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Neil e217fdd10f build(orcad): gate orcad's own graph, and prove it loads under plain Node (#16368)
* fix(orcad): close the browser-provider gaps

The providers landed without enforced coverage, so a regression in either path
would have landed silently.

- CI: the external-Chromium integration test was gated on ORCA_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE
  and nothing ever set it, so it skipped forever. It now runs in its own job
  against the runner's Chrome and FAILS when Chrome is absent rather than
  skipping, because an unset variable is exactly how it went uncovered. Timeout
  raised to 120s: a warm run is ~7s but the first launch against an unseeded
  profile took 30s and hit Vitest's default, and CI is always that cold case.
- Electron provider had no test at all. It is the path anyone with the desktop
  app hits.
- Browser unavailability reported one message for four causes, including telling
  an operator to set a variable they had already set.

Fixes a live defect found while covering it: the runtime advertises
browser.tabCreate.known-id.v1 unconditionally, so a web client sends a
provisional page id for a page that does not exist yet — and the sidecar's
generic requestedPageId branch ran require() on it first and threw. Every
known-id create against the Electron provider failed. The adoption logic was
already there; only the ordering was wrong.

Also updates the workflow-parallelism guard, which correctly caught the new job
missing from verify's required-check list, and asserts verify actually reads it.

* build(orcad): gate orcad's own graph, and prove it loads under plain Node

Two gaps the artifact's own comment asked for.

The ratchet measured only orca-runtime + runtime-rpc, but orcad imports ipc/pty
directly to install the PTY controller, so its graph is strictly larger. The gate
could read zero while the shipped artifact regressed. orcad's entry is now a
ratchet entry point, and the baseline stays empty with it included.

orcad cannot join plain-node-entry-guard — that is a rollup plugin keyed on
electron-vite input names, and orcad is an esbuild artifact. But the half that
matters here is the guard's smoke-load: scanning the metafile proves no module
NAMES electron, not that the graph resolves under plain Node. A dynamic require,
a missing native or a top-level throw all pass the scan and fail at runtime.
build-orcad now runs the bundle with a bogus flag and requires the argv rejection
that only a fully loaded graph can produce.

Verified: a bundle that builds but throws on load fails the gate.
2026-08-24 22:21:26 -07:00
Neil beb1d45198 test(windows): run PTY IPC suites in Windows lane
Merged after clean CI, Windows PTY IPC validation, and readiness review.
2026-08-24 15:49:01 -07:00
Neil 2d500278b4 build(windows): refuse unpatched node-pty prebuilds
Merged after clean CI, Windows packaging verification, and readiness review.
2026-08-24 15:48:47 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong c618ec7393 test(reliability): protect recent P0 regression invariants (#16163) 2026-08-24 09:38:46 -07:00
Jinjing f5fd7303ab test(e2e): cover tab-bar agent launches on Windows and WSL (#16110)
* test(e2e): gate the tab-bar agent launcher on Windows shells and WSL

The `+` menu agent launcher had no golden coverage in the Windows lane, so a
Windows-only break anywhere in its chain (detection row, startup-plan build,
tab create, PTY spawn, startup-command injection) could ship unnoticed.

Adds a golden spec that launches a stub agent from the menu and asserts the
agent's own banner reached the pane — a tab that spawned a bare shell instead
is indistinguishable at the store/tab layer. Runs two agents everywhere, and
on Windows also PowerShell, cmd, Git Bash and a WSL project runtime.

* test(e2e): track WSL stub agent staging state for precise cleanup

Refactor `stageWslGoldenStubAgent` to track which artifacts it creates
during setup, then only remove those artifacts during cleanup. This
prevents the test from destructively removing pre-existing symlinks or
state from previous runs, improving test isolation and idempotency.

* test(e2e): track WSL stub agent staging state for precise cleanup

- Back up and restore pre-existing stub agents to avoid destroying them
- Simplify verbose test comments to match project style guidelines

* test(e2e): serialize WSL stub agent setup with distributed lock

- Add mkdir-based lock to prevent concurrent staging invocations
- Reclaim stale locks after 10 minutes to recover from crashes
- Track lock ownership in stage state for safe cleanup

* test(e2e): track WSL stub agent staging state for precise cleanup

Track which stubs this test helper stages by writing a marker file, then
only remove stubs during stale-lock recovery if we created them. Prevents
cleanup from removing stubs left by other processes.
2026-08-24 08:58:19 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 0a613d5fed test(e2e): stabilize paired Quick Open large-tree coverage (#16058) 2026-08-23 16:47:12 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong fe6f942d1f Fix Ubuntu release dependency lockfile gate (STA-5109) (#16055) 2026-08-23 15:18:08 -07:00
Neil 03fcfdfb92 feat(orcad): boot the Orca runtime on plain Node (#15968)
* refactor(host): resolve the app root through the port in fork-reachable modules

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

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

Ratchet baseline 27 → 25.

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

* feat(orcad): boot the Orca runtime on plain Node

Closes the last two Electron couplings and makes `orcad` a working artifact:
a 4.43 MB Node bundle that boots, pairs, registers a repo, creates a real git
worktree and round-trips a PTY — with zero `require("electron")`.

Ratchet 2 -> 0, so `config/runtime-electron-baseline.txt` is now empty and its
test asserts exactly that: any reachable electron import is a regression.

- speech: inject the service factories, so importing ModelManager for its type
  no longer drags Electron's streaming net.request into the graph
- filesystem-watcher: add a WorktreeWatcherRemoval port. Every entry in those
  maps arrives through an ipcMain handler carrying a renderer sender, so a host
  with no renderer has nothing to close, restore or forget — the inert default
  is what the desktop code does against empty maps, not a stub hiding work
- user-data-path / profile-storage-paths: resolve userData through
  AppEnvironment. These surfaced only once orcad pulled the store in

Both host ports now anchor to a realm-global symbol. `vi.resetModules()` gives
the re-imported graph a fresh module copy, so a binding installed before the
reset silently read back as uninstalled.

The acceptance smoke drives both hosts through one code path (`--target
orcad|electron`) and seeds its own git repo, so it is hermetic and asserts the
same contract of each. Wired into PR CI.

* test(smoke): remove the seeded workspace container, not just the worktree

* test(smoke): surface the server's stderr when it dies before ready

* fix(smoke): build node-pty for Node before booting orcad in CI

* fix(smoke): drive the CLI built from this checkout, not one on PATH

* docs(ratchet): say the baseline must stay empty, not merely shrink

* build(orcad): externalize only the native modules actually in the graph
2026-08-22 21:47:46 -07:00
Neil cbea7530b4 build(runtime): gate new Electron imports reachable from the Orca runtime (#15919)
* build(runtime): gate new Electron imports reachable from the Orca runtime

The runtime is meant to become host-agnostic so it can also run on plain Node,
but nothing enforced that. `orca-runtime.ts` reaches dozens of modules that
import `electron`, and the count grows silently: the import that breaks
portability is usually several hops away, so no reviewer sees the edge.

Add a reachability ratchet, modelled on the existing max-lines one. It bundles
the runtime and its RPC server with esbuild, reads the metafile for every module
importing `electron`, and diffs that against a checked-in baseline. A new module
fails; a removed one forces the baseline to tighten. The list may only shrink.

A per-file lint rule cannot do this — the point is precisely the transitive
edges — so this runs as a build gate in `pnpm lint`.

Baseline starts at 36, down from 50 before the SecretStore and AppEnvironment
ports landed, which is the migration made measurable.

Verified: gate passes clean, fails with an actionable message when an `electron`
import is added to a runtime module, and passes again when reverted.

* fix(runtime-ratchet): resolve paths from the script, not the caller's cwd

Run from anywhere but the repo root, the gate died with an unhandled ENOENT stack
instead of a usable message. It failed closed, so it was never unsafe — just
undebuggable. Anchor ROOT to import.meta.dirname and pass absWorkingDir to esbuild
so metafile keys stay repo-relative.

* ci(runtime-ratchet): actually run the gate in CI

The ratchet was wired into the `lint` npm script, but CI's static-analysis job
runs the individual checks rather than `pnpm lint`, so the gate would never have
fired on a PR — it would have looked enforced while enforcing nothing.

Runs on ubuntu-latest alongside the max-lines ratchet, so the checked-in baseline
is only ever produced by one platform.

* fix(runtime-ratchet): mark native addons external so CI can run the gate

ssh2's optional cpu-features dep points at a prebuilt .node that only exists
where a build toolchain has run. Loading it made the gate pass locally and
hard-fail on CI with 'Could not resolve ../build/Release/cpufeatures.node'.

The gate only reads the import graph, never the addon, so resolve every .node to
an external stub instead. Verified by hiding the local prebuild — which is CI's
state — and re-running: still 36 entries, exit 0.

* fix(runtime-ratchet): stop the gate failing open on Windows

The entry guard compared import.meta.url against a `file://${process.argv[1]}`
template. On Windows argv[1] is a native path (C:\repo\...) while import.meta.url
is file:///C:/repo/..., so they never match: main() never ran and `pnpm lint`
exited 0 on Windows without bundling, reading the baseline, or enforcing anything.

Use pathToFileURL, which is the idiom check-max-lines-ratchet.mjs:225 already uses.
CI runs this on ubuntu so enforcement was never actually lost, but a Windows
developer got a green gate that checked nothing.
2026-08-22 21:22:07 -07:00
Neilandterry-li-hm 5f2fbd862e fix(pty): wrap codex without expanding or destroying a user alias (#15873)
Co-authored-by: terry-li-hm <12233004+terry-li-hm@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-22 21:15:25 -07:00
Neil 5651662494 fix(wsl): migrate 21 call sites onto the WSL runner (#15923)
* fix(wsl): migrate 21 call sites onto the runner, after five review rounds

Rebased onto main now that the runner (#15903) has landed.

21 sites across 15 files move off ad-hoc `execFile('wsl.exe', ...)`. Allowlist
23 -> 16 on the WSL guard; 163 -> 152 on the W1 child_process guard, which moved
as a consequence.

Five review rounds, each finding real defects -- several introduced by the
previous round's fixes:

1. Hooks ran user orca.yaml scripts under dash; probe failure fell back to the
   login shell, reintroducing the ~/.profile stall the runner exists to remove.
2. An unparseable probe was cached permanently, disabling every WSL feature on
   the distro; hooks regressed from "runs degraded" to "fails".
3. Exit 127 had no expiry; a starved 5s probe hard-failed the 10s scan behind
   it; a joiner burned its budget on someone else's probe.
4. The comment stripper blanked live code, so the windowsHide guard walked past
   a real unguarded spawn and reported the file clean; an ownership-probe
   timeout silently deselected the user's Claude account.
5. Verification of the guards themselves.

The recurring finding -- a call answering "is this installed?" on a degraded
PATH -- was eventually fixed structurally rather than per-caller: the runner
refuses an unresolved guest PATH unless the caller opts in. Per-site vigilance
was demonstrably not holding; 3 of 8 sites had already forgotten the analogous
exit-code check.

Remaining 16 files need a runner mode that does not exist: a long-lived
streaming child (OAuth logins, hook relay), a synchronous caller, or a
host-level flag like --status that the guest-command API cannot express.

* fix(wsl): close round 5's P1s -- degrade where PATH was never needed

Round 5 measured the guards by re-executing their algorithms standalone rather
than reading them, and found four things.

P1 -- four skill/plugin paths gained a hard dependency on the login-shell probe
that they never had. They ran under a plain non-login `sh -c` on main, so a
probe failure now breaks WSL skill discovery and install on exactly the distro
the runner was built for: one with a slow `~/.profile`. Worse, the throw escapes
before each site's own error mapping, so the UI gets a raw internal string. They
degrade now, per the rule this branch already wrote down in
`wsl-fish-history-cleanup.ts`.

P1 -- Codex and Claude were asymmetric. Claude's five credential sites degrade;
Codex's were strict, so adding a WSL Codex account failed where adding a Claude
one succeeded. Three of the four are byte-equivalent to Claude sites, and their
scripts read `$HOME`/`$WSL_DISTRO_NAME`, which wsl.exe supplies without a login
shell. `assertWslCodexCliAvailable` stays strict on purpose -- that one really
does answer "is this installed?" (#9725).

P1 -- the ownership-probe timeout fix did not survive the rebase onto main. A
timeout still returned "not owned", which the caller *persists*, clearing the
user's account selection.

