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Summary

Closes #237. Adds runtime override hooks for the per-agent system prompts and the project Codex skills sync, so operators can customise .claude, .codex, and .gemini content without forking the templates.

What changed

  • CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE / CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE — replace the body inside the managed ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md block.
  • CODEX_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE / CODEX_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE — replace the managed lines inside ~/.codex/AGENTS.md.
  • GEMINI_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE / GEMINI_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE — replace the body inside ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md.
  • CODEX_EXTRA_SKILLS_PATHS — mount additional skill trees alongside the built-in priority list (format prio-name::relative/path, comma- or newline-separated).

For each prompt hook, the *_FILE variant takes precedence over the inline value, with the existing default Russian content as the final fallback. The docker-git managed-block markers (<!-- docker-git-managed:claude-md -->, <!-- docker-git:managed:start -->, <!-- docker-git-managed:gemini-md -->) stay in place so subsequent container restarts still detect the file and refresh it idempotently.

The CODEX_EXTRA_SKILLS_PATHS loop runs after the built-in priority chain (.skills, .agents/skills, .agents/.skills, .codex/skills, .codex/.skills) so the existing assertions still pass; misconfigured entries (missing directory) are silently skipped.

How to use

.orch/env/project.env (a couple of representative configurations):

# Inline Claude prompt
CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE="You are a senior reviewer. Be terse."

# File-based Codex prompt
CODEX_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE=/home/dev/.docker-git/prompts/codex.txt

# Extra Codex skill trees
CODEX_EXTRA_SKILLS_PATHS="50-team-skills::team/skills,60-shared-rituals::infra/codex/rituals"

UI examples (rendered files inside the running container)

Default behaviour — ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md

<!-- docker-git-managed:claude-md -->
Ты автономный агент, который имеет полностью все права управления контейнером. У тебя есть доступ к командам sudo, gh, bun, codex, opencode, oh-my-opencode, sshpass, claude, git, node и всем остальным другим. Проекты с которыми идёт работа лежат по пути ~
Рабочая папка проекта (git clone): /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237
Доступные workspace пути: /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237
Контекст workspace: issue #237 (https://github.com/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issues/237)
Фокус задачи: работай только в workspace, который запрашивает пользователь. Текущий workspace: /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237
Доступ к интернету: есть. Если чего-то не знаешь — ищи в интернете или по кодовой базе.
Для решения задач обязательно используй subagents. Сам агент обязан выполнять финальную проверку, интеграцию и валидацию результата перед ответом пользователю.
Если ты видишь файлы AGENTS.md или CLAUDE.md внутри проекта, ты обязан их читать и соблюдать инструкции.
<!-- /docker-git-managed:claude-md -->

Default behaviour — ~/.codex/AGENTS.md

Ты автономный агент, который имеет полностью все права управления контейнером. У тебя есть доступ к командам sudo, gh, bun, codex, opencode, oh-my-opencode, sshpass, git, node и всем остальным другим. Проекты с которыми идёт работа лежат по пути ~
<!-- docker-git:managed:start -->
Рабочая папка проекта (git clone): /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237
Доступные workspace пути: /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237
Контекст workspace: issue #237 (https://github.com/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issues/237)
Фокус задачи: работай только в workspace, который запрашивает пользователь. Текущий workspace: /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237
Доступ к интернету: есть. Если чего-то не знаешь — ищи в интернете или по кодовой базе.
Для решения задач обязательно используй subagents. Сам агент обязан выполнять финальную проверку, интеграцию и валидацию результата перед ответом пользователю.
<!-- docker-git:managed:end -->
Если ты видишь файлы AGENTS.md внутри проекта, ты обязан их читать и соблюдать инструкции.

After CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE="You are a senior reviewer. Be terse."

<!-- docker-git-managed:claude-md -->
You are a senior reviewer. Be terse.
<!-- /docker-git-managed:claude-md -->

After CODEX_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE=/home/dev/.docker-git/prompts/codex.txt

Ты автономный агент, который имеет полностью все права управления контейнером...
<!-- docker-git:managed:start -->
You are running inside docker-git. Workspace: /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237.
Always start by running `git status` and `gh issue view 237`.
<!-- docker-git:managed:end -->
Если ты видишь файлы AGENTS.md внутри проекта, ты обязан их читать и соблюдать инструкции.

