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Neil 995715b19b test(windows): record native PTY stress lifecycle milestones (#25042)
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## ELI5

When a Windows terminal stress test stalls, its old log cannot show where progress stopped. The test now records bounded, sanitized lifecycle observations while keeping its existing assertions and timing.

## What Changed

Record output-pipe, worker, native exit and final callback milestones, pending state at existing deadlines, and hashes of the native addon and supporting files. Redact addresses and credentials even when terminal controls split them, preserving the controls’ positions. Keep the warmup survivor and newest 31 terminals; later terminals still receive observers, with omissions counted explicitly.

## Why

[The failing Windows job](https://github.com/stablyai/orca/actions/runs/37132029374/job/111229398978) had one silent terminal and at least one undrained callback. [An earlier passing job](https://github.com/stablyai/orca/actions/runs/37123932023/job/111205697896) used the same source and cache inputs, without a loaded-addon hash. Observing the existing objects supplies missing evidence while preserving the gate. Bounded recent records retain the terminals most likely involved in a late failure.

## Linked Issue

Diagnosis of PR #25031’s Windows package failure. This does not claim that the original native cause is fixed or close a product issue.

## Visual Proof

N/A — test diagnostics add no UI or interaction change.

## Testing

- [ ] I manually tested these changes locally
- [x] Automated tests added and updated for reproduced failures.

On the exact previous public helper, eight strengthened controls failed and six passed. They reproduce control-interrupted credential/address leaks, omitted late terminals after eleven rounds, and late state after the 256-milestone cap. Independent review then reproduced six more leaks on the intermediate helper: usernames and hostnames masked only part of an email. The final helper runs the existing same-length redactor a second time, removing the remaining private domain while preserving controls and OSC framing. Those six before failures and two credential-overlap controls are retained. Corrected source `5037c18a898571539ade5336ad3519cd49dfb20f` passes 171 controls in four files, including all 22 observer controls, the full anti-slop audit, syntax/AST checks, focused format/lint and six quality gates.

The previous public source `f1ed3e97` passed [actual Windows CI](https://github.com/stablyai/orca/actions/runs/37136703455/job/111243011997): 25 PTYs, eight rounds, 526 passing tests and 26 skips, plus build, package and smoke checks. Its native stress/driver files remain exact here; the observer has changed, so fresh normal CI must qualify this complete correction. The passing run’s native-addon hash differs from the historical failure; it does not explain that failure.

## Review

All four original diagnostic files and public ancestry are retained; all 32,245 paths outside that scope match main `786a040b`. The existing redactor runs twice on a view with presentation controls removed, then controls are restored at their original positions; OSC framing separates title payloads from adjacent text. Logs retain 32 terminal records and 256 milestones with explicit omissions, plus bounded final snapshots. The native callback preserves its receiver, arguments, result and thrown errors; error observers preserve unhandled-error behavior.

Native assertions, deadlines, input, concurrency and cleanup remain exact. Companion hashes identify file bytes rather than in-memory DLL equivalence. The original native cause remains unverifiable.

## Agent skill upstream boundary

- [x] Not applicable; no upstream skill source is copied.

## Notes

No production API, RPC, native patch, dependency or workflow change. Blank output or a missing callback is not evidence of process death. Local helper controls run on macOS; the existing real ConPTY gate exercises Windows.

## Checklist

- [x] Small, focused diagnostic scope.
- [x] Explained the before/after, mechanism and choice.
- [x] Visual proof N/A with reason.
- [x] Self-reviewed privacy, bounded logging and callback behavior.
- [x] Cross-platform and remote impact considered.
- [ ] Fresh normal Windows CI must qualify the complete corrected source.
2026-10-03 11:24:46 -07:00
OrcaWinandm4air 6593d7d194 feat(orcad): run orcad on the pinned Node instead of Bun (#24110)
* ci(daemon): gate PRs on daemon protocol crossing from the newest release

Lands daemon-protocol-facts.mjs from the Windows update diagnostic branch with a
stricter parser, and adds check-daemon-protocol-crossing.mjs (rule R1): the working
tree must attach the newest release tag's daemon. Rollback crossing is reported only.
Runs in the cross-version-wire job, which already has full tags; tag selection moves
to config/scripts/stable-release-tags.mjs so both use one rule.

* feat(persistence): run profile backups in the worker whenever its entry is bundled

* refactor(orcad): make profile and native preflight runtime-neutral

The profile preflight parser now takes the expected runtime identity from the
caller (shipped callers pass the pinned Bun identity), and the native
preflight is renamed to orcad-runtime-native-preflight with neutral wording.

* feat(runtime): pin the Node 24.21.0 server runtime with an offline CI check

Add src/shared/node-runtime-pin.ts (NODE_RUNTIME_PIN, SERVER_TARGETS,
NODE_RUNTIME_ASSETS for all 8 server targets plus the headers tarball),
generated by config/scripts/update-node-runtime-pin.mjs from the nodejs.org
and unofficial-builds SHASUMS. check-node-runtime-pin.mjs verifies, with no
network, that the pin tracks the locked Electron, matches engines.node's
major, and covers exactly SERVER_TARGETS; it runs in the static analysis job.

ORCAD_BUN_TARGETS consumers now read SERVER_TARGETS so there is one target
list; orcad's Bun runtime and build output are unchanged.

* test(persistence): skip plain-Node backup selection tests in the Bun profile suite

* fix(runtime): reject a pinned archive that belongs to another target

* ci(daemon): fail PRs that swap a runtime launcher and bump the daemon protocol

D7.1 R3: hosting orcad or the daemon on another runtime is not a protocol change,
so one PR must not do both. The launcher file list lives in the check script; the
allow-runtime-launcher-protocol-bump label overrides it.

* feat(orcad): select pinned-Node slots by a .runtime-node marker

D7.1 R5: a Node slot names its shared runtimes/node-<sha256>/node through
.runtime-node instead of .build-target, so Bun-era clients read it as a legacy
slot rather than exiting 78 on a missing bun-runtime. Nothing builds the marker yet.

* fix(runtime): load the Node pin without the typeless-module warning

check-node-runtime-pin.mjs now requires the pin and takes nodeDistArchiveName from
its own module, so it no longer loads the update script's build graph.

* fix(orcad): resolve Node slots to the design's runtimes/node-<sha>/bin/node layout

* feat(orcad): 8-slot node-pty prebuilds against the pinned Node headers at N-API 8

- build-orcad-prebuilds.mjs adds win32-x64/arm64 (conpty.node, the vendored
  conpty.dll/OpenConsole.exe, upstream's N-API conpty_console_list.node), compiles
  in a scratch copy against the hash-verified pinned headers (node.lib pinned per
  Windows arch) with NAPI_VERSION=8, rejects post-8 node_api_* imports, and writes
  a schema 2 manifest with per-file sha256, N-API level and the glibc need.
- --require-slots [slots] verifies files against hashes; --smoke loads the slot
  under the pinned Node and spawns a PTY; --print-slot names the host slot.
- The slot installer gates on N-API, libc, arch, glibc and file hashes instead of
  the exact NODE_MODULE_VERSION, and installs nested files (conpty/).
- bun-profile-tests.yml builds, verifies and smokes each runner's slot.

* fix(orcad): scope node-pty's glibc .symver pins to glibc on musl prebuild slots

musl's unversioned libc cannot satisfy openpty@GLIBC_* references at link
time, so the Alpine slot compile would fail. Pin the staged pty.cc guard to
__GLIBC__ and assert both musl transforms against the installed patch.

* feat(orcad): run orcad on the pinned Node instead of Bun

A packaged orcad slot now references the pinned Node 24.21.0 by its
executableSha256 (`.runtime-node`, `.server-target`) instead of carrying
bun-runtime, and ships node-pty from the slot's prebuild, only its own
ripgrep, and no Windows Bun PTY gate. The runtime lives beside the slots
at runtimes/node-<sha>/bin/node (node.exe on Windows, upstream name).

- build:orcad (build-orcad-node.mjs) builds the host slot's prebuild when
  missing and places the pinned runtime; the template is schema 3 with
  per-target files.
- handoffToBundledOrcad() resolves the slot's runtime reference and checks
  process.versions.node against the pin; a host Node >= 18 still hands off.
  Startup preflight keys on running as that runtime; callers expect 'node'.
- orcad and its daemon use node-pty (ConPTY + windows-pty-job on Windows);
  the Bun PTY sources, gate entry and canUseBunPty branches are removed.
- SSH deploy uploads the official archive once per pin, extracts and
  hash-checks it on the host, and self-tests it before publishing. Bun
  slots stay launchable for rollback; Node slots never use host Node.
- The runtime materializer is generic over pinned assets; the Bun wrapper
  remains only for the OpenCode vault reader (design Phase 2).
- Cross-runtime test: a profile DB written by Bun 1.4.2 (WAL left by
  SIGKILL) opens and backs up under the pinned Node, and the reverse.

No daemon PROTOCOL_VERSION change (design D7.1 R3).

* docs(ci): name the headless lanes after the pinned Node, drop Bun shard timings

Design D10: ci-demand-rollout.md and ci-runner-efficiency.md follow the
bun-profile-tests.yml -> node-server-tests.yml rename; shard timings drop the
deleted Bun PTY tests and follow the renamed ones.

* chore(ci): count the runtime archive download as a runtime launcher path

* fix(orcad): pin the macOS C++ standard for node-pty prebuilds

The official Node headers' config.gypi sets clang: 0, so common.gypi skips its
gnu++20 xcode_settings and Apple clang 15 (macos-14 runners) compiles
node-addon-api as C++98.

* fix(orcad): resolve the preflight's slot through realpath, as the handoff does

A symlinked orcad.js handed off to its real slot's pinned Node, but the
startup and profile preflights read the symlink's directory, found no
runtime marker there, and silently skipped the readiness check.

* refactor(ssh): drop materializeCachedNodeRuntime, which nothing calls

Deploys upload the verified official archive (design D5); no client path
needs an extracted Node executable cached by digest.

* test(orcad): gate the Bun-to-Node upgrade and Node-to-Bun rollback with live terminals

Design D7.1 R1/R3/R4 and D7.2. The last Bun orcad and this checkout's Node
slot are installed side by side under ~/.orca-remote, launched and stopped
with the client's own deploy commands, and share one data root. Each
direction proves the incoming orcad adopts the outgoing runtime's daemon
(same PID, same shell, output continues), opens its profile database and
backs it up with its own shipped worker, and that GC keeps the slot the
live daemon was forked from.

The node-server Linux lanes provide Bun 1.4.2 and build that Bun orcad
from main, and run with --cross-runtime. --artifact and --cross-runtime
now make their tests fail on a missing input instead of skipping.

* ci(node-server): pin node:24.21.0-alpine by its multi-arch index digest

* test(ssh): name the runtime archive fixture after its role

* test(node-server): load node-pty from the packaged slot in artifact runs

The node-server lane installs dependencies without building node-pty, and
Linux has no upstream prebuild, so the real-PTY failed-I/O teardown test
(picked up by the pty-subprocess selector) could not load pty.node. In
--artifact runs, alias node-pty to out/orcad's shipped slot so the test
exercises the addon orcad actually runs under the pinned Node.

* fix(orcad): let the Windows profile preflight exit after its PTY probe

On Windows, node-pty keeps the conout worker thread and pseudoconsole alive
until kill(), even after the shell exits. The PTY health probe never killed a
cleanly exited probe, so the packaged preflight printed its readiness line
and then hung until the build's 30s timeout, reported with an empty stderr.

- The probe kills its PTY on Windows after exit and uses the bundled ConPTY
  the daemon spawns with.
- The preflight exits once stdout is flushed; its owner reads to EOF.
- Preflight failures now report code, signal, timeout, stdout and stderr.

* test(node-server): load the slot's node-pty in the real-PTY test, not by alias

A vite alias redirected only ESM imports of node-pty; windows-pty-job and
local-pty-utils resolve it through require, so Windows loaded two conpty.node
copies and the Git Bash job-membership proof read an empty job. The failed-I/O
teardown test now loads node-pty through a fixture that picks the packaged slot
in artifact lanes.

The pty-subprocess selector was a prefix that also pulled in its POSIX-host
sibling unit tests, which pr.yml runs and which were never qualified on
Windows. Select the directory plus the two sibling files that belong here.

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Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-Air.localdomain>
2026-10-01 00:39:00 -07:00
4c38cabb4e fix(windows): synchronize native terminal table lifetime (#23257)
* fix(i18n): restore diff note draft catalog entries

* fix(windows): synchronize native terminal table lifetime

* fix(ci): preserve focused Playwright file selection

* test(windows): retain PTY stress failure evidence

* test: isolate hourly identity inputs from release version changes

* test(ci): require focused commands on every platform

Assert each golden platform step and its focused arguments before deduplicating Playwright discovery probes.

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Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-Air.localdomain>
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-09-26 15:11:17 -07:00
OrcaWinandm4air 4b6fe95943 fix(windows): preserve relocated terminals and native process scans (#22872)
* fix(windows): ship the process-table addon to the relocated daemon host

The Windows terminal daemon runs from a copy of the app under
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Orca\daemon-host\<version>. That copy took node-pty but not
@vscode/windows-process-tree, so the daemon's bare require of the addon found
nothing and every process-table read (foreground tracking, descendant sweeps)
fell back to a powershell.exe Get-CimInstance scan (#16905).

- Copy the addon's runtime files (package.json, lib/, the .node binary) into
  the host; the ~25MB of gyp intermediates beside them are filtered out.
- Treat a host missing those files as unmaterialized, so hosts built before
  this are rebuilt, and skip relocation if the install itself lacks them.
- Log the daemon's native/CIM capability at startup and warn once when the
  process table falls back to CIM.

Revives #19525 on current main.

* test(windows): locate update-survival loss before relaunch

* test(windows): preserve daemon tree before update-survival proof

* test(windows): distinguish Electron exit from launcher close timeout

* test(windows): verify process exit when inherited pipes delay close

* test(windows): trace installer process checks in isolated survival runs

* fix(windows): probe process-query capability before installer sweep

* fix(windows): match installer probe and process-check profile behavior

* fix(windows): use NSIS separators for the process-check include

* test(windows): dismiss session-search overlay in survival harness

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Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-Air.localdomain>
2026-09-26 14:31:07 -07:00
OrcaWinandm4air 3a081abf71 fix(persistence): reclaim Windows profile locks after PID reuse (#23122)
* fix(persistence): identify reused Windows profile-owner processes

* fix(persistence): preserve absent-owner recovery without native registry

* ci: build Windows registry before native profile identity checks

* fix(cli): include native profile-owner dependencies in typecheck

* test: register native profile owner test in Windows PR lane

* test: use resilient Windows profile-owner cleanup

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Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-Air.localdomain>
2026-09-26 02:26:10 -07:00
OrcaWin 6fc3cdcad6 Bundle Bun for headless Orca and profile persistence (#22635)
Bundle a pinned, verified Bun runtime for headless Orca so existing Node launch commands can hand off before opening a profile. Keep desktop execution on Electron.

