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feat: Support praxis mode in agentop and the installer - #1769
This PR lets a user turn on praxis mode, and keeps praxis mode across agentop update. It is step 5 of 8 in the praxis mode series (#1714).
What changed
agentop reads praxis.enabled from GET /config. This is a fourth decoded field in runningConfigFields. docs/proxy-contract.md and the wire fixture in core/observe/testdata/config.json show it.
One helper, praxisRefusal, refuses commands that have no effect in praxis mode:agentop server add/remove/use/reset/move, agentop script install/remove and agentop tools scan --write. agentop server (the list) and agentop script list still work, because they change nothing. It refuses when the config file sets praxis.enabled, or when the running Cortex reports it. The message says why and tells how to turn the mode off.
agentop setup --praxis adds praxis: {enabled: true} to the config with a line edit. The edit keeps comments, order, plugins and agentop server entries. insertListenerKeys becomes a wrapper on the new insertBlockKeys. The result goes through replaceConfig with a verify. A praxis change also restarts the service, because praxis is a restart-only field.
Setup needs cortex-gateway in praxis mode. When the stage (or the bin dir) has no gateway, the config step plans a problem with the install command as the fix.
systemd: the unit adds --supervise when the config sets praxis.enabled. serviceIsCurrent returns false on Linux when the unit does not agree with the config.
The supervisor refuses a gateway whose version differs from cortex. Before each start, it runs cortex-gateway --version (2 s timeout). On a mismatch it uses the normal backoff and the start-failure log (ERROR one time, then Debug). An empty --version answer gets its own message: the gateway is missing, or older than this cortex. cortex-gateway --version prints cortex-gateway <version> (CORTEX_VERSION at build time, or dev).
agentop update keeps praxis mode, as it keeps --cpex: it passes --praxis to install.sh.
install.sh --praxis downloads cortex-gateway_<version>_<os>_<arch>.tar.gz, checks it against checksums.txt, and passes --praxis to agentop setup. It refuses darwin/amd64. It refuses each release that has no gateway archive (require_praxis_build).
Docs:docs/laptop-service.md tells how to turn praxis mode on and off.
With praxis.enabled false or absent, direct mode does not change.
How it was tested
go vet and gofmt -l on cmd/agentop, cmd/cortex and core.
scripts/dev/go-test-shards.sh -short cmd/agentop (975 tests) and the setup e2e scenes, including TestSetup_NoGatewayDirectModeWorks.
Targeted tests: Praxis, RunningConfig, Server, Script, Tools, update, TestRenderUnit_*, TestServiceIsCurrent_BothPlatforms, and the migration tests.
go test -race -run TestSupervis in cmd/cortex.
sh scripts/install_test.sh (276 passed, 0 failed) and shellcheck scripts/install.sh (clean).
Rust, from praxis/ with rustup's toolchain 1.96.0: cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy and cargo test -p cortex-gateway. All passed.
pre-commit.
Note about the gate: the workflow gate command did not pass as one command on this machine. cargo fmt --check --manifest-path praxis/Cargo.toml fails on a virtual workspace (it needs --all, as in .github/workflows/praxis.yaml). Also, the Homebrew cargo 1.94.1 on PATH ignores praxis/rust-toolchain.toml. The same steps passed in the CI form above. install_test.sh failed one time on a timing test and then passed when it ran alone.
Size
Counted: 1,234 lines (1,187 added, 47 removed).
Exempt: 247 lines (the plan document, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-10-praxis-mode-5-agentop-and-install.md).
Known limit
install.sh --praxis refuses every current release, because no release has a gateway archive before step 7. So a user who sets praxis.enabled by hand cannot use the one-line installer or agentop update (it also passes --praxis) until step 7 publishes the archive. In this case, setup with --from also refuses a praxis config whose stage has no cortex-gateway, even when the installed gateway has the correct version (for example make dev-install with a dev gateway in ~/.local/bin). This is safe, but stricter than necessary.
Review findings not fixed
All findings are minor.
gatewayVersionOf has no direct test. The last-word parse, the empty result on a failed command, and the 2 s timeout are not tested. Only the success path runs, through the fake gateway in restart_test.go.
TestServiceIsCurrent_BothPlatforms tests one direction only: praxis on, with a unit that does not supervise. The reverse direction has no case. The code is one symmetric expression.
