| name | edgeone-makers-env-adaption |
| description | Environment-specific adaptation rules for EdgeOne Makers Skills running in sandboxed or restricted AI coding environments (e.g. WorkBuddy). Trigger when: the user is working in WorkBuddy or a sandboxed IDE where CLI prompts hang and network is proxy-isolated (but browser login still works). Covers: non-interactive CLI flags, network isolation workarounds, login in sandbox, proxy bypass, file preview constraints (MUST use http:// via dev server, NEVER file://, NEVER python -m http.server / npx serve), dev server requirements. |
| pathPatterns | ["*.sh","package.json"] |
| validate | [{"pattern":"python\\s+-m\\s+http\\.server|npx\\s+(serve|http-server)","message":"Use `edgeone makers dev` — self-hosted static servers skip Blob credentials, Cloud Functions routing, Edge Functions and middleware."},{"pattern":"localhost:80(88|89)","message":"Use 127.0.0.1, not localhost — in the sandbox localhost resolves to ::1 and yields false 404s."}] |
| metadata | {"author":"edgeone","version":"1.1.1"} |
Runtime Environment Adaptation Guide
This document describes the special constraints and adaptation rules for EdgeOne Makers Skills across different AI coding environments.
Currently covered: WorkBuddy (Tencent sandboxed IDE)
🚦 Quick Reference: Preview Decision Tree
When you reach the "display / preview" step, read this first before deciding how to call present_files:
┌─ Delivering finished work? ── Yes ──→ present_files(deployed EdgeOne URL) ✅
│
Enter ┤
preview │ ┌─ dev server running? ─ Yes ──→ present_files(http://127.0.0.1:8088/) ✅
└─ Still iterating? ───┤
└─ No ──→ start edgeone makers dev → present_files(...)
| What you want to do | Correct approach | Wrong approach (breaks) |
|---|
| Preview local dev server | present_files("http://127.0.0.1:8088/") | ❌ Passing /path/to/index.html (IDE opens it via file://) |
| Preview a deployed project | present_files(deploy_url) with ?eo_token=... | ❌ Passing a local dist/index.html path |
| Start dev server | edgeone makers dev --name <p> --skip-env-sync | ❌ python -m http.server / npx serve |
| Verify dev server is up (agent-side API check) | curl --noproxy '*' http://127.0.0.1:8088/api/... ✅ works (same sandbox) | ❌ curl localhost:8088 / plain curl (proxy + IPv6 → 404/000) |
| Verify dev server is up (user-facing) | present_files(http://127.0.0.1:8088/) (platform tunnel) | ❌ Telling user to open 127.0.0.1:8088 — their browser can't reach the sandbox |
Core iron rule: inside a Makers project, any HTML / URL preview MUST go through the HTTP protocol. file:// looks convenient, but fetch / SSE / Blob / KV all break under it.
Violation symptoms self-check (if you see these, go back up immediately)
- Browser Console:
TypeError: Failed to fetch / CORS policy errors
- Page HTML loads fine but all JS requests 404
- SSE / EventSource disconnects immediately on connect
- Works locally but breaks once deployed (or vice versa)
WorkBuddy Sandbox Environment
WorkBuddy is a sandboxed remote IDE environment. When running AI coding tasks, it has the following constraints that differ from local development.
⚠️ Common misread: WorkBuddy is a desktop IDE sandbox, NOT a headless environment.
- CLI interactive prompts (site picker, confirmations) hang inside the sandbox → use the non-interactive flags in this section.
- BUT browser login (
edgeone login --site <x>) works fully — WorkBuddy launches the host OS browser AND routes the OAuth callback back into the sandbox.
Deploy/link login should default to browser login and only fall back to -t <token> after browser login is confirmed to fail. Do NOT jump to token login just because the caller is an "Agent".
1. Non-interactive mode (all CLI commands must avoid interactive prompts)
Inside the WorkBuddy sandbox, CLI interactive prompts cause the process to hang forever. All edgeone CLI commands must carry non-interactive flags:
| Scenario | Required flag | Reason |
|---|
| Local development | --skip-env-sync | Skips the "sync environment variables?" confirmation |
| Linking a project | --name <project> | Skips the interactive project picker |
| Auth when not logged in | -t <token> | Passes the token directly, no login popup |
| Deploy output | --json | Machine-readable JSON, avoids ANSI parsing |
edgeone makers dev --name my-project --skip-env-sync
edgeone makers deploy -n my-project --json
edgeone makers dev
2. Login authentication
Token resolution priority (the CLI checks in this order automatically):
-t <token> command-line argument
EDGEONE_PAGES_API_TOKEN environment variable
<cwd>/.edgeone/auth.json (written by edgeone login --local)
~/.edgeone/ global credentials
Recommended approach: browser login + the --local flag:
edgeone login --site china --local
--local writes credentials to the project directory at <cwd>/.edgeone/auth.json, bypassing home-directory write restrictions.
