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88f2f01061 fix(daemon): escape the terminal daemon into its own systemd scope so a service restart no longer kills every live PTY (#19430)
* fix(daemon): escape the terminal daemon into its own systemd scope so a service restart no longer kills every live PTY

Root cause: daemon-launched-child.ts forks the detached terminal daemon with
detached: true, which escapes the POSIX process group (setsid) but never the
systemd cgroup. Every PTY the daemon owns is itself an undetached direct
child of the daemon (native-pty-spawn.ts). Under a combined systemd unit
(Type=simple, KillMode=mixed, per docs/reference/headless-linux-server.md),
a systemctl restart/stop SIGKILLs every process still in the cgroup at the
stop timeout -- the daemon and every live terminal -- even though the
codebase already has a fully-built adoption/reattachment path for a
surviving daemon (orcad-entry.ts's refreshRestoredOrchestrationAuthority +
reconcileLegacyWorkerTerminals, gated on daemonOwnsFreshPersistentPtys()).
That path never fires today because the daemon never survives long enough.

Fix: when systemd is actually supervising the process and the OS user has a
reachable systemd --user manager (isDurableDaemonScopeSupported(), Linux
only), launch the daemon via systemd-run --user --scope so it lands in a
cgroup that is a sibling of the service unit's cgroup, not a descendant of
it. A systemctl restart of the combined unit then never reaches it. Any
failure of the scoped launch (no reachable bus, D-Bus policy rejection,
etc.) falls back transparently to the existing plain fork() launch, so
every platform/environment without this capability is unaffected.

The daemon self-detects its own resulting cgroup scope via /proc/self/cgroup
(detectOwnCgroupScopeUnit()) rather than trusting the launcher's intent, and
publishes it as cgroupUnit in its pid record and orcad's health/readiness
payload (health.terminalDaemon.cgroupUnit), so a running deployment can be
observed to confirm the fix actually engaged.

No new session registry is added: the existing daemon pid-record + adoption
protocol (publishDaemonPidFile, daemon-pid-record-quarantine.ts's
dead-record reclaim, refreshRestoredOrchestrationAuthority) already
implements durable, crash-safe reattachment for a surviving daemon -- it
was simply never exercised against a full unit restart before now.

Proven via a systemd-in-Docker recovery test: a live PTY session's shell
process, its daemon, and the daemon's cgroup scope were all confirmed
unchanged across a real systemctl restart of a Type=simple/KillMode=mixed
unit, while the main process pid changed (confirming the unit actually
restarted) and the new process's health payload recognized the surviving
daemon as adopted and live. A fresh write into the same PTY post-restart
reached the same running shell. Ordinary terminal create/work/release and
the #18789/#18790 worker-release reap-fix regression tests are unaffected.

Fixes stablyai/orca#19408

* fix(daemon): probe the real per-UID XDG_RUNTIME_DIR before trusting the process's own env

isDurableDaemonScopeSupported()/buildDurableDaemonScopeCommand() trusted the current
process's own XDG_RUNTIME_DIR env var first, falling back to /run/user/<uid> only when
that var was unset entirely. On mtl-02, orca-serve@factory.service's RuntimeDirectory=
hardening directive makes systemd export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/orca_serve/factory into the
unit's process -- a private scratch dir that shares the env var's name but has nothing to
do with the user session bus. /proc/<pid>/environ on that host confirmed exactly that path
plus DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=disabled:, while the real bus was reachable the whole time at
/run/user/985 (confirmed via systemctl --user is-system-running with that dir exported by
hand). The probe treated the hardened override as authoritative, found no bus socket there,
and reported unsupported on every launch -- so the cgroup-escape fix from #19408/#19430
never actually engaged on real hardware, even though tonight's factory deployment picked it
up.

Fix: resolveUserRuntimeDir() now always tries the conventional /run/user/<uid> path first
(computed independently via getuid(), never trusted from env), checking for a genuinely
connectable bus socket via statSync(...).isSocket() rather than a bare existsSync. It falls
back to the process's own XDG_RUNTIME_DIR only when that canonical path has no reachable
bus -- covering hosts that legitimately have no /run/user/<uid> at all but do have a
working bus wherever their own environment points. buildDurableDaemonScopeCommand() now
explicitly sets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to whichever path this resolution picked, rather than
inheriting the spread env's (possibly hardened-wrong) value.

Both isDurableDaemonScopeSupported() and buildDurableDaemonScopeCommand() gained an
injectable canonicalRuntimeDir parameter (defaulting to the real computed path) so tests
can exercise the hardened-override scenario deterministically with a real, connectable
AF_UNIX socket fixture instead of the live host's actual runtime directory.

Docker's stock jrei/systemd-ubuntu test container never had this hardening directive, so
this gap was structurally invisible to the container-based verification in #19430 -- only
caught against real mtl-02 hardware.

* fix(daemon): report the daemon's own pid over the ready handshake, not systemd-run's

The launcher used to infer the daemon's identity pid from the immediate
spawned child (`child.pid`). On the durable-scope path that child is
`systemd-run --user --scope`, not the daemon, so the launcher was asserting
an identity it had no authority over.

`DaemonReadyIdentity` now carries a required `pid` populated from
`process.pid` inside the daemon itself, and `daemon-launched-child.ts` takes
`launchedIdentity.pid` from that self-report. Both sides of the
`holdDaemonAdoptionLease` pid comparison therefore originate inside the
daemon process, which is the idiom this branch already uses for cgroup
membership (`detectOwnCgroupScopeUnit` reads `/proc/self/cgroup` rather than
trusting what the launcher intended).

Note on the reported consequence: `systemd-run --scope` registers its *own*
pid on the transient scope unit and then `execvpe()`s the target command --
same pid, no intermediate process -- so adoption did not in fact fail on
systemd >= 206 (verified against systemd 255.4-1ubuntu8.17 and current main,
`src/run/run.c` `start_transient_scope()`). The fix stands on its own merits:
it removes a silent dependency on that exec-vs-fork implementation detail,
which a `systemd-run` shim earlier in PATH or any future systemd change would
have broken with no diagnostic.

`terminateLaunchedDaemonChild` was audited and deliberately left on
`child.pid`: for the same execve-preserves-pid reason that pid is either
still systemd-run mid-scope-setup (killing it correctly aborts the launch) or
already the daemon, so it targets the right process either way.

