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rt chat invite, part 1: the rt primitives

Adds the herdr-facing verbs the chat viewer's pane picker and the recruiting flow stand on. Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-rt-chat-invite-design.md.

What changed

herdr client (lib/herdr/)

  • NDJSON unix-socket client, one connection per call, with a fake server for tests
  • 5s plain timeout; waiting calls get their own budget plus 5s

Daemon verbs (lib/daemon/handlers/pane.ts, chat.ts)

  • pane:list joins herdr's claude panes to presence by session id, pane id as fallback
  • pane:peek, pane:accounts (cswap list, async), pane:directories (repo index plus worktrees, no git)
  • pane:spawn opens a tab in chat.herdrWorkspace, starts claude, waits for idle, answers the trust dialog once
  • chat:invite types /chat:join <room> into a pane; accepted, queued or refused

CLI and client

  • rt pane list|peek|spawn|accounts|directories, rt chat invite, rt chat read --last N
  • rt-client 0.6.2: six wrappers, five types, chat.herdrWorkspace

Also

  • lib/repo-for-cwd.ts extracted from commands/chat.ts so the daemon resolves a cwd without git

Notes

  • Rebased onto main after feat(agent): rt agent start|resume|show|list handoff verb #113 (the rt agent handoff verb) and the herdr-agent.ts migration landed. The daemon opts field chatDb is now stateDb; the planned herdr agent wait rename dropped out because that migration removed lib/herdr-agent.ts entirely.
  • Full suite green (4381 pass / 3 skip / 0 fail), command reference in sync.

Follow-up

  • Publishing rt-client 0.6.2 is release-class: from main, after merge, never --ignore-scripts.
  • Part 2 (the chat viewer) and part 3 (the chat:join skill) follow in their own PRs.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added commands to list, inspect, spawn, and manage Claude panes.
    • Added pane account and directory discovery with human-readable and JSON output.
    • Added chat read --last for retrieving recent room messages.
    • Added chat invite with optional notes, delivery status, and JSON output.
    • Added configurable workspace and socket support.
  • Documentation

    • Added pane command reference pages and updated chat and skill guidance.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for chat, panes, invitations, accounts, repositories, and connectivity.

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Adds Herdr transport and daemon handlers for pane discovery, spawning, and chat invitations. Extends the typed client and CLI with pane commands and chat read --last. Adds repository and account discovery, tests, settings, specifications, skills guidance, and reference documentation.

Changes

Herdr chat and pane workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Herdr transport and public command contracts
lib/herdr/*, packages/rt-client/src/*, packages/rt-client/test/*, packages/rt-client/src/settings/*
Adds Unix-socket Herdr requests, typed pane and invitation commands, client wrappers, exports, timeout handling, tests, and the chat.herdrWorkspace setting.
Repository and account discovery
lib/repo-for-cwd.ts, lib/cswap.ts, lib/__tests__/*
Adds repository, worktree, branch, and cswap account discovery for pane metadata and spawn validation.
Daemon pane lifecycle handlers
lib/daemon/handlers/pane.ts, lib/daemon/command-router.ts, lib/daemon/__tests__/pane-handlers.test.ts, lib/module-registry.ts
Adds pane listing, peeking, accounts, directories, spawning, readiness checks, trust handling, presence enrichment, and router wiring.
Daemon chat invitation handling
lib/daemon/handlers/chat.ts, lib/daemon/__tests__/chat-handlers.test.ts
Adds /chat:join invitation formatting, target validation, accepted or queued delivery, refusal handling, stalled-agent nudging, and Herdr error handling.
CLI command surface and output
commands/chat.ts, commands/pane.ts, lib/command-tree-def.ts, commands/__tests__/*
Adds chat invite, chat read --last, and rt pane subcommands with validation, socket forwarding, JSON output, human-readable rendering, and tests.
Workflow specifications and operating guidance
docs/superpowers/specs/*, docs/superpowers/plans/*, skills/rt-chat/SKILL.md, website/docs/reference/*
Documents pane management, invitations, agent recruitment, the join skill, viewer workflows, CLI behavior, fixture naming, and pane command references.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4861f

The invite flow can report a message as queued after delivery failed, and pane spawning may exceed its advertised timeout during registration polling. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up for these bounded correctness and responsiveness risks.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant RTClient
  participant Daemon
  participant Herdr
  CLI->>RTClient: Invoke pane or chat command
  RTClient->>Daemon: Send typed command
  Daemon->>Herdr: Query pane state or deliver invitation
  Herdr-->>Daemon: Return pane state or delivery result
  Daemon-->>RTClient: Return command response
  RTClient-->>CLI: Render text or JSON output
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In `@commands/__tests__/pane.test.ts`:
- Line 59: Fix the JSON assertion in the pane test by narrowing or typing the
replies["pane:list"] response before accessing its data.panes property; avoid
indexing an unknown value with "data" and keep the expected panes comparison
unchanged.

