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1b324968f4 feat(tui): real SSE streaming via claude's MessageDisplay hook (OCP_TUI_STREAM, default off) (#159)
* feat(tui): real SSE streaming via claude's MessageDisplay hook (OCP_TUI_STREAM, default off)

Backlog #2. TUI-mode `stream:true` turns can now emit real SSE `delta.content` chunks as
`claude` generates them, instead of buffering the turn and replaying it with
streamStringAsSSE. Opt-in: with OCP_TUI_STREAM unset/0 the spawn argv, the SSE bytes and
the cache behaviour are byte-for-byte unchanged (asserted by test).

This PR does NOT mirror any cli.js function, so no `cli.js:NNNN` citation applies, and per
CLAUDE.md's hard requirement #1 that is stated explicitly here rather than left implicit:

  - We consume claude's OWN `MessageDisplay` hook surface AS EMITTED — forwarding, not
    inventing. No new endpoint, no fabricated protocol, no new field.
  - The TUI spawn is OCP-owned surface: ADR 0007 owns it, not cli.js.
  - The SSE wire shapes are the OpenAI chat/completions streaming spec, adopted by ADR 0006.
    Every frame emitted here (role chunk, content-delta chunk, stop chunk, `[DONE]`, and the
    post-header {error:{message,type}} frame) is COPIED from callClaudeStreaming, the -p path.

/health gains additive fields only (streamEnabled + 4 counters) — same grandfathered B.2
rationale as the existing tui block (ADR 0006). Existing keys are untouched.

`claude` fires MessageDisplay per rendered block, handing the hook the RAW MARKDOWN SOURCE
of an incremental delta on stdin. The hook is registered with `--settings` on the ordinary
interactive spawn (no -p, no --bare) — verified to leave the billing pool alone.

Sink: a static sh hook script appends each payload to `<streamDir>/<session_id>.jsonl`; OCP
polls that file and forwards deltas as SSE. The per-session-id keying is MANDATORY, not an
optimization — OCP_TUI_MAX_CONCURRENT defaults to 2, so two claude panes already run at
once and a shared sink would splice one client's deltas into another's stream.

Warm-pool compatible (a separate in-flight PR depends on this): the hook script AND the
settings file are static — nothing request-specific is baked in at spawn time. The sink path
reaches the pane through its own env (OCP_TUI_STREAM_FILE) and derives from the session-id,
which a pre-booted pane fixes at boot.

The hook is SYNCHRONOUS (forceSyncExecution: claude blocks on it), so the script writes and
exits: one `cat` append, nothing else. Measured p50 7.2ms / p90 14.7ms per fire, ~50ms across
a whole turn — noise against a 6-10s turn.

It remains the terminal-turn signal, the source of the returned/cached text T, and the input
to the honesty gates. The delta stream is a low-latency MIRROR, never a replacement:

  - the truncation gate (C-2) and auth-banner gate (C-1, issue #133) run BEFORE anything is
    committed or flushed, unchanged;
  - at end of turn the streamed bytes are asserted against T. Equal -> serve. A strict PREFIX
    of T -> top up from the transcript so the client still receives exactly T (counted).
    NOT a prefix -> REFUSE the turn: SSE error frame, no cache, no success, streamDivergences++.
    Serving text the transcript disagrees with is the failure class ALIGNMENT.md exists to
    prevent, so this fails loud rather than degrading quietly;
  - only T is ever cached — never the concatenated deltas.

The auth banner needs prevention, not just detection (SSE deltas cannot be un-sent), so the
first OCP_TUI_STREAM_HOLDBACK (100) chars are withheld: the default banner detector cannot
match a message longer than 100 chars, so releasing past that provably cannot leak a banner.
A custom CLAUDE_TUI_ERROR_PATTERNS has no such bound — OCP warns at boot.