No test for "a failed /config read counts as not on".TestPraxisRefusal_* covers only an empty stats URL and a server that answers 200. Add a case with a 500 or bad JSON (cmd/agentop/praxis_mode_test.go).
TestToolsScan_NoWriteWorksInPraxisMode cannot fail because of praxis mode: a scan without --write reads no config file. It proves only that the scan does not refuse.
cmd_tools.go: the case where the running Cortex (and not the file) is in praxis mode has no test. The code uses the same pattern as serverTarget.
install.sh: no test for a piped --ref=v9.9.9 --praxis run against a release that has the gateway archive. Thus no test shows that the child gets --praxis and not --ref. The --cpex block has this check. The arg-rebuild code is shared.
install.sh on darwin: the quarantine clear for cortex-gateway (${gateway_tgz:+...} in the xattr call) has no test. The code mirrors the existing xattr line.
Scope notes, accepted: the restart on a praxis change in setup and the --version answer in the fake gateway (cmd/cortex/restart_test.go) are outside the plan's file lists, but both are necessary.
The plan covers rossoctl#1722. It adds the praxis.enabled field to the /config
decode, one refusal helper, agentop setup --praxis, the systemd
--supervise unit in praxis mode, update, install.sh --praxis and the
gateway version check.
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Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
Add the T7 dependency on T1, because both tasks edit
docs/proxy-contract.md. Name the test helpers and the exact
code path for the gateway version check.
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runningConfig now decodes praxis.enabled from GET /config. When the
value is true, cfg.Praxis is set. Otherwise cfg.Praxis stays nil.
The wire fixture holds the praxis block, so a renamed key on either
side fails a test.
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cortex-gateway --version prints "cortex-gateway <version>" and exits
before it loads a config. The version is the build-time CORTEX_VERSION,
or "dev".
Before each gateway start, the supervisor runs the gateway with
--version. When the version is not the cortex version, the supervisor
does not start it, and retries with the normal backoff. Thus a later
"agentop update" fixes a mismatch without a supervisor restart.
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agentop setup --praxis sets praxis.enabled to true in the config. It
uses a line edit, so the file keeps its comments, its order, its plugins
and its servers. The edit is written only when the result loads and
passes the checks that cortex makes at start. A flow-style praxis block
is a problem with a fix to edit the file by hand.
Setup with --praxis needs cortex-gateway, staged in --from or installed
in the bin dir. The port preflight of a fresh install also probes 47605
and 47606. A change to the praxis block restarts the service, as a pin
change does.
insertListenerKeys is now a wrapper of insertBlockKeys.
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The systemd unit now runs cortex --supervise when the config file sets
praxis.enabled. Only the supervisor starts cortex-gateway and writes
gateway.token, so without it cortex refused to start in praxis mode.
Direct mode keeps the unit as it was.
agentop service install writes the unit again when its --supervise does
not agree with the config file. configPraxisEnabled reads the flag and
is false when the file does not load.
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Add two cases to TestServiceIsCurrent_BothPlatforms. With praxis.enabled
true, a unit without --supervise is not current, and a unit rendered with
supervise set is current. The second case stops a change that makes each
Linux praxis install write the unit again at each run.
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In praxis mode Cortex runs no plugins, so "agentop server", "agentop
script" and "agentop tools scan --write" have no effect. The new
praxisRefusal helper refuses these commands when the config file or
the running Cortex sets praxis.enabled. The message names the source
and tells how to turn the mode off.
serverTarget calls the helper, so each server and script action gets
the check. Help output and "tools scan" without --write still work.
Refs rossoctl#1722
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When the config file sets praxis.enabled, agentop update gives --praxis
to the installer. A config that does not load gives no --praxis.
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With --praxis, install.sh also downloads the cortex-gateway archive,
checks it against checksums.txt, stages cortex-gateway and passes
--praxis to agentop setup. It refuses darwin/amd64, AUTHBRIDGE_SKIP_DOWNLOAD=1
and each release that has no cortex-gateway archive.
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… gateway
A plain re-run of the installer on a praxis install stages no
cortex-gateway. The new cortex then refuses the old gateway, and the
proxy answers 503 to every request. Setup now stops with a problem that
tells the user to run the installer with --praxis.
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This change adds Praxis-mode support across agentop, setup, Linux service management, updates, the Cortex supervisor, and the installer. Setup can enable Praxis and validate its configuration. The installer stages the gateway, and the supervisor checks its version.
