feat(cli): add Remote Control for the web UI - #222
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Tunnel the local web server through a relay so the session is reachable from a phone or another computer. The session keeps running on this machine; only the UI moves. - `pythinker rc` (alias `remote`) and `pythinker web --remote-control` - `/remote-control` (alias `/rc`) hands the current session over - QR code in the terminal plus a PNG copy under the data dir - loopback-only bind, bearer auth required, one instance per machine - experimental: PYTHINKER_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_REMOTE_CONTROL=1
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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Remote Control adds off-network access to the local web UI, but unresolved startup-lock recovery and WebSocket lifecycle issues could strand users or misreport session state, while the guide makes an unverified token-confidentiality claim; these issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RemoteClient
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RemoteClient->>RelayWebSocket: Send authenticated request
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startRemoteControl->>LocalWebServer: Forward local HTTP or WebSocket request
LocalWebServer-->>startRemoteControl: Return response or frames
startRemoteControl-->>RelayWebSocket: Send tunnel response
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…configurable The tunnel client already adds the bearer token to every request it replays against the local server, so the link needs no credential. Drop the token fragment that was leaking the machine-wide server token into the terminal, the QR image on disk, and the remote browser's URL bar. Add --relay-origin and PYTHINKER_CODE_REMOTE_CONTROL_RELAY: this build ships no relay, so the relay had no way to be set outside tests. Restrict the lock file and the QR image to owner-only permissions.
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REMOTE_CONTROL_FLAG_ENVthrough@pymodel/pythinker-code-sdkand use it here.
packages/agent-core-v2/src/app/remoteControl/flag.tsowns this value and uses it for registry matching. This CLI declares a second literal. If they diverge, the registry andisRemoteControlEnabled()will use different environment variables. The SDK currently exports neither remote-control symbol.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Authorizationbefore using the bearer subprotocol in Node.
connectRelayplacesrelayTokeninSec-WebSocket-Protocol, which any intermediary that logs upgrade headers can record. The gateway acceptsAuthorization: Bearer <token>for the same upgrade. Use the header first, and retain the subprotocol only as a fallback for endpoints that require it. Include the first error if both attempts fail.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/cli/sub/web/remote-control-lock.ts`:
- Around line 128-138: Update decodeLock to accept pid only when it is a
positive integer, using Number.isInteger alongside the existing numeric
validation; reject zero, negative, fractional, and non-finite values while
preserving the remaining lock-field checks.
- Around line 65-85: Update the acquire loop around open and
readRemoteControlLock so an EEXIST on the final retry reads the current holder
before rethrowing; when a live holder is present, throw
RemoteControlAlreadyRunningError with that holder, otherwise throw an error that
identifies lockPath instead of exposing the raw filesystem error. Preserve the
existing retry and stale-lock cleanup behavior for non-final attempts.
In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/cli/sub/web/remote-control.ts`:
- Around line 369-376: Update start() so the promise returned by run() is
observed and any rejection rejects initial as well, ensuring start() cannot wait
indefinitely when run() fails outside the inner loop. Preserve the existing
initialResolve/initialReject behavior for normal startup and startup errors.
- Around line 446-466: Update serveCycle around waitForRelayMessage and
connectRelay so management messages received after registration acknowledgment
are not lost while the HTTP socket connects. Attach handleManagementMessage
before awaiting connectRelay, or buffer those frames and replay them afterward,
while preserving the existing registration validation and socket setup behavior.
- Around line 234-252: Update the request forwarding flow around
parseRawHttpRequest, filterForwardRequestHeaders, and requestLocalHttp to decode
chunked request bodies before forwarding or reject such requests explicitly.
Remove inbound content-length and transfer-encoding headers, then set
content-length to the decoded body byte length before calling requestLocalHttp,
ensuring chunk framing is never forwarded as entity data.
In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/cli/sub/web/run.ts`:
- Around line 416-425: Update the onReady error-handling block around
hooks.onShutdown, running.close, and shutdownTelemetry so each cleanup step is
attempted independently, with failures caught and logged separately. Ensure a
rejection from running.close does not prevent shutdownTelemetry, and always
rethrow the original startup error captured by the outer catch.
