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Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 5868fdc9e3 feat(native-chat): report Codex background tasks in the chat strip (#19346)
* feat(native-chat): report Codex background tasks in the chat strip

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Fix runtime catalog and capability expectation

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-09 00:13:20 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 3a801d213d fix(orchestration): worker-start settles readiness on observed turn start, not write acceptance (#19423)
* fix(orchestration): worker-start settles readiness on observed turn start, not write acceptance

A dispatched PTY worker whose agent wedged at startup (six codex workers on
2026-09-07) was reported 'ok: true, state: ready, stage: input_accepted': the
preamble write was acknowledged with observationTimeoutMs: 0 and nothing ever
verified a turn began. The corpse and the healthy worker produced identical
receipts.

worker-start now runs the existing second-stage prompt observer
(observeTerminalAgentPrompt) after acceptance, inside the 30s window the
client RPC grace already budgets for (orchestration-worker-start-prompt-budget):

- turn observed (or provider ack for structured sessions) -> ready
- permission prompt -> ready; positive liveness, surfaced in the receipt
- provider without a turn-start signal -> ready; observation: unsupported
- observation supported and nothing started -> worker state start_unknown,
  response state outcome_unknown with nextCommands. Honest 'unverifiable',
  never a death claim: the capability and terminal are kept, and
  worker-report settlement already reconnects a start_unknown worker that
  recovers and reports.

Also fixes the effect-verb lie that misdirected the first diagnosis of this
incident: agent-first worktree creation labeled its own brand-new agent
terminal 'reused_agent_terminal' (a role test picking a lifecycle verb) on
both the local and federation paths. It now says 'created'; readers keep
accepting the retired verb for rows persisted before the rename.

* fix: preserve worker authority through start observation

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-08 22:53:48 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 98fdbc4ade fix(orchestration): file federated worker mail under the coordinator Run (#19542) 2026-09-08 04:03:07 -04:00
Jinjing 9fed61e5c2 Persist agents sidebar search visibility as pairing-local preference (#19313)
* Persist agents sidebar search field visibility as pairing-local preferen

- Add `agentsShowSearch` to workspace UI state with default on
- Include in pairing-local fields so preference syncs across clients
- Convert search from menu action to checkbox menu item for explicit toggle
- Update activity thread options menu to reflect checkbox state
- Add localization strings across all supported languages
- Update RPC schemas and preference persistence layer
- Includes readiness validation reports confirming feature is clean

* rm review

* fix documentation
2026-09-07 11:27:40 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 0252fe5c36 feat(native-chat): show Codex subagent activity instead of opcode rows (#18773)
* feat(native-chat): show Codex subagent activity instead of opcode rows

Codex spawns subagents and reports their lifecycle, but Orca rendered only
gray `codex · item:subAgentActivity` opcode rows. Build the real display: one
summary row per spawn group with a live working count and token usage.

State is accumulated from `subAgentActivity.kind` alone. A live probe against
app-server 0.152.1 showed `agentsStates` arrives empty even in a real subagent
run, and that every activity item is delivered twice (item/started and
item/completed), so every transition is idempotent and terminal states latch.

Children never receive `thread/started`, so there is no nickname, role, or
depth to read; the row labels from the trailing segment of `agentPath`.

Two sweeps keep a row from claiming work forever: the parent turn's terminal
event settles still-running children, and session start marks a pre-restart
roster unverifiable rather than exited, since Codex resume replays no
non-message items and no event can ever settle them.

The roster rides a new NativeChatBlock variant paired with a plain-text twin.
A journal item kind could not be used: that union is closed, and an unknown
kind parses as malformed, which is the corrupt-journal class that can hide the
chat tab. Block types are explicitly admissible when unknown, so an older
client drops the block and renders the sentence.

MessageRow moves out of NativeChatMessageList to keep both files under the
max-lines budget without a disable.

* feat(native-chat): give the subagent summary row its bot glyph

The row led with a glyph that swapped on state — a check once every child
completed, a group icon otherwise — so a group appeared to change identity
the moment it settled. Per the approved mock, the glyph names the category
and never moves: state is carried by the status dot and the tone of the
words beside it.

Use lucide `bot`, the same glyph the individual `subAgentActivity` rows take
in the eight-category vocabulary, so the summary reads as their parent. Slot
and glyph are the mock's 16px/14px, muted by default, and the svg is
`aria-hidden` — the headline is what a screen reader announces, so the icon
never stands alone.

* fix(native-chat): correct the Codex subagent roster's build, journal write, and failure reporting

* Restore the exhaustive block handling that adding `subagent-group` to
  `NativeChatBlock` broke. `formatWorkerTranscriptMessage` and `boundBlock`
  both fell through to `image-ref` field access, so `tsc -p` failed for the
  CLI and node projects and `build:cli` could not emit. Both now guard on
  `image-ref` explicitly and give the roster block its own branch.

* Stop the roster's publish from evicting its own append. The sink queue
  coalesces by `coalescingKey` alone with no op-kind check, so passing the
  append's key to `tryPublish` spliced the queued append out and the row
  never reached the journal — permanently, since `lastSerialized` was
  already set. `tryPublish()` now takes no argument, matching every other
  call site. The regression test's fake sink honours the key, which the
  previous fake did not.

* Keep `collabAgentToolCall` substantive. Only the MultiAgentV2 path emits
  `subAgentActivity`, so a V1 turn has no roster row; suppressing its collab
  tool calls too would have left a V1 fan-out showing nothing at all.

* Surface a settled failure while siblings still work. The summary now
  reports the worst adverse outcome independently of the group verdict, so
  the row shows `3 working +1 failed` with a failed-coloured dot instead of
  a neutral pulsing dot. The plain-text twin names it too.

* Treat `/morpheus` as a child. Only `/root` is the turn itself; the old
  segment-count test silently dropped a valid single-segment agent.

* Refresh token-usage recency on update so an active thread is not evicted
  as the oldest entry, and scope the `agentsStates` comment to the V2 path.

* fix(native-chat): stop the subagent roster announcing a new duration every second

The roster row is an `aria-live="polite"` region and it contains the elapsed
clock, which reticks once a second for as long as the fan-out runs. A screen
reader therefore reads out a fresh duration every second, burying the state
changes the live region exists to report — the headline, the verdict, and the
`+1 failed` alert.

No other live region in the transcript does this. `NativeChatToolRun`'s live
button holds only the active tool label, and in `NativeChatWorkingStatus` the
variant that shows a duration is precisely the one with no `aria-live`.

Hide the clock from the accessibility tree only while it is moving. Once the
group settles the duration is fixed, so it stays readable and costs no
announcements.

* fix(native-chat): retry a refused roster publish, and stop two wrong readings

Four defects from a third review pass over the Codex subagent roster.

`write()` set `lastSerialized` before the append and rolled it back only when
the APPEND was refused. A refused PUBLISH left it set, so an identical replay
short-circuited and the revision was never published again. The repo's own
pattern is the opposite: `codex-structured-item-streams.ts` advances
`checkpointLengths` only once the append AND the publish are both accepted.
Roll back on either half.

That alone did not cover the sweep, which is the LAST event a group ever gets:
its `changed` guard skips the write on a retry because every child has already
latched, stranding the settled roster's final revision. Write when the previous
attempt was refused part-way, too.

`formatWorkerTranscriptMessage` read `block.agents` as its exhaustive fallback.
The journal schema deliberately admits block types this build does not know and
`client.call` casts the RPC result instead of validating it, so a newer remote
host's block reached that line and threw `agents is not iterable`, taking down
the whole `worker read`. It printed a harmless `[image omitted]` before. Match
`subagent-group` explicitly and degrade the unknown case.

The elapsed clock measured to `now` whenever no child carried a terminal
timestamp. That is exactly the roster restored from the journal after the host
died: the reconciler latches `unverifiable` without a `settledAt`, so a child
that ran four seconds reported the time since the crash as its run length, on a
row that is not even counting. Show no duration when none is known.

Also restores package.json to origin/main: the merge had deleted one of main's
two duplicate `bench:terminal-partial-escape-tail` keys. Behaviour-preserving
(JSON is last-wins and the deleted line was the dead one), but unrelated to this
PR and better left to its own change. No gate rejects duplicate JSON keys.

The new refusal tests also cover the append-side rollback, which had none.

* fix(native-chat): stop the subagent roster vanishing from every settled turn

`NativeChatToolRun` bailed out for a completed turn whose activity disclosure
is collapsed before it reached the branch that draws a roster-only run. That
guard exists to push TOOL activity behind the turn-status disclosure, and it
fires on exactly the shape a spawn group has: a roster message carries no tool
blocks, so `selectActiveToolCall` returns null and `isSettled` is true, while
the list passes `expandOverride={expandedTurnIds.has(turnKey)}` — false until
the reader opens that turn — and `activeTurnIsWorking={false}`.

That is the default state of every finished turn in the transcript, so the one
compact row this feature exists to leave behind ("Ran 3 subagents") disappeared
the moment its turn ended. Worse, `MessageRow` counts a spawn group as
renderable specifically so the row survives, then rendered a wrapper around a
component that returned null — the empty ghost bubble its own guard is written
to prevent.

Order the roster branch before the disclosure guard. A roster has no tool
activity to hide, and the guard's reasoning ("a failed child command looked
like the whole response was still running") does not reach it. Runs that do
carry tool blocks still fall through to the guard unchanged, and in practice a
roster never shares a message with them: it is its own `role: 'system'` journal
row and `isToolOnlyMessage` is false for it, so `foldToolMessages` never merges
tool blocks into it.

Also drop childless groups when building the rows, so `subagentRows.length`
stays an honest test of "something will draw" — the roster-only branch returns
a margin-bearing wrapper on the strength of it, and a group with no children
renders null.

Both tests fail with their fix reverted; the existing NativeChatToolRun suite
still passes, so the completed-turn disclosure behaviour is unchanged.

* test(native-chat): cover the subagent roster at the message-list level

Every defect this feature has shipped so far lived in the assembly between
rows, and the row-level suites kept passing through all of them. Loop 4's
regression — a settled roster swallowed by the completed-turn disclosure —
was found by reading the code, not by a test, and an independent visual-proof
run observed the same symptom in the real UI and routed around it rather than
reporting it. `NativeChatToolRun` rendered alone is handed `expandOverride`
and `activeTurnIsWorking` by the test author, so it agrees with whatever the
caller was assumed to pass.

