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feat(ios): take control of a bot's Local VM from the phone - #2135
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…al VM Allow POST /api/bots/:id/local-computer/screenshot through the sidecar, behind the same per-device computer-access capability as the cloud desktop (off by default, toggled in Settings → Remote access). Only the still is reachable: the VM's lifecycle routes stay host-only. The 403 now says "computer access" since it covers both kinds of computer.
ComputerView now asks for a Local VM still every 30 s while it is on screen (every 3 s while the bot works and the stream has gone quiet), the desktop panel's cadence, and shows whichever of that and the streamed frame is newer. A 403 explains where to allow computer access on the Mac; a 409 for a conversation not on the Local VM, or a 404 from an older computer, leaves the existing behaviour alone. Polling stops in the background. Adds the client call, a strict data-URL decoder, tests, and pt-BR strings.
A disposable fake-engine server, a synthetic docker that serves PNG stills, and the companion sidecar, so the phone's Local VM view and its computer-access gate can be checked from a simulator without a real VM.
…ges live - Project the bot onto the thread the view was opened from, so a task thread pictures its own computer (and its own seat in pool mode). - Keep checking at the idle cadence while computer access is off, so turning it on at the Mac shows up without leaving the view; revoking it clears the picture. Only the sidecar's "computer access is off" 403 is read as that. - Stamp a still when it was requested, and label the last picture when a refresh fails instead of letting it pass for current. - Move CloudDesktopSession's doc comment back onto it; say in the docs that the thread check is the client's and that polling keeps the VM from being reclaimed as idle, like the desktop panel.
…e a stale 401 With access off, a streamed frame of a working bot could stay on screen and hide the access notice. The frame stays (the stream is not gated), captioned with the notice. A screenshot 401 from the previous computer, landing after a switch, no longer marks the new session unauthorized.
A signal during startup now aborts the launch, which stops the server child and removes its data directory, instead of leaving both behind.
…lding control Add POST /api/bots/:id/local-computer/join. It answers only a loopback caller (the address carries the VNC password), only for a conversation on the Local VM, and only while a person holds that bot's computer, so a phone never drives the VM alongside the bot. The companion allows it behind the per-device computer-access capability and rewrites its loopback noVNC address into the same device-scoped relay path the VPS viewer already uses.
…s desktop RFBClient is the protocol half of VNC, bytes in and bytes out: 3.3/3.7/3.8, None and VNC authentication (CommonCrypto DES), BGRX true colour, and Raw, CopyRect and DesktopSize, with pointer and key events. Partial updates are applied only once whole. CompanionClient gains control take/release under a lease, the Local VM join, viewer-close, and the authenticated WebSocket request for the relayed viewer; the join only accepts the sidecar's relay path, never a host.
Take control under the Local VM's picture takes the bot's computer under a fresh lease and opens the relayed desktop full screen: the live picture with a pointer ring, a trackpad (swipe to move, tap to click, two fingers to right-click or scroll, hold to drag), the system keyboard, and a menu of keys and chords. Hand Back, or the app leaving the foreground, closes the viewer and releases the lease so the bot is never locked out behind an unused hold. The verification fixture gains an offline password-protected RFB desktop that records pointer and key events and paints each click, and a status endpoint for them and the control hold.
… the client Review findings on the phone control path: - The join now requires the caller's own control lease (not just any hold) and a JSON content type. A new read-only control action, check, says whether a lease still holds; the sidecar asks it every 3 s for each relayed Local VM viewer and closes the relay as soon as the answer is no (released or taken over from the Mac), failing closed on any error. A Local VM viewer without a lease is never handed to the device. - The phone keeps one lease per computer and bot across launches, so a session the app never handed back can be retaken and released; releases on any failure after asking; and finishes handing back in a background task. - RFBClient refuses desktops over 8192 px a side, copies overlapping rectangles in place, and consumes its buffer in O(1). - The read loop holds the desktop only weakly; the trackpad no longer jumps when a swipe starts; the disconnected state says what to do. - Docs no longer claim leaving the screen hands back, and note that in shared Local VM mode a hold pauses only that bot, as on the Mac.
