crates/colibri-daemon/src/spawner.rs

@@ -121,7 +121,20 @@ impl PrivMode {
 
 /// Default path to the setuid jail-spawn helper used in `PrivMode::Helper`.
 pub const DEFAULT_JAIL_HELPER: &str = "/usr/local/libexec/colibri-jail-spawn";
-const STAGED_JAIL_RUN_DIR: &str = "/var/run/colibri-stage";
+
+/// Jail-relative directory under which the daemon stages per-spawn `launch.sh` /
+/// `env.sh` files. It lives under the daemon user's home (`clawdie`) rather than
+/// root-owned `/var/run`, so the daemon can create per-spawn subdirs itself with
+/// no privileged pre-creation step — and `/home` is persistent, unlike a tmpfs
+/// `/var/run`. Overridable via `COLIBRI_JAIL_STAGE_DIR`.
+const DEFAULT_JAIL_STAGE_DIR: &str = "/home/clawdie/.cache/colibri/stage";
+
+fn staged_jail_run_dir() -> String {
+    std::env::var("COLIBRI_JAIL_STAGE_DIR")
+        .ok()
+        .filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| DEFAULT_JAIL_STAGE_DIR.to_string())
+}
 
 /// Optional FreeBSD jail confinement for a spawned agent.
 ///
@@ -383,7 +396,7 @@ pub async fn prepare_spawn_command(
         )
     })?;
 
-    let jail_stage_dir = format!("{STAGED_JAIL_RUN_DIR}/{stage_id}");
+    let jail_stage_dir = format!("{}/{stage_id}", staged_jail_run_dir());
     let host_stage_dir = Path::new(stage_root).join(jail_stage_dir.trim_start_matches('/'));
     tokio::fs::create_dir_all(&host_stage_dir).await?;
 
@@ -1030,12 +1043,12 @@ mod jail_tests {
         assert_eq!(prepared.argv[1], "/bin/sh");
         assert_eq!(
             prepared.argv[2],
-            "/var/run/colibri-stage/agent-test/launch.sh"
+            "/home/clawdie/.cache/colibri/stage/agent-test/launch.sh"
         );
         assert!(prepared.env.is_empty());
 
-        let launcher = root.join("var/run/colibri-stage/agent-test/launch.sh");
+        let launcher = root.join("home/clawdie/.cache/colibri/stage/agent-test/launch.sh");
-        let env_file = root.join("var/run/colibri-stage/agent-test/env.sh");
+        let env_file = root.join("home/clawdie/.cache/colibri/stage/agent-test/env.sh");
         assert!(launcher.exists());
         assert!(env_file.exists());
         let env_raw = std::fs::read_to_string(env_file).unwrap();

docs/COLIBRI-JAILED-AGENT-SPAWN-DESIGN.md

@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ just `jexec`. We choose the escalation per host via `PrivMode`
 When a jailed spawn needs env vars or a working dir, `prepare_spawn_command()`
 writes a 0600 `env.sh` (sorted, single-quoted exports) and a `launch.sh` wrapper
 into a staged directory under the jail's `root_path` at
-`/var/run/colibri-stage/<id>/`. The jail command runs `/bin/sh launch.sh`, which
+`/home/clawdie/.cache/colibri/stage/<id>/` (the daemon user's home, so the
+daemon creates it with no privileged step; overridable via
+`COLIBRI_JAIL_STAGE_DIR`). The jail command runs `/bin/sh launch.sh`, which
 sources the env file and `cd`s to the working dir before `exec`-ing the agent
 binary. This bypasses the env-passthrough problem entirely — no reliance on
 `jexec`/`mdo` inheriting env vars.

docs/TRUSS-SPAWN-ANALYSIS.md

@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@ For jailed spawns with environment variables, the daemon's
 created by a previous run (as root) and was mode 755 root:wheel.
 The daemon runs as `clawdie` and could not write staging files there.
 
-**Fix:** `chmod 777 <jail_root>/var/run/colibri-stage` (or, better:
+**Fix (history):** initially `chmod 777 <jail_root>/var/run/colibri-stage`, then
-`agent-jail-bootstrap.sh` should pre-create this directory with appropriate
+`agent-jail-bootstrap.sh` pre-created it clawdie-owned `0700` (#134). **Final
-ownership).
+(#135):** staging moved out of root-owned `/var/run` to the daemon user's home
+at `/home/clawdie/.cache/colibri/stage/<id>/`, so the daemon creates it itself
+with no privileged pre-creation step (overridable via `COLIBRI_JAIL_STAGE_DIR`).
 
 ## The Winning Spawn
 

packaging/freebsd/agent-jail-bootstrap.sh

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ set -eu
 
 JAIL_NAME="${1:-}"
 PKG_CACHE_DIR="${PKG_CACHE_DIR:-/var/cache/pkg}"
-DAEMON_USER="${DAEMON_USER:-clawdie}"
 
 # The jail name becomes a path component, so reject anything that could escape
 # /usr/local/bastille/jails/<name>/root (empty, traversal, odd characters).
@@ -98,11 +97,4 @@ if ! grep -q '/etc/profile.d/clawdie-npm.sh' "${JAIL_ROOT}/etc/profile" 2>/dev/n
         >> "${JAIL_ROOT}/etc/profile"
 fi
 
-# Pre-create the daemon's per-spawn staging directory. The daemon runs as
-# ${DAEMON_USER} and stages launch.sh/env.sh under <stage_id> subdirs here, so
-# it must own this directory. Created clawdie-owned 0700 rather than left for a
-# root-owned /var/run to block (the spawn EACCES) or patched world-writable.
-install -d -o "${DAEMON_USER}" -g "${DAEMON_USER}" -m 0700 \
-    "${JAIL_ROOT}/var/run/colibri-stage"
-
 echo "Done — ${JAIL_NAME} ready for vault provision."