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This carries #1154 by @Aschenbath, with credit to them, in the smaller shape the review on #1154 asked for. Refs #762.

What's theirs:

• the validation;
• the audited save with its concurrent-change check;
• the read-only destination check;
• the route, the CLI verb and launch_cwd in status.

The branch keeps their four commits. The squash merge will carry them as one commit with a Co-authored-by: Nash Aschenbath <wwh86696@163.com> trailer.

What a user gets

rig seat set-cwd <seat> --cwd <absolute-path> --reason <text> saves an existing seat's working directory for its next
fresh launch or rebuild handover. Until now the only routes were deleting and recreating the seat, which loses its node,
history and handover lineage, or editing the database by hand.

What it keeps and records:

• the seat's node, canonical address, queue and history stay as they are;
• the directory and a node.cwd_changed audit event (from, to, reason, operator) are saved together, in one transaction;
• rig seat status shows the saved launch_cwd.

What it writes: it creates the folder if it's missing, and writes nothing else there. The next launch writes the
startup files, as launch does today.

Before saving, set-cwd's preflight policy reads, without writing, the enumerated resource copies and startup
skills that launch would place there, at their actual destinations. The change is refused (cwd_destination_conflict),
with the paths named, when the directory already holds:

• a file an operator edited;
• an unrecorded file with different content;
• two sources for one destination.

That's stricter than launch, which overwrites an unrecorded differing file with a warning. It's a point-in-time check of
those files as they are then, not a global overwrite guarantee or protection against later changes; at adoption, launch
applies its own policy. A refusal can leave the new folder created. An agent app takes no startup files,
so none are checked for it.

The saved directory doesn't move the running process. Adopt it with either of these:

• rig seat launch <seat> --fresh --stop --reason <text>, a blank conversation;
• rig seat handover <seat> --source rebuild --reason <text>, which carries durable context.

Background work can use the saved directory before adoption. For a running Claude seat, collector provisioning
writes .openrig/context-collector.cjs and merges .claude/settings.local.json there, under its existing preservation
rules. Managed compaction, manual or automatic, asks the seat to write its restore map there, which may be outside its
current workspace. Those are examples, not the only consumers. "Adopt promptly" is guidance, not a guard against a
compaction or poll racing your next command.

Before adopting, don't rig down/rig up or hand over by fork. Those resume the existing conversation in the saved
directory, and Claude keeps conversations per project directory. Native cross-directory resume is NOT RUN.

In-place Codex restart isn't adoption: it keeps the directory it observes from the running process.

Files in the old directory are left as they are, since other seats may still use them.

What changed from #1154, and why

The review on #1154 asked for a smaller shape. A second writer of startup files, outside launch, across every runtime
adapter, brought its own partial-failure states.

Kept, from Aschenbath's work:

• the validation (absolute, no NUL, created if missing, its real path, not a filesystem root);
• setNodeCwd with the audit event, in one transaction, with the concurrent-change check;
• the destination check, planCwdPreparation, built on the existing projection classification and manifest. It now
  only reads.
• the route, the CLI verb, and launch_cwd in status.

Removed:

• the projection and startup delivery ahead of launch;
• recordCwdPreparation;
• the delivery guard's configure path, since nothing is written ahead of launch any more;
• the tests for those.

Rewritten:

• the help and the docs (agent startup guide, capability map, rig-spec), with the adopt-first warning;
• the refusal codes: cwd_destination_conflict, cwd_check_failed, cwd_configuration_changed, cwd_persistence_failed.

From CodeRabbit's review of 492f49f1:

• setCwd resolves the seat's adapter with seatAdapter, as the fresh launch does. A direct map lookup refused a
  recorded community agent app's seat, which launch would resolve.
• The startup guide's section now follows the "Preview before replacing a seat" paragraphs instead of absorbing them.
• rig-spec.md has one cwd row: main's, with its expansion rules, plus the set-cwd sentence.
• Not taken up: checking .openrig/context-collector.cjs.
  • Every Claude launch on main copies the packaged collector over that OpenRig-owned path, in whatever directory the
    seat uses, today's included (claude-code-adapter.ts provisionContextCollector).
  • The collector is launch-owned, outside set-cwd's preflight policy for enumerated resource copies and startup
    skills.
  • Refusing it on set-cwd would protect a file that launch itself always replaces.

Brought up to date with main by a merge, with seven files in conflict. Both sides are kept in each: set-cwd
beside main's set-effort/effort, launch-plan and restart, and beside the delivery guard's custody lease.

How it was verified

• seat-set-cwd.test.ts (real SQLite; real Claude, Codex, Pi, OMP and stub file adapters): 35 tests.
  • The directory and one audit event are saved, custody is unchanged, and nothing is written into the new directory but
    the folder.
  • A symlinked destination is stored as its real path, and choosing the same directory again records no second event.
  • Refused, with no seat, custody or startup-file change: invalid input, missing or malformed startup context, an
    ambiguous seat, and destination conflicts for each runtime and resource kind, with the paths named.
  • Concurrent changes between the check and the commit, and audit-write failure, leave the old directory saved.
  • It works with the seat's typing guard on, without changing it.
  • A community agent app's seat resolves its adapter the way launch does, and its required startup skills (which it
    never takes) don't block the change. That case failed before round 2 with cwd_check_failed.
• The route, CLI lifecycle and handover-source tests pass, and the stub CLI journey (real CLI, daemon, SQLite and
  tmux) passes. The live process keeps its directory, and the selection survives a daemon restart and is used by a
  fresh launch.
• npm run build, npm run lint and npm run test:repo pass (299 passed).
• Hosted CI: on this PR.

