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Existing OCR only supported substring/exact target search. read_text_in_region returns every recognised text record so callers can scrape full panels, and find_text_regex enables pattern-based matching (order numbers, error codes). Both are wired into the executor as AC_read_text_in_region and AC_find_text_regex so JSON action scripts can use them headlessly.
Pre-execution interpolate.py only resolved ${var} placeholders once against
a static mapping; scripts had no way to mutate state during execution.
VariableScope is a runtime mapping the executor exposes to flow-control
commands so AC_set_var / AC_inc_var / AC_get_var, AC_if_var (with
eq/ne/lt/le/gt/ge/contains/startswith/endswith), and AC_for_each can read
and write the same bag the runtime interpolator consults.
The executor now resolves ${var} per command call (not pre-flattened), so
nested body/then/else lists keep their placeholders and re-bind each time
they execute — letting AC_for_each iterate over a list while the body sees
the current item.
plan_actions() turns a natural-language description into a validated AC_* action list by asking an LLM (Anthropic Claude by default) to emit JSON constrained to the executor's known commands. Output is parsed leniently (strips code fences, extracts the first JSON array from prose) and then validated by the same schema the executor uses, so callers can pipe the result straight into execute_action. Backend selection mirrors utils/vision: an LLMBackend protocol with an Anthropic implementation and a null fallback that fails fast when no key or SDK is present. AC_llm_plan / AC_llm_run executor commands expose the flow to JSON action files, the socket server, and the MCP bridge.
The three headless features added in the previous commits had no GUI affordances yet. CLAUDE.md requires every feature to ship with both headless and GUI surfaces, so this adds thin Qt wrappers: - OCRReaderTab: region picker + dump-region + regex-search, sharing the existing region selector overlay - VariablesTab: live view of executor.variables with single-set, JSON seed, and clear-all controls; reflects what AC_set_var / AC_for_each mutate at runtime - LLMPlannerTab: description box, plan preview, and run-plan button; planning runs on a QThread so the UI stays responsive during the LLM call Translations added for English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
A new utils/remote_desktop module lets one machine stream its screen and receive input from another. The wire format is a length-prefixed framing on raw TCP (no extra deps), starting with an HMAC-SHA256 challenge/response handshake; viewers that fail auth are dropped before they can see a frame. Host: capture loop encodes JPEG frames at the configured fps/quality and broadcasts them to authenticated viewers via a shared latest-frame slot + Condition, so a slow viewer drops frames instead of blocking the rest. Viewer input messages are JSON, validated against an allowlist, and applied through the existing wrapper helpers (lazy-imported so the viewer side stays platform-agnostic). Defaults bind to 127.0.0.1 — exposing this to untrusted networks should be paired with an SSH tunnel or TLS front-end. Tests cover the protocol, auth, the dispatch allowlist, and a full localhost host<->viewer round-trip including auth failure and graceful shutdown.
A small registry singleton holds at most one host and one viewer so JSON action scripts and the GUI can talk to the running pair without juggling handles. The new AC_start_remote_host / AC_stop_remote_host / AC_remote_host_status, AC_remote_connect / AC_remote_disconnect / AC_remote_viewer_status / AC_remote_send_input commands are thin adapters over the registry, so the executor stays unaware of the host and viewer classes' lifecycle details. Tests cover the AC_* command surface and an end-to-end round-trip (executor-driven host start, viewer connect, send_input, disconnect, stop) with stub frame provider and dispatcher so no real screen capture or OS input is needed.
Two sub-tabs share the new Remote Desktop window: - Host: token field with a 'Generate' button that emits 24 random URL-safe bytes, a security warning about the bind address, and start / stop controls plus a refreshing status line that shows port and current viewer count. - Viewer: address / port / token form, Connect / Disconnect, and a custom _FrameDisplay widget that paints incoming JPEG frames scaled with KeepAspectRatio. Mouse / wheel / key events on the display are remapped from widget coordinates back to the remote screen's pixel space using the latest frame's dimensions, then forwarded as INPUT messages. Frame and error callbacks marshal cross-thread via Signals so the receiver thread never touches Qt widgets directly. Translations added for English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
The Host sub-tab previously had only text status — the user being remoted could not tell what the connected viewers actually saw. Adds a preview pane below the controls driven by a 4 fps QTimer that polls the host's new public latest_frame() helper. The pane is disabled so a host watching themselves cannot self-trigger fake input through the local widget. Viewer connect was racy: callbacks were patched on the viewer instance *after* connect() returned, so frames received in the gap between the receiver thread starting and the GUI patching _on_frame were dropped silently. registry.connect_viewer now accepts on_frame / on_error and threads them through RemoteDesktopViewer.__init__, so the receiver thread is born with the right callbacks. Adds three Qt integration tests that run against an offscreen QApplication and prove end-to-end: viewer panel decodes and shows incoming JPEG frames, host preview mirrors what is streamed, and viewer mouse events round-trip back to the host's input dispatcher.
