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Jinjing 99062ed80b fix(worktrees): preserve unverifiable disk witness (#20713)
* fix(worktrees): preserve unverifiable disk witness

* fix(worktrees): follow gitdir/commondir markers in disk witness

The disk witness validates created worktrees by reading the repo's common directory from disk. Previously it only checked for a direct .git directory and returned a status object that conflated different failure modes.

Now it properly follows .gitdir and commondir pointer files to locate the true common directory, fixing detection on repos with linked git directories (worktrees, submodules) and WSL scenarios. Error handling is simplified: definitive absence returns undefined, other read failures throw with proper cause chains, eliminating the ambiguous "unverifiable" state that would mask real errors.

* fix: validate gitdir marker targets are directories

When a .git marker points to a missing or non-directory path, that's
unverifiable—not the same as an absent .git file (bare repo). Validate
accessibility before reading commondir to catch these errors clearly.
2026-09-14 21:03:51 -07:00
Jinjing b8554f1c59 fix(composer): clarify failed attachment drops (#20704)
* refactor(renderer): give the IPC error reader a clamped and an unclamped shape

* fix(composer): name the attachments a drop could not add, in one toast

* fix(composer, source-control): use one stable failure toast slot

- Replace per-worktree toast IDs with single slot that replaces on each failure
- Remove destructive retry actions; discard must confirm in dialog
- Consolidate filesystem import types to shared location
- Add compactIpcErrorMessage for string error handling

* refactor: centralize filesystem import types and clarify failure naming

Move import result types from main/ipc to shared layer so they're available
across preload and renderer. Rename uniformFailure → commonFailure and
skippedOrFailed → failureCount for clarity. Simplify preload/API type
definitions by reusing shared types directly instead of duplicating inlined
union shapes.

* Reuse single toast slot for composer drop failures

Multiple drop failures now replace the previous toast instead of
stacking, preventing notification clutter. Uses a dedicated toast ID
separate from Source Control's stage/discard notifications.
2026-09-14 15:22:05 -07:00
Neil dd85e5fc81 fix: keep OMP terminals when folder workspaces become Git repos (#20653)
Preserve the original folder locator through Git upgrade and subsequent listing, persistence, and removal decisions after proving it still names the same checkout.

Independently reviewed with 60 focused persistence/listing/removal tests and six native Windows real-Git/NTFS cases covering case/slashes, junction retention and retargeting, remote-host isolation and unrelated checkout preservation. Prior source-connected native OMP proof confirms process survival. Full PR CI passed; no rebuilt full-app after-proof claimed.
2026-09-14 14:54:53 -07:00
Neil 41e42beab4 fix(worktrees): safely remove prunable git-file registrations (#20617)
Preserve checkout files and the named branch when removing a positively attested malformed Git-file registration. Reject file/symlink targets in deferred directory deletion.

Verified exact head with 75 focused tests including actual Git malformation, preserved marker/file bytes and branch HEAD. Independent review and complete product CI passed. WSL routing is covered by unit tests; direct SSH fails safely without local recovery.

Fixes #17316
2026-09-14 14:52:45 -07:00
mmarabelandNeil 68f0b2e835 feat(runtime): stream file uploads instead of buffering whole files (#16106)
* feat(runtime): stream file uploads instead of buffering whole files

Staging read each dropped file whole with readFile(), base64-encoded it
(a 4/3 expansion), and passed the string through IPC to the renderer,
which re-chunked it. Peak memory was ~2.3x the file size before a byte
moved, so a 25 MB per-file cap existed to protect the heap.

Staging now records identity only. The byte pump moves into main, where
the file handle and the runtime socket both live: 384 KiB slices (512 KiB
once base64-encoded, matching the chunk size the renderer used) appended
through the existing files.writeBase64Chunk RPC. Peak memory is one slice
regardless of file size, so the ceilings become user-safety limits on an
unattended transfer — 2 GB per file, 8 GB per drop — and over-limit errors
name both the size and the limit.

Because staging and streaming are separate calls, the staged entry carries
size, inode, device and mtime, and the streamer re-checks all four against
the pre-open lstat and against the handle it actually reads. A source
replaced or rewritten at the same size between the two calls is refused
rather than uploaded under the original name. The post-read check compares
mtime as well as size, so an in-place rewrite mid-transfer aborts before
commitUpload renames anything into place.

O_NOFOLLOW, realpath containment and stat identity are preserved, and the
pairing revision plus the runtime id ride every chunk, so a re-pair or a
replacement runtime aborts instead of appending the rest of the file to a
different host.

No wire change: files.writeBase64Chunk and its params are untouched, so
old and new hosts behave identically. The SSH import path is separate and
unchanged. The web client has no local filesystem to stream from and says
so instead of failing obscurely.

* fix(runtime): close the empty-upload and per-drop budget holes

Two gaps the first pass left open.

A zero-byte source returned before the post-transfer identity check, so a
file that gained content during the empty write's round trip committed as
an empty file at the user's chosen name. The empty chunk now falls through
to the same final check the slice loop uses.

Each staged source also started its own byte counter, so the 8 GB ceiling
capped one source rather than the drop: five 2 GB files staged cleanly at
10 GB total. The IPC handler now carries one budget across sourcePaths and
adds only what each source actually staged. The per-file ceiling is still
re-enforced where the bytes move; the drop total holds at staging because
identity enforcement means each file streams exactly the bytes measured.

* docs(runtime): name the invariants the upload helpers carry

* fix(runtime): name the source in errors and stop uploads with their window

Three problems an independent review turned up.

A dropped file's relative path is '', so the over-limit error read "'' is
3 GB, over the 2 GB per-file remote import limit" — the message this change
exists to fix, naming nothing. Errors now fall back to the file's own name;
the staged entry keeps '' so the destination path is unaffected. The
streamer had the same shape, falling back to the hidden .orca-upload-<nonce>
temp destination, a path the user never chose.

The byte loop used to live in the renderer and died with it. Moving it into
main meant closing or reloading the window left the rest of a multi-GB
transfer running, with the renderer's temp cleanup never reaching its
finally. An AbortSignal now rides the caller's lifetime and every chunk, is
re-checked per slice, and main sweeps the abandoned temp path itself when
the renderer is no longer there to do it.

Upload failures also reached the import result wrapped in Electron's
"Error invoking remote method '...'" prefix, because the throw crossed IPC
instead of happening in-renderer; extractIpcErrorMessage unwraps it.

An existing staging test asserted the empty-name message, so it encoded the
bug rather than catching it; it now asserts the file name.

* test(runtime): cover the containment check and the per-chunk host guards

The "escapes the dropped root" test only reached the lstat symlink guard,
so assertEntryInsideRoot had no coverage at all. The shape that actually
needs it is a regular file under a symlinked intermediate directory: lstat
sees a plain file, and realpath containment is the only thing that refuses
it. Disabling the guard now fails this test and nothing else.

Nothing asserted that the SSH target, connection generation and execution
host reach the writeBase64Chunk params either — the renderer tests stop at
the IPC boundary, so the streamer's half of that contract was untested.

* fix(runtime): survive a straggling append when sweeping an aborted upload

Aborting rejects the in-flight chunk locally, but the host may still apply
that append, and appends open with flag 'a' — which recreates the file the
sweep just deleted. The delete and the straggler also race: they are
separate calls on a queue that is not ordered between them.

Slices are strictly sequential, so at most one append can be outstanding.
A second pass after it has had time to land is therefore sufficient, not
merely a heuristic. The sweep moves out of filesystem-mutations.ts into its
own module so the behaviour is testable directly.

Found by an independent review pass, which also pointed out that the
"escapes the dropped root" test only reached the lstat symlink guard.

* fix(runtime): abort uploads only when the document commits, and honour manual disconnect per chunk

did-start-navigation fires before will-navigate blocks an external link or a
stray file drop, and the renderer survives those (verified against Electron 43
with a hidden window). Aborting there killed a healthy upload with a misleading
'window went away' error. did-navigate fires only once a new document has
replaced the caller.

The renderer's per-chunk calls used to go through the IPC handler that refuses
a manually disconnected environment; the loop in main made no such check, so a
disconnect mid-upload kept pushing the rest of the file. The handler now
resolves the selector to an environment id and the streamer checks it per slice.

Adds slice-boundary coverage against the real chunk schema and host write
flags, staging-to-stream on a real filesystem, and handler-level lifetime tests.

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Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-09-14 14:08:31 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong eba56f2f69 feat(ai-vault-search): construct the session search indexer in the scanner service behind a setting (#20516)
* feat(ai-vault-search): persist agent-session search consent and retention

Two booleans and nothing else: `enabled` and `historyDays`, off by default
because building the index reads every transcript on the machine. No `paused` --
the PR 3 indexer is immutable, so every change is close-and-construct.

The settings IPC normalizes a write like every other field and hands the change
to the index; there is no UI for it until PR 8.

* feat(ai-vault-search): hold one indexer and engine pair per host

The object that owns a host's live index and the three recipes that change it.
The indexer is immutable, so a settings change is close-and-construct, disabling
is close with no replacement, and clearing is close, remove the database,
construct. The new instance's first sweep purges a narrowed window and admits a
widened one, so neither needs a code path.

The database sits beside the scanner's parse cache, one file per host. A runtime
with no node:sqlite can hold no index at all, which the Node 18 floor on orcad
and the relay makes a real case rather than a hypothetical one.

* feat(ai-vault): let the scanner child own the session search index

The transcript reader runs in that child, so the index consumer has to as well:
one read serves both the session list and the index. Three request operations
(search, status, reconcile) and one fire-and-forget settings message carry
everything a parent needs; main never opens the database file.

The init frame becomes a factory because it is read at every spawn, so a
respawned child sees current consent rather than the first frame's. A child
holding a running index is never idle from the parent's side, so idle retirement
is suppressed while the index is on -- retiring it would stop the reconcile loop
until some later scan happened to respawn one.

Both files this lands in were already at the max-lines ceiling, so three
collaborators move to where they belong rather than being disabled around: the
invalidation deadline into the class that owns invalidations, call cancellation
and the start requeue into the call-state module, and orcad's flag parsing into
its own file.

* feat(ai-vault-search): register a search service on every host that answers

Without a registered service a host answers no-service, which means "this host
does not have the feature" rather than "the index is off". All three hosts now
answer the second thing.

The desktop forwards to the scanner child. orcad and the SSH relay daemon have
no such child -- orcad ships only the watcher and daemon entries, and the relay's
AI Vault sidecar runs the remote scanner, which publishes nothing to the
transcript channel -- so on those two the index lives in the process that would
drive its reads, gated on a runtime that has node:sqlite at all.

The relay registers with consent off and no way to turn it on: nothing carries a
setting to a remote host yet. That is the honest state, and it is still worth
registering, because it is what tells a client the difference between off and
too old.

* test(ai-vault-search): price a warm pass over five thousand transcripts

The number the reconcile interval will be revisited against, measured rather
than argued: a warm sweep stats every file under every root, a warm cycle stats
the newest N per agent, and neither reads what the index already holds. It does
not tune the interval.

* fix(ai-vault-search): answer the casting gate without assertions

main's new type-assertion rule reaches every file this branch touches. All nine
sites drop the cast rather than carry a SAFETY: rationale: the operation guard
narrows with `in`, the sqlite probe narrows the builtin it loads, the child test
keeps the discriminated reply instead of widening it, and the settings resolver
takes `unknown` -- which is what it really reads, since a persisted profile can
hold a value no version of this code wrote.

* fix(ai-vault-search): let a refreshed scan root reach the live index

The parent re-resolves scan roots before every policy push, precisely so a
WSL distro or extra Codex home that appeared since the child spawned enters
the window. The child forwarded only the settings to a live instance and used
the roots solely in its `??=` initializer, so those roots were dropped for the
child's lifetime.

The indexer stays immutable: a structurally different root set closes the pair
and constructs a new one, the same way a changed databasePath already does.
Compare via `sameSessionSearchRoots` rather than a plain JSON compare, because
nothing fixes the key order two producers write; lists are sorted too, since
the indexer walks every root and a re-enumeration that reorders is not a
change. An unchanged set still never restarts a running index.

The orcad and relay in-process hosts resolve roots once at install and never
re-apply, so they have no such seam.

* fix(ai-vault): restart the scanner child the index is holding

Three review items.

The hold keeps a child alive for the index, but only a queued call ever
started one: `pump()` skipped a hold with an empty queue, so an idle indexing
child that crashed, or an `ensureChild()` that failed at start, left indexing
stopped until an unrelated request happened to arrive. `pump()` now starts the
child the hold requires, which is also the restart callback the fault policy
already schedules, so the existing delay and circuit bound the retry exactly as
they bound a queued call's start. `updateSessionSearch` goes through the same
seam instead of its own `ensureChild` call.

A search registers no AbortController, so a cancel sent for a search id was
added to the `cancelled` set and never consumed. Nothing can reach that today
-- no caller passes a signal and the child answers in milliseconds -- so this
is only a leak of ids: consume it when the search settles.

The orcad argument doc claimed a `--`-prefixed value stays a flag. The parser
takes the next token regardless, and orcad-launch-contract.test.ts pins that,
so the doc is what was wrong. Behaviour is unchanged.

* fix(ai-vault): recover search indexing and refresh scan roots

* fix(ai-vault): defer search refresh policy reads

* fix(session-search): stabilize paging and host enablement

* fix(session-search): refresh host roots within full sweeps

* docs(session-search): clarify initial root fallback
2026-09-14 13:38:37 -04:00
JinjingandJinwoo-H d2d32691ef perf(persistence): skip redundant whole-state flushes on terminal reattach (#20137)
* perf(persistence): add pty-binding fast lane to skip redundant flushes

Terminal pane reattachment currently clones the session and serializes the
entire 9.2 MB app state even when the binding is already in place and durable.
Add an early-return fast path that skips this work when all nine predicates
hold: no split, binding matches in-memory and on-disk, incarnation matches,
no tombstone, and generation counter proves durability.

Includes one-line fix in `writeToDiskSync` to record hash-matched sync flushes
as durable, so the fast path doesn't stay parked behind a stale generation.

Adds `persistence.pty-binding` observability spans (local NDJSON, unsampled for
mutations, budgeted for fast-lane hits) to measure eligibility rates before
and after. Includes ratchet test to ensure every binding writer bumps the
generation. Diagnostic tools and full investigation notes from September 7,
2026 capture that identified the 59–100 ms no-op binds and measured a real
terminal keystroke queued 117 ms behind one such call.

* perf(persistence): add pty-binding fast lane to skip redundant flushes

Rapid rebinds of already-durable PTY bindings (e.g., remounting panes)
were unnecessarily expensive because they cloned and flushed the entire
document state every time. Detect when a binding hasn't changed since the
last durable write and skip to return immediately, eliminating main-thread
cost on that path.

* perf(persistence): record binding.origin on the pty-binding span

Fresh spawns always flush, so a fast-lane rate over all calls is diluted
by however many terminals the user opened. Each caller knows whether it
is a spawn, a reattach, a split, or a relay reattach; pass that through
as metadata and record it so the reattach hit rate can be read from the
trace file. Never branched on.

* fix(persistence): keep the tab row on its first pane when a sibling pane binds

A tab row names one PTY, but a split tab holds several panes. The
renderer keeps the row on the first pane and refuses to let later
split-pane spawns steal it, since a remount reattaches the tab to
whatever the row says. Main overwrote it with whichever pane was binding,
and the renderer's next publish put it back, so every sibling reattach
was a state change and could never take the fast lane. On the real
profile that is 38% of panes.

Rewrite the row only when it names nothing useful: null, the PTY this
leaf is replacing, or a PTY no leaf holds. The fast-lane predicate
compares against the same rule.

* perf(persistence): record durable pty-binding flushes per pane

The global write generation is held back by any unrelated dirty
state, causing bindings unchanged for minutes to appear unpersisted
despite being on disk. Track per-pane durability to skip redundant
flushes.

* docs(persistence): describe the per-pane durability record

The durability section still described the global generation check as the
whole story and claimed there was no binding durability cache. Record the
measurement that motivated the per-pane record, and why retiring one needs
no cooperation from other binding writers.

* docs(perf): consolidate every measured Orca performance issue into one register

Folds the findings from all related debug sessions into the live lag
investigation: the persistence/main-thread work (P1-P11), host contention
(H1-H5), git and subprocess load on main (G1-G8), renderer and terminal
rendering (R1-R8), the terminal daemon session leak from the deleted
debug-orca-perf-issue worktree (D1-D9), and the Cmd-J palette review (C1-C6).

Keeps the measurement behind each claim, records what is fixed versus open,
and restates what the 117 ms keystroke delay still does not explain.

* fix: address performance review findings

* fix: satisfy diagnostic probe lint

* chore: keep investigation artifacts out of performance PR

* fix: run lag probe regression tests with Vitest

* perf(persistence): replace pane receipts with global durability check

* refactor(persistence): remove redundant binding review machinery

* test(persistence): satisfy current assertion-free quality gate

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Co-authored-by: Jinwoo-H <jinwoo0825@gmail.com>
2026-09-14 01:04:43 -04:00
dngur6344andNeil 9cf0a6c37f perf(remote): avoid repeated capability probes during file imports (#14555)
* perf: avoid repeated remote import capability probes

* test: cover cold remote import compatibility probe

* fix(remote): fence imports across runtime reconnects

* fix(remote): bind import proof to connection

* fix(remote): fence import routing by runtime identity

* test(remote): remove unsafe import fixture assertions

- type remote RPC mocks at declaration so call arguments stay checked
- narrow upload params before reusing generated temp paths

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Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-09-13 20:51:15 -07:00
PPP-JHandm4air 16d1ab81d3 perf(skills): bound WSL installed skill discovery (#12314)
* perf(skills): bound WSL installed skill discovery

* fix(skills): preserve bounded discovery correctness

* fix(skills): bound WSL metadata prefilter reads

* fix(skills): isolate absent discovery cwd cache keys

* test(skills): adapt WSL discovery mocks to runner

* fix(skills): preserve filtered discovery fallbacks

* fix(skills): share filtered scans and preserve WSL inventory

* fix(skills): share WSL scans without losing skill aliases

* fix: preserve skill metadata and retire filtered peer caches

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Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@Mac.localdomain>
2026-09-13 19:16:42 -07:00
Brennan Benson e9db1642d1 refactor(attention): move the agent attention boundary off terminal panes (#20525)
* refactor(attention): move the agent attention boundary off terminal panes

The completion-attention pipeline asked PTY questions inline, so a non-terminal
agent surface was structurally excluded from unread, delivery and acknowledgement.

