When init-first-agent creates an agent group for an owner, set
cli_scope to 'global' so the owner's personal agent has full ncl
access. All other agent groups remain 'group'-scoped by default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
setup/register.ts had two bugs that prevented new channels from being
registered via `/manage-channels`:
1. createMessagingGroupAgent was called with the legacy field names
`trigger_rules` and `response_scope`. The SQL INSERT expects
`engage_mode` / `engage_pattern` / `sender_scope` / `ignored_message_policy`
(migration 010). Every register call failed with
`RangeError: Missing named parameter "engage_mode"` after the agent
and messaging group were partially created — leaving an orphaned pair.
Now mirrors scripts/init-first-agent.ts:wireIfMissing:
- Groups (is_group=1) default to engage_mode='mention' (bot only
responds when addressed).
- DMs (is_group=0) default to engage_mode='pattern' with '.' (respond
to every message).
- An explicit --trigger overrides the pattern regex.
2. The "normalize platform_id" block unconditionally prefixed
"<channel>:" even for native IDs like WhatsApp JIDs
("120363408974444974@g.us"), iMessage emails ("user@example.com"),
or Signal phones ("+15551234567") / Signal groups ("group:abc"). But
the router (src/router.ts:158) looks up messaging_groups by the raw
event.platformId from the adapter, which for these native adapters
never has a prefix. So the prefixed row was never matched — the
message was silently dropped with no "Message routed" log.
Extracted scripts/init-first-agent.ts:namespacedPlatformId into
src/platform-id.ts so both setup paths use the same heuristic (skip
the prefix for IDs containing '@', starting with '+', or starting
with 'group:'). Prevents future drift between the two paths.
Tested by: re-running `setup/index.ts --step register` for a WhatsApp
group JID, confirming the row is created with correct engage fields
and matching platform_id, then sending a test message and observing
"Message routed" with the right agent group.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Native Signal adapter using signal-cli TCP JSON-RPC daemon. No Chat SDK
bridge or npm dependencies — uses only Node.js builtins.
Features:
- DM and group message support
- Voice message detection (placeholder text; transcription via
/add-voice-transcription skill)
- Typing indicators (DMs only)
- Mention detection via text match
- Managed daemon lifecycle (auto-start/stop signal-cli)
- Echo suppression for outbound messages
Also fixes init-first-agent.ts to skip channel-prefixing for phone
numbers (+...) and Signal group IDs (group:...), which are native
platform IDs that adapters send without a channel prefix.
Install via /add-signal skill. Uses /init-first-agent for channel wiring.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The concurrent poll in processQuery filtered out messages with
mismatched thread_ids, causing a deadlock when the initial batch
(e.g. a host-generated welcome trigger with null thread_id) completed
but follow-ups arrived with a different thread_id (e.g. a Discord DM).
The query stayed open waiting for matching-thread pushes that never
came, blocking the poll loop indefinitely.
Thread routing is the router's concern — per-thread sessions already
isolate threads into separate containers; shared sessions intentionally
merge everything. Removed the filter.
Also fixed processing_ack: a result event (with or without text) means
the turn is done, but markCompleted only ran when event.text was truthy.
When the agent responded via MCP send_message (empty result text), the
initial batch stayed in 'processing' for the query's lifetime, creating
false stuck signals in the host sweep. Now marks completed on any result
event.
Belt-and-suspenders: init-first-agent welcome trigger now sets threadId
to the DM platform_id instead of null.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously init-first-agent auto-granted global owner to the first
user wired through it and left every subsequent user as nothing — no
role, no membership. That worked for the bootstrap path but broke the
second channel's welcome DM: the access gate saw no role + no
membership and dropped the message with accessReason='not_member'.
Make the role explicit:
- scripts/init-first-agent.ts accepts --role owner|admin|member
(default: owner). Role drives the grant:
owner -> global owner (agent_group_id=null)
admin -> admin scoped to this agent group
member -> no role row, just membership
Idempotent via getUserRoles pre-check — safe on re-runs. addMember
runs unconditionally (INSERT OR IGNORE) so the access gate has a
row even for users who'd otherwise pass via role alone.
- setup/lib/role-prompt.ts — shared askOperatorRole(channel) prompt
with owner as the default pick. Self-host single-operator is the
dominant case, so the user's fingers default to Enter.
- Telegram / Discord / WhatsApp drivers all call askOperatorRole
before resolving the agent name and pass --role <choice> through.
Captured in progression log via setupLog.userInput('<channel>_role').
