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Update agent team services with latest configuration from setup-agent-team and restart them

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Update Agent Team Services

Update the trigger server and wrapper scripts with the latest configuration from .claude/skills/setup-agent-team/SKILL.md, then restart the services to apply changes.

Arguments

  • service-name (optional) — Update only this service (e.g., discovery, refactor, security, qa). If omitted, updates all services.
  • --check-only — Show what would be updated without making changes or restarting services.

$ARGUMENTS

Overview

This skill:

  1. Reads the latest setup-agent-team SKILL.md for current best practices
  2. Identifies all deployed services by scanning for start-*.sh wrappers
  3. Updates wrapper scripts with correct env vars and paths
  4. Restarts systemd services to apply changes
  5. Verifies services are running and healthy

Step 1: Determine repository path

Detect the current repository path:

REPO_ROOT="$(cd /root/spawn 2>/dev/null && pwd || cd /home/sprite/spawn 2>/dev/null && pwd)"
echo "Repository root: $REPO_ROOT"

Determine home directory:

if [[ "$REPO_ROOT" == "/root/spawn" ]]; then
    HOME_DIR="/root"
    SERVICE_USER="root"
    SERVICE_GROUP="root"
elif [[ "$REPO_ROOT" == "/home/sprite/spawn" ]]; then
    HOME_DIR="/home/sprite"
    SERVICE_USER="sprite"
    SERVICE_GROUP="sprite"
else
    echo "ERROR: Unknown repository path: $REPO_ROOT"
    exit 1
fi

echo "Home directory: $HOME_DIR"
echo "Service user/group: $SERVICE_USER/$SERVICE_GROUP"

Step 2: Read latest setup-agent-team instructions

Read the SKILL.md to check for:

  • Latest env var requirements
  • Recommended timeout values
  • New mandatory settings
  • Path patterns
cat "$REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team/SKILL.md"

Key things to extract from SKILL.md:

  • Required env vars: TRIGGER_SECRET, TARGET_SCRIPT, REPO_ROOT, CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS, MAX_CONCURRENT, RUN_TIMEOUT_MS
  • Recommended RUN_TIMEOUT_MS values per service
  • Path templates for systemd service files

Step 3: Identify deployed services

Find all wrapper scripts:

ls -1 "$REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team/start-"*.sh 2>/dev/null | while read -r wrapper; do
    basename "$wrapper" | sed 's/^start-//;s/\.sh$//'
done

For each service found, check if it has a corresponding systemd unit:

systemctl list-units --all --type=service --plain --no-legend | grep -E 'discovery-trigger|refactor|spawn-security|spawn-qa' | awk '{print $1}'

Match wrappers to systemd units:

  • start-discovery.sh → discovery-trigger.service
  • start-refactor.sh → refactor.service
  • start-security.sh → spawn-security.service
  • start-qa.sh → spawn-qa.service (if exists)

Step 4: Check wrapper script compliance

For each wrapper script, verify it has:

Required env vars

# Check if wrapper has all required env vars
grep -q 'export TRIGGER_SECRET=' "$wrapper_path" || echo "MISSING: TRIGGER_SECRET"
grep -q 'export TARGET_SCRIPT=' "$wrapper_path" || echo "MISSING: TARGET_SCRIPT"
grep -q 'export REPO_ROOT=' "$wrapper_path" || echo "MISSING: REPO_ROOT"
grep -q 'export CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1' "$wrapper_path" || echo "MISSING: CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS"
grep -q 'export MAX_CONCURRENT=' "$wrapper_path" || echo "MISSING: MAX_CONCURRENT"
grep -q 'export RUN_TIMEOUT_MS=' "$wrapper_path" || echo "MISSING: RUN_TIMEOUT_MS"

Correct paths

# Extract SCRIPT_DIR from wrapper
SCRIPT_DIR=$(grep '^SCRIPT_DIR=' "$wrapper_path" | cut -d'"' -f2)

# Verify it matches REPO_ROOT
if [[ "$SCRIPT_DIR" != "$REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team" ]]; then
    echo "WARNING: SCRIPT_DIR mismatch"
    echo "  Found: $SCRIPT_DIR"
    echo "  Expected: $REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team"
fi

Exec pattern

# Verify it uses exec bun run
grep -q 'exec bun run "${SCRIPT_DIR}/trigger-server.ts"' "$wrapper_path" || echo "WARNING: Non-standard exec pattern"

Step 5: Check systemd service compliance

For each systemd service file at /etc/systemd/system/<service-name>.service:

Required fields

# Check critical fields
grep -q "^User=$SERVICE_USER
quot; "$service_file" || echo "MISSING/WRONG: User" grep -q "^Group=$SERVICE_GROUP
quot; "$service_file" || echo "MISSING/WRONG: Group" grep -q "^WorkingDirectory=$REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team
quot; "$service_file" || echo "MISSING/WRONG: WorkingDirectory" grep -q "^ExecStart=/bin/bash $REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team/start-" "$service_file" || echo "MISSING/WRONG: ExecStart"

