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Mike Swanson ee216f1824 sync: auto-sync from Mikes-MacBook-Air.local at 2026-05-24 10:19:50
Author: Mike Swanson
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Timestamp: 2026-05-24 10:19:50
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Session Log — 2026-05-24

User

  • User: Mike Swanson (mike)
  • Machine: GURU-KALI
  • Role: admin
  • Session span: ~06:3009:31 MST

Session Summary

Provisioned GURU-KALI (Lenovo Legion Pro 5, Kali rolling) for full ClaudeTools/GuruRMM work and then implemented Linux support for the GuruRMM agent tray, testing it end to end on this machine.

First half was machine onboarding. The SOPS vault was not present locally, so the vault repo was cloned to /home/guru/vault; sops 3.13.1 was installed to ~/.local/bin (checksum-verified), the age key directory was created, and after the user supplied the age private key, vault decryption was verified working. Tailscale was then installed — this machine was off the company LAN (wifi 10.2.x) with no path to internal services, so coord API, the internal DB, and the remote Ollama were all unreachable. After tailscale up --accept-routes, pfSense-2's advertised 172.16.0.0/22 subnet route made 172.16.3.30 reachable; coord API and remote Ollama were both confirmed (HTTP 200). A per-machine spec was written to .claude/machines/guru-kali.md following the existing fleet convention (the first attempt created a wrong-location .claude/MACHINES.md, which was removed after the user pointed to the existing .claude/machines/ + LINUX_PC_ONBOARDING.md).

Second half was the GuruRMM Linux tray. The active repo was cloned to /home/guru/gururmm. The parity matrix in .claude/CODING_GUIDELINES.md confirmed the gap: IPC/tray was [OK] on Windows, [GAP] on Linux/macOS (a cfg(not(windows)) no-op). After installing the Rust toolchain (rustup, missing) and GTK/appindicator/openssl dev libs, a Coding Agent implemented: a real Unix-domain-socket IPC server in the agent (transport-agnostic handler shared with the Windows named pipe), the tray's Unix-socket client, and a Linux GTK main-loop run path (winit does not pump libappindicator on Linux). Code Review returned APPROVE WITH NITS; H1 (socket-dir hardening) was fixed in-diff, H2 (policy gating + Denied) partly closed, and M2/M3 applied.

The tray was verified live in the XFCE panel. Running the agent under the systemd service surfaced a real deployment bug: ProtectSystem=strict with only /var/log writable made /run read-only in the sandbox, so the agent could not create its socket. Fixed by adding RuntimeDirectory=gururmm to the unit (both on this machine and in the agent's unit template in main.rs). With the fix, the enrolled agent (this machine was already enrolled, id a73ba38e) authenticated, served the socket, and the tray showed the green "Connected" icon. XDG autostart + best-effort installer wiring were added. Work landed on branch feat/linux-tray-ipc as PR #13 (not merged — branch+PR was chosen to avoid triggering the fleet build pipeline).


Key Decisions

  • Tailscale-only (not local Ollama) for onboarding now. Tailscale restored coord API + DB + remote Ollama in one step; local Ollama deferred (GPU is on nouveau, needs proprietary driver + reboot for accel).
  • Passwordless sudo enabled for guru (/etc/sudoers.d/guru-nopasswd) per user choice, so privileged steps (apt, systemd, /run) run without per-command prompts.
  • Branch + PR, not push to main. Pushing to main triggers the webhook build pipeline and a fleet-wide stable-channel auto-update of the agent; a PR keeps it reviewable.
  • cfg(unix) for the socket IPC, cfg(target_os="linux") for GTK (per platform-parity standard) — the Unix-socket IPC advances macOS for free; macOS tray launch left as TODO(platform).
  • RuntimeDirectory=gururmm over loosening ProtectSystem — the systemd-native, minimal way to give the agent a writable /run/gururmm for its socket.
  • Tray policy left as-is — the server already pushes this agent enabled=true (with allow_view_logs=false), so "show the tray for this machine" was already satisfied; no explicit override added.
  • Ran the agent as root / under systemd, tray as guru — the 0666 socket bridges the root-owned agent and the non-root user-session tray (Linux equivalent of the Windows NULL-DACL pipe).