Summary output drops the fragile "promoted on first owner" hint in
favor of a dedicated role: line ("owner (global)" / "admin (scoped to
<ag-id>)" / "member") so re-runs make the current grant legible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
WhatsApp (community/Baileys) joins the setup:auto channel picker, with
the same clack-native UX discipline as Telegram and Discord:
- setup/channels/whatsapp.ts — driver. Collects auth method (QR terminal
or pairing code), runs the auth step, renders QR blocks in-place with
ANSI cursor-rewind on rotation so the terminal doesn't fill up with
stale codes, reads creds.me.id for the bot phone, restarts the service,
asks for the operator's personal phone (defaulting to the authed
number), writes ASSISTANT_HAS_OWN_NUMBER=true when they differ
(dedicated mode), and hands off to init-first-agent.
- setup/whatsapp-auth.ts — forked standalone auth step. Channels-branch
version had a browser-QR path with an HTTP server + <canvas> QR
renderer; stripped entirely (headless/SSH users hit dead ends too
often, and the extra deps complicate install). The remaining terminal
QR emits raw QR strings in WHATSAPP_AUTH_QR blocks so the parent
driver owns the rendering. Pairing-code path retained. Status blocks
now use the runner's vocabulary (success/skipped/failed) so spawnStep
sets ok correctly; WhatsApp-specific UI text ("WhatsApp linked", "You
chat") lives in the driver.
- setup/add-whatsapp.sh — non-interactive installer, mirror of
add-telegram.sh. Fetches the adapter + groups step from the channels
branch (whatsapp-auth.ts stays local, pair-telegram.ts pattern),
installs pinned baileys/qrcode/pino, registers the steps in
setup/index.ts's STEPS map. No service restart (adapter factory
returns null until creds exist).
Cross-channel fixes bundled:
- scripts/init-first-agent.ts: always addMember(user, agentGroup) for
the target user so subsequent wirings (not the first) pass the access
gate. Telegram wiring first → Discord/WhatsApp second was dropping
every inbound with accessReason='not_member' because only the first
user gets owner. namespacedPlatformId also passes through JID-format
raws (contains '@') so WhatsApp's bare <phone>@s.whatsapp.net matches
what the adapter stores.
- setup/service.ts: launchctl unload-then-load instead of bare load (bare
load errors 'already loaded' when a prior plist was cached, keeping
launchd on the OLD ProgramArguments even after the file on disk
changed). systemctl start → restart (start is a no-op on an active
unit, swallowing unit-file edits).
- setup/add-telegram.sh: removed the in-script open "tg://resolve"
block. The driver (setup/channels/telegram.ts) now owns the deep-link,
gated on a p.confirm so the browser can't steal focus unexpectedly.
- setup/channels/discord.ts + setup/channels/telegram.ts: every browser
open goes through confirmThenOpen (new shared helper in
setup/lib/browser.ts) — operator presses Enter before their browser
takes focus. Telegram switched from tg://resolve?domain= to
https://t.me/<bot> which works everywhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
init-first-agent used to double-wire the CLI channel to every new DM
agent as a convenience for `pnpm run chat`, gated by --no-cli-bonus.
With the /new-setup-2 flow gone and a dedicated scratch CLI agent
created earlier in setup:auto, that bonus just stomps on CLI routing
the user already set up. Remove the CLI_CHANNEL/CLI_PLATFORM_ID
constants, ensureCliMessagingGroup, the --no-cli-bonus flag, and the
cli-bonus wiring block.
Pass the paired user's identity through to the welcome delivery so
the sender resolver sees the real owner (e.g. telegram:<id>) instead
of cli:local. Extend the CLI channel's admin-transport payload to
accept optional sender/senderId overrides — falls back to the old
cli/cli:local defaults when omitted, so existing callers are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The welcome DM used to be handed to the running service over the CLI
admin socket, which stamped `cli:local` as the sender. On a strict
messaging group (any fresh DM wired by init-first-agent), that tripped
the unknown-sender approval gate — the operator's own bootstrap script
ended up requesting its own approval. Fix by writing the welcome
directly into the session's inbound.db with a `System` sender; the
running service's host-sweep wakes the container on its next pass.
Also drop `--no-cli-bonus`. Now that init-cli-agent always wires
cli/local to the scratch CLI agent, every caller of init-first-agent
had to pass --no-cli-bonus to avoid double-wiring; the flag has become
mandatory, so it's just removed. The cli-bonus branch goes with it.
Skill docs updated in lockstep.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- InboundEvent gains an optional replyTo; router stamps the row's address
fields from it when set, so replies can route to a different channel than
the one the inbound came in on.
- ChannelSetup adds onInboundEvent for admin-transport adapters that build
the full event themselves.
