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description	Navigate the agnt codebase — find where features live, how subsystems connect, and which files own what

agnt Codebase Search Guide

Use this skill when you need to find where something is implemented, understand how subsystems connect, or orient yourself before making changes.

Package Map

Package	Owns
cmd/agnt/	CLI entry points, PTY wrapper, MCP server bootstrap
internal/daemon/	Background service, session/process/proxy lifecycle, IPC hub
internal/proxy/	Reverse HTTP proxy, traffic logging, JS injection, WebSocket
internal/tools/	All MCP tool implementations and schemas
internal/overlay/	Terminal status bar, popup menus, ANSI output filtering
internal/chromedp/	Browser automation sessions (CDP)
internal/browser/	Chrome/Chromium process lifecycle
internal/tunnel/	Cloudflare/ngrok tunnel management
internal/snapshot/	Visual regression: baseline capture, image diffing
internal/aichannel/	AI agent CLI/API abstraction (Claude, Gemini, Copilot…)
internal/automation/	Prompt-driven task processing via claude-go
internal/project/	Project type detection (Go/Node/Python)
internal/config/	.agnt.kdl parsing, proxy/script config
internal/protocol/	IPC verb definitions and request/response types
internal/store/	Persistent key-value storage (global/folder/page scopes)
internal/debug/	Debug logging to ~/.cache/agnt/logs/

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Feature Search Index

MCP Tools

• All tool registrations: grep -r "Register.*Tools\|mcp.NewTool" internal/tools/
• Tool handler pattern: internal/tools/daemon_tools.go — handleProxy*, handleProc*
• Tool schemas (input/output structs): grep "json:\"" internal/tools/*.go
• get_errors tool: internal/tools/get_errors.go
• responsive_audit tool: internal/tools/responsive_audit.go
• daemon MCP tools (proc, proxy, proxylog, daemon): internal/tools/daemon_tools.go

Daemon — Process Lifecycle

• Process start/stop: internal/daemon/daemon.go — StartScript, autostartScript, CleanupSessionResources
• Autostart orchestration: daemon.go — RunAutostart, startAutostartScripts
• Dependency ordering: internal/daemon/process_readiness.go — ProcessReadiness, MarkReady/Failed/Exited, Wait
  • See also: docs/plans/2026-03-15-process-dependency-ordering-design.md
• Process state machine: internal/daemon/daemon.go + go-cli-server/process
• Script registry (ephemeral, rebuilt per session): go-cli-server/script.Registry
  • CleanupSessionResources clears it on last session disconnect
• Auto-restarter: internal/daemon/auto_restart.go
• Port conflict pre-flight: internal/daemon/port_preflight.go
• Alert scanning (compile errors, panics): internal/overlay/alerts.go → internal/daemon/alert_store.go

Daemon — Proxy Lifecycle

• Event pipeline (URLDetected → proxy creation): internal/daemon/proxy_events.go
  • handleURLDetected — URL in script output → find matching proxy config → create proxy
  • handleFallbackPortCheck — fallback-port used when URL detection fails
  • handleScriptStopped — cleans up proxies linked to a script
  • See also: .claude/rules/proxy-events.md
• Proxy creation from config: internal/daemon/daemon.go — autostartProxy
• Script→proxy tracking (which proxies belong to which script): scriptProxies map + trackScriptProxy

Daemon — Sessions & IPC

• Hub handlers (all IPC verbs): internal/daemon/hub_handlers.go
  • PROC LIST/START/STOP, PROXY LIST/START/STOP, SCRIPT LIST, SESSION LIST, ALERTS QUERY, DOCTOR RUN
• Session registration: internal/daemon/daemon.go — handleSessionRegister
• Session registry: go-cli-server/session.Registry
• IPC verb constants: internal/protocol/commands.go
• Client-side IPC: internal/daemon/client.go

Daemon — Health & Diagnostics

• Doctor checks (all check functions): internal/daemon/doctor.go
  • checkProcessHealth, checkProxyHealth, checkMissingProxies, checkRunningWithErrors, checkSessionHealth, checkStartupErrors, checkProcessTree
• Startup log (per-process events): internal/daemon/startup_log_store.go
• Alert store (ring buffer of process alerts): internal/daemon/alert_store.go
• Rogue process detection: hub_handlers.go — detectRogueProcess
• Reconciliation model: .claude/rules/daemon-architecture.md

Reverse Proxy

• ProxyServer (HTTP reverse proxy + WS + JS injection): internal/proxy/server.go
• ProxyManager (registry, fuzzy lookup, path-scoped): internal/proxy/manager.go
  • GetWithPathFilter — project-scoped lookup
  • ErrProxyAmbiguous — multiple fuzzy matches
• Traffic logging (1000-entry ring buffer, 14 log types): internal/proxy/logger.go
• JS injection into HTML responses: internal/proxy/injector.go
• WebSocket upgrade: internal/proxy/websocket.go
• URL tracking (detects dev server URLs in process output): internal/daemon/urltracker.go
• URL matchers (config-driven regex): internal/daemon/urlmatcher.go

