record the SSH-remote footprint decision menu in Q-23 (T-330)
The Phase-0 spike's core pick — no-install ssh-exec vs auto-pushed remote agent — is the user's call (they've said they don't want to manage remote installs; the agent model buys inotify + a stateful backend). Q-23 now carries the 2026-06-12 triage block with both options, the agent-model sub-questions, the remote-tool-contract D-record need, and the latency-probe evidence gap (no sshd reachable from the dev box). T-330 is annotated blocked-on-user; the model-independent backbone phases proceed meanwhile. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **Status:** Open
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- **Question:** Clide today assumes the workspace, the daemon, and the Flutter UI all run on the same machine. A growing class of users edits on remote systems (build servers, GPU boxes, cloud dev environments). What's the architecture for "open repo on host-B from UI on host-A"? Two shapes: (A) daemon-on-remote — clide's Dart daemon runs on the remote; the app talks to it over an SSH-tunnelled unix socket or a dedicated TCP socket (mTLS?), pty/process/filesystem work stays server-side; local app is pure UI. (B) filesystem-mounted — remote mounted via sshfs/9p/rclone, daemon runs locally against the mount; simpler but every fs op + git call crosses the network, and PTYs get complicated (local shell on remote filesystem? ssh-exec per command?). (A) matches VS Code Remote / JetBrains Gateway; (B) matches nothing load-bearing. Sub-questions either way: auth (ssh-agent? per-project keys? OIDC?), tmux / Claude session persistence semantics (does primary-per-repo re-key on host + repo?), multi-host identity in `.pql/pql.db`, latency tolerance for the event stream, re-sync on disconnect.
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- **Context:** Surfaced 2026-04-22 during Tier-1 planning. Not a Tier 1 concern — terminal + Claude panes land local-first — but the daemon/IPC seam decisions (notably `D-5` and `D-6`) constrain the future answer. Worth scoping before Tier 6 (extension API) so third-party extensions don't accrue assumptions the remote path would have to unwind. The 2026-06-11 Fable review (fable-ous.md Part IV, Tier 3 #14) reframed the differentiator and ranked T-329 as undersold: the agent runs on the buildbox while permission prompts render natively local — VS Code Remote moves the *editor*; nobody remotes the *agent control channel*. That framing favours shape (A).
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- **Triage (2026-06-12):** Shape (A) is effectively settled (T-329 epic locked: execution remote, UI + clipboard local, system ssh auth for v1). The model-independent backbone is proceeding: Phase 1 (T-331, `DaemonTransport` seam) landed. What remains open is the **footprint model** — the user decision T-330 gates on:
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1. **No-install ssh-exec** — zero remote footprint; stock `ssh -tt` PTYs + ControlMaster command channels; watching degrades to polling; heavier subsystem surface locally.
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2. **Auto-pushed self-managed agent** (VS Code Remote model) — clide deploys/version-checks a headless agent binary on connect; native inotify + stateful backend; but installs clide components on the remote, which the user has said they don't want to manage.
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If (2), the agent sub-questions need answers before T-336 expands: placement (per-host `~/.clide/agent` likely), GC on disconnect/version-bump/repo-removal, multi-client sharing (IpcServer is already multi-connection, D-72), version skew (version-named binaries coexist). Either way the **remote-tool contract** needs a D-record: what must exist remotely (git/shell at minimum), whether pql is hard-required or degrades, and how a connect-preflight surfaces gaps. Evidence gap: the ControlMaster per-command latency probe (T-330) needs a reachable sshd — none in the dev environment; run it against a real remote before deciding if latency is the deciding factor.
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- **Source:** 2026-04-22 planning (user-raised).
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### Q-22: Ticket persistence strategy
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