Problems Encountered

  • Vault sync skipped/home/guru/vault was not a git repo. Resolved by cloning the vault repo there.
  • No sops / no age key — vault clone alone could not decrypt. Installed sops 3.13.1, created ~/.config/sops/age/, user supplied the private key; decryption verified.
  • Session not elevated — assumed elevated but sudo -n required a password. Resolved by the user enabling passwordless sudo.
  • Tailscale not in Kali apt — used the official install.sh (it explicitly maps kali).
  • Wrong machine-doc artifact — created .claude/MACHINES.md; the convention is .claude/machines/<host>.md. Removed the stray file, wrote guru-kali.md, repointed refs.
  • Rust missing — installed via rustup (~/.cargo). GTK/appindicator/openssl dev libs installed via apt.
  • Agent panicked on --help as guru — it initializes a rolling file logger to /var/log/gururmm (root-only). Runs fine as root.
  • --config rejected after run — it is a global flag; correct form is gururmm-agent --config <path> run.
  • IPC socket failed under systemd (removing stale agent socket) — ProtectSystem=strict made /run read-only in the sandbox (EROFS). Fixed with RuntimeDirectory=gururmm.
  • Screenshot showed a screensaver (xfce4-screensaver mice on black). Deactivated with xfce4-screensaver-command --deactivate before re-capturing.
  • 5.8 GB cgroup "memory" alarm walked back — actual agent RSS was 32 MB; the figure was the systemd cgroup peak, not resident memory.

Configuration Changes

ClaudeTools repo (/home/guru/claudetools):

  • Created .claude/machines/guru-kali.md — full machine spec (updated this session with Rust, GTK build libs, passwordless sudo, gururmm clone, enrolled-agent note).
  • .claude/OLLAMA.md — added GURU-KALI to the machine table + status note.
  • .claude/CLAUDE.md — Reference pointer to .claude/machines/.
  • Removed the mistakenly-created .claude/MACHINES.md.
  • (Earlier commit 4383f9e carried the first three; this session's guru-kali.md edits sync now.)

GuruRMM repo (/home/guru/gururmm) — PR #13, branch feat/linux-tray-ipc, commit 01fa6c4:

  • agent/src/ipc.rs — Unix-socket IPC server; transport-agnostic shared handler; hardened socket-dir creation; policy-gated StopAgent/ForceCheckin + Denied variant.
  • agent/src/main.rs — added RuntimeDirectory=gururmm + RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755 to the generated systemd unit template.
  • agent/scripts/install.sh — best-effort tray binary download + XDG autostart install.
  • agent/deploy/linux/gururmm-tray.desktop — new XDG autostart entry.
  • tray/Cargo.toml — gtk/glib 0.18 under linux cfg; tokio net for unix; winit gated to non-linux.
  • tray/src/ipc.rs — Unix-socket client + capped exponential backoff; dropped redundant GetStatus.
  • tray/src/tray.rs — Linux GTK main-loop run path; Linux ViewLogs branch.

Machine-level (GURU-KALI, not in any repo):

  • /etc/sudoers.d/guru-nopasswd — passwordless sudo for guru.
  • ~/.local/bin/sops (3.13.1), ~/.config/sops/age/keys.txt (age private key, mode 600).
  • /home/guru/vault (vault repo clone), /home/guru/gururmm (gururmm repo clone).
  • Rust via rustup (~/.cargo); apt: libgtk-3-dev, libayatana-appindicator3-dev, libxdo-dev, libssl-dev, pkg-config, build-essential.
  • Tailscale installed; tailscale up --accept-routes.
  • /etc/systemd/system/gururmm-agent.service — patched with RuntimeDirectory=gururmm.
  • Deployed local dev builds to /usr/local/bin/gururmm-agent and /usr/local/bin/gururmm-tray; /etc/xdg/autostart/gururmm-tray.desktop installed.

Credentials & Secrets

  • age private key at ~/.config/sops/age/keys.txt (mode 600) — public key age1qz7ct84m50u06h97artqddkj3c8se2yu4nxu59clq8rhj945jc0s5excpr (vault recipient #1). Supplied by the user this session; matches the vault's first .sops.yaml recipient.
  • GuruRMM agent api_key — in /etc/gururmm/agent.toml (root, mode 600), real enrolled key for agent id a73ba38e-cd02-4331-b8bf-474cd899ec22. Not transcribed here (already on-machine).
  • Gitea API token used for PR #13 — from vault services/gitea.sops.yaml field api.api-token (whoami = azcomputerguru). No new secrets created.
  • /etc/gururmm/config.toml — a generated test config with a placeholder api_key (your-api-key-here); not a real credential.