Extract a provider-neutral policy under `src/renderer/src/attention/` that reaches
every surface fact through an adapter, and move the PTY-shaped predicates
(`hasLivePtyForNotification`, `isCurrentLivePaneKey`, `isCurrentKnownPaneKey`,
`isVisibleForegroundPaneKey`, plus the leaf/foreground resolution the auto-ack scan
did inline) into `terminal-attention-surface.ts`, now their only call site.

Unread markers carry the reason that wrote them (`agent-completion`,
`terminal-bell`, `manual-mark-unread`, `legacy`); an unclassified boolean still on
live state reads as `legacy` rather than being guessed or migrated.

Main's `notifications:dispatch` closure becomes a delivery service with injected
collaborators; the IPC handler is a thin adapter. Behaviour is unchanged: unread is
still written before main's desktop gate, the tray dot before the cooldown/focus
gates, and mobile fan-out before the desktop early returns.

* fix(attention): recognize classified tab unread markers
2026-09-13 18:27:34 -07:00
241fb9ed9d perf(terminal): batch file-link checks on their owning host (#20463)
* perf(terminal): batch file-link existence checks on their owning host

* test(relay): allow additive filesystem capabilities

* fix(web): keep terminal file links working under batched existence checks

createShellApi omitted pathsExist, so withFallback answered the new batch
call with a truthy proxy resolving to undefined and the whole hover batch
rejected — dropping every link on lines with an out-of-worktree path.

* test(web): assert the shim without type assertions

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Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@Mac.localdomain>
Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-MacBook-Air.local>
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-09-13 16:27:06 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 1f7655f3e3 feat(ai-vault-search): public session search contract and transports (#20277)
* feat(ai-vault-search): define public contract and service seam

* feat(ai-vault-search): add IPC runtime relay and web transports

* fix(ai-vault-search): register search IPC at the core handler site

ai-vault.ts was two lines over the 300-line max-lines limit; the search
handlers belong with the other register*Handlers calls anyway.

* fix(ai-vault-search): withhold degraded-root paths from relay status

Status carried local filesystem paths over the relay while hits redact
theirs. redactStatusForTransport applies the same policy at the same
boundary: relay callers keep each root's reason and the array length as
the count, so the type only makes root optional.

* fix(ai-vault-search): close diagnostic path leak and remove test casts

* feat(ai-vault-search): carry an execution host id and per-host outcomes on hits

* feat(ai-vault-search): route desktop search by execution host scope, including runtimes

* feat(preload): accept an execution host scope on session search

* feat(web): answer only for the paired runtime on session search

* docs(ai-vault-search): describe execution-host routing and the all-hosts merge

* test(ai-vault-search): cover every host scope, the all-hosts merge and wire compat

* fix(ai-vault-search): resume every host mid-page so a merged page never drops a hit

* fix(ai-vault-search): decode the merged cursor with a schema instead of casts

CI's type-aware audit refuses type assertions; a zod record validates the
per-host entries and yields the typed map without one.

* refactor(ai-vault-search): defer cross-host merged search
2026-09-13 17:53:50 -04:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 974af8c0fb fix(worktrees): retire the chat tab of a chat with no child when its workspace goes (#19970)
* fix(worktrees): retire the chat tab of a chat with no child when its workspace goes

Deleting a workspace left a chat tab behind for every structured session that
had no attached provider child at the time, and that tab came back at the next
launch pointing at a workspace that no longer exists.

A provider child is scoped to a VISIBLE pane, not to a tab: the hold that keeps
one is `enabled: isVisible && isWorktreeActive`, and dropping the last hold
evicts the child after the release grace. So the sweep's liveness predicate
selected only "the chat that is the visible pane in the active workspace, or was
moments ago" — which means deleting a workspace from the sidebar while a
different one is active left every chat in the target invisible to the sweep,
and the `live.length === 0` early return did nothing at all.

The durable reference is `visibleSessionIds` in the agent-session record store.
Both purges a removal already performs miss it: the renderer drops
`unifiedTabsByWorktree` and the main process drops the workspace metadata, and
neither touches that index. Startup replays it, restores the session from it and
republishes the tab. Worktree ids are path-derived, so a later workspace created
at the same path inherits the old chat.

Splits the two concerns the sweep conflated in one list. Liveness still decides
what to CLOSE and what to refuse over, unchanged. Membership — the same fenced
record filter minus the liveness clause — decides what to RETIRE, and covers
exactly the complement of the close list so each session's tab is handled once.

Retirement runs from `killAllProcessesForWorktree`, past every point that can
refuse, not from the structured sweep itself: that sweep is joined BEFORE the
unstopped-PTY verdict so a structured refusal can outrank a terminal one, and a
tab retired there would still be ahead of a gate that can refuse the whole
removal — leaving the workspace in place with its chats gone.

* fix(worktrees): retire tabs across all teardown outcomes

* test(worktrees): type teardown fixtures

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-13 14:49:47 -07:00
392583caba perf: skip WSL discovery when filtering native-only paths (#20266)
* perf: skip WSL discovery when filtering native-only paths

* fix: skip the AI Vault running-distro probe on WSL-less hosts

- getAiVaultWslHomeDirs, the sibling in the same Promise.all as the
  native-path filter, still spawned wsl.exe unconditionally on win32;
  gate it on the cached installed-distro list so a host with no distro
  performs no probe when only native Codex homes are configured.
- Hosts with a distro installed keep probing from that sibling, so the
  running-distro last-known-good cache is still warmed by the listing
  and a later probe outage falls back to the observed list, not [].
- Add a test against the real wsl module asserting zero wsl.exe spawns
  across the whole listing Promise.all, plus the warmed-cache fallback.

* fix(ai-vault): gate WSL home discovery on the cached distro list, not a probe

`listWslDistrosAsync()` resolves `[]` when the `wsl.exe` probe is rejected, so a
transient failure made `getAiVaultWslHomeDirs()` conclude "no WSL distros" and
skip discovery. That narrowed the allowed-roots set `ai-vault-delete` and
`ai-vault-subagent-list` validate against, wrongly rejecting WSL-hosted paths.

Gate on `hasCachedWslDistros()` / `getCachedWslDistros()` instead: a pure cache
read that only skips discovery once a successful probe has reported zero user
distros. It also never probes, so the AI Vault listing cannot be the first to
cache `[]` and flip a configured distro to "missing" in runtime resolution.

* test(ai-vault): drop the type assertion tripping the casting gate

check-changed-code-quality runs config/oxlint-code-quality-casting.json with
assertionStyle:'never' over changed lines, and `args as string[]` in the new
wsl-probe spy failed it. Narrow through Array.isArray instead, which is also
honest about execFile's argv being optional.

cached-session-list-wsl-probe + cached-session-list: 9/9 pass; tc:node clean;
changed-code quality gate passes.

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Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-09-12 21:18:50 -07:00
b9263eaaf6 perf: reuse pending filesystem watcher debounce timers (#20264)
* perf: reuse pending filesystem watcher debounce timers

* fix: cancel watcher batches after terminal errors

* fix: null the cleared batch timer on last-listener unsubscribe

`Timeout.refresh()` is a no-op on a handle already passed to
`clearTimeout`. `unsubscribeLocalWatcher` cleared `root.batch.timer`
without nulling it, so a re-subscribe inside the teardown grace window
reused the root with a dead handle and `scheduleLocalBatchFlush` never
re-armed — fs change events for that root stopped reaching the renderer.

- Null `root.batch.timer` after clearing it in the unsubscribe path.
- Add a real-timer regression test covering unsubscribe + re-subscribe
  within the grace window; it fails on the previous PR head.

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Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-09-12 19:39:01 -07:00
OrcaWinandOrca Worker 5f0c5d15d9 perf: collect terminal snapshot replay without wrapper arrays (#20338)
* perf: collect terminal snapshot replay without wrapper arrays

* test: wait for Windows child marker to become removable

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Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
2026-09-12 18:11:41 -07:00
OrcaWinandOrca Worker 37a5b3798b perf: defer scrollback pruning indexes until needed (#20297)
* perf: defer scrollback pruning indexes until needed

* test: wait for watcher reconciliation event delivery

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Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
2026-09-12 18:08:31 -07:00
OrcaWinandm4air 51ff9c7ff3 perf(ssh): skip terminal source spans awaiting ACK publication (#20290)
Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@Mac.localdomain>
2026-09-12 18:07:53 -07:00
Neil a1ee8081bb perf(ipc): bound SSH ACK batch selection scans (#20288) 2026-09-12 18:07:33 -07:00
OrcaWinandOrca Worker 04b4a0e4be perf(files): skip unused Quick Open byte accounting (#20216)
Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
2026-09-12 18:02:46 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim da5d555259 refactor(agent-status): delete the runtime's retained row store (PR 1b) (#19785)
* docs(agent-status): plan PR 1b at file level

Names the five RuntimeAgentRowStore call sites and what each becomes, why
terminalHandle has to be stamped before the store can go, and the one
intended behavior change.

* feat(agent-status): stamp the pane terminal handle on hook-server rows

The runtime's retained row store carried the pty binding two readers need. Put
that fact on the row that already owns the pane instead, resolved through the
same lookup the renderer-facing IPC boundary runs, so the two surfaces cannot
disagree about which terminal a pane is.

Carried forward when a later write resolves no handle (only main's OSC parse
can), and never persisted: a handle belongs to the runtime that issued it.

* refactor(agent-status): route the session-tabs republish off the store

`retain()` was not only a duplicate store: its boolean return was the signal
that republished `session.tabs` for a status-only transition, which no title
change covers (#7970). `hook-status-session-tabs-invalidation.ts` already
mirrors that change set plus hook restore provenance, so route the signal off
the store rather than keep a second comparator.

Adds the status-drop arm a user dismissal emits, which the pane-clear fan-out
deliberately skips — now load-bearing, because a dismissed row leaves the
listing at once.

Installed on both hosts. orcad had neither the OSC producer nor this signal, so
its runtime observed agent status and published it nowhere; deleting the
retained copy without wiring it would list no PTY agents there at all.

* refactor(agent-status): delete the runtime's duplicate retained row store

`RuntimeAgentRowStore` held the same payload the hook server already holds, so
the same pane could legitimately read differently in the sidebar, in
`worktree ps`, and on the phone. Both of its readers move onto the store's
snapshot in `runtime-hook-agent-row-selection.ts`, and
`collectRuntimeWorktreePtyAgentSources` loses the retained-versus-hook
reconciliation that only existed because two stores could disagree.

`ConnectedPtyEvidence` trades its flat pty-id set for `ptyIdByTerminalHandle`,
which is how a row still resolves the connected PTY behind it — the
working-terminal rollup's match key, and the last rescue for a row whose pane
binding a controller incarnation nulled under it.

The one intended behavior change: a row the user dismisses on the desktop
leaves `worktree ps` and mobile at once instead of lingering until the pty
exits. One store means one dismissal.

The suites written against the retained store are rewired to a real
AgentHookServer rather than deleted, so each still asserts the listing
behavior it named.

* docs(agent-status): record what PR 1b landed

Past tense, plus two corrections to the plan: `terminalHandle` is not the pty
id (they are different identifiers, and the explicit-status reader was already
comparing against a real handle), and the legacy numeric pane key is a
consequence the plan did not name.

* fix(agent-status): harden single-store lifecycle

* fix(agent-status): preserve mobile terminal rejoin

* fix(agent-status): preserve unverifiable remote rows

* fix(agent-status): own PTY row lifecycle in hook server

* fix(agent-status): preserve state and renew freshness

* fix(agent-status): ignore freshness for dismissed identity rows

* fix(agent-status): fence orcad observed identities

* fix(orcad): always release daemon adapter on cleanup

* fix(agent-status): cover remint and headless lifecycle edges

* fix agent status identity recovery gaps

* fix(agent-status): suppress duplicate child-only row mutation

* test(runtime): preserve hook store wiring in transcript harness

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-11 15:28:16 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandOmar Shahine 3b82d8de64 fix(runtime): let connections own host status recovery (#20003)
* fix(runtime): let connections own host status recovery

Verify runtime status after authenticated connection recovery and publish
ordered snapshots to desktop and browser viewers. Consolidate failed-status
retries in the connection owner and remove renderer retry/diagnostics merging.

Adapt sidebar host-state derivation and regression coverage from Omar
Shahine's original fix in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/19163.

Co-authored-by: Omar Shahine <10343873+omarshahine@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(runtime): show blocked hosts honestly and remove obsolete status options

* fix(runtime): preserve timeout guidance and update IPC test fixtures

* fix(runtime): preserve status evidence and address review gaps

* test(sidebar): assert workspace host icons dimming and recovery tooltips

* fix(palette): require available hosts before adding implicit badges

* fix: retain disconnected host snapshots for new renderers

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Co-authored-by: Omar Shahine <10343873+omarshahine@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-11 03:19:01 -04:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim b6e4457552 fix(worktrees): close an idle structured chat on delete instead of refusing (#19762)
* fix(worktrees): close an idle structured chat on delete instead of refusing

`worktree rm` refused whenever any structured chat session was attached to the
workspace, so an idle Codex/Claude chat that had already answered was harder to
delete than a terminal actively running the same agent.

The PTY sweep stops every terminal it owns and refuses only for the ones whose
exit it could not verify. The structured sweep refused on `live` alone and never
attempted the close, which ran only under force. `live` is lease state — a
provider child is attached — not work in flight, so it was never the right proxy
for "you would lose something".

Close first, refuse only on what did not settle. The refusal now means the same
thing the unverified-PTY one does, so the toast takes that wording.

* fix(worktrees): fence, bound and word the structured-session sweep

Review follow-ups on the close-first structured sweep. The close-first
direction is unchanged; four things it got wrong are not.

Host fence. `listLiveStructuredSessionsForWorktree` matched on
`location.workspaceId` alone, and a `repoId::path` id names a DIFFERENT
workspace on every host (STA-4343). Once the sweep started closing rather
than refusing, deleting a local workspace could close a live chat on an SSH
or paired-runtime copy of the same id. It now takes the same two host fields
the PTY sweeps already fence on, compared against the session's own
`location.executionHostId`; neither field set means this machine.

Shared budget. The close ran to completion before the first PTY sweep was
constructed, and it is serial with a provider round trip per session — so a
slow one spent the whole budget and the sweeps then rejected with a timeout
for a stop they never attempted. It is now issued first but joined before the
verdict, so the agent plane is still asked ahead of the terminal plane while
the two share the clock.

Timeout wording. The close raced the deadline fail-closed, and that sentinel
carries the PTY timeout prefix, which the classifier reads first — so a
wedged session close refused in terminal wording and refused identically
again under the Force Delete meant to clear it (#11960). A close that ran out
of time is now a session the removal could not confirm closed, which is what
the refusal already words. Tracked, so a forced removal still waits out the
abandoned-sweep grace before deleting files.

Verdict fidelity. `closeStructuredAgentSessionChild` re-observes after the
close, and that verdict was being discarded — so a session Orca watched stay
attached and one it merely could not reach produced the same message, while
the toast asserted "could not confirm" for both. `removal.ts` documents
flattening those two as the thing not to do. The unclosed sessions now carry
their post-close status, the detail uses the shared `still live:` marker, and
the toast branches on it like the PTY pair above it.

Also: the close takes the enumerated list instead of re-deriving it, so it no
longer runs every liveness observation twice or names a session it never
touched; and both teardown log lines count structured closes, since closing a
chat is now an ordinary outcome of this verb.

* fix(worktrees): keep a proven-exited session from refusing removal

The structured sweep re-observes after a close that reported `stopped: false`,
but folded a proven `exited` into `unverifiable` — so a close that threw past
its own observation, or one whose death evidence landed a beat later, refused a
delete over a child that is demonstrably gone. That is the defect this sweep
exists to remove, and the PTY gate it mirrors never refuses on a proven exit.

Take the proof, and run the tab retirement the close skipped when it gave up:
a chat tab left behind re-attaches a released session pointing at a workspace
that is about to be deleted.

* fix(worktrees): name every unclosed structured session, not just the live ones

The refusal named only the proven-live subset when any session was live, so a
sweep that left one attached and two unconfirmed told the user "1 agent session
(claude)" while three were about to be discarded — and dropped the providers of
the ones it hid. The PTY sibling may drop everything outside its live list
because a fresh inventory PROVED those exited; nothing proves that here, so both
groups are counted. The `still live:` marker still leads, so the delete toast
keeps showing the stronger warning.

Also carries the structured close count through the forced-removal early return:
that path skips the per-PTY verdict, not the sweep that already ended a user's
chats, so the removal log claimed `structured=0` for chats it had just closed.

* fix(worktrees): stop the forced-removal warn asserting a verdict it does not have

The structured sweep splits its post-close verdict in two on purpose: "we watched
it stay attached" and "we could not confirm it closed" are different things to
waive, and `removal.ts` keeps a marker and a matcher together so the delete toast
can tell them apart. The force-path warn then appended "still attached" to
whichever verdict it got, so a removal forced over a close that merely ran out of
time logged that Orca had seen the session running.

That line is the only record a forced removal leaves of a child left pointing at
a deleted `cwd`, so it is the one place the two must not be flattened. Carry the
verdict verbatim, the way the unstopped-PTY warn above already does.

* fix(worktrees): report the closes that landed when the sweep budget expires

The structured close loop is serial, so the shared sweep budget can expire
part-way through it. The timeout fallback was assembled by the caller and could
only name the whole list: sessions this removal had already closed were reported
as unclosed, named in the refusal the user reads, and logged as `structured=0`.
The loop now records progress into a structure the timeout path reads, so both
the refusal and the count say only what was observed. A session with no recorded
outcome reports `unverifiable` — the same verdict as an attempted close that
stayed unproven, because "never asked" and "asked, unconfirmed" are both exactly
"not observed exited", and neither may claim `live`.

The loop also checks the deadline before each close, so one slow provider round
trip no longer starves every session behind it. It stops ISSUING closes; an
in-flight one is left to finish, since nothing here can cancel a round trip.

The structured host fence now reuses the PTY fence's own type instead of a
look-alike that read `undefined` as local while the other read it as match-all,
with both claiming the same precedence. `null` means this machine on both sides;
ABSENT stays narrowed to local here, documented and pinned, because a
single-host-id comparison cannot express match-all.

Also pins a tradeoff that was accepted rather than wanted: the PTY sweeps run
concurrently with the structured close, so a removal that refuses over a stuck
session has already killed that workspace's terminals.

