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# claude-cloak
TUI that displays Claude Code's API streams token-by-token (thinking, text, tool
calls) by acting as a pass-through proxy: Claude Code points `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`
at `127.0.0.1:8484`, we forward everything verbatim to `api.anthropic.com` and
tee SSE responses into the UI. **Never issue API requests of our own** — zero
extra usage is the core constraint of this project.
## Architecture
```
src/main.rs entry; tokio runtime for proxy task, TUI on main thread; --headless mode
src/proxy.rs axum fallback handler: buffers request body (for session metadata,
tool results, and user prompts — `app::record_user_prompt` lifts
the trailing user message into a Kind::User feed entry verbatim
(incl. slash-command machinery — the goal is to show everything
the model received, never filter it). On a turn-starting request
(tools present) it also emits the system-prompt *size* as a
Kind::System line (the prompt itself is too long to show) and the
available tool set as Kind::ToolDefs — each once, re-emitted only
on change (system/tools/history are re-sent every request but are
not new data). A *side* request (no tools — topic/title haiku
calls) is still shown, tagged with a `── side request ──` Meta
divider. `app::extract_user_text` splits a user text block into
its injected `<system-reminder>` spans (kept as dimmed
Kind::Reminder entries, never discarded — the prompt survives even
when it shares its block with a reminder, the
first-message-after-resume case) and the real prompt;
`strip_injected` is the label-only projection (drops reminders
*and* slash-command machinery) used for turn-tree labels.
Dedup drops only true resends (the just-recorded prompt is still
the tail entry), so verbatim repeats in later turns survive.
Forwards via reqwest, streams the response back unbuffered, tees
SSE
src/sse.rs incremental SSE parser; tolerant of chunk splits mid-event/mid-UTF-8
src/app.rs Arc<Mutex<App>> shared state; Tap = one in-flight tapped request,
translates SSE events → session Entries (Drop closes it out)
src/ui.rs ratatui rendering @ ~30fps; session list + scrollable feed
(FeedCache: per-entry rendered lines + wrapped heights, only
changed entries re-render; the viewport window of lines is
handed to ratatui so scroll state is usize end-to-end).
Focus accent is orange (`ACCENT` = indexed 208): borders, the
scroll thumb and the user-prompt blocks all use it when focused,
dim grey when not. User prompts render as full-width filled
rectangles padded to exactly the inner width (`wrap_words` +
exact pad, never the Paragraph's own wrap, so the box ends flush
with the borders); the fingerprint folds feed-focus in for
`Kind::User` only, so a focus toggle re-renders just those
blocks. `color_on(bg)` picks black/white text by background
luminance (used by the prompt blocks and the edit/diff blocks) so
filled blocks stay legible under any terminal theme. Injected
`<system-reminder>`s and the system-prompt-size `Kind::System`
line show dim under the "system" filter; the `Kind::ToolDefs`
tool-list line shares the "tools" filter with tool calls. The
feed's right border doubles as a prompt
minimap: `*` markers show where each user message sits in the
whole conversation, with the scroll thumb drawn on top where they
coincide.
Sessions panel is a uniform 50% of the main area: each session
is a multi-line item — full white title (live = first user
prompt via `live_title`, stub = disk label, word-wrapped by
`wrap_words`) over a dimmed id·model meta row; expanded turn
rows are indented past the title and `truncate_str`'d to one
line each.
src/markdown.rs wraps tui-markdown: renders GFM tables itself (box-drawing,
width-fitted wrapped columns) and strips heading `#` markers —
the pinned tui-markdown 0.3.5 does neither
src/sessions.rs on-disk session history: background scanner thread keeps
App::disk_sessions fresh (~1/s poll, labels re-read only on
mtime change); load_view/load_history rebuild a feed Session
from a JSONL transcript (lazily, on first view); build_tree
parses uuid/parentUuid chains into a TurnTree (one node per
real user prompt; rewinds leave fork points); materialize
writes a new session file from a chosen set of turns
src/term.rs embedded claude pane: spawns `claude --session-id <uuid>` in a
portable-pty routed through the proxy; wezterm-term models the
screen (and answers terminal queries); renderer paints cells
into the ratatui buffer
```
Data flow: proxy task parses SSE chunks → `Tap::handle()` mutates shared state →
UI thread redraws on its own tick (no channel; just the mutex).
## Key invariants
- **Latency-neutral pass-through**: response bytes are forwarded as-is, never
buffered or rewritten. Auth headers pass through untouched. If the tap code
panics or misparses, the proxy must still relay bytes (tee is best-effort):
chunks are `try_send`-cloned into a bounded channel and parsed on a separate
task (dropped on overflow, never blocking the relay), and the proxy/tap side
locks the app mutex poison-tolerantly (`app::lock_app`) so a UI panic can't
kill forwarding.