Infrastructure & Servers

  • GURU-KALI — Tailscale 100.75.148.91 (mike@); wifi 10.2.209.225/16. XFCE/X11, DISPLAY=:0.0.
  • Coord API / ClaudeTools DB172.16.3.30:8001 (reachable via Tailscale subnet route 172.16.0.0/22 advertised by pfSense-2 100.119.153.74).
  • Remote Ollama100.92.127.64:11434 (DESKTOP-0O8A1RL), 5 models, reachable.
  • GuruRMM serverwss://rmm-api.azcomputerguru.com/ws (agent WS endpoint); dashboard https://rmm.azcomputerguru.com.
  • Gitea — internal API http://172.16.3.20:3000 (external git.azcomputerguru.com blocks curl/Cloudflare).
  • GuruRMM agent socket/run/gururmm/agent.sock (srw-rw-rw-, root); created via systemd RuntimeDirectory. Agent logs to /var/log/gururmm/agent.log.

Commands & Outputs

# Vault + sops
git clone <vault-url> /home/guru/vault
install -m 0755 sops ~/.local/bin/sops          # 3.13.1, sha256 verified
bash .claude/scripts/vault.sh list              # decryption OK after key placed

# Tailscale
curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
sudo tailscale up --accept-routes               # node 100.75.148.91
# pfSense-2 advertises 172.16.0.0/22 -> 172.16.3.30 reachable

# Build env
curl --proto '=https' https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y --profile minimal   # rust 1.95.0
sudo apt-get install -y libgtk-3-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev libxdo-dev libssl-dev pkg-config build-essential

# Build + run (local cargo, NOT build-agents.sh)
cd /home/guru/gururmm/agent && cargo build      # clean (51 pre-existing warnings)
cd /home/guru/gururmm/tray  && cargo build      # clean
sudo /usr/local/bin/gururmm-agent --config /etc/gururmm/agent.toml run   # via systemd after fix
DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/local/bin/gururmm-tray         # tray; green when agent connected

# Verify tray registration
gdbus call --session --dest org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher \
  --object-path /StatusNotifierWatcher \
  --method org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get \
  org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher RegisteredStatusNotifierItems
# -> org/ayatana/NotificationItem/tray_icon_tray_app

Key log lines:

  • Authentication successful, agent_id: Some(a73ba38e-cd02-4331-b8bf-474cd899ec22)
  • [INFO] IPC server listening on /var/run/gururmm/agent.sock
  • tray: Connected to agent / Updated status: connected=true / Updated policy: enabled=true
  • pre-fix error: IPC server error: removing stale agent socket (EROFS under ProtectSystem=strict)

Pending / Incomplete Tasks

  • PR #13 review/mergeazcomputerguru/gururmm#13. Not merged; merging triggers the build pipeline + fleet auto-update.
  • Build pipeline must build + publish gururmm-tray-linux-<arch> to the downloads dir, and confirm install.sh TRAY_DOWNLOAD_URL matches the published name (installer is best-effort until then).
  • Phase-4 IPC hardening (task #10): SO_PEERCRED on the 0666 socket, real StopAgent/ForceCheckin enforcement + confirmation dialog (policy gating + Denied are in place; peer-cred + real action deferred).
  • macOS tray launch (launchd user agent) — untested, TODO(platform).
  • GURU-KALI service runs an unsigned local dev build with a hand-patched unit; it realigns when PR #13 merges and the pipeline ships a signed agent.
  • Optional onboarding leftovers: local Ollama, GrepAI, 1Password CLI not installed.

Reference Information

  • GuruRMM PR: azcomputerguru/gururmm#13 (branch feat/linux-tray-ipc, commit 01fa6c4)
  • Agent id (GURU-KALI): a73ba38e-cd02-4331-b8bf-474cd899ec22
  • Tailscale: GURU-KALI 100.75.148.91, DESKTOP-0O8A1RL 100.92.127.64, pfSense-2 100.119.153.74
  • Repos: claudetools /home/guru/claudetools, vault /home/guru/vault, gururmm /home/guru/gururmm
  • Coord lock used: 425f588c-b41d-4d5f-a926-60d3e342c416 (released)
  • Machine doc: .claude/machines/guru-kali.md; onboarding: .claude/machines/LINUX_PC_ONBOARDING.md
  • Standards referenced: .claude/CODING_GUIDELINES.md, .claude/standards/gururmm/{platform-parity,build-pipeline,sqlx-migrations}.md

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Update: 10:15 MST — Phase 4 IPC hardening, PRs merged, follow-up issues, update watch

Session Summary

Merged the Linux-tray PR (#13) to main, then implemented and merged Phase 4 of the agent IPC (the H2 hardening follow-up from #13's review), opened tracking issues for the remaining gaps, and set up a watcher to confirm GURU-KALI auto-updates once the build pipeline publishes the new agent.