- CLI wire format accepts {text, to, reply_to}. Routed messages go through
onInboundEvent and do not evict an active chat client.
- init-first-agent hands the DM welcome to the running service via
data/cli.sock — synchronous wake, no sweep wait. Fails loudly if the
service is down; no silent fallback.
- Split the CLI scratch-agent bootstrap into scripts/init-cli-agent.ts;
init-first-agent is DM-only.
Agents cannot set replyTo: it lives only on the inbound/router seam and is
consumed once when writing messages_in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New /new-setup-2 skill, invoked when the user picks "continue setup"
at the end of /new-setup. Linear rollthrough; every step skippable:
1. What should the agent call you?
2. What's your agent's name?
3. Messaging channel (plain list, no AskUserQuestion) — invokes the
matching /add-<channel> skill, captures platform IDs from its
output, then wires via init-first-agent.ts with --no-cli-bonus.
On success, emits the encouragement line verbatim.
4. Quality-of-life picks (dashboard, compact, karpathy-wiki, plus
macos-statusbar only when the probe reports PLATFORM=darwin).
5. Wrap-up.
scripts/init-first-agent.ts gains a --no-cli-bonus flag. In DM mode,
the bonus "wire new agent to CLI" call is skipped when set. Used by
/new-setup-2 so the throwaway CLI-only agent from /new-setup retains
clean single-agent ownership of CLI routing instead of being duelled
by the real agent on the same channel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the opaque trigger_rules JSON + response_scope enum on
messaging_group_agents with four explicit orthogonal columns:
engage_mode 'pattern' | 'mention' | 'mention-sticky'
engage_pattern regex source; required when mode='pattern';
'.' is the "always" sentinel
sender_scope 'all' | 'known'
ignored_message_policy 'drop' | 'accumulate'
Inbound routing becomes a fan-out — every wired agent is evaluated
independently. A match gets its own session + container wake. A miss
with accumulate keeps the message as context-only (trigger=0) in that
agent's session, so when the agent does eventually engage it sees the
prior chatter.
## Schema
- Migration 010 (`engage-modes`): adds the 4 new columns, backfills
from trigger_rules.pattern + requiresTrigger + response_scope, drops
the legacy columns.
- messages_in gains `trigger INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 1` (session DB
schema + `migrateMessagesInTable` forward-compat).
- countDueMessages gates waking on `trigger = 1`.
## Routing
- `pickAgent` (returns one) → loop over all wired agents. Per agent:
evaluate engage_mode; run access gate + sender-scope gate; on full
match → resolveSession + writeSessionMessage(trigger=1) + wake. On
miss with accumulate → writeSessionMessage(trigger=0), no wake. On
miss with drop → skip.
- New `findSessionForAgent(agentGroupId, mgId, threadId)` scopes
session lookup by agent so fan-out doesn't cross sessions.
- `messageIdForAgent` namespaces inbound message ids by agent_group_id
so PRIMARY KEY doesn't collide across per-agent session DBs.
## Adapter layer
- `ConversationConfig` replaces `triggerPattern` + `requiresTrigger`
with `engageMode` + `engagePattern`.
- Chat SDK bridge stores `Map<platformId, ConversationConfig[]>` (multi-
agent per conversation) and applies union gating pre-onInbound:
* onSubscribedMessage: engage if any wiring keeps firing in
subscribed state (mention-sticky or pattern)
* onNewMention: engage on mention; only subscribes the thread if
at least one wiring is `mention-sticky`
* onDirectMessage: engage per mode; sticky follows same rule
- Bridge no longer unconditionally calls `thread.subscribe()`.
## Sender scope
- Permissions module registers a second hook `setSenderScopeGate` that
runs per-wiring after the existing access gate. `sender_scope='known'`
requires canAccessAgentGroup(); `'all'` is a no-op. Not installed →
no-op everywhere (default allow).
## Container side
- Host passes `NANOCLAW_MAX_MESSAGES_PER_PROMPT` (reuses existing
MAX_MESSAGES_PER_PROMPT config; was dead code from v1).
- `getPendingMessages` queries `ORDER BY seq DESC LIMIT N`, reverses to
chronological order for the prompt — accumulated context rides along
with trigger rows up to the cap.
- `MessageInRow` gains `trigger: number` so the container can tell them
apart in downstream code (container still processes both; only the
host uses `trigger=0` for don't-wake).
## Defaults (per ACTION-ITEMS item 1 decision)
- DM (is_group=0): `engage_mode='pattern'`, `engage_pattern='.'` (always)
- Threaded group: `engage_mode='mention-sticky'` (seed-discord)
- Non-threaded group / CLI: pattern '.' in bootstrap scripts
## Tests
- src/host-core.test.ts: 3 new cases — fan-out (2 agents, 2 sessions,
2 wakes), accumulate (trigger=0 + no wake), drop (no session created).