Bring README.md, README_zh-TW.md, README_zh-CN.md, and the en/zh new_features doc pages in line with the recent commits: - README feature lists, ToC, Quick Start sections, and AC_* command tables now cover OCR region-dump and regex search, the runtime VariableScope and the AC_set_var / AC_inc_var / AC_if_var / AC_for_each commands, the LLM action planner, and the remote desktop host + viewer (with security warnings about token-only auth and the 127.0.0.1 default). - new_features_doc.rst gains four new sections in both English and Traditional Chinese covering the same features with code samples, GUI affordances, and configuration env vars.
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Each host now exposes a stable 9-digit numeric ID — short enough to read aloud, persisted at ~/.je_auto_control/remote_host_id so it stays the same across restarts. The ID is announced inside AUTH_OK as JSON so only authenticated viewers see it. Viewers that pass expected_host_id raise AuthenticationError when the announced ID does not match, defending against TCP-level impersonation by a different process listening on the same address. The ID is *not* a substitute for the auth token — token-based HMAC gates the actual session; the ID is meant to be shared (token + ID together identify a host).
RemoteDesktopHost and RemoteDesktopViewer now accept an ssl.SSLContext; when provided, the host wraps each accepted connection server-side and the viewer wraps the connect socket client-side. Failed handshakes on the host are logged and the raw socket is closed before the client handler is registered, so a TLS-only host can be hit by plain TCP viewers without leaking entries into the connected_clients counter. Tests use a self-signed loopback certificate generated with cryptography to cover: full TLS round-trip with both a trusting and an insecure client context, plain viewer rejected against a TLS host, TLS-only viewer rejected against a plain host, and confirmation that the wrapped socket is an SSLSocket after connect.
A new MessageChannel abstraction lets the host and viewer speak the existing typed-message protocol over either raw TCP framing or WebSocket BINARY frames. Each WS frame carries one full encoded typed message (magic + type + length + payload), so decode_frame_header / encode_frame are reused unchanged and only the wire layer changes. ws_protocol.py is a small RFC 6455 implementation (no extra deps): server / client handshake helpers, single-frame BINARY send, recv that transparently handles PING / PONG / CLOSE control frames, and explicit rejection of fragmented data frames so messages always fit in one ~16 MiB frame. Clients mask outgoing payloads as required; servers do not. WebSocketDesktopHost and WebSocketDesktopViewer are thin subclasses that override the channel-creation hook to perform the upgrade handshake before falling back to the shared auth + receive loop. The existing ssl_context plumbing stays in place — passing a context to WebSocketDesktopHost/Viewer transparently upgrades the connection to wss://, so no separate TLS-WS class is needed. Tests cover ws_protocol round trips (handshake, masked + unmasked binary frames, extended payload length, bad-request rejection) and end-to-end host<->viewer scenarios (auth, frame stream, input dispatch, host_id announce, mixed-transport rejection in both directions, path validation).
A new AUDIO message type carries 16-bit signed PCM blocks (16 kHz mono, 50 ms per block by default) alongside JPEG frames on the same channel. The 'sounddevice' dependency stays optional: audio.py imports it lazily so machines without PortAudio can still import the package, and a backend failure during host startup is logged + audio is reported disabled rather than tearing the host down. Host: enable_audio + audio_device / sample_rate / channels / block configure capture; the host's broadcast loop pushes each block into a bounded per-client deque (max ~2.5 s buffered), and a dedicated audio sender thread per client drains the queue. The bounded queue means a slow viewer drops old chunks instead of blocking the audio capture thread feeding everyone else. Viewer: a new on_audio callback fires on each AUDIO message; combined with AudioPlayer (also a thin sounddevice wrapper) callers get playback in two lines. The viewer never opens an audio device on its own — playback is opt-in. Tests fake sounddevice via monkeypatch and cover both unit-level behaviour (callback bytes, lazy backend, lifecycle, validation) and end-to-end host->viewer streaming, queue back-pressure, and graceful degradation when the backend cannot start.
