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.
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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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Approval cards now carry a required title (Add MCP Request, Install
Packages Request, Rebuild Request, Credentials Request) and structured
options with distinct pre-click label, post-click selectedLabel (e.g.
"✅ Approved" / "❌ Rejected"), and value used for click routing. The
title and normalized options are persisted in pending_questions so the
post-click card edit can render the correct per-type title and selected
label on both chat-sdk channels and Discord interactions.
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- session-manager.ts: shrink the cross-mount invariant header from 31
lines to 12, keeping each invariant's cause and consequence inline.
- agent-runner/db/connection.ts: parallel cross-mount comment for the
container-side reader (inbound.db must be journal_mode=DELETE).
- agent-runner/db/messages-out.ts: document that even/odd seq parity
is load-bearing — seq is the agent-facing message ID returned by
send_message and consumed by edit_message / add_reaction, looked
up across both tables.
- v2-checklist.md: record the cross-mount invariants and seq parity
under Core Architecture so future "simplifications" don't regress
them.
- scripts/sanity-live-poll.ts: empirical validation harness for the
three cross-mount invariants — flips each one and observes silent
message loss / corruption.
- delivery.ts: inline routeAgentMessage at its single callsite (-17
net lines). The wrapper added more boilerplate than it factored.
- docs/v2-architecture-diagram.{md,html}: rendered Mermaid diagrams
of the v2 system, message flow, named destinations, entity model,
and the two-DB split.
- channels/adapter.ts, chat-sdk-bridge.ts, credentials.ts,
db/sessions.ts, db/db-v2.test.ts: prettier format pass.
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Three features built on top of @onecli-sh/sdk 0.3.1, landed together because
they share wiring surfaces (session DB schema, delivery dispatcher, Chat SDK
bridge, channel adapter contract).
## OneCLI manual-approval handler
* `src/onecli-approvals.ts` — long-polls OneCLI via the SDK's
`configureManualApproval`; on each request, delivers an `ask_question` card
to the admin agent group's first messaging group, persists a
`pending_approvals` row, and waits on an in-memory Promise resolved by the
admin's button click or an expiry timer. Expired cards are edited to
"Expired (...)" and a startup sweep flushes any rows left over from a
previous process.
* Short 11-byte approval id (`oa-<8 base36>`) instead of the SDK's UUID so the
Telegram 64-byte `callback_data` limit is respected; the OneCLI UUID stays
in the persisted payload for audit.
* Migration 003 consolidated: `pending_approvals` now has the OneCLI-aware
columns from the start (`agent_group_id`, `channel_type`, `platform_id`,
`platform_message_id`, `expires_at`, `status`), `session_id` relaxed to
nullable so cross-session approvals fit.
* `handleQuestionResponse` in `src/index.ts` now routes OneCLI approvals
through `resolveOneCLIApproval` before falling back to the
session-bound approval path.
## Credential collection from chat
New `trigger_credential_collection` MCP tool — the agent researches a
third-party API, calls the tool with `{name, hostPattern, headerName,
valueFormat, description}`, and blocks until the host reports saved, rejected,
or failed. The credential value never enters the agent's context: the user
submits it into a Chat SDK Modal on the host side, the host writes it to
OneCLI via a thin facade (`src/onecli-secrets.ts` — shells out to
`onecli secrets create`, shape mirrors the SDK we expect upstream), and only
the status string flows back to the container via a system message.
* `src/credentials.ts` — host-side handler: delivers the card to the
conversation's own channel (not the admin channel — credential collection
is a user-facing flow, distinct from admin approval), persists a
`pending_credentials` row, drives the submit → `createSecret` → notify
pipeline. Falls back gracefully when the channel doesn't support modals.
* `src/db/credentials.ts` + migration 005: `pending_credentials` table.
* `src/channels/chat-sdk-bridge.ts`: renders a `credential_request` card,
handles the `nccr:` action prefix by opening a Modal with a TextInput,
registers an `onModalSubmit` handler for the `nccm:` callback prefix.
* `container/agent-runner/src/mcp-tools/credentials.ts`: the blocking MCP
tool, mirroring the `ask_user_question` polling pattern.
* `container/agent-runner/src/db/messages-in.ts`: `findCredentialResponse`
helper to pick up the system message the host writes back.
## Threaded adapter routing
The destination layer previously didn't carry thread context, so agent replies
to Discord always landed in the root channel regardless of which thread the
inbound came from.
* `ChannelAdapter.supportsThreads: boolean` — declared by every channel skill
at `createChatSdkBridge`. Threaded: Discord, Slack, Teams, Google Chat,
Linear, GitHub, Webex. Non-threaded: Telegram, WhatsApp Cloud, Matrix,
Resend, iMessage.
* `src/router.ts`: non-threaded adapters strip `threadId` at ingest (threads
collapse to channel-level sessions). Threaded adapters override the
wiring's `session_mode` to `'per-thread'` so each thread = a session
(except `agent-shared`, which is preserved as a cross-channel intent the
adapter can't know about).
