docs/web-ui/agent.md

@@ -61,13 +61,6 @@ through. Three flex columns:
     the inbox flyout in the side panel.
   - **Loose-ends pill** (`🪢 loose ends · N`): hidden when empty;
     click opens the loose-ends flyout.
-  - **Tasks pill** (`⚙ tasks · N`): hidden when empty; click opens the
-    running-bash-tasks flyout (`GET /api/bash-tasks` — the in-flight
-    Pending/Running tasks from the in-container `bash-tasks/` dir). Unlike
-    loose-ends (refreshed on turn_end), tasks start + finish asynchronously
-    between turns and `/api/state` isn't polled while online, so the pill
-    polls the endpoint on a light interval (≈4s). Snapshot only (no SSE push
-    yet).
   - **Overflow button** (`⋯`): always visible. Opens a frosted popover
     (`#overflow-menu`, positioned outside the header to escape any
     stacking context) with four management rows followed by a model
@@ -156,11 +149,7 @@ will reflect zero. Loose-ends flyout: questions,
 approvals, and reminders pending against this agent (`GET /api/loose-ends`);
 question rows carry an inline answer form that POSTs cross-origin to
 the core dashboard's `/answer-question/{id}` so the operator answers
-*as operator* (see `docs/boundary.md`). Tasks flyout: in-flight bash
-tasks (`GET /api/bash-tasks`); each row shows status (`▶ running` /
-`◷ queued`), the task id, elapsed time, and a truncated one-line
-command preview. Read-only — kill/inspect lives in the harness, not
-the page.
+*as operator* (see `docs/boundary.md`).
 
 **Ask → operator inline-answer binding.** When the agent emits
 `mcp__hyperhive__ask(to: "operator", ...)`, the tool_use renderer

frontend/packages/agent/src/agent.css

@@ -334,10 +334,6 @@ h2, h3 {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--red) 18%, transparent);
   color: var(--red);
 }
-.header-pill-tasks .header-pill-count {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--green) 18%, transparent);
-  color: var(--green);
-}
 
 .agent-main {
   position: absolute;
@@ -532,14 +528,6 @@ pre.diff {
   padding-left: 0.8em;
   border-left: 2px solid var(--purple-dim);
 }
-/* Running bash-tasks flyout rows (buildBashTasksList). */
-.agent-inbox .bash-task-status { font-weight: bold; font-size: 0.9em; }
-.agent-inbox .bash-task-running { color: var(--green); }
-.agent-inbox .bash-task-pending { color: var(--blue); }
-.agent-inbox .bash-task-cmd {
-  font-family: monospace;
-  font-size: 0.92em;
-}
 .agent-inbox li.inbox-reply {
   padding-left: 1em;
   border-left: 2px solid var(--border);

frontend/packages/agent/src/app.js

@@ -135,13 +135,6 @@ window.marked = marked;
           buildLooseEndsList(lastLooseEnds));
       });
     }
-    const bashPill = $('bash-tasks-pill');
-    if (bashPill) {
-      bashPill.addEventListener('click', () => {
-        Panel.open('bash-tasks', 'tasks · ' + lastBashTasks.length,
-          buildBashTasksList(lastBashTasks));
-      });
-    }
   })();
 
   // ─── state rendering ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -916,71 +909,6 @@ window.marked = marked;
     reconcileAskBinds();
   }
 