- **`accept-encoding` is stripped** from forwarded requests so the upstream
sends identity encoding we can parse in transit. Don't "fix" that.
- Hop-by-hop headers (`content-length`, `transfer-encoding`, etc.) are stripped
both directions; hyper re-frames.
- Sessions are keyed by the session UUID in request `metadata.user_id`
Claude Code ≥2.1.x sends a JSON blob with `"session_id":"<uuid>"`, older
builds `user_…_session_<uuid>`; `proxy::session_key` handles both.
Concurrent requests (subagents) share a session but each `Tap` tracks its own
current entry index — entries/sessions are append-only, so indices stay stable.
- **One app instance = one proxy port = at most one embedded claude**
(`EmbedUi::term` / `App::embed_session`, matched by the `--session-id` /
`--resume` UUID we spawn with). Every other live session is an external
claude pointed at our port: observable, never attachable.
- The session list merges live sessions (first, indices stable) with this
directory's past sessions from `~/.claude/projects/<cwd with / → ->/*.jsonl`
as dimmed stubs (deduped by uuid — a live session's file is on disk too).
**Tab is viewing only, never a process operation**: selecting a stub
lazy-loads its transcript into `App::history`; tabbing off the embedded
session hides the pane without killing the child (instant to come back).
ctrl-↓ is the commit point that attaches the pane to the selection:
reveal+focus if it's the embedded session, `claude --resume <uuid>`
(kill + respawn) for disk stubs and dead embeds, fresh `--session-id`
spawn when there's nothing. Live *external* sessions are guarded — their
instance may still run elsewhere and a second `--resume` would fork the
transcript — but a second ctrl-↓ within 3s forces it (liveness is
unknowable: an idle claude sends no traffic; `EmbedUi::past_embeds` skips
the guard for sessions whose instance we killed ourselves). `--session-id`
cannot be combined with `--resume` (CLI rejects it without `--fork-session`).
- **Turn tree / branching** (lazygit/yazi-style, all in the sessions panel):
`space` (or `→`/`l`) expands the selected session's turn tree — one row per
real user prompt, abandoned rewind branches indented `⑂` under their fork
point, trunk continuing below. j/k/↑/↓ walk sessions *and* turns (they
never scroll the feed; the wheel and PgUp/PgDn/g/G do that). Highlighting
a turn switches the feed to the on-disk transcript along the path through
that turn and pins the turn's prompt to the viewport top (HistoryView
caches per uuid, rebuilt when the leaf changes; FeedCache keys on
leaf+live so views of the same uuid don't share slots). `v` anchors a
contiguous visual range, `b` materializes a **new fully decoupled session
file** — chain root→turn, or exactly the visual range stitched together
(sessionId rewritten, each turn's head re-parented onto the previous
turn's tail, our own ai-title record gives it the `⑂ …` label) — injected
as the selected top stub. Branching never touches a process: ctrl-↓ stays
the only spawn/kill commit point.
- The tap drives pane behavior: grows it for AskUserQuestion /
ExitPlanMode (sized from the question's option count) before Claude Code
renders the prompt, shrinks when the tool_result echoes back, and schedules
a ctrl-l transcript wipe 400ms after each turn (the pane is prompt-only;
the feed shows the context).
- Tool input streams as raw JSON fragments; pretty-printed only on
`content_block_stop`. Streaming text re-renders markdown on every change
(FeedCache fingerprints by content length + done + result), so partial
markdown self-heals; completed entries render from cache.
## Gotchas
- `tui-markdown` is pinned `=0.3.5`: later versions use `ratatui-core` (0.30
alpha types), incompatible with ratatui 0.29. Its gaps (no tables, literal
heading markers) are compensated in `src/markdown.rs`, not by upgrading.
- `wezterm-term`/`wezterm-surface` are not on crates.io: pinned to a git rev
of the wezterm monorepo (keep both revs identical).
- The pane's render window crops Claude Code chrome by *position*
(`term.rs`: `BOTTOM_CROP`, start ≥ 2, `PTY_PAD`) — tuned to the current
Claude Code UI; retune there if an update adds/removes chrome rows.
Cropping only applies to the compact pane: fullscreen renders the child's
screen verbatim from row 0 with the PTY sized exactly to the pane
(`crop` flag on `resize`/`render`).
- Keybindings avoid Alt entirely: on layouts like dk_mac_fixed, Alt composes
characters (alt-c = ©) and never reaches the app as a modifier. Pane keys:
F2 toggle, ctrl-↓ attach pane to selected session (resume/spawn/focus),
ctrl-↑ focus feed, ctrl-f fullscreen toggle (only while the pane is
focused), ctrl-q quit (global; needed while the pane is focused, where
plain `q` is forwarded to the child), c attach most-recent past session.