Not run: native Claude or Codex conversation resume across directories.

The size against main: 16 files, +954 −12. That's about 400 lines of source and docs, and about 560 of tests. The
new seat-set-cwd.test.ts is 380 lines.

• One concern per PR; no version bump; no CHANGELOG.md edit
• Tests added or updated where the change is testable
• I listed the checks I ran, their results, and any checks I could not run

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• New Features
  • Added rig seat set-cwd to save an existing seat’s working directory for a future fresh launch or rebuild handover. The command requires a directory and reason, and records changes for auditing.
  • Seat status now shows the configured directory for future launches. The running process and files in the previous directory remain unchanged until the new directory is adopted.
  • The command requires an absolute path on the daemon host, creates missing directories, and checks for destination conflicts before saving. Refusals and warnings include relevant details or recovery guidance.
• Documentation
  • Updated the CLI reference, startup guide, onboarding guide, and rig specification with command usage and working-directory behavior.

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📝 Walkthrough

Adds rig seat set-cwd to validate and save an existing seat’s future launch directory. The daemon records changed directories with an audit event and reports the setting through status. A later fresh launch or rebuild handover uses the saved directory; the running occupant remains unchanged.

Changes: Seat launch directory update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Directory validation and destination checks packages/daemon/src/domain/seat-cwd-preparation.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/seat-lifecycle-service.ts, packages/daemon/test/seat-set-cwd.test.ts	The daemon validates the requested directory and startup context. It checks planned startup-file destinations without writing them, reports conflicts and warnings, and refuses invalid or changed configuration. Tests cover destination conflicts, path validation, and startup-context failures.
Persist and adopt the saved directory packages/daemon/src/domain/rig-repository.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/seat-lifecycle-service.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/seat-status-service.ts, packages/daemon/src/domain/types.ts, packages/daemon/test/seat-set-cwd.test.ts, packages/daemon/test/seat-handover-sources.test.ts, packages/daemon/test/stub-cli-journeys.integration.test.ts	A changed directory is conditionally saved with a node.cwd_changed event. Status reports the configured launch directory. Tests cover persistence, unchanged seat identity and running state, and use of the directory on a later launch or rebuild handover.
Expose and document set-cwd packages/daemon/src/routes/seat.ts, packages/daemon/test/seat-lifecycle-route.test.ts, packages/cli/src/commands/seat.ts, packages/cli/test/seat-lifecycle-verbs.test.ts, docs/as-built/cli-reference.md, docs/reference/agent-startup-guide.md, docs/reference/rig-spec.md, packages/daemon/context-packs-src/onboarding-width/public-what-you-can-do.md	The route and CLI expose the directory change, validation results, warnings, and timeout handling. CLI status displays the saved launch directory. The guides describe adoption requirements and the documented cwd resolution rules.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant SeatRoute
  participant SeatLifecycleService
  participant planCwdPreparation
  participant RigRepository
  CLI->>SeatRoute: POST cwd, reason, and operator
  SeatRoute->>SeatLifecycleService: setCwd
  SeatLifecycleService->>planCwdPreparation: inspect startup-file destinations
  planCwdPreparation-->>SeatLifecycleService: return conflicts and warnings
  SeatLifecycleService->>RigRepository: conditionally save cwd and audit event
  RigRepository-->>SeatLifecycleService: return persistence result
  SeatLifecycleService-->>SeatRoute: return lifecycle result
  SeatRoute-->>CLI: return HTTP status and result

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Possibly related PRs

• mvschwarz/openrig#1154: Implements the same rig seat set-cwd behavior, including destination-conflict checks and the node.cwd_changed event.

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The change saves a future launch directory and uses it on fresh launches and rebuild handovers. The reviewed paths show no actionable merge-blocking regression.

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🟠 Major · Protect the Claude collector during set-cwd. · seat-cwd-preparation.ts:41-57

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Protect the Claude collector during set-cwd.

set-cwd does not inspect .openrig/context-collector.cjs, although its conflict message says that the next launch will refuse protected overwrites. A subsequent Claude fresh launch or rebuild handover replaces this file with the packaged collector. This can discard operator-authored content without automatic recovery.

Add the collector destination to the preflight as a protected whole-file copy. Refuse cwd_destination_conflict when the destination exists with different content before persisting the new directory.

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Update the set-cwd preflight around the existing `copies` and `inspect` flow to
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Approved at c2b79fb. rig seat set-cwd saves an existing seat's launch directory with an audit event and a read-only destination check, and says plainly that the running process keeps its directory until the seat is relaunched there. Reviewed by an independent pair through round 2's exact head and by one focused reader on round 3's text-only change; required CI (8/8) passes at this head.

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