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What a user gets

rig ps --resources (also --host <id> / --json) shows the serving host's load per available CPU, running seats and actual transcript capture bytes, elapsed time, attempts and failures. Idle panes use fewer full captures, while activity hints and bounded reconciliation keep the trailing snapshot current. Capture intervals and line limits change through rig config without restarting running rotations. Ordinary rig ps and its bare JSON array remain unchanged.

Continues the capture/load direction in #80, coordinated before implementation in #80 (comment). This is the first usable host-aware execution milestone. It does not add CPU quotas or a build jobserver.

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Base: current main 712a61fb; signed implementation head c54fa21630279f3aa15bcf12ce5aa53fe77da9c4. Independent source review completed before pushing.

  • 156 focused/adjacent daemon tests: native private-tmux idle recovery and exact trailing-buffer fidelity; adaptive backoff, unknown hints, pending shared hints/captures, stopped/replaced generations, healthy-capture timestamps, boundary preservation, live policy and actual CLI config writes/reset, invalid policy inputs at both config surfaces.
  • 96 focused CLI tests: existing ps/config contracts plus actual SQLite/Hono/loopback HTTP (including force-archived running seats)→rig ps --resources JSON and human presentation, plus actual authenticated remote HTTP failures preserving the existing classified JSON envelope and exit code 1. HTTP 404 retains the older-daemon diagnostic and exit code 2.
  • Native macOS/Node 22.19.0 benchmark with six private tmux panes: baseline 114 full captures; adaptive 37 full captures + 19 shared activity reads. Burst recovery 1.05s baseline / 1.06s adaptive; all six final files exactly matched native bounded capture-pane bytes. Five display-command observations were approximately 7.2–8.8ms baseline / 8.7–9.6ms adaptive. This is a controlled small workload, not a fleet-wide claim. Parent Node CPU was measured separately, not presented as daemon/host CPU utilization.
  • Daemon and CLI TypeScript checks passed with worktree-local dependency/source resolution. git diff --check passed.
  • Local npm run build and npm run test:repo were attempted; full UI-only dependencies are absent from the compact local runtime. Repo checks reached 239 pass / 2 packaging failures / 2 skips because those packaging tests require the complete UI build. Full hosted workflow with the lockfile is the required complete gate, reported below.
  • Unchanged eight-job fork Tests gate: https://github.com/rudycelekli/openrig/actions/runs/37074913296 — all eight jobs completed SUCCESS at this exact rebased signed head, including full daemon/CLI/TUI/UI suites, build/package, repository checks, typechecking and installed-package scenario.
  • Rebased onto current main as requested, retaining fix(transcripts): retain repeated boundary markers once #545’s boundary-marker deduplication. 33 combined transcript rotation/adaptive/live/native tests passed, including the native boundary replay regression; all four feature/repair commits remain patch-identical after rebase.
  • The remote-resource error regression failed in five cases before the repair while four control cases passed. After repair, all 96 focused CLI cases passed. The capture-cost benchmark above is the earlier controlled observation; this CLI repair does not affect capture logic, and the subsequent rebase adds upstream boundary deduplication.

Anything you were unsure about

Activity metadata is advisory and second-resolution. Missing hints keep full active capture; unchanged hints still trigger full reconciliation within eight seconds (or the explicitly longer configured interval). As before, a burst larger than retained tmux scrollback/the line limit can exceed the saved bounded trail. Capture cost is elapsed time waiting for native capture, not CPU utilization. Windows load averages are explicitly unavailable. Counters cover currently rotating seats and reset when rotations stop/restart.

Scope for review: hint sharing, bounded backoff and live settings adoption while a capture is in flight. Provider readiness, delivery guards, structural activity and interactive terminal streaming are unchanged. A fairness/jobserver follow-up needs toolchain and policy agreement in #80.

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  • New Features
    • Added rig ps --resources to display host load, running seats, and transcript-capture statistics in JSON or readable format.
    • Transcript capture now adapts its polling cadence during idle periods and applies line-count and polling-interval changes without a daemon restart.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid transcript line-count and polling-interval settings are rejected with clear errors.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on resource reporting, adaptive capture, live settings, platform limitations, and transcript snapshot behavior.

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The daemon reloads transcript capture settings during rotation, adjusts capture cadence using tmux activity hints, and reports capture and host load measurements through a separate endpoint. rig ps --resources displays these measurements locally or through configured hosts. The changes also add settings validation, tests, and documentation.