Environment variables

# Check PATH includes correct home directory
grep "^Environment=\"PATH=$HOME_DIR/.bun/bin:$HOME_DIR/.local/bin:" "$service_file" || echo "WARNING: PATH may be incorrect"

# Check HOME is set
grep "^Environment=\"HOME=$HOME_DIR\"
quot; "$service_file" || echo "MISSING/WRONG: HOME" # Check IS_SANDBOX grep -q '^Environment="IS_SANDBOX=1"' "$service_file" || echo "MISSING: IS_SANDBOX"

Step 6: Update wrapper scripts (if needed)

If --check-only is NOT passed and issues were found:

For path mismatches, update SCRIPT_DIR:

# This requires preserving the TRIGGER_SECRET value
# Read current secret
CURRENT_SECRET=$(grep '^export TRIGGER_SECRET=' "$wrapper_path" | cut -d'"' -f2)

# Update SCRIPT_DIR line
sed -i "s|^SCRIPT_DIR=.*|SCRIPT_DIR=\"$REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team\"|" "$wrapper_path"

# Update REPO_ROOT line
sed -i "s|^export REPO_ROOT=.*|export REPO_ROOT=\"$REPO_ROOT\"|" "$wrapper_path"

For missing env vars, add them:

# Add CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS if missing
if ! grep -q 'CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS' "$wrapper_path"; then
    # Insert before exec line
    sed -i '/^exec bun run/i export CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1' "$wrapper_path"
fi

# Add MAX_CONCURRENT if missing (default: 5)
if ! grep -q 'MAX_CONCURRENT' "$wrapper_path"; then
    sed -i '/^exec bun run/i export MAX_CONCURRENT=5' "$wrapper_path"
fi

# Add RUN_TIMEOUT_MS if missing (default: 4 hours)
if ! grep -q 'RUN_TIMEOUT_MS' "$wrapper_path"; then
    sed -i '/^exec bun run/i export RUN_TIMEOUT_MS=14400000' "$wrapper_path"
fi

Step 7: Update systemd service files (if needed)

If systemd service files need updates:

IMPORTANT: Changes to systemd service files require sudo and a daemon-reload.

# Update User/Group
sudo sed -i "s/^User=.*/User=$SERVICE_USER/" "$service_file"
sudo sed -i "s/^Group=.*/Group=$SERVICE_GROUP/" "$service_file"

# Update WorkingDirectory
sudo sed -i "s|^WorkingDirectory=.*|WorkingDirectory=$REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team|" "$service_file"

# Update ExecStart
sudo sed -i "s|^ExecStart=.*|ExecStart=/bin/bash $REPO_ROOT/.claude/skills/setup-agent-team/start-$service_name.sh|" "$service_file"

# Update PATH
sudo sed -i "s|^Environment=\"PATH=.*|Environment=\"PATH=$HOME_DIR/.bun/bin:$HOME_DIR/.local/bin:$HOME_DIR/.claude/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin\"|" "$service_file"

# Update HOME
sudo sed -i "s|^Environment=\"HOME=.*|Environment=\"HOME=$HOME_DIR\"|" "$service_file"

# Reload systemd
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Step 8: Restart services

If changes were made (and not --check-only):

# Restart each updated service
sudo systemctl restart "$service_name"

# Wait a moment for startup
sleep 2

# Check status
sudo systemctl status "$service_name" --no-pager

Step 9: Verify health

For each service, test the health endpoint:

# Test health endpoint (should return 200 OK)
curl -sf http://localhost:8080/health || echo "ERROR: Health check failed for $service_name"

# Expected output: {"status":"ok","running":N,"max":N,...}

If health check fails:

# Check recent logs
sudo journalctl -u "$service_name" -n 20 --no-pager

Step 10: Summary

Print a summary:

echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "Update Summary"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "Repository: $REPO_ROOT"
echo "Home: $HOME_DIR"
echo "Services checked: $total_services"
echo "Services updated: $updated_count"
echo "Services restarted: $restarted_count"
echo "Services healthy: $healthy_count"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"

If all services are healthy:

✅ All services are up to date and running

If there were issues:

⚠️  Some services may need attention - check logs above

Common Issues

IssueFix
EADDRINUSE on restartAnother service already using port 8080 — check with fuser -k 8080/tcp
Permission deniedSystemd files need sudo: sudo systemctl restart <service>
Health check failsCheck logs: sudo journalctl -u <service> -n 50
Wrapper not executablechmod +x .claude/skills/setup-agent-team/start-*.sh
PATH incorrectUpdate systemd service Environment="PATH=..." to match home dir
Service won't start after updateCheck systemctl status <service> for detailed error

Best Practices

  • Always run with --check-only first to see what would change before applying updates
  • Restart services during low-activity periods to avoid interrupting ongoing cycles
  • Check logs after restart to ensure services started cleanly
  • Test the trigger endpoint after restart: curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/trigger -H "Authorization: Bearer $SECRET"
  • Never commit wrapper scripts — they contain secrets and are in .gitignore

Example Usage

Check all services without making changes:

claude /update-team --check-only

Update a specific service:

claude /update-team discovery

Update all services:

claude /update-team