PR #13 was merged via the internal Gitea API (merge commit 2857559, then a CI auto-bump versions commit 9e7977c). The local gururmm clone was fast-forwarded to the merged main, which also brought in unrelated landed work: server/migrations/042_agent_events.sql, server/src/db/events.rs, and an AppState.log_sender_watch field.

Phase 4 was implemented by a Coding Agent (opus): peer-credential authorization on the 0666 Unix socket (deny-by-default), real ForceCheckin/StopAgent wiring, and a tray GTK confirmation dialog. Code Review (opus) returned APPROVE WITH NITS, no blockers; the deny-by-default authz was verified sound across all paths. A follow-up fix pass addressed the two MEDIUMs (StopAgent on non-systemd installs; stale force_checkin Notify permit) and LOW-2 (macOS admin group). The change shipped as PR #14 and was merged (merge b0e8ad9, CI bump bb3e8c0).

Five tracking issues were opened for the non-blocking follow-ups. Then, because the agent updater is server-push (not poll-based) and SSH to the build server is unavailable from GURU-KALI, a background watcher was started that polls the published-downloads endpoint for a version > 0.6.29 and GURU-KALI's running version, to confirm the pipeline publish + subsequent auto-update. As of this save the pipeline had not yet published the post-merge version (still 0.6.29); the watcher continues, and the user asked to be pinged (push notification) on publish.

Key Decisions

  • Merged both PRs to main (user-authorized) despite the earlier branch+PR caution — each merge triggers the webhook build + stable-channel fleet auto-update.
  • Differentiated IPC authz model (user choice): ForceCheckin = active session-user uid or root; StopAgent = root or sudo/wheel/admin group AND policy allow_stop_agent; read-only requests ungated. Order: policy gate first, then peer-cred.
  • force_checkin Notify wired into the WS task (transport/websocket.rs), not the collect-only loop in main.rs — notify_one() wakes one waiter, so two waiters would race/steal the wakeup. Drained at WS task start to avoid a stale permit firing a spurious send on reconnect.
  • StopAgent self-exits on non-systemd installs (Unraid/Synology cron/nohup path) where systemctl stop is a no-op — detected via existing has_systemd().
  • Opened issues rather than expanding the PRs for Windows peer authz, logind console-user resolution, macOS completion, pipeline tray build, and subscriber broadcast.

Problems Encountered

  • AppState drift on merged main — main gained log_sender_watch; the Coding Agent added it (and force_checkin) to BOTH main.rs and service.rs, also fixing a pre-existing Windows-only build break where service.rs was missing log_sender_watch.
  • systemctl stop no-op on non-systemd installs (review MEDIUM-2) — fixed with a has_systemd() branch that self-exits otherwise.
  • Stale force_checkin permit (review MEDIUM-1) — drained once at WS task start via a biased select against std::future::ready(()).
  • No SSH to build server (guru@172.16.3.30 Permission denied, publickey) — can't read /var/log/gururmm-build.log; watching the published-downloads endpoint instead.
  • Vault field path — token is at credentials.api.api-token (not api.api-token); the Gitea Agent corrected the lookup.
  • pkill aborting compound bash commands (exit 144) — re-ran the affected steps individually; wrote the watcher script via the Write tool after a heredoc was truncated.

Configuration Changes (this update)

GuruRMM (/home/guru/gururmm), Phase 4 — merged via PR #14:

  • agent/src/ipc.rsPeerIdentity, peer_cred() at accept, authz helpers (authorize_force_checkin, authorize_stop_agent, active_session_uid, uid_in_admin_group), real spawn_service_stop, Denied responses.
  • agent/src/main.rsAppState.force_checkin: Arc<Notify>; has_systemd() made pub(crate).
  • agent/src/metrics/mod.rslogged_in_username() associated fn.
  • agent/src/service.rs — mirrored force_checkin + log_sender_watch in the Windows AppState.
  • agent/src/transport/websocket.rs — metrics task selects on force_checkin Notify; drains stale permit at start.
  • tray/src/tray.rs — GTK Yes/No confirm before StopAgent (Linux).