P1 -- `blankStringContents` desynced on a nested template literal
(`` `${`x`}` ``), leaving 116 lines of a child_process importer outside the
ratchet, with 27 importers structurally at risk. Now tracks template depth.
Regenerating against the fixed blanker: 70 -> 68 offenders.

Also: the windowsHide vacuity check could not fail while the allowlist alone
exceeded its bound -- the exact defect the sibling guard documents avoiding. It
now names a file that definitely offends.

* fix(wsl): close round 6 -- my blanker fix had traded a false positive for a miss

Round 6 re-derived the guard's answer from a TypeScript AST instead of trusting
the regex, and caught two things.

P1 -- the nested-template fix I shipped in round 5 introduced a worse bug than
the one it closed. Switching to "code mode" inside `${...}` without also
resetting the quote at a newline meant an apostrophe in a regex literal --
`` `'${value.replace(/'/g, "'\\''")}'` `` , which is exactly the shellQuote
shape all over this codebase -- inverted the lexer for the rest of the file.
`claude-accounts/service.ts` went blind from line 96, hiding a REAL unguarded
`spawn` at :1097: the WSL Claude managed-login path, which opens a console and
steals foreground on Windows. Round 5 traded one false positive for one false
negative and I did not notice, because the offender count went down.

The blanker now resets non-backtick quotes at a newline (the rule stripComments
already had) and tracks brace depth per interpolation. The spawn is fixed rather
than allowlisted, and the count is 69 -- the number the AST predicted.

P1 -- the ownership-timeout guard was dead code: it threw into its own `catch`
three lines below, which returned null, which the caller persists as "not owned"
and clears the user's account selection. Now a typed sentinel the catch rethrows.

P2 -- `WslGuestEnvironmentUnavailableError` reached the UI verbatim from the CLI
installer and the Codex availability check. Both mapped.

Method note: I had been regenerating the allowlist with a Python transcription
of the scanner, and the two drifted -- the same two-implementations problem this
workstream keeps finding. The allowlist is now generated by running the shipped
test with an empty list and taking what it reports.

* fix(guards): stop patching the lexer -- make the scanner fail closed instead

Round 7 proved my round-6 fix also did not work, by planting a plainly-named
unguarded `spawn` in `claude-accounts/service.ts` and watching the guard pass
3/3. That is three consecutive attempts at an exact lexer, each shipping a
desync that hid real calls, and each time the offender count went DOWN, which I
read as progress. Round 6's diagnosis was wrong too: the culprit is the
`templates` brace-depth stack, which nothing resets, not quote state.

So stop trying to be exact. `blankStringContentsDesynced` reports when the lexer
lost its bearings, and the guard treats that as an offender. Over-reporting is a
nuisance; under-reporting is a false clean, and a false clean is what let a real
console-flash spawn out of the ratchet twice. The allowlist goes 69 -> 82: the
13 extra are files whose scan cannot be trusted, now named rather than assumed
fine.

The planted violation is now caught.

Also from round 7:
- `SPAWN_CALL` missed promisified and renamed bindings, so `exec('where gemini')`
  (a real Windows cmd.exe spawn) and a detached `shell: true` in
  `cli/runtime/launch.ts` were invisible. Added execAsync/execFileAsync/
  execFileCb/spawnDetached.
- `BASHISM` matched `set -o pipefail` but not `set -euo pipefail`, which is the
  only spelling this tree uses -- so the check could not have caught the #14292
  signature it exists for. Fixed, and it immediately flagged a file; that one
  turned out to be a comment, so the bashism scan now strips comments too.
- The CLI installer error mapping my round-6 commit claimed was "both mapped"
  was never applied -- only the Codex side had been. Now actually mapped.

* fix(guards): close the four holes round 8 found by planting violations

Round 8 stopped reasoning about the guard and planted spawns into it. Four
holes, none of which reading had found:

- `windowsHide: false` **passed**. The check was `args.includes('windowsHide')`,
  a substring test. Now matches `windowsHide: true`.
- A ternary first argument was silently skipped: the method-declaration filter
  `/^\(\s*\w+\s*[:?]/` also matches `exec(useAlt ? 'a' : 'b', …)`. Now requires
  a type after the colon.
- Renamed bindings were not covered, despite the comment I wrote saying they
  were -- I had hardcoded three names. Aliases are now resolved from the import.

Each is verified closed by planting it and watching the guard fail.

`fork` is deliberately still unscanned. Round 8 is right that Node forwards the
option, but `ForkOptions` does not declare it, so the two live sites cannot be
fixed without a cast. Recorded in the verification doc rather than left as a
silent gap, along with two others worth knowing: the allowlist is file-granular,
so its ~18 false-positive entries carry a standing pre-approval for real
regressions in those files and cannot be retired by fixing code; and
`stripComments` has no desync report, so the fail-closed check is only half
applied.

The doc now also says how to verify a guard change: plant a violation. Every
guard fix here that was verified by reading was wrong.

* fix(wsl): stop preflight reporting installed CLIs as absent on a slow distro

Round 9's merge blocker, and the sharpest finding of the whole workstream: the
branch built to close #9725 had reopened it from the other side.

`preflight-wsl-command.ts` was one of five sites without
`allowDegradedEnvironment`, so a guest-PATH probe failure threw. Every consumer
collapses a throw into a verdict: `isCommandAvailable` and `isCommandOnPath`
catch to `false` ("not installed"), `isGhAuthenticated` and `isGlabAuthenticated`
read an empty payload as "not authenticated". So a slow distro made WSL git, gh
and glab read as missing.

Two things made it likely rather than theoretical. The probe took two thirds of
a 5s budget, leaving the command ~1667ms where main gave it the full 5s inside
its own login shell -- a cold WSL VM start routinely lands in that band. And a
probe timeout is cached for 30s with a re-probe threshold of 1.5x the failed
budget, which a 5s caller can never clear, so every preflight command
short-circuited without spawning wsl.exe at all -- and Re-check does not
invalidate the cache.

Fixes: preflight degrades instead of refusing, and the probe is capped at half
the caller's budget and at 4s, so no caller ends up with less time than it had
before the runner existed.

Also fixes a real console flash found on the way: `preflight-command-exec.ts`
spawns git/gh/node through `promisify(execFile)` with no `windowsHide`.

Round 9 also confirmed the credential paths are now *safer* than main: all 11
account sites degrade, every destructive guest operation is still marker-gated,
and main's `getOwnedManagedAuthPath` could disown an account on a 5s timeout --
which this branch turns into a failed launch instead of a destroyed selection.

* fix(wsl): make "Try again" able to succeed, and test the round-9 fix

Round 10 returned MERGE with one residual worth closing first.

A transient probe failure left the null-resolving promise in `inFlight`, so the
only way back was `retryAfter` -- and the 4s probe cap made the 1.5x budget
escape unreachable, because no caller can pass more than 4s. For the full 30s
window the four non-degrading sites returned their error *without spawning
wsl.exe at all*, and each of those errors says "Try again". The advice was
guaranteed to fail.

The entry is now dropped on a transient outcome and an explicit cooldown gate
replaces it, so the window alone decides. The window drops 30s -> 5s: long
enough to stop a stampede, short enough that the user's next click reaches a
distro that has since warmed up.

Round 10 also noted the round-9 fix shipped untested, which was fair. Added: the
probe-budget floor for 5s/8s/10s callers, and preflight's degrade opt-in plus
its stdout/stderr-carrying rejection, which isGhAuthenticated reads off the
caught error as an auth-success fallback.

* test(wsl): make the probe-budget guard actually guard

Round 11 caught that the regression test I added for the probe cap did not
bind: it seeded the guest environment, so the probe resolved in ~0ms and the
assertion read the command leg's timeout instead. Reverting the cap to the old
2/3 split left all three cases green.

Dropping the seed and asserting on the probe leg fixes it -- verified by
reverting the cap and watching all three fail.

A regression guard that cannot fail is the shape that has cost the most in this
workstream: the windowsHide guard silently passed a real unguarded spawn twice
for the same reason.
2026-08-22 05:45:21 -07:00
Neilandpoorpaper 9e335e9a37 fix(skills): normalize contributor-facing paths in the skill guide generator (#15861)
Co-authored-by: poorpaper <poorpaperdesire@gmail.com>
2026-08-22 01:37:09 -07:00
Neil 2b1254d681 fix(windows): own PTY process trees with job objects (#15755)
* fix(windows): own PTY process trees with job objects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* fix(windows): serialise host-job creation

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

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

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

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

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

Moved to the pty spawn path, which already pays ConPTY cost, and
memoised. Children inherit job membership, so assigning immediately
before the first spawn still covers every pty -- and nothing can spawn
one before the endpoint exists.
2026-08-21 22:31:36 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong a0578641e9 fix(ci): restrict release test token permissions (STA-4970) (#15675) 2026-08-20 19:14:13 -07:00
NeilandBrennan c92f394cde fix(pty): delete the reply-withholding scheduler (#15578)
* fix(pty): answer a terminal colour query in its own turn

Root-cause follow-up to #15559, which stopped a CPR overtaking a deferred
colour reply but left the deferral itself in place.

Orca answers terminal queries by writing to the PTY master, which a line
discipline in ECHO copies straight back out as junk on a cooked prompt
(#12112). The guard was to withhold the write until an `stty` subprocess
proved ECHO clear — and forking is what forced the decision to be async.
Any deferral, however short, lets a reply written later in the same turn
overtake this one, so the async probe was the bug's root cause.

Read the bit synchronously instead. Linux and the BSDs redirect a
master's mode ioctls to the slave, so a `tcgetattr` on the master fd
node-pty already owns answers for the slave with no fork: measured 0.26us
against 2403us for the subprocess. With a verdict available inline, a
querying program that already cleared ECHO — every raw-mode prober,
including the colour probe behind the `gh auth login` report — is
answered in its own turn and can never be reordered.

The deferral stays for the genuinely cooked case, and the ordering
guarantee stays underneath it: hosts whose node-pty predates this patch
get no sync probe and fall back to the deferred path, which mixed
client/host versions make a live production path.

Reply routing is all-or-nothing: a payload needing neither containment
nor ordering stays on the host's own path, so a CPR answered during shell
startup cannot pass the daemon's post-ready flush gate and splice into
the buffered startup command.

Native side is fail-safe: a kernel that did not redirect would answer
from the master's own termios, whose ECHO defaults set, so the degraded
verdict is "echoing" — never a false "quiet". The JS half ships in the
pnpm patch while the binding needs a source build, so
ORCA_REQUIRE_NODE_PTY_ECHO_STATE=1 makes CI fail rather than silently
skip when it is handed an upstream prebuild.

Co-authored-by: Brennan <brennanb2025@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(pty): keep the flush ordered under synchronous re-entry

Three defects found in external review of the reply-ordering work.

node-pty delivers onData inside the master write, so a query can be
answered while the queue is mid-flush. `flushPendingWrites` spliced the
array off before writing, so that reply saw an empty queue, took the
same-turn path, and landed ahead of entries the loop had not written yet
— reproduced as 01, 99, 02, 03. It now shifts one entry at a time so a
re-entrant reply queues behind the rest, bounded by the length at entry
so a re-entrant push cannot spin the loop.

An overflow flush can re-enter as far as teardown. `answer` did not
re-check `closed` afterwards, so it queued behind a closed delivery,
returned true, and the reply was never written and never reported.

The payload router's ownership comment overstated its guarantee. The
`any` semantics are deliberate — returning false after a constituent was
already written would have the caller re-write the whole payload and
duplicate it into the child's stdin — so the residual mixed-failure drop
is now documented rather than implied away.

* fix(pty): delete the reply-withholding scheduler

Orca answered a terminal query by withholding the write until a probe
proved the slave's ECHO bit was clear. That was the wrong mechanism, and
it is now gone: replies are written in the caller's turn and their echo
is contained on the output side, where it always was.

Withholding never removed an echo. The wait was bounded and always ended
in a write, so the output-side projections were doing the work the whole
time — including the readline rewrite, which happens with the tty already
raw and which therefore no reading of the ECHO bit can predict. What
withholding did add was an asynchronous write path, and that is what let
one reply overtake another and land in the next program's stdin (#15559),
what produced a re-entrancy inversion inside its own flush, and what four
rounds of regressions have lived in.