Add the Bun SQLite adapter and terminal backend, bounded shutdown, process inspection and cross-platform artifact qualification. Keep future managed SSH deployment separate from current production launch paths.
2026-09-25 22:49:06 -07:00
OrcaWinandOrca Worker 5f0c5d15d9 perf: collect terminal snapshot replay without wrapper arrays (#20338)
* perf: collect terminal snapshot replay without wrapper arrays

* test: wait for Windows child marker to become removable

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Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
2026-09-12 18:11:41 -07:00
Neil 8c18e42be2 test(ci): replace fixed teardown waits with bounded polls (#19720)
The two flakiest tests on main both guessed at a duration instead of
waiting for the condition.

- windows-pty-job.win32.test.ts assumed job teardown finished in 1.5s;
  under load on a Windows runner it does not. Poll isAlive up to 30s
  instead -- the assertion is unchanged, so a real leak still fails.
- structured-agent-session-claude-options-round-trip.test.ts relied on
  vi.waitFor's 1s default for a two-hop handoff; give it 10s.

Both are test-only and strictly widen an existing wait.
2026-09-09 03:28:29 -07:00
Neil 314506003a fix: retain MSYS shell descendants in their terminal job (#19068)
* fix: retain MSYS shell descendants in their terminal job

* test: complete MSYS regression CI registration and teardown contract

* fix(windows): deny job breakaway for the whole Cygwin/MSYS shell family

The per-PTY job probed only msys-2.0.dll, and only for bash.exe/sh.exe.
Cygwin ships the same spawn.cc breakaway logic under cygwin1.dll, and an
MSYS2 zsh escapes exactly like its bash does, so both kept the orphan bug.

Probe the runtime DLL on the shell's own search path instead of matching
shell names: that is the property that decides whether the runtime will
ask for CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB, and it drops the name special-casing.

* chore(patch): restore the conpty.cc index line

The earlier hand-edit dropped it while every sibling section kept one.
Recomputed against the real blobs: applying this patch to 7b286d3d
yields exactly 4b06d185, so git apply -3 has its fallback back.
2026-09-07 00:35:55 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 1478101342 fix(windows): unblock structured native chat by exposing process creation time (#18986)
* fix(windows): guard process creation times

* fix(windows): ask the relay's bare addon for creation times too

The relay addon build now emits creationTimeMs, but the runtime binding
for the bare addon still declared only CommandLine, so a Windows relay
host requested flag 2 and every row came back without a creation time.
That leaves captureWindowsDescendantSnapshot returning null and
verifyWindowsProcessIdentity false forever on those hosts -- the relay
half of the patch was unreachable.

Naming CreationTime in the adapter is safe because the bare addon is a
content-hashed relay artifact: it ships in the same immutable relay
directory as the bundle reading it, so it can never be older than the
code asking for the bit.

Also bound the win32 guard test on our own row, which the addon can
never fail to answer, so an unconverted FILETIME or a 1601-epoch stamp
fails instead of satisfying a bare count.

* fix(windows): make the compiled addon prove its own CreationTime support

CI caught the real defect: the win32 guard test read
isWindowsProcessStartTimeAvailable() as true and then found 0 rows
carrying creationTimeMs. Unlike node-pty, this package publishes a
prebuilt .node at the same build/Release path node-gyp writes to, so
pnpm patches the source tree and leaves that binary alone. A host then
holds a patched lib/index.js -- ProcessDataFlag.CreationTime and all --
over a binary that ignores flag 4, and neither a load check nor a path
check can see the difference.

So the binary now says so itself: addon.cc exports
supportedProcessDataFlags, lib/index.js re-exports it, and

  - windows-process-tree-creation-time.cjs asserts it during install,
    which is what forces a from-source rebuild. It is shared by the Node
    probe in ensure-native-runtime.mjs and the Electron probe in
    rebuild-native-deps.mjs, exactly as node-pty-job-ownership.cjs is --
    the Electron half matters because that probe decides onlyModules, so
    without it the packaged app would ship the stale prebuilt.
  - isWindowsProcessStartTimeAvailable() gates on the reported bit, not
    the enum. Believing the enum is worse than reporting false: the
    descendant snapshot returns null forever and the exit proof latches
    unverifiable while structured chat believes it has a reaper.

rebuildNodeRuntimeModules could not actually have rebuilt this package:
the patched binding.gyp includes deps/node-addon-api, which the tarball
does not ship, and node-gyp must run from the physical dir.

Also closes the relay repair path's divergence: repairCreationTimeSources
wrote the C++ but not the buildNode splat or the tree-node typing, and
assertPatchApplied checked neither, so a repaired tree passed as patched
with buildProcessTree silently dropping the field.

The guard test is unchanged.

* fix(windows): keep the process-tree patch LF-only

windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs requires the patch file to
carry no CR bytes. Regenerating through pnpm patch-commit emitted 199 of
them, because the creation-time change is the first to touch files the
package ships as CRLF (src/process.h, src/process_worker.cc,
src/addon.cc, lib/index.js, lib/index.ts, the typings) -- and #17886's
own hunks over binding.gyp and src/process_commandline.cc carry the rest.

Stripping them is safe and changes nothing the lockfile records: pnpm
hashes patches CRLF-normalized, so the digest stays
e66202cc623996d02040c93449eb9ae353fddadf426cb53202a59ee710ee6fe7 and now
equals the file's plain sha256 too. It also still applies -- verified
against a deleted store entry, not a warm one -- and the precedent was
already there: the previous patch was LF-only and had been patching
those same CRLF files all along.

ensure-native-runtime.test.mjs stages the siblings the script loads at
module scope into its temp project. The import walk added by #17886 sees
`from './x.mjs'` only, so the createRequire'd .cjs siblings still have to
be named, and this PR adds a second one.

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 13:59:59 -07:00
6494f2a4f0 fix(native-chat): resume a structured chat from Agent Session History (#18933)
* fix(native-chat): resume a structured chat from Agent Session History

Clicking Resume on a chat-UI row could only reveal an already-open tab. If the
chat had been closed, or this process had never published it, the click re-read
an inventory that did not contain it and toasted "Retry in a moment" — advice
that could never come true, because nothing republishes an unpublished tab. The
legacy `claude --resume` fallback is deliberately refused for structured-owned
rows, so the row had no way back at all.

`close` already keeps the record and the journal on disk so a session can be
attached again, and the hold path already resurrects one in full. What was
missing was the tab: `restoreReadableSessions` is latched to run once, at
startup, so nothing could ask for a single session later.

Adds `agentSession.reveal`. The host looks up its own record, restores the
session readable, and republishes the tab through the same call
`agentSession.create` uses. Deliberately narrow:

- It takes no hold. A provider child exists because a surface asked, and the
  chat pane asks when it binds.
- A journal it cannot read is not a refusal. A chat whose journal predates the
  SQLite store restores to nothing here, but attach still recovers it, so the
  tab is published and the pane's hold finishes the job.
- Workspace and provider come from the record, never the client, so a session
  id alone cannot aim the publication at another workspace.

Claude and Codex both, by construction: eligibility is `adapterSupportsRecord`,
which the router answers from the record's own provider.

Gated on a new advertised capability rather than probing for method_not_found,
matching agent-session.structured.hold.v1 — absence is visible during
negotiation instead of by calling.

* fix(native-chat): negotiate reveal against the host that owns the workspace

The capability gate read the LOCAL runtime's advertised capabilities while the
call went to the host that owns the workspace, which for a paired workspace is
a different build. On desktop the renderer and its local host are always the
same build, so the gate passed unconditionally and proved nothing about the
host being called: an older paired host still received the unknown method and
its method_not_found was reported to the user as 'this chat is no longer on
this host'. The cache it read also starts empty and resets to empty when
status.get fails, so 'not fetched yet' and 'unsupported' were the same value.

Gate on the environment that will answer, the way agentSession.close already
does, and skip the round trip entirely for a local host. Reveal now reports
four outcomes instead of a boolean, so a host that is merely too old is not
reported as a chat that is gone, and a host we could not reach keeps the
retryable message.

Also syncs the localization catalog: the 'gone' key shipped without an en.json
entry, which reddens static analysis and verify while typecheck stays green.

* fix(native-chat): tell a refused reveal apart from a missing chat

The host raises two refusals here and they mean opposite things to a user: it
holds no such record, or it holds one no adapter of its own can open. The
client collapsed both into 'this chat is no longer on this host', which is a
eulogy for a chat still sitting on disk. Read the refusal code, and fold the
host-side case in with the too-old host under one honest message, since the
remedy for both is the same.

Adds the coverage the readiness pass found missing: the host's reveal answer
itself (workspace and provider from the record, both refusals, an unreadable
journal, a live session), and the activation branches for a host that cannot
open the chat and for one that never answered.

* fix(native-chat): read a host version block as the host's age, not a lost link

The capability probe reaches assertRuntimeStatusCompatible, which throws a
runtime_compat_block error. Treating that as unreachable told a user with an
out-of-date host to retry, which is the one thing that cannot help. Branch on
isRuntimeCompatBlockError the way remote-agent-session-launch already does for
the same probe.

Also adds the refusal-code case a previous commit claimed and did not deliver:
nothing drove a structured_agent_session_unsupported reply through the reveal
client, which is the branch that commit existed to add. Corrects a doc comment
that reveal made wrong: attach is no longer the only call that builds the host.

* fix(native-chat): let a dragged history row reach the same reveal as a click

Dropping an Agent Session History row onto a pane activated the tab by id and,
on a miss, raised the very toast this PR exists to remove — so the same row
answered a click and a drop differently, and the drop kept the advice that can
never come true. The structured branch never used the drop pane, so routing it
through the shared activation loses nothing and gains the reveal.

The helper only ever read one field, so its parameter narrows to that field and
the drag payload satisfies it directly. A source ratchet holds both entry points
to the reveal-capable path, since a mounted drag harness does not exist for this
layer and what regresses is a call site, not a rendering.

* fix(native-chat): stop an advisory refresh ending the click, and one click per row

Manual QA found the reveal never ran: the inventory refresh that precedes it
is an optimization, but its failure returned early with 'not available yet,
retry in a moment' — reinstating the dead end this PR removes, one step
earlier. A failed refresh now falls through to the reveal, which is the repair
and does not need the refresh to have worked.

The click can chain a refresh, a capability probe, a reveal and a second
refresh, each with its own timeout, while nothing on the row says it is
working. A per-session in-flight guard keeps an impatient second click from
running the whole sequence again and landing its own toast.

Also drops an unreachable owner scope: the snapshot apply discards any
worktree whose execution host is not local before it reads one, so naming a
remote scope there described a synchronisation that cannot happen.

* fix(native-chat): bound the capability probe and stop naming the wrong machine

The in-flight guard releases when the activation settles, so an await that
never settles holds the row for the life of the process. The capability probe
was the one call in the chain not raced against a deadline: on a cache hit it
awaits a promise an earlier probe created, which may carry no deadline of its
own. Race it like the two calls around it.

A version block can name either side — evaluateRuntimeCompat reports
client-too-old as well as host-too-old — so a message that blamed the host
pointed half of those at the wrong machine. Name the remedy instead of the
machine, which is true for every case that reaches it.

* chore: remove a scratch repro file committed by mistake

It was swept into the previous commit by a broad `git add` while a diagnostic
ran in this worktree. It asserts the current renderer-sync defect as expected
behaviour, so it would fail the moment that defect is fixed.

* fix(native-chat): stop a reveal's own inventory refresh discarding its republished tab

Manual QA: the host answered reveal with ok:true and republished the tab, and
the chat still did not reopen — only a renderer reload brought it back.

The renderer publishes under one epoch string for its whole lifetime, and a
frame recorded under a different lineage retires that epoch permanently with
nothing to un-retire it. The Resume click asks for an inventory first, and a
worktree the host holds no entry for answers with the none/v0 sentinel; the
structured path recorded it, retiring the renderer's own epoch, so the tab the
reveal published a moment later was dropped. A reload minted a new epoch,
which is why reloading appeared to fix it.

A frame that carries no publication is not a later publication to fence
against. Treat the sentinel and a removal frame as a cursor reset, the way the
mainstream session-tabs path already clears its tracking — its comment names
this exact hazard: recording that sentinel would retire the host epoch and
reject the next live frame.

Pre-existing, and it swallows an ordinary new-tab launch on an empty worktree
too; the reveal is what turned a silent invisibility into a visible failure.

* fix(native-chat): let a retraction prune its rows without retiring the epoch

Correcting the previous commit. Skipping a retraction frame outright stopped it
pruning the mirrored rows, so a worktree the host no longer publishes would
have kept a chat on screen with nothing behind it. Apply the frame as before
and clear its cursors instead of recording them, which is what the mainstream
session-tabs path does.

The unpublished sentinel keeps its cursor now too: it is skipped rather than
cleared, so a stale frame arriving late is still fenced. Adds the case the
earlier version would have broken.

* fix(native-chat): keep the retraction's fences, and fence the reveal's refresh

Correcting the retraction handling again. Clearing its cursors was more than the
bug needed and cost a guard: the host mints a fresh epoch when it rebuilds a
pruned entry, so a republication is never gated by the retained cursor, while
dropping it left an inventory response issued before the close free to land
afterwards and strand a chat row for a worktree the host no longer publishes.
Skip only the recording. The mainstream path keeps its epoch history for the
same reason, as a tombstone fence.

The test that justified the stronger clearing asserted a host behaviour that
does not exist — a rebuilt entry republishing under the renderer's epoch with a
restarted counter. It now uses what publishStructuredAgentSessionTab actually
mints for a pruned entry, and a new case covers the frame that would strand.

Also fences the reveal's inventory refresh on the sync generation, which every
other caller that applies an inventory already does: structured chat can be
switched off mid-flight, and the answer would otherwise re-seed a row into a
renderer that just discarded them.

* fix(native-chat): drop the retraction's epoch history, keep its version cursor

Third and final shape for this branch, and the only one of the three that holds.

