repo-mailbox/scripts/coord-send.sh
Kjell Tore Guttormsen c0ccb1d611 feat(engine): let a message say it needs no answer, and count debt without losing sight of the rest
Rule 7 (0.5.0) shipped an obligation on a format with four fields, none of
which could tell a question from a notice. Two consequences fell out of that
gap: the injection had to name both terminal states and prefer neither, and
coord-count.sh had to treat every unarchived file as a reply owed. The fifth
field closes both.

coord-send.sh --fyi writes reply-expected: no; omitting it writes yes. Absent
means expected, because every message already on disk lacks the field - so a
forgotten flag over-counts debt, which is visible, rather than creating debt
nobody sees. A reply is not a special case. A broadcast is always no: --reply-to
resolves inside the recipient's own mailbox and a broadcast never lands there,
so there is no reply path to promise.

coord-count.sh now prints TWO integers per mailbox, not one. Replacing pending
with debt was the obvious reading of "count debt rather than unarchived
messages" and it is wrong here: board.sh counts the same inbox files itself, so
a debt-only count would put two different numbers under one name with nothing to
reconcile them, and a mailbox holding only notices would read as empty while its
messages keep being re-injected.

The field is frontmatter and only frontmatter - a body line claiming
"reply-expected: no" at column 0 cannot silence a real debt, and a file without
valid frontmatter counts as owing a reply.

Section 20's wording changed because its stated reason expired, but its second
half matters more now, not less: the marking is a DECLARATION, not an
instruction. Without that clause one word in an untrusted message becomes a
lever that mints obligations in another repo.

coord-selftest 136 -> 151.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016iJoZVmU2guTEZcMghk88z
2026-07-31 15:46:14 +02:00