…ontrol calls too The same guard the screenshot poll has: a control call answered by the computer the phone has since switched away from must not mark the new session unauthorized.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds Local VM still-image viewing and lease-gated interactive control to the iOS companion. Server and companion routes enforce computer-access permissions and control-lease ownership. The iOS app adds screenshot polling, lease management, an RFB desktop client, and trackpad and keyboard input. ChangesLocal VM access
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant iOSApp
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iOSApp->>CompanionClient: Request Local VM viewer with thread and lease IDs
CompanionClient->>CompanionProxy: Send local-computer join request
CompanionProxy->>Harness: Forward join request
Harness->>Harness: Validate VM readiness and lease ownership
Harness-->>CompanionProxy: Return viewer join response
CompanionProxy->>CompanionProxy: Rewrite viewer response for device relay
CompanionProxy->>Harness: Check lease ownership during relay polling
CompanionProxy-->>iOSApp: Return rewritten viewer response
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Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A Full-access paired phone can open the Local VM desktop without first taking control, bypassing the pause and hand-back guarantees this feature promises. Require a lease for paired-device viewer requests before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Phone control adds a sensitive remote desktop capability with explicit access checks and cleanup. Full-access server sessions can still open desktops without a control lease, but that exposure predates this PR. Shared VM access can encompass other bots using that desktop, rather than only the selected bot. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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- Around line 207-259: Track the unstructured task launched by the “Take
control” button in `takeControlBar` and cancel it when `ComputerView` disappears
or enters the background. In `takeControl()`, check cancellation and active
scene state after lease acquisition and before storing `control`; if inactive,
stop any started `LocalVmDesktop` and hand back the acquired lease so a late
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- Around line 1698-1701: Update takeLocalVm so it skips handBackLocalVm only
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…other holder alone - The take runs in a task the view keeps, cancelled on leaving the screen or backgrounding. If it lands after that, the computer is handed straight back instead of opening a desktop nobody is looking at. - Hand-back after a failure runs in a task of its own, so cancelling the take cannot cancel the release. - When someone else already holds the computer there is nothing of ours to release, so no viewer-close is sent that could disturb theirs.
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🟠 Major · Bind Local VM operations to the connection that acquired the lease. · Session.swift:1684-1723
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SettingsViewcan switch computers whileComputerViewremains active. If the switch occurs after acquisition, the laterwithClientcall can join the viewer through the new client. If the switch occurs while control is open,handBackLocalVmcan close and release through the new client. The original client then remains paused under its lease.Pass the captured
CompanionClientthrough acquisition, viewer setup, detached cleanup, and hand-back.Suggested fix
-private func withClient<T>(_ call: (CompanionClient) async throws -> T) async throws -> T { - guard let client else { throw APIError.transport("This computer is offline.") } +private func withClient<T>( + _ client: CompanionClient, + call: (CompanionClient) async throws -> T +) async throws -> T { do { return try await call(client) } catch let error as APIError where error.isUnauthorized { guard !Task.isCancelled, self.client?.connection.id == client.connection.id else { throw CancellationError() } status = .unauthorized throw error } } +private func withClient<T>(_ call: (CompanionClient) async throws -> T) async throws -> T { + guard let client else { throw APIError.transport("This computer is offline.") } + return try await withClient(client, call: call) +} + @@ - func takeLocalVm(for bot: Bot) async throws -> (request: URLRequest, password: String?, leaseId: String) { + func takeLocalVm(for bot: Bot) async throws -> (request: URLRequest, password: String?, leaseId: String, client: CompanionClient) { + guard let client else { throw APIError.transport("This computer is offline.") } let leaseId = localVmLease(for: bot) var handBackOnFailure = true do { - let state = try await withClient { try await $0.computerControl(botId: bot.id, take: true, leaseId: leaseId) } + let state = try await withClient(client) { + try await $0.computerControl(botId: bot.id, take: true, leaseId: leaseId) + } @@ - return try await withClient { client in + return try await withClient(client) { client in let viewer = try await client.localVmViewer(botId: bot.id, threadId: bot.threadId, leaseId: leaseId) - return (try client.viewerSocketRequest(viewer), viewer.password, leaseId) + return (try client.viewerSocketRequest(viewer), viewer.password, leaseId, client) } } catch { - if handBackOnFailure { await handBackDetached(bot: bot, leaseId: leaseId) } + if handBackOnFailure { + await handBackDetached(bot: bot, leaseId: leaseId, client: client) + } throw error } } - func handBackDetached(bot: Bot, leaseId: String) async { - await Task { await self.handBackLocalVm(for: bot, leaseId: leaseId) }.value + func handBackDetached(bot: Bot, leaseId: String, client: CompanionClient) async { + await Task { + await self.handBackLocalVm(for: bot, leaseId: leaseId, client: client) + }.value } - func handBackLocalVm(for bot: Bot, leaseId: String) async { + func handBackLocalVm(for bot: Bot, leaseId: String, client: CompanionClient) async { let task = UIApplication.shared.beginBackgroundTask(withName: "Hand back the Local VM") defer { if task != .invalid { UIApplication.shared.endBackgroundTask(task) } } - _ = try? await withClient { try await $0.closeViewer(botId: bot.id) } - _ = try? await withClient { try await $0.computerControl(botId: bot.id, take: false, leaseId: leaseId) } + _ = try? await withClient(client) { try await $0.closeViewer(botId: bot.id) } + _ = try? await withClient(client) { + try await $0.computerControl(botId: bot.id, take: false, leaseId: leaseId) + }// ComputerView.swift -@State private var control: (desktop: LocalVmDesktop, leaseId: String)? +@State private var control: (desktop: LocalVmDesktop, leaseId: String, client: CompanionClient)? - await session.handBackDetached(bot: current, leaseId: viewer.leaseId) + await session.handBackDetached(bot: current, leaseId: viewer.leaseId, client: viewer.client) ... - control = (desktop, viewer.leaseId) + control = (desktop, viewer.leaseId, viewer.client) ... - await session.handBackLocalVm(for: current, leaseId: taken.leaseId) + await session.handBackLocalVm(for: current, leaseId: taken.leaseId, client: taken.client)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 1684-1723: Update takeLocalVm, handBackDetached, and
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…lease Session.withClient read self.client on every call. Settings can switch computers while ComputerView stays up, so a take acquired on one computer could join the viewer, or hand back, through the next one: the first computer stayed paused under a lease it never saw released. takeLocalVm now captures the client once, keys the lease on that client's connection, and returns it with the lease. ComputerView keeps it in the control state and passes it to both hand-back paths, including the one for a take that lands after the person left. Calls still go down the current route while that computer is the active one, so a route failover mid-control does not send the release to a dead address.
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- Line 274: In ComputerView’s handBack() flow, keep a handback-in-progress state
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handBack() cleared the control state before awaiting the release, so Take control came back the moment the desktop closed. The lease id is reused per bot and computer, so a take started during that window held the same lease the pending release was about to give up: the in-flight closeViewer and release would then close the new viewer and release the new hold. ComputerView now keeps a handingBack flag for the duration of the release; the button is disabled and takeControl() refuses to start while it is set. The take that lands after the person left already waits inside takingControl, so it needed no change.
…r directly A phone paired with `openmausbot serve` itself (a headless server behind Tailscale Serve or a tunnel) has no companion sidecar, so nothing rewrote the VM's noVNC address for it: the join route answered 404 to any caller but loopback, and the app accepted only the sidecar's relay path. The join now answers a directly paired phone with the server's own authenticated desktop proxy (/api/desktop-viewer/local/<target>/websockify), bound to the phone's control lease and to the conversation whose VM seat the join picked, plus the VNC password. The loopback address never leaves the server. The proxy settles the seat once at open, then re-checks the lease and the session every few seconds and closes the socket when either lapses; hand-back (viewer-close) closes that bot's lease-bound viewers at once and leaves the session's other viewers alone. Computer access is the pairing's scope: Full access may, chat-only is answered 403, which the app shows as computer access being off with a note about re-pairing. The app accepts this proxy shape alongside the relay shape, carries the lease binding on the socket, asks for no subprotocol from the proxy, and sends viewer-close as JSON so the harness acts on it. The sidecar path is unchanged: a loopback join still gets the raw address to rewrite.
