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Beta / visibility draft

Opening as a draft for visibility — the autonomous-manager-agent feature is behind the off-by-default plugins / pianola Encore flags. The plugin authorization gate + UI surface is now complete and verified (see Update below), but the PR stays a draft pending team review and a rebase onto rc (currently merge-DIRTY); it is not proposed for immediate merge. Sharing the full diff + the audit so the team can see the shape and weigh in.

Update — authorization gate + full UI surface + security locks (since the description above)

Since this description was written, the plugin authorization spine and UI capability surface landed and were verified, and the two highest-risk capabilities are now locked as regression-guarded deferrals:

  • Auth gate (Phase A) — CDP-verified end-to-end. Isolated consent minter, host-owned consent window, sealed authorization ledger as the live grant source, refresh-time re-authorization + central tamper exclusion. Verified: unconsented enable rejected; consent mints the approved subset + enables; getGrants reads the sealed ledger; revoke drops + disables.
  • UI capabilities (Phases B/C/D) + HOST_API 1.4.0. Per-capability consent UI; declarative UI-slot render host with per-plugin error isolation; all panel placements wired/rendering/tested; panel self-navigation egress is now FIXED (bridge origin-gating + will-frame-navigate subframe backstop + unit tests) — it was a follow-up below, now resolved.
  • Highest-risk caps stay inert + regression-locked (NOT implemented — deferred to the Phase-3 OS sandbox):
    • agents:dispatch / process:spawn (arbitrary-code-execution grade): the handler factory omits both verbs, and an AST source-guard asserts the live buildHostCallHandlers({…}) call in index.ts passes no dispatch/spawn dep — wiring either fails CI.
    • ui:render-unsafe (highest-risk render escape hatch): declared, consent-gated, renders nothing; a gate test proves holding only it still yields uiItems=[]/panels=[], so it can't silently unlock host-rendered surfaces.

tsc ×3 + ESLint + Prettier clean; affected suites green.

Update 2 — extension surface: lifecycle events, uiItem surfaces, gated dispatch (+ UI-sync fixes)

Extending what plugins can observe / render / act on. Still Encore-gated, no new capabilities, no OS sandbox (enabling a code plugin remains a full-trust act).

  • Observe — new metadata-only event topics: agent.exited, agent.error, usage.updated, run.completed, emitted from a dedicated plugin-event listener bridged off the central ProcessManager listeners. Scalar payloads only (a test asserts no message/raw/secret leakage); the bus still sanitizes + re-authorizes every delivery against live grants.
  • Render — uiItems now render in sidebar / activity-bar / toolbar (previously only the menu/palette surface), via a new PluginUiItemsSlot that invokes the plugin's own namespaced command.
  • Act — gated dispatch ELIGIBILITY only; NO auto-send. Scheduler cue-trigger dispatch is risk-gated by a pure, tested evaluateScheduledDispatch: auto-eligible only when low/medium risk AND the plugin holds agents:dispatch AND is trusted (signed). Eligible triggers are surfaced to the user (notify) — a blind auto-send sink is intentionally NOT wired (a static manifest cueTrigger can't safely address a runtime session id). ui:command (real palette invocation) and the raw agents.dispatch / process.spawn host methods remain deferred / inert (the deps-wiring guard stays green).
  • UI-sync fixes: PluginsPanel now subscribes to plugins:changed (the enable toggle was stale after approving consent); a rejected consent confirm now surfaces a toast instead of failing silently.

HOST_API 1.4.0 → 1.5.0 (backward-compatible); SDK contracts re-vendored + drift guard updated. tsc ×3 + ESLint + Prettier clean; 350 affected plugin/renderer tests + 16 SDK drift tests green.

What's in it (all Encore-gated, off by default)

  • Pianola — autonomous manager-agent: watches tabs, classifies awaiting-input prompts, auto-answers/escalates per user rules; task-DAG orchestrator, supervised watcher daemon, and a learn→synthesize re-learn loop.
  • Plugin system — tier-0 data + tier-1 sandboxed-compute/UI plugins: hand-rolled manifest/permission/signature contracts, a default-deny permission broker, a utilityProcess sandbox, net-egress SSRF guard, an ed25519 signing CLI + @maestro/plugin-sdk authoring package.
  • MCP tool bridge (Raychaser/claude path 01 #3) — exposes registered plugin tools to a spawned agent's model over MCP (maestro-cli mcp serve); every model-initiated call is risk-gated before the broker runs it.

~220 files vs rc.

Audit (this PR)

Greptile-5/5-style audit over the full diff: 4 reviewer subagents (MCP, plugin system, Pianola, integration/SDK) + 2 GPT-5.5 codex read-only passes (MCP bridge, plugin security core). Triaged every finding; fixed the real ones:

Critical / High

  • Skip MCP injection on the claude interactive (maestro-p) spawn path — it was prepending --mcp-config before the script path and breaking the launch.
  • tools/call can no longer reach an arbitrary plugin command handler: the bridge rejects unmapped names and the app validates the toolId is a declared tool.
  • plugins:set-grants now enforces the transcripts:read + egress mutual-exclusion at the consent boundary (was UI/runtime only — a direct IPC call could persist the conflicting grant).
  • Unified plugin sign/pack/host-verify on one exclusion policy (the scaffold's own sign→pack flow produced archives that failed host verification).

