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feat(sdk): the file-watcher channel source watches its paths, and app-event channels point to an event's channel option - #1292
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 was only a label. source: { type: 'file-watcher', paths, events } watched nothing, and
the channel had to start a watcher in onConnect() itself.
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.
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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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Walkthrough
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.
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.
agentfront/frontmcp#1279: Adds watchFiles, which the framework-managed file-watcher source uses.
agentfront/frontmcp#1291: Adds the @Eventchannel option whose overlap with app-event channels this change reports.
agentfront/frontmcp#1290: Changes Claude Code stdio channel delivery used by the updated file-watcher E2E tests.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 48536
The change adds framework-managed file watching for channels and startup logs for overlapping app-event channels. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after the earlier review threads were resolved.
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Changed systems:libs, apps/e2e
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observed — libs (service) was modified; 16 changed files map to changed impact.
observed — apps/e2e (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
Before / after behavior
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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Describe the channel option as an optional migration.
This branch runs when the event does not send to channel sessions. The message nevertheless says the option replaces the existing channel and checks access. A user could remove the channel believing that replacement is active, then lose notifications. State that enabling the option can replace the channel. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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@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
preceding test.
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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
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@libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-channels/examples/channel-sources/file-watcher.md:
- 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
this in the file-watcher event handling around readNewText, only for create
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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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create event’s charactersRead reset occurs only after earlier reads for that
path finish, preventing stale reads from restoring an old offset before the
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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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What and why
Stacked on #1291. This is the third and last pull request of the stack that unifies channels with
@Event. Itfinishes the
@Channelside.Two things were left:
file-watchersource was only a label.source: { type: 'file-watcher', paths, events }watched nothing, andthe channel had to start a watcher in
onConnect()itself.@Eventand as anapp-eventchannelof the same name, and nothing said that the event's
channeloption (feat(sdk): a channel option on @Event that sends each occurrence to Claude Code sessions #1291) replaces the channel.The
file-watchersource watches its declared paths, for a channel that defines noonConnect().file-watcherchannel declaresits paths and watches them in its own
onConnect(). Those channels keep working unchanged: the framework watchesthe declared paths only for a channel that defines no
onConnect().connectsItself(context)inchannel/sources/file-watcher.source.tsdecides: the context'sonConnectis notChannelContext.prototype.onConnect, so the channel's class, or a class it extends, defines one. For such achannel
onConnect()andonDisconnect()run, nothing is watched, no glob or runtime warning is logged, and oneinfo 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.Achannel()function has noconnect handler, so it is always watched.
ChannelInstance.connectService()starts it afteronConnect(), throughwireFileWatcherSource()in the newchannel/sources/file-watcher.source.ts.disconnectService()aborts itssignal before
onDisconnect(). The scope's channel teardown disconnects every channel, so the watch ends atshutdown and at
dispose().watchFiles(paths, { events, signal })from@frontmcp/utils, which the workers of the events demosalready use. Each event is handed to
ChannelInstance.handleEvent(), as every other source does, one at atime and in order: the next
onEvent()starts once the one before it ended.watchFilesnow closes its watcherswhen its signal aborts, also while its consumer is busy with an event, so a stuck
onEvent()leaves no watcheropen after the channel disconnected.
ChannelFileEvent:{ event: 'create' | 'change' | 'delete', path }, withpathabsolute.watchFilesyields{ type: 'add' | 'change' | 'unlink', path }. The type isrenamed to the names the source's
eventsoption has had since 1.1.0, so a channel reads the names it declared.create,changeanddeletemap toadd,changeandunlink.watchFileshas norename:a renamed file is gone from one path and appears at another. So
renamestays valid and selectscreateanddelete, and the payload sayscreateordelete, neverrename. Noeventsmeans every kind. The metadataschema is unchanged.
watchFilestakes them: adirectory 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 JSDocand the docs now say files or directories, and a path with
*is watched as written, with one warning at startupthat says to declare the directory.
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 thechannelsconfig, so they register no channel and watch nothing. Adetached job runner connects no channel.
Channel "<name>" stopped watching its paths). The channel staysconnected, and the server and the other channels keep running.
watchFilesfrom@frontmcp/utils, which loadsfson first use, andit is under
channel/, which a bundle reaches only when the server enables channels. The browser bundles ofcreate()have the same size as before.The server says at startup when an
app-eventchannel listens to a declared event. One line per such channel,from
describeEventChannels()inevent/event-scope.helper.ts:channeloption 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.channeloption, 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.events.bridge: false, which keeps publishedevents off the bus. No delivery changes.
Limits, by design:
onConnect()for any reason gets no framework watch, also when itsonConnect()doessomething else than watching. The startup line says so. A channel that wants the framework's watch defines no
onConnect().as for
watchFiles.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 directorydeclares each file.
