feat(cli-registry): drive install.sh and the Docker agent image from the CLI catalogue

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What this does

PR A made every run mode a data-driven CliEntry, but stopped at the server boundary. Everything outside the Node process still hand-maintains its own CLI list, and those lists have already drifted in ways that shipped:

• b6d0f1fa — "wire OMP into install.sh's CLI detection (it had none)". A user with only omp installed was told no AI CLI was found, and offered Claude Code.
• install.sh carried nine *_SEARCH_PATHS arrays, ~18 near-duplicate check_* / get_*_path functions, and three separate hand-written enumerations of all nine CLIs.
• The section comment above that code named six of the nine. The comment describing the drift had itself drifted.
• docker/agent.Dockerfile hardcoded its npm list, and the index.html hint describing the image omitted omp.

After this, adding a CLI to stock.ts and running npm run generate:cli-catalog wires it into the installer's detection, its install menu, its closing reminder, and the agent image's npm layer.

This is the second of the three PRs you staged: "install.sh + docker image reading the stock JSON, with the bash-3.2 fix and an enabled filter."

Shape

Neither consumer can import TypeScript, so the generator emits two committed artifacts:

Artifact	Consumer	Why not fetched
config/clis.stock.json	the Docker build, build-agent-image.mjs	a .mjs cannot import the TS registry
a marked block in install.sh	the installer itself	it runs via curl-pipe-bash before any checkout exists

npm run generate:cli-catalog writes both; --check fails on drift and runs in CI, and test/cli-catalog-sync.test.ts fails if either goes stale.

The embedded copy is the full catalogue. An earlier attempt fetched it with a hardcoded two-CLI fallback, which degrades silently on an empty response; there is no degraded mode to fall into now. An optional, opt-in refresh (CODEMAN_CLI_CATALOGUE_URL / CODEMAN_REFRESH_CLI_CATALOGUE=1) warns loudly on all three failure shapes.

Trust boundary, made mechanical

The server still never executes an entry's install command. install.sh executes only commands embedded in itself — same file, same TLS fetch, same commit as the one-liner that fetched it — and nothing pulled from the network at install time is ever run.

That is now structural rather than a convention: CLI_INSTALL_CMD_TRUSTED[] is written only by the generated block and is the array the menu executes; CLI_INSTALL_CMD_DISPLAY[] is what a refresh may overwrite and is display-only. test/install-sh-invariants.test.ts asserts the refresh function cannot write the executable array, and that it contains no eval.

The enabled filter

Your §3 finding: the earlier export carried no enabled field, so a CLI shipping disabled would still be baked into every image. The generated catalogue carries the flag and the image respects it.

It reads the stock catalogue, not the merged registry, so a user's ~/.codeman/clis.json cannot change what is inside an image tagged codeman/agent:base.

Every stock entry is enabled today, so that assertion would pass vacuously — a unit test feeds the pure helper a fabricated disabled entry so the fix is genuinely covered now rather than the first time someone ships one.

bash 3.2

macOS ships bash 3.2 and the documented install is a curl pipe into bash under set -euo pipefail, so no declare -A, mapfile, namerefs, ${x,,} or here-strings. The catalogue is parallel indexed arrays with offset/length windows into flat arrays rather than delimiters — safe for a $HOME with spaces, and a length-0 entry (the shell pseudo-CLI) is never iterated.

bash -n cannot see the failure mode that actually bites here: expanding an empty array under set -u is a runtime abort. So CI does both — bash -n, and executing the script inside a real bash:3.2 container with detection exercised end to end. That needed a sourcing guard (CODEMAN_INSTALL_SH_LIB) so the library half can be sourced without running the installer.

