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Problem

Sessions launched inside Conductor show up in the island as Unknown, with no jump-back. Conductor runs each agent (e.g. Claude Code) as a headless, TTY-less subprocess of its own runtime — not inside a terminal emulator — so:

  • process discovery never walks up to a recognized terminal, and
  • TERM_PROGRAM is unset,

which is exactly the "no signal → Unknown" path. This mirrors the gap that #644 closed for Zed.

What Conductor actually exposes

Inspecting a live Conductor-hosted process, Conductor stamps its own identifiers into the agent environment:

__CFBundleIdentifier=com.conductor.app
CONDUCTOR_SESSION_ID=6f3ff1a1-…          # == the agent's --session-id
CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_ID=ab7188f2-…
CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_PATH=~/conductor/workspaces/<repo>/<workspace>

and the process ancestry is agent → conductor-runtime sidecar (…/com.conductor.app/…) → /Applications/Conductor.app/Contents/MacOS/conductor.

Change

Recognize Conductor as a host, following the exact pattern of the Zed change (#644):

  • ClaudeHooks.inferTerminalApp — detect Conductor from the environment (CONDUCTOR_SESSION_ID / CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_ID / __CFBundleIdentifier == com.conductor.app). Placed before the TERM_PROGRAM switch, for the same env-inheritance-leak reason as the existing Claude.app check.
  • ActiveAgentProcessDiscovery.recognizedTerminalApp — process-tree fallback: the agent's ancestors (the conductor-runtime sidecar and the Conductor.app bundle) resolve to Conductor.
  • ProcessMonitoringCoordinator.supportedTerminalApp — canonicalize conductorConductor.
  • TerminalJumpService — register the com.conductor.app descriptor and an explicit jump case. Conductor hosts each agent inside its own window with no per-session deep link, so jump-back brings the Conductor app forward — same rationale (and behavior) as the existing Claude.app case.
  • Docs: compatibility table + terminal-support section in README.md and README.zh-CN.md.

Support level

App-level (activate Conductor), matching how Claude.app / Codex.app (without a thread id) are handled. Deeper targeting (a specific workspace tab) would need a Conductor deep-link/API and is intentionally out of scope here — see the related process-tree approach in #453.

Testing

  • swift build — clean.
  • swift test (via scripts/test-clt.sh on a Command Line Tools-only setup) — 370 tests / 39 suites pass, including two new ClaudeHooksTests cases: detection via CONDUCTOR_SESSION_ID and via __CFBundleIdentifier.
  • Manual, against a live Conductor session: fed the real Conductor process environment to the built OpenIslandHooks binary through the running app bridge — the session registers with jumpTarget.terminalApp = "Conductor" (baseline was Unknown) and the workspace name (nukualofa) resolves. Jump-back (open -b com.conductor.app) brings Conductor frontmost.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for Conductor as a recognized terminal and jump target.
    • Detects Conductor sessions through valid environment information or its application identifier.
    • Activating a jump to Conductor brings the app to the foreground.
    • Keeps Conductor-hosted sessions visible while active, removing them only after repeated inactivity reports.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevents empty Conductor environment markers from incorrectly identifying sessions.
  • Documentation

    • Updated English and Chinese compatibility documentation with Conductor support details.

Conductor (conductor.build) runs Claude Code as a headless, TTY-less
subprocess of its own runtime, so process discovery never finds a
terminal and TERM_PROGRAM is unset — its sessions showed as "Unknown"
with no jump-back.

Recognize Conductor from the identifiers it stamps into the agent
environment (CONDUCTOR_SESSION_ID, which equals the Claude Code
--session-id, plus CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_ID and
__CFBundleIdentifier=com.conductor.app), checked before TERM_PROGRAM for
the same env-inheritance-leak reason as the Claude.app check. Add a
process-tree fallback via the conductor-runtime sidecar / Conductor.app
ancestors, and register the com.conductor.app descriptor so jump-back
brings the Conductor app forward (app-level, like Claude.app — Conductor
hosts each agent in its own window with no per-session deep link).

