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29 lines
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# Web Chat (macOS app)
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The macOS menu bar app ships a bundled web UI (pi-web-ui) rendered inside WKWebView. It reuses the **primary Clawd session** (`main` by default, configurable via `inbound.reply.session.mainKey`) and never opens a local HTTP port.
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## Launch & debugging
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- Manual: Lobster menu → “Open Chat”.
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- Auto-open for testing: run `dist/Clawdis.app/Contents/MacOS/Clawdis --webchat` (or pass `--webchat` to the binary launched by launchd). The window opens on startup.
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- Inspect: right-click the web view → “Inspect Element” (developerExtras enabled). Console logs go to the Swift logger (subsystem `com.steipete.clawdis`, category `WebChat`). The HTML boot script also writes status text into the `#app` div until the panel mounts.
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- WK logs: navigation lifecycle, readyState, js location, and JS errors/unhandled rejections are mirrored to OSLog for easier diagnosis.
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## How it’s wired
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- Assets: `apps/macos/Sources/Clawdis/Resources/WebChat/` contains the `pi-web-ui` dist plus a local import map pointing at bundled vendor modules and a tiny `pi-ai` stub. Everything loads from the app bundle (file URLs, no network).
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- Bridge: `WKScriptMessageHandler` named `clawdis` in `WebChatWindow.swift`. JS posts `{type:"chat", payload:{text, sessionKey}}`; Swift shells `pnpm clawdis agent --to <sessionKey> --message <text> --json`, returns the first payload text, and hydrates the UI with prior messages from `~/.clawdis/sessions/<SessionId>.jsonl`.
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- Session: always primary; multiple transports (WhatsApp/Telegram/Desktop) share the same session key so context is unified.
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## Security / surface area
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- No local server is started; everything is `file://` within the app bundle.
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- CSP is set to `default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' data: blob:` to keep module imports bundle-local.
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- Web Inspector is opt-in via right-click; otherwise WKWebView stays in the app sandbox.
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## Known limitations
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- Text-only, single-turn (no streaming); tools/attachments not yet plumbed.
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- Uses a stubbed pi-ai for model metadata; model selection is fixed to the primary Clawd backend.
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## Updating the bundle
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1) Ensure `../pi-mono` is present and built (`pnpm install` + `pnpm build` inside `packages/web-ui`).
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2) Copy vendor deps into `Resources/WebChat/vendor` (currently synced from `../pi-mono/node_modules`).
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3) Rebuild/restart the mac app with `./scripts/restart-mac.sh` so the new assets land in the bundle.
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