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What and why

Stacked on #1291. This is the third and last pull request of the stack that unifies channels with @Event. It
finishes the @Channel side.

Two things were left:

The file-watcher source watches its declared paths, for a channel that defines no onConnect().

@Channel({
  name: 'log-watcher',
  source: { type: 'file-watcher', paths: ['./logs/app.log', './reports'], events: ['create', 'change'] },
})
class LogWatcherChannel extends ChannelContext {
  async onEvent(payload: unknown): Promise<ChannelNotification> {
    const { event, path } = payload as ChannelFileEvent;
    return { content: `${basename(path)}: ${event}` };
  }
}
  • Which channels. Until now the framework watched nothing, so every existing file-watcher channel declares
    its paths and watches them in its own onConnect(). Those channels keep working unchanged: the framework watches
    the declared paths only for a channel that defines no onConnect(). connectsItself(context) in
    channel/sources/file-watcher.source.ts decides: the context's onConnect is not
    ChannelContext.prototype.onConnect, so the channel's class, or a class it extends, defines one. For such a
    channel onConnect() and onDisconnect() run, nothing is watched, no glob or runtime warning is logged, and one
    info line at startup says so: Channel "<name>" defines onConnect(), so it watches by itself: the framework does not watch its declared paths. Remove onConnect() to have the framework watch them. A channel() function has no
    connect handler, so it is always watched.
  • Where the watch starts and stops. ChannelInstance.connectService() starts it after onConnect(), through
    wireFileWatcherSource() in the new channel/sources/file-watcher.source.ts. disconnectService() aborts its
    signal before onDisconnect(). The scope's channel teardown disconnects every channel, so the watch ends at
    shutdown and at dispose().
  • The watch. watchFiles(paths, { events, signal }) from @frontmcp/utils, which the workers of the events demos
    already use. Each event is handed to ChannelInstance.handleEvent(), as every other source does, one at a
    time and in order: the next onEvent() starts once the one before it ended. watchFiles now closes its watchers
    when its signal aborts, also while its consumer is busy with an event, so a stuck onEvent() leaves no watcher
    open after the channel disconnected.
  • The payload. A thin, stable shape of its own, ChannelFileEvent: { event: 'create' | 'change' | 'delete', path }, with path absolute. watchFiles yields { type: 'add' | 'change' | 'unlink', path }. The type is
    renamed to the names the source's events option has had since 1.1.0, so a channel reads the names it declared.
  • Event names. create, change and delete map to add, change and unlink. watchFiles has no rename:
    a renamed file is gone from one path and appears at another. So rename stays valid and selects create and
    delete, and the payload says create or delete, never rename. No events means every kind. The metadata
    schema is unchanged.
  • Paths. Files and directories, absolute or relative to the working directory, as watchFiles takes them: a
    directory is watched for its direct files, and a path that does not exist yet from the moment it appears. The
    JSDoc promised globs and showed ./logs/*.log. Globs are not supported, and no glob engine is added: the JSDoc
    and the docs now say files or directories, and a path with * is watched as written, with one warning at startup
    that says to declare the directory.
  • Where it does not run. In a serverless, edge or browser runtime (isLongLivedProcess()), nothing is watched,
    the server logs a warning, and the channel is still connected. A build that boots the server to read it
    (createForManifest()) and CLI mode drop the channels config, so they register no channel and watch nothing. A
    detached job runner connects no channel.
  • Failure. A watch that fails is logged (Channel "<name>" stopped watching its paths). The channel stays
    connected, and the server and the other channels keep running.
  • Browser bundle. The new module imports watchFiles from @frontmcp/utils, which loads fs on first use, and
    it is under channel/, which a bundle reaches only when the server enables channels. The browser bundles of
    create() have the same size as before.

The server says at startup when an app-event channel listens to a declared event. One line per such channel,
from describeEventChannels() in event/event-scope.helper.ts:

  • The event has the channel option too, a warning: Channel "deploys" listens to event "deploy.finished", which has the channel option: Claude Code sessions get each occurrence twice, once from the event and once from the channel. Keep one: remove the channel, or the option when the channel does what the option cannot.
  • The event has no channel option, an info line: Channel "orders" listens to event "order.created": the event has no channel option. Setting it can replace this channel, and checks each session's access.
  • Nothing for a name that is not a declared event, and nothing with events.bridge: false, which keeps published
    events off the bus. No delivery changes.

