Apply the same fix in `@src/components/ComputerPanel.tsx` around lines 1111 -
1116.
Apply the same fix in `@src/state/store.tsx` around lines 194 - 196: The persisted
worker mode reaches the same missing panel handling and should use the
worker-specific status and initialization path.
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Denial of Service (CWE-400): Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Difficult
Enforce the input limit before readline buffers the line.
A caller can send more than 1 MiB without a newline, so the size check does not run while readline retains the growing buffer. This can cause memory pressure or terminate the companion process.
Count raw stdin bytes before creating the readline interface. Destroy stdin when the limit is exceeded. Add a process-level test for an oversized unterminated request.
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In `@worker-companion/src/index.ts` around lines 51 - 60, Enforce
MAX_REQUEST_BYTES before readline can buffer input by counting raw stdin bytes
and rejecting oversized data as it arrives; destroy process.stdin immediately
when the limit is exceeded. Update the request handling around the readline
interface so normal requests retain existing behavior, and add a process-level
test covering an oversized request without a terminating newline.
Windows CI caught this: the parked-manifest test failed there because git checks the docs out as CRLF while the companion embeds LF, so a byte-for-byte comparison of identical content disagreed. The test bug is the small half. The real one is that these files are hashed, not merely read — worker-companion requires the CUA daemon to report back the exact sha256 of the manifest it wrote, and docs/byo-*.md has the operator pin the base policy by digest. A Windows operator following the runbook against a CRLF checkout would compute a digest that never matches the one the control plane expects, with both files looking correct on screen. So .gitattributes pins the four digest-sensitive manifests to `text eol=lf` regardless of the checking-out machine's core.autocrlf, and the test normalises line endings because what it asserts is content drift, not encoding. Verified: a naive comparison against CRLF content reproduces the CI failure, the normalised one passes, and `git check-attr` confirms eol=lf resolves for all four files. Refs milind-soni#508 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Stacked on #533 — review that one first. GitHub will not let a cross-fork PR use a base branch that exists only on the fork, so this targets
mainand its diff therefore contains #533's three commits. The only commit to review here is the last one,feat(workers): add the cross-platform worker companion. Merging #533 first collapses this diff to that commit; if you would rather have one PR than two, close #533 and take this.#533 adds the control plane for named remote CUA workers, but both adapters shell out to a binary that does not exist, and the readiness ladder refuses any worker whose companion does not answer protocol 1. So without this, no worker can ever reach ready, and
docs/byo-*.mdpoints at apnpm build:worker-companionscript that is not there.This adds it, derived from the Windows-only companion and generalised to both platforms.
The two flags the probe reads
--versionanswers protocol 1. Both adapters parse the trailing integer.--permissionsis new. It reports the driver binary's own Accessibility and Screen Recording grants, read through the pinned CUA SDK's non-promptingcurrentMacOsPermissionStatus(). macOS TCC has no Windows analogue, so on Windows it reports null and the Windows ladder never consults it.The read is live on every poll by design: grants are per-binary, System Integrity Protection blocks writing the TCC database, and replacing the driver binary silently revokes them — so a grant made once during setup is not evidence of a grant now. It never calls
requestMacOsPermissions(): an SSH-driven probe has nobody at the screen to answer a dialog, and a probe blocked on one reads to the control plane as a hung worker.The stdio protocol
pauserevokes every capability and stops the driver.resumewrites the deny-all parked capability and then requires the daemon to report back both that digest and the pinned base-policy digest, in bounded mode, before it answers — so a driver that quietly loaded a different policy from disk never passes.reset/validate/activate/runarrive with the server-side task layer and are explicitly rejected here.Parsing
One boundary, matching
server/schema.ts: a JSON-typed parse then a zod schema. Nothing downstream inspects shapes, so the wire can name an operation and a digest and nothing else. Unrecognised fields are dropped rather than forwarded, and the environment handed to the driver is a fixed allow-list rather than the inherited SSH session environment.Tests
The parked manifests are embedded because the companion ships to the worker as a standalone package. A test asserts they stay byte-identical to
docs/*-parked-capabilities.yaml— an operator installing the documented file and a companion writing a different one would disagree on the digest, and the worker would never come up bounded.Further tests pin the exact stdout both adapters grep for. Drift there is the nastiest failure mode available: the probe would silently read "not granted" forever and every macOS worker would fail at
worker_accessibility_deniedwith nothing visibly wrong on the guest.worker-companion/**is added to the vitest include globs. Without it the new tests collect as zero and the run still passes — which is exactly whatscripts/test-floor.mjsexists to catch.Verification
pnpm typecheckclean, 54 tests green across the companion and the two worker suites,oxlintclean on every file this branch touches.The compiled CLI was exercised end to end and its output run through the adapters' actual parse expressions, which yielded
companionVersion=1,accessibilityGranted=1,screenRecordingGranted=1.Not verified: that check ran on a Mac where both grants happen to be live, so the fail-closed path is covered by unit tests rather than by a real revoked grant, and the stdio operations have not been run against a real CUA daemon on a guest. #508's live acceptance stays open.
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