Changes: Praxis mode across agentop and installation
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Read Praxis state and refuse incompatible commands cmd/agentop/local_endpoint.go, cmd/agentop/praxis_mode.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_server.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_server_write.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_script.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_tools.go, core/observe/*, docs/proxy-contract.md
agentop reads praxis.enabled from local and running configurations. Selected server, script, and write-scan commands refuse to run when Praxis mode is enabled.
Expose and check the gateway version praxis/server/src/main.rs, cmd/cortex/supervise.go, cmd/cortex/supervise_test.go, cmd/cortex/restart_test.go
cortex-gateway handles --version. The supervisor checks the gateway version before starting it and routes mismatches through the existing start-failure handling.
agentop setup --praxis checks for the gateway, checks Praxis ports on fresh installs, and enables and validates the configuration.
Align Linux services and updates with Praxis configuration cmd/agentop/cmd_service.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_service_platform.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_service_test.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_service_goos_test.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_update.go, cmd/agentop/cmd_update_test.go, docs/laptop-service.md
Linux systemd units include --supervise when Praxis is enabled, and service installation checks whether the unit matches the configuration. Updates pass --praxis when the install configuration enables Praxis.
Download and stage the gateway scripts/install.sh, scripts/install_test.sh, docs/proxy-contract.md
install.sh --praxis validates platform and release support, verifies and stages the gateway archive, and passes --praxis to setup.
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant Installer
participant Release
participant Setup
participant Config
User->>Installer: Select --praxis
Installer->>Release: Fetch gateway archive and checksum
Release-->>Installer: Return archive and checksum
Installer->>Setup: Stage binaries and pass --praxis
Setup->>Config: Enable and validate praxis.enabled
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Possibly related PRs
rossoctl/cortex#1615: Both changes use replaceConfig in the path that updates Praxis configuration.
rossoctl/cortex#1762: Both changes implement connected parts of the gateway lifecycle, including setup staging, installation, and supervision.
rossoctl/cortex#1758: Both changes use the Praxis configuration contract and gateway components.
Suggested reviewers:clawgenti, esnible
Merge Risk: Low · up to d7e70
Praxis users may mistake saved routes for active routes, and an update with an invalid config may not preserve Praxis mode. These bounded issues warrant owner attention before merging.
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For [#1722], the changes implement praxis config handling, command refusals, config-preserving setup, update preservation, and gateway-version checks. The installer verifies and stages a gateway archi…
Provide a supported fresh-install path with a matching gateway archive and checksum, then add an automated test that verifies install.sh --praxis completes setup with praxis enabled.
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The setup, supervision, service, update, installer, configuration, test, and documentation changes support [#1722]’s praxis-mode requirements. The available change summary identifies no unrelated chan…
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For [#1722], the changes implement praxis config handling, command refusals, config-preserving setup, update preservation, and gateway-version checks. The installer verifies and stages a gateway archive when one exists. The PR states that no current release has that archive, so install.sh --praxis refuses every current release. This leaves #1722’s fresh-install completion criterion unmet.
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Provide a supported fresh-install path with a matching gateway archive and checksum, then add an automated test that verifies install.sh --praxis completes setup with praxis enabled.
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The supervisor logged an ERROR line for a gateway version mismatch on each
retry. The same error then also went to the start-failure log. Now the error
goes only to the start-failure log, which logs ERROR one time and Debug after.
An empty --version answer (a missing gateway, or one from before --version)
now has its own message, not "version differs".
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A list changes nothing, so "this command has no effect" was not true for
it. Only the actions that change the router or the scripts refuse now:
server add, remove, use, reset and move, and script install and remove.
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configPraxisEnabled returns false for every config.Load error. Load also fails after a successful parse, for example when MTLS.Validate, SPIFFE.Validate or TLSBridge.Validate fails. A config with praxis.enabled: true and one of these validation errors is treated as direct mode.
The install path is safe, because runServiceInstall returns on p.configErr before it renders the unit. serviceIsCurrent and agentop update do not have that guard. agentop update drops --praxis for such a config. A later setup can then turn praxis mode off silently. The test only covers a YAML syntax error and a missing file.
Consider making updateFlags skip the decision, or print a warning, when the config does not load but the raw YAML contains praxis.enabled: true. Add a test for a parseable config that fails validation.