* fix(worktrees): put the chat tab back when a structured close does not land

`closeStructuredAgentSessionChild` hides the session's chat tab before it issues
the close, so every failure past that point left a refused delete having still
taken the tab out of the durable restore index. The conversation survived under
`userData`, but nothing brought the tab back at the next launch.

Both failure shapes now roll the hide back: `host.close` throwing, and the
post-close observation coming back not-`exited`. The restore is gated on the
visibility read taken BEFORE the hide, so it never publishes a tab for a session
that was already hidden, and on a fresh observation, so it never resurrects one
for a child a throwing close still took with it — which is what the worktree
sweep reads when it counts such a session closed. It cannot throw out of the
function, so the caller's original reason is still what the user is asked to act
on.

* fix(worktrees): keep the chat-tab rollback out of removals that delete the workspace

The rollback added for a refused close ran on every unproven close, including the two
shapes of removal that cannot refuse. Force Delete warns and deletes the checkout; a
folder-workspace removal never refuses at all. Putting the tab back on those paths leaves
a durable restore-index entry for a workspace that is then gone, and the chat republishes
at the next launch pointing at it — the outcome this sweep exists to remove.

The close now takes `restoreTabOnUnprovenClose`, on by default so `worker-stop` and
`worker-release` keep the rollback, and the teardown sweep passes it only when the removal
can still refuse.

Second hole, same chain: `host.close` can return before the child's exit is recorded, so
the close's own observation reads unverifiable and restores the tab, while the sweep's
re-read one store write later proves the exit and counts the session closed. The two
observations straddle that write and disagree. The sweep now re-drops the tab reference
when it takes that proof, and the comment claiming the re-observation alone covers this
is corrected.

* fix(native-chat): stop a closing chat reading as a conversation that would not load

Deleting a workspace now closes the structured chats inside it, and the chat pane
outlives that close by a few frames. Every read it makes in that window —
`agentSession.history` on refresh, `agentSession.subscribe` on reconnect — resolves
through the host's `requireSession`, which refuses with
`agent_session_ownership_unknown` for a session it no longer holds. The pane turned
that into its terminal error surface, so an ordinary delete flashed
`Could not load conversation` over the transcript before the tab retired.

That code, raised by a READ, never means the transcript could not be read. It means
this host has no session object by that id: one it has just closed, or one it has not
attached yet, since the surface's hold is what attaches a session at all. Both windows
end on their own. The genuinely latched lease — Orca cannot prove the previous owner
exited — reaches the client through the acquisition path instead, so narrowing on the
code costs a read no real diagnosis.

So the read transport classifies before it reports: an unattached refusal stays on the
reconnect loop it is already the subject of, and the pane keeps the transcript it has.
It is a window, not a mute. A read still refusing that way past the grace is no longer
transitional, and the pane is owed the failure rather than a spinner that never
resolves. Every other failure still surfaces immediately, unchanged.

The refusal code now has one definition, shared by the host that raises it and the
client that narrows on it, so the two cannot drift into a red error nobody meant.

Deliberately NOT changed: the order of teardown. The tab is retired after the close
proves, not before it, because a close that does not settle has to put the user's chat
tab back — the rollback this PR already establishes. Retiring the pane first would
unmount it ahead of a close that may be refused, so the pane instead treats a session
that has gone as a neutral terminal state.

Mobile's structured chat reaches the same reducer but has no reconnect loop, and its
hold refusal is what carries the diagnosis there, so the grace does not transfer; it
keeps reporting as before.

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-11 00:02:15 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong e187c82678 Revert mobile push rollout pending delivery investigation (#20040) 2026-09-11 02:17:58 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong d33354cfd2 feat(mobile): receive native push notifications from paired desktops (#19951)
* feat(mobile): deliver native push notifications from paired desktops

* fix(mobile): retry push capability probes

* fix(mobile): cancel retired push capability probes

* fix(mobile): ignore stale push reconciliations

* fix(mobile): type capability probe at its boundary

* fix(notifications): route mobile push taps to the originating pane

* Require explicit mobile push-service consent on upgrade
2026-09-11 01:00:16 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 74cc9b5039 feat(desktop): native mobile push integration (2/3) (#19935)
* feat(desktop): integrate native mobile push delivery and lifecycle

* fix(desktop): preserve notification replay policy and review invariants

* fix(desktop): correct notification locale namespace and auto-ack tests
2026-09-10 20:16:56 -04:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 027acb4efa fix(native-chat): settle a structured send on admission, not on the provider echo (#19863)
* fix(native-chat): settle a structured send on admission, not on the provider echo

Sending a message in structured native chat raised "Message delivery is
unconfirmed." with a Retry button on a message that had in fact been
delivered. Measured across 14 days of local journals: 44 of 173 delivered
sends (25.4%) tripped it.

The dispatch path wrote the message to the provider, then waited a fixed
10s for the provider to echo the message's uuid back. That echo is emitted
when the provider STARTS the turn, so a message queued behind a running
turn cannot be echoed until that turn ends. Echo latency is bounded by the
previous turn's duration, which is unbounded -- one send took 105 minutes.
The 10s constant sat at the p75 of real echo latency, with the slowest
clean send at 9.76s, a margin of 0.24s. No constant can work: the wait was
measuring the wrong event.

The false banner was not cosmetic. It invited a Retry, and Retry bypassed
the operation ledger to redeliver. One message reached the model five times
through that path.

Dispatch now returns as soon as the transport write completes and writes no
dispatch row; the submission stays `pending`, a neutral state, and the
provider's echo settles it `accepted` through the late-settlement channel
whenever the turn ahead of it ends. Delivery doubt is reachable only from
process facts -- a refused write, a dead child, a dead host -- never from
elapsed time.

Retry re-delivers only where the recorded reason proves the message never
reached the provider. The list is deliberately fail-closed: refusing a
legitimate retry costs the user a re-type, while allowing an illegitimate
one sends the model a second copy of their message. A refused entry now
leaves the outbox with an explicit notice instead of parking at the head,
where it would have wedged every message queued behind it.

The send-response classification moves to a pure module beside the existing
outbox reconciler, so both writers of an entry's state now live together and
the decision is unit-testable rather than reachable only through the hook.

Scope and known gaps:
- Codex carries the same 10s stopwatch. It has no late-settlement channel,
  matches waiters by queue order rather than identity, and has no waiter
  lifecycle at all, so there was no safe subset to land here. A marker
  constant records the debt and deletes itself when that lands.
- A message refused re-delivery loses its standing delivery notice and
  leaves only a transient error line. A passive "waiting to be accepted"
  affordance is the follow-up.
- The restart reconciler that would decide a dead child or a dead host on
  evidence rather than refusing them is fully written and has never had a
  production caller. Wiring it is the next change, and it removes the
  re-type cost above.

* fix(native-chat): harden structured dispatch settlement

* fix(native-chat): preserve dispatch recovery evidence

* fix(native-chat): preserve pending send compatibility

* fix(native-chat): satisfy native import audit

* fix(native-chat): bound legacy send settlement

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-10 16:29:02 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 2626e2eca4 Make the structured turn lifecycle row durable so completed durations survive (#19695)
* Make the structured turn lifecycle row durable so completed durations survive

A structured-chat turn used to end by tombstoning its running lifecycle item,
which threw away the only durable record of when the turn ended. Completed
"Worked for" labels therefore depended on the renderer having observed the
turn finish, and vanished on reopen.

The lifecycle item is now revised in place, never tombstoned:
- running, with startedAt, at the provider's turn start
- completed or interrupted, with completedAt, at the provider's terminal frame,
  a user stop, or a child exit the host observed
- unverifiable, with no end, when a cold acquire finds a running row from a
  generation whose exit nobody observed

Both timestamps are the execution host's clock at receipt, captured before the
deferred sink, so the completed value is identical on every client and needs
no client clock. Codex history restore uses the provider's own second-granular
endpoints for turns that predate this change. Desktop and mobile read settled
durations off the journal through one shared selector, and anchor the live
counter on the host start with the client's local receipt so a skewed client
clock never leaks into the label. Locally observed durations remain the
fallback for hosts that still tombstone.

Timestamps live inside the existing turnLifecycle field, which old clients
strip, and every working-state consumer keys on state === 'running', so no
capability negotiation is needed.

* native-chat: avoid stale working status on settled turns

* test: align settled turn status expectations

* Name settled lifecycle rows by their terminal state

An interrupted or unverifiable turn must not read as completed for any
consumer that renders status text raw. One shared helper builds the text for
both providers from the lifecycle state.

* test: deduplicate turn lifecycle suites

Each behavior keeps one test; duplicated harnesses and restated cases go.

* Key lifecycle rows to their user item and record the provider's measured duration

A lifecycle row now names the user item that opened the turn by its provider
key, so clients attribute timing explicitly and fall back to journal order
only for rows from older hosts. A provider-initiated turn with no prompt can
no longer claim the previous prompt's duration.

When the provider measures the turn itself (Codex turn.durationMs, Claude
result.duration_ms) the terminal row records it and clients prefer it over the
host interval, so a turn shows the same number live and after a history
restore. Host receipt times remain the live-counter anchor and the fallback.

* Record a turn as a first-class journal item

The turn record is now its own item kind rather than a status row carrying a
lifecycle field: no text to misuse, and the fold matches the durable turn
record other systems keep. Rows that carry it are stamped journal schema v3;
every other row stays v2, so an older host keeps reading them and latches
read-only at the first v3 row instead of truncating the epoch.

Clients that predate the item would paint an unknown kind as a text bubble,
so the host publishes the legacy status form to any client that does not
advertise agent-session.turn-item.v1, through the same per-client seam
background tasks use. The downgrade is transitional and goes once no
supported release lacks the capability. The shared projection now renders
unknown item kinds as nothing, so later kinds need no gate. One shared reader
handles both forms for old journals and old hosts.

* Preserve observed turn end across settlement retries

* Retain turn attribution for loaded chat history

* Preserve Codex exit receipt across close retries

* Register completed turn duration reliability gate

* Keep earlier turns through a Codex rewind and count a mid-turn attach from the real start

Findings from an independent adversarial review of the typed turn record:

- A Codex rewind adopted the provider's item list as the new epoch, and the
  provider never returns the host's own turn rows, so every duration before
  the rewind point vanished. The host's turn rows are now spliced back beside
  the item each followed, and recovery no longer expects the provider to
  prove rows it never owned.
- The epoch row was stamped with the current schema version, so an older host
  latched read-only at row 1 of every new session, defeating the mixed
  version design. It carries no body and stays at v2; a stored-row test now
  reads SQLite directly, because the reader upcasts every row on read.
- A send Codex folds into a running turn shares the opening prompt's provider
  key, and the alias map credited the duration to the later prompt. The
  earliest submission naming a key now wins.
- The live counter anchored on first sight, so a client attaching mid-turn
  counted from zero. Published frames now carry the host's clock, the reducer
  keeps the last sample with its local receipt time, and both clients anchor
  on how long the host says the turn has run.

* Correct turn duration gate assertion reference

* Respect authoritative unknown native chat duration

* Preserve unverifiable timing across older host upgrade

* Record final completed turn duration reliability evidence

* Fix the CI failures the merge left behind

- A merged import list named the same module twice, which the native code
  quality plugin fails on.
- A running turn is now reported by the host with no duration, so the settled
  map carries an explicit null for it; the hook test still expected the entry
  to be absent.
- main gave the older-page action a cursor with a head-trim guard, so the
  retention test's epoch-only action no longer typechecks; it now passes an
  unbounded sequence, which is what the old shape meant.
- The roster comparator moved into the extracted module, leaving its import
  unused in the reducer.

* Split two files back under the line cap after the merge

Merging main put both one effective line over 300, and the cap forbids a
disable or a shave. The wire module's refusal vocabulary moves to its own file
and is re-exported, so its consumers are untouched; the host's four thin
mutation delegates move next to the functions they call.

* Advertise the turn-item capability on every client transport

Local IPC and mobile advertised it; the remote and web transports did not, so a
desktop paired to a remote host, the CLI, and web silently ran on the legacy
carrier forever and the canonical row was never exercised there. The renderer
that paints it is the same build on every transport.

* Update the web auth-frame expectation for the new capability

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-10 14:32:50 -07:00
f2af92b2fa feat(native-chat): show live background work and name each row by kind (#19705)
* fix(codex): reserve the label's share of a qualified command row

A child's label is raw provider text and was spliced into the command
row unbounded, then the pair clipped to the description cap. A label at
or past that cap clipped the command away entirely, leaving a row of
kind 'command' that named an agent and showed no command - the failure
qualification exists to remove, inverted. The same clip could also cut a
surrogate pair, which boundSubagentField already guards against on the
agent row two lines away.

Give the label a reserved share and clip it the way the agent row does.

* feat(native-chat): show live background work and name each row by kind

The strip suppressed itself in three places: the Claude tracker blanked
its roster for the whole of any turn, the Codex tracker returned nothing
while a primary turn was open, and the renderer view gated on
`turnId === null`. Between them, work in flight was never shown — and a
task backgrounded in an earlier turn vanished from the strip as soon as
the next prompt was sent. Claude additionally dropped every foreground
subagent, so a fan-out reported nothing at all.

Report work while it is live, in all three layers. Foreground Claude
work is turn-scoped, so `result` retires it — that is the provider's own
outcome for a task it marked foreground, not a roster sweep. Nothing
settles a Codex child on turn end: those keep reporting well past their
parent, so turn frames only prompt a republish.

Name each ROW by kind — Subagent, Shell command, Workflow, Monitor —
instead of a generic "Background <kind>", each drawing the glyph the
shared tool-icon table already uses for that category. A row that
carries a provider description still shows it unchanged. The collapsed
header summary is deliberately untouched; it is owned elsewhere.

The conversation-command gate is unchanged in effect: an open turn
already refuses first, and Claude foreground work never reaches the
backgrounded set the gate reads.

* fix(native-chat): withhold the row stop Claude foreground work cannot honour

The strip now publishes foreground rows, but `stoppableTaskIds` still filters
on `backgrounded`, so `stopClaudeBackgroundTasks` resolved an empty target list
and returned `{ cancelled: false }` that no renderer reads: the user clicked
"Stop Subagent" and nothing ever happened.

Carry stoppability per row instead of widening the stop to a target the SDK has
no way to reach. `AgentSessionBackgroundTask.stoppable` is absent-means-yes, so
hosts that predate it keep their working control, Claude emits `false` only on
foreground rows, and the strip hides that row's button the same way it already
hides the stop-all a provider cannot honour.

* fix(claude): scope aggregate-roster authority to the work it enumerates

`background_tasks_changed` lists BACKGROUNDED tasks, so a foreground subagent
can never appear in it. Treating it as the whole world meant any such frame
cleared every live foreground row mid-flight and then dropped every later
foreground `task_started` for the rest of the session, killing the in-turn
fan-out the strip exists to show in any session that ever backgrounds anything.

Decide `backgrounded` before the staleness guard and apply the guard only to a
backgrounded start, and retain live foreground entries across a roster replace.
Retained rows count against MAX_TRACKED_TASKS, so the map stays bounded, and a
stale backgrounded start the roster no longer lists is still dropped.

* test(native-chat): pin the strip's monitor amber to the constant that defines it

`MONITOR_GLYPH_COLOR`'s comment claimed a test held it and AgentStateDot's amber
together, but no test imported it — the assertions hardcoded 'text-yellow-500',
so the two could drift with every test still green. Read the colour from the
module, which is what the comment always said was happening. Drop the unused
`BackgroundTaskGlyph` export too: nothing outside the module names it.

* fix(native-chat): keep the task list open across a gap in live work

The strip is now mounted on live work, so a sequential fan-out unmounts it
between one subagent finishing and the next starting: local `useState` meant
the expanded list collapsed itself on every such gap, on top of the strip
flickering above the composer.

Hand the disclosure to the session, keyed by session id so it does not leak
across a session switch. The strip is now controlled and holds no state of its
own, which is what makes it survive its own mount churn.

* fix(codex): route every command-row cut through one surrogate-safe clip

`boundLabel` avoided splitting a pair, then `qualifiedDescription` re-cut the
COMPOSED string with a raw slice: label (<=96) plus separator plus description
(<=512) is up to 611 chars, so that second cut landed at an arbitrary index
inside the description and could publish a lone high surrogate — lossy through
any non-JSON UTF-8 hop. `parse` had the identical hazard on an unqualified
primary-thread command.

One `boundText` helper now owns all three cuts, so no path in the file can emit
a lone surrogate from well-formed input.

* fix(claude): keep terminal evidence for ids an aggregate roster never lists

Narrowing the admission guard to backgrounded starts left a finished FOREGROUND
id with no defence: `replaceAggregateRoster` wiped `terminalTaskIds` wholesale,
so after any `background_tasks_changed` a replayed `task_started` revived a task
whose completion had already been seen — and only a later `result` could settle
it again.

Scope the wipe the same way the guard was scoped: delete only the ids the
incoming roster actually enumerates. A roster still overrules terminal evidence
for the work it lists, which is what that behaviour was added for.

* fix(claude): keep retained rows in place and evict the stalest, not the newest

Re-adding retained foreground entries after the roster made a live row the user
is reading jump below the backgrounded rows on every `background_tasks_changed`,
and the cap `break` kept the STALEST retained rows while dropping the newest.

Merge in the tracked map's own order so a surviving row holds its position, and
count the overflow up front so eviction takes the oldest retained rows. Roster
entries are never starved and the map stays bounded either way.

* fix(claude): retire leftover foreground rows when the next turn starts

A foreground `task_started` arriving with no turn open has no `result` coming
to retire it, so it sat in the strip indefinitely — with no per-row stop, since
foreground rows are not stoppable — and refused conversation commands behind an
instruction nobody could follow.

Settle on turn start as well as on `result`. This is cleanup only: visibility
never consults `startsTurn`, so a missed one degrades to today's behaviour and
can never switch the feature off. It shortens the row's life to the next turn;
the case where no further turn is ever sent is filed separately.

* fix(agent-session): withhold unstoppable rows from readers that predate them

Rule 3 of remote-wire-compatibility: changing what the host publishes reaches
old clients with no wire change. The Claude host published no foreground rows
before this feature; it does now, and a client that cannot read `stoppable`
draws a per-row Stop on every one of them — Claude always sets
`supportsTaskStop` — which filters to the backgrounded ids, stops nothing, and
returns a result no renderer inspects. That is the dead button `stoppable` was
added to remove, reappearing across a version skew.

