/** * @file tmux.js * @description Thin wrapper around the `tmux` CLI for the terminal-run * feature. Every dashboard-managed session is named `agenthub-lane-` (see * `pty-run.js`) so a real terminal can attach to the exact same session with * `tmux attach -t agenthub-lane-` (or `agenthub lanes shell`). Never builds a * shell string — every call is `execFileSync("tmux", [...argv])` with an * explicit argument array (matches this repo's rule for git in worktree.js). * No call composes a shell command line at all, `sendCommand` included: it * takes over an idle pane with `respawn-pane -- ` rather than typing a * quoted line into that pane's shell, which keeps an API key passed in `env` * out of the pane's rendered text, its scrollback and the user's shell history. * `sendText` is the one primitive that does send keystrokes — a pane running an * interactive chat program that reads stdin as a message, not a shell. * @author Nguyễn Ngọc Trí Vĩ */ const { execFileSync } = require("node:child_process"); // Test seam: swap the exec implementation so unit tests never invoke a real // tmux binary. Mirrors run-spawner.js's __injectChildForTest/__reset style. // stderr is ignored, not inherited: every caller already wraps these in // try/catch and treats failure as "no session" — piping tmux's own // "error connecting to ..." noise to the process's stderr just spams the // journal on every poll while no tmux server is running yet. const EXEC_OPTS = { encoding: "utf8", stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "ignore"] }; let execImpl = (args) => execFileSync("tmux", args, EXEC_OPTS); // Linux: the tmux server lives in the cgroup of whatever started it — the // dashboard's systemd unit, or the terminal/IDE scope a dev server runs in — // and dies when that cgroup is stopped (an update's restart under a unit // without KillMode=process, systemd-oomd, closing that app). So the FIRST // session, which starts the server, is created inside a transient scope of // its own: panes end only on Quit (`quit.js`) or with the machine. `--scope` // runs tmux as a child, so it keeps this process's environment. const realScopeImpl = (args) => execFileSync( "systemd-run", [ "--user", "--scope", "--quiet", "--collect", "--description=AgentHub tmux server", "--", "tmux", ...args, ], EXEC_OPTS ); let scopeImpl = realScopeImpl; // Whether this tmux takes `=name` targets: true for tmux itself, false for // psmux (the WinGet `tmux` on Windows), null until a live session has shown // which. A fake exec in a test is real tmux unless it says otherwise. let exactTargets = null; function __setExecImpl(fn, { exact = true } = {}) { execImpl = fn; scopeImpl = null; // a fake tmux never starts a real scope exactTargets = exact; listed = null; } function __setScopeImpl(fn) { scopeImpl = fn; } function __reset() { execImpl = (args) => execFileSync("tmux", args, EXEC_OPTS); scopeImpl = realScopeImpl; exactTargets = null; listed = null; } // The `list-sessions` answer, shared for LIST_TTL_MS. Every open dashboard // polls GET /api/run, and each synchronous spawn forks this whole process — // measured 2,247 calls, 60 s of a 90 s run blocked, at 10 browsers. A session // this process creates or kills clears it, so only a pane that exits on its // own can read as live for up to a second. "No server" (exit 1) is an answer // too and is shared; any other failure is not. const LIST_TTL_MS = 1000; let listed = null; // { at, out } | { at, err } function listOutput() { if (listed && Date.now() - listed.at < LIST_TTL_MS) { if (listed.err) throw listed.err; return listed.out; } try { const out = String(execImpl(["list-sessions", "-F", "#{session_name}"])); listed = { at: Date.now(), out }; return out; } catch (err) { listed = err.status === 1 || err.code === "ENOENT" ? { at: Date.now(), err } : null; throw err; } } /** * Probe once, on a session that exists: `=name` failing where the bare name * answers means this tmux has no exact-match syntax (psmux answers * "no server running on session '=name'"), so every target there is the bare * name. Until a session exists to ask, tmux's own syntax. */ function exact() { if (exactTargets !