web_ui: scope /cancel and /logout's SIGINT to the harness's own claude child

hive-agent/src/web_ui/actions.rs

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use axum::{
 };
 use serde::Deserialize;
 
-use super::{AppState, error_response};
+use super::{AppState, SigintOutcome, error_response};
 
 #[derive(Deserialize)]
 pub(super) struct SendForm {
@@ -54,26 +54,19 @@ pub(super) async fn post_send(
 pub(super) async fn post_cancel_turn(State(state): State<AppState>) -> Response {
     let out = super::sigint_claude().await;
     let note = match out {
-        Ok(o) if o.status.success() => {
+        SigintOutcome::Signalled => {
             // A process actually got signalled — the *next* turn's wake
             // prompt should tell the agent it was cut off mid-work. Only
-            // set on an actual signal: a `pkill` exit 1 ("no process to
+            // set on an actual signal: `NoProcess` means /cancel raced an
-            // interrupt") means /cancel raced an already-finished turn, so
+            // already-finished turn, so there's nothing to flag as
-            // there's nothing to flag as interrupted.
+            // interrupted.
             state
                 .interrupted
                 .store(true, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
             "operator: /cancel — sent SIGINT to claude".to_owned()
         }
-        Ok(o) if o.status.code() == Some(1) => {
+        SigintOutcome::NoProcess => "operator: /cancel — no claude process to interrupt".to_owned(),
-            "operator: /cancel — no claude process to interrupt".to_owned()
+        SigintOutcome::Failed(e) => format!("operator: /cancel — kill failed: {e}"),
-        }
-        Ok(o) => format!(
-            "operator: /cancel — pkill exited {} stderr={}",
-            o.status,
-            String::from_utf8_lossy(&o.stderr).trim()
-        ),
-        Err(e) => format!("operator: /cancel — pkill failed: {e}"),
     };
     state
         .bus

hive-agent/src/web_ui/mod.rs

@@ -273,15 +273,76 @@ fn read_gui_vnc_port() -> Option<u16> {
     std::env::var("HIVE_GUI_VNC_PORT").ok()?.parse().ok()
 }
 
-/// SIGINT any running `claude` process in this container (best-effort). Shared
+/// Outcome of [`sigint_claude`] — shared by `/api/cancel` and `/api/logout`
-/// by `/api/cancel` and `/api/logout`. Returns the `pkill` `Output` so callers
+/// so both can render the same three cases.
-/// can inspect the exit status (0 = signalled, 1 = no process matched) or
+enum SigintOutcome {
-/// ignore it.
+    /// The tracked pid was signalled.
-async fn sigint_claude() -> std::io::Result<std::process::Output> {
+    Signalled,
-    tokio::process::Command::new("pkill")
+    /// No claude child is currently tracked (turn not in flight, or it
-        .args(["-INT", "claude"])
+    /// finished/exited between the check and the signal — same "nothing to
-        .output()
+    /// interrupt" outcome either way).
+    NoProcess,
+    /// The `kill` syscall itself failed for a reason other than "no such
+    /// process" (permission issue, etc).
+    Failed(std::io::Error),
+}
+
+/// Find a `claude` process that is a direct OS child of this harness
+/// process, if any. `hive-claude`'s driver spawns the turn's claude
+/// directly (`Command::new(program).spawn()`, no shell in between), so the
+/// harness is always the immediate parent of any claude turn it started —
+/// scanning `/proc/*/status` for `Name: claude` + `PPid: <our own pid>`
+/// finds *that* specific process without needing the driver to surface its
+/// pid through any extra plumbing. Distinguishes the harness's own tracked
+/// turn from an unrelated `claude` someone is running interactively in the
+/// same container (a manually shelled-in "choom" session) — that one's
+/// parent is a login shell, not us. Best-effort: a process that exits
+/// mid-scan (its `/proc/<pid>/status` read fails, ESRCH) is just skipped.
+fn find_claude_child() -> Option<u32> {
+    let own_pid = std::process::id();
+    for entry in std::fs::read_dir("/proc").ok()?.flatten() {
+        let Ok(pid) = entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().parse::<u32>() else {
+            continue; // not a pid dir (self, cwd, net, ...)
+        };
+        let Ok(status) = std::fs::read_to_string(entry.path().join("status")) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        let mut name = None;
+        let mut parent_pid = None;
+        for line in status.lines() {
+            if let Some(v) = line.strip_prefix("Name:") {
+                name = Some(v.trim());
+            } else if let Some(v) = line.strip_prefix("PPid:") {
+                parent_pid = v.trim().parse::<u32>().ok();
+            }
+        }
+        if name == Some("claude") && parent_pid == Some(own_pid) {
+            return Some(pid);
+        }
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+/// SIGINT this container's harness-spawned claude child, if any
+/// (best-effort). See [`find_claude_child`] for how it's identified —
+/// **not** a name-based `pkill claude`, which would also hit an unrelated
+/// `claude` process someone is running interactively in the container.
+async fn sigint_claude() -> SigintOutcome {
+    let Some(pid) = find_claude_child() else {
+        return SigintOutcome::NoProcess;
+    };
+    match tokio::process::Command::new("kill")
+        .args(["-INT", &pid.to_string()])
+        .status()
         .await
+    {
+        Ok(status) if status.success() => SigintOutcome::Signalled,
+        // Non-zero from `kill` means "no such process" (ESRCH) — it already
+        // exited between the check above and the signal. Same as never
+        // having found it.
+        Ok(_) => SigintOutcome::NoProcess,
+        Err(e) => SigintOutcome::Failed(e),
+    }
 }
 
 fn error_response(status: StatusCode, message: &str) -> Response {

nix/agent-modules/default.nix

@@ -237,8 +237,9 @@
     ++ (with pkgs; [
       bashInteractive
       coreutils-full
-      # procps for pkill — used by the web UI's /api/cancel to SIGINT the
+      # procps for kill — used by the web UI's /api/cancel and /api/logout
-      # in-flight claude turn.
+      # to SIGINT the harness-spawned claude child found via a /proc scan
+      # (see hive-agent::web_ui::find_claude_child).
       procps
       # jq: JSON processing in shell — useful for parsing API responses,
       # forge REST calls, sqlite output, etc.