Limits, by design:

  • A channel that defines onConnect() for any reason gets no framework watch, also when its onConnect() does
    something else than watching. The startup line says so. A channel that wants the framework's watch defines no
    onConnect().
  • The files that are there when the watch starts are not reported, and a directory's subdirectories are not watched,
    as for watchFiles.
  • The debounce is the 100 ms default of watchFiles. The source has no option for it.
  • onEvent() returns a notification for each event it gets, so a channel that wants only some files of a directory
    declares each file.

User-facing change

  • What changed:
    • The declared paths of a file-watcher channel that defines no onConnect() are watched for its declared
      events, and onEvent() gets { event, path }. ChannelFileEvent is a new exported type.
    • One startup info line for a file-watcher channel that defines onConnect().
    • Two startup log lines for an app-event channel named after a declared event.
    • demo-e2e-channels: the file-watcher channel watches a real folder (CHANNELS_WATCH_DIR), and the
      simulate-file-event tool is removed.
  • Before → after:
    • paths and events of a file-watcher source did nothing, and the channel watched in onConnect() → for a
      channel with no onConnect(), the framework watches them while the channel is connected.
    • A channel that declares paths and watches them in its own onConnect() → unchanged: it watches by itself and
      gets its own payloads only. The server logs one info line at startup.
    • ./logs/*.log was documented as a glob and did nothing → for a channel the framework watches, it is watched as
      a file of that name, with a warning.
    • An event with the channel option and an app-event channel of its name told a session twice, silently → the
      server warns about it at startup.
  • frontmcp.dev pages affected (if known): the Channels pages (sources: file-watcher and app-event), the
    Events page that covers the event bus.
  • Skills catalog entries updated: frontmcp-channels (channel-sources: the file-watcher and app-event
    sections, and "A channel with its own onConnect()"; the file-watcher example; SKILL.md: routing table,
    patterns, checklist, troubleshooting),
    create-event (the event bus section), skills-manifest.json. Also libs/sdk/src/channel/README.md and the JSDoc
    of both source types in channel.metadata.ts.

Tests

  • Added in review: channel-file-watcher.spec.ts, a slow first onEvent() and the next starts only once it
    ended; watch-files.spec.ts (utils), the signal aborts while the consumer holds an event and the watcher is
    already closed. Both fail without their fix. utils 2,604 tests, demo-e2e-channels 47, bundle size 63 with no
    bound changed, demo-e2e-browser-bundle:test:pw 11.

  • channel-file-watcher.spec.ts (20 tests), on real servers from createDirect(), with watchFiles replaced by a
    watch the test feeds.

    • A channel that defines no onConnect():
      • The watch starts once the channel is connected, with the declared paths, the declared events mapped to
        watchFiles types, and a signal that is not aborted. No events asks for every kind, rename for add and
        unlink, and a type is asked for once.
      • Each file event reaches onEvent() as { event, path }, and a session that declared the capability gets the
        notification. A channel() function is watched too.
      • The signal aborts on disconnectService(), and on dispose().
      • In a serverless deployment, on the edge and in a browser, nothing is watched, the warning is logged and the
        channel is still connected.
      • A watch that fails is logged, the channel stays connected, and the other channel still gets its file events.
      • A path with a wildcard is watched as written, with the warning.
      • createForManifest() watches nothing and registers no channel.
    • A channel that defines its own onConnect():
      • No framework watch is started, and what it pushes with pushIncoming() reaches onEvent() once.
      • onConnect() and onDisconnect() are still called.
      • The info line is logged once, and no warning, although the channel declares a glob.
      • In a serverless deployment it gets no warning either.
      • An onConnect() inherited from a class the channel extends counts.
      • Another channel on the same server, with no onConnect(), is still watched.
  • event-app-event-channel.spec.ts (5 tests): the warning for a channel whose event has the channel option, the info
    line for one whose event has not, only those two channels are named (not the one whose name is no declared event),
    nothing with events.bridge: false, and a session still gets both messages.

