fix(server): let Claude launch args override the derived permission mode - #11026
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A `--dangerously-skip-permissions` or `--permission-mode` set in Claude provider launch args was appended after T3's own `--permission-mode`, and the CLI resolves its permission inputs together rather than by argv order, so the user's flag was silently inert. The adapter now reads a permission flag out of the parsed launch args, uses it as the session's permission mode, and drops it from `extraArgs` so the CLI receives the flag once. Threads without such a flag keep deriving the mode from their runtime mode. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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--permission-mode default is ignored for a full-access thread, so every tool is still approved without a permission card. canUseToolEffect derives runtimeMode only from input.runtimeMode and returns allow immediately for full-access; make it honor the effective launchArgPermissionMode there as well.
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`--permission-mode default` is ignored for a `full-access` thread, so every tool is still approved without a permission card. `canUseToolEffect` derives `runtimeMode` only from `input.runtimeMode` and returns `allow` immediately for `full-access`; make it honor the effective `launchArgPermissionMode` there as well.
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Written by claude-fable-5-1 on behalf of Maria
canUseTool handling is unchanged by this pr. the existing behavior predates the change and is out of scope for the launch-args fix.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughClaudeAdapter now gives explicit permission launch arguments precedence over runtime modes, removes both permission flags from forwarded arguments, and adds regression coverage for bypass-permission behavior. ChangesClaude permission handling
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- Line 1464: Update readLaunchArgPermissionMode to return bypassPermissions only
when dangerously-skip-permissions has a null value, preserving value-bearing
forms such as false in extraArgs so startSession does not enable the permission
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Drop the hand-copied permission-mode list, the flag-name Set and the helper that filtered them back out of extraArgs. Destructuring the two keys off the parsed flags leaves the rest as extraArgs directly, and removes a list that would drift as the CLI gains modes. Only a bare `--dangerously-skip-permissions` or an explicit `=true` grants bypass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
| // passed through: the CLI resolves both inputs together, so argv order | ||
| // never let the user's flag win. | ||
| const permissionMode = | ||
| (launchArgPermissionMode as PermissionMode | null | undefined) ?? |
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🟡 Medium Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts:4660
An invalid --permission-mode such as typo is swallowed and assigned to queryOptions.permissionMode as if it were a valid PermissionMode, so the CLI never validates the configured argument and later setPermissionMode receives the invalid value. Validate the flag before removing it from extraArgs, preserving unrecognized values for normal CLI validation.
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An invalid `--permission-mode` such as `typo` is swallowed and assigned to `queryOptions.permissionMode` as if it were a valid `PermissionMode`, so the CLI never validates the configured argument and later `setPermissionMode` receives the invalid value. Validate the flag before removing it from `extraArgs`, preserving unrecognized values for normal CLI validation.
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- Line 4612: Update parseCliArgs so --permission-mode is removed from extraArgs
only when its value is a supported permission mode; preserve absent and
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| const claudeBinaryPath = claudeSdkExecutablePath; | ||
| const extraArgs = parseCliArgs(claudeSettings.launchArgs).flags; | ||
| const { | ||
| "permission-mode": launchArgPermissionMode, |
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rg -n -C 12 'CLAUDE_PERMISSION_MODES|permission-mode|extraArgs|PermissionMode' \
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts \
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts \
packages/shared/src/cliArgs.tsRepository: pingdotgg/t3code
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Keep unsupported --permission-mode values in extraArgs.
parseCliArgs accepts arbitrary string values. The destructuring removes --permission-mode=invalid, and the cast passes it to the SDK as PermissionMode. Validate the value against the supported modes before removing it. Keep absent and unsupported values in extraArgs.