Drive the real component instead. The roster is its own `role: 'system'`
journal row carrying the producer's two blocks (structured + plain-text twin),
so what reaches the DOM depends on `foldToolMessages`, the turn-key mapping
and the disclosure state `NativeChatMessageList` owns — none of which a row
test exercises.

Three cases, on one assembled transcript that holds tool calls AND a roster:
  - a settled turn with activity collapsed, the resting state of the whole
    transcript, still shows the row (fails with loop 4's reorder reverted);
  - tool activity stays behind that disclosure and appears only on expand,
    and expanding draws no second roster (fails with the guard removed);
  - a working turn reads as a live spawn.

The first also pins that the plain-text twin is dropped rather than printed
beside the row it stands in for.

Timestamps are explicit and ascending: the list re-sorts by (timestamp, id),
so rows sharing a millisecond tie-break alphabetically and the user turn can
sort last, stranding the roster outside its own turn and reconciling live
children to `unverifiable`.

No production code changed.

* fix(native-chat): make "counts as renderable" and "actually draws" agree for a spawn group

`MessageRow` counts any `subagent-group` block as renderable, but
`NativeChatSubagentRun` renders null for a childless roster. A group with
`agents: []` therefore mounted a row that drew nothing — an empty div that still
costs the transcript one `gap-5` slot. The Codex producer never writes one (every
`write()` call site operates on a group that already holds an entry), but the
block schema admits `agents: []` with no `.min(1)`, and the wire is where such a
shape would arrive.

Narrow `subagentGroupBlocks` — whose only production caller IS that renderable
check — to the groups that will draw, behind a named `isRenderableSubagentGroup`
that `NativeChatToolRun` now shares in place of its own copy of the predicate, so
the two guards cannot drift apart again. A childless group carrying its
plain-text twin now prints the twin, which is what the twin is for; a bare one
skips the row entirely.

Also correct four comments that had stopped describing the code:
  - the roster header called `agentsStates` "always empty", contradicting the
    probe note in `codex-subagent-activity.ts` — it is empty on the MultiAgentV2
    path that emits these items, and the V1 path does populate it;
  - `tokensByThread` was documented "retained UNCONDITIONALLY" while
    `handleTokenUsage` LRU-caps it 65 lines below;
  - the sweep is not "the LAST event a group ever gets": neither `settleTurn` nor
    `settleSession` removes the group, so a later `thread/tokenUsage/updated`
    naming a swept child still writes it. The retry condition is right; only its
    stated reason was wrong;
  - the `subAgentActivity` classification is not reached "for every event — and
    every one of them arrives twice". `handleSubagentItem` intercepts those items
    before `items.handle`, so the live path never consults the catalog;
    `restoreThread` replays them straight through, and is the real consumer.

Comment-only apart from the childless-group guard.

* fix(cli): stop `worker read` printing the subagent roster sentence twice

The producer ALWAYS writes a roster block beside a plain-text twin carrying the
same sentence, for clients that cannot draw the block. The renderer honours that
contract from one side — it draws the block and drops the twin. The CLI honoured
neither side: it printed the twin as prose AND rendered the block as
`[subagents] <same sentence>`, so a real roster message read

    [system] Ran 2 subagents (1 failed)
    [subagents] Ran 2 subagents (1 failed)

Take the mirror of the renderer's rule, which is the cleaner half for a text
client: the twin IS the sentence, so print it and drop the block it stands in
for. A block that arrives WITHOUT its twin — a shape the wire admits and no
producer writes — still stands in for itself, because dropping it
unconditionally would lose the roster entirely. Either way the sentence prints
exactly once, off the same `subagentGroupFallbackText` helper both sides use.

Unreachable through `readWorkerTranscript` today, whose provider rollout decoder
never emits a `subagent-group` block — but the formatter is the CLI's contract
for any transcript source, and the shape is already producible.

The test pinned a TWIN-LESS group, a body `codexSubagentGroupBody` never writes:
it asserted the exact double-print this fixes was correct output, and would have
blessed either behaviour. Rebuild the fixture as the producer's real two-block
row, with the sentence taken from the shared helper rather than hardcoded so it
cannot drift, and assert the sentence appears exactly once. The twin-less shape
keeps a test of its own, labelled as the wire-only fallback it is.

Also record why `settleTurn` keys on the RAW `turnId` while `groupFor` remaps
off-primary activity onto the primary's active turn. The asymmetry is
load-bearing, not an oversight: were `settleTurn` to remap, a child thread
ending its own turn would sweep the parent group and settle every still-working
sibling to `unverifiable`. The lookup missing is the intended no-op.

* fix(native-chat): add the subagent roster's localization keys and narrow its twin filters

The roster row called 16 `components.native-chat.subagents.*` keys that were
never added to the catalog, failing the localization gate. Synced en.json; the
English strings are the component's own inline fallbacks, so nothing renders
differently.

Also tightens the twin/block handoff on both readers. The renderer dropped
every text block once a roster was present, which is safe only because Codex
writes a roster as its own message — the block is provider-agnostic, so a lane
folding prose in beside one would have lost it on desktop while mobile kept it.
And both readers decided "the twin is already printing" by recomputing the
sentence and comparing bytes, which a roster from a newer build never matches:
its unknown state normalizes to `unverifiable` here, so the CLI printed the
roster twice with two different verdicts. Both now recognize a twin by shape.

* test(native-chat): pin the roster twin recognizer against prose

Both readers use it to decide the twin is already printing, so a false positive
eats a message's real prose and a false negative prints the roster twice.

* docs(codex): restore the roster's evictionated trigger to its KNOWN LIMITATION

The previous rewrite dropped both triggers the old comment named and kept only
the restart one, but eviction is the reachable half: `groupFor` caps `groups` at
MAX_CODEX_SUBAGENT_GROUPS and drops the oldest-INSERTED entry (it returns an
existing group without re-inserting, so this is not LRU), which can evict a
still-live group in-process. The row identity is keyed on the group id alone, so
the next activity item rebuilds that row from one child — the same N-to-1
rewrite, with no restart, and with the sweep skipped so the children never latch
`unverifiable`. Also softens "every real turn id is freshly minted" to the
provider assumption it is: turn ids are read verbatim off provider frames and
nothing in this repo mints or asserts them.

* docs(codex): justify the subagent wire notes from the live probe alone

The roster and disposition comments explained themselves in terms of a
provider-internal path taxonomy rather than anything this repo can observe.
Restate them from the evidence Orca actually has: the live app-server probe
saw `agentsStates` arrive empty, so nothing reads it; and `collabAgentToolCall`
stays substantive because nothing guarantees a session reports subagent work as
`subAgentActivity` at all — one that only emits the collab tool call gets no
roster row, and suppressing that too would leave its fan-out blank.

Same behaviour, same tests; comments and one test name only.

* fix(native-chat): stop the roster's durable twin from claiming live subagents

The spawn-group row is written once and revised in place, but the row itself
is durable and replayed on every reconnect. Its plain-text twin — the only
thing a client that cannot draw the block ever sees — froze a live count into
that row: `Kicked off 4 subagents — 2 working`. The desktop renderer never
shows it, and reconciles the block's `working` to `unverifiable` outside the
live turn. A text-only reader does neither. When the writing process dies
mid-flight the turn-end sweep never runs, so the sentence keeps asserting two
running children forever, with nothing left that could re-check them. That is
the collapse `docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md` forbids: loss of
contact reported as a live state.

Fix it at the source rather than per client: the durable sentence now states
only what survives its process — that the group was spawned, plus whatever
outcome had latched. `Kicked off` vs `Ran` stays, because it reports whether an
outcome was recorded at write time; saying `Ran` while children were in flight
would assert they exited, the same error inverted. The adverse count stays so a
failing fan-out still reads as failing. Reconciliation stays in the renderer,
where the block still needs it.

The twin recognizer keeps matching the legacy `— N working` shape: journals
already hold those sentences and their rows replay forever, so dropping the
branch would print every one of them twice, once as the block and once as prose
the reader meant to drop.

Also align the two functions that read `agentPath`. The root check compared the
raw string while the label normalized separators, so `/root/` was both the turn
itself and a child of it — a phantom row labelled `root` inflating the group by
one. Compare normalized segments instead, keeping `/morpheus` a child. And a
trailing segment with nothing visible in it survives the empty-segment filter
and would draw a nameless row, so it now reads as no label and falls back to the
placeholder.

* fix(codex): key the subagent label collision ordinal on what the row draws

`codexSubagentLabel` tested the trailing segment trimmed but returned it
untrimmed, and `claimLabel` keys its collision ordinal on that string. Two
children at `/root/read` and `/root/ read ` therefore both drew as `read`
with no ordinal — the one thing the ordinal exists to prevent. Return the
trimmed segment so labels that render identically collide.

Also correct the legacy-clause note on the twin recognizer. It claimed shipped
journals hold the old `— N working` sentence; the feature is unreleased, so the
only journals holding one are dev worktrees of this branch. The branch still
earns its place — those rows replay too, and it adds no false-positive surface
the bare shape does not already carry — but the stated reason was wrong.

* test(native-chat): retire the subagent-visibility guards now the roster renders

Two tests from the sibling item-coverage PR asserted that subagent items stay
on the generic gray row, explicitly gated on "until a real renderer exists".
This branch is that renderer, so both guards fire on merge — the handoff they
were written to mark rather than a regression.

They now pin the other side of it: subAgentActivity is suppressed because the
spawn-group roster renders it, and collabAgentToolCall deliberately stays
visible, since nothing guarantees a session reports subagent work as
subAgentActivity at all.

Git merged both files without conflict; only running the suite surfaced this.

* fix(native-chat): let a subagent swept at turn end still report what it did

The turn-end sweep marks still-running children `unverifiable`, and the
producer latched on any state that was not `working` — so `unverifiable`
latched too. A subagent that outlived its turn then reported `completed`, the
latch refused it, and a child that finished successfully read as one we never
saw finish, permanently.

