Reach hosted channels from a browser without a host gateway
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- authentication, authorization, backend
Research direction
Start by reading #13 and the existing hosted lifecycle/discovery work it describes, then trace how current clients reach a cell and enforce owner operations, chat, and agent invocation. The issue does not name files or tests; first map those entry points and the tailnet identity flow. Done means the acceptance criteria are met, including revocation, reconnect, offline behavior, and deployment documentation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Allow a browser to reach a hosted channel without a reachable Ace host gateway. This is optional later work.
The original #13 requested browser reachability and per-person sign-in. Preserve that need while keeping the tailnet the sole authority for team membership and collaboration access. Ace must not introduce its own accounts, invitations, team membership or parallel authorization system, and a shared host/service secret must never become a browser participant credential.
Acceptance
- Design a browser-to-cell route and a per-person identity/authorization proof tied to the existing tailnet authority. Document how team membership is checked, revoked and refreshed, and how browser origin/session handling works.
- Keep server/workspace shared secrets out of browser clients and user-visible URLs. Enforce owner operations, ordinary chat and collaborator-agent invocation using the same policy as existing clients.
- Open history, post attributed chat, watch live updates and invoke permitted agents directly against the cell, while displaying workspace availability honestly. Repository files and tools remain on the workspace.
- Verify a real browser with no reachable host gateway, two people where available, membership removal/revocation, reconnect and an offline workspace. Refused/expired identity must not queue unauthorized work.
- Document the team's deployment/configuration requirements and unsupported cases. Ace remains team-operated software rather than a hosting service.
Reuse hosted lifecycle/discovery work in #13. This issue does not require a new cloud execution environment or include real-phone UI qualification (#18), directory push (#14), cross-gateway terminals (#11), or execution-host handoff (#49).
Optional later milestone under #13, following the supported host route and its deployed qualification.
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 1
- Forks
- 0
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Getting set up
- No Dockerfile or Docker Compose file
- Has a pull request template
- No contributing guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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