cmux/daemon/remote/README.md
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# cmuxd-remote (Go)
Go remote daemon for `cmux ssh` bootstrap, capability negotiation, and CLI relay.
## Commands
1. `cmuxd-remote version`
2. `cmuxd-remote serve --stdio`
3. `cmuxd-remote cli <command> [args...]` — relay cmux commands to the local app over the reverse TCP forward
When invoked as `cmux` (via wrapper/symlink installed during bootstrap), the binary auto-dispatches to the `cli` subcommand. This is busybox-style argv[0] detection.
## RPC methods (newline-delimited JSON over stdio)
1. `hello`
2. `ping`
## CLI relay
The `cli` subcommand (or `cmux` wrapper/symlink) connects to the local cmux app's socket through an SSH reverse TCP forward and relays commands. It supports both v1 text protocol and v2 JSON-RPC commands.
Socket discovery order:
1. `--socket <path>` flag
2. `CMUX_SOCKET_PATH` environment variable
3. `~/.cmux/socket_addr` file (written by the app after the reverse relay establishes)
For TCP addresses, the CLI retries for up to 15 seconds on connection refused, re-reading `~/.cmux/socket_addr` on each attempt to pick up updated relay ports.
## Integration in cmux
1. `workspace.remote.configure` bootstraps this binary over SSH when missing.
2. Client sends `hello` before enabling remote port probing/forwarding.
3. Daemon status/capabilities are exposed in `workspace.remote.status -> remote.daemon`.
4. Bootstrap installs `~/.cmux/bin/cmux` wrapper and keeps a default daemon target (`~/.cmux/bin/cmuxd-remote-current`).
5. A background `ssh -N -R` process reverse-forwards a TCP port to the local cmux Unix socket. The relay address is written to `~/.cmux/socket_addr` on the remote.
6. Relay startup writes `~/.cmux/relay/<port>.daemon_path` so the wrapper can route each shell to the correct daemon binary when multiple local cmux instances/versions coexist.