codex-shell: chown global agent CLI to uid 10001 for auto-update - #23
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`npm install -g` at L261-264 runs as root (before the USER directive at L318), so /usr/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/ and the matching /usr/bin/claude symlink land owned by root:root. When the agent user (uid 10001) later tries `npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code` to auto-update, npm's reify step renames within /usr/lib/node_modules/ @anthropic-ai/ → EACCES. Fix: after each `npm install -g`, chown the scope directory and the entrypoint symlink to 10001:10001. The agent user is created later in the Dockerfile but the uid/gid 10001 are pinned constants (with an explicit "DO NOT bump uid/gid casually" comment at L266-282), so numeric chown here is safe and order-independent. Same pattern applied to both variants: claude → @Anthropic-AI + /usr/bin/claude, codex → @openai + /usr/bin/codex. After this lands and apk8s bumps to the resulting sha, in-pod `npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code` should succeed for the agent user, and claude-code's startup auto-update check should stop showing the "Auto-update failed" banner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#24) Three coupled changes that together make the agent containers boot into a usable, current-version state without manual intervention. 1. Bump pinned CLI versions to current npm latest: CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION: 2.1.133 → 2.1.139 OPENAI_CODEX_VERSION: 0.129.0 → 0.130.0 This is what runtime auto-update was trying (and failing) to do. Letting Renovate own ongoing bumps via PRs matches the rest of the codex-shell pinning model. 2. ENV DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=true. Runtime auto-update can't succeed inside the container anyway — npm rename within /usr/bin/ requires root, and the agent user is uid 10001. The chown patch (PR #23) covered /usr/lib/node_modules/@Anthropic-AI and the symlink itself but couldn't cover write-perms on the /usr/bin/ parent. With the ARG-pinned versions, suppressing the updater removes a noisy TUI banner without losing any actual version-update capability. 3. Add --dangerously-skip-permissions to the claude launch command. Without this, every restart drops the agent back into per-tool approval mode and unattended task execution stalls waiting for a human. The pod IS the sandbox boundary; the per-tool approval gate isn't load-bearing inside it. Co-authored-by: claude-prodromou <claude@prodromou.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Retroactive Codex review: blessed after merge. The diff is limited to chowning the global npm scope directories and entrypoint symlinks to uid/gid 10001 after root-owned |
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Summary
npm install -g(which runs as root), chown the global agent CLI install + entrypoint symlink to the agent uid/gid (10001) so the agent user can auto-update.@anthropic-ai+/usr/bin/claude, codex →@openai+/usr/bin/codex.Why
The pod runtime user is 10001, but
/usr/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/was being installed root-owned, sonpm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-codeat runtime fails with EACCES on the rename inside the @scope/ parent. Surfaces in pods as the "Auto-update failed" warning at the bottom of the Claude Code TUI.Test plan
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-codesucceeds as uid 10001, Claude Code banner no longer shows the auto-update warning, version is 2.1.139 (latest)Risk
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