The last thing it covered was the verbatim echo of a `stty -echoctl` tty.
That shape is now projected directly. It starts with ESC, so it is
matched only when complete and never held as a partial: holding it would
take a bare trailing ESC from the query parser and an expired hold would
release it raw, so a query torn at its own ESC would never be answered.
Complete-match-only is what makes the shape safe to project at all.

Measured on a real pty: a cooked-mode master write is both echoed AND
delivered — ECHO copies the bytes without consuming them from the slave's
input queue, so a program arming raw mode with TCSANOW/TCSADRAIN (libuv's
setRawMode, hence every Node agent) still reads them. Only a TCSAFLUSH
switcher discards it, which it does on every terminal, none of which
gates a reply on termios state.

Deletes the pending-write queue, the async stty probe, the poll budget
and probe rate limit, the deadline-driven flush, and the answer/
answerInOrder split. Replies now leave in call order by construction.
No packaging, native or CI surface is touched.

* test(pty): restore stty-probe coverage and pin the duplicate-query retry

Archaeology on how withholding got here, and what its tests were really
protecting.

Deleting the ECHO probe took four tests with it that were not about the
probe at all: they cover createSttyProbe, which the shell-readiness
line-editor probe still uses — in-flight sharing, the per-platform stty
flag, and transient-versus-permanent failure latching. Restored against
the line-editor probe, which is now their only caller.

Also pins the property that answers the one case an immediate write
cannot serve. A program that queries while cooked and then arms raw mode
with TCSAFLUSH discards the reply with the rest of its input queue.
Nothing can prevent that from the terminal side, and no terminal tries.
What matters is that such a program re-queries after its own timeout: the
ingress declines to answer an already-answered slot but forwards the
duplicate downstream, so the renderer's emulator answers the retry, by
which point the program is raw. The retry path is the recovery, not
withholding.

* ci(pty): keep the fish real-PTY test in the shell-contracts lane only

Reverting pr.yml to main dropped the exclusion for the fish query-reply
test, which this branch keeps, so it would have run in the sharded lane
as well. Restores it to the shell-contracts include list and the shard
exclude list, and drops the parallelism expectations for the deleted
cooked-querier suite and the echo-state env guard.

---------

Co-authored-by: Brennan <brennanb2025@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-20 02:15:42 -07:00
Neil 9d06b3ba93 ci: stop docs-only commits from starting the skill-roundtrip matrix (#15474)
A cancelled Skill update round trip on a README merge painted main red
because push to main had no path filter. Share the PR path list on
push, and skip expensive PR Checks when every changed file is docs.
2026-08-19 23:33:05 -07:00
Neil c72a4eecdd refactor(shell): collapse the zsh wrapper to one .zshenv and a precmd hook (STA-4786) (#15391)
* refactor(shell): collapse the zsh wrapper to one .zshenv and a precmd hook (STA-4786)

Orca needs to run code after the user's own zsh startup files. It bought that by
keeping ZDOTDIR pointed at its own wrapper dir for the whole of startup and
sourcing each user file by hand -- four generated files per transport, with a
fake ZDOTDIR live while /etc/zshrc ran. That single decision is the root of a
whole bug family:

- /etc/zshrc assigns HISTFILE=${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_history unconditionally, so
  history landed inside Orca's own dir (#11044), and an epilogue had to repair it.
- zsh's sourcehome() ignores ZDOTDIR once the shell is in sh/ksh emulation, so a
  user .zshenv or .zprofile ending in `emulate sh` hid every later wrapper file.
  The emulation degrade blocks and their forked $(emulate) probes exist for that.
- One wrapper dir shared by two installed builds could mix files from both, so
  every generated file had to redefine the helpers it called.
- The baked generation-time ZDOTDIR literal is unusable when a Windows-generated
  wrapper is sourced inside WSL via /mnt/c (#8003), so the runtime path had to be
  re-derived from %x.

The wrapper now hands ZDOTDIR back on its first lines and defers Orca's work to a
precmd hook that runs at the first prompt -- after .zprofile, /etc/zshrc, .zshrc
and .zlogin, every one of which zsh reads from the user's own directory exactly
as in an unwrapped shell. Each bug above stops being reachable rather than being
repaired, and their machinery goes with them: eight of thirteen exported blocks in
shell-templates.ts, both drifted discovery bodies (unifying them closes the
"reconciling the two is a follow-up" note the file carried), and the relay's
separate ORCA_USER_ZDOTDIR shape. Generated zsh drops from 819 lines across
twelve files to 143 in three.

Two things the design has to get right, both found by running it rather than
reasoning about it:

- Every function is defined ABOVE the source of the user's .zshenv. A user file
  ending in `emulate sh` puts the rest of the wrapper under sh parsing rules, and
  the first prototype died there with `parse error near '\n'` -- silently, leaving
  the pane unwrapped. Function bodies are parsed at definition time.
- ORCA_ORIG_ZDOTDIR is vetted, not trusted. The launch config only sets it when it
  resolved a usable dir, but a pane inherits its parent's environment too, so a
  stale value from an older build can arrive on its own and would point ZDOTDIR
  back at a wrapper dir. The ownership check Node applies now also runs in the
  shell, where that route is visible.

Orca also stops inventing a ZDOTDIR: where the user has none, ORCA_ORIG_ZDOTDIR is
absent and the pane ends with ZDOTDIR unset, as an unwrapped login zsh does.

Verified on real zsh over a real PTY -- necessary, because a precmd hook never runs
in a shell started with -c, so the existing `zsh -i -c` probes could not have
exercised this design at all. src/main/zsh-startup-hook-pty-harness.ts drives the
shell to a prompt and reports through a file rather than stdout, which a PTY echoes.

* test(shell): cover the relay variant of the zsh hook in a real shell

The relay writes its own variant -- no OSC 133, remote CLI bin dir instead of the
agent-teams shim -- and it had no live coverage. It used to carry a second ZDOTDIR
shape as well, which is how it drifted from the desktop template in the first
place; now the spec flags are the only difference, and this pins that.

* fix(shell): rebase the single-file hook onto content-addressed wrapper trees

#15285 landed content-addressed wrapper roots and a per-transport fileset module
while this branch was in flight. The fileset modules are now the single place the
tree is described, so 'only .zshenv' is stated once per transport and the
required-paths check follows from it rather than repeating the list.

* test(shell): point the mixed-build proof at the relay, the one fixed wrapper path

#15285 content-addressed the desktop and daemon trees, so two builds can no
longer write the same directory there and the scenario this file covers became
unreachable on those paths. The relay still writes a fixed ~/.orca-relay/
shell-ready, so that is where the hazard survives and where the proof belongs.

* fix(test): make the zsh PTY harness survive a startup that stops to ask

Two CI-only failures, both from driving a real PTY where the old probes drove a
pipe:

- A host whose global zshrc runs `compinit` over directories it considers
  insecure stops startup and ASKS. A pipe-backed `zsh -i -c` never saw the
  question; a PTY sits at it until the timeout. The harness now answers it.
  ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX does not help -- that is an oh-my-zsh convention and plain
  compinit ignores it, which I confirmed by reproducing the prompt locally.
- The PS1 line was typed at t=0, so on such a host the question consumed it as
  its answer. The harness now waits for the shell to fall quiet first, which
  also stops a slow prompt framework racing the same write.

Also merges a duplicate vitest import the native code-quality audit flagged.

* fix(test): stop the live-shell assertions assuming macOS host behaviour

Two of them hardcoded what my machine does rather than what Orca owes:

- LINEINIT was pinned to 'none'. A host whose global zsh config installs its own
  zle-line-init widget has one either way; the contract is that it looks the same
  wrapped as unwrapped, which the assertion beside it already states.
- The dropped-precmd_functions case asserted HISTFILE was no longer the scoped
  path. Whether the scoped value survives at all is the host's call: macOS
  /etc/zshrc overwrites HISTFILE so it does not, and a host with no such
  assignment keeps whatever the spawn env set. Now compared against an unwrapped
  pane given the same env, which is the real contract on both.

Also notes, where the emulation cases live, that they only discriminate on a host
whose system zshrc clobbers HISTFILE -- on CI's Ubuntu the load-bearing assertion
is ORCA_HISTFILE having been consumed.

* test(shell): re-pin the fixes the four-file wrapper was built for

Archaeology over the removed blocks: each existed for a bug, so each needs the
bug shown to be unreachable rather than just the code gone. Six restored or added,
each naming the change that introduced the behaviour.

- #8003, twice: the wrapper sourced from a relocated root, and from a non-ASCII
  (token-range) one. The old file baked its generation-time path in and had to
  re-derive the runtime one from %x to avoid using it; this one bakes nothing.
  Both runs assert ORCA_SHELL_FEATURES came back consumed, so 'the user's .zshrc
  loaded' cannot pass on a pane that never read the wrapper at all.
- #4667: user startup files must see their OWN ZDOTDIR while they run, or plugin
  and theme lookups resolve into Orca's dir. The old wrapper swapped ZDOTDIR
  around each source; this one never takes it away, and the values now have to
  match an unwrapped pane's.
- #1947: a user .zshenv that returns early.
- #15258: an inherited ZDOTDIR that is an Orca wrapper dir must be refused. CI
  proved this route is live -- the launch config only sets ORCA_ORIG_ZDOTDIR when
  it resolved a usable dir, but a pane inherits its parent's environment too.
- #11044/#11146: a nested Orca inherits neither cross-process channel and no
  ZDOTDIR of Orca's, which is what makes #11044's plain shape unreachable rather
  than repaired. Verified the child-env probe detects a real leak before trusting
  it to report the absence of one.
2026-08-19 22:37:42 -07:00
Neil cb95582cea feat(release): build unsigned Windows artifacts for the dev channels (#15465) 2026-08-19 17:34:27 -07:00
Neil 516d91e6bc Update pull_request_template.md 2026-08-19 17:18:32 -07:00
Brennan Benson 15d2e31777 ci: bound the shell-contracts apt install so a stalled mirror cannot wedge the run (#15532)
* ci: bound the shell-contracts apt install so a stalled mirror cannot wedge the run

shell contracts wedges intermittently. It is not a lock, not a prompt, and not the
PR under test - it is download throughput with no wall-clock bound.

Measured on a passing run: apt-get update fetched 11.4 MB of index in 40s, then
apt-get install fetched 8.9 MB of packages at 65 kB/s taking 2m17s, while the
shell-contract tests the job exists to run took 14s. apt applies no wall-clock
bound to a stalled mirror, so when throughput drops below that already-poor
baseline the step runs indefinitely - observed at 12+ minutes and climbing while
every other job had passed.

The job also had no timeout-minutes, so it inherited GitHub's 6h default, and an
in-progress required check holds the whole run open and blocks rerun --failed.

Bounds both layers: timeout-minutes on the job (a passing run is ~4m30s), and
Acquire timeouts plus retries in apt.conf.d so a dead mirror fails fast while a
transient blip still passes. Written to apt.conf.d rather than onto the command
lines because pr-workflow-parallelism.test.mjs parses those invocations.

Does not make the job faster; the 3m38s of download is untouched. Scoping the
index refresh to just the PPA risks installing against a stale base index and
wants its own evidence.

* ci: bound the apt commands by wall clock, not per-connection timeouts

The first attempt at this set Acquire timeouts of 30s with 3 retries. That made
the wedge worse and the job's own timeout-minutes proved it: on this PR the
install step ran 14m26s and was killed by the 15 minute bound.

The log shows why. Acquire timeouts are per-connection, so a dead mirror costs
timeout x retries x every index file: 30s x 3 across roughly ten index files is
~15 minutes, which is what was observed. The azure archive mirror returned Ign
for every suite, apt fell back to archive.ubuntu.com, and that connection then
produced zero bytes for 14m26s.

So per-connection bounds cannot bound this step; only a wall-clock bound can.
Wraps both apt invocations in `timeout`, and drops Acquire::Retries to 1 so a
dead mirror fails once instead of multiplying. The update is already tolerant by
design, so bounding it just caps what a dead mirror costs before the install runs
against whatever index exists.

Also drops DPkg::Lock::Timeout: no lock contention was ever observed in these
logs, and an option added on speculation is not worth carrying.
2026-08-19 15:10:48 -07:00
Neil ef788c80c7 test(terminal): assert wide-char buffer content across repaints (#15280)
* test(terminal): assert wide-char buffer content across repaints

The first reproduction for the Korean duplication asserted on the byte
stream a pty emits, and it passes on real Windows on both ConPTY
backends. The reporter's evidence says that is the wrong surface: their
copied text pastes doubled, so the corruption is in the buffer, and in
one run the command echo is doubled while that same command's output is
clean - text that was correct when it left the shell and went wrong
while being placed on screen. A redraw landing on the wrong cells emits
perfectly legitimate bytes, so no stream assertion can see it.