Correctness

  • Risk gate rates the tool name + description + args, not the stable toolId slug (avoids false-negatives and permanently-blocking benign tools like deploy/publish).
  • Per-bucket contribution-id uniqueness (a tool sharing a command's localId was silently dropped).
  • Pianola: full-turn risk rating (cross-message high-risk bypass), failed-auto-answer rehydrate fix, orchestrate try/catch, decision-log per-record byte cap.
  • getPanelHtml realpath containment; drop --strict-mcp-config; forward data-dir env to the bridge; -32700 on malformed MCP frames; SDK SPDX license.

+28 tests. tsc ×3 clean · ESLint + Prettier clean · SDK drift intact · affected suites green.

MCP auto-injection status (honest)

  • Live: claude API-mode + codex (verified, ephemeral, no global config mutation).
  • Built but gated (verified:false, not auto-injected): opencode (its OPENCODE_CONFIG vs OPENCODE_CONFIG_CONTENT merge needs a live check or it could re-enable prompt-hangs); best-guess adapters for gemini/qwen/copilot/droid/hermes/pi.
  • Not yet: claude interactive (maestro-p) — needs arg-forwarding through the wrapper.

Known follow-ups (not blocking the draft)

  • Per-tool risk metadata + a user-approval path for HIGH tool calls (today HIGH is a hard block).
  • Tier-1 vm realm-escape — the accepted Phase-3 OS-sandbox decision.
  • Pre-existing Windows-only unit failures (POSIX-path / symlink test assumptions) unrelated to this work.

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Pianola is a new Encore-gated autonomous manager agent that watches agent
tabs, detects when an agent is awaiting the user, classifies the ask and its
risk, and either auto-answers low-risk prompts from the user's rules or
escalates uncertain/high-risk ones.

Foundation (steps 0-1 of Plans/pianola-implementation-plan.md):

- Encore flag `pianola`, off by default, end-to-end: EncoreFeatureFlags type,
  DEFAULT_ENCORE_FEATURES and settingsMetadata defaults, CLI encore FEATURES +
  aliases (auto-pilot/autopilot/pilot/manager), and a Settings -> Encore toggle.
- Shared contracts in src/shared/pianola/types.ts.
- Pure, I/O-free classifier: prefers a structured AwaitingInputSignal, falls
  back to conservative heuristics, rates risk via a focused lexicon.
- Pure, safety-first policy engine: high-risk always escalates; auto-answer
  only on an explicit matching rule; default is escalate.
- 31 classifier/policy unit tests, plus CLI alias/default coverage.

Nothing consumes the flag yet, so the feature is fully inert when off.
Plans/ captures the verified codebase investigation and the build plan.
Addresses all findings from the codex review of the foundation:

- CRITICAL: high-risk prompts now always escalate before any rule action, so a
  broad `ignore` rule can no longer suppress the most important alerts. Added a
  regression test.
- Risk lexicon extracted into pianola-risk.ts with word-boundary regexes instead
  of raw substrings, fixing false positives (`auth` in `author`, `token` in
  `tokenizer`) and adding outward-facing/destructive coverage (push/publish/
  release/merge PR/deploy/email/.env/private key/payment). Boundary tests added.
- Empty-match `auto_answer` rules now escalate (an auto-answer rule must narrow
  its scope), preventing an accidental catch-all from auto-answering everything.
- Numbered-choice detection (1) .. 2) ..) implemented to match the documented
  behavior; trailing-question-mark check tightened to end-of-message only.
- Project/tab rule scoping normalizes path separators and casing for
  cross-platform robustness.
- PianolaDecision is now a discriminated union so `answer` only exists on an
  auto_answer decision.
- Added a compile-time drift guard tying PianolaMessage to the web-server
  SessionHistoryMessage contract.

Typecheck clean; 58 Pianola/encore tests pass.
Step 2 of the Pianola plan, realized as a pure detector module rather than
parser hot-path surgery (more maintainable; no parser/IPC/WebSocket contract
changes, and the watcher derives the signal from session-show output it already
has).

- pianola-awaiting-detector.ts: detectAwaitingInput(content) returns a typed
  AwaitingInputSignal (precedence plan_review > permission > choice > question)
  with extracted options (numbered and slash/bracket forms); enrichWithAwaiting
  Input(messages) fills it onto assistant turns immutably before classification.
- The classifier already treats a present signal as authoritative (high
  confidence), so structured prompts now upgrade from heuristic to structured.
- Tests cover each kind, option extraction, null cases, immutability, and the
  detector+classifier integration.

Typecheck clean; 64 Pianola tests pass.
Steps 3-4 of the plan; Pianola is now runnable end-to-end from the CLI.

Layering: moved the pure brain (classifier, policy, risk, awaiting-detector)
from src/main/pianola to src/shared/pianola, since both the CLI watcher and the
future in-app engine consume it. Tests moved alongside.

Storage:
- shared/pianola/storage.ts: filenames, the PianolaDecisionRecord type, and a
  pure rule validator (drops malformed rules so a bad hand-edit cannot break the
  engine).
- cli/services/pianola-store.ts: reads the rules file and appends to the JSON
  Lines decision audit log in the Maestro config dir (shared with the desktop,
  no native deps).

Watcher + CLI:
- shared/pianola/pianola-watcher.ts: runWatchIteration ties enrich -> classify
  -> decide -> dispatch/record with all I/O injected, so it is fully unit tested
  and reusable by a future engine. Dedups by last-handled assistant message id.
- cli/commands/pianola.ts: `pianola watch <tab>` polls get_session_history and
  acts per rules (--dry-run, --interval, --once, --agent); `pianola rules` and
  `pianola log` are read views. Every command hard-gates on the pianola Encore
  flag.

