Let task agents use client Macs directly: bash, copy and hands

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Ian Gulliver
2026-10-17 23:45:31 -07:00
parent 8d9ba10849
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package agents
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"sort"
"strings"
"time"
"g.fc.run/misc/byre/internal/api"
"g.fc.run/misc/byre/internal/clients"
"g.fc.run/misc/byre/internal/mcp"
)
const (
defaultBashTimeout = 2 * time.Minute
maxBashTimeout = 10 * time.Minute
replyGrace = 30 * time.Second
copyTimeout = 10 * time.Minute
handsTimeout = 11 * time.Minute
)
func (m *Manager) clientTools(l *live) []mcp.Tool {
return []mcp.Tool{
{
Name: "list_clients",
Description: "List the Macs with byre's app open: the human's own machines, not the one byre (and your worktree) runs on. " +
"Each has its name, which the other client tools take as client, the human using it, and when the human last did something in byre from it. " +
"The most recently active one is listed first; it is usually the Mac the human sits at.",
InputSchema: json.RawMessage(`{"type": "object", "properties": {}}`),
Handler: func(ctx context.Context, raw json.RawMessage) (string, error) {
return m.listClients(ctx)
},
},
{
Name: "client_bash",
Description: "Run a shell command on a client Mac, as the human, with zsh as a login shell in their home directory, and get its exit status and output (stdout and stderr together, the last 64 KiB). " +
"It runs at once, with no approval. The command runs in its own process group, which is killed at the timeout. " +
"A command that quits byre's app on that Mac, for example to install a new build, ends this call with the client disconnecting, but the command keeps running.",
InputSchema: json.RawMessage(`{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"client": {"type": "string", "description": "The client's name from list_clients."},
"command": {"type": "string"},
"timeout_ms": {"type": "integer", "description": "Kill the command after this long (default 120000, at most 600000)."}
},
"required": ["client", "command"]
}`),
Handler: func(ctx context.Context, raw json.RawMessage) (string, error) {
return m.clientBash(ctx, raw)
},
},
{
Name: "client_copy",
Description: "Copy a file or directory from your worktree to a client Mac, replacing whatever is at dest there. " +
"Directories, app bundles included, are copied whole with their permissions and symlinks.",
InputSchema: json.RawMessage(`{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"client": {"type": "string", "description": "The client's name from list_clients."},
"path": {"type": "string", "description": "The file or directory, relative to your worktree."},
"dest": {"type": "string", "description": "Its new path on the client, absolute or starting with ~/, e.g. ~/Applications/byre.app."}
},
"required": ["client", "path", "dest"]
}`),
Handler: func(ctx context.Context, raw json.RawMessage) (string, error) {
return m.clientCopy(ctx, l, raw)
},
},
{
Name: "client_hands",
Description: "Call one of your hands tools (screen_list, capture, ax_tree, act, browser) on a client Mac instead of the Mac byre runs on: " +
"tool is the tool's name and arguments exactly what that tool takes. Window ids, refs and displays are that Mac's, so start with screen_list there. " +
"Every agent using that Mac shares one set of refs, so read the tree again if another agent may have. " +
"A call fails until the human has given byre's app Screen Recording and Accessibility (and Automation of Orion, for browser) on that Mac; say so when it does.",
InputSchema: json.RawMessage(`{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"client": {"type": "string", "description": "The client's name from list_clients."},
"tool": {"type": "string", "enum": ["screen_list", "capture", "ax_tree", "act", "browser"]},
"arguments": {"type": "object", "description": "The tool's arguments."}
},
"required": ["client", "tool"]
}`),
Rich: func(ctx context.Context, raw json.RawMessage) mcp.Result {
return m.clientHands(ctx, raw)
},
},
}
}
func (m *Manager) listClients(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
status, err := m.status(ctx)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
type row struct {
c clients.Client
last *time.Time
}
rows := []row{}
for _, c := range m.clients.List() {
r := row{c: c}
for _, s := range status.Clients {
if s.Login == c.Login && s.Host == c.Host && s.Commit == c.Commit {
r.last = s.LastActionAt
}
}
rows = append(rows, r)
}