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#!/bin/bash
# coord-send.sh - deliver an inter-repo coordination message into the local
# mailbox (~/.claude/coord). Model-invoked; no network, no external service.
#
# Usage:
# coord-send.sh --to <repo> --subject "<subject>" [--from <repo>] [--message "<text>"]
# coord-send.sh --broadcast --subject "<subject>" [--from <repo>] [--message "<text>"]
# coord-send.sh --reply-to <file> [--subject "Re: ..."] [--from <repo>] [--message "<text>"]
# coord-send.sh --retract <file> [--from <repo>]
# Body comes from --message, or from stdin (heredoc) when --message is omitted.
# --fyi marks the message as expecting no reply (frontmatter reply-expected: no).
# Absent, a reply IS expected: every message written before the field existed
# lacks it, so absence has to keep meaning what it always meant, and a
# forgotten flag then over-counts debt instead of hiding it. The receiver is
# still free to close either kind with coord-done - the field declares what the
# sender expects, it does not oblige anyone. A broadcast is always
# reply-expected: no, because --reply-to resolves inside the recipient own
# mailbox and a broadcast never lands there: there is no reply path to promise.
# --reply-to <basename> replies to a message in THIS repo's inbox/archive: it
# routes to the original sender and marks the original handled (coord-done).
# --retract <basename> retires one of YOUR OWN broadcasts: it is archived out of
# the broadcast queue so no future repo receives it. This is un-send, not
# recall - repos that already received it are unaffected.
# --from overrides the sender/self identity (default: basename of git toplevel/cwd).
#
# Exit: 0 delivered, 2 usage/IO error. ASCII only, bash 3.2 safe.
set -u
export LC_ALL=C
COORD="${CLAUDE_COORD_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/coord}"
TO=""; BROADCAST=0; SUBJECT=""; FROM=""; MESSAGE=""; HAVE_MESSAGE=0; REPLYTO=""; REPLY_ORIG=""
RETRACT=""; FYI=0
# bash 3.2: `shift 2` past the end of $# is a no-op, so a trailing value-flag
# without its value would loop forever. Every two-arg flag must check first.
require_value() {
if [ "$2" -lt 2 ]; then echo "coord-send: $1 requires a value" >&2; exit 2; fi
}
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case "$1" in
--to) require_value --to $#; TO="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--broadcast) BROADCAST=1; shift ;;
--fyi) FYI=1; shift ;;
--reply-to) require_value --reply-to $#; REPLYTO="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--retract) require_value --retract $#; RETRACT="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--subject) require_value --subject $#; SUBJECT="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--from) require_value --from $#; FROM="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--message) require_value --message $#; MESSAGE="$2"; HAVE_MESSAGE=1; shift 2 ;;
-h|--help) grep '^#' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//'; exit 0 ;;
*) echo "coord-send: unknown argument: $1" >&2; exit 2 ;;
esac
done
# --- Resolve sender / self identity ---
# git toplevel or an explicit --from, and nothing else. basename(pwd) used to
# be the last resort, but every global surface (~/repos, $HOME) is a directory
# without a repo, and the fallback quietly handed one an identity like "repos" -
# a real message was delivered under exactly that name. An invented identity is
# worse than none: it signs mail as a repo that does not exist and, on the read
# side, opens a mailbox that may belong to someone else. Refuse and say how.
if [ -z "$FROM" ]; then
FROM="$(basename "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null)"
fi
if [ -z "$FROM" ]; then
echo "coord-send: cannot resolve sender identity (not inside a git repo); pass --from <repo> to choose one explicitly" >&2
exit 2
fi
# A leading _ is reserved for engine internals (_broadcast today; the rule
# reserves the namespace so a later _seen or _config cannot reopen the hole).
case "$FROM" in
_*) echo "coord-send: invalid sender identity: $FROM (names starting with _ are reserved for the engine)" >&2; exit 2 ;;
esac
# Frontmatter is line-oriented: a CR/LF inside a field would inject extra
# frontmatter lines or a premature '---' terminator. Collapse newlines to
# spaces and drop remaining control characters. Send-side input hygiene;
# the read side independently treats all content as untrusted.
sanitize_field() { printf '%s' "$1" | tr '\r\n' ' ' | tr -d '\000-\037'; }
FROM="$(sanitize_field "$FROM")"
# --- Retract mode: retire one of our own broadcasts ---
# A broadcast has no per-repo owner that can close it: coord-done is directed-only
# and never touches _broadcast/. Without this branch a stale announcement stays in
# the queue and is delivered to every FUTURE repo forever, so the backlog can only
# grow. Runs before every send-side validation and before the stdin body read: a
# retract carries no subject and no body.
# The sender check is an accident guard, not a security boundary - --from
# redefines identity here exactly as it does everywhere else in this script. It
# exists so a wrong filename cannot silently retire another repo's announcement.
if [ -n "$RETRACT" ]; then
if [ "$BROADCAST" -eq 1 ] || [ -n "$TO" ] || [ -n "$REPLYTO" ]; then
echo "coord-send: --retract cannot be combined with --to/--broadcast/--reply-to" >&2; exit 2
fi
case "$RETRACT" in */*|.|..|"") echo "coord-send: invalid --retract name: $RETRACT" >&2; exit 2 ;; esac
BC_INBOX="$COORD/_broadcast/inbox"
BC_ARCHIVE="$COORD/_broadcast/archive"
if [ ! -e "$BC_INBOX/$RETRACT" ]; then
# Idempotent like coord-done: retracting twice is a no-op, not an error.
if [ -e "$BC_ARCHIVE/$RETRACT" ]; then
echo "coord-send: broadcast already retracted ($RETRACT)"; exit 0