Regression coverage: `daemon-launched-child-identity.test.ts` pins the
identity source, and `daemon-ready-identity.test.ts` gains pid-validation
cases. Ready-message fixtures across the `daemon-init-*` suites were updated
for the now-mandatory field.

Addresses:
https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/19430#discussion_r3953722704
https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/19430#discussion_r3954346518

* test(daemon): assert cgroupUnit in the pid-file parse contract

`parseDaemonPidFile` returns `cgroupUnit` on every branch as of the
durable-scope commit on this branch, but five exhaustive `toEqual`
assertions in daemon-health.test.ts still described the pre-scope shape, so
they failed on the branch independently of any later change.

Adds the field to those expectations. Deliberately not relaxed to
`toMatchObject`: asserting the full parsed shape is what makes these tests
catch a field silently dropped from the pid-file contract.

* refactor(daemon): resolve the canonical user runtime dir at one point

The per-UID path cannot change for a live process, so compute it once into a module
const instead of threading the same default call through three signatures, and drop
the try/catch around a getuid() that cannot throw once it exists. Trims the module
prose to the non-obvious facts and corrects the pid-file record comment: an unscoped
daemon writes null; only records no daemon wrote are absent.

* test(daemon): clean up the cgroup-scope fixtures and assert a verdict

The cgroup fixture tracked only the file it wrote, leaking one temp dir per case.
Drains both fixture lists with splice so the pop-may-be-undefined guards go away,
and replaces a not-throw/typeof-boolean pair with the verdict it was circling:
no resolvable runtime dir means unsupported.

* refactor(daemon): share the detached child options across both launch paths

cwd, detached and stdio were repeated in the fork and systemd-run branches, which
left the two comments explaining them hovering over the env block instead. Names
them once so each branch carries only its own delta.

* refactor(daemon): validate the ready pid like every other field

typeof-first narrows the value, so the two 'as number' casts the isSafeInteger check
needed disappear and the pid guard reads like the startedAtMs guard below it.

* fix(daemon): don't retry the launch unscoped after losing the endpoint race

A scoped attempt that lost the endpoint to another daemon was retried unscoped: a
second doomed fork, a misleading 'cgroup-scope launch failed' warning, and the same
DaemonEndpointUnavailableError the caller was already going to adopt on. Rethrows it
instead, since no launch mode can win a race that is already lost.

Also drops a private alias for DaemonChildSpawnOptions and the two 'as number' casts
on child.pid in the startup-failure cleanup.

* fix(daemon): unlink the pid record by the pid the daemon published

The record holds the daemon's self-reported pid, so match on that rather than on the
immediate child's, which is the systemd-run wrapper's until it execs.

* fix(daemon): route the scope launch through the child-process chokepoint

The two files this PR added imported `node:child_process` directly, which
`child-process-import-boundary.test.ts` fails on deterministically: the
offender count went 155 -> 157 against a pin of exactly 155. Raising the pin
or listing the files is what that test explicitly forbids, and the allowlist's
own note says a split "moved the import, it did not add one" -- so the fix is
to get both new files off the module and put the count back at 155.

- `daemon-cgroup-scope.ts`: the `systemd-run --version` probe now uses
  `runProcessSync` instead of `execFileSync`, so it gets the shared spawn
  decisions. Kept synchronous deliberately: `launchDaemonChild` attaches the
  readiness listener in the same tick it is called, and an await before the
  spawn moves the child past that tick. A non-zero exit is data rather than a
  throw here, so the verdict now checks `code === 0 && !timedOut`.
- `daemon-launched-child-spawn.ts`: the scoped launch uses `spawnProcess`, and
  the long-standing unscoped launch keeps `fork` semantics through a new
  `forkProcess`.
- `src/shared/child-process/fork-process.ts`: the fork arm of the chokepoint.
  `spawnProcess` cannot express a Node child with an IPC channel started from
  a module path under an overridden `execPath`, and the existing launch tests
  are written against `fork`'s contract, so a spawn rewrite would have changed
  module resolution, `execPath` and `execArgv` at once. It passes
  `windowsHide: true` -- the flag every other call site in that directory
  sets, reachable via an assertion because `ForkOptions` omits it -- which
  keeps `windows-console-visibility.test.ts` at its pin of 65 too.

Both ratchets pass with both pins and both allowlists untouched.

Docs: `orcad-operations.md` and `headless-linux-server.md` still described the
limitation this PR removes as permanent. Both now describe the durable-scope
survival path and its preconditions (systemd as PID 1, a reachable user bus /
`loginctl enable-linger`, `systemd-run` on PATH), and scope the old text to
the unscoped-fallback case, pointing at `health.terminalDaemon.cgroupUnit` as
the way to tell the two apart on a running host.

* fix(daemon): seal the cgroup capability probe from the host and correct KillMode=mixed docs

The capability probe consulted the host's own /run/systemd/system marker and
spawned the real systemd-run binary, so the hermetic unit tests could only pass
on a systemd host (and fail closed otherwise, even with faked bus sockets).

- Thread systemdBootPath and runVersionProbe as test seams through
  isDurableDaemonScopeSupported, defaulting to the real boot marker and
  systemd-run --version probe in production.
- Narrow the injected probe to the ProcessResult slice it consumes.
- Cover: no-systemd-boot, non-zero probe exit, and probe-timeout cases.
- Correct KillMode=mixed semantics in the docs: the cgroup-wide SIGKILL fires
  the instant the main process exits, not after TimeoutStopSec; document the
  Docker-container caveat and add KillMode=mixed to the multi-service template.

* fix(daemon): satisfy assertion checks in scoped launch

* fix(daemon): satisfy anti-slop and console guards

* test(serve): update shutdown docs assertions for daemon scope

* fix(daemon): migrate adopted legacy scopes

* docs: qualify restart safety by daemon scope

* docs(daemon): qualify Upgrade restart prose with durable scope caveat

Align the Upgrade section in docs/reference/headless-linux-server.md with
the earlier preservation section and docs/reference/orcad-operations.md:
a service restart terminates live processes only when running under the
unscoped fallback, and stops should be treated as destructive unless
health.terminalDaemon.cgroupUnit names an orca-daemon-*.scope.

Update the shutdown workflow test assertion in
config/scripts/headless-serve-shutdown-workflow.test.mjs to match.

