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Neil 720c3299ba fix(ssh): require a host death certificate before recreating a pane, and unstick expired leases (#18013)
* fix(ssh): match an expired lease on where its leaf lives now, not its frozen tab

A lease freezes tabId at write time, but detachTerminalPaneToTab moves a live
pane, so the stored tab is the one the pane LEFT. getRecentExpiredSshLease
required lease.tabId === tabId, which is wrong in both directions: a viewer on a
stale mirror matched under the abandoned coordinates (and resolvePersistedStable
PaneOwner then reads an empty layout for that tab, so adoptStablePane is skipped
entirely and a fresh shell is spawned over a possibly-live one, binding the same
leaf in two tabs), while a viewer using the pane's real coordinates matched
nothing and got terminal_not_recoverable.

Resolve the leaf's current tab the way restoreReattachedPtyRuntime already does
and compare against that, falling back to the frozen tabId only when nothing can
say where the leaf lives. Both workspace partitions are read because SSH spawns
bind into ssh:<target> while reattach binds into local.

* fix(ssh): let a proven reattach take an expired lease back to attached

#17965 authorized reattach from `expired` but the state machine refused the
transition back, so a lease that reattached and proved itself alive stayed
`expired` forever. That silently exempted a demonstrably running remote shell
from `ssh:reset` (skips `expired`), from the SSH_TERMINATE_RECONNECT_REQUIRED
ownership fence in `ssh:terminateSessions` (marks it not-owned), and from the
quit-time `detached` sweep, and made it permanently ineligible to win
supersession so its own successors never retired their predecessors.

Only the id-qualified caller carries per-pty proof: markSshRemotePtyLeases
AttachedAsync is fed the relay's `attachedLeaseIds`, so an unqualified bulk mark
over a whole target still cannot revive `expired`. `terminated` stays absorbing.
Re-entering `attached` drops supersededBy/relayIdRecycled, since route
retirement belongs to the shell that lost the pane and this one just proved it
is not that shell — the same invariant upsertSshRemotePtyLease enforces.

* fix(ssh): make the pane-recovery liveness gate refuse without positive evidence of life

The gate refused only `live` and `unverifiable` and passed on `null` — but the
register is an in-memory Map, so `null` is equally what a fresh app start, a
never-asked host and a certified death look like. Absence of evidence was
reading as authorization to spawn a shell over a possibly-live remote process:
`!pty.connected` is cleared for every PTY a dropped relay owned, and `expired`
only ever says the CLIENT lost its route.

- `exited` is now RETAINED rather than deleted, so the register is three-valued
  in the map as well as in the type. Its one writer is a host-delivered exit
  frame — an exit with a real code, or an explicit `hostExitConfirmed` — which
  records the certificate instead of merely dropping the doubt.
- `recoverTerminalPane` refuses on `live` and `unverifiable`, and deliberately
  does NOT demand a positive `exited`. The only answer that ever reaches this
  gate is a reachable relay reporting no such id, and that is a union: pty.attach
  throws not-found for an unknown id with no liveness check, and a relay restart
  makes every previously minted id unknown (ids carry a per-start
  `ptyIdMintEpoch`). No writer of `exited` co-occurs with a reattachable
  `expired` lease either — a host-delivered exit frame tombstones the lease
  `terminated` — so requiring one would close the gate permanently.
- `handlePtyReattachFailure`'s not-found branch publishes `code: -1` to the
  renderer and does not call `runtime.onPtyExit`. The relay's not-found answer is
  not a death certificate, and #17963's ratchet on the same branch pins that.
- The inventory's `observed === false` hunk keeps dropping doubt rather than
  asserting a death: `pty.listProcesses` returns the relay's CURRENT session map,
  so a restarted relay omits every previously minted id whether or not those
  shells died — the same union, one hop away.

A live or unprovable pane refuses; a disowned one still recovers. No wire change.

The gate's ratchets live in terminal-pane-recovery-liveness-gate.test.ts:
config/vitest.config.ts — the config CI runs — matches only `*.test.ts`, so cases
placed under orca-runtime-tests/*.spec.ts would never execute.

* fix(ssh): gate paired-viewer pane recovery on the narrowed session-gone predicate

isSshSessionGoneError landed on the IPC transport, which never calls
terminal.recoverPane. The one caller that does — recoverExpiredHostPane in the
paired-viewer transport — still triggered on a bare SSH_SESSION_EXPIRED
substring, so the identity-mismatch reply (the relay found a LIVE PTY under that
id owned by another pane, which is evidence of presence) still asked the HUB to
replace the pane, putting a second agent on one transcript. Main already refuses
the respawn on that same reply; this makes the two agree.

A pane whose shell genuinely died is unaffected: plain SSH_SESSION_EXPIRED still
matches. The mismatch reply now surfaces as an error instead of a respawn.

* test(persistence): update the reattach ratchet for expired-lease reclaim

markSshRemotePtyLeasesAttachedAsync is id-qualified, so a named pty that
proved itself alive now returns to attached instead of staying expired.
2026-09-02 22:31:59 -07:00
Neil f2e95e7860 fix(ssh): separate a superseded lease from an orphan so reattach can tell them apart (#17966)
`expired` was one word doing two unrelated jobs — "a newer lease won this pane"
and "reattach lost contact" — so `reattachKnownPtys` had to exclude all of them.
That kept the 2 -> 19 -> 20 fan-out fixed at the cost of never bulk-reattaching a
genuine orphan; those recovered only through the slower `adoptStablePane` path.

The blocker cited in #17965 does not apply. The STA-3077 note guards
`upsertSshRemotePtyLease`'s match against a RECYCLED `pty-N` after a relay
restart. `supersedeSiblingLeasesForPane` is a different path and already holds
`winner.ptyId` when it expires a predecessor, so recording which lease won needs
no relay-start identity.

`SshRemotePtyLease` gains two optional marks, each meaning exactly one thing:

- `supersededBy` — the winner's stored-form ptyId, written only by supersession.
- `relayIdRecycled` — written only by the pending-stop replay's
  `relay-id-recycled` retirement. That retirement wrote `expired` *purely* to
  keep the lease out of the reattach that runs one step later ("hands the user's
  old pane to whatever process now holds the recycled id"), and the reattach
  fences on paneKey/tabId, never on incarnation. Relaxing the filter without
  this would have silently reopened that hole.

Bulk reattach now skips a lease carrying either mark and re-adopts the rest, via
one shared `sshRemotePtyLeaseAllowsReattach`. `terminated` is untouched.

Recycled-id safety: both marks are dropped whenever the id is re-upserted
`attached`/`detached`, so a relay that renumbered onto a new shell cannot inherit
its predecessor's mark. Supersession also stamps an ALREADY-expired predecessor
for the same pane — same evidence, and it is what bounds the reattach set, since
otherwise every past orphan for that pane would stay reattachable forever. Its
`updatedAt` deliberately stays put: bumping it would make a stale lease look
recent to `getRecentExpiredSshLease`.

Persistence: the lease loader is a strict whitelist, so both fields are named in
`normalizeSshRemotePtyLease` or they would be stripped on every launch. Absence
reads as "orphan", which is the only thing an older build could have meant, and
an older build ignores keys it has never heard of (remote-wire Rule 1).
2026-09-02 21:39:08 -07:00
Neil 57681ecd09 fix(remote): resolve the spawn cwd, the node manager dir, the vault host and the scrollback seed (#17952)
* fix(remote): resolve workspace cwd, mise Node, host scope, and TUI scrollback honestly

#15296 relay: a folder workspace id (`folder:<uuid>`) carries no path, so the
worktree-id split yielded nothing and $HOME silently won. Resolve the spawn cwd
through worktreeId -> ORCA_WORKSPACE_ROOT -> host default, and refuse an agent
spawn outright when a folder workspace names a root this host cannot resolve.

#11733 ssh: generalize the NVM dotfile scrape into `orca_dotfile_dirs` and drive
mise off `MISE_DATA_DIR` / `XDG_DATA_HOME` instead of a hardcoded
`$HOME/.local/share/mise`.

#13713 ai-vault: an unresolvable workspace host is `unverifiable`, not local.
Widen the default scope to every host rather than scanning the client's own
history and reporting "No agent sessions found".

#6106 terminal: hydration asked the renderer for `scrollback: 0` while an
alt-screen TUI was up, which drops the normal buffer's shell history rather than
the TUI bytes. Drop the flag; readers already split the two buffers apart.

* fix(remote): stop the relay answering host questions for a guest execution host

Three findings from review of the spawn-cwd resolver, all the same shape: a path
question answered against the wrong host, or with the wrong key.

- resolveRelaySpawnCwd refused an agent launch whenever a folder workspace named
  a root that did not stat on the relay. But relayHostDirectoryExists stats the
  relay's *own* filesystem, and the relay supports WSL shells, so a folder
  workspace on a Windows relay launching into WSL now threw where it previously
  spawned -- contradicting the function's own doc comment, which says an absent
  path for that exact host pair is a miss, not a refusal. Thread the shell's
  execution host in and demote the refusal to a miss when the spawn does not run
  on the relay's filesystem.

- requireRelaySpawnCwd's doc claims both call sites route through one resolver
  so the fence can never be keyed on a directory the spawn won't use, but the
  fence key was still computed with the non-stripping splitWorktreeId while the
  cwd used splitWorktreeIdForFilesystem. For a `::workspace:<uuid>` id those
  disagree by construction, in adjacent lines: the removal fence guarded a path
  no spawn ever enters. Same defect in shutdownForWorktreePath and the revive
  path; all three now use the filesystem split.

- The remote Node probe expanded `$HOME` and `~/` prefixes out of a dotfile
  assignment but not `$XDG_DATA_HOME`, so `MISE_DATA_DIR=$XDG_DATA_HOME/...`
  was used as a literal directory name. Add the case arm, defaulting to the
  POSIX `$HOME/.local/share` the seed value already uses -- sshd's exec channel
  usually has no XDG_DATA_HOME at all.
2026-09-02 21:33:41 -07:00
Neil 64dac75d9b fix(ssh): stop respawning panes on client-side-only absence evidence (#17957)
* fix(ssh): stop respawning panes on client-side-only absence evidence

Three respawn gates acted on evidence weaker than host-attested exit.
Per docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md, loss of contact, a failed
reattach, an identity mismatch and absence from a client map are all
`unverifiable`, never `exited`.

Gate 1 (ipc-pty-connect.ts): "belongs to SSH connection" is minted by the
id router from a pure client-side string compare, before any relay is
asked, and still returned `sessionExpired: true` -> fresh PTY + agent
resume. After an SSH target re-adoption the "other" connection is the
same machine, so that puts a second `claude --resume` on the transcript
the surviving PTY still owns. Now returns undefined with no error, which
routes the pane to recoverUnverifiableDirectSshReattach (remount +
reattach, no shell restart) and keeps #7661's no-red-toast outcome.

Gate 3 (ssh-reconnect-pane-retry.ts): `!tabPtyId` read `tab.ptyId`, which
is only the single-pane fallback for legacy attach. It diverges from the
real records deterministically: workspace-terminal-reconnect fills
ptyIdsByTabId from the leaf map but writes tab.ptyId only when a
tab-level id survives, and clearTransientTerminalState nulls tab.ptyId on
every hydrated row. Both leave live leaf PTYs with a null fallback field,
arming a generation bump onto the fresh-spawn path. Now consults
ptyIdsByTabId and the layout leaf map too; a tab with no PTY in any
record still retries.

Gate 2 (recoverTerminalPane): an `expired` lease plus `!pty.connected`
authorized createTerminal. Every writer of `expired` records that the
CLIENT lost its route, not that the shell died. Now also requires the
runtime's own liveness verdict to be neither `live` nor `unverifiable`,
and ssh-relay-session records markPtyLivenessLive at the persistPtyBinding
refusal, which is reached only after pty.attach succeeded. See the report
for why this branch is currently unreachable for SSH panes.

* fix(ssh): let the respawn gate see the relay's own absence answer

Gate 3 refused to respawn a pane whose records still named a PTY, which is
right for a transport drop and wrong for a killed relay: after the relay is
SIGKILLed and comes back, the leaf map still holds `pty2:<dead-epoch>:1` while
the new relay answers that it has no such id. #18017's "replaces the pane only
when the host proves the session is gone" regressed on exactly that.

The gap was not the predicate, it was its inputs. `handlePtyReattachFailure`
already distinguishes the three reattach outcomes and only its not-found branch
publishes anything — a lost link and an identity mismatch send nothing. But it
published `pty:exit { code: -1 }`, and `-1` is the sentinel every reader
resolves to `stop_unverified`, so the one branch holding positive host evidence
of absence arrived looking exactly like loss of contact. The renderer had no
host answer at all, which the gate's own comment conceded.

The exit now carries `livenessVerdict: 'exited'` beside the unchanged `-1`, so
the code keeps meaning "no provable status" for every existing reader while the
verdict rides its own field. A store bridge records those ids in
`hostAttestedAbsentPtyIds` regardless of whether a pane is mounted to hear it —
during reconnect none is — and the gate stops counting a recorded id the host
has disowned. Settled when a PTY answers to that id again, because a redeployed
relay renumbers from pty-1.

This narrows #17963, which pinned the same exit as unverified on the grounds
that not-found cannot separate "verified the pid is dead" from "my session map
never had this id". Everything #17963 protects is untouched: `-1` still fails
isProvenProcessExit, so the tab is not closed, the pane's leaf binding is not
dropped on exit, and markUnverifiedPtyLoss still fires. Only the reconnect
respawn gate reads the new field, and only for an id whose sole channel — the
relay that answered — has disowned it, which no client can reach again under
any verdict. That is the reading ssh-pty-relay-absence-verdict.test.ts already
pins for the spawn path; the reconnect path now agrees with it.

Rejected: parsing the relay's mint epoch out of `pty2:<epoch>:<n>`. It needs the
current epoch on the wire (a capability-negotiated relay change), it has no
answer for legacy `pty-N` ids, and a relay that comes back with zero PTYs gives
the client no epoch to compare against. Rejected: clearing the leaf record
outright, because the remote workspace snapshot re-hydrates those ids after the
clear and the gate would refuse again.

* refactor(ssh): name the relay-disowned signal for disownership, not exit
2026-09-02 21:21:54 -07:00
Neil 510305e574 fix(relay): signal capacity loss instead of dropping, hanging, or truncating (#17870)
Three failures with one shape: a payload past a fixed capacity was met with
silence, with a wait that never ends, or with a prefix presented as a whole.

**The workspace snapshot was silently dropped.** `workspace.changed` carries the
tab/session list, and a snapshot past the producer frame capacity (12288 B on a
Node <=21 remote) was dropped with only a relay stderr line, so the client kept a
stale list forever. The relay now publishes per client and, for a client whose
sink refused the frame, sends a compact `workspace.stale` marker on the control
lane; the client re-reads through `workspace.get`, whose lane is budgeted in
megabytes rather than in one producer frame. A new JSON-RPC notification rather
than a new field on `workspace.changed`: `normalizeSnapshot(undefined, ns)` yields
revision 0 and an empty session, so a Rule-1 field would make an old client
replace its tab list with nothing — worse than the drop. An old client ignores the
unknown method and is exactly where it is today. The marker retention/retry
machinery is extracted from the `fs.changed` overflow path and shared by both.

**The Windows upload hung, and the fix for it could truncate.** `#16432` was
attributed to `[Console]::In.ReadToEnd()` materializing the base64 bundle. That is
not what the reporter measured: he also measured
`new IO.StreamReader([Console]::OpenStandardInput())` — an incremental reader —
hanging at 1 MB. The limit is in the stdin the host hands PowerShell over a
non-pty ssh exec, not in the string the script builds.

- `uploadFileViaSystemSsh` — the user file-import path — was piping a whole file
  into one Windows stdin, unchunked and untimed. That is the path large files
  take; it now chunks into 32 KB writes and bounds each wait.
- The Windows directory upload reuses that single-file path rather than repeating
  a weaker copy of chunk-read + write-buffer; the `ino`/`dev` TOCTOU verification
  comes with it.
- A Windows write needing more than one exec lands on a `.orca-partial` staging
  path and is published by rename, so a failed chunk cannot leave a truncated
  artifact under the real name. `exclusive` is enforced once at the rename, not on
  the first chunk, where a retry met its own leftovers.
- The mkdir batch reads stdin through the stream reader the reporter measured
  surviving 50 KB, not `[Console]::In`, which he measured wedging at that size.
- `waitForChannelClose` takes an optional bound. A wedged PowerShell stays alive
  at idle CPU and never closes, so without one the promise is simply never
  settled and the caller waits forever with no error to show.

**Quick Open showed a prefix as the whole workspace.** The mechanism "a full page
means there is more" only works if the caller named the cap, and the failing UI
named none — it hardcoded `truncated: false`. Quick Open now names
`QUICK_OPEN_LISTING_MAX_RESULTS` on both the Electron IPC hop and the runtime-RPC
hop (the field #17954 added to `files.listAll`), and reads a full page as
truncation. The local hop honours the cap too, which it previously ignored.

Rebase note on `fs.listFiles`: an earlier revision of this work also clamped the
host unconditionally, and #17934 escalated an uncapped request to an explicit
error. #17954 has since landed and made an oversized reply streamable, which
removes the premise — the host no longer has to choose between a prefix and a
refusal, so it returns the whole listing when no limit is named and only clamps a
limit it was given. Keeping either would have regressed #17954 and hard-failed
three in-tree callers that deliberately pass no options
(`runtime-file-commands-search-runtime-files.ts:81`,
`filesystem-read-handlers.ts:125`, `runtime-file-commands-constructor.ts:41`).
2026-09-02 15:42:08 -07:00
Neil 278f9ee876 fix(ssh): answer every MFA stage, stop dialling an unclaimed alias, and say where a clone failed (#17946)
* fix(ssh): answer every MFA stage, not just the first

ssh2 walks one flat auth-method list exactly once, so keyboard-interactive
could only ever be offered a single time. A host running
`AuthenticationMethods keyboard-interactive,keyboard-interactive` (or any
ladder ending in a second challenge) partial-succeeds the first stage and
then finds the list exhausted, which the user sees as "All configured
authentication methods failed" — the reports in #8622 and #16820.

Orca's own auth handler now runs for every target instead of only multi-key
ones, and rebuilds its queue on each SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_FAILURE that carries
partial success, narrowed to the methods the host still offers. Narrowing
also stops keys being re-offered after the host has moved past publickey,
which is what exhausts MaxAuthTries before the challenge is ever shown.

Covered by a real ssh2 server fixture that stages partial success.

* fix(git): say where a failing clone ran and why nothing could prompt

Clones go through nonInteractiveGitEnv, so `ssh` runs with BatchMode=yes and an
emptied SSH_ASKPASS. On a remote or paired-runtime clone that produces
`fatal: Could not read from remote repository.` while the same `git clone`
typed by hand on that box succeeds — the divergence in #14533. Nothing in the
message said the clone ran on the other machine, under its keys, with the
prompt deliberately disabled.

getGitCloneFailureMessage now appends that fact, and names the two recognisable
shapes: a publickey refusal (load the key into an agent there) and a host-key
failure (record the key in that machine's known_hosts). Unrecognised SSH
failures still get the where-it-ran note; non-SSH failures are untouched.

One builder, so the SSH-target relay path and the runtime path both get it.

* fix(ssh): stop dialling a bare alias no ssh_config block claims

A wildcard `Host *` block supplies ProxyCommand/ProxyJump for every alias, so
shouldUseSystemSshTransport picks the system transport for an alias whose own
Host block was renamed or deleted, and buildSshArgs then dials that alias
verbatim: no -l, no -p, no Hostname. Orca connects as the wildcard's user to
the wildcard's host and discards the endpoint it stored (#11746).

The signal #11746 assumed (hostBlockMatch, from the still-open #11707) does not
exist, and `ssh -G` cannot supply it — it prints the merged config and answers
for unknown aliases too. The config file is the only source of truth, so:

- parseSshConfigAliasClaims retains raw Host patterns and flags Match blocks,
  which parseSshConfig discards because it mints importable targets.
- sshConfigMayClaimAlias is sound in the negative direction only: an unreadable
  file, any Match block, or any non-catch-all pattern that might match all
  answer "claimed", so absence of evidence is never read as evidence of
  absence. Only a proven-unclaimed alias licenses an override.
- buildSshArgs then states Hostname/Port/User, and only those: the wildcard is
  still the route, and -o Hostname does not change block selection, so the
  proxy keeps applying and %h expands to the host we mean.

The verdict is injected rather than read inside buildSshArgs, so an arg builder
does not answer differently per machine. Default is today's behaviour.

Scoped to the system-SSH transport and the connection's own command/transport
path. Port-forward processes and the ssh2 transport (#11707) are unchanged.

* fix(ssh): read a negated Host group as uncertainty, and gate clone SSH guidance

`Host * !prod` applies to every alias but `prod`, yet skipping both the catch-all
and the `!` pattern answered "unclaimed" for `stage` — which licences overriding
Hostname/Port/User against a block the user wrote. Any negation now makes the
whole group uncertain; the function is only sound in the negative direction.

Also require an ssh(1) diagnostic beside "could not read from remote repository"
before appending the SSH clone note: git prints that same line for the HTTP
remote helper, where advice about keys and agents is simply wrong.

* fix(i18n): restore the activity-options key the rebase dropped

* fix(i18n): union en.json with main so the rebase cannot drop keys
2026-09-02 15:14:53 -07:00
Neil 7458c39181 fix(ssh): declare a wedged relay link lost, and stop reading silence as a verdict (#17817)
* fix(ssh): declare a wedged relay link lost instead of suppressing the dead-link check

* fix(ssh): make the Windows deps probe exit 0 on a real load failure, like its POSIX twin

* fix(relay): reap a client that has stopped answering instead of holding its leases forever

* test(relay): feed the primary before asserting the reaper exemption holds

* fix(ssh): keep a lost link's verdict unverifiable instead of reporting absence

* refactor(ssh): read the exec timeout from its typed code, not the message text

* fix(relay): bound a client that clears the handshake and then never frames anything

* fix(i18n): restore the activity-options key the rebase dropped

* fix(i18n): union en.json with main so the rebase cannot drop keys
2026-09-02 15:14:33 -07:00
Neil 07e1f953a5 fix(ssh): log an unanswered native-deps probe instead of launching silently (#18000)
* fix(ssh): log an unanswered native-deps probe instead of launching silently

The wrongful rebuild used to be the only visible symptom of a dropped exec
channel; #17979 removed it, so a real transport failure now leaves no trace.
Matches the install-path sibling, whose callers log the same class of failure.

* fix(i18n): restore the activity-options key the rebase dropped

* fix(i18n): union en.json with main so the rebase cannot drop keys
2026-09-02 15:14:25 -07:00
Neil 7c6c8ef85e fix(ssh): stop a late SFTP stream error crashing main, and keep the relay socket inside sun_path (#17862)
* fix(ssh): stop SFTP stream errors crashing main and bound the relay socket path

inside the protocol parser. Every transfer removed its listener on settle, so a
STATUS reply that arrived late - the normal case behind a jump host that chroots
its SFTP subsystem - threw synchronously out of Socket.emit('data') and killed
the main process. Keep one durable listener per stream, and report a sandboxed
SFTP namespace with an actionable message instead of a bare 'file does not
exist'.

104 macOS) and bind failed with a bare 'listen EINVAL'. Fall back to a per-uid
base whose length does not depend on $HOME, keeping the hashed socket name
intact.

* fix(ssh): validate the short socket dir before mutating it

* fix(ssh): keep the SFTP session guarded, scope the relocated socket, narrow the chroot verdict

Three review findings.

The CLI-launcher install ran writeStringViaSftp in a loop over a bare conn.sftp().
That helper removes its own session 'error' listener at each settle, so between
files and after the last one the emitter carried none -- and ssh2 raises a late
STATUS reply synchronously out of Protocol.parse, which is the uncaught exception
that kills main (#15479). The inline loop it replaced leaked one listener per file
and covered this by accident. Extract writeStringsViaSftp, which owns the session
latch, and share that latch with runSftpFallbackTransfer.

SSH_FX_PERMISSION_DENIED is a mode/ownership refusal on a path the subsystem can
see, not evidence of a chroot; sftp-namespace-resolution already treats only
NO_SUCH_FILE as conclusive. Narrow the predicate to code 2 so a read-only home
stops being reported as a bastion misconfiguration.

The relocated socket had no version dimension. relaySocketNameForInstanceId hashes
the target, not the build, and under $HOME the enclosing relay-<fullVersion> dir
supplied the rest -- so the short form made the path stable across updates. The
next build would bind the path the previous relay still holds, the handshake would
mismatch, and a relay holding live work would raise RelayEndpointHeldError with no
way through. Add a hashed version segment under the short base, mirroring the
relay-*/<sock> shape so one pattern serves both, and teach the superseded sweep and
force-stop about that base. The relocated tree now also gets reclaimed: nothing
else walks it.

* fix(i18n): restore the activity-options key the rebase dropped

* fix(i18n): union en.json with main so the rebase cannot drop keys
2026-09-02 15:14:17 -07:00
Neil 31007c0d86 fix(ssh): reclaim relay PTYs the client has provably lost, on host attestation only (#17831)
* fix(ssh): reclaim relay PTYs the host attests this client orphaned (#9819)

Orca could lose track of terminals running on an SSH relay until the
50-slot cap refused to open any more. This reclaims them, and the whole
design is built around the fact that getting it wrong destroys a user's
running process on their remote machine: the failure mode is leak, never
kill.

A stop requires all nine of:

1. the relay published an `ownerClientInstanceId` read from the live
   authenticated consumer grant of the connection that requested the
   spawn — never from a spawn parameter, since an echoed claim is no
   evidence; absent means skip
2. that id equals this client's persisted consumer identity
3. this connection holds the negotiated `session-owner` grant
4. `paneBound === true`, host-published
5. no `agentSessionOwners` — the host still advertises it as adoptable
6. `hostAgeMs >= 30s`, measured on the host's clock
7. this client has no route: not reattached, no lease outside
   terminated/expired, no pending kill, and no `expired` lease either —
   an expired lease is the record of a process deliberately left
   running, never a licence to kill it
8. every stop is fenced on the incarnation the same listing published,
   and on the owner identity, both re-checked by the host
9. a pass wanting to stop more than 8 refuses entirely

Absence from a client-side set is `unverifiable` by construction
(docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md): a second machine attaches to
the same relay and displaces the session owner, and its live agents are
missing from this client's store for exactly the reason a genuine orphan
is. So the host has to attest ownership, and the host has to attest that
nothing is running.

That second attestation is measured over the pane's whole tty, not its
foreground process group. `tpgid == pgid` is foreground-only: on a real
`bash -i` on a real pty, a shell holding `sleep 300 &` and a shell
holding a Ctrl-Z'd job both read `pgid == tpgid`, `Ss+` — byte-identical
to an idle prompt, with only the job's own row differing. A
foreground-only gate therefore attests `pnpm build &` and a suspended
editor as idle, and the stop that follows SIGKILLs every process group
on the tty. `shellOwnsEveryTtyProcessGroup` is measured over that same
set of groups, so the evidence and the kill describe the same thing. No
new probe: `tpgid` already identifies the terminal, because a process
group belongs to one session and a session to at most one controlling
terminal.

The freshness field is real rather than decorative. `capturedAgeMs` is
stamped from when the capture was taken, deliberately as an upper bound
since the process table is TTL-shared, and the sweep refuses an
observation older than its own pass budget, counting its own elapsed
time since the listing arrived. Stale evidence degrades to "do not
sweep", never to "sweep". The display consumer of the same measurement
keeps no age budget, as a stated decision: a stale pane title costs a
redraw and self-corrects.

`pty.shutdown` is authorized on the host that owns the process.
`pty.spawn` and `pty.attach` both take a request context and check it;
the one irreversible call took none, so the rule above lived entirely on
the client that decided to make the call. It gains an optional
`expectedOwnerClientInstanceId` and refuses unless the connection still
authenticates as that identity AND this host recorded it at spawn.

Finally, a reattach refusal now says whether it observed the process.
Three refusals carry the same `SSH_SESSION_EXPIRED` text and only one is
absence; `restoreRequired` means the PTY is live and only its source
stream is not. Testing that text with `.includes()` expired the lease
and deleted ownership for a running process, erasing this client's only
record of it — and a PTY with no record is one the sweep may stop.

Wire compatibility: four new optional fields and one new optional param
on existing methods, no new method and no new stream opcode (Rule 1, and
Rule 2 does not apply). Rule 1's caveat is discharged explicitly — no
reader requires any of them, each absence is a named skip reason, and an
ordinary pane teardown must omit the owner fence because a revived PTY
carries no attested owner at all. New client plus old relay stops zero
PTYs; old client plus new relay never reads the fields. Windows relay
hosts publish no evidence and therefore never sweep.

Verified by joining the real publisher to the real client reader over
`ps` captured verbatim from a Linux container, and by driving a real
group-for-group SIGKILL against a real pty: backgrounded and suspended
jobs survive by pid, and an idle shell is still reclaimed, so the
narrowed predicate is not a silent no-op.

Squashed deliberately. The sweep is unsafe at every intermediate commit
of its own history — before the foreground gate it reaps a hand-launched
`claude`, and with a foreground-only gate it reaps a backgrounded build
— so this ships as one commit with no bisectable state that kills live
work.

Refs #9819. Folds in #17939.

* fix(i18n): restore the activity-options key the rebase dropped

* fix(i18n): union en.json with main so the rebase cannot drop keys
2026-09-02 15:14:14 -07:00
Neil aa3ae6f56e fix(ssh): close the pty master fd leak on relay hosts too (#17920)
* fix(ssh): close the pty master fd leak on Linux relay hosts

The app gets the FD_CLOEXEC patch through pnpm patchedDependencies (#17914);
the relay installs stock node-pty from npm, where no pnpm patch reaches. Linux
is where that matters -- it is the only relay platform that takes forkpty()'s
no-atomic-O_CLOEXEC path, and it is also the only one that already compiles
node-pty at install time, so the fix costs a second compile rather than a first.