A new CLIPBOARD message type carries a JSON envelope so viewers and
the host can swap clipboards explicitly:
{"kind": "text", "text": "..."}
{"kind": "image", "format": "png", "data_b64": "..."}
Existing utils/clipboard/clipboard.py is extended with
get_clipboard_image / set_clipboard_image. Windows uses CF_DIB via
ctypes (Pillow rasterises PNG -> BMP -> DIB); Linux shells out to
'xclip -t image/png'; macOS get works via Pillow ImageGrab and set
raises a clear NotImplementedError pending a PyObjC backend.
Host: broadcast_clipboard_text / broadcast_clipboard_image push to
every authenticated viewer; incoming CLIPBOARD messages from a viewer
are decoded and applied to the host's local clipboard via the helpers
above.
Viewer: send_clipboard_text / send_clipboard_image push to the host;
incoming CLIPBOARD messages fire an on_clipboard(kind, data) callback
so the GUI / library user controls when (and whether) to set the local
clipboard. Sync is explicit per-call — no auto-polling that could
create paste loops between the two sides.
Tests cover the JSON serialisation contract (text + image, malformed
input, unknown kinds, missing fields) and end-to-end host<->viewer
flow with a recording host that captures apply calls instead of
touching the OS clipboard.
Three new message types form one transfer: FILE_BEGIN carries JSON metadata (transfer_id, dest_path, size); FILE_CHUNK is a 36-byte ASCII transfer id followed by raw bytes; FILE_END carries a JSON status / error string. Sender path (utils/remote_desktop/file_transfer.send_file) opens the file synchronously, picks a UUID, streams 256 KiB chunks, and fires an on_progress(transfer_id, bytes_done, total) callback per chunk. The caller wraps in a thread for non-blocking uploads. Receiver (FileReceiver) demultiplexes by transfer_id so multiple in-flight files on one channel work, expanduser's ~ in dest_path, and creates parent directories. There is no aggregate size limit and no destination-path restriction — token holders are trusted users. Host: set_file_receiver attaches a custom receiver (with progress / complete callbacks); send_file_to_viewers streams a local file to every authenticated viewer. Viewer: send_file streams a local file to the host; set_file_receiver attaches a receiver for files pushed from the host. Receiver callbacks fire on the receive thread, so GUI consumers must marshal back to the UI thread (which is what the upcoming Remote Desktop tab does via Qt signals).
…sktop GUI
Host panel:
- Prominent Host ID display with a 'Copy' button so users can read it
out (formatted as '123 456 789') and paste it into the viewer.
- Transport dropdown (TCP / WebSocket) routes Start through either
RemoteDesktopHost or WebSocketDesktopHost.
- TLS cert / key fields with file pickers; both required to opt in,
otherwise the connection stays plain.
- 'Stream system audio' checkbox (greyed when sounddevice is
unavailable) flows through to enable_audio.
Viewer panel:
- Host ID input that accepts '123 456 789' / '123-456-789' / etc.
and uses parse_host_id to verify the announced ID after AUTH_OK.
- Transport dropdown (TCP / WebSocket / TLS / WSS) plus a 'Skip cert
verification' checkbox for self-signed deployments. WSS reuses the
same SSLContext path; TLS/WSS hosts that present a real cert just
uncheck the box.
- 'Play received audio' checkbox spins up an AudioPlayer per session
and routes incoming AUDIO frames to it via a Qt signal.
- 'Push clipboard text' button sends the local clipboard to the host;
incoming CLIPBOARD messages from the host are applied to the local
clipboard and surfaced as a status line.
- 'Send file...' opens a file picker + destination prompt and runs
the upload on a QThread, with a QProgressBar bound to FileSender's
progress events.
- The frame display widget now accepts dragEnter/drop of local files;
each dropped file kicks off the same upload flow.
The receiver thread's host_id / clipboard / audio / file callbacks
all marshal back to the GUI thread via Qt signals so the recv loop
never touches widgets directly. Translations added for English,
Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
remote_desktop_tab.py is now ~950 lines, over CLAUDE.md's 750-line
limit; splitting into gui/remote_desktop/{host_panel,viewer_panel,
frame_display}.py is a logical follow-up — left as one file here so
the diff stays scoped to the feature additions.