Behaviour changes, all in the installer

These are deliberate and worth your eye:

1. The install menu now offers five CLIs rather than two. It is built from the catalogue, so it lists every enabled CLI that is not installed and ships an install command. Gemini had a command in the registry and appeared in no list in the script at all.
2. Menu entries use the registry's labels — "Claude" rather than "Claude Code". Same trade already made for codeman doctor rows. A suffix map would just be the hand-maintained list again.
3. On a wget-only host the menu prints the commands instead of running them. The registry's commands call curl, whereas the two literals they replace went through download_to_stdout. Rewriting curl to wget inside a string about to be executed is the wrong instinct.
4. CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1 still defaults to Claude Code, unchanged.

docker/server.Dockerfile is deliberately untouched

#377 is still open and modifies it (#373 has since merged). Rather than edit a file another PR owns, its narrower CLI list is asserted as a declared omission list in test/docker-agent-image-coverage.test.ts, so the divergence is visible and reviewable without touching the file. Adding a CLI there, or changing the intent, now fails a test and forces the list to be restated.

Tests

Written in the order that makes each one non-vacuous, and each guard was proved by perturbing both sides.

File	What it pins
test/install-sh-detection-parity.test.ts	Written before deleting anything. The nine search-path arrays as literals, then that the registry's searchDirs × binaries reproduces them dir-major. They are not uniform (claude has ~/.claude/local, opencode has ~/go/bin and ~/.bun/bin), so silent narrowing means a user's installed CLI stops being found. Retargeted at the generated block afterwards.
test/cli-catalog-sync.test.ts	Both artifacts match stock.ts
test/install-sh-invariants.test.ts	Trust boundary, no eval in the refresh path, and no leftover per-CLI detection names — derived from CLI_IDS/CLI_ALL_BINS rather than an allowlist, which had already missed two
test/docker-agent-image-coverage.test.ts	Every enabled entry reaches the image via the arg or a special case carrying a written reason; no disabled entry does; a hostile package name is refused; the index.html hint names every binary
test/agent-image-build-args-parity.test.ts	The .mjs and the TS mirror produce the same packages, pairs and argv — two producers of one command line is exactly the shape that drifts, and the failure would be two different images under one tag

Verification: static gate green; bash -n clean; executed under a real bash:3.2.57 container; verified the Dockerfile ARG really word-splits (4 packages gives ARGC=4) and that the default still applies with no arg. Full suite diffed by test name against the master baseline — zero new failures.

Open questions for you

I did not want to decide these unilaterally:

1. Does "an enabled filter" mean the shipped flag only, or should install.sh also honour a user's ~/.codeman/clis.json disables? This does the shipped flag only.
2. Refresh opt-in (as here), or attempted by default with loud warnings?
3. Should CliDiscovery.install grow npmFlags / companionPackages so pi and deepseek stop being Dockerfile special cases? No for now, pinned with a test that demands a written reason for each.
4. Once fix(docker): bind-mount ownership, Compose override discovery, and the default runtime account #377 lands, should server.Dockerfile be wired to the catalogue (which would add pi/deepseek to the Compose image) or keep a deliberately narrower list?
5. shellcheck in CI now, or a follow-up issue?

Not in this PR

The frontend half — injecting window.__codemanCliCatalog and making mobile-overview.js / session-ui.js catalogue-driven — is held back as PR B2. Six of the thirteen open PRs touch those three files; splitting keeps this one conflict-free.

Separately, dsh_banner_probe in install.sh aborts on macOS bash 3.2 (local runner=() then "${runner[@]}" under set -u). It predates this PR and is reported rather than fixed here, to keep the diff reviewable.

Commits

• e71d954e test(install): pin install.sh's CLI detection paths before generating them
• 3c393196 feat(cli-registry): generate a CLI catalogue for install.sh and the Docker build
• 7c242802 refactor(install): drive CLI detection, the install menu and hints from the catalogue
• 9a1c1edf feat(docker): derive the agent image's npm CLI list from the catalogue
• e417b94d docs(cli-registry): document the catalogue's consumers and the trust boundary

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[Ark0N]

Thanks for this, and for doing the bash 3.2 work rather than assuming. Deriving the installer's detection, menu and reminder plus the agent image's npm layer from stock.ts is the right direction, and deleting ~430 lines of hand-kept bash while making the next CLI a one-step addition is a real win. Three things before merge, one of them a rule the repo enforces.

1. Rebase. The branch is conflicting with master, so GitHub is not running CI on it at all. The conflict is one import line in src/docker-hosts.ts, keep both.