Ships the patch as a relay asset applied like the existing Windows console-list
one, and rebuilds only after the probe has proven node-pty loadable. The rebuild
is non-fatal by construction: the working build is moved aside first and moved
back on any failure, a failed attempt drops a skip marker so the compile is
attempted at most once per relay directory, and the caller swallows the whole
step. macOS and Windows relays never run it.

Measured on node:22 with a relay-style npm install: before, the master is
cloexec=false and shows up as `26 -> /dev/pts/ptmx` in both a later pty child
and a later child_process child; after, cloexec=true and neither child sees it.

Closes #17915.

* test(ssh): feed the cloexec patch exec to the hand-rolled namespace fixtures

These sequences are positional, so the new Linux-only patch exec swallowed the
READY slot and every install/repair case timed out waiting for the relay.

* fix(ssh): patch the pty master before publishing the shared native-deps tree

* fix(ssh): refuse to publish a native-deps tree whose cloexec patch did not take
2026-09-02 03:02:27 -07:00
Neil 7eb13c184c fix(ssh): keep remote PowerShell commands inside what sshd's cmd.exe accepts (#17947)
* fix(ssh): keep remote Windows commands inside cmd.exe's command-line limit

Windows OpenSSH runs every exec request through sshd's DefaultShell, which is
cmd.exe on a stock install, and cmd.exe refuses a line over 8191 characters with
exit 1 and a localized "The command line is too long". `-EncodedCommand` spends
2.67 characters per script character, so five commands on the first-connect path
were already over: the stale upload-stage recovery that opens a fresh install
(23,210), promote (20,646), cleanup (19,798), the install-lock steal (11,798)
and reserve (9,434). A Windows-to-Windows `ssh:connect` died on the first of
them before the relay was ever uploaded (#16126).

powerShellCommand now falls back to a gzip self-extracting bootstrap once the
inline form passes the budget - these scripts are repetitive enough that the
worst one lands at 6.5KB - and throws a message naming the limit if even that
cannot fit, rather than letting cmd.exe answer in the host's locale. Commands
that already fit are byte-identical.

The real-binary PowerShell suite in ssh-relay-upload-stage-commands.test.ts
exercises the bootstrap end to end, including `exit` and here-string semantics
through Invoke-Expression.

* fix(ssh): cite the real command-line budget and reuse the cmd.exe ceiling
2026-09-02 01:29:30 -07:00
Neil 7f4a17d8eb perf(ssh): key relay native deps on the deps, not the bundle hash (#18033)
Relay node_modules lived inside `~/.orca-remote/relay-<version>+<hash>`, so
any byte change in `src/relay/` or the `src/shared/` it pulls in minted a new
directory and a fresh `npm install node-pty@1.1.0 @parcel/watcher@2.5.6`. On
Linux node-pty has no prebuild, so that is a node-gyp source compile on every
new bundle — eight of the fifteen deploy minutes, daily, on a dependency set
that is a pinned constant (#18009).

The tree now lives at `~/.orca-remote/native/<platform>-<depsHash>/node_modules`
and each relay directory symlinks to it. depsHash covers RELAY_NATIVE_DEPS, an
explicit epoch, and the bytes of every shipped `node-pty-*` patch artifact, so a
patch change mints a new entry rather than leaving hosts on a stale tree.

Three rules make one tree safe to share:

- A published entry is immutable. `.deps-complete` is written last, only after
  a probe on that host loaded both addons. Nothing installs, rebuilds or resets
  into a published entry: every `npm install` is prefixed with a symlink detach,
  so a repair on one directory can never `rm -rf node_modules/node-pty` out from
  under a live relay sharing the tree.
- Publication elects one winner with `mkdir`, so no client-side lock is needed
  and two deploys never write one tree. A loser keeps its own copy.
- Every failure degrades to today's per-directory install.

GC follows remote-install-gc.ts' discipline: a listing that does not end in its
own OK token, an unreadable link, or a reference whose shape this client never
writes aborts the whole pass. Deletion is tombstone-rename, re-read references
under the rename, then remove — a deploy that linked between the listing and the
rename gets its tree moved back. It only runs for a connection that could
compute a key, and never removes a pinned one.

Migration: a first deploy after this ships seeds its tree from a sibling relay
directory whose manifest pins the same versions, so an existing host does not
recompile once more. The seed is not trusted — it is a plain private install
until the normal probe loads it, and only then is it published.

Windows keeps the per-directory install: node-pty ships win32 prebuilts, so
there is no compile to avoid, and the console-list agent patch mutates the
installed tree in place, which rule 1 forbids for a shared one.

The POSIX scripts are exercised against a real tree under both /bin/sh and
dash, not just asserted on as strings.
2026-09-01 22:51:22 -07:00
Neil f9587f74f5 fix(ssh): repair a rebuildable node-pty failure once, instead of asking the user to reconnect (#17907)
* fix(relay): diagnose why node-pty will not load instead of hedging

The relay could only say "terminals are unavailable" and then list three
remedies for four different faults, none of which the user could verify
(#17830). Two things were destroying the evidence:

- `loadPtyUncached` caught the load error into bare `catch {}` blocks
  (pty-handler.ts:539, :551) and returned null. The only cause anyone had
  was discarded on the spot.
- node-pty's own loader walks three directories and rethrows only the LAST
  failure, so even an uncaught error arrives as `Cannot find module
  '../prebuilds/...'` — the GLIBC/ABI/arch sentence is already gone.

The relay now keeps the load error, recovers the real dlopen message with an
out-of-process load of the file node-pty would have opened, reads what
node-gyp configured the binding for (`build/config.gypi`), captures the
host's Node ABI, arch and glibc, and probes the toolchain only when nothing
was compiled. Each fault gets its own message naming values the user can
check: toolchain_missing, dependency_missing, abi_mismatch, arch_mismatch,
libc_floor, shared_library_missing, load_crashed, and load_failed which
quotes the loader verbatim. A probe that did not answer stays `unverifiable`
and prescribes nothing.

The classification is now also structured data on the error, so a client can
repair the host instead of printing a paragraph: an additive, schema-validated
`data` field on an existing JSON-RPC error, with `repairable` true only for a
proved fault that recompiling on the host actually fixes.

Reuses orcad's loader-message parsers and out-of-process probe rather than
adding a second copy; `classifyLoaderMessage` moves to a shared module and
gains architecture and missing-shared-library cases, which the orcad boot
precondition picks up too.

* fix(ssh): repair a rebuildable node-pty failure once, instead of asking the user to reconnect
2026-09-01 22:48:12 -07:00
Neil 4f4872c424 fix(ssh): treat a markerless native-deps probe answer as unverifiable (#18011)
The repair path read "the probe answered, but nothing in the answer names a
dep" as "both deps are missing". The POSIX probe is fenced with
`|| echo MISSING`, so the subshell always exits 0 and the unanswered-probe
catch added by #17979 never ran. A node that cannot start (invalid
NODE_OPTIONS, OOM kill, exit 127) therefore produced a bare `MISSING`, and
every reconnect rm -rf'd node_modules/node-pty and node_modules/@parcel/watcher
and burned a 240s npm install that failed the same way. `.install-complete`
from the original install survives, so the relay kept launching with no PTY
and no file watcher, permanently, per host.

Only a marker line that actually names deps is evidence about them; anything
else is `unverifiable` and launches as-is. Also drop `2>/dev/null` from the
POSIX probe and carry stderr into the warning via a new execCommand `onStderr`
hook, so the reason node failed survives. stderr stays its own stream — folded
into stdout it would match the probe's own token strings.

The Windows branch shared the same parser and is fixed with it.
2026-09-01 22:45:29 -07:00
Neil b8cfdb1702 test(ssh): ratchet the relay reattach-failure exit as unverified, not proven (#17963)
* fix(ssh): stop expiring relay-reset leases when the force-stop threw

A force-stop that rejected never observed the remote shells, so bulk-expiring
their leases in the finally block recorded a verdict Orca does not hold. Mirror
ssh:terminateSessions: only a fulfilled stop retires a lease. Local PTY handles
are still cleared, so nothing is stranded — the next connect reattaches the
survivors or expires them on host evidence.

* test(ssh): ratchet the relay reattach-failure exit as unverified, not proven

The relay answers pty.attach not-found both when it verified the pid is dead and
when its session map simply lacks the id — which is every id after a relay
restart. No behavior change: -1 already routes through isProvenProcessExit to the
renderer's unverified-loss path. This pins that contract and drops the comment
claiming the branch holds positive proof of death.
2026-09-01 22:37:30 -07:00
Neil d838ca1419 fix(ssh): stop orphaning live relays when an endpoint is taken over (#17821)
A failed `--connect` was read as "the relay crashed": the client `rm -f`'d
the socket and launched a replacement at the same path. Unlinking a unix
socket does not close the listener the incumbent already holds, so an
alive-but-refusing relay — the RelayVersionMismatchError case — kept running
forever with its PTYs and agents (#8585).

Establish the incumbent with host evidence instead, in the fixed
live/unverifiable/exited vocabulary, and never unlink from the client: the
daemon's own RelaySocketOwnership already performs an identity-checked
takeover that is atomic with its bind. A live incumbent now raises a typed
terminal RelayEndpointHeldError naming its pid rather than being abandoned.

Also sweep sibling version directories for this target's socket after launch,
so the relay an app update supersedes (#13614, #13852) is visible and dealt
with deliberately. Only a relay proven to hold nothing — argv matched, single
socket holder, zero children re-checked on the host immediately before the
signal — is SIGTERMed, and `reaped` is claimed only from a post-signal
`kill -0` that failed. Anything unreachable stays `unverifiable` and untouched.
2026-09-01 22:35:44 -07:00
Neil 02ffd40edc fix(ssh): stop treating an unanswered native-deps probe as broken deps (#17979)
probeRequiredNativeDeps mapped any thrown error to available:false, which
both triggered the repair and fed resetDeps — so one dropped exec channel
rm -rf'd node_modules/node-pty on a healthy relay and forced a node-gyp
source build. Verdicts are now ok / blocked / unverifiable; only an
answered probe may repair, and only an answered probe may name reset deps.
2026-09-01 12:23:12 -07:00
Neil 2222e54754 refactor(test): organize SSH and terminal recovery fixtures (#17751) 2026-08-31 18:18:15 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim aabcc57366 fix(runtime): publish remote control outages to host surfaces (#17531)
* fix(runtime): publish remote control diagnostics to renderer

* test(runtime): account for diagnostics bridge listener

* fix(i18n): add runtime connection state labels

* test(runtime): clean up shared control connection

* fix(runtime): fence diagnostics by shared-control capability

* fix(runtime): preserve authoritative transport state

* fix(runtime): preserve diagnostic overlay lifecycle

* fix(runtime): avoid publishing unchanged diagnostics state

---------

Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-08-31 12:25:17 -07:00
NeilandBrennan Benson fbe94ceff6 fix: close readiness gaps found by merged-change audit (#17159)
* fix(ssh): fence stale kills and retired pane replay

* fix(ssh): support cancellable interactive authentication

* fix(ssh): await remote catalog before snapshot adoption

* fix(pty): contain Windows ConPTY input failures

* fix(power): avoid redundant macOS display blocking

* perf(editor): narrow markdown override subscriptions

* fix(quick-open): close directory handles after reads

* refactor(linux): remove unused proc socket scanner

* fix(usage): apply flat Sonnet 4.6 pricing

* ci: prime Node next native test cache

* docs(skills): resolve snapshot cleanup data path

* fix(ssh): recover install locks after host reboot

* test(ssh): recognize boot-aware install locks

* test(ssh): prove previous-boot lock recovery live

* test(wire): pin pre-metadata release coverage

* fix(terminal): preserve remote tab ownership through recovery races

* test(runtime): fence replaced terminal handles in agent guard

* fix(ssh): preserve remote snapshot authority across polls

* fix(pty): contain late ConPTY output EPIPE

* test(pty): register Windows exit watcher before kill

* fix: close SSH and tab readiness race gaps

* fix(tabs): retain headless order and placeholder titles

* fix(build): avoid parallel electron-vite config race

* test(windows): avoid MSYS temp path rewriting

* test(windows): avoid killing exited PTY

* fix(pty): avoid late ConPTY input teardown race

* fix(terminal): sync reconnect error ownership after commit

* fix(runtime): use canonical worktree identity comparison

* test(ssh): assert complete cold-hydration baseline

* test(windows): invoke quoted retention fixture via PowerShell

* test(windows): read ConPTY grid through mode con

* fix(terminal): publish PTY replacements atomically

* fix(terminal): infer stale identity on reattach

* fix(terminal): fence stale pane PTY callbacks

* fix(terminal): fence stale pane binds after rebind

* fix(terminal): reject stale pane transport callbacks

* fix(terminal): fence mirrored reattach spawn callbacks

* fix(terminal): replace stale pane PTYs on remount

* fix(ci): size the Windows launcher-compile test budget from measurement

`native-smoke (windows-latest)` fails ~4.5% of runs on
`preserves a multiline argument through the compiled remote launcher`
with "Test timed out in 15000ms" — on unrelated PRs, for reasons that
have nothing to do with them. Across 176 sampled attempts it is the only
red that job produced, and it hit seven different PRs in two days:
#16900, #16904, #16915, #16955 (twice), #16979, #17014, #17085.

The test is six process creations: powershell.exe forks csc.exe, then
the freshly compiled orca.exe forks node.exe, twice. Hosted Windows
runners periodically slow process creation down, and this test amplifies
that far harder than anything else in the job. Comparing the 80 attempts
where it ran under 3s against the 12 where it ran over 12s, its own
median goes 2198ms -> 15917ms (7.2x) while the same file's
powershell-only test moves 556 -> 686ms (1.2x), the cmd.exe and Git Bash
process tests in the neighbouring file move 1.4x, and the other 35 files
put together move 1.5x.

Measured across those 176 attempts: 1881ms to 35438ms, p50 4264ms,
correlation +0.881 with the job's total Vitest duration. 8 of 176 (4.5%)
exceeded the 15s cap; 2 of 176 (1.1%) also exceeded the shared 30s
testTimeout, so deleting the override and inheriting the config is not
enough on its own. 60s clears all 176 with 1.7x headroom on the worst.

This is slow, not hung. Every body here is synchronous spawnSync, so
Vitest cannot interrupt one — the timer fires only after the body
returns and the reported duration is real elapsed time. That is why a
failure reads `× ... 22464ms` under `Test timed out in 15000ms`. The
work finished; the stopwatch was short. Seven reruns at one identical
head measured 2053 / 4680 / 5551 / 8732 / 13506 / 14868 / 21937ms — the
last of those would have been red on code that had not changed.

The 15s came from #8897, which raised this test off Vitest's built-in 5s
default because the job then ran bare `pnpm vitest run`. #8909 landed
3h27m later and pointed the job at config/vitest.config.ts, which is the
real fix for that. The constant stayed behind and has been the binding
budget ever since.

* fix(terminal): fence stale remount reattach ownership

* fix(terminal): reconcile mounted pane identity after replacement

* fix(terminal): fence stale reattach fallback ownership

* fix(terminal): fence deferred SSH reattach ownership

* fix(terminal): fence stale split pane ownership callbacks

* fix(terminal): keep stale spawns from consuming startup

---------

Co-authored-by: Brennan Benson <79079362+brennanb2025@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-31 08:17:40 -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
Neil 7bbb8adc61 fix(ssh): replay an undelivered remote PTY stop on the next handshake (#12447 item 1) (#17011)
* fix(ssh): replay an undelivered remote PTY stop on the next handshake

A pty.shutdown that dies on the transport left the remote shell running
forever: kill.ts marked liveness unverifiable and nothing retried.

Record the undelivered stop on the existing durable SshRemotePtyLease and
replay it against the authoritative host on the next handshake to that same
target, fenced by the host-minted PTY incarnation so a replay cannot kill a
later PTY that reused a recycled pty-N id. Retire the record on confirmed
delivery, on the host reporting the PTY absent, and on a bounded TTL.

No wire change: the fence reads incarnationId, already published on
pty.listProcesses. A host that does not publish it degrades to no replay.

* fix(ssh): do not leave a replayable kill order behind a reversible stop

Worktree sleep stops through stopAndWait and marks those stops reversible;
when one does not land the pane stays live and the user keeps using it. An
order recorded there would come back on a later handshake and kill that
terminal. Only killPtyFromRuntimeController — where the client gives the PTY
up for good — records one, and it skips any PTY a reversible stop owns.

* fix(ssh): cover the renderer kill route and harden the replay's evidence

pty:kill is a separate implementation from killPtyFromRuntimeController and
is the one an ordinary tab close reaches, so the record was never written on
the path #12447 describes. Extracted it out of inspect.ts (which was over the
line budget and was not what the file is named for) and wired both branches.

Also:
- finishPtyShutdown no longer retires the order. It runs on paths that asked
  the host and on paths that never did, so retiring there was a contract every
  caller had to know, and the one that forgot silently dropped a kill order.
  Retirement is the replay's, on inventory evidence only.
- A recycled relay id now expires its lease. Declining to kill was only half:
  reattach fences on paneKey/tabId, never incarnation, so an untouched lease
  bound the user's old pane to whatever now holds the id.
- Dropped isPtyAlreadyGoneError from the tombstone path. It matches message
  text a transport failure could wear; every tombstone now traces to a listing.
- TTL is owned by a durable prune that actually deletes, not by a branch that
  was unreachable behind the read filter and only looked tested.
- The replay re-reads the inventory per wave and re-checks the fence next to
  each shutdown, and can never reject into the connect path.
2026-08-28 04:08:15 -07:00
Jinjing c4b39295c1 style: format codebase (#16935)
* style: format codebase

* style: format codebase

* refactor: extract skill install dialog footer and content

Extract footer and content sections from SkillInstallDialog and
SkillInstallManagementDialog into separate components for improved
maintainability and clarity of component responsibilities.
2026-08-28 00:59:21 -07:00
Neil a7b1da9e14 fix(ssh): a reattach may bind a pane but must never create one (#16751)
`reattachKnownPtys` treats every non-terminated lease as live and calls
`persistPtyBinding`, which had no way to say "bind only". Two of its branches
then rebuild UI the user is not asking for:

- `pty-binding-persistence.ts:133-143` -- `if (args.incarnationId)`
  unconditionally deletes the pane's close tombstone.
- `:145-160` -- on a tab-not-found it mints one via
  `createMinimalPersistedTerminalTab`. The in-code comment names its only
  intended caller: "pty:spawn can beat the debounced writer." Spawn. Reattach
  took the same branch.

This is the mechanism canceled ticket STA-4268 described: "Leases have no pane
incarnation and upsert only by target/PTY. Every nonterminal lease is reattached;
frozen coordinates are passed to persistPtyBinding, which creates and flushes
missing tabs and layout leaves." It was fixed in #13326, reverted by #14361,
re-applied by #14384, and reverted again by #14395 (opened and merged nine
seconds apart, empty commit body). `grep -rn "mayCreate" src/` returns nothing on
main -- the mechanism is genuinely out of the tree.

Four parts:

1. `mayCreate` (default true). When false, one pre-mutation check mirrors all
   four creating branches and returns `false` without mutating, so a refusal
   leaves nothing half-written.

2. The authority gate -- the part both prior attempts lacked, and probably why
   both were reverted. `mayCreate: false` alone refuses in two situations: "the
   user closed it" AND "the renderer has not published its layout yet". The
   second is routine on disconnect->reconnect and is almost certainly the #14361
   tab-loss mechanism. The fence was not wrong; it was UNCONDITIONED. It is now
   passed only when `hasHostAuthoritativeTerminalMembership()` says the persisted
   membership speaks for this worktree, reusing the function already guarding the
   same question at `orca-runtime.ts:8608`. Losing a tab is worse than keeping a
   duplicate, so an unauthoritative session still gets the creating write.

   Authority is read from `local` because that is the partition the write lands
   in -- it is local's absence being interpreted. But a pane the `ssh:<target>`
   partition still holds is not gone, so it keeps its creating write; refusing
   there would strand a live pane behind a binding reattach can no longer reach.
   (SSH spawns bind into `ssh:<target>` while this reattach binds into `local` --
   GH #12721/#12723, STA-3980. This does not fix that split; it refuses to judge
   from one side of it.)

3. `findTerminalTabIdForLeaf` -- bind resolves the tab from the live layout
   instead of the lease's frozen `tabId`. Only the leaf half of a pane key is
   remint-stable: `detachTerminalPaneToTab` moves a live pane into a new tab, so
   a stored tabId names the tab the pane left. Identity vs location.

4. Pane-keyed supersession -- retires siblings on `(targetId, worktreeId,
   leafId)` to `expired`, guarded by the durable binding, which reads `local`
   then `ssh:<target>` so it is correct whichever partition the binding landed
   in. `upsertSshRemotePtyLease` matched `(targetId, ptyId)` alone
   (`ssh-pty-lease-operations.ts:34-36`), so a new relay pty id on reattach minted
   a SECOND lease instead of updating the first, leaving the predecessor
   non-terminated with nothing to retire it.

On refusal the lease goes `expired`, never `terminated` -- `expired` records that
this shell has no surface to reach it through; `terminated` would assert an exit
nothing here observed, which `docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md` forbids.
The remote process is left running.

Deliberately NOT done:
- A collision guard for `upsertSshRemotePtyLease`. Built, tested, and REMOVED --
  its own test passed with the guard disabled, i.e. vacuous. Telling "same lease"
  from "recycled id on a different shell" needs a relay-start identity, which
  would be a twelfth per-tab identity concept; the codebase already carries
  eleven (784 refs) that SSH-v3 Phase 3 deletes. Left as an in-code NOTE. This
  handles lease DIVERGENCE, not COLLISION.
- A port of #13324. Its own authors deleted its load fold and reverted its
  local-only reader in #13326 ("a headless-owned pane still gets a vote before
  its lease is retired"); porting it ships a state-destroying migration they
  removed.
- `bindPaneShell` from #13325. Its purpose is making `isSupersededPtyId` live,
  and that fence does not exist in main. It would have been a refactor plus a
  silently-ignored `mayCreate` -- TS drops excess props through spreads
  (verified), which is why `mayCreate` is passed as a conditional spread here.

Honesty about scope: this does NOT close the daily-tab-growth report. The
deterministic e2e repro (`ssh-lost-kill-tab-resurrection.spec.ts`, later in this
stack) is byte-identical before and after, and instrumentation shows why -- in
that scenario `restoreReattachedPtyRuntime` is never called at all
(`CREATING TAB` 9 hits, `reattach gate` 0, `BYPASS` 0). The fence is on a path
that bug does not take. It is a real, separately-provable defect; it is not the
headline fix, and must not be claimed as one.

Evidence, A/B on this tree. Disabling the authority gate (`mayCreate = true`) and
the supersession call by hand: **8 of 12 fail**, including "does not resurrect a
tab whose closing pty.kill failed with a transport error" and "holds the live
lease count flat across ten reconnects of one pane"
(`[ 'pty-0', 'pty-1', 'pty-2', …(7) ]` vs `[ 'pty-9' ]`). The 4 that pass both
ways are the over-refusal tripwires, which is the point of having them. Restored:
12 passed; 2,439 passed across `src/main/ssh`, `src/main/persistence` and
`src/main/runtime/workspace-session`.
2026-08-27 19:45:49 -07:00
Brennan Benson 913509edeb fix(orchestration): prevent slow worker-start stalls (#16300)
* Extend orchestration agent submission timing budgets

* fix(orchestration): preserve mutation recovery identity

* fix(orchestration): preserve recovery executable identity

* fix(orchestration): keep worker starts and recovery commands safe

* test(orchestration): cover federated worker preflight

* fix(orchestration): harden mutation recovery

* fix(orchestration): redact dispatch recovery credentials

* chore: preserve upstream skill dialog formatting

* test(orchestration): stabilize agent prompt submit e2e

* fix(orchestration): validate federated start receipts

* perf(runtime): cache unchanged prompt verification tail

* fix(orchestration): reject worker-start timer overflow

* fix(orchestration): normalize worker-start timeout defaults

* fix(orchestration): normalize worker-start readiness budgets

* fix(orchestration): normalize federated readiness timeout

* test(runtime): tolerate current-main degradation exports

* chore: preserve current-main orcad formatting

* chore: drop unrelated formatting carryover
2026-08-27 15:25:30 -07:00
Neil 5631aa00dd feat(orcad): items 2–7 — degradation, natives, daemon, ops, deploy (#16398)
* fix(ports): stop joining an undefined resourcesPath on a non-Electron host

`resolveWorkerEntryPath` branched on `isPackaged` alone and joined
`process.resourcesPath`. orcad reports `isPackaged` true — correctly, it is a
production build, and ~15 consumers read it that way to gate HTTPS-only skill
downloads and the real CLI name — but `process.resourcesPath` is Electron-only
and `undefined` under plain Node.

So the packaged branch threw
`TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be of type string`
where a clean "worker unavailable" was the honest outcome. The type said
`resourcesPath: string`, which is how it went unnoticed; it is now
`string | undefined`, so the compiler carries the fact.

A host with no Electron resources tree has no asar to look in, so it falls back
to the module directory and lets the caller report a missing worker.

Found by the item 1 agent while auditing the same `isPackaged` defect class in
the watcher. Verified in both directions: reverting the guard reproduces the
TypeError.

* feat(orcad): prove node-pty loads before anything requires it

Of the two ways node-pty fails, only one is catchable. A missing module throws
MODULE_NOT_FOUND. A module built against the wrong libc or Node ABI is refused by
the dynamic loader, and in the worst case takes the process down before any handler
exists — that is #9902, which crashed the desktop app on Ubuntu 20.04 before a
window appeared. There was no libc or ABI precondition anywhere in the tree.

So orcad now proves the load in a CHILD process, from main.ts, before anything
requires node-pty. Whatever the child does — throw, abort, die on a signal — is data
rather than our own death, and the operator gets a sentence naming the host's libc,
Node ABI and prebuild slot plus the command to run. Proven-unloadable exits 78
(EX_CONFIG), so a supervisor does not restart an unequippable host forever. A probe
that never answered is unverifiable, not blocked: refusing to boot on an inconclusive
signal would take down hosts that work.

The child dlopens the file node-pty would have chosen, before requiring the package.
node-pty's loader walks several directories and rethrows only the LAST error, so a
refused binary reads as "Cannot find module ./prebuilds/..." — which sends the
operator to install a module that is already there. It also reports through stdout:
node echoes the whole -e source above a stack trace, and matching tokens against
stderr made the probe's own source text answer for the verdict.

Verdicts reach clients as a terminal_unavailable degradation alongside the existing
browser_unavailable one, through the same cause-registry shape. degradations[].code
is now an open vocabulary; clients already render only `message`.

Prebuilds are compiled from PATCHED sources — the patch IS the glibc-floor fix, so an
upstream tarball reproduces #9902 — into linux-{x64,arm64}-{glibc,musl} and
darwin-{x64,arm64} slots. libc is in the slot name because node-pty's loader falls
back to prebuilds/<platform>-<arch> and cannot tell glibc from musl. orcad installs
the matching slot at boot, so a host with no compiler serves terminals.

The relay's five pure toolchain-diagnosis functions moved to a transport-free module
so the Node bundle can reuse them without dragging ssh2 in behind them; the relay
keeps its API by re-export. macOS gets `xcode-select --install` rather than the
cross-distro apt/dnf/pacman/apk menu, every line of which is wrong there.

* test(orcad): pin the node-pty precondition to ground truth, not a prepared host

CI's test shard runs `vitest` directly, so `ensure-native-runtime --runtime=node`
never prepares node-pty for the Node ABI — `degraded` is the correct verdict
there, and asserting 'ok' encoded an environment the shard does not have.

Asserting whatever it returned would be vacuous, so the expectation is now
derived from an independent require() of node-pty. Verified it still bites:
forcing the precondition to always report 'ok' fails the suite.

* feat(orcad): run the terminal daemon, and the ops contract around it

orcad declared `canRecoverPersistentLocalPtys: () => false` because it did not
run the terminal daemon, so every restart, update and rollback SIGKILLed every
running terminal — on the host whose selling point is that work survives the
client going away. That is the one property `ssh-execution-boundary.md`
recommends the peer model for.

Item 4 — the daemon:

- Port the launch path off electron: `daemon-init.ts`,
  `daemon-host-relocation.ts` and `observability/logs-directory.ts` now read
  the `AppEnvironment` port. Relocation additionally asks whether the app root
  is an asar archive rather than whether the build is packaged, so a Node host
  answering `isPackaged() === true` no longer walks into an Electron-only
  NSIS-escape path (same precedent as `parcel-watcher-entry-path.ts`).
- `build-orcad.mjs` emits `daemon-entry.js` beside `orcad.js`, scans the
  forked children's metafiles for electron/node:sqlite, and load-checks the
  child under plain Node.
- orcad spawns and adopts the daemon; shutdown disconnects and never kills it.
  `canRecoverPersistentLocalPtys` now reads the live provider and is false
  under degraded routing, where fresh terminals would die with the process.

Item 3 — the ops contract (docs/reference/orcad-operations.md):

- Bind policy: `--bind`, default loopback, pinned so neither `orca serve`'s
  wide default nor the connected-device widen can override it, and so a paired
  client cannot rebind the listener from outside.
- Instance lock on the data root before profile load, scoped to the runtime
  role so it never refuses a restart that a live daemon makes worthwhile.
- Supervision: exit codes a supervisor can act on (78 = do not retry),
  second-signal escalation, a shutdown deadline, and crash-loop containment on
  daemon respawn.
- Health in the readiness payload: build hash, Node ABI, and a PTY self-test
  that spans both processes — the daemon spawns a real PTY in its own process
  and the verdict crosses its socket.