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Transcript Capture and Host Resources

Layer / File(s) Summary
Live settings and adaptive transcript capture
packages/cli/src/commands/config.ts, packages/cli/src/config-store.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/user-settings/settings-store.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/transcript-rotation.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/node-launcher.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/transcript-capture.ts, packages/daemon/test/transcript-*.test.ts, docs/reference/host-resources.md
Transcript line and interval settings are validated and reloaded during rotation. Rotations use tmux activity hints to adjust capture cadence and track capture statistics. Tests cover live setting changes, adaptive capture, and native tmux behavior. Documentation describes capture behavior and settings.
Host resource endpoint and CLI reporting
packages/daemon/src/routes/ps.ts, packages/cli/src/commands/ps.ts, packages/cli/test/ps-resources.test.ts, docs/reference/host-resources.md
A separate endpoint returns host load, running-seat counts, and transcript capture statistics. rig ps --resources requests and displays the response for local and remote hosts. Tests cover the endpoint and CLI output.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TranscriptRotation
  participant SettingsStore
  participant TmuxAdapter
  participant TranscriptFile
  TranscriptRotation->>SettingsStore: Read current transcript settings
  SettingsStore-->>TranscriptRotation: Return settings
  TranscriptRotation->>TmuxAdapter: Read activity hint and capture pane
  TmuxAdapter-->>TranscriptRotation: Return hint and captured content
  TranscriptRotation->>TranscriptFile: Write changed transcript content
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Suggested reviewers: mvschwarz

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c54fa

rig ps --resources is mergeable. Remote error handling now follows the cross-host contract. The only remaining follow-up is small: when output comes from a remote host, it does not say which host produced it.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c54fa

The new reporting path preserves existing access controls, and inspected capture transitions guard against stale writes and overlapping captures. A verified credential-exposure condition remains when a registered host uses unencrypted HTTP, but comparison with earlier behavior shows that this PR does not introduce or materially expand that exposure. Deployment exposure and some failure-recovery behavior remain incompletely established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A resource invocation reaches the local daemon or one selected registered host. The retained transport exposure concerns the bearer sent to that host; interception could permit reuse within whatever authority that credential already grants. No additional credential authority or independently attackable host set was established, and cross-environment credential reuse was not determined.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The retained verified finding concerns bearer credentials transmitted to a configured plain-HTTP host. The registry permits that configuration, and the client forwards the Authorization header without requiring HTTPS. An attacker able to observe that unencrypted network path can obtain the bearer. Base-to-head inspection confirms ordinary remote ps already used the same credential, target URL, and transport; this condition predates the PR rather than constituting a newly introduced architecture concern.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new endpoint inherits common Host and browser-Origin checks. Those checks validate bearer credentials for certain untrusted target names, but do not require a bearer for every accepted request. Registry resolution fails closed when an explicitly configured credential cannot be loaded; hosts without credential pointers intentionally remain anonymous.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A database failure after rotation starts can leave rotation state even after tmux cleanup, because the launch failure path does not stop rotation. That lifecycle gap predates this PR; aggregate reporting can now reveal orphaned rotating-seat entries. These counters should therefore not be treated as authoritative persisted ownership or security readiness.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Require encrypted transport for bearer-bearing remote hosts, with any trusted loopback or protected-tunnel exception made explicit. Enforce that policy centrally so ordinary process reads and resource reporting cannot drift apart.
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Thanks for this. Backing off capture for idle panes, picking up interval changes live, and showing host load in rig ps are the parts we said on #80 we'd like to improve first, and we'll review it fully.

One request before review: please rebase onto current main. A transcript change merged since this branch was cut (#545, which keeps each repeated boundary marker once during rotation), and it edits transcript-rotation.ts, which this PR changes too. We'd like the review and CI to run against the combined code, so that fix carries through.

Once it's rebased, we'll review the new head with two reviewers, since capture runs for every seat.

Signed-off-by: Rudy Celekli <47457359+rudycelekli@users.noreply.github.com>
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Rebased onto current main 712a61f in signed head c54fa21, retaining #545’s unique structural boundary markers and unmodified current scrollback. The four feature/repair patches remain identical through rebase. All 33 combined transcript rotation/adaptive/live/native controls pass, including the native echoed-boundary regression; an independent review also passed 25 native transcript/HTTP checks without skips. The complete eight-job Tests gate passed at the exact rebased head: https://github.com/rudycelekli/openrig/actions/runs/37074913296. I also fixed the verified remote-resource error contract finding. Ready for your two-reviewer review; upstream checks will rerun for this updated head.

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const data = response.data;
if (json) { console.log(JSON.stringify(data)); return; }
console.log(`Host: ${data.cpuCount} available CPUs · ${data.runningSeats} running seats`);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Identify the host in remote resource output.

When rig ps --host <id> --resources succeeds, the human output starts with Host: but does not name <id>. Unlike ordinary remote rig ps output, saved resource output cannot identify its source. Print the host ID before the measurements when hostId is present. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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