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts` at line 4612, Update
parseCliArgs so --permission-mode is removed from extraArgs only when its value
is a supported permission mode; preserve absent and unsupported values in
extraArgs, and pass only validated values to the SDK field identified by
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Merges `upstream/main` at `02297e3db` into the fork, 35 commits from base `0f602b337`. Merge commit, not a rebase. Tracker entry: `docs/fork/upstream-merge-log.md`, 2026-09-11. `170` files landed against `166` in the upstream range; fork delta `756` files. The gap is six named files and reconciles: `ThreadStatusIndicators.test.tsx` and `sandboxControl.placement.test.tsx` landed as fork-test fixes amended into the merge, the three fork documents landed with it, and `PreviewLocalServerCard.tsx` was re-deleted per the inventory's deliberate-deletion list. `duplicate-adds.mjs` and `resolution-check.mjs` are clean — nothing landed as one side whole. ## What upstream shipped, and where it stands on Moatless ### Usable as-is These run on the fork's backend with no further work. - **A compact right-panel surface menu** (pingdotgg#11111) — the add-surface launcher goes from a card grid to keyboard-shortcut rows. This is where the fork's sandbox status badge lives, so the badge was re-stated on upstream's row rather than replayed; see the conflict notes below. - **Multiple-linked-PR badges, simplified** (pingdotgg#11104, pingdotgg#11180, pingdotgg#11101) — a thread with several links now shows the total linked count coloured by aggregate status, instead of naming a primary and counting the extras. This is **live on Moatless**: the backend serves `thread.pullRequests` and reports `threadPullRequests`, so the badge resolves. It is also a behaviour change a user will see, and it is what broke the fork's own badge test — the only thing that caught it. - **Settled threads recede in the sidebar** (pingdotgg#11101) — a settled row dims until hover or focus. Rides the settlement state Moatless already serves. - **Environments in the command palette** (pingdotgg#10722) — searching now returns environments beside threads and projects, with a subtitle. - **A blue/orange diff palette** (pingdotgg#10671) — client-side theme only. - **Question answers folded into tool activity** (pingdotgg#11014) — the chat timeline renders an answer to an agent's async question inside the tool call that asked it, rather than as a separate turn. The client half (`client-runtime/src/work-log/userInput.ts`, `shared/src/toolActivity.ts`, `MessagesTimeline.tsx`) works off data Moatless already sends. The server half is in the third bucket. - **Unpriced model activity is flagged** (pingdotgg#11021) — usage rows with tokens and no price read as unpriced instead of `$0.00`. Shared merge logic over the `server.getUsageSummary` the backend serves. - **Return to picture-in-picture when the right panel closes** (pingdotgg#11102) and **aligned floating-preview corners** (pingdotgg#10915) — both land in the hosted preview surface and both were taken; the fork's framed-runtime condition in `ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer.tsx` still covers the case upstream's `framed` check does not. - **Collapse a tool call by clicking its expanded label** (pingdotgg#11017), **provider update text fitting inside sidebar notices** (pingdotgg#11034), **no seams in the topbar scroll fade** (pingdotgg#10914), **centered PR unavailable states** (pingdotgg#11110), **no sidebar PR link icon** (pingdotgg#11179). - **Mobile** (pingdotgg#11128, pingdotgg#11127, pingdotgg#11114, pingdotgg#11115, pingdotgg#11118 / pingdotgg#11079 / reverted in pingdotgg#11098, pingdotgg#11113) — shared markdown renderer rename, composer transition and final-frame fixes, tablet close controls for files and terminal, and playback preserved across fullscreen transitions. ### Unsupported in Moatless / needs implementation - **The device hub** — the whole of pingdotgg#10677, pingdotgg#10854, pingdotgg#10855 and pingdotgg#10856: iOS simulators and Android emulators a person and an agent can share. Server side is `apps/server/src/device/` (`LocalDeviceHost.ts` drives the machine the server runs on, `SshDeviceHost.ts` drives another over SSH, `DeviceHubProxy.ts` fronts the video and accessibility streams) plus an MCP toolkit at `apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/device/` that gives the agent tap/type/screenshot. Client side is a `device` right-panel surface (`apps/web/src/components/device/`) and a Device hosts settings page. Eight methods plus one stream, all newly declaring `UnsupportedMethodError` in `packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts`: `device.configure`, `device.list`, `device.testHost`, `device.open`, `device.close`, `device.shutdown`, `device.detail`, `device.action`, and the `subscribeDeviceState` push stream. **Nothing gates the surface on a capability.** `ChatView.tsx` passes `deviceAvailable={activeThreadRef !== null}`, so the launcher offers a Device row on every thread. `subscribeDeviceState` never resolves on Moatless, so the state stays empty, `onboardingCompleted` is false, and clicking the row opens `DeviceSetup` rather than the panel — whose first step, "Enable the device hub", calls `device.configure` and shows the refusal. A dead end a person can walk into. One additive `FEATURES.deviceHub` read on the two `deviceAvailable` props would drop the row instead; **this merge did not add it**, and it is recorded as the open work in `docs/fork/gaps.md` under _The device hub_. Implementing it on the backend is a real question rather than a stub: the hub needs Xcode or the Android SDK on whatever host it drives, and its stream is a second connection beside the RPC one. - **Label and reviewer updates without redundant reloads** (pingdotgg#11117) — optimistic cache writes in `client-runtime/src/state/pullRequests.ts` over `pullRequests.update`. Rides the `pullRequests.