A terminal panel beside an agent chat

A real shell on the chat's own connection, opened and closed like the
inspector and never beside it. The modes govern the model; what a person
types is theirs, since they hold the credential and could open the same
shell with an ssh client. The model cannot see the panel -- a button
copies the output you choose into the composer.

The session outlives the socket: closing the panel leaves a build
running, and coming back reattaches with the scrollback. Two tabs share
one shell and the smaller window decides the size. It ends on an idle
timeout, on deleting the chat, on disabling, moving or deleting the
connection, and on a restart -- which says why rather than quietly
opening a fresh shell that has lost the working directory.

The nginx template's `Connection ""` is right for SSE and fails every
WebSocket handshake, so `location /` now uses a `map $http_upgrade`;
update.sh grows a drift check for it, because the only symptom on a
stale vhost is a panel that cannot connect.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"""The socket behind the terminal panel.
A WebSocket rather than SSE, because SSE is one-directional and a terminal is
not: keystrokes have to go up, and an HTTP round trip per keypress is not a
terminal. It is the only WebSocket in LLeMbas, and it is worth saying what that
costs -- a cross-site page that could reach this endpoint would have a shell on
somebody's machine, not merely a copy of their chat. So there are two locks on
the door, and this module is mostly them.
**Where a refusal happens is load-bearing.** A browser tells a page nothing
about a handshake that *failed*: `new WebSocket()` fires `error` with no status
and no reason. So the socket is accepted first and the reason sent as a frame
for everything a person could act on -- no permission, the connection is
disabled, its host key was never confirmed -- and refused before accepting only
for the two cases where accepting is itself the risk.
It holds no database session. A dependency would keep one open for the hour a
shell sits at a prompt; `session_scope()` opens one for the authorisation and
closes it, exactly as `generation._run` does.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
import contextlib
import json
import logging
from urllib.parse import urlsplit
from fastapi import APIRouter, WebSocket, WebSocketDisconnect
from lembas.db.models import KIND_AGENT, Chat
from lembas.db.session import session_scope
from lembas.security import permissions
from lembas.security.sessions import COOKIE_NAME, resolve_session
from lembas.services import settings_store
from lembas.services.agent import session as agent_session
from lembas.services.agent import terminal as terminal_service
from lembas.services.agent.base import ExecError
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
router = APIRouter(prefix="/api/chats", tags=["terminal"])
# Nothing a keyboard produces is anywhere near this. Paste is the only thing
# that comes close, and a megabyte pasted into a shell is a mistake either way.
MAX_INPUT_BYTES = 256 * 1024
# 1008 is "policy violation", the closest thing the protocol has to "no".
CLOSE_POLICY = 1008
# What the far side is told when a shell ends, in words rather than a code.
CLOSED_WORDS = {
terminal_service.CLOSED_EXITED: "The shell exited.",
terminal_service.CLOSED_IDLE: "This terminal was closed after sitting idle.",
terminal_service.CLOSED_SHUTDOWN: "LLeMbas restarted, so this shell was closed.",
terminal_service.CLOSED_REVOKED: "The connection behind this terminal was closed.",
terminal_service.CLOSED_ERROR: "The connection to the machine was lost.",
}
def _same_origin(websocket: WebSocket) -> bool:
"""Whether this handshake came from a page served by this site.
Required, not merely checked when present. The session cookie is SameSite
Lax, which already withholds it from a handshake a foreign page starts, and
this is the belt to that brace -- an absent Origin is not a browser, and a
non-browser client has no business here.
"""
origin = websocket.headers.get("origin")
host = websocket.headers.get("host")
if not origin or not host:
return False
return urlsplit(origin).netloc.lower() == host.lower()
def _prepare(db, user, chat_id: str) -> tuple[str, dict]:
"""Everything that has to be true, and what opening needs. One or the other.
Returns a message to show, or the arguments for `open_session`. The order is
the order somebody would ask the questions in, and every "no" is a sentence
rather than a silence.
"""
if not permissions.has(db, user, "agent.terminal"):
return "You do not have permission to open a terminal.", {}
chat = db.get(Chat, chat_id)
if chat is None or chat.user_id != user.id:
return "That chat no longer exists.", {}
if chat.kind != KIND_AGENT:
return "This is an ordinary chat, so it has no machine to open a shell on.", {}