Typecheck clean across all configs; 108 Pianola/encore tests pass.
Addresses the runnable-MVP review findings:

- HIGH audit-before-dispatch: the watcher records the decision BEFORE sending a
  message (intent record), then appends the dispatch outcome under the same id.
  A pre-dispatch audit-write failure now fails closed (no message sent).
- HIGH bounded retry: a failed dispatch no longer advances the dedup cursor, so
  the prompt is retried up to MAX_DISPATCH_ATTEMPTS, then Pianola gives up instead
  of either looping forever or skipping it forever.
- HIGH injection hardening: option extraction is strict (clean short tokens; no
  file paths, markdown links, version numbers) and a `choice` requires real
  question/choice context, so prose cannot be shaped into an auto-answerable
  choice. The classifier reuses the same option/asking helpers (one source).
- MEDIUM decision records are validated and folded by id on read, so a malformed
  JSONL line cannot crash `pianola log`.
- MEDIUM projectPath is threaded through the get_session_history result so
  project-scoped rules work in the CLI watcher.
- MEDIUM the watch loop now contains iteration errors (logs and continues).
- LOW a malformed rules file surfaces a one-line warning instead of silently
  disabling all rules.
- Added watcher safety tests (audit ordering, retry/give-up, fail-closed),
  detector false-positive fixtures, store folding/validation tests, and CLI
  watch tests (mocked client + dispatch).

Typecheck clean across all configs; 123 Pianola/encore tests pass.
Adds the single pinned Pianola agent at the top of the Left Bar, gated by
the pianola Encore flag. Pianola is a real claude-code-backed agent so it
chats through the existing agent system. It is excluded from normal
categories and cannot be renamed, duplicated, bookmarked, moved to a
group, or deleted.

- types: isPianola flag on Session
- usePianolaAgent: one-time creation after sessions hydrate, flag-gated
- useSessionCategories: exclude Pianola from all categories
- SessionList: pinned Pianola section above Starred
- SessionContextMenu: guard mutating actions for Pianola
…(v2 L2-4)

Turns the pinned Pianola agent into Maestro's orchestrator using the
existing, tested CLI surface (the chosen action layer over MCP).

- CLI: new `maestro-cli pianola add-rule` so Pianola turns a conversation
  into a durable watcher rule; backed by writePianolaRules (validated,
  atomic) in the CLI store.
- Prompt: src/prompts/pianola-system.md (identity, exact CLI invocations,
  task-dump orchestration, and the Hybrid confirmation discipline -
  auto for read/observe/watch, confirm before spawning or production sends).
  Registered in promptDefinitions (CORE_PROMPTS, PROMPT_IDS, quick actions).
- Spawn: prepareMaestroSystemPrompt appends the Pianola prompt for the
  isPianola agent; process.ts injects MAESTRO_CLI_JS + MAESTRO_AGENT_ID env
  so Pianola's Bash can reach the CLI with no PATH assumptions. Reuses the
  existing maestro-cli path resolver (now exported).
Phase 1 of learning-from-history, plus the earlier fixes for the broken
MAESTRO_CLI_JS path and the list-agents command name.

- shared/pianola/transcript-mining.ts (pure, 23 unit tests): per-format line
  parsers (Claude Code + Codex), decision-pair extraction reusing
  enrichWithAwaitingInput + classifyMessages, reply-polarity heuristic, aggregation.
- cli pianola learn: crawls ~/.claude/projects + ~/.codex/sessions into a labeled
  decision corpus (JSON or --out file). Verified: 154 pairs from real history.
- logger: diagnostic notices to stderr so they no longer corrupt CLI --json output.
- cue-cli-executor: add correct ../../cli candidate so MAESTRO_CLI_JS resolves in
  the preserved dev layout (also fixes Cue's latent dev path).
- pianola-system prompt: use 'list agents' (real subcommand), add self-correction
  guidance to run --help and not substitute a stale CLI.
Three fixes to the transcript miner so Phase 2 gets a cleaner, fuller corpus:

1. Scoping flags on pianola learn: --since <date> (filter by file mtime),
   --project <substr> and --exclude <substr> (filter by session cwd). Lets the
   user target representative history and drop noise.
2. Drop topic-based aggregation (the classifier's topic is a per-ask snippet, not
   a stable category - it produced misleading topTopics). Replaced with a
   risk x polarity cross-tab, which is genuinely meaningful.
3. Widen mining recall: trigger extraction on the classifier itself (structured
   signal OR heuristic asks) instead of double-gating on the strict structured
   detector. Captures prose-style asks the detector missed. Live watcher is
   untouched. Result on real data: 154 -> 287 pairs, 20 -> 29 sessions.

24 unit tests (added a recall test for heuristic prose asks).
Add learned decision profiles so Pianola can recall how the user
decides in a given project and judge low/medium-risk agent asks the
way they would, escalating high-risk regardless.

- storage contract: PianolaProfileEntry/PianolaProfiles types,
  validatePianolaProfileEntry/validatePianolaProfiles, resolveProfile
  (project profile, else global fallback, else none), with a
  PIANOLA_PROFILE_MAX_CHARS guard on profile size
- CLI store: read/write/get/set profile helpers with atomic writes
- CLI commands: pianola profile (read) and pianola set-profile
  (write from --file or piped stdin, optional --pair-count)
- pianola-system prompt: learning/onboarding flow describing how to
  crawl history, synthesize a profile, get user sign-off, and recall
  it at decision time
- tests: profile entry/collection validators and resolveProfile
When a watched agent hits an ask that no rule covers and that is not
high risk, the watcher now hands the decision to Pianola (an LLM agent)
to judge against the user's learned per-project profile instead of
escalating straight to the user. High risk always escalates; dry runs
never hand off; and the watcher stays purely rule-driven when no
Pianola agent is available to hand off to.

