The rename test relied on a fixed 300ms setTimeout to fire after the CLI
subprocess had registered its waiter — adequate in isolation but flaky
under full-suite load on Windows (CLI spawn + first HTTP request can
exceed 300ms). Add a tiny public MailboxStore.waiterCount(name) helper
so the test can poll until the waiter is actually registered before
triggering the rename. Also tighten the missing-name assertion from
not-zero to the contract-exact exit code 1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mailbox listings grew unbounded as old sessions ended without
unregistering. This adds two layers of cleanup, configurable via
mailbox.json or `serve` flags:
- Lazy filter: list responses (REST /v1/list, MCP list_mailboxes)
drop mailboxes idle longer than hideAfterMinutes (default 24h),
while always keeping the caller and any sender with messages
pending for them.
- Background sweep: startServer runs an initial prune on boot and
schedules an unref'd interval timer that hard-deletes mailboxes
idle longer than deleteAfterMinutes (default 7d) which have no
pending messages, and wipes their delivered history.
Mailbox names are now built as <project>-<session-short>, where <project>
is the sanitized git-repo basename (or cwd basename) — no more env-var
prefix step. Sessions can re-tag themselves at runtime via the new
mcp__mailbox__rename tool (POST /v1/rename), which transfers all
pending messages to the new name in a single transaction. Peers using
the old name re-discover via list_mailboxes.
BREAKING: \$CLAUDE_MAILBOX_NAME is no longer read. Existing setups that
relied on the env-var prefix should remove it from .claude/settings.json;
the prefix now comes from the working directory automatically.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The plugin's UserPromptSubmit and SessionStart hooks call `claude-mailbox`
with no --url flag, so they previously always hit the hardcoded
http://127.0.0.1:47822/mcp default. If port 47822 was held by another
local service (e.g. ClaudeDo), the daemon couldn't bind there and every
hook was talking to the wrong process.
CLI default for --url now resolves to $CLAUDE_MAILBOX_URL when set,
falling back to http://127.0.0.1:47822. Doctor gained a Step 2 that
probes /health on 47822, identifies foreign occupants, picks a free
port, writes both ~/.claude-mailbox/mailbox.json and the
CLAUDE_MAILBOX_URL entry in .claude/settings.json env so the hooks
follow along automatically.
Also adds a fallback hint when Windows schtasks /Create fails with
Access is denied (Group Policy restricts non-admin task creation): run
install-autostart from an elevated shell, or accept an ephemeral serve
for the current session.
session-announce now calls /v1/list with the session's X-Mailbox header,
which both registers the session with the daemon and returns all known
mailboxes in one round-trip. The output appends an "Active peers" block
listing mailboxes seen within the last hour (configurable via
--peer-window-minutes), capped at 10 entries by default. Self is
filtered out; the list is sorted most-recent-first.
So when the user says "I started a second session, coordinate with it",
Claude already has the peer's mailbox name in context — no manual
list_mailboxes call needed.
The peer-formatting logic is extracted into formatActivePeerList for
unit testing; CLI tests now pin --url to an unreachable port to keep
assertions stable on machines that have a real daemon running.
MCP tools (send/check_inbox/peek_inbox/list_mailboxes) now accept the
caller's mailbox name as an explicit argument (from/name), falling back
to the X-Mailbox header for legacy single-session HTTP setups. This
unblocks multi-session coordination through a shared .mcp.json — each
Claude session passes its own session-derived name on every call,
instead of relying on a single transport header that all sessions
would share.
The plugin now ships .mcp.json (no header), and the SessionStart
announcement spells out the exact args to pass to each mcp__mailbox__*
tool so Claude wires it up automatically.
The hook now derives a unique mailbox name from the session_id supplied
on hook stdin, so two parallel Claude Code sessions in the same project
get distinct mailboxes (e.g. `claude-a8b3c1d2`, `claude-d4e5f6a7`)
instead of colliding on a shared env value. An optional
CLAUDE_MAILBOX_NAME base prefix flavors the names as `<base>-<sid>`.
Adds:
- `claude-mailbox session-announce` subcommand for the new SessionStart
hook, which prints the current session's mailbox name to context
- `/claude-mailbox:mailbox-update` slash command for `npm update` +
daemon restart
- stdin parsing helpers (parseHookStdin, deriveSessionName) with unit
tests; the doctor no longer needs a mandatory name prompt
Adds a /plugin marketplace at the repo root and a `claude-mailbox` plugin under
plugin/ that wires the UserPromptSubmit hook without needing the per-user
`install-hook` step. The hook command (`claude-mailbox check --hook`) now reads
the mailbox name from $CLAUDE_MAILBOX_NAME when --name is omitted and emits a
one-line setup hint when the daemon is unreachable, so a missing daemon is loud
instead of invisible.
The plugin only contains the Claude Code glue — the daemon binary is still a
separate prerequisite (`npm i -g @kuns/claude-mailbox` + install-autostart),
and the plugin/README plus main README spell out the three-step setup.
Adds `install-hook` / `uninstall-hook` subcommands that idempotently patch
~/.claude/settings.json (or .claude/settings.json with --project), plus a
`--hook` flag on `check` that emits human-readable output and stays silent
on empty inbox or unreachable daemon.
Introduces @kuns/claude-mailbox under node/, a wire-compatible TypeScript
port of the .NET daemon that distributes via the public Gitea npm registry.
The .NET project stays in src/ClaudeMailbox/ untouched; users pick whichever
flavor they prefer.
- node/ project: fastify + @modelcontextprotocol/sdk StreamableHTTPServerTransport
+ better-sqlite3, schema and wire surface match the C# version (port 47822,
X-Mailbox header, MCP tool names, snake_case SQLite columns)
- Cross-platform autostart: Scheduled Task (Win, no admin) / Windows Service
(Win, --service) / launchd (mac) / systemd --user (linux)
- 9/9 vitest tests pass; end-to-end /health + send/check round-trip verified
- CI split: existing ci.yml/release.yml renamed to *-dotnet.yml with path
filters, new ci-node.yml and release-node.yml publish to Gitea npm registry
- install.ps1 / install.sh bootstrap one-liners at repo root; homebrew/
contains a tap formula template
- README install section reordered: npm path primary, dotnet publish secondary
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