Negotiate it. A client can advertise the existing background-task-stop
capability and still predate `stoppable`, so this needs its own constant.
Readers that do not advertise it get unstoppable rows dropped, and a state whose
every row is dropped becomes no strip — exactly their pre-feature view.

RUNTIME_PROTOCOL_VERSION is not bumped: this adds an optional field and a new
negotiated capability, and changes no existing field's meaning, which is the
explicit do-not-bump case in protocol-version.ts.

* test(agent-session): name the projected rows so the fixture typechecks

An indexed lookup into the fixture's task list is possibly-undefined under
`pnpm tc`; the rows are more readable named anyway.

* test(web): advertise the row-stop capability in the e2ee auth expectation

The web e2ee handshake started sending
AGENT_SESSION_BACKGROUND_TASK_ROW_STOP_CAPABILITY, and this test asserts the
advertised list by deep equality, so it went red on CI while every targeted
test run stayed green. Add the capability in the position the router sends it.

* test(claude): pin why the roster empties mid-turn in a sequential fan-out

The strip unmounting between two sequential subagents is truthful, not a swept
row: A leaves on the provider's own terminal frame, B does not exist yet, and
backgrounded work spanning the same gap holds the roster open — so an empty
roster is never work the strip is hiding.

Also pins the previous-turn rule against the one the subagent roster already
applies on the same frame: a still-working FOREGROUND child becomes
`unverifiable` there and a backgrounded one is left alone, so the strip drops
the first and keeps the second rather than asserting `live` for either.

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <merge-sim@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-10 12:16:30 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim ebb1acfa37 refactor(agent-status): publish structured sessions into the hook server store (#19683)
* refactor(agent-status): publish structured sessions into the hook server store

Structured (native chat) sessions have no PTY and no hook script, so their
status never reached the hook server's store; #19217 gave `worktree ps` its
own adapter over the structured feed instead. The feed now writes every
projection into that store through a status sink the runtime wires, drops
the row when the host closes the session, and `worktree ps` reads the one
snapshot like every other agent.

Rows carry a `structuredHost` marker and the journal clock; they are never
persisted to last-status.json, and the main process does not forward them
to the renderer yet, whose feed bridge still owns them until it is retired.

Design and the two follow-ups: docs/reference/agent-status-store.md.

* chore: drop stray @pnpm/exe lockfile entry

An unrelated local pnpm run added @pnpm/exe as a packageManagerDependency
with no package.json change, so CI's --frozen-lockfile install failed
before any job ran.

* docs(agent-status): describe the step that actually landed

The design record claimed PR 1 deletes RuntimeAgentRowStore, drops the
retained-versus-hook reconciliation, stamps terminalHandle on OSC rows, and
tags rows with a source field of 'structured-host'. None of that is true of
the shipped code: the retained store and its reconciliation are still in
place, and the row field is structuredHost: 'held' | 'owned'.

AGENTS.md points every future contributor here before they touch agent
status, so split the roadmap into the 1a that landed and the 1b that has not,
and name the fields the code actually writes.

* fix(agent-status): pair session removal with the status-row forget

A session dropped from the host's map without an explicit forget left its row
in the store forever: `structuredHostOwned` bypasses the staleness check, so a
failed re-attach (the Claude rewind path reaches one) stranded a permanently
working agent in `worktree ps` and on mobile with no UI able to clear it.
Deletion and forget are now one operation both callers route through.

* fix(agent-status): give orcad the store worktree ps reads from

`orcad` constructed its runtime with neither `getAgentStatusSnapshot` nor
`structuredAgentStatusSink`, so once `worktree ps` sourced rows only from that
snapshot the headless host published nowhere and listed nothing. The hook
server's store is a module singleton whose import tree never reaches Electron,
and its file paths come from `start()`, which orcad never calls.

* fix(agent-status): drop a structured row without a renderer clear

`dropStructuredStatus` went through `clearPaneState`, which fans a pane clear
out to the renderer for a pane key the renderer's own feed bridge still writes
- so 'exactly one writer per pane key' held for writes and not for deletes.
`dropStatusEntry` routes through the status-drop tap instead, and skips the
resume-identity remnant: a structured session has no pane to resume into, and
every null-status publish would otherwise re-mint one.

* test(agent-status): pin both half-migration structured-row filters

Neither the `agentStatus:getSnapshot` filter nor the main-window listener's had
a single assertion, so deleting either — the first step of PR 2 — was green
everywhere. Also covers the perf skip and the drop's lack of a renderer clear.

* docs(agent-status): correct three statements this PR made false

The sink JSDoc claimed only tests construct a host without one; `orcad` did.
The doc argued a structured row needs no tab mirror 'because headless serve has
no renderer', reasoning about exactly the topology the wiring had not reached.
The deleted runtime adapter's warning that the pane key must be the DERIVED one
- never a bearer handle or minted worker key - was lost with it.

* test(agent-status): declare orcad in the hook-row producer census

Wiring the hook store into the orcad runtime added a production site that
hands hook rows to a consumer, which the census ratchet pins deliberately.

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-10 11:27:27 -07:00
OrcaWinandm4air c875941d7c perf: stop queued metadata work after watcher cancellation (#19446)
Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-MacBook-Air.local>
2026-09-09 03:17:15 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 5868fdc9e3 feat(native-chat): report Codex background tasks in the chat strip (#19346)
* feat(native-chat): report Codex background tasks in the chat strip

The background-tasks strip works for Claude only; a structured Codex
session shows nothing in it. Feed it from the Codex app-server stream.

The strip stands for work that OUTLIVED a turn, which is what the
monitoring header, Claude's foreground suppression, and the conversation
command gate all already assume. Codex has no `is_backgrounded` flag, so
that fact is derived from the turn boundary: a `subAgentActivity` child or
a primary-thread `commandExecution` becomes visible once the turn it
belongs to completes and it is still unsettled.

`turn/completed` only reveals a task here, never settles one — measured on
`codex app-server` 0.153.4, a spawn_agent child reported `completed` 95.8s
after its parent turn ended. Only a child's own activity kind settles it.

Codex exposes no honest stop: `turn/interrupt` on a child ends its turn
without emitting a terminal activity item and leaves its shell running. So
the state carries a new optional `supportsStopAll: false`, the strip hides
a control that could not act, and the blocked-command message asks the user
to wait rather than to press a button that does not exist.

* refactor(codex): move session teardown out of the structured adapter

Merging main crossed the 300-line cap on
`codex-structured-session-adapter.ts`: the rewind backend (#19235) and this
branch's close-time strip clear both landed in it. The four close paths move
verbatim into `codex-structured-session-teardown.ts`, where they funnel
through one `settled` helper instead of repeating the notification-retry and
background-task cleanup at each call site. No ratchet bump.

Also normalize a background task's description once at receipt rather than on
every projection; the roster is re-projected on each observed frame.

* fix(codex): drop the shell row the journal already settles

A `commandExecution` still `inProgress` when its turn ends was reported as a
`command` task. But `settleCodexJournalTurn` writes exactly those items to the
journal as `state: 'failed'` on `turn/completed` and forgets them, so the strip
row would have claimed a shell was still running at the same instant Orca
recorded that it was not — two surfaces contradicting each other about the same
process.

A subagent is the opposite case and stays: the roster pointedly does not sweep
at a turn boundary, because children measurably outlive it. That leaves the
producer making exactly one claim — these spawn_agent children are still live
after their turn — which the durable roster row corroborates.

* fix(native-chat): track Codex background execution lifetimes

* fix(native-chat): keep running tool groups from claiming completion

* Fix runtime catalog and capability expectation

* fix(codex): keep a child's name on the command row that outlives it

A child agent's commands stay hidden behind its agent row while the child
works. Once the child's turn settles with a command still running, that
command surfaces as its own row labelled from the raw command string, so
'long_probe' became "/bin/zsh -lc 'ping -c 300 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null'"
at the moment that row was the only remaining signal for the work.

Qualify a child's command row with the child's label. Resolved on read,
so a label registered after the command still lands, and bounded by the
existing description cap so admission accounting stays valid. Primary-
thread commands are left unqualified: they have no child to name.

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-09 00:13:20 -07:00
f242c99af4 perf: scope activation inventory to the owning host and workspace (#19447)
* perf: scope activation inventory to the owning host and workspace

* fix(activation): keep an unscoped census fallback when the owning host is unnameable

Scoping the activation inventory made resolveActivationPtyListScope throw for
paired-runtime workspaces and made a detached relay reject the scoped list, and
both collapse to a 'blocked' gate. 'blocked' skips the sleeping-agent resume and
the caller's reseed, so an SSH target on the bounded offline floor lost its
initial pane and peer workspaces stopped resuming.

Fall back to the unscoped inventory that shipped in exactly those two cases; the
scoped fast path still covers local, folder and attached-SSH workspaces. Also OR
the host-reported worktreeId with the id-prefix match instead of preferring it,
because a relay seeds worktreeId from the host's own ORCA_WORKTREE_ID and a
session dropped from the census is one the gate forks a second writer onto.

* test(activation): update forkbomb fakes to the scoped session.tabs.list shape

The gate now asks the host for one workspace's snapshot instead of the whole session.tabs.listAll inventory and refuses an answer that does not name its scope, so the old snapshots-array fakes made it block instead of resume.

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Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-MacBook-Air.local>
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-08 19:42:25 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 12f53da542 Remove settled-worker automatic resume and hibernation fences (#19544)
* Remove settled-worker automatic resume and hibernation fences

* test: retirement rollback case follows the no-fence policy

Case 4 seeded and asserted automaticResumeBlockedBy, which this branch
deletes. A rolled-back settled worker is now an ordinary done record that
wake clears as passive evidence, same as any finished agent pane.

* chore(i18n): regenerate the runtime-required catalog for the contrast floor strings

* test(orchestration): give the stopping-worker guard fixtures a Run
2026-09-08 05:14:59 -04:00
OrcaWinandm4air 919087897e perf: stop filesystem authorization at the first matching root (#19438)
Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-MacBook-Air.local>
2026-09-07 22:09:56 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 5857357fcf feat(relay): log the region probe and name the assigned cell (#19307)
* feat(relay): log the region probe and name the assigned cell

A desktop silently pinned itself to a far relay region for a day and every
phone connect paid the round trip. Nothing in the desktop logs said which
regions were probed, what they measured, why one was rejected, or which cell
the host landed on, so the only way to diagnose it was a bench harness.

The resolver now emits one line per outcome. A refresh carries every region's
probe origins, the discarded warm-up, the kept samples, the minimum, the
spread, and a verdict, then the chosen region or no-hint with the reason it
withheld one. Cache hits, diagnostic overrides, and a director that cannot
list its regions each get their own line so a quiet run is never ambiguous.
Self-heal logs the cached region, the best measured region, the assigned
cell's round trip, and whether it kept or deleted the cache. Only a refresh
reports a catalog failure; a self-heal never chose a region, so a line saying
it withheld a hint would be a lie.

Relay status now carries the assigned cell so the pairing panel can name it.
The field is optional because an offline host holds no assignment and the web
client answers from a stub that never has one.

Splitting catalog fetching out of the preference module keeps both files
inside the line budget without a lint disable.

* fix(relay): drop the assigned cell from statuses not served on it

The origin pool publishes offline while it still holds the assignment it is
about to rotate, so the panel kept naming a cell nothing was served from. The
same class of bug hid a second instance: the coordinator republishes
registered right after the broker announces its cell, and that republish
carried no cell, blanking the value moments after it was set. The cell would
never have reached the panel in the real flow.

Deriving the cell from the status at each publisher removes both. The rule
lives beside the status type because it defines when the optional field is
populated, and the coordinator reads the owned broker's endpoint rather than
trusting a call site to remember to pass it.

* i18n: add the relay cell label to the English catalog

* test(relay): audit the relocated region catalog fetch call site

* fix(relay): report a self-heal whose catalog request failed instead of staying silent
2026-09-07 13:45:48 -04:00
Neil 3f4793b6c9 Reorganize MiniMax modules and de-duplicate shared test state (#19197)
* Move MiniMax quota fetch modules into rate-limits/minimax

The five MiniMax fetch/transport modules sat flat among ~110 files covering
eight providers. Nest them so the provider's fetch surface is one directory;
credential stores (main/minimax) and the IPC handler (main/ipc) stay where
their siblings are.

* Build rate-limit and settings test state from shared factories

RateLimitState was hand-copied in 9 places and the full GlobalSettings object
in 2 more, so adding one provider field forced edits in unrelated providers'
files -- which is how MiniMax fields ended up in codex-accounts and the Grok
usage-pane test.

Add createEmptyRateLimitState and createGlobalSettingsFixture and route the
copies through them. Values that deviated from the defaults are passed as
explicit overrides, so the fixtures produce what they produced before.

rate-limit-types.test.ts keeps its literal (it exists to assert the shape) and
service-state.ts keeps its own (InternalRateLimitState is a subset, not the
same type).

* Share the codex-account settings fixture between both harnesses

The two codex-account fixtures still carried the same 30-line override block
verbatim, which is the duplication the shared fixture was meant to remove.
Move it into one createCodexAccountSettings and have both call it.

Also drop the hardcoded POSIX workspaceDir default; callers supply the real
directory and a '/tmp' literal would be a trap on Windows.
2026-09-07 00:12:32 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim ba4e79c250 fix(runtime): apply the structured-chat setting to every RPC caller (#18700)
* fix(runtime): apply the structured-chat setting to every RPC caller

supportsStructuredAgentSessions only consulted experimentalStructuredNativeChat
when clientKind === 'mobile', so identical host settings admitted desktop and
in-process callers while refusing a phone. The server branched on client surface.

The setting is now one rule for every caller. The negotiated capability stays a
wire term asked of remote clients only, so a capability-less in-process caller is
still admitted on the setting alone.

Making the projection's structuredNativeChatEnabled argument required surfaced
eight call sites that passed `undefined` for non-mobile clients; they now read the
host setting, so tab projection follows the same single rule.

Announced behaviour change: with the flag off, session.tabs.list/listAll no longer
restore structured tabs for desktop. The desktop renderer already discards them in
that state, and startup record/lease reconciliation is unaffected.

* fix(runtime): keep structured session cleanup available

* test(runtime): enable structured chat in desktop projection fixture

* test(agent-session): settle merged fixtures against the all-clients structured policy

The merge with main left three fixtures written for the old mobile-only rule:
a duplicate getClientSettings key, a create fixture with no host settings at
all, and a projection call whose 'old client' is now the mobile fallback-title
case.

* fix(native-chat): let an admitted caller close a chat after the setting is off

Turning `experimentalStructuredNativeChat` off revoked admission for every
`agentSession.*` method, including `close`. A chat opened while the setting was
on stays mounted, so its owner was left with a live provider child and an X
button that answered `structured_agent_session_unsupported`.

Split the surface by what a method does to work in flight rather than by how it
sounds, and write that rule where the gate lives so the next method lands on the
right side: starting, extending, retaining or reading needs admission; stopping
or retiring work the caller already owns does not. Moves `close` and `cancel`
onto the cleanup gate alongside `unsubscribe` and `release`.

The tightening is unchanged - the cleanup gate still demands the negotiated wire
capability and never creates a host, so an incapable client still cannot see the
surface and no method that starts work is reachable with the setting off.

Extracts the dispatcher harness and the method-to-gate table into fixtures so
the new admission suite can share them without a max-lines disable.

* Drop a duplicate lastActivityAt key carried in from main

The main commit this branch merged (fb322046e8) had two lastActivityAt
properties in the same object literal at both journal stubs, which fails
TS1117 and oxlint. Upstream has since kept only the later value; match it.

Not introduced here, but merged in, so it has to be fixed here.

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 23:32:00 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong d53cbed43f revert: hold mobile push feature for user testing (#19203)
Reverts 3160b54c69. Restore through a separate draft PR after user validation.
2026-09-07 00:30:21 -04:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 68dd3909c7 feat(orchestration): orchestrate native-born structured chat sessions (#18827)
* feat(orchestration): orchestrate native-born structured chat sessions

Orchestration resolves every worker through a terminal handle and a pane key
backed by a live PTY. A session created directly as structured has neither, so
it was not refused by orchestration — it was invisible. A coordinator could not
start one, address one, or receive `worker_done` from one.

Add a second authority source rather than a parameter channel. A registry maps a
session id to the same three facts the PTY path supplies — a bearer handle, a
pane key and a host scope — and the four runtime getters consult it before
giving up on `ptysById`. `orchestration.send` and `verifyDispatchCapability` are
untouched: authority stays host-derived and the CLI still cannot assert who it
is. PTY handles short-circuit on the handle prefix, so the terminal path is
unchanged.

Mail travels as a session turn instead of as bytes, on a sibling lane that keeps
the PTY lane's outstanding-run, waiter, reserved-type and batch rules.
Orchestration's database stays the source of truth; the send is best-effort,
exactly as the byte write is, and mail is consumed only on a proven-accepted
dispatch. Delivery waits for the session to be between turns, because one
provider refuses a mid-turn start outright and the other cannot acknowledge one
inside the ack window.

Security properties, each pinned by test: the pane key's leaf is random and
persisted rather than derived, since `check` is identity-gated and accepts a
caller-supplied pane key; the handle is a random bearer token; the child env
carries no pane key, which would otherwise flow into hook pipelines that assume
a PTY leaf; hook attestation stays closed for structured handles; and process
continuity comes from record lineage, never the runtime fence, which the host
bumps during its own crash recovery.

Also remove the "Orchestration paused" notice, which gated only on dispatch
status and rendered over bridge chat where orchestration always worked; refuse
the implicit-sender fallback when a worktree has more than one candidate leaf
instead of guessing; and collapse the archive kinds to one named type with a
compile-time assertion that the capture set cannot drift ahead of the storable
set.

* fix(orchestration): answer the structured idle gate from the reduced timeline

The structured pointer gate read a bounded 40-item tail page. A settled turn is
tombstoned rather than rewritten, so an idle worker with any real history carries
no turnLifecycle item at all and the "full page, no lifecycle item" guard read it
as busy forever: every nudge after the worker's first substantial turn parked on a
settle edge that had already passed, and the preamble tells workers not to poll.
The attention gate had the mirror bug — a prompt older than the tail window was
missed and the nudge was delivered into a session blocked on a human.

Both facts now come from `journal.snapshot()`, the fully reduced timeline, via a
new narrow `readGateFacts` host read; the policy module stays pure and still
projects through the shared helpers the chat view reads.