Login status detection:
edgeone whoami
When is login actually required? Login is only needed when the project uses Blob or other credentialed backends — and strictly because of the dependency chain: Blob requires the project to be linked, and linking requires a logged-in account first. So edgeone makers dev for a pure-static site runs fine without login — do NOT force a login prompt for static-only previews. Login (or -t <token>) becomes mandatory the moment dev/deploy must touch Blob storage. (The trigger condition and the link chain live in makers-storage.)
CLI version requirement: >= 1.6.7 (older versions lack the non-interactive fixes; whoami will hang)
3. Network isolation (dev server reachability from Bash)
The Bash tool and edgeone makers dev run in the same sandbox (same machine), so the loopback dev server IS reachable from Bash. The earlier claim that "Bash curl is isolated and returns 404" is wrong — the failures are caused by the proxy (§5) and the IPv6 localhost (§4), not by network isolation.
| Verification method | Availability | Notes |
|---|
Built-in browser preview (present_files) | ✅ Available | Uses the platform tunnel; the ONLY way the user's browser can see the sandbox dev server |
| User's system terminal | ✅ Available | curl http://127.0.0.1:8088/ |
| Bash tool curl (agent-side API checks) | ✅ Available only with --noproxy '*' + 127.0.0.1 | Plain curl localhost:8088 fails: (a) localhost→::1 (§4), (b) proxy hijacks the request (§5) |
Practical rule:
- Use
curl --noproxy '*' http://127.0.0.1:8088/... from Bash to agent-side verify API endpoints during testing — this works (it was used to validate a full create→upload→like flow).
- Do NOT rely on Bash curl to show the page to the user. The user's browser cannot reach
127.0.0.1:8088 inside the sandbox; for a user-facing preview, pass the dev URL to present_files (platform tunnel) or deploy and share the live URL.
4. Force IPv4 (127.0.0.1, not localhost)
The dev server listens on the IPv6 dual stack (::), but in the sandbox localhost resolves to ::1, causing false 404s.
curl http://127.0.0.1:8088/
curl http://localhost:8088/
The preview URL must also use 127.0.0.1:
present_files: http://127.0.0.1:8088/
5. Proxy hijacking (curl needs --noproxy)
The sandbox injects an http_proxy environment variable; curl goes through the proxy by default, which swallows the SSE streaming response.
curl --noproxy '*' http://127.0.0.1:8088/api/chat
curl http://127.0.0.1:8088/api/chat
The built-in browser preview is not affected by the proxy.
6. Home directory write restriction
The sandbox blocks writes to ~/.edgeone/, but allows writes to the project directory.
| Path | Writable | Notes |
|---|
<cwd>/.edgeone/ | ✅ | Where --local writes |
~/.edgeone/ | ❌ | EPERM error |
A setLocalData EPERM does not affect the running service; it only affects the CLI's local state persistence.
7. Command execution mode (sync vs async)
| Command | Execution mode | Reason |
|---|
npm install | Foreground sync | Usually 10-30s; running it in the background would leave later commands missing dependencies |
edgeone makers dev | Background async (run_in_background) | Long-running process, must not block the conversation |
edgeone makers deploy | Background async (run_in_background) | Cold deploys (build → upload → Process → live) routinely take 2–10+ minutes. The foreground wall-clock budget (~100s) SIGKILLs the CLI mid-deploy (exit 137) even while it keeps printing progress — you lose the final URL line. Run it in the background and wait for the completion notification. |
7.2 Deploy in background — why, and what the kill really means
- Foreground kill = wall-clock budget, not a hang. A foreground Bash command in this sandbox has a fixed ~100s wall-clock budget; at the limit the whole process tree gets SIGKILL (
exit 137 = 128 + 9), regardless of whether it keeps printing. During a deploy the CLI prints Deployment in progress... elapsed: ~XXs every ~10s — those heartbeat lines do NOT reset or extend the budget. So "still printing → killed at ~100s" is expected, not a stall.
- Killing the CLI does NOT usually fail the deploy. The deployment itself runs server-side. A foreground CLI killed at
Created deployment / Process has very likely continued on the server and gone live (confirmed in practice: a deploy killed at ~100s was later verified live, took ~674s end-to-end). Re-running deploy (same -n <project>) reuses the project and returns the URL.
- Always use
run_in_background: true for deploy so the CLI survives past the foreground budget and emits the final --json line with the live URL. Do not poll the task across turns — rely on the <task-notification> completion event. (Cross-turn TaskOutput may report the handle as "not found"; the process still finished.)
--json still prints progress heartbeats to stdout/stderr, not a single clean JSON line. Parse the last line for the result object; treat the progress lines as noise. (This is a CLI cleanliness issue, unrelated to the kill behavior — do not assume "no output = process ended"; the sandbox judges liveness by OS process state, not by stdout bytes.)
- Clean up background processes after use: a
edgeone makers dev left running keeps holding port 8088 and may collide with the next dev/deploy. Stop it with TaskStop or kill it when the session moves on.