Keeping both maps re-poisons the epoch one cycle later: the consumer here is
also the publisher, so the history's current is the renderer's own lifetime
epoch, and recording the reveal's fresh epoch retires it. The next chat the
renderer publishes is then dropped — this bug again, one close later. Deleting
both loses the guard that stops a frame issued before the close landing after
it and stranding a row nothing republishes.

So: clear the history, keep the cursor. The mainstream path keeps its history
as a tombstone because there the epochs belong to a remote publisher; that
reasoning does not carry to a path that publishes under its own.

Each of the three variants now fails a different test.

* fix(native-chat): a retraction forgets what is current, not the tombstones

The delete lost a fence the cursor cannot replace: the version cursor only
compares within a lineage, so a delayed frame from an already-superseded epoch
had nothing left to stop it putting a chat row back for a worktree the host no
longer publishes. Keeping the record intact had the opposite fault — the
renderer's own epoch is the history's current, so the next frame under any
other epoch retired it.

Clearing only current does neither: noteRetiredValue retires nothing when there
is nothing current, and the tombstones stay. Each of the four shapes now fails
a different test.

* fix(native-chat): narrow the retraction frame through its own type

Typecheck caught what the tests could not: `removed` is not on
RuntimeMobileSessionTabsResult. The repo already names the shape —
RuntimeMobileSessionTabsRemovedResult — so this reads it through a guard rather
than the inline cast the mainstream path uses.

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Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 00:50:20 -07:00
OrcaWinandOrca Worker fc5fa16870 perf(windows): split the process table into two flag sets (#17866)
* perf(windows): split the process table into two flag sets

MDE flags "suspicious memory activity" on the process-table reader: it
opened a handle into every process on the box and read each one's PEB on
a repeating cadence. Two changes narrow that.

Drop `Memory` outright. It cost a second
OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ) plus
GetProcessMemoryInfo per process, and nothing reads a working set off
this table -- the Resource Manager runs its own sweep, and the addon
stores WorkingSetSize into a DWORD so anything above 4 GB wraps.

Split the rest in two. `readWindowsProcessIdentityTable[Fresh]` is a
bare Toolhelp32 walk with zero per-process handles, and returns
`WindowsProcessIdentityRow`, which has no `command` to read.
`readWindowsProcessTable[Fresh]` keeps the command line for the callers
that match on it. PTY root identity and the owner start-time probe move
to the cheap reader; agent recognition, port attribution, codex turn
processes and structured-TUI matching all genuinely need the command
line and stay.

Two independently single-flighted caches, never one per caller: the
fan-out this module prevents is one scan per caller, and each reader
still serves every caller wanting its flag set. The wedge gate and the
3s deadline stay shared, because both readers call the same addon and
one wedged read latches its one `requestInProgress`. With no binding
there is only the 1.4s PowerShell scan to run, so the identity view
rides the detailed snapshot rather than forking a second one.

Measured on Windows 11, 492 processes (p50/p95): identity 6.3/7.0 ms,
detailed 12.3/13.4 ms, previous memory+commandLine 13.1/14.1 ms.

* fix(windows): serialize native process-table reads across flag sets

The two flag-set readers could both be in flight at once, and the
vendored wrapper does not tolerate that. `getRawProcessList` pushes the
callback onto one list and calls the addon only when no request is in
progress, so a second concurrent caller's `flags` are DISCARDED and it
is handed the first caller's rows. Measured against the real addon:
identity issued first, both callers got the same array, 0 of 541 rows
with a command line. A detailed read overlapping an identity read
therefore returned a table with every command line empty, which agent
recognition reads as "no agent" -- silently, and only under concurrency.

Nothing already here excluded that. Each snapshot cache single-flights
only within itself, and the wedge set latches only after a read misses
its 3s deadline, so through the healthy ~12ms of a scan neither reader
excluded the other. Overlap is the normal state: panes poll detailed at
750ms while a teardown takes identity snapshots.

`nativeReadGate` admits one native read at a time across both flag sets.
It also fixes the relay path, where `adaptAddon` has no queue at all and
two simultaneous CreateToolhelp32Snapshot calls are the crash the
vendor's queue exists to prevent. Every link settles, so a wedged read
never strands a waiter; the waiter re-checks the wedge and rejects. With
one call outstanding, retention stays bounded at one callback rather
than one per reader.

Also from review:

- The CIM fallback now belongs to the detailed flag set alone, and the
  identity view projects that snapshot through `toIdentityRow`, so an
  identity row carries no command line on a no-binding host either.
- The concurrency test modelled the wrapper's coalescing queue, which
  the previous synchronous mock could not express; verified failing
  without the gate and passing with it.
- `agent-session-process-identity-probe` early-returns when the
  creation-time flag is unavailable, which no shipped addon build
  provides, instead of scanning the table to produce null.
- Corrected the cost framing: Memory took an OpenProcess(...|VM_READ)
  it never read through, so dropping it halves per-process handle opens
  and leaves the PEB/ReadProcessMemory telemetry unchanged.

* test(windows): keep read exclusion across resets and flag each field

Two review follow-ups, both about tests passing for the wrong reason.

`resetNativeReaderState` replaced the read gate with a resolved promise,
so waiters still holding the old chain ran beside reads queued on the
new one. Reachable only from the `__set*ForTests` hooks, which is what
makes it worth fixing: it hands a suite two concurrent calls into its
own mock addon -- the exact condition the concurrency tests exist to
detect. Chain onto the gate instead; every link settles within the
deadline, so the bounded wait that costs is the right trade.

The coalescing mock shaped every field off the CommandLine bit, so an
identity read that did request CreationTime got `creationTimeMs`
stripped. The identity-side assertion was then only `!('command' in
row)`, which a correctly flagged read and a coalesced one satisfy
equally: a future regression losing identity flags under concurrency
would have kept the case green. Gate each field on its own bit and
assert `creationTimeMs` positively, inside the helper both orderings
share.

Concurrency assertions move to a new bare-addon mock. The coalescing
mock's own latch means it can never report more than one call in
flight, so measuring exclusion there proved nothing; the bare addon has
no queue -- like `adaptAddon` on a relay, where re-entering
CreateToolhelp32Snapshot is a real crash -- and makes re-entry visible.

Verified by deletion: restoring `nativeReadGate = Promise.resolve()`
fails the reset case with `expected 2 to be 1`, and restoring the
single-bit mock fails both overlap orderings on `creationTimeMs`.

* docs(windows): count the third test defect in the list that names them

The section opened "Two defects have now shipped", numbered two, then
described the third in its closing paragraph -- a list that reads as a
complete account while quietly omitting one, which is the exact failure
the section exists to warn about. Say three and number it, and note that
the third arrived inside the fix for the first two.

Also record why the creationTimeMs and flags-array assertions are not
redundant, in the doc and beside the assertions: the flags array catches
a read served another flag set's rows, the positional creationTimeMs
check catches field shaping (identity dropping CreationTime, or
toIdentityRow not forwarding it). Neither sees the other's failure.

* docs(windows): stop describing a PEB read this release removed

Every comment here that justified the flag split in terms of PEB reads became
false when the command-line reader moved to the kernel. Left alone, the
enumeration doc contradicted itself inside one file: the flag-set section
described three chained `ReadProcessMemory` calls per process while the
sections below it explained that the addon contains no such primitive and has
no PEB fallback.

The measurement is now attributed rather than merged. Dropping `Memory` halved
the per-process handle opens and nothing else -- both handles carried
`PROCESS_VM_READ` at the time -- and it was replacing the PEB walk that took
`PROCESS_VM_READ` and `ReadProcessMemory` out of the addon. Neither change
substitutes for the other, which is worth keeping straight: the split's
remaining value is the handle itself, not the memory access.

Also adds `relay/windows-port-scan.ts` to the caller table, the one caller this
effort introduced, and records that it reads only pid/name through the detailed
reader -- free while a pane is polling, not free on a headless relay.

* test(windows): pin the fresh links path against the identity TTL cache

The identity and detailed tables are separate snapshot readers with
independent TTLs, so the detailed path's existing freshness guard says
nothing about the ancestry walk's. Cover the identity reader on its own.

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2026-09-05 21:42:34 -07:00
OrcaWinandOrca Worker 975bbdedcc fix(windows): scan ports natively instead of encoded PowerShell (#17861)
* fix(windows): scan ports natively instead of encoded PowerShell

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint scored the relay's Windows port scan as
suspicious PowerShell plus network discovery (T1049). The command line was
`-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -EncodedCommand <base64>` around a
Get-NetTCPConnection/Get-Process join -- base64 next to a policy override is
the highest-weighted token pair on a PowerShell command line, and netstat only
ever ran as its fallback.

Invert the chain. `netstat.exe -ano` is now the primary reader and the owning
process name comes from the shared native process table, which exists to keep
PID lookups off PowerShell. The payload survives only as a last resort, and
without the override: execution policy gates script files, never `-Command`,
so nothing needed it (verified: `-ExecutionPolicy Restricted -Command` runs).

Drop `-p tcp` while inverting: on Windows that protocol name means IPv4 only,
so as a primary reader it would have hidden every `[::]` listener the payload
used to report. Names arrive as `sshd.exe` from the table and are published as
`sshd`, keeping the sshd filter and old clients' rendering intact.

Routes both spawns through runProcess, removing the file from the
child_process and windowsHide ratchets.

* fix(windows): read netstat state by shape and refuse a truncated table

Review of the port-scan inversion found two ways the new primary path could
be silently wrong, both of which would have kept the flagged PowerShell
payload running on exactly the hosts this change targets.

`LISTENING` is not in netstat.exe. It lives in System32\<locale>\netstat.exe.mui
and MUI selection follows the UI language, so the pinned-locale env in
relay-command-env.ts cannot reach it -- a German host prints `ABHOEREN` and the
word test parsed zero rows. The zero-listeners guard then read that as a
blocked reader and ran `Get-NetTCPConnection` every 12-30s forever, or returned
nothing at all where PowerShell is also restricted. Keep the word as the fast
path and, when it finds nothing over output that did contain TCP rows, re-read
by shape: only a listening socket has no peer. Measured on this host across all
four states present (LISTENING 47, ESTABLISHED 49, CLOSE_WAIT 29, TIME_WAIT
213): zero non-listening rows with a zero peer, zero listening rows without
one, and the same 47 rows parse after substituting the German state words.
Shape stays the fallback because `BOUND` also prints a zero peer.

Truncation was invisible: createOutputSink discards overflow, ProcessResult
carries no flag, so a capped read still exits 0 and its head still parses.
netstat orders IPv4 TCP, then IPv6 TCP, then UDP, so a host with tens of
thousands of TIME_WAIT rows would have lost every `[::]` listener -- the exact
loss dropping `-p tcp` exists to prevent, and one the zero-listeners guard
cannot see. Refuse the read instead. A `truncated` flag on the shared sink
would be cleaner and is left as a follow-up rather than widened into this PR.

Also: decline to wait on the shared process table once the request is aborted
(it takes no signal and must not be cancelled for other callers); note the
name lookup as best-effort, since a TTL-cached snapshot can hand a recycled
PID its previous owner name; log once on either fall-through, because both are
permanent and invisible when wrong; and drop a stderr assertion that any
PowerShell autoload banner would redden.

Correcting the cost claim in the previous commit: the aggregate win holds with
the native addon (netstat 21ms vs the retired payload 860ms at 532 processes),
not without it. The addon is optional, the snapshot TTL is 500ms and the scan
cadence is 12-30s, so a relay with no active agent pane never warms its own
cache and pays ~1.4s cold on the CIM path -- slower than what it replaced.

* fix(windows): log the port-scan fall-through on the relay diagnostic stream

Checked where this code actually runs before trusting the log. `console.warn`
did reach a file, but relayLogLine is the right call and the reasoning is worth
recording.

`scanWindowsListeningPorts` runs only in the detached relay daemon: relay.ts
returns early for --connect and --orca-cli, so PortScanHandler is reached only
through runRelayDaemon, and both launchers start it detached with a log file
(POSIX `> relay.log 2>&1`, Windows `1>relay.log 2>relay.err.log` via
Win32_Process.Create). installRelayLogRotation then wraps both streams into
relay.log, which is the file the documented diagnostics tail reads. Verified by
installing the real rotation over a temp path and reading the file back.

So the line surfaced -- but untimestamped, in a log whose format exists so
reconnect flaps can be correlated with the events around them (#7773).
relayLogLine is that format and the relay idiom in 41 other places, and
"since when has this host been stuck on PowerShell" is most of what this line
is for. The test spies on process.stderr to pin the stream and the ISO stamp
rather than just asserting something was called, since a fall-through logged
somewhere unread is the failure being guarded against.

Also fixes a comment that ended its own block early: `relay-*/relay.log` in a
doc comment contains `*/`.

* fix(windows): keep the dominant zero-peer state when reading a localized netstat

Shape alone promoted any zero-peer TCP row, not just listeners. `BOUND` and
`CLOSED` print a zero peer too, and on a localized host their state words are
exactly as unreadable as the listening one -- so a German host with listeners
plus one BOUND socket published a phantom listener. Reachable on an English
host too: with zero listeners a lone BOUND row is promoted AND, because the
result is then non-empty, it suppresses the blocked-reader fall-through.

Group the zero-peer rows by state word and keep only the largest group. A
transient BOUND or CLOSED socket cannot outnumber the listeners (51 against 0
on this host), so this removes the class rather than special-casing the words,
which would just be the localization bug again. An exact tie keeps every tied
group rather than guessing -- no worse than reading shape alone.

Verified against real netstat output: injecting a BOUND row into the localized
capture leaves the result identical to the English answer (47 rows, no phantom
65001). The new test has teeth -- reverting the grouping fails it and nothing
else.

Corrects two claims that were slightly wrong: the docblock said shape was the
fallback because BOUND prints a zero peer, which described the hazard without
saying it was unhandled; and a test comment said an English host "never sees a
bound socket", true only when it has at least one readable LISTENING row.

Also gates the fall-through log per reason instead of per module, so a host
that parses nothing today and truncates tomorrow reports both faults. Same
one-shot cost, and the vocabulary is two fixed strings so the set cannot grow.
That guard matters more than it looks: --log-file rotates stdout only, so the
file stderr can land in is unrotated.

* docs(windows): note the direction the zero-peer majority rule can fail in

The docblock described the tie case and stopped there, which reads as a
complete account of the limits when it is not: a majority rule inverts if the
majority is wrong, and enough transient zero-peer sockets would publish the
phantoms and drop the real listeners. Someone would reasonably have concluded
the rule was safe in both directions.