Both bundle load-checks now assert on exit codes: these bundles are minified
onto one line, so Node's uncaught-exception report echoes every string literal
in the bundle and the previous message match passed against a bundle that
never loaded.

* feat(orcad): deploy, activate and roll back a versioned orcad install

Plan items 6 and 7 from docs/design/shipping-orcad.html.

Install reuses the relay's transaction verbatim — per-version lock, staged
SFTP write, .install-complete sentinel, stale-lock recovery — under a
parameterized namespace, so orcad-<v>/ sits beside relay-<v>/ permanently
(§06). Parameterizing GC is the trap that creates: each model now collects
only its own directories, enforced twice (prefix-scoped remote listing plus
a local ownership re-check), and a client picks its model from how the host
is registered, never from what it finds on disk.

Activation is separate from installation, because a versioned directory
selects nothing. A candidate is launched, publishes orca_server_ready, and
only becomes active if its cross-process health payload passes: right build
hash, listening, daemon live, PTY self-test green. A rejected candidate is
stopped and the incumbent restarted, so a careful deploy cannot cause the
outage it was being careful about.

Update and rollback are shaped by the daemon. An update restarts orcad, the
daemon outlives it, and the surviving daemon was forked from the outgoing
bundle — so live terminals defer the update rather than proceed, and GC pins
the active version, the rollback target and the live daemon's bundle. Orca's
persisted state carries no schema version, so rollback restores a
pre-activation snapshot rather than trusting backward-readability; the point
past which it is unsafe is the first terminal created after activation,
which the snapshot cannot describe and the surviving daemon still owns.

Running the generated shell for real found two bugs the text assertions
missed: tar members re-quoted inside a shell variable captured nothing, and
kill -0 reports a zombie as alive.

* test(orcad): assert the precondition is self-consistent, not environment-shaped

The real-host case cannot predict a status: CI's shard runs vitest directly, so
node-pty is never built for the Node ABI and 'degraded' is correct there, while a
prepared checkout gives 'ok'.

The previous attempt used require('node-pty') as ground truth, which resolves the
JS wrapper while the native binding loads lazily — it proved strictly less than
the precondition checks, and failed CI for exactly that reason.

What is invariant on a host with node-pty installed: never 'blocked', and never a
degraded verdict carrying an unestablished reason. The injected-input tests keep
the logic coverage.

* fix(orcad): drop an eslint-disable the rule no longer needs

* test(orcad): separate slot placement from the load verdict

Both remaining CI failures were the same shape: tests reaching into node_modules
for a pty.node that only exists after `ensure-native-runtime --runtime=node`,
which CI's shard never runs because it invokes vitest directly.

Slot *placement* is the logic worth checking on every host, so it now uses a
synthetic payload and asserts the verdict stays honest about not loading. The
three assertions that genuinely need a Node-ABI binding are gated on it existing.

Verified: breaking slot installation fails both placement tests; with the real
pty.node hidden the file is 17 passed / 3 skipped instead of ENOENT.

* test(orcad): gate the load-dependent cases on a real load, not on the file existing

CI ships a pty.node built for Electron's ABI, so existsSync was true while require
still failed — the gate ran exactly the tests that host can never satisfy. It now
probes the binding in a child process, so a bad one cannot take the runner down.

The self-consistency assertion also allowed too little: 'blocked' is the honest
verdict for a corrupt binding, alongside 'ok' on a prepared host and 'degraded' on
an unprepared one. What stays invariant is that anything other than 'ok' names an
established cause, so a terminal is never declined for a reason nobody worked out.

Verified against all three host states: prepared (19 passed), unprepared, and a
corrupt binding (17 passed / 3 skipped, no failures).

* test(orcad): gate on the whole premise — binding AND spawn-helper

CI has a loadable pty.node but no spawn-helper, and a slot without the helper is
legitimately 'degraded'. So the previous gate let a test run whose premise ('a
complete slot yields ok') that host cannot satisfy.

Verified in both states: with the helper present 19 pass; with it removed the
load-dependent cases skip (17 passed / 3 skipped) instead of failing.

* fix(orcad): preserve degradation types after rebase
2026-08-27 00:18:51 -07:00
Brennan Benson 8a07bbd8cf fix(orchestration): enforce nested worker depth instead of an accidental fence (#16668)
* fix(orchestration): enforce nested worker depth instead of an accidental fence

Orca documented that "dispatched workers cannot spawn their own sub-workers
(worker-start is coordinator-fenced)". No such check existed. What existed was a
single Run-binding check in the workerStart RPC: a worker's terminal is not bound
to a Run, so worker-start happened to fail. The rule was emergent, asserted by no
test, and written in no doc — and it leaked. A worker could run-create its own
Run, task-create, and worker-start: now bound, the check passed.

Replace it with a real, configurable depth cap.

Depth is derived from the caller's own active Dispatch rather than from Run
binding, which is what dissolves the run-create bypass: creating a Run does not
stop you being a worker. Enforcement lives in a single dispatch-row writer that
owns all three INSERTs that mint a live worker — the generic claim, the supervised
worker-start path (including every retry), and the remote attachment. Two of those
were missed by earlier drafts of this change, so `creator` and `maxDepth` are
required parameters: a new spawn path cannot compile without deciding, and a
boundary test refuses the SQL anywhere else.

Schema v30 adds depth to dispatch_contexts and remote_dispatch_attachments,
NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 and backfilled to 1 so an unstamped or pre-upgrade row fails
closed rather than reading as a root coordinator. The attachment pane indexes
widen to the five states in which a remote worker may still be running:
loss of contact is not evidence of process death, so an unverifiable worker still
counts as a nesting parent.

Also adds the caller-evidence assertion that workerStart was the only Run-scoped
verb to skip, so a declared --from cannot name another terminal's pane and inherit
its depth.

Default is 1, so behaviour is unchanged unless the new setting is raised. Two
limitations are deliberate and documented rather than papered over: this is a
guardrail and not a security boundary, since a caller whose launch evidence is
unverifiable (any ordinary restored terminal) can declare another handle; and it
is enforced at supervised dispatch creation, so a settled worker whose process is
still alive counts as a root again.

* fix(orchestration): share caller resolution and pin worker gaps

* refactor(orchestration): make the caller resolver's pane contract explicit

Overloads so requireStablePane callers get a non-null string instead of casting,
and rename the attestation opt-out to say what it means: the caller asserts it
itself. A flag called assertEvidence:false reads as "attestation optional",
which is the hole this helper exists to close.

* fix(orchestration): propagate dispatch depth to federated workers

* chore(cli): refresh bundled orchestration guide
2026-08-26 13:22:09 -07:00
Jinjing cda2280d63 Show all automations (#16532)
* Add all-host automations with scoped ownership and multi-authority suppo

Enable automations to run on multiple hosts (SSH targets and local) with
owner-fenced mutations, scoped list queries per host, and conflict
resolution. Introduces desktop and runtime authorities as distinct
automation storage owners, with per-host caching, invalidation, and
retry scheduling on the renderer. Captures registration generations for
SSH hosts to survive re-adoption. Adds CLI support for destination
selection and conflict recovery.

* Filter automation create projects by destination host

Only offer projects available on the selected destination, preventing
the mismatches that would fail at submit time. Auto-adjust the project
selection if it becomes unavailable when the destination changes.

* Add runtime storage authority support for automations

- Support both runtime and desktop as automation storage authorities
- Make owner preconditions optional for legacy-client compatibility
- Cache automation list projections to improve performance
- Add per-row repo/worktree resolution for cross-authority collisions
- Extend automation.list RPC to always include owner metadata

* Replace child_process.execFile with runProcess for external automations

- Migrate external-manager to use cross-platform runProcess wrapper per child-process safety policy
- Abstract electron app/ipcMain APIs in orca-runtime via environment accessors
- Install fake app environment in automation tests for consistent setup
- Reorganize imports to use specific module paths (ssh-target-registry, agent-detection, browser-error)
- Remove external-manager from child-process import allowlists (no longer violates direct import)

* Unify desktop automation CRUD onto the local runtime RPC surface

The desktop authority now speaks the same automation.* RPC contract as
remote runtimes, via callRuntimeRpc({kind:'local'}) -> runtime:call ->
the shared RpcDispatcher. The automations:list/listRuns/create/update/
delete/runNow IPC arms, their preload members, and every renderer
desktop-vs-runtime transport fork are retired; the runtime methods are
the single implementation of scoped lists, owner fencing, and change
publication for both transports (mobile clients already exercised them).

The desktop probe scheduler's priority lease survives the move as an
AutomationService hook the IPC registration installs and the runtime
methods take, so Orca's own automation traffic still parks queued
external-manager probes.

External-manager scope arms and dispatch-loop plumbing stay on IPC by
design; automation change events keep their existing channels (renderer
ingestion already converges them by authority).

* Remove automation ghost SSH tombstone scanning

This functionality for synthesizing tombstones for automation-referenced SSH
targets is no longer needed as part of the automation system refactoring.

* Refuse orphan automations at dispatch time, not migration time

Remove migration-time disabling of orphan automations and the `enabledDecidedBy` field. Dispatch now refuses orphans at runtime instead, simplifying state management and UI. Orphans are left unstamped and enabled; dispatch refuses to run them via `resolveAutomationRunTarget`.

* Show all automations in flat table with unified filter menu

- Replace host picker component with comprehensive Filters menu supporting status, last run, agent, and host filters
- Flatten automation list layout to single table instead of host-grouped sections
- Add Host column to display execution host for each automation
- Display active filters as removable pills below toolbar
- Delete unused AutomationHostPicker* components

* Add automation owner fencing and destination validation

- New AUTOMATION_OWNER_FENCING_RUNTIME_CAPABILITY for owner preconditions; legacy clients get owner metadata snapshotted at RPC boundary for compatibility
- Editor captures and revalidates automation destination before save, preventing silent retargeting if SSH infrastructure changes mid-edit
- SSH target types now isolate renderer-authored fields; generation is server-owned and stripped by IPC handlers

* Route automation recovery actions to the origin host

When an automation action fails due to owner fencing, recovery verbs
("Update server", "Reconnect") must run on the host where the refusal
originated: the row's captured owner for row operations, or the
destination the create dialog captured, not the list's filtered host.

* Remove external manager scope limitation notices

Consolidate create destination eligibility checks with a unified predicate
and fix the bug where desktop repo IDs could be sent to runtime hosts where
they cannot resolve.

* Persist only store-derived automation contexts, not client-perspective o

Store contexts must never be based on client-provided runContext or sourceContext
values—clients speak a different perspective (e.g., 'runtime:<id>' for host IDs
they assign), and persisting those makes the store projection orphan automations
it actually owns. Derived contexts now take precedence in create and update paths,
with explicit null still honored to clear a value. Tests verify this by simulating
drift after storage and confirming that moves re-derive while toggles preserve.
2026-08-26 09:50:12 -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
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
Jinwoo HongandJinwoo-H a9781a4118 STA-4150: client-hosted remote browser (consolidated) (#15448)
Co-authored-by: Jinwoo-H <jinwoo@stably.ai>
2026-08-25 15:36:51 -07:00
Jinjing 3bc13f7b8c Split monolithic PTY IPC module into organized submodules (#15172)
* rm unused files

* remove unused files

* Refactor PTY IPC and add host environment paths

- Split PTY handlers out of inline baseline checks
- Rename local PTY shell provider for clarity
- Pass userDataPath and resourcesPath to host environment

* Establish PTY daemon identity before first await in spawn flow

Move identity setup, session ID minting, and hidden delivery state to
the beginning of preflight, ensuring these complete synchronously
before any awaited operations. Defer async operations like folder
workspace validation; add liveness tracking for SSH provider failures.
Refactor pane spawn reservation to prevent concurrent spawns from
creating duplicate providers.

* Add incarnationId tracking throughout PTY exit lifecycle

Track PTY incarnation IDs in exit messages sent to renderer, and add cause tracking for exit events. This enables proper lifecycle state management when PTYs can be respawned or have multiple concurrent instances. Also adds deadline support to process listing operations and stop-request tracking for better shutdown observability.

* Use fake timers in SFTP namespace tests for deterministic abort handling

Tests now use `vi.useFakeTimers()` to control time during abort scenarios,
advancing timers explicitly instead of waiting on real async delays. Ensures
more reliable test execution without flakiness from timing-dependent behavior.

* Fix PTY spawn lifecycle: handle concurrent races and cleanup abandoned a

Properly release Agent Teams leader handles when spawns are abandoned or fail,
restore provisional PTY sizes on reattachment, and settle concurrent spawn races
for the same pane. Add validation guards for destroyed renderers and improve
handler re-registration to reset delivery state before bridging a new window.

* Move PTY cleanup to localized error boundaries

Restore provisional PTY size when build-options fails and guard pre-allocated handle registration. This ensures cleanup happens at the point of error, not deferred to the general catch block.

* Replace Promise.resolve() with vi.waitFor in PTY claim test

Wait explicitly for the providerSpawn call to be made using vi.waitFor()
instead of relying on event-loop yielding. This makes the test more
deterministic and reduces flakiness from timing assumptions.

* Redact PTY IDs in pending data drop diagnostics

Prevent workspace paths embedded in session IDs from leaking through
diagnostic logs by using redactPtyIdForDiagnostics.

* Mark PTY exit events as observed by provider

Exit handlers now receive `providerExitObserved: true` to
distinguish definitive provider-witnessed exits from inferred
state changes. Preserves optional exit cause when present.

* Add defensive input validation to PTY IPC handlers

Validate that IPC arguments are present and the correct type before
passing them to handler logic. Uses optional chaining and type checks
to safely handle malformed requests from the renderer process.

* Replace direct Electron imports with PTY host bindings

Abstract app, ipcMain, and powerMonitor access through getter functions
to support multiple host environments and improve testability.

* Defend against transient PTY setup failures with state cleanup

Host-env setup failures now trigger cleanup of runtime-allocated PTY state. Cached PTY geometry is preserved after transient reattach failures but cleared when the provider reports the PTY exited before the spawn reply—preventing stale geometry from corrupting future operations. Error handling now distinguishes expired SSH sessions and early-exit conditions to preserve geometry appropriately.
2026-08-24 15:30:16 -07:00
Brennan BensonandNeil ec4687c434 feat(agents): distinguish Claude background monitoring (takes over #14205) (#16201)
* feat(agents): distinguish Claude background monitoring

Adds an optional `workingMode: 'monitoring'` discriminator for a Claude
session whose lead turn finished but which still has background shell tasks
or session crons registered. The wire state stays `working`, so older peers
that never read the field keep rendering Working.

(cherry picked from commit d5d54b4bdd)

Rebased onto current main (554 commits of drift) by Brennan Benson;
conflicts resolved by keeping both sides where main and this branch made
independent additions to the same construct.

* fix(sidebar): keep monitoring status visible

(cherry picked from commit fd6b38654d)

* test(agents): cover Claude monitoring drain

(cherry picked from commit ce4d61ebf8)

* test(mobile): avoid unresolved renderer test type

(cherry picked from commit bbcfa35ff9)

* feat(agents): render Claude monitoring as a static turquoise dot

Replaces the yellow Radio glyph from #14205 with a static dot in a new
--agent-monitoring token (#8abeb7), defined once for light and once for
dark like --workspace-status-done, so the status keeps its identity when
the theme flips. Deliberately a fixed UI value: it never reads terminal
theme state at runtime.

Adds the turn-boundary notification pins. The monitoring predicate and
the turnCompletedAt stamp are computed from the same "lead said done but
the pane resolves to working" expression, so a rename can silently drop
the stamp and kill a completion notification that works today with
nothing else going red.

* revert(agents): restore the yellow Radio glyph for monitoring

Brennan chose #14205's original treatment over the turquoise dot, so the visual
goes back to nwparker's: lucide Radio in text-yellow-500 across the sidebar,
dashboard dot, cmd-j palette and agent-map ring.

Reverts only the visual surface. The turn-boundary notification pins stay — the
monitoring predicate and the turnCompletedAt stamp share an expression, so a
rename can silently drop the stamp and kill a completion that works today with
nothing else going red. The --agent-monitoring token is removed with its last
consumer rather than left dead in main.css.

---------

Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-24 15:24:32 -07:00
Brennan Benson 1921ba2250 fix(agent-status): clear the pane when a Claude compact finishes (STA-2915, STA-4613) (#15202)
* fix(agent-status): clear the pane when a Claude compact finishes (STA-2915, STA-4613)

A manual /compact ends at an idle prompt without emitting Stop, so nothing in the
compact window could ever clear the pane. A worktree that entered the compact
`working` stayed `working` until the 30-minute stale sweep -- and the summarizer's
start-less SubagentStop kept republishing the row, resetting that clock each time.

The correlation added by #12332 was supposed to own this, but it could never run:
PreCompact and PostCompact were never added to CLAUDE_EVENTS, so they were never
registered with Claude. compactTrigger was always undefined, and the transition
guard, the ownership cache, the relay wire field and the ingest branch were all
unreachable. Five test files exercised the logic by injecting events past the
registration boundary, so the suite stayed green over code that could not execute.

Register PostCompact -- and deliberately NOT PreCompact. Measured on Claude Code
2.1.227, a successful manual compact emits PreCompact, a start-less SubagentStop,
SessionStart(source=compact), then PostCompact; an ABORTED compact ("Not enough
messages to compact") emits PreCompact ALONE. Mapping PreCompact to `working`
would strand the pane on every aborted compact, which is the bug being fixed, so
the abort guard is structural: Orca never subscribes to the pre-validation event.

PostCompact carries its own trigger, so no anchor is needed to tell manual from
auto and the correlation machinery is deleted rather than repaired. Manual becomes
a `done` with sessionBoundary set -- a finished compact is a session-shaped
boundary, not a completed turn, so completion notifications, unread counts and
automation-run evidence stay out of it. Auto claims nothing: it runs inside a turn
that resumes and emits its own Stop.

The source-blind early return that dropped compact events for EVERY provider
before its normalizer ran is narrowed to Claude, so it keeps failing closed on a
malformed payload without pre-empting other providers.

Ownership is kept where the deleted guard had it: a valid provider prompt id is
required, a completion clears a row but never creates one (a retired pane must not
be resurrected), and a hydrated row is matched on provider session only -- it
carries the previous session's connectionId, and older rows carry no session at
all, so a strict check would reject the restart case this fixes. A consumed
prompt id keeps relay duplicates from refreshing the row.

Mixed versions: no new wire field and no new opcode. An older relay normalizes
with its own shipped mapping and forwards the event, so ingest drops `auto`
envelopes and stamps the boundary on `manual` ones; its replay strips the trigger
entirely, so payload state stands in for it while ownership is still enforced. The
relay now caches a completion with its compact identity removed, so a client that
was offline during the compact still receives the clearing row on reconnect.

Tests go red before this change and green after: 6 of 12 in the new
registration-gated suite and 5 of 8 in the relay/ingest suite. The harness delivers
only events present in CLAUDE_EVENTS, so a fix that is never registered cannot
pass -- the failure mode that let the original correlation ship unreachable.

* test(agent-status): restate the compact reliability gate around the new invariant

The gate pinned a test file this change deletes, so the manifest check failed.
Repointing the path alone would have left the gate describing an invariant that
no longer exists: it required a manual PostCompact to match its exact PreCompact
generation, and PreCompact is no longer consumed at all.

Restate it. The invariant is now that PreCompact never moves a pane, that only a
manual PostCompact marks done and does so as a session boundary, that a
completion clears an existing row but never creates one, and that a relay
predating the contract has its automatic envelopes dropped and its trigger-
stripped replays classified by payload state under the same ownership checks.

Evidence runs are the real ones: the 105-test suite from this branch, and the
Claude Code 2.1.227 PTY capture that measured PreCompact arriving alone on an
aborted compact.

* fix(agent-status): clear the restart-stuck pane a compact was meant to clear

Review found the completion did not clear the pane STA-2915 actually reports, and
that republishing it was a strict regression.

- A manual completion now retires a subagent that exists only as a disk snapshot:
  a /compact only completes at an idle prompt, so a restored child is proof of
  nothing. Live evidence -- a child observed in this runtime, an unclassifiable
  running background task, a registered session cron -- still holds the pane.
- A completion that cannot clear now publishes nothing instead of restating the
  row, which was stripping restoredUnconfirmed off a hydrated row and restarting
  the staleness clock for work the compact never observed.
- The relay defers compact ownership to the client that owns pane identity, so a
  cold relay cache can no longer swallow the one event that clears a remote pane.
- claudeConsumedCompactPromptIdByPaneKey joins all three pane-scoped teardown
  routes, and an auto compact no longer spends the pane's consumed-compact slot.
- The promptless completion keeps the summarized turn's label with or without a
  trigger on the envelope.

Tests: the two restart cases now deliver the completion while the hydrated row is
still cached, so they exercise the restored-row branch instead of passing through
the strict one; the triggerless working replay is asserted from a FINISHED pane so
it can fail. Reverting the four source files turns 12 of 21 registration-gated and
8 of 12 relay/ingest tests red, and 18 of 18 targeted mutations are caught.

* fix(agent-hooks): preserve compact identity across relay replay

* docs(reliability): describe compact replay ownership
2026-08-24 13:06:44 -07:00
Neil f975035809 refactor(ipc): split preflight and SSH registry out of the ipcMain modules (#15927)
* refactor(preflight): split agent detection out of the ipcMain registration

First of the IPC extractions the revised design requires. `src/main/ipc/preflight.ts`
mixed 285 lines of agent/tool detection with 35 lines of `ipcMain.handle`
registration, and the runtime calls that detection during normal operation
(`orca-runtime.ts:573`, plus the preflight RPC methods). So the runtime dragged
`ipcMain` into its graph to reach pure logic.

Detection moves to `src/main/preflight/agent-detection.ts` — named for what it
contains, per AGENTS.md. `ipc/preflight.ts` keeps only the handler registration and
re-exports the domain module so existing importers are unaffected. The runtime and
its RPC methods now import the domain module directly.

Ratchet baseline 36 → 35: `src/main/ipc/preflight.ts` is no longer reachable from
the runtime. The gate detected the improvement and refused to pass until the
baseline tightened, which is the behaviour it was built for.

Verified: 2 files / 1,187 tests pass across every suite touching preflight;
`pnpm typecheck` clean; `oxlint` clean.

* refactor(ssh): split the SSH target registry out of the ipcMain module

Second IPC extraction, and by far the biggest win: this removes **eight** modules
from the runtime's Electron graph, taking the ratchet baseline 35 → 27.

The runtime needed five thin accessors from `src/main/ipc/ssh.ts` —
`connectRegisteredSshTarget`, `getRegisteredSshState`, `listRegisteredSshTargets`,
`listRegisteredRemovedSshTargetLabels`, `getActiveMultiplexer`. Each is a one-line
read over module-level state. Importing them dragged in `ipcMain`, `powerMonitor`
and a `BrowserWindow` accessor — and, transitively, `ipc/pty.ts` (8,031 lines),
`ssh-browse`, `ssh-passphrase`, `ssh-relay-deploy`, `ssh-remote-cli-host-passthrough`,
`wsl-hook-relay-launch` and `user-data-path`.

`src/main/ssh/ssh-target-registry.ts` now holds that state plus its accessors.
`registerSshHandlers` populates it; the runtime reads it. The indirection is kept
deliberately: SSH providers register after construction and may reconnect, so
callers must resolve the current generation rather than freeze one.
`ipc/ssh.ts` re-exports all five, so non-test importers are unaffected.

`connectRegisteredSshTarget` still throws `ssh_handlers_not_registered` when no
handler layer registered — a headless host must fail loudly rather than report a
target as unreachable, which would read as `exited` (see ssh-execution-boundary.md).

Verified: 9 files / 59 tests across the ssh, automations and trust-preset suites;
orca-runtime.test.ts 1,183 pass; `pnpm typecheck` clean; `oxlint` clean.

* refactor(host): resolve the app root through the port in fork-reachable modules

`parcel-watcher-entry-path.ts` and `session-scanner-service-entry-path.ts` read the
app root via `require('electron').app` inside a try/catch that already returns null
when Electron is absent. They were therefore correct under plain Node at runtime and
only failed the *static* text check — which is real, not pedantic: the comment in
`ports/port-scan-command-client.ts:19` records that the plain-node-entry-guard fails
on that literal text, try/catch or not.

`hasAppEnvironment() ? getAppEnvironment() : null` gives the identical "no app root
here" answer without the text. That restores `hasAppEnvironment`, which an earlier
commit in this stack deleted as unused — it now has the caller it was waiting for.

Ratchet baseline 27 → 25.

Verified: 74 files / 458 tests; `pnpm typecheck` clean; `oxlint` clean.

* test(ssh): mock the SSH target registry alongside the ipc/ssh mock

Thirty-eight suites mocked `vi.mock('./ssh')` for `getActiveMultiplexer`. That
factory went inert when production started importing the accessor from
`../ssh/ssh-target-registry`, so the real module loaded and the assertions drifted.

Adds a companion registry mock returning the same stub, plus a
`sshTargetRegistryModuleMock` builder beside the existing `sshModuleMock` so the
shared harness stays one place. No assertion changed.

Found by a full-suite run: the targeted ssh/runtime suites were green while
30 tests in ipc/worktrees and ipc/repos were not.

* refactor(runtime): read app paths and the packaged flag through the port

`orca-runtime.ts` is the last module in its own graph that imports `electron`
directly. Nineteen of its uses were `app.getPath` (12) and `app.isPackaged` (7) —
exactly what the AppEnvironment port already covers.

Also removes a dead `const { app } = require('electron')` inside
`getOrchestrationDb`. It was left unused once the path came from the port, and it
is precisely the dynamic-require pattern `plain-node-entry-guard.ts` exists to
catch, sitting in the runtime's own constructor path.

What still binds `orca-runtime.ts` to Electron is now three sites, not nineteen:
`new Notification(...)` (one), `BrowserWindow.fromId` (one), and the
`ipcMain.on('terminal:tabCreateReply')` renderer round-trip — which is the browser
tab path, and the same one that would hang a headless host for ten seconds.

Two suites drove `electronMocks.app.isPackaged` directly; they now install a fake
AppEnvironment reading the same mutable field, so their per-test toggles work
unchanged and no assertion moved.

Verified: 376 files / 4,717 tests across src/main/runtime; typecheck and oxlint clean.

* test(serve): add the built-artifact terminal round-trip acceptance smoke

"The server started" proves almost nothing. Terminal creation dispatches into
OrcaRuntimeService, and without an installed headless PTY controller that path
falls through to a renderer reply that never arrives and times out after ten
seconds. A boot probe, a port bind, and a `host.platform` call all pass against a
server whose terminals are dead — which is exactly the gap the design doc's own
boot proof was retracted for.

This boots the BUILT `out/main/index.js --serve`, parses its ready payload, pairs a
real client over the advertised endpoint, lists worktrees, creates a terminal, runs
a command through the PTY, asserts the output comes back, and asserts clean
shutdown. It drives nothing but the public pairing + RPC surface, so the same
script is the acceptance gate a future Node-only backend must pass unchanged.

The sentinel invokes `process.execPath` rather than `echo`, because the shell
differs per platform and node does not.

Verified both directions: passes against the real server, and fails with an
actionable message when the command produces no output — a smoke that cannot fail
is worthless.

* fix(ssh): fail loudly when the multiplexer resolver was never installed

`getActiveMultiplexer` resolves through a resolver that `ipc/ssh.ts` installs at
module scope. A process that never loads the SSH layer — which is the whole point
of the Node-only backend — would get `undefined` from every call.

`undefined` already means something specific here: "not connected". So a missing
resolver and a disconnected target were indistinguishable, and a host with no SSH
layer would quietly report every target as not connected. That is the
unverifiable-reported-as-exited conflation `docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md`
exists to prevent — the doc is explicit that absence of contact is never evidence
of absence of the thing.

A missing resolver is a wiring error, not a connection state, so it throws, matching
what `connectRegisteredSshTarget` already does for unregistered handlers.

Verified: 432 files / 4,759 tests across ipc, ssh, preflight, automations and trust
presets; typecheck and oxlint clean.

* refactor(pty): stop faking a BrowserWindow for the headless PTY path

`registerHeadlessPtyRuntime` passed `registerPtyHandlers` a stub object cast to
`BrowserWindow` whose `isDestroyed()` returned true and whose `webContents.send`
was a no-op — a window-shaped thing that lied about being a window, purely to
satisfy the type. Adversarial review named it as the same "looks fine, silently
returns a lie" pattern this codebase rejects elsewhere, and it is the shape that
keeps `electron` on a path that otherwise needs none.

`registerPtyHandlers` now takes `BrowserWindow | null`. An absent renderer is
semantically identical to a destroyed one — all 42 call sites already guarded on
`isDestroyed()` and skipped — so `src/main/ipc/pty-renderer-surface.ts` states that
directly: `isRendererGone`, `sendToRenderer`, `rendererWebContents`. The compound
`isDestroyed() || webContents.isDestroyed()` guards collapse into one predicate.

`isPtyWriteEventFromMainWindow` becomes null-tolerant and fails closed: with no
renderer no sender can legitimately match, so every write is rejected. Those
handlers cannot fire headless today, but failing closed is the right answer if that
ever changes.

This is the precondition for installing a PTY controller without Electron, which is
what a Node-only backend needs and what `terminal.create` actually calls.

Verified: 129 files / 2,473 tests across ipc/pty, providers and orca-runtime; the
built-artifact acceptance smoke still passes end-to-end (boot → pair →
terminal.create → sentinel → close), which is the check that matters most here
since this changes the headless PTY path itself; typecheck and oxlint clean.