-  // Running bash tasks: `GET /api/bash-tasks` returns the in-flight
-  // (Pending/Running) TaskFiles from the in-container bash-tasks dir. Same
-  // best-effort, silent-failure contract as loose-ends — a fetch miss keeps
-  // the pill at zero rather than surfacing stale chrome.
-  let lastBashTasks = [];
-  async function refreshBashTasks() {
-    try {
-      const resp = await fetch('api/bash-tasks');
-      if (!resp.ok) {
-        renderBashTasks([]);
-        return;
-      }
-      const data = await resp.json();
-      renderBashTasks(data.tasks || []);
-    } catch (err) {
-      console.warn('bash-tasks fetch failed', err);
-      renderBashTasks([]);
-    }
-  }
-
-  function buildBashTasksList(tasks) {
-    const wrap = el('div', { class: 'agent-inbox' });
-    if (!tasks.length) {
-      wrap.append(el('p', { class: 'side-panel-empty' },
-        'no running bash tasks.'));
-      return wrap;
-    }
-    const list = el('ul');
-    const fmtAge = (s) => {
-      if (s < 60) return s + 's';
-      if (s < 3600) return Math.floor(s / 60) + 'm';
-      if (s < 86400) return Math.floor(s / 3600) + 'h';
-      return Math.floor(s / 86400) + 'd';
-    };
-    const now = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
-    for (const t of tasks) {
-      const li = el('li');
-      const running = t.status === 'running';
-      // Elapsed since the task started (running) or was queued (pending).
-      const since = running ? (t.started_at || t.created_at || now) : (t.created_at || now);
-      const elapsed = Math.max(0, now - since);
-      // Single-line, truncated command preview (the cmd can be multi-line).
-      const cmdPreview = (t.cmd || '').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim().slice(0, 100);
-      li.append(
-        el('span', { class: 'bash-task-status bash-task-' + t.status }, running ? '▶ running' : '◷ queued'), ' ',
-        el('span', { class: 'inbox-from' }, t.id), ' ',
-        el('span', { class: 'inbox-ts' }, (running ? '' : 'queued ') + fmtAge(elapsed) + (running ? ' elapsed' : '')),
-        el('div', { class: 'inbox-body bash-task-cmd' }, cmdPreview),
-      );
-      list.append(li);
-    }
-    wrap.append(list);
-    return wrap;
-  }
-
-  function renderBashTasks(tasks) {
-    lastBashTasks = tasks;
-    const pill = $('bash-tasks-pill');
-    const count = $('bash-tasks-count');
-    if (count) count.textContent = tasks.length;
-    if (pill) pill.hidden = tasks.length === 0;
-    Panel.refresh('bash-tasks', 'tasks · ' + tasks.length,
-      buildBashTasksList(tasks));
-  }
-
   /** Walk `pendingAskBinds` against the latest `lastLooseEnds`
    *  snapshot, pair unbound slots with the first unclaimed pending
    *  operator-bound question whose text matches, and flip already-
@@ -1354,12 +1282,6 @@ window.marked = marked;
       // db, fetched via the per-agent socket). Cold-load fetches
       // it here; turn_end refreshes it via the renderer below.
       refreshLooseEnds();
-      // Cold-load populate of the running-bash-tasks pill. Tasks complete
-      // asynchronously between turns (independent of turn_end SSE) and
-      // /api/state isn't polled while online, so a dedicated interval (set
-      // up next to the initial refreshState() below) keeps the count live;
-      // this call just fills it immediately on first paint.
-      refreshBashTasks();
       // Skip the re-render if nothing structurally changed. The most
       // common case is `online` polling itself — without this guard, the
       // operator's <input value> gets clobbered every cycle.
@@ -1389,12 +1311,6 @@ window.marked = marked;
     }
   }
   refreshState();
-  // Keep the running-bash-tasks pill live. Unlike loose-ends (refreshed on
-  // turn_end SSE), bash tasks start + finish asynchronously between turns and
-  // /api/state isn't polled while online — so poll the cheap snapshot endpoint
-  // on a light interval. Fails silently (renders zero) when offline. v1 is
-  // polling; an SSE push for task state could replace this later.
-  setInterval(refreshBashTasks, 4000);
 