- Existing 10 host-core tests still pass.
- Migration 010 runs on an empty DB in 0-row path — verified.
Closes: ACTION-ITEMS items 1, 4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Aggregates the loose OneCLI install, secret registration, and first-agent
wiring commands from /setup into three new dispatcher steps. Adds
--cli-only mode to init-first-agent so /new-setup can reach a working
2-way CLI chat with the bare minimum.
- setup/onecli.ts: idempotent install + PATH + api-host + .env, polls /health
- setup/auth.ts: --check verifies secret; --create --value registers it
- setup/cli-agent.ts: wraps init-first-agent --cli-only
- scripts/init-first-agent.ts: --cli-only mode; DM mode unchanged
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First default channel that ships with main. Unix-socket adapter + thin
client; plugs into the running daemon rather than spawning its own host.
## src/channels/cli.ts
- ChannelAdapter with channelType='cli', platformId='local'.
- setup() unlinks any stale socket, listens on $DATA_DIR/cli.sock (mode 0600
so only the local user can connect).
- On client connect: reads newline-delimited JSON ({"text": "..."}) and
calls config.onInbound('local', null, {id, kind:'chat', content, ts}).
- deliver() writes {"text": <body>} back to the connected socket; silently
no-ops when no client is attached (outbound row still persists).
- Single-client policy: a second connection supersedes the first with a
[superseded] notice.
- teardown() closes the client, closes the server, removes the socket file.
## scripts/chat.ts + pnpm run chat
One-shot client:
- pnpm run chat <message...>
- Connects to the socket, writes one JSON line with the message.
- Reads replies; exits 2s after the first reply lands (hard timeout 120s).
- ENOENT/ECONNREFUSED prints a hint to start the daemon.
## scripts/init-first-agent.ts
- Fix stale imports after earlier module extractions (permissions +
agent-to-agent moved their DB helpers into modules/).
- After wiring the DM channel, also create cli/local messaging_group
(unknown_sender_policy='public' — local socket perms handle auth) and
wire it to the same agent. User can `pnpm run chat` immediately.
## package.json
- Add "chat": "tsx scripts/chat.ts" script.
## Validation
- pnpm run build clean.
- pnpm test — 137 host tests pass.
- bun test in container/agent-runner — 17 pass.
- Service boot logs: "CLI channel listening" + "Channel adapter started
channel=cli type=cli". Clean SIGTERM shutdown; socket file removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- container/.dockerignore (new): exclude agent-runner/node_modules and
agent-runner/dist so COPY agent-runner/ ./ doesn't clobber the
pnpm-installed node_modules with host directories. Under npm's flat
layout this was forgiving; under pnpm's symlink layout it's a hard
conflict (overlay2 cannot copy onto a symlink target).
- setup/{groups,service}.ts: execSync('pnpm run build') not npm.
- setup/index.ts: usage string.
- scripts/*.ts: usage comments + seed-discord final log.
- .claude/settings.json: permission allowlist entries.
- .claude/skills/{add-whatsapp-v2,add-dashboard}/SKILL.md: docs.
- container/skills/{frontend-engineer,vercel-cli,self-customize}/SKILL.md:
agent-facing docs still told the container agent to run npm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Welcome skill now uses drip-feed approach instead of listing all
capabilities upfront. Agent asks user to explore or jump into building.
Init script delegates to /welcome skill instead of hardcoded prompt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Checkpoints the builder-agent dev-agent/worktree/swap flow (create_dev_agent,
request_swap, classifier, deadman, promote) before pivoting to a unified
draft-activate approach with OS-level RO enforcement. Lifts container_config
out of the agent_groups row into groups/<folder>/container.json so install_packages,
add_mcp_server, and rebuild flows can eventually route through the same draft
path as source edits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the agent-group-centric "main group" concept with user-level
privileges and adds the cold-DM infrastructure needed for proactive
outbound messaging (pairing, approvals, welcome flows).
Privilege model
- New tables: users, user_roles (owner global-only; admin global or
scoped to an agent_group), agent_group_members (explicit non-
privileged access; admin/owner imply membership), user_dms (cold-DM
resolution cache).
- Removed agent_groups.is_admin, messaging_groups.admin_user_id. Replaced
with messaging_groups.unknown_sender_policy (strict | request_approval
| public) for per-chat unknown-sender gating.
- src/access.ts: canAccessAgentGroup, pickApprover, pickApprovalDelivery.