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Review comment at @cmd/agentop/cmd_service.go around lines 1230 - 1235:
Update configPraxisEnabled and its use in updateFlags so a parseable config that
fails validation but explicitly sets praxis.enabled: true does not silently
disable praxis mode; establish a safe way to detect that setting and either
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Review comments at @cmd/agentop/praxis_mode.go:
- Line 33: Update the refusal message in the praxis-mode check to say these
commands cannot affect the outbound pipeline, rather than claiming that Cortex
runs no plugins; preserve the existing explanation, configuration guidance, and
restart instruction.
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Review comments at @cmd/agentop/cmd_service.go:
- Around line 1230-1235: Update configPraxisEnabled and its use in updateFlags
so a parseable config that fails validation but explicitly sets praxis.enabled:
true does not silently disable praxis mode; establish a safe way to detect that
setting and either preserve the flag decision or warn. Add coverage for a config
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insertBlockKeys took the first "praxis:" line at any depth. A praxis: key
nested in a plugin config, before the top-level block, got enabled: true.
The verify refused the result, so setup failed at apply on a valid config.
Now only a key at the document's top level matches. This also applies to
listener:.
A comment after the block key ("praxis: # note") is no longer read as
flow style.
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The refusal said "Cortex runs no plugins", but only the outbound pipeline
is not built. On Linux, turning praxis mode off by hand needs
agentop service install, because restart does not write the unit again.
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…y scan
The systemd unit now reads praxis.enabled from the config file itself.
Before, each caller had to set servicePaths.supervise before it wrote the
unit, and no test failed when a caller did not. The field is gone.
TestRenderUnit_LinuxPraxisSupervises now fails when the unit does not read
the file.
insertBlockKeys and enablePraxisText had the same scan for a top-level key.
Both now call topLevelKey.
agentop tools scan --write gets the config and the stats URL from
serverTarget, and not from its own copy of that code.
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Minor · Do not recommend server add in Praxis mode. · cmd_server.go:238-240
cmd/agentop/cmd_server.go:238-240 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Do not recommend server add in Praxis mode.
If a Praxis configuration has no inference servers, serverList tells the user to add one. The new serverWriteTarget check then refuses that command. Make the empty-state instruction conditional on Praxis mode so the list gives an available next step. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @cmd/agentop/cmd_server.go around lines 238 - 240:
Update the empty-server message in serverList so it does not recommend `server
add` when running in Praxis mode; show an available next step for Praxis
instead. Preserve the existing add instruction for other modes, using the
configuration or mode check already available to serverList.
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Review comments at @cmd/agentop/praxis_mode_test.go:
- Line 129: Update the test using runServerCmd to assert that the returned exit
code is zero, in addition to verifying that errOut does not contain the Praxis
refusal text.
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Review comments at @cmd/agentop/cmd_server.go:
- Around line 238-240: Update the empty-server message in serverList so it does
not recommend `server add` when running in Praxis mode; show an available next
step for Praxis instead. Preserve the existing add instruction for other modes,
using the configuration or mode check already available to serverList.
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cmd/agentop/cmd_service_goos_test.go
cmd/agentop/cmd_service_platform.go
cmd/agentop/cmd_service_test.go
cmd/agentop/cmd_tools.go
cmd/agentop/praxis_mode.go
cmd/agentop/praxis_mode_test.go
cmd/agentop/setup_praxis.go
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cmd/cortex/supervise.go
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Summary
The praxis-mode wiring is consistent end to end. setup --praxis edits the config by line and checks the result with the same Validate that cortex runs at start. The systemd unit reads praxis.enabled itself, and serviceIsCurrent makes install write the unit again when the two disagree. praxisRefusal covers all the plugin-editing commands. The gateway version check fails closed and the backoff retries it. The installer verifies the gateway archive against checksums.txt with the same anchored match as the other archives. I found nothing that blocks the merge. I left three suggestions inline: a strict-decode coupling in runningConfig, a turn-off message that disagrees with the Linux docs, and a small regression in topLevelKey for an indented document that starts with ---.
I ran the targeted cmd/agentop tests (Praxis, RunningConfig, ServiceIsCurrent, RenderUnit, UpdateFlags, migrations, ConfigStep) and go test -run 'Supervis|Gateway|Praxis|Restart' in cmd/cortex at head. All passed.