Local (not in repo): background watcher scripts /tmp/gururmm-watch-publish.sh, log /tmp/gururmm-watch.log.

Commands & Outputs (this update)

# current vs published agent version
sudo /usr/local/bin/gururmm-agent --version            # gururmm-agent 0.6.29
curl -s https://rmm.azcomputerguru.com/downloads/ | grep -oiE 'gururmm-agent-linux[^"<> ]*'
# -> gururmm-agent-linux-amd64-0.6.29 (+ .sha256, -latest)  [no newer version yet]

# live running version via IPC socket (no need to spawn the binary)
echo '{"type":"get_status"}' | socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/gururmm/agent.sock | grep agent_version

ssh guru@172.16.3.30   # -> Permission denied (publickey,password) — no build-log access

Pending / Incomplete Tasks (this update)

  • Watching for pipeline publish + GURU-KALI auto-update — watcher running; ping user (push notification) on publish. If published version moves but the agent doesn't update, auto-update is disabled/manual (needs dashboard or POST /agents/{id}/update).
  • Follow-up issues open: #15 (pipeline tray build), #16 (Windows peer authz), #17 (logind console user), #18 (macOS tray), #19 (subscriber broadcast).
  • GURU-KALI still on local dev binaries until the pipeline build deploys.

Reference Information (this update)


Update: 10:16 PT — LHM deployment + interrupted command cleanup

User

  • User: Mike Swanson (mike)
  • Machine: DESKTOP-0O8A1RL (GURU-5070)
  • Role: admin
  • Session span: ~09:4510:16 PT

Session Summary

Resumed from a previous context that ran out of window. The outstanding task was pushing the LibreHardwareMonitor (LHM) deployment script to five machines missing the binaries: RECEPTIONIST-PC, LAPTOP-8P7HDSEI, LAS-GAMER, LAPTOP-E0STJJE8, LAPTOP-DRQ5L558. These machines received the agent via the self-updater (binary-only swap) rather than the MSI installer, so the lhm/ subdirectory was never created.

Authenticated to the GuruRMM API (claude-api@azcomputerguru.com), then sent a PowerShell deployment script to all five agents via POST /api/agents/{id}/command. The first attempt failed on all five with exit 1 and output "gururmm-agent service not found" — the Windows service is registered as GuruRMMAgent, not gururmm-agent. A corrected script was sent using the right service name, with the install path derived from the HKLM\SOFTWARE\GuruRMM registry key (falling back to service PathName, then hardcoded default). The scripts ran on all five machines, downloaded LHM v0.9.4 from GitHub releases, extracted to C:\Program Files\GuruRMM\lhm\, and called Restart-Service GuruRMMAgent -Force.

The restart call killed the agent mid-execution, so all five commands remained permanently in running state — the process was dead before it could send results back. This was diagnosed by checking agent online status: all five reconnected within minutes (service auto-restart), confirming the deployment had succeeded. Verification commands confirmed 25 files present in lhm/ on each machine.

This exposed a systemic gap: any command that restarts the agent leaves an orphaned running record that never resolves. The fix was implemented immediately: interrupt_running_commands(pool, agent_id) in server/src/db/commands.rs flips all status='running' rows for an agent to status='interrupted' (with completed_at and a stderr note) at reconnect time. The call was added to the WS reconnect path in ws/mod.rs immediately after the online event insert. The dashboard was updated in Commands.tsx and CommandTerminal.tsx to render interrupted as an amber AlertTriangle badge. Committed as aa9ad74, pushed, pipeline building.


Key Decisions

  • Service name from WiX, not assumption: The Windows service name GuruRMMAgent was confirmed by reading installer/gururmm-agent.wxs rather than guessing. The first script used gururmm-agent (wrong) and failed on all five machines.
  • Registry-first path resolution: The deployment script reads HKLM:\SOFTWARE\GuruRMM for the install dir (written by the MSI at install time), falling back to the service PathName, then to C:\Program Files\GuruRMM. This is robust across non-default install paths.
  • Do not block reconnect on cleanup failure: interrupt_running_commands uses a match with a soft warn! on error — a DB failure during reconnect must never prevent the agent from coming online.
  • interrupted as a distinct terminal status (not failed): failed means the script ran and returned non-zero. interrupted means the agent died before it could report. They call for different UI treatment and operator response.
  • No service restart in future deployment scripts: Going forward, any RMM script that needs to restart the agent should use schtasks with a 15s delay so the command can exit and report cleanly before the service is stopped. Not enforced today, but documented.

