The architectural convergence v0.9.0 was building toward. CLI keeps
working without a daemon (claudemesh send/peer/inbox/...), but the MCP
push-pipe — which Claude Code uses for mid-turn channel emits, slash
commands, and resources — now requires the daemon. There is no fallback.
Daemon (additive):
- /v1/skills (list) and /v1/skills/:name (get) IPC endpoints, so the
MCP shim can surface mesh skills without holding its own broker WS.
- listSkills() / getSkill() on DaemonBrokerClient.
- SSE 'message' event now carries plaintext body, sender_member_pubkey,
priority, and subtype — full payload the MCP shim needs to render a
channel notification.
MCP server: 979 → 469 LoC (470 of the remaining 469 is the unrelated
mesh-service proxy mode; the push-pipe path is ~200 LoC including
boilerplate).
- Probes ~/.claudemesh/daemon/daemon.sock at boot. Bails loudly with
actionable instructions if missing.
- Subscribes to /v1/events SSE and translates each event into a
notifications/claude/channel emit.
- Fetches mesh skills from the daemon for ListPrompts/GetPrompt and
ListResources/ReadResource. ListTools returns []; the CLI is the API.
- No broker WS, no decryption, no reconnect logic. Daemon owns all of it.
claudemesh install: auto-installs and starts the daemon service for the
user's primary mesh (launchd / systemd-user). Pass --no-service to skip.
claudemesh launch: probes the daemon socket; if absent, spawns
'claudemesh daemon up --mesh <slug>' detached and waits up to 10s for
the socket. Surfaces a clear warning on timeout but doesn't block —
Claude Code's MCP shim will print the same error if the daemon really
isn't there.
Bundle: dist/entrypoints/mcp.js drops from 154KB → 104KB (gzipped 34KB
→ 19KB). Test: MCP boots cleanly via stdio, declares correct
capabilities, talks JSON-RPC; daemon /v1/skills returns the empty list
as expected on a mesh with no skills.
Released as 1.24.0 on npm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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