One predicate was doing two jobs. `isTerminalSubagentState` is right for
counting — `unverifiable` is not working — and wrong for latching, because
`unverifiable` records that we stopped being able to see the child, not what
it did. Split them: a child's own verdict latches, the sweep's guess does not.

The reverse stays refused. Nothing returns to `working` once we have given up
on it, so a straggler progress tick cannot re-light a settled row.

Neither the latch nor the sweep was wrong alone, and both were tested; the
defect lived only in their interaction, and only when a subagent outlives its
turn — which the probe that drove this design never produced, because the
parent it captured waited on its child.

* fix: drop the @pnpm/exe lockfile drift a merge staged

`git add -A` swept up the pnpm-lock.yaml mutation that every pnpm invocation
leaves in this repo. Nineteen lines, thirteen of them @pnpm/exe, and it fails
sixteen unrelated CI checks — native smoke, typecheck, packaging, xterm patch
sync — none of which name the lockfile.

* fix(native-chat): restore the item fall-through an inline dropped

Inlining the subagent routing helper lost its null check: the roster returning
null means it did not claim the item, and the translator must keep looking.
Returning unconditionally once any thread item parsed swallowed every ordinary
item — twelve settlement tests, none of them about subagents.

* fix(orchestration): rebind the subagent block arm to the renamed bound state

Main renamed clipMetadata's second parameter from a warnings set to a
TranscriptBoundState. The subagent-group arm still passed `warnings`, and git
merged both sides without a conflict because the lines never overlapped — the
rename and the new arm are in different hunks. Typecheck was the only thing
that could catch it, and did.

* fix(codex): publish the turn tail for a subagent item the roster claims

Main's #19055 added a `subAgentActivity` arm to the provider activity table,
which is reached only through `publishActivity`. The roster's admission returned
above that call, so every `subAgentActivity` item bypassed it and a fan-out that
reports nothing else left the turn tail stuck on the previous frame's text.

`publishActivity` already no-ops on a refused admission and on a non-primary
thread, so routing the roster's admission through it is safe.

Also corrects a docstring the frames extraction copy-pasted onto
`settleOversizedNotification`.

* fix(native-chat): bound the subagent roster on every boundary that carries it

The spawn-group arm was the one collection in the worker-transcript payload with
no cap, and the one block type mobile's `sanitizeBlock` forwarded verbatim. The
producer's `MAX_CODEX_SUBAGENTS_PER_GROUP` does not reach either boundary: the
journal schema declares no maximum on `agents`, and a remote host may run a build
with a different cap. Both transports now cap the roster and bound `id`, `label`
and the open `state` string; `label` and `id` also take the standard inline bound
on the journal write path, where every other provider string already does.

A token count is now persisted onto its entry at write time. `write` rebuilt
`tokens` from the LRU-capped thread map on every write, so an eviction silently
retracted a count the durable row had already shown.

Adds the first coverage of the three roster caps, including the group eviction
that rewrites a row from N children down to one.

* fix(native-chat): keep the roster drawn beside tool calls and its clock honest

The roster-only escape is keyed on `blocks.length === 0`, so a spawn group
sharing its message with tool-call blocks fell through to the settled-turn guard,
which returned bare null and took the roster with it — the exact regression the
escape above was written to avoid, after the message row had already counted the
group as renderable. Unreachable for Codex today; the block type is deliberately
provider-agnostic, so it is live for the Claude lane.

The elapsed clock also froze at a sibling's timestamp on a partial sweep: in a
group where one child completed and another is unaccounted for, the ended turn
left `working === 0` with the completed child's `settledAt`, and the row showed
that child's duration as the group's run length. No clock is drawn while any
child is `unverifiable` with no terminal timestamp.

* perf(native-chat): bound the roster's provider strings without digesting them

`boundInlineText` computes a sha256 and a Buffer BEFORE it checks the length,
so the roster paid two digests per child on every write even when nothing was
truncated — and `write()` runs on every claimed activity item (each delivered
twice) and again from `handleTokenUsage`, which streams. A same-process A/B over
a 64-child group: 76.5 us/write before, 2.0 us/write after (plain, unbounded row
is 1.2 us).

The cap changes with the mechanism. 16 KB is the tool-output bound; both readers
of this row already clip the same fields to 512, so the producer was admitting
~2 MB per durable roster row for consumers to throw ~97% of away. One
`MAX_SUBAGENT_FIELD_CHARS` now serves the producer and both readers, and the
marker is an ellipsis rather than the tool-output truncation sentence — `id` is
the roster key and the renderer's React key.

Also raises the orchestration arm's per-group bound from 20 to the producer's
64, matching the mobile arm: a 21-64 child group is routinely producible here,
so that arm clipped children and warned while its sibling clipped none. The
slice and warning stay as the transport's own defence against a remote host with
a larger cap.

* fix(orchestration): suppress one roster block per twin, not all of them

`hasTwin` was a single boolean over the whole message, so a message carrying two
`subagent-group` blocks and one plain-text twin printed one sentence and dropped
the second roster with no marker. Count the twins and claim one per group
instead. Not reachable from this branch's producer, which writes one group per
journal item, but the surrounding reasoning is explicitly about wire shapes the
producer never writes and this is the adjacent one it missed.

* fix(native-chat): loop-3 fixes to the Codex subagent worklog

Five defects loop 2's own fixes introduced.

Twin claiming was order-blind: the count-based claim silenced whichever
roster block came first, so a lone twin belonging to a LATER group erased
an earlier group's roster and printed the later sentence twice. Exact-text
claims are now settled for every group before any leftover twin is claimed
by position; the positional fallback stays for a newer build's frozen twin,
which can never equal a recomputed sentence.

`boundSubagentField` sliced UTF-16 units and could leave a lone high
surrogate in a durable row, and the clip removed exactly the tail that told
two children apart — `id` is the renderer's React key and `claimLabel`
writes its repeat ordinal at the end. It now backs off a split pair and
reserves the child index inside the bound, so both readers' re-clip cannot
cut the disambiguator off again.

`MAX_SUBAGENT_FIELD_CHARS`'s doc claimed a `groupId` bound the producer
never applies; the doc now says so and why. The worker-transcript metadata
cap is a separate literal again: it governs message ids, turn ids, tool-call
names and image urls, so a roster-motivated change must not move it.

* fix(native-chat): never infer a lost subagent from a turn boundary

QA drove a real Codex session with three live `spawn_agent` children and sent
a mid-turn correction. The roster row immediately read "Ran 3 subagents /
3 unverifiable" with no clock, while all three were still running — they
reported `completed` 57-87s after that turn ended.

Both sites rested on the same false premise: that a turn ending means no
event will ever settle a child. Children outlive their turn and keep
reporting into the same group.

- Renderer: drop `reconcileSubagentRoster`. Nothing plumbed to the component
  distinguishes a row written by a dead host from a turn that merely ended —
  journal render items carry no epoch, and a new epoch deletes the rows of the
  one it supersedes — so the row now draws the state the journal recorded.
  Under-claiming beats over-claiming.
- Main: stop sweeping on `turn/completed`. That sweep wrote `unverifiable`
  into the DURABLE journal, which mobile reads with no reconciliation.
  `turn/completed` is Codex's only turn-end notification, so an abort cannot
  be told apart from a clean finish; the safe default is not to sweep.

`settleSession` — the provider actually being gone — is unchanged and is now
the only sweep. `unverifiable` stays non-latching so a late verdict still lands.

* test(native-chat): pin the roster at the seam the QA defect came from

The mid-turn correction opens a new turn, so the fan-out's row stops being
the current turn and the list hands the roster `activeTurnIsWorking={false}`.
Asserted through the list, not the component, because that prop is what
carried the wrong claim.

* fix(native-chat): settle a roster the dying host never got to sweep

`settleSession` only fires when the provider goes away while this process is
alive. If the host itself dies, nothing sweeps and nothing reconciles on
restore, so a `subagent-group` row persisted as `working` claimed live children
forever — the mirror of the defect the previous commit fixed, and the same
`ssh-execution-boundary.md` violation in the other direction.

Reconciled host-side, at journal open, not in the renderer: mobile shows only
the durable text twin and reconciles nothing, so a renderer-only fix would
leave it claiming live children indefinitely. Opening the journal is also the
one moment a host can honestly say the previous writer is gone.

- `staleSubagentRosterRevisions` rewrites every child still reading `working`
  to `unverifiable` and regenerates the twin from the same summary, so the
  block and the sentence cannot disagree.
- No terminal timestamp: the child stopped being observable at an unknown
  moment, and stamping the reopen would report the downtime as its run length.
- Revises in place under the parsed identity, so a reopen upserts the row
  rather than appending a duplicate, and a second reopen writes nothing.
- Skipped on a corrupt load: that journal is still owed a rebuild from provider
  history, and content past the repair's free sequence retires the demand.

Reconciles journal ROWS, not roster state — the producer's in-process group map
is untouched, so the roster's known seeding limitation is unchanged, as is
`canReplaceSubagentState`: `unverifiable` still does not latch.

---------

Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-07 09:38:16 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong fb322046e8 skills: rewrite and trim the seven non-orchestration guides (#19128)
* skills: rewrite the seven non-orchestration guides to one outcome-first standard

Every guide leads with Result / Done / Safe failure, states conditions instead of case lists, keeps one done bar and one autonomy envelope, and loads references at the point of use via `skills get <topic> --full`. orca-cli drops from 424 to 260 always-loaded lines with three references; orca-per-workspace-env from 794 to 397 with five.

Defects fixed in shipped guides: `emulator camera` (no such command), iOS `permissions` (backend refuses it), Android pane described as in development, `relayGracePeriodSeconds: 0` documented as immediate teardown (it is unbounded), doctor `ok: true` hiding `warn`, an SSH exemplar setting both `jumpHost` and `proxyCommand`, a provisioned-root fetch from `origin`, and the Linear unconfirmed-write rule keyed on four verbs when ten emit it.

The resolver ladder, placeholder rule, and older-binary fallback shared by every installable SKILL.md now come from one skill-stubs/_shared/cli-resolution.md fragment composed by the generator, which also bundles per-guide references into --full. New guards: every ORCA invocation and flag resolves against COMMAND_SPECS, descriptions carry no angle-bracket tokens, reference routing is checked both ways, and an always-loaded size ratchet (300 lines) that guides may leave but never join.