Mirrors the Zed detection pattern. Adds two ClaudeHooks tests and README
entries (EN + zh-CN).
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The PR adds Conductor detection, Conductor-hosted session liveness handling, and Conductor app activation for jump-back behavior. It adds regression tests and documents the integration in English and Chinese README files.

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Conductor support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Conductor detection and session liveness
Sources/OpenIslandCore/ClaudeHooks.swift, Sources/OpenIslandApp/ActiveAgentProcessDiscovery.swift, Sources/OpenIslandApp/ProcessMonitoringCoordinator.swift, Tests/OpenIslandCoreTests/ClaudeHooksTests.swift, Tests/OpenIslandCoreTests/SessionStateTests.swift
Non-empty Conductor identifiers normalize to "Conductor". Running Conductor keeps matching Claude Code sessions alive within the 600-second staleness window. Tests cover empty markers and alive, single-miss, and double-miss states.
Conductor activation and support documentation
Sources/OpenIslandApp/TerminalJumpService.swift, README.md, README.zh-CN.md
The jump service registers com.conductor.app and the conductor alias. Jump-back activates Conductor with open -b. Both README files document detection and app-level activation.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4b7d3

This PR adds Conductor detection and app-level jump-back support, but the current version still has bounded merge-readiness risks: host classification may interfere with Zellij fallback behavior, non-canonical terminal names may cause live sessions to be evicted, and the coordinator path lacks direct regression coverage. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ClaudeHooks
  participant ProcessMonitoringCoordinator
  participant TerminalJumpService
  participant Conductor
  ClaudeHooks->>ProcessMonitoringCoordinator: classify session as Conductor
  ProcessMonitoringCoordinator->>Conductor: check running application
  Conductor-->>ProcessMonitoringCoordinator: report running state
  TerminalJumpService->>Conductor: open -b com.conductor.app
  Conductor-->>TerminalJumpService: activate application
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In `@Sources/OpenIslandApp/ActiveAgentProcessDiscovery.swift`:
- Around line 525-533: Update discover() so Conductor ancestor detection runs
before the terminalTTY == nil filter, allowing recognized TTY-less Claude
subprocesses to continue through terminalApp(for:processesByPID:). Preserve
filtering for unrelated TTY-less processes, and add a regression test covering a
TTY-less claude child with a Conductor ancestor so it remains included in alive
session discovery.

In `@Sources/OpenIslandApp/TerminalJumpService.swift`:
- Around line 129-133: Keep the Conductor descriptor in knownApps, but update
the zellijParentTerminals construction to use a terminal-only descriptor
collection that excludes com.conductor.app. Preserve the existing fallback
ordering and Zellij parent selection behavior for actual terminal applications.

In `@Sources/OpenIslandCore/ClaudeHooks.swift`:
- Around line 1200-1202: Update the Conductor classification condition in
ClaudeHooks.swift to require a non-empty CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_ID value instead of
merely checking for its presence, while preserving the existing session-ID and
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arenier and others added 3 commits August 26, 2026 11:52
Conductor (conductor.build) runs Claude Code as a headless, TTY-less
subprocess, so ps/lsof process discovery never sees it — the same shape
as Claude Desktop (Octane0411#510). ProcessMonitoringCoordinator had no app-level
liveness fallback for Conductor, so SessionState.markProcessLiveness
evicted these sessions two polls after they appeared: the session
showed up correctly tagged "Conductor", then vanished seconds later.

Mirror the Claude Desktop fix: keep sessions tagged
terminalApp == "Conductor" in the alive set while Conductor is running,
letting completed sessions expire after the staleness window. Adds
isConductorAppRunning() and conductorStalenessTimeout, plus a
SessionState regression test pinning the liveness contract the fallback
relies on.

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In `@Sources/OpenIslandApp/ProcessMonitoringCoordinator.swift`:
- Around line 584-587: Update the Conductor session filter in
ProcessMonitoringCoordinator to normalize session.jumpTarget?.terminalApp
through supportedTerminalApp(for:) before comparing it with "Conductor".
Preserve the existing Claude Code and non-demo session conditions so normalized
lowercase values are included in aliveIDs.