Problems Encountered

  • Wrong service name in first script: gururmm-agent vs GuruRMMAgent. Discovered from the "service not found" output. Fixed by reading the WiX installer source.
  • Commands stuck as running forever after Restart-Service: Restart-Service GuruRMMAgent -Force killed the agent process that was executing the command, so the result was never sent. Commands had stdout: null, stderr: null, exit_code: null, no completed_at. Diagnosed by observing that all five agents came back online (reconnected) shortly after, confirmed deployment success via separate verification commands.
  • API polling used wrong field names: Initial poll used output/error_output (wrong). Actual fields are stdout/stderr. Caught by seeing null for both when exit_code was 1.

Configuration Changes

  • server/migrations/043_command_interrupted_status.sql — new, documents interrupted as a valid status value
  • server/src/db/commands.rs — added interrupt_running_commands(pool, agent_id) -> Result<u64, sqlx::Error>
  • server/src/ws/mod.rs — inserted interrupt_running_commands call at agent reconnect (after online event, before watchdog resolve)
  • dashboard/src/api/client.ts — added "interrupted" to Command.status union type
  • dashboard/src/components/CommandTerminal.tsx — added amber AlertTriangle case for interrupted status
  • dashboard/src/pages/Commands.tsx — added interrupted to StatusIcon and STATUS_BADGE_CLASSES (amber)

Credentials & Secrets

  • GuruRMM API: claude-api@azcomputerguru.com / ClaudeAPI2026!@# — vault path: infrastructure/gururmm-server.sops.yamlcredentials.gururmm-api.admin-password
  • JWT secret: ZNzGxghru2XUdBVlaf2G2L1YUBVcl5xH0lr/Gpf/QmE= — vault same path

Infrastructure & Servers

  • GuruRMM API: http://172.16.3.30:3001
  • LHM deployed to: C:\Program Files\GuruRMM\lhm\ (25 files) on all five target machines
  • Target agent IDs:
    • RECEPTIONIST-PC: 9c91d324-1073-449c-8cc0-45c5bccfc218
    • LAPTOP-8P7HDSEI: 9b74852c-623a-4d4a-bdda-1709ee75ae44
    • LAS-GAMER: 7236a75d-2033-4a07-8161-50a312fa08f3
    • LAPTOP-E0STJJE8: 4ac00700-9a9b-4e7f-a7aa-c51857b77661
    • LAPTOP-DRQ5L558: f9e25b3b-da63-40ff-94a6-8cec3b9a19ce

Commands & Outputs

# Authenticate
curl -s -X POST http://172.16.3.30:3001/api/auth/login \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email":"claude-api@azcomputerguru.com","password":"ClaudeAPI2026!@#"}' | jq -r '.token'

# Send command to agent
curl -s -X POST "http://172.16.3.30:3001/api/agents/{id}/command" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"command_type":"powershell","command":"...","elevated":true}'

# Poll result
curl -s "http://172.16.3.30:3001/api/commands/{command_id}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" | jq '{status, exit_code, stdout, stderr}'

Verification output (all 5 machines):

OK: LHM present at C:\Program Files\GuruRMM\lhm\LibreHardwareMonitor.exe (25 files in lhm/)

Pending / Incomplete Tasks

  • Pipeline build for aa9ad74: Gitea webhook building; verify the interrupted status renders correctly in dashboard after deploy.
  • Schtasks pattern for future restart-needing scripts: Document or enforce the convention that RMM scripts requiring agent restart should use a scheduled task with a delay instead of calling Restart-Service directly.
  • Orphaned commands from today: The five deployment commands from this session remain in running state (pre-fix). They will need manual cleanup or will be resolved when those agents next reconnect after the new build deploys.

