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A daemon started from a Claude Code session or Herdr pane passed CLAUDECODE, CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID, HERDR_PANE_ID and the like to the tmux server it starts, and so to every seat. The daemon entry now removes a named list of parent-session identity variables (plus CLAUDE_EFFORT when CLAUDECODE shows a parent Claude Code session) before anything spawns. It removes only: PATH, HOME, CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, CODEX_HOME, ANTHROPIC_*, OPENAI_*, OPENRIG_* and other CLAUDE_CODE_* configuration pass through unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit 501385c)
…erver QA found that a tmux server already running with a Claude Code or Herdr parent's identity in its global environment still handed it to new seat panes; the daemon-start scrub only covers servers the daemon starts. At each seat's own boundary, the adapter now reads the server's global environment and, for the listed names present there, marks them removed in that seat's session environment only (set-environment -r). A new session's fresh pane is restarted so its shell starts clean; a handover respawn picks the marks up directly. The server's global environment and other sessions are never changed, explicit seat values stay, and CLAUDE_EFFORT follows the same CLAUDECODE rule. Clean servers see one extra read and nothing else. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit 8adfd84)
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe daemon and tmux adapter now remove inherited parent-session identity variables from daemon and seat environments. The changes preserve explicitly supplied seat values and leave unrelated configuration values unchanged. ChangesSeat environment isolation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TmuxAdapter
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TmuxAdapter->>TmuxServer: Read global environment
TmuxServer-->>TmuxAdapter: Return global environment
TmuxAdapter->>TmuxServer: Remove inherited identity keys from target session
TmuxAdapter->>SeatPane: Respawn pane if keys were removed
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Seats on an existing tmux server can still briefly receive the launching session's identity values, such as messaging tokens, while their first shell starts. If the server's global environment cannot be read, a seat can keep those values for its whole life while the launch still reports success. Address both before merging, since this change exists to isolate those values. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves identity isolation on successful launches, but a failed isolation step can leave a running terminal after launch is reported as failed. The earlier identity exposure during initial startup or an unreadable environment remains; it is not newly introduced by this PR. Retained concerns
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Review comments at @packages/daemon/src/adapters/tmux.ts:
- Around line 585-588: Update the first-pane startup flow around
excludeParentSessionEnv so the pane runs a controlled bootstrap that clears the
listed parent-session variables before launching the seat shell; do not rely on
respawn-pane -k after new-session, since the initial shell may already have read
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- Around line 602-605: Update the global environment read in the session launch
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| if (await this.excludeParentSessionEnv(exactTarget(name, "session"), Object.keys(seatEnv))) { | ||
| const respawn = ["tmux", "respawn-pane", "-k", "-t", exactTarget(name, "pane")]; | ||
| if (cwd != null) respawn.push("-c", cwd); | ||
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Sensitive Data Exposure
Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Start the first pane without parent-session identity.
If an existing tmux server carries CLAUDE_CODE_MESSAGING_TOKEN or another listed value, new-session starts the first pane before these lines remove the value. The first shell or its startup children can read or forward it. Killing that shell with respawn-pane -k does not undo the exposure. Start the first pane through a controlled bootstrap that clears the listed variables before running a seat shell. tmux documents that it merges global and session environments when it creates a pane. (man.openbsd.org)
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Review comment at @packages/daemon/src/adapters/tmux.ts around lines 585 - 588:
Update the first-pane startup flow around excludeParentSessionEnv so the pane
runs a controlled bootstrap that clears the listed parent-session variables
before launching the seat shell; do not rely on respawn-pane -k after
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| global = await this.run(["tmux", "show-environment", "-g"], "tmux show-environment -g"); | ||
| } catch { | ||
| return false; // Nothing readable to exclude; the launch itself is unaffected. | ||
| } |
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Yes. The official Node.js documentation lists `child_process.exec()`’s default `maxBuffer` as `1024 * 1024` bytes (1 MiB), **per stdout or stderr**. Exceeding the limit terminates the child process. ([nodejs.org](https://nodejs.org/download/release/v25.9.0/docs/api/child_process.html?utm_source=openai))
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OpenBSD tmux keeps a **global environment** and a separate **session environment**. When it creates a window—and thus starts its process—it merges them; if a variable is in both, the **session value wins**. New panes use the same environment rules. ([man.openbsd.org](https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1))
- `tmux show-environment -g` displays the global environment.
- `tmux show-environment -t SESSION` displays that session’s environment.
- `tmux show-environment -s` formats the output as shell commands.
- Variables prefixed with `-` are marked removed; `set-environment -u NAME` unsets a variable. ([man.openbsd.org](https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1))
So a session-level value overrides the global value for new processes; an unset/removed variable is not passed into them. The cited page is the current OpenBSD tmux man page, but it doesn’t specify a release number. ([man.openbsd.org](https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1))
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- 1: https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1
- 2: https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1
- 3: https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1
Sensitive Data Exposure
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Fail closed when the global environment read fails. The production executor uses Node’s default 1 MiB output limit, so a sufficiently large tmux global environment can make show-environment -g fail after new-session succeeds. The catch then skips scrubbing and respawning the initial pane, which can inherit sensitive values such as CLAUDE_CODE_MESSAGING_TOKEN. Capture the new session’s ID and creation time, then remove only that session before returning failure. Update the tests to expect failure and assert cleanup.