Trigger numbers and the repro stay in the PR discussion; the code only needs
the reader to know the rule has a direction, and the hatch (defer to the
PowerShell reader, which reads the state word instead of inferring it) since
that is the part a future editor would otherwise re-derive.

* ci(windows): run the real-netstat port scan suite in CI

The win32 suite only self-skips off Windows, so it passed vacuously in
every lane. Register it the way the cmd-shim suite is registered.

* test(windows): lower both child-process ratchets to the ground this PR took

Migrating the port scan off `node:child_process` onto `runProcess` drops
`src/relay/windows-port-scan.ts` from both allowlists, so both offender
counts fall by one. Each ratchet pins the count from below as well as
above, so a pin left above reality fails and re-opens room for the next
direct import to land for free.

* docs(windows): qualify the no-PowerShell claim on the netstat scan

The scan starts no PowerShell of its own, but no released relay carries the
optional `windows-process-tree.node` addon (only dev-channel-win-build.yml
builds it), so the shared process-table read falls back to a CIM scan that
forks one `powershell.exe`. The EDR win is the removal of the
`-EncodedCommand` / `-ExecutionPolicy Bypass` shape, not the elimination of
PowerShell. Comment-only.

* docs(windows): record the identity-reader follow-up and the perf table's addon

attachWindowsProcessNames reads only `name`, so it should move to
`readWindowsProcessIdentityTable` once #17866 lands -- on that PR's detailed
reader it would open per-process handles for a field it discards. The reader
does not exist on this branch, so the call stays as-is with the follow-up
recorded rather than pulling #17866 in.

The process-table perf table's two Toolhelp32 rows assume the optional
`windows-process-tree.node` addon. The desktop bundles it; no released relay
does, so on an SSH host the CIM row is the operative number. Comment-only.

* docs(windows): state the CIM scan as the relay's normal path, not a fallback

No released relay carries the optional `windows-process-tree.node` addon --
release-cut.yml has zero references to it and only dev-channel-win-build.yml
builds it -- so the PowerShell CIM scan is what every SSH host runs. The
call-site docstring read as a conditional fallback standalone. Comment-only.

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Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
2026-09-05 21:12:59 -07:00
bfc6a262a7 fix(windows): read command lines from the kernel, not each process's PEB (#17886)
* fix(windows): read command lines from the kernel, not each process's PEB

MDE incident D scored Orca for suspicious memory activity: the vendored
`@vscode/windows-process-tree` recovered every process's command line by
opening it with `PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ` and chaining
three `ReadProcessMemory` calls through the PEB and
`RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS`. On a 750ms/2s cadence over the whole table that
is the credential-dumping primitive, whatever the intent.

Windows 8.1 added `NtQueryInformationProcess`'s `ProcessCommandLineInformation`
class (60), which returns the same string as a kernel-built `UNICODE_STRING`
under `PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION` alone. Electron's floor is Windows
10, so every supported OS has it. The PEB reader stays behind a process-wide
latch that only `STATUS_INVALID_INFO_CLASS`/`NOT_SUPPORTED`/`NOT_IMPLEMENTED`
can set; a pid that merely denied a handle does not re-arm it, because
`PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION` implicitly grants the limited right and so cannot
be obtained where the weaker open already failed.

The same hunk drops `PROCESS_VM_READ` from `GetProcessMemoryUsage` and
`GetCpuUsage`, which acquired it and never read an address space.

Measured on Windows 11 (514 processes), counted in-process by swapping the
addon's import table entries for counting stubs, per CommandLine scan:
`ReadProcessMemory` 1128 -> 0, desired access 0x0410 -> 0x1000, p50 12.7ms ->
9.3ms. Command lines were byte-identical on every process both readers
recovered (376/376, 379/379 across runs), including a 24,068-character argv
with quotes, non-ASCII and trailing whitespace, and a WOW64 target. Three
processes that refused the old rights granted the new one; none went the other
way.

* chore(deps): refresh the windows-process-tree patch hash in the lockfile

* fix(windows): drop the PEB fallback and detect the unpatched prebuilt

Review of #17886 found three ways the reader could still perform, or silently
resume, the primitive it exists to remove.

The class-missing latch was a permanent, process-wide, one-way downgrade back
to the PEB read, and any single target returning STATUS_INVALID_INFO_CLASS /
NOT_SUPPORTED / NOT_IMPLEMENTED could trip it. On an EDR-hooked ntdll -- the
entire premise of this change -- a hook that does not recognise class 60 would
have restored PROCESS_VM_READ plus three ReadProcessMemory per pid per scan for
the life of the process, unobservably, on precisely the machines this was
written for. The fallback is deleted rather than guarded: GetProcessCommandLine
now returns false and leaves the command line empty, which callers already
handle, so the addon imports no ReadProcessMemory at all.

That absence is what makes the property checkable on the artifact. The
published 0.8.0 tarball ships a loadable prebuilt built from unpatched source;
it is node-addon-api, so a bare require() accepts it, allowBuilds is false and
CI installs with --ignore-scripts, and a rebuild that soft-exits on a Windows
file lock leaves it in place. Source-text guards could never see it.
windowsProcessTreeAddonReadsProcessMemory() checks the compiled binary instead,
and is wired into the install check, the rebuild, and the relay build.

The repair itself never worked: `git apply` run inside a work tree prefixes
patch paths with the cwd-relative prefix, skips what does not match, and exits
0, so the branch always fell through to its own post-check throw. The package
dir is always under the project root, while the fixture that covered it was in
%TEMP%, outside any repo. Blinding git with GIT_DIR fixes it, and the test now
runs inside a real work tree.

Also from review: bounds-check the returned UNICODE_STRING against the
allocation (not the size the second query clobbers) and cap the probe so a
bogus length cannot bad_alloc a whole scan; test NT_SUCCESS explicitly; value-
initialize ProcessInfo, which left `memory` as stack garbage -- measured, 82
processes reported the same bogus working set; and correct a comment in
windows-process-table.ts that still described the command line as a PEB read.

Re-measured on Windows 11 (543 processes): ReadProcessMemory 1128 -> 0, with
the symbol absent from the import table so the IAT hook finds no slot to
count; desired access 0x0410 -> 0x1000 on all 543 opens; p50 13.5 -> 12.3ms;
405/405 command lines byte-identical including a 24,087-character quoted
non-ASCII argv and a WOW64 target; 3 processes recovered only by the new path,
0 only by the old.

* chore(deps): refresh the windows-process-tree patch hash in the lockfile

* test(scripts): stage a script's local imports into the native-runtime fixture

ensure-native-runtime.mjs gained an import of windows-process-tree-gyp-rebuild.mjs,
but the fixture copied only the script itself, so every case in the suite died
with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND before reaching its own assertions. copyScriptWithLocalModules
already walks a script's co-located imports for exactly this reason -- its own doc
comment names this failure -- so use it rather than listing files by hand.

The two Windows cases still fail here, on a missing node-pty ConPTY runtime that
also fails on main; this only stops a resolution error from standing in front of
whatever they were meant to catch.

* fix(windows): route a locked stale addon to the Windows file-lock message

`pnpm install` with Orca running aborted with a raw EPERM stack. The stale-binary
guard -- which deletes an addon that still imports ReadProcessMemory so a skipped
rebuild cannot use it -- ran outside the try whose catch classifies Windows file
locks, and whose message is literally "Close running Orca/Electron/dev processes
for this worktree": exactly this situation.

Measured rather than assumed: rmSync against a loaded (memory-mapped) addon throws
EPERM, and `force: true` does not help, since it only swallows ENOENT. Cold copies
of the same file delete fine. So the delete threw a page before the handler that
knows what it means.

Moving the guard inside the try is the whole fix; the classifier already matches
the EPERM text. The new case runs the real script against a temp project whose
stale addon is held open by a live child process, and fails against the old
placement with the raw `syscall: 'rm'` stack the report described.

* feat(windows): warn once when command-line recovery is refused host-wide

Removing the PEB fallback removed a total-defeat vector, but it left a cliff: if
NtQueryInformationProcess(ProcessCommandLineInformation) is refused -- a hooked
ntdll that does not know class 60 -- every command line comes back empty and
agent identity matching silently degrades to image names. The addon still loads
and still enumerates, so every health check the app has stays green. A cliff
nobody can see is the failure mode this area keeps producing.

The querying process is the unambiguous probe. A process can always open itself
with PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION, so its own command line coming back empty
means the query is refused for every process -- not that some target denied a
handle, which is normal for roughly a quarter of the table. Keying on our own row
rather than a fraction means no threshold to tune and no false positive on a
hardened box where most processes deny.

One warning per session, gated on the CommandLine flag actually being requested so
a future identity-only reader cannot trip it. The suite's own SELF fixture gains a
command line for the same reason: a self row without one is the alarm, not a
detail.

* fix(windows): check the relay's staged addon at load, and answer tri-state

Two gaps in the ReadProcessMemory check, both about what it does not see.

It only ever looked at node_modules/@vscode/windows-process-tree. A relay host
has no node_modules of ours: it loads ./windows-process-tree.node staged beside
the bundle. The relay build asserts the symbol on the artifact it produces, but a
bundle and the addon beside it redeploy independently, so a host that has not
taken a new bundle keeps whatever binary is already there -- and the published
prebuilt is node-addon-api, so it binds cleanly and then walks every process's
address space. loadWindowsProcessTree now checks that file too and refuses it,
falling back to the CIM scan: slower, but not the thing an EDR quarantines a host
for. The predicate is duplicated rather than imported, because the config-script
copy is install-time tooling that drags in node-gyp and child_process, and this
module is bundled into the app and the relay.

And it returned false for a binary that is not there. All three callers happened
to be safe, but the name read as a safety predicate, so a future caller would take
a missing binary as verified. inspectWindowsProcessTreeAddon() now answers
clean/unpatched/missing over an explicit binary path -- which is also what lets
the relay's staged addon be checked at all -- and each caller states which state
it acts on.

Both are covered by cases that fail against the old code: without the load-time
check the unpatched staged addon is bound and the CIM fallback never runs, and
with 'missing' folded back into 'clean' the absence case fails outright.

* test(windows): load the addon in beforeAll, not at collection time

loadAddon() ran while the file was being collected, so on a Windows checkout with
no built addon the require threw before any case existed and took the seven
patch-text cases down with it -- cases that read only the patch file and need no
binary at all. Verified both ways against a deliberately unresolvable addon path:
at collection time vitest reports "no tests" for the file; from beforeAll the
seven text cases pass and only the three addon cases go.

* fix(deps): normalize the windows-process-tree patch to LF and let pnpm own its hash

`pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` failed on this branch on every platform with
ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH, which breaks CI and the release build.

Two coupled defects. The patch file was committed with CRLF -- 174 CR bytes,
against zero on main -- and `.gitattributes` pins `/config/patches/*.patch -text`
precisely so checkout cannot convert it, so those bytes reached every runner. And
pnpm hashes a patch **LF-normalized**, so the raw sha256 of a CRLF file is a value
pnpm never computes:

  raw sha256      322965470c05f63d8527f7d8e892ee26ee444136b66b57fd64c362a9f2ff05d1
  LF-normalized   f8ea245391c94da5770045aeea01fa6de466c2199c6ef46b5b769b398aa9823e

The lockfile carried the raw one, at all three sites. It is the only one of the
seven patches where the two digests differ, which is why the other six passed.

Normalized the patch to LF and took pnpm's own value from
`pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile`; nothing here is hand-computed. With the file
LF-only the two interpretations coincide, so the lockfile, the contract test's
no-CR assertion and its hash assertion all agree at one number -- and
`config/scripts/windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs`, which was red on
this branch for the same reason, is green again. The lockfile diff is exactly the
three hash lines.

The regression check is the installer, not a digest. Two separate reviews
"verified" the shipped hash by recomputing sha256(patchBytes) and matching the
lockfile; both were wrong, because both repeated the same wrong assumption about
which bytes pnpm hashes. A check that reproduces the original mistake is not
independent. So the new case runs `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --lockfile-only
--ignore-scripts` against a copy of the manifest, lockfile and patches, and
asserts exit 0 -- verified by deletion: restoring the shipped hash fails it with
the exact ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH from the branch's package (windows)
job.

Also corrected the `.gitattributes` comment claiming pnpm hashes patches
byte-for-byte. The `-text` setting is right -- `git apply` needs the exact bytes --
but that sentence is the claim that produced the wrong hash twice.

* ci(windows): run the process-tree patch suites in CI

Both suites only self-skip off Windows, so the binary-level check that the
addon carries no ReadProcessMemory passed vacuously in every lane.

* fix(windows): force core.autocrlf=input for the patch repair

My LF normalization of the windows-process-tree patch broke the `git apply`
repair path introduced in this PR. The two are coupled and I checked only one.

Those 174 CR bytes were not editor noise. They sat on exactly the pre-image
lines and nowhere else -- 107/107 in src/process.cc, 67/67 in
src/process_commandline.cc, 0 on every added or context line -- because
@vscode/windows-process-tree@0.8.0 ships those two sources as CRLF. Normalizing
the patch made its pre-image stop matching the file it is applied against.

Measured, reconstructing the true CRLF pre-image from the pre-normalization
blob and applying the current LF patch:

  core.autocrlf   plain   -c core.autocrlf=input
  true            exit 0  exit 0
  input           exit 0  exit 0
  false           exit 1  exit 0

`false` is Git's own built-in default and what "checkout as-is" selects in the
Git for Windows installer -- on this box the `true` that hides it comes from the
installer's system gitconfig, not from anything in the repo. There the repair
throws, ensureWindowsProcessTreeCommandLinePatch reports "still reads the PEB,
and repairing it ... failed", isWindowsNativeLockError does not match that text,
and `pnpm install` dies with no path forward.

Forcing the mode rather than `--ignore-whitespace`: both fix every cell and both
leave the applied file fully LF, but `input` relaxes line endings only, so a hunk
whose real content drifted is still rejected. The repair rewrites a
security-relevant source file; it should stay strict about everything except the
thing that is legitimately ambiguous.

Not reverting the patch to CRLF: windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs
(pre-existing on main) forbids CR bytes in it, and pnpm computes the same hash
either way. LF plus the forced mode is the end state.

The suite could not have caught this. The fixture built its pre-image from the
patch itself and joined with '\n', so fixture and patch agreed by construction on
any encoding -- once again a test that passes without its fix. It now emits the
CRLF the real package ships, and the case runs under both autocrlf modes pinned
through a temp HOME gitconfig, because the repair blinds git to the repo and so
reads global config. Verified by deletion in both directions: with the flag
removed the autocrlf=false case fails with the exact "still reads the PEB" dead
end while autocrlf=true still passes, and with the fixture back on LF all eight
cases pass with no fix present at all.