2. The agent-image special cases are id-keyed tables outside stock.ts (src/docker-hosts.ts:487, scripts/lib/cli-catalog.mjs:29). AGENT_IMAGE_SPECIAL_CASE_IDS = new Set(['pi','deepseek']) and AGENT_IMAGE_SPECIAL_CASES decide which Dockerfile layer installs a CLI by its id. That is per-CLI behaviour keyed on id living outside stock.ts, which is exactly what the registry rule forbids. test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts cannot see it, because it matches ===/!==/case/includes(mode) and scans src/ only, so the guard passing here is a blind spot rather than a pass. Two copies also have to be kept in step by hand: the parity test pins their output on today's catalogue, not their contents.

This answers your open question 3. Put it on the data: a field on CliDiscovery.install, something like agentImageLayer?: { kind: 'dedicated'; reason: string } with absent meaning the shared npm layer, exported into clis.stock.json, filtered on by both producers, reason required by schema.ts, and read by the coverage test instead of the .mjs constant.

3. The changeset says the menu offers five CLIs; it offers nine (.changeset/cli-catalog-consumers.md:37). I sourced install.sh in the bash:3.2 container with no CLIs installed: every agent entry has a linux/darwin install.command, so offer_idx holds nine (Claude, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Pi, Grok, DeepSeek, OMP). This line ships into CHANGELOG.md, so please say "every enabled CLI with an install command (nine today)".

Then the ones that are smaller but change behaviour:

• DeepSeek is offered by the menu and its hint drops the caveat that matters (install.sh:584). The comment says an entry with no install command gets its docs URL because "DeepSeek ships no vendor one-liner", but the registry gives it npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh, so the elif at :597 is dead for every entry and DeepSeek is a live menu option at :2387. Choosing it installs the launcher, dsh_banner_probe accepts it, the installer prints "DeepSeek installed at ..." and counts it as an AI CLI, and nothing that got installed can drive a pane. The reminder this replaces explained that and pointed at the Run dropdown's profile installer. Keep the fix on data: have the generator emit an empty command plus the docs URL for entries with discovery.launcherProfile, or add a note field the hint prints. Either way the comment needs correcting.
• wget-only hosts lose every automatic install, including the npm ones (install.sh:2377). The old code ran Claude and OpenCode through download_to_stdout, which honours wget. Now when DOWNLOADER != curl the whole menu is suppressed, including the four npm install -g entries that never needed curl, and the script proceeds with no AI CLI where it used to install one or die. The changeset's "CODEMAN_NONINTERACTIVE=1 still defaults to Claude Code, unchanged" does not hold on such a host. Cheap to narrow: offer an entry when DOWNLOADER == curl or its command does not start with curl .
• The DISPLAY/TRUSTED split does not exist in the code (install.sh:665). cli_catalog_refresh's only write is CLI_LABELS[$CLI_IDX]="$label". CLI_INSTALL_CMD_DISPLAY is assigned only by cli_catalog_select_platform, so it always equals TRUSTED, and both the comment at :611 and docs/cli-registry.md:146 say otherwise. The refresh also runs at :2234, before the Node check at :2266, so on a host without Node it warns "unparseable content" (node-not-found being hidden by 2>/dev/null), and its node filter strips only \t/\n, so a fetched label reaches echo -e with other control bytes intact. On your open question 2: drop the refresh and the DISPLAY array, keep the embedded full catalogue. That matches your own "the embedded copy is the full catalogue" reasoning and is the simpler, safer answer. If you want to keep it, document it as label-only, move it after the Node step, and strip control characters.
• src/docker-hosts.ts:476: docker/agent.Dockerfile:35 says every token is validated against ^[@A-Za-z0-9][@A-Za-z0-9/._-]*$ "in the producing side", but agentImageNpmPackages(), which is the in-app auto-build path, has no such check. The source is stock.ts so the practical risk is nil, and the parity test proves equal output rather than equal validation. Validate in the generator, or share the regex, or at minimum name both producers in the comment.

