feat: add tinycomputer-accessibility (in-process desktop accessibility middleware) - #63
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…y middleware Moves the macOS AX/IOKit permission FFI, the Swift helper process, focused-text queries, the Globe key listener, automation-denial tracking and terminal/AX text heuristics out of the OpenHuman host into a plain library crate (no bus, no runtime) that hosts link directly. cpal-based microphone detection is behind the microphone-probe feature. unsafe is denied crate-wide and allowed only in the permissions FFI module. Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The new accessibility library has no identified merge-blocking issue and is mergeable after normal checks. macOS helper execution remains outside the reported CI coverage. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new desktop-accessibility library keeps its helper protocol private and includes owner-restricted caches and permission checks. No externally reachable write-control bypass was established. Risk remains low rather than minimal because helper permission identity and downstream use of best-effort focus validation are not fully confirmed. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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19-21: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReplace the stale host references in the public docs.
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autocomplete::start_if_enabled,paste.rs, and "the host's autocomplete refresh loop". None of these exist in this crate. The crate docs say it "imports nothing from a host". The crate also exportsclearasclear_automation_denial, so the nameclear()in the docs does not match the public API.Nothing in the crate calls
mark_system_events_denied. A host must find-1743in the error string fromfocused_text_context*by itself. Write this contract down using the exported names. As an alternative, makefocused_text_via_osascriptset the flag when its stderr contains(-1743). With that change, the short-circuit works without host code.Also applies to: 27-29, 34-36, 41-44
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- Around line 1-3: Add a concise module-level `//!` description at the start of
each affected test file: `crates/tinycomputer-accessibility/src/focus_tests.rs`
lines 1-3 describing the bounded command runner tests;
`crates/tinycomputer-accessibility/src/automation_state_tests.rs` lines 1-2
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- Around line 90-96: In the `focused_text_via_osascript` fallback branch for a
helper context with `raw_error`, preserve and return `ctx` when the fallback
returns an error; keep returning the osascript context when the fallback
succeeds.
- Around line 30-51: Update command_output_with_timeout to drain the child’s
stdout and stderr concurrently while polling with try_wait, then return the
collected output and exit status after the child exits. Add a test that emits
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Review comments at @crates/tinycomputer-accessibility/src/globe_tests.rs:
- Around line 1-4: Add a concise module-level `//!` description at the top of
the test module, and replace the duplicated `push_event_local` test path with a
test of the actual `push_event` queue-trimming behavior. Since `push_event` is
macOS-only, make it available to the test or extract a shared helper used by
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Review comments at @crates/tinycomputer-accessibility/src/globe.rs:
- Around line 136-160: In the `Err(err)` branch of `process.child.try_wait()`,
stop and reap the child before clearing `state`; call `kill` and then `wait` on
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state reset remain unchanged.
- Around line 257-290: Update ensure_globe_helper_binary to identify cached
binaries by a hash of the Swift source rather than relying on globe_listener_bin
existing, and compile to a unique temporary output before atomically renaming it
into place. Keep concurrent builds from writing or running a partially written
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Review comments at @crates/tinycomputer-accessibility/src/automation_state.rs:
- Around line 19-21: Update the public documentation in the automation-state
comments to remove references to autocomplete::start_if_enabled, paste.rs, and
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focused_text_context* and call the exported mark_system_events_denied and
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New plain library crate
tinycomputer-accessibility, moved out of the OpenHuman core (crates/openhuman-core/src/desktop/accessibility/): macOS AX / IOKit permission FFI, the persistent Swift helper process (focus, paste, overlay), focused-text queries andvalidate_focused_target, the Globe/Fn key listener, "System Events" automation-denial tracking, terminal heuristics and AX string normalisation.Why a library, not bus members
Hosts (OpenHuman's voice pipeline) need these answers synchronously and in-process (focus at hotkey press, paste validation, permission checks, Globe key polling). The
tinycomputercdylib is reached over the bus and itsPermissionsRequestcovers a different set (agent-desktop's Accessibility / Screen Recording / Automation, not Input Monitoring / Microphone), so nothing on the bus is equivalent. The crate has no bus, no async runtime and no engine; dependencies areserde,serde_json,log, pluscpalbehind the off-by-defaultmicrophone-probefeature.Notes
unsafe_codeisdenyfor this crate (workspace forbids it); onlysrc/permissions.rsallows it, for the macOS permission FFI, with// SAFETY:comments (same approach astinycomputer-cursor).once_cell::Lazybecamestd::sync::LazyLock.agent-desktop: it exposes no public equivalent (its trust checks are private to its macOS adapter and cover different permissions); the Swift helper and Globe listener have no counterpart there.cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy --all-targets -D warningsonx86_64-unknown-linux-gnu,x86_64-pc-windows-gnuandaarch64-apple-darwin(check only, no linker), and with--all-featureson Linux; 61 unit tests pass on Linux. macOS paths cannot run in CI.Summary by CodeRabbit