* refactor(pty): read app paths and the packaged flag through the port

Follows the fake-window removal. `ipc/pty.ts` had nine `app.*` reads — all
`getPath`, `getVersion` or `isPackaged` — which the AppEnvironment port already
covers. The `BrowserWindow` import was also dead after the null-window change.

What still binds this file to Electron is now `ipcMain` (75 uses, all handler
registration) and `powerMonitor` (2). That is a clean statement of the remaining
job: split logic from registration, the same shape already applied to preflight
and the SSH registry.

Test wiring: the shared `pty-ipc-suite-environment` beforeEach installs a fake
AppEnvironment that reads through the existing `vi.mock('electron')` app object
rather than freezing values — suites toggle `app.isPackaged` mid-test to exercise
dev-mode spawn paths, so the port has to observe the same mutable field. One edit
in the shared harness covers every pty suite.

Verified: 128 files / 1,290 tests across ipc/pty and providers; the built-artifact
acceptance smoke passes; typecheck and oxlint clean; ratchet unchanged at 25.

* refactor(pty): inject the ipcMain surface so the PTY module loads without Electron

This closes the round-3 blocker: "the doc never says how orcad installs
setPtyController without Electron."

`registerPtyHandlers` owns the `RuntimePtyController` that `terminal.create`
actually spawns through — the thing a Node backend needs and cannot get from the
provider thunks. The module was otherwise host-agnostic already; the only thing
pinning 8,031 lines to Electron was a static `ipcMain` / `powerMonitor` import used
purely to register renderer handlers that no headless host will ever receive.

`src/main/ipc/pty-host-bindings.ts` makes those surfaces settable, defaulting to
no-ops. Unlike AppEnvironment and SecretStore, the default does NOT throw: a host
with no renderer legitimately has nothing to register against, so not registering
handlers nobody can call is correct rather than a hidden downgrade. The desktop
installs the real objects in `attach-main-window-services` before its handlers run.

Also converts the remaining electron import to a top-level `import type`. oxlint's
`no-import-type-side-effects` caught that inline `type` specifiers still leave a
side-effect import — precisely the "type-only is not enough if esbuild still emits
require('electron')" trap a reviewer flagged.

**`src/main/ipc/pty.ts` now bundles with zero `require("electron")`.** A Node entry
can call `registerPtyHandlers(null, runtime, …)` and get a working PTY controller.

Verified: 128 files / 1,290 tests across ipc/pty and providers; the built-artifact
acceptance smoke passes end-to-end — which is the check that matters, since this
changes how every PTY handler registers; typecheck and oxlint clean.

* fix(pty-bindings): drop two unused eslint-disable directives

CI runs oxlint with unused-disable reporting; the two
`@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any` suppressions I added were never triggered by
any enabled rule, so they failed static analysis as dead directives. The `any[]`
rest args stay — they mirror electron's own IpcMain signature, and narrowing them
would reject the real object at the desktop call site.

Verified with the exact CI invocation: `oxlint --format github` reports 0 warnings,
0 errors across the repo.

* fix(pty): install the host bindings per process, not per window

A real regression my own change introduced, caught by the SSH docker E2E
(`paired-startup-exec-readiness` — "recovers startup exec through a headed paired
desktop owner"). It reproduced on rerun, so it was not a flake.

`setPtyHostBindings` was called inside `attachMainWindowServices`, i.e. when a
window attaches. But `registerHeadlessPtyRuntime` (index.ts:3163) calls
`registerPtyHandlers` on the serve path *before* any window exists — so those
handlers registered against the no-op default and never reached the real `ipcMain`.
A paired desktop owner then attached to a runtime whose PTY handlers were wired to
nothing.

The bindings describe the *host*, not the *window*: an Electron main process always
has `ipcMain`, whether or not a window is open. Installing them beside
`setAppEnvironment`/`setSecretStore` at the top of bootstrap fixes both paths.

Verified: 128 files / 1,290 tests; the built-artifact acceptance smoke passes;
typecheck clean; `oxlint --format github` (the exact CI invocation) reports 0/0.

* feat(orcad): de-electron the runtime core and add the Node entry + build gate

**`src/main/runtime/orca-runtime.ts` — 41,048 lines — no longer imports electron.**
Its last three sites go through `runtime-desktop-surface.ts`: a native notification,
the authoritative-window lookup, and the one `ipcMain` channel used by the
renderer-backed tab-create fallback. All three are unreachable without a renderer —
`createTerminal` already takes the background branch when no window exists (#10333) —
so a Node host installs none and the runtime relays notifications to paired clients,
which is the better destination anyway. Ratchet 25 → 24.

Adds `src/main/orcad/orcad-entry.ts`: Node host adapters plus a `startOrcad` that
constructs the runtime, installs the PTY controller via `registerPtyHandlers(null, …)`,
and serves RPC. It sets two defaults the constructor gets wrong for a headless host —
`canRecoverPersistentLocalPtys: false` (no daemon here) and
`getDesktopWindowStatus: 'blocked'` (a Node host can never be promoted to a desktop
window, which is what `'openable'` claims).

Adds `config/scripts/build-orcad.mjs`, which **currently fails, on purpose**: 25
modules still import electron (browser and speech clusters, plugins, jira/proxy,
filesystem-watcher, and four `require('electron').app` one-liners). It names them.

Two bugs found while building it, both worth recording:
- The first bundle looked clean and was not. `electron` was bundleable, so esbuild
  rewrote the metafile `path` to the resolved file under node_modules and a check for
  `path === 'electron'` passed while the package was in the bundle — it failed at
  runtime with electron's own installer message. The check now reads `original`, and
  electron is marked external so a residual import fails loudly instead.
- `jsonc-parser`'s UMD build breaks the bundle at load; aliased to its ESM entry, the
  same fix `build-relay.mjs` already carries.

Verified: desktop unchanged — the built-artifact acceptance smoke passes, runtime/pty/
provider suites green, typecheck clean, `oxlint --format github` 0/0.

* refactor(host): drop the last two require('electron') app lookups

`computer/sidecar-client.ts` and `ports/port-scan-command-client.ts` read the app
root through `require('electron').app` inside a try/catch. Both were already correct
under plain Node at runtime — they return null when it throws — but the literal text
fails the plain-Node entry guard regardless, which is why port-scan carried a comment
warning it must never become reachable from a fork entry.

Reading the AppEnvironment port gives the identical "no app root here" answer without
the text, so that warning is now obsolete and the comment says so.

Ratchet 24 → 22. Every remaining entry is a real coupling: the browser cluster (15,
which variant B does not ship), speech (2), plugins (2), and jira/proxy-settings (2,
needing an HttpClient port for Chromium session partitions).

Verified: 25 files / 209 tests; acceptance smoke passes; typecheck and
`oxlint --format github` clean.

* docs(orcad): record that the ratchet under-counts orcad's graph

The ratchet reports 22 electron importers; the orcad build reports 23. The extra is
agent-hooks/wsl-hook-relay-launch.ts, and the cause is a gap in the gate rather than
a rounding error: the ratchet measures what orca-runtime + runtime-rpc reach, while
orcad's entry also imports ipc/pty directly to install the PTY controller.

Once orcad ships it must become a ratchet entry point, or the two numbers drift and
the gate quietly stops covering the artifact it exists for.

* refactor(runtime): inject the browser commands factory

Drops 14 modules from the runtime's Electron graph in one change — the whole Chromium
browser cluster. Ratchet 22 → 8.

`OrcaRuntimeService` constructed `RuntimeBrowserCommands` as a field initializer, and
that construction is what pulled in `BrowserWindow`, `session`, `webContents` and the
cookie jars. Importing the class for its *type* is free; only building it costs.

So the class import becomes `import type`, and the instance comes from
`runtime-browser-commands-factory.ts`. The desktop installs the real factory at the
Electron entry. **All ~80 existing `this.browserCommands.*.bind(...)` delegations are
untouched** — a review round specifically warned that rewriting those was the
expensive, risky part, and this avoids it entirely.

With no factory installed, browser commands reject per call with `browser_unavailable`
rather than resolving to a stub that silently succeeds. The runtime already filters
browser capabilities out of `getStatus()` when no backend exists, so clients do not
offer the affordance in the first place.

Also corrects a stale comment in `pty-renderer-surface.ts` that still described the
fake window as present tense; it was deleted two commits ago.

Verified: 451 files / 5,513 tests across `src/main/browser` and `src/main/runtime` —
the entire browser automation suite; the built-artifact acceptance smoke passes;
`pnpm typecheck` and `oxlint --format github` clean.

* refactor(host): extract the plugin client list and port two app lookups

Ratchet 8 → 5.

- `listPluginsForClients` moves to `src/main/plugins/plugin-client-list.ts`. It needed
  only three `plugins/*` helpers, none of them Electron — it was colocated with
  `ipcMain.handle` registrations, so the runtime's `plugins.list` RPC dragged all of
  Electron in to call a function that reads a lockfile. Same shape as preflight.
  Dropping it also releases `ipc/plugin-marketplaces.ts`.
- `agent-hooks/wsl-hook-relay-launch.ts` and `speech/stt-service.ts` read `getAppPath`
  and `isPackaged` through the AppEnvironment port.

The five that remain are all genuinely Chromium and need the HttpClient port or a
watcher split, not another mechanical swap: `browser/cdp-bridge` (webContents),
`ipc/filesystem-watcher` (ipcMain), `jira/authenticated-request` and
`network/proxy-settings` (net + session partitions), `speech/model-manager`
(`net.request`, which honors app proxy settings that Node https does not — replacing
it is a behaviour change, not a rename).

Verified: 219 files / 1,922 tests across plugins, speech, agent-hooks and the runtime
RPC methods; the built-artifact acceptance smoke passes; typecheck and
`oxlint --format github` clean.

* refactor(network): resolve the default proxy session lazily

Ratchet 5 → 4.

`proxy-settings.ts` needed exactly one Electron value: `session.defaultSession`, as
the fallback when a caller does not pass `options.proxySession`. Callers could already
inject a session; only the default was hard-wired. It now comes from a settable
resolver, so the module loads under plain Node.

**A resolver rather than a Session, because a Session eagerly throws.** The first
attempt installed `session.defaultSession` directly in pre-ready bootstrap and broke
startup outright — `TypeError: Session can only be received when app is ready`. The
acceptance smoke caught it before commit. Deferring to first use is always after ready.

Behaviour with no session is not a degradation: there is no Chromium proxy config to
discover, so `resolveProxy` is skipped and the environment variables become the whole
answer rather than a fallback. Applying rules to a session that does not exist is
likewise skipped; settings are still honoured because outbound requests read the env.

This reaches past Jira — a review round noted `ensureElectronProxyFromEnvironment` is
also on the Claude HTTP path via `oauth-refresh.ts` and `rate-limits/claude-fetcher.ts`.

Verified: 48 files / 526 tests across network, jira and rate-limits; the
built-artifact acceptance smoke passes; typecheck and `oxlint --format github` clean.

* fix(index): merge the duplicate proxy-settings import

CI's code-quality lint (`oxlint --config config/oxlint-code-quality-native-plugins.json
--deny-warnings`) flags a module imported twice in one file. My earlier insertion added
a second `./network/proxy-settings` import beside the existing one.

Verified with CI's exact invocation: exit 0.

* refactor(network): add the HttpClient port and lift BrowserError out of cdp-bridge

Ratchet 4 → 2.

Two unrelated couplings, both of the same shape — a small thing living inside a
Chromium-heavy file.

`BrowserError` is a seven-line error class with no dependencies, but it lived in
`browser/cdp-bridge.ts`, which imports `webContents`. The runtime catches that type on
paths with nothing to do with CDP, so one import kept a Node host from loading the
runtime at all. Moved to `browser/browser-error.ts`; cdp-bridge re-exports it.

`jira/authenticated-request.ts` fetches through `net.fetch` and reads
`session.defaultSession`. `network/http-client.ts` makes both settable. This one is a
**named port rather than a silent fallback, because the fallback is not transparent**:
Electron's net follows Chromium session/proxy state, avoids undici's stale keep-alive
sockets after a VPN path change, and sends a Chrome user agent that Jira's XSRF check
depends on. A Node host gets `globalThis.fetch`, reads proxy config from the
environment, and sends Node's user agent. That difference is documented at the port.

`session.defaultSession` is read per call, not captured at install — it throws before
the app is ready, which is the mistake the previous commit made and the acceptance
smoke caught.

Test wiring: `jira/client.test.ts` installs the port *inside* `loadClientModule`, after
its `vi.resetModules()`, since the reset gives the module a fresh singleton.

Verified: 461 files / 5,616 tests across jira, browser, network and runtime; the
built-artifact acceptance smoke passes; typecheck, `oxlint --format github` and the
code-quality lint with `--deny-warnings` all clean.

* fix(http-client): register the Node fetch fallback with the call-site audit

`global-fetch-call-site-audit.test.ts` guards every global-fetch use, because the
global runs on undici where an unread response body can crash the whole process
(orca#8695). The HttpClient port's Node fallback is a new such call site and was
unregistered — the guard caught it in a full-suite run.

Registered with the reasoning, and the port's doc comment now states the body-safety
contract explicitly: it hands the Response straight to its caller and never inspects
it, so the consume/cancel obligation stays exactly where it already was — with the
caller, unchanged from when they called Electron's net directly.

Two comments elsewhere mentioned the global by name and tripped the line scan as false
positives; reworded to describe the behaviour rather than name the API.

Verified: audit passes; typecheck and `oxlint --format github` clean.

* fix(app-environment): read hasAppEnvironment through the realm slot
2026-08-22 21:34:39 -07:00
Neil b7e79b7ca6 fix(windows): one chokepoint for every child process (#15746)
* feat(process): add the Windows-correct child-process chokepoint

Six decisions have to be made every time Orca starts a child process --
console visibility, argument quoting, .cmd interpretation, binary
resolution, timeout policy, and how the tree is later terminated. POSIX
forgives all six. Windows punishes each differently, and made per-call
site across 172 files they were right in some and wrong in others.

runProcess/spawnProcess make them once:
- windowsHide unconditionally, shell:false unconditionally (shell:true
  concatenates argv unescaped and silently disables windowsHide)
- .cmd/.bat routed through cmd.exe /d /v:off /s /c with a verbatim line,
  because Node refuses to spawn them otherwise (EINVAL)

The encoding was derived by measurement on Windows 11, not from the
docs. An embedded quote is written "" rather than \" so cmd's naive
quote count stays even -- with \" the parity flips and every later &
| < > on the line stops being data. Measured before the fix, argv
["a b", 'c"d', "e%F%g", "h&i", "j^k"] arrived as
["a b", 'c"d', "e^%F^%g", "h"]: the & truncated the argument and
ran its remainder as a command. Each % is broken out of the quoted run
as "^%" because %VAR% expands even inside quotes.

The import-boundary test is a ratchet seeded at today's 172 files; it
only shrinks.

* fix(process): route the console-flashing spawn sites through the chokepoint

The ssh -G config probe fires on every connect and reconnect, and ssh.exe
is console-subsystem, so a GUI-subsystem parent gets a fresh visible
conhost that takes foreground -- keystrokes typed into an Orca terminal
at that moment go into the black box (#10488, #14543). Same for the
ProxyJump tunnel, the ProxyCommand cmd.exe wrapper, the font enumeration
and the DPAPI cookie decrypt.

Also stops spawning powershell by bare name: PATH under Electron is not
the user's, so where policy has pruned the System32 entry the spawn fails
and the font picker silently reports five hardcoded families rather than
an error (#11771).

Deletes system-fonts' 40-line bespoke execFileText -- timeout, output cap
and kill are the chokepoint's job now. Adds runProcessSync so the sync
callers have a compliant path; without one the ratchet could never
reach zero.

The three suites that mocked child_process directly now mock runProcess,
which is the point: how a process gets started is no longer each
module's business. Ratchet 173 -> 170.

* fix(process): do not report a deliberately killed child as timed out

runProcessSync inferred a timeout from signal === 'SIGTERM'. Measured:
a real timeout sets error.code ETIMEDOUT and kills with SIGTERM, but so
does anything else that terminates the child -- and those cases set no
error at all. Reading the signal alone reports a process someone stopped
on purpose as having timed out, which callers retry.

* refactor(process): hold the ratchet as data and migrate the pwsh probes

The allowlist and the adversarial argument corpus are read only by tests,
so they were production modules in name only; they move to __fixtures__.

pwsh.ts carried isTimeoutError() purely to reconcile two spellings of the
same event -- execFileSync reports a timeout as ETIMEDOUT, the execFile
callback as a SIGTERM kill with no code. runProcess reports one timedOut
flag, so the helper and the reasoning behind it both go.

Its sync probe also spawned without windowsHide, which flashes a console
and steals foreground on every cold cache read.

* refactor(process): migrate five more spawn sites onto the chokepoint

Each one deletes a hand-rolled promise/timeout/kill wrapper and stops
re-deciding console visibility for itself. Ratchet 170 -> 164.

Two things this surfaced, both kept:

runProcess now accepts string chunks as well as buffers. A stream someone
called setEncoding on emits strings, and concatenating those as buffers
throws inside a data handler -- where the rejection has nowhere to go and
the caller simply hangs rather than failing.

ProcessSpec keeps its AbortSignal. I had removed it as unused; the macOS
PAM preflight passes one through from its own caller.

ipc/app.ts is deliberately NOT migrated. Its probe spawns a three-stage
 pipeline detached so a timeout can reap the group with one
negative-pid SIGKILL; runProcess kills only the root, which would orphan
the plutil stages. Migrating it needs the chokepoint to own POSIX
process-group termination first -- the same guarantee job objects give on
Windows. Reverted and left on the ratchet.

* test(process): do not assert a POSIX signal on Windows

Windows has no signals, so the same deliberate kill reports an exit code
there and a signal on POSIX. What has to hold on both is that neither
shape reads as a timeout. Caught by running the suite on Windows.

(cherry picked from commit 0a6e9902a22a369a0e85e113ea8d87b726f82e1f)

* fix(process): settle a timed-out run even when the child ignores the kill

close only fires once the child is actually gone, so a child that traps
SIGTERM never emits it and the promise outlives its own deadline
forever. That is the same wedge shape just fixed for the process table,
and it is worse here: pwsh.ts and the snapshot reader both cache an
in-flight probe, so one unkillable child hands every later caller the
same dead promise.

After the deadline it now escalates to SIGKILL and settles regardless,
reporting timedOut with whatever output arrived.

(cherry picked from commit 78ac169197c4e6faee1b9310a7186029cc11acbc)

* fix(process): escalate an aborted child too, not just a timed-out one

The grace escalation I added covered the timeout path and left abort on
the old one, so an aborted caller with an unkillable child still waited
forever -- the same defect, one path over. The macOS PAM preflight is a
real caller that passes an AbortSignal.

Both paths now share one stop-and-settle, and the result reports
timedOut honestly: false when the caller aborted.

(cherry picked from commit 7e9523a9e31172bb8183661b56f04c3ab6a03d0d)

* fix(windows): stop percent escaping from forging an escaped quote

escapePercentForCmd ran as a post-pass over the quoted string, so it
inserted a quote wherever a percent was -- including straight after a
backslash. CommandLineToArgvW reads backslash-quote as an escaped quote,
so C:\Users\%USERNAME%\x arrived corrupted. That is about as common as
Windows paths get, and my 20-case corpus had no backslash-before-percent
entry to catch it.

Percent handling is now part of the quoting loop, where the backslash
run is known and can be doubled before the inserted quote. Two corpus
cases cover the shape.

The program path gets the same treatment. It was quoted but not
percent-escaped, so a launcher under C:\Users\%USERNAME%\ had its own
path expanded on the cmd hop.

quoteWindowsArgument no longer takes a boolean. Passing it to
values.map() handed map's index in as the flag -- which is how the first
version of this fix was written, and the corpus test caught it.

Separately: an AbortSignal that was already aborted never fires the
event, so runProcess ran the child to its full timeout for a caller who
had already given up.

(cherry picked from commit f7e2e56b1ee1f27ab6d1035dde4501b38f95b374)
2026-08-21 21:05:24 -07:00
Brennan Benson 3fca1d1648 fix(linear): unbound list-issues by default, surface truncation, bind cursor workspace (#15824)
Fixes STA-5076.

list-issues capped at 50 by default and hard-clamped at 250, with hasMore buried
under result.meta and no stderr warning for --json, so a page that stopped early
read as a complete answer. Omitting --limit now walks Linear's pages until they
run out (meta.limit is null), and --limit <n> is the only cap, paging past
Linear's 250-per-request maximum to reach it. result.truncated sits next to
result.issues and is set only when a cap actually held results back; human output
prints "truncated: showing N".

The read still has to fit the CLI's 60s RPC budget, so a 20s wall-clock deadline
and a 200-page ceiling stop the walk early and report truncated with a
continuation cursor rather than failing the command.

Also:
- issued --cursor values bind the resolved workspace, so call -> nextCursor ->
  call works without --workspace; raw Linear cursors still need one and now carry
  nextSteps
- issued cursors whose payload smuggles back `all` or an empty workspace are
  rejected at decode, since either would widen the read past the bound workspace
- JSON issue rows carry priorityLabel (none/urgent/high/medium/low), matching
  orca linear priority set
- truncated and priorityLabel are optional on the wire, so a host that predates
  either is not read as "complete"; readers fall back to meta.hasMore
- the truncation line prints the rows actually rendered, so a remote result with
  no meta.returned cannot print "showing undefined"
2026-08-21 14:28:55 -07:00
OrcaWin 471bc9d8ce Ship the WSL transcript helper with the Windows relay (STA-4831) (#15529) 2026-08-20 00:16:04 -07:00
Neil a61b39a9a6 fix(runtime): stamp a runtime's own project setups as local, and report remote status about the remote (STA-4792) (#15376)
* fix(runtime): stamp a runtime's own project setups as local, and report remote status about the remote (STA-4792)

Two independent frame-of-reference bugs, both from code describing one machine
while labelled as another.

#15366 — projectHostSetup.* persisted the caller's host id verbatim. Those
`runtime:<environment-id>` ids are minted by the calling client's own pairing
store, so they name a machine only relative to that client. A client sending
one is addressing this runtime, and runtimes do not proxy these calls onward,
so the host it names is us. Storing the client's spelling made one machine look
like a different host to every other client, hid its rows from them, and
defeated the (projectId, hostId) duplicate check — two laptops paired to one
server each created their own setup for the same checkout. Re-spell it as
`local` at the RPC boundary. Rows written earlier keep their old stamp; readers
already project `local` back to `runtime:<their-id>`, so the client-visible
model is unchanged and no ids are rewritten.

STA-4792 defect 4 — `status --environment <name>` hardcoded app.running:false
to mean "no desktop on THIS machine" while every other field in the same object
described the target, including a desktopWindowStatus echoed straight from it.
The result contradicted itself and read as "that run was headless" when the
remote GUI was up. `app` now describes the target, keyed off the one window
status that requires a live renderer, and the result names its own subject so
the frame can't be misread again. The remote pid is not knowable, so it stays
null.

STA-4792 defect 2 gets a regression test rather than a fix: routing already
made the client remote, which is what stops a Windows destination being joined
to the local cwd. The test pins the exact reported invocation.

* fix(status): share the remote app projection with the SSH host passthrough, and name the version gap on project host setup

Two review follow-ups.

The SSH host passthrough answered `app.running: true` unconditionally for the
Orca host a caller reached over SSH, claiming a desktop app even for a headless
`serve`. That is the same defect as the paired-server path, one transport over,
so the projection moved to shared and both now answer the question the same way.

`--host runtime:<id>` routes project commands to a paired server, which means a
client can reach a server that predates project host setup without meaning to.
That answered a raw `method_not_found`, which reads as an Orca bug rather than a
version gap; the CLI now names it the way the desktop already does.

Reverted a third change: making the persistence duplicate check treat `local`
and `runtime:*` as one machine. That assumption holds at the RPC boundary, where
a `runtime:` host means the runtime being addressed, but not in the store, which
also records independent provisioning metadata for machines that are not itself.
An existing test covers exactly that, and it was right. The duplicate
convergence therefore stays bounded to rows written after the normalization.
2026-08-19 17:12:17 -07:00
Neil 3c676ed13d fix(ssh): validate hashed known_hosts fields through one strict base64 decoder (STA-4717) (#15345) 2026-08-18 15:26:48 -07:00
Neil 24e662adc1 feat(ssh): verify host keys, and restore panes correctly across a reconnect (#14844)
* docs(ssh): design for real host key verification (STA-4319)

Today's ssh2 verifier records a fingerprint and returns true — every host key is
accepted, with no known_hosts consult and no change detection anywhere in
src/main/ssh/. Scope is per-connection, so exec, SFTP, port forwarding, the
watcher and relay deploy all ride that one unverified handshake, and the
ProxyJump path puts the final hop — the topology most likely to cross untrusted
network — on ssh2 specifically.

Decisions worth calling out:

- Read the user's known_hosts as a trust source but NEVER write to it. That file
  is shared with every other SSH tool on the machine; appending means line
  endings, permissions, concurrent writers and a corruption blast radius well
  beyond us. Accepted keys go to our own per-target store. Reading theirs is also
  the entire migration story: most developers already have their hosts there.
- Mismatch is scoped to the SAME key type. A host with only an RSA entry that
  presents ed25519 is unknown, not changed. ssh2 negotiates ed25519 first, so
  without this we would fire a change-of-key alarm at nearly every existing user
  on their first upgraded connect — training them to dismiss the one warning that
  is supposed to mean something. Flagged in review as the decision I am least
  sure of; a downgrade-vector argument against it is being tested.
- Changed key hard-fails with no override button; recovery is a separate explicit
  action, offered only when OUR store is what disagreed, because forgetting our
  record cannot unblock a known_hosts conflict.
- Background reconnects deny rather than prompt. A dialog the user cannot place
  in context only teaches click-through.

Two traps are documented because either would make the fix silently do nothing:
an async verifier returns a Promise, which ssh2 reads as truthy and accepts
immediately; and the existing test mock invokes hostVerifier with one argument
and ignores the return, so it would pass against a verifier that never decides.

Design only — no behaviour change. The doc is added to the tracked-reference
allowlist in .gitignore alongside the other docs/reference entries.

* docs(ssh): revise the host key design after security and migration review

Three things the reviews changed, kept visible rather than quietly edited out.

THREAT MODEL WAS WRONG IN THREE PLACES. Jump hosts are not the worst case — they
are already safe: shouldUseSystemSshTransport branches on exactly the inputs
resolveEffectiveProxy does, and attemptConnect returns after the system probe, so
ProxyJump goes through OpenSSH and is verified. Agent forwarding was overstated
(gated on the user's ForwardAgent). Credential theft was understated: any auth
error counts as agent fallback, so a MITM walks the user to the password AND
private-key passphrase prompts, and cachedPassword replays without prompting. The
relay claim was backwards — the attacker owns their own machine; the real impact
is the return direction, where they become the host our workspace trusts.

TYPE SCOPING IS A DOWNGRADE VECTOR WITHOUT ALGORITHM ORDERING. This was the
decision I flagged as least certain and asked to have argued both ways. OpenSSH
is safe only because order_hostkeyalgs() puts known types first and RFC 4253
gives the client's order priority. ssh2 negotiates ed25519 first regardless, so
an attacker who cannot forge the RSA key on file just presents ed25519 and gets a
friendly first-contact prompt instead of a hard failure. Keep scoping, but set
algorithms.serverHostKey to lead with the types on file — and add a sixth
outcome for 'unknown type, known host', which must never read as first contact.

SHIP THE DEFENCE BEFORE THE DIALOG. Startup restore fires eager connects for all
targets in parallel with a 15s timeout while a prompt would live 120s; ephemeral
VM targets present a new key every launch; paired-web connects run on the host
desktop, so the dialog opens on someone else's screen. Phase 1 is therefore no
modal at all: consult known_hosts and our store, match connects, unknown persists
with accept-new semantics, mismatch and revoked hard-fail. That is the whole MITM
defence with none of the migration risk.

Also folded in, verified live against OpenSSH 10.2p1: the without-port fallback
(bracketed lookup first, then bare, where the second pass can only yield match or
unknown — otherwise a bare line plus a non-default port produces a spurious
prompt); hashed entries hash the candidate form; multiple files union; a
cert-authority line does not match a plain key. IPv6 and bracket parsing moved
INTO scope — that is a parser requirement, not a scope call, and getting it wrong
produces the prompt-training harm the design exists to avoid.

* feat(ssh): parse and match OpenSSH known_hosts

The matcher half of STA-4319. No behaviour change yet — nothing calls this.

Hand-rolled because no maintained JS implementation exists, and written against
behaviour observed from OpenSSH 10.2p1 rather than inferred from the man page.
Three of those behaviours a reasonable reading gets wrong:

- A non-default port is TWO ordered lookups, not one candidate set: '[host]:port'
  first, then bare host ('checking without port identifier' in ssh -v). The
  fallback pass can only yield match or unknown — OpenSSH downgrades a wrong key
  there rather than reporting a change. Collapse them and anyone holding a bare
  line who connects off-port gets a spurious first-contact result; treat the
  fallback as authoritative and they get a false change-of-key alarm.
- Revocation resolves in its own pass so the verdict cannot depend on line order.
  Verified both orderings.
- A cert-authority line never matches a plain host key; it only validates
  certificates. A normal line alongside it still decides.

Mismatch is scoped to the same key type, and a host known by a DIFFERENT type
returns unknown-type-known-host rather than plain unknown — an attacker who
cannot forge the key on file must not get a friendly first-contact result by
presenting another type. That outcome is only half the defence; the other half
(leading serverHostKey with known types) lands with the wiring.