These assert buffer content instead, against a cell-level model of a
grid where one glyph spans two cells. The model shares no code with the
emulator, but its rules were chosen to match observed behaviour, so it
is a regression detector rather than a first-principles oracle - the
header says so rather than overclaiming.

The largest case is a cursor positioned onto the second cell of a
two-cell glyph, then erase-to-end-of-line, then rewrite, swept across
every row and column at widths 8 to 44. That is the only place a wide
character can be half addressed. Also covered: a whole row re-emitted
over wide characters, which is the shape a console redraw takes;
snapshot round-trip of a half-addressed buffer; and reflow across 148
width pairs, which is the resize the reporter uses as a workaround.

Nothing reproduces. The emulator blanks the orphaned half correctly at
every width and column, and reflow is lossless.

The two pty specs run in the existing Windows packaging job rather than
a new lane. A dedicated runner cost roughly four minutes, almost all of
it checkout and a native rebuild, to run thirteen seconds of tests, and
Windows minutes bill at double - the packaging job already installs the
same dependencies and already runs a Windows test step.

No production code changes. An earlier revision added an environment
variable to select the system ConPTY, and it is dropped: its only effect
would have been to let a user disable the fix for an earlier duplication
bug, it logged nothing so a support bundle could not confirm it took
effect, and the tests drive the backend directly without it.

Refs #15192

* test(terminal): share the wide-glyph predicate instead of copying its regex

The duplication detector carried its own copy of the range the grid
model already exports, so the two could drift and only one would be
updated.
2026-08-18 15:26:49 -07:00
Neil 487e43d619 refactor(test): use __fixtures__ for wrapper snapshots and teach the LoC bot (#15365) 2026-08-18 14:09:12 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong a77a2f93f7 fix(remote): search Quick Open paths on the host (#15158) 2026-08-18 13:32:48 -07:00
Brennan Benson 53bd956ef6 ci(e2e): keep the relay version markers in the e2e build artifact (#15303)
build-relay.mjs writes each relay's marker as out/relay/<platform>/.version,
and upload-artifact excludes dotfiles unless include-hidden-files is set. The
markers were therefore stripped from e2e-build-out, so every consumer that
actually starts a relay failed with:

  Orca's local relay build is missing its version marker at
  out/relay/linux-x64/.version

This stayed latent because the sharded e2e lane never sets ORCA_E2E_SSH_DOCKER,
so its SSH specs skip instead of touching the relay. The changed-specs lane does
set it whenever a changed spec needs Docker SSH, which is why the failure only
appears on PRs that touch SSH-adjacent code.
2026-08-18 03:13:31 -07:00
Neil 66a5e5d245 fix(shell): repair worktree HISTFILE in plain zsh panes via one positive feature channel (#15258)
* fix(shell): repair worktree HISTFILE in plain zsh panes via one positive feature channel

A plain zsh pane — no startup command, no agent overlay — was never wrapped, so
Orca's HISTFILE repair never ran in it. macOS `/etc/zshrc` assigns
`HISTFILE=${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_history` with no check-before-set and runs
before any file Orca controls, so per-worktree history was a silent no-op for
every ordinary pane on the primary platform.

Wrapping those panes needs a way to say which wrapper features a shell should
turn on. That channel is one exported variable, ORCA_SHELL_FEATURES, carrying a
comma-separated positive allowlist from a closed set (history, markers, ready,
identity, overlay). The wrapper .zshenv reads it into a plain, non-exported
array and unsets it in its first executable lines, before the user's own
.zshenv — so the selection survives .zshenv -> .zprofile -> .zshrc -> .zlogin in
this process but physically cannot reach a child. There is no negative or
suppression variable anywhere; an absent or inherited value can only ever mean
fewer features. ORCA_HISTFILE is consumed and destroyed the same way, which
removes the root cause of #11146 instead of patching it.

All order-sensitive wrapper work now lives in one `__orca_shell_epilogue`
defined in .zshenv and invoked exactly once, from .zshrc for a non-login shell
and .zlogin for a login shell, with each feature an independent guard.

Selection is a pure function of spawn env and launch intent, so a pane wrapped
only for history gets no OSC 133 and is observably identical to the unwrapped
pane it used to be.

Generation is now fail-closed: wrapper files are written to a temp name and
renamed, every required path is verified non-empty, and ZDOTDIR is only set when
that holds. Previously a failed write still pointed ZDOTDIR at an empty dir and
the user silently lost their entire zsh config.

Orca also recognised only its own `*/shell-ready/zsh` dir shape when deciding
what the user's ZDOTDIR was, so being launched from any other terminal that had
hijacked ZDOTDIR captured that as the user's config dir. Ownership is now
established positively — a stamped marker file, or Orca's own dir shape for
wrappers written by older builds — and an inherited ZDOTDIR holding no zsh
startup file is ignored. No vendor is detected by name.

* fix(shell): make the zsh epilogue option-proof and stop history widening relay wrapping

Review follow-ups on the feature-channel PR.

- `emulate -L zsh` as the epilogue's first statement. It runs after the user's
  own config, so `setopt no_unset` made the precmd_functions append a fatal
  error that returned from the whole function (no ready widget, ZDOTDIR left at
  Orca's wrapper dir), and `setopt ksh_arrays` made the 1-based feature
  subscript drop whichever feature is listed first.
- The `/etc/zshrc` HISTFILE repair is no longer behind the `history` guard: it
  undoes damage Orca's own ZDOTDIR caused, so it must also run for a shell that
  re-enters the wrapper after the allowlist was consumed.
- The relay keeps its own wrapping gate. Its .zshenv resolves the user's config
  dir from a ZDOTDIR Orca has already overwritten, so wrapping a remote pane
  just for `history` cost a relocated-ZDOTDIR user their whole shell config.
- A failed primary spawn no longer leaks the primary shell's launch env
  (wrapper ZDOTDIR + feature channel) into an unwrapped fallback pane.

* fix(shell): drop the relay wrapping gate and stop HISTFILE inheriting across Orca instances

The relay-specific gate added last round rested on a false premise:
main's hasOverlayRestoreEnv already included ORCA_REMOTE_CLI_BIN_DIR, and
ssh-pty-spawn-env sets that on every SSH pane whose session has a CLI
bridge — so ordinary remote zsh panes were already wrapped. The gate only
bit where remoteCliBridgeEnv is null (a host too old to report its
platform), where it silently dropped that pane's worktree history. All
three transports now share the features.length rule.

HISTFILE stays exported, so a newly wrapped pane handed the worktree
history path to every child, including a nested Orca whose panes then all
hit injectHistoryEnv's check-before-set and appended into the launching
worktree's file. Same class as the fish_history fix in #15195: recognise a
path Orca minted and drop it before the check, on the desktop, daemon and
relay injection paths and both history-disabled branches.

Also: run the epilogue from the wrapper .zshrc when zsh is in sh/ksh
emulation, since sourcehome() then reads $HOME/.zlogin and the wrapper's
.zlogin never runs; track fallback launch-env keys per attempt rather than
once from the primary; and guard the cross-file epilogue call so a wrapper
dir shared by two builds degrades quietly.

* fix(shell): make every wrapper file self-sufficient and retire the deleted marker vars from tests

- .zprofile/.zshrc/.zlogin each define __orca_resolve_user_config_dir. They
  called it on line 2 while only .zshenv defined it, so a wrapper dir written by
  two concurrently installed builds printed three "command not found" and
  skipped the user's entire zsh config. New live-shell test covers it.
- Retarget every remaining ORCA_SHELL_READY_MARKER/ORCA_SHELL_STARTUP_IDENTITY
  reference onto ORCA_SHELL_FEATURES, or delete it where the key is now dead.
- isOrcaMintedHistFile requires a leading '/', so a relative path of the same
  shape stays the user's.
- Drop an unused no-control-regex disable, and register the two real-zsh suites
  in the dedicated shell-contracts lane.

* fix(shell): stop the zsh wrapper colliding on REPLY and degrade under sh emulation

Widening wrapping from overlay/startup panes to every zsh pane turned three
latent wrapper defects into user-visible ones.

- The config-dir resolver used `REPLY`, zsh's shared scratch global, as its
  out-parameter. `typeset -r REPLY` in a user config made the wrapper's first
  executable assignment fatal, `typeset -i REPLY` silently resolved every path
  to 0; both left HISTFILE inside Orca's wrapper dir. It now writes an
  Orca-private `_orca_resolved_config_dir`, declared `typeset -g` so the
  rename introduces no `warn_create_global` noise. A new rule test fails on any
  generated wrapper file that writes a global outside Orca's namespace.

- The daemon dropped an inherited HISTFILE but never an inherited
  ORCA_HISTFILE, which now both wraps a pane the client scoped nothing for and
  re-exports another worktree's history path. The relay had the same gap on its
  isolation-off and revive paths. Both now mirror the desktop.

- A user .zshenv or .zprofile ending in `emulate sh` makes zsh ignore ZDOTDIR,
  so no later wrapper file is read and the epilogue never runs. Nothing can
  repair HISTFILE from there, so the wrapper now detects the emulation and
  hands the pane back unwrapped instead of leaving history somewhere invisible.

Also `typeset -g __orca_in_command` so the OSC 133 preexec hook prints no
warning under `setopt warn_create_global`.
2026-08-18 03:12:47 -07:00
Neil 4b2c901b66 test(terminal): pin that the CJK block is the preedit overlay, not the cursor (#15242)
* test(terminal): pin that the CJK block is the preedit overlay, not the cursor

A report described the cursor sitting on a wide character's first cell
and hiding its right half, with cursor style and opacity settings
ignored. Neither defect reproduces.

Replaying the reporter's own captured byte stream leaves the cursor at
column 11, exactly where the application asked, with correct wide and
continuation cells. A block cursor also cannot hide half a glyph: it
inverts the cell and the syllable renders inside the cursor span.

The black block is the IME preedit overlay. macOS 2-set Korean keeps the
trailing syllable composing until a terminator, so it sits in an opaque
absolutely-positioned box over the grid rather than in the buffer. That
box took stock upstream colours, black on white. It explains what no
cursor theory can: the block appears at the composing cursor cell, no
cursor option reaches it, it is identical with GPU acceleration off
since it is a DOM node above both renderers, Latin never triggers it
because Latin opens no composition, and Enter clears it because Enter
commits the composition.

Already fixed by the overlay theming in #15014, which landed a day after
the reported release, so the fix ships in the next one.

Tests only, no production change. Two pin the negative results so the
cursor explanation cannot be re-derived, and one pins the actual
mechanism at end of row, beside the existing mid-line arm.

Separately confirmed and not fixed here: the WebGL renderer drops the
cursor colour's alpha, so terminal cursor opacity genuinely does nothing
for a block cursor, which is the default style on the default renderer.
That is in the webgl addon rather than in xterm or in our code.

Refs #12729

* test(terminal): make the cursor precedence assertion real and measure the overlay

Review of the first pass found one assertion that could not fail. It set
options.cursorStyle and then read decPrivateModes.cursorStyle, which are
separate fields with separate storage, so it pinned that writing one does
not clobber the other. Deleting the precedence expression from both
renderers left it green.

It now asserts the rendered cursor class: the option style renders, a
DECSCUSR overrides it, and the reset hands control back. That fails if
the precedence is removed.

The overlay's rendered width is the one measurement in the report that
argues against our explanation, and no test here could reach it, because
the unit environment performs no layout. Adds an end-of-row browser arm
beside the existing mid-line one, asserting a single composing Hangul
syllable spans about two cells. That settles whether the block the
reporter measured at one cell can be this overlay.

Also scopes two DOM queries to the test container rather than the
document, and attaches the render listener before writing so a missed
render fails instead of hanging to timeout.

Records in the file header what it does not establish: composing the
opacity into the theme is not the same as it reaching the screen, since
the webgl renderer drops the cursor colour's alpha for a block cursor.

Refs #12729
2026-08-18 02:35:22 -07:00
Neil 442b46f020 ci(e2e): install a CJK font on the e2e runners (#15259)
The runners have no font covering Hangul, Han or Kana, so any spec that
asserts how CJK text renders is measuring tofu rather than the glyph.