Overlay & PTY

• PTY wrapper entry point: cmd/agnt/run.go — runCommand
• Output filtering (blocks alt-screen, clamps scroll region): internal/overlay/filter.go
• Output gate (freeze/unfreeze during menus): internal/overlay/gate.go
• Summarizer (formats process/proxy data for overlay): internal/overlay/summarizer.go
• Alert scanner (classifies output: compile errors, panics, warnings): internal/overlay/alerts.go
• Cross-process data flow: cmd/agnt/pty_common.go — wires scanner → daemon alert push

Browser Automation

• CDP session management: internal/chromedp/manager.go, session.go
• Screenshot capture: internal/chromedp/session.go — CaptureScreenshot
• Browser process lifecycle: internal/browser/browser.go

Configuration

• .agnt.kdl parsing: internal/config/agnt.go
• Proxy config (script linking, fallback-port, url-matchers): internal/config/agnt.go — ProxyConfig
• Script config (run, cwd, depends-on, ports, autostart): internal/config/agnt.go — ScriptConfig
• Dependency parsing + topo sort: internal/config/agnt_deps.go
• Config contracts (what fields must be honored): .claude/rules/config-contracts.md

Platform (WSL / Windows / Linux)

• Platform detection: internal/platform/wsl.go — IsWSL(), ShouldUseWindowsShell(path)
• Never use runtime.GOOS directly in WSL-aware code — always use platform package
• Cross-platform mandate: .claude/rules/daemon-architecture.md

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Key Architectural Rules

Before changing anything in internal/daemon/ read:

• .claude/rules/daemon-architecture.md — personas, source of truth, silent failure rules
• .claude/rules/daemon-lifecycle.md — process/proxy state machines, session ownership
• .claude/rules/proxy-events.md — event pipeline, known silent failure points

Before changing anything in internal/proxy/ or internal/config/ read:

• .claude/rules/config-contracts.md — fields that are parsed must be acted on

Import cycle constraint:

• daemon cannot import overlay (overlay imports daemon via status types)
• Use string parameters or interfaces to cross this boundary
• Conversion happens in cmd/agnt/pty_common.go

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Common Search Patterns

# Find where a specific IPC verb is handled
grep -n "VerbProxy\|\"PROXY\"" internal/daemon/hub_handlers.go internal/protocol/commands.go

# Find all places a ProxyEvent type is used
grep -n "URLDetected\|ScriptStopped\|FallbackPortCheck\|ExplicitStart" internal/daemon/

# Find all MCP tool input/output structs
grep -n "type.*Input\|type.*Output" internal/tools/*.go

# Find all places ProcessReadiness is called (dependency coordination)
grep -n "MarkReady\|MarkFailed\|MarkExited\|MarkStarting\|\.Wait(" internal/daemon/daemon.go

# Find all places the script registry is touched
grep -rn "scriptRegistry\." internal/daemon/daemon.go

# Find where a specific config field is read vs. acted on
grep -rn "FallbackPort\|fallback.port" internal/

# Find all hub handler functions (IPC verb implementations)
grep -n "^func (d \*Daemon) hubHandle" internal/daemon/hub_handlers.go

# Find all doctor check functions
grep -n "^func check" internal/daemon/doctor.go

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Data Flow Diagrams

Dev Server URL → Proxy Creation

Process stdout → URLTracker.Scan()
  → url-matchers (or regex scan)
  → onURLDetected(processID, url)
    → processReadiness.MarkReady(processID)
    → proxyEvents <- URLDetected{...}
      → handleURLDetected()
        → load .agnt.kdl
        → find ProxyConfig where Script == scriptName
        → proxym.Create(proxyID, targetURL)

Process Exit → Dependency Unblocked

ProcessManager removes process
  → URLTracker.cleanupRemovedProcesses()
    → onProcessStopped(processID)
      → processReadiness.MarkExited(processID)  ← unblocks all waiters immediately
      → proxyEvents <- ScriptStopped{...}
        → handleScriptStopped() → stop linked proxies

MCP Tool Call → Daemon IPC

AI Agent calls MCP tool (e.g. proc {action:"list"})
  → internal/tools/daemon_tools.go handler
    → DaemonTools.client.SendCommand("PROC LIST", filter)
      → Unix socket → daemon hub_handlers.go
        → hubHandleProcList() → ProcessManager.List()
          → JSON response → tool output

Session Connect → Autostart

agnt run / Claude Code session
  → daemon.handleSessionRegister()
    → session added to registry
    → RunAutostart(projectPath)
      → load .agnt.kdl
      → port conflict pre-flight
      → TopologicalSort(scripts) → layers
      → for each layer: startAutostartScripts()
        → processReadiness.MarkStarting(pid)
        → waitForDependencies() → processReadiness.Wait(depPid)
        → autostartScript() → StartScript()