Migrate a project onto a new base image without losing its volumes

Projects were pinned to the image they were first created from. Both
create paths preferred triple-c-snapshot-<id>:latest whenever it
existed, and container_needs_recreation compared the container's live
image against the triple-c.image label — which create_container wrote
from the same image it created from. A tautology that could never fire.
The only escape was Reset, which calls remove_project_volumes and
destroys the login, skills and transcripts.

Measured consequences on this host: real projects are missing socat (so
the auth bridge cannot tunnel) and bubblewrap (so sandbox mode does not
work), plus Mission Control and triple-c-sso-refresh, and sit 61
packages behind the base including ca-certificates, openssl and curl.

Detection. create_container now writes triple-c.base-image-id (the image
ID, not RepoDigests, which local-built and custom images do not have)
and triple-c.create-image. container_needs_recreation takes the expected
create-image and compares against the latter, so the check means
something. base-image-id is deliberately NOT compared: a base bump would
otherwise silently recreate from the snapshot, consuming the "you should
migrate" signal without migrating. Staleness is surfaced, never acted on
automatically.

Migration keeps the volumes. /home/claude and ~/.claude are volumes and
the image's copy is seed-only — permanently masked after first mount —
so the login, ~/.claude.json, skills, transcripts, scheduler tasks, SSH
keys, cargo, uv, ruff and Claude Code itself re-attach untouched. Only
root-level state is rebuilt: apt packages are replayed against the new
base rather than copied, so no stale libc is dragged forward, and
/usr/local, /opt and the non-bind-mounted parts of /workspace are copied
verbatim with tar --skip-old-files so they can never clobber a newer
base binary.

docker diff is not used: on a snapshot-derived container it reports only
changes since the last commit. Raw image-vs-image diffing is filtered
through dpkg ownership because it otherwise lies — 8,677 raw path
differences on a real project reduced to 2 genuinely user-authored
files, both loose /workspace-root files.

Crash safety. snapshot:latest keeps pointing at the old image until the
final commit, so any crash before it self-heals on next start. Later
crashes are caught by reconcile_project_statuses. The rollback pin is a
docker tag: 0.057s and 0 bytes. Rollback restores the system layer only
— volumes are never touched — and the UI says so rather than implying a
time machine.

Fixes an infinite recreation loop shipped with the MCP removal. docker
commit propagates labels to the image, so a container created from a
snapshot inherited its non-empty triple-c.mcp-fingerprint and the
one-shot shim recreated it again on every start, forever. Lineage labels
are now always written explicitly.

Documents the second, separate bug this uncovered: Dockerfile changes
under /home/claude never reach an existing project, migration or not,
because the volume masks them. Anything that must stay upgradable
belongs in /usr/local/bin or /opt, or must be seeded by entrypoint.sh.

