sot-comm

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name: sot-comm description: Use Ship of Tools comms from Codex: send/poll messages, coordinate with Claude Code or Codex peers, use socket-only daemon relay, report work-state, and show results through the frontend. Use when asked to message agents, check backlog, repair comms, use @handles, or drive the FE from a Codex session.

sot-comm

Use the installed tools in ~/.sot-comm/bin/; do not hand-roll registry, tmux, or daemon protocol logic.

Core Commands

~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-send.sh @<handle> "message"       # durable, registry-based
~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-send.sh --broadcast "message"
~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-poll.sh                           # read queued inbox
~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-list.sh                           # registered sessions
~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-status.sh waiting "watching X"    # sticky purple
~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-status.sh blocked "need Y"        # red
~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-relay.sh send @win-fe "message"   # daemon relay to attached FEs
~/.sot-comm/bin/sot-fe preview <workspace> <path>      # badge/show result in FE

Local text is not visible to peers. If you receive [relay] from ... or an @handle request, answer with comm-send.sh or comm-relay.sh, not only in assistant text.

Socket-Only Backend

The normal backend listens on a private Unix socket, not remote TCP 127.0.0.1:18743.

Endpoint resolution for comm-relay.sh, comm-spawn.sh, comm-despawn.sh, and sot-fe is:

1. explicit endpoint env or --endpoint
2. $SOT_SOCKET
3. old dev daemon args --tcp / --socket
4. sotd session-socket-path ${SOT_BACKEND_LABEL:-sot}

Override only when needed:

export SOT_RELAY_ENDPOINT=unix:/path/to/sot.sock        # backend host
export SOT_RELAY_ENDPOINT=tcp:127.0.0.1:<local-port>    # frontend host tunnel

On Windows or another frontend-local host, 127.0.0.1:<local-port> is local to that host and must SSH-forward to the remote Unix socket. It is not a remote backend listener.

Work-State

Hooks handle turn start/end and permission prompts. Self-report what hooks cannot see:

~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-status.sh blocked "question for the user"
~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-status.sh waiting "background job/subagent still running"
~/.sot-comm/bin/comm-status.sh working "resuming"

Clear waiting when the job lands. A stale purple row lies to the user.

Results

If work produces a visual or browsable artifact, show it before final response:

show-result <path>

For files inside a workspace, sot-fe preview <workspace> <path> badges the FE without force-switching the user's current view.