- src/router.ts: access gate on every inbound, honoring
unknown_sender_policy for unknown senders.
- src/channels/telegram.ts: pairing interceptor upserts the paired user
and promotes them to owner if hasAnyOwner() is false (first-pair-wins).
Cold DM infrastructure
- ChannelAdapter.openDM?(handle) — optional method. Chat-SDK-bridge wires
it to chat.openDM() for resolution-required channels (Discord, Slack,
Teams, Webex, gChat); direct-addressable channels (Telegram, WhatsApp,
iMessage, Matrix, Resend) fall through to the handle directly.
- src/user-dm.ts: ensureUserDm(userId) — resolves + caches via user_dms.
Approval routing
- onecli-approvals + delivery use pickApprover + pickApprovalDelivery:
scoped admins → global admins → owners (dedup), first reachable via
ensureUserDm, same-channel-kind tie-break. Approvals land in the
approver's DM, not the origin chat.
Delivery fixes
- delivery.ts ACL rejection now throws instead of returning undefined —
the outer loop previously marked rejected messages as delivered.
- Implicit-origin allow: session.messaging_group_id === target skips the
destination check.
- createMessagingGroupAgent auto-creates the companion agent_destinations
row (normalized local_name from the messaging group's name, collision-
broken within the agent's namespace).
Container
- container-runner.ts: /workspace/global always read-only; drops
NANOCLAW_IS_ADMIN; adds NANOCLAW_ADMIN_USER_IDS (owners + global admins
+ scoped admins for this agent group). Agent-runner poll-loop gates
slash commands against that set.
New skill: /init-first-agent
- Walks the operator through standing up the first agent for a channel:
channel pick → identity lookup (reads each channel SKILL.md's
## Channel Info > how-to-find-id) → DM platform_id resolution (direct-
addressable, cold-DM via "user DMs bot first + sqlite lookup", or
Telegram pair-code fallback) → run scripts/init-first-agent.ts →
verify via tail of nanoclaw.log.
- scripts/init-first-agent.ts: parameterized helper that upserts the
user + grants owner (if none), creates dm-with-<display-name> agent
group + initGroupFilesystem, reuses/creates the DM messaging_group,
wires it (auto-creates destination), resolves the session, and writes
a kind:'chat' / sender:'system' welcome message into inbound.db. Host
sweep wakes the container and the agent DMs the operator via the
normal delivery path.
/manage-channels rewrite
- Drops --is-main / --jid / main-vs-non-main isolation references.
- First-channel flow delegates to /init-first-agent.
- Explains createMessagingGroupAgent auto-creates destinations.
- Adds a privileged-users show section.
setup/
- register.ts: drop --is-main, --jid, --local-name, --trigger
requiresTrigger defaults; call initGroupFilesystem; normalize to
v2 schema (no is_admin, no admin_user_id, sets unknown_sender_policy
'strict'); let createMessagingGroupAgent handle the destination row.
- pair-telegram.ts: emit PAIRED_USER_ID (namespaced "telegram:<id>")
instead of ADMIN_USER_ID; update header comment.
- register.test.ts deleted — was v1-only, tested a registered_groups
table that no longer exists.
Docs
- v2-architecture-diagram.{md,html}: ER diagram updated to drop
is_admin/admin_user_id, add unknown_sender_policy, and include
users/user_roles/agent_group_members/user_dms.
- v2-architecture-draft.md: approval-routing paragraph rewritten for
pickApprover/pickApprovalDelivery/ensureUserDm; SQL schema block
updated; admin-verification paragraph references
NANOCLAW_ADMIN_USER_IDS.
- v2-setup-wiring.md: entity-model sketch rewritten.
- v2-checklist.md: marked privilege refactor / container filtering /
approval routing / unknown-sender gating done; removed obsolete
admin_user_id and main-vs-non-main items.
Scripts
- scripts/init-first-agent.ts (new) replaces scripts/welcome-owner-dm.ts
(removed; welcome-owner was a Discord-specific one-off).
- test-v2-host.ts, test-v2-channel-e2e.ts, seed-discord.ts: drop
is_admin + admin_user_id, use unknown_sender_policy.
Tests
- src/access.test.ts (new): 14 tests for canAccessAgentGroup, role
helpers, pickApprover, ensureUserDm, pickApprovalDelivery.
- src/db/db-v2.test.ts: adds 3 tests for the auto-created
agent_destinations row (normalized name, no duplicates, collision
break within an agent group).
- host-core.test.ts, channel-registry.test.ts: updated fixtures to
use unknown_sender_policy: 'public' where the test exercises routing
rather than the access gate.
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