User-facing change
pathsof afile-watcherchannel that defines noonConnect()are watched for its declaredevents, andonEvent()gets{ event, path }.ChannelFileEventis a new exported type.file-watcherchannel that definesonConnect().app-eventchannel named after a declared event.demo-e2e-channels: the file-watcher channel watches a real folder (CHANNELS_WATCH_DIR), and thesimulate-file-eventtool is removed.pathsandeventsof afile-watchersource did nothing, and the channel watched inonConnect()→ for achannel with no
onConnect(), the framework watches them while the channel is connected.pathsand watches them in its ownonConnect()→ unchanged: it watches by itself andgets its own payloads only. The server logs one info line at startup.
./logs/*.logwas documented as a glob and did nothing → for a channel the framework watches, it is watched asa file of that name, with a warning.
channeloption and anapp-eventchannel of its name told a session twice, silently → theserver warns about it at startup.
file-watcherandapp-event), theEvents page that covers the event bus.
frontmcp-channels(channel-sources: thefile-watcherandapp-eventsections, and "A channel with its own
onConnect()"; thefile-watcherexample;SKILL.md: routing table,patterns, checklist, troubleshooting),
create-event(the event bus section),skills-manifest.json. Alsolibs/sdk/src/channel/README.mdand the JSDocof both source types in
channel.metadata.ts.Tests
Added in review:
channel-file-watcher.spec.ts, a slow firstonEvent()and the next starts only once itended;
watch-files.spec.ts(utils), the signal aborts while the consumer holds an event and the watcher isalready closed. Both fail without their fix. utils 2,604 tests,
demo-e2e-channels47, bundle size 63 with nobound changed,
demo-e2e-browser-bundle:test:pw11.channel-file-watcher.spec.ts(20 tests), on real servers fromcreateDirect(), withwatchFilesreplaced by awatch the test feeds.
onConnect():watchFilestypes, and a signal that is not aborted. Noeventsasks for every kind,renameforaddandunlink, and a type is asked for once.onEvent()as{ event, path }, and a session that declared the capability gets thenotification. A
channel()function is watched too.disconnectService(), and ondispose().channel is still connected.
createForManifest()watches nothing and registers no channel.onConnect():pushIncoming()reachesonEvent()once.onConnect()andonDisconnect()are still called.onConnect()inherited from a class the channel extends counts.onConnect(), is still watched.event-app-event-channel.spec.ts(5 tests): the warning for a channel whose event has thechanneloption, the infoline 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.tsindemo-e2e-channels, rewritten: the demo's channel declares a folder(
CHANNELS_WATCH_DIR) and has noonConnect()and no watcher. The spec starts the stdio server on a temporary folder, sendsinitializeas Claude Code does, and writes real files. A created file and a changed file each yield anotifications/claude/channelline ([create] report.csv,[change] report.csv, withfile,event_typeandsourceinmeta). A removed file yields none, since the channel declarescreateandchangeonly. Everystdout line is JSON-RPC. The
simulate-file-eventtool and its four tests are removed: no other spec used it.Each test was checked without the change:
channel.instance.tsreverted, 15 of the 20 unit tests fail: 13 of the 14 of a channel withno
onConnect(), the info line, and the other channel that is still watched. ThecreateForManifest()testpasses both ways: such a boot drops the
channelsconfig, so it is a guard, not a proof.onConnect()rule reverted, 5 of the 6 tests of a channel with its ownonConnect()fail: a watch isstarted for it, and the warnings are logged. The test that
onConnect()andonDisconnect()are still calledpasses both ways, since they always were.
connectsItself()made to answer yes for every channel, 14 tests fail: the 13 of a watched channel, andthe other channel that is still watched.
event-scope.helper.tsreverted, 3 of the 5 tests fail. Theevents.bridge: falsetest fails when its checkis removed. The test that both messages are still sent passes both ways: it pins that no delivery changed.
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. sdk11,412 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
utilsandtesting: utils2,603 (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 stimeout 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-channels47 (6 suites),demo-e2e-stdio-transport30 (5 suites). Before the last commit:demo-e2e-events138 (16 suites),demo-e2e-events-daemon3.demo-e2e-bundle-size63, 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:pw11, pass.Run on macOS. Not checked on Linux or Windows, and not checked against a live Claude Code session.
skills-manifest.json: only the fourfeatureslines of thefile-watcherexample changed, and the catalog testspass.
generate-manifest.mjs --checkreports the file as stale on the base commit15ff936c4too: there thegenerator only moves two entries this pull request does not touch (
federated-steps,create-worker). No CIjob runs that check.
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