# Web Chat (macOS menu bar) The macOS Clawdis app ships a built-in web chat window that reuses your primary Clawd session instead of creating a new one. This is meant for quick desktop access without exposing any local HTTP ports. ## How it works - UI: `pi-mono/packages/web-ui` bundle loaded in a `WKWebView`. - Bridge: `WKScriptMessageHandler` named `clawdis` (see `apps/macos/Sources/Clawdis/WebChatWindow.swift`). The page posts `sessionKey` + message; Swift shells `pnpm clawdis agent --to --message --json` and returns the first payload text to the page. No sockets are opened. - Session selection: always uses the canonical `main` session key (or `inbound.reply.session.mainKey`), hydrating from the Tau JSONL session file so you see the full history even when messages arrived via WhatsApp/Telegram. - Assets: the entire `pi-web-ui` dist plus dependencies (pi-ai, mini-lit, lit, lucide, pdfjs-dist, docx-preview, jszip) is bundled into `apps/macos/Sources/Clawdis/Resources/WebChat/` and shipped with the app. No external checkout is required at runtime. ## Requirements - `pnpm` on PATH. - `pnpm install` already run in the repo so `pnpm clawdis agent ...` works. - `pi-mono` checked out at `../pi-mono` with `packages/web-ui/dist` built. ## Limitations / TODO - Single-turn (no streaming), text-only; attachments/tools not wired yet. - Absolute dist path; bundle should be copied into app resources and versioned. - Errors from the agent subprocess are minimally surfaced. ## Usage - Launch the macOS Clawdis menu bar app, click the lobster icon → “Open Chat”. - Type and send; replies continue the primary Clawd session.