Also corrected the .gitattributes comment I added last commit. It said `git
apply` needs the bytes the patch was written against, which is now false -- the
pinned bytes are LF and the bytes it was written against are CRLF. That is the
same class of confident-and-wrong claim that produced the bad hash twice.

* fix(windows): assert the rebuilt addon, and install the patch for real in tests

Three follow-ups from review.

**The packaged binary had no check.** The relay build asserts its own artifact
and ensure-native-runtime asserts what it loads, but nothing looked at the addon
copied into the packaged app -- so a rebuild that silently produced the upstream
reader shipped. `rebuild-native-deps.mjs` now asserts `clean` on it after
`rebuild()`. This is also the caller D4's tri-state was missing: every existing
site branches on `=== 'unpatched'`, so `missing` still behaved exactly like
`clean` everywhere, which was the thing making it a state rather than a boolean.
Here both non-clean states fail, and they fail differently: after a rebuild that
reported success, an absent binary is a broken build, not an absence to shrug at.

The fake `rebuild()` had to start producing a binary for that to mean anything,
so it now emits stand-in bytes and takes `addon: 'clean' | 'unpatched' | 'none'`.
Verified by deletion: with the assertion removed both new cases pass.

**The frozen-install case could not see a patch at all.** `--lockfile-only`
resolves and never applies one, so its coverage stops at hash consistency. Added
a case that installs `@vscode/windows-process-tree@0.8.0` for real with the patch
and asserts the materialized `src/process_commandline.cc` carries the marker and
no longer carries `ReadProcessMemory` -- about 1.5s for the pair.

Correcting the brief on that one: it does **not** catch the `git apply` breakage
from the previous commit. Measured -- with `-c core.autocrlf=input` removed it
passes cleanly, because `pnpm install` uses pnpm's own patch applier and never
runs our repair script. What it does catch is a patch pnpm can no longer apply:
corrupting one pre-image line fails both cases. The repair path stays covered by
the CRLF fixture in rebuild-native-deps-node-pty.test.mjs.

Worth recording, since it decides whether the LF normalization was safe at all:
pnpm applies the LF patch to the CRLF tarball sources without complaint, and
materializes them as LF with the marker present and `ReadProcessMemory` absent.
The primary install path was never affected -- only the `git apply` fallback was.

**Dead timeout.** The frozen-install case passed `timeoutMs: 300_000` to the
spawn while vitest capped the case itself at 30s, so on a cold runner vitest
would have killed it first. Both cases now declare the budget they use.

* test(windows): route the frozen-install check through the pnpm invocation owner

The new patched-dependencies check hand-rolled a PATH walk naming 'pnpm.cmd',
which the windows batch shim spawn boundary ratchet rejects: pnpm-cli-invocation
already owns that decision for every other script, and its allowlist only
shrinks.

Reuse resolvePnpmCliInvocation for the command and prefixArgs, and the shared
resolveCliCommand for the presence check, so no shim name is spelled here. Its
`shell` flag is dropped because runProcessSync refuses it and already drives a
shim through the interpreter itself.

---------

Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-05 21:12:47 -07:00
Neil f7e3af254a fix(pty): close the pseudoconsole and dispose the conout worker on Windows self-exit (F24) (#18635)
* fix(pty): close the pseudoconsole when a Windows shell exits by itself

`ClosePseudoConsole` is the only thing that reaps a ConPTY's console host.
node-pty calls it from one place, `PtyKill`, which starts by looking the baton
up by id -- and the exit watcher in `SetupExitCallback` erased that baton the
moment the shell died. So on the self-exit path (typing `exit`, how panes
usually close) the lookup missed, `PtyKill` did nothing at all, and the
pseudoconsole was never closed.

The baton now survives until BOTH the shell has exited and `kill()` has run;
whichever arrives second frees it. `PtyKill` copies `hpc` out under the lock and
closes it afterwards, guards `TerminateProcess` on a shell handle the watcher
may already have closed, and duplicates that handle rather than reordering, so
upstream's close-then-terminate sequence is unchanged.

Measured on Windows 11, 20 self-exit cycles driven exactly as Orca drives them
(`onExit -> destroy()`), handles bucketed by NT object type:

  relay spawn (no useConptyDll)   225 -> 285 (+1 Process +2 File/term)
                            after 219 -> 219  FLAT

  desktop spawn (useConptyDll)    239 -> 439 (+1 Process +2 Thread +5 File/term)
                            after 235 -> 395 (+2 Thread +4 File/term)

The desktop residue is a separate defect in the `useConptyDll` branch of
`WindowsPtyAgent.kill()`, which disposes the conout worker only from an
`_outSocket.on('data')` handler -- and no data arrives after the shell has gone.
Fixing that line as well takes the desktop to 222 -> 222 FLAT, but it lives in
the `kill()` hunk owned by F23, so it is left to that change.

Refs F24.

* fix(pty): dispose the conout worker when a Windows shell exits by itself

Second, independent defect on the same self-exit path, and the larger half of
the desktop's leak. The `useConptyDll` branch of `WindowsPtyAgent.kill()`
disposed the conout worker only from an `_outSocket.on('data')` handler -- and
once the shell has gone no more data ever arrives, so the worker was never
disposed. The non-DLL branch three lines above already disposed unconditionally,
which is why only the desktop (the only spawner that sets `useConptyDll`) hit it.

Measured on Windows 11, 20 cycles, handles bucketed by NT object type, totals:

  self-exit,     relay spawn     225 -> 285   now  219 -> 219  FLAT
  self-exit,     desktop spawn   239 -> 439   now  222 -> 222  FLAT
  explicit kill, relay spawn     225 -> 285   now  219 -> 219  FLAT
  explicit kill, desktop spawn   235 -> 395   now  219 -> 219  FLAT

Neither fix alone is enough on the desktop: the pseudoconsole close is worth
+1 Process +1 File per terminal, this dispose +2 Thread +4 File.

The relay asset (config/relay-assets/node-pty-1.1.0-windows-pty-teardown-patch.cjs)
deliberately gets no counterpart: the relay takes the non-DLL branch, where the
dispose is already unconditional. Its reconstruction table needs the new hunk
though, or un-applying the desktop hunks no longer yields published node-pty.

Taken over from F23 at win-relay-qa's request after they verified that the
desktop never executes the non-DLL branch F23 was scoped around.

Refs F24.

* fix(pty): harden PtyKill against a failed handle duplication and a missing DLL

Both from review of #18635.

DuplicateHandle's result was dropped. On the live explicit-kill path a failed
duplication left hShellDup null, which the guard below could not tell apart from
the self-exit case, so TerminateProcess was skipped and the shell kept running
after its pane closed -- a worse outcome than the handle leak this patch exists
to fix. The failure now terminates through handle->hShell under the lock, where
it is valid and where TerminateProcess does not block. The only cost is that the
rare path kills before the console closes instead of after.

LoadConptyDll is now resolved BEFORE any baton state is touched, matching what
PtyConnect already does for the same reason. It throws when conpty.dll is
missing, and a throw after consoleClosed was set would strand the pseudoconsole
permanently: the retry finds the work claimed and does nothing.

Also corrects three comments the earlier commits made stale:
  - the ptyJobMutex note still said PtyKill reads the table unlocked
  - PtyListJobProcessIds said the baton is gone once the shell exits; it now
    outlives the shell, and the nulled hJob is what makes the answer null
  - windows-pty-job.ts said node-pty drops its handle record on exit

Re-measured on Windows 11 with the rebuilt binary, 20 cycles, all four paths
still flat: self-exit relay 219->219, self-exit desktop 222->222, explicit-kill
relay 219->219, explicit-kill desktop 219->219. Both explicit-kill runs report
22/22 shells exited, so the kill still lands.

Refs F24.
2026-09-04 05:32:19 -07:00
Neil 7b530f1eb5 fix(crash-reporting): record Orca-initiated tree kills so a killed renderer is decidable (#18367)
* fix(windows): refuse tree-kills of Orca's own Chromium pids and record the rest

G2 is 20 field reports that share only a symptom. It is at least four
fingerprints: ~15 Windows `reason=killed exitCode=1`, 3 POSIX SIGKILL under
memory pressure (G4-oom), 2 duplicate reports of one macOS V8 Proxy Resolver
SIGKILL, and 1 `0x80000003` install-dir ACL crash (G1; #17740 ships in
v1.4.196 only, not 1.4.195). Nothing here claims to fix all of them.

Two changes:

1. Behaviour. `classifyWindowsTreeKillTarget` returns `own` for any direct
   child of the main process — which our renderer, GPU and network-service
   utility all are — so PTY teardown could `taskkill /T /F` Orca's own UI
   (#10680). Both that classifier and `terminateWindowsProcessTree` now refuse
   any pid Electron is currently accounting for in `getAppMetrics()`.

2. Diagnosis. An Orca-issued kill and an external one are byte-identical in
   every field the crash report records today, so the cluster is undecidable.
   Every main-process force-kill choke point now records a durable
   `self_tree_kill` breadcrumb, and `process_gone` reports carry
   `selfInitiatedTreeKills` naming the pid and its offset from the death.
   A refused kill records `self_tree_kill_refused_own_chromium`, which is
   falsifiable: if it ever shows up in the field, we were the killer.

* fix(crash-reporting): coalesce self-kill breadcrumbs and scope the discriminator

Round-1 review remediation. Three blocking findings, all accepted.

1. Breadcrumb flood (accepted). recordSelfInitiatedTreeKill wrote an
   uncoalesced durable crumb from two routine teardown paths, and the
   reviewer reproduced 12 terminal closes x 3 process groups completely
   evicting the 30-slot ring — including this PR's own refusal crumb — plus a
   forced writeSync per killed group. It now uses the existing
   recordCoalescedDurableCrashBreadcrumb (5s window for pid-addressed
   taskkills, 60s for routine group/job teardown), so a burst costs one ring
   slot and one flush. The refusal crumb is coalesced per victim pid, so a
   retry loop cannot flood while a distinct pid always gets its own crumb.
   Regression test replays the reviewer's exact 12x3 reproduction and asserts
   the refusal crumb and a pre-existing gpu_process_crashed both survive.

2. Undifferentiated count (accepted). posix-process-group and win-pty-job are
   structurally incapable of reaching a Chromium process, and scope was absent
   from the persisted string. Scope is now in every entry
   (`<scope>/<site>/pid<N> +Nms`), and the count is split:
   selfInitiatedTreeKillCount now counts only pid-addressed taskkills — the
   kills that can land on a recycled pid that is now our renderer — with
   pty-scoped sweeps in selfInitiatedGroupKillCount. The list is renamed
   selfInitiatedKills because it carries both, and sorts pid-addressed kills
   first so truncation never drops the discriminating ones for teardown noise.
   The reviewer's repro (routine macOS terminal close + unrelated exit-133
   crash) now yields selfInitiatedTreeKillCount undefined.

3. Recording gaps and a false comment (accepted). New
   admitSelfInitiatedTreeKill gate: it refuses own-Chromium pids and records
   the rest, and all three main-process taskkill families now go through it —
   terminateWindowsProcessTree plus codex-accounts/service.ts and
   claude-accounts (which keep their own spawn lifetimes). The false "single
   taskkill choke point" comment is gone. The runProcess choke point the
   investigation asked for is instrumented via a
   setProcessTreeKillObserver seam in src/shared/child-process — shared code
   runs in the CLI and relay so it cannot import the main breadcrumb store —
   registered in main preflight. The codex app-server POSIX group teardowns
   and the claude POSIX branch record too. The module doc no longer claims
   absence is discriminating: it enumerates what is instrumented and names the
   direct process.kill(-pid) sites that are not.

Non-blocking, also fixed:
- Breadcrumb calls moved out of the try blocks whose catch is the ESRCH
  contract (posix-pty-process-groups, codex teardown, claude POSIX), so a
  throw from the diagnostic path can never be reported as a failed kill.
- Detail truncation now bounds the first entry too, matching its comment.
- own-chromium-tree-kill-refusal.test.ts renamed to
  own-chromium-tree-kill-guard.test.ts, colocated with the module it tests.

Not changed, with reasons:
- Date.now() vs performance.now(): kept. Offsets are computed against
  goneAt = Date.now() in process-gone-recorder; a monotonic clock here would
  make the offsets meaningless. The reviewer verified this and agreed it is
  not a defect.
- app.getAppMetrics() per force-kill remains unbenchmarked. It reads
  in-process browser state rather than enumerating the OS process table, and a
  TTL cache would let a recycled pid slip past the refusal, so it stays
  uncached.
- The ~15 remaining direct process.kill(-pid) sites (browser routes,
  notebooks, automation prechecks, ephemeral VM recipes) are not instrumented.
  Rather than claim coverage this PR does not have, the module doc names them.

claude-command-process.ts crossed the 300-line cap, so terminateClaudeProcess
moved to claude-login-process-termination.ts. No max-lines suppression added.

* fix(crash-reporting): scope the self-kill guard to its real host topology

Round-2 review findings on the own-Chromium tree-kill guard.

BLOCKING 1 — "the own-Chromium refusal is a no-op in the process that issues
the pty-descendant-sweep taskkill". Correct on the mechanism, wrong on the
consequence; REBUTTED in part and documented in full.

Confirmed: the only non-test `setAppEnvironment` installs are
main-process-preflight.ts:177 (Electron) and orcad-entry.ts:84 (Node, whose
`getAppMetrics()` is `[]`); daemon-init-fresh-import.ts is a test harness. So
in the standalone daemon `readOrcaChromiumProcessPids()` is empty and
`admitSelfInitiatedTreeKill` always admits.

But that is not a live hazard. `killWithDescendantSweep` reaches
`terminateWindowsProcessTree` only when `verifyWindowsTreeKillTarget` returns
`own`, and that walks ancestry back to `deps.ownerPid ?? process.pid` — the
KILLING process's pid. In the daemon that is the daemon's pid. Orca's Chromium
processes are children of Electron main, a sibling of the daemon, so their
chain never reaches it: hop 0 lands on main, and within MAX_ANCESTOR_HOPS the
walk dead-ends and returns `foreign`. The reviewer's probe passes
`ownerPid: 1000` with the renderer as a direct child of 1000 — that is the
Electron-main topology, where the AppEnvironment IS installed and the guard DOES
fire, not the daemon's. On an orcad/SSH host there is no Chromium on the box at
all, so `[]` is accurate rather than degraded.