* skills: address review on the SSH recipe and the parity guard

- ssh-host create script: route the bootstrap ssh through the chosen jump host or proxy command, refuse both at once, use StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new instead of a blind ssh-keyscan append, and pass gh_token/project_root/repo_url/repo_ref to the remote bash via printf %q so a quote in a value cannot break out of the command.
- per-workspace-env envelope: the step-10 workspace test the user asked for is no longer forbidden by the same paragraph.
- linear guides: name the full verb, ORCA linear list-issues.
- parity guard: a prefix reference such as ORCA linear --help or ORCA emulator --webcam now has its flags checked against every command under that prefix; only an exact path or an explicit ... was checked before.

* skills: tighten prose in the seven rewritten guides

Shorter outcome spines, one idea per sentence, no restated rationale after a rule. No rule, command, or pinned phrase changes; 47 net lines fewer across the guides and references.

* skills: route orca-cli and per-workspace-env gates through --reference

Both guides told agents to load --full at a gate because the per-reference
selector did not exist when they were written. Now that main serves
`skills get <topic> --reference references/<file>.md`, load only the
named file and keep --full as the fallback for an older CLI, matching the
orchestration kernel.

* skills: drop outcome-spine boilerplate from the CLI-wrapper guides

The Result/Done/Safe-failure preambles and Next Action closers restated
rules the body already carries. Agents stop fine without them, and for
a CLI wrapper the command surface is the guide. Keeps the one substantive
rule computer-use's Done block added (never report unverified as success)
inside Action Rules. orchestration and per-workspace-env keep theirs:
those are multi-step workflows where the done bar is load-bearing.

(cherry picked from commit 44a74baf73)

* skills: trim the guides and stubs to what agents actually need

- Drop the Result/Done/Safe-failure preambles and Next Action closers from
  the six CLI-wrapper guides; the one substantive rule (never report an
  unverified computer-use action as success) moves into Action Rules.
- Drop the 'guide may be stale, trust --help' lines: the guide is served by
  the binary that runs the commands, so it cannot be stale relative to it.
- Drop the status --json / open --json preflight from every guide; the stub
  no-guessing paragraph now says to start Orca only when a command reports
  it is not running.
- Cut the ORCA placeholder paragraph in each guide to one line that points
  back at the stub's resolution.
- Trim the orchestration, orca-cli, and computer-use descriptions to trigger
  phrases plus one line of scope.
- Remove the older-binary fallback section from every stub (and its two
  shared blocks); a binary without skills get gets one sentence.
- Remove the guide size ratchet test.

* skills: apply independent review cleanup

* skills: clarify guide loading and Linear command discovery

* skills: harden environment recipe examples

* test: complete branch rename journal doubles

* skills: clarify custom Codex launch and refresh model example

* test: deduplicate journal fix now present on main
2026-09-07 00:03:48 -04:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 68dd3909c7 feat(orchestration): orchestrate native-born structured chat sessions (#18827)
* feat(orchestration): orchestrate native-born structured chat sessions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* perf(orchestration): coalesce the structured redrive edge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 20:24:21 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong b8311d509a Revert "skills: rewrite the seven non-orchestration guides to one outcome-first standard (#18724)" (#19126)
This reverts commit 15d0f8aedf.
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Jinwoo Hong 15d0f8aedf skills: rewrite the seven non-orchestration guides to one outcome-first standard (#18724)
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## ELI5

Orca ships eight skill guides that agents read before running the CLI. Seven of them (everything except `orchestration`, which #16904 rewrites) were command catalogs that had drifted from the binary. This PR rewrites them so an agent reads the outcome, the done bar, and the safe-failure rule first, loads reference material only at the step that needs it, and never sees a command or flag the installed CLI does not define.

## What changed

- **Seven guides rewritten** to one standard: outcome spine first (Result / Done / Safe failure), conditions instead of case lists, one done bar, one autonomy envelope, references loaded at the point of use via `skills get <topic> --full`, every runnable invocation spelled `ORCA`. `orca-cli` is 424→260 always-loaded lines with three references (browser, automations, publishing); `orca-per-workspace-env` is 794→397 with five (provider-vercel, ssh-host, docker-ssh, windows-scripts, failure-modes).
- **Defects fixed in shipped guides:** `emulator camera` (no such command), iOS `permissions` (backend refuses it), Android pane described as "in development" (shipped in June), `relayGracePeriodSeconds: 0` documented as immediate teardown (it is unbounded), doctor `ok: true` hiding `warn`, an SSH exemplar setting both `jumpHost` and `proxyCommand`, a provisioned-root fetch from `origin`, the Linear unconfirmed-write rule keyed on four verbs when ten emit it. Linear and emulator descriptions dropped embedded commands and angle-bracket placeholders (651→329, 732→404 chars).
- **Generator bundles references.** `skill-guides/<name>/references/*.md` is appended to `--full`; `skills get` help says compact by default, full with references.
- **Stubs single-authored.** The resolver ladder, placeholder rule, and older-binary fallback shared by all eight installable `SKILL.md` files come from one `skill-stubs/_shared/cli-resolution.md` fragment composed by the generator. Projections were byte-identical before the content fixes.
- **Guards:** every `ORCA <cmd>` and flag in every guide and reference resolves against `COMMAND_SPECS` (this found the camera defect); descriptions ≤1024 chars with no angle-bracket tokens; reference routing checked both directions; an always-loaded size ratchet (300 lines) that guides may leave but never join. `orchestration` (440 lines on main) is recorded as an exception until #16904 lands its kernel.

## Relationship to #16904

Split out of #16904 so that PR carries only the orchestration guide. On main, `terminal send` has no `--wait-submit` / `--retry-request` and the orchestration kernel still carries the resolver ladder and worktree-selector rule, so this branch pins `accepted: true` for handoff receipts and leaves the orchestration pins where main has them. The merge in either direction is mechanical: #16904 rebased on this becomes a one-file `orchestration.md` change plus dropping the two exceptions.

## Standard

Compound Engineering's portable skill-authoring guidance (outcome spine, conditions not cases, pinned fragile commands with an ordered hatch, references at point of use). NVIDIA SkillEvaluator Tier 1 (`schema,pii,license,quality,unicode,lint`) was run on every guide; its deterministic checks pass, its template nudges (Instructions/Examples sections, 50–150 char descriptions) do not apply to Orca's stub architecture and were not applied.

## Testing

- `pnpm typecheck:tsc:cli` clean; `check:code-quality:changed` and `check:react-doctor:changed` 0 findings
- `pnpm verify:bundled-skill-guides` and skill-bundle manifest verify clean
- vitest over `config/scripts`, `src/cli/skill-guide-cli-parity.test.ts`, `src/cli/skills.test.ts`, `src/cli/specs/skills.test.ts`, `src/cli/help.test.ts`, `src/main/skills`: 240 files / 2,019 pass
- Live smoke on the built CLI of every `skills get <topic>` and `--full`, every emulator, linear, and vm verb named in the guides, and every projection's resolver, GNOME warning, and bounded fallback (done on the #16904 branch before the split; the guide bodies are identical here except the send-receipt vocabulary noted above)

## Deferred product decisions

Merging `orca-emulator` and `orca-emulator-android` into one skill with a platform branch; collapsing `linear-tickets` to a guide alias; a `skills get --reference <name>` selector so a gate table can load one file; a fresh-agent routing eval before trimming the `orca-cli` (1,015 chars) and `orchestration` descriptions, whose quoted triggers each fixed a routing misroute.
2026-09-06 16:10:16 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong 2283f8ba4e docs(orchestration): never pick a worker model the user did not name (#19109)
The sonnet examples were added for a test cohort. Orchestration must not
choose a model on the user's behalf: pass --model only when the user named
one, otherwise inherit the configured agent default.
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Jinwoo Hong 06a607a1d7 feat(orchestration): make multi-agent workflows durable (#16904)
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## ELI5

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

## What changed

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

## Why

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

## Linked issues

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

## Review record

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Testing

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

## Notes

- Remote-wire additions are optional fields or `method_not_found`-negotiated methods; one new Electron-only IPC channel (`agentStatus:legacyWorkerTerminalResumeFence`) never crosses the wire.
- SSH contact loss remains `unverifiable`; the execution host stays authoritative.
- Intentional wire projection change: an SSH host scope with an empty `targetId` now projects host id `ssh` instead of an empty string (remote-wire-compatibility rule 3, old clients decode the same field). A fleet pane key without a terminal handle is now `unidentifiable` rather than matched by pane key alone.
- Found live but pre-existing on main, filed separately: a relay daemon-start collision during transport loss rewrites the endpoint credential and wedges the surviving relay (host needs a manual kill); `terminal create` on a reconnecting SSH host reports an opaque `No PTY provider for connection`; `terminal list` reports `orphaned:false` and `terminal close` reports `ptyKilled:true` for a pane whose relay is gone (orchestration's own projection reads `unverifiable` correctly at the same moment).
- Downgrade after this PR is not a supported path: main opens a v37 database and early-returns (its inserts still work against the v36/v37 defaulted columns), but its one-outstanding-Delivery-per-Run index is a no-op against the branch's mailbox-scoped index of the same name.
- Known follow-ups (not blockers): `worker-list` materializes every dispatch row per call; a positive "agent absent" signal distinct from PTY liveness is a product decision left open (a headless fake agent never reaches `live`, so its `nextAction` stays `inspect`); a context-only self-dispatch still lists as `role: worker` in `worker-list`; `dispatch` task-not-found / task-not-ready / inject-rejected still surface as `runtime_error`; task and inbox receipts still expose raw row columns. Deferred skill product decisions live on #18724.
2026-09-06 14:34:03 -04:00
Neil 64374d5dff perf(cli): skip impossible typo distance comparisons (#18977) 2026-09-05 20:04:26 -07:00
Neil fb7b75d55d perf(cli): skip feature formatters during help and error startup (#18923)
* perf(cli): load error reporting without feature formatters

* test(cli): follow extracted error reporter in import guard

* chore(cli): track cli-error.ts in deferral equivalence baseline

The equivalence script restores TOUCHED files from the baseline rev to
rebuild the pre-deferral CLI. reportCliError/formatCliError moved from
format.ts into cli-error.ts, so the baseline arm must also drop
cli-error.ts (absent at older revs) or the old tree would still compile
against the new module.
2026-09-05 20:03:19 -07:00
Neil 7b44f3c0e3 perf: decode fragmented CLI replies without repeated scans (#18909)
* perf: decode fragmented CLI replies without rescanning accumulated text

* bench: require an explicit CLI framing baseline
2026-09-05 20:02:44 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 54a8afc91d fix(orchestration): typed error codes for dispatch and worker-start refusals (#18902)
* fix(orchestration): typed error codes for dispatch and worker-start refusals

orchestration dispatch (and worker-start, which composes it) surfaced task
not found, task not ready, and inject rejected as the same bare
runtime_error, so an agent reading the receipt could not choose between
creating the task, waiting on dependencies, or picking another terminal.