if len(rows) == 0 {
return "No client Macs are connected.", nil
}
sort.SliceStable(rows, func(i, j int) bool {
a, b := rows[i].last, rows[j].last
return a != nil && (b == nil || a.After(*b))
})
now := time.Now()
b := &strings.Builder{}
for i, r := range rows {
fmt.Fprintf(b, "- %s (%s): ", r.c.Host, r.c.Login)
if r.last == nil {
b.WriteString("no action since byre started")
} else {
fmt.Fprintf(b, "last action %s ago", now.Sub(*r.last).Round(time.Second))
}
fmt.Fprintf(b, ", connected %s ago, app built from %s", now.Sub(r.c.ConnectedAt).Round(time.Second), r.c.Commit)
if i == 0 && r.last != nil {
b.WriteString(" (most recently active)")
}
b.WriteString("\n")
}
return b.String(), nil
}
type clientBashArgs struct {
Client string `json:"client"`
Command string `json:"command"`
TimeoutMs *int `json:"timeout_ms"`
}
func (m *Manager) clientBash(ctx context.Context, raw json.RawMessage) (string, error) {
args := clientBashArgs{}
err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &args)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("malformed client_bash call: %w", err)
}
if strings.TrimSpace(args.Command) == "" {
return "", errors.New("command is empty")
}
timeout := defaultBashTimeout
if args.TimeoutMs != nil {
timeout = time.Duration(*args.TimeoutMs) * time.Millisecond
}
if timeout <= 0 || timeout > maxBashTimeout {
return "", fmt.Errorf("timeout_ms must be between 1 and %d", maxBashTimeout.Milliseconds())
}
ms := int(timeout.Milliseconds())
cctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, timeout+replyGrace)
defer cancel()
reply, err := m.clients.Call(cctx, args.Client, api.ClientRequest{Op: api.Bash, Command: &args.Command, TimeoutMs: &ms})
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
if reply.ExitCode == nil || reply.Output == nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s's reply has no exit_code or output", args.Client)
}
status := fmt.Sprintf("exit status %d", *reply.ExitCode)
if *reply.ExitCode == -1 {
status = fmt.Sprintf("killed after %s", timeout)
}
return status + "\n" + *reply.Output, nil
}
type clientCopyArgs struct {
Client string `json:"client"`
Path string `json:"path"`
Dest string `json:"dest"`
}
func (m *Manager) clientCopy(ctx context.Context, l *live, raw json.RawMessage) (string, error) {
args := clientCopyArgs{}
err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &args)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("malformed client_copy call: %w", err)
}
if !filepath.IsAbs(args.Dest) && !strings.HasPrefix(args.Dest, "~/") {
return "", fmt.Errorf("dest %q must be absolute or start with ~/", args.Dest)
}
clean := filepath.Clean(args.Path)
if filepath.IsAbs(clean) {
return "", fmt.Errorf("path %q must be relative to your worktree", args.Path)
}
root, err := os.OpenRoot(l.dir)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
_, err = root.Lstat(clean)
root.Close()
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("path %q: %w", args.Path, err)
}
full := filepath.Join(l.dir, clean)
id := m.clients.AddTransfer(clients.Transfer{Dir: filepath.Dir(full), Name: filepath.Base(full)})
defer m.clients.RemoveTransfer(id)
cctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, copyTimeout)
defer cancel()
_, err = m.clients.Call(cctx, args.Client, api.ClientRequest{Op: api.Copy, Transfer: &id, Dest: &args.Dest})
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
return fmt.Sprintf("Copied %s to %s on %s.", clean, args.Dest, args.Client), nil
}
type clientHandsArgs struct {
Client string `json:"client"`
Tool string `json:"tool"`
Arguments *map[string]any `json:"arguments"`
}
func (m *Manager) clientHands(ctx context.Context, raw json.RawMessage) mcp.Result {
args := clientHandsArgs{}
err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &args)
if err != nil {
return mcp.TextResult(fmt.Sprintf("malformed client_hands call: %s", err), true)
}
if args.Arguments == nil {
args.Arguments = &map[string]any{}
}
cctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, handsTimeout)
defer cancel()
reply, err := m.clients.Call(cctx, args.Client, api.ClientRequest{Op: api.Hands, Tool: &args.Tool, Arguments: args.Arguments})
if err != nil {
return mcp.TextResult(err.Error(), true)
}
if reply.Result == nil {
return mcp.TextResult(fmt.Sprintf("%s's reply has no result", args.Client), true)
}
res := mcp.Result{}
err = remarshal(*reply.Result, &res)
if err != nil {
return mcp.TextResult(fmt.Sprintf("%s's result isn't an MCP tool result: %s", args.Client, err), true)
}
return res
}