7.1 Preview & Dev Server full flow (MUST use HTTP, file:// forbidden)
After finishing development, start the dev server and preview directly — do not ask "do you want to preview?". Full flow:
⚠️ WorkBuddy default behavior: when you create an HTML file the platform may auto-open a preview via file:// — ignore it, that is not a valid preview. You must wait until edgeone makers dev is up, then re-open via the HTTP URL to override it.
- Start
edgeone makers dev --name <project> --skip-env-sync (background async, see §7)
- Wait 2-3 seconds for the dev server to be ready
- Pass
http://127.0.0.1:8088/ to present_files (note it is 127.0.0.1, not localhost — see §4)
- Tell the user: "The project's local preview is running, please check it out. If everything looks good, I can deploy it live for you directly."
Only after the user confirms, run edgeone makers deploy -n <project> --json (background async, see §7 and §7.2 — it exceeds the foreground wall-clock budget).
⛔ file:// preview is strictly forbidden
Never pass a local HTML path to present_files — the IDE opens it via the file:// protocol, which breaks fetch / SSE / Blob / KV entirely. No exceptions, no "just a quick look" scenario.
present_files("http://127.0.0.1:8088/")
present_files("https://my-app-w9t0lxe8.edgeone.cool?eo_token=...")
present_files("/Users/foo/dist/index.html")
present_files("./dist/index.html")
present_files("file:///Users/foo/dist/index.html")
present_files("https://my-app-w9t0lxe8.edgeone.cool")
⚠️ URL truncation = 401: the deploy URL's ?eo_token=...&eo_time=... are auth parameters; if truncated, the user gets a 401 UNAUTHORIZED when they open it. Every URL in your reply must include the full query string, including secondary references in tables, lists, and footnotes.
Violation symptoms (if you see these, immediately re-check § Quick Reference):
- Console:
TypeError: Failed to fetch / Cross-Origin Request Blocked
- Page DOM looks normal but all
fetch / XMLHttpRequest calls fail
- SSE / EventSource connection drops immediately
@edgeone/pages-blob calls report Missing: deployCredential (even when the project is linked, because there is no HTTP context under file://)
⛔ Self-hosted HTTP servers are strictly forbidden
edgeone makers dev must NOT be replaced by any of the following:
python -m http.server
npx serve / npx http-server
- A local service started with Node.js
http.createServer / express
Reason: edgeone makers dev injects Blob credentials, emulates Cloud Functions routing, handles Edge Functions, and runs the middleware chain. A self-hosted server can only serve static files; its behavior diverges from production and produces mysterious "works locally, breaks on deploy" (or the reverse) issues.
10. Next.js HMR cross-origin configuration
The Next.js 15+ dev server trusts only localhost by default. Accessing it via 127.0.0.1 in the sandbox is treated as cross-origin, so the HMR WebSocket is blocked and the page becomes unresponsive.
You MUST add to next.config.js:
allowedDevOrigins: ["127.0.0.1"]
Note: the value is a bare host, without an http:// prefix and without a port.
11. Project linking (required for Blob/KV)
Projects that use Blob Storage or KV must ensure the project is linked (a .edgeone/project.json exists) before starting dev. When not linked, Blob/KV calls report Missing: deployCredential.
Precondition — login first: linking (and therefore Blob/KV) requires a logged-in account. The full chain is Blob → must be linked → linking requires login. If edgeone whoami returns exit 1, run edgeone login (browser) or use edgeone makers link -t <token> with a token before attempting to link. Do NOT try to link while unauthenticated.
Detect whether it is linked:
cat .edgeone/project.json 2>/dev/null && echo "LINKED" || echo "NOT LINKED"
How to link:
edgeone makers link --name <project-name> -t <token>
edgeone makers dev --name <project-name> --skip-env-sync
If the project named by --name does not exist remotely, the link command creates it automatically.
Note: even for a pure static project, if the code imports @edgeone/pages-blob, not linking will always cause an error.
12. Framework version requirements
| Framework/package | Minimum version | Reason |
|---|
| EdgeOne CLI | >= 1.6.7 | Non-interactive fixes, whoami fail-fast, --json support |
| Next.js | 16.x | The framework adapter tracks new versions |
| @edgeone/pages-blob | >= 0.0.14 | Older versions have known bugs |
Use create-next-app@latest rather than manually pinning an older version.
13. Native browser dialogs (alert / confirm / prompt) don't work in WorkBuddy's built-in browser
WorkBuddy's right-side preview panel does NOT render window.alert() / window.confirm() / window.prompt(). The call returns immediately without user interaction, so any handler gated on if (confirm("Delete?")) silently no-ops (a delete button appears to do nothing). The same page works fine in the user's real Chrome / Safari.
Rule: for any confirmation, prompt, or notification in the page, use an in-page custom modal (a <div> overlay with buttons wired via JS). Do NOT rely on the browser's built-in alert / confirm / prompt — the code looks correct in code review, works when the user opens the deployed URL in their own browser, and is silently broken in the WorkBuddy preview during dev/verification.