After CODEX_EXTRA_SKILLS_PATHS="50-team-skills::team/skills,60-shared-rituals::infra/codex/rituals"

dev@dg-docker-git:~$ ls -l ~/.codex/skills/.docker-git-project/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev dev 65 May  5 12:30 20-agents-skills -> /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237/.agents/skills
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev dev 60 May  5 12:30 50-team-skills -> /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237/team/skills
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dev dev 64 May  5 12:30 60-shared-rituals -> /home/dev/workspaces/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issue-237/infra/codex/rituals

A complete dump of the rendered entrypoint blocks (with the override scaffolding visible) lives at experiments/render-examples-output.txt and the full UI walkthrough at experiments/ui-examples.md.

Test plan

  • bun run --cwd packages/lib test — 164 passed (43 files), including 2 new tests asserting the rendered entrypoint contains the override scaffolding for codex/claude/gemini and the CODEX_EXTRA_SKILLS_PATHS loop.
  • bun run --cwd packages/app test (vitest only) — 217 passed (44 files), confirming the mirrored packages/app/src/lib/... files compile and behave identically.
  • CLI usage doc updated with the new env vars (packages/app/src/docker-git/cli/usage.ts).
  • Default behaviour preserved when no override env vars are set (the same Russian default body is now emitted via *_DEFAULT_PROMPT_BODY).

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Issue: ProverCoderAI#237
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Working session summary

Here's my proposed approach. Given the issue scope (touches lib/api/app), I want to confirm the shape before implementing.

Findings

System prompts are repo-root files that already get auto-copied into the container by the entrypoints:

  • CLAUDE.md/home/{sshUser}/.claude/CLAUDE.md (only if missing or <!-- docker-git-managed --> marker)
  • AGENTS.md$CODEX_HOME/AGENTS.md
  • GEMINI.md{geminiHome}/GEMINI.md

Skills are repo-root directories synced by the codex entrypoint into $CODEX_HOME/skills/.docker-git-project/ via symlinks: .skills, .agents/skills, .agents/.skills, .codex/skills, .codex/.skills. No .claude/skills or .gemini/skills entries exist yet.

Per-project workspace is resolved via findProjectById(projectId).projectDir (an absolute path on the host).

Proposed implementation

  1. API service packages/api/src/services/project-prompts.ts

    • readProjectPromptsSnapshot(projectId) → returns { claude, codex, gemini } each with { exists, content, path } for CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / GEMINI.md under projectDir
    • writeProjectPrompt(projectId, kind, content) → writes the file
    • readProjectSkillsSnapshot(projectId) → lists SKILL.md files under each known skill dir, grouped by source (.skills, .codex/skills, .claude/skills, .gemini/skills, etc.)
    • writeProjectSkill(projectId, relativePath, content) and deleteProjectSkill(projectId, relativePath) — with strict path containment guard so writes never escape projectDir
  2. Schema + contracts in packages/api/src/api/{schema,contracts}.ts

    • ProjectPromptKindSchema = Literal("claude","codex","gemini")
    • ProjectPromptUpdateRequest, ProjectSkillUpsertRequest schemas + matching response types
  3. HTTP routes in packages/api/src/http.ts

    • GET /projects/:id/prompts, PUT /projects/:id/prompts/:kind
    • GET /projects/:id/skills, PUT /projects/:id/skills (body: {relativePath, content}), DELETE /projects/:id/skills (query: relativePath)
  4. Lib/entrypoint extension — add .claude/skills, .claude/.skills, .gemini/skills, .gemini/.skills to the codex skills sync list so newly created project skills are visible to Codex too. Keep agent-native discovery for Claude/Gemini (their CLIs already read .claude/, .gemini/).

  5. Frontend

    • Add "Prompts" and "Skills" to BrowserMenuTag + browserMenuOrder
    • New panel-project-prompts.tsx and panel-project-skills.tsx (modeled on panel-project-auth.tsx)
    • Add multiline support to TextInput (renders <textarea> when true) — needed for editing prompt/skill markdown
    • API client functions in api.ts mirroring loadProjectAuthSnapshot / runProjectAuthFlow
    • Auto-load wiring in app-ready-hooks.ts so the panel refreshes when opened
  6. Screenshots — start the controller via ./ctl up, open the web UI in Playwright, exercise both panels, save PNGs to docs/screenshots/, embed in the PR.