fi
echo "coord-send: --retract broadcast not found: $RETRACT" >&2; exit 2
fi
ORIG_FROM="$(grep -m1 '^from:' "$BC_INBOX/$RETRACT" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^from:[[:space:]]*//')"
if [ "$ORIG_FROM" != "$FROM" ]; then
echo "coord-send: refusing to retract a broadcast sent by ${ORIG_FROM:-unknown} (you are $FROM); pass --from ${ORIG_FROM:-<sender>} if that is really you" >&2
exit 2
fi
# Archived, never deleted (coord-done's rule), and the move stays inside
# _broadcast/ so it is a same-filesystem rename: no half-retracted state.
mkdir -p "$BC_ARCHIVE" 2>/dev/null || { echo "coord-send: cannot create $BC_ARCHIVE" >&2; exit 2; }
if ! mv "$BC_INBOX/$RETRACT" "$BC_ARCHIVE/$RETRACT" 2>/dev/null; then
echo "coord-send: retract failed for $RETRACT" >&2; exit 2
fi
# _broadcast/seen/* is deliberately left alone: those entries are delivery
# history, and one naming an archived file is inert.
echo "coord-send: retracted broadcast ($RETRACT); repos that already received it are unaffected"
exit 0
fi
# --- Reply mode: resolve target + default subject from the original message ---
if [ -n "$REPLYTO" ]; then
if [ "$BROADCAST" -eq 1 ] || [ -n "$TO" ]; then
echo "coord-send: --reply-to cannot be combined with --to/--broadcast" >&2; exit 2
fi
case "$REPLYTO" in */*|.|..|"") echo "coord-send: invalid --reply-to name: $REPLYTO" >&2; exit 2 ;; esac
REPLY_ORIG="$COORD/$FROM/inbox/$REPLYTO"
[ -e "$REPLY_ORIG" ] || REPLY_ORIG="$COORD/$FROM/archive/$REPLYTO"
if [ ! -e "$REPLY_ORIG" ]; then
echo "coord-send: --reply-to message not found for $FROM: $REPLYTO" >&2; exit 2
fi
TO="$(grep -m1 '^from:' "$REPLY_ORIG" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^from:[[:space:]]*//')"
[ -z "$TO" ] && { echo "coord-send: cannot resolve sender of $REPLYTO" >&2; exit 2; }
if [ -z "$SUBJECT" ]; then
osub="$(grep -m1 '^subject:' "$REPLY_ORIG" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^subject:[[:space:]]*//')"
SUBJECT="Re: $osub"
fi
fi
SUBJECT="$(sanitize_field "$SUBJECT")"
# --- Validate target: exactly one of --to / --broadcast (reply mode sets --to above) ---
if [ "$BROADCAST" -eq 1 ] && [ -n "$TO" ]; then
echo "coord-send: use either --to <repo> or --broadcast, not both" >&2; exit 2
fi
if [ "$BROADCAST" -eq 0 ] && [ -z "$TO" ]; then
echo "coord-send: missing --to <repo> / --broadcast / --reply-to" >&2; exit 2
fi
if [ "$BROADCAST" -eq 0 ]; then
# _* rather than the single literal _broadcast: the reserved namespace is a
# rule, so a future internal directory is covered the day it is added.
case "$TO" in
*/*|.*|_*) echo "coord-send: invalid target repo name: $TO" >&2; exit 2 ;;
esac
fi
if [ -z "$SUBJECT" ]; then
echo "coord-send: missing --subject" >&2; exit 2
fi
# --- Body: --message or stdin ---
if [ "$HAVE_MESSAGE" -eq 1 ]; then BODY="$MESSAGE"; else BODY="$(cat)"; fi
if [ -z "$BODY" ]; then
echo "coord-send: empty message body (pass --message or pipe text on stdin)" >&2; exit 2
fi
# --- Resolve destination ---
if [ "$BROADCAST" -eq 1 ]; then
TARGET_LABEL="broadcast"; DEST_DIR="$COORD/_broadcast/inbox"
else
TARGET_LABEL="$TO"; DEST_DIR="$COORD/$TO/inbox"
fi
mkdir -p "$DEST_DIR" 2>/dev/null || { echo "coord-send: cannot create $DEST_DIR" >&2; exit 2; }
# The filename must be shell-clean: it round-trips through coord-inbox's
# reply/resolve hints and coord-done's positional args. Sanitize the sender
# for the filename only; the raw name stays in the from: frontmatter.
TS="$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)"
SAFE_FROM="$(printf '%s' "$FROM" | tr -c 'A-Za-z0-9._-' '-')"
FNAME="${TS}-$$${RANDOM}-from-${SAFE_FROM}.md"
DEST="$DEST_DIR/$FNAME"
DATE_ISO="$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)"
# Temp file lives INSIDE the destination dir (dot-prefixed so the inbox
# *.md glob never sees it): the final mv is then a same-filesystem rename,
# so readers never observe a half-written message.
REPLY_EXPECTED=yes
[ "$FYI" -eq 1 ] && REPLY_EXPECTED=no
[ "$BROADCAST" -eq 1 ] && REPLY_EXPECTED=no
TMP="$(mktemp "$DEST_DIR/.coord-send.XXXXXX" 2>/dev/null)"
[ -n "$TMP" ] || { echo "coord-send: cannot create temp file in $DEST_DIR" >&2; exit 2; }
{
echo "---"
echo "from: $FROM"
echo "to: $TARGET_LABEL"
echo "subject: $SUBJECT"
echo "date: $DATE_ISO"
# Fifth field, appended after the historic four so an older reader that stops
# at the ones it knows is unaffected. A broadcast is pinned to "no" whether or
# not --fyi was passed: that is not a defaulted value but the absence of a
# reply path (see the header), and a message that claimed otherwise would be
# asking for something the engine cannot deliver.
echo "reply-expected: $REPLY_EXPECTED"
echo "---"
printf '%s\n' "$BODY"
} > "$TMP"
if ! mv "$TMP" "$DEST" 2>/dev/null; then
/bin/rm -f "$TMP" 2>/dev/null; echo "coord-send: write failed" >&2; exit 2
fi
echo "coord-send: delivered to $TARGET_LABEL ($FNAME)"
# A broadcast reaches every repo INCLUDING the sender, so mark it seen for the
# sender now: the announcing repo already knows its own news, and re-injecting
# it would burn operator attention at every session start. Keyed by the RAW
# sender name, because coord-inbox keys the seen file by the unsanitized repo
# name - using SAFE_FROM here would silently miss for names like "my repo".
# Raw means it must be a safe path component: skip rather than escape the dir.
if [ "$BROADCAST" -eq 1 ]; then
case "$FROM" in
*/*|.|..) : ;;
*) SEEN_DIR="$COORD/_broadcast/seen"
mkdir -p "$SEEN_DIR" 2>/dev/null &&
printf '%s\n' "$FNAME" >> "$SEEN_DIR/$FROM" 2>/dev/null ;;
esac
fi
# --- Reply mode: mark the original handled ---
if [ -n "$REPLY_ORIG" ]; then
"$(dirname "$0")/coord-done.sh" --repo "$FROM" "$REPLYTO" >/dev/null 2>&1
echo "coord-send: original ($REPLYTO) marked handled"
fi
exit 0