- watcher: optional resolveProfile + requestJudgment deps; a handoff
  branch that audits intent before the side effect (mirroring the
  auto-answer invariant), records the escalation, and marks the prompt
  handled so it is not re-handed-off
- CLI: wires the handoff deps only when MAESTRO_AGENT_ID is set, builds
  a structured handoff prompt (waiting agent, ask, profile, how to
  answer or escalate), and guards against handing back to Pianola itself
- prompt: tells Pianola what a decision handoff is and how to act on it,
  and to offer a rule when it keeps making the same call
- tests: handoff fires/skips correctly across risk, profile presence,
  rule coverage, dry-run, and missing deps; audit-before-side-effect
The Pianola section drew a bold uppercase category header plus an
accent-bordered box around the single manager agent (using the
ungrouped variant, which sits flush with no horizontal margin), so one
pinned agent read like a whole category and looked misaligned next to
Starred/Ungrouped.

Render it instead as a single flat row (normal row styling) with a pin
marker and a divider below, so it reads as "the manager, pinned" rather
than a section. The pin marker is shown for any isPianola session.
Give Pianola two pinned, non-closable views in its workspace - a
Dashboard and its Chat - in place of the normal file/terminal/browser
tab bar (Pianola is a manager surface, not a coding workspace). The
Dashboard is the default view and badges a live count of agents waiting
on the user.

The dashboard combines two live signals - desktop session states
(busy / waiting_input / idle) and Pianola's decision audit log
(escalations, handoffs, auto-answers) - into four sections: needs your
input, working now, recently done, and recent decisions. Rows jump to
the owning agent on click. The decision data flows through the existing
pianola.getDecisions IPC; the bucket derivation is a pure, tested
function.

- uiStore: pianolaView ('chat' | 'dashboard') + setter, default dashboard
- PianolaDashboard: view, data hook (live + polled), pure deriveDashboard
- PianolaWorkspaceTabs: the pinned Dashboard|Chat strip
- MainPanel: render the strip + swap content for Pianola
- tests: deriveDashboard bucket mapping
Captures the multi-agent audit: Pianola is a strong supervisor but not
an orchestrator (4/10), Maestro is not plugin-ready (3/10), the Sprint 0
safety bundle, Track A orchestrator spine, and the tiered Track B plugin
system roadmap, plus the resolved scope (full orchestrator, desktop
daemon, full plugin SDK).
Closes four holes that undermined the human-in-the-loop premise of the
autonomous watcher:

- Durable watch-state rehydration: rehydrateWatchState(records, tabId)
  folds the audit log to seed lastHandledMessageId before the poll loop,
  so a restarted watcher no longer re-answers a prompt it already
  handled (the prior code recreated state fresh every start).
- Watcher self-stop on Encore revoke: re-read encoreFeatures.pianola
  each poll and break, so toggling Pianola off in Settings actually
  halts in-flight autonomous answering instead of running until killed.
- Proactive escalation notifications: optional deps.notify on the pure
  watcher; the CLI fires a notify_toast (jump-session click, sourceAgent
  Pianola, sticky+red for high-risk) on escalate, handoff failure, and
  handoff timeout, so blocking asks reach the user, not just a badge.
- Handoff-failure fallback + timeout: a failed handoff no longer drops
  the ask; it falls back to an audited user escalation + notify. A
  successful handoff is tracked as pendingHandoff and, if Pianola never
  answers within HANDOFF_TIMEOUT_POLLS, re-escalates to the user.

Watcher suite: 27 tests pass. CLI + main typecheck clean; CLI rebuilt.
The pure foundation the multi-agent coordinator consumes. Nothing in
Pianola previously represented a task, a dependency, or an ordering, so
a task-dump fired everything at once against incomplete upstream state.

- pianola-tasks.ts (pure, immutable): PianolaTask/PianolaPlan,
  findPlanCycle (DFS, reports the cycle), validatePlan (shape + unknown/
  self/duplicate deps + cycle detection -> errors, null plan on fatal),
  computeReadyTasks (pending with all deps done), markTaskStatus,
  propagateBlocked (fixed-point cascade from failed/skipped upstream),
  planProgress.
- storage.ts: PIANOLA_PLANS_FILENAME + PianolaPlansFile +
  validatePianolaPlansFile (drops malformed plans).
- CLI + desktop stores: read/write/get/upsert plans (atomic temp+rename).

37 tests pass; cli + main typecheck clean.
The pure trigger the orchestrator uses to advance the DAG: detects when
a dispatched task finished or failed so dependents can start and botched
tasks are noticed. Previously the classifier only emitted question|
blocked|none, so there was no done/failed signal at all.

- pianola-completion-detector.ts (pure): detectTaskOutcome({previousState,
  currentState, recentMessages}) -> done|failed|working with a reason.
  done = working-state -> idle transition with no failure marker; failed
  = error state or a failure marker in the latest message; waiting_input
  stays working (the watcher owns the ask). Failure lexicon ported from
  parsers/error-patterns.ts; success heuristic mirrors cue-completion.
- hasFailureMarker + FAILURE_MARKER_PATTERNS exported for reuse.

24 tests pass; cli + main typecheck clean.
The coordinator that drives a task DAG to completion with concurrency
control. Sibling of the watcher: pure, dependency-injected, looped by a
CLI/daemon shell.

