The panel stored notes, todos and plans inside one shared JSON file that
six unrelated domains also wrote to, synchronised itself through window
CustomEvents, and could only read plans. It is now Project knowledge:
server-owned storage with explicit routes, a store with rollback, a
section sidebar, plans that open and edit in place, and search across
all of it.
Notes and plans the user pins travel with every message sent in that
project. Pinning is project state, not an attachment to one message, so
it holds until unpinned and the work status panel names what is riding
along and can detach it.
Agent memory is added alongside, in two scopes: what is true about the
user, and what is true about this codebase. The split is not cosmetic —
a wrong project fact costs one project and is noticed, while a wrong
global fact quietly shapes every session everywhere and the user has no
code to check it against. It stays separate from notes so an agent
mistake cannot land in what the user wrote. Sessions receive an index of
titles only; bodies are read on demand, because an index carrying full
text grows until it crowds out the conversation.
Deciding what a session must be told, and whether it has been told, now
lives on the server. The client owned it before, which meant sessions
started without a UI — scheduled tasks, sessions the agent dispatches —
received nothing at all, and a tab's record of what it had sent outlived
the conversation: after compaction the agent no longer held the block
while the tab went on believing it did. What was delivered is recorded
in the session's own metadata, and compaction restores it through the
runtime that already restores pinned messages, in the same turn.
Agent memory ships dark behind OPENCHAMBER_MEMORY_ENABLE: unset, there
is no tool, no routes, no session index, no settings row and no panel
tab. Absent rather than switched off, so nothing invites turning on a
feature that has not been announced. Pinned notes and plans are
unaffected and ship as normal.
openchamber # Start on port 3000
openchamber --port 8080# Custom port
openchamber --lan --port 3000# Listen on LAN (0.0.0.0)
openchamber --ui-password secret # Password-protect UI
openchamber startup enable# Start at login as a native serviceOPENCHAMBER_UI_PASSWORD=secret openchamber startup enable# Save service password env
openchamber startup status # Show startup service status
openchamber startup disable # Remove startup service
openchamber tunnel help# Tunnel lifecycle commands
openchamber tunnel providers # Show provider capabilities
openchamber tunnel profile add --provider cloudflare --mode managed-remote --name prod-main --hostname app.example.com --token <token>
openchamber tunnel start --profile prod-main
openchamber tunnel start --provider cloudflare --mode quick --qr
openchamber tunnel start --provider cloudflare --mode managed-local --config ~/.cloudflared/config.yml
openchamber tunnel status --all # Show tunnel state across instances
openchamber tunnel stop --port 3000# Stop tunnel only (server stays running)
openchamber connect-url --port 3000# Add this server to OpenChamber Desktop
openchamber connect-url --server http://host:3000 --qr
openchamber connect-url --port 3000 --qr
openchamber logs # Follow latest instance logsOPENCODE_PORT=4096OPENCODE_SKIP_START=true openchamber # Connect to external OpenCode serverOPENCODE_HOST=https://myhost:4096 OPENCODE_SKIP_START=true openchamber # Connect via custom host/HTTPS
openchamber stop # Stop server
openchamber update # Update to latest version
startup enable snapshots your current environment into the native service so startup behaves like you launched openchamber from the same shell. This preserves provider tokens, PATH, SSH agent settings, and other CLI auth/config env vars. Use --no-env-snapshot for a minimal service env.
When OpenChamber launches the local OpenCode server, it also registers a native
openchamber agent tool for project, session, and scheduled-task orchestration.
The tool is not injected when connecting to an external OpenCode server.
Behavior settings can optionally inject a managed system-prompt optimizer on
the next OpenCode restart. It is disabled by default and is not available for
external OpenCode servers.
Tunnel behavior notes
One active tunnel per running OpenChamber instance (port).
Starting a different tunnel mode/provider on the same instance replaces the active tunnel.
Replacing or stopping a tunnel revokes existing connect links and invalidates remote tunnel sessions.
Connect links are one-time tokens; generating a new link revokes the previous unused link.
Connect other OpenChamber apps
Use connect-url when a web/API server should be added to OpenChamber Desktop or another OpenChamber app. If no server is running on the selected port, OpenChamber starts one first.
--api-only starts API routes without serving browser UI assets. --lan binds the server so other machines can reach it. --server is the address saved into the Desktop connection link. --ui-password protects browser access if UI routes are enabled elsewhere; the generated client token is what Desktop uses for API access.
This creates a remote client token and prints an openchamber://connect?... link. The link contains the server URL, token, label, and payload version. In OpenChamber Desktop, paste it in Settings -> Remote Instances -> Direct Instances -> Import Link to add that server as an Instance.
If the server was started with --lan or --host 0.0.0.0, connect-url automatically advertises a detected LAN IP instead of 127.0.0.1. Use --server <url> when you want to advertise a specific DNS name, Tailscale address, reverse proxy URL, or HTTPS endpoint.
If you are exposing the server beyond localhost, start it with a password:
Generating a client token does not automatically password-protect the hosted browser UI. --ui-password protects browser access; the client token lets another OpenChamber app connect to this server.
Full base URL of external server (overrides OPENCODE_PORT)
OPENCODE_PORT
Port of external server
OPENCODE_SKIP_START
Skip starting embedded OpenCode server
OPENCHAMBER_OPENCODE_HOSTNAME
Bind hostname for managed OpenCode server (default: 127.0.0.1, use 0.0.0.0 for LAN/remote access — trusted networks only). Invalid values are rejected with an error and fall back to loopback
OPENCHAMBER_HOST
Bind hostname for the OpenChamber web server (default: 127.0.0.1; use 0.0.0.0 for LAN/remote access — trusted networks only)
OPENCHAMBER_VERBOSE_REQUEST_LOGS
Set to true to log every HTTP request; disabled by default to keep user logs small
OPENCHAMBER_SKIP_API_COMPRESSION
Set to true to disable gzip compression for /api/* responses
OPENCHAMBER_COMPRESS_API
Set to true to force /api/* compression, or false to disable it. Desktop runtime disables API compression by default to reduce local sidecar CPU use
OPENCHAMBER_TERMINAL_SHELL
Preferred terminal shell executable used by the Auto setting before platform defaults
Security note: binding to 0.0.0.0 exposes the server on all network interfaces — use only on trusted networks and protect with firewall rules or --ui-password.
Managed-local path note: OPENCHAMBER_TUNNEL_CONFIG must use a container path under /home/openchamber/.... If the config file references credentials-file, ensure that JSON path is also mounted and reachable inside the container.
Data directory: mount data/ for persistent storage. Ensure permissions:
openchamber # Runs in background by default
openchamber stop # Stop background server
systemd service (VPN / LAN access)
Use --foreground to keep the CLI process alive so systemd (or any other process manager) can track and restart it. Combine with OPENCODE_HOST to connect to an OpenCode instance running as a separate service.
Why set PATH and SSH_AUTH_SOCK?
systemd user services start with a minimal environment — no shell profile is sourced.
Without an explicit PATH, OpenCode won't find tools installed via Homebrew, npm, or ~/.local/bin.
Without SSH_AUTH_SOCK, git operations over SSH (push, pull, clone) will fail.
%t expands to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (e.g. /run/user/1000), where most SSH agents write their socket.
--host 0.0.0.0 is required to listen on all interfaces (the default is 127.0.0.1). Use --host <ip> or OPENCHAMBER_HOST=<ip> to bind to a specific interface instead.
What makes the web version special
Remote access - Cloudflare tunnel with QR onboarding. Scan from your phone, start coding.
Bohdan Triapitsyn
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