Add task_not_found (data.taskId), task_not_ready (data.status,
data.unmetDependencies), and inject_rejected (data.terminal, data.reason),
each carrying data.nextSteps so every shipped CLI already prints the
recovery. worker-start's not-ready refusal moves from task_not_startable
to task_not_ready with the same detail. runtime_error stays for genuinely
unexpected failures.

Proven red-first from RpcDispatcher through the CLI's own failure
formatting, plus an SSH bridge test that the host CLI's typed refusal
relays unchanged.

* test(orchestration): load CLI formatter at runtime in the dispatch-code test

The composite node typecheck (config/tsconfig.node.json without
--composite false, as CI runs it) rejects a static import of src/cli from
a main test with TS6307. Load the formatter and error class dynamically
behind narrow structural types, as the CLI/runtime boundary test does.

* fix(orchestration): keep task_not_startable and split the CLI-format proof

Review on #18902:

- Drop task_not_ready. worker-start already published task_not_startable
  for a not-ready Task, so renaming it would change an existing receipt
  value under old clients. dispatch now emits task_not_startable too (it was
  a bare runtime_error before, so this is purely additive), with the new
  data.status / data.unmetDependencies / data.nextSteps.
- Move the refusal receipts (code, message, data) into
  src/shared/orchestration-dispatch-refusal-contract.ts so the runtime
  emits them and the CLI test formats the identical envelope. The RPC test
  under src/main asserts toEqual against the contract; the new
  src/cli/orchestration-dispatch-refusal-format.test.ts feeds those same
  receipts to formatCliError / reportCliError. Neither tsconfig widens and
  the composite typecheck CI runs is clean.

* fix(orchestration): keep published refusal messages and type the DB claim guards

Codex review of #18902:

- Every call site keeps the exact message it published on main
  ("Task not found: <id>", "only a ready Task can start.", "cannot retry
  from Dispatch"); the shared contract now takes the message per site and
  only owns the code and data. Baseline strings are pinned as literals.
- createDispatchContext's own missing/non-ready guards, including the
  atomic-claim loser, now emit the same typed receipt instead of a bare
  Error, so a dispatch that races a status change no longer flattens to
  runtime_error. Covered by a dispatcher-level race test.
- Invalid --retry-of keeps task_not_startable but now carries status,
  unmetDependencies, retryOf, and a retry-specific next step.
- Dependency recovery text distinguishes waiting on running deps from
  retrying/unblocking failed ones.
- CLI test adds an unknown-code case so the old-client claim rests on an
  assertion, not a comment; SSH test asserts exact stdout.
- Guide table narrowed to the covered preflight cases; occupancy stays
  runtime_error and is named as such.
2026-09-05 20:27:29 -04:00
Neil d7767fb196 perf(worktree): remove redundant creation and terminal startup work (#18793)
* perf(worktree): remove redundant creation and terminal startup work

* test(worktree): cover optimized creation call signatures

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

* perf: preserve user Git checkout worker settings

* perf(git): skip malformed remote base probes

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

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

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

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

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

* test: allow either observed self-exit snapshot ordering

* test: capture frozen-host input recovery evidence
2026-09-05 15:08:22 -07:00
Neil 51eed5a1bc feat(cli): report SSH host platforms (#18896)
* feat(cli): report SSH host platforms

* feat(cli): include SSH connection status

* fix(cli): preserve unknown SSH connection state
2026-09-05 14:35:45 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 3e4fd4a7af Shorten orchestration skill description under the Agent Skills 1024-char limit (#18683)
* Shorten orchestration skill description under the Agent Skills 1024-char limit

The folded description was 1038 chars, so spec-conforming installers such
as SkillStar rejected the bundled orchestration skill. Drop the two clauses
already covered elsewhere in the same description: "decomposing work across
agents" (implied by "structured multi-agent coordination") and "automation
of the browser embedded inside Orca" (restated by the locked `orca-cli`
embedded-pages sentence). Every routing trigger asserted by
orchestration-skill-guidance.test.mjs, the orca-cli handoff boundary, and
the Computer Use boundary are unchanged. Result: 958 chars.

Add config/scripts/skill-description-length.test.mjs, which parses every
skills/*/SKILL.md frontmatter with `yaml` and fails on an empty or >1024
char description, so the regression cannot return. orca-cli sits at 1015
and is left as is.

Fixes #17935

* Keep the embedded browser in the orchestration description's orca-cli routing

Restores the word "browser" in the orca-cli sentence ("and the Orca embedded
browser") so agents scanning for it still route embedded-browser control to
orca-cli. Description is 985 chars, 39 under the spec limit.
2026-09-04 14:27:07 -04:00
Neil 95eed52801 fix(cli): report which hosts a worktree listing covered, and stop the cap starving remote ones (#18417)
`orca worktree list` returned zero of 24 SSH worktrees at the default limit
(#18104). Rows are resolved repo by repo, so every SSH repo's rows land
contiguously at the end of the fleet order — the 24 remote rows sat at indices
496-520 of 521 and a plain `slice(0, 200)` never reached them.

The omission was not fully silent: text output printed `truncated: showing 200
of 521` and JSON carried `totalCount` / `truncated`. What was missing is that
the omission was *categorically every remote host* — no host column, no
`hostScope`, nothing to distinguish "200 of 521" from "one host is entirely
absent". Per docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md, a listing that does not
name its scope reads as absolute.

Adopt the mechanism `terminal list` already has rather than inventing a second
one:

- `RuntimeTerminalListHostScope` becomes an alias of a shared
  `RuntimeListingHostScope`, now also carried (optional, so old hosts are
  unaffected) on `worktree.list` and `worktree.ps` results.
- `src/shared/host-balanced-listing-page.ts` round-robins the row cap across
  hosts and returns the survivors in the caller's original relative order, so
  the page stays a subsequence of the unbounded listing and nothing downstream
  re-sorts. An uncapped listing is returned unchanged.
- `worktree list` / `worktree ps` text output gains a `host=` column and the
  same trailing `scope:` line `terminal list` prints.

Third defect, same mechanism: `hostScope.omittedHostIds` is built from the
runtime's own bookkeeping, so it names `runtime:` ids for servers that are no
longer paired — 6 of 9 in the recorded QA run hard-error when queried. Since
`hostScope` is *the* documented way to complete a partial listing, that makes
the mechanism unreliable for its intended use.

Annotate rather than filter. Dropping an id would shrink what the listing
admits it did not cover, and the boundary doc requires a listing to name its
gaps — the gap is real whether or not this machine can name the host that owns
it. `src/cli/omitted-host-scope-selectors.ts` resolves each omitted id against
this machine's pairing store and the runtime's SSH-target registry and attaches
the exact flag that reaches it, or `null` marked "not selectable from this
machine". This is a client-side annotation: nothing new goes over the wire, it
answers "can I select it" and never "is it up", and the SSH round trip is only
paid when an `ssh:` host was actually omitted.

No `--host` filter was added; the host column plus scope line covers the
reported need without a new selector axis.
2026-09-03 14:43:09 -07:00
Neil 9bed758e36 fix(cli): reject runtime selectors on host list and environment list (#18405)
`orca host list --environment m4air` was not ignoring the flag — it was applying
it to half the answer. `shouldIgnoreRemoteSelection` never pinned the `host`
family, so the SSH-target lookup was routed to m4air while paired servers were
still read from this machine's own pairing store, and the handler stamped the
envelope `_meta.runtimeId: "local"` regardless. The result was one listing
describing two hosts: the openclaw row silently disappeared, which reads as
"m4air has no SSH targets". `environment list --environment X` had the pin but
no guard, so the flag vanished with no signal at all.

Reject rather than route. `host list` answers "what can this machine target and
with what flag"; its paired-server half comes from a client-local store and
cannot be routed at all, so any routed answer is necessarily half-substituted —
rule 1 of docs/reference/ssh-execution-boundary.md. `environment list` is
entirely client-local, so there is no other host to ask. This matches the
`account` and `artifacts` precedent, the only two pinned families that already
paired the pin with a rejection guard.

- pin the `host` family so an ambient ORCA_ENVIRONMENT cannot produce the same
  two-machine listing with no flag to reject; `runtimeId: "local"` is now true
- extract the duplicated `rejectRemoteSelectionFlags` from account.ts and
  artifacts.ts into src/cli/remote-selection-flag-rejection.ts
- `environment show` / `environment rm` / `environment add` are untouched: there
  `--environment` and `--pairing-code` name the row to act on, not a route
2026-09-03 14:43:05 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 573537ecd4 feat(cli): make terminal close the canonical workspace teardown (#18073)
* fix(runtime): recover stale session owners and await retirement

* fix(runtime): preserve session hydration and smoke compatibility

* test(runtime): cover empty and unindexed session owners

* feat(cli): make terminal close the canonical workspace teardown

* fix(preload): align ssh termination result type

* test(runtime): assert folder hydration owner

* fix(runtime): fence legacy terminal stop by worktree host

* fix(preload): reconcile ssh result import with main

* fix(runtime): keep same-id sibling hosts out of workspace close

The stale-owner fallback in the session controller re-routed any worktree whose
catalog partition had no tabs to whichever other partition held tabs. Only
`runtime:` environment ids rotate across relay restarts; `repoId::path` legitimately
repeats across hosts, so an SSH workspace close could retire the local copy's
tabs and resume records, or flip owners mid-close and strand the SSH PTY.