In `@lib/daemon/__tests__/pane-handlers.test.ts`:
- Around line 21-63: Replace the non-neutral fixture identifier “assured” with a
neutral placeholder throughout the SNAPSHOT fixture and related test assertions,
including the pane cwd, workspace label, repo value, sign-in cwd/repo, and
expected workspace/cwd/repo fields. Keep all fixture values and assertions
consistent.

Apply the same fix in `@commands/__tests__/pane.test.ts` around lines 54 - 57:
Replace the non-neutral pane, workspace, path, account, and terminal identifiers
in the fixture and assertions.

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`@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-rt-chat-invite-design.md` around lines 335 -
336: Replace the non-neutral account, email, and filesystem values throughout
the plan.

Apply the same fix in `@lib/__tests__/cswap.test.ts` around lines 4 - 19: Replace
the non-neutral account email and alias in the captured fixture and expected
result.

In `@lib/daemon/handlers/chat.ts`:
- Around line 146-149: Update inviteText to normalize carriage returns and
Unicode line separators in note to spaces, preserving the existing trimming and
newline normalization so the generated command remains one line. Add a test
covering carriage-return input.

In `@lib/daemon/handlers/pane.ts`:
- Around line 219-228: Update the registration polling in the pane handler to
use a wall-clock deadline based on REGISTER_BUDGET_MS rather than a fixed
attempt count, and enforce a per-probe timeout so a slow herdr("agent.get", ...)
call cannot exceed the remaining budget. Keep polling until registration
succeeds or the deadline expires, including the existing REGISTER_POLL_MS delay
without allowing it to overrun the deadline.

In `@packages/rt-client/src/client.ts`:
- Around line 368-405: Update paneList, panePeek, paneSpawn, paneAccounts,
paneDirectories, and chatInvite to derive their payload and response data types
from the corresponding Commands entries, using Commands["pane:*"]["payload"],
Commands["pane:*"]["data"], and the equivalent chat:invite types instead of
handwritten shapes; preserve the existing runtime payload construction and
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Comment on lines +219 to +228
// herdr registers the agent a few hundred ms after the shell starts claude.
let registered = false;
for (let attempt = 0; attempt < Math.ceil(REGISTER_BUDGET_MS / REGISTER_POLL_MS); attempt++) {
const got = await herdr("agent.get", { target: paneId });
if (got.ok) {
registered = true;
break;
}
await Bun.sleep(REGISTER_POLL_MS);
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the registration poll by elapsed time, not by attempt count.

The loop runs Math.ceil(REGISTER_BUDGET_MS / REGISTER_POLL_MS) = 40 attempts. Each attempt awaits herdr("agent.get", ...), which uses the default PLAIN_TIMEOUT_MS of 5000 ms in lib/herdr/client.ts (Line 34). If herdr accepts connections but answers slowly, one attempt costs up to 5250 ms, so the loop can run about 210 s. The constant name and the comment promise a 10 s budget, and pane:spawn holds the caller for the whole time.

Add a wall-clock deadline and a per-probe timeout.

🐛 Proposed fix: deadline-bounded polling
       // herdr registers the agent a few hundred ms after the shell starts claude.
       let registered = false;
-      for (let attempt = 0; attempt < Math.ceil(REGISTER_BUDGET_MS / REGISTER_POLL_MS); attempt++) {
-        const got = await herdr("agent.get", { target: paneId });
+      const registerDeadline = now() + REGISTER_BUDGET_MS;
+      while (now() < registerDeadline) {
+        const got = await herdr("agent.get", { target: paneId }, { timeoutMs: REGISTER_POLL_MS * 4 });
         if (got.ok) {
           registered = true;
           break;
         }
-        await Bun.sleep(REGISTER_POLL_MS);
+        if (now() >= registerDeadline) break;
+        await Bun.sleep(REGISTER_POLL_MS);
       }
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In `@lib/daemon/handlers/pane.ts` around lines 219 - 228, Update the registration
polling in the pane handler to use a wall-clock deadline based on
REGISTER_BUDGET_MS rather than a fixed attempt count, and enforce a per-probe
timeout so a slow herdr("agent.get", ...) call cannot exceed the remaining
budget. Keep polling until registration succeeds or the deadline expires,
including the existing REGISTER_POLL_MS delay without allowing it to overrun the
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…, recruiter joins instead of re-signing in)

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Type the pane list --json assertion through a typed local instead of
indexing an unknown value (tsc --noEmit TS7053).