   // ─── live event stream ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
   // Scrolling, pill, backfill + SSE plumbing live in hive-fr0nt::TERMINAL_JS

frontend/packages/agent/src/index.html

@@ -64,12 +64,6 @@
         <span class="header-pill-label">loose ends</span>
         <span class="header-pill-count" id="loose-ends-count">0</span>
       </button>
-      <button type="button" id="bash-tasks-pill" class="header-pill header-pill-tasks" hidden
-              title="open running bash-tasks flyout">
-        <span class="header-pill-icon" aria-hidden="true">⚙</span>
-        <span class="header-pill-label">tasks</span>
-        <span class="header-pill-count" id="bash-tasks-count">0</span>
-      </button>
       <button type="button" id="overflow-btn" class="overflow-btn"
               aria-haspopup="menu" aria-expanded="false"
               title="more actions">⋯</button>

hive-ag3nt/src/web_ui.rs

@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ pub async fn serve(
         .route("/api/new-session", post(post_new_session))
         .route("/api/logout", post(post_logout))
         .route("/api/loose-ends", get(api_loose_ends))
-        .route("/api/bash-tasks", get(api_bash_tasks))
         .route("/api/stats", get(api_stats))
         .route("/screen/ws", get(screen_ws))
         .route("/icon", get(serve_icon))
@@ -526,61 +525,6 @@ async fn api_loose_ends(State(state): State<AppState>) -> Response {
     axum::Json(serde_json::json!({ "loose_ends": loose_ends })).into_response()
 }
 
-/// `GET /api/bash-tasks` — snapshot of this agent's in-flight bash tasks.
-///
-/// The `hive-bash-mcp` daemon runs in this same container and writes one
-/// `<id>.json` ([`hive_sh4re::TaskFile`]) per task under the harness
-/// `bash-tasks/` dir. This reads that dir and returns the tasks still
-/// `Pending` or `Running`, so the agent page can show what's running without
-/// going through the broker. Snapshot only — the page polls/refreshes it like
-/// `/api/loose-ends`; there's no live SSE push for task state yet. Unreadable
-/// or malformed files (incl. the daemon's `.json.tmp` scratch writes, which
-/// don't match the `.json` extension) are skipped so one stray file can't
-/// fail the whole list.
-async fn api_bash_tasks() -> Response {
-    let dir = crate::paths::harness_dir().join("bash-tasks");
-    // The dir scan + per-file reads are blocking fs I/O; run them off the
-    // async executor so a slow or large tasks dir can't stall other requests.
-    let tasks = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
-        let mut tasks: Vec<hive_sh4re::TaskFile> = Vec::new();
-        let Ok(rd) = std::fs::read_dir(&dir) else {
-            return tasks;
-        };
-        for entry in rd.flatten() {
-            let path = entry.path();
-            if path.extension().and_then(|e| e.to_str()) != Some("json") {
-                continue;
-            }
-            let Ok(text) = std::fs::read_to_string(&path) else {
-                continue;
-            };
-            let Ok(task) = serde_json::from_str::<hive_sh4re::TaskFile>(&text) else {
-                continue;
-            };
-            if matches!(
-                task.status,
-                hive_sh4re::TaskStatus::Pending | hive_sh4re::TaskStatus::Running
-            ) {
-                tasks.push(task);
-            }
-        }
-        // Running before Pending, then oldest-first so a long-runner sits on top.
-        tasks.sort_by(|a, b| {
-            let rank = |s: &hive_sh4re::TaskStatus| match s {
-                hive_sh4re::TaskStatus::Running => 0,
-                _ => 1,
-            };
-            rank(&a.status)
-                .cmp(&rank(&b.status))
-                .then(a.created_at.cmp(&b.created_at))
-        });
-        tasks
-    })
-    .await
-    .unwrap_or_default();
-    axum::Json(serde_json::json!({ "tasks": tasks })).into_response()
-}
-
 async fn api_state(State(state): State<AppState>) -> axum::Json<StateSnapshot> {
     // Capture seq *before* any reads so the dedupe contract is
     // "events with seq > snapshot.seq are post-snapshot, never missed."