That is not hypothetical. An end-of-row preedit spec added for #12729
measured the composition overlay at 1.02 cells against an 8.43px grid
and failed its "wider than one cell" assertion. The overlay is
shrink-to-fit with no width of its own, so it tracks the glyph's advance
rather than the two cells the grid reserves for a wide character. With
no Korean font that advance is one cell, and the assertion cannot
distinguish a real result from a missing font - which is exactly the
question that spec exists to answer.

fonts-noto-cjk covers all three scripts and is added to both jobs that
execute specs, the sharded suite and the changed-spec job, plus the ssh
docker lane so the three stay consistent.

This does not make any spec pass on its own. It makes the CJK ones
mean something.
2026-08-18 02:24:48 -07:00
Jinjing 7a695c70f1 test(e2e): harden triaged CI failures (#14656)
* test(e2e): harden triaged failures

* test(e2e): ship relay bundle to reusable shards

* test(e2e): tolerate expected IPC closures in daemon shutdown

A normal client exit can close the IPC channel before the finish ack
lands. Distinguish this from real failures by checking error codes,
only throwing if forced cleanup occurred or the error is not an IPC
closure.

* rm doc

* test(e2e): return termination status from legacy close handler

- terminateLegacyCloseClient now returns a discriminated union indicating
  whether the process had already exited ('already-exited') or termination
  was actually attempted ('termination-attempted')
- Allows finishLegacyCloseClient to only set forcedCleanup when termination
  was genuinely needed, not when the process exited cleanly on its own

* test(e2e): fix dispatch contract and voice mic locator

Point the release E2E contract at the renamed build step, and assert the
relabeled microphone through the Voice pane combobox even when Radix
leaves the listbox open.

* test(e2e): add contract test for relay artifact dispatch

Validate that the relay artifact built in CI is properly uploaded,
downloaded, and passed via ORCA_RELAY_PATH to E2E test runs.

* Distinguish between terminated and already-exited processes

Detect when processes have already exited instead of always reporting
termination success. Return booleans from cleanup functions to indicate
whether they actually signalled a process, catch tree-capture failures
when the root process exits before recording completes, and use these
signals to return accurate exit status from termination handlers.

* test(e2e): stabilize file creation and voice microphone tests

Use stable locators (aria-autocomplete, named triggers) and add retry
logic to handle file scans and device events that can interfere with
listbox state. Increase timeouts to allow async operations to complete.

* Add retry logic for transient GitHub API errors in PR body updates

GitHub API occasionally returns transient 5xx errors. Retry up to 3 times
with exponential backoff (1s, 2s, 4s) to improve reliability during
temporary service disruptions. Export updatePullRequest and add sleepImpl
parameter for test injection.

* Add tab search result retention during typing

Keep search results on screen while the deferred query catches up with
the live query. Re-validates results against the current input without
dropping rows prematurely, ensuring the user can select from what they see.

* Add proper types to tab search mock

Replace `unknown` with concrete types (`OpenTabSearchResult`,
`OpenTabSearchEntries`, `SearchableWorkspaceTab`) and use type guards
for discriminated unions to improve test type safety.
2026-08-17 23:28:38 -07:00
Neil 41ab3b825a ci: run the IME e2e suite when terminal input code changes (#15239)
PR e2e only runs specs whose own spec file changed, plus two explicit
source-to-spec mappings. Neither covers the terminal pane or the xterm
patch, so every terminal IME fix in the 1.4.18x window shipped without
triggering a single e2e spec - including one whose diagnosis was later
refuted by hardware, and one that turned out to fix a different bug than
it claimed.

The suite it skipped is not thin. It drives real compositions over CDP,
reads real pty bytes, asserts real overlay geometry, and exercises the
macOS-only input path on Linux runners through a user-agent policy
override. It simply was not pointed at the code it covers.

The SSH block immediately above records the same lesson from the same
cause: "the Docker-SSH specs only ever ran when someone edited a spec,
so four pane-restore regressions shipped from SSH source edits that
touched no test." This applies it to terminal input.

config/patches is included because the terminal's composition and key
handling live in the xterm patch, so a change there is exactly the kind
this suite exists to catch.

Verified by replaying the filter against the merges that skipped it:
15218, 15223 and 15198 each now select six specs.
2026-08-17 22:21:32 -07:00
Neil 49752477a6 build(xterm): restore the patch regeneration harness and gate it in CI (#15223)
* build(xterm): restore the patch regeneration harness and gate it in CI

docs/reference/ime-architecture.md says "Never hand-edit the bundles in
the patch" and links to docs/reference/xterm-patch-regeneration.md. That
doc does not exist, and neither does the harness it describes.

Both landed in 29117bf776 and were deleted by 17cfc968cf, a revert of
the composition-ownership change, which swept up a build tool and a CI
gate as collateral. The rule survived; its enforcement did not. Every
xterm patch since has had to hand-edit minified bundles to comply with
the surrounding architecture, because everything resolves to
lib/xterm.mjs at runtime and under vitest, so a src-only edit is inert.

The shipped bundles were therefore not the output of any build, and this
restores them to build output. Comparing identifier multisets against a
pristine build of the pinned commit finds hand-written names a minifier
never emits ($rl, $hp, $tid), const in an otherwise let-only esbuild
bundle, !! where the source reads Boolean(), an escaped LRM where esbuild
emits the literal, and a return block esbuild collapses to void(...).
Every remaining token difference is a minifier local reallocating.

The old source patch could not be reused. It described the reverted
composition-ownership architecture, so restoring it would have re-applied
an abandoned design on top of dropping three accumulated fixes. It is
re-derived from the shipped patch instead, and the derivation is a fixed
point.

Two deliberate departures from the deleted version. Sourcemaps are
included rather than deleted, because a live test reads lib/*.map and
asserts the mapped version matches the runtime version. The source-patch
superset carve-out is gone, so a source hunk the shipped patch cannot
name now fails loudly instead of being carved out silently.

The doc's claim that the webgl and serialize addons reproduce byte for
byte was half wrong. Their ESM output does reproduce at the pinned
commit, but both also publish CJS that the root package script never
builds, so folding either in needs a build step this harness lacks.
Recorded as a blocker rather than a confident sentence.

xterm_patch_sync runs the regenerator in --check mode, so a patch that
does not match a rebuild of the pinned upstream now fails PR CI.

The -diff -text attribute is required, not cosmetic: pnpm hashes the
patch byte-for-byte, so a CRLF checkout breaks the install outright.

Not verified: the CI job has not run on a real runner, the addon CJS
bundles are unreproduced, and the generator is untested on Windows and
Linux.

* build(xterm): make the regenerator runnable on Windows and drop dead paths

Readiness review on the restore found one blocking gap and two cheap
cleanups. None of them change the emitted patch, which is byte-identical
before and after.

The generator could not run on Windows at all. Three sites called npm
through execFileSync with shell:false, but npm ships as npm.cmd there,
execFile applies no PATHEXT, and since CVE-2024-27980 it refuses a .cmd
target without a shell. That matters because this harness arms a
blocking gate whose documented remedy is --write, so a Windows
contributor who tripped the gate had no remedy except hand-editing a 7MB
minified bundle, which is the practice the gate exists to abolish. Four
sibling scripts in config/scripts already handle this; the fix follows
them and lands in run(), so the manifest-driven build step is covered
too. git and tar are real executables in System32 and keep resolving
without a shell, which avoids quoting exposure on paths with spaces.

deleteGeneratedSourcemaps was unreachable, since the policy is include.
Deleting it left "delete" as a legal policy value that nothing honoured,
so a manifest asking for it would have silently shipped sourcemaps that
do not match the bundle. The enum is narrowed and an unrecognised policy
now throws rather than falling through.

generatedHunks moved into the test file rather than being dropped; its
partition assertion, that generated and source hunks reconstruct the
whole patch, is worth keeping.

The -text attribute now covers all five patch files. pnpm hashes each of
them byte-for-byte, so the CRLF hazard the xterm patch was protected
from applies equally to node-pty and the three addons. All five were
already LF in the object DB, so this pins existing behaviour. -diff
stays scoped to the xterm patch, since the others are readable.

The doc's claim that the addons reproduce byte for byte is now dated and
marked a one-off measurement rather than an invariant, because nothing
re-runs it.

Effective lines fall from 591 to 568 against the 600 budget. Still the
largest file in config/scripts, and adding a second package to the
manifest would need a split first.
2026-08-17 21:31:20 -07:00
Neil e2b567363b ci: stop refreshing every apt repo three times to install fish (#15217) 2026-08-17 20:40:25 -07:00
Neil 13b10e0b54 ci: cut PR wall clock by caching what CI recomputes every run (#15211)
None of these change what CI checks — they remove work the runners
repeated on every PR.

- install-node-dependencies installed with --no-frozen-lockfile, so every
  job re-resolved the graph against the registry to recompute what the
  lockfile already pins. Measured at ~62 MB of packument metadata per job;
  the pnpm store cache does not cover the metadata cache, so this was paid
  ~39 times per run. The `git diff` guard that made the re-resolution
  redundant stays.
- --ignore-scripts leaves node-pty with no build/Release, so
  ensure-native-runtime node-gyp-compiled it in every job asking for a
  runtime. Cache the build under an ABI-bound key (runtime, resolved Node
  version, node-pty patch) with no restore-keys, since a partial match is
  exactly the mismatched build that would be recompiled anyway.
- The four fetch-depth: 0 checkouts pulled full history including every
  historical blob (blobs are ~89% of this repo's pack). They only need the
  commit graph for a merge-base diff, so fetch them blobless. Measured
  30-43s each today versus 8s for the shallow checkouts. One of them,
  e2e-paths, gates the entire E2E chain.
- E2E jobs ordered setup-node before pnpm, which meant setup-node could not
  find the store and no E2E job cached dependencies at all. Reorder and
  cache; this sits on the critical path in both the build job and each
  shard.
- git_compatibility rebuilt Git 2.25.5 from a pinned tarball on every PR.
  Cache the build; the sha256 assertion still guards the miss path.
- typecheck ran three independent tsc passes back to back and discarded the
  .tsbuildinfo each project already emits. Run them concurrently and cache
  the incremental state.
- package (windows) built the electron-vite targets serially via
  build:release. Use a :parallel variant that overlaps them, matching what
  the Linux package job already packages and smoke-tests from.

Contract tests cover each new cache's ordering and key so none of them can
silently start serving a stale or ABI-mismatched artifact.
2026-08-17 19:20:13 -07:00
Neil 24e662adc1 feat(ssh): verify host keys, and restore panes correctly across a reconnect (#14844)
* docs(ssh): design for real host key verification (STA-4319)

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

Decisions worth calling out:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* feat(ssh): parse and match OpenSSH known_hosts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1461 SSH tests pass.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1,469 SSH tests pass.

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

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

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

Two things had to change for that to hold.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two gaps the audit named.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1,509 SSH tests pass.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1,516 SSH tests pass.

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

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

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

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

pnpm lint is clean.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Found by a parity review against a live OpenSSH client.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1,533 SSH tests pass.

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

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

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

Found by a parity review.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Found by an availability review.

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

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

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

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

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

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

pnpm lint clean; 1,549 SSH tests pass.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two problems, both mine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Three choices worth keeping:

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

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

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

Gated on ORCA_E2E_SSH_DOCKER=1 like the other relay specs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1555 tests pass in src/main/ssh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every SSH reconnect paid up to the 750ms model-snapshot timeout, including the
ones where the answer was discarded. The gate needs the snapshot's alternate-screen
flag, so the probe looked unavoidable — but one of its two vetoes does not: if the
replay shows the app LEFT the alternate screen, no snapshot can be used whatever it
says.

Asking that first costs a regex over the replay and removes the probe entirely for
that case. It also shrinks the window that matters most: the await sits inside the
structural replay coordinator with live PTY bytes deferred, and the payload can be
superseded while it runs.

Behaviour is unchanged — sshReconnectPaintsFromModel returns false for a null
snapshot exactly as it did for a fetched one it then vetoed, and its tests still
pin both vetoes.

* test(ssh): cover the site host key policy probe

It shipped untested. Three cases, and the third is the one that matters: a system
config naming no policy answers 'ask', not null, because parseSshGOutput fills the
OpenSSH default — and that distinction is exactly what the caller keys on. Null
means 'we could not look', which is the only state that keeps refusing unknown
hosts; a successful read that sets nothing clears the blindness without relaxing
anything, since strictestHostKeyChecking leaves the user's value alone against
'ask'.