Locked in as tests rather than prose (own-chromium-tree-kill-guard.test.ts):
a renderer classifies `foreign` from a daemon ownerPid with an empty pid set,
and `own` from main's ownerPid with an empty set — the falsifiable pair showing
the pid set is load-bearing in main and nowhere else. Documented the host
coverage in orca-chromium-process-pids.ts and own-chromium-tree-kill-guard.ts.

One genuine hole the finding exposes: `signalProcessTree`'s `taskkillTree` is a
fourth pid-addressed taskkill family (non-blocking item 2), it runs in the
daemon/relay/CLI where the guard cannot run, and it guarded only on
`!child.pid`. Reusing the predicate the codex login teardown already uses, the
win32 branch now refuses a reaped child and falls back to `killRoot` — the same
shape as the existing `!child.pid` branch. That closes the reaped-then-recycled
pid path in every host.

BLOCKING 2 — module doc overstates coverage. Rewritten: the ring is per-process
and its only reader lives in Electron main, so a count on a `render-process-gone`
covers main-issued kills only. Sites are now split into main-only, main-and-
other-hosts (runProcess choke point, POSIX PTY group sweep, Windows Job Object —
which record into a ring nothing reads when they run in the daemon or relay),
and never-instrumented, with the note that a daemon/relay omission is a
diagnostics gap, not a missed suspect, per the topology argument above.

BLOCKING 3 — the three out-of-main instrumentation sites were untested. Added
regression coverage: the runProcess seam on both branches plus the reaped-child
refusal (process-tree-termination.test.ts), the group sweep recording only
groups it actually signalled and skipping an ESRCH group
(posix-pty-process-groups.test.ts), and the Job Object recording the shell pid
only on `terminated` (windows-pty-job.test.ts). Verified red: reverting the
three production files to origin/main fails 7 of the new tests.

BLOCKING 4 — the Windows evidence validates a single-process model. Accepted.
The main2.js arms exercise `pty-descendant-sweep` inside one Electron process;
that models the in-process/degraded daemon and the local PTY provider, not the
standalone daemon. Arm C's "the 449351d6 shape is not producible with the guard"
holds for main-issued kills only. In the daemon the shape is blocked one layer
earlier, by the ancestry check, which the arms do not exercise.

NON-BLOCKING taken: `recordSelfInitiatedTreeKill` moved outside the native
`terminateJob` try in windows-pty-job.ts, so a diagnostics throw can no longer
downgrade a real termination to `unavailable` and escalate callers to a broader
kill; covered by a test. The "all three families" parenthetical is gone with the
doc rewrite. `pnpm build:relay` run: exit 0, all seven targets built.

NON-BLOCKING declined: codex-accounts/service.ts records before the spawn
because a refusal must prevent the spawn — the crumb means "we were about to
kill this pid", which is the artifact worth having; the existing comment already
says so. `app.getAppMetrics()` perf is unbenchmarked and unchanged by this round.

Verification: pnpm tc clean; oxlint clean on touched paths;
check:code-quality:changed 0 new findings; oxfmt applied. 730 tests pass across
shared/child-process, main/crash-reporting, main/pty, main/windows and the guard
and descendant-sweep suites. The 4 failures in providers/git/codex-integration
reproduce on HEAD without these changes.

* fix(crash-reporting): keep the reaped-pid skip from flipping the termination barrier

The win32 hasExited short-circuit correctly avoids taskkill on a pid Windows
may have reissued, but it resolved `true` — verified tree termination. A
taskkill against a reaped pid already resolved `false`, and run-process turns
`true` into barrierTerminationVerified + terminationReporter.report(), which
releases the git admission grant on root exit instead of on `close`. That
admits the next git command while a descendant holding the inherited pipes is
still writing the repo. Resolve `false` so the skip changes only which process
we refuse to signal, not what the barrier claims.
2026-09-03 02:40:58 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim d5803bdbc4 feat(ssh): host-stamped remote foreground identity (#18078)
* docs: add SSH agent identity implementation plan

* feat(ssh): host-stamped remote foreground identity

* fix(runtime): preserve unfenced inspect call shape

* perf(ssh): traverse foreground descendants linearly

* fix(ssh): bound retired PTY evidence records

* test(ssh): cover retired incarnation retention

* fix(ssh): make remote process inspection total

* Split SSH identity build hot spots

* Fix process table snapshot module split

* test(ssh): update process inspection expectations

* docs: drop the SSH identity plan from the PR

The design doc does not belong in the product repo; it stays out of the
shipped tree while the implementation carries its own comments.

---------

Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-02 23:32:41 -07:00
Neil 53f105827b perf(windows): stop asking the process table for memory, and share one projection per snapshot (#18151)
Two costs on the Windows process-table hot path, plus the EDR doc that
described neither of them accurately.

1. The snapshot set `ProcessDataFlag.Memory` and surfaced `memoryBytes`,
   which nothing read. The addon serves that flag with a second
   `OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ)` and a
   `GetProcessMemoryInfo` per process (process.cc:47-63), so the flag was
   one wasted handle per process per snapshot.

2. The shared TTL cache gave every pane the same native rows array, but
   each pane still ran `native.map(toProcessRow)` over the whole table,
   rebuilt a `childrenByPpid` Map from scratch, and did two linear scans.
   The `.map()` also handed `getProcessTableIndex` a new array each call,
   defeating the POSIX memo by construction. Both now cache per snapshot
   identity, and the POSIX resolver drops its duplicate descendant walk.

`getProcessTableIndex` / `buildProcessTableIndex` are generic over the row
shape so the Windows rows reuse the existing pass instead of a parallel one.

No behavior change: same rows in, same rows out, same descendant ordering
and same has-children answers.
2026-09-02 13:08:01 -07:00
Neil f116d2ca2a test(ci): retry Windows teardown EPERM and restart evaluate misses (#17780)
Restart-survival polls treated a recycled renderer as a hard failure.
Wrap those evaluates so "Execution context was destroyed" is a pending
miss. Windows package-lane teardowns after a force-kill used rmSync
with force:true only, which does not absorb EPERM; put them on the
shared maxRetries:8 policy.
2026-08-31 18:53:01 -07:00
Neil d73d36bc99 test: stabilize process and transcript liveness checks (#17126) 2026-08-29 01:45:20 -07:00
Brennan Benson fd9125ea8c feat(native-chat): Codex structured native chat restructure (#16729)
* feat(native-chat): port structured Codex sessions from restructure-recovery

Rebuilds the desktop structured native-chat implementation from
brennanb2025/native-chat-restructure-recovery (tip 4e31c08db3) on top of
current main as a single commit, scoped to the local Codex path.

Ported:
- Structured agent-session core: durable record store + single-writer lease,
  canonical journal, agent-session wire host/attach/eviction/subscribers,
  `agentSession.*` RPC surface (registered via ALL_RPC_METHODS; host-side
  mobile allowlist included for wire compat), pty write gate, transcript
  additions, and the Codex app-server adapter/launch resolution.
- Renderer: NativeChatStructuredSession view/composer stack, structured
  launch path with the single-flight guard, local structured session tabs
  sync, activation gate + structured inventory (read-only
  `agentSession.handoffStatus` probe), agent-session tabs in the tab strip,
  AI-vault structured session activation, and the settings pane with the
  parent Experimental Chat UI toggle plus the nested "Use updated structured
  native chat" toggle. New sessions require both flags, agent codex, no
  prompt, and a local non-WSL, non-Windows-host execution host
  (structured-native-chat-availability).
- Fixes 72c013cea6 (verified Codex launch recovery), 8ddbaf5e3d (defer
  native terminal view switching affordances), and 4e31c08db3 (release the
  launch gate after a visibility retry) with their regression tests,
  including the third-launch-after-retry guard case.
- Cross-version agent-session wire test + CI lane, packaging entries
  (proper-lockfile, agent-tooling asar excludes), and the wire-compat doc
  section.

Deliberately not ported: mobile/ changes, the Claude structured runtime
(only the claude-transcript-branch-proof and claude-structured-owner-identity
leaf modules remain, backing the kept TUI-recovery arms), the terminal↔chat
adoption/handoff flow (`agentSession.adoptTerminal`/`requestHandoff`, the
handoff request engine, TUI adoption machinery, orca-runtime adoption
methods), renderer switching affordances and their dead leftovers, the
hook/subagent-status refactor cluster, and unrelated branch changes. The
crash-during-acquisition recovery path (restart handoff adjudication,
restore/reverse re-acquire, lease schema handoff keys) is kept because every
plain direct launch depends on it; a trimmed handoff coordinator exposes
only status/restore/close.

Branch edits that targeted files main has since split (ipc/pty.ts,
worktrees.ts, rpc/methods/terminal.ts, useIpcEvents, pty-connection,
store/slices/terminals.ts, runtime-types, web preload) were re-applied to
the split modules, preserving main's newer logic (Windows CIM fallback,
browser tab close rework, cold-restore resume flow, dispatcher threading).

Known seam: the mobile clipboard image-provenance CONSUMER gate ships
(agentSession.send refuses unproven mobile image refs with
agent_session_image_untrusted) but the producer hunk in
rpc/methods/clipboard.ts stays with the unported mobile cluster, so mobile
image sends into structured chat fail closed until that side ports.

* fix(native-chat): trust only authenticated local image uploads

* fix(build): preserve Windows process-tree patch application

* test(windows): include process creation time in addon fixture

* fix(build): run windows-process-tree node-gyp from the physical package dir

gyp expands the node-addon-api dependency by probing node, whose cwd
resolves to the package's physical directory in the store, so the emitted
target is a store-relative ../../../../node-addon-api@... hop. gyp then
resolves that hop against the rebuild cwd; from the node_modules
symlink/junction it escapes the store and configure fails with
"node_addon_api.gyp not found" (run 32999886072).

Rebuild from realpath(package dir) so both bases agree, matching how the
package manager itself runs native install scripts. The regression test
replays gyp's expansion+resolution against the planned cwd and fails
without the fix.

* fix(native-chat): keep chat tabs visible through terminal closes and empty-worktree launches

Two proven blockers in the native Codex tab contract:

closeTerminalTab pre-empted the canonical unified close. With one terminal
left it deactivated the worktree on a terminal/editor/browser-only check,
blanking a workspace that still held a renderable agent-session tab; with
two or more it pre-picked a successor from terminal entities only,
re-stamping the group active before closeUnifiedTab's MRU/neighbor repair
could land on the chat tab. Successor choice now defers to the unified
contract whenever the terminal has a unified row, and deactivation is
gated on the unified renderable count (matching leaveWorktreeIfEmpty),
with the legacy pre-pick kept only for terminals without a unified row.

A structured session created on an empty worktree was published into the
host's headless group while preserveLocalLayout froze the local layout,
leaving the tab in store but permanently off screen. A preserveLocalLayout
owner now always takes client-owned placement — repairing a rendered
leaf whose group record is missing, or materializing a rendered group on a
truly empty worktree — and applies the client-derived layout repair while
still rejecting host-authored layout.

Regression tests drive the real store through closeTerminalTab (git
worktree and folder workspace) and the real snapshot applier for the
empty-worktree adoption states; all fail without the fixes.

* fix(native-chat): close stale turns and retry rejected sends

* fix(native-chat): retire hosted rows on structured tab activation

* fix(native-chat): preserve rpc defaults across main merge

* chore: format remote wire compatibility guide

* test(native-chat): cover retry after unconfirmed send

* fix(native-chat): reload outbox on session switch

* docs(settings): disclose structured chat platform limits

* fix(native-chat): await Codex launch-home preparation

* fix(codex): align child-process allowlist with async trust bridge

* test(identity): update inventory for tab surface refactor

* fix(windows): preserve process-tree CRLF patch sources

* fix(native-chat): anchor an unmatched chat echo where it was sent (#16117)

* fix(native-chat): anchor an unmatched chat echo where it was sent

The reported symptom was old user messages replaying below every new turn, so the
conversation read as scrambled. The cause was not that the echo failed to match a
transcript row. Claude consumes a mid-turn send through a `queued_command`
attachment and writes no `type:"user"` record for it, so some echoes can never
match, and no amount of matching will change that. The cause was WHERE an
unmatched echo rendered: buildMobileNativeChatTransientData appended every pending
item after the entire transcript, so it re-read below each turn that landed
afterwards.

Render each echo directly after the transcript row it was sent against, using the
baseline the send already captures. An unmatched echo is then at worst a duplicate
in the right position rather than a scrambled one, and it stays visible. Echoes
sharing an anchor keep send order; a send with no baseline, or one whose anchor
folding dropped, still falls back to the tail.

Deliberately NOT fixed by deleting the echo. Inferring from send ordering that an
echo can never match, then removing it, loses the user's own text for a message
the agent did receive, and it cannot fire in the common case anyway - measured
drain groups are 1,017 of size 1 against 55 larger. It also escalates an existing
gap: the count pass has no baseline-tail guard, unlike the glue pass, while
`messages` is a 40-row window that head-trims, resets on reconnect and grows at
the front on loadEarlier, so a false landing there would license deleting a
DIFFERENT outstanding message.

That count-pass gap is real and left for a separate change; anchoring makes its
worst case a duplicate in place rather than a scrambled conversation.

* fix(native-chat): preserve folded echo anchors

* fix(native-chat): preserve forward-folded echo anchors

* fix(native-chat): keep leading folded echoes in place

* fix(workspace-cleanup): show git status for every row (#16690)

* fix(native-chat): refuse structured chat on every Windows execution path

canUseStructuredNativeChat only refused win32 when a project runtime
resolved, so folder-workspace keys (and other keys with no project
runtime) failed open into structured chat on Windows. Fail closed on
win32 unconditionally after the host check, matching the settings copy:
local macOS/Linux only; Windows/WSL/SSH stay on terminal chat.

* fix(native-chat): restore runtime refusals behind the win32 gate

506d375de3 replaced the project-runtime checks with a bare platform test,
so a WSL or repair-required runtime resolution would no longer refuse
structured chat off-win32. Keep the unconditional win32 refusal and
re-run the runtime resolution after it, so the gate does not depend on
the resolver's own platform guard. Tests inject WSL and repair-required
resolutions on darwin/linux and fail against the regressed gate.

