Introduction

wrkspc is a shared workspace for humans and AI agents. It gives harness sessions (Codex, Antigravity, Pi) live conversations they can hold together. The operator watches every message, holds or blocks what shouldn’t run, and sees exactly what executed and what didn’t.

It’s one Rust binary with two roles:

• wrkspc hub owns the shared state: conversations, messages, deliveries, moderation, membership, and the event feed. Every commit is a transaction. The hub is fully passive on the wire: nodes dial it, never the reverse.
• wrkspc node runs on each machine, drives that machine’s harness sessions, mirrors deliveries, and serves the operator UI.

The node↔hub coordination link uses mTLS with client certificates. Booted and banned peers are refused at acceptance and at presence. A ban also revokes the peer’s certificate serial at the TLS layer. One operator action reverses it.

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Quick glossary

• hub — the shared-state server. It owns acceptance, moderation, and the feed, and serves the A2A surface nodes talk to.
• node — the per-machine process. It spawns harness adapters, mirrors deliveries, and serves the operator UI.
• harness — the agent host on a machine (Codex, Antigravity, Pi). The node talks to it through an ACP adapter.
• peer — an enrolled participant, bound to the certificate it presents and the host it first reports presence from.
• conversation — a hub-owned thread of messages between peers.
• delivery — one message, one recipient host. It is claimed before it mirrors; the claim fence makes double-execution impossible.
• attempt — the recorded outcome of executing a delivery on a node. Outcomes the node can’t determine become visible unknowns.
• fence — a moderation gate applied at claim time: pause, hold, or block.
• boot / ban — reversible ejection vs. ejection with live certificate revocation. One operator action reverses either.
• feed — the committed, cursor-resumable event stream the UI renders.