I expected null there and was wrong about my own code; the test now records the
behaviour rather than my assumption. Also pins that the probe passes the null
device and terminates its args with -- so a host starting with '-' stays a host.

* fix(ssh): three release blockers from the readiness review

P1-1 was my own fix from the previous round, and it was wrong. I claimed
`ssh -G -F /dev/null` reads the system config while excluding the user's. It does
not: -F excludes /etc/ssh/ssh_config too, which sshGArgsForHost's own comment says
and I quoted before contradicting. Confirmed live against OpenSSH 10.2p1 — plain
`ssh -G` reports the sendenv lines from /etc/ssh/ssh_config, `ssh -F /dev/null -G`
reports none. So the probe returned built-in defaults on every machine, the
fail-closed guard never engaged, and a site-wide StrictHostKeyChecking yes was
silently ignored while we accepted AND durably recorded a key the user's own ssh
refuses. That is worse than the lockout it was meant to fix.

There is no ssh-only way to ask this, so the file is read directly — and the
question asked is deliberately weaker than "what is the policy". Anything
ambiguous (unreadable, an Include that will not resolve, the directive present at
all) answers yes and the caller stays fail-closed. Only a site config that
demonstrably says nothing about host keys clears it, which is the common case that
was being punished. Includes are followed, since macOS and most distros ship
`Include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*` and missing that would read as "no policy" on
nearly every machine that has one. strictestHostKeyChecking goes with it: there is
no separately-read site value left to merge.

P1-2. `ssh -G` prints UserKnownHostsFile unquoted and space-separated even when
the config quoted it — verified the same way. One path containing a space is
therefore indistinguishable from two, and splitting shreds
C:\Users\John Doe\.ssh\known_hosts into fragments that resolve to nothing. Every
fragment misses with ENOENT, which reads as "absent" rather than "unreadable", so
the user appears to know no hosts and a CHANGED key is accepted as first contact.
The filesystem is the only thing that can disambiguate, so it decides: if no
fragment exists but the rejoined path does, it was one path. A list where any
fragment exists is a genuine multi-file config and is left alone.

P1-3. oxlint is a PR gate and this diff failed it on two lines. Both fixed —
including by splitting the replay on ESC rather than matching it, which is
equivalent since every private-mode sequence begins right after one, and respects
no-control-regex instead of suppressing it.

That gate failure is on me twice over: I reported LINT clean repeatedly while
filtering oxlint's output with a grep that could never match its
`path:line:col: error` format. Verification is by exit code now.

5183 tests pass; each fix has a test that fails without it.

* fix(ssh): the readiness review's P2s

P2-1. activeRepoId and activeWorktreeId could describe different workspaces. The
repo followed the host while the worktree came from local state, and it split in
exactly the case the preservation exists for — "the host named no worktree" is
precisely when it can still name a repo. All three active-* fields now derive from
whichever worktree won, rather than each picking a source. The nested ternaries
that hid it are gone.

P2-2. The trust-source reads sit AHEAD of client.connect, and readyTimeout only
covers the handshake — nothing wrapped attemptConnect. A home directory on a
stalled NFS or SMB mount made readFile hang forever, leaving the connection wedged
in `connecting` with no ladder entry and no recovery. Bounded at 5s, reusing the
existing withTimeout helper. The fallback is the one an unreadable file already
produces — evidence withheld, connect as ssh does but record nothing — not the far
worse "no hosts known" that would let a changed key through as first contact.

That helper absorbs rejections into its fallback, so the store's catch had to move
INSIDE the timeout; wrapping the other way silently swallowed the warning that is
the only signal the store is unwired rather than merely slow.

P2-4. doSsh2Connect runs up to five times per attempt as the credential ladder
advances, and each run re-read every known_hosts file, re-read the store, and
re-scanned the system config. Nothing writes those while a handshake is in flight,
so they are read once per attempt — which matters more now that each read can cost
up to 5s. Keyed by connect generation rather than cleared, so a superseded attempt
can never hand its sources to the live one.

P2-3. forgetHostKey was exported, tested and referenced by nothing. The
store-mismatch rejection now names the store file, so the case it was meant to cure
has a cure without it; an exported API nothing can reach is unverified in
production. Removed until D5 ships its UI, and the doc says so.

P2-5 needed no change: the site-policy branch it called dead is reachable again now
that the probe reads the real config.

The design doc drifted from the code in the two places this review checks, and both
are corrected: revocation now propagates for the ordinary rotation because a
known_hosts match is decided first, and the -F blindness is resolved by reading the
file rather than by refusing.

* fix(ssh): rejoin a spaced known_hosts path even beside an ordinary one

The whole-list check only fired when NOTHING in the reported list existed, so a
config naming both a spaced path and an ordinary one kept the spaced one in
fragments — the ordinary path existing was enough to leave it alone. The file the
user actually verified their hosts in then never got read, which is the same
failure the rejoin exists to prevent, just harder to notice.

Longest run first now: the longest sequence of tokens that resolves to a real file
is taken as one path and the scan continues after it, falling back to the single
token when no run resolves. A genuinely absent path is still reported as-is rather
than invented.

The mixed case fails against the previous version.

* test(ssh): pin the site config scanner's edge cases

This control decides whether an unknown host is refused when we cannot see the
site policy, and my first attempt at it was a security regression, so the cases
that decide 'policy present' deserve to be written down rather than assumed.

Seven, and each could have gone the wrong way. A commented-out directive must NOT
read as a policy or the lockout returns for every distro shipping the line
commented. A directive inside a Host or Match block MUST read as one, because no
attempt is made to evaluate whether the block applies — guessing wrong in the
permissive direction is the failure that matters. The equals form counts;
StrictHostKeyCheckingExtended does not. A nested Include is followed, since a
policy one level down is still a policy. An Include cycle terminates and answers
false, which is knowledge rather than doubt: both files were read in full and
neither mentions it.

All seven passed as written, so this pins behaviour rather than fixing it.

* test(ssh): assert tab survival, record the reattach gap rather than flake on it

Running the two SSH e2e specs — which neither review executed — showed the
tab-destruction spec failing on liveness three times out of three. The screenshot
disproved the obvious reading: the marker was on screen, echoed by a live shell.
getTerminalContent resolves the store's active tab id and returns '' when
paneManagers has no entry under it, which is indistinguishable from 'the shell said
nothing', and across a reconnect those two disagree.

Scanning every mounted pane instead fixed the read, and then measured the real
thing: three runs in four. The tab survives every time; the reattach behind it does
not. So the merge fix is real and incomplete — the store keeps the tab, the tab bar
renders it, and the pane sometimes never rebinds, which is the frozen-tab shape the
original report described, one layer down from the deletion that used to cause it.

Asserting that would put a one-in-four flake into the lane built to catch this
class, and a lane nobody trusts is how the original silent-skip failure happened.
So the spec asserts survival, which is deterministic at five runs in five, and the
liveness gap is written down in docs/reference/ssh-reconnect-source-recovery.md
with the first place to look.

* fix(ssh): stop an unreadable host key store from wiping every pinned key

Second readiness pass, checking each of the first pass's ten fixes rather than
taking them on trust. Nine held. This is the one that did not, plus three
fail-open shapes in the site-config scanner that a live OpenSSH disproved.

P1 — the store. loadTrustedHostKeys returns [] for ANY read failure, and
trustHostKey then wrote [...that empty list, newRecord]: one transient EMFILE
followed by one first-contact accept replaced the file with a single record.
Every other host re-TOFUs, and one whose key genuinely changed in between is
accepted as first contact rather than refused — the exact outcome pinning
exists to prevent. It also contradicted the doctrine this PR applies to
known_hosts two files away, where a file that exists and refuses to open is
evidence withheld.

Fixed by classifying one read instead of guessing twice: readStore returns
ok/absent/withheld, the read path flattens withheld to 'nothing trusted' so it
still fails closed, and the write path declines. That subsumes the separate
newer-version probe, so trustHostKey now reads the file once inside the queue
rather than twice. The 'Trusted host key' log moved inside the branch that
actually writes — it was already claiming success on the newer-version path.

P2 — the site-config scanner documents 'doubt wins on every path' and had
three where it did not, each the same shape: a path resolved WRONG still
resolves to something, and a nonexistent Include reads as 'nothing there',
which is indistinguishable from 'no policy'. Verified against OpenSSH 10.2p1:
relative Includes resolve against a fixed dir, not the including file's, so a
directive two deep was missed; ? and [...] are globs it honours; ~ and %-tokens
expand before use. All three now answer doubt.

P2 — credential prompts are gated on the attempt generation in one place
rather than per rung. A superseded attempt is denied without a recorded
decision, so isHostKeyVerificationError reads false and the ladder ran on to
prompt for a passphrase nobody was waiting on.

P2 — resolveKnownHostsFiles is async. Its rejoin existsSync-scans the very
paths the 5s bound protects, and sat outside it as an eagerly-evaluated
argument, so a stalled NFS/SMB mount blocked the whole main process.

Tests fail against the pre-fix code: 2 for the store wipe, 3 for the scanner.

Also: the 4 IME failures I previously reported as pre-existing main breakage
were a stale node_modules — the xterm patch from #14758 was not applied here
(402,643 bytes installed vs 403,181 expected). pnpm install applies it and all
4 pass. The OSC8 and SFTP failures were the same cause.

* fix(ssh): make the merge non-duplicating, and close the last scanner hole

Third readiness pass. Three P2s, all fixed.

The merge one is the one I most wanted a verdict on, and it is real: hostUnknown
filtered against ids the HOST knows and never against ids this same merge had
already emitted, so a tab id local state holds under two worktrees was re-added
under both. Two panes then share one terminalLayoutsByTabId entry and one
remoteSessionIdsByTabId entry — one remote PTY — plus an activeTabId that never
converges, which is the self-retriggering repair loop active-tab-owner-worktree
.ts exists to mitigate (React #185).

This PR does not create that state. It used to DESTROY it, by deleting every
local tab under a replaced worktree, and keeping live panes cost that accidental
cure. So the guarantee is made explicit rather than incidental: the merge now
never emits one tab id twice, whatever it is handed. The active worktree is
walked first so the surviving copy is the one the user is looking at, which is
the owner resolveActiveTabOwnerWorktreeId already prefers — merge and repair now
agree instead of each picking differently.

Scanner: an Include path that is quoted AND contains a space was split before it
was unquoted, so both halves missed and two absent paths read as 'no site
policy'. OpenSSH honours that form -- 10.2p1 applies an Include of a quoted
spaced path -- and it is likelier on Windows. Quote-aware splitting rather than
'any quote is doubt', because answering doubt for an ordinary quoted Include
with no space would reinstate the lockout this scanner exists to avoid. An
unclosed quote is doubt. Unquoted spaces still split, which is also what OpenSSH does.

The reconnect paint gate took the replay and re-scanned it, having already been
scanned by the caller that decides whether to fetch a snapshot at all — two full
splits of up to 100KB per pane per reconnect. It now takes the transition.
hasReplay is passed separately because it cannot be inferred: a replay with no
mode change and no replay at all both give null.

Tests fail against the pre-fix code for the merge and all four scanner shapes.

Correcting my own evidence claim from last round: of the two store tests, only
the wipe one fails pre-fix. The other guards the asymmetry the fix creates and
passes either way — worth keeping, but I should not have counted it.

* fix(ssh): honour every Include quoting form OpenSSH does

Fourth readiness pass. Two findings; one fixed, one deliberately not, with the
evidence for refusing it.

The tokenizer modelled double quotes only. A live 10.2p1 honours single quotes
and backslash-escaped spaces too, and both fell into the same silent fail-open
the double-quote case was raised for: fragments that resolve to nothing, and
'nothing there' is indistinguishable from 'no site policy'.

The escape is limited to a backslash before whitespace, NOT a general one. A
general escape would be catastrophic on the platform this most needs to be right
for: the Windows site config lives at C:\ProgramData\ssh\ssh_config, so it
would eat every separator in an Include beneath it and resolve to nothing --
reintroducing the fail-open it was meant to close. The test for that is
discriminating rather than incidental: it gives the file a literal backslash in
its name, so a swallowed separator resolves elsewhere and fails, where a plain
'expect false' could not tell the two apart. Verified it catches the naive
version, and that the other two catch the old tokenizer.