  • E2E, channels-file-watcher.e2e.spec.ts in demo-e2e-channels, rewritten: the demo's channel declares a folder
    (CHANNELS_WATCH_DIR) and has no onConnect() and no watcher. The spec starts the stdio server on a temporary folder, sends
    initialize as Claude Code does, and writes real files. A created file and a changed file each yield a
    notifications/claude/channel line ([create] report.csv, [change] report.csv, with file, event_type and
    source in meta). A removed file yields none, since the channel declares create and change only. Every
    stdout line is JSON-RPC. The simulate-file-event tool and its four tests are removed: no other spec used it.

  • Each test was checked without the change:

    • With the wiring in channel.instance.ts reverted, 15 of the 20 unit tests fail: 13 of the 14 of a channel with
      no onConnect(), the info line, and the other channel that is still watched. The createForManifest() test
      passes both ways: such a boot drops the channels config, so it is a guard, not a proof.
    • With the onConnect() rule reverted, 5 of the 6 tests of a channel with its own onConnect() fail: a watch is
      started for it, and the warnings are logged. The test that onConnect() and onDisconnect() are still called
      passes both ways, since they always were.
    • With connectsItself() made to answer yes for every channel, 14 tests fail: the 13 of a watched channel, and
      the other channel that is still watched.
    • With event-scope.helper.ts reverted, 3 of the 5 tests fail. The events.bridge: false test fails when its check
      is removed. The test that both messages are still sent passes both ways: it pins that no delivery changed.
    • With the SDK wiring reverted, the 3 E2E tests fail (the watcher reports no probe file). The removed-file test
      fails when the demo channel declares delete.
  • nx run-many -t lint test build -p sdk skills --parallel 3, on the last commit: pass. Lint has no errors. sdk
    11,412 tests on top of feat(sdk): a channel option on @Event that sends each occurrence to Claude Code sessions #1291, skills 249. Before the last commit, the same command with utils and testing: utils
    2,603 (83 suites), testing 476 (8 skipped). On a first run one test of
    libs/utils/src/fs/__tests__/watch-files.spec.ts, which this pull request does not touch, exceeded its 5 s
    timeout under the parallel load; the same command passed on the next run.

  • nx run-many -t test -p demo-e2e-channels demo-e2e-stdio-transport --parallel 1, on the last commit: pass.
    demo-e2e-channels 47 (6 suites), demo-e2e-stdio-transport 30 (5 suites). Before the last commit:
    demo-e2e-events 138 (16 suites), demo-e2e-events-daemon 3.

  • demo-e2e-bundle-size 63, pass on the last commit, with no bound re-pinned: create() + one tool 1,325,862 bytes,
    create() + WebMcpPlugin + one tool 1,333,101, the Vite initial chunk 781,678, each equal to its bound.
    demo-e2e-browser-bundle:test:pw 11, pass.

  • Run on macOS. Not checked on Linux or Windows, and not checked against a live Claude Code session.

  • skills-manifest.json: only the four features lines of the file-watcher example changed, and the catalog tests
    pass. generate-manifest.mjs --check reports the file as stale on the base commit 15ff936c4 too: there the
    generator only moves two entries this pull request does not touch (federated-steps, create-worker). No CI
    job runs that check.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Channels can watch declared files and directories, receiving configured create, change, delete, and rename events. Watching follows the channel lifecycle when the channel does not manage its own file watching.
    • Startup logs identify when app-event channels listen to events also delivered to channel sessions; event delivery remains unchanged.
  • Bug Fixes
    • File watchers now close promptly when watching is canceled.
  • Documentation
    • Updated channel guides and examples to explain watcher configuration, event payloads, lifecycle, runtime limitations, and app-event logging. Glob patterns are not expanded for watched paths.

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The SDK now starts declared file watchers for eligible channels, maps filesystem events to channel notifications, and stops watches on disconnect. Event registration logs when declared events match app-event channels. Tests, examples, and documentation cover these changes.

