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fix(hub): let the designer and coder sandboxes work in the Compose hub - #66

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Follows #29, which let bubblewrap start inside the Compose hub. Once it could, four more faults surfaced one at a time, each of which the agents could only report as "my workspace is broken". One commit per fault, in the order they were met.

What changed

  1. Workspace packages from source (apps/hub/src/builds/posix-sandbox.ts): the sandbox child that performs every file read and write is launched with --conditions=intx-src like the hub, so @intx/tools-posix resolves to source instead of a dist that ships nowhere. Error before: Cannot find module '@intx/tools-posix' from '/app/apps/hub/src/builds/posix-child.ts'.
  2. Design check on arm64 Linux, with reasons (starter.ts, workflows/coder/check/check-app.ts, posix-sandbox.ts): Chrome for Testing now publishes an arm64 Linux headless shell, so it is installed there; check-app reports a missing browser instead of crashing on the absent $HOME/browsers; a failed command keeps its stderr in its output. Before, a designer saw an empty checklist and design_check_failed with no reason.
  3. TMPDIR inside the sandbox (posix-sandbox.ts): the command shim creates $TMPDIR, which srt points at /tmp/claude without creating it inside the sandbox's fresh /tmp. Bun's WebView needs a temp folder for Chrome's profile; before, it failed with Failed to spawn Chrome ... ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED.
  4. Proxy bridge sockets (posix-sandbox.ts): on Linux srt relays the sandbox's proxy ports to the host over Unix sockets in the host's temp folder and binds them before the hub's default-deny read policy lands, which wipes them. After initializing the sandbox, the bridge sockets are named in allowRead so srt binds them back. Before, every request through the proxy was reset and the coder's bun install failed on every tarball with ConnectionClosed.

How it was verified

On Colima 0.10.3 (Ubuntu 24.04.4, arm64) with the hub rebuilt from these commits, each check ran through the hub's own createPosixBuildExecutor, not a hand-written sandbox config:

  • The posix child starts and answers a write_file call inside the sandbox.
  • check-app on a copy of a designer's workspace opens 18 pages and returns a full checklist in under a minute; with no browser folder it reports the browser rule instead of dying.
  • A registry fetch returns 200, a domain off the allow list is refused with a 403 tunnel error, and a real bun install completes.
  • End to end: three designers filed their designs, the person approved one, and a fresh coder's workspace set up in 25 seconds.

Specialist runs freeze their tool bundle when created, so runs started before a hub rebuild keep failing until they are replaced; that is worth its own issue.

tsc --noEmit -p . passes with these files in place, and the apps/hub/src/builds tests pass.

The hub runs with --conditions=intx-src, which resolves the vendored
workspace packages to their TypeScript source, but it launched the
sandbox child that performs every file read and write without it. The
child then followed the packages' default export to a built dist that
ships nowhere, and every designer and coder tool call failed with
"Cannot find module '@intx/tools-posix'".
…rong

Chrome for Testing now publishes a headless shell for 64-bit ARM Linux,
so install it there too; the hub assumed no such build existed and
installed nothing on an arm64 host, such as the VM Colima runs.

With no browser installed, check-app crashed scanning the missing
$HOME/browsers folder instead of reporting the browser rule, and the
sandbox command runner discarded stderr, so a designer saw an empty
checklist and a failed status with no reason. Treat the missing folder
as "browser not installed", and keep a failed command's stderr in its
output.
srt sets TMPDIR to /tmp/claude for every sandboxed command but never
creates that folder inside the sandbox's own /tmp. Bun's WebView needs a
temp folder for Chrome's profile, so check-app failed with "Failed to
spawn Chrome" before Chrome ran. The command shim now creates TMPDIR
first.
On Linux srt relays the sandbox's proxy ports to the host over Unix
sockets in the host's temp folder and binds them into the sandbox before
the hub's default-deny read policy lands, which wipes them. Every
connection through the proxy was reset, so a coder's workspace setup
failed to download any package. After initializing the sandbox, name
the bridge sockets in allowRead so srt binds them back over the deny.

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#81 folded in all of #66's apps/hub/src/builds/posix-sandbox.ts changes onto main, along with a few additions caught by running test/e2e/pipeline.test.ts on Linux in CI:

  1. Included on main via test(e2e): replay recorded weather app project end to end in CI #81:
    • --conditions=intx-src for posix-child.ts
    • [ -z "$TMPDIR" ] || mkdir -p -- "$TMPDIR" in the command shim plus export TMPDIR=${quote(home)} in childCommand and wrapShell (with /tmp/claude and /private/tmp/claude added to denyWrite)
    • SandboxManager.waitForNetworkInitialization() and Linux proxy bridge sockets persisted directly on policy.filesystem.allowRead (so runGate()'s ...policy.filesystem spread retains them)
    • stderr capture when executor.command() exits non-zero
    • exec prefixing in wrapShell and Linux child.kill("SIGKILL") so bwrap tears down its PID namespace directly
  2. Remaining diff in fix(hub): let the designer and coder sandboxes work in the Compose hub #66 not in test(e2e): replay recorded weather app project end to end in CI #81: Only the linux-arm64 changes in apps/hub/src/builds/starter.ts ("linux-arm64": "linux-arm64") and workflows/coder/check/check-app.ts when $HOME/browsers is absent on ARM64 Linux. (Heads-up when rebasing fix(hub): let the designer and coder sandboxes work in the Compose hub #66 for those two files: .catch(() => [] as string[]) in check-app.ts trips Corbits Triage's promise-chain rule, so wrapping the Array.fromAsync scan in try / catch will keep Triage happy.)

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Superseded: #81 carried these sandbox fixes to main (the source conditions flag, arm64 Chrome, the TMPDIR shim and the bridge sockets), so this branch no longer adds anything.

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