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Martin Vogel c86be38954 docs: correct CLI-mode claim that one-shot commands never touch the daemon (#2183, #2167)
README.md:132, README.md:633, README.md:761, and docs/CONFIGURATION.md:203
said one-shot `cli` commands "never start or connect to the coordination
daemon" / read "their own environment without starting the daemon". That
was already contradicted a few lines above it (README.md:126 lists
one-shot CLI commands among the processes that "share a crash-safe OS
admission barrier" with the daemon) and by the code:
main_local_cli_daemon_execute() (src/main.c) bootstraps a client
connection to the shared per-user coordination daemon via
main_client_bootstrap_with_upgrade(), spawning one (bootstrap.daemon_spawned)
when none is running, before dispatching the tool call.

Verified live: `cli --verbose list_projects` against an isolated
HOME/CBM_CACHE_DIR/CBM_RUNTIME_DIR printed "hint: this command started a
temporary CBM daemon", and its cbm-daemon.log showed
daemon.start -> daemon.runtime_stopping (reason=last_committed_client_disconnected)
-> daemon.lifetime_end, i.e. the daemon it spawned exited again once the
CLI command's own connection closed. bootstrap_production_spawn() passes
the calling process's `environ` straight to posix_spawn(), so a CLI
invocation that starts the daemon also seeds that daemon's captured
daemon-owned environment (CBM_DIAGNOSTICS, CBM_LOG_LEVEL, etc.) - it does
not read "its own environment" independently as the docs claimed.

Corrected all four passages to state the real behavior: CLI commands
connect to the shared daemon (starting one if none is running) for the
same admission barrier and per-project locks, hold a `cli_session` that
is never registered with the background watcher, and - if their own
connection is what started the daemon - that daemon exits again once the
command's connection closes and no other session is attached. No opt-out
env var or flag for an in-process/no-daemon CLI mode exists (grepped the
whole tree), so none is documented.

This is a pure documentation fix; no production behavior changed. Kept
clear of PR #2348 (fix/issue-2167), which separately rewrites the
watcher-scope paragraph at README.md:152/237/672 and
docs/CONFIGURATION.md:88 for issue #2167's auto-sync-scope correction -
none of the lines here overlap with that diff.

Refs #2183, #2167

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-09-30 23:05:04 +02:00
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