47 tests from vectors executed against real sshd, including ssh-keygen -H hashed
entries. Each of six mutations reddens it: collapsing the passes, letting the
fallback report mismatch, dropping type scoping, resolving revocation in line
order, honouring an unrecognised marker, and skipping the blob/type agreement
check.

* feat(ssh): decide what to do with a presented host key

The policy half of STA-4319, kept separate from the ssh2 wiring so it is testable
without a handshake and injected rather than importing its sources, so a test
states its own trust state instead of writing files.

Phase 1 ships no dialog — a test asserts the decision is never 'prompt'. Startup
restore opens every previously-active target at once, ephemeral VM targets would
ask every launch, and paired-web connects run on the host desktop where the
dialog would appear on someone else's screen.

Ordering that matters: revocation outranks everything including
StrictHostKeyChecking=no, because a revoked key is a statement that this key is
known-bad rather than merely unrecognised. known_hosts is named before our own
store on a change, because its remedy (ssh-keygen -R) is the one that also
unblocks ssh and git — pointing at a remedy that cannot work is worse than none.

Two carve-outs with reasons: an ephemeral runtime target accepts WITHOUT
recording, since a fresh VM presents a new key every launch and a stored record
would accumulate per launch and eventually read as a spurious change; and when
ssh -G ran on the HOME-divergent path that suppresses /etc/ssh/ssh_config, an
unknown host is denied, because a site-wide policy may forbid it and being laxer
than ssh is the one outcome that is never acceptable.

Rejection text deliberately avoids 'authentication failed' and 'permission
denied': the reconnect ladder classifies on those substrings, so a denial phrased
that way is retried forever against a decision that will never change. Pinned by
a test.

* feat(ssh): build the host key verifier and the algorithm order that makes it safe

Still not wired into the handshake — that lands next. This is the piece that
turns a decision into an ssh2 callback, plus the half of the design that is easy
to forget because it lives in a different config field.

The verifier MUST be a plain function returning undefined. ssh2 does
'const ret = verifier(key, verify); if (ret !== undefined) verify(ret)', so an
async function returns a Promise — neither undefined nor falsy — and ssh2 accepts
the key immediately while ignoring whatever the callback later decides. Making
this async would silently restore exactly the accept-everything behaviour the
module exists to remove, so a test asserts the return value is undefined.

orderServerHostKeyAlgorithms is what makes type-scoped matching safe rather than
a downgrade. RFC 4253 gives the client's algorithm order priority, so leading
with the types we already hold for a host denies a server the choice of
presenting some other type to convert a hard failure into first contact. Without
it, an attacker who cannot forge the key on file just offers a different
algorithm. Revoked entries never contribute to that order.

Also fails closed on two paths that would otherwise hang or over-trust: a key
whose own length-prefixed header cannot be read is refused rather than reasoned
about, and a throw from any dependency denies, because ssh2 may not catch an
exception raised inside the verifier and the handshake would hang instead of
failing.

18 tests. Includes the two negative cases that matter — first-contact keys are
recorded, but keys we already know, rejected keys, ephemeral runtime targets and
a lax StrictHostKeyChecking are not.

* fix(ssh): promote every RSA signature algorithm for a known ssh-rsa key

A known_hosts entry names the KEY type, which is not the negotiated ALGORITHM
name. One ssh-rsa key is offered as rsa-sha2-512, rsa-sha2-256 or ssh-rsa
depending on the signature algorithm, so matching the literal name only would
leave a host we know by RSA ordered behind ed25519 — precisely the ordering this
function exists to prevent, and precisely the population (RSA-era known_hosts
entries) it was written for.

Verified from ssh2's own negotiation while wiring this: kex.js iterates the
CLIENT list and takes the first entry the server also offers, so client order
does decide, as RFC 4253 says. ssh2's default order leads with ed25519 and places
the RSA algorithms fifth through seventh.

* fix(ssh): verify host keys instead of accepting every one (STA-4319)

The actual fix. ssh-connection's verifier recorded a fingerprint and returned
true, so every ssh2 connection accepted every host key — no known_hosts consult,
no change detection. It now consults the user's known_hosts plus our own store
and refuses a changed, revoked or unverifiable key.

Phase 1 by design: no dialog. Unknown hosts are accepted and recorded
(accept-new semantics), because startup restore opens every previously-active
target at once, ephemeral VM targets present a new key each launch, and
paired-web connects run on the host desktop where a prompt would appear on
someone else's screen. The MITM defence lands now; the prompt is Phase 2.

Also sets algorithms.serverHostKey to lead with the types already known for the
host. Without it the type-scoped matching is a downgrade — an attacker who cannot
forge the key on file just presents another type and turns a hard failure into
first contact. Verified from ssh2's kex.js that the client list decides.

Denial replaces ssh2's generic handshake error with the specific reason, because
the reconnect ladder cannot distinguish a generic failure from a transient fault
and would retry forever against a decision that will never change.

An unreadable trust store degrades to known_hosts only rather than failing the
connect: a changed key is still refused, and a host trusted only by us falls back
to first contact and is re-recorded, reaching the same decision.

The ssh2 mock now uses the callback form and aborts the handshake on denial. As
written it called hostVerifier(key) with one argument and ignored the result, so
it would have passed against a verifier that never decides — flagged in the
design as a mock that had to change, not a test to quietly rewrite. Two new tests
pin the wiring rather than the module: an unidentifiable blob is refused, and a
well-formed key is accepted.

Note for review: commit 2d2a0880ba unintentionally swept in two modules built
concurrently (ssh-known-hosts-source, ssh-host-key-store) because I staged with
'git add -A'; its message describes only the verifier. Both are covered by their
own tests, but the attribution in that commit is wrong.

1461 SSH tests pass.

* fix(ssh): bind the host key store to the active profile at startup

Without this the store reports nothing trusted on every launch. Safe — known_hosts
still decides, and a host trusted only by us degrades to first contact and is
re-recorded — but it silently discarded our own accept records, so the store the
design calls for was not actually in use.

Bound beside the profile Store, since it is a sidecar of the same data file.

Also records why the paired-web carve-out the migration review asked for is NOT
implemented in Phase 1, rather than leaving it looking forgotten. That carve-out
exists to stop a web client waiting out the 120s prompt timeout — a hang only
reachable if a prompt exists, and Phase 1 has none, which the decision function
pins with a test asserting it never returns 'prompt'. An RPC connect therefore
behaves exactly like a local one. Adding a fail-fast path now would introduce a
failure mode for a hang that cannot occur; it becomes load-bearing when the
dialog lands and is listed under Phase 2.

Noted there for whoever builds Phase 2: runtime/rpc/methods/ssh.ts already
swallows the specific error and rethrows a generic one, so the host-key reason
will not reach a web user without a change there too.

Full unit suite: 52,352 pass. The 8 failures are the known environment baseline
(5 osc8, 2 IME) plus one browser-cookie suite-ordering flake that passes in
isolation — none in src/main/ssh, and none related to this change.

* fix(ssh): close two downgrades the implementation review found

Both were in my wiring, not the design, and two reviewers found the first
independently.

1. OUR STORE WAS TYPE-DOWNGRADABLE. The inline lookup filtered by key type first
and could only answer match/mismatch/unknown, so a record of a DIFFERENT type for
the same endpoint read as "unknown". A host learned on first contact — ed25519,
since ssh2 proposes it first — and absent from known_hosts could then be
impersonated by presenting RSA: both sources say unknown, so accept-and-remember,
silently. That is exactly the downgrade D3 says the design cannot ship without,
applied to the records we create ourselves. The store's own isTrusted already
computed the right answer and had no production caller. Stored types now also
feed the algorithm ordering, without which the guard is only half present.

2. WE KEYED ON THE ORCA LABEL, NOT THE DIALED HOST. "ssh -G" echoes its own
argument back as its hostname field when no Host block matches, so for a manual
target that field IS the Orca label — the one name D2 forbids keying on, and one
ssh never wrote. We consulted no entries at all, so an impersonated host read as
first contact. Now keys on the dialed host, which buildConnectConfig has already
resolved through HostName, with HostKeyAlias still winning.

That inverted an existing test rather than deleting it: "uses the resolved
hostname, never the Orca label" encoded an assumption disproved against OpenSSH
10.2p1, so it is renamed and reversed with the reason recorded in the test.

3. NO READABLE SOURCE IS NOT FIRST CONTACT. Every known_hosts file failing to
read was indistinguishable from "this host is unknown", so a changed key would be
accepted the one time we could not check. The loader now reports how many files
it could read, and zero readable sources with an empty store takes the strict
path instead of recording trust.

4. A superseded attempt's rejection could replace the live attempt's error, and
substituting a new Error drops ssh2's code, so a transient ECONNRESET would stop
being classified as retryable. The rejection is now local to its attempt.

5. displayHost was the Orca label, so a mismatch could print
"ssh-keygen -R <label>" — a remedy that removes nothing.

Also adds the tests that would have caught 1 and 2, the stale-attempt denial, and
IPv6 literals, which the design moved into scope and nothing covered.

1,469 SSH tests pass.

* fix(ssh): stop offering credentials to a host we just refused

A refused host key ended the handshake and then fell into the credential
ladder, because ssh2 reports a denied key as a generic auth failure and the
passphrase branch is eligible on message shape alone whenever an encrypted
identity file is configured. So the sequence was: decide this host may not be
who it claims to be, then ask the user for their passphrase and hand it to it.
Failing that, prompt for a password. Failing that, retry over the system ssh
binary, which for a disagreement with our own store rather than known_hosts
would simply connect.

That inverts the point of checking at all. A denied key is now final for the
attempt: recognised by type before any fallback runs, and again inside the
agent-fallback retry, which re-runs the handshake and so can be the attempt that
denies.

Two things had to change for that to hold.

The rejection is now a HostKeyVerificationError rather than a rebuilt Error, so
the connect path recognises it by type. Substring matching would have worked
today and quietly stopped working the first time a reason string was reworded —
and these strings are already worded around the auth-error classifier, so they
are exactly the kind that get edited.

And the verifier now reports the denials that skipped the policy: an
unreadable key blob and an internal failure both denied without calling
onDecision, so the connect path saw only ssh2's generic failure and walked the
ladder. That was the actual path the new test hit first. The report carries no
fingerprint, since there is no host key to identify, and the connection no
longer overwrites the fingerprint it holds with an empty one — the relay keys
install-lock isolation on that value.

The reconnect ladder also refuses to retry it. Its classifier is otherwise
substring-driven, so a reason containing "connection reset" would have been
retried until the ladder gave up, burying the reason under nine attempts.

Tests: no credential prompt after a refusal, an encrypted key configured so the
passphrase branch is eligible; refused reports as 'error', not 'auth-failed',
which would invite the user to re-enter credentials that are not the problem;
no retry; both bypassing denials report; a throwing listener still denies rather
than hanging the handshake.

Also drops three test files a bisect resurrected from before the revert that
deleted them.

172 tests pass across the three touched files; typecheck and lint clean.
Pre-existing on origin/main and untouched here: 3 failures in
ssh-connection-sftp-namespace.test.ts.

* fix(ssh): stop treating an absent known_hosts as a source we failed to read

The previous commit's "no readable source is not first contact" guard was right
about the danger and wrong about how to detect it, and the version that shipped
would have refused every connection a new profile ever makes.

A file that does not exist and a file that refuses to open both arrive as a
rejected readFile, and I counted them the same way. They are opposites. An
absent known_hosts is the normal state — ssh creates it on its own first connect,
and an Orca profile that has never connected has none — and it is real evidence
that no host is known. A file that exists and will not open is evidence withheld:
the entry that would have said "this key changed" may be sitting in it.

The default list is the reason this was fatal rather than obscure. It always
names known_hosts2, which essentially never exists, so on a machine with a normal
known_hosts the count was 1-of-2 and everything worked; on a fresh profile it was
0-of-2 and every connect failed with "the system SSH configuration could not be
read" — a message about a file the user does not have and an error they cannot
act on. The suite passed only because the machine running it happens to have a
known_hosts. Pointing HOME at an empty directory fails 62 connection tests, which
is what the new wiring test does.

So the count is now unreadableFileCount: files that exist and could not be read,
which is the condition the guard was always trying to express. Any one of them
takes the strict path; an absent or empty file takes none. The store clause is
gone with it — a store hit already returns accept before this is consulted, so it
never changed an outcome.

Tests: absent, empty, permission-denied, directory, and all-parsed at the source;
first contact with no known_hosts at all at the wiring level.

1,482 SSH tests pass. The 3 failures in ssh-connection-sftp-namespace.test.ts are
pre-existing on origin/main and untouched here.

* fix(ssh): let an ephemeral runtime outrank sources we could not read

Three things, all about the same question: when we cannot see everything that
decides a host key, what does that actually license us to refuse?

1. ON-DEMAND RUNTIMES WERE REFUSED FOR A POLICY THEY COULD NEVER SATISFY.

A machine provisioned a minute ago cannot be in known_hosts, by construction —
which is why it has a carve-out at all. But the carve-out sat BELOW the
incomplete-sources check, so anyone whose HOME diverges from their passwd home
(sandboxes, our own E2E isolation) took the `-F` path, and every on-demand
runtime connection was refused, pointing at a config file the user cannot fix.

Refusing there buys nothing. No policy, seen or unseen, is satisfiable by a host
that did not exist yesterday; the trust comes from the provisioning channel. So
the carve-out now outranks it. An EXPLICIT StrictHostKeyChecking=yes still wins
over both — that one we can read, and the user asked for it.

2. THE FLAG WAS NAMED FOR ONE OF ITS TWO MEANINGS.

`siteConfigSuppressed` started as "-F hid /etc/ssh/ssh_config" and had since
grown "a known_hosts file exists and would not open" — which is not a site
config, and reading the name in the decision function told you nothing about
why an unreadable file landed there. It is `verificationSourcesIncomplete` now:
we could not see something that decides this, so do not extend NEW trust. A host
we already know still connects, because a match is decided before this is
reached, and that is now pinned by name.

3. THE COPIED ssh2 ALGORITHM LIST HAD NO DRIFT ALARM.

We reorder ssh2's default host-key proposal, which meant hand-copying a list
ssh2 exports only from a deep internal path. ssh2 throws `Unsupported algorithm`
on anything outside its supported list, so drift does not degrade — every
target stops connecting, before a socket opens, with a message about an
algorithm the user never chose. Worth knowing that the list is also built
conditionally on ed25519 support.

Kept as a literal rather than a deep import, since silently adopting a new
proposal order is the wrong default — the order is what makes type-scoped
matching safe, so a change deserves review. A test now compares it against
ssh2's real constant and checks every entry is one ssh2 accepts. Moved next to
the ordering function it feeds, and out from between the import statements.

1,488 SSH tests pass. The 3 in ssh-connection-sftp-namespace.test.ts are
pre-existing on origin/main.

* docs(ssh): record what review changed and the STA-4319 follow-ups

The design survived implementation; every defect found afterwards was in the
wiring. Worth recording the pattern, because it repeated five times: each one
made us either blind or unusable, never subtly wrong — and four of the five
broke legitimate hosts rather than admitting bad ones.

Action items separate the things Phase 2 must decide (UpdateHostKeys, which is
now the likeliest way a legitimate user meets a rejection; the web client never
seeing the reason; RPC fail-fast) from the gaps Phase 1 knowingly accepts (WSL,
CheckHostIP, ca-only hosts, the hand-copied ssh2 algorithm list).

Also flags the rollout risk plainly: this is the first release in which Orca can
refuse an SSH connection at all.

* test(ssh): pin the ephemeral carve-out where it is actually observable

The first version of this test asserted an on-demand runtime connects on first
contact, which every target does — it would have passed with the carve-out
deleted. Pointing HOME at a home whose known_hosts exists and will not open makes
the two cases diverge: a normal target is refused there, an on-demand runtime is
not. Removing the carve-out now fails three tests instead of none.

Also covers the wiring for the unreadable-source refusal itself, which until now
was only pinned at the decision level.

* test(ssh): pin the parser against real ssh -G output, and accept-new against ask

Two gaps the audit named.

The ssh -G fixtures were all hand-written, which means they encode what I expect
ssh to print. This one is verbatim OpenSSH_10.2p1 output for a Host block using
HostName, HostKeyAlias, StrictHostKeyChecking accept-new, two UserKnownHostsFile
paths and a non-default port. The format detail that matters: each file list
arrives space-separated on ONE line, so reading it as a single path would consult
nothing for anyone with more than one file configured.

And accept-new was untested despite being a real OpenSSH value. It currently
behaves identically to ask, which is exactly right while no dialog exists and is
what lets the defence ship without a modal — so the equivalence is now pinned,
and Phase 2 has to break it deliberately rather than discover it. Plus a guard
that accept-new never falls into the strict branch.

* test(ssh): cover the wire from an accepted key to a record on disk

Nothing covered the store end to end. Every connection test runs with it
unwired — a real path, since it degrades to known_hosts only — so an accepted
first-contact key was never observed becoming a record, and the record was never
observed being believed on the next connection. Without that wire the store is
dead weight: an unknown host connects every time and is never learned.

Its own file for two reasons. initSshHostKeyStoreFile binds module-level state
for the rest of the process, and binding it makes the connect prelude do real
disk I/O — which the shared suite cannot absorb, because its reconnect tests
drive the clock with fake timers and an fs round trip does not complete inside an
advanced tick. Adding these there turned 12 unrelated tests red.

Covers: the record is written; it is read back as a match; the same key is not
recorded twice; a DIFFERENT key for a host we recorded ourselves is refused
(the store's entire security value, and a case known_hosts cannot catch since it
has never heard of the host); and an on-demand runtime records nothing.

Stubbing rememberHostKey to a no-op fails four of the five.

* fix(settings): stop truncating the SSH connection error to one line

The host key messages are written to be actionable — a mismatch ends in
"Run: ssh-keygen -R <host>", which is the remedy that also unblocks ssh and git.
The only place in the renderer that displays an SSH connection error clamped it
to a single line with `truncate` and carried no title attribute, so the remedy
was unreachable, not even on hover. The careful wording reached a CSS ellipsis.

Wraps instead, with [overflow-wrap:anywhere] because a long hostname offers no
break opportunity and would overflow the column on its own. The paragraph only
renders on failure, so the extra height costs nothing in the normal case.

CORRECTION to the four preceding commits: they each claimed 3 pre-existing
failures in ssh-connection-sftp-namespace.test.ts. That was my error — I had been
running `npx vitest` without `--config config/vitest.config.ts`, so the project's
setupFiles and execArgv were absent. Under the real config those 3 pass, and have
throughout. The whole SSH suite is green: 1,504 passed, 13 skipped.

Still failing on this branch and unrelated to it (different subsystems, no file
overlap): 5 in terminal-snapshot-osc8-roundtrip and 2 in browser-cookie-import.

* fix(terminal): show why the SSH connection failed, not just that it did

The reconnect overlay took only a status, so every failure rendered the same
sentence: "The SSH connection to devbox failed. Connect again to continue this
terminal session." A refused host key and a network timeout were indistinguishable
there, and the host key message — the only place that names the remedy, down to
`ssh-keygen -R <host>` — reached no terminal user at all. The state carried it the
whole way; the overlay simply never asked for it.

Adds it as a second line rather than replacing the sentence. The sentence says
what to do, the detail says what happened, and keeping both means an errno
failure does not lose its guidance to make room for "connect ETIMEDOUT". Wrapped,
for the same reason as the settings card: the remedy is at the end.

Suppressed for a removed target, which already explains itself and can never
reconnect — a stale connection error underneath would contradict it.

The new selector mirrors selectRuntimeAwareSshStatus branch for branch, including
the unreachable-environment and un-hydrated-bucket nulls, so the pair cannot
disagree about which source they read and a detail is never shown next to a status
it did not come from.

Known and NOT addressed here: "Connect again" is still the wrong advice for a
decision that will never change. Telling those apart needs a typed reason on the
wire rather than a string, which is a remote-wire-compatibility decision; it is
recorded in the STA-4319 follow-ups.

Pre-existing on this branch and untouched: 2 failures in
terminal-ime-xterm-resumed-preedit-visibility.

* docs(ssh): record where the rejection message actually lands

Traced end to end, because a rejection the user cannot read is a half-shipped
feature — and two of the surfaces were dropping it entirely, both now fixed.

What is left is written down rather than guessed at: the status bar renders only
'Error', the terminal overlay's call to action still invites a retry that cannot
succeed, toasts carry Electron's remote-method prefix, and the paired-web path
replaces the text with 'SSH connection unavailable' on every route — which also
affects a DESKTOP user viewing a host owned by a remote Orca server, not just web
clients.

* refactor(ssh): give the store one matcher instead of two

The connect path had its own copy of the store comparison, because ssh2's
verifier decides synchronously and cannot await the file, so records are
preloaded. That copy is precisely where the type downgrade came from: it answered
only match/mismatch/unknown, so a record of a different type for the same
endpoint read as first contact and a host learned on first contact could be
impersonated by presenting another key type. Fixing it left two implementations
that have to agree forever, which is the same bug waiting to happen.

matchTrustedHostKeys is now the single pure matcher; isTrusted is a load plus a
call to it, and the connect path calls it directly on preloaded records. Same for
the key types that feed the algorithm ordering, which the connect path was also
filtering by hand.

The two copies had in fact already drifted: the connect path lower-cased the
query host where the write trims AND lower-cases. Not reachable today — the host
is trimmed before it reaches there, which I confirmed by mutating the
normalisation and watching the wiring test pass anyway. So this is not a bug fix,
and the wiring-level test I first wrote for it proved nothing and is gone. The
unit test that replaces it drives the matcher directly, where the input is mine
to control, and it does fail when the normalisation diverges.

Also adds an equivalence test across all six outcomes between the preloaded and
awaited paths, so the two can never answer differently again.

Restores the local name siteConfigSuppressed for the `-F` check; it was renamed
along with the decision input, but at that site it really does mean only the one
thing, and the union with the unreadable-file count happens one line later.

1,509 SSH tests pass.

* test(ssh): check the matcher against a live OpenSSH client, not against my beliefs

Every other test in the parser file states what I believe ssh does. These state
what it did: an OpenSSH 10.2p1 client against a real sshd on 127.0.0.1:2222, with
the client's own verdict recorded from its output, and ssh-keygen -H's own salt
and hash pinned as a vector.

Two assumptions the design leans on were worth more than an argument.

THE FALLBACK PASS MAY NOT REPORT A CHANGE. We look up `[host]:port` first and
retry the bare host, and only the first pass may answer `mismatch`. With
StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new, a bare line holding a DIFFERENT key, dialed on
2222, ssh connected and appended a new `[127.0.0.1]:2222` line — no
IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED banner. It read that as first contact. Had we reported
a change there we would refuse hosts ssh connects to happily, and the wrongness
would have been invisible: refusing looks like the cautious choice.

AND THE TYPE-SCOPING REJECTION IS NOT AN INVENTION. known_hosts holding an ssh-rsa
key while the server offers ed25519 makes ssh print IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED and
refuse. So unknown-type-known-host is neither stricter nor laxer than ssh —
treating it as first contact, which is what a naive type-scoped lookup does, is
the laxer mistake.

That second result also fixes the message. ssh is blocked too, so
`ssh-keygen -R <host>` is the remedy that unblocks both, and we were naming it
only for a same-type mismatch — leaving this case with a diagnosis and no way
out. Named now when known_hosts is the source that disagrees, and still not named
when it is our own store, which ssh-keygen would not touch.

1,516 SSH tests pass.

* docs(ssh): record the two assumptions a live client confirmed

Both were load-bearing and neither was obvious: the bare-host fallback pass may
not report a change, and unknown-type-known-host is what ssh itself does rather
than something we invented. Getting the first backwards would have refused hosts
ssh connects to happily, which is the failure mode that looks like caution.

* style(ssh): satisfy the code-quality lints in the two new test files

A string concatenation that should be a template literal, and an inline
import() type annotation that should be a type-only namespace import — erased
before vi.mock's hoisted factory runs, so the mock is unaffected.

pnpm lint is clean.

* fix(ssh): honour StrictHostKeyChecking, which had never once been read correctly

`ssh -G` does not echo the value the user wrote. StrictHostKeyChecking is
rendered through fmt_multistate_int, which prints the first entry of
multistate_strict_hostkey, and that table lists true/false before yes/no:

  yes -> true | no -> false | off -> false | accept-new -> accept-new | ask -> ask

Verified against OpenSSH 10.2p1 from both a config file and -o. Not
10.2-specific; the table ordering is old.

The decision function tested only 'yes'/'always' and 'no'/'off' — spellings that
cannot arrive. So `StrictHostKeyChecking yes` fell through to the default branch
and we accepted AND PERSISTED a host the user's config explicitly says to refuse.
That is the worst outcome this feature can produce, and it was the behaviour for
every strict user from the first commit. `no`/`off` landed there too, breaking
the documented "lax settings never persist" invariant.

Every unit test passed throughout, because they fed the function 'yes' — the
value a human writes, not the one that reaches the code. My ssh -G parity test
did capture real output, but I happened to configure accept-new, one of only two
values that round-trip unchanged. The new table is keyed on configured value ->
what ssh -G actually prints, and asserts both reach the same verdict, so the
question "is this the spelling that arrives?" cannot be assumed again.

Found by a parity review against a live OpenSSH client.

* fix(ssh): stop the fallback pass accepting a changed key, and refusing a new one

One wrong loop scope, two opposite errors, both reproduced against a live
OpenSSH 10.2p1 client and an ed25519-only sshd on 127.0.0.1:2223.

ACCEPTING A CHANGED KEY. ssh runs the bare-host fallback only when the
port-qualified lookup matched no plain entry of ANY key type. We ran it unless
pass 0 produced a match or a SAME-TYPE mismatch. So with an off-port RSA entry
plus a bare, correct ed25519 line — an ordinary shape, an old off-port entry
beside one written by a port-22 connect — ssh printed IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED
and refused, with no "checking without port identifier" in -v because the
fallback never ran, while we reached the bare line and returned `match`.

REFUSING A NEW ONE. sawKnownHostOtherType and sawCertAuthority were declared
outside the pass loop, so an entry found only on the fallback pass could set
them. A bare ssh-rsa entry, dialed on a non-default port against an ed25519-only
server, made ssh add the host and connect — plain first contact — where we
returned unknown-type-known-host and hard-failed. That is Gitea/Forgejo, dev
containers, Gerrit, Vagrant: an off-port service on a host already in
known_hosts.

So the flags are per-pass now, and pass 0 decides as soon as it finds any plain
entry for the host. Which of the two rejections it reports only picks the
message; ssh calls both HOST_CHANGED.

Also drops the type check from the match test: byte equality already implies the
types agree, because the blob carries its own algorithm name and parsing rejects
any line whose declared type disagrees with it.

Reverting either half of the scope fix fails exactly the two new tests.
1,526 SSH tests pass.

* fix(ssh): refuse the known_hosts lines ssh itself refuses to parse

Three ways a line could be trusted by us and invisible to the user's own ssh —
or, worse, raise a CHANGED alarm from an entry ssh drops.

Buffer.from does not fail on bad base64, it SKIPS invalid characters, so
`<key>!!!` and a blob with `@@` spliced into it both decoded to the correct key
and matched. Verified live against OpenSSH 10.2p1 on 127.0.0.1:2224: the
unmodified control reached authentication and all three malformed variants
produced "No ED25519 host key is known". A re-encode-and-compare makes us agree.

`<key>AAAA` is the interesting one, and the reason the first fix was not enough:
68 characters plus 4 is still legal base64, and the algorithm header still reads
ssh-ed25519, so neither the base64 check nor the existing header check sees
anything wrong. ssh parses the whole key structure. We decoded 54 bytes where an
ed25519 key is 51 and reported `mismatch` — a man-in-the-middle warning caused by
a typo in a file ssh silently ignores.

So the blob is now walked as what it is: a run of length-prefixed fields that
must consume it exactly. Algorithm-agnostic on purpose, so a key type we do not
model is checked as well as one we do. It also rejects a length prefix that
overruns the buffer, which readHostKeyType only checked for the first field.

And ssh's extract_salt demands exactly one SHA1 digest — "expected salt len 20,
got 16" — where we accepted any non-empty salt. A short salt is still a usable
HMAC key for us, so a hand-crafted line could match for us and be a parse error
for ssh. ssh-keygen -H always writes 20 bytes, so refusing loses no real entry.

Worth recording that ssh-keygen -F cannot answer any of this: it matches host
names and prints lines without ever decoding the key, so it reports "found" for
all four blobs. The real client was the only instrument that worked.

Found by a parity review; the base64 finding as reported was right about the
behaviour and wrong about the mechanism for the padded case, which is what led to
the structural check.

1,533 SSH tests pass.

* fix(ssh): name a ssh-keygen -R target that actually removes the entry

Verified against OpenSSH 10.2p1: with both `[h.example]:2222` and `h.example`
on file, `ssh-keygen -R h.example` removes only the bare line and leaves the
bracketed one — and there is no port flag, `-R host -p 2222` is "Too many
arguments". An off-port target is keyed `[host]:port` in known_hosts, so the
command we printed removed nothing: the user runs it, reconnects, and meets the
identical failure with no indication of why.

The message now names the bracketed form, quoted because the brackets are shell
glob characters, whenever the port is not 22.

Found by a parity review.

* fix(ssh): read ssh2's host key algorithm list instead of copying it

ssh2 builds DEFAULT_SERVER_HOST_KEY at load time and prepends ssh-ed25519 only
when a RUNTIME PROBE succeeds — it signs and verifies with a fixed Ed25519 key.
On a build where that probe fails, ssh-ed25519 is absent from ssh2's SUPPORTED
list too, and generateAlgorithmList throws `Unsupported algorithm: ssh-ed25519`
from inside client.connect. That throw matches no retry classifier and no
transport-fallback classifier, so it is permanent — and because we only set
`algorithms` for hosts we already know, it would fire on trusted hosts while new
ones kept working. A copied list cannot be merely stale here; it can be wrong.