Also:
- Park `session-not-attached` on the journal edge, so mail that arrives during a
  transient detach is redriven by the re-attach reset instead of sitting unread.
- Resolve a structured worker's provider from the durable agent-session record
  when the registry entry was rehydrated, so a restarted Codex worker is no longer
  reported and archived as Claude.
- Clear `structured_pointer_operations` in every `orchestration reset` scope.
- Drop the per-chat-pane dispatch-status store subscription left behind by the
  removed paused notice, and re-pin the two terminal-pane ratchets it moves.
- Hoist the identical pointer batch selection out of both delivery lanes into
  `selectOrchestrationPointerBatch`.
- Refuse the pre-graph-ready focus-based guess for `requireUnambiguous` callers,
  matching the ready path.
- Move the host teardown phase list into the teardown module it belongs to, which
  is what keeps the host inside its max-lines budget.

* fix(orchestration): discard a structured worker session whose create settled unknown

`commitStructuredAgentSessionCreate` answers `agent_session_operation_unknown` when
`attach` SUCCEEDED and only the tab publish failed, so `created.ok === false` is not
proof that nothing exists. The worker start read it that way and skipped
`discardCreatedSession`, leaving a live provider child that took no hold, has no
`bindingsByDispatchId` entry and no published tab — the outer
`releaseStructuredWorkerSession` no-ops without a binding, and a session that never had
a holder never starts the eviction clock, so nothing in the runtime ever retires it. A
throw out of the commit half is past `attach` for the same reason; the pre-commit half
refuses rather than throwing. Cleanup now asks whether the create MAY have committed,
via the existing `isDefinitiveAgentSessionCreateRefusal` predicate.

Also:
- Strengthen the pre-ready `requireUnambiguous` test so it actually pins the guard: the
  snapshot now carries a focused terminal, so deleting the `? [] :` ternary turns the
  test red instead of leaving the refusal to the ambiguous `listTerminals` fallback.
- Correct the guard's justification comment, which cited `orchestration check` as
  covered. `check` resolves through the `--terminal` scope and still guesses; the
  guard covers the implicit `--from` sender, and a structured worker is covered by the
  `ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE` baked into its child.

* docs(orchestration): stop two structured-worker comments claiming guarantees the code does not give

The send-time owner re-check reads `target.refusal`, the snapshot the resolver
already admitted, so `decideStructuredPointerDelivery` can only agree with the
resolve-time answer and `owner-not-settled-native` is unreachable from that call
site. What actually fences an owner that moved is `expectedRuntimeFence`, which a
handoff bumps. Say that, so nobody later drops the fence trusting a re-check that
is structurally a tautology.

`discardCreatedSession` was credited with retiring "a published background tab
that no dispatch owns". It hides the DURABLE tab reference and closes the
session; the live tab snapshot keeps the row, so the background tab this start
published stays on screen until the app restarts. Same for stop and release. The
comment now describes what the two calls do — including that both are no-ops on a
session that was never attached, which is what makes the non-definitive-refusal
path safe to reach unconditionally.

* fix(orchestration): retire a structured worker's chat tab when the worker settles

Starting a structured worker always publishes a real `agent-session:<id>` tab, but
every settlement path only called `setSessionTabVisibility(sessionId, false)` plus
`host.close(sessionId)`. That clears the DURABLE restore index and leaves the LIVE
snapshot untouched, so stop, release and the half-started discard all left a dead
"Claude Chat" / "Codex Chat" tab in the worktree's tab bar for the rest of the app
session — five dispatches, five dead tabs — and opening one re-attached the released
session, respawning a provider child outside orchestration's hold accounting.

The snapshot-pruning half of `closeStructuredAgentSessionTab` is extracted into
`structured-agent-session-tab-retirement.ts` and exposed on the runtime as
`retireStructuredAgentSessionTabFromSnapshot`, so the user-initiated tab close and
the three settlements share one implementation instead of a second copy.

The settlement side is best-effort BY CONSTRUCTION: it runs only after the close is
already proven, calls the runtime method optionally, and swallows any throw. It
talks to no renderer, so the startup release reconciler can call it too. Nothing
here can turn a proven stop into `release_unknown`.

* fix(orchestration): stop a structured worker's nudges, archive and liveness from lying

Five defects in the structured-worker lanes, each with the same shape: a check
that answered from something other than what it claimed to measure.

- The pointer lane gated a WORKER's `dispatch:` mailbox on its RUN's outstanding
  delivery. Delivery rows exist only for a `run:` address, so that row belongs to
  the coordinator — and a coordinator holds one for exactly as long as it is
  acting on received mail, which is when it replies to its workers. The gate is
  gone; there is no coordinator mailbox in this lane to protect.
- `dispatch-rejected` now parks on the journal edge. A rejection consumes no mail
  and nothing else redrives the mailbox, so an unparked pointer left the worker
  idle on durable mail until unrelated mail happened to arrive.
- The released journal archive bounded forward — keeping the HEAD — before
  capping newest-first, so a long worker's archive ended at its early exploration
  and dropped the answer it was released for, under a warning that said the
  oldest messages had gone. One newest-first pass now, and the warning is true.
- The durable pointer operation id was reused on a matching BODY fingerprint, and
  the body names only the unread count. Two unrelated same-size batches collided,
  the host replayed its ledger answer as `accepted` with no turn sent, and the
  lane marked the new mail delivered. Reuse is keyed on the batch's message ids.
- `worker-read` on a structured worker hardcoded `terminal: 'running'` and
  emitted no `liveness`, so a runtime that could not see the session reported the
  worker as alive. It now carries the observed verdict, as the PTY branch does.

Also: the live journal cursor is an index into a re-derived tail window, so the
page's oldest item joins its source identity — a slid window now answers
`source_changed` instead of silently resuming past the items it skipped. And a
stop that reached no host reports `processAction: 'none'`, after installing the
host the way release already does.

* fix(orchestration): stop a released structured archive claiming a close that never landed

`worker-read` on a released structured worker hardcoded `liveness: 'exited'`. The
archive is frozen BEFORE the close, so it proves nothing about the provider child,
and the read is served for `release_state` in `releasing` / `unknown` too — the two
states that exist precisely to record a close that did NOT land. A coordinator that
read `exited` from a `release_unknown` worker would start a replacement over the same
worktree while the original child was still attached, which is the outcome
docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md rule 2 exists to prevent, and it contradicts
the release receipt's own "the structured session close was not proven" text.

The verdict now comes from the resource row the read already holds: only a settled
`released` row is `exited`, everything else is `unverifiable` — which the existing
mapping renders as `terminal: 'unknown'`, the same way the live branch does.

* fix(orchestration): stop a structured worker-start reporting a preamble it never delivered

Two ways a structured `worker-start` handed the coordinator a receipt that did not
describe the worker it got.

`sendStructuredWorkerPreamble` threw only on a refusal and on `rejected`, so a
submission that settled `unknown` fell through as success: the start pushed
`dispatch_input: accepted` and marked the dispatch ready. `unknown` is not rare —
`dispatchSafely` converts ANY thrown adapter call (provider child gone, transport
dropped, ack window missed) into it, and `performSend` still returns ok. The worker
then has no task spec while its coordinator blocks in `check --wait --types
worker_done` until timeout. This PR's own mail lane already states the rule —
"`pending` is not yet an acknowledgement; only `accepted` may consume mail" — so the
preamble now applies it too, and raises `operation_unknown` for the states that
prove neither delivery nor failure, which is the code `failWorkerStartWithReceipt`
turns into the `outcome_unknown` receipt whose nextCommands send the coordinator to
look. `rejected` stays a proven failure.

`--structured` also accepted `--model` / `--effort` and dropped them: structured
session creation takes no launch preferences, while `launch.receipt.effective`
echoes whatever was requested either way, so `--model opus` ran on the workspace
default and the receipt still said `opus`. Refused now, for the same reason
`--terminal` refuses them, and the spec note records that refusal along with the
new-child/new-top-level one it never mentioned.

Tests: the refusal guard had no coverage at all, and `structured-mailbox-pointer-host`
— where the full-timeline gate read lives — had none either; reinstating the bounded
tail there left the whole repo green. Both are covered now, and the vacuous
"never selects an exact provider session" case is re-pointed at the absent
`ORCA_PANE_KEY` that actually keeps that selector shut.

* fix(orchestration): let a structured worker actually reach the Orca CLI, and stop four settlements lying

A structured worker's provider child runs `orca orchestration ...` exactly like a PTY worker's
agent does, but it was handed the ambient PATH. On packaged Linux the CLI installs as `orca-ide`
so it never claims GNOME Orca's /usr/bin/orca (#7904), so bare `orca` execs the screen reader and
the worker can never read mail, reply or send worker_done; on packaged macOS/Windows the bundled
launcher is only reachable from the app's own resources dir. The PTY lane already solves this
inside `buildPtyHostEnv`; that block is now its own module and both lanes call it.

Also:
- a worker start that fails AFTER its session exists now discards the session, so a failed start
  stops stranding a dead chat tab that the durable restore index republishes on every launch;
- a structured worker's resource reconciles to `released` after settlement forgot its identity,
  instead of answering `unverifiable` for the life of the DB;
- `closeAttempted` is set only once a close is issued, so a tab-visibility failure can no longer
  report `closed_agent_terminal` for a running child;
- `forgetSession` prunes only what the settled worker parked, not every sibling whose target
  momentarily fails to resolve;
- release settles with an explicitly empty, warned archive when the journal is unreadable AND the
  session is proven exited — closing the chat tab is routine, and `archive_failed` there wedged
  release on evidence that could never arrive;
- the new migration test uses mkdtemp and cleans up, so it stops failing Windows CI and leaking.

* fix(orchestration): merge the duplicated release-receipts import

The release-completion module imported ./orchestration-worker-release-receipts
twice, which trips import/no-duplicates in audit:code-quality:native. The
changed-file gate does not load that config, so only whole-tree CI saw it.

* docs(runtime): note that a background structured tab re-publish is a no-op

The activate:false branch for an already-published session returns without
writing the snapshot or emitting, so it cannot re-surface a client whose
mirror lost the tab. Orchestration is safe from this only incidentally.

* feat(orchestration): make the worker mode the user's own default, not a flag

`worker-start --structured` was an explicit opt-in that REFUSED --on, --terminal,
--model/--effort and worktree-creating placements. The flag, its spec entry and the
`structured` RPC param are gone: the mode now follows the user's setting for new agent
tabs, so a local claude/codex worker is a structured chat session whenever the user's
own default says agent tabs open as one.

A setting is a preference, not a demand, so none of those combinations refuses any more.
A dispatch that cannot be structured starts an ordinary PTY terminal worker and the
receipt names the mode that ran and why, so the fallback is never silent:

- a remote --on, an existing --terminal, a new-child/new-top-level worktree and
  --model/--effort are decided from the request;
- the agent, TUI launch customization, Codex-on-Windows and the runtime capability are
  decided by the shared launch route;
- WSL, remoteness and the Windows start-time gate are settled by the executing host's own
  agentSession.createSupport, asked once the worktree resolves and before anything is
  created, so a refusal is a terminal worker rather than a failed start.

The decision is the renderer's, lifted rather than copied: `resolveAgentLaunchRoute`'s
structured half and the settings predicate now live in
shared/structured-native-chat-launch-route, which both surfaces call, and the TUI launch
customization test moves to shared beside it. `getClientSettings` gains the two native-chat
default booleans it was missing.

No security invariant moves: the structured worker registry, bearer handle, persisted pane
key, the absence of ORCA_PANE_KEY from the child env, hook attestation and lineage-derived
process incarnation are untouched.

* fix(orchestration): stop the worker mode leaking into the agent contract

The mode a worker runs in is a runtime implementation detail. An agent should be
taught the same verbs, run the same commands and read the same receipts whether it
is a structured chat session or a PTY terminal — otherwise a settings-driven
fallback silently changes what the agent can do.

The real leak was `canDispatchSubWorkers`, which was forced false for a structured
worker. That was not a wording choice: `worker-start` resolved `--from` through
`showTerminal`, which needs a live PTY or renderer leaf, so a `structworker_`
coordinator genuinely could not dispatch. Rather than withhold the capability, the
one fact the command needs from `--from` — its worktree id — now comes from
`getOrchestrationDispatchAuthority`, the same authority the pane-key and
process-incarnation getters already answer structured handles from. Sub-dispatch is
gated on depth alone, identically for both modes.

`showTerminal` itself is deliberately NOT taught structured handles: it returns a
ptyId, a leaf id and a pane runtime id, and synthesising those for a session with no
PTY would hand every caller of a public terminal verb something that looks writable
and is not. `inspectWorkerTerminal` already returns `terminal: null` for exactly
that reason.

Also neutralised three agent-visible refusals that named the worker's kind: a
`worker-read --source terminal` on a worker with no terminal now names the sources
that do work, and both archive refusals say "transcript output" rather than
"structured chat output" (the PTY `transcript_pin` branch said "structured" too).

New tests pin both properties: the two preambles are byte-identical once the handle
and per-dispatch ids are normalised, and a structured coordinator starts a worker
with `showTerminal` rejecting.

* fix(orchestration): stop claiming a structured worker was checked for a prompt

worker-show reported observation.agentWait: null for every structured worker. The
field's own contract says null means Orca looked and found no wait, and absent means
it never looked — and nothing looks here: a structured worker parks on a journal
question item, which no terminal prompt scan can see.

So null was a false negative on the one field a coordinator is explicitly told to
read, and it was mode-dependent: the same worker as a PTY would have reported the
wait. Absent is both the honest value and a state a PTY worker already reaches (an
older host, an unreadable pane, a probe that did not answer), so it discloses
nothing about which mode ran.

* docs(cli): stop the worker-start spec pointing a caller at the worker kind

The note said "the receipt mode field names the mode used and why", which is an
instruction to read a field no verb behaves differently for — the one thing the
mode was not supposed to become. It now says what a caller actually needs: the
dispatch always starts, the options passed are the ones honoured, and every worker
is driven the same way. The receipt still carries the mode for operators and
telemetry; nothing tells an agent to look at it.

* perf(orchestration): coalesce the structured redrive edge

Every journal batch is a redrive candidate, because a settled turn is tombstoned
rather than rewritten — there is no completed row to watch for. That is free while
nothing is parked on the session, but once mail IS parked each batch re-resolved the
dispatch, queried unread mail and read the host's gate facts, only to re-park because
the turn was still running. A turn streaming tool calls paid that per batch.

The edge now coalesces on a 300ms quiet window with a 2s starvation cap, so a
streaming turn costs a handful of evaluations instead of one per batch and a settled
turn still nudges promptly. Delivery semantics are untouched: the gate, the
accepted/rejected/unknown handling and the retain rules all still run exactly as
before, just fewer times. Nor is this the path fresh mail takes to an idle worker —
that is `deliverForHandle` at enqueue time, which this does not touch — so the
common case gains no latency.

The mechanism is the session.tabs notify coalescer, generalised into
`keyed-trailing-edge-coalescer` and called by both rather than duplicated; the
session.tabs windows stay where they were, since 50ms is right for a spinner title
and far too tight for a journal stream. Disposal drops the pending timer rather than
flushing it, on the existing subscription disposer that every settlement already
reaches, so a redrive can never fire for a session no dispatch owns.

* fix(orchestration): deliver direct peer mail to a structured worker, and let a peer read it

Two agent-to-agent verbs had no answer for a worker that IS a structured agent
session, and both failed quietly.

Mail addressed to a worker's own bearer handle — how agents mail each other
outside a dispatch — fell between the lanes. The send stored durably and
reported success, `getLiveTerminalPaneKey` resolved the recipient, and then
neither lane claimed the mailbox: the structured resolver answered only
`dispatch:` addresses, and the PTY lane refuses a structured handle outright.
Nothing errored and nothing logged, so the worker never reacted and the peer
waiting on a reply hung. The resolver now also answers a bare worker handle,
preferring that worker's active dispatch so peer and coordinator nudges share
one operation-ledger budget. A worker BETWEEN dispatches is still nudged, under
a session-scoped key: a dispatch says nothing about whether delivery is safe —
the idle gate and the lease fence do — and its own `check` reads exactly the
direct mailbox the mail is sitting in. The dispatch caller key is left
byte-identical, because the ledger is keyed on (callerKey, operationId) and
reshaping it would re-mint nudges already in flight as second turns.

`terminal read` had no structured branch, so the only peer-accessible read verb
answered `terminal_handle_stale` for a live worker; `worker-read` is closed to a
peer, which holds neither coordinator standing nor a dispatch id. It now serves
the session's journal, projected to LINES and paged by the same reader the PTY
tail uses, so the result stays a plain RuntimeTerminalRead and nothing an agent
reads discloses which kind of worker answered. Bounding and dispatch-capability
redaction are the archive path's, reused rather than rebuilt. A session that is
not attached refuses with the existing not-attached code rather than returning
an empty tail, which would read as "this worker has said nothing".

`terminal.show` still refuses a structured handle. This is read-only on purpose:
synthesising a ptyId/leafId/paneRuntimeId would hand every public terminal verb
something that looks writable and is not.

* fix(orchestration): stop three PTY-only probes answering for structured sessions

Three defects, one shape: a probe that enumerates PTYs or resolves a pane was
standing in for a question that is not about panes at all.

`worktree rm` destroyed a live structured worker. `killAllProcessesForWorktree`
sweeps the renderer graph, the provider session list and the local pty-registry,
and a structured session is registered on none of them — so all three counted
zero, nothing errored, and removal deleted the checkout out from under a running
provider child, which kept running with its `cwd` gone while the dispatch still
reported the worker live and exact. A fourth sweep now asks what the other three
cannot: membership by `location.workspaceId`, which covers a plain chat session
as well as a dispatched worker, and liveness by the same
`live`/`unverifiable`/`exited` observation the rest of the structured surface
uses. It REFUSES a destructive removal rather than auto-closing, on the same
bargain and the same `--force` escape hatch as the unstopped-PTY gate — this is
the verb that deletes a user's work, and a running agent is exactly what they
would want to be told about. Force closes the sessions properly instead of
orphaning a child. Best-effort reconciliation callers are excluded: they repair
state, delete nothing, and must never be failed closed.