In `@docs/guides/remote-control.md`:
- Line 35: Update the keyboard shortcut in the remote-control instructions from
Ctrl+C to Ctrl-C, preserving the surrounding sentence.
- Line 31: Remove the public `relayOrigin` configuration instruction from the
remote-control guide, including the example text describing a custom relay and
its default. Keep the documentation focused on supported user-facing
configuration only.
- Line 27: Update the remote-control documentation to remove the claim that the
browser never sends the access token to the relay. Reflect that the token is now
named relayToken and transmitted via the WebSocket Sec-WebSocket-Protocol
header, and instruct users to trust the relay operator unless end-to-end
encryption is provided.
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In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/cli/sub/web/remote-control.ts`:
- Around line 14-26: Export the canonical remote-control environment key from
`@pymodel/pythinker-code-sdk`, using the existing value owned by the
remote-control flag module, and import it in isRemoteControlEnabled instead of
declaring a second REMOTE_CONTROL_FLAG_ENV literal. Preserve the existing
truthy-value handling and registry matching behavior.
- Around line 728-749: Update connectWebSocket to attempt the WebSocket
connection with the Authorization Bearer header first, then fall back to the
bearer subprotocol only when necessary. Preserve the existing headers and
earlyFrames in both attempts, and if both fail, propagate or report the first
attempt’s error rather than silently discarding it.
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- align ws with the rest of the workspace and restage the web bundle - report the lock holder when acquisition retries run out, instead of a raw EEXIST - reject a non-positive pid in the lock file; process.kill(0, 0) signals our own process group and would pin the lock forever - settle the startup promise when the relay loop throws outside its retry block - buffer management frames between register_ack and the HTTP tunnel, so an immediate open_ws is not dropped - refuse chunked request bodies and derive Content-Length from the bytes actually forwarded - run every startup-cleanup step and keep the original error Correct the guide: the relay does receive the token in the WebSocket handshake, so it has to be trusted.
…script JSON.stringify leaves `</script>` and the U+2028/U+2029 line terminators intact, so a relay path containing either could close the injected script element or break its string literal.
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681-704: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject streams that close during tunnel setup.
If the local socket closes while
connectRelayis pending,bridgeSocketsmisses the close event and the code can report success for a closed stream. Reject non-open sockets and prevent a race before lifecycle handlers attach. Add a regression test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/cli/sub/web/remote-control-lock.ts`:
- Around line 82-90: Update acquireRemoteControlLock so lock contents are
published atomically, or so an unreadable/empty lock is treated as pending and
re-read before any cleanup. Ensure the EEXIST retry path never removes a lock
while another process may still be writing it, while preserving
RemoteControlAlreadyRunningError for a live holder and the existing retry limit.
In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/commands/web.ts`:
- Line 65: Move the resolveRelayOrigin() call into the existing try block in the
Remote Control startup flow so malformed relay configuration errors are handled
by the existing “Failed to start Remote Control” handler.
In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/utils/remote-control-qr.ts`:
- Around line 24-27: Update the QR artifact setup around mkdir and writeFile to
explicitly chmod the data directory to 0o700 and the generated rc-qrcode.png to
0o600 after creation or reuse, preserving the existing QR generation and write
flow.
In `@apps/pythinker-code/test/cli/web/web.test.ts`:
- Line 415: Replace the internal URL source identifier with the neutral value
“from=cli” in the affected test fixtures:
apps/pythinker-code/test/cli/web/web.test.ts lines 415-415 and
apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/commands/web.test.ts lines 199-199.
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In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/cli/sub/web/remote-control.ts`:
- Around line 681-704: In the stream setup flow around connectRelay and
bridgeSockets, verify that both local and tunnel WebSockets are still open after
tunnel creation and before registering the stream or reporting success; reject
closed sockets and clean up the counterpart as needed. Attach lifecycle handling
in a race-safe order so a local close during connectRelay cannot be missed, and
add a regression test covering that close-before-bridge scenario.