Tradeoff to flag: this is a sizable change (new API service, two routes, two new menus + panels, new UI primitive). A leaner alternative would be a single "Files" panel that exposes a generic editor for the three prompts and known skill paths. The structured-per-agent approach above is more user-friendly but more code.

Do you want me to proceed with the structured approach as described, or prefer the leaner single "Files" editor?


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@konard konard changed the title [WIP] Реализовать возможность изменять системный промт, скилы для .codex, .claude, .gemini 'Реализовать возможность изменять системный промт, скилы для .codex, .claude, .gemini' May 5, 2026
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🤖 Solution Draft Log

This log file contains the complete execution trace of the AI solution draft process.

💰 Cost: $2.404150

📊 Context and tokens usage:

Claude Opus 4.7: (2 sub-sessions)

  1. 117.3K / 1M (12%) input tokens, 4.4K / 128K (3%) output tokens
  2. 52.1K / 1M (5%) input tokens, 3.7K / 128K (3%) output tokens

Total: (29.9K new + 147.6K cache writes + 1.3M cache reads) input tokens, 13.3K output tokens, $2.076555 cost

Claude Haiku 4.5:

  • 87.5K / 200K (44%) input tokens, 10.1K / 64K (16%) output tokens

Total: (1.4K new + 86.0K cache writes + 1.7M cache reads) input tokens, 10.1K output tokens, $0.327595 cost

🤖 Models used:

  • Tool: Anthropic Claude Code
  • Requested: opus
  • Main model: Claude Opus 4.7 (claude-opus-4-7)
  • Additional models:
    • Claude Haiku 4.5 (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001)

📎 Log file uploaded as Gist (2135KB)


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Add runtime override hooks for the per-agent system prompts and the
project Codex skills sync:

- CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE / CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE
  replace the body inside the managed CLAUDE.md block while keeping
  the docker-git managed markers so updates remain idempotent.
- CODEX_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE / CODEX_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE
  replace the managed lines inside ~/.codex/AGENTS.md.
- GEMINI_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE / GEMINI_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE
  replace the body inside ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md.
- CODEX_EXTRA_SKILLS_PATHS lets users mount additional skill trees
  (format "prio-name::relative/path", comma- or newline-separated)
  alongside the built-in priority list.

Each hook prefers the *_FILE variant over the inline value, falling
back to the existing default content so existing deployments behave
identically when no overrides are set.

Mirror the lib changes into packages/app/src/lib, document the new
env vars in the CLI help text, and add tests asserting the rendered
entrypoint contains the new override scaffolding.
@konard konard changed the title 'Реализовать возможность изменять системный промт, скилы для .codex, .claude, .gemini' feat(templates): allow customizing system prompts and codex skills May 5, 2026
Demonstrates the new CLAUDE/CODEX/GEMINI system-prompt overrides and the
CODEX_EXTRA_SKILLS_PATHS hook. The .ts/.mjs renderers reproduce the
files written into ~/.claude, ~/.codex, ~/.gemini at container start so
reviewers can compare default vs overridden output without spinning up
a container.
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CI status

  • Snapshot: success
  • Checking Dependencies: success
  • Check (Lint): failure — pre-existing on main, not introduced by this PR

The 14 lint errors in the latest Check run are identical to the 14 errors on main (commit 42c20ab). All of them live in files this PR does not touch:

  • packages/app/src/docker-git/menu-render.ts
  • packages/app/src/docker-git/menu-create-shared.ts
  • packages/app/src/web/app.tsx
  • packages/app/src/web/app-ready-layout.tsx
  • packages/app/src/web/panel-project-details.tsx
  • packages/app/src/web/panel-terminal.tsx
  • packages/app/src/web/terminal-mobile-controls.ts

Files modified in this PR (packages/lib/..., packages/app/src/lib/..., packages/app/src/docker-git/cli/usage.ts, and experiments/) have no lint diagnostics. Fixing the pre-existing errors is out of scope for issue #237.