* fix(daemon): harden legacy scope migration

---------

Co-authored-by: Lesley Murfin <260182349+LesleyMurfin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@Mac.localdomain>
2026-09-21 17:23:30 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 97aa5ff19b fix(mobile): open native chat when a new worktree launches a default agent (#19850)
* refactor(agent-launch): make the launch-mode decision surface-neutral

`decideWorkerStartMode` was the only shared answer to "structured chat session
or terminal agent?", but it lived in an orchestration-named module and spoke
orchestration's vocabulary, so the other launch surfaces could not call it.
Move the decision to `main/agent-launch/agent-launch-mode` unchanged and leave
`orchestration-worker-start-mode` as the adapter that supplies the noun.

A worker is not a special kind of launch; it is the same launch with a dispatch
attached. Naming the receipt's subject is the only thing orchestration actually
contributed, so that is the only thing the adapter keeps: "worker" in both
sentences, plus the `--terminal` wording, which reads as nonsense anywhere a
`--terminal` flag does not exist. Both are pinned, because they are asserted.

No behavior change. The receipts are byte-identical for every reachable case,
proven by running the new pin against both implementations.

Also pins the wording, which nothing was holding. The existing suites assert
`toContain` fragments ('terminal agent', 'cannot create') and the CLI suite
asserts a receipt handed to it by a mock rather than one this code produced;
all six files stayed green against a deliberately corrupted vocabulary. A
dispatch receipt is the only place a structured-to-terminal downgrade explains
itself, so the whole sentence is the contract, not a fragment of it.

* feat(agent-launch): add the launch intent and the one executor that runs it

The sequencing around the launch decision was duplicated per surface, and the
duplicate is where the bug lives. A new worktree was created agent-first, so
its startup terminal WAS the agent and the structured branch below it could
never be reached — every new-worktree launch was a PTY regardless of the user's
default. Orchestration fixed that for itself in #19431; mobile and the CLI
still have it.

`executeAgentLaunch` inverts the order once, for everyone. When the preference
is structured the worktree is created with NO startup agent, the executing host
is then asked whether it can host a session for the workspace that now exists,
and only then is a surface created. The host verdict cannot be hoisted above
creation: `agentSession.createSupport` only answers for a workspace it can
resolve, which is why the decision stays in two halves.

Agent-first creation is deliberately preserved for PTY launches — it is what
sequences the agent's startup command behind the setup runner, so wait-for-setup
comes for free there.

What actually differs per surface is only how a surface is built (an
orchestration worker's session takes a dispatch hold and a mailbox a plain
launch must not take), so that is injected as a factory rather than branched on.

The intent also strips the reserved agent fields from a migrated create payload:
a caller moving off `worktree.create` passes its existing params, and a stale
`startupAgent` in there would re-create the very path this replaces.

Tests assert order and arguments, not just the resulting mode. Reintroducing
agent-first creation reddens 4 of 11.

* feat(agent-launch): expose the launch executor as the agent.launch RPC

Adds `agent.launch` — one host-side method that decides structured-vs-terminal and
creates the surface — wired to the real runtime factories: `createManagedWorktree`
for the workspace, forking on `startupAgent` exactly as the orchestration worker
path does; `createStructuredAgentSessionForWorktree` for a chat session; and
`createTerminal` for a PTY agent. Allowlisted for mobile, which is the surface the
routing gap was reported on.

`worktree.create` is untouched. Its `startupAgent` keeps meaning "spawn a PTY agent"
verbatim, because it answers with `agentTerminalHandle` only on that path: a host
that quietly routed it to a structured session would hand every older client a
response with no handle and no error. All new behaviour sits behind
`agent.launch.v1`, which the host now advertises and a remote client must negotiate,
so a client that does not gets today's behaviour unchanged.

* feat(mobile): route workspace creates through agent.launch

Picking an agent on the mobile create sheet always produced a terminal, even
when the user's default was native chat, because all three create paths put
`startupAgent` on `worktree.create`. That means "create the worktree
agent-first", so its startup terminal IS the agent and the structured branch
below it is unreachable — while the same phone's in-workspace "+" button opened
a chat.

The blank, branch and new-branch creates now send the same payload through
`agent.launch` and let the host settle the surface. `worktree.create` is
untouched, and a host that does not advertise `agent.launch.v1` (read from the
existing `status.get` probe) keeps today's path exactly.

Work-item creates stay on `worktree.create`: they pre-fill the issue/PR URL as
an unsent `startupDraft`, which a structured session cannot hold yet, so routing
them would submit the URL as a first turn.

* fix(agent-launch): drop the deleted draft-prompt blocker from the reason map

main removed the draft-prompt blocker in #19681 (a structured session now holds
an unsent draft), so the exhaustive Record no longer typechecks.

* chore(agent-launch): carry a SAFETY rationale on the agent placement cast

The type-assertion gate landed after this branch's base, so the new file's
copy of the worker-start cast is now a changed-code finding.

* chore(agent-launch): carry agent.launch through main's RPC typing and casting gates

The typed-method contract, the generated params catalog and the
`assertionStyle: never` casting scan all landed after this branch's base.

- AGENT_LAUNCH_METHODS kept an `RpcMethod[]` annotation, which widened its
  method name to `string` and broke assignability; every sibling infers instead.
- `agent.launch` binds a schema under src/main, so it joins the catalog's
  RPC_METHODS_WITHOUT_SHARED_PARAMS and the parity gate's hand-listed twin.
- The now-typed methods make most test casts unnecessary; the few that remain
  carry the line-specific SAFETY rationale the casting gate requires.

* test(mobile): supply the agent-launch fixture the create-submit recording needs

The golden RPC recordings landed upstream while this branch was out, so they
first met agent.launch here. Three things had to happen, and only one of them is
a fixture bump.

1. workspace-settings-mounts.ts mounts useNewWorkspaceCreateSubmit against a
   fixture model that throws on any member it was not given. This PR added a
   required getAgentLaunchSupport, so the submit aborted with "Missing model
   fixture" before it ever issued the create, and three cleanup checkpoints
   vanished. That read like a product regression and was not one. Supplying the
   member restores the recording byte-for-byte; it is pinned false for the same
   reason the cutover probe is, so the baseline stays on worktree.create.

2. Editing that adapter moves adapterSha256 for the twelve settings goldens it
   mounts. Their recordings are unchanged - header only, by design: the digest
   is per-golden so editing a module fails exactly the goldens that mounted it.