Reference Information

  • GuruRMM gururmm repo: azcomputerguru/gururmm on Gitea (http://172.16.3.20:3000)
  • Commit with interrupted cleanup: aa9ad74
  • LHM release used: v0.9.4 (LibreHardwareMonitor-net472.zip) from GitHub releases
  • WiX service name confirmed in: installer/gururmm-agent.wxs<ServiceInstall Name="GuruRMMAgent" ...>
  • Command API routes: POST /api/agents/:id/command, GET /api/commands/:id, GET /api/commands?agent_id=... =======

Update: 10:45 PT — Enhanced Feature Request Workflow for Uninstall Hardening

Session Summary

Invoked the enhanced /feature-request skill to generate a comprehensive specification for Howard's uninstall hardening feature. The skill executed its 11-phase workflow: context loading, Ollama classification (Core Agent Features / Agent Security / P2), coordination message transmission, codebase research, coding guidelines review, Ollama-based specification generation (qwen3:14b), formal SPEC document creation, roadmap updates, and repository commits.

The specification process located relevant implementation files (config.rs, service.rs, policies.rs) and generated a 318-line technical document detailing architecture, security requirements, and implementation steps for enforcing policy-driven uninstall protection. The feature requires a PIN/code validated against Argon2 hashes stored in server policies, with full Windows and Linux support and macOS stub.

Commits were made to the guru-rmm submodule (9af39ba) and parent ClaudeTools repository (ddf4c57). The specification received an effort estimate of Medium (3-5 days) and is ready for team review and sprint planning.

Key Decisions

  • Enhanced workflow over simple classification: Used the recently rewritten 11-phase specification system providing comprehensive research and sprint-ready documentation
  • Ollama for spec generation: Delegated detailed writing to Ollama qwen3:14b (Tier 0), preserving Claude's context window
  • SPEC numbering: Established SPEC-001 as first formal specification in new docs/specs/ directory
  • Platform parity: Full Windows + Linux implementation with macOS stub (TODO comment) per coding guidelines
  • Argon2 for security: High memory cost (65536 KB) for PIN hashing, strong brute-force protection
  • Policy system integration: Extended existing PolicyData rather than separate configuration

Configuration Changes

Files Created:

  • /Users/azcomputerguru/ClaudeTools/projects/msp-tools/guru-rmm/docs/specs/SPEC-001-uninstall-hardening.md (318 lines)

Files Modified:

  • /Users/azcomputerguru/ClaudeTools/projects/msp-tools/guru-rmm/docs/FEATURE_ROADMAP.md (added spec link at line 622)

Commands & Outputs

Ollama Classification:

curl -X POST http://100.92.127.64:11434/api/generate -d '{"model": "qwen3.6:latest", ...}'

Result: {"section": "Core Agent Features", "subsection": "Agent Security", "priority": "P2"}

Ollama Specification Generation:

curl -X POST http://100.92.127.64:11434/api/generate -d '{"model": "qwen3:14b", ...}'

Output: 8-section specification (architecture, implementation, security, testing, rollout, effort estimate)

Coord Messages:

curl -X POST http://172.16.3.30:8001/api/coord/messages -d '{"from_session": "Mikes-MacBook-Air/claude-main", ...}'

Message IDs: 5df3ade3-4864-4598-97a1-33c1d7d48d1d (DESKTOP), 7e205fa0-67f3-41ec-b8dd-8b3f24fea531 (MacBook)

Git Operations:

# guru-rmm submodule
git commit -m "spec: add SPEC-001 uninstall hardening"
git pull --rebase origin main  # Rebased on 25b25eb
git push origin main  # 25b25eb..9af39ba

# ClaudeTools parent
git commit -m "chore(gururmm): update submodule"
git push origin main  # c594c5c..ddf4c57

Reference Information

Commits:

  • guru-rmm: 9af39ba — spec: add SPEC-001 uninstall hardening
  • ClaudeTools: ddf4c57 — chore(gururmm): update submodule

Specification Details:

  • Priority: P2
  • Effort: Medium (3-5 days) — Agent: 2d, Server: 1.5d, Dashboard: 1d, Testing: 0.5d
  • Platform Support: Windows (full), Linux (full), macOS (stub)
  • Security: Argon2 hashing (65536 KB), audit logging, policy_admin authorization

Architecture:

  • Agent: PIN validation during uninstall, blocks removal if policy enabled and PIN invalid
  • Server: Argon2-hashed PINs in PolicyData/uninstall_policies table, validation endpoint
  • Dashboard: UninstallProtectionForm component, enable/disable toggle, PIN input (6-20 chars)

Next Steps:

  1. Team review of SPEC-001
  2. Refine based on feedback (PIN format, emergency override)
  3. Move to sprint backlog
  4. Assign to developer

4a6eeaf (sync: auto-sync from Mikes-MacBook-Air.local at 2026-05-24 10:19:50)