Source of truth for container runtime config moves from
groups/<folder>/container.json to a new container_configs table.
The file becomes a materialized view written at spawn time.
- New container_configs table with scalar columns (provider, model,
effort, image_tag, assistant_name, max_messages_per_prompt) and
JSON columns (mcp_servers, packages_apt, packages_npm, skills,
additional_mounts)
- Startup backfill seeds DB from existing container.json files
- materializeContainerJson() replaces readContainerConfig + ensureRuntimeFields
- Self-mod handlers (install_packages, add_mcp_server) write to DB
- Provider cascade simplified: session -> container_configs -> 'claude'
- ncl groups config-{get,update,add-mcp-server,remove-mcp-server,
add-package,remove-package} custom operations
- restartAgentGroupContainers() helper for config change propagation
- Container side unchanged (still reads /workspace/agent/container.json)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the per-group "written once at init, owned by the group" CLAUDE.md
with a host-regenerated entry point that imports:
- a shared base (`container/CLAUDE.md` mounted RO at `/app/CLAUDE.md`)
- optional per-skill fragments (skills that ship `instructions.md`)
- optional per-MCP-server fragments (inline `instructions` field in
`container.json`)
- per-group agent memory (`CLAUDE.local.md`, auto-loaded by Claude Code)
Principle: RW = per-group memory, RO = shared content. Source/skills/base
are shared; personality, config, working files, and Claude state stay
per-group.
Key changes:
- New `src/claude-md-compose.ts` — per-spawn composition +
`migrateGroupsToClaudeLocal()` one-time cutover.
- New `container/CLAUDE.md` — shared base, seeded verbatim from the
former `groups/global/CLAUDE.md`.
- `src/container-runner.ts` — swap `/workspace/global` mount for RO
`/app/CLAUDE.md`; call `composeGroupClaudeMd()` after
`initGroupFilesystem()`.
- `src/group-init.ts` — drop `.claude-global.md` symlink + initial
`CLAUDE.md` write; seed `CLAUDE.local.md` from `opts.instructions`.
- `src/index.ts` — call `migrateGroupsToClaudeLocal()` at startup.
- `src/container-config.ts` — add optional `instructions` field to
`McpServerConfig` (inline per-MCP guidance fragment).
- `container/Dockerfile` — drop dead `/workspace/global` mkdir.
- Remove obsolete `scripts/migrate-group-claude-md.ts`.
Migration (runs once at host startup, idempotent):
- Delete `.claude-global.md` symlinks in each group.
- Rename each `groups/<folder>/CLAUDE.md` → `CLAUDE.local.md`
(preserves existing per-group content as memory).
- Delete `groups/global/` directory.
Design docs: `docs/claude-md-composition.md` and `docs/shared-source.md`
(the latter is the sibling design discussion this refactor builds on).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the per-group agent-runner-src copy model with a single shared
read-only mount. Source and skills are now RO + shared; personality,
config, working files, and Claude state stay RW + per-group.
Key changes:
- Mount container/agent-runner/src/ RO at /app/src (all groups share one copy)
- Mount container/skills/ RO at /app/skills; per-group skill selection via
symlinks in .claude-shared/skills/ based on container.json "skills" field
- Mount container.json as nested RO bind on top of RW group dir
- Move all NANOCLAW_* env vars to container.json (runner reads at startup)
- New runner config.ts module replaces process.env reads
- Move command gate (filtered/admin) from container to host router
- Dockerfile: remove source COPY, split CLI installs (claude-code last),
move agent-runner deps above CLIs for better layer caching
- Add writeOutboundDirect for router denial responses
- Design doc at docs/shared-src.md
Not included (follow-up): DB migration to drop agent_provider columns,
cleanup of orphaned agent-runner-src directories.
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>