3. Five goldens changed behaviourally, and both changes are this PR's:
   the capability probe now reports agentLaunch, and a create whose reply
   carries no worktree returns "Failed to create workspace" instead of throwing
   a TypeError off an unguarded result.worktree read. The launch route needs
   that guard, since a receipt can arrive without a worktreeId.

* refactor(mobile): decode the launch receipt instead of asserting its shape

The changed-code quality gate refuses type assertions, and the eight it flagged
were worth removing rather than suppressing.

The production one was the point. readAgentLaunchCreateOutcome asserted the RPC
payload into Partial<AgentLaunchResult> and then runtime-checked it anyway, so
the assertion bought nothing and claimed a contract the host had not proven. It
now narrows with `in` and validates each hop, which is the same nullability
question readCreateResult already answers on the sibling path - a launch receipt
can legitimately arrive without a worktreeId. AgentLaunchCreateOutcome ties
worktreeId to the shared contract so a change there fails this reader's
typecheck rather than passing a differently-typed field through.

The test fakes claimed a whole RpcClient via `as unknown as RpcClient` while
implementing one member. They now build a typed literal, matching the pattern in
use-mobile-structured-agent-options.test.ts. The read sites cast params and then
read one field; they now assert the payload with toMatchObject, which removes
the cast and pins more of the shape than the cast did.

Also pins the warning passthrough, which nothing covered: a terminal launch that
seats the workspace but cannot start the pty reports why, and the absent, blank,
non-string and structured-surface cases report nothing. Writing that test caught
a real drop I had introduced in the reader.

* ci(mobile): re-run Mobile Checks when a shared capability changes

Mobile Checks is path-filtered to mobile/**, but mobile imports the negotiated
capability names straight from src/shared/protocol-version.ts and records the
whole capability read verbatim in its goldens. So a capability added desktop-side
rewrites a mobile fixture while never triggering the suite that would catch it.

That is what happened here: #19849 introduced agent.launch.v1 and Mobile Checks
never ran on it. Verified at the run level rather than by check name - the
window-free check-runs API on 3837ae8d51 returns 49 check-runs across six runs
(PR Checks x2, PR test LoC x2, Track Community PRs, Review) and no Mobile Checks
among them. The breakage surfaced only in this PR, which happens to touch mobile/**.

The workflow already concedes this pattern for terminal-file-link-conformance.ts;
protocol-version.ts has the stronger claim, since mobile records its output.

Also corrects the mount adapter's SAFETY comment. It claimed the recorder supplies
only the members the hook reads, which was false the moment the hook gained a
required getAgentLaunchSupport - and the assertion it annotates is exactly what
stopped the compiler from saying so. The twelve goldens are adapterSha256 churn
from that comment: every body is byte-identical, which is the digest doing its job.

* docs(agent-launch): stop the receipt-wording comment claiming a migration

The decision was never moved out of orchestration-worker-start-mode; this PR
adds a second copy beside it. Say so, and name the unenforced agreement.

* docs(agent-launch): stop the executor comment claiming a migration that has not happened

The header asserted two things the tree does not support: that every launch
surface routes through the executor, and that the mode decision "already lived"
in `agent-launch-mode`. `agent.launch` is the executor's only consumer, and
`orchestration-worker-start-mode.ts` is byte-identical (blob 92dc5c644a, 217
lines) at the merge base and all three stack heads, still used by workers.ts.
Describe the two live copies and leave the cutover to later stack work.

* fix(agent-launch): preserve setup and refusal fallbacks

* refactor(mobile): parse the launch outcome into a named type at its boundary

anti-slop/no-object-parameters flagged terminalLaunchWarning's `result: object`.
The rule is pointing at a real seam rather than a style nit: the helper advertised
a loose object and did the narrowing inside itself, so every caller handed it
unparsed wire data and nothing downstream held a real type.

Parsed at the boundary instead. parseTerminalLaunchOutcome takes `unknown` and
returns TerminalLaunchOutcome | null, so the narrowing happens once, where the
untrusted payload enters, and the consumer works with a named type.

The type is taken from the shared contract rather than restated - a Pick over the
terminal member of AgentLaunchOutcome - so a change to that union fails here
instead of flowing through. `handle` is deliberately excluded: nothing reads it,
and requiring it would drop the warning off a reply that omitted one, which is a
behaviour change smuggled in under a typing change.

No assertion and no config exemption: reintroducing `as Partial<AgentLaunchResult>`
would trade this finding for the defect removed earlier in this branch, and the
rule is correct here.

The rule arrived with the merge-forward (#20781, newer than this branch's
merge-base), and anti-slop is not one of the changed-code gate's six scans - it
runs only repo-wide - which is why a clean local gate did not predict it.

Behaviour is unchanged across all five warning cases, and the positive case was
re-ablated on the new parser: dropping the warning reddens exactly it,
1 failed | 18 passed, restored byte-identical to 19 passed.

* fix(agent-launch): dedupe complete launch and cancel setup wait

* fix(agent-launch): memoize the whole launch so a replay cannot mint a second session

A replayed agent.launch could create a second structured session in the same
worktree, with activate: true.

dedupeWorktreeCreate wrapped only the worktree half, inside the workspace
factory. On a replay the create was reused, and the executor then continued to
createSurface and built another surface inside it. The terminal route hid this:
its cached create carries a startup terminal handle, so the executor returns on
early. A structured create has no handle by construction - that is the whole
point of the structured fork - so it fell through every time. Mobile replays
this method deliberately on a delivery-ambiguous response, up to five attempts,
so the path is reachable by design rather than in theory.

The handler now wraps the entire launch in the same dedupe, on the same
(repo, clientMutationId) identity, exactly as worktree.create wraps its own
body. A replay returns the original AgentLaunchResult instead of re-running
createSurface, which makes the two routes replay-identical.

The inner dedupe is removed rather than kept. Wrapping both levels on one key
deadlocks: dedupeWorktreeCreate stores the in-flight promise before the inner
call runs, so the inner call would be handed the outer's promise, which is
waiting on it. The launch-level memo subsumes the worktree-level one.

Failures are still dropped rather than cached, so an unknown outcome stays
unknown instead of replaying as a fabricated success.

The guard replays a STRUCTURED launch: the terminal route cannot reproduce this
and a test there would pass either way. Ablated against the pre-fix files -
1 failed | 22 passed, "expected vi.fn() to be called 1 times, but got 2 times",
which is the duplicate session - then restored to 23 passed. The stub's dedupe
had to be made faithful for that to be observable; the shared one passes through
so other tests can see raw calls.