The "Known limit" section is accurate. install.sh --praxis, and therefore agentop update on a praxis config, refuses every release until step 7 publishes the gateway archive. That is acceptable for an unreleased mode in a staged series.
Author: huang195 (MEMBER, maintainer) Areas reviewed: Go (agentop, cortex supervisor, core/observe fixture), Rust (gateway --version), Shell (install.sh, install_test.sh), Docs Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none Commits: 16 commits, all signed off: yes CI status: passing (36 pass, 1 skipped)
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suggestion: This makes agentop exec depend on the type of praxis. runningConfigFields exists so that a newer proxy that changes an unread field cannot break the decode (see the comment above it). praxis is now a read field, though, and json.Unmarshal fails the whole struct if praxis is ever not an object, or if enabled is not a bool. I checked: {"praxis": true} or {"praxis": {"enabled": "true"}} makes runningConfig return did not return a Cortex config at head, while base ignores both. No current proxy emits those shapes, so this is not a live bug. But exec only needs the listener and bridge fields, and praxisRefusal already treats a failed read as "not on". You could decode praxis as json.RawMessage and parse it separately, ignoring errors, so a change to the praxis block cannot take down agentop exec. tls_bridge has the same exposure today, so this is optional.
return fmt.Errorf("praxis mode is on (%s), so Cortex runs no outbound plugins and this command has no effect. To turn it off, set praxis.enabled: false in %s and run: agentop service restart", where, path)
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suggestion: docs/laptop-service.md in this PR says that on Linux, when you change praxis.enabled by hand in either direction, you must run agentop service install, not restart, because only install writes the unit again. This message and the install.sh --help text for --praxis both say agentop service restart. Turning the mode off with restart does work: the supervisor sees direct mode and runs cortex alone. But the unit keeps --supervise, which hides systemd's StartLimit, and the next serviceIsCurrent reports it as not current. It would be clearer to say agentop service install on Linux (or always, since install also restarts) so the message matches the docs.
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Fixed in ad6231d and 42a90b8. The refusal, install.sh --help and docs/laptop-service.md now say agentop service install --restart. Plain install is not correct: on macOS, serviceIsCurrent does not compare praxis mode, so install reports "Already current" and does not restart. --restart skips that check, writes the unit again and restarts on both platforms.
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suggestion (minor): docIndent comes from the first non-comment line, and --- counts as one. For a document like ---\n listener:\n forward_proxy_addr: ..., docIndent is 0, so the indented listener: is never seen as top level. insertListenerKeys now returns no listener: block found for that file, but the old loop matched listener: at any indentation, so this is a small regression for the pins migration. enablePraxisText has the same problem: it appends praxis: at column 0 after the indented mapping, which is invalid YAML. replaceConfig's verify catches that, so it fails closed. Skipping --- and % directive lines here (and in the docIndent pick) would cover both cases. The indented-document case is the one this file's own comment says turned up in a real config.
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Fixed in ad6231d. topLevelKey now skips ---, --- ..., ... and % directive lines, so they do not set the document indentation. Tests cover insertListenerKeys and enablePraxisText with an indented document after --- and after a %YAML directive.
…in the key scan
Fixes review: the praxis refusal and install.sh --help said `agentop service restart`, which on Linux leaves --supervise in the unit
Fixes review: a "---" or "%" line set the document indentation, so an indented document lost its top-level keys
Fixes review: an empty `server list` in praxis mode suggested `server add`, which praxis mode refuses
Fixes review: the praxis list test did not check the server list exit code
Files:
- cmd/agentop/cmd_config_migrate.go
- cmd/agentop/cmd_server.go
- cmd/agentop/praxis_mode.go
- cmd/agentop/praxis_mode_test.go
- cmd/agentop/setup_praxis_test.go
- scripts/install.sh
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Fixes review: `agentop service install` reports "Already current" on macOS, because serviceIsCurrent checks praxis only on Linux, so Cortex stayed in praxis mode
Files:
- cmd/agentop/praxis_mode.go
- cmd/agentop/praxis_mode_test.go
- docs/laptop-service.md
- scripts/install.sh
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Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
Replies to the two CodeRabbit findings in the review bodies:
server list suggests server add in praxis mode (cmd_server.go:238): fixed in ad6231d. In praxis mode, an empty list now says that agentop server add has no effect.
configPraxisEnabled treats a config that fails validation as praxis off (cmd_service.go:1226): not changed. Cortex does not start with a config that fails validation either, so the user must fix the config first. We do not add guard code for config mistakes.
