Releases · hekmon/rat

systemd integration

Type=notify support — ratd now tells systemd when it is ready to serve and when it begins stopping. systemctl start waits for readiness and reports failed startups correctly.
Journald-aware logging — when running under systemd, log lines omit timestamps and level strings; a <N> priority prefix lets journald record time, highlight warnings and errors, and filter by severity.
Status line for operators — systemctl status shows a live summary of ratd's health: known issues (running as root, writable bundle, bash startup files defeating the prompt hook, bundle expiry, tmux server deaths) and per-session activity with in-flight waits. Updated every 10 seconds when changed.

Subagent guidance — the tool description now points to a subagent for copying files, so large content does not bloat the main agent's context.
No more binary hints — the description no longer suggests piping binary content through the terminal (e.g. base64 -d). It now speaks of text only, keeping meaningless base64 out of agent context.

README restructured by reader — sections are now grouped by what a reader is looking for: what rat does, trying it, deploying it.
Compared to ssh and tmux — the introduction now frames rat as shell access over ssh and tmux for agents, making the security model easier to understand.
Getting started improved — generates a bundle with two clients to show that --client repeats and each harness gets its own directory.
Deployment guidance — recommends Linux with systemd because only there does the kill switch cover detached commands via the control group.
Terminal behavior clarified — explains that terminals always run bash regardless of the account's login shell, and what the mTLS server key protects against.
tmux internals documented — explains what a killed rat leaves behind and why Pdeathsig is not used.

Faster failure on stray servers — ratd tests now fail immediately with the actual error when ratd exits before serving, naming any stray tmux server holding the tenant socket by its PID.