* Revert "fix(agent-launch): memoize the whole launch so a replay cannot mint a second session"

This reverts commit 59bc5e9b04.

The same defect was already fixed upstream on this stack's base branch by
539e283c0f, which landed while this was being written. That change is broader
(it also cancels the setup wait) and namespaces the dedupe key, so it supersedes
this one. Reverting rather than hand-merging keeps a single implementation
instead of a hybrid nobody chose.

The behavioural guard from this commit is ported back on top of the upstream
implementation separately: it asserts exactly one structured session survives a
replay, where the upstream tests assert the dedupe wiring.

* ci(mobile): close the round-1 signal gaps around agent.launch

Three review findings, all narrow.

Mobile Checks is path-filtered, and this branch made mobile's types depend on the
shared RPC contract: rpc-params-contract.ts is a type-only re-export of the
generated params catalog, and mobile/tsconfig.json includes **/*.ts. So a
desktop-only edit under src/shared/rpc-contract/ could break mobile's typecheck
with no mobile signal at all - the same blind spot the protocol-version.ts entry
closed, one directory over. Added src/shared/rpc-contract/** to the paths filter.

agent.launch had no cross-version trigger. Added the three prefixes a paired peer
actually exchanges: the intent contract, the wire schema, and the RPC method.
src/main/agent-launch/ is deliberately NOT listed - the executor shapes behaviour
but is not itself wire, and AgentLaunchResult's shape is already covered by
agent-launch-intent. Extending the cross-version SUITE to cover a negotiated
handshake is separate work, not this.

The break branch that answers an accepted-but-empty reply with "Failed to create
workspace" had no unit coverage; the golden that used to discriminate it
collapsed five partitions into one shared error when the null guard replaced the
unchecked read. Covered on BOTH routes - worktree.create with no worktree.id and
agent.launch with no worktreeId - since the branch serves both. Ablated by
bypassing the guard: 2 failed | 11 passed, the two new cases returning a
fabricated worktree instead of the error, restored to 13 passed.

* fix(agent-launch): give a launch one place to say the workspace is incomplete

createManagedWorktree reports an unspawned startup terminal or an uncopied
working tree as a top-level `warning`, and worktree.create hands it straight to
mobile. The launch path narrowed that result down to
{worktreeId, startupTerminalHandle} and dropped it, so every agent.launch create
lost a warning the old method surfaces - on both arms.

The channel was also asymmetric by accident rather than design: a terminal
outcome could carry `warning`, a structured one had nowhere to put it, so the
arm this PR exists to enable was the arm that could not report an incomplete
create at all.

Now there is exactly one place a launch warning lives: AgentLaunchResult.warning,
at the top level. It is about the create as often as the surface, it applies to a
structured session and a terminal alike, and a reader should not branch on
outcome.kind to discover the workspace it just opened is missing something. The
terminal arm's own `warning?` is removed rather than left beside it - two homes
for one fact is how they drift. Every producer folds in: the create, the surface,
and the refusal downgrade.

Consumer census before removing it: one production reader (mobile's
readAgentLaunchCreateOutcome) and no others - the renderer and mobile launch
call sites never read it. The mobile reader now reads the top-level field, which
also lets its outcome parser go away entirely.

Guard ablated by restoring the pre-fix narrowing: 2 failed | 24 passed, both
carriers reporting `expected undefined`, which is the dropped warning itself;
restored to 26 passed. The third case asserts an absence and stays green under
the mutation by construction - it pins shape, not the defect.

* fix(agent-launch): combine both launch warnings instead of dropping one

Round 2 found the comment here was false. A create warning and a surface warning
CAN both be set, on two reachable paths:

  1. The create warns precisely BECAUSE it produced no startup terminal -
     didSpawnStartup stays false when that spawn throws, and
     orca-runtime-create-managed-worktree.ts:283 gates startupTerminal on it - so
     the executor's early return is skipped and a second surface is built, which
     can warn too.
  2. An untracked-copy warning, then a definitive structured refusal downgrading
     to a terminal that also warns.

`??` kept the first and lost the second with nothing saying so. They are now
combined the way the create combines its own failures - appendFailure in
runtime-local-worktree-terminal-startup.ts, and the startup-terminal catch in
runtime-remote-managed-worktree-create.ts - which append rather than replace.

The comment is rewritten to say what is true, and records the gap NOT fixed
here: a create warning about a failed startup terminal is stale once the launch
recovers by building a working one, so a user can be told the agent did not start
while looking at it. Distinguishing those needs createManagedWorktree to stop
multiplexing two unrelated failures into one string.

Guarded and ablated: restoring `??` reddens exactly the new test, with the
surface clause missing from the received string; restored to 27 passed. The
structured-create stub had to admit its real ok-or-refusal union for the
downgrade path to be modellable at all - it previously declared only the ok arm.

Also: mobile.yml gains src/shared/agent-launch-intent.ts. It is the sole holder
of the agent.launch RESULT shape - the rpc-contract catalog holds params only -
and mobile imports it as a value. CROSS_VERSION_WIRE_PREFIXES already treats it
as wire-critical; without this, one gate does and the other cannot see it.

And the agent-first warning test no longer pairs "startup terminal failed" with a
returned handle, a combination the producer cannot emit.

* fix(mobile): read a launch warning an older host nests on the outcome

agent.launch moved `warning` from the terminal outcome to the top level of the
result. That is the right shape - a reader should not branch on `outcome.kind`
to learn the workspace it just opened is incomplete - but on the wire it is a
REMOVAL, and mobile only read the new place.

A host built before the move still advertises the same `agent.launch.v1`
capability, so the capability probe cannot tell the two apart and mobile takes
this route against one:

  protocol-version.ts:360       AGENT_LAUNCH_RUNTIME_CAPABILITY is in
                                RUNTIME_CAPABILITIES, the host list
  orca-runtime-get-status.ts:64 publishes it via status.get; the filter drops
                                only browser.screencast.v1 and three E2E-gated
                                capabilities, never agent.launch
  agent-launch-executor.ts      such a host writes warning INSIDE outcome

The result was a regression rather than a contract cleanup: the worktree.create
path this replaces returned the warning at the top level and mobile read it, so
a create that seated the workspace but could not start the agent surface - pty
exhaustion, untracked files not copied - stopped explaining itself on the phone.