Restrict the fallback to runtime hosts, and pin the session partition once per
workspace close so record clearing targets the partition that owned the tabs.

* test(runtime): give the cross-host close fixture a real resume record

* fix(preload): take main's ssh-bridge import order so the merge stays duplicate-free
2026-09-03 03:58:45 -04:00
Neil 7c94d12190 fix(ssh): route four host-blind seams through the resolved execution host (#17919)
* fix(host-routing): resolve the execution host before reading a connection

Three issues in one defect class: a resolver reads one spelling of one
arbitrarily chosen row instead of resolving the worktree's execution host,
so something local answers a question about a remote.

returned that row's connectionId. With duplicate repo rows for one repo id
it could pair a runtime owner with a client-owned SSH connection. It now
resolves through the same ambiguity-aware index getRuntimeEnvironmentIdForWorktree
uses, prefers the repo row for the host the worktree names, and derives the
connection from the resolved host. Conflicting rows return `undefined`
(this module's documented "cannot determine the host"), never `null`.

`store.getRepo(worktree.repoId)?.connectionId ?? null`. `getRepo` is
host-blind and the same repo id can exist on local, SSH and runtime hosts,
so a remote worktree could spawn its PTY on the client with the remote cwd.
resolveWorktreeLaunchHost picks the row for the worktree's host and reads
the connection off that host; conflicting rows are unresolved, not local.

session-partition owner maps that contradict each other. Both now compute
through one shared function whose argument records the divergence. No
behaviour change on either side: converging needs a read-both migration,
since both partitions hold real data written by shipping builds.

* fix(host-routing): keep nested SSH connections resolvable under a runtime host

getRepoSshConnectionId read only the resolved execution host, so a repo row
owned by a runtime that reaches a nested SSH target (connectionId: ssh-*,
executionHostId: runtime:*) resolved to no connection — answering 'local' for
a remote worktree, the same defect #17909 fixed in the other direction.

* fix(host-routing): resolve both sides of the execution host through one rule

The renderer resolver leaked between two different SSH hosts: a worktree on
`ssh:m4air` whose only indexed repo row belonged to `openclaw` answered
'openclaw', because the host-scoped lookup missing fell through to an id-only
one. Main's resolver, in the same change, answered 'm4air' — two resolvers, one
right and one wrong, on identical input.

Both sides now adapt one shared rule (`worktree-execution-host-resolution.ts`):
the worktree's own host outranks every repo row, and a row on a different host
is never evidence about this one. The renderer's WeakMap index becomes the
memoizing adapter it always was; `resolveWorktreeLaunchHost` becomes main's
mapping of unresolved onto its throw.

Settles the rule the change previously answered two ways.
`getRepoSshConnectionId` and `getSshTargetIdForExecutionHost` disagreed for a
runtime host carrying a nested `connectionId`; they now compose, so the
execution host is the single authority. On a `runtime:*` row that field is a
paired HUB's private SSH target, spread through by `repoWithFetchedOwner` and
unaddressable from this client — the project-first successor of the row nulls it
for exactly that reason. That also fixes the `kind !== 'ssh'` fallback, which
fired for `local`: a row declaring itself local handed out an SSH connection.

* fix(ssh): resolve the execution host in the worktree scan and managed create

The worktree scan and createManagedWorktree both picked remote-vs-local from
repo.connectionId, so a row stamped only executionHostId: 'ssh:*' was scanned
and created on the client against a remote path. The folder branch returns
before the check, so its agent-trust write landed locally too.

Refs #11163

* fix(ssh): stop over-rejecting and refusing SSH hosts the process owns

runtimeRepoMatchesExecutionHost rejected an unstamped SSH repo against its own
ssh:<connectionId>, so repo-add/clone dedupe could register a second row for a
path the host already owns. assertHostIsSupported made the CLI/runtime RPC
refuse --host ssh:* while the same process's IPC handler routed it correctly;
setupExistingFolder now shares that registration. Clone still refuses, because
nothing in this process clones onto an SSH host.

Refs #11163

* test(ssh): retarget the SSH host-setup guard spec at the substitution it prevents

setupProjectExistingFolder now registers the remote path through the same
addRemoteRepoFromPath the desktop IPC uses, so it fails on the host's terms
(connection not registered) rather than a categorical refusal. The local
clone/probe side effects it exists to catch are still asserted absent.

Refs #11163

* fix(cli): require an absolute path when setting a project up on an SSH host

Routing --host ssh:* to the remote registration made relative paths newly
reachable there, and they were resolved against the client cwd — registering a
path that names the wrong machine.

Refs #11163

* fix(repos): read the SSH registry directly so the runtime stays Node-bootable

Routing runtime project setup through addRemoteRepoFromPath dragged ipc/ssh --
and its 25-module electron graph -- into the runtime bundle. ssh-target-registry
already exists for exactly this; ipc/ssh only re-exports it.

* fix(ssh): close the agent-launch and session-export host-blind twins

Three sites left on the legacy spelling, all the same shape as the ones this
branch already fixed:

- `launchAgentTerminal` did `getRepo(worktree.repoId)` then wrote agent trust
  with that row's `connectionId`. Host-blind, so a repo id carried by two SSH
  hosts wrote a remote path into the *client's* Codex/Cursor/Copilot config and
  the agent on the host never saw the trust. Every sibling call site already
  passes the resolved `workspace.connectionId`; this was the last that did not.
- `targetForWorktree` (workspace-session export) fell back to the same
  host-blind read, so a session could be published to a machine that never
  owned the worktree. Unresolvable ownership now exports to nobody.
- `addRemoteRepoFromPath` minted `connectionId`-only rows while being the
  routing path this branch adds, so it kept creating rows in exactly the
  spelling the branch works around. It now stamps
  `toSshExecutionHostId(connectionId)` at creation; `reassignSshTargetId`
  already migrates both spellings, so target rename stays correct.

Tests cover two *different* SSH hosts throughout — the case none of the earlier
duplicate-row tests had, all of which were local-vs-ssh or runtime-vs-ssh.
2026-09-02 16:59:29 -07:00
Neil f37d2fec97 fix(linux): land the reviewed Linux packaging stack on main (#18100)
* fix(linux): give the CLI one entrypoint by extracting the AppImage once

* refactor(linux): trim AppImage CLI registration seams

* test(cli): assert registration lock serialization

* fix(linux): fence AppImage terminal shim mounts

* fix(linux): accept extracted AppImage runtimes with APPDIR only

* docs(linux): make headless AppImage extraction runnable

* refactor(linux): import bundled launcher directly

* fix(linux): reclaim superseded AppImage payloads and packaged symlinks

Pruning removed 3215 of 3216 files from a superseded generation and always
stranded resources/app.asar, leaking ~105 MB per version update. Electron's
asar shim reports a *.asar file as a directory, so the recursive remove tried
to rmdir a real file and failed with ENOTEMPTY; the .catch(() => {}) hid it.
Reproduced end to end on Ubuntu 24.04: 519M -> 623M across one update, and
519M again once the payload is actually reclaimed.

removeExtractedAppImagePayload holds process.noAsar for the removal, counted
so overlapping removals cannot hand the shim back early, and the prune site
now warns with the path instead of swallowing the rejection. All three
removal sites use it -- staging cleanup and displaced roots leaked the same
way.

Also reclaim symlinks left by a packaged deb/rpm install, which the
extracted-cache-only rule turned into a hard conflict on a deb -> AppImage
migration, and name the remedy in the conflict error.

* fix(linux): bound the CLI registration lock wait

`retries: 1000` caps the attempt count, not elapsed time, so at up to 1s per
attempt an IPC-driven registration could hang ~16 minutes against a wedged
holder with no feedback.

A legitimate holder is bounded by the extraction timeout, so wait that plus
slack and then fail with a message naming the lock file, rather than hanging.
`maxRetryTime` is forwarded verbatim to the `retry` package by proper-lockfile.

* fix(linux): stop re-extracting the AppImage on inode metadata churn

The extracted-payload cache key hashed ctime alongside dev/ino/size/mtime.
ctime moves on any inode metadata write -- `chmod +x`, which every AppImage
user is told to run, plus `chown`, an ACL or SELinux relabel, and a backup
restore -- none of which alter a byte of the payload.

Measured on Ubuntu 24.04: `chmod +x` leaves dev, ino, size and mtime
identical and moves ctime alone, so the key changed and the next launch paid
a full ~519 MB re-extraction and a multi-second stall to rebuild a payload it
already had, then pruned the old generation.

Key on content identity instead. An in-place content change moves mtime and
almost always size; a replacement moves the inode. The existing
replace-in-place test still passes.

* fix(linux): stop CLI commands from falling through to Chromium startup

* refactor(cli): remove redundant command membership check

* test(cli): cover command-named project selectors

* fix(cli): redirect the open-url command before startup

* test(linux): cover AUR serve wrapper flags

* fix(linux): tighten CLI launch detection

* fix(linux): respect CLI flag value boundaries

* fix(linux): strip injected Chromium switches from CLI args

* fix(linux): report a missing display instead of dying in uv_close

* refactor(linux): read display locks without a preflight race

* fix(linux): preserve unverified external displays

* chore: format reliability gate manifest

* test(packaging): split runtime resource checks

* fix(linux): fail serve when no display is available

* fix(linux): do not treat a lockless X socket as a dead display

An X server writes its lock beside its socket and both survive a crash
(verified against Xvfb under SIGKILL), so a socket with no lock was never
left by a crashed server. It is an endpoint published from elsewhere: a
container bind-mounting only /tmp/.X11-unix, WSLg, or a foreign PID
namespace. Declaring those dead made the desktop gate exit(1) on displays
that work, with no workaround, and the serve gate refuse to start.

Liveness now splits by ownership. A foreign DISPLAY trusts a lockless
socket; Orca's own :99 does not, because removeStaleDisplayArtifacts
unlinks the lock before the socket and so manufactures that state itself --
adopting it would resurrect the orphan-socket bug and stop the cleanup from
self-healing. The stale-lock rejection is unchanged.

