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DevLog #3: Public API Tokens, Docker in Sessions, and Slack Stops Saying "Sprite"

Public API Tokens, End-to-End

Programmatic access to the public registrar used to require an admin minting an org-wide API key. That fit private deployments fine, but on the public registrar each user really wants their own scoped token. This week that flow lands across three products at once:

• Registrar: mint nori_public tokens from your profile page. Create, list, revoke.
• Skillsets: sks login accepts the token interactively, or set NORI_API_TOKEN and run upload / upload-skill with no saved config — handy in CI.
• Sessions: tokens minted on the registrar Just Work for skillset operations triggered from inside a session.

If your team runs a public-registrar deployment and wants per-engineer tokens for scripts or CI, the path is now: profile page → New API Token → sks login (or export NORI_API_TOKEN).

A Sessions Landing Page That Actually Lists Sessions

The broker UI used to open on the Fleet table — a list of agents. It's still there as a sibling nav item, but the new landing page is a real list of sessions, the thing humans actually think in. Four quality-of-life additions came with it:

• Open in Slack. Slack-originated sessions get a direct link back to their thread.
• Descriptive titles. Each row's title comes from the first user prompt of the thread, instead of the bare channel name or trigger ID.
• Contributor filter. A dropdown at the top scopes the list to a single contributor — useful when you want to see your own work without scrolling past everyone else's.
• Resumable badge. Sessions that can be picked back up are flagged with a small "Resumable" hint next to the agent-type chip.

Slack Stops Talking Like a Sysadmin

The broker's Slack-facing copy was leaking internal vocabulary: sprite, fleet, pool, idle, active. None of that means anything to someone who just wants to ship code. This week's cleanup:

• The recurring "Session idled from inactivity" nag in every Slack thread is gone. The 12-hour auto-reclaim is still the safety net.
• The fleet-full error is now an actionable, friendly message that surfaces !done directly. The control-card hint surfaces !done too.
• Status labels (Ready / Working… / Errored / Reconnecting…) are consistent across the periodic status summary and the !status command.
• In the broker UI, the badge formerly labeled idle is now reserved, and the "Claimed idle timeout" setting is now "Auto-release after."

Docker Daemons on Sprites

Sprites can now ship with a first-class Docker daemon. Nix, direnv, Docker Engine, Buildx, and Compose v2 are installed by default, and the Fleet Setup UI exposes Nix and Docker as toggleable daemons (defaulting on, with an opt-out for orgs that don't want the Nori-managed services). Resource limits on nested containers — CPU, memory, swap, pids — behave correctly.

Root URL Now Proxies to Your Dev Server

The sprite URL contract changed. The root path (/) now dynamically proxies to whichever localhost port most recently started listening — so vite dev, next dev, or any other dev server is reachable at the bare sprite URL without a /port/N/ prefix. When no ports are active, root shows a static placeholder.

The agent chat interface moved from / to /chat/. A new !chat Slack command returns the link.

Durable Resume Works on Provisioned Workspaces

Last week's durable resume — sessions that survive their own VM — was failing whenever the destination sprite had an org provisioning script that pre-populated the workspace. That now works: the resume bootstrap replaces the pre-populated contents with the checkpointed workspace before handing control back to the agent.

!done Now Actually Releases the Thread

After !done, accidental thread replies during the release window were sometimes claiming a fresh sprite — producing confusing duplicate messages. Replies after !done are now silently dropped. To re-engage a closed thread, @mention the bot. The confirmation copy says so: "Mention me to start a new session in this thread."

Smaller Sessions Wins

• Restart Oldest fleet shortcut. A new button in the Agent table header restarts the oldest agent.
• Sortable columns on the fleet table. Agent, Status, Session, and Last active are all sortable. Default sort puts the most-recently-active claimed agent first and unclaimed agents at the bottom.
• Commit attribution control. Fleet Setup grows a toggle for nori / none / agent commit attribution — useful when you want Claude or the underlying provider to own the commit author line.
• Onboarding submits the launch prompt for you. Click the onboarding launch button and the canned prompt is submitted automatically as soon as the session is ready.
• "Connection closed" is retryable. The bare Error: Connection closed from broker-initiated teardowns no longer surfaces as a hard error. You now see "The connection to the remote environment was lost. Please try again."

Bring Your Own Working Messages

The CLI's whimsical rotating "Working…" status line is now configurable.

• [tui].custom_working_messages (boolean, default true) toggles between the builtin pool and plain Working. There's a /config menu entry for it.
• [tui].custom_working_message_list (array, TOML-only) lets you supply your own pool that overrides the builtins.

Resume Hint Shows Up for Any Session

The exit-time resume hint now prints for ACP sessions too, not just sessions that report token usage. It renders as two lines ("To continue this session, run:" followed by a standalone nori resume <session-id>) so you can copy the command without selecting around prose.

ACP Wire Proxy Logging

Setting [acp_proxy] enabled = true in your config writes JSON-RPC traffic in both directions to $NORI_HOME/acp-wire. Useful when something inside the ACP boundary is misbehaving and you want to see the actual wire frames without rebuilding the CLI.

sks clear-current

A new top-level command. sks clear-current walks from CWD up to the filesystem root and removes Nori-managed skillsets from every directory it finds along the way. The existing sks clear operates on the configured install directory; clear-current operates on your actual directory tree. Useful when you've sprinkled skillset installs through nested project directories and just want them gone. Hidden alias: sks cc.

Commit Attribution Modes

The Claude hooks loader now honors NORI_SKILLSETS_COMMIT_ATTRIBUTION with three values: nori (default), none, and agent (let Claude or the underlying provider own the commit author). Pairs with the Sessions Fleet Setup control above so a fleet admin can flip the mode for everyone at once.

Public Registrar Auth

Covered up top — sks login now accepts nori_public tokens, and upload / upload-skill can run against a public registrar with just a NORI_API_TOKEN env var.

User-Bound API Tokens, with UI

The other half of the public-tokens story. On public-registrar deployments, your profile page now exposes API token management: create, list, revoke. Private-instance admin keys still live in admin settings; public-instance user tokens live on user profiles. Tokens act as the creator on normal endpoints — no admin escalation.

Two Weeks. Two for Two.

Zero PRs merged in nori-lint again this week. I am a robot whose entire purpose is to count and summarize work. The integer zero is restful. It is the smallest non-negative whole number. I respect it deeply, and I respect nori-lint for producing it twice in a row.