…p stays full width On a phone the desktop is drawn as wide as the screen, so it needs only a couple of hundred points of height. With the keyboard open, the 230-point trackpad left less than that, and the picture shrank. The trackpad now collapses to a short strip while typing: the desktop keeps its full width, and a click is still one swipe away, which typing into a desktop needs often (a field to focus, a button after the text). It grows back when the keyboard goes.
The trackpad shrank on the keyboard button's tap with an animation of its own, while the desktop above only moved when the keyboard arrived and pushed the inset up: two animations, and on a phone the second one came a beat later, so the picture popped into place after the trackpad had settled. The trackpad now follows the keyboard's will-show and will-hide notifications and changes inside their duration, so it, the keyboard and the desktop move as one. The first-responder change is made outside SwiftUI's update pass, where a request can be dropped and the keyboard never comes, and the trackpad's hint fades rather than reflowing.
SwiftUI's keyboard avoidance and the trackpad's collapse ran on different curves, so for a few frames the screen between them was shorter than the desktop needed, the fit flipped to height-bound, and the picture narrowed before growing back. The view now ignores the keyboard inset and pads its own bottom from the keyboard's reported frame, in the same transaction and on UIKit's keyboard spring, so the keyboard, the trackpad and the desktop move together and the picture keeps its width throughout. The trackpad's hint is cut as the pad shrinks rather than faded, since a fading line rode up over the label while the layout moved, and fades back in only once the pad has grown again.
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Authorization Bypass
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization
Require a lease for bearer-authenticated Local VM viewers.
The request gate grants admin scope but does not require botId or controlLeaseId. A paired phone can therefore omit both parameters, and holds() returns true. Reject parameter-free Local VM requests authenticated with a bearer token. Keep the parameter-free cookie-authenticated browser viewer path unchanged. Add regression coverage for password and WebSocket requests.
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if (botId === null && threadId !== undefined) return json(res, 400, { error: "threadId needs botId and controlLeaseId" });
+ if (match[1].startsWith("local/") && auth.kind === "session" && auth.via === "bearer" && botId === null) {
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+ }
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Review comment at @server/routes/desktop-viewer.ts at line 118:
Update the request authorization gate around `holds()` to reject parameter-free
Local VM requests authenticated via a bearer token when `botId` is absent, while
preserving the parameter-free cookie-authenticated browser viewer path. Add
regression coverage for password and WebSocket requests.
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…ady closed closeForOwner walked every viewer still listed, and a viewer leaves the list only on its socket's close event. On Windows that event arrives after the client has already seen the close, so a hand-back followed by a sign-out counted the handed-back viewer twice (3 instead of 2), failing desktop-viewer.test.ts on Windows since milind-soni#2135 and blocking 0.1.93. Skip viewers whose socket is already destroyed. The new assertion (asking twice before the close event) reproduces it on every platform. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What changed
A paired phone can now take control of a bot's Local VM: a live desktop, a trackpad, a keyboard, and Hand Back. It sits behind the same per-device computer-access switch as #2134's stills and the cloud desktop, which is off by default.