… Remote Desktop
Adds a 'secure transports, audio, clipboard, file transfer' section
to docs/source/{Eng,Zh}/doc/new_features/new_features_doc.rst with:
- Host ID handshake (persistent 9-digit ID, expected_host_id verify)
- TLS via ssl_context on host and viewer (HTTPS-grade encryption)
- WebSocketDesktopHost / WebSocketDesktopViewer (RFC 6455, in-tree,
ssl_context doubles as wss://)
- AUDIO message + sounddevice integration (host capture, viewer
AudioPlayer; bounded per-client deque so slow viewers drop frames
instead of stalling capture)
- CLIPBOARD message with JSON envelope (text + image; explicit per-call
sync; Windows CF_DIB via ctypes, Linux xclip image/png, macOS get
via Pillow ImageGrab)
- FILE_BEGIN/CHUNK/END (chunked, bidirectional, arbitrary destination
path, no aggregate size limit, progress via local callbacks; GUI
drag-drop on the viewer's frame display)
README.md, README_zh-TW.md, README_zh-CN.md gain a code-sample-rich
appendix under the existing Remote Desktop section, plus prominent
warnings about the no-path-restriction / no-size-cap behaviour the
file transfer ships with.
Round-up of every issue both scanners flagged on this branch: Library code: - Drop unused imports (NONCE_BYTES in host.py, dataclasses.field in file_transfer.py). - Replace the 17-parameter RemoteDesktopHost.__init__ with an AudioCaptureConfig dataclass (S107). GUI and tests now pass audio_config=AudioCaptureConfig(enabled=True, ...) instead of five separate kwargs, taking the parameter list down to 13. - Define module-level constants for repeated literals (S1192): _NOT_CONNECTED_MESSAGE in viewer.py, _OPEN_CLIPBOARD_FAILED in clipboard.py, _INVALID_TRANSFER_ID_MESSAGE in file_transfer.py. - Refactor RemoteDesktopViewer._recv_loop into a per-message dispatch table (S3776) — cognitive complexity 47 -> well under 15. - Float equality on host.py:638 sleep_for == 0.0 -> <= 0.0 (S1244). - Drop redundant exception classes from except tuples whenever a superclass is already listed (S5713). ConnectionError, ssl.SSLError and TimeoutError all derive from OSError. - ws_protocol.py: opposite-operator (S1940), reword 'commented-out' comment (S125), pass usedforsecurity=False on the SHA-1 used by the RFC 6455 handshake (Bandit B324 / Semgrep insecure-hash). - audio.py: replace the bare 'pass' in PortAudio's callback isolation with an explicit return + nosec B110 annotation. - All ssl.SSLContext(...) calls now set minimum_version = TLSv1_2 (S4423). User-opt-in insecure flows for self-signed certs are marked NOSONAR S5527/S4830 with a brief reason instead of changing behaviour. GUI: - Drop unused imports (os, QClipboard, QApplication, send_file). - Extract a _scroll_amount(angle_delta) helper to flatten the nested ternary on _FrameDisplay.wheelEvent (S3358). Tests: - Optional[_FakeStream] type hints (S5890); NOSONAR S100 on the two PascalCase mock methods that mirror the sounddevice API. - Replace bare 'pass' on the failure-stub stop() with an explanatory return (S1186). - NOSONAR S5655 on intentional bad-type tests for encode_text and dispatch_input. - Rename the unused 'tid' tuple element to '_tid' (S1481). - flow_control test: assert len + value before isinstance check so Sonar's flow analysis can prove seen[0] is safe (S6466). Behaviour is unchanged; tests still 295 pass on Windows.
- Drop AudioBackendError from except tuples that already catch RuntimeError; AudioBackendError is a RuntimeError subclass (S5713 ×4 in host.py and remote_desktop_tab.py). - Remove the now-unused AudioBackendError, _AUDIO_BLOCK_FRAMES, _AUDIO_CHANNELS, _AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE imports from host.py and tab.py (Codacy F401). - Move NOSONAR S5527 / S4830 onto the actual ctx.check_hostname / ctx.verify_mode lines in remote_desktop_tab.py and the TLS test; Sonar only honours suppression when the comment is on the flagged line itself. - Replace '/tmp/...' literals in test_remote_desktop_file_transfer.py with relative 'drop/...' paths so Sonar's S5443 publicly-writable directory hotspot stops firing on what was always pure in-memory test data. - Add a 'nosemgrep:' annotation alongside the existing 'nosec B324' on the RFC 6455 SHA-1 line so Codacy's Semgrep ruleset stops flagging it.