Changes: Framework-Managed File Watching

Layer / File(s) Summary
File-event mapping and lifecycle wiring
libs/sdk/src/channel/sources/file-watcher.source.ts, libs/sdk/src/channel/sources/index.ts, libs/sdk/src/channel/channel.instance.ts, libs/sdk/src/channel/channel-scope.helper.ts, libs/utils/src/fs/watch-files.ts
The source maps declared events to watcher events and forwards mapped events and paths to channels. Connection starts the watcher after onConnect() succeeds; disconnect stops it before onDisconnect(). Abort closes the underlying watchers.
Watcher lifecycle and event tests
libs/sdk/src/channel/__tests__/channel-file-watcher.spec.ts, libs/utils/src/fs/__tests__/watch-files.spec.ts
Tests cover event mapping, sequential handling, cleanup, runtime exclusions, watch failures, wildcard paths, and custom or inherited onConnect() methods. Utility tests check watcher closure after abort.
Demo, end-to-end coverage, and watcher documentation
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-channels/src/apps/channels/..., apps/e2e/demo-e2e-channels/e2e/channels-file-watcher.e2e.spec.ts, libs/sdk/src/channel/README.md, libs/sdk/src/common/metadata/channel.metadata.ts, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-channels/*, libs/skills/catalog/skills-manifest.json
The demo and end-to-end tests use real file changes instead of a simulated-event tool. Documentation and examples describe watcher configuration, payloads, lifecycle, limitations, and failures.

App-Event Channel Reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Event-channel reporting and validation
libs/sdk/src/event/event-scope.helper.ts, libs/sdk/src/event/__tests__/event-app-event-channel.spec.ts
Event registration logs when a declared event overlaps with an app-event channel or lacks the channel option. Tests cover log output, bridge settings, and delivery.
Event-channel reporting documentation
libs/sdk/src/channel/README.md, libs/sdk/src/common/metadata/channel.metadata.ts, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-channels/..., libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-development/references/create-event.md
Documentation distinguishes event delivery paths and describes startup logs for matching app-event channels.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ChannelInstance
  participant wireFileWatcherSource
  participant watchFiles
  participant Channel
  ChannelInstance->>wireFileWatcherSource: wire declared paths after connection
  wireFileWatcherSource->>watchFiles: start abortable watch
  watchFiles->>wireFileWatcherSource: report filesystem event
  wireFileWatcherSource->>Channel: deliver mapped event and path
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  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/e2e/demo-e2e-channels/src/apps/channels/channels/file-watcher.channel.ts: The channel now imports OS and path utilities plus ChannelFileEvent, and selects its watched directory from CHANNELS_WATCH_DIR or the temporary-directory default demo-e2e-channels-watch.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/e2e/demo-e2e-channels/src/apps/channels/channels/file-watcher.channel.ts: The channel description now identifies created or changed files, and its source uses the selected directory with create and change events instead of the fixed ./logs/app.log path.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/e2e/demo-e2e-channels/src/apps/channels/channels/file-watcher.channel.ts: onEvent now treats the payload as ChannelFileEvent, derives the filename with path.basename, and returns the event and filename with metadata. It no longer appends optional content.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/e2e/demo-e2e-channels/src/apps/channels/index.ts: Removed the SimulateFileEventTool import from file-watcher-tools.tool.
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The paths and events of a file-watcher source were only a label: nothing was
watched, and the channel had to watch in onConnect() itself.

- While the channel is connected, its paths are watched with watchFiles from
  @frontmcp/utils, and each file event reaches onEvent() as a ChannelFileEvent,
  { event: 'create' | 'change' | 'delete', path }. The watch starts after
  onConnect() and ends before onDisconnect(), so at disconnect and at shutdown.
- rename selects create and delete: a renamed file is gone from one path and
  appears at another. A path is a file or a directory, never a glob: one with
  a wildcard is watched as written, with a warning.
- Nothing is watched in a serverless, edge or browser runtime, with a warning.
  A watch that fails is logged, and the channel stays connected.
…ared event

A channel with an app-event source named after an @event is the older way to
tell Claude Code sessions about a published event. The channel option of the
event replaces it, and checks each session's access.