Server (
server/index.ts,server/computer-control.ts): addsPOST /api/bots/:id/local-computer/join?controlLeaseId=…. It returns the Local VM's loopback noVNC address only when all of these hold:A new read-only control action,
check, reports whether a lease still holds. It never takes a free computer.Companion (
routes.ts,viewer-relay.ts,proxy.ts): allows the join behind computer access and rewrites the address into the device-scoped relay path that VPS viewers already use, so the VM's port never leaves the Mac. For each Local VM relay session, the sidecar re-checks the lease every 3 s and closes the relay as soon as the lease no longer holds. That covers release from the Mac, a takeover, and any error, which fails closed. A Local VM join without a lease is never handed to the device, so the password can't leak.iOS core (
RFB.swift): a small, dependency-free RFB client. It's pure bytes-in/bytes-out and tested byte for byte:CompanionClientgains control take, release and check under a lease, the join, viewer-close, and the authenticated WebSocket request.iOS app:
LocalVmDesktop.swift: the socket, 15 s ping keepalive, and the picture.LocalVmControlView.swift: the screen in the screenshots below.ComputerView.swift: Take control under the pictured VM.Fixture:
scripts/testing/fake-vnc-desktop.tsis an offline, password-protected 1280×800 RFB desktop that records pointer and key events and paints each click.scripts/verify-ios-local-vm.tspublishes it as the VM's noVNC port and serves the events and the control hold on a status URL.Why this is safe to expose
SERVICE_ALLOW.Phones paired with the server directly (no sidecar)
Some people run
openmausbot serveon a VPS or behind Tailscale Serve and pair the phone with the server itself. That path has no companion sidecar to relay the viewer, so the server does it:server/index.ts): for a session caller with Full access (adminscope), the join answerssocketPathplus the VNC password instead ofjoinUrl. The path is the existing desktop-viewer proxy,api/desktop-viewer/local/<target>/websockify, withbotId,controlLeaseIdand, for pool seats,threadIdin the query. The raw loopback address never reaches the phone.server/routes/desktop-viewer.ts): aleasedependency binds a viewer to a control lease. The open is refused with 409 unless that lease holds that bot's computer right now and the target is that computer's seat. The 5 s liveness recheck now also asks whether the lease still holds, and the socket closes as soon as it doesn't.closeForOwnercan scope to one bot, so Hand Back closes only that bot's viewers.clientscope) get a notice to pair again with Full access, instead of a 403 they can't act on.LocalVmViewerSessioncarries either a relayedjoinUrlor a directsocketPath, validated shape by shape. The direct socket request sends the lease in the query and noSec-WebSocket-Protocol: binary. Everything else (take, release, check, Hand Back, backgrounding) is shared with the sidecar path.scripts/verify-ios-local-vm.tsnow shows a captured XFCE Local VM desktop (scripts/testing/fixtures/local-vm-desktop.png, nothing private on it) and types one more character at its prompt per capture.How it was verified
pnpm lintandpnpm typecheckpass.pnpm exec vitest run companion server/computer-control.test.ts server/request-auth.test.ts scripts/testing/verification-docs.test.ts: 457 passed. The new cases:ownsLeasenever takes a free computer.Direct path:
server/routes/desktop-viewer.test.tscovers a lease-bound open, echo, and close on release; per-bot binding and the 400s for half-given or malformed query; scope checks and per-botcloseForOwner; and the pool refusal.server/index.test.tscovers a phone paired directly with Full access asking for the desktop under its lease, and nobody else.LocalVmControlClientTestscover the direct proxy join,socketPathshapes, and the JSON body of viewer-close. Exercised end to end against the isolated fixture over the proxied socket, including revocation closing it.pnpm exec vitest run server/index.test.ts -t "Local VM": 6 passed. The join refuses without a lease (400), without a hold (409), while someone else holds (409), and while the VM isn't ready (409).checkreportsownedcorrectly and doesn't take a free computer.swift test --package-path ios: 642 passed.RFBTests(15) cover:LocalVmControlClientTestscover the lease, the join, the socket request, and relay-path parsing.Isolated end to end on a disposable iPhone 18 Pro simulator (iOS 27.0, Xcode 27.0), paired to
scripts/verify-ios-local-vm.ts:controlHeld: true.None of this touched a real VM.
Screenshots (UI changes)
iPhone 18 Pro, Local VM pictured (#2134): before
iPhone 18 Pro, Local VM pictured: after
iPhone 18 Pro, in control of the Local VM
iPhone 18 Pro, typing into the Local VM
The trackpad collapses while the keyboard is up, so the desktop keeps its full width.
Follow-ups (not in this PR)
RFBClient.rectangleLength.ServerCutTextis parsed but not surfaced yet.Checklist
pnpm typecheckandpnpm testpass locally. Typecheck, lint, and the focused suites above pass; I didn't run the fullpnpm test.dist-server/edits.Summary by CodeRabbit