== null) return exactTargets; let first; try { first = String(execImpl(["list-sessions", "-F", "#{session_name}"])) .split("\n") .map((x) => x.trim()) .find(Boolean); } catch { return true; } if (!first) return true; const answers = (t) => { try { execImpl(["has-session", "-t", t]); return true; } catch { return false; } }; if (answers(`=${first}`)) exactTargets = true; else if (answers(first)) exactTargets = false; return exactTargets ?? true; } // tmux resolves a bare `-t agenthub-lane-1` by PREFIX when no exact match // exists, so it would hit `agenthub-lane-12` once lane 1's session is gone — // and killSession would kill the wrong lane. `=` forces an exact match; pane // and option targets need the trailing `:` (tmux 3.4 rejects `=name` there). // psmux has neither form and names a session by its bare name. const session = (name) => (exact() ? `=${name}` : name); const pane = (name) => (exact() ? `=${name}:` : name); function hasSession(name) { try { execImpl(["has-session", "-t", session(name)]); return true; } catch { return false; } } /** The running tmux server's pid, or null when none answers. */ function serverPid() { try { const pid = String(execImpl(["display-message", "-p", "#{pid}"])).trim(); return /^\d+$/.test(pid) ? pid : null; } catch { return null; } } /** `-e NAME=value` pairs for tmux, in a stable order. */ function envFlags(env) { const flags = []; for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(env || {})) flags.push("-e", `${key}=${value}`); return flags; } /** * Create a detached tmux session running `argv` as the pane's command. Throws * if tmux itself fails to start (caller decides how to surface that). * * `env` becomes tmux `-e NAME=value` pairs, which tmux puts in the pane's own * environment (tmux >= 3.2). The dashboard uses it for AGENTHUB_LANE_ID so a `agenthub` * call from inside the pane knows exactly which lane it belongs to instead of * guessing from cwd — see resolveLaneArg in bin/agenthub.js. */ function newSession({ name, cwd, argv, env }) { // No argv = tmux's own default shell (a Windows Terminal pane). const cmd = argv.length ? ["--", ...argv] : []; listed = null; const args = ["new-session", "-d", "-s", name, "-c", cwd, ...envFlags(env), ...cmd]; if (scopeImpl && process.platform === "linux" && !serverPid()) { try { scopeImpl(args); } catch { // No user manager (SSH without linger, no systemd): the plain start. if (!hasSession(name)) execImpl(args); } } else { execImpl(args); } try { enableMouse(name); } catch (err) { // The pane's command exited at once (a CLI that refuses the terminal tmux // gives it, say) and tmux closed the session with it: say that, not the // "Command failed: tmux set-option …" that hid the real problem. if (hasSession(name)) throw err; throw Object.assign( new Error( `the session's command exited as soon as it started: ${argv[0] || "the default shell"}` ), { code: "EPANEEXITED" } ); } } // Without this the pane has no scrollbar/drag scroll at all — wheel events // just pass through to the running program instead of entering tmux's own // copy-mode scrollback. xterm.js forwards tmux's mouse-tracking escapes // automatically once mouse mode is on, so no client-side change is needed. // Called on every attach (not just at creation) so a session started before // this option existed — or before a server restart picked up the change — // still gets it; `set-option` is idempotent, so re-running it is harmless. // The status bar goes off here too: the dashboard's tab bar already names the // pane, and tmux's green line only eats a row of the terminal. function enableMouse(name) { // tmux runs `;`-separated commands from ONE argv (each tmux call is a // synchronous spawn on the event loop), stopping at the first that fails — // so the options every tmux knows go first, in their own call. psmux (no // `=name` targets) is not known to chain, so it gets one call per option. const run = (...cmds) => { if (exact()) return execImpl(cmds.flatMap((c, i) => (i ? [";", ...c] : c))); for (const c of cmds) execImpl(c); }; run( ["set-option", "-t", pane(name), "mouse", "on"], ["set-option", "-t", pane(name), "status", "off"] ); // A draggable scrollbar beside the pane (mouse mode makes it drag). Only a // tmux SERVER of 3.7+ knows the option; an older one refuses it, which is // fine — the pane just has none (`/agenthub-doctor` says how to upgrade). try { run( ["set-option", "-t", pane(name), "pane-scrollbars", "on"], // tmux's default (`fg=white,bg=black,width=1`) is a one-column track in // ANSI black — the terminal theme's border colour, almost the background — // so it reads as no scrollbar at all. Bright slider. ONE column: tmux 3.7c // reserves `width` columns but paints only the first, so a second one is // never cleared and shows stale cells — a ghost second scrollbar. [ "set-option", "-t", pane(name), "pane-scrollbars-style", "fg=brightwhite,bg=black,width=1,pad=0", ] ); } catch { /* tmux < 3.7 */ } } /** * The command currently running in the session's active pane (`bash`, `zsh`, * `claude`, …). Null when tmux can't answer — callers treat that as "unknown, * don't touch the pane". */ function paneCommand(name) { try { return ( execImpl(["display-message", "-p", "-t", pane(name), "#{pane_current_command}"]).trim() || null ); } catch { return null; } } /** * Run `argv` in an existing session's pane. Only ever called when the pane sits * at a shell prompt (see `paneCommand`), so what `-k` kills is an idle shell. * * `respawn-pane` and not `send-keys`, because `env` may carry a secret — an AI * Router's API key, which Codex reads from the variable its `env_key` names. * Typing it would put a `KEY='sk-live-…' codex …` line into the pane's rendered * text, which the dashboard streams to every attached browser, into the tmux * scrollback, and into the user's shell history. `-e` hands the value to the * tmux server through argv instead, exactly as `newSession` already does, and * the pane never renders it. Running argv directly also means no shell to quote * for, so the whole class of quoting bugs goes with it. */ function sendCommand(name, argv, env, cwd) { execImpl([ "respawn-pane", "-k", "-t", pane(name), ...(cwd ? ["-c", cwd] : []), ...envFlags(env), "--", ...argv, ]); } /** * Type a literal line of plain text into an existing pane and press Enter — * for a program that reads stdin as a message rather than a shell command * (an interactive `claude`/`codex` chat pane), where `sendCommand`'s POSIX * quoting and `KEY=value ` env prefix would show up as literal punctuation in * the message instead of being interpreted. `text` must be single-line: `-l` * sends it as one literal keystroke burst, so an embedded newline would submit * only the first line and leave the rest sitting unsent in the input box. */ function sendText(name, text) { execImpl(["send-keys", "-t", pane(name), "-l", text]); execImpl(["send-keys", "-t", pane(name), "Enter"]); } /** * Paste `text` into the pane as one bracketed paste, then press Enter. Unlike * `sendText` it may span lines: the text goes into a named buffer through an * argv element (`set-buffer -- `), never a shell, and `-d` deletes the * buffer after the paste so a prompt does not linger in tmux's buffer list. */ function pasteText(name, text) { const buf = `agenthub-paste-${name}`; execImpl(["set-buffer", "-b", buf, "--", text]); execImpl(["paste-buffer", "-p", "-d", "-b", buf, "-t", pane(name)]); execImpl(["send-keys", "-t", pane(name), "Enter"]); } /** Idempotent — a session that's already gone is not an error. */ function killSession(name) { listed = null; try { execImpl(["kill-session", "-t", session(name)]); } catch { /* already gone */ } } /** Session names starting with `prefix`. Empty array if tmux has no server running at all. */ function listSessions(prefix) { let out; try { out = listOutput(); } catch { return []; } return out .split("\n") .map((s) => s.trim()) .filter((s) => s && s.startsWith(prefix)); } /** * Every live session name from ONE `list-sessions` — what a poll asks instead * of a synchronous has-session per name, each of which blocks the event loop * (and so every terminal keystroke) for a whole tmux spawn. Empty when no * server runs (tmux exits 1) or tmux is not installed; null when the call * itself failed (EAGAIN/ENOMEM under memory pressure), which proves nothing * about the panes — a caller must not read that as "every pane is gone". */ function liveSessions() { try { return new Set( listOutput() .split("\n") .map((s) => s.trim()) .filter(Boolean) ); } catch (err) { return err.status === 1 || err.code === "ENOENT" ? new Set() : null; } } function isTmuxAvailable() { return clientVersion() !== null; } /** The tmux binary's version (`3.7c`, `next-3.8`), null when it is absent. */ function clientVersion() { try { return execImpl(["-V"]) .trim() .replace(/^tmux\s+/, ""); } catch { return null; } } /** The RUNNING server's version, null when none runs. A server started before * an upgrade keeps its old version until every tmux session has closed. */ function serverVersion() { try { return execImpl(["display-message", "-p", "#{version}"]).trim() || null; } catch { return null; } } module.exports = { __setScopeImpl, session, pane, hasSession, newSession, enableMouse, paneCommand, sendCommand, sendText, pasteText, killSession, listSessions, liveSessions, isTmuxAvailable, clientVersion, serverVersion, serverPid, __setExecImpl, __reset, };