So it is read from ssh2 now, which also removes the drift risk the previous
commit could only report. ssh2 is external in the main bundle and the bundle is
CJS, so the deep path resolves at runtime from packaged node_modules.

The copy stays as a fallback in case a future ssh2 moves the file — losing the
proposal order degrades the type-scoping guarantee, but refusing to connect at
all is worse. The test that used to pin the copy against ssh2 now pins the
fallback, which is the only part that can still drift.

Found by an availability review.
pnpm lint clean; 1,537 SSH tests pass.

* fix(ssh): look a HostKeyAlias up the way ssh does — without the port

HostKeyAlias suppresses the port entirely. Verified against OpenSSH 10.2p1 on
port 2225 with HostKeyAlias=myalias: an entry keyed `myalias` authenticates, and
one keyed `[myalias]:2225` gives "No ED25519 host key is known for myalias". We
built [['[alias]:port'], ['alias']] and consulted a form ssh never writes.

On its own that was a stale-entry false alarm. The previous commit made it worse:
now that the first pass decides as soon as it finds any entry for the host, a
leftover `[alias]:2225` line STOPS the bare lookup ssh actually performs — so the
one population D2 cites HostKeyAlias for, bastions tunnelled through
localhost:port, would get a hard failure on a host ssh connects to.

So resolveKnownHostsLookupHost reports whether the name came from the alias, not
just what it is, and that flag reaches both the matcher and the algorithm
ordering. Returning the name alone is what made the bug invisible: the caller had
no way to know it was holding something that must not be bracketed.

Found by a parity review.
1,543 SSH tests pass.

* fix(ssh): only claim the site config was suppressed when ssh -G actually ran

sshGArgsForHost reports which arguments WOULD be used, not what happened. It
returns the -F form whenever ~/.ssh/config exists and os.homedir() diverges from
the passwd home, so a machine with no usable ssh at all — Windows without
OpenSSH, a restricted sandbox, a timed-out probe — was judged by whether it
happens to have a ~/.ssh/config, and rejected every unknown host permanently if
it did. The same broken machine WITHOUT one stayed fully permissive, which is the
tell: the flag is a claim about a config file we could not read, and when ssh
never ran there is no such claim to make.

Narrow but total where it lands: anything that sets HOME explicitly (wrapper
scripts, sudo -E, devcontainers), macOS mobile and network accounts, and the E2E
isolation this branch was written for.

Found by an availability review.

* fix(ssh): stop refusing hosts that ssh itself connects to

Two product decisions, both taken deliberately after a review priced their blast
radius, and both moving us from stricter-than-ssh to matching it.

CERTIFICATE-AUTHORITY HOSTS NO LONGER FAIL. The point of an SSH CA is that the
client holds ONE line — very often `@cert-authority *` — instead of per-host
entries. That line matches every candidate, so for a Teleport / Vault-SSH /
Smallstep / in-house-CA user EVERY target failed, not just CA-signed ones,
including on-demand runtime VMs, and StrictHostKeyChecking=no did not help. The
documented escape was an environment variable, which an Electron app launched
from the Dock or Start Menu never sees. Meanwhile OpenSSH, verified live, treats
a CA-covered host presenting a plain key as first contact and connects: ssh2
cannot validate certificates at all, so refusing bought nothing ssh was not
already giving up. The residual risk is real and accepted — for a CA-protected
host we take a plain key we cannot tie to the CA — and the ca-only outcome is
carried through the decision so it stays visible in the log.

AN UNREADABLE known_hosts NO LONGER REFUSES EVERYTHING. Any non-ENOENT read
error on any configured file rejected every unknown host, with a message blaming
the system SSH configuration, which was not what happened. The common trigger is
not exotic: a Windows OneDrive Known Folder Move placeholder while offline fails
with a cloud-file error, not ENOENT. It was also asymmetric with our own store,
which degrades an unreadable file to "nothing trusted" and connects. We now
connect as ssh does — it warns and treats the host as unknown — but record
NOTHING, so a first contact we could not check never becomes durable trust. That
second half is the reason the first is acceptable, so it is pinned end to end
with the store actually bound.

Which meant splitting verificationSourcesIncomplete back apart. It had been one
flag for two claims that now diverge: "a site policy may exist that we cannot
read" still refuses, "a file we could not open may contradict this" does not.
Merging them was what made the second inherit a strictness only the first
justified.

Both still lose to evidence we DID read: a mismatch, a revoked key, or an
explicit StrictHostKeyChecking still refuse in either state.

pnpm lint clean; 1,549 SSH tests pass.

* docs(ssh): correct the design where a live client disproved it

D2, D3 and D4 each stated something about OpenSSH that turned out to be wrong
when tested against a real client and sshd rather than read from the source.

D3's premise is the notable one: OpenSSH is not type-scoped at all, so it does
not avoid the RSA-era false alarm the way the doc claimed. It avoids the
situation via order_hostkeyalgs and hard-fails when the situation arises anyway.
The conclusion survives — the ordering is still what makes our scoping safe —
but for a different reason than the one written down, and a reader would have
drawn the wrong lesson.

D2 gains the two rules that actually bite: the entry condition to the fallback
pass, and HostKeyAlias suppressing the port. D4 records both reversals with their
reasoning and the residual risk each one accepts, and the ssh -G spelling trap
that made StrictHostKeyChecking dead on arrival.

Corrections are kept visible rather than edited out, per the note at the top of
the file.

* fix(ssh): repaint the panes after a reconnect, not just reattach them

Reported: disconnect an SSH host from the Remote Hosts popup, reconnect, and the
terminals come back blank — but resizing a split or toggling the sidebar makes
them render correctly.

That last detail is the diagnosis. The panes were never broken: reattach restores
each pane's buffer but not its painted frame. xterm repaints on a write or a
resize, and a reconnect produces neither for a pane that was already correctly
sized — so nothing paints until a relayout forces it, which is exactly what
resizing or toggling the sidebar does.

The renderer already has refitAndRefreshAllTerminalPanes for this shape ('after
bulk desktop restore, background panes may have correct cols/rows but a stale
xterm renderer until focus forces a repaint'). Its only callers were the mobile
fit-reclaim paths; the SSH reconnect path never used it.

Scheduled from finalizeHydratedTerminalPanes, on both a frame and a 100ms settled
pass — the same pattern the desktop-restore path uses, because rAF alone lands
while panes are still remounting.

Mutation-proved: removing the schedule reddens the new test, which is the
reported symptom.

* fix(ssh): repaint background-tab panes revealed after a reconnect

Completes 834a495038, which only fixed the ACTIVE tab. Reported: split panes of
plain shells on another tab were still blank after reconnect until a divider drag
or a sidebar toggle.

The repaint did reach background managers — they stay mounted, only
rendererVisible flips — but it could not land. A tab-hidden pane measures as a
0-size box, so canMeasurePaneForFit bails and the fit is a no-op, and
refreshAllPanes marks rows dirty on a pane with no presented frame, which cannot
repair a grid the reattach's direct terminal.resize left diverged. The reveal
then takes the light resume path, which deliberately does not fit, and
scheduleRevealRepaint only reattaches WebGL. So nothing ever fixed the geometry —
and a divider drag or sidebar toggle is a real fit, which is why those appeared
to work.

Parks the repaint on a hidden manager and replays it on reveal, reusing the
existing reveal-fit machinery rather than adding a mechanism. Flag-gated so the
light path still does not fit in the ordinary case — 'does not fit on a light tab
reveal' stays green.

Splits are not special: the gap is per-manager, so it is identical for 1 or N
panes. Splits just expose it, because users find the workaround (drag a divider)
that a single full-tab pane rarely gets. A never-mounted tab is unaffected — it
has no live manager and fits through the normal initial-fit lifecycle.

Mutation-proved twice: removing the deferral, and reverting the reveal-side
condition. Each reddens only the new tests.

* test(terminal): pin that panes are PAINTED, not merely bound — and fix a broken commit

Two problems, both mine.

1) 0103a80b48 swept in an untracked fixture and left the branch failing
typecheck (unused Terminal import in painted-pane-fixture.ts). Its canvas stub
also threw 'clearRect is not a function' on every refresh. Fixed here.

2) direct-ssh-reconnect-repaint.test.ts, which I wrote to guard the reconnect
repaint, is VACUOUS: it re-implements finalizeHydratedTerminalPanes inside the
test and mocks the registry, so deleting the real fix from useIpcEvents leaves it
green. direct-ssh-reconnect-repaint-wiring.test.ts replaces that guarantee by
capturing the real callback the hook hands the coordinator and running it against
live panes — deleting the two scheduling lines now reddens it.

The gap this closes: content survival was already well covered at the BYTE layer
(snapshot roundtrip, hide/reveal stitching, cold-restore scrollback), but every
pane test stubbed terminal as {cols, rows, refresh: vi.fn()}, so 'repainted' only
ever meant 'a spy fired'. No test ran a real xterm through a real PaneManager.
pane-content-survival.test.ts does, reading .xterm-rows — what the user actually
sees — across reconnect, restart-shaped restore, tab reveal, window show, split
and unsplit, for plain shells and alt-screen TUIs.

The alt-screen distinction is now pinned explicitly: forcing a resize inside
fitAllPanes reddens only the TUI test, because a plain shell reflows and survives
while a TUI frame does not. That asymmetry is why the reported bug looked like a
plain-shell problem.

11 tests, each mutation-proven to redden only its own. 760 pane-manager tests
green; the 2 failures here are the known environmental IME baseline.

Flagged, not fixed: the unsplit path reparents the DOM without the dispose/
reattach that splitManagedPane does explicitly because 'DOM reparenting can
silently invalidate a WebGL context without firing contextlost', and follows it
with a safeFit that no-ops when the box is unchanged. Same shape as the reconnect
bug. happy-dom has no WebGL, so only a real-GPU E2E can confirm it.

* fix(ssh): send the pane its screen back on reconnect

A reconnect left every remote terminal blank. Measured on a live relay, not
inferred: pty.attach returned no replay for every pane, taking the
activation === 'existing' early return in the relay's attach.

'existing' means a source delivery is already open for this client, so it must
already be receiving live output and cannot need its screen re-sent. That holds
for a duplicate attach. It is false for a reconnect, for a reason neither side
can see alone: the client keeps its id across the drop (detachClient refuses to
detach the primary, and setWrite revives that same id) so the delivery outlives
the dead transport, while the RENDERER has already thrown its terminal away. A
reconnect bumps tab.generation, which is the pane's React key, so TerminalPane
remounts and the old xterm is disposed with its buffer, and nothing on that path
captures it first. Both halves are individually reasonable and together they
guarantee a blank pane: the relay reports the client already has the screen, to a
client holding a brand-new empty terminal, and nothing paints until new output
happens to arrive. Resizing appeared to fix it only because a TUI redraws itself.

So the client says which case it is. reattachSshPtySession is by definition
painting into a new terminal, so it asks; nobody else does, and the early return
keeps working for them. Optional on the wire, so an older relay ignores it and
behaves exactly as it does today.

Falling through rather than returning the replay inline is deliberate: the path
below already drops the pending batched bytes that are also in the buffer, which
is what stops the live delivery rendering them twice.

Reproduced first as a test against the real dispatcher, source publication and
PTY handler (the second attach for one client, which is what a reconnect is) and
it fails on the exact symptom before the fix. A second test pins that a caller
which does NOT ask still gets nothing, so this cannot become a double-render for
the duplicate-attach case the early return exists for.

Also updates four provider tests that assert the exact attach params.

NOT yet verified in the running app; the log will show replay=true on reconnect.

* chore(ssh): drop the temporary reconnect-replay diagnostic

Served its purpose: it is what turned 'the panes look blank' into
replay=false, replayLen=0 on every pane, and then into replay=true with real
byte counts once the relay fix landed. The permanent log line keeps the boolean,
which is the part worth having.

* revert: drop the reconnect repaint commits; they cannot fix the blank panes

Reverts 2fdab478c0, 34fc1424f0 and dc6f6bf685, which I cherry-picked onto
this branch to test alongside the host key work.

Their stated premise is 'reattach restores each pane's buffer but not its
painted frame'. That is false for this flow: a reconnect bumps tab.generation,
which is the pane's React key, so TerminalPane remounts and the old xterm is
disposed WITH its buffer, and nothing on that path captures it first. Refitting
and refreshing a terminal whose buffer is empty paints an empty pane. The blank
screen was the relay declining to re-send the scrollback, fixed separately and
verified on screen.

Their tests pass without exercising the real case: the fixture blanks the
painted rows and deliberately LEAVES THE BUFFER INTACT, which is the one
situation that never occurs here, and the hidden-tab test replaces the pane
manager with a stub that reports no panes.

They may still address a separate symptom — a diverged grid after a resize on a
hidden tab — but that is unproven, unrelated to this branch, and the originals
are untouched on nwparker/sta-3077-fix-v3 where they came from. Carrying
unproven renderer changes with a false premise in their message on a
security-focused branch is not worth it.

Reverting first and re-running the full two-step reconnect test is the point:
the earlier verification passed with these present, so it did not establish that
the relay fix stands alone.

* fix(ssh): repaint a reconnected pane from the grid, not a byte tail

A reconnect restored plain shells correctly but was reported to bring full-screen
apps back as fragments of a frame — Claude Code showed a few rules and its cost
line until a resize forced it to repaint.

The two payloads are not interchangeable. Relay replay is a byte TAIL: it can
begin mid-escape, and it misses the alt-screen enter, the clears and the absolute
cursor positioning that built the frame, so replaying it into a fresh terminal
paints whatever fragments survive. The model snapshot is a serialized GRID —
which is what tmux repaints on attach, and the only payload that reliably
restores a TUI.

Orca already had the grid path and already preferred it; it was gated to PARKING.
A reconnect needs it for the same underlying reason a park does: the pane paints
into a terminal holding nothing, because a reconnect bumps tab.generation, which
is the pane's React key, so TerminalPane remounts and the old xterm is disposed
with its buffer. So the gate now admits both, and prepaintParkedSshSnapshot is
prepaintSshModelSnapshot since parking is no longer the only caller.

Deliberately NOT inheriting the parking kill switch: main keeps its headless
model regardless of terminalSshViewParking, so a user who turns view parking off
would otherwise be stranded on the tail.

Every safety gate below eligibility is untouched, and pinned that way: null,
renderer-sourced, sourceless, empty, and escape-tail-only snapshots all still
degrade to relay replay, so widening WHY the model is trusted cannot widen WHAT
is trusted and cannot regress to a blank pane. Reverting either half of the gate
fails three of the new tests.

HONESTY ABOUT WHAT THIS IS VERIFIED TO DO. I could not reproduce the corruption
it targets. Two attempts against a live host, both on a build WITHOUT this
change, both restored correctly: a freshly started Claude Code and Codex side by
side, and an alt-screen `less` scrolled 4000 lines so its original full paint had
aged out of the relay's 100KB tail. The reporter's case also involved pulling
wifi — an abrupt drop rather than a clean disconnect — which is the one variable
I cannot simulate here.

So this is verified to be correct-by-construction and non-regressing: with it
applied, the same scenarios still restore correctly (top live, less at its
scrolled offset in alt-screen, both agent TUIs coherent). It is NOT verified to
fix the reported symptom, because the symptom did not reproduce. Treat the
symptom as open until someone confirms it on an abrupt drop.

Also: top was a poor proxy for a TUI in my earlier verification precisely because
it repaints every second and therefore self-heals within a tick.

* fix(ssh): stop the reconnect prepaint firing after its mount is spent

Regression I introduced with the snapshot-first reconnect paint. The payload path
consumes mountFollowsTerminalPark — it clears the flag after the first reattach
so a later in-place reconnect on the SAME mount cannot repaint. I replaced the
prepaint's read of that mutable flag with a const snapshot of it, so my combined
flag stayed true for the life of the mount. A snapshot could then be written on a
later reattach, into a terminal that already had live content, and its own
isCurrent() guard could no longer go false either.

The visible symptom was a tab that came up blank with no prompt and stayed
generically titled Terminal N — the title only stays generic when the shell never
printed a prompt for Orca to read one from. Every such tab in my session had been
through a remount; four tabs created cleanly with Cmd+T were all fine.

So the flag is mutable again and is consumed alongside the one it was derived
from. Both reasons a mount paints into an empty terminal — a park and a reconnect
— are spent by the first reattach, which is what the original code meant.

Worth stating plainly: my earlier claim that the snapshot change was
non-regressing was tested only against reconnect scenarios. I never exercised
creating a tab afterwards, which is exactly where this showed up.

* test(ssh): cover what a pane SHOWS after a reconnect, and after a new tab

The gap that let both regressions reach a user. Nothing asserted the rendered
pane: the existing SSH coverage checks pty ids, statuses and spy calls, and every
one of those was correct while the screen was blank.

Covers one flow end to end against the dockerized relay: write a marker,
reconnect, require the marker to still be on screen, then open a tab and require
the new shell to answer.

Three choices worth keeping:

A MARKER, NOT A PROMPT. A prompt reappears on its own after a reconnect, so
asserting one cannot tell restored scrollback from a fresh shell. The marker only
exists if the pane kept what it had.

ECHO, NOT EXISTENCE. The new tab must run a command and show its output. A pty
id proves a session was created; it does not prove the pane is usable, which is
the exact distinction the reported bug lived in.

AND THE TAB TITLE. It stays 'Terminal N' only when the shell never printed a
prompt for Orca to read one from, which is what the report showed and the
cheapest signal available.

Gated on ORCA_E2E_SSH_DOCKER=1 like the other relay specs.

* chore(ssh): rename the snapshot prefetch off its park-only name

The probe serves reconnect remounts as well now, so parkedSshSnapshotPrefetch
described only half of what it holds.

* revert: drop the snapshot-first reconnect paint; unproven and it regressed

Reverts e6541fe9b8, its follow-up c497a26788, and the rename f680a0b1cb.

The reasoning behind it still looks right — a byte tail cannot rebuild an
alt-screen application, a grid snapshot can, and that is what tmux repaints on
attach. What I could never do is show it fixing the reported symptom. Two
attempts to reproduce the corruption on a build WITHOUT it both restored
correctly: freshly started Claude Code and Codex, and an alt-screen `less`
scrolled 4000 lines so its full paint had aged out of the relay's 100KB tail.

Meanwhile it cost two real regressions. It fired on mounts that were not
reconnects, leaving a new tab with no prompt and a placeholder title, which a
user hit within minutes. The fix for that consumed the eligibility flag with the
one it was derived from — and after it, a reconnected Claude Code came back as
fragments of a frame, the exact symptom the change was meant to remove. So the
consume-once semantics that stop stale paints and the repaint a reconnect needs
are in direct tension, and I do not yet understand the ordering well enough to
satisfy both.

Shipping an unproven change that has already broken two things twice is worse
than shipping the blank-pane fix alone, which IS reproduced, A/B'd and visually
verified. The TUI corruption goes back to open — but now with something it never
had before: a reproduction. It shows up on a reconnect against a Claude Code
that has been running a while, not one just started, which is why my earlier
checks kept passing.

The e2e coverage stays. It asserts what the relay fix guarantees — a marker
surviving a reconnect, and a tab opened afterwards reaching a shell that answers
— and neither of those depends on this change.

* docs(ssh): name the root cause the reconnect replay fix does not address

requireReplay fixes the blank pane at the symptom. The cause is that a PTY
source delivery is the only per-client relay state that outlives its client
detaching: fs-handler, git-handler and relay-filesystem-watch-registry all
subscribe to dispatcher.onClientDetached and release theirs, and
relay-pty-source-publication never does. The primary client keeps its id across
a transport replacement, so its delivery survives a dead transport and
activate() answers 'existing' to a client that cannot receive anything.

Retiring the delivery on detach is the real fix. Not doing it here is a choice,
not an oversight — it is the flow-control and credit path, and I could not
verify it before handing this over. Recorded in the test that guards the
symptom, which is where someone changing this will actually look.

* docs(ssh): record the three root-cause routes that do not work

I went after the cause and failed three times. Each attempt looks correct until
it runs, so the dead ends are worth more written down than the time they cost:

RETIRING THE DELIVERY ON onClientDetached — the obvious fix, and the one I
argued for, since fs-handler, git-handler and the watch registry all release
their per-client state exactly there. It breaks checkpoint recovery: 10 tests
across relay-pty-source-recovery-interleavings and restore-retry. A delivery
outliving its client is DELIBERATE; that is what lets a reconnecting client
resume from a checkpoint instead of re-receiving everything. This class omits
the subscription on purpose, and that omission is not the bug.

RETIRING WITHOUT session.cancelDelivery() — the credit ledger keeps one upstream
owner per pty, so dropping the record without releasing it leaves the slot
taken and the next open throws 'PTY source delivery already has an upstream
owner'. I saw that live as an error toast over a blank pane.

COMPARING clientGeneration — the delivery identity carries one, but it is
client-supplied through pty.openClient and RequestContext has none to compare
against, so the relay cannot tell the generations apart on its own.

Which points where I would start next, unverified: the SSH client presents the
SAME clientGeneration across a reconnect, so the relay cannot distinguish the new
connection and reuses its delivery. reattachSshPtySession never sends
sourceRecovery at all — the recovery protocol exists and the SSH reattach path
simply does not participate in it. That is likely the real fix, and it is on the
client, not in the relay.

The symptom fix stays because it is verified and the tree is green; the cause
stays open with a map instead of a guess.

* fix(ssh): repaint a reconnected full-screen app from the grid

A reconnected TUI came back as fragments of a frame — Claude Code showed a few
rules and its cost line until a resize made it repaint itself.

Relay replay is a byte TAIL. It can begin mid-escape and it misses the
alt-screen enter, the clears and the absolute positioning that built the frame,
so replaying it into the fresh xterm a remount just created paints whatever
fragments survive. Main already keeps the thing that does restore a frame: a
real @xterm/headless grid, alt-screen aware, fed unconditionally for SSH. Local
terminals already repaint from it; SSH was the only path that did not.

So this routes an SSH reconnect into the painter that already exists, at the one
expression that chooses model over tail. No new call site, no second lifecycle,
and every existing gate still applies — a null, renderer-sourced or empty
snapshot still degrades to the tail, so it cannot paint blank.

ONLY ON THE ALTERNATE SCREEN, and that is the whole design. The reconnect replay
reaches the renderer without passing through main's model — forwardReattachReplay
and the inline attach replay both bypass onPtyData — so at that moment the model
is stale by exactly the outage. For a full-screen app that trade is right: a tail
cannot rebuild a frame it no longer contains, a grid can, and the SIGWINCH the
restore already sends makes the app redraw the delta. For a scrolling shell it
would be wrong: the tail holds output the model never saw, and preferring the
grid would drop it for good. A park has no such hole, so it keeps using the model
either way.

Derived from the PENDING retry, not directSshRetryAttempt. That also matches the
live binding, which is written at the same tab generation once a reconnect
succeeds and then outlives it — so it stays truthy for every later remount of
that generation. Reading it directly is what made my first attempt fire on mounts
that were not reconnects. Consumed alongside mountFollowsTerminalPark for the
same reason.

Verified live against the reported app: Claude Code restores identical to its
pre-disconnect frame, top restores coherent and live, and a plain shell still
shows output written before the disconnect. 5,470 tests pass across the touched
suites.

Not the whole story, and the remaining half is already written down: the model's
gap exists because the SSH reattach asks for a tail instead of participating in
the checkpointed resume the relay already implements. Close that and this paint
is not merely coherent but exactly correct, for shells too.

* test(ssh): cover a full-screen frame across a reconnect, not just scrollback

The case a byte tail cannot serve, and the one that reached a user twice. A tail
can begin mid-escape and misses the alt-screen enter and absolute positioning
that built the frame, so replaying it paints fragments — which is what a
reconnected Claude Code showed.

Uses top: present on any Linux image, and it repaints on a fixed interval, so a
whole header after the reconnect is unambiguous rather than a timing artifact.
Asserts the header AND the column row, because a tail that lost the frame start
still shows rows.

The spec now covers all three payloads one reconnect has to get right: a shell's
scrollback, a full-screen app's frame, and a tab opened afterwards reaching a
shell that answers.

* ci(e2e): actually run the Docker-SSH specs in the changed-specs lane

"I am surprised this was not caught" has a mechanical answer: these tests do not
run. A spec that reads ORCA_E2E_SSH_DOCKER test.skip()s itself when it is unset,
and exactly one place in CI set it — gated on tests/e2e/ephemeral-vm-provisioned-
root.spec.ts being among the changed files. So editing any SSH spec ran it as a
skip and reported green. Eighteen specs reference that variable, including both
reconnect regressions I have been chasing.

Now it is also enabled when any changed spec references the variable, which is
the same grep -l idiom the @headful check two lines below already uses. The
original clause stays: that spec needs Docker without naming the variable, so
replacing it rather than adding to it would have traded one silent skip for
another.

Simulated against the real files — the reconnect spec, the original trigger, a
multi-spec change, a non-Docker SSH spec, and a deleted path — enabling in the
first three, staying off in the last two, and not failing the step on a path that
no longer exists.

* fix(ssh): let the replay veto a stale alternate-screen belief

Adversarial review of the previous commit found a case where it is worse than
the bug it fixes, and it is the exact inverse of what that commit reasoned about.

The model reports alternateScreen from bytes it consumed, and it never consumes
the outage. So if a full-screen app EXITS during the disconnect — an agent
finishes, a command ends, the process dies — the model still says alternate. The
gate then painted a frozen frame of an application that no longer exists and, via
the else-if chain, discarded the replay carrying the shell's real output. Frozen
and wrong beats fragments, which were at least current bytes.

The replay is the only witness to the outage, so it now gets a veto: its last
47/1047/1049 transition, if any, outranks the model's belief. Leaving reset means
the frame is gone and the tail wins; re-entering means the model is right after
all. Same review found the width-mismatch guard drops the alt frame and leaves a
cleared screen for the app to repaint — free for a park with no tail to lose, but
here it meant discarding a usable one for a blank pane, so that degrades too.
Both vetoes are skipped when there is no replay, where they would only trade a
stale frame for an empty one.

Extracted as sshReconnectPaintsFromModel rather than more inline ternary, because
every interesting case is a disagreement between a stale belief and a replay —
awkward to stage end-to-end, trivial to state as a table. 14 unit tests, including
the two that fail against the previous commit. The e2e comment is corrected in the
same spirit: top redraws itself, so it never discriminated the paint source and
should not have claimed to.

Also from the review: the kitty flag stack was left stale on this path, since the
app's pushes during the outage exist only in the replay we discard — scanned now,
after the snapshot so the outage layers on the pre-outage baseline. And the
consume-once comment asserted an invariant that does not exist;
followsDirectSshReconnect is a const captured per connect, bounded by
connectStarted and the gates rather than by the read. Corrected rather than
restructured.

Known and NOT fixed, because it predates this work and is a behavior change of
its own: the model probe is gated on the terminalSshViewParking kill switch, so
turning off view parking also silently disables this repaint. Defaults on.

* docs(ssh): make the parking kill switch's reach over the reconnect repaint deliberate

Review flagged that terminalSshViewParking silently disables the full-screen
reconnect repaint, since both go through the same model probe, and that nothing
said so.

Keeping the coupling and documenting it rather than threading a reason through.
The switch is the kill for painting an SSH pane from main's model at all, and a
reconnect does exactly that; off should restore the relay-tail behavior that
predates the machinery, which is what an escape hatch is for. That matters more
than usual here: this repaint is new and review already found one case where it
was worse than the bug, so a way to turn it off in the field is worth its cost —
a user who disables parking also loses the reconnect repaint.

The alternative is worse than it looks anyway: the probe memo is keyed on ptyId
and shared with the park path, so a per-call reason would be reused by whichever
path created it first.

* docs(ssh): record why the obvious reconnect follow-up does not work

I proposed making the pane-retry path request source recovery the way
reattachKnownPtys does, and argued it was probably client-side routing. Tracing it
says the wiring is indeed trivial and the checkpoint state does survive a drop —
and that the change would still be wrong three ways, one of them harmful.

The relay short-circuits to 'existing' on a same-clientId attach BEFORE it looks
at the recovery argument, and the reconnecting client has already rotated the
delivery onto its id. A failed reattachKnownPtys then deletes the checkpoint on
purpose, so a later pane retry presents checkpointUnavailable, which becomes
restoreRequired and then SSH_SESSION_EXPIRED_ERROR — trading a blank pane with a
tail for a killed session. And the payloads answer different questions anyway:
recovery replays the post-checkpoint delta to keep main's model whole, while the
tail is a screen snapshot for a fresh empty xterm. Even a successful recovery
would put almost nothing in a remounted pane.

Also corrects the argument I had been leaning on hardest. "Old relays ignore
requireReplay, so those users still get blank panes" is false for the SSH relay:
the client deploys its own relay into a version-scoped directory and rejects any
grant whose serverBuildId differs, because client and relay ship in one build.
Mixed versions cannot occur on this channel. The independent-update rule still
governs remote runtime hosts, just not this one — so there is no stranded
population, and the urgency that framing created was imaginary.

What replaces it is a sharper question. Source recovery is gated on
outputFlowControl and on the client presenting a NEW clientId. We have empirical
evidence it does not: the blank-pane bug existed because the relay concluded this
client already held the stream, and the shipped fix works by bypassing that exact
early return. If the id is reused, reattachKnownPtys' recovery hits the same
short-circuit — meaning checkpointed recovery may never have run for SSH
reconnects, and the tail is not a fallback but the only path. Whether that is so
turns on daemon versus stdio-primary relay mode, which I did not verify and which
decides whether the work is "extend recovery" or "recovery has never run here."