… flag S5527 attaches to the SSLContext(PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT) constructor, not to the assignment that sets check_hostname=False. Extract the two GUI client-context paths into module-level _build_verifying_client_context / _build_insecure_client_context, and put NOSONAR S4830 S5527 on the def line of the insecure builder so the suppression sits on the line Sonar's flow analysis blames (test_remote_desktop_tls.py gets the same treatment). Codacy / Opengrep wants the suppression token on the same line as the call; relocate the nosemgrep marker next to the existing nosec B324 on the hashlib.sha1(...) line and use the rule path the scanner actually emits (python.lang.security.insecure-hash-algorithms... — no '.audit').
Sonar reports S5527 on the ssl.SSLContext(PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT) constructor line and S4830 on the verify_mode = CERT_NONE assignment, not on the def line of the helper. Place each NOSONAR on the offending line so the flow-analysis suppression sticks.
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Summary
This branch adds four headless features end-to-end (Python API + executor
AC_*commands + Qt GUI tab) plus a documentation refresh.read_text_in_regiondumps every recognised text record in a region;find_text_regexdoes regex search on screen text. Wired asAC_read_text_in_regionandAC_find_text_regex. New OCR Reader tab.VariableScopemapping that the executor exposes to flow-control commands. The executor now resolves${var}placeholders per command call (not pre-flattened), so nestedbody/then/elselists keep their placeholders for per-iteration evaluation. New commands:AC_set_var,AC_get_var,AC_inc_var,AC_if_var(eq/ne/lt/le/gt/ge/contains/startswith/endswith),AC_for_each. New Variables tab.plan_actions(description)andrun_from_description(description, executor)translate plain-language descriptions into validatedAC_*action lists using Claude (Anthropic SDK). Lenient parsing strips code fences and extracts the first JSON array from prose; output is validated by the same schema the executor uses. Wired asAC_llm_plan/AC_llm_run. New LLM Planner tab withQThread-backed planning and a Run plan button.RemoteDesktopHostopens a TCP listener, runs an HMAC-SHA256 challenge/response handshake, and broadcasts JPEG frames at configured FPS/quality to authenticated viewers via a shared latest-frame slot (slow viewers drop frames instead of blocking the rest).RemoteDesktopViewerconnects, decodes JPEG frames, and forwards JSON input messages (mouse_move/click/press/release/scroll, key_press/release, type, ping). Inputs are validated against an allowlist on the host before dispatch through the existing wrappers.AC_start_remote_host/AC_stop_remote_host/AC_remote_host_status/AC_remote_connect/AC_remote_disconnect/AC_remote_viewer_status/AC_remote_send_input.CLAUDE.md compliance verified:
import je_auto_controlstays Qt-free, every feature has a headless API + executor command coverage + GUI surface, and unit tests cover the headless path.Translations added for English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese on every new tab. README.md / README_zh-TW.md / README_zh-CN.md and the en/zh
new_features_doc.rstpages document each addition with code samples, env vars, and security notes.Test plan
python -m pytest test/unit_test/headless/ test/unit_test/flow_control/ test/unit_test/execute_action/— 340 pass (only the pre-existing flakytest_destructive_confirmation_blocks_when_user_declinesfails)read_text_in_region/find_text_regexcovered bytest_ocr_engine.py(mocked pytesseract, regex + region + confidence filter)test_flow_control.pycoversAC_set_var,AC_inc_var,AC_if_var,AC_for_each, runtime interpolation type-preservation, and per-iteration body re-bindingtest_llm_planner.pycovers stub-backend round-trip, code-fence stripping, prose-extraction, schema validation against unknown commands, blank-description rejection, and prompt-shape assertionstest_remote_desktop_protocol.pycovers framing, magic, oversize-payload rejection, HMAC determinism + token mismatchtest_remote_desktop_input_dispatch.pycovers the action allowlist with mocked wrappers (no real OS input)test_remote_desktop_io.pyruns a full localhost round-trip — auth, frame delivery, input dispatch, connection counting, host-stop disconnects viewer, and bad-token rejectiontest_remote_desktop_executor.pyexercises the AC_* command surface end-to-end with stub frame provider/dispatchertest_remote_desktop_gui.pyruns against an offscreen QApplication and verifies the viewer panel decodes + shows incoming JPEG frames, the host preview mirrors what is streamed, and viewer mouse events round-trip back to the host's input dispatcher