*` group, which Moatless does not serve and which the `pullRequests` capability already keeps off, so it changes nothing here until that group lands. - **Emphasised primary PR actions** (pingdotgg#11105) and **save a PR body with Cmd/Ctrl+Enter** (pingdotgg#10660) — same surface, same condition. - **Zed remote links accepting root paths and Windows servers** (pingdotgg#11044) — builds an SSH open target the Electron shell hands to a local editor. That path needs a desktop shell, so it does not reach this fork's browser client; `shell.openInEditor` remains unsupported. Not a fork target, listed for completeness. - **Marketing** (pingdotgg#11146, pingdotgg#11145) — `apps/marketing` is upstream's own site; inherited and inert here. ### Backend behavior to consider reproducing in Moatless Server-side fixes upstream made to its own runtime. Moatless implements the same contract, so each is worth checking against its own implementation. - **Claude launch args override the derived permission mode** (pingdotgg#11026, `apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts`). Upstream derives a permission mode from the thread's settings and then appends the agent's launch args; an explicit `--permission-mode` in those args used to be overridden by the derived one instead of winning. If Moatless derives a permission mode the same way, a user who set the flag explicitly is being ignored in the same place. Cheapest of the three to check. - **Project identity resolved before legacy PR relinks** (pingdotgg#11045, `apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.ts`). A legacy pull-request link is relinked to its thread on load; upstream now resolves the project's repository identity first, so a relink cannot bind a link to the wrong project when two projects share a branch name. The fork fills `thread.pullRequests` from a Task's GitHub bindings, so it has the same ordering question: the binding has to know which project it belongs to before it is attached. - **Question answers in the published activity payload** (pingdotgg#11014, `apps/server/src/orchestration/ActivityPayloadProjection.ts`). The projection now folds `projectQuestionToolInput` into the activity payload for both `mcp_tool_call` and plain tool items, which is what lets a client render the answer inside the tool call. Moatless does not report `agentActivityPublishing`, so nothing reads this today — but if it ever publishes activity, this is the shape to publish. ## Conflicts and how they were resolved 11 conflicted files, resolved on the verdicts `preflight.mjs` printed. Additive on both sides, both kept: `MessagesTimeline.tsx` (imports), `client-runtime/src/rpc/client.ts` (the fork's four subscription tags against upstream's `subscribeDeviceState`), `rightPanelStore.ts` (the fork's `sandbox` kind against upstream's `device`), `rpc.ts` and `RpcAuthorization.ts` (the fork's thread-server / sandbox / subtasks methods and scopes against upstream's eight `device.*` ones), and `ChatView.tsx` (both right-panel arms, both `onAdd*` props at the inline and sheet call sites, and upstream's extended `closePreviewPanel` under the fork's proactive preview-open effect). `PreviewEmptyState.tsx` and `ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer.tsx` took upstream's `DiscoveryList` and `rounded-[inherit]` with the fork's sandbox-read error line and framed `hasPreviewSurface` condition re-stated on top. `PreviewLocalServerCard.tsx` was a modify/delete conflict and was re-deleted. `pnpm-lock.yaml` auto-merged this time, so `--theirs` had nothing to do; it was reset to `upstream/main` and the fork edges re-derived with `vp i`. Two findings worth reading: **A `converged` delta can lose the line it was anchored to.** pingdotgg#11111 rebuilt the add-surface menu from cards into rows, and the fork's sandbox badge in `RightPanelTabs.tsx` (7 conflicts, the hard one) had no literal home left. It was re-stated on upstream's row — between the label and the `Kbd`, additively, no prop threaded and no upstream JSX re-indented — rather than replayed. The fork's placement test caught the other half: upstream's rows stopped rendering the action `description` at all, in its own Device action too, so the test was asserting on markup nobody emits. It now asserts the rendered label. **A silent auto-merge changed behaviour with no marker, no type error and no resolution-check hit.