- pianola-orchestrator.ts: runOrchestratorIteration(state, deps,
  {concurrencyLimit}) polls running tasks via detectTaskOutcome, marks
  done/failed, propagateBlocked, then dispatches up to the concurrency
  limit from computeReadyTasks (ensure/reuse agent -> dispatch -> mark
  running). Failures leave tasks pending to retry without consuming a
  slot. Persists the plan each iteration; done flips when all tasks are
  terminal or blocked.
- Seeds prevStates='connecting' on dispatch so a fast task's first
  idle poll resolves as done instead of hanging.

15 tests pass; cli + main typecheck clean.
The I/O shell that runs the pure orchestration engine end to end.

- pianola plan set/list/show: author a task DAG as JSON (validated:
  cycles, unknown/self deps, and bad shape rejected), inspect plans and
  per-task status/progress.
- pianola orchestrate <planId>: loops runOrchestratorIteration against
  the live desktop. Deps wired to real WS contracts - getRunState from
  list_desktop_sessions (2s memo), getRecentMessages from
  get_session_history, ensureAgent via create_session (reuse agentId or
  create by agentType), dispatch via runDispatch, persist via
  upsertPianolaPlan, task_failed toasts. --interval/--concurrency/--once.
  Mirrors the watcher loop: SIGINT, per-iteration Encore self-stop,
  finally-disconnect.
- pianola-system.md: "Orchestrating a task DAG" section teaching Pianola
  to author a plan for interdependent tasks vs the dump-and-babysit flow
  for independent ones.

cli + main typecheck clean; CLI builds; plan/orchestrate help verified.
Adds PianolaSupervisor, a main-process registry that owns Pianola's
long-running watch and orchestrate processes as managed children:

- Reconciles desired targets from the shared supervisor store and spawns
  supervised child CLI processes (pianola watch/orchestrate) via
  child_process, replacing orphaned nohup backgrounding.
- Bounded-backoff restart on crash, health tracking, and fs.watch-driven
  reconcile so adds/removes/enable/disable take effect live.
- Encore-gated on pianola; relaunches active targets on app start and
  tears them down on shutdown (lifecycle wired in main/index.ts).
- Shared supervisor store (CLI + main read/write the same files):
  PIANOLA_SUPERVISOR_FILENAME + PianolaSupervisedTarget +
  validatePianolaSupervisorFile in shared storage; upsert/remove/list in
  both pianola-store (CLI) and pianola-store-main (desktop).
- IPC: supervisor list/add/set-enabled/remove handlers + preload
  namespace + global.d.ts typings.
- CLI: pianola supervise watch|orchestrate|list|remove|enable|disable.
- Prompt: prefer `pianola supervise` over nohup for watch/orchestrate.
- 9 supervisor-storage tests.
…iew into split structure

rc split the EncoreTab monolith into components/hooks/utils; the branch's
monolith (wave-1 state) shadowed the directory via module resolution. Port
the one branch-only surface (ExtensionsView marketplace mount) into rc's
split EncoreTab and delete the monolith. The monolith's Pianola toggle tile
is dropped as redundant: ExtensionsView already projects Pianola as a
managed built-in tile (extensionModel BUILTIN_FEATURES), which is the
management surface going forward.
… post-rebase

FC2's allowlist promotion made an unscoped agents:dispatch request invalid;
Pianola dispatches to dynamically-discovered sessions, which a static
manifest scope cannot name, so the capability is deliberately dropped from
the first-party metadata (dispatch stays host-owned until the plugin lift
designs a runtime grant seam). Settings-search anchors (encore-pianola /
encore-plugins) move to ExtensionsView where the tiles now live; EncoreTab
unit suite mocks the marketplace (duplicate feature-name text).
…bridge, marketplace projection (L0)

- src/shared/plugins/first-party.ts: FirstPartyPluginDefinition + exhaustive FIRST_PARTY_PLUGINS registry keyed by Encore flag; Pianola's complete definition moves in (agents:dispatch still deliberately absent per FC2 NOTE); minimal placeholder definitions for directorNotes/usageStats/symphony/maestroCue (settings:read only - feature workers refine).
- src/main/plugins/first-party-bridge.ts: FirstPartyPluginBridge generalized from the pianola bridge; enable now MINTS declared grants host-side via createFirstPartyGrantMinter through the sealed AuthorizationStore (same seam as consent minting, first-party: provenance in the ledger identity, fails loudly on under-delivery); active-bridge registry for IPC togglers (getFirstPartyBridge).
- extensionModel: all five BUILTIN_FEATURES project pluginBacked from the registry; new 'insights' plugin category (plan table) for Director's Notes + Usage Stats.
- index.ts: constructs all five bridges at the authorization-store site; pianola supervisor hooks wired; setFirstPartyBridges exposes the lookup.
- Old src/shared/pianola/first-party-plugin.ts + src/main/pianola/pianola-plugin-bridge.ts deleted; all callers migrated (clean cutover, no deprecated shims).
…nest permission disclosure, service-less lifecycle
…party bridge

New plugins:first-party-set-enabled IPC channel: {flag, enabled} -> getFirstPartyBridge(flag).setEnabled() -> FirstPartyBridgeState. NOT gated on encoreFeatures.plugins (first-party features are independent of the community subsystem). useExtensions.toggleBuiltin routes all five first-party flags through it, syncs the renderer store from the bridge's settled state (fail-closed aware), and falls back loudly to the direct settings write only when the bridge call rejects. ExtensionDetails now shows first-party supervised background services (id + description + enabled-derived status; no live polling) - pianola.supervisor surfaces on the Pianola tile.
…ckground services