  - BANNER, before/after the spawn change: `Sonnet 4.6 with low effort · Claude Max` both,
    including on the pane the server itself spawns. Never `API Usage Billing`. Transcript
    entrypoint stays "cli". --settings is not a --bare-class flag.
  - --settings MERGES with <HOME>/.claude/settings.json rather than clobbering it (the
    user-level settings' `env` block still reached the hook), so the isolated-HOME settings
    story (permissions / additionalDirectories) survives.
  - EXACTNESS: 8/8 varied prompts (short, long, markdown, code fence, multilingual, JSON,
    table, unicode) byte-exact vs transcript T, streamed AND buffered. 0 top-ups,
    0 divergences over 15 streamed turns.
  - TTFT: buffered delivers NOTHING until the turn ends (TTFB == total, 7.5-15.8s). Streamed
    sends headers at ~25ms (heartbeat covers the pre-first-delta silence) and first content
    mid-generation, e.g. markdown 7.9s first chunk / 12.8s total; long 9.7s / 17.4s.
  - CONCURRENCY DEMUX: two concurrent streamed turns (ALPHA/BRAVO), tui.inflight peaked at 2,
    each read its own session-keyed transcript, ZERO cross-contamination.
  - AUTH-BANNER GATE under streaming, both layers: a short banner-like turn reached the client
    as 0 content chunks + an SSE error frame (never emitted); a long one was streamed but still
    ended on an error frame, not finish_reason:"stop", and was not cached.
  - DISCONNECT mid-turn: pane torn down and semaphore slot released within 1s (info-logged,
    not booked as a model error).
  - THINKING: not leaked. Opus 4.8 + xhigh turns carry a thinking block with a signature but
    `thinking:""` (the reasoning text is not persisted in interactive mode), both
    MessageDisplay text-extraction sites in the 2.1.207 bundle filter type==="text", and no
    reasoning prose appeared in any delta; concat===T held exactly on the single-message turn.
  - npm test: 282 passed, 0 failed (was 267 on main; +15).

The transcript keeps only the model's LAST assistant message. A turn where the model narrates
before calling a tool therefore has two messages, and T is only the second. If the narration
exceeds the holdback it has already been streamed and cannot be retracted -> the turn is
REFUSED. Reproduced live: Opus narrated 475 chars before a Bash call. The assembler discards
a prior message's text when nothing has been emitted yet (so short narration is handled
correctly and stays exact), and raising OCP_TUI_STREAM_HOLDBACK above the narration length
rescues the turn — verified on that exact transcript: holdback>=500 -> served, exact=true.
Documented in README and ADR 0007; this is why streaming is opt-in and off by default.

ADR 0007 line 59 ("no real token streaming — deliberate") is amended, not silently
contradicted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(tui): re-integrate streaming onto the warm-pane pool (#158) — install the hook at BOOT

Rebasing backlog #2 (streaming) onto #158 (warm pane pool) is not a textual merge: #158
split the monolithic runTuiTurn into bootTuiPane + runTuiTurn, and streaming had patched
the monolith. Re-integrating it in the OLD shape would have compiled, passed every existing
test, and been WRONG.

The bug that shape would have shipped: the sink was derived at TURN time from a streamDir
argument. But a POOLED pane is pre-booted long before any request exists — so on a pool HIT
runTuiTurn never cold-boots, no hook was ever registered on that pane, and the turn would
silently serve BUFFERED. Every miss streams, every hit does not; no error, no failing test.
The operator sees "streaming does nothing in production" and has nothing to grep for.

Fix — install the hook where the pane is born:
  - bootTuiPane({ streamDir }) registers the MessageDisplay hook at spawn and returns the
    pane's own sink (pane.streamFile), keyed by the pane's own --session-id. The hook script
    and settings file are STATIC (one pair per streamDir); the only per-turn thing is the
    sink path, and it is fixed at boot. So nothing request-specific is baked into a spawn.
  - runTuiTurn reads pane.streamFile — never recomputes it — so a warm pane and a cold pane
    stream through byte-for-byte the same path.
  - server.mjs threads the same streamDir into the pool's bootPane closure, so pre-booted
    panes carry the hook too. TUI_STREAM/TUI_STREAM_DIR now declare before the pool needs them.

