- With no `?arg=`, DevDesk reattaches the session you used last in this browser (or the most recently active one). The fzf picker, listing running (●), dormant (○) and new (+) sessions, is under the session chip's menu.
- **Session chip** (header): click to switch sessions; its dot shows Claude's state.
- **+ New** in the Sessions panel takes any name plus an optional project folder.
- **Rename / end:** the ✎ and × buttons on each session in the panel. Renaming keeps the session, its running Claude and its recorded conversation. Ending stops Claude; the conversation stays in Claude's history.
- **Windows:** each session has a `claude` window (0) and a `shell` window (1).
- **Conversation tracking:** a Claude `SessionStart` hook records each session's conversation ID in `/var/lib/devdesk/registry.json`. After a reboot the session resumes *that* conversation, even when other Claude instances, such as code-server, use the same directory.
- A "… needs you" chip jumps to other sessions that are waiting, and a desktop notification fires when one starts waiting.
- The **🔔 inbox** lists what needs you (waiting sessions, firing Grafana alerts) and what happened while you were away (a background session finished or started waiting, CI passed or failed); its badge counts them.
- **Answer from the inbox:** a session waiting on a permission shows the exact command/file and **Allow / Deny** (the key is pressed only if that prompt is still on screen); other waits and finished sessions offer **Peek & reply**: the last exchange and a reply box.
- **Matrix "Claude needs you":** when a session has waited for `DEVDESK_MATRIX_DELAY` seconds (30) and no browser tab or SSH client is attached to it, `devdesk-notify-matrix` posts one message per wait, with a link, to the hookshot webhook URL in `/etc/devdesk/matrix-webhook` (mode 600; no file = off).
- **Ops Alerts panel:** firing and pending Grafana alert rules, each with a link to the rule and the Proxmox guest or node it's about, e.g. `→ CT 110 draupnir · monitor-02 · stopped`.
- **Ask Claude** starts Claude in a new session (`alert-<name>`) with the investigation already sent. The prompt has the rule, its query, summary and labels, and where it runs: the CT/VM id, the node it's on right now, and the `ssh <node> pct exec <id> --` line. Clicking it again just opens that session.
- Guests are matched by the alert's `instance` IP (or host name), else by name in the job or alert ("by name"). Aggregate rules with no labels (`count(up == 0)`) get a hint to run the inner query instead.
- **`devdesk guests [ID|IP|NAME]`** lists Proxmox CTs/VMs with the node each runs on now, status, HA state and IPs. Claude is told to use it before acting, because HA guests move. Stopped guests keep the IP they had when last seen running.
- Configure `DEVDESK_GRAFANA_URL`, plus a Viewer token in `DEVDESK_GRAFANA_TOKEN_FILE`. For the guest lookup, set `DEVDESK_PVE_NODES` to a few Proxmox nodes reachable by root SSH key. VM IPs need the QEMU guest agent.
- **Repo / CI panel:** branch, ahead/behind, uncommitted changes, HEAD's Gitea CI status and open PRs for the session's folder. When CI fails, **Ask Claude to fix CI** types a prompt to read the failed job's log.
- **Files** (Ctrl+Shift+E), laid out like VS Code: an explorer tree (git colours, gitignored entries dimmed) and an editor with tabs (a click opens a preview tab, a double-click keeps it), **Go to file** (Ctrl+P in the pane), markdown previews (sanitized, with relative images), images, and a Changes view of uncommitted files with line counts, a **C** badge on files Claude edited, and diffs against HEAD. **@Claude** types `@path` into the prompt. Tabs and open folders are remembered per session. Paths can't leave the session folder.
- **Editing:** text files are editable; ● marks unsaved tabs; Ctrl+S (or Save) writes atomically and keeps the file's mode and owner. If the file changed on disk since you opened it (Claude edited it), saving asks: Compare (a diff of disk vs yours), Overwrite or Cancel; a change on disk while you edit shows a banner instead of replacing your text. Unsaved edits are kept as drafts in the browser, so a reload or a session switch doesn't lose them. ＋ creates a file (folders as needed). The editor bundle (`/usr/share/devdesk/assets/editor.js`) loads over ttyd the first time and is cached by the browser.
- **Paths are links:** a file path Claude prints (`web/src/files.js`, `notes.md:12`) opens in Files when clicked, at that line if given.
- **Ops guard:** `devdesk-guard` (a PreToolUse hook) makes Claude ask before destructive commands (`pct destroy`, `zfs destroy`, Ceph pool/OSD removal, `rm -r /…`, `git push --force`, `reboot`…), even in auto mode. `DEVDESK_GUARD=0` turns it off; `/etc/devdesk/guard.local` adds rules (`regex<TAB>reason`). Bash commands are logged per session, and sessions are tagged with the hosts they touch (ssh targets, CT/VM ids).
- **Search past conversations** (⋯ menu, palette): full text over every Claude conversation on the host; **Resume** it in a new session or **Fork** it.
- **Plan usage:** the 5-hour and weekly windows as meters in the footer (warning at 90 %); a **PR** chip on sessions whose branch has a pull request.
- **Quiet phone at the desk:** while a tab shows a session, Remote Control holds back phone pushes for it (client-presence marker, expires ~2 min after you leave).
- **Context:** a Claude `statusLine` command (`devdesk-statusline`) snapshots each session's model, context-window use and cost to `/var/lib/devdesk/context/<session>.json`. The Sessions panel shows it as a bar (cost in the tooltip), and Claude's own footer shows a one-line summary.
- **Light mode:** the terminal switches palettes with the page. DevDesk starts Claude with its `dark-ansi` theme so Claude draws with the terminal's 16 colours, and the light palette maps bright white to ink; tmux and the status line use ANSI colours too. A session picks up Claude's theme the next time Claude starts in it (`/exit`, then ⏎ resumes the same conversation).
The **☀/◐** button switches light and dark mode (saved per browser, shared with the other web_template apps' `lt_theme` preference). Text size, desktop notifications (with a mute), the keyboard shortcuts sheet and fullscreen are in the **⋯** menu; everything is also in the command palette. In Chromium, fullscreen also captures Ctrl+W/Ctrl+T, which browsers otherwise keep for themselves.
- **Put your changes in `/etc/devdesk/env.local`.** It's read after the packaged `env` and never shipped, so `apt upgrade` never asks about it. Example: `DEVDESK_REMOTE_CONTROL=1`.
-`/etc/devdesk/env` holds the packaged defaults; don't edit it. Its keys:
-`DEVDESK_GITEA_URL` / `DEVDESK_GITEA_ALIASES` for the Repo/CI panel. Public repos need no token; for private ones put a `read:repository` token in `/etc/devdesk/gitea-token`
- A `v*` tag also publishes to `https://code.lotusguild.org/api/packages/LotusGuild/debian`, creates a release, and auto-deploys to CT 126. A signed webhook runs `devdesk-deploy`, which upgrades the package; see [docs/DEPLOY.md](docs/DEPLOY.md).