Twelve coordinator verbs failed for a structured worker running as itself.
`isLiveTerminalHandle` validated `ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE` with `terminal.show`, a
PTY verb whose leaf lookup misses for a session that never had a pane; the pane
remint that would have recovered it needs `ORCA_PANE_KEY`, which a structured
child deliberately does not carry, so every one of them died on
`no_active_sender_terminal` — including the ones the worker's own dispatch
preamble tells it to run. The identity question gets its own probe,
`terminal.resolveIdentity`: a handle and a boolean and nothing writable.
`terminal.show` still refuses a structured handle, because synthesising
ptyId/leafId/paneRuntimeId would hand every public terminal verb something that
looks writable and is not. The PTY half is byte-for-byte today's check,
`getLiveLeafForHandle` included, so its `rendererGraphEpoch` re-check still runs
— that check is the whole reason the sender is validated at all, and a cheaper
probe would have quietly started passing stale post-reload handles. A host that
predates the method answers `method_not_found` and the client falls back to
`terminal.show`, which is correct for that host: one without the identity probe
has no structured workers to miss.

`dispatch --inject` reported `no_agent_detected` for a structured worker, because
`isTerminalRunningAgent` reaches `getLiveLeaf`, throws, and the catch returns
false. A structured session IS the agent; there is no foreground process to
recognise, so it answers before the PTY probes rather than through them.

Also: a Run whose coordinator is structured now gets its `run:` mail. Both lanes
declined and neither logged — the PTY lane because the owner is structured, the
structured lane because the mailbox was not `dispatch:` — so each half believed
the other owned it. The PTY lane's reasoning (a coordinator blocks in
`check --wait`, where a waiter preempts pointer delivery) does not transfer: a
structured coordinator is a chat session whose turn ends. Its `run:` deliveries
take the `hasOutstandingRunDelivery` gate the PTY lane applies for exactly that
mailbox, and only for that mailbox.

The test that would have caught the twelve drives the CLI with
`ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE=structworker_…` and no `--from`. Every existing
orchestration CLI test passes `--from` explicitly, so the resolver a real worker
goes through was never exercised — which is why the suite stayed green while the
preamble failed on its first line.

Two files crossed their line ceiling and are split rather than waived:
`worktree-teardown.ts` sheds its two PTY-surface sweeps and the deadline
arithmetic they share, and `orchestration.test.ts` — which sat exactly on 800 —
sheds the two caller-identity suites this change rewrote.

* fix(orchestration): arm the takeover signal for structured chat input

`worker-release` closed a structured session a user had taken over, losing work
mid-conversation, while `orchestration-worker-specs.ts:106` promised "Never
closes … user-taken-over terminals".

Every guard was already correct and simply never armed.
`reportWorkerTerminalUserInput` has exactly one call site — the real-user-input
signal on a PTY connection — so structured chat input never reached
`orchestration.workerTerminalUserInput`, `markWorkerTerminalUserOwned` never ran,
ownership stayed `owned` instead of `user_owned`, `retainedReason` never returned
`user_takeover`, and `stopStructuredWorker` proceeded. The durable flag is reused
as-is rather than given a parallel mechanism: it exists precisely so a restart,
an SSH drop or a renderer remount cannot erase a takeover.

Addressed by SESSION, never by pane key. A structured worker's pane key is a
random identity credential — anyone holding it can read and consume that worker's
mailbox, and session ids are embedded in tab ids in plain text — so it stays in
main and the runtime resolves the session to it. Handing it to a renderer to echo
back would make it learnable by anyone who can see a chat pane. The RPC gains an
optional `sessionId` alongside `paneKey`; a host that predates it rejects the
call, and the report is already best-effort with a catch, so that host degrades
to exactly today's behaviour rather than failing a send.

The signal fires from the composer send hook and only past `accepted`: the outbox
dispatcher retries, and orchestration's own pointer nudges never pass through the
composer at all — so neither can be mistaken for a user takeover.

* fix(orchestration): reach structured workers through group addresses

`orca orchestration send --to @all` — and `@idle`, `@claude`, `@codex`,
`@worktree:<id>` — silently skipped every structured worker. Recipients came
from `listTerminals`, which enumerates leaves and PTYs, and a structured session
is on neither. The exclusion happened BEFORE per-recipient resolution, so the
`SendRecipientWarning` machinery never ran: the caller got exit 0 and a receipt
naming the workers that did resolve, and a broadcast "stop work" or "base moved"
reached the PTY workers and nobody else. With every worker structured it
degraded to `terminal_not_found`, which reads as "the group was empty".

Fixed at the group-resolution site rather than inside `listTerminals`. That
result is published to paired mobile and remote clients and to consumers that
assume a summary carries a `ptyId` or is writable, so widening it is its own
change under `docs/reference/remote-wire-compatibility.md`. Group addressing
reads exactly three fields off a recipient, and `RuntimeTerminalSummary` already
satisfies them structurally, so the resolver widens to that smaller shape and
nothing here invents a `worktreePath` or a `branch`. Candidates are liveness-
gated on the same observation the rest of the structured surface uses — mail
addressed to a settled worker would be stored for a lane that will never deliver
it — and once a worker IS a candidate, the existing per-recipient warnings cover
it, so an unresolvable one is reported rather than dropped.

`@idle` needed more than enumeration: `getAgentStatusForHandle` reaches a PTY
probe that throws for a handle with no pane, so a structured worker would have
been enumerated and then silently dropped from the one group address that
selects on status. It now answers from the session's journal — and off the FULL
reduced timeline, never a bounded tail. Settlement tombstones the running turn's
lifecycle item rather than rewriting it, so on any page-sized read a long
tool-calling turn looks identical to an idle session; `@idle` would then
broadcast into a running turn, which Codex answers with `turn already running`
and Claude queues behind. An unreadable session answers null, never idle.

`terminal list` and `worktree ps` still omit structured workers; that is the
wire-visible half and is deliberately not in this change.

* fix(orchestration): refuse rather than guess when a chat session has no identity

An ordinary structured chat session — not a dispatched worker — is spawned with
no `ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE`, because `structuredWorkerChildIdentityEnv` early-
returns for any session outside the worker registry. `orca orchestration check`
then fell through to `terminal.resolveActive`, which picks the focused tab's
active leaf or the first leaf in the worktree. It returned a valid handle, so
nothing errored — and `check` is destructive by default, so it consumed another
pane's oldest unacknowledged batch and marked it read. The rightful worker never
saw that mail.

`requireUnambiguous` does not fix this, only narrows it: it refuses when MULTIPLE
leaves could be meant, and with exactly one terminal pane in the worktree the
guess still resolves — to a sibling. "One terminal pane plus one chat tab" is a
normal layout, so the common case stayed broken. The pinned test is that case.

So the child now carries `ORCA_STRUCTURED_SESSION`, and every remaining route
that would GUESS an implicit terminal refuses on it with an error naming the flag
to pass. The marker names NOTHING — no handle, no pane key, no session id, no
token — which is the whole reason it is safe: it cannot be replayed, cannot
impersonate, and cannot flow into the hook-attestation, agent-row or
mobile-projection pipelines the way a pane key would. That makes it a different
decision from withholding `ORCA_PANE_KEY`, not a reversal of it. It also grants
no CLI reachability, so packaged builds keep exactly today's exposure.

The comment at `orca-runtime-adopt-terminal-orphans-from-inventory.ts` that
justified the guess — "a structured worker is covered instead by the
`ORCA_TERMINAL_HANDLE` its child is spawned with" — was true only for dispatched
workers and false for every other structured session, a population this branch
creates. It now says which case it covers and which case it does not.

* fix(orchestration): stop two surfaces lying about a worker with no terminal

`orca terminal <verb>` answered `terminal_handle_stale` for a structured
worker's handle. Nothing went stale: the session is live and simply has no
terminal, and it never had one — so callers acted on a false claim and went
hunting for a remint that cannot exist. The refusal now carries its own code and
names the structured equivalents (`orca terminal read`, `worker-read --source
transcript`, `orca orchestration send`), so an agent that lands there learns
what to run rather than what failed. A PTY handle that really did go stale keeps
the old error, and so does a session this runtime no longer owns — that handle
IS dead. `terminal.show` stays non-resolving: synthesising a
ptyId/leafId/paneRuntimeId would hand every public terminal verb something that
looks writable and is not.

`orchestration-worker-specs.ts` promised "the same verbs, the same handle, and
the same worker-read sources", and all three clauses were false for a worker with
no terminal. A spec agents read must not carry a false promise, so it now states
the limitation and the alternative that always works.

Note this had to be reconciled with an invariant this branch already holds: the
worker MODE must stay opaque, or a coordinator starts branching on something no
verb it runs behaves differently for. So the note says "not every worker has a
terminal" and points at `--source auto`/`--source transcript` WITHOUT naming a
kind — the same mode-neutral wording `readStructuredWorkerOutput` already uses
when it refuses `--source terminal`. Both properties are now pinned by tests, so
neither can be restored by breaking the other.

* fix(orchestration): close the review findings on the structured parity work

Four defects and two follow-ups from the delta review.

The `worktree rm` refusal was a dead end in the desktop UI. Its message matched
no matcher in `classifyWorktreeForceDeleteReason`, and an ordinary desktop delete
already passes `force=true` for the dirty-file skip, so classification returned
null unconditionally: the toast showed raw CLI wording with no Force Delete
button, and a user with a live chat session was stuck unless they knew to reach
for the CLI. That is the #11960 shape `shared/worktree/removal.ts` documents, so
the refusal now has its own prefix, matcher, `WorktreeForceDeleteReason` and
toast copy, classified BEFORE the `force` guard and nulled once the waiver is
spent — exactly how `unstopped-pty` is handled, with matcher and hint kept in
the same file as that contract requires. The copy says Force Delete will close a
running conversation rather than borrowing the "could not confirm" wording,
because Orca watched these sessions stay attached; there is no doubt to waive.

Structured `terminal read` cursors were unsound and are now refused. The PTY
cursor indexes an append-only completed-line buffer with a monotone count; a
session journal is a BOUNDED tail re-projected on every read, so a saved index
addressed different lines as the journal grew — and `truncated` could never fire
to say so, because it tests `cursor < oldestCursor` and `oldestCursor` was always
0. A poller got wrong or duplicated lines under `truncated:false`. Separately, a
streaming turn's lines counted as completed with `partialLine` hardcoded empty,
so a mid-turn cursor consumed a half-written line whose growth was never
redelivered — the `"hel"`/`"hello"` hazard the PTY reader guards against. The
journal does have stable item identity, but `terminal.read`'s cursor is a number
on the wire and cannot carry it, so a cursor read now refuses and names
`worker-read --source transcript`, which already has that contract including
`source_changed`. No cursor space is advertised either: `nextCursor` is null and
the cursor fields are absent, rather than claiming an index the next read cannot
honour. The header claim that all four fields kept their meanings was true of the
shape and false of the invariants; it now says which ones hold.

Two fixes had no test at their real seam, which is the same failure that produced
this whole set — the runtime tested directly, the seam tested by neither. The
group-addressing test hand-composed the recipient list itself, so deleting the
composition at the call site left it green; it now drives `sendGroupMessage` with
no PTY terminals at all. Nothing referenced `isLiveStructuredAgent`, so the
`dispatch --inject` fix had no red-then-green at all; it now has one driving
`RuntimeTerminalAgentPresence.isRunning`. Both were ablated and confirmed red.

Folder-workspace removals sweep and kill PTYs without `requirePhysicalStop`, so
the structured sweep no-opped there and left a live session bound to a workspace
about to be forgotten. They now close best-effort under an explicit
`closeStructuredSessions` flag, kept separate from `requirePhysicalStop` because
the two questions differ: that one asks whether a stop must be PROVEN before
files are touched, and it is what licenses a refusal. These paths do not refuse —
the root is shared so no checkout vanishes under the child, and one of them is a
never-throw forget a refusal would wedge. Reconciliation sweeps set neither and
still close nothing.

Also: the force close is raced against the same sweep deadline every PTY surface
is bounded by, so a wedged provider close reports the timeout instead of hanging
`worktree rm --force` forever; and the refusal now prints a count and the
providers instead of raw session ids, which our own marker rationale treats as
one tab-id hop from a credential.

* test: pin structured-session close on the folder-workspace removal path

The folder and orphan removal callers now pass closeStructuredSessions so a
live structured session is closed best-effort rather than left bound to a
workspace Orca has forgotten. These three exact-args characterizations describe
that call and had not been updated.

* fix(orchestration): stop the structured worker-read cursor misdelivering silently

`worker-read --source transcript` for a structured worker fingerprinted only the
oldest item's id, so `source_changed` fired when the window slid off the front
and could NOT fire when the page's contents changed under a stable oldest item —
which is the normal case, because the journal is a reduced, mutable timeline. A
`running` tool item gains its `[tool result]` at its original sequence once later
items exist, the 60ms delta coalescer revises a message in place, settlement can
rewrite an item smaller, and a pending approval projects to null until it
resolves and then appears in the MIDDLE of the array.

Two silent failures followed, both returning ok. Omission: a caller handed a
coalesced `hel`, resuming past it, never received the revision to `hello world`
— the same defect we refused to ship on the terminal read path, already shipped
here. Duplication: a resolved approval inserted ahead of a saved index, which was
still accepted, so the caller re-read content it already had. The blast radius is
the coordinator polling loop, the verb's primary consumer.

The anchor is now the oldest item PLUS every item whose projected message sits
below the caller's position, by id and revision. `createWorkerOutputSourceIdentity`
already takes an arbitrary string array and the cursor is already opaque
base64url carrying its own position, so neither the wire shape nor the
`source_changed` contract changes.

Prefix-scoped rather than whole-page deliberately: fingerprinting every item on
the page would flip the identity every 60ms with the coalescer window during an
active turn, making the cursor unusable exactly while the worker is working —
that trades a silent bug for a useless verb. Tail growth the caller has not read
cannot invalidate; any change to what it already holds does. Position-dependence
is safe because `p` rides in the same opaque payload as the identity, and the
returned cursor is stamped with the identity of its own end, which is precisely
what the next read recomputes. The frozen archive keeps a constant identity: no
item can be revised under a caller there, so it has no prefix to fingerprint.

Both silent shapes are pinned across a page boundary with the journal mutating
between reads — a static-journal test passes either way. Two ablations at the
real call site: reverting to the oldest-item-only anchor turns both red, and
widening the prefix to the whole page turns the tail-growth case red, which is
what proves the scoping is real in both directions.

* docs(orchestration): stop the structured terminal-read refusal recommending a dead end

The refusal told a peer to "page it with `orca orchestration worker-read
--source transcript`", which is wrong three ways and this file said so itself:
its own header explains that this verb exists BECAUSE `worker-read` demands a
dispatch id and coordinator standing "a peer does not have" — and then the
refusal sent that same peer there. The verb it named is also a window index over
the same bounded page, so it is not a paging answer even for a caller who can
reach it; under load it now answers `source_changed` on most polls, which is
better than the silent hole it had before but still not what the sentence
promised.

The refusal now says what actually works — the tail is bounded and newest-last,
so poll it and diff — and names no alternative, because there is none. That is
the honest framing: a durable cursor is not achievable here at all, rather than
blocked on the wire shape. The journal is a reduced, MUTABLE timeline: an item's
projected text changes at its original sequence after later items exist, the
delta coalescer revises repeatedly, settlement can rewrite an item smaller, a
pending approval renders as nothing and then as something, and `sequence` resets
on epoch rollover. No index, numeric or opaque, survives that.

So the docstring's "pagination with a real anchor lives on `worker-read --source
transcript`" is gone too — there is no real anchor there — and the file now
records why no windowed alternative should be built later: a broken cursor fails
UNSAFE, as a silent hole in a poller's output, while diffing a bounded tail fails
safe as a harmless re-read, and a second paging-shaped verb would invite the PTY
assumptions this one cannot honour.

The test asserted the old advice, so it now pins the contract instead: the
refusal explains the working approach and must never name `worker-read`.
`worker-read --source transcript` remains a good bounded snapshot for a
coordinator reading a worker it dispatched; only the "or page it with" clause was
false.

* fix(i18n): add the missing worktree-removal agent-session refusal string

The structured-session removal refusal introduced a translate() key with no
en.json entry. Nothing local catches that: typecheck passes, and the full
suite passes, because a missing key falls back to its inline default at
runtime. Only verify:localization-catalog fails on it, which is why CI's
static analysis reddened on a branch that was green everywhere else.

Fallback wording mirrors the sibling unstoppedPtyLive string, since the two
refusals differ only in what is still running and what Force Delete does to it.

* test(codex): expect the no-identity marker on an unregistered structured child

The refuse-rather-than-guess marker landed after these expectations were
written, and all three assert exact env equality on the unregistered path —
the one branch that now carries ORCA_STRUCTURED_SESSION. One of the two files
was added by this same branch, so this is a self-inflicted drift; the other
predates the branch and was broken by it.

The marker's presence is still pinned positively by
structured-worker-child-identity-env.test.ts and the CLI's
orchestration-structured-session-no-identity.test.ts, so relaxing these three
exact-equality checks loses no coverage of the security property.

* fix(orchestration): require exit evidence before settling structured close

---------

Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 20:24:21 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 3160b54c69 feat: real background push notifications for the mobile app (#8129) (#18554)
* feat(cloud): add the mobile push gateway and its contract package (#8129)

A small open-source service that holds the APNs key and FCM credentials and
sends background push to paired phones on the desktop's behalf. Hosts
authenticate with a box challenge and HMAC proof on their pairing key, the
same shape the relay uses, so signed-in and accountless desktops share one
path. Tokens are stored; alert text is held only for the coalescing window.

The contract doc in docs/reference is the source of truth for every wire
shape. The interop test runs the real desktop answerer against a real
gateway-issued challenge so transcript drift fails in CI.

* feat(push): register phones and send background push from the desktop (#8129)

Adds the notifications.remote-push.v1 capability, the registerPush and
unregisterPush RPCs on the mobile allowlist, a gateway client with a cached
session and 401 re-auth, a durable unregister outbox, and a dispatcher that
offers every mobile notification to the gateway after the socket fan-out.
The dispatcher is fire-and-forget with one retry and drops registrations the
gateway reports dead.

Puts agentState on the mobile frame and fixes the #4375 wording so a working
agent is never announced as finished. The relay host-proof code moves onto a
shared envelope module with no behaviour change.

* feat(mobile): background push registration, receive, and settings (#8129)

Fetches the native APNs or FCM token, registers it with every paired host
that advertises the capability, and re-registers on token change. Foreground
pushes are suppressed inside handleNotification against the same seen set
the socket path uses, so nothing shows twice. Taps route by host fingerprint.
One Background notifications switch, off by default, with the disclaimer and
needs-input / finished sub-switches; hidden until a paired desktop is new
enough. Adds google-services.json and the expo-notifications plugin.