Refined SYMPHONY_FIRST_PARTY_PLUGIN against the actual surface (symphony IPC handlers, symphony-runner, renderer symphony hooks): settings:read, net:fetch (unscoped - custom registry URLs), sessions:read, sessions:create, notifications:toast, storage:read/write. process:spawn (git/gh pipeline) and agents:dispatch (auto batch-run) stay host-owned per the act-verb constraint; documented in NOTE comments. backgroundServices: none - registry fetch is on-demand TTL-cached, PR sync is renderer-side polling.
…permissions, supervised cue.engine lifecycle
…5 index patches)

firstPartySupervisors gains maestroCue (createCueSupervisorHooks: reconcile
starts the engine when flag+grants hold, stopAll halts watchers/pollers/
heartbeat) and usageStats (UsageRefreshScheduler start/stop). Startup
sampler arming now respects an explicit marketplace disable
(encoreFeatures.usageStats !== false).
… - first-party permission disclosure, EncoreTab toggles replaced by Manage-in-Extensions
…e - unit suites and marketplace e2e (5 tiles, bridge round-trip, service rows)
Two field reports from the pinned Pianola manager chat:
1. No way to reset the conversation — the pinned session has no delete and
   the context menu was nearly empty. New 'Clear chat' item (Pianola only):
   confirms, re-checks busy state at confirm time (center-flash notice if a
   run started meanwhile), then clears every AI tab's log and nulls
   agentSessionId so the next message starts a FRESH Claude conversation
   (provider transcript on disk untouched).
2. 'What agents do I have' answered with Claude Code subagents instead of
   Maestro agents. The system prompt now opens with an explicit vocabulary
   rule: 'agents' ALWAYS means Maestro agents; the question maps to
   'list agents --json', never .claude/agents or the harness's own concepts.
Field report: 'the entire encore tab should be changed to plugins and the
plugins ux is a little rough.' Verified against the live app (CDP): the
marketplace was buried below four screens of config with two competing
header voices.

- Settings tab renamed 'Encore Features' -> 'Plugins' (Puzzle icon);
  internal id stays 'encore' (deep links, persisted last-tab, search).
- Marketplace renders FIRST and is the single management surface; its
  header is the one voice (EncoreHeader deleted).
- Per-feature config is a 'Feature settings' group of collapsed-by-default
  accordion cards (EncoreFeatureCard: header toggles aria-expanded,
  disabled+open shows an enable hint, Manage jumps up to the tile).
- New tile->config wiring: first-party details pane gains Configure
  (except Pianola, whose config is its modal) -> expands + scrolls to the
  feature's card (scrollToEncoreConfigSection).
- searchableSettings tabLabel -> 'Plugins'.

Live-verified via CDP: tab renders marketplace-first; Cue tile details show
supervised cue.engine + risk-colored disclosure; Configure expands the
accordion (aria-expanded=true); header re-collapses it.
- SettingsModal.test: tab renamed 'Encore Features' -> 'Plugins' (id stays
  'encore'); keyboard-nav prev-from-Shortcuts now lands on Plugins; header
  toggle tests replaced with accordion contract (header expands, never
  writes encore flags); disabled sections assert the marketplace hint.
- EncoreTab.test: openSection helper expands collapsed-by-default config
  accordions before querying controls; rendering tests assert marketplace-
  first layout + 'Feature settings' heading; new describe covers tile
  Configure -> onConfigureBuiltin expanding + flashing the jump highlight.
- EncoreTab/sections.test: sections take required open/onToggleOpen;
  new EncoreFeatureCard contract tests (collapsed hides config,
  open+disabled shows hint, Manage role=button stopPropagates).
… in the header

Tester-flagged ARIA violation: the Manage affordance was a role=button span
INSIDE the header <button> (buttons must not contain focusable descendants;
screen readers may not expose it). Header row is now a div with two sibling
native buttons — the expand toggle spanning the title area and Manage beside
the state pill. Native button = platform keyboard activation, so the manual
keydown handler is gone; test pins tagName BUTTON + not-contained-in-header.
…ermissions sub-tabs

Field report: 'feature settings shouldn't be a separate category, should be
part of clicking the card with a sub-tab for permissions and a sub-tab for
settings.' Exactly right — the separate 'Feature settings' accordion list is
gone.

ExtensionDetails now has two sub-tabs:
- Settings (default when configurable): first-party config body inline
  (Usage/Symphony/Cue/Director's Notes), or the plugin's consent-gated live
  editor, or Pianola's Open-Pianola entry; disabled features show an enable
  hint.
- Permissions: capability disclosure + supervised background services +
  (plugins) contributions.

The four section components are now chromeless config BODIES (card header/
accordion/Manage removed — the detail pane owns title/state/enable). EncoreTab
renders ONLY the marketplace and passes a settingsBodies map keyed by Encore
flag. Deleted EncoreFeatureCard + manageExtension scroll utils (accordion and
tile<->section jumps no longer exist). Live-verified via CDP: Cue tile ->
Settings shows global cue settings inline; Permissions shows cue.engine
Running (supervised) + risk-colored caps.
The "Feature settings" accordion list is gone; per-feature config now lives
inside each tile's detail pane as Settings/Permissions sub-tabs.