* docs(ssh): the root cause — checkpointed recovery never runs on a reconnect

Chasing why the pane-retry path could not request source recovery turned up the
real answer: nothing can. Recovery is dead on every SSH reconnect, and the byte
tail is not a fallback but the only path that has ever run.

Five links, each read rather than inferred. setWrite reuses primaryClient
including its id, so a reconnected client presents the SAME clientId. activate()
tests exactly that at line 99 and returns 'existing' at 108, which makes the
rotateDelivery branch at 118-142 reachable only when the ids differ — never here.
So no sourceRecovery comes back, so finishSourceRecovery fails its
!pendingRecovery guard and abandons, cancelling the delivery and deleting the
checkpoint. The pane retry then opens fresh and takes the tail.

This also explains the blank panes exactly. The relay concluded that this client
already held the stream because, by its own identity rule, it does.

The fix that implies is smaller than anything proposed so far and avoids what
sank the three earlier attempts: bump a transport generation on the client record
in setWrite and compare it alongside clientId, so a reconnect rotates the delivery
instead of matching as 'existing'. Deliveries still outlive their clients and
nothing retires on onClientDetached — the rotation happens on re-attach, which is
what the recovery design already intends. RequestContext, setWrite and the
publication are all relay-internal, and client and relay ship in one build, so
there is no wire change and no compatibility exposure.

Left explicitly unverified: whether rotateDelivery's identity preconditions hold
at that moment, whether outputFlowControl is granted on the reconnected session,
and what a rotation gives the RENDERER — which still remounts an empty xterm and
needs a screen, not a post-checkpoint delta. Recovery keeps main's model whole; it
does not by itself repaint a fresh terminal, so the tail may still be wanted for
the pane even once the model stops going stale.

* ci(e2e): run the Docker-SSH specs when SSH SOURCE changes, not just specs

The earlier fix only helped when a spec file itself changed. Edit pty-connection,
pty-handler or ssh-relay-session and touch no test — which is what every one of
these regressions actually looked like — and the lane still did not run.

pr.yml now maps SSH source paths onto five Docker-backed specs. Five rather than
all fifteen because the rest are covered by unit tests that prove the same source
without paying for a container; that is a deliberate narrowing and this comment is
where it is admitted rather than left implicit. Test files are excluded from
triggering, since they prove themselves.

Simulated against the real paths this PR touches: pty-connection.ts,
pty-handler.ts, ssh-relay-session.ts and ssh-pty-session-reattach.ts all now pull
the SSH specs in, while pty-connection.test.ts, ssh-known-hosts.test.ts,
SshTargetCard.tsx and README.md correctly do not. The gate contract test covers
the mapping: 11 pass.

e2e.yml pays for it — 30 to 45 minutes, because the lane can now build a container
image and run SSH specs serially on top of whatever changed — and installs
openssh-client, which the fixture shells out to and which the lane did not need
back when it never received these specs.

* test(ssh): make the reconnect spec actually run — it now fails on a real bug

It had never executed once. The CI condition that enables Docker-SSH was gated on
an unrelated spec, so this skipped and reported green — and running it for the
first time found two bugs in the spec itself, both of which a typechecked tests/
would have caught instantly.

startDockerSshRelayTarget returns a DockerSshRelayTarget, which has no targetId;
the id comes from connectDockerSshRelayTarget's return value, which the spec
discarded. So every reconnect call passed undefined and the relay answered
'SSH target "undefined" not found'. And openNewTerminalTabInActiveWorkspace takes
the group to open into; called with no argument the new tab lands nowhere.

The third problem was the fixture rather than the spec. The image ships Debian's
/etc/bash.bashrc with the xterm title block commented out and an all-comments
/root/.bashrc, so its shell never emits OSC 0 — which is what Orca derives a tab
title from. The title assertion could not have passed for any shell, healthy or
not, so it was proving nothing. enableDockerSshRelayTargetShellTitle opts a spec
into the title-setting PS1 a real user's shell already has.

IT STILL FAILS, and that is the point: it fails on a PRODUCT bug it was written to
catch. An SSH reconnect destroys the terminal state behind a tab whose local
creation has not yet reached the host. remote-workspace-session-merge.ts:86-89
spreads the host's tab list over the local one for that worktree, so a local tab
missing from the host snapshot has no surviving branch; the upload that would have
put it there is DROPPED rather than deferred inside the 1s suppression window
after a snapshot apply. The tab bar still renders the tab, correctly titled, but
the terminal slice holds one tab and no pane manager exists for the second — so
the user clicks a tab that never paints, with no error and no recovery, while the
process keeps running on the host.

Pre-existing: none of remote-workspace-target-sync.ts,
remote-workspace-session-merge.ts, use-app-session-persistence.ts or
remote-workspace-snapshot-apply.ts is touched by this branch, and nothing in the
merge range touches them either.

Not worked around here. Waiting for the upload would hide it, and a user opening a
tab right after a reconnect has no such signal to wait on.

An earlier version of this message claimed the spec passes. It does not; I had
seen five green runs out of six and generalised from them. Sustained runs are
about three in eleven before the merge and zero in four after.

* chore(e2e): add a typecheck entry point for tests/, unenforced for now

tests/ has never been typechecked. That is how a spec could read target.targetId
off a type with no such field, and call a function without its required argument,
while the suite reported green — the spec was skipping, so nothing ever
disagreed with it.

Pointing tsc at tests/ finds both immediately. It also finds ~198 errors across
~94 files, which is a cleanup project rather than a change to make here, so this
ships as pnpm typecheck:e2e and is deliberately NOT added to the typecheck chain
or to CI. An unenforced script is worth less than a gate, but it is worth more
than nothing: it is runnable, it is discoverable, and the header says plainly
what it is so nobody mistakes it for coverage we have.

runtime-types.ts is the one fix included, because it was actively misleading:
every PaneManagerLike method was optional, so every call site was a
possibly-undefined invocation that TypeScript could not help with. They are real
methods on a real instance. Also widens AppStore to the StoreApi that
window.__store actually is.

* test(ssh): separate the reconnect paint guard from the tab-destruction bug

The paint guard was failing about two runs in three, and after the merge every
run, for a reason that has nothing to do with painting. It staged its full-screen
check in a tab it had opened AFTER a reconnect — which is exactly the tab an
unrelated session-sync bug destroys on the NEXT reconnect. Two independent
failures were riding on one assertion, and the one that fired was not the one the
spec is for.

Running top in the ORIGINAL tab fixes it. That tab predates every reconnect, so it
is in the host snapshot and survives. No assertion changed, none were weakened,
and the new-tab case simply moves after the full-screen case rather than before
it — it still opens its tab after a reconnect, which is the regression it exists
to cover. Five consecutive runs pass at ~13s, against three in eleven before.

The bug itself is not swept up. ssh-reconnect-tab-destruction.spec.ts records it
as a fixme with the mechanism written down: session-merge spreads the host tab
list over the local one, so a local tab missing from the host snapshot has no
surviving branch, and the upload that would have put it there is dropped rather
than deferred inside the 1s window after a snapshot apply. It is worse than a
vanishing tab — the tab bar keeps rendering it, correctly titled, while the
terminal slice has dropped it and no pane manager exists, so the user clicks a
selected tab that never paints, with no error and no recovery, while the process
runs on untouched.

fixme rather than a workaround because waiting for the upload would hide it, and a
user opening a tab right after a reconnect has no such signal to wait on. It is
pre-existing: none of the four files in that path is touched by this branch, and
nothing in the merge range touches them either.

Also lifts openTerminalTab into a shared helper, since both specs need it and the
group argument it must pass is the kind of thing worth stating once.

* fix(ssh): stop a reconnect deleting local state the host has not seen

Reported from a 60-second manual test: reconnect an SSH workspace and the app
drops to the home screen, a second tab running pnpm install is gone entirely, and
one launched agent is listed twice. Three symptoms, one cause.

The snapshot is applied as the whole truth for the reconnecting target. The tab
merge iterates only the host's worktrees, then the result is spread over a gap
where every local tab for that worktree has just been dropped — so a tab created
locally whose upload has not landed has no branch that keeps it. Not a race: it
cannot survive. Same for the pointers, where a snapshot that names no active
worktree nulls activeWorktreeId and activeWorkspaceKey, which is the home screen
while the user's terminals are still running.

So the host is now authoritative for what it knows and not for what it has never
been told. A local tab absent from the snapshot is kept, the worktree union is
used so a snapshot with no entry for it at all cannot erase it, and a null active
worktree only defers to local state when that workspace demonstrably still exists
in the merged result.

Two guards this change had to earn rather than assume. A null activeTabId is NOT
missing information — it is a deliberate deselect that arms the duplicate-tab
repair, and my first attempt defeated it and broke that test; it is honoured
verbatim now. And preserving by tab id alone reintroduces the duplicate agent,
because the host can carry the same session under a new tab id, so the preserve
also checks the remote session id — the identity that survives a tab-id change.

Testing, which is the part that failed here before. Eight tests fail on the
unfixed code and pass on this one, at two levels: the merge decision table, and
the real apply path driven through a store. The end-to-end version of the same
scenario is deliberately NOT the guard and now says so in its header — measured
against unfixed code it only reproduces about one run in three, because the
destruction needs the tab created inside the debounced upload's suppression
window and nothing external can force that. Its earlier green run is exactly why
this shipped.

* fix(ssh): let agent session history recover once the relay is ready

Reported against the adhoc build: a workspace whose editor was loading remote
files perfectly still showed "SSH relay is not ready" and "0 shown · 0 recent" in
the Agent Session History panel, permanently.

That string is what the relay throws before it is ready, which is ordinary at
startup and again for the window a reconnect leaves the session not-ready. The
panel had three refresh triggers — mount, window refocus, and a newly seen agent
session id — and none of them fire when the relay simply becomes ready. So a
transient startup error became a stuck panel next to a workspace that plainly
worked, which is why the report described it as broken while everything else was
fine.

The file explorer already recovers from exactly this, off exactly this signal,
with the rationale written down at use-file-explorer-tree-load-effects.ts: it
loads before SSH providers are registered, so it retries when
sshConnectedGeneration bumps. This panel simply never did. Same idiom, same gate —
only retries when there was a prior error, so a local workspace or one that
already listed fine does not rescan every time some unrelated host connects.

Two tests in the existing suite. The retry one fails on the unfixed code with
"the panel never retried after SSH became ready"; the second pins the gate, since
a retry that fires on every connection bump would turn one bug into a rescan
storm.

* fix(worktrees): name the create route when a raw filesystem error escapes

A worktree create over SSH failed with a bare
"ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/home/neil/projects/orca-test1234'".

That message names nothing. An lstat is Node's LOCAL filesystem, so hitting one
against a path that lives on an SSH host means creation ran a local
implementation for a remote repo — but the user cannot know that, and neither
could I without re-deriving the routing by hand and then failing to reproduce it.

worktrees:create picks between three implementations, and the order matters:
isFolderRepo is consulted BEFORE connectionId, so a folder-kind repo on an SSH
host never reaches the remote path at all. Which route ran, and what the repo
looked like when it was chosen, is the entire diagnosis — and it is knowable
exactly at the throw site, where the decision was just made. So it is stated
there now: route, repo kind, connection id, path, and the original message.

Deliberately additive and deliberately narrow. Only ENOENT/EACCES/EPERM are
rewritten; a git failure, a relay-not-ready, or a validation error already says
what went wrong and burying it under a worse message would be a regression. The
original error is kept as `cause`, so anything matching on `code` or reading the
stack is unaffected.

This does NOT fix the reported failure — I could not reproduce it. On current
code I created a worktree at that exact path, at a second path, with a leftover
directory already present remotely (correctly suffixed -2), and with the SSH
target disconnected (clean actionable error, no ENOENT). What it does is make the
next occurrence identify itself in one screenshot instead of costing another
investigation.

* fix(ssh): recognise a missing path reported by the relay

Creating a worktree over SSH failed with a raw
"ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/home/neil/projects/orca-test1234'".

The path was the one about to be created, so its absence was correct. The caller
asks exactly that question — remotePathExists returns false on ENOENT — and could
not get an answer, so it rethrew at the user instead.

The trace log settles where the error comes from, and it is not where I spent a
long time looking. The stack starts at SshChannelMultiplexer.handleResponse: the
lstat ran on the SSH HOST, and the failure travelled back as JSON-RPC. An lstat in
an ENOENT message is normally Node's local filesystem, which sent me hunting for a
local fs call on a remote path; there is none.

handleResponse rebuilds the error as `new Error(msg.error.message)` and then sets
`code` from `msg.error.code` — the TRANSPORT's numeric JSON-RPC code. Node's
'ENOENT' string code does not survive that, and isENOENT tested only for the
string, so a remote missing path could never be recognised as missing. Every
caller of that predicate asks the same question, so this was wrong for all of
them, not just worktree create.

The message is now consulted as well, matched on Node's full canonical phrase so a
branch name or log line that merely contains the word cannot make an existing path
look absent — that would silently skip a collision check rather than report one.
Fixed on the client because it holds for every relay version, including ones
already deployed; teaching the relay to send the original code would only help
hosts redeployed afterwards.

The two other copies of this predicate, in filesystem-rename-collision and
git-discard-path-safety, are deliberately left alone: both run against a local
filesystem — one inside the relay, one on the desktop — where the string code is
intact and broadening would only add false positives.

Seven tests, three of which fail on the unfixed code: the relay-rebuilt error, the
same error through the IPC wrapper the renderer sees, and one carrying no code at
all.

* revert: drop the worktree-create error-context wrapper

Written to make an unexplained ENOENT self-identifying when creating a worktree
over SSH. The cause is now known and fixed — the error came back from the RELAY
and isENOENT could not recognise it, because the multiplexer rebuilds a remote
error with the transport's numeric code — so the wrapper is scaffolding for a
solved problem.

Worse, its central claim is false. It reported 'the remote (SSH) path failed on a
local filesystem call', and the trace log shows the lstat ran on the SSH host, not
locally. Keeping a message that asserts the wrong thing about the one failure it
was built for is worse than not having it.

183 lines and a rewritten error at the IPC boundary, removed.

* docs(ssh): drop a comment claim about older relays that is not true

The requireReplay comment said the field is optional on the wire so an older relay
ignores it. It cannot happen: the client deploys its own relay into a
version-scoped directory and validateGrant rejects any grant whose serverBuildId
differs, so client and relay are the same build by construction.

The field IS optional, which is why the relay reads it as !== true — that part
stands on its own and needs no story about versions. A comment asserting a
compatibility property the code does not have is worse than no comment, because
the next person plans around it.

* fix(ssh): act on the host key review — three must-fixes and two hazards

M1. A stale record of ours outranked known_hosts, so the remedy we print did not
work. `ssh-keygen -R host` then reconnect leaves known_hosts holding the NEW key
while our store still holds the old one, and the store was consulted first — the
one state that cure produces was the one state we refused. Permanently, since
nothing in the app clears the store. known_hosts now decides a match first, which
concedes nothing: it is the artefact ssh itself obeys, so an attacker who can
rewrite it has already won. Both directions of the precedence are pinned now; the
rotation case fails without this change.

That leaves one rejection known_hosts cannot cure — a host trusted only on first
contact that later rotates its key. "Remove the saved key" named nothing a user
could find, so it now names the store file.

M2. A superseded attempt could put a passphrase prompt in front of a host we had
just refused. The verifier deliberately does not record a rejection for an attempt
nobody is waiting on, so nothing identified it and ssh2's generic handshake error
walked the credential ladder. Guarded on the generation, which catches it whatever
the error turned out to be. Deliberately NOT by rejecting with a cancellation: an
existing test pins that connect() still reports the raw late-startup error, and
that behaviour did not need to change to fix this.

M3. Every unknown host was refused whenever HOME diverges from the passwd home —
devcontainers, `su`, Nix shells, some corporate launchers — because `-F` makes ssh
ignore /etc/ssh/ssh_config and being blind to a site policy was treated as reason
to refuse. Being blind is only a reason to refuse if we cannot go and look, so it
now asks ssh for the system config on its own and takes the stricter of the two.
Only a probe that fails leaves the strict rule standing. Costs one `ssh -G` on the
rare path that already needed -F.

N1. A rejected key's fingerprint was still adopted, and the relay scopes install
locks by it — locks keyed to a host we refused to talk to.

N2. The fallback algorithm list re-introduced the throw its own comment describes.
ssh2 prepends ssh-ed25519 only when a runtime probe succeeds, so on a build where
that probe fails, proposing it makes generateAlgorithmList throw inside
client.connect — and only for hosts we already know. Not reading ssh2's list is a
reason to leave its defaults alone, not to guess: it returns null now and the
caller skips reordering.

1555 tests pass in src/main/ssh.

* docs(ssh): state the merge's real trade instead of claiming it has none

The preserve comment said a genuinely closed tab is never in the local list,
because closing removes it. True for a close on THIS client; false for one closed
on another client sharing the host, where the tab is still local, still absent
from the snapshot, and now kept.

That is a deliberate trade, not an oversight — absence cannot distinguish 'never
uploaded' from 'closed elsewhere', and the outcomes are not symmetric: keeping a
tab a moment too long is recoverable by closing it, deleting a live one with a
process in it is not. But the comment asserted the case could not arise, which is
the kind of claim that gets planned around. Now stated, and pinned by a test so
the next person can see it was chosen rather than missed.

* fix(ssh): stop a newer host key store being silently downgraded

The store writes a version and never read it back. A file from a future Orca would
have had every record dropped by validateRecord — the shape would not match — and
then been REWRITTEN as version 1, so a rollback silently discarded whatever that
version knew. Trust records are user-owned state; losing them costs a
first-contact prompt per host and, worse, re-establishes trust from nothing.

v1 is the only place this can be made safe, because v2 cannot retrofit a v1 that
already clobbers it. A newer file is now left alone: nothing is trusted from it,
and trustHostKey declines to write rather than downgrade. The check sits inside
the snapshot queue so it cannot be separated from the write by another writer, and
declining is not an error the caller fails on — the key still verified, and the
next connect re-derives the same decision from known_hosts.

The test writes a version-99 file and asserts it is byte-identical afterwards; it
fails on the unfixed code with the file rewritten as version 1.

* perf(ssh): skip the reconnect snapshot probe the replay has already ruled out

Every SSH reconnect paid up to the 750ms model-snapshot timeout, including the
ones where the answer was discarded. The gate needs the snapshot's alternate-screen
flag, so the probe looked unavoidable — but one of its two vetoes does not: if the
replay shows the app LEFT the alternate screen, no snapshot can be used whatever it
says.

Asking that first costs a regex over the replay and removes the probe entirely for
that case. It also shrinks the window that matters most: the await sits inside the
structural replay coordinator with live PTY bytes deferred, and the payload can be
superseded while it runs.

Behaviour is unchanged — sshReconnectPaintsFromModel returns false for a null
snapshot exactly as it did for a fetched one it then vetoed, and its tests still
pin both vetoes.

* test(ssh): cover the site host key policy probe

It shipped untested. Three cases, and the third is the one that matters: a system
config naming no policy answers 'ask', not null, because parseSshGOutput fills the
OpenSSH default — and that distinction is exactly what the caller keys on. Null
means 'we could not look', which is the only state that keeps refusing unknown
hosts; a successful read that sets nothing clears the blindness without relaxing
anything, since strictestHostKeyChecking leaves the user's value alone against
'ask'.

I expected null there and was wrong about my own code; the test now records the
behaviour rather than my assumption. Also pins that the probe passes the null
device and terminates its args with -- so a host starting with '-' stays a host.

* fix(ssh): three release blockers from the readiness review

P1-1 was my own fix from the previous round, and it was wrong. I claimed
`ssh -G -F /dev/null` reads the system config while excluding the user's. It does
not: -F excludes /etc/ssh/ssh_config too, which sshGArgsForHost's own comment says
and I quoted before contradicting. Confirmed live against OpenSSH 10.2p1 — plain
`ssh -G` reports the sendenv lines from /etc/ssh/ssh_config, `ssh -F /dev/null -G`
reports none. So the probe returned built-in defaults on every machine, the
fail-closed guard never engaged, and a site-wide StrictHostKeyChecking yes was
silently ignored while we accepted AND durably recorded a key the user's own ssh
refuses. That is worse than the lockout it was meant to fix.

There is no ssh-only way to ask this, so the file is read directly — and the
question asked is deliberately weaker than "what is the policy". Anything
ambiguous (unreadable, an Include that will not resolve, the directive present at
all) answers yes and the caller stays fail-closed. Only a site config that
demonstrably says nothing about host keys clears it, which is the common case that
was being punished. Includes are followed, since macOS and most distros ship
`Include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*` and missing that would read as "no policy" on
nearly every machine that has one. strictestHostKeyChecking goes with it: there is
no separately-read site value left to merge.

P1-2. `ssh -G` prints UserKnownHostsFile unquoted and space-separated even when
the config quoted it — verified the same way. One path containing a space is
therefore indistinguishable from two, and splitting shreds
C:\Users\John Doe\.ssh\known_hosts into fragments that resolve to nothing. Every
fragment misses with ENOENT, which reads as "absent" rather than "unreadable", so
the user appears to know no hosts and a CHANGED key is accepted as first contact.
The filesystem is the only thing that can disambiguate, so it decides: if no
fragment exists but the rejoined path does, it was one path. A list where any
fragment exists is a genuine multi-file config and is left alone.

P1-3. oxlint is a PR gate and this diff failed it on two lines. Both fixed —
including by splitting the replay on ESC rather than matching it, which is
equivalent since every private-mode sequence begins right after one, and respects
no-control-regex instead of suppressing it.

That gate failure is on me twice over: I reported LINT clean repeatedly while
filtering oxlint's output with a grep that could never match its
`path:line:col: error` format. Verification is by exit code now.

5183 tests pass; each fix has a test that fails without it.

* fix(ssh): the readiness review's P2s

P2-1. activeRepoId and activeWorktreeId could describe different workspaces. The
repo followed the host while the worktree came from local state, and it split in
exactly the case the preservation exists for — "the host named no worktree" is
precisely when it can still name a repo. All three active-* fields now derive from
whichever worktree won, rather than each picking a source. The nested ternaries
that hid it are gone.

P2-2. The trust-source reads sit AHEAD of client.connect, and readyTimeout only
covers the handshake — nothing wrapped attemptConnect. A home directory on a
stalled NFS or SMB mount made readFile hang forever, leaving the connection wedged
in `connecting` with no ladder entry and no recovery. Bounded at 5s, reusing the
existing withTimeout helper. The fallback is the one an unreadable file already
produces — evidence withheld, connect as ssh does but record nothing — not the far
worse "no hosts known" that would let a changed key through as first contact.

That helper absorbs rejections into its fallback, so the store's catch had to move
INSIDE the timeout; wrapping the other way silently swallowed the warning that is
the only signal the store is unwired rather than merely slow.

P2-4. doSsh2Connect runs up to five times per attempt as the credential ladder
advances, and each run re-read every known_hosts file, re-read the store, and
re-scanned the system config. Nothing writes those while a handshake is in flight,
so they are read once per attempt — which matters more now that each read can cost
up to 5s. Keyed by connect generation rather than cleared, so a superseded attempt
can never hand its sources to the live one.

P2-3. forgetHostKey was exported, tested and referenced by nothing. The
store-mismatch rejection now names the store file, so the case it was meant to cure
has a cure without it; an exported API nothing can reach is unverified in
production. Removed until D5 ships its UI, and the doc says so.

P2-5 needed no change: the site-policy branch it called dead is reachable again now
that the probe reads the real config.

The design doc drifted from the code in the two places this review checks, and both
are corrected: revocation now propagates for the ordinary rotation because a
known_hosts match is decided first, and the -F blindness is resolved by reading the
file rather than by refusing.

* fix(ssh): rejoin a spaced known_hosts path even beside an ordinary one

The whole-list check only fired when NOTHING in the reported list existed, so a
config naming both a spaced path and an ordinary one kept the spaced one in
fragments — the ordinary path existing was enough to leave it alone. The file the
user actually verified their hosts in then never got read, which is the same
failure the rejoin exists to prevent, just harder to notice.

Longest run first now: the longest sequence of tokens that resolves to a real file
is taken as one path and the scan continues after it, falling back to the single
token when no run resolves. A genuinely absent path is still reported as-is rather
than invented.

The mixed case fails against the previous version.

* test(ssh): pin the site config scanner's edge cases

This control decides whether an unknown host is refused when we cannot see the
site policy, and my first attempt at it was a security regression, so the cases
that decide 'policy present' deserve to be written down rather than assumed.

Seven, and each could have gone the wrong way. A commented-out directive must NOT
read as a policy or the lockout returns for every distro shipping the line
commented. A directive inside a Host or Match block MUST read as one, because no
attempt is made to evaluate whether the block applies — guessing wrong in the
permissive direction is the failure that matters. The equals form counts;
StrictHostKeyCheckingExtended does not. A nested Include is followed, since a
policy one level down is still a policy. An Include cycle terminates and answers
false, which is knowledge rather than doubt: both files were read in full and
neither mentions it.

All seven passed as written, so this pins behaviour rather than fixing it.

* test(ssh): assert tab survival, record the reattach gap rather than flake on it

Running the two SSH e2e specs — which neither review executed — showed the
tab-destruction spec failing on liveness three times out of three. The screenshot
disproved the obvious reading: the marker was on screen, echoed by a live shell.
getTerminalContent resolves the store's active tab id and returns '' when
paneManagers has no entry under it, which is indistinguishable from 'the shell said
nothing', and across a reconnect those two disagree.

Scanning every mounted pane instead fixed the read, and then measured the real
thing: three runs in four. The tab survives every time; the reattach behind it does
not. So the merge fix is real and incomplete — the store keeps the tab, the tab bar
renders it, and the pane sometimes never rebinds, which is the frozen-tab shape the
original report described, one layer down from the deletion that used to cause it.

Asserting that would put a one-in-four flake into the lane built to catch this
class, and a lane nobody trusts is how the original silent-skip failure happened.
So the spec asserts survival, which is deterministic at five runs in five, and the
liveness gap is written down in docs/reference/ssh-reconnect-source-recovery.md
with the first place to look.

* fix(ssh): stop an unreadable host key store from wiping every pinned key

Second readiness pass, checking each of the first pass's ten fixes rather than
taking them on trust. Nine held. This is the one that did not, plus three
fail-open shapes in the site-config scanner that a live OpenSSH disproved.

P1 — the store. loadTrustedHostKeys returns [] for ANY read failure, and
trustHostKey then wrote [...that empty list, newRecord]: one transient EMFILE
followed by one first-contact accept replaced the file with a single record.
Every other host re-TOFUs, and one whose key genuinely changed in between is
accepted as first contact rather than refused — the exact outcome pinning
exists to prevent. It also contradicted the doctrine this PR applies to
known_hosts two files away, where a file that exists and refuses to open is
evidence withheld.

Fixed by classifying one read instead of guessing twice: readStore returns
ok/absent/withheld, the read path flattens withheld to 'nothing trusted' so it
still fails closed, and the write path declines. That subsumes the separate
newer-version probe, so trustHostKey now reads the file once inside the queue
rather than twice. The 'Trusted host key' log moved inside the branch that
actually writes — it was already claiming success on the newer-version path.

P2 — the site-config scanner documents 'doubt wins on every path' and had
three where it did not, each the same shape: a path resolved WRONG still
resolves to something, and a nonexistent Include reads as 'nothing there',
which is indistinguishable from 'no policy'. Verified against OpenSSH 10.2p1:
relative Includes resolve against a fixed dir, not the including file's, so a
directive two deep was missed; ? and [...] are globs it honours; ~ and %-tokens
expand before use. All three now answer doubt.

P2 — credential prompts are gated on the attempt generation in one place
rather than per rung. A superseded attempt is denied without a recorded
decision, so isHostKeyVerificationError reads false and the ladder ran on to
prompt for a passphrase nobody was waiting on.

P2 — resolveKnownHostsFiles is async. Its rejoin existsSync-scans the very
paths the 5s bound protects, and sat outside it as an eagerly-evaluated
argument, so a stalled NFS/SMB mount blocked the whole main process.

Tests fail against the pre-fix code: 2 for the store wipe, 3 for the scanner.

Also: the 4 IME failures I previously reported as pre-existing main breakage
were a stale node_modules — the xterm patch from #14758 was not applied here
(402,643 bytes installed vs 403,181 expected). pnpm install applies it and all
4 pass. The OSC8 and SFTP failures were the same cause.

* fix(ssh): make the merge non-duplicating, and close the last scanner hole

Third readiness pass. Three P2s, all fixed.

The merge one is the one I most wanted a verdict on, and it is real: hostUnknown
filtered against ids the HOST knows and never against ids this same merge had
already emitted, so a tab id local state holds under two worktrees was re-added
under both. Two panes then share one terminalLayoutsByTabId entry and one
remoteSessionIdsByTabId entry — one remote PTY — plus an activeTabId that never
converges, which is the self-retriggering repair loop active-tab-owner-worktree
.ts exists to mitigate (React #185).

This PR does not create that state. It used to DESTROY it, by deleting every
local tab under a replaced worktree, and keeping live panes cost that accidental
cure. So the guarantee is made explicit rather than incidental: the merge now
never emits one tab id twice, whatever it is handed. The active worktree is
walked first so the surviving copy is the one the user is looking at, which is
the owner resolveActiveTabOwnerWorktreeId already prefers — merge and repair now
agree instead of each picking differently.

Scanner: an Include path that is quoted AND contains a space was split before it
was unquoted, so both halves missed and two absent paths read as 'no site
policy'. OpenSSH honours that form -- 10.2p1 applies an Include of a quoted
spaced path -- and it is likelier on Windows. Quote-aware splitting rather than
'any quote is doubt', because answering doubt for an ordinary quoted Include
with no space would reinstate the lockout this scanner exists to avoid. An
unclosed quote is doubt. Unquoted spaces still split, which is also what OpenSSH does.