Three regression guards added (test-features.mjs), and the third was MUTATION-TESTED: with
the fix reverted to the turn-time shape it fails ("the pooled pane's deltas must reach the
client"), with the fix in place it passes. A guard nobody has watched fail is not a guard.

/health: pool + stream* fields are now a union — the shape assertion asserts CONTAINMENT of
the seven grandfathered keys plus an exact added-set, so a future field that silently
REPLACED an original key cannot pass.

Class B (ADR 0007, OCP-owned TUI spawn) — cli.js does NOT perform this operation.
npm test: 313 passed, 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqgWJcjxrjjL9L9SkpZyXR

* fix(tui): close the streaming auth-banner leak + 6 further review findings (PR #159)

Independent review (Iron Rule 10) found a HIGH bug by EXECUTING the code, not reading it.
All seven findings fixed. F1 and F3 were merge-blocking.

F1 (HIGH) — the auth-banner holdback was bypassed after the first release.
  TuiDeltaAssembler.released was set once and never reset at a message_id boundary, so the
  holdback + detectError predicate guarded only the FIRST message of a turn. In production's
  own configuration (OCP_TUI_FULL_TOOLS=1, where multi-message tool-using turns are the norm):
  the model narrates past the holdback before a tool call -> released; credentials expire
  mid-turn -> claude renders the 401 as ordinary assistant TEXT as a NEW message -> push()
  took the `if (this.released)` branch and handed the banner verbatim to the client. That is
  precisely the silent-error case the C-1 gate exists to prevent. Detection survived (the
  turn was still refused at finalize) but PREVENTION did not.
  Fix: once a message boundary follows an emit, the turn is already unrecoverable — finalize()
  will refuse it — so push() now emits NOTHING further for the rest of the turn.
  Second hole in the same predicate: detectTuiUpstreamError() trims before applying its
  <=100-char rule, so 101 whitespace chars trimmed to "" -> detector had nothing to classify
  -> returned null -> release fired having screened nothing. Release now gates on the TRIMMED
  length, so both sides of the check talk about the same string.

F2 — the "provably safe" claim in stream.mjs, ADR 0007 and README was unsound as written.
  Restated with both required halves: (i) nothing is emitted until the trimmed accumulation
  exceeds the detector's max banner length, AND (ii) no emission at all once a message
  boundary follows an emit. Half (i) alone only ever covered a turn's first message.

F3 (blocker) — prepareStreamHook was write-if-missing, so md-hook.sh could never be updated
  OR repaired: a host that booted once under an older version was stuck on that HOOK_SCRIPT
  forever, and a non-atomic write interrupted mid-flight left a TRUNCATED script that
  existsSync() called fine — on a hook claude BLOCKS on synchronously. Now written
  unconditionally via tmp+renameSync (the pattern already used by ensureTuiCwdTrusted).

F4 — the two spawn paths differed for non-streaming requests: the pool installed the hook
  whenever OCP_TUI_STREAM was on (correct — a pre-booted pane cannot know what request it will
  serve), but the cold path gated it on this turn's onDelta. So one stream:false request got
  --settings on a pool HIT and not on a MISS: two spawn argvs for the identical request, on
  this project's billing-classification surface. Both paths now gate on TUI_STREAM alone;
  whether the sink is POLLED remains correctly gated on onDelta.

F5 — pool._drop() killed the pane but orphaned its sink file; the reap tick drains the whole
  pool, so sinks accumulated with no GC path. Now removed best-effort on every drop path.

F6 — /health counters did not measure what they documented: streamTurns was incremented only
  AFTER the honesty gates, hiding exactly the turns an operator most wants to see (and making
  streamDivergences/streamTurns a meaningless ratio); streamDeltas counted every fire while
  claiming to count forwarded ones. Counters and docs now agree.

F7 — total hook failure was silent: zero fires per turn still yields ok:true/exact:false and
  a normal, fully-buffered answer. Only streamTopUps moved, which the code itself calls
  benign. Added streamZeroDeltaTurns (+ a tui_stream_zero_deltas warning) to separate "the
  hook is dead" from "one fire was dropped".