* fix structured session journal durability

* fix structured tab active pointer after restart

* fix(native-chat): await optional lease renewal callbacks

* refactor(skills): extract install error messages

* fix(agent-session): harden recovery ownership

* fix(native-chat): retain panes across tab activation

* fix(native-chat): address round-one review findings

* test(native-chat): align integration coverage after main merge

* fix(native-chat): harden round-two reliability

* fix(native-chat): harden round-three reliability

* fix(native-chat): close round-four recovery gaps

* fix(native-chat): separate bounded journal key forms

* fix(native-chat): reset outbox error in render on session switch

The switch effect adjusted error state after the sessionId prop changed,
tripping react-doctor's no-adjust-state-on-prop-change on the changed-code
gate and flashing the old session's banner for a frame. Reset it with the
render-time previous-value guard instead.

* fix(native-chat): invalidate stale outbox settlements

* test(native-chat): restore settled-error session-switch regression

a6e2379bd1 replaced this test with the in-flight settlement race test,
leaving the render-time error reset unpinned: deleting the reset block
still passed the whole native-chat suite. Keep both scenarios pinned;
they are distinct (settled error clears on switch vs stale settlement
invalidated in the commit-to-passive window).

* test(wire): make release checkouts race safe

* test(wire): pin cross-process checkout single-flight and importer specifier contract

* test(wire): harden release checkout lifecycle

* fix(build): drop CR-byte residue from windows-process-tree patch

The two trailing CR bytes on the patch's deletion lines are a proven
no-op: pnpm hashes patches CRLF-normalized (both forms hash to the
lockfile's 946ffb2b) and materializes this package without applying the
patch in either form, so the load-bearing build edits come solely from
applyWindowsProcessTreeBuildFixes() (#16947), which handles both source
EOL forms. Restore byte-identity with main and repin the contract test
to the post-#16947 reality: LF-only patch bytes plus lockfile hash sync.

* fix(native-chat): skip empty startup recovery
2026-08-28 16:45:58 -07:00
Brennan Benson 7c3bfe72d7 fix(windows): stop a wedged process-table reader retaining a callback per cooldown (#16696)
* fix(windows): stop a wedged process-table reader retaining a callback per cooldown

The vendored reader pushes every callback onto a module-global queue and drains
it only when the request holding its `requestInProgress` latch completes. When a
Toolhelp32 snapshot never comes back, that latch is stuck for the life of the
process, so the 30 s cooldown -- which let one probe through per window --
bounded the rate of new callbacks but not the total: one more closure retained
every 30 s, forever, plus a full 3 s deadline block on whichever caller drew the
probe.

Gate on the outstanding read instead. Once a read misses its deadline and has
not called back, every further read is refused until that read's callback fires,
which bounds retention at exactly one callback. Nothing is given up on recovery:
a probe queued behind the latch could never have observed the drain anyway,
whereas the stuck callback firing IS the drain, so the reader now resumes the
instant it recovers rather than up to 30 s later.

It matters more on a relay, which binds the bare addon with no JS queue to
absorb the retries. Each read there is a `Napi::AsyncWorker`, so a wedged one
holds a libuv threadpool slot for good and one probe per window would have
pinned all four default threads inside ~2 minutes -- hanging every async `fs`
and DNS call in that process, not just the process table.

A wedge still does not engage the PowerShell fallback, and a wedged read still
rejects rather than resolving empty, so "unavailable" stays distinguishable from
"nothing is running" on every host.

Fixes STA-5499.

* fix(windows): invalidate stale reader deadlines on reset
2026-08-27 10:52:14 -07:00
Neil 19e9ec695b perf(windows): ship the native process table to Windows relay hosts (#16598)
* feat(windows): let a relay host bind the native process table directly

The CIM fallback from #16550 answers on relay hosts, but it costs a
powershell.exe and ~1.4s per scan where the native reader costs ~57ms.
It is a parachute, not the destination.

Teach the loader a second source: the desktop app keeps resolving the
npm package, and a relay host -- which has none of our node_modules --
binds a bare `windows-process-tree.node` staged beside the bundle. The
CIM scan stays as the last resort, so a host with neither is unchanged.

Bind the addon directly rather than its package wrapper. lib/index.js
adds only a queue over getProcessList, and that queue is the wedge this
module already defends against: it latches a module-global
requestInProgress with no try/catch. We hold our own single-flight and
deadline, so going straight to the addon drops the duplicate.

Measured on a Windows 11 SSH host with ~1490 processes, running the
relay-externals bundle from the deployed relay directory:

  no addon staged   nativeAvailable=false  1247ms  (CIM)
  addon staged      nativeAvailable=true     57ms  memory restored

Degradation was exercised on that host, not just in fakes: a truncated
upload, a text file, and a foreign-arch ELF each fall through to the
scan rather than throwing, and restoring a good addon recovers. A file
that loads but lacks getProcessList is rejected by shape, because
binding to it would reject every read forever where falling through
still answers.

No artifact is staged yet, so this is inert until the packaging change
lands: today every relay takes the same CIM path it does now.

* build(relay): ship the Windows process-table addon to relay hosts

The CIM scan restored correctness on Windows SSH hosts, but it costs a
powershell.exe and ~1.4s per read where the native addon costs ~57ms. It
was always the floor, not the destination.

The addon cannot be npm-installed on a relay host: it carries a
binding.gyp, so npm rebuilds from source and the build wants
Spectre-mitigated libraries even where MSVC is already present. The
binary inside the published tarball loads, but predates our patch and
still caps enumeration at 1024 processes -- on a 1486-process host it
returned exactly 1024 rows with the querying process among the missing,
which reads as unavailable only under load. No published alternative
clears the bar either; the one fork with a working prebuild story still
carries the same cap.

So build it where a compiler exists and ship the result. The build script
refuses unpatched source -- checking the source rather than trusting the
install, because the Spectre hunk fails loudly while the 1024 hunk fails
silently -- and verifies the PE machine field so a cross-build cannot
emit host arch for another target.

The artifact is optional: hashed when present so a relay carrying it
never shares an immutable directory with one that does not, and never
probed, since requiring a file only a Windows build machine can produce
would make a correct relay read as MISSING and redeploy forever. Builds
on any other OS keep using the scan, unchanged.

arm64 cross-compiles from the x64 runner but needs the optional MSVC
ARM64 toolset, so it stays best-effort: a runner image without that
component should cost arm64 relays the fast path, not fail the release
the x64 relay is riding on. ORCA_REQUIRE_RELAY_NATIVE_ADDONS is a
per-arch list rather than a flag for exactly that reason.

* build(relay): require the arm64 process-table addon too

The arm64 cross-compile is no longer unproven. On a Windows x64 machine
with the MSVC v143 ARM64 build tools component installed, node-gyp
--arch=arm64 produces a genuine ARM64 image:

  x64    machine=0x8664  152064 bytes
  arm64  machine=0xaa64  139776 bytes

So arm64 stops being best-effort and joins x64 in the required list. It
was only best-effort because the component is optional and I had not seen
it succeed; a runner image without it now fails the build with MSB8020
naming the missing component, and that step runs before the long
packaging step so the failure costs seconds rather than twenty minutes.

The env var stays a per-arch list rather than reverting to a flag, so a
future arch can land best-effort before being promoted the same way.
2026-08-26 03:14:45 -07:00
Neil 7f034a182f docs(windows): correct why the process-tree addon is not installed on relay hosts (#16565)
The note said the package "ships no prebuilds". It does: the published 0.8.0
tarball carries build/Release/windows_process_tree.node, apparently an
accidentally published MSVC build directory (.obj and .tlog files ship with it).
The conclusion was right and the reason was wrong, so record what was actually
measured on a Windows SSH host with 1486 processes.

Installing it normally rebuilds from source, because the tarball carries a
binding.gyp and npm runs node-gyp regardless of what is already compiled inside.
That build fails with MSB8040 (Spectre-mitigated libraries) even on a host that
already has MSVC Build Tools 2022 -- the requirement our binding.gyp patch
deletes, and patches do not cross SSH.

Skipping the build keeps the tarball binary, which loads (it is N-API) but
predates the src/process.cc patch and still caps enumeration at 1024. On that
host it returned exactly 1024 rows with the querying process among the missing,
which the self-presence guard rejects -- so it would work on a quiet machine and
fail only under load, the shape of bug that survives testing.

Also records the measured cost of the fallback, since the table's 706ms figure
is from a 1050-process host and reads as more headroom than there is, and names
the fix for the tracked gap: ship our own patched .node as a relay asset, as
config/relay-assets already does for node-pty.
2026-08-26 02:59:08 -07:00
Jinjing 4d2dc0fae5 test: pin cross-version browser placement test to explicit baseline (#16554)
* test: use explicit baseline for cross-version browser placement test

Pin to v1.4.184 to ensure consistent testing against the release
predating client placement. This avoids coupling the legacy-baseline
bump to unrelated schema refactors in newer versions.

* fix(windows): treat inaccessible processes as alive in tests

When checking process state on Windows, EPERM (permission denied) indicates
an inaccessible but live process. Only ESRCH (process not found) proves
exit. Correct isAlive() to distinguish these cases.

Also add windowsHide:true to child process spawns and use explicit SIGKILL
when force-killing the host process.
2026-08-26 00:02:12 -07:00
JinjingandNeil e4d95e032d fix(windows): restore a CIM fallback for relay hosts with no native binding (#16550)
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-25 23:15:37 -07:00
Neil 2b1254d681 fix(windows): own PTY process trees with job objects (#15755)
* fix(windows): own PTY process trees with job objects

Teardown used to answer 'is this tree mine, and how do I kill it?' by
scraping the process table, walking parent pids back to Orca, and running
taskkill /T /F only if the walk said yes. Every step is a guess, and the
code said so itself: windows-pty-root-identity.ts:35 already named the
fix -- 'an inherited handle / Job Object'.

The guesses fail in the ways users report. A pid walk cannot survive pid
reuse, so teardown refused whenever it could not prove ownership, and a
refused kill is an orphaned agent tree holding the worktree directory
open (#9045, #10475, #10087). A descendant that reparented is invisible
to the walk. The scrape itself could be blocked by policy, which read as
'no evidence'.

node-pty now creates a job object per ConPTY and assigns the shell under
CREATE_SUSPENDED, before it can spawn anything -- assigning afterwards
leaves a window in which a fast child escapes. Termination is one
TerminateJobObject; liveness is QueryInformationJobObject.

Verified on Windows 11 against a shell whose grandchild was spawned
detached: job membership came back [shell, grandchild] and one call
killed both. Neither a parent-pid walk nor GetConsoleProcessList sees
that grandchild -- it leaves the console and reparents, which is exactly
the claude.exe/node.exe/cmd.exe orphan in #9045.

KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE means a daemon that dies without unwinding no longer
strands shells (#9195, #10415). The job is the daemon's, not the app's,
so an app-main crash still leaves sessions alive -- the guarantee
win-crash-survival-e2e asserts.

Both entry points report unavailable rather than a false success when a
pty has no job: an outer job without BREAKAWAY_OK can refuse the
assignment, and a pty from an older build has none. Reading 'we could
not tell' as 'already dead' is the original bug, so the old probe stays
as the fallback.

* test(windows): pin job ownership against a real detached grandchild

The unit tests pin the contract; this pins what the contract is for. A
grandchild spawned detached leaves the pane's console and reparents, so
GetConsoleProcessList and a parent-pid walk both miss it -- that is the
process that outlived its pane and held the worktree directory open.

Includes a guard that this build actually has job support, so a node-pty
rebuilt from unpatched sources fails loudly instead of letting every
assertion pass vacuously.

* fix(windows): correct the job liveness contract to what Windows actually does

I claimed an emptied tree would report [] and that this was the evidence
a stale registry entry lacks (#15549). Running it on Windows 11 showed
otherwise: node-pty drops its handle record and closes the job when the
shell exits, so a dead tree reports null.

Null therefore means unverifiable in the sense of
docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md -- no job support, not a ConPTY,
or no longer tracked -- and is never evidence that processes died. A
caller reading it as proof of death would have been right by accident
after a normal exit and wrong on a host that refused the assignment.

What the API does add is descendant liveness for a tree that is still
tracked, including children that detached from the console.

* fix(windows): stop a clean shell exit from reaping backgrounded processes

Measured on Windows 11: with JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE on the
per-PTY job, releasing the handle when the shell exits also killed
whatever the user had backgrounded. Typing 'exit' in a pane reaped a
detached server that survived before this patch.

That is a behaviour change nobody asked for. The approved change was
that killing the terminal daemon reaps its shells -- not that a clean
exit reaps your background job. The job's purpose is to make an EXPLICIT
teardown exact, which TerminateJobObject still does.

Reaping a dead daemon's shells now needs the daemon-level job the design
called for: the daemon assigns itself, children inherit membership, and
its closure on daemon death reaps them without touching clean-exit
semantics. Not in this PR; noted in the reference doc.

* test(windows): pin that a clean exit leaves backgrounded work alone

The counterpart to the tree-kill test. Without it, re-adding
JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE would look like a tightening rather
than the regression it is.

* fix(windows): stop a winpty pty id from matching a ConPTY job

winpty.cc and conpty.cc each mint their 'pty' id from an independent
counter, and windowsPtyAgent stores both in the same _pty field. So a
winpty-backed terminal's id can collide with a live ConPTY baton -- and
closing that pane would have terminated an unrelated pane's entire
process tree.

Both job entry points now take the shell pid and the native side refuses
unless GetProcessId(hShell) matches, which makes the id unforgeable.

Two more from the same read-through:
- ResumeThread's failure was ignored. A shell left suspended is a pane
  that never prints and never exits, which is far harder to diagnose
  than a failed spawn; it now cleans up and throws.
- handle->hJob was assigned before LoadConptyDll, which can throw. A
  baton carrying a job but never reaching SetupExitCallback has nothing
  left to close it, so the assignment moved down beside hShell.

* docs(windows): record the unsynchronised node-pty baton table

Pre-existing upstream -- the exit thread erases while the main thread
reads -- but terminatePtyJob adds an instance of it, so it belongs in
writing rather than in someone's head.

* fix(windows): close four gaps found in review

BREAKAWAY. The per-PTY job set no limits, so a child asking for
CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB was refused with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED.
Installers, msiexec and some updater and service-control paths spawn
that way deliberately -- they worked before this patch and would have
failed only inside an Orca terminal, which is the worst shape a bug
report can take. JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK restores it; a child
still has to ask, so ordinary descendants stay owned.

EMPTY IS NOT UNAVAILABLE. The native reader returns an empty list --
not an error -- when CreateToolhelp32Snapshot fails, which is what an
EDR hook or a restricted token produces. Callers read that as 'nothing
is running' and teardown concludes a live PTY root is already gone. The
snapshot must contain the querying process; nothing else is
unfalsifiable, and one predicate catches empty, truncated and
permission-filtered tables alike.