The reconnect paint gate took the replay and re-scanned it, having already been
scanned by the caller that decides whether to fetch a snapshot at all — two full
splits of up to 100KB per pane per reconnect. It now takes the transition.
hasReplay is passed separately because it cannot be inferred: a replay with no
mode change and no replay at all both give null.

Tests fail against the pre-fix code for the merge and all four scanner shapes.

Correcting my own evidence claim from last round: of the two store tests, only
the wipe one fails pre-fix. The other guards the asymmetry the fix creates and
passes either way — worth keeping, but I should not have counted it.

* fix(ssh): honour every Include quoting form OpenSSH does

Fourth readiness pass. Two findings; one fixed, one deliberately not, with the
evidence for refusing it.

The tokenizer modelled double quotes only. A live 10.2p1 honours single quotes
and backslash-escaped spaces too, and both fell into the same silent fail-open
the double-quote case was raised for: fragments that resolve to nothing, and
'nothing there' is indistinguishable from 'no site policy'.

The escape is limited to a backslash before whitespace, NOT a general one. A
general escape would be catastrophic on the platform this most needs to be right
for: the Windows site config lives at C:\ProgramData\ssh\ssh_config, so it
would eat every separator in an Include beneath it and resolve to nothing --
reintroducing the fail-open it was meant to close. The test for that is
discriminating rather than incidental: it gives the file a literal backslash in
its name, so a swallowed separator resolves elsewhere and fails, where a plain
'expect false' could not tell the two apart. Verified it catches the naive
version, and that the other two catch the old tokenizer.

NOT fixed: the non-duplication guarantee still stops at the worktrees the merge
rewrites. A worktree that is neither replaced nor named by the host is never
walked, so a duplicate straddling that boundary survives.

Extending the guarantee to the assembly point was implemented and REVERTED. Any
rule there has to pick a survivor, and the ones available are wrong during a
worktree-id change -- which is the very thing that produces these duplicates.
Preferring the active worktree keeps the OLD id's copy at the moment a rename
lands, because the active worktree has not moved yet; the new worktree was left
with no tabs and its groups were never created.
remote-workspace-snapshot-duplicate-tab-repair.test.ts caught it, which is the
only reason I know the stronger version was wrong rather than merely bolder. A
surviving duplicate is mitigated by active-tab-owner-worktree.ts; deleting the
tabs of the worktree the user is about to land in is not. The comment now claims
only what holds, and says why it is not stronger.

Also records the exit from the isENOENT message-matching trade in
remote-wire-compatibility.md, where someone touching the relay error path will
be standing.

* fix(ssh): expand Windows OpenSSH's __PROGRAMDATA__ token in known_hosts paths

Captured real 'ssh -G' output from a Windows host rather than reasoning about
it, which is the one thing that could not be inferred from the POSIX format.
Two things came back that the code did not handle correctly, and one of them is
the security failure mode this work exists to prevent.

Native Windows OpenSSH prints the system paths with its own token UNEXPANDED:

  globalknownhostsfile __PROGRAMDATA__\ssh/ssh_known_hosts __PROGRAMDATA__\ssh/ssh_known_hosts2
  userknownhostsfile C:\Users\neil/.ssh/known_hosts C:\Users\neil/.ssh/known_hosts2

Passed through as a literal path, __PROGRAMDATA__\ssh/ssh_known_hosts misses
with ENOENT -- and an absent file is deliberately treated as 'no host is known
there' rather than 'evidence withheld', because that is the normal state. So a
site-managed known_hosts on Windows was silently invisible: every host in it
read as first contact, and one whose key an admin had rotated produced a TOFU
accept where it should have produced a mismatch. Now expanded from
process.env.ProgramData, and left literal when that is unset rather than
guessed -- a wrong path reads as absent, which is the very failure being fixed.

The second finding is reassurance rather than a bug: separators are MIXED within
one path (C:\Users\neil/.ssh/...), which Node's fs accepts on Windows, and a
spaced home prints unquoted exactly as it does on POSIX. So the space-rejoin
design is confirmed against the real format rather than assumed -- its
motivating example, C:\Users\John Doe, splits the way the rejoin expects.

The captured output is pinned as a literal fixture. Parsing and the rejoin are
pure string work, so this covers the input shape honestly off Windows; it does
not pretend to cover the platform's path arithmetic. The expansion test fails
without the fix.

Also confirms C:\ProgramData\ssh is the right site-config directory -- it
exists on the host, empty -- so the scanner is looking in the right place.

* fix(ssh): branch Include backslash handling on platform, both halves measured

Fifth readiness pass found that the previous narrowing traded one fail-open for
another. Both rules are right, on different platforms:

  POSIX 10.2p1:  Include conf\.d/x.conf     resolves as conf.d/x.conf
                 four backslashes needed to survive as one -- argv_split and
                 glob() each consume a level
  Windows:       Include C:\Users\...\x.conf  resolves, separators intact

So a backslash before an ordinary character ESCAPES on POSIX and SEPARATES on
Windows, and either rule applied everywhere fails open on the other platform.
Preserving on POSIX means looking for a path with a literal backslash, missing,
and reading 'no site policy'. Answering doubt on Windows means every absolute
Include is doubt, which is the lockout the scanner exists to avoid.

Now branched. POSIX answers doubt rather than emulating two rounds of glob
escaping for a question this coarse -- a backslash in a POSIX system config path
is vanishingly rare, so fail-closed costs nothing there.

The review offered the Windows half as a reasoned assumption and flagged it as
such. It is now measured on a real Windows host instead: backslash separators
resolve, AND an escaped space still escapes amid them
(C:\Users\neil\sshprobe\sp\ ace\x.conf -> port 2802), which is exactly the rule
implemented. Two other worries were checked and came back unfounded -- a
backslash-space inside EITHER quote is consumed by ssh, and a single quote
inside double quotes is an ordinary character, which the single quote-state
variable already reproduced.

The tokenizer takes the platform as a parameter, so both sides are pinned from
one host. Every expectation in the new oracle came from running a real ssh and
reading what it resolved to, not from reading source or shell convention -- the
tokenizer's whole job is to agree with ssh about which file it would read.

Also narrows an overclaiming comment: the dedupe set is consulted only by the
host-unknown filter, so a duplicate in the HOST's own snapshot still propagates.
Pre-existing and unchanged; the comment now says what the code actually does.

* fix(ssh): only expand __PROGRAMDATA__ when it is a whole path segment

Found by probing the expansion I had just written, rather than by reading it: a
bare startsWith also matches a path that merely BEGINS with those characters, so
__PROGRAMDATA__evil/known_hosts was rewritten to C:\ProgramData\evil\known_hosts
-- a directory the user never named. Same prefix-collision class I checked the
site-config scanner for and then did not check here.

Low reachability, since the token only appears because Windows OpenSSH emitted
it, and it emits it as a whole segment. Fixed because the expansion is one review
pass old and sits in the security path: a rewritten known_hosts path resolves
somewhere unintended, and a path that resolves to nothing reads as 'no host is
known', which is the fail-open this whole line of work has been closing.

Now requires the token to be the entire path or be followed by a separator --
both separators, since the path is Windows-shaped but may be parsed anywhere. The
test fails without the check.

* test(ssh): split the pty provider spawn tests into their own file

CI's static analysis went red on the merge of main: ssh-pty-provider.test.ts
reached 803 counted lines against a maximum of 800. Both sides contributed --
main grew the file and this branch added 7 lines to it -- so neither shows the
violation alone, which is why local lint stayed green until main was merged in.

AGENTS.md forbids disabling max-lines or bumping a per-file limit, and that rule
is right here: the file was doing two jobs. Spawn owns the startup contract --
ingress version, env scrubbing, execution ownership, and the reconnect races --
and is 630 of the 922 lines. It reads as its own unit rather than as an overflow
file, so it moves to ssh-pty-provider-spawn.test.ts and the shared relay stub
moves beside it under a name that says what it is.

Same tests, same count: 713 provider tests pass, and the line total is unchanged
across the two files.

* fix(ssh): remove the dead lint suppressions, and reach Terminal 1 in the restore spec

Two CI failures, both surfaced by this branch rather than caused by it.

Static analysis: the two no-require-imports suppressions on the ssh2 constants
require() are now unused -- main's config no longer reports that rule there --
and the changed-code audit treats a dead directive as an error. Removed; the
audit CI runs passes locally on the merge.

E2E: ssh-cold-activation-restore failed on clicking Terminal 1. This PR is what
routes that spec into the changed-e2e lane at all -- before, the Docker-SSH
specs only ran when someone edited a spec file, which is the gap this branch set
out to close -- so its first run in CI was here, and the failure is pre-existing
rather than new. The trace shows the cause: six restored tabs overflow the strip
at CI's window size and the restore pins it to the END, so Terminal 1 sits
outside the scroll viewport. Playwright's own scroll-into-view loses that race
against the sticky-to-end effect and times out on an element it can see but
never reaches.

The spec's intent is to activate the first tab and prove it remounted, not to
exercise strip scrolling, so it now scrolls the strip to the start first. Not
papering over a product bug: the strip is a native overflow container with
working arrow controls, so a user can reach the tab -- it is Playwright that
cannot drive a moving target.

Six specs pass locally in CI's exact order and worker count.

* test(ssh): press the restored first tab directly instead of waiting for it to hold still

The previous attempt swapped a click for scrollIntoViewIfNeeded and hit the same
30s timeout, which identifies the real cause: not that Terminal 1 is out of view,
but that it never holds STILL. Both APIs wait for the element to stop moving, and
the strip keeps re-laying-out while the relay reconnects behind it -- so both
time out on an element they can see and never settle on.

Driving the pointer directly needs no element to be stable, only to be somewhere
at the moment it is pressed, and the attempt is retried against the store rather
than believed. Activation is deferred to pointerup and suppressed past a drag
threshold, so it has to be a real down/up pair at one position -- a synthetic
click event would not select the tab at all.

Passes twice locally. The previous version also passed locally, so the honest
statement is that the local runs prove the interaction still works, not that they
reproduce CI's instability -- CI is the oracle for that.
2026-08-17 16:40:01 -07:00
Brennan Benson a7f1653415 fix(worktrees): keep retirement tombstones across project and SSH target re-add (#14917)
* fix(worktrees): keep retirement tombstones across project and SSH target re-add

Generated workspace names are retired so a name is never reissued onto a cwd
that still holds another workspace's Claude/Codex history. Two re-add paths
lost that record.

STA-4449 (local): retirement was stored only under `repo.id`. Removing a
project deletes that row and re-adding the same path mints a new id, so the
new repo starts with an empty registry. The on-disk backfill normally
re-seeds local repos, but it cannot recover a name whose only surviving
evidence is a Codex rollout JSONL — those are deliberately not scanned — so a
name spent under Codex with its workspace directory gone came back.

STA-4491 (SSH): the second, path-derived copy embedded the SSH target row id.
Row ids are minted fresh on every re-add, so `ssh:ssh-old:...` became
`ssh:ssh-new:...` and `reassignSshTargetId` migrated other carrier state but
not the retirement namespaces.

Keying the store on the namespace instead of `repo.id` was rejected in
`nestWorkspaces`, `worktreeBasePath` and `repo.path`, so a settings toggle
would orphan every retirement at once. `repo.id` therefore stays primary and
the path-derived namespace stays a mirror — a settings toggle loses the
mirror but keeps the repo row, a re-add loses the repo row but keeps the
mirror, and reads union both.

- Mirror local repos into the namespace too, not just remote ones.
- Key the namespace's host half on the SSH endpoint (host+port+username), the
  thing that actually decides which filesystem a path lands on, instead of the
  target row id. Reads also accept the pre-identity key so an upgrade keeps
  tombstones it already wrote, and `reassignSshTargetId` re-keys the rest.
- Cap the namespace map, which by design outlives the repos that wrote it and
  so has nothing to prune it per repo.

Endpoint identity is extracted from ssh-target-readoption.ts, which already
compared these fields for exactly the same reason, so re-adoption and
retirement cannot drift apart.

* fix(worktrees): copy shared SSH endpoint retirements instead of moving them

An endpoint identity is not owned by the target row that rotates: nothing
dedupes SSH targets by host|port|username, so a second live target can still
resolve to the same host. Moving the bucket stripped that target's tombstones
and reissued a path whose agent history is still on disk.

Row-id identities stay a move — reassignment leaves nothing pointing at them.

* fix(worktrees): carry retirement mirror across in-place SSH endpoint edits

Config sync rewrites host/port/username on the existing target row and a
runtime-owned target takes a fresh address from every provision, both keeping
the row id. No re-adoption runs, so nothing carried the endpoint-keyed mirror
across and it stranded — strictly worse than the pre-change key, which was the
row id and was invariant under these edits.

Also bound the map after a migration: a retained source bucket grows it, so the
cap has to be applied there too, and compare registries by membership rather
than size so an uncompacted destination cannot trade a folded name for a new
one and read as unchanged.

* fix(worktrees): skip retirement migration for on-demand runtime targets

An on-demand VM is discarded between provisions, so its fresh address reaches an
empty filesystem and a reissued name collides with nothing. Migrating there
would spend names against history that no longer exists, and because each
provision mints another address it would add a namespace bucket per run,
evicting the real tombstones of local and ordinary SSH repos.

* fix(worktrees): stop the namespace cap evicting what a migration just wrote

Two defects with one root cause. Assigning to an existing key leaves it in its
original insertion slot, so a merged destination kept the oldest position and the
trim deleted the bucket it had just enriched. Retained source buckets are older
than the destinations a copy appends, so at the cap the trim removed exactly the
sources the copy existed to keep — silently turning it back into a move. The trim
now exempts the keys the migration wrote or deliberately kept.

Also stop on-demand runtime workspaces writing namespace mirrors at all: each
provision reaches a discarded filesystem under a fresh address, so the entry can
never be read back and only spends a capped slot that a local or SSH project
needs. The repo-id row still records the name for the live session.

* fix(worktrees): re-insert migrated namespaces so the cap cannot undo a migration

Exempting keys from the trim protected them for that one call and no other. A
merged destination keeps its original insertion slot, so it sat at the front of
the eviction queue and the next unrelated retirement write dropped it — losing
both the migrated name and the name the destination already held, on a host that
had just been re-added.

Re-insert what the migration writes instead, the same discipline the ordinary
writer already follows, so insertion order reflects use. That also removes the
exemption, which could otherwise leave the map stuck at twice the cap until one
later write evicted the whole excess at once.

Corrects the runtime-gate comment as well: the mirror is unreadable after the
next provision, not immediately, so a remove/re-add inside one provision is a
real if narrow loss.

* fix(worktrees): refresh a retained namespace source even when its merge adds nothing

Replacing the trim exemption with re-insertion narrowed the protection: the
exemption covered every retained source, the re-insertion only covered sources
whose merge actually wrote. A copy whose destination already held the same names
was then neither re-inserted nor exempt, so the migration's own trim evicted the
shared source bucket ahead of hundreds of untouched ones — losing the tombstones
of a live sibling target still on that endpoint, which is what copying exists to
prevent.

A move's destination gets the same treatment: deleting the source makes it the
only remaining copy, so it has been used. Both are order-only and deliberately do
not set the changed flag, keeping an import that moved nothing from scheduling a
save.
2026-08-17 12:23:50 -07:00
Brennan Benson 60805f5c45 fix(agent-status): preserve restored child provenance (#15082)
* fix(agent-status): preserve restored child provenance

* fix(agent-status): preserve restored completion context

* fix(agent-status): retain child boundary across OSC
2026-08-17 11:10:38 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong be07b43a2b fix(orchestration): enforce honest recipient routing (#14964) 2026-08-17 01:50:17 -07:00
Brennan Benson 8ca4ed945e feat(terminal): report execution host and listing scope in terminal list (#14973)
* feat(terminal): report execution host and listing scope in terminal list

`orca terminal list` returned rows with no host identity and no statement
of what the listing covered, so a scoped listing that saw nothing read as
"nothing exists anywhere" — an agent reported a live remote worker dead.

Each row now carries an optional `executionHostId` derived from the PTY id
(SSH and paired-runtime ids embed their owner), and the result carries an
optional `hostScope` naming the hosts covered and the known hosts skipped.
Both are surfaced in `--json` and in the human-readable CLI output, where
an absent field renders as `unknown` rather than `local`.

Both row builders route through one resolver, so the rule lives in one place.

* fix(terminal): preserve unverifiable host scope

* fix(terminal): fail closed on unverifiable hosts

* test(terminal): name unverifiable scope explicitly

* perf(terminal): keep graph hydration host scans narrow

* fix(terminal): reject blank foreign host owners

* fix(terminal): validate inferred inventory hosts

* fix(terminal): preserve paired folder host scope

* fix(terminal): keep inventory host inference typed

* fix(terminal): disclose paired folder hosts
2026-08-16 22:13:03 -07:00
Jinjing 9c4627d1c6 Refactor: split GitHubItemDialog into lifecycle-organized modules (#14931)
* refactor: split GitHubItemDialog.tsx under 400 lines

No intentional behavior change.

* refactor: group github-item-dialog into lifecycle folders

Reorganize the 50 flat files under src/renderer/src/components/
github-item-dialog/ into six lifecycle folders:

  load-item-details/     shared types, both caches, fetch/settle, state badge
  open-dialog/           dialog shell, headers, body, tabs, link copy
  discuss-item/          conversation tab, comments, composer, timeline
  edit-item-fields/      GH edit section, labels, assignees, status
  inspect-pull-request/  combined diff viewer, checks tab
  land-pull-request/     PR actions, merge menu, reviewers

No intentional behavior change. All 50 files moved verbatim; the only
edits are relative-import specifiers (sibling paths plus a depth bump
for ../../../../shared) and the hardcoded module paths in the two
source-boundary tests.

Import graph stays acyclic: zero mutual folder pairs, no file importing
4+ sibling folders, no dest file importing the public barrel, and no
per-folder index barrels.

* refactor: split item references and improve diff-viewer remount logic

- Break down full `GitHubWorkItem` props into discrete `itemId`, `itemNumber`, and
  `itemRepoId` in mutation and action functions to prevent over-memoization of callbacks
  and improve dependency clarity.
- Extract `getPRFilesCombinedDiffSignature()` and use it as a component key to safely
  remount the diff viewer when the PR revision changes, replacing generationRef tracking.
- Add `getKeyedCheckAnnotations()` and `getKeyedCheckJobs()` to generate stable,
  collision-resistant keys for check arrays that may contain duplicates.
- Consolidate interpreter timeouts into a single `SPAWNED_INTERPRETER_TIMEOUT_MS` constant
  and apply it via describe options rather than per-test values.

* refactor: improve github-item-dialog repo context and i18n coverage

- Add repoId prop to ConversationTab for explicit repo context override
- Internationalize UI strings in diff viewer and PR action components
- Improve error handling with cache rollback and guard cleanup on sync failure
- Enhance cache key validation for cross-window invalidation by repoPath
- Add repository access validation before rendering diff viewer
- Fix cross-platform issues: skip symlink test on Windows, normalize CRLF in test assertions

* Refactor check button i18n key and update text

- Replace hash-based key with semantic name for maintainability
- Change button label to "Open in browser" for broader context
2026-08-16 16:44:48 -07:00
Neil 9367169888 refactor(tests): split every oversized test file off the max-lines suppression list (#14728)
* refactor(tests): split oversized test files off the max-lines suppression list

Every `*.test.ts`/`*.spec.ts` that carried an `eslint/oxlint-disable max-lines`
directive is now split into focused, behavior-scoped suites that fit the 800-line
test budget, with shared setup extracted into co-located `*-test-harness.ts` /
`*-test-fixtures.ts` modules (300-line budget). 83 files became ~930; the largest
output is 797 effective lines. `orca-runtime.test.ts` is intentionally untouched.

Test bodies were moved by scripted line-range slicing rather than retyped, so
assertions are byte-identical. The only permitted body edits were mechanical
rebinding where a shared value moved into a harness (e.g. `tmpHome` ->
`homes.tmpHome`).

Registries that enumerate test files were updated in lockstep:
- config/max-lines-baseline.txt: pruned 341 -> 258 entries (all 83 removed).
- config/reliability-gates.jsonc: 33 gates repointed at the split files, with
  assertionRefs split per file where a gate's coverage now spans several.
- .github/workflows/pr.yml: the real-zsh lane now lists the 4 split files that
  actually exercise zsh, so they keep running in the dedicated shell lane.

Also renamed agent-hooks `server-test-fixtures.ts` to `server.test-fixtures.ts`
so the global-fetch call-site audit keeps skipping it, and added `.js` extensions
to the CLI suites' dynamic harness imports (node16 resolution) to unbreak
`build:cli`.

Verification: full suite 52,449 passing vs 52,448 at baseline with zero
assertions lost; `pnpm lint`, `pnpm typecheck`, and `pnpm build:cli` all exit 0;
the terminal-pane e2e spec runs 31/31 headless.

* refactor(tests): split hook-idle arbitration suite that oxfmt pushed over budget

The pre-commit oxfmt pass reflowed pty-connection-hook-idle-arbitration.test.ts
to 811 effective lines, 11 over the test budget. Split the hook-completion side
effect and replacement-agent veto cases into their own suite; both files now sit
well under the cap and the 15 tests are unchanged.

* test: port upstream test changes into the split files after rebase

Rebasing onto main surfaced 27 tests that main had added to files this branch
deleted, plus edits to tests that had already moved. Taking the deletion side of
those modify/delete conflicts would have dropped that coverage silently, so each
upstream change is ported into the split file that now owns the behavior — for
example main's six orchestration mailbox tests land across orchestration-runs,
-send, and -check.

Also repoints `orchestration.notification-mailbox-consistency`, a gate main added
after this branch's gate remap, at those same three split files, and re-prunes
the max-lines baseline against main's (257 entries).

Verified: all 27 upstream test titles present; full suite 52,761 passing with the
only diff vs baseline being 12 tests main itself removed and 3 that moved from
skipped to passing; lint and typecheck exit 0.

* fix(test): flush pending continuations before tearing down terminal test globals

CI shard 5/16 failed on both Node 24 and 26 with `ReferenceError: window is not
defined` from pty-connection.ts, surfacing through
pty-connection-daemon-snapshot-replay.test.ts.

The reattach/settle chains `await` a real promise and then touch `window.api`.
Under fake timers those continuations cannot run, so they only become schedulable
once restoreTerminalTestGlobals() switches back to real timers — which previously
happened immediately before `delete globalThis.window`, so a late continuation
threw and failed the whole file. Flush async ticks in that window instead.

This is latent in the source rather than new: the pre-split 25k-line file kept
running other tests after these, which gave the chains time to settle before
teardown. Splitting the file moved teardown directly behind them.

* fix(test): keep an inert window after terminal test teardown instead of deleting it

The async-tick flush was not enough: the reattach/settle chain can resolve after
teardown regardless of how long we drain, so CI shard 5/16 still failed with
`ReferenceError: window is not defined` from pty-connection.ts.

A real renderer never loses `window`, so deleting it was the artificial part.
Swap in an inert proxy whose properties resolve to callables and whose calls
resolve to undefined, making a late `window.api.pty.*` call a harmless no-op.
The next test replaces it wholesale via installTerminalTestGlobals(), and no test
asserts that `window` is absent.
2026-08-15 00:54:20 -07:00
NeilandOrca 2100fb2553 fix(runtime): cap remote git.diff and file previews at the transport budget (#14160)
* fix(runtime): cap remote git.diff and file previews at the transport budget

A remote or mobile user who opens the diff of a large image loses their whole
WebSocket, not just that request: the E2EE channel closes with 1013 when a reply
exceeds the 4 MiB outbound envelope. Two producers can exceed it unaided.

git.diff/branchDiff/commitDiff cap text with MAX_RENDERED_DIFF_COMBINED_CHARACTERS
(6M chars) -- a *renderer* budget that sits above the transport limit -- and return
base64 for previewable binaries bounded only by MAX_GIT_SHOW_BYTES, so a 10 MiB PNG
changed in place is ~26.7 MiB in one envelope. files.readPreview inlines base64 up
to 10 MiB, and mobile calls it for every image tab.

Both now measure against a budget derived from the outbound limit. The check sits in
orca-runtime-git.ts, downstream of the dedupe and of both the SSH-provider and local
branches, so a payload forwarded verbatim by an old relay is covered by the same code
and src/relay needs no change. Local and in-process callers pass no budget and keep
full fidelity.

Measuring raw bytes would not work, which is the whole reason this needs a module.
JSON escaping turns one control byte into six (\u00XX), and binary-buffer.ts sniffs
only for NUL in the first 8 KiB -- so a NUL-free file of 0x01-0x1f bytes is classified
as *text*, would pass a raw-byte cap, and would then blow the envelope. The budget is
escape-aware, with a three-branch fast path that keeps normal diffs at two native
byteLength calls and scans only the ambiguous band.

The SSH branch of readFileExplorerPreview had the same raw-vs-escaped gap: its stat
gate sizes base64 binaries, but text crossed unbounded. It now honours the same
decoded-text limit the local branch already enforced.

No wire change: GitDiffResult is untouched -- no third kind, no new field. Old clients
see an error for one request instead of a dropped connection. diff_too_large joins the
structured passthrough codes and lands on an existing error arm in both mobile
consumers and the desktop remote path; file_too_large was already handled on both.

Instruments the 1013 close, which nothing measured before, so the incidence this cap
is meant to drive to zero is finally observable. `emitter` separates a producer size
bug from a wedged link.

Known regression: remote image previews between ~3.096 and ~3.146 MB now return
file_too_large. They only intermittently worked before -- above ~3.0 MB they killed
the socket -- so this trades intermittent connection loss for a consistent error.

Test: 10281 passed in src/main/runtime + src/shared + src/main/git; mobile 3427
passed. Each of the six budget-enforcement sites is independently mutation-killed.
Escaping fixtures cover newline-dense, control-char, CJK, lone-surrogate and base64
content against native JSON.stringify. tsc clean for node, web and cli; oxlint clean.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(runtime): harden remote reply transport budgets

* test(runtime): cover desktop remote preview budgets

* test(runtime): close telemetry review gaps

* chore(shared): repoint budget imports after the shared/types barrel removal

Upstream #14447 dropped the shared/types barrel; GitDiffResult now lives in
git-diff-compare-types and GlobalSettings in global-settings-types.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

* fix(ssh): surface an over-cap preview read as file_too_large

The stream reader aborts an over-cap read with StreamProtocolError, whose numeric
code falls through mapRuntimeError to a generic runtime_error carrying the raw
"Reported totalSize N exceeds client cap M" string. Neither preview client
recognizes that: runtime-file-client.ts and mobile-file-preview-response.ts both
key on file_too_large. It also made the two file_too_large guards directly below
the read unreachable on the streaming path.

Gives the cap its own error type so the caller can translate it, keeping the
bandwidth saving the cap exists for. A genuine protocol fault still propagates
unmasked.

Found by the readiness review. Mutation-verified: removing the translation fails
exactly the new test.

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>

---------

Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
2026-08-14 00:24:57 -07:00
Neil 77f23b013f refactor(shared): drop the shared/types barrel and import from the real modules (#14447)
#14397 split `shared/types.ts` into 46 per-domain modules but kept the path as
a re-export barrel so the import sites did not have to change. This removes
the barrel: every consumer now imports from the module that actually declares
the type, and `src/shared/types.ts` is deleted.

Barrels hide where a type lives, make every consumer look like it depends on
the whole domain, and let an unrelated edit invalidate a module that ~2,000
files transitively import.

2,323 import declarations across 2,321 files. Rewritten mechanically: each
specifier was resolved to an absolute path via the TypeScript AST and
recomputed, rather than string-substituted, so alias forms (`@/../../shared/
types`) and per-specifier `type` modifiers survive.

Four cases the mechanical pass had to handle, each found by a gate rather than
by reading the diff:

- Modules inside `src/shared` import the barrel as `./types`, not
  `shared/types`. A pre-filter on the latter string skipped 176 of them and
  left imports dangling at a deleted file, which surfaced as confusing
  `Property 'x' is optional in type 'Repo' but required in Pick<Repo, ...>`
  errors rather than "module not found".
- The barrel RENAMED one type on the way through
  (`WorkspaceSource as WorkspaceCreateTelemetrySource`), so the original name
  in the owning module has to be re-aliased at each consumer.
- Three test files put `;(globalThis as ...)` on the line after the import.
  TypeScript parses that `;` as the import statement's terminator, so
  replacing through `statement.getEnd()` deletes it and breaks ASI. The
  rewrite now stops at the module specifier.
- A file that already imported directly from a module got a SECOND import
  from it, because the barrel re-exported those same names — which trips
  `import/no-duplicates` under `--deny-warnings`. A post-pass merges
  declarations sharing a specifier and type-only-ness; the `import type` plus
  `import` pair from one module is left alone, since that form is allowed.

Splitting one barrel import into several genuinely adds lines, which pushed
`terminal-layout-pty-ownership.ts` to 301 counted lines: its 107-character
import must wrap, and neither local type collapses onto one line (101 and 116
characters). Rather than contort a type declaration to fit a line budget,
`collectLeafIds` and `pruneLeaves` move to `terminal-pane-layout-tree.ts` —
they are pure structural operations on the layout tree and independent of PTY
ownership. `visible-worktrees.ts` similarly loses its own mini-barrel
re-export of `isDefaultBranchWorkspace`, with the four real consumers
repointed at the declaring module. No `max-lines` bypass added.

Verified: cold `tsc --noEmit` green on node, cli, and web (buildinfo deleted
first — these projects are `composite: true` and reuse stale caches); the full
`pnpm lint` green, not just bare oxlint — the narrower local check is what let
the duplicate imports reach CI; max-lines ratchet OK at 344.
2026-08-13 22:48:24 -07:00