Take-or-leave, and fine to apply at merge time:

• install.sh:439: the pre-existing bash 3.2 bug in dsh_banner_probe. Reproduced in bash:3.2 with timeout hidden, which is stock macOS: "${runner[@]}" on an empty array is an unbound-variable error under set -u, but on the left of a pipeline only that subshell dies, so the user sees install.sh: line 441: runner[@]: unbound variable and the probe returns false. A real dsh on a Mac is reported absent, so it mis-detects rather than aborts. One line (${runner[@]+"${runner[@]}"}), and it closes the only detection path your new bash-3.2 CI step cannot reach.
• test/docker-agent-image-coverage.test.ts:73: AGENT_DOCKERFILE.includes(binary) stays true if a layer is deleted but its comment survives. Anchor on the layer's proof line instead: every layer ends in <binary> --version.
• docs/docker-cases.md:37 says "four CLIs keep hand-written layers" then lists five. docker/agent.Dockerfile:61 "the other four CLIs" now describes a dynamic list. CLAUDE.md:443 says install.sh is 104KB and it is now around 112KB.

Rebase plus the registry field is the bulk of it. The rest is small, and I am happy to take the last three at merge time.

[opticon454]

Thanks for the thorough review — pushed 4733a340 addressing all of it.

1. Rebase. Done; the one real conflict was exactly the import line in docker-hosts.ts you flagged, kept both.

2. Agent-image special cases moved into the registry. AGENT_IMAGE_SPECIAL_CASE_IDS/AGENT_IMAGE_SPECIAL_CASES are gone. CliDiscovery.install.agentImageLayer?: { kind: 'dedicated'; reason: string } lives on the entry itself (pi, deepseek), reason required by schema.ts, both producers filter on its presence instead of an id, and docker-agent-image-coverage.test.ts reads it from the generated catalogue. Also added the npm-package-name SAFE_PACKAGE validation to the TS producer (only the .mjs one had it) — duplicated regex, necessarily, now pinned byte-identical by a new test rather than trusting the comment.

3. Changeset count. Reworded to state it structurally instead of a number — though the true count is now eight, not nine, because of the DeepSeek fix below.

The four behavior-changing findings:

• DeepSeek no longer offered as an install option (npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh installs only the launcher, which can't drive a pane on its own). The generator emits an empty command for any launcherProfile entry, so the menu's non-empty-command filter skips it and the hint falls through to the docs URL — matching what the pre-this-PR code did.
• wget-only hosts: the menu-building loop now filters per entry (only a command literally starting with curl is held back) instead of wiping the whole menu whenever DOWNLOADER != curl. The npm entries were never curl-dependent and are unaffected now.
• DISPLAY/TRUSTED + the refresh: dropped entirely, per your own recommendation. No network fetch, no second array, embedded catalogue only. install-sh-invariants.test.ts now asserts the refresh/DISPLAY machinery does not exist rather than testing its internals (which is also what was tripping its own eval-detection test — "eval'd" in a comment).

All three take-or-leave items, applied:

• dsh_banner_probe's bash 3.2 empty-array bug: ${runner[@]} → ${runner[@]+"${runner[@]}"}. Verified live in a real bash:3.2.57 container with timeout stripped from PATH — crashed before, clean now, detect_all_clis exercised end to end through it.
• The coverage test now anchors on each layer's <binary> --version proof line rather than Dockerfile.includes(binary).
• Doc drift fixed: docs/docker-cases.md (four → five, now describes the data field), agent.Dockerfile's "other four CLIs" comment (no longer a magic number, since CLI_NPM_PACKAGES is generated and can grow), CLAUDE.md's install.sh size (104KB → ~112KB) and its stale refresh mention.

Verification: tsc/prettier clean, the full targeted suite (142 tests across the 8 affected files) green, and — since this machine can't match your Linux CI exactly — I ran the full npm test gate twice: once on this branch, once on a clean upstream/master worktree on the same machine, and diffed the failing test names between them. Identical 201-name set both sides (168 tests / 67 files: symlinks, PTY spawning, POSIX permission bits, path separators — none of it touching anything this PR changes). Zero new failures either direction of the diff.

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