NOT fixed: the non-duplication guarantee still stops at the worktrees the merge
rewrites. A worktree that is neither replaced nor named by the host is never
walked, so a duplicate straddling that boundary survives.

Extending the guarantee to the assembly point was implemented and REVERTED. Any
rule there has to pick a survivor, and the ones available are wrong during a
worktree-id change -- which is the very thing that produces these duplicates.
Preferring the active worktree keeps the OLD id's copy at the moment a rename
lands, because the active worktree has not moved yet; the new worktree was left
with no tabs and its groups were never created.
remote-workspace-snapshot-duplicate-tab-repair.test.ts caught it, which is the
only reason I know the stronger version was wrong rather than merely bolder. A
surviving duplicate is mitigated by active-tab-owner-worktree.ts; deleting the
tabs of the worktree the user is about to land in is not. The comment now claims
only what holds, and says why it is not stronger.

Also records the exit from the isENOENT message-matching trade in
remote-wire-compatibility.md, where someone touching the relay error path will
be standing.

* fix(ssh): expand Windows OpenSSH's __PROGRAMDATA__ token in known_hosts paths

Captured real 'ssh -G' output from a Windows host rather than reasoning about
it, which is the one thing that could not be inferred from the POSIX format.
Two things came back that the code did not handle correctly, and one of them is
the security failure mode this work exists to prevent.

Native Windows OpenSSH prints the system paths with its own token UNEXPANDED:

  globalknownhostsfile __PROGRAMDATA__\ssh/ssh_known_hosts __PROGRAMDATA__\ssh/ssh_known_hosts2
  userknownhostsfile C:\Users\neil/.ssh/known_hosts C:\Users\neil/.ssh/known_hosts2

Passed through as a literal path, __PROGRAMDATA__\ssh/ssh_known_hosts misses
with ENOENT -- and an absent file is deliberately treated as 'no host is known
there' rather than 'evidence withheld', because that is the normal state. So a
site-managed known_hosts on Windows was silently invisible: every host in it
read as first contact, and one whose key an admin had rotated produced a TOFU
accept where it should have produced a mismatch. Now expanded from
process.env.ProgramData, and left literal when that is unset rather than
guessed -- a wrong path reads as absent, which is the very failure being fixed.

The second finding is reassurance rather than a bug: separators are MIXED within
one path (C:\Users\neil/.ssh/...), which Node's fs accepts on Windows, and a
spaced home prints unquoted exactly as it does on POSIX. So the space-rejoin
design is confirmed against the real format rather than assumed -- its
motivating example, C:\Users\John Doe, splits the way the rejoin expects.

The captured output is pinned as a literal fixture. Parsing and the rejoin are
pure string work, so this covers the input shape honestly off Windows; it does
not pretend to cover the platform's path arithmetic. The expansion test fails
without the fix.

Also confirms C:\ProgramData\ssh is the right site-config directory -- it
exists on the host, empty -- so the scanner is looking in the right place.

* fix(ssh): branch Include backslash handling on platform, both halves measured

Fifth readiness pass found that the previous narrowing traded one fail-open for
another. Both rules are right, on different platforms:

  POSIX 10.2p1:  Include conf\.d/x.conf     resolves as conf.d/x.conf
                 four backslashes needed to survive as one -- argv_split and
                 glob() each consume a level
  Windows:       Include C:\Users\...\x.conf  resolves, separators intact

So a backslash before an ordinary character ESCAPES on POSIX and SEPARATES on
Windows, and either rule applied everywhere fails open on the other platform.
Preserving on POSIX means looking for a path with a literal backslash, missing,
and reading 'no site policy'. Answering doubt on Windows means every absolute
Include is doubt, which is the lockout the scanner exists to avoid.

Now branched. POSIX answers doubt rather than emulating two rounds of glob
escaping for a question this coarse -- a backslash in a POSIX system config path
is vanishingly rare, so fail-closed costs nothing there.

The review offered the Windows half as a reasoned assumption and flagged it as
such. It is now measured on a real Windows host instead: backslash separators
resolve, AND an escaped space still escapes amid them
(C:\Users\neil\sshprobe\sp\ ace\x.conf -> port 2802), which is exactly the rule
implemented. Two other worries were checked and came back unfounded -- a
backslash-space inside EITHER quote is consumed by ssh, and a single quote
inside double quotes is an ordinary character, which the single quote-state
variable already reproduced.

The tokenizer takes the platform as a parameter, so both sides are pinned from
one host. Every expectation in the new oracle came from running a real ssh and
reading what it resolved to, not from reading source or shell convention -- the
tokenizer's whole job is to agree with ssh about which file it would read.

Also narrows an overclaiming comment: the dedupe set is consulted only by the
host-unknown filter, so a duplicate in the HOST's own snapshot still propagates.
Pre-existing and unchanged; the comment now says what the code actually does.

* fix(ssh): only expand __PROGRAMDATA__ when it is a whole path segment

Found by probing the expansion I had just written, rather than by reading it: a
bare startsWith also matches a path that merely BEGINS with those characters, so
__PROGRAMDATA__evil/known_hosts was rewritten to C:\ProgramData\evil\known_hosts
-- a directory the user never named. Same prefix-collision class I checked the
site-config scanner for and then did not check here.

Low reachability, since the token only appears because Windows OpenSSH emitted
it, and it emits it as a whole segment. Fixed because the expansion is one review
pass old and sits in the security path: a rewritten known_hosts path resolves
somewhere unintended, and a path that resolves to nothing reads as 'no host is
known', which is the fail-open this whole line of work has been closing.

Now requires the token to be the entire path or be followed by a separator --
both separators, since the path is Windows-shaped but may be parsed anywhere. The
test fails without the check.

* test(ssh): split the pty provider spawn tests into their own file

CI's static analysis went red on the merge of main: ssh-pty-provider.test.ts
reached 803 counted lines against a maximum of 800. Both sides contributed --
main grew the file and this branch added 7 lines to it -- so neither shows the
violation alone, which is why local lint stayed green until main was merged in.

AGENTS.md forbids disabling max-lines or bumping a per-file limit, and that rule
is right here: the file was doing two jobs. Spawn owns the startup contract --
ingress version, env scrubbing, execution ownership, and the reconnect races --
and is 630 of the 922 lines. It reads as its own unit rather than as an overflow
file, so it moves to ssh-pty-provider-spawn.test.ts and the shared relay stub
moves beside it under a name that says what it is.

Same tests, same count: 713 provider tests pass, and the line total is unchanged
across the two files.

* fix(ssh): remove the dead lint suppressions, and reach Terminal 1 in the restore spec

Two CI failures, both surfaced by this branch rather than caused by it.

Static analysis: the two no-require-imports suppressions on the ssh2 constants
require() are now unused -- main's config no longer reports that rule there --
and the changed-code audit treats a dead directive as an error. Removed; the
audit CI runs passes locally on the merge.

E2E: ssh-cold-activation-restore failed on clicking Terminal 1. This PR is what
routes that spec into the changed-e2e lane at all -- before, the Docker-SSH
specs only ran when someone edited a spec file, which is the gap this branch set
out to close -- so its first run in CI was here, and the failure is pre-existing
rather than new. The trace shows the cause: six restored tabs overflow the strip
at CI's window size and the restore pins it to the END, so Terminal 1 sits
outside the scroll viewport. Playwright's own scroll-into-view loses that race
against the sticky-to-end effect and times out on an element it can see but
never reaches.

The spec's intent is to activate the first tab and prove it remounted, not to
exercise strip scrolling, so it now scrolls the strip to the start first. Not
papering over a product bug: the strip is a native overflow container with
working arrow controls, so a user can reach the tab -- it is Playwright that
cannot drive a moving target.

Six specs pass locally in CI's exact order and worker count.

* test(ssh): press the restored first tab directly instead of waiting for it to hold still

The previous attempt swapped a click for scrollIntoViewIfNeeded and hit the same
30s timeout, which identifies the real cause: not that Terminal 1 is out of view,
but that it never holds STILL. Both APIs wait for the element to stop moving, and
the strip keeps re-laying-out while the relay reconnects behind it -- so both
time out on an element they can see and never settle on.

Driving the pointer directly needs no element to be stable, only to be somewhere
at the moment it is pressed, and the attempt is retried against the store rather
than believed. Activation is deferred to pointerup and suppressed past a drag
threshold, so it has to be a real down/up pair at one position -- a synthetic
click event would not select the tab at all.

Passes twice locally. The previous version also passed locally, so the honest
statement is that the local runs prove the interaction still works, not that they
reproduce CI's instability -- CI is the oracle for that.
2026-08-17 16:40:01 -07:00
Brennan Benson 7b4e10b104 fix(mobile-ios): pin fastlane and gate the Fastfile in CI (#15092)
* fix(mobile-ios): pin fastlane and gate the Fastfile in CI

The ios-distribute job failed on every run from 2026-08-10 to 2026-08-13
because distribute_testflight passed distribute_only without app_platform,
so pilot fell through to an interactive platform prompt on ubuntu. No CI
check loads the Fastfile, so external testers got nothing for six days.

- Pin fastlane 2.238.0 and commit mobile/Gemfile.lock so ios-build (macos)
  and ios-distribute (ubuntu) cannot resolve different versions ~25 minutes
  apart. Fixes the Gemfile comment's dead mobile-build.yml reference.
- Add a Fastfile smoke check (bundle exec fastlane lanes) plus a static
  contract test for the TestFlight lane arguments to Mobile Checks.
- Set reject_build_waiting_for_review so a superseded same-train build in
  beta review stops blocking the submission.

* fix(mobile-ios): install the pinned Gemfile.lock in frozen mode

Without frozen, a lockfile that drifts from the Gemfile is silently
re-resolved per job, which is the version split the pin exists to prevent.

* test(mobile-ios): anchor the TestFlight argument contract against an empty selection

* chore(mobile-ios): canonicalize the lockfile platforms

Bundler's own normalization drops arm64-darwin-25 as redundant with the
versionless arm64-darwin, and the ubuntu runners resolve x86_64-linux-gnu.
2026-08-17 12:03:20 -07:00
Neil 3bb87ff93b reland(shell): one portable Unix startup dialect, with both revert causes fixed (#15018)
* reland: portable startup-shell dialect, with the two revert causes fixed

Relands #14863 (reverted by #14975) with fixes for both regressions the
revert cited.

1. History GC deleted folder-workspace shell history. The live set was built
   from `getAllWorktreeMeta()` alone, but a folder workspace's PTY carries
   `folder:<id>` as its worktree id, so every live folder workspace looked
   orphaned. `getKnownWorktreeIdsForHistoryGc` now unions in
   `getFolderWorkspaces()`. Both consumers — the history-directory prune and
   the fish-history sweep — read that one set, so the fix covers bash, zsh and
   fish history alike. The directory prune had this gap since #1524; #14863
   only widened its blast radius to fish files.

2. A copied Codex resume command aborted under `set -u`. Its leading clear
   statement has to test `$fish_pid`, and that unbound expansion takes the
   whole line — including the agent launch — down with it. Copied text runs in
   a shell Orca never spawned, so nothing can seed that variable first. The
   removal now rides on the agent itself as `env -u`, which needs no shell
   syntax and no expansion. Verified byte-identical under `set -u` in sh,
   bash, zsh, dash, ksh and fish.

   `env` cannot run the `cd` builtin, and a child `cd` would not move the
   agent, so the prefix is placed on the agent rather than on the whole
   `cd … && agent` chain. cmd and PowerShell have no nounset hazard and keep
   their clear ahead of the `cd`, which preserves `cd … && agent` — a failed
   `cd` still cannot launch the agent in the wrong directory.

* fix(history-gc): stop three more paths from deleting live shell history

Found by adversarial review of the reland. All three are the same class as
the bug that caused the revert: a live set that is missing a category of
real workspace, so the GC reads it as orphaned.

1. Profiles. The history root is `userData/terminal-history`, which has no
   profile segment, but the Store the GC consults is per-profile. So after a
   profile switch the live set condemned every other profile's history — and
   fish history, which lands in the user's own fish data dir, is shared by
   every profile on the machine. The live set now unions in the inactive
   profiles' worktrees and folder workspaces, read from their data files. A
   profile whose ids cannot be read reports the empty set rather than one
   that condemns real history.