Fixes review: the setup plan said "(previous kept)" for a praxis-only edit, but enablePraxis wrote no .before-agentop-migrate copy
Files:
- cmd/agentop/cmd_config_migrate.go
- cmd/agentop/setup_praxis.go
- cmd/agentop/setup_praxis_test.go
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Review comments at @cmd/agentop/cmd_server.go:
- Line 239: Update the route-listing logic around praxisRefusal to distinguish
saved server and agent routes from routes active in the running Cortex;
determine the running Cortex mode independently of the saved configuration mode
so mismatched modes are reported accurately.
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cat -n cmd/cortex/praxis.go | sed -n '1,48p'
cat -n cmd/cortex/main.go | sed -n '557,595p'
cat -n cmd/agentop/setup_praxis.go | sed -n '20,102p'
cat -n cmd/agentop/setup_step_config.go | sed -n '130,171p'
cat -n cmd/agentop/praxis_mode_test.go | sed -n '16,51p'
cat -n cmd/agentop/praxis_mode_test.go | sed -n '75,101p'
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Identify inactive routes in Praxis mode.
When the running Cortex uses Praxis, agentop server lists saved server and agent routes without saying that Cortex ignores them. Distinguish the saved routes from active routing. Account for cases where the file and running Cortex have different modes.
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Review comment at @cmd/agentop/cmd_server.go at line 239:
Update the route-listing logic around praxisRefusal to distinguish saved server
and agent routes from routes active in the running Cortex; determine the running
Cortex mode independently of the saved configuration mode so mismatched modes
are reported accurately.
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Summary
I re-reviewed the whole PR at d7e707c and looked closely at the three commits after my approval of bd7423c (ad6231d, 42a90b8, d7e707c). The fixes do what they say. topLevelKey now skips ---, --- ... and % directive lines, and the new tests cover an indented document after each marker. The refusal message, install.sh --help and docs/laptop-service.md all say agentop service install --restart now. I agree with @huang195 that --restart is the correct form: on macOS serviceIsCurrent does not compare praxis mode, so plain install could say "Already current". An empty agentop server list in praxis mode no longer suggests server add, and the list test checks the exit code. enablePraxis now writes the .before-agentop-migrate copy one time before the edit, through the shared keepPreviousConfig. The setup undo already snapshots that file, so a rollback removes a backup that this run created. I found nothing that blocks the merge, and I left one nit.
I ran go vet and the targeted tests (Praxis, DocumentMarker, InsertListener, Migrat, ServiceIsCurrent, Server) at head, and they pass. In go test -short ./cmd/agentop the only failures were TestServiceInstall_RefusesABrokenConfig and TestReportSessionInterruption. Both fail the same way at base in my sandbox, which has no systemd user bus, so this PR did not cause them. My earlier runningConfigFields decode suggestion is open as a separate change, as you said, so I do not repeat it here.
Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer) Areas reviewed: Go (agentop, cortex supervisor), Rust (cortex-gateway --version), Shell (install.sh), Docs Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none Commits: 19 commits, all signed-off: yes CI status: passing (CodeRabbit pending)
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nit: ... is now skipped as a marker, but enablePraxisText still appends the new praxis: block at the end of src. For a file that ends with a ... document-end line, the block goes after the end marker. I checked praxisBase + "...\n": the result loads, but without the new block, so the verify fails with the edit did not turn praxis mode on. That fails closed and leaves the file alone, so it is only a confusing message for an unusual file. If you want to handle it, insert the block before a trailing ... line. Otherwise, a test that pins the refusal is enough.