* `session_routing` table in `inbound.db` — single-row default reply routing
written by the host on every container wake from
`session.messaging_group_id` + `session.thread_id`. Forward-compat
`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS` handles older session DBs lazily.
* `container/agent-runner/src/db/session-routing.ts` — container-side reader.
* `send_message` / `send_file` / `ask_user_question` / `send_card` /
scheduling tools all default their routing (channel, platform, **and**
thread) from the session when no explicit `to` is given. Explicit `to`
uses the destination's channel with `thread_id = null` (cross-destination
sends start a new conversation elsewhere).
* `poll-loop.ts::sendToDestination` (the final-text single-destination
shortcut) now inherits `thread_id` from `RoutingContext` too — this was
the root cause of Discord replies landing in the root channel even after
`send_message` was wired correctly.
## Related cleanups
* `src/container-runner.ts`: OneCLI agent identifier switched from the lossy
folder-derived string to `agent_group.id`, making `getAgentGroup(externalId)`
a trivial reverse lookup for per-agent scoping.
* `wakeContainer` race fix via an in-flight promise map — concurrent wakes
during the async buildContainerArgs / OneCLI `applyContainerConfig` window
no longer double-spawn containers against the same session directory.
* `src/db/db-v2.test.ts`: dropped the brittle `expect(row.v).toBe(N)` schema
version assertion — it had to be bumped on every migration addition.
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Replaces implicit routing context (NANOCLAW_PLATFORM_ID env vars) with
per-agent named destination maps. Agents reference channels and peer
agents by local names; the host re-validates every outbound route against
a new agent_destinations table that is both the routing map and the ACL.
Model changes:
- New migration 004 adds agent_destinations (agent_group_id, local_name,
target_type, target_id). Backfills from existing messaging_group_agents.
- Host writes /workspace/.nanoclaw-destinations.json before every container
wake so admin changes take effect on next start.
- Container loads map at startup, appends system-prompt addendum listing
available destinations and the <message to="name">…</message> syntax.
- Agent main output is parsed for <message to="..."> blocks; each block
becomes a messages_out row with routing resolved via the local map.
Untagged text and <internal>…</internal> are scratchpad (logged only).
- send_message MCP tool now takes `to` (destination name) instead of raw
routing fields. send_to_agent deleted (redundant — agents are just
destinations). send_file/edit_message/add_reaction route via map too.
- Inbound formatter adds from="name" attribute via reverse-lookup so the
agent sees a consistent namespace in both directions.
Permission enforcement:
- Host checks hasDestination() before every channel delivery AND every
agent-to-agent route. Unauthorized messages dropped and logged.
- routeAgentMessage simplified: ~15 lines, no JSON parse, content copied
verbatim (target formatter resolves the sender via its own local map).
- create_agent is admin-only, checked at both the container (tool not
registered for non-admins) and the host (re-check on receive). Inserts
bidirectional destination rows so parent↔child comms work immediately.
Includes path-traversal guard on folder name.
Self-modification cleanup:
- add_mcp_server now requires admin approval (previously had none).
- install_packages validates package names on BOTH sides (container tool
+ host receiver) with strict regex. Max 20 packages per request.
- All three self-mod tools are fire-and-forget: write request, return
immediately with "submitted" message. Admin approval triggers a chat
notification to the requesting agent — no tool-call polling, no 5-min
holds. On rebuild/mcp_server approval, the container is killed so the
next wake picks up new config/image.
- Approval delivery extracted into requestApproval() helper (the one
place where three call sites were literally identical).
Also folded in the phase-1 dynamic import cleanup (create_agent no longer
does `await import('./db/agent-groups.js')`) and removes NANOCLAW_PLATFORM_ID
/ CHANNEL_TYPE / THREAD_ID env-var routing entirely.
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- Replace in-memory Chat SDK state with SqliteStateAdapter — thread
subscriptions now persist across restarts
- Add migration 002 for chat_sdk_kv, subscriptions, locks, lists tables
- Handle /clear in agent-runner (reset sessionId) — SDK has
supportsNonInteractive:false for this command
- Pass /compact, /context, /cost, /files through to SDK as admin commands
- Skip admin commands in follow-up poll so they start fresh queries
- Emit compact_boundary events as user-visible feedback messages
- Pass NANOCLAW_ADMIN_USER_ID and NANOCLAW_ASSISTANT_NAME to containers
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Add the v2 data layer: typed interfaces, central DB with migration
runner, per-entity CRUD, and agent-runner session DB operations.
- src/log.ts: concise message-first logging API
- src/types-v2.ts: AgentGroup, MessagingGroup, Session, MessageIn/Out
- src/db/: connection (WAL), migration runner, 001-initial schema,
CRUD for agent_groups, messaging_groups, sessions, pending_questions
- container/agent-runner/src/db/: session DB connection, messages_in
reads + status transitions, messages_out writes
- 31 new tests, all 277 tests pass
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