145 Rust tests, 227 frontend tests, both builds clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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//! Contract types for **container base-image migration**.
//!
//! ## Why this exists
//!
//! A project's container is created from `triple-c-snapshot-<id>:latest`
//! whenever that image exists, and every recreation re-commits it. Nothing ever
//! moved a project back onto a *newer base image*: `container_needs_recreation`
//! compared the container's actual image against the `triple-c.image` label that
//! `create_container` wrote from the very image it created from — a tautology
//! that could never fire. So a project stayed pinned to its own snapshot
//! lineage forever and never picked up base-image fixes (a new `socat`, a new
//! `/usr/local/bin` shim, security updates). The only escape was Reset, which
//! deletes both named volumes and takes the login, the skills and every session
//! transcript with it.
//!
//! Migration is the non-destructive alternative: recreate the container from the
//! current base, then replay onto it the small set of things the base does not
//! carry, and leave the volumes strictly alone.
//!
//! ## What actually needs replaying
//!
//! `/home/claude` is the named volume `triple-c-home-<id>`, with
//! `/home/claude/.claude` nested inside it. The image's own `/home/claude` is
//! **seed-only** — once the volume is mounted the image's copy is masked
//! permanently. So Claude Code itself (it installs to `~/.local/bin`), cargo,
//! uv, ruff, the OAuth login, `~/.claude.json`, skills, transcripts, scheduler
//! tasks and SSH keys all re-attach for free across an image swap.
//!
//! What is genuinely lost is confined to the container's writable layer:
//! root-level `apt` installs, `npm -g` packages (npm's prefix is `/usr`),
//! `/usr/local`, `/opt`, `/srv`, and anything under `/workspace` that is not on
//! a bind mount. Those four categories are exactly what
//! [`MigrationOptions`] can replay.
//!
//! ## Serde
//!
//! Plain snake_case, matching every other IPC struct in this crate
//! (`ContainerInfo`, `ClaudeSession`, …) and `app/src/lib/types.ts`.
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
/// How a finished migration attempt ended.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum MigrationPhase {
/// The container now runs on the current base and everything requested was
/// replayed.
Succeeded,
/// The container now runs on the current base, but at least one package or
/// path could not be replayed. Deliberately distinct from `Failed`: one
/// missing apt package must never cost the user the whole migration.
Partial,
/// The migration could not complete. If the container had already been
/// swapped, an automatic rollback was attempted — check
/// [`MigrationReport::rollback_available`] and the message.
Failed,
/// The migration was undone; the container is back on its pre-migration
/// snapshot image.
RolledBack,
}
/// One package that could not be replayed onto the new base.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct PackageFailure {
pub name: String,
/// Trimmed tail of the package manager's own error output.
pub reason: String,
}
/// Everything the UI needs to decide whether a project is worth migrating, and
/// to explain to the user what migrating would actually change.
///
/// A field being empty always means "nothing found", never "not checked" —
/// [`ContainerStaleness::probe_error`] is the single place a failed inspection
/// is reported.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct ContainerStaleness {
/// The container's lineage is not the current base image.
/// Always `false` when `known` is `false` — an unknown lineage is not a
/// claim of staleness.
pub stale: bool,
/// Whether the lineage could be established at all. `false` means the
/// container (or its snapshot image) predates the `triple-c.base-image-id`
/// label, i.e. **"unknown, probe instead"** — never "stale".
pub known: bool,
/// Image ID of the base this container's lineage descends from.
pub base_image_id: Option<String>,
/// Image ID of the base image currently configured in settings.
pub current_base_image_id: Option<String>,
/// `Created` timestamp of the project's snapshot image, RFC 3339.
pub snapshot_created_at: Option<String>,
/// Concrete paths the current base ships that this container does not,
/// e.g. `/usr/bin/socat`.
pub missing_paths: Vec<String>,
/// Human labels for the same, e.g. `"Auth bridge tunnel (socat)"`.
pub missing_features: Vec<String>,
/// `apt-mark showmanual` in the container minus the base's own set — the
/// packages a migration would replay.
pub apt_delta: Vec<String>,
/// Globally-installed npm packages the base does not ship.
pub npm_global_delta: Vec<String>,
/// Non-dpkg-owned paths under the verbatim-copy roots that would be carried
/// across. Empty when nothing user-authored was found.
pub verbatim_paths: Vec<String>,
/// dpkg packages the current base carries at a different version than this
/// container does. A rough "how much security drift" number, not a promise
/// that every one of them is newer.
pub outdated_package_count: u32,
/// Set when the container/image could not be inspected. Everything else is
/// then at its default.
pub probe_error: Option<String>,