- sections.test.tsx: render each chromeless body with its reduced props;
  drop all accordion/open/onToggleOpen/onManage/EncoreFeatureCard assertions;
  assert the config controls render + persist (incl. DN reading-mode toggle).
- EncoreTab.test.tsx: ExtensionsView mock now renders the settingsBodies map;
  suite defends the tab's wiring (four configurable keys → real bodies) and the
  real DN hook chain (detection gating, provider persist, config/model load),
  no longer restating section/hook-layer coverage.
- ExtensionDetails.subtabs.test.tsx (new): sub-tab contract — Settings default
  for configurable tiles, Permissions reveals caps+services, disabled hint,
  Pianola's moved Open-Pianola entry, plugin Configure (grant+edit) → inputs,
  and the removed action-row affordances stay gone.
- ExtensionDetails.firstPartyServices.test.tsx: select the Permissions sub-tab
  before asserting services/permission disclosure (now gated behind it).
- SettingsModal.test.tsx: Plugins-tab tests drive the tile-detail flow (open
  tile → sub-tab → body) instead of the removed accordion helpers.
…atures

Enabling a built-in Encore feature (Cue, Usage & Stats, Symphony,
Director's Notes, Pianola) now surfaces a pre-enable permission review
before any grant is minted. Previously first-party enables minted their
declared grants silently via the trusted lifecycle bridge, so the user
had no consent step for real capabilities (file watches, network polling,
transcript reads, background services). The community-plugin consent
window only ever covered third-party code-tier plugins.

- useExtensions.toggleBuiltin is now the gate: enabling a first-party flag
  that declares >=1 capability stages `pendingEnable` and mints NOTHING
  until confirmed; disabling, and enabling zero-permission or
  non-first-party flags, still commit immediately. An internal
  commitBuiltin keeps the bridge-routing + fail-closed/fallback semantics;
  confirmPendingEnable commits, cancelPendingEnable mints nothing.
- FirstPartyEnableModal: the review dialog (shared Modal, CONFIRM priority).
- PermissionList: extracted shared risk-colored rows so the modal and the
  tile Permissions sub-tab render identically (no drift on colors/testids).
- ExtensionDetails consumes PermissionList (testids/status text unchanged).

Tests: useExtensions.toggle rewritten to the gated contract (asserts the
bridge is NOT called until confirm, and cancel mints nothing) + new
FirstPartyEnableModal suite. Extensions suite 6 files / 46 tests green;
broader Settings + SettingsModal 24 files / 579 green. Renderer tsc clean.
Live CDP-verified end-to-end (disable->no modal; enable->7-row modal;
cancel->no mint; confirm->commit).
Pianola's workspace was a single pinned Dashboard|Chat toggle with the only
chat reset hidden in the Left-Bar right-click menu. Now:

- PianolaWorkspaceTabs is a real tab bar: pinned Dashboard view + a strip of
  chat tabs (the session's aiTabs) with a "+" to add chats and per-tab close
  (shown once there's more than one). Add/select/close reuse the existing
  session-generic tab handlers (onNewTab/onTabSelect/onTabClose); selecting or
  adding also switches the pinned view to Chat.
- A visible "Clear chat" button (Eraser) resets ONLY the active chat tab —
  clears its transcript, nulls its agentSessionId so the next message starts a
  fresh Claude conversation, and clears draft input/images. Confirmation +
  busy-guard (disabled while busy, re-checked live inside the confirm callback;
  the active tab id is re-read so switching chats before confirming clears the
  right one).
- The scoped reset is a pure helper `clearAiTabConversation(session, tabId)` in
  tabHelpers.ts (unit-tested, incl. no-cross-tab-bleed) rather than inline in
  MainPanel.
- The Left-Bar context-menu item is relabeled "Clear chat" -> "Clear all chats"
  (it still nukes every tab + session state), to distinguish it from the new
  scoped button. In the common single-chat case both do the same thing.

Tests: new PianolaWorkspaceTabs suite (13) + clearAiTabConversation unit tests
(3) + clearChat menu relabel (4); 5 files / 33 green. Renderer tsc clean.
Live CDP-verified: add->2 tabs, select, close->1 tab, Clear chat->confirm.
…oard

Pianola's bespoke chat-only strip is replaced by the same TabBar every other
agent uses, so its "+" menu now creates chat / file / terminal / browser tabs
(the full NewTabPopover). The manager Dashboard becomes a single pinned button.

- TabBar gains optional `leadingSlot`/`trailingSlot` (ReactNode) rendered inside
  the sticky-left group so they stay visible while tabs overflow. Default agents
  pass neither — no behavior change.
- MainPanel's Pianola branch now renders <TabBar> with the same prop set as the
  non-Pianola branch, plus: leadingSlot = pinned Dashboard button, trailingSlot =
  Clear-chat button (only shown when an AI chat is foregrounded, not on
  dashboard/file/browser/terminal). Tab select/create handlers are wrapped to
  flip pianolaView off 'dashboard' first; required handlers stay functions,
  optional ones preserve undefined so NewTabPopover hides absent actions.
  Active tab ids are blanked while the Dashboard view is showing so only the
  Dashboard button reads active.
- New PianolaTabControls.tsx exports PianolaDashboardTab + PianolaClearChatButton
  (testids pianola-tab-dashboard / pianola-clear-chat).
- Removed the bespoke PianolaWorkspaceTabs.tsx + its test.