Replace employer references with neutral placeholders (assured to acme,
the work email to alex@acme.test) across the pane/cswap tests, the
command tree, the spec and the plans; regenerate the reference docs.

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…nvite notes

Rebased onto #117 (the picker-conformance omitBehavior gate). rt pane peek
takes a required pane id, which is discovered via rt pane list, so it declares
omitBehavior { exempt } like the other agent-facing verbs.

inviteText now collapses lone CR, CRLF and the Unicode line separators, not
only LF, so a note can never break the one-line /chat:join invariant
(CodeRabbit). Adds CR and CRLF assertions.

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The six wrapper signatures re-typed their payloads and return data by hand,
so the contract in commands.ts and the wrappers could drift with no compile
error. Each wrapper now takes Commands[cmd]["payload"] and returns
Commands[cmd]["data"], the same source of truth the daemon handler reads and
the pattern agentStart already uses. A contract change now fails tsc at every
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In `@lib/daemon/handlers/chat.ts`:
- Around line 375-377: Update the fallback flow around the Enter nudge and
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Comment on lines +375 to +377
await herdr("pane.send_keys", { pane_id: paneId, keys: ["enter"] });
const nudged = await herdr("agent.wait", { target: paneId, until: ["working"], timeout_ms: INVITE_WAIT_MS }, { timeoutMs: waitTimeout(INVITE_WAIT_MS) });
return { ok: true, data: { paneId, delivered: nudged.ok ? "accepted" : "queued" } };

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Return Herdr failures after the fallback attempt.

Line 375 ignores a failed Enter nudge. Line 377 converts an unavailable or invalid follow-up agent.wait response into delivered: "queued".

Return herdrError for these failures. Keep queued only for timeout or agent_prompt_stalled. Return refused for agent_blocked.

Proposed fix
-      await herdr("pane.send_keys", { pane_id: paneId, keys: ["enter"] });
+      const nudge = await herdr("pane.send_keys", { pane_id: paneId, keys: ["enter"] });
+      if (!nudge.ok) return herdrError(nudge);
       const nudged = await herdr("agent.wait", { target: paneId, until: ["working"], timeout_ms: INVITE_WAIT_MS }, { timeoutMs: waitTimeout(INVITE_WAIT_MS) });
-      return { ok: true, data: { paneId, delivered: nudged.ok ? "accepted" : "queued" } };
+      if (nudged.ok) return { ok: true, data: { paneId, delivered: "accepted" } };
+      if (nudged.code === "agent_blocked") return refused("at a prompt");
+      if (nudged.code === "timeout" || nudged.code === "agent_prompt_stalled") {
+        return { ok: true, data: { paneId, delivered: "queued" } };
+      }
+      return herdrError(nudged);
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await herdr("pane.send_keys", { pane_id: paneId, keys: ["enter"] });
const nudged = await herdr("agent.wait", { target: paneId, until: ["working"], timeout_ms: INVITE_WAIT_MS }, { timeoutMs: waitTimeout(INVITE_WAIT_MS) });
return { ok: true, data: { paneId, delivered: nudged.ok ? "accepted" : "queued" } };
const nudge = await herdr("pane.send_keys", { pane_id: paneId, keys: ["enter"] });
if (!nudge.ok) return herdrError(nudge);
const nudged = await herdr("agent.wait", { target: paneId, until: ["working"], timeout_ms: INVITE_WAIT_MS }, { timeoutMs: waitTimeout(INVITE_WAIT_MS) });
if (nudged.ok) return { ok: true, data: { paneId, delivered: "accepted" } };
if (nudged.code === "agent_blocked") return refused("at a prompt");
if (nudged.code === "timeout" || nudged.code === "agent_prompt_stalled") {
return { ok: true, data: { paneId, delivered: "queued" } };
}
return herdrError(nudged);
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In `@lib/daemon/handlers/chat.ts` around lines 375 - 377, Update the fallback flow
around the Enter nudge and agent.wait calls to return herdrError when either
Herdr operation fails or the follow-up response is unavailable or invalid.
Preserve delivered: "queued" only for timeout or agent_prompt_stalled outcomes,
and return delivered: "refused" for agent_blocked; use the existing herdrError
mechanism and keep successful responses as accepted.

… count

The poll ran a fixed Math.ceil(REGISTER_BUDGET_MS / REGISTER_POLL_MS) attempts,
each an agent.get that can take up to the 5s socket timeout when herdr is alive
but slow, so the loop could hold pane:spawn's caller far past the 10s the
constant name promises. It now polls until now() crosses a REGISTER_BUDGET_MS
deadline, using the existing clock seam. Adds a test with an injected clock that
locks the wall-clock bound (CodeRabbit).

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