2. No empty-set guard on the tree scan. `sweepOrphanedFishHistoryFiles`
   refuses an empty live set because it cannot be told apart from a store
   that failed to hydrate; the directory scan, which deletes more, had no
   such guard. A store that fell back to default state would have taken
   every worktree's bash and zsh history with it, across all roots including
   WSL. Four existing tests passed `new Set()` and relied on "empty means
   everything is orphaned" — exactly the behavior being removed — so they
   now pass a real live set.

3. Relay fish history. The relay isolates its history tree under its own
   root but wrote fish history into the shared fish data dir under the
   desktop naming, keyed by the CLIENT's worktree ids. On a machine running
   both Orca and a relay host, the desktop sweep deleted remote sessions'
   history once it went stale. Relay files are now `orca_relay_<hash>`,
   which the sweep's pattern deliberately does not match; the relay still
   deletes them by exact name when the worktree goes away.

* fix(resume): enforce the env-removal invariants instead of documenting them

Both found by adversarial review; both were unreachable from today's callers
and silent if reached, which is exactly how they would survive to a caller
that does reach them.

- A pinned CODEX_HOME and the removal named the same variable, and `env -u`
  strips what the assignment just set — so the agent would have resumed
  against the real home and not found the session. The removal list now
  excludes any name the prefix pins, keeping the assignment authoritative as
  the old `clear…; CODEX_HOME=x agent` ordering did. Same fix in the git-bash
  twin. The PowerShell branch already clears before it assigns, so it was
  never affected.

- Placement was keyed on the platform while the grammar it selects is keyed
  on the shell, so `platform: 'linux'` with `shell: 'powershell'` emitted
  POSIX `env -u` into a PowerShell line. PowerShell now routes to the
  PowerShell builder whatever the host, and the POSIX/cmd split below asks
  the shell rather than the platform.
2026-08-16 23:51:53 -07:00
Neil 08bf209e40 fix(ci): run PR LoC scripts from the default branch, not PR head (#15016)
The PR test LoC job fetched .github/scripts/pr-test-loc-*.mjs from
pull/<n>/head and ran them with node while holding a GITHUB_TOKEN scoped
pull-requests: write, so PR-authored code executed under a write token.

Pin the fetch to the repository default branch. base.sha is not enough:
for stacked PRs it is an unreviewed feature-branch commit any collaborator
can push to, while main is gated by branch protection.

Also pass event data via env instead of shell interpolation, and add
set -euo pipefail so a failed download cannot leave a truncated script.
2026-08-16 22:18:50 -07:00
Jinjing f070033156 Revert "refactor(shell): one portable Unix startup dialect instead of shell d…" (#14975)
This reverts commit b6ea3f17a9.
2026-08-16 16:48:55 -07:00
Neil b6ea3f17a9 refactor(shell): one portable Unix startup dialect instead of shell detection (#14863)
Orca had to guess which shell would parse a queued command line, then emit
syntax for it. Guessing is unreliable for a remote or WSL host, and every
dialect-dependent function is a place to get it wrong.

Replace the guess. Everything emitted for a Unix shell is now built to be
correct in sh, bash, zsh, dash, ksh and fish alike, so no detection is needed:

- quoteStartupArg emits backslashes as "\\" and apostrophes as "'" between
  single-quoted runs. Both families read that identically, unlike the sh '\''
  idiom, which fish silently halves and which makes a trailing backslash a
  hard syntax error.
- clearEnvCommand emits a self-contained fish/sh branch. It deliberately does
  NOT call a helper defined by Orca's shell wrappers: Orca wraps only zsh, bash
  and fish, so an `sh`/`dash`/`ksh` login shell launches unwrapped — and the
  same text is copied to the clipboard and pasted into shells Orca never
  spawned. In both, a helper would be `command not found`, which is the exact
  failure this exists to avoid. Two guarded statements rather than `A && B ||
  C`, because fish's `set -e` returns non-zero for an already-unset variable
  and would fall through to the sh branch; a trailing `true` pins the status,
  since this is the last statement of a launch line and the prompt renders it.
- One tokenizer for Unix. The input is a settings string the shell never
  parses, so parsing it per-shell only made the same setting mean different
  things in different workspaces.

AgentStartupShell loses its 'fish' and 'unix' members, and the three
login-shell resolvers, the fish tokenizer and the agentEnv.SHELL probe go with
them.

Per-worktree shell history now actually works:

- zsh on macOS was a no-op. /etc/zshrc assigns HISTFILE unconditionally before
  any wrapper Orca controls, so the injected value was already gone — and with
  ZDOTDIR still pointing at Orca's wrapper dir, history landed inside it. The
  intended path rides ORCA_HISTFILE and is restored after user config.
  Fixes #11044.
- fish keeps history in its own data dir keyed by session name, since it
  ignores HISTFILE and has no custom-directory knob. Files are deleted rather
  than truncated, a symlinked ~/.local/share no longer disables cleanup, and a
  GC sweep reclaims orphans whose meta.json is gone. The sweep refuses an empty
  live-worktree set (indistinguishable from a store that failed to hydrate) and
  skips files younger than GC_MIN_AGE_MS, mirroring the tree GC's guard against
  the live-set snapshot race.

Verified against real shells rather than asserted as strings:
startup-shell-portability.live-shell.test.ts runs 194 assertions across
sh/bash/zsh/dash/ksh/fish, and zsh-scoped-histfile.live-shell.test.ts drives a
real login zsh through /etc/zshrc. Both are vacuity-checked. The same quoting
corpus was replayed byte-exact on Linux, where /bin/sh is dash.
2026-08-16 15:28:50 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong fa9b20cb41 feat(skills): reland private bundle sharing safely (#14934) 2026-08-16 13:45:54 -07:00
Jinjing 763b1febeb Revert "feat(skills): add private bundle sharing (#14401)" (#14913)
This reverts commit 757fae28d7.
2026-08-16 10:39:57 -07:00
Jinwoo HongandE2E Test 757fae28d7 feat(skills): add private bundle sharing (#14401)
Co-authored-by: E2E Test <e2e@test.local>
2026-08-16 02:36:18 -07:00
Jinjing 1b6d2403cb ci: run full e2e against the daily cut commit (#14870)
After a live daily publish, dispatch e2e.yml at the cut SHA. Detached on
purpose so a red suite cannot fail or delay the signed daily.
2026-08-16 01:57:01 -07:00
Jinjing 5c56bfb28b ci: run the daily macOS build 4 hours later (#14869)
The 14:15 UTC cut is too early (6:15am PST / 7:15am PDT). Move it to
18:15 UTC so dailies land late morning Pacific instead.
2026-08-16 01:52:58 -07:00
Neil 8dc29a5be6 ci: render LoC signs Huge bold (#14855) 2026-08-15 23:23:47 -07:00
Neil ac48d753a7 ci: color added/deleted LoC counts in PR summary (#14839)
* ci: color added/deleted LoC counts in PR summary

* ci: use GitHub color-swatch dots for added/deleted LoC counts

* ci: color LoC counts with LaTeX textsf

* ci: bold LoC counts; render zero in white

* ci: render LoC counts large bold sans-serif

* ci: use bold math font for LoC counts

* ci: color only the + and - signs on LoC counts
2026-08-15 23:18:20 -07:00
Neil 393c8764e0 ci: post test vs non-test LoC on pull requests (#14738) 2026-08-15 01:34:44 -07:00
Neil 9367169888 refactor(tests): split every oversized test file off the max-lines suppression list (#14728)
* refactor(tests): split oversized test files off the max-lines suppression list

Every `*.test.ts`/`*.spec.ts` that carried an `eslint/oxlint-disable max-lines`
directive is now split into focused, behavior-scoped suites that fit the 800-line
test budget, with shared setup extracted into co-located `*-test-harness.ts` /
`*-test-fixtures.ts` modules (300-line budget). 83 files became ~930; the largest
output is 797 effective lines. `orca-runtime.test.ts` is intentionally untouched.

Test bodies were moved by scripted line-range slicing rather than retyped, so
assertions are byte-identical. The only permitted body edits were mechanical
rebinding where a shared value moved into a harness (e.g. `tmpHome` ->
`homes.tmpHome`).

Registries that enumerate test files were updated in lockstep:
- config/max-lines-baseline.txt: pruned 341 -> 258 entries (all 83 removed).
- config/reliability-gates.jsonc: 33 gates repointed at the split files, with
  assertionRefs split per file where a gate's coverage now spans several.
- .github/workflows/pr.yml: the real-zsh lane now lists the 4 split files that
  actually exercise zsh, so they keep running in the dedicated shell lane.

Also renamed agent-hooks `server-test-fixtures.ts` to `server.test-fixtures.ts`
so the global-fetch call-site audit keeps skipping it, and added `.js` extensions
to the CLI suites' dynamic harness imports (node16 resolution) to unbreak
`build:cli`.

Verification: full suite 52,449 passing vs 52,448 at baseline with zero
assertions lost; `pnpm lint`, `pnpm typecheck`, and `pnpm build:cli` all exit 0;
the terminal-pane e2e spec runs 31/31 headless.

* refactor(tests): split hook-idle arbitration suite that oxfmt pushed over budget

The pre-commit oxfmt pass reflowed pty-connection-hook-idle-arbitration.test.ts
to 811 effective lines, 11 over the test budget. Split the hook-completion side
effect and replacement-agent veto cases into their own suite; both files now sit
well under the cap and the 15 tests are unchanged.

* test: port upstream test changes into the split files after rebase

Rebasing onto main surfaced 27 tests that main had added to files this branch
deleted, plus edits to tests that had already moved. Taking the deletion side of
those modify/delete conflicts would have dropped that coverage silently, so each
upstream change is ported into the split file that now owns the behavior — for
example main's six orchestration mailbox tests land across orchestration-runs,
-send, and -check.

Also repoints `orchestration.notification-mailbox-consistency`, a gate main added
after this branch's gate remap, at those same three split files, and re-prunes
the max-lines baseline against main's (257 entries).

Verified: all 27 upstream test titles present; full suite 52,761 passing with the
only diff vs baseline being 12 tests main itself removed and 3 that moved from
skipped to passing; lint and typecheck exit 0.

* fix(test): flush pending continuations before tearing down terminal test globals

CI shard 5/16 failed on both Node 24 and 26 with `ReferenceError: window is not
defined` from pty-connection.ts, surfacing through
pty-connection-daemon-snapshot-replay.test.ts.

The reattach/settle chains `await` a real promise and then touch `window.api`.
Under fake timers those continuations cannot run, so they only become schedulable
once restoreTerminalTestGlobals() switches back to real timers — which previously
happened immediately before `delete globalThis.window`, so a late continuation
threw and failed the whole file. Flush async ticks in that window instead.

This is latent in the source rather than new: the pre-split 25k-line file kept
running other tests after these, which gave the chains time to settle before
teardown. Splitting the file moved teardown directly behind them.

* fix(test): keep an inert window after terminal test teardown instead of deleting it

The async-tick flush was not enough: the reattach/settle chain can resolve after
teardown regardless of how long we drain, so CI shard 5/16 still failed with
`ReferenceError: window is not defined` from pty-connection.ts.

A real renderer never loses `window`, so deleting it was the artificial part.
Swap in an inert proxy whose properties resolve to callables and whose calls
resolve to undefined, making a late `window.api.pty.*` call a harmless no-op.
The next test replaces it wholesale via installTerminalTestGlobals(), and no test
asserts that `window` is absent.
2026-08-15 00:54:20 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 8b22f044f5 fix(vm): preserve runtime sidecar rollback compatibility (#14444)
* test(vm): reproduce runtime store rollback poisoning

* fix(vm): keep runtime sidecar rollback-readable

* fix(vm): harden rollback-compatible runtime persistence

* fix(vm): publish rollback lifecycle authority first

* test(vm): harden rollback compatibility coverage
2026-08-14 19:04:54 -04:00
Brennan Benson cbed44410a STA-4276: preflight Codex in Command Prompt and Git Bash (#14441)
* fix(terminal): preflight Codex in Windows cmd and Git Bash

* test(terminal): run Windows preflight through ConPTY

* test(terminal): isolate cmd harness exit status

* test(terminal): allow slow Git Bash ConPTY startup
2026-08-14 13:10:29 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong cd6114ab7e fix(browser): acknowledge paired tab before navigation (#14402) 2026-08-13 22:40:58 -07:00