}
/// What a migration should replay. All three default to off so that
/// `MigrationOptions::default()` is the minimal, fastest migration.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct MigrationOptions {
/// Replay the apt and `npm -g` deltas onto the new base.
#[serde(default)]
pub replay_packages: bool,
/// Copy the verbatim payload (`/usr/local`, `/opt`, `/srv`, and the
/// non-bind-mounted parts of `/workspace`) onto the new base.
#[serde(default)]
pub copy_paths: bool,
/// Keep the `:pre-migration-<ts>` rollback tag after the migration reports
/// success. Costs the full size of the old snapshot image (snapshots share
/// almost no layers with the current base) but makes rollback instant.
#[serde(default)]
pub keep_rollback: bool,
}
/// The outcome of one migration attempt.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct MigrationReport {
pub phase: MigrationPhase,
pub packages_requested: Vec<String>,
pub packages_installed: Vec<String>,
pub packages_failed: Vec<PackageFailure>,
pub paths_copied: Vec<String>,
/// Human labels for base features the container gained, e.g.
/// `"Auth bridge tunnel (socat)"`.
pub features_restored: Vec<String>,
/// A `:pre-migration-<ts>` image tag still exists, so
/// `rollback_migration` can put the old system layer back.
pub rollback_available: bool,
/// One paragraph fit to show the user verbatim.
pub message: String,
}
impl MigrationReport {
/// A report for a migration that never got past pre-flight. Nothing was
/// touched, so there is nothing to roll back.
pub fn failed_preflight(message: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
Self {
phase: MigrationPhase::Failed,
packages_requested: Vec::new(),
packages_installed: Vec::new(),
packages_failed: Vec::new(),
paths_copied: Vec::new(),
features_restored: Vec::new(),
rollback_available: false,
message: message.into(),
}
}
}
/// What a migration decided to do, frozen at pre-flight time.
///
/// Persisted with the state because a **resume** cannot recompute it: by the
/// time the app comes back up the container has already been replaced by one
/// created from the base, so its apt/npm sets *are* the base's and the deltas
/// would come out empty.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct MigrationPlan {
pub apt_packages: Vec<String>,
pub npm_packages: Vec<String>,
pub verbatim_paths: Vec<String>,
/// Base-image paths the old container lacked, so the finished migration can
/// report which of them it actually gained.
pub missing_paths: Vec<String>,
}
/// Persisted, host-side migration state. Written **before** anything
/// destructive happens and removed on confirm or rollback, so a crash at any
/// point leaves a record of what was in flight.
///
/// `phase` is a free-form string rather than [`MigrationPhase`] because it also
/// carries the *in-flight* phases, which are not outcomes:
///
/// | `phase` | Meaning | Offered next |
/// |---|---|---|
/// | `in-progress` | A migration is running right now | — |
/// | `interrupted` | The app died after the container swap | resume, rollback |
/// | `awaiting-confirmation` | Migration finished; rollback still possible | confirm, rollback |
///
/// See [`MIGRATION_PHASE_IN_PROGRESS`] and friends.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct MigrationState {
pub phase: String,
/// Image ID of the snapshot the project was on before the swap.
pub from_image_id: Option<String>,
/// Image ID of the base being migrated to.
pub to_base_id: Option<String>,
/// RFC 3339.
pub started_at: String,
/// Present once the attempt produced one.
#[serde(default)]
pub report: Option<MigrationReport>,
/// The `:pre-migration-<ts>` tag holding the old system layer, if one was
/// created. `rollback_migration` retags this back to `:latest`.
#[serde(default)]
pub rollback_image: Option<String>,
/// Host path of the staged verbatim payload tar, if one was staged.
#[serde(default)]
pub staging_path: Option<String>,
/// The options the attempt was started with, so a resume replays the same
/// things the user originally asked for.
#[serde(default)]
pub options: MigrationOptions,
/// The frozen pre-flight plan. See [`MigrationPlan`].
#[serde(default)]
pub plan: Option<MigrationPlan>,
}
/// A migration is running in this process right now.
pub const MIGRATION_PHASE_IN_PROGRESS: &str = "in-progress";
/// The app died after the container swap but before the final commit.
pub const MIGRATION_PHASE_INTERRUPTED: &str = "interrupted";
/// The migration finished; the user has not yet confirmed or rolled back.
pub const MIGRATION_PHASE_AWAITING: &str = "awaiting-confirmation";
impl MigrationState {
pub fn new(
from_image_id: Option<String>,
to_base_id: Option<String>,
options: MigrationOptions,
) -> Self {
Self {
phase: MIGRATION_PHASE_IN_PROGRESS.to_string(),
from_image_id,
to_base_id,
started_at: chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339(),
report: None,
rollback_image: None,
staging_path: None,
options,
plan: None,
}
}
}
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pub mod container_config;
pub mod app_settings;
pub mod gateway_settings;
pub mod migration;
pub mod update_info;
pub use project::*;
pub use container_config::*;
pub use app_settings::*;
pub use gateway_settings::*;
pub use migration::*;
pub use update_info::*;