Also correct four doc statements this behaviour falsified.

* fix(linux): fail closed when a stale socket blocks the Xvfb rebind

Readiness only checked that /tmp/.X11-unix/X99 exists. A stale socket we
could not unlink still exists after our own Xvfb refused to bind, so Orca set
DISPLAY to a dead server and Chromium died in Ozone init.

Measured on Ubuntu 24.04 against the pre-fix build: with a leftover :99
socket and no lock, serve exits 139 (SIGSEGV), the socket inode is unchanged
before and after, and no lock is recreated -- it neither cleaned up nor
respawned. To a user that is a crash, not a misconfiguration.

This is reachable in the documented topology, where orca-xvfb.service has no
User= and runs as root while serve runs as User=orca: /tmp is sticky, so the
orca uid cannot unlink a root-owned socket, rmSync fails, and Xvfb exits with
the display already active.

Readiness now requires the display to actually be live -- our socket plus a
lock naming a running process -- so the same state reports an unusable
display and exits 1 with the existing diagnosis.

* fix(linux): recognise abstract X sockets and inherited Wayland fds

Two display setups this gate could not prove were refused outright, and on the
desktop path that is app.exit(1) with no workaround.

An X server may bind only the abstract namespace (`@/tmp/.X11-unix/X0`), which
leaves no filesystem socket to stat. Abstract addresses are kernel-owned and
vanish the moment the owner exits, so an entry in /proc/net/unix is proof of a
live server -- no lock file needed and no stale entry possible. Verified on
Ubuntu 24.04, where 139 such addresses were present.

WAYLAND_SOCKET is an already-connected fd handed over by the compositor, so
there is no path to stat and WAYLAND_DISPLAY may be unset entirely. Its
presence is the display.

Both are consulted only after the filesystem-socket check fails, so no
existing verdict changes.

* fix(linux): never treat Orca's own display number as a foreign endpoint

Recognising a lockless X socket as live is correct for an endpoint published
from elsewhere -- a container bind mount, WSLg -- because an X server writes
its lock beside its socket and both survive a crash. It is wrong for
VIRTUAL_DISPLAY_NUMBER, because Orca's own teardown unlinks the lock before
the socket and so manufactures that exact state.

The managed branch was already strict, but a caller that sets DISPLAY=:99
explicitly takes the foreign path and skipped it, accepting a dead display
left by Orca's own interrupted cleanup. Route the managed number through the
strict probe on both paths.

Found by an adversarial audit of the asymmetry introduced earlier in this
branch; the documented systemd topology is unaffected because its Xvfb writes
a real lock.

* test(linux): add a packaged-artifact contract for the CLI launch paths

* test(linux): avoid buffered serve readiness detection

* test(linux): signal AppImage serve owner directly

* test(linux): tolerate readiness timeout boundary

* test(linux): add startup margin to shutdown oracle

* ci(linux): give package contracts timeout headroom

* fix(ci): route all Linux packaging contract changes

* test(linux): poll shutdown readiness without tail leaks

* test(linux): bound shutdown cleanup grace

* test(linux): assert on CLI output, not the harness's own control lines

run-cli-case.sh echoes `RESULT status=N case=<name>`, and the two cases named
*-skills asserted `expectOutput: 'skills'`. That substring was satisfied by
the case name in the harness's own line, so 2 of 8 cases asserted nothing
about the command -- gutting `skills` entirely would still have gone green.

Control lines are now excluded before matching, and both cases assert the
rendered help header, which only real help output produces. Verified on an
Ubuntu 24.04 host: 8/8 still pass against a stack-tip AppImage.

Also register the gate in reliability-gates.jsonc, which #15085 added a CI
Docker gate without. Red/green is recorded from a stock release AppImage
failing 4 of 8, three of them at status 133 (SIGTRAP).

* fix(linux): require static AppImage runtimes (#17319)

* test(linux): reject a wrong-architecture native binary at packaging time

Cross-building the arm64 slice on an x64 host silently packed an x86-64
`pty.node` -- the rebuild logged "Forcing native rebuild for linux-arm64" and
shipped the host's binary anyway. Every gate here inspects symbol versions,
which are perfectly valid on the wrong architecture, so nothing noticed.

Observed on a Raspberry Pi 5: the packaged app loaded, then failed with
"Failed to load native module: pty.node", and the launch contract reported
3 of 8 cases crashed rather than naming the cause. Swapping in the aarch64
`pty.node` took the same build to 8/8.

Compare ELF `e_machine` against the slice being packaged and fail with the
offending path. Checked before the glibc pass, because a wrong-architecture
binary's symbol versions are valid but meaningless and would send the reader
down the wrong path.

Release CI builds arm64 on a native runner, so this guards local and future
cross-builds rather than a shipped artifact.

* test(linux): judge per-arch vendored binaries against their own path

The first CI run of the architecture gate failed the x64 package job on
`@parcel/watcher-linux-arm64-glibc/watcher.node`. That binary is arm64 on
purpose: the package ships every architecture and its loader picks the match,
so its presence in an x64 build is correct.

Judge a binary against the architecture its own path names, falling back to
the slice when the path names none. That keeps the case this gate exists for
-- `bin/linux-arm64-*/node-pty.node` holding an x86-64 binary, which is what
shipped to a Raspberry Pi 5 -- while letting multi-arch dependencies through.

Dry-run over the real dependency tree flags nothing for either target arch.

* fix(linux): move deb/rpm update installation outside Orca (#17318)

* fix(linux): complete deb/rpm package metadata

* fix(linux): preserve CLI link during package upgrades

* docs(linux): document local RPM build prerequisites

* fix(linux): move deb/rpm update installation outside Orca

* fix(updater): preserve Linux recovery across stale events

* fix(updater): fence stale downloaded events by active target

* fix(updater): preserve active Linux package recovery

* test(linux): keep workflow order assertion in scope

* test(updater): assert stale recovery stays silent

* fix(updater): preserve Linux package recovery after checks

* refactor(updater): keep Linux marker message with status

* fix(linux): describe the right manual update path for deb/rpm hosts

A remote host installed from .deb or .rpm now reports
manual-service-update-required, and the guidance told the operator to
"update through the service manager that starts this server" -- which is
correct for unsupported-headless-serve but wrong for a package install,
where nothing about the remedy involves the service manager.

Say both, keyed on how the host was installed.

* docs(linux): document orcad update restart safety

* docs(linux): scope restart census omissions

* docs(linux): use absolute service CLI launcher

* fix(serve): validate in-process serve options before startup (#17683)

* fix(linux): stop offering updates a distro-managed install cannot apply (#17918)

Closes #17702.

The resources/package-type marker is authoritative but never checked against
the host, so any repackager that unpacks Orca's .deb -- AUR, Nix, a container
rebuild -- inherits `deb` verbatim. Install feasibility was then computed
after a ~165 MB download, so those users got check -> download -> a card
promising an install command -> a dead end.

Validate the marker against the host: a deb/rpm marker with no matching
package manager in the trusted directories means a package manager owns this
install. This reuses the exact lists and resolver that
buildLinuxPackageInstallCommand already loops over, so a false positive is
impossible by construction -- any host flagged here would have failed with
no-package-manager after the download anyway. The gate only moves that
verdict earlier. Verified across Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04, Arch, Fedora 40 and
openSUSE Leap: no false positive on a real deb host, correct on every
repackaging host.

The release is still reported, because the user does want to know 1.4.194
exists and to update through their distro; only the download path is closed.
`externallyManaged` is an additive optional field on the existing `available`
status, so older paired clients decode it unchanged. downloadUpdate() refuses
authoritatively, since main owns this verdict rather than the card, and
unwinds any pinned-build state first -- a Linux pinned jump resolves to
'release', and stranding isPinnedBuildActive would silently kill every
background check for the rest of the process.

Note the fix the issue suggests cannot work: electron-updater builds a
PacmanUpdater whose doDownloadUpdate looks for a .pacman asset Orca does not
publish, then dereferences undefined.

* style(cli): restore prettier wrapping on install error copy

* test(linux): re-pin the child-process ratchets and the batch-shim allowlist after the merge
2026-09-02 03:08:01 -07:00
Neil 8fef5820ff fix(renderer): restore behavior the UI split dropped
The oversized-UI-surfaces split was cut from a stale branch and reverted merged
work. getClientCreationActionPolicy entered Terminal.tsx in #13909 and left in
the split, taking six call sites with it, so every action-time creation gate in
the terminal and floating surfaces was gone. Restores those and the other
behavior the split dropped, each ported from the pre-split reference:

- Cmd/Ctrl+S dispatched a bare Event with no detail, so the only listener always
  bailed on detail?.fileId and the chord never saved. Its resolver had been left
  orphaned, imported by nothing but its own test.
- Terminal and floating create actions lost their availability gates, their
  toasts, and their catch handlers; one path throws on unavailable, so it was a
  silent unhandled rejection.
- Both outermost workbench wrappers lost the browser guest paint retention
  branch, and the census entry covering them was deleted in the same commit.
- The Space Analyzer header counted omitted items the list no longer rendered,
  and a worktree whose items were all omitted showed the empty state.
- The terminal root lost its tab topology projection, so every tab-title update
  re-rendered it.
- The titlebar tab bar stopped being passed clientHostedBrowserRows, leaving
  client-hosted pages uncloseable before a worktree has a layout.
- Parking diagnostics lost their exempt-route counts and crash breadcrumb.
- A suppressed inherited-terminal frame began buying a freshness scan the
  pre-split early return skipped.

Adds regression tests for each, all verified to fail against the pre-fix code.
Restores three deleted assertions whose invariants are still live, and replaces
a concatenated source-boundary fixture with per-module pinning so a symbol is
again asserted against the module that must own it.