* chore(cloud): Terraform and deploy workflow for the push gateway (#8129)

Declares the Cloud Run service, runtime account, secrets, and orca_push
database behind push_gateway_enabled, true only in production. The deploy
workflow is gated like the relay's, deploys with no traffic, probes /ready
and a validate-only FCM send, then shifts traffic. It runs as the shared
production deploy account because the Cloud SQL rollout lease grant is
foundation-owned; its extra authority is three bindings on the push service.
docs/push-gateway.md carries the import commands for the resources created
by hand and the APNs key rotation procedure.

* docs: describe background notifications on the phone (#8129)

* docs: check in the mobile push contract (#8129)

Seven committed files cite it as the source of truth for every wire shape;
docs/reference is allowlisted per file, so add the entry.

* test(push): replay one checked-in host-proof vector on both sides (#8129)

Cloud Verify installs only the cloud workspace, so the gateway suite cannot
import the desktop answerer. Replace the cross-workspace import with a fixed
challenge vector generated from the contract package; the gateway fixture and
the desktop answerer each replay it and must produce the same HMAC. A
transcript drift on either side now fails in that side's own suite.

* fix(cloud): open the push gateway with invoker_iam_disabled, not an allUsers binding (#8129)

The production domain-restricted-sharing policy rejects an allUsers
run.invoker member, which the runbook anticipated. Opt the service out of
invoker IAM the way the relay director already does; the host proof is the
authentication either way.

* docs(cloud): the push.onorca.dev record exists and is hand-managed (#8129)

* fix(push): close review findings in the gateway (#8129)

- Quota reservation takes a per-host advisory lock; READ COMMITTED admitted
  a whole burst past the cap (80/80 without, 60/80 with, against Postgres 16).
- Challenge issuance no longer writes push_hosts; the row lands on proof
  verification. Stale hosts prune after 30 days. Per-IP token bucket on the
  two unauthenticated routes.
- Streaming body limit via hono bodyLimit; a chunked body bypassed the
  Content-Length check.
- registrationIds deduped in the schema; per-host device cap of 64; list
  bounded to its schema.
- Gateway-side challenge TTL is the specified 10 s, not 40 s.
- APNs stream settles on close as well as end/error.

* fix(push): close review findings in the desktop client (#8129)

- A gateway registration the registry cannot persist is enqueued for delete
  instead of leaking a live token.
- Unregister outbox re-reads pending per pass, honours enqueues during a
  drain, and retries with backoff instead of waiting for the next launch.
- Dispatcher batches registrations by 20 rather than starving the rest.
- 401 compare-and-clear; a 401 after re-auth is unreachable; refused
  handshakes and 429s are cached briefly instead of re-handshaking per event.
- Service is stopped on quit.

* fix(mobile): close review findings in push registration and receive (#8129)

- Consent generation guards a register that finishes after the switch went
  off; the host is re-queued for unregister instead of recorded live.
- Foreground pushes seed the watermark before adopting the epoch, so a push
  on a never-connected session cannot wipe a valid watermark.
- aps-environment follows the build via app.config.js; the iOS release
  workflow sets it to production. A bare plugin entry wrote development.
- Pushes the OS showed while closed are marked seen before catch-up replay.
- Token null result is not cached; failed capability probes are retried and
  never block an unregister; coalesced summaries are shown but not marked.
- Unresolvable fingerprint routes nowhere and is suppressed in foreground.
- Android channel ensured at boot; capability hook diffs clients by identity.

* fix(cloud): harden the push deploy workflow and size the gateway to the budget (#8129)

- Roll traffic back on a failed post-shift check; delete a candidate that
  never took traffic; retry the origin probe and the FCM probe.
- Assert Terraform-owned scaling instead of mutating it from the workflow.
- Build before taking the Cloud SQL rollout lease.
- Declare the database pool in Terraform (2 per instance, max 2 instances)
  and add the gateway to the connection budget; the previous default put the
  shared instance 65 connections over its ceiling.
- State plainly that the shared deploy identity's relay authority is inherited.

* fix(push): read the runtime from shared state at push startup (#8129)

Threading the runtime through launchDesktopMode put the launch module one
line over the 300-line lint budget after the rebase.

* fix(push): key the unauthenticated rate limit on the hop Cloud Run wrote (#8129)

Cloud Run appends the connecting peer to x-forwarded-for; the limiter read
the left-most value, which the caller controls, so a forged first hop earned
a fresh bucket per request.

* fix(push): close the final security review findings in the gateway and infra (#8129)

- app.onError logs only the error name and answers a bare 500; hono's default
  handler printed the whole error, and a pg error carries the row in detail
- a second per-IP bucket (240/min) runs ahead of the bearer lookup on every
  authenticated route, so forged bearers cannot spend the two-connection pool
- one live session per host: minting deletes the host's earlier row
- device-less hosts are pruned after 1 h, not 30 d; any keypair mints one free
- notificationId is printable ASCII, since it becomes the APNs collapse header
- the impersonated FCM probe token is masked in the workflow log
- prevent_destroy on the Apple secrets and the orca_push database

* fix(push): close the final security review findings in the desktop client (#8129)

- fetch never follows a redirect: a 307 would replay the host proof and the
  phone's token to whatever origin the redirect named
- registerPush params are strict and the paired identity is spread last
- a per-device bucket (10/min) bounds a phone looping registerPush, which
  costs a gateway write and a synchronous registry write each time

* fix(mobile): close the final security review findings in push receive (#8129)

- a push with no epoch can no longer claim a seq-derived dedup key, in the
  foreground or from the tray; a forged seq:N could otherwise swallow the
  real bell at that seq
- a provider-delivered push with no host catalog, or no fingerprint at all,
  stays unrouted instead of falling back to the hostId its raw data carries

* docs(push): record the ip buckets, session and host retention, and the token-ownership limit (#8129)

* fix(push): apply the schema on an untimed pool and retry statement-timeout aborts (#8129)

Ports the relay's #18722 pattern to the gateway: DDL runs on a one-connection
pool with statement_timeout 0 that is closed before the serving pool opens, and
SQLSTATE 57014 joins the bounded transaction retry path.

* fix: harden mobile push delivery and deployment recovery

* feat: align mobile notification preferences with desktop delivery

* fix: accept variable-length APNs device tokens

* fix: deduplicate native APNs and background socket notifications
2026-09-06 23:16:29 -04:00
weekbinandNeil e48d83a5e1 Fix MiniMax China usage routing and credential handling (#14929)
* feat(minimax): endpoint selector, API key auth, weekly usage window (#14264)

The MiniMax (MiniMax) Coding Plan usage fetch was hardcoded to the
overseas platform (platform.minimax.io) and a single 5h session
window, so users on the CN endpoint (www.minimaxi.com) got nothing.

Three changes:

- Add `minimaxEndpoint` (`overseas`|`cn`) and
  `minimaxApiKeyConfigured` settings fields with sensible defaults
  that preserve current behavior. The CN endpoint also accepts an
  API key (safeStorage-encrypted via a new
  `minimax-api-key-store.ts` + IPC pair) for users without a
  browser session cookie. Status-bar visibility now OR's both
  credential flags.
- Cookie-jar origin now tracks the active endpoint. Previously
  cookies were stored under the overseas origin and silently
  dropped when the user picked CN — fixed by threading
  `endpointMode` through the request context, the manual cookie
  header path, and the cookie-jar clear.
- Parse the weekly window in addition to the 5h session and
  surface both as per-window chips (`5h [bar] 10%   wk [bar] 20%`).
  The status bar's compact section prefers the session window; the
  popover keeps the existing `Session` / `Weekly` labels. The
  MiniMax fetcher is split into three files (data / parse / main)
  to stay under the 300-line cap.

i18n is scoped to the Settings-page text (en + zh only); the 5H/7D
duration shorthands stay English across locales by project convention.

Tests: 9 new/updated files; cookies + API key exercised end-to-end
via the rate-limit service with the upstream-refactored test files
(`service-minimax-usage.test.ts`,
`web-preload-api-settings.test.ts`,
`web-preload-api-agent-providers.test.ts`,
`service-test-harness.ts`, and the runtime-home / reset-credit
fixtures).

Refs #14264

* Keep merge formatting scoped to MiniMax

* Keep MiniMax credential status in rate-limit test fixtures

* Use the China console origin for MiniMax request referer

---------

Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-06 19:20:50 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 0c33f58e8a fix(ssh-relay): daemon owns the endpoint credential; a losing start never rotates it (#19052)
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## Symptom

Live 2026-09-05 (Orca 1.4.198 client, Ubuntu host): both relay processes `kill -STOP`ped for 20 s, then `-CONT`. The client redeployed while the host was frozen. Its fresh daemon lost the socket bind (`Socket path already in use`) but had **already rewritten** `relay-<id>.sock.credential`. The surviving daemon kept its in-memory credential, so every later `--connect` got `Endpoint credential mismatch; closing socket`, then `Grace started … timeoutMs=0 … ptys=1, clients=0` every ~20 s, forever. Only a manual `kill -TERM` cleared it. Receipts: `review-archive/orchestration-v3-pr16904/smoke-receipts-t012b/E16,E17,E18,E24`.

Three independent defects kept the wedge alive; each is fixed at its own seam.

## Fix

**1. The relay daemon owns credential publication (race-free under two concurrent starters).**
`relay-daemon.ts` binds the socket first, then publishes via the new `src/relay/relay-endpoint-credential-publication.ts`: adopt a valid pre-existing file (older clients still pre-write), else mint 32 random bytes and write temp+rename at 0600. A start that loses the bind exits inside `listen()` and never reaches the file. Why this option and not restore-on-loss or a client-side write: the only process that can *prove* ownership is the one whose `listen()` succeeded, and that proof is atomic with the bind. The client-side pre-write (`ssh-relay-endpoint-credential.ts`) and the launch-command `chmod 600`/`icacls` are removed on POSIX and Windows. The racing test also exposed that macOS reports a mid-bind collision as `EEXIST` rather than `EADDRINUSE`; `relay-socket-ownership.ts` now treats both as "held or stale".

**2. The client distinguishes "no daemon" from "daemon present but not answering", and never rewrites.**
A credential refusal is now typed on the wire: the daemon replies `orca-relay-handshake-credential-mismatch` (same frame type, no new opcode) and the bridge exits **43**; `waitForSentinel` maps it to `RelayCredentialMismatchError`, which the takeover treats as handshake-refusal evidence exactly like exit 42. A relay that holds the endpoint but **never refused** (the stalled-host shape: kernel backlog accepts the probe, handshake gets no answer) is now `RelayEndpointUnresponsiveError`, routed to the relay-lost backoff instead of the terminal Reset Relay path. Silence is not a decision (`docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md`).

**2b. Deploy honours the verdict.** The 40 s live run exposed that the `--connect` catch block in `deployAndLaunchRelay` predates the incumbent probe and swallowed both verdicts as "probe failed, launch fresh", so a fresh daemon was still launched over the live one (it lost the bind by luck, which is exactly the collision in the incident). Held and Unresponsive now propagate; the session backs off on Unresponsive and surfaces Reset Relay on Held. Red-first in `ssh-relay-deploy-incumbent-verdict.test.ts`.

**3. The daemon cannot be wedged by a rotated file, because nothing can rotate it.**
The credential lives in the content-hashed relay dir, and after (1) the only writer is the daemon that owns the socket, so the "file changed under a live daemon" state the incident depended on is no longer reachable in-product. The credential is therefore fixed for the daemon's lifetime, as a plain secret should be. A hand-edited file is refused with the typed reply until restored (tested). Startup adoption of a pre-written file applies an owner-only + same-uid rule (review finding): anything else is replaced by a fresh mint. An earlier revision of this PR also re-read the file on mismatch and adopted it; that was removed as unreachable machinery that turned the credential into a per-handshake file-ownership check.

**3b. Fail closed between bind and publication.** A client that arrives after `listen()` resolves but before the credential is set is refused, not admitted as `unproved`. Nothing can be delivered in that window today; the guard makes the boundary structural instead of an event-loop ordering fact. Red-first in `relay-reconnect-listener-credential-gate.test.ts`.

**Wire compat.** New optional handshake reply only; an old `--connect` hits `Unknown handshake type` and exits 1 pre-sentinel, which it already treated as a generic failure. New daemon adopts an old client's pre-written file; new client still passes `--credential-file` so an old daemon reads it as before. Absence of exit 43 is never used as evidence.

**Also.** `terminal create` on a reconnecting SSH host now says what to do instead of a bare `No PTY provider for connection "<id>"` (prefix preserved; the renderer matches it).

## Tests (red first)

- `src/relay/subprocess.test.ts`: two `--detached` starts race one socket + credential file → exactly one reaches the sentinel, loser exits 1 with `Socket path already in use`, file valid + 0600, a `--connect` reading it reaches `relay.status` and reports the winner's pid. Red before (both starters died: daemon required a pre-existing file), green 6/6 after.
- `src/relay/relay-endpoint-credential-publication.test.ts`: mints after bind; adopts a pre-written 0600 file; replaces a pre-written 0644 file with a fresh mint; refuses a stale credential with exit 43 while still serving the real one, and keeps refusing a rewritten file until it is restored.
- `src/relay/relay-reconnect-listener-credential-gate.test.ts`: a client in the bind-to-publish window is refused and never attached; after publication the right credential is accepted and a wrong one refused; a daemon launched without a credential file is not gated. Red without the guard.
- `ssh-relay-deploy-incumbent-verdict.test.ts`: live-but-silent incumbent → `RelayEndpointUnresponsiveError`, refused → `RelayEndpointHeldError`, and in neither case is `--detached` launched; a failed `test -S` probe still launches fresh. Red 2/3 without the deploy change.
- `ssh-relay-deploy-helpers.test.ts` (exit 43), `ssh-relay-endpoint-takeover.test.ts` (refused → Held even with no `lsof`; silent → Unresponsive, nothing unlinked or signalled), `ssh-relay-session-terminal-error.test.ts` (Unresponsive → `onRelayLost`, not terminal). Deploy/namespace/native-deps tests updated to assert the client writes **no** credential.

## Live proof

New `tests/e2e/ssh-docker-relay-stall-credential.spec.ts` (claimed in `run-ssh-docker-e2e.mjs` and PR source routing), two cases: `kill -STOP` every relay pid in the container, send input during the freeze, hold **20 s** (the incident's duration, which races the mux liveness timeout) or **40 s** (past it for sure), `kill -CONT`; assert status back to `connected`, same pty, same daemon pid, same credential inode and content, relay.log did not shrink (a relaunch truncates it) and has zero `Endpoint credential mismatch` / `Socket path already in use` lines, in-stall input delivered at most once.

Run output (local, fixture image `orca-e2e-ssh-relay:3a864c665ba2cefd`, `ORCA_E2E_SSH_DOCKER=1 SKIP_BUILD=1 ORCA_E2E_FORWARD_APP_LOGS=1 … --project electron-headless --workers=1`, head `c2c20fd994`; re-run identically on the final head after the credential-lifetime change, 2 passed (1.7m), same annotations, and the bind-to-publish refusal never fired):

```
✓ keeps the same daemon and credential across a 20s relay freeze (38.3s)
    relay-processes-stopped: 2          relay-processes-continued: 2
    bridge-pids-before-after: 480 -> 480
    socket-clients-accepted-before-after: 1 -> 1
    in-stall-input-delivered: 1
✓ backs off and reattaches, never relaunching, across a 40s relay freeze (57.5s)
    relay-processes-stopped: 2          relay-processes-continued: 4
    bridge-pids-before-after: 480 -> 1202
    socket-clients-accepted-before-after: 1 -> 3
    in-stall-input-delivered: 1
2 passed (1.6m)
```

Client log in the 40 s case shows the new path end to end: `Relay channel lost … reconnect attempt 1/6` → `Socket probe result: "ALIVE"` → `Socket reconnect failed … Relay failed to start within 10s` → `Relay endpoint incumbent: … verdict=live evidence=accepted-connection holders=unenumerable` → `Failed to re-establish relay … A relay still owns … but did not answer the handshake … Orca will retry` → `reconnect attempt 2/6` → `Reconnected to existing relay via socket`. The 20 s case never left the frozen bridge (same bridge pid, one accept), so it exercises the "silence is not death" side of the same race. The 20 s case passed 6/6 across the session; the 40 s case was red on the prior head (`Socket path already in use` + `Startup failed: listen EADDRINUSE` in relay.log from the swallowed verdict) and is green after 2b. Before the fix the same injection produced a fresh daemon that rewrote the credential and a survivor refusing every client.

The `relay-processes-continued` count exceeds `stopped` in the 40 s case because the timed-out client's `--connect` bridge and the loser-side processes are parked behind the frozen listener when `CONT` runs; they exit on their own once it resumes.

## Gates

`pnpm test src/relay src/main/ssh` 332 files / 3884 tests pass · `pnpm typecheck:tsc:node` clean · `check:code-quality:changed` 0 findings · `check:react-doctor:changed` 0 findings · `pr-e2e-gate-contract.test.mjs` 42 pass · no lint disables or max-lines bumps added.

## Noted, not fixed here

- `terminal list` `orphaned:false` / `terminal close` `ptyKilled:true` for a pane whose relay is gone (`orca-runtime-stop-explicitly-closed-tab-ptys.ts`): different seam, `@ts-nocheck` characterization-covered file.
- On a host with no `lsof`, a stalled relay still cannot be enumerated as the holder; it is now retried rather than declared held, but a relay frozen past the backoff budget still ends in the existing "reconnect manually" banner.
2026-09-06 14:39:25 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 06a607a1d7 feat(orchestration): make multi-agent workflows durable (#16904)
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## ELI5

Orca now treats orchestration like a durable control plane instead of inferring success from terminal keystrokes. Agents can tell whether a prompt was accepted or a turn started, replay an ambiguous request without sending twice, and recover coordinator mail after a crash. Completed workers can be inspected, released, or retained, and their panes no longer auto-resume as if the work were still running.