Tests: 316 passed, 0 failed (was 313). Every new guard MUTATION-TESTED — with each fix
reverted the guard named for it fails, and passes with the fix restored:
  - drop the restartedAfterEmit guard   -> 2 failed (incl. the strengthened old test)
  - revert trim() in the release gate   -> 1 failed
  - revert F3 to write-if-missing       -> 1 failed
The pre-existing test "new message_id AFTER an emit" asserted finalize().ok === false but
never checked what push() RETURNED — so it passed while F1 was live, documenting the leak
instead of catching it. Strengthened to assert the emission, not just the verdict.

Class B (ADR 0007, OCP-owned TUI spawn) — cli.js does NOT perform this operation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqgWJcjxrjjL9L9SkpZyXR

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Co-authored-by: dtzp555 <dtzp555@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 08:19:24 +10:00
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Architecture Decision Records

This directory holds the OCP Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) — short documents that capture the why behind structural choices.

Read these before proposing governance, SPOT (single-source-of-truth), or process changes.

Numbering

ADRs start at 0002. The first one (0001) was reserved for an early internal proposal that was superseded before publication; 0002 is deliberately the first published record so the archived 0001 slot remains a placeholder rather than being silently renumbered.

New ADRs increment from the highest existing number. Filenames are NNNN-<short-slug>.md.

Index

ADR Title What it covers
0002 Alignment Constitution The ALIGNMENT.md constitution: why every server.mjs change requires cli.js citation + independent reviewer + CI blacklist pass. Background: the 2026-04-11 drift incident.
0003 models.json as SPOT Why model IDs / aliases / context windows live in a single JSON file (not duplicated in server.mjs and setup.mjs arrays). v3.11.0 refactor.
0004 OpenClaw Auto-Sync Why scripts/sync-openclaw.mjs runs on ocp update, what its scope boundary is (writes only models.providers["claude-local"].models and agents.defaults.models["claude-local/*"]), and the idempotency contract.
0005 No Multi-Provider Why OCP stays single-provider (Anthropic-via-cli.js) and does not extend to OpenAI / Gemini / OpenRouter. Cost estimate: ~7 weeks for a v1 that buys neither moat nor commercial readiness. Separate commercial work starts in a separate repo.
0006 OpenAI Shim Scope The Class A / Class B taxonomy. Class A endpoints (cli.js-mirror) keep Rules 15 verbatim; Class B endpoints (OCP-owned compatibility surface — /v1/chat/completions, /v1/models, admin endpoints) are anchored to OpenAI's spec (B.1) or to an authorizing ADR (B.2). Triggered by PR #99 (external response_format honoring). Grandfathers the existing B.2 inventory at v3.16.4.
0007 TUI Interactive Mode Why TUI-mode spawns an interactive claude in a tmux pane (no -p) to reach the subscription billing pool (cc_entrypoint=cli) rather than the metered Agent SDK pool. Owns the TUI spawn machinery: entrypoint labeling, credential-isolated home, MCP hard-disable, session namespace + defunct-session reaping, the independent concurrency bound, and the /health tui block. Single-user only — hard FATAL on multi-user configs.
0008 TUI Warm Pane Pool Why OCP_TUI_POOL_SIZE pre-boots single-use claude panes (one turn each, own --session-id) — and why reuse is forbidden (transcript.mjs returns the last assistant entry in the file, so a reused session leaks the earlier turn's text). Measured 41% end-to-end. Defines the pool↔reaper invariant (exemption by exact name from a live registry; drain before every sweep so kill-server zombie reaping survives) and the standing idle-process cost. Extends ADR 0007.

When to write a new ADR

Open one whenever:

  • A structural rule is being added or changed (e.g., new SPOT, new boundary, new CI guardrail).
  • A decision encodes a lesson from an incident or drift.
  • A future contributor reading the code alone could plausibly undo or re-litigate the choice.

Skip ADRs for routine implementation choices (algorithm pick, naming) — those belong in commit messages.

Format

Keep ADRs short — Context / Decision / Consequences is the standard skeleton. Cite incidents, PRs, or commits where useful.