hive-bash-mcp/src/protocol.rs

@@ -8,13 +8,47 @@ use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 // Task state (shared between runner and protocol)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-// `TaskFile` + `TaskStatus` are the bash-task on-disk schema. They live in
-// `hive-sh4re` (the shared wire-types crate) so the agent web UI in
-// `hive-ag3nt` can deserialize the same canonical type when reading the
-// tasks dir for its running-tasks panel — no parallel copy to drift. Both
-// are re-exported here so existing `crate::protocol::{TaskFile, TaskStatus}`
-// imports across this crate keep compiling unchanged.
-pub use hive_sh4re::{TaskFile, TaskStatus};
+/// Lifecycle state of a bash task.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
+pub enum TaskStatus {
+    Pending,
+    Running,
+    Done,
+    TimedOut,
+    /// Daemon was restarted while the task was running; process is gone.
+    Interrupted,
+    /// Killed on request via `BashKill` (SIGINT or SIGKILL to the task's
+    /// process group). Distinct from `Interrupted` (daemon-restart) and
+    /// `TimedOut` (exceeded `timeout_secs`).
+    Killed,
+}
+
+/// Task metadata + result written to `<id>.json` under the tasks dir.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct TaskFile {
+    pub id: String,
+    pub cmd: String,
+    /// Kill timeout in seconds. `None` means no timeout — task runs until
+    /// natural exit. Old task files with a numeric value are still readable
+    /// (serde coerces `u64` → `Some(u64)` is handled by the caller).
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub timeout_secs: Option<u64>,
+    pub status: TaskStatus,
+    pub created_at: i64,
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub started_at: Option<i64>,
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub completed_at: Option<i64>,
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub exit_code: Option<i32>,
+    /// Last [`crate::runner::SUMMARY_BYTES`] of stdout.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub stdout_tail: Option<String>,
+    /// Last [`crate::runner::SUMMARY_BYTES`] of stderr.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub stderr_tail: Option<String>,
+}
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Request / response

hive-sh4re/src/lib.rs

@@ -380,58 +380,6 @@ pub enum CancelLooseEndKind {
     Approval,
 }
 
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Bash-task on-disk schema (shared with `hive-bash-mcp`)
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/// Lifecycle state of a bash task.
-///
-/// Canonical home for the bash-task persisted schema: `hive-bash-mcp`
-/// (the daemon that writes the files) re-exports these from its
-/// `protocol` module, and `hive-ag3nt` (the agent web UI that reads
-/// them back for the running-tasks panel) deserializes the same type, so
-/// the on-disk shape can't drift between writer and reader.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
-#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
-pub enum TaskStatus {
-    Pending,
-    Running,
-    Done,
-    TimedOut,
-    /// Daemon was restarted while the task was running; process is gone.
-    Interrupted,
-    /// Killed on request via `BashKill` (SIGINT or SIGKILL to the task's
-    /// process group). Distinct from `Interrupted` (daemon-restart) and
-    /// `TimedOut` (exceeded `timeout_secs`).
-    Killed,
-}
-
-/// Task metadata + result written to `<id>.json` under the bash-tasks dir.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
-pub struct TaskFile {
-    pub id: String,
-    pub cmd: String,
-    /// Kill timeout in seconds. `None` means no timeout — task runs until
-    /// natural exit. Old task files with a numeric value are still readable
-    /// (serde coerces `u64` → `Some(u64)` is handled by the caller).
-    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub timeout_secs: Option<u64>,
-    pub status: TaskStatus,
-    pub created_at: i64,
-    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub started_at: Option<i64>,
-    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub completed_at: Option<i64>,
-    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub exit_code: Option<i32>,
-    /// Last `SUMMARY_BYTES` of stdout (see `hive-bash-mcp` runner).
-    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub stdout_tail: Option<String>,
-    /// Last `SUMMARY_BYTES` of stderr (see `hive-bash-mcp` runner).
-    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub stderr_tail: Option<String>,
-}
-
 /// Unified request enum for both agent and manager sockets. The agent's
 /// identity is the socket it arrived on. Privileged variants are marked
 /// `*(privileged)*` — an agent socket returns `Err` for them server-side.