NO DEADLINE. Replacing execFile dropped its 3s timeout. The vendored
reader latches a module-global while a request is in flight and clears
it only after draining its callbacks, with no try/catch -- so one wedge
leaves every later call queued behind a promise that never settles, and
the process table is dead for the life of the app. The bound is back.

GUESSED IMAGE PATH. executablePath was derived from the first
space-delimited token, which reads 'C:\Program' out of an unquoted
'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe ...'. Wrong evidence is worse than
none, and the only consumer already had the full path in , so
the field is gone rather than repaired.

Also: remove_pty_baton no longer sits inside assert(), which NDEBUG
would compile away along with the call, and the job accessors hold a
lock across lookup and use -- handle values are recycled, so an
unguarded read could pass the shell-pid check against an unrelated
process and terminate the wrong job.

* fix(windows): apply the job lock once per accessor

The patch script matched a string its own replacement still contained, so
PtyTerminateJob got two lock_guards named guard and PtyListJobProcessIds
got none. MSVC caught it: error C2374 redefinition.

* test(windows): pin that a child can still break away from the job

Verified on Windows 11: 'start /b' writes its marker and no access-denied
appears. Without JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK this fails, and it fails
only inside an Orca terminal -- so the failure would look like Orca
corrupting unrelated software rather than like a job-object change.

* fix(windows): stop the ownership guard from reading a closing handle

The guard called GetProcessId(hShell) to prove identity, but the exit
watcher closes hShell on another thread -- so the guard could read a
closed handle, and under strict handle checks that is fatal rather than
merely wrong. Worse, it widened the gap between validating hJob and
using it from two instructions to a kernel round-trip, and handle values
recycle: the likeliest occupant of a freshly recycled value in this
process is another pane's job.

The pid never needed a handle. It is captured at spawn and compared as a
DWORD, so the guard touches no handle at all, and hShell is now closed
inside the same lock as hJob.

Also from review:
- reject CR/LF in a cmd argument. cmd ends the command at a raw line
  break whatever the quote state, so there is no escape for it; encoding
  one anyway truncates the argument and can leave the remainder to run
  as a command. Agent prompts are this encoder's motivating input.
- ask the process table only for the fields a caller needs. Memory and
  CommandLine each cost an OpenProcess per process, inline, for every
  process on the box -- and the 1024 bound is patched out. Ancestry
  reads now skip both.
- corpus gains the degenerate quote-only and two-quote arguments.
- PtyListJobProcessIds' docblock still taught the empty-list contract
  that was corrected on the TS side, and now records that the ConPTY
  console host is never a job member.
- drop a write to NumberOfAssignedProcesses, which is output-only.
- pty_baton::hShell is initialised; ownsShell was only safe because &&
  short-circuited ahead of it.

The backgrounded-child test is rescoped: 'start /b' uses
CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE, not CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB, so it proves job
membership does not block backgrounding -- not that BREAKAWAY_OK works.
That flag rests on the Win32 contract, and I have said so rather than
letting the test imply coverage it does not have.

* fix(windows): bound retries after the process table wedges

The 3s deadline stops a caller hanging, but the timed-out call leaves its
callback in the vendored module's queue -- and that queue drains only
when the latched request completes, which in this wedge never happens.
Retrying at the caller's poll rate would add a closure per tick forever.
A 30s cooldown bounds it to one probe, and a late callback clears the
cooldown because it proves the reader recovered.

Also pins the deadlock invariant in the patch: the exit thread's lock
must close before tsfn.BlockingCall, because that waits on the JS thread
and the JS thread can be waiting on the same mutex inside
PtyTerminateJob. Correct today by scoping; a comment so a later refactor
does not widen it.

* revert(windows): drop the field-selection API, which cannot pay off

I added it for a real perf finding -- Memory and CommandLine each cost an
OpenProcess per process -- and then never wired a caller, so the claim
that ancestry reads skip them was wrong.

Wiring it would have been worse than leaving it dead. The only ancestry
consumer is the teardown identity probe, which needs a snapshot that
started AFTER it asked, for pid-recycle detection. Bypassing the shared
reader to get narrow fields would let that request join a scan already in
flight -- trading a correctness guarantee for milliseconds.

Field selection only pays off if callers can ask for less, and they
cannot: one shared snapshot serves every caller so a 32-wide teardown
collapses into a single scan, which means it has to carry every field.
The reasoning now lives next to the flags instead of in a dead export.

* fix(process): three P1s from review — a crash vector and two wedge bugs

STDIN EPIPE COULD TAKE DOWN THE MAIN PROCESS. A child that exits without
reading makes the queued write fail with EPIPE, and an unhandled error on
a stream is an uncaught exception. The child's own error listener does
not cover its stdin stream, so runProcess({ input }) against a
short-lived child was a crash, not a failed call.

THE COOLDOWN LEAKED A BATCH PER CYCLE INSTEAD OF BOUNDING IT. At expiry
every concurrent caller passed the check before any of them re-armed it,
so each enqueued a callback into the still-latched native queue and each
cycle leaked another batch. The cooldown is now re-armed BEFORE probing,
so exactly one caller gets through.

A SYNCHRONOUS THROW LEFT ITS DEADLINE RUNNING. The timer was declared
inside the try, so catch could not clear it; it fired later and wedged a
reader that had already recovered. Hoisted and cleared, and wedge state
now carries a generation so a request that lost its deadline cannot
mutate it on behalf of the one that replaced it.

Found by review once the prompts were short enough for the reviewer to
finish -- the previous two rounds died on prompt length.

* fix(process): stop a stream error from crashing the main process

Same class as the stdin EPIPE finding, two instances further on: stdout
and stderr had data listeners and no error listeners, and an unhandled
error on a stream is an uncaught exception.

Scoped to runProcess, which owns the child outright. spawnProcess hands
the streams to its caller, and a blanket handler there defeats callers
that track and remove their own listeners -- the SSH ProxyCommand
transport does exactly that, and its cleanup test caught the attempt.
Documented on spawnProcess so the boundary is explicit rather than
inferred.

* fix(windows): validate the ConPTY DLL before creating the process

LoadConptyDll throws when conpty.dll is missing -- a real state, and one
this branch hit during development. It ran after CreateProcessW and
ResumeThread but before the baton and the exit watcher were installed,
so a throw leaked the job, process and thread handles and left an
untracked shell tree running. Once per attempt, so a broken install
accumulates orphan shells on every retry.

Resolving the DLL first costs nothing and leaves exactly two throws
after creation: the CreateProcessW failure, where nothing exists yet,
and the resume failure, which already cleans up after itself.

This also closes the same leak for hProcess and hThread, which predates
the job work.

* feat(windows): add the daemon-level job the design called for

The plan specified two nested jobs and I built one. That gap is why
dropping KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE from the per-PTY job cost the approved
guarantee that a dead daemon reaps its shells -- I had one job trying to
answer two questions, and the two answers conflict.

They are separate jobs. The per-PTY job answers 'kill exactly this
pane's tree, now', and cannot be kill-on-close because its handle is
released when the shell exits, which would reap whatever the user
backgrounded. The daemon assigns itself to a second job that IS
kill-on-close; its handle is released only when the daemon dies.
Children inherit membership, so every pty is covered and the per-PTY
jobs nest inside it.

Daemon, never app: an app-main crash must still leave sessions alive,
which win-crash-survival-e2e asserts. Both jobs carry BREAKAWAY_OK, or a
child asking to break away is refused at whichever level lacks it.

Restores #9195 and #10415, which I withdrew from this PR earlier.

* docs(windows): record what the host job does not cover

An app-hosted PTY gets a per-PTY job but no crash reaping, because the
alternative is a kill-on-close job on the app -- which is precisely what
the crash-survival guarantee forbids.

* ci(windows): run the win32 suites in the PR windows job

Both were skip-on-non-win32 and had only ever run on one machine I drive
by hand -- which went unreachable at exactly the moment I needed to
verify the percent-escaping fix. Verification that depends on one box is
not verification.

The job already builds node-pty from patched source and already runs a
useConptyDll test, so the ConPTY runtime files are in place by this
step. This also makes the encoder a gate: the corpus is the only thing
standing between an agent prompt and a mangled argv, and it now runs
against real cmd.exe on every PR.

* fix(deps): refresh the lockfile for the current patch hashes

pnpm records a hash per patched dependency, and I regenerated both
patches repeatedly across the review rounds without refreshing the
lockfile. Every local run used --frozen-lockfile's looser sibling, so
nothing caught it until CI did:

  ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH  Cannot proceed with the frozen
  installation. The current "patchedDependencies" configuration doesn't
  match the value found in the lockfile

Verified with pnpm install --frozen-lockfile locally this time.

* ci(windows): build node-pty from source before the win32 suites

CI proved the encoder fix on real cmd.exe -- 26/26 -- and in the same run
proved the job suite had been testing an unpatched binary. node-pty
prefers its upstream prebuild, which does not contain this patch, so
every job-object export was absent and isPtyJobOwnershipAvailable() was
false.

That guard is why the failure was loud rather than a vacuous pass, and
it is the reason the assertion exists.

Packaging was never affected: rebuild-native-deps.mjs already builds
node-pty from source for Electron and restores the ConPTY runtime files.
The gap was the node-runtime test environment only.

Not changing requiresPatchedNodePtySourceBuild's win32 exemption here.
Its premise -- that the patch is Unix-only -- is now false, but lifting
it also needs pnpm rebuild to force a source build, and I cannot
validate that on macOS and Linux from here. Recorded as a follow-up
instead of changed blind.

* test(windows): gate the host-job guarantee in CI

The daemon-level job had one hand-run proof and no automated coverage --
the same shape of gap that let an unpatched node-pty go unnoticed until
CI caught it.

It needs a real second process, because the assertion is about what
happens when that process is force-killed: a host in a kill-on-close job
must strand neither its pty nor a grandchild spawned detached, which is
the process a parent-pid walk cannot see.

Runs in the Windows PR job alongside the per-pty and encoder suites, so
both halves of the two-job design are now gated rather than asserted.

* fix(windows): serialise host-job creation

Two callers racing PtyAssignCurrentProcessToJob would each create a job,
put the process in both, and leak the first handle -- and the handle is
what keeps a kill-on-close job alive, so a leaked one is never released.
'Only JS calls it' is not a guarantee: a worker thread with its own
N-API env shares these statics.

Also records the ordering requirement it depends on.
AssignProcessToJobObject adds only the named process; children inherit
membership, but a pty that already exists does not join retroactively
and would not be reaped. The daemon assigns at startup, before the
ConPTY warmup and before any session, which is correct today and now
stated rather than implied.

* fix(daemon): keep the host job off the startup path

Assigning the host job at daemon startup resolves the node-pty native
module, which loads the ConPTY addon -- and paying that before the
endpoint is published delayed readiness enough that daemon-boot-smoke
failed on windows-latest, deterministically.

windows-conpty-warmup already carries the comment for this exact
hazard ('setImmediate keeps the ready/handshake path ahead of the
warm-up') and I put an eager load in front of it anyway.

Moved to the pty spawn path, which already pays ConPTY cost, and
memoised. Children inherit job membership, so assigning immediately
before the first spawn still covers every pty -- and nothing can spawn
one before the endpoint exists.
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Neil 057fbfcffc perf(windows): read the process table natively instead of forking PowerShell (#15749)
* perf(windows): read the process table natively instead of forking PowerShell

Seven independent readers each forked powershell.exe to run
Get-CimInstance Win32_Process, with a wmic fallback that Windows 11 24H2
has removed. On a domain-joined host with PowerShell Transcription
enabled by policy, one of them running every ~2s recorded ~289GB across
1.4 million files (#15209). The same scan cost ~700ms and ran per pane
(#15036), and a Group Policy or AV block turned it into 'unavailable',
which callers read as 'no evidence' -- which is how a PTY tree survives
its own teardown (#9045, #10475).

A Toolhelp32 snapshot answers the same question with no child process.
Measured on Windows 11 with 1050 processes, p50/p95:

  pid+ppid+name          15.9 / 17.5 ms
  +memory +command line  30.6 / 33.7 ms
  Get-CimInstance         706 / 723  ms

Two upstream defects needed patching, both found by running it on real
hardware. The binding requires Spectre-mitigated libraries our agents do
not carry (node-pty is patched the same way). And enumeration stopped
after 1024 processes: on a host with 1051 the module returned exactly
1024, and the querying process was itself among the 27 missing -- a
truncated snapshot silently hides the descendants teardown is looking
for, which is the failure this whole change exists to remove.

Migrated: the foreground/descendant reader (the #15209 scraper and the
teardown identity gate) and the port scanner's PID attribution. NOT
migrated: the memory collector and three identity probes, which need
Win32_Process.CreationDate and have no native equivalent. Start time is
a proxy for identity anyway; an inherited job handle is the real answer,
so those belong with the job-object work rather than here.

Packaging follows the windows-native-registry contract exactly:
optional, absent from onlyBuiltDependencies so macOS/Linux never run
node-gyp, win32-only in the packaged runtime. Asserted by the existing
contract test, which also stops pinning a whole source literal that only
tested its own formatting.

* chore(process): ratchet the child_process allowlist down

windows-foreground-process-rows.ts no longer spawns anything, so its
allowlist line is stale. The guard fails on a stale entry as well as a
new one, precisely so a migrated file cannot keep a slot open and hide
the next regression in the same path.

* fix(ports): import the process-table reader the scanner uses

Missing import: the migration replaced the PowerShell call but the new
symbol was never imported, so tsc failed. Vitest transpiles without
typechecking, which is why the port-scanner suite stayed green.

* fix(deps): sync this branch's lockfile with its patch set

Same class as the fix on the tip branch: pnpm records a hash per patched
dependency, and this branch introduces the windows-process-tree patch
without its lockfile entry matching. Every job here failed at install
with ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH.

Verified with --frozen-lockfile, which is what CI runs and what my local
runs were not.

* test(relay): drive the relay's Windows fixtures from the native snapshot

Two relay cases fed a PowerShell CIM payload through a mocked execFile.
That reader is gone, so both failed -- deterministically, on every PR
run for this branch and the one above it.

I did not catch it because my own verification sweep was
'src/main src/shared config/scripts' and never included src/relay. The
relay is a first-class consumer of the process table; leaving it out of
the sweep is how a deterministic failure survived six review rounds.
2026-08-21 21:54:57 -07:00