Read both shapes for as long as such a host can be paired. Top level wins, and
cannot be shadowed: AgentLaunchOutcome has no `warning` on either arm, so a
current host cannot nest one.

The test that pinned the old behaviour is inverted here. Its comment was the
actual defect - it framed a legitimate warning from an older peer as a stale
shape to defend against, which is what made dropping it look deliberate.

* chore(mobile): raise the unchecked-reader ceiling for the agent.launch receipt

main landed `unchecked-rpc-reader-inventory.ts`, a ratchet on RpcOperation
readers that re-type their reply instead of validating it. Its ceiling for
mobile-workspace-create-operations.ts is 4, counted on a tree without this
branch's `agentLaunchRun`, so the merge produced "listed 4, found 5".

The inventory's own header prescribes this case: a merge is the one time a line
goes up without a migration undoing itself, and the instruction is to raise it
and name the PR that brought it. It describes main landing an operation the
branch never saw; here it is the mirror - the branch holds one main had not
seen - so the line is annotated with #19850 rather than left bare.

Not converted to `rpcResultVariant(variant, schema)`, which would lower the line
instead. That is a validation change rather than a migration, which is exactly
what the file's own comment says these five readers deliberately are not; the
agent.launch reply is already guarded at the consumer, where
readAgentLaunchCreateOutcome returns null on a malformed payload and the create
surfaces "Failed to create workspace". Writing a schema now would also target a
reply shape #20999 is actively redefining.

Ablated: with the line back at 4 the ratchet fails "listed 4, found 5"; at 5 it
passes.

---------

Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-16 13:15:20 -07:00
Brennan Benson aee98ccaa0 fix(browser): make the browser identity one process-wide choice (#13822) (#20767)
* feat(browser): process-wide browser identity, chosen before ready

Electron resolves worker identity from a single process-global default, so two
coherent identities cannot coexist in one process. This makes clean/native one
app-wide decision read before `ready`, instead of a per-profile one that leaves
documents on one identity and every worker request on the other.

Both identities are load-bearing, measured across four origins at five reps:
the cleaned identity clears an embedded Turnstile widget and WhatsApp's browser
check where native is refused; native clears a full-page Cloudflare interstitial
that the cleaned identity never clears.

Base commit only: removing the per-profile field, its settings surface, and the
migration notice follow.

* test(browser): cover cross-context UA wire identity

* refactor(browser): make user agent identity app-wide

* test(browser): repair process identity wire fixture

* Fix browser identity startup migration failures

* WIP: rescue in-flight reduced-design work from a dead worker

Worker ctx_cb5b1262d7fe stopped ~2h ago mid-implementation (last heartbeat
2026-09-14T22:48:06Z) leaving this uncommitted. Committed unverified to make it
recoverable; not reviewed, not necessarily green.

* fix(browser): repair the rescued identity work so it typechecks

Finishes the interrupted edits in 7db9c54b54:

- browser-user-agent-migration-notice.ts was truncated mid-write; close the
  then() callback so the file parses.
- Register browser.identity.get/set in the generated RPC params catalog so the
  params type-parity gate is satisfied.
- Retire the persistence assertions for the superseded design: a
  migratedNativeProfileIds event map, a notice-acknowledgement clear, and a
  global persistence-failure accessor. Legacy userAgentMode bytes are retained
  now, so these assert retention plus a failed notice write still hydrating.
- The in-memory fs fixture threw a codeless ENOENT, which reads as "unreadable"
  rather than "missing" and made every identity write refuse. Carry the code.
- Use the segmented control's per-option disabled rather than adding a
  control-level prop it does not have.

* refactor(browser): make the identity store the only writer

The rescued work already serialized identity writes, but the writer lived beside the pre-ready reader, so nothing stopped a second caller from writing the record directly -- which is the shape of the bug this change set removes.

browser-identity-mode-record.ts is now read-only: record shape, path, parsing and the pre-ready synchronous read. browser-identity-mode-store.ts owns every mutation behind one queue, holds the snapshot and listeners, and derives restartRequired from appliedMode vs configuredMode rather than storing it. Consumers move to the store.

The two identity RPC methods also move out of browser-core.ts into browser-identity-rpc.ts: they read and write this host's own process identity rather than driving a page, and browser-core.ts was over its line cap. The generated params catalog is byte-identical.

* feat(browser): make resetting unhealthy identity data explicit and lossless

A corrupt or newer-version record left the identity unchangeable with no way out. An explicit reset now copies the old bytes verbatim to a fresh unique path before publishing a replacement, and refuses the whole operation if that backup cannot be written -- so the reset can never be the thing that loses the data. Nothing resets automatically.

Future-version data says update Orca rather than reporting corruption. Reset is opt-in via browser.identity.set and orca browser identity set --reset.

ProfileCreate and BrowserIdentitySet move to browser-identity-params.ts: both carry the per-profile to app-wide identity move, and browser-params.ts was over its line cap.

Also registers browser as a top-level CLI name so the Windows launch redirect covers it -- without it orca browser identity get boots the GUI and exits silently there -- and adds the canonical browser identity show alias the CLI vocabulary policy requires.

* feat(browser): advertise the identity capability only where it exists

browser.identity.v1 was static, so every host claimed it including one that never initialized the identity store, where both methods can only throw. It now follows the browser.headless.v1 precedent and is pushed at status time when the store is actually initialized.

Also covers the retired profileCreate userAgentMode field at the dispatcher rather than only at the schema, so an older client provably gets the changed-semantics rejection over the wire instead of a success with the field quietly dropped.

* refactor(browser): delete the identity write queue and guard backup uniqueness

The queue could not be falsified by any test: writeRecord is synchronous end to end, so two calls cannot interleave and removing serialization entirely left every store test green. Carrying machinery whose guard is unconstructible is what the design review told us to cut, so it is gone. If durable writes ever become async, serialization comes back with the change that makes it testable.

The test that claimed to prove serialization now states what it actually pins -- the later of two selections is the one that survives -- and the module doc no longer claims a queue that is not there.

Adds the guard that was missing on reset: two resets across separate launches must produce two distinct backups, each holding its own original bytes. Verified discriminating -- a fixed backup filename fails it.