values = settings_store.agents(db)
if not values.get("terminal_enabled", True):
return "The terminal is switched off on this instance.", {}
context = agent_session.resolve(db, chat, user)
if context is None:
return (
"This chat's connection is not usable: it may have been deleted, "
"disabled, or agent chats may be switched off here.",
{},
)
return "", {
"owner_id": user.id,
"profile_id": chat.ssh_profile_id or "",
"label": context.label,
"spec": context.spec,
"project_dir": context.project_dir,
"idle_timeout": float(values["terminal_idle_timeout"]),
"max_sessions": int(values["terminal_max_sessions"]),
"max_per_user": int(values["terminal_max_per_user"]),
}
@router.websocket("/{chat_id}/terminal/ws")
async def terminal_socket(
websocket: WebSocket,
chat_id: str,
cols: int = 80,
rows: int = 24,
) -> None:
if not _same_origin(websocket):
await websocket.close(code=CLOSE_POLICY)
return
with session_scope() as db:
user = resolve_session(db, websocket.cookies.get(COOKIE_NAME))
if user is None:
await websocket.close(code=CLOSE_POLICY)
return
problem, opening = _prepare(db, user, chat_id)
owner_email = user.email
await websocket.accept()
if problem:
await _refuse(websocket, problem)
return
try:
session = await terminal_service.open_session(chat_id, cols=cols, rows=rows, **opening)
except ExecError as exc:
await _refuse(websocket, str(exc))
return
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 - a failure here is one socket, not the app
log.exception("could not open a terminal for %s", owner_email)
await _refuse(websocket, "The shell could not be started.")
return
viewer = session.attach(cols, rows)
await websocket.send_text(
json.dumps(
{
"t": "ready",
"label": session.label,
"dir": session.project_dir,
"cols": session.cols,
"rows": session.rows,
# Two tabs share one shell, and a size neither of them chose is
# otherwise a mystery.
"shared": len(session.viewers) > 1,
}
)
)
if viewer.snapshot:
await websocket.send_bytes(viewer.snapshot)
downward = asyncio.create_task(_to_browser(websocket, session, viewer))
upward = asyncio.create_task(_from_browser(websocket, session, viewer))
try:
await asyncio.wait({downward, upward}, return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED)
finally:
for task in (downward, upward):
task.cancel()
with contextlib.suppress(asyncio.CancelledError, Exception):
await task
# The session is deliberately left running. Closing the panel, or
# navigating away, is not "I am finished with this machine" -- a build
# carries on and the scrollback is still there on the way back. The
# idle timeout is what eventually ends it.
session.detach(viewer)
async def _to_browser(websocket: WebSocket, session, viewer) -> None:
"""Everything the shell says, plus the one frame that says it stopped."""
while True:
chunk = await viewer.queue.get()
if chunk is None:
reason = terminal_service.CLOSED_EXITED if viewer.dropped else session.closed_reason
payload = {"t": "closed", "reason": reason, "message": _words(reason)}
if viewer.dropped:
# Not the session's doing: this browser stopped reading and was
# disconnected so the others kept up. Reconnecting costs it
# nothing, because the scrollback is the state.
payload = {"t": "behind", "message": "Reconnecting: output arrived faster than "
"this window could draw it."}
with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
await websocket.send_text(json.dumps(payload))
return
await websocket.send_bytes(chunk)
async def _from_browser(websocket: WebSocket, session, viewer) -> None:
"""Keystrokes as binary, everything else as JSON.
Binary for the hot path is what makes multi-byte characters safe: a read on
the far side lands mid-sequence often enough to matter, and decoding each
frame here would corrupt every boundary. Nothing decodes, so nothing splits.
"""
while True:
try:
message = await websocket.receive()
except WebSocketDisconnect:
return
if message["type"] == "websocket.disconnect":
return
data = message.get("bytes")
if data is not None:
if len(data) > MAX_INPUT_BYTES:
continue
await session.send(data)
continue
text = message.get("text")
if text:
_control(session, viewer, text)
def _control(session, viewer, text: str) -> None:
try:
payload = json.loads(text)
except ValueError:
return
if not isinstance(payload, dict) or payload.get("t") != "resize":
return
session.resize(viewer, payload.get("cols", 80), payload.get("rows", 24))
def _words(reason: str) -> str:
return CLOSED_WORDS.get(reason, "This terminal closed.")
async def _refuse(websocket: WebSocket, message: str) -> None:
"""Say why, then close. Sent as a frame because a browser cannot read a
rejected handshake -- the reason would be lost exactly when it is needed."""
with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
await websocket.send_text(json.dumps({"t": "error", "message": message}))
with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
await websocket.close()