In `@Tests/OpenIslandCoreTests/SessionStateTests.swift`:
- Around line 168-179: Move the liveness debounce test from SessionStateTests to
the coordinator test target, and exercise the ProcessMonitoringCoordinator path
with an injected Conductor-running state or pure helper. Assert that the
coordinator includes the Conductor session in the generated alive-session set
before retaining the existing first-miss and second-miss expectations.
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Comment on lines +584 to +587
for session in sessions
where session.tool == .claudeCode
&& !session.isDemoSession
&& session.jumpTarget?.terminalApp == "Conductor" {

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Normalize terminalApp before matching Conductor sessions.

If a persisted JumpTarget.terminalApp is "conductor", this raw comparison excludes the session from aliveIDs. SessionState.markProcessLiveness(aliveSessionIDs:) then can mark the hook-managed session ended after two liveness misses. Use supportedTerminalApp(for:) before comparing with "Conductor".

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In `@Sources/OpenIslandApp/ProcessMonitoringCoordinator.swift` around lines 584 -
587, Update the Conductor session filter in ProcessMonitoringCoordinator to
normalize session.jumpTarget?.terminalApp through supportedTerminalApp(for:)
before comparing it with "Conductor". Preserve the existing Claude Code and
non-demo session conditions so normalized lowercase values are included in
aliveIDs.

Comment on lines +168 to +179
state.markProcessLiveness(aliveSessionIDs: ["conductor-1"])
state.markProcessLiveness(aliveSessionIDs: ["conductor-1"])
#expect(state.session(id: "conductor-1")?.isSessionEnded == false)
#expect(state.session(id: "conductor-1")?.isVisibleInIsland == true)

// First miss (e.g. Conductor just quit): debounced, not yet evicted.
state.markProcessLiveness(aliveSessionIDs: [])
#expect(state.session(id: "conductor-1")?.isSessionEnded == false)
#expect(state.session(id: "conductor-1")?.isVisibleInIsland == true)

// Second consecutive miss: session ends and leaves the island.
state.markProcessLiveness(aliveSessionIDs: [])

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Test the Conductor-specific coordinator path.

SessionState.markProcessLiveness only consumes aliveSessionIDs. It does not inspect terminalApp or the Conductor bundle identifier. This test passes even if ProcessMonitoringCoordinator never adds Conductor sessions to aliveSessionIDs.

Move this test to the coordinator test target, inject the Conductor running state or extract a pure helper, and assert the generated alive-session set.

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In `@Tests/OpenIslandCoreTests/SessionStateTests.swift` around lines 168 - 179,
Move the liveness debounce test from SessionStateTests to the coordinator test
target, and exercise the ProcessMonitoringCoordinator path with an injected
Conductor-running state or pure helper. Assert that the coordinator includes the
Conductor session in the generated alive-session set before retaining the
existing first-miss and second-miss expectations.

CONDUCTOR_SESSION_ID / CONDUCTOR_WORKSPACE_ID were checked with `!= nil`,
which also matches an empty string, so an empty marker would classify the
session as "Conductor" without a valid identifier. Require a non-empty
value on both markers; the __CFBundleIdentifier check is unchanged.

Adds a ClaudeHooks test asserting empty markers are not treated as Conductor.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`launch-dev-app.sh` and `package-app.sh` ran `generate_brand_icons.py` on
every invocation, rewriting the committed iconsets in place. The renderer
is deterministic per machine, but PNG bytes differ between Pillow versions
even when every pixel is identical, so on any machine whose Pillow differs
from the one that produced the committed files each dev launch left 14
modified PNGs in the worktree. That blocked `git pull` and leaked into
unrelated commits (Octane0411#669 carried a churn-and-revert pair; Octane0411#678 shipped the
14 re-encoded files). `package-app.sh` had the same issue with
`dmg-background.png`, which additionally depends on the machine's fonts.

Both scripts now package the committed `OpenIsland.icns` and DMG background
as-is and fail with a pointer to the generator if either is missing.
Re-rendering is opt-in: `launch-dev-app.sh --regenerate-icons` and
`OPEN_ISLAND_REGENERATE_BRAND_ASSETS=true zsh scripts/package-app.sh`.
Assets/Brand/README.md documents the workflow and the expected diff after
regenerating on a different machine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013nYyiSpPzYGe9R9MFS3QB3
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