Deletes three orphaned trees the splits stranded: a duplicate ResourceUsage
surface, cmd-j-match-relevance, and an agent-session claim-key module whose
logic the record store already owns. Makes two non-recursive test walkers
recursive, one of which silently skipped every nested CLI handler group.
2026-09-01 12:51:17 -07:00
Neil 5b4e7edb50 refactor(main): split backend services and startup
(cherry picked from commit a33573328b)
2026-09-01 02:07:33 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 8f15f217a2 Preserve user-set workspace names across branch changes (#17448)
* fix(worktrees): preserve user workspace names across branch changes

* test(worktrees): cover pinned rename metadata

* fix(workspaces): address display-name review edge cases

* fix(workspaces): keep automatic names fresh across refreshes

* fix(workspaces): preserve legacy CLI labels

* fix(workspaces): preserve display-name provenance across hosts

* fix(workspaces): honor legacy display-name provenance

* fix(workspaces): fence display-name refresh races

* fix(workspaces): accept peer renames from provenance-less hosts

The old-host preserve fence kept a pinned local label on every refresh,
which also suppressed a legitimate rename another client persisted
through the same host until app restart. Narrow it to labels the host
re-derived itself (branch short name, or path basename when detached);
any other changed label in a mode-less response is explicit meta a peer
wrote there. Stale prior-label responses stay covered by the downstream
staleness fence, in-flight writes by the pending fence.

* refactor(workspaces): unify display-name pin derivation

Three call sites (renderer optimistic update, local IPC updateMeta
handler, remote worktree.set handler) each restated the same formula;
a future edit to one would silently skew provenance between paths.
2026-08-31 19:08:05 -04:00
Jinwoo Hong b44ef1e59d fix(skills): narrow computer-use discovery boundary (#17736)
* fix(skills): narrow computer-use discovery boundary

* chore: remove merge-formatting noise

* fix(skills): name browser page automation surfaces
2026-08-31 18:57:52 -04:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim aabcc57366 fix(runtime): publish remote control outages to host surfaces (#17531)
* fix(runtime): publish remote control diagnostics to renderer

* test(runtime): account for diagnostics bridge listener

* fix(i18n): add runtime connection state labels

* test(runtime): clean up shared control connection

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

* fix(runtime): preserve authoritative transport state

* fix(runtime): preserve diagnostic overlay lifecycle

* fix(runtime): avoid publishing unchanged diagnostics state

---------

Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-08-31 12:25:17 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong d1350735ef fix(orchestration): explain invalid send message types (#17487) 2026-08-31 14:34:55 -04:00
NeilandBrennan Benson fbe94ceff6 fix: close readiness gaps found by merged-change audit (#17159)
* fix(ssh): fence stale kills and retired pane replay

* fix(ssh): support cancellable interactive authentication

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

* fix(pty): contain Windows ConPTY input failures

* fix(power): avoid redundant macOS display blocking

* perf(editor): narrow markdown override subscriptions

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

* refactor(linux): remove unused proc socket scanner

* fix(usage): apply flat Sonnet 4.6 pricing

* ci: prime Node next native test cache

* docs(skills): resolve snapshot cleanup data path

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* fix(pty): contain late ConPTY output EPIPE

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

* fix: close SSH and tab readiness race gaps

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

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

* test(windows): avoid MSYS temp path rewriting

* test(windows): avoid killing exited PTY

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

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

* fix(runtime): use canonical worktree identity comparison

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

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

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

* fix(terminal): publish PTY replacements atomically

* fix(terminal): infer stale identity on reattach

* fix(terminal): fence stale pane PTY callbacks

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

* fix(terminal): reject stale pane transport callbacks

* fix(terminal): fence mirrored reattach spawn callbacks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* fix(terminal): fence stale remount reattach ownership

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

* fix(terminal): fence stale reattach fallback ownership

* fix(terminal): fence deferred SSH reattach ownership

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

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Brennan Benson <79079362+brennanb2025@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-31 08:17:40 -07:00
2sumtech d641d87905 fix(browser): accept an empty --value in cookie set and --pass in set credentials (#17226) 2026-08-30 23:30:49 -07:00
OrcaWinandm4air a4bf9bb1e8 fix(settings): allow Escape to close from controls (#17516)
docs(orchestration): clarify terminal worktree selection

Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@m4airs-Air.localdomain>
2026-08-30 18:38:41 -07:00
Brennan Benson cc6b600e21 Fix orchestration CLI recovery, settled-Dispatch mail, and guide defects (#16919)
* Fix orchestration CLI recovery, settled-Dispatch mail, and guide defects

Five reported orchestration CLI defects, verified individually before fixing.
Two were real code defects, one was a docs error, one was correct as-is, and
one was correct on both ends except for its recovery wording.

- Mail addressed to a settled `dispatch:<id>` was accepted and silently dropped.
  Local sends bypassed the settlement check the federated branch already had, so
  the caller was told success for a delivery no worker would ever read. Reject
  with `dispatch_inactive` and name the Run mailbox to use instead.

- A lost mutation response offered no read-only way to ask whether it took
  effect. `--retry-request` does dedupe correctly, but the recovery guidance
  emitted a query command only when the payload carried a dispatch id, which is
  exactly what a lost response lacks. Add read-only
  `orca orchestration request-show --request <id>` over the durable receipt
  ledger, and always emit a read-only step before the keyed retry.

- The bundled `orca-cli` guide documented `check --unread --inject`, a flag the
  parser rejects. Correct it to `--format` and add a ratchet that runs every
  orchestration invocation in the bundled guides through the real CLI parser.

- `check --json` is one stdout document and its keepalives are stderr-only; the
  reported `Extra data: line 2` came from merging the streams. Document the
  contract rather than changing the wire.

- A rejected lifecycle message is loud on both ends already, but the rejection
  never named the flag that supplies the missing capability. Name it.

* Harden orchestration mutation recovery guidance
2026-08-30 18:12:58 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim b8d5b0486e Fix opening HTTPS URLs from headless runtimes (#17467)
* fix(runtime): open headless browser URLs on paired client

* fix(pty): tolerate runtimes without browser relay probe

* fix(browser): require automation-capable client host

* fix(browser): map client URL opener in sidecar

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 16:48:43 -07:00
Neil 879fdfdac6 fix(cli): resolve WSL mounted-drive worktree paths 2026-08-30 16:36:20 -07:00
Neil 5bd66bac8b fix(cli): resolve a WSL worktree by the Linux path its own shell prints (#16628) (#17440)
On a Windows host the runtime stores a WSL worktree as the UNC path Windows
sees, but a user inside the distro types the Linux spelling, so every `path:`
selector missed: `worktree show`, `terminal list --worktree` and
`worktree rm --worktree` all reported selector_not_found for a directory Orca
manages.

Translate once in the CLI, which is the only side that can prove which distro
the typed path belongs to — from its own UNC cwd, never from WSL_DISTRO_NAME,
which a Linux-native CLI also sets. The runtime's `path:` branch stays
exact-spelling-only for the same reason: this resolver feeds delete, so a
tail-only match would remove another distro's copy.
2026-08-30 14:42:20 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim c3aceacc7b Fix PR unlink for auto-detected reviews (#16898)
* fix: make PR unlink hide auto-detected reviews

* Type the empty-content test double against the real model

The literal narrowed suppressedGitHubPR to number and typed the callback
as Mock, so neither direction was comparable and tsconfig.tc.web.json
failed on TS2352. Keeping the 'as' cast preserves checking of the fields
the double does supply.

* Add localization keys for the unlinked checks-panel state

The unlinked title, relink action, and the remote-runtime upgrade notice
introduced untranslated keys that static analysis requires in en.json.

* Advertise PR suppression capability in the transport test

The client capability list is pinned by websocket-transport.test.ts, and
adding WORKTREE_GITHUB_PR_SUPPRESSION left the expected list stale.

* Fix stale PR suppression in Checks

* fix: harden PR unlink suppression state

* refactor: extract PR unlink state handling

* fix: show PR relink recovery in source control

* fix: add unlinked PR localization

* Clarify workspace-scoped PR unlinking

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 12:24:51 -07:00
Neil 3af2c665c0 fix(cli): name PowerShell when it strips quotes from JSON flags (#17351)
* fix(cli): name PowerShell when it strips quotes from JSON flags

Windows PowerShell 5.1 does not escape inner quotes when building a native
command line, so `--options '["a","b"]'` reaches orca.exe as `--options [a,b]`.
The value is correct when printed and damaged by the time argv is parsed, so the
resulting "invalid JSON" error blamed the user's input rather than the shell.

#16743 recovered this for `--deps`, which is safe only because generated task IDs
have a fixed 12-hex grammar. The same mangling hits `--options`, `--payload` and
`--result`, and those are NOT safely recoverable: `["1","2"]` and `[1,2]` arrive
at argv identically, so a general repair would silently turn strings into numbers.

Detect instead. `getOptionalJsonFlag` rejects the damaged shape up front with an
error that names the shell and shows the workaround. It fires only when the value
is bracketed, quote-free, fails JSON.parse, AND consists entirely of bare tokens
that quoting would rescue, so valid JSON is untouched.

Also share the generated-id contract: `task-deps-flag` hardcoded
/^task_[0-9a-f]{12}$/i, which silently diverges if `generateId`'s byte count
changes. It now calls `isGeneratedId`, with a test pinning the two together.

Verified on a Windows host. Measured argv, which the new test pins as a fixture:
  PS_VALUE=["task_b2a580db74d8","task_c3b691ec85e9"]
  ARGV=["--deps","[task_b2a580db74d8,task_c3b691ec85e9]"]

Before: Invalid --options: must be a JSON array of strings
After:  --options arrived as [a,b], which is not valid JSON.
        Windows PowerShell 5.1 strips the inner quotes ...

* fix(cli): scope JSON-flag detection to genuinely JSON flags

Review found the detector wired to two flags that are not JSON:

- `orchestration ask --options` is documented `<csv>` and the runtime splits it
  on commas, so `--options [a,b]` was a legitimate value being rejected.
- `task-update --result` is stored verbatim and reused as dispatch failure text;
  existing tests pass free text, so a bracketed `[ok]` was being rejected.

Both revert to `getOptionalStringFlag`. Only `gate-create --options`
(`<json_array>`) and `send --payload` (`<json>`) are JSON-parsed and keep it.

Three further review fixes:

- Objects now require a `key:value` pair per entry. `{a,b}` and `{a:b,c}` were
  reported as quote-stripped although quoting them cannot produce valid JSON.
- The raw value is no longer echoed. A `--payload` can carry secrets and this
  message reaches `--json` output; the flag name and guidance are enough.
- The message hedges the shell