* test(browser): guard the identity capability and harden two weak assertions

Pins the mixed-version guarantee that had no test: browser.identity.v1 is advertised when the identity store is initialized and absent when it is not. Verified discriminating -- advertising it unconditionally fails the test.

The profileCreate rejection test asserted ok:false against a runtime with no browserProfileCreate, so that assertion passed even when the retired field was accepted. It now stubs a working runtime method, making ok:false load-bearing, and asserts the runtime is never reached.

Removes the persistence fixture's dead failIdentityWrite branch on writeFileAtomically: nothing on that path calls it, so it implied a second write mechanism that does not exist. Failure is injected through node:fs, which is what the identity write actually uses.

* test(browser): classify the identity channels on the preview seam

The channel split is asserted total, so adding browser:identity:get/set left it
short by two. They manage the host's own process-wide user-agent choice rather
than acting on a guest the reader is looking at, so they sit with the session
and profile channels, not the preview tools.

* test(browser): audit the identity rig's global-fetch call sites

The wire probe server and CDP collector arrived with the cross-context coverage
and were never added to the audit list. The collector's two real call sites are
safe: the poll cancels its unread body and the version probe consumes it through
response.json(). Every hit in the probe server is inside an injected page or
worker script source string, not a call this process makes.

* fix(browser): strip an app name that contains a space

app.setName decides the app token in the user agent, and dev sets "Orca Dev".
The cleaner matched a single whitespace-delimited token, which cannot span that
space, so the replace failed outright and every dev build presented
"Orca Dev/1.4.203" on the wire — the exact token class that gets transplanted
sessions revoked.

Anchoring on the engine comment and consuming lazily up to Chrome/ removes any
number of app tokens. A user agent without that comment is returned unchanged
rather than mangled, because over-stripping is worse than under-stripping.

The function had no unit test at all; it was only exercised through the
real-Electron wire tests, which run with a single-token fixture name. That is
why this survived.

* fix(browser): anchor the cleaner on the gap before Chrome/

My first attempt anchored on the engine comment, which broke a startup fixture
whose platform comment is "(Test)" with no "(KHTML, like Gecko)" at all — the app
token survived and the ordering test went red.

Anchoring on the nearest ")" before Chrome/ and consuming only non-")" tokens
keeps the match inside that gap, so it handles a multi-word app name, a synthetic
platform comment, and an already-clean identity alike. A user agent with no such
gap is still returned unchanged.

The fixture shape is now a test case, since it is what caught the first attempt.

* test(browser): repair the cleaner's case table

A missing comma between two it.each elements was reformatted into an index
expression, collapsing the table so every case ran with undefined input.

* test(browser): make a CI-only capture failure diagnosable

This probe passes locally and fails on CI with an empty receipt set, an empty
CDP diagnostic list, and a fixture that still exits 0 — so the assertion message
carried nothing usable. Thread the fixture's own result and stderr into the
capture assertion so the next run says what the fixture actually did.

* fix(browser): let an explicit choice retire the migration notice for good

The retired per-profile userAgentMode bytes are retained on disk by design, so
every launch rediscovers them and re-arms the notice — including the launch
right after the user answers it, and every launch after that. Documented as
one-time, it was permanent.

The record already carries explicitSelection, which is exactly the fact that
should end the notice. Gate the mark at the single writer rather than deleting
the legacy key, so the retained bytes stay untouched and disk never claims a
notice is pending beside a choice the user already made.

The new test pushed the persistence suite past max-lines, so the in-memory fs
and module mocks move to a named fixture module and the retired-identity tests
move beside them in their own file.

* fix(browser): stop reporting an unhydratable profile as a retired choice

A profile that fails validation for a reason unrelated to identity — a non-UUID
id, a mismatched partition — armed both the notice and its degraded flag. Since
hydrateFromPersisted skips such entries silently and nothing ever repairs them,
the user got "an old browser identity choice could not be inspected" forever,
about a profile that never carried one.

Key the notice on the presence of userAgentMode instead, and use validation only
to decide whether the choice that was found is inspectable. Refusing to hydrate
an entry and finding a retired choice are now separate facts.

The old case table asserted the defect for null, 42 and 'broken', so it is
replaced by two tables stating the new contract rather than adapted to pass.

* fix(browser): stop rewriting worker requests for viewport emulation

A worker request carries no webContentsId, so it always took the session-wide
branch and picked up the mobile UA if any tab in the session had a mobile
preset. That made a single context disagree with itself: a desktop tab's shared
worker reported a desktop navigator.userAgent — the per-target CDP override
cannot reach a worker — while its fetches left as CriOS. It also leaked across
tabs, and closing the emulated tab silently reverted it.

On main the divergence was between contexts, each internally coherent. Making
one context internally inconsistent is worse by this PR's own standard, so
accept that viewport emulation reaches documents only. Workers keep the session
identity on the wire, which is the identity they report in JavaScript.

That left hasSessionMobileViewportIntent with no reader, so the map it fed and
its three accessors go too, rather than leaving a dead latch behind the guard.

The electron fixture models this rule in its own header hook, so its hook and
both mobile arms are rewritten around the invariant that each context's wire
identity equals the identity its own JavaScript reports — not adapted to keep
the old path list passing.

* test(browser): point the identity tests at keys and writers that exist

browserUserAgentMode appears in zero production files and zero commits on main;
`git log -S` finds nothing. The retired key is profile.userAgentMode inside
browser-session-meta.json. Two tests were built on the invented one.

The global-settings test is deleted rather than repointed: no browser identity
key has ever lived in global settings, and stripRetiredGlobalSettings strips
only three unrelated keys, so the test asserted that an arbitrary unknown key
survives an object spread — a fact about the normalizer, not about identity.

The ready-phase test asserted on writeFileAtomically while the identity store
writes through writeFileDurableSync, so it could not go red for the write it
existed to forbid. It now watches the real writer, matched on the record path so
an unrelated durable write cannot fail it for the wrong reason, and the invented
settings key is gone from the Store mock.

Proven by ablation: injecting a byte-identical rewrite of the record into ready
composition leaves every snapshot and record assertion green and is caught only
by the new assertion, while writeFileAtomically is never called.

* fix(browser): let an unavailable process identity reject instead of throwing

installBrowserSessionPartitionPolicies returned Promise<void> without being
async, and configures the user agent policy before any suspension point.
getBrowserProcessUserAgentIdentity throws when the process identity was never
initialized, so that throw escaped synchronously past every caller's handler:
`void install(...).catch(...)` in the registry, and a bare `void install(...)`
in the route policies, which has no handler at all.