** pingdotgg#11104 and pingdotgg#11180 changed what the multi-PR badge counts and hoisted `state` onto both badge shapes with a new `draft` colour. Only the fork's `ThreadStatusIndicators.test.tsx` failed, on `+1` against `+2`. Fixture gained the now-required `state`; the expectation was updated to upstream's semantics. ## Inventory and gaps - New `pathPolicy` rows for the paths this merge decided without a cached verdict: `right-panel-surfaces`, `client-runtime-rpc-client`, `thread-status-indicators`, `fork-sandbox-components`. `inventory-check.mjs` is clean. - New gaps entry: _The device hub_, under **Methods the backend does not dispatch**. It names the nine union entries holding it open, the missing `FEATURES.deviceHub` gate, and what closing it costs. - Owned-concern sweep: 11 keyword hits, all false positives. Ten are device-hub files matching the `client-identity` concern on `host`/`proxy` — that concern is about device *pairing* identity, not simulators — and the eleventh, `McpProviderSession.test.ts`, matched on `session`. No concern entry. ## Verification `verify.mjs`: `duplicate-adds`, `tripwires`, `resolution-check`, `unsupported-methods`, `fmt:check`, `lint` and `typecheck` pass. `test` is red on **one** package, and it is not this merge: `@t3tools/desktop`'s `scripts/browser-secret-native.test.mjs > bundled libsecret helper` cannot find `libsecret-1` in this sandbox's pkg-config path. A missing system package, not a code defect — 1 file failed of 102, and the standing entry is in `docs/fork/gaps.md` under _The desktop suite needs libsecret_. One thing to know about reading that log: four packages did not finish under `vp run -r test` and were each re-run alone — mobile `157` files, `t3` `315`, web `389`, relay `30`, all passing. The truncated parallel pass reported a failure that does not exist, `shikiReviewHighlighter.test.ts > initializes source and snippet highlighting without a warmup`, which passes in the alone run and which neither side of this merge touches. The retry lines at the end of the log are the result; the parallel output above them is not. Not reported green. The fork has no CI on pull requests (`docs/fork/gaps.md`, _Nothing checks a pull request_), so this is the whole of the evidence. --- Moatless task: https://moatless.soaplabstest.com/tasks/211b4f8f-7de2-46c8-9ded-330d0cda4add
## What's Changed * fix(pr): update labels and reviewers without redundant reloads by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11117 * fix(chat): fold question answers into tool activity by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11014 * fix(usage): flag unpriced model activity instead of showing $0.00 by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11021 * fix(server): let Claude launch args override the derived permission mode by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11026 * fix(editors): accept root paths and Windows servers in Zed remote links by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11044 * fix(web): center pull request unavailable states by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11110 * fix(web): remove sidebar pull request link icon by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11179 * fix(ui): color linked pr counts by aggregate status by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11180 * fix(preview): render website favicons for browser tool activity by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11032 * fix(web): simplify pull request summary sections by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#10612 * fix(web): preserve drafts when compacting context by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11103 * fix(server): queue messages during context compaction by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11107 * perf(web): format minimap previews only when opened by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11181 * perf(web): reuse completed Markdown prefixes while streaming by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11193 * perf(web): resume syntax highlighting from completed lines by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11196 * perf(web): preserve completed code-line DOM while streaming by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11198 * perf(web): huge-thread switch no longer blanks the chat pane by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11169 **Full Changelog**: pingdotgg/t3code@v0.0.41-nightly.20260911.1520...v0.0.41-nightly.20260911.1533 Upstream release: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/releases/tag/v0.0.41-nightly.20260911.1533
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--dangerously-skip-permissions(or--permission-mode) set in Claude provider launch args was appended to argv after the--permission-modeT3 derives from the thread runtime mode, and the Claude CLI resolves its permission inputs together rather than by argv order, so the user's flag was silently inert and every non-edit tool call still round-tripped to a T3 approval card.ClaudeAdapter.startSessionnow reads a permission flag out of the parsed launch args and uses it as the session's permission mode, dropping it fromextraArgsso the CLI receives the flag exactly once. Keeping it inpermissionModealso meansallowDangerouslySkipPermissions, thesession.configuredpayload, and the plan-mode restore path all agree with what the CLI actually runs. A thread with no such flag keeps deriving its mode from its runtime mode, and an unrecognized--permission-modevalue is left inextraArgsfor the CLI to reject rather than being silently swapped.Verified:
vp test run src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.tsinapps/server— 127 passed, including the added case that a launch-arg flag beats anauto-accept-editsthread.vp run --filter t3 typecheck— clean (suggestions only).vp lintandvp fmt --checkon both changed files — clean.Out of scope:
--permission-modeis per-provider, so this remains a global setting that outranks the per-thread runtime mode picker; surfacing that in provider settings, and the same class of bug in the Cursor and OpenCode adapters (#6533, #5164), are separate changes.Fixes #7577
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