## What changed

- **Run receipts** from `run-create/use/current/show/list` are the row without routing plumbing (`home_database`, `coordinator_pane_key`) and without the duplicate `binding` object.
- **`terminal send` receipts are honest and idempotent.** `input_accepted` and `turn_started` are the only stages; `--wait-submit` observes without resending; `--retry-request <uuid>` replays the exact request against the same process incarnation. A transport timeout keeps the retry ID; only a different runtime answering strips it. Value-less or non-UUID `--retry-request` is rejected on the CLI and the SSH shim.
- **Mailbox delivery is committed before wakeup.** Pointer writes are staged in the DB before any PTY byte, replayed once after restart, and never emit a naked Enter. The watermark that parks concurrent deliveries is released with the DB reservation. Restart rescans pointer-pending and `dispatch:` mailboxes.
- **Lifecycle is a guarded transition graph** (`lifecycle-transition.ts`) with a table-driven test over every caller edge. Task reopen/overturn stays in the public contract. A PTY exit during `worker-stop` is the stop succeeding, not a failure.
- **Worker lifecycle CLI:** `worker-start` (`--spec` creates Task + attempt in one call), `worker-show`, `worker-read` (provider transcript first, bounded terminal fallback with a typed reason, local/WSL/SSH), `worker-stop`, `worker-abandon`, `worker-release`, `worker-retain`, `worker-list` (rowid-fenced pagination, fleet liveness, `attention`, literal `nextAction`).
- **Release is an explicit ownership table** (`decideWorkerTerminalRelease`): only an `owned` resource can be settled, the archive is mandatory where reachable, and an owner whose process is proven exited can always get out of `retained` via `archive_status: unavailable`. User-taken-over, external, and transferred panes stay retained.
- **Settled-worker resume fence** (folds in #17651): a settled dispatch whose pane is still open is fenced at settlement, on stop/abandon/exit, and at startup; lifted on release, retain, takeover, and pane reuse.
- **Liveness is `live` / `unverifiable` / `exited` only**, from execution-host evidence. Fleet projection reads the evidence clock, not the relay delivery clock. A host-certified exit outranks the worker's settled state. `unverifiable` never authorizes stop, abandon, retry, or release, in code or in the guide.
- **Federation:** structured reads negotiate by `method_not_found` so every shipped host keeps transcript-first output; exited remote workers are closed before being reported closed; epoch fencing holds across peer restart, downgrade, and pairing rotation; no per-second forced capability probe.
- **Schema v35:** repairs databases stamped v34 by the pre-fix branch (mailbox_handle default, index predicates), drops the write-only `lifecycle_transition_receipts` ledger and five never-read v31 identity columns.
- **Schema v36:** `dispatch:<id>` mailboxes get a real consumer generation on `dispatch_contexts` and `remote_dispatch_attachments`, bumped and fenced in the same transaction on every re-attach (manual inject, worker-start, federated attach). A stale worker whose Dispatch moved to another process now gets `consumer_fenced` instead of silently acking the new worker's Delivery. Run mailboxes already worked this way.
- **Schema v37:** `dispatch_contexts` records its creator (`creator_handle`, `creator_pane_key`), so a coordinator's context-only self-dispatch is bookkeeping rather than a nesting parent; before this, one self-dispatch made every later `worker-start` from that coordinator fail the depth cap. Pre-v37 rows keep counting (fails closed).
- **Dispatch-mailbox ownership is checked, not inferred.** A `check` from a process whose pane no longer holds the Dispatch, or whose last Attempt was abandoned/failed and moved to another terminal, gets `consumer_fenced` instead of an empty inbox that reads as "no mail yet". `--peek`/`--all` stay readable. A paneless caller still gets `stable_pane_required` with the rebind recovery.
- **Liveness certification is stricter:** a `process_exited` stage whose termination reason is `unknown` (a stop that was issued but never observed) projects `unverifiable`, not `exited`. Federated `worker-show` carries the execution host's verdict and host kind instead of a local guess. A live, ready worker with nothing pending has `nextAction: none` rather than pointing at the `worker-show` that produced it.
- **Wire:** `workerShow` keeps `dispatch.task_id` next to `taskId` for shipped CLIs. `ask --json` uses the standard `{ok, result}` envelope like every sibling verb.
- **Migration start-version detection** treats the two v32 recovery columns as versioned. Before this, every shipped database stamped below 32 resolved to the v6 floor and replayed the whole chain (the v23 backfill synthesized 68 phantom retained workers on a real v30 profile). Verified on a copy of a real 62 MB v30 profile: starts at 30, no row delta, integrity ok, 11 ms.
- **Skill guide** rewritten as a ≤200-line kernel plus seven references, to the outcome-first standard (Result / Done / Safe failure first, conditions not case lists, one done bar, references loaded at the point of use). The canonical loop uses `worker-start --spec`, names `worker-list` for completion accounting, documents `--retry-request` / `request-show` / `--wait-submit`, and requires positive evidence before any stall action. The other seven guides get the same treatment in #18724, split out so this PR stays orchestration-only.
- **`rpc/methods/orchestration-*`** (126 flat files) regrouped into `orchestration/{worker,federation,messaging,runs,gates}/`.

## Why

User reports showed the same boundary failures: false `agent_prompt_stalled` causing duplicate sends (#15180), coordinators unable to trust screen scrapes, cold-parked terminals receiving a pointer without the submit, settled workers accumulating as live tabs and auto-resuming after restart, and no way to tell a stalled worker from a working one.

## Linked issues

Fixes #15180. Fixes #17935 (orchestration skill description is 866 characters; a guard now caps every bundled skill at 1,024). Supersedes #17651 (fence folded in). Advances #16660, #16522, #14907, #13047.

## Review record

This PR was reviewed adversarially after revival: eight independent lenses (lifecycle, mailbox, send, worker, federation, transcript, complexity, live ergonomics), each required to prove findings with a failing test. That produced 16 proven blockers, all fixed with red-then-green regression tests, followed by two re-review rounds and a third fix wave that caught 3 regressions introduced by the fixes and 7 fixes that missed their target; all closed. A final pass (five lenses incl. a live built-runtime smoke, then a re-review of the fix wave) found and fixed seven more, chiefly the stale-worker mailbox steal, the self-dispatch depth wedge, and the unproven-exit certification. Three independent Codex (gpt-6-astra) passes followed: the first found nothing new, the second found and fixed 3 defects (task-status reachability, WSL-local host classification, peer-capability epoch), the third found and fixed 6 (production PTY controller never installed settled writes, ambiguous in-flight pointer failures allowed duplicate replay, SSH/relay deadlines cut off a valid `--wait-submit`, stop-vs-exit race during inspection, and two release-recovery paths for vanished or exited terminals). The full record (findings, proof tests, triage, declines with reasons) is archived outside the repo.

**Rework after the live smoke.** A first live cross-host run on the shipped adhoc build (this Mac, a paired Windows host on the same build, a paired Mac on 1.4.195, and an SSH host) found a P1: a running local worker read `unverifiable`/`missing_status` because the fleet snapshot rows lacked the terminal handle the matcher keyed on. A 59-row failure table over every bug fixed during review showed the same two classes recurring: a fact dropped in transit through optional fields, and two authorities for one fact. Two blind designs (Opus, Codex) converged on the same mechanisms, and the scoped tranches landed here with red-then-green seam tests from the real producer to the real consumer, faults injected only at the transport or hook-ingest boundary:

- **Settlement (data-loss class):** one three-valued `WriteSettlement` (`accepted | refused{reason} | unverifiable{reason, bytesHandedToTransport}`) from the SSH multiplexer through daemon client, providers, controller, to pointer staging. No boolean, no rejection-as-third-state. The two silent degrades that fabricated a handoff are deleted; a provider that cannot settle refuses before any effect. Pointer text and Enter share the contract; a partial flush is `unverifiable`, never `refused`.
- **Evidence identity (false-liveness class):** fleet agent-status evidence is a tagged union (`binding: worker | pane | unresolved{reason}`, `clock: observed | delivery`) minted once at ingest, so a hook row captured on one process incarnation can never bind to a later dispatch on the same pane. The matcher's `!worker.paneKey ||` defaults are gone. One host-scope parser replaces two.
- **Small pre-merge items:** `capability_unsupported` from an old peer is no longer relabelled `host_unavailable`; a producer census test asserts every agent-status consumer path projects a pane-only hook row as `live`.

Two ergonomics defects the second live run surfaced on a real database are fixed here too: a pre-v3 dispatch already marked `completed` projected as `outcome_unknown` / `requiresAction: true` forever (three copies of the outcome ladder disagreed on legacy rows; now one resolver, legacy `completed` reads `succeeded` with nothing to act on, legacy `failed` stays actionable on the failure), and an unscoped `worker-list` enumerated the entire database (now defaults to the Run bound to the calling terminal, `--run` overrides, and the receipt's additive `scope` field says which).

A third live round on the shipped adhoc build of `b082443e1f` (same four hosts) plus an unscripted run in the user's own prompt style (a plain Claude Code shell, `/orchestration`, three workers, zero errors, bound-Run default confirmed) found two more branch defects, fixed with red-then-green tests: a worker freshly started on a paired server projected `unverifiable`/`host_indeterminate` with `requiresAction` for ~3 minutes, including after its own `worker_done`, because the host's federation observation returned `missing_liveness_verdict` for any PTY the liveness register had not yet swept (the host now reads a connected pane it owns locally as `live`; disconnected or SSH-scoped panes stay `unverifiable`); and six pre-v3 completed rows still carried an `input` category because settling through the task-status path or `failDispatch` never closed the Dispatch's pending question threads (both paths close them now, and schema v38 closes threads already pending on settled rows). The guide's `worker-start` examples now show `--model sonnet`, since an omitted model inherits the launcher's default.

A Codex adversarial pass on the tranche diff found one real design hole (identity minted at read time instead of ingest, now closed) and two daemon settlement paths that threw instead of settling (fixed). Two `@ts-nocheck` runtime mixins on these paths were extracted into checked modules; the repo-wide `@ts-nocheck` count is unchanged at 171.

Deletions during review: ~1,900 lines (write-only ledger, unread columns, dead v1 archive path, test harnesses shipped in prod, duplicated liveness and state-machine copies, self-capability checks that were compile-time true).

## Testing

- `pnpm typecheck:tsc:node|cli|web` clean
- `pnpm run check:code-quality:changed` 0 findings; `check:react-doctor:changed` 0
- `pnpm verify:bundled-skill-guides`, `verify:skill-bundle-manifest`
- full `pnpm test` on the integrated head: 72,332 pass / 292 skipped; the only failures were three non-PR files (two zsh live-shell suites hit a node-pty spawn-helper ENOENT while a concurrent native rebuild ran, 44/44 in isolation; `release-checkout.unit.test.ts` is a known 30 s load timeout that passes in isolation on `origin/main` too).
- CI on 70b4811267 (rerun, pre-Codex): the only reds are five SSH e2e specs plus `terminal-send-agent-prompt-submit:198`, each shown failing identically on main (main's E2E workflow is red on its last 40 runs). The terminal-send spec is root-caused and fixed separately in #18707. The Windows hook-service flake (#17721) and the federation load flake did not recur.
- Skills: `pnpm exec vitest run` over the skill gate files plus `src/cli`, `config/scripts`, `src/main/skills` pass; live smoke on the built CLI of `skills get orchestration` and `--full` (7 references).
- live headless runtime (`orca-dev serve`, isolated profile): canonical loop, stop, release, archive read, retry rejection, stale-handle check, SIGKILL-and-replay all verified with receipts
- Live cross-host smoke on the shipped adhoc build of `0d465e7931` (this Mac and a paired Windows host on the build, a paired Mac left on 1.4.195, an SSH host): local, paired-new, paired-old and SSH loops all settle; running workers read `live` on every host and `exited` after release; the old peer reads `capability_unsupported` and refuses release honestly. Injected 10 s relay stall with a send in flight: delivered exactly once after recovery, zero duplicates. Every liveness field across 104 receipts is only `live` / `unverifiable` / `exited`.
- Final live cross-host smoke on the shipped adhoc build of `b082443e1f` (same hosts): every loop settles; 942 of 948 legacy completed rows read settled with `requiresAction: false` before the question-thread fix and all of them after; `worker-list` scope reads `bound` / `flag` / `all` correctly; 122 JSON receipts carry only `live` / `unverifiable` / `exited`. Unscripted prompt-style run: clean.
- Confirmation smoke on the shipped adhoc build of `2da076d4e9` (this Mac and the paired Windows host, both updated): a freshly started Windows worker reads `live` on the first fleet poll and on all 20 that follow, with no `host_indeterminate` at any point, and `exited` after release; all 948 legacy completed rows read `requiresAction: false` with `nextAction: none` after schema v38; every verdict across 60 receipts is `live` / `unverifiable` / `exited`.
- Not physically exercised: WSL hosts, the renderer notification bell (headless has no renderer), same-session fence via a real pane close (renderer-only state), restart mid-delivery on a real app (covered by e2e only).

## Notes

- Remote-wire additions are optional fields or `method_not_found`-negotiated methods; one new Electron-only IPC channel (`agentStatus:legacyWorkerTerminalResumeFence`) never crosses the wire.
- SSH contact loss remains `unverifiable`; the execution host stays authoritative.
- Intentional wire projection change: an SSH host scope with an empty `targetId` now projects host id `ssh` instead of an empty string (remote-wire-compatibility rule 3, old clients decode the same field). A fleet pane key without a terminal handle is now `unidentifiable` rather than matched by pane key alone.
- Found live but pre-existing on main, filed separately: a relay daemon-start collision during transport loss rewrites the endpoint credential and wedges the surviving relay (host needs a manual kill); `terminal create` on a reconnecting SSH host reports an opaque `No PTY provider for connection`; `terminal list` reports `orphaned:false` and `terminal close` reports `ptyKilled:true` for a pane whose relay is gone (orchestration's own projection reads `unverifiable` correctly at the same moment).
- Downgrade after this PR is not a supported path: main opens a v37 database and early-returns (its inserts still work against the v36/v37 defaulted columns), but its one-outstanding-Delivery-per-Run index is a no-op against the branch's mailbox-scoped index of the same name.
- Known follow-ups (not blockers): `worker-list` materializes every dispatch row per call; a positive "agent absent" signal distinct from PTY liveness is a product decision left open (a headless fake agent never reaches `live`, so its `nextAction` stays `inspect`); a context-only self-dispatch still lists as `role: worker` in `worker-list`; `dispatch` task-not-found / task-not-ready / inject-rejected still surface as `runtime_error`; task and inbox receipts still expose raw row columns. Deferred skill product decisions live on #18724.
2026-09-06 14:34:03 -04:00
Neil 15dabf8d0b perf(worktree): overlap base refresh with prepared checkout (#18998)
* Stop obsolete worktree preparations when evicted or expired

* Let worktree preparation proceed during stale reclamation

* Verify creation during stalled stale worktree reclamation

* Preserve preparation ownership until Git removal starts

* test: keep artifact share fixtures unexpired across calendar dates (#18955)

* perf(worktree): overlap base refresh with prepared checkout
2026-09-05 22:42:06 -07:00
Neil 64a449df4e perf(search): assemble fragmented subprocess lines incrementally (#18973) 2026-09-05 21:56:15 -07:00
Neil d1e62419b6 perf(watcher): stop admitting stats after batch cancellation (#18931) 2026-09-05 20:03:28 -07:00
Neil 681119dc05 test: isolate window mocks from inherited launch flags (#18989)
* test: isolate mocked window activation from inherited launch flags

* Preserve background window regressions added on main
2026-09-05 19:33:47 -07:00
Neil d7767fb196 perf(worktree): remove redundant creation and terminal startup work (#18793)
* perf(worktree): remove redundant creation and terminal startup work

* test(worktree): cover optimized creation call signatures

Preserve explicit branch adoption, WSL callback routing and sparse cleanup expectations.

* perf: preserve user Git checkout worker settings

* perf(git): skip malformed remote base probes

* perf(cli): avoid loading other agent hooks for Codex preflight

* fix(build): retain Codex preflight entry for packaged CLI

* test(ssh): wait for replacement PTY before lease recovery input

* test(ssh): verify recovered shell execution and lease ownership

* test(electron): reap isolated macOS crash reporters on teardown

* test: allow either observed self-exit snapshot ordering

* test: capture frozen-host input recovery evidence
2026-09-05 15:08:22 -07:00
Neil e95d247be1 perf(terminal): cheap-tier process inspection for anchored local agent panes (#18780)
* perf(terminal): cheap-tier process inspection for anchored local agent panes

Every idle local pane's completion cadence ran a full whole-host `ps` (with
`tty=` and `command=`, 0.34-0.50s on a 1,900-process Mac, 1.15s on Linux)
purely to build `foregroundProcessEvidence` that the renderer then discards
for local ids. Add a cheap tier (same job-control columns, no tty/command,
0.03s) gated so that it introduces no user-facing trade-off:

- Only a pane whose last FULL capture proved a recognized agent may take the
  cheap tier. Panes with no anchor always take the full capture, so start
  discovery keeps today's exact behaviour.
- The cheap tick compares a per-pane fingerprint (root shell pid+start, tpgid,
  every descendant's pid+start+pgid+job-control state). Any change, a changed
  node-pty foreground name, an unreadable capture, or an incarnation mismatch
  escalates to the full capture. A recognized agent's exit is always a pid
  vanishing, which the fingerprint always sees.
- A cheap answer OMITS evidence rather than fabricating a tty-less fence.
  Remote/restore consumers never send `steadyState`, so they keep the full
  capture unchanged.
- `steadyState` is a new optional request field; an old daemon ignores it and
  answers with the full capture.

Measured (8 idle panes, 60s, idle cadence, forks counted by column set):
30 full -> 1 full + 29 cheap.

* fix(terminal): route the cheap ps capture through runProcess

The cheap-tier reader imported node:child_process directly, which the
child-process import-boundary and windowsHide ratchet tests reject (CI shards
1/8 and 3/8). Use Orca's single spawn entry point instead; it pins windowsHide
and encodes argv. Map its result onto the capture-error vocabulary:
outputTruncated -> capture_truncated, timedOut -> capture_timeout, non-zero
exit -> ps_exit_<code>. Tests mock at the runProcess seam.

* fix(perf): refuse a pane fingerprint when any descendant start marker is missing

`buildPaneProcessFingerprint` rejected only a missing root start marker; a missing descendant
marker was stamped as `?`. Two captures that both failed to read the same descendant therefore
compared equal, which removes the pid-reuse protection the fingerprint exists to provide: a
recycled pid could make a vanished agent look unchanged, and the cheap tier would keep serving
its name instead of escalating.

Reachable on Linux, where `readLinuxProcStartTime` legitimately returns null when a process
exits between the `ps` capture and the `/proc/<pid>/stat` read.

Every subtree member now needs a start marker or the fingerprint is refused, which sends the
caller to the full capture — the same conservative default every other uncertain path takes.

Reported by CodeRabbit on #18780. The two new tests fail against the previous code with
`expected '4242@2400#4300:|4300@?:4300:+' to be null`.
2026-09-05 00:57:02 -07:00