Capture and safely clean up the created session
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- const argv = ["tmux", "new-session", "-d", "-s", name];
+ const argv = ["tmux", "new-session", "-d", "-P", "-F", "#{session_id} #{session_created}", "-s", name];
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- const legacyParts = ["tmux", "new-session", "-d", "-s", shellQuote(name)];
+ const legacyParts = ["tmux", "new-session", "-d", "-P", "-F", '"#{session_id} #{session_created}"', "-s", shellQuote(name)];
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- try {
- await this.run(argv, legacyParts.join(" "));
+ let created: { id: string; at: string } | null = null;
+ try {
+ const out = await this.run(argv, legacyParts.join(" "));
+ const match = /^(\$\d+) (\d+)$/.exec(out.trim());
+ if (!match) throw new Error("tmux did not report the created session identity.");
+ created = { id: match[1]!, at: match[2]! };
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- } catch (err) {
- return classifyWriteError(err);
+ } catch (err) {
+ const result = classifyWriteError(err);
+ if (created && !result.ok) {
+ const removed = await this.removeCreatedSession(name, created);
+ if (!removed.ok && removed.code !== "session_not_found") {
+ return { ...result, message: `${result.message} The created session was not removed: ${removed.message}` };
+ }
+ }
+ return result;
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- let global: string;
- try {
- global = await this.run(["tmux", "show-environment", "-g"], "tmux show-environment -g");
- } catch {
- return false; // Nothing readable to exclude; the launch itself is unaffected.
- }
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| global = await this.run(["tmux", "show-environment", "-g"], "tmux show-environment -g"); | |
| } catch { | |
| return false; // Nothing readable to exclude; the launch itself is unaffected. | |
| } | |
| const global = await this.run(["tmux", "show-environment", "-g"], "tmux show-environment -g"); |
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Review comment at @packages/daemon/src/adapters/tmux.ts around lines 602 - 605:
Update the global environment read in the session launch flow to propagate
failures instead of returning false and continuing without scrubbing. Capture
the created session’s ID and creation time from `new-session`, then use the
existing `removeCreatedSession` mechanism to clean up only that session when the
read fails; update the tests to expect failure and verify cleanup.
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Thanks for the fix, @adampog, and for covering a tmux server that's already running as well as a fresh daemon start. We've approved the CI runs, and it's with the team for review. |
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Thanks, @adampog. A seat does inherit the launching Claude Code or Herdr session's identity variables, and Claude Code reads some of them, so a seat can behave as though it's nested in the session that started the daemon. Your list keeps everything a seat needs, and the cleanup runs before the harness launches, so it doesn't race startup input. Two changes, please, before this can merge:
Optionally, Claude Code also gives child processes We'll review it again once it's updated. |
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Fixes #767. Before: a daemon started from a Claude Code session or a Herdr pane handed that session's identity variables (
CLAUDECODE,CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID,HERDR_PANE_IDand similar) to the tmux server it starts, and so to every seat. A tmux server already running with them in its global environment passed them on too. After: seats start without the launching session's identity. Configuration still passes through:PATH,HOME,CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR,CODEX_HOME,ANTHROPIC_*,OPENAI_*,OPENRIG_*and otherCLAUDE_CODE_*settings.Two commits:
CLAUDE_EFFORTwhenCLAUDECODEshows a parent Claude Code session) before anything spawns.set-environment -r). A new session's fresh pane is restarted so its shell starts clean; a handover respawn picks the marks up directly. The server's global environment and other sessions are never changed, and explicit seat values stay. Clean servers see one extra read and nothing else.How you verified it
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b5a9deaf(currentmain) plus these two commits, Node 24.21.0, tmux 3.7c, Linux, with the daemon and CLI built:npx vitest runon the five touched or added daemon test files: 5 files, 188 tests passed. That includesseat-env-parent-session.integration.test.ts, which starts a scenario daemon and a real tmux server from a simulated Claude Code + Herdr parent environment and checks the seat environment, both when the daemon starts the tmux server and when one already exists.npm run lint: passed.Not run: the full
npm testandnpm run test:ui. Native Claude Code and Codex seats have not yet been launched with this change. Seat behaviour is proven with stub seats and a real tmux server only.Anything you were unsure about
This touches
daemon/src/adapters/tmux.ts, whichdocs/as-built/arteries.mdlists under message delivery and under restore. The tmux change only adds a read of the global environment and per-sessionset-environment -rat seat creation and handover, but that's the place to look hardest. The list of identity variables is explicit rather than pattern-based, so a future harness variable would need adding toparent-session-env.ts.CHANGELOG.mdeditMade with an agent team (Claude Code and Codex), with an independent QA pass before submission.
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