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This PR lets a user turn on praxis mode, and keeps praxis mode across
agentop update. It is step 5 of 8 in the praxis mode series (#1714).What changed
praxis.enabledfromGET /config. This is a fourth decoded field inrunningConfigFields.docs/proxy-contract.mdand the wire fixture incore/observe/testdata/config.jsonshow it.praxisRefusal, refuses commands that have no effect in praxis mode:agentop server add/remove/use/reset/move,agentop script install/removeandagentop tools scan --write.agentop server(the list) andagentop script liststill work, because they change nothing. It refuses when the config file setspraxis.enabled, or when the running Cortex reports it. The message says why and tells how to turn the mode off.agentop setup --praxisaddspraxis: {enabled: true}to the config with a line edit. The edit keeps comments, order, plugins andagentop serverentries.insertListenerKeysbecomes a wrapper on the newinsertBlockKeys. The result goes throughreplaceConfigwith a verify. A praxis change also restarts the service, becausepraxisis a restart-only field.cortex-gatewayin praxis mode. When the stage (or the bin dir) has no gateway, the config step plans a problem with the install command as the fix.--supervisewhen the config setspraxis.enabled.serviceIsCurrentreturns false on Linux when the unit does not agree with the config.cortex. Before each start, it runscortex-gateway --version(2 s timeout). On a mismatch it uses the normal backoff and the start-failure log (ERROR one time, then Debug). An empty--versionanswer gets its own message: the gateway is missing, or older than this cortex.cortex-gateway --versionprintscortex-gateway <version>(CORTEX_VERSIONat build time, ordev).agentop updatekeeps praxis mode, as it keeps--cpex: it passes--praxistoinstall.sh.install.sh --praxisdownloadscortex-gateway_<version>_<os>_<arch>.tar.gz, checks it againstchecksums.txt, and passes--praxistoagentop setup. It refuses darwin/amd64. It refuses each release that has no gateway archive (require_praxis_build).docs/laptop-service.mdtells how to turn praxis mode on and off.With
praxis.enabledfalse or absent, direct mode does not change.How it was tested
go vetandgofmt -loncmd/agentop,cmd/cortexandcore.scripts/dev/go-test-shards.sh -short cmd/agentop(975 tests) and the setup e2e scenes, includingTestSetup_NoGatewayDirectModeWorks.TestRenderUnit_*,TestServiceIsCurrent_BothPlatforms, and the migration tests.go test -race -run TestSupervisincmd/cortex.sh scripts/install_test.sh(276 passed, 0 failed) andshellcheck scripts/install.sh(clean).praxis/with rustup's toolchain 1.96.0:cargo fmt --all --check,cargo clippyandcargo test -p cortex-gateway. All passed.Note about the gate: the workflow gate command did not pass as one command on this machine.
cargo fmt --check --manifest-path praxis/Cargo.tomlfails on a virtual workspace (it needs--all, as in.github/workflows/praxis.yaml). Also, the Homebrew cargo 1.94.1 on PATH ignorespraxis/rust-toolchain.toml. The same steps passed in the CI form above.install_test.shfailed one time on a timing test and then passed when it ran alone.Size
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-10-praxis-mode-5-agentop-and-install.md).Known limit
install.sh --praxisrefuses every current release, because no release has a gateway archive before step 7. So a user who setspraxis.enabledby hand cannot use the one-line installer oragentop update(it also passes--praxis) until step 7 publishes the archive. In this case, setup with--fromalso refuses a praxis config whose stage has nocortex-gateway, even when the installed gateway has the correct version (for examplemake dev-installwith adevgateway in~/.local/bin). This is safe, but stricter than necessary.Review findings not fixed
All findings are minor.
gatewayVersionOfhas no direct test. The last-word parse, the empty result on a failed command, and the 2 s timeout are not tested. Only the success path runs, through the fake gateway inrestart_test.go.TestServiceIsCurrent_BothPlatformstests one direction only: praxis on, with a unit that does not supervise. The reverse direction has no case. The code is one symmetric expression./configread counts as not on".TestPraxisRefusal_*covers only an empty stats URL and a server that answers 200. Add a case with a 500 or bad JSON (cmd/agentop/praxis_mode_test.go).TestToolsScan_NoWriteWorksInPraxisModecannot fail because of praxis mode: a scan without--writereads no config file. It proves only that the scan does not refuse.cmd_tools.go: the case where the running Cortex (and not the file) is in praxis mode has no test. The code uses the same pattern asserverTarget.install.sh: no test for a piped--ref=v9.9.9 --praxisrun against a release that has the gateway archive. Thus no test shows that the child gets--praxisand not--ref. The--cpexblock has this check. The arg-rebuild code is shared.install.shon darwin: the quarantine clear forcortex-gateway(${gateway_tgz:+...}in thexattrcall) has no test. The code mirrors the existingxattrline.--versionanswer in the fake gateway (cmd/cortex/restart_test.go) are outside the plan's file lists, but both are necessary.Fixes #1722
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