List keys: j/k/↑/↓ move the session/turn highlight, space/→/← expand/
enter/leave the turn tree, a opens the model picker popup and spawns a
brand-new `claude --session-id … [--model …]` (kills any current pane —
`show_embed_new`; saves resume-then-/clear to get a fresh chat). The picker
list comes from `App::model_choices`: seeded with `default_model_choices`,
then replaced by `term::spawn_model_discovery` — a background scan that
reads the live model-alias array (`["sonnet","opus","haiku","fable",…]`)
straight out of the installed `claude` ELF (single self-contained binary
with the JS bundle embedded). No API call, never runs claude — just resolves
`claude` on PATH and greps its bytes for the longest lowercase-token array
anchored by `opus`+`sonnet`. Tab/BackTab cycle sessions (`p` no longer
mirrors BackTab). v visual range, b branch, Esc unwinds (visual → tree →
quit). n/N jump the feed scroll to the next/previous user prompt
(`App::prompt_jump`, applied in `draw` where entry heights are cached). The
feed scrolls only via wheel / PgUp / PgDn / g / G / n / N.
`CT_DEBUG_KEYS=1` shows raw key events in the status bar.
- Mouse is captured: wheel always scrolls the feed (regardless of focus), and
left-drag selects screen text, copied on release via OSC 52 (like Claude
Code). Native terminal selection therefore needs shift held.
- Bracketed paste is enabled on the outer terminal (`EnableBracketedPaste`):
a multiline paste arrives as one `Event::Paste` and, when the claude pane
has focus, is handed to the child via `EmbeddedTerm::paste`
(wezterm-term's `send_paste` re-wraps it in bracketed markers iff the child
enabled them) — so Claude Code inserts it as one block instead of
submitting on the first embedded newline. Paste is ignored when the pane is
unfocused (nothing else takes text input).
- Pane cursor shape mirrors the child: each frame `draw` records the child's
DECSCUSR shape (`EmbeddedTerm::cursor_shape`) into `EmbedUi::cursor_shape`
and the event loop emits `SetCursorStyle` only on change (so a blinking
cursor isn't reset every frame), resetting to `DefaultUserShape` when no
pane cursor is shown / on teardown. Without this the outer terminal kept a
stale block cursor regardless of Claude Code's insert-vs-vim-normal state.
`term::cursor_style` maps the child's DECSCUSR `Default` to a blinking *bar*,
not `DefaultUserShape`: Claude Code's normal input leaves the cursor at the
terminal default expecting a bar caret, so forwarding the outer terminal's
own default (often a block) would wrongly show a block in insert mode; vim
normal mode still sends an explicit `SteadyBlock`.
- ratatui needs feature `unstable-rendered-line-info` for `Paragraph::line_count`
(used to compute cached per-entry wrapped heights for follow/auto-scroll).
- reqwest is `default-features = false` + `rustls-tls,stream` — don't enable
compression features (would re-add accept-encoding).
- The listener is bound in `main` before the TUI starts: prefers 8484, falls
back to an OS-assigned free port so multiple instances coexist (each pane
gets the actual port via `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`). `CT_PORT` pins the port and
turns bind failure into a hard startup error.
- Testing: SSE parser has unit tests (`cargo test`). For a live pass-through
check: `--headless` (prints the bound port), then POST to
`127.0.0.1:<port>/v1/messages` without auth — a relayed 401 from Anthropic
proves the round-trip. The TUI can't run in a non-tty. `CT_UPSTREAM` points
the proxy at an alternative upstream (e.g. a local fake SSE server) for
fully offline end-to-end tests with zero API usage.
## Not yet handled (known MVP limits)
- Non-streaming requests pass through untapped (e.g. `count_tokens`).
- Sessions are never pruned (entry memory grows for the process lifetime);
the same goes for viewed disk transcripts (`App::history`).
- Request bodies are fully buffered (up to 512 MB) before forwarding — needed
to read session metadata; adds first-byte latency on huge bodies.
- Tool results only appear once the *next* request fires; if the session ends
right after a tool call, that result is never seen. Output is what Claude
Code sends the model (i.e. post-truncation).
- Embedded pane: no mouse forwarding yet; no scrollback view (live screen
only); shift+enter needs kitty keyboard protocol pushed on the outer
terminal (not done); permission prompts aren't detected for pane growth
(not visible in the API stream — would need a Notification hook hitting a
local control endpoint).
- Materialized branch files satisfy our own parser (round-trip tested) but
Claude Code's loader tolerance is only verified empirically by resuming
one — if a CC update changes the JSONL schema, retest `b` + ctrl-↓. The
tree itself isn't refreshed while expanded (collapse/re-expand re-reads
the file), and a highlighted turn of a *live* session views its on-disk
transcript, which lags the in-memory feed by however much CC buffers.