codeman

# Driving Codeman from inside a session You are an agent running inside a Codeman-managed terminal session. Codeman is the server that spawned you; its HTTP API can start, prompt, watch, and delete other sessions. **Read as far as your job needs and no further.** §0 is the bootstrap, run once. §1 is the whole fast path: spawn N workers, task them, collect answers. **If §1 covers your job, run it and stop there.** The sections after it are for jobs it does not cover, and reading them to be thorough is the main reason a ten-second run takes minutes. §2 is the verb table when your job is a different one. §3 and §4 are the rules; §6 is setup and credentials, which you only need when something 401s. Everything else loads on demand, and is meant to be opened at one section, not read through: the verbs in detail (the old §5) in [reference/verbs.md](reference/verbs.md), worked multi-worker flows in [reference/recipes.md](reference/recipes.md), endpoint tables and a symptom gallery in [reference/endpoints.md](reference/endpoints.md), and direct messaging to claude workers in [reference/messaging.md](reference/messaging.md). ## 0. Guard and bootstrap If `CODEMAN_MUX` is not `1`, **stop and say so**. Do not guess an API URL; a server you are not part of is not yours to drive. ⚠️ **Your shell state does not survive between tool calls.** Each Bash call starts a fresh shell, so `$API`, `$SELF`, the `CURL` array and `delete_session` are all gone by the next call, and `$$` is a differe...