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…ct modes - an unreadable lock is a rival mid-write, not a stale one: `open(…, 'wx')` publishes an empty file before its JSON lands, so removing it let both processes believe they held the lock. Re-read before sweeping, and sweep only once it is still unreadable at the end - chmod the QR directory and image, since mode only applies to paths the call creates - resolve the relay origin inside the try, so a malformed setting reports through the startup handler
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88-102: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRecover an orphaned unreadable lock after the final retry.
When a process exits between
open(lockPath, 'wx')andhandle.writeFile(...), it leaves an empty lock file. Attempts 0 through 2 only wait. The next attempt throws at line 97, soremoveFile(lockPath)is never reached. Every later Remote Control startup then fails until a user deletes the lock file manually. The same applies to persistent malformed JSON.Use atomic lock publication, or perform a race-safe final cleanup when the file is still unreadable after the bounded re-read. Add a regression test for an interrupted acquisition. Do not remove a file that became a valid live holder during the retry.
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In `@apps/pythinker-code/test/cli/web/remote-control.test.ts`:
- Line 149: Update the assertion around the HTML content to count actual opening
script elements rather than splitting on the exact encoded “<script>”
string. Use a boundary-aware match or HTML parsing so script tags with
attributes are included, and assert the resulting count without a vacuous
condition.
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In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/cli/sub/web/remote-control-lock.ts`:
- Around line 88-102: Update the lock-acquisition retry flow around the
unreadable-holder handling to perform a race-safe final cleanup after the
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## Related Issue None — follow-up hardening on the Remote Control feature added in #222. ## Problem Remote Control authenticated to the relay with the **local server token** — the same bearer token that grants full control of the machine. Any relay an operator tunnelled through therefore held a credential to their machine, which is why the guide had to tell people to only use a relay they trust. ## What changed Remote Control now presents a **separate relay key** in the WebSocket handshake: - `--relay-key <key>`, or `PYTHINKER_CODE_REMOTE_CONTROL_RELAY_KEY`. - Required. `pythinker web --rc` refuses to start without one; `/rc` shows a readable error and stays in the terminal UI rather than dropping out of it. - The local server token keeps doing what it already did — the CLI injects it on each replayed request and on the local WebSocket — and no longer leaves the machine. The guide's Security section drops the "trust your relay operator with your token" paragraph, since it is no longer true. ### Tests - `resolveRelayKey` — explicit value, env fallback, trimming, and the refusal to fall back to another credential. - A new case asserting the local server token appears in **neither** relay handshake. - Splitting the two credentials means the existing assertions at `remote-control.test.ts:451` and `:473` now genuinely prove the server token reaches only the local server; previously both values were the same string. - `/rc` with no key configured stays in the TUI and never takes over the process. ## Checklist - [x] I have read the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/PyModel/pythinker-code/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) document. - [ ] I have linked a related issue — follow-up to #222, no separate issue. - [x] I have added tests that prove my feature works. - [x] Ran `gen-changesets` skill, or this PR needs no changeset. - [x] Ran `gen-docs` skill, or this PR needs no doc update. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Remote Control now uses a dedicated relay key for relay authentication. * Configure the key with `--relay-key` or the `PYTHINKER_CODE_REMOTE_CONTROL_RELAY_KEY` environment variable. * **Bug Fixes** * Local server credentials are no longer sent to the relay. * Missing relay keys now produce a clear error without starting Remote Control. * Blank command-line values correctly fall back to environment configuration. * **Documentation** * Updated Remote Control setup and security guidance for relay keys. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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This PR was opened by the [Changesets release](https://github.com/changesets/action) GitHub action. When you're ready to do a release, you can merge this and the packages will be published to npm automatically. If you're not ready to do a release yet, that's fine, whenever you add more changesets to main, this PR will be updated. # Releases ## @pymodel/pythinker-code@1.5.0 ### Minor Changes - [#222](#222) [`6fb46b0`](6fb46b0) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Add Remote Control, which makes the local web UI reachable from a phone or another computer. Run `pythinker rc`, or use `/rc` in the terminal UI, and scan the printed QR code. Enable it with `PYTHINKER_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_REMOTE_CONTROL=1`. - [#221](#221) [`e6778dc`](e6778dc) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Add a task detach action to the server API. Call `POST /api/v1/sessions/{session_id}/tasks/{task_id}:detach` to move a running foreground task to the background. ### Patch Changes - [#221](#221) [`e6778dc`](e6778dc) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Report a denied OpenAI Codex sign-in as cancelled instead of asking for the redirect URL. - [#223](#223) [`ad27021`](ad27021) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Remote Control now authenticates to the relay with its own key instead of the local server token. Pass `--relay-key` or set `PYTHINKER_CODE_REMOTE_CONTROL_RELAY_KEY`. - [#221](#221) [`e6778dc`](e6778dc) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Show the prompt that started a subagent turn in the transcript. - [#219](#219) [`882835e`](882835e) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Fix sessions that fail to resume when their session journal is truncated or corrupted, for example after the disk fills up. - [#221](#221) [`e6778dc`](e6778dc) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Retry a failed session journal repair before writing new records, so no message is appended behind a corrupted tail. ## @pymodel/pythinker-desktop@0.3.8 ### Patch Changes - [#225](#225) [`f27686a`](f27686a) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Install Windows updates in the background instead of opening the installer wizard, and report an update that did not take effect. ## pythinker@0.9.7 ### Patch Changes - [#221](#221) [`e6778dc`](e6778dc) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Fix duplicated streaming output when a session is opened twice at the same time. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added Remote Control for accessing the local interface from other devices. - Added the ability to detach running tasks and continue them in the background. - Added dedicated authentication support for Remote Control connections. - **Bug Fixes** - Improved sign-in cancellation reporting and subagent prompt visibility. - Improved recovery and repair of corrupted session history. - Prevented duplicate streaming output when sessions are opened concurrently. - Windows updates now install silently in the background and report unsuccessful updates. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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Related Issue
None — direct feature request.
Problem
The web UI only reaches devices that can already talk to this machine: localhost, or the LAN with
--host. Off-network there is no way to pick up a running session from a phone, and setting up a tunnel by hand is not something most users will do.What changed
Remote Control: the CLI opens an outbound tunnel to a relay, and the relay serves the local web UI to a remote device. Sessions keep running on this machine — only the screen moves. This also gives a mobile client a stable endpoint to talk to.
Entry points:
pythinker rc(aliasremote) — starts the server with Remote Control onpythinker web --rc/--remote-control— same, on the existing command/remote-controlor/rcin the terminal UI — hands the current session overThe terminal prints a QR code, the link, and the path of a PNG copy of the QR for terminals that cannot render it inline.
Transport. Two WebSockets to the relay — a management channel and an HTTP tunnel — plus one stream socket per browser WebSocket. HTTP requests arrive base64-framed and capped at 10 MiB, are replayed against the local server with hop-by-hop and credential headers stripped, and HTML/JS/CSS responses get asset paths rewritten under the device prefix. A liveness watchdog pings every 30s and reconnects after 300s of silence, so a relay that dies without a close frame does not strand the client.
Auth. No accounts. The device authenticates to the relay with the existing persistent
server.token. The link itself carries no credential: the CLI adds the bearer to every request it replays against the local server, so the token never leaves this machine — not into the QR image on disk, not into the remote browser's URL bar.Guards. Loopback bind only,
--dangerous-bypass-authrefused, and one instance per machine via a pid+nonce lock at<data-dir>/server/rc.json— a second start reports the link the first one is using.Experimental and hidden from
--helpunlessPYTHINKER_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_REMOTE_CONTROL=1(orPYTHINKER_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_FLAG=1).Relay. No relay server is included in this change. Point Remote Control at your own with
--relay-origin <url>orPYTHINKER_CODE_REMOTE_CONTROL_RELAY; the default ishttps://code-rc.pythinker.com.Supporting changes:
StartForegroundHooksgained anonShutdownhook andonReadybecame awaitable, so the tunnel closes with the server;supportsHyperlinkswas added next totoTerminalHyperlink.Checklist
/approve).gen-changesetsskill, or this PR needs no changeset.gen-docsskill, or this PR needs no doc update.Summary by CodeRabbit
pythinker rcor/remote-control(also/rc); connection links and QR codes appear in the terminal.