Bookkeeping must never gate a user action. Session startup would have died on a
failure its callers were already written to absorb and report.

* docs(browser): scope the meta-store claim about dropped legacy keys

The comment said persistMeta drops legacy keys on the next write because the
loader no longer carries them. That holds for the top-level userAgent keys it
describes, but not for the retired per-profile userAgentMode: it sits inside
each BrowserSessionProfile in `profiles`, which is carried through untouched, so
those bytes survive every write.

Retaining them is deliberate — it is what makes rollback and data-loss machinery
unnecessary, and the startup notice keys on their presence — so the comment read
as broader cover than it provided, in the one place someone would look before
deciding it was safe to strip them.

* test(browser): pin the unmapped-webContents path beside an emulated tab

A popup carries a webContentsId that maps to no registered tab, so it resolves
through the same branch as a worker request that carries none at all. The branch
already handled both, but only the absent-id case was covered.

* test(browser): make the ordering fixture exhibit a multi-word app name

This file sets the dev app name to "Orca Development" and then used a
single-token user agent fixture, so it set up the multi-word scenario and used a
fixture that could not exhibit it — which is how the multi-word app-name leak
got through. The fixture now carries a two-word app token, matching what
app.setName produces in dev, and the assertion names both words: a single \S+
match would leave "Orca" on the wire and still pass a one-token check.

* test(settings): cover the local branch of the browser identity setting

The only existing test covered the remote-host branch. The local branch — load,
select, refused write, and reset-required — had none, and that is the path the
retired-identity notice sends users down to make the choice that retires it.

Covers the selected-mode render, the commit that reports restartRequired, a
refused write surfacing its message without showing the mode as changed, and the
reset-required state offering no control.

* test(browser): run the real registry path in the ready identity pin

The test stubbed browser-session-startup and browser-session-registry, which are
the one ready-phase path that can write the identity record, so the record
content assertion could not fail for the write it existed to forbid.

Both are now real. Only the pieces hanging off the identity path are stubbed —
partition policies, route sessions, cookie staging, webauthn — so the meta load,
the retired-choice inspection, the identity store and the durable write all run
for real against temp directories. The canonical path mock moves to
persistence/loading-store/user-data-path, which is where the registry reads it;
mocking persistence alone left the registry pointed elsewhere. The active
profile directory is now a real temp dir, so the seeded browser-session-meta.json
is actually found — against the old /test-profile literal the meta load found
nothing and the whole exercise would have been vacuous.

A third case proves the path is live: with no explicit choice, the same retired
profile arms the notice through ready and lands migrationNoticePending on disk.
The two authority cases assert the opposite, that an explicit choice leaves the
record untouched.

initializeBrowserSessionsForApp latches on module state, so each case resets
modules and imports ready dynamically.

Ablated: disabling the explicitSelection gate turns both authority cases red on
the record content assertion while the arming case stays green.

* fix(browser): reject an unrecognized identity mode at the IPC door

normalizeBrowserUserAgentMode turned any unrecognized value into 'clean', so the
IPC door reported success for a mode it had quietly replaced, while the RPC door
validates against z.enum(['clean', 'native']) and rejects. One concept answered
an unknown value two different ways, and a future mode name was silently
downgraded rather than refused.

The handler now rejects, which is what the RPC door does and what the renderer
already handles — its catch puts the message in the error slot. Returning a
result instead would have meant inventing a fourth error code for a case no
legitimate caller can reach.

normalizeBrowserUserAgentMode had no other consumer, so it goes with the change:
leaving a coercion helper called "normalize" in shared/ invites the behaviour
straight back in.

* fix(settings): name the reset command where identity data is unusable

When configuredMode is null the setting says identity data must be reset
explicitly and then offers no control, because the reset overwrites data that
may belong to a newer Orca. The only escape is the CLI, which the message never
named — so it told the user to do something and gave them no way to do it.

Copy only: one line naming the command, no control and no destructive action in
the UI. The command goes in a new key beside the existing sentence rather than
expanding its default, which keeps the already-translated string valid.

No en.json entry: this component has no catalog entries for any of its keys, so
English resolves from the call-site defaults and adding one only for the new key
would be inconsistent with its siblings.

* fix(i18n): add the browser identity keys to the localization catalog

* fix(i18n): regenerate the runtime-required English catalog

* fix(browser): attach nested CDP targets paused before enabling Network

An OOPIF or dedicated worker was reached only through Target.targetCreated plus
an explicit attachToTarget, which never pauses the target. The frame could issue
its subresource fetch before Network.enable took effect, so the capture came back
empty and the cross-context assertion failed under CI load.

Re-arm auto-attach on each attached session, filtered to nested target types, so
an OOPIF or worker arrives waiting for the debugger and its enables are ordered
ahead of the resume. Drop the explicit attach, which is now both redundant and
the racy path.

* fix(settings): localize the browser identity search keywords

* fix(browser): await route policy setup

* fix(browser): satisfy strict static analysis

* test(browser): update live identity fixture API

* test(browser): preserve native UA in live probe

* fix(browser): close the open review findings on the identity revert

- drop a stray JSDoc left over from the removed per-profile setting
- leave user agents without a Chromium engine comment byte-identical
  instead of anchoring the app-token strip on the OS comment and
  destroying a real engine token
- localize the browser identity unavailable error
- correct the worker comment: only shared and service worker requests
  carry no webContentsId, so emulation still reaches dedicated workers
- retire the session user agent policy when a profile is deleted

* test(browser): model a real Electron fallback in the startup UA fixture

The ordering fixture carried no "(KHTML, like Gecko)" engine comment, a
shape app.userAgentFallback cannot actually produce. That unfaithfulness
was what made the old over-stripping look correct, and it broke once the
cleaner started leaving non-Chromium identities alone.

Add the engine comment, keeping the two-word "Orca Development" app token
so the multi-word leak this test exists to catch is still caught. Both
assertions are unchanged.
2026-09-16 10:31:01 -07:00
Neil 5631aa00dd feat(orcad): items 2–7 — degradation, natives, daemon, ops, deploy (#16398)
* fix(ports): stop joining an undefined resourcesPath on a non-Electron host

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Item 4 — the daemon:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* fix(orcad): preserve degradation types after rebase
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