docs(readme): shared auto-memory, and two traps it exposed - #162
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#160 shipped without touching the README, so the Multi-Account section still describes sharing as symlink-or-copy only. Adds `share-memory` to the CLI table, an auto-memory row to the shareable-items table, and a short section of its own: what is shared (memory), what is not (transcripts), and which launch paths carry the redirect. The point the table cannot make on its own is that this one is NOT a symlink — it is a per-launch `--settings` redirect — so it needed prose beside the Link/Copy wording. Two corrections while in there, both found the hard way: "CodeV refreshes accounts.sh on every launch" is packaged-only; the sync returns early unless `app.isPackaged`. The consequence is worth stating: regenerate from a newer checkout, then open an older installed CodeV, and the older template silently replaces the file. And cmux's shell integration installs its own `claude` wrapper after ~/.zshrc, replacing the dispatcher — so `claude <name>` there sends the account name as a prompt and starts under the anchor, silently. `claude-<name>` still works and is now the documented form for cmux (#161). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The new cmux warning and the UI table read as contradicting each other: one says the dispatcher does not switch accounts in cmux, the other says the account override applies to cmux. Both are true for different launch paths, so the table now says which and why. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Both reviewers caught the same gap, and it lands exactly where it hurts: the previous round told cmux users to switch to `claude-<name>`, while the shared-memory table listed only `claude <name>` as carrying the redirect. Verified from the generator rather than assumed — `claude-<name>` and the dispatcher branch both come from launchCmd(account, true), and generating accounts.sh from a sharing registry emits the identical `--settings "$(_codev_memory_settings)"` in both. Also fixes a sentence I broke in the previous commit: a trailing "breaks" left dangling after the #161 link. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Section 5's table says WHAT each item does; it never said why, so every new item was a fresh argument. It follows from how Claude Code locates the thing: it scans a fixed directory (only a symlink is zero-drift), it runs a path you wrote (no sharing mechanism needed at all — one script, two registrations), or it is a directory plus per-account state (plugins: linking the payload saves ~780KB and nothing else, linking the registries makes one account's install change the other's). Two things that look like conventions and are not: hooks/ and scripts/ are NOT Claude Code directories — measured, neither exists in a second account it has managed for months — and settings.json is a mixed file, which is the whole reason four keys are copied out of it rather than the file being linked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Grammatically fine ("the form [that] cmux forces you onto shares
memory"), but a reviewer parsed "shares" as a noun, which is
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🟠 Major · Make §5 use one sharing contract. · multi-account-support-design.md:242-263
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winMake §5 use one sharing contract. The prose keeps plugin registries and
enabledPluginsper account, and rejects whole-filesettings.jsonlinks. However, the table still permits symlinking the wholeplugins/directory andsettings.json. Following those rows sharesinstalled_plugins.json,enabledPlugins, permissions, and hooks between accounts. The prose also places identity insettings.json, while the table and README place identity and trust in.claude.json. Split theskills/andcommands/row fromplugins/, markplugins/and whole-filesettings.jsonas non-shareable, retain only the four per-key settings copies, and assign identity and trust consistently to.claude.json.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/multi-account-support-design.md`:
- Around line 242-263: Update §5’s sharing table and surrounding prose to use
one consistent contract: split skills/commands from plugins, mark the plugins
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cubic P3, two real problems in one paragraph. Identity is not in settings.json — it lives in .claude.json, which the table two rows down already says is never shared. Measured: the anchor's settings.json has no oauthAccount and no email. And the paragraph said 'nothing by link' while the table above it offers a whole-file symlink as a careful option. Both now say the same thing: linking is possible, the share engine deliberately does not offer it, and here is what it costs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Draft — the content is settled, but it is worth a read before it goes in, since two of the paragraphs are new claims about behaviour rather than restatements.
#160 shipped shared auto-memory without touching the README, so the Multi-Account Support section still describes cross-account sharing as symlink-or-copy only. This adds the missing parts and fixes two statements that turned out to be wrong or imprecise.
What was missing
codev account share-memory <name> on|offwas absent from the CLI table.The new Shared auto-memory subsection says what is shared (auto-memory for the project the session starts in), what is not (session transcripts, which is what keeps CodeV's per-account session attribution working), and which of the launch paths carry the redirect. That last one matters in practice: a session started by a bare
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=… claudeor by the VS Code extension keeps using that account's own memory, and nothing warns you.The reason it needed prose beside the table rather than one more
✅row is that this mechanism is not a symlink like the rows above it. It is a--settingsredirect computed per launch, so nothing is written into the repository and neither account'ssettings.jsonis touched.Two corrections
"CodeV refreshes
accounts.shon every launch" is packaged-only. The sync returns early unlessapp.isPackaged, soyarn startnever rewrites the file. The consequence is worth stating explicitly because it is silent: regenerate from a newer checkout withyarn account regenerate, then launch an older installed CodeV, and the older app's bundled template replaces the file. The registry still holds what you configured, but the generated shell functions are the old ones — which is exactly how a configured account can stop behaving as configured with nothing to show for it.cmux replaces the dispatcher. cmux's shell integration installs its own
claudewrapper after~/.zshrcis read, soclaude <name>in a cmux pane does not switch accounts — it hands the account name to Claude Code as the initial prompt and starts the session under the anchor, with no error.claude-<name>is untouched and works, and so does CodeV's own account picker, which never goes through the dispatcher. Filed as #161 with the mechanism and the measurements; the README now points atclaude-<name>for cmux and the "not yet supported" note mentions the missing warning.Scope
Documentation only — no code, no tests, no version bump.
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Documents README coverage and design rationale for shared auto-memory shipped in #160, and corrects two inaccurate claims about account management.
codev account share-memory <name> on|offCLI entry, a shareable auto-memory row, and a Shared auto-memory section covering what is shared, what is not, and confirming both generated launcher forms carry the redirect.accounts.shon every launch" claim: the refresh is packaged-only, and an older installed app can silently downgrade a newer generated file.claudedispatcher, soclaude <name>doesn't switch accounts; cmux users should useclaude-<name>, while CodeV's account picker still works in cmux.--settingsredirect, andsettings.jsonmixes preferences with security/machinery (identity lives in.claude.json), so four keys are copied rather than the file linked.Written for commit 12eaa04. Summary will update on new commits.
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claude-<name>form and cases where redirects do not apply.share-memorycommand, account-to-folder mapping, rename and remove behavior, packaged-only account script refreshes, and Projects tab account overrides.