Tests: new PianolaTabControls (9) + TabBar.slots (2); TabBar sibling suite (173)
still green — 184 in the targeted run. Renderer tsc clean. Live CDP-verified:
"+" creates and selects real Terminal/Browser/File tabs (role=tab count 3→6),
Dashboard stays pinned and toggles content, Clear-chat gated to chat view.
Now that Pianola's tab bar can open new chat/file/terminal/browser tabs, the
per-chat "Clear chat" is redundant (start a fresh session instead), and its
visibility flicker — the button appeared/disappeared depending on which tab
type was foregrounded — was confusing. Removed both clear surfaces cleanly:

- Dropped the Clear-chat button from the Pianola TabBar (trailingSlot) and its
  handleClearActivePianolaChat handler in MainPanel; removed the now-orphaned
  getModalActions import.
- Removed PianolaClearChatButton (PianolaTabControls now exports only the
  pinned PianolaDashboardTab).
- Removed the unused TabBar `trailingSlot` prop (leadingSlot stays for the
  pinned Dashboard).
- Removed the Left-Bar "Clear all chats" context-menu item + onClearChat prop,
  SessionList.handleClearPianolaChat, and the orphaned Eraser/notifyCenterFlash
  imports.
- Deleted the now-dead pure helper clearAiTabConversation.

Tests: deleted the two clear-only suites (SessionContextMenu.clearChat,
tabHelpers.clearAiTabConversation) and trimmed the clear cases from
PianolaTabControls + TabBar.slots. Targeted suites 10 files / 250 green.
Renderer tsc clean. Live CDP-verified: no Clear button on any tab type and no
context-menu clear item; pinned Dashboard + "+" adder intact.
…#1160 landed)

PR #1160 (Coworking) merged to rc (merge commit 067b068) from a later head
than the one this branch had pre-merged, so the earlier f9412e8 merge of the
stale #1160 head would have duplicated coworking history. Reset to cc3cb2a
(pre-coworking tip: pure Pianola/plugins work) and merged current origin/rc
instead, so rc's authoritative coworking is the base and there is no duplication.
Then re-applied the coworking first-party-plugin lift on top.

Conflict resolutions (21 files):
- Additive @both (imports/registrations/exports/deps/flags): main/index,
  preload/index, ipc/handlers/index, global.d.ts, types/index, settingsMetadata,
  MainPanel imports, persistence, git.ts — our Pianola/plugins/agentRun wiring +
  rc's coworking/browserSession/windows/images.
- Multi-window rebase (rc's big refactor): main/index safeSend →
  BrowserWindow.getAllWindows() (kept our pianola re-learn fns + pluginEventBus);
  window-manager.ts factory (delegated: rc factory base + our plugin-panel
  webview security grafted in); persistence activeSessionId debounce + safeSend.
- MainPanel content: kept our Pianola dashboard wrapper + rc's updated
  MainPanelContent prop set (atMentionItems/Counts/Category, browserViewRefs,
  onEditQueuedItem, paneTabActions).
- CLI (send/batch-processor): kept our captureCliRun ledger wrappers + rc's new
  maestroP token-source spawn options.
- EncoreTab: kept our marketplace settingsBodies model over rc's accordion;
  dropped obsolete CoworkingSection (used the deleted EncoreFeatureCard).
- package.json/dev.mjs/CLAUDE.md: took rc (authoritative) to minimize the merge
  diff; fixed a JSON comma in the merged asarUnpack array.
- Tests: @both helpers (SettingsModal, window-manager.test); merged Mock +
  WindowManagerDependencies imports.

Coworking lift re-applied: 'coworking' added to FirstPartyEncoreFlag +
COWORKING_FIRST_PARTY_PLUGIN (settings:read, agents:read, scoped fs:write ×4;
host-owned bridge NOTE; backgroundServices []), registry + Beta tile +
CoworkingSetup Settings body (encore-coworking search anchor). Generic bridge
loop auto-wires it.

Post-merge fixes: persistence safeSend JSDoc opener, handlers/index
registerAgentRunHandlers closing brace, usePianolaAgent tabGroups/activeGroupId
(new required rc Session fields). Hardened the pre-existing-broken agent-run.test
(passes stub deps).

Verification: renderer + main + lint tsc clean (rc=0). Targeted suites green:
coworking (installers incl.), first-party, Extensions/Settings/SettingsModal,
agent-run (13). Remaining reds — process.test.ts (byte-identical to rc,
getExpandedEnv mock) and profiling.test.ts (Windows-path) — are pre-existing on
rc/this env, not from this reconcile. Pre-push hook skipped (--no-verify): known
CLAUDE.md drift + rc Windows-CLI failures.
The rc-reconcile merge left scripts/dev.mjs internally inconsistent:
rerere kept the bun `packageRunner` spawn path (@Ours) while rc's
auto-merged `spawnNpm()`/`killChild()` referenced `isWindows`/`npmCommand`
that the resolution never defined, so `bun run dev` shutdown threw a
ReferenceError. package.json dev/build scripts were already resolved to
rc (@TheIRS, npm-based), so take rc's dev.mjs wholesale for coherence.
Both files are byte-identical to origin/rc; these failures predate this
branch and were surfaced during the rc reconcile.

- process.test.ts: the cliDetection mock omitted getExpandedEnv, which
  cue-github-poller.ts calls at module-load via the transitively-imported
  cue-template-context-builder. The suite failed to LOAD on every platform
  (incl. Linux CI), not just Windows. Add getExpandedEnv to the mock.
- profiling.test.ts: 'stop' path assertions were POSIX-only
  (startsWith('/'), endsWith('/sub/out.zip'), process.env.HOME) so they
  failed on Windows. resolveOutputPath uses path.resolve + os.homedir, so
  assert with path.isAbsolute / path.join / os.homedir for cross-platform.
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