- When the event has the channel option too, the server warns that sessions get
  each occurrence twice, once from the event and once from the channel, and
  that the channel should be removed.
- When it has not, the server says at info level that the option replaces the
  channel.
- Nothing is said for a name that is not a declared event, or with
  events.bridge: false, which keeps published events off the bus. No delivery
  changes.
…her source

- The file-watcher channel of demo-e2e-channels declares a folder
  (CHANNELS_WATCH_DIR, else demo-e2e-channels-watch in the temporary directory)
  and watches nothing by itself. The simulate-file-event tool is removed.
- channels-file-watcher.e2e.spec.ts starts the stdio server on a temporary
  folder and writes real files: a created and a changed file reach the session
  as notifications/claude/channel lines, a removed one does not, since the
  channel declares create and change only.
…t channels point to the channel option

- channel-sources: the file-watcher section describes the declared paths and
  events, the { event, path } payload, rename, the absence of globs, the
  lifetime of the watch, where it does not run and what a failure does. The
  app-event section says to use the channel option for a published event, and
  quotes the two startup lines.
- The file-watcher example declares its paths and has no watcher of its own.
- SKILL.md: a pattern, a checklist item and a troubleshooting row for file
  watching, and the startup warning for an event told twice.
- create-event: the startup lines for an app-event channel named after an event.
- The channel README of the SDK: the file-watcher row of the source table, the
  module structure, and how the source is wired.
…ing by itself

Until this stack the framework watched nothing, so every file-watcher channel
written so far declares its paths and watches them in its own onConnect().
Watching the declared paths for those channels too would hand each change to
them twice after an upgrade: their own payload, and a ChannelFileEvent.

- The framework watches the declared paths only for a channel that defines no
  onConnect(). connectsItself() in sources/file-watcher.source.ts decides: the
  context's onConnect is not ChannelContext.prototype.onConnect, so the
  channel's class, or a class it extends, defines one.
- Such a channel is as it was: onConnect() and onDisconnect() run, nothing is
  watched for it, and it gets no glob or runtime warning. One info line at
  startup says that the framework does not watch its declared paths.
- A channel() function has no connect handler, so it is always watched.
- The catalog pages, the example, the JSDoc of the source type and the channel
  README state the rule.
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Review comments at
@apps/e2e/demo-e2e-channels/e2e/channels-file-watcher.e2e.spec.ts:
- Line 86: Make the change and removal tests in the file-watcher spec
independent: give each test its own file, create the change-test file during
that test’s setup and wait for its create notification before appending, and
create the removal-test file before deleting it. Do not rely on a file left by a
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- Line 100: Update the warning message in the event-scope helper so it describes
that sessions may receive an occurrence twice without recommending unconditional
channel removal; indicate that channel-specific behavior must be preserved when
addressing duplicates.

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- Line 44: Reset the stored read offset for a newly created file before calling
readNewText, so a replacement at the same path is read from its beginning. Apply
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…ep, and the file-watcher tests stand alone

- The duplicate warning no longer says to remove the channel whatever it does: keep one, the channel or the event's
  channel option. The note for an event without the option says that setting it can replace the channel, not that
  it does.
- The file-watcher e2e tests each create the file they change or remove, and wait for its create notification.
- The log watcher example reads a file created again at the same path from its start.

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The framework handed each file event to the channel without waiting for the one before it, so two events of one
path could run onEvent() together: a channel that keeps a read position per file could read a file created again
with the position of the old one. Each event now waits for the one before it. The catalog pages say so.

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…so while the consumer is busy

watchFiles closed its watchers only when its loop moved on, so a consumer still handling a yielded event kept them
open after the abort. A file-watcher channel now handles one file event at a time, so a slow or stuck onEvent()
would have kept the watchers open after the channel disconnected. The abort itself now closes them; the iteration
ends as before once the consumer asks for the next event.

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It waited a fixed 50 ms before writing its file, which a slow machine could outrun, putting the file in the first look.
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