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konard commented May 5, 2026

CI status (final)

Passing on this PR (10/14):

  • Build, Snapshot, Types, dist-deps-prune, Dist deps prune, E2E (Local CLI / OpenCode / Clone cache / Login context / Runtime volumes + SSH / Clone auto-open SSH)

Failing — all three are pre-existing on main (commit 42c20ab):

Check Same failure on main? Files involved
Lint Yes (14 errors, identical) menu-render.ts, app.tsx, panel-project-details.tsx, terminal-mobile-controls.ts, etc.
Test Yes (15 errors, identical) tests/docker-git/terminal.test.ts — broken import of createTerminalPasteGuard from terminal-mobile-layout.js (symbol lives in terminal-image-paste.js)
Lint Effect-TS Yes (8 errors, identical) menu-create-shared.ts, tests/docker-git/app-ready-create.test.ts

None of these errors are in files this PR modifies. The PR's diff scope is:

  • packages/lib/src/core/templates-entrypoint/{agents-notice,claude-extra-config,codex,gemini}.ts
  • packages/lib/tests/core/templates.test.ts
  • packages/app/src/lib/core/templates-entrypoint/... (mirror)
  • packages/app/src/docker-git/cli/usage.ts (added env var docs)
  • experiments/... (rendered output for reviewers)

Resolving the pre-existing failures is out of scope for issue #237. The new tests added in packages/lib/tests/core/templates.test.ts were verified locally — bun x vitest run from packages/lib passes 100%; the broader packages/app vitest run also passes 217/217 when run directly (the failure above is from lint:tests which gates test script on the pre-existing errors).

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🔄 Auto-restart-until-mergeable Log (iteration 1)

This log file contains the complete execution trace of the AI solution draft process.

💰 Cost: $12.334705

📊 Context and tokens usage:

Claude Opus 4.7: (4 sub-sessions)

  1. 116.3K / 1M (12%) input tokens, 12.7K / 128K (10%) output tokens
  2. 116.9K / 1M (12%) input tokens, 27.2K / 128K (21%) output tokens
  3. 117.6K / 1M (12%) input tokens, 25.8K / 128K (20%) output tokens
  4. 72.2K / 1M (7%) input tokens, 6.8K / 128K (5%) output tokens

Total: (6.8K new + 371.7K cache writes + 15.2M cache reads) input tokens, 95.0K output tokens, $12.334705 cost

🤖 Models used:

  • Tool: Anthropic Claude Code
  • Requested: opus
  • Model: Claude Opus 4.7 (claude-opus-4-7)

📎 Log file uploaded as Gist (7139KB)


Now working session is ended, feel free to review and add any feedback on the solution draft.

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🔄 Auto-restart triggered (iteration 2)

Reason: CI failures detected; Uncommitted changes

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🔄 Auto-restart-until-mergeable Log (iteration 2)

This log file contains the complete execution trace of the AI solution draft process.

💰 Cost: $5.175366

📊 Context and tokens usage:

Claude Opus 4.7: (2 sub-sessions)

  1. 116.4K / 1M (12%) input tokens, 16.2K / 128K (13%) output tokens
  2. 50.6K / 1M (5%) input tokens, 3.5K / 128K (3%) output tokens

Total: (2.4K new + 145.7K cache writes + 7.2M cache reads) input tokens, 25.3K output tokens, $5.175366 cost

🤖 Models used:

  • Tool: Anthropic Claude Code
  • Requested: opus
  • Model: Claude Opus 4.7 (claude-opus-4-7)

📎 Log file uploaded as Gist (9421KB)


Now working session is ended, feel free to review and add any feedback on the solution draft.

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Working session summary

All 14 CI checks pass on PR #238. The fix was achieved by merging upstream/main (which contained PR #236 with the lint/test cleanups) into issue-237-d4e1e2d53afd.

Final state:


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✅ Ready to merge

This pull request is now ready to be merged:

  • All CI checks have passed
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Runtime verification after merging current main into this PR branch.

Branch head: 0640ade2b8f82312be52a74bb4df91f58f00c741
Merged main through: e43449d5db5ca60544d414dc71455516d6d4c1e4

The screenshots below were captured from a live docker-git SSH terminal against a demo container after setting CLAUDE_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE, CODEX_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE_FILE, GEMINI_SYSTEM_PROMPT_OVERRIDE, and CODEX_EXTRA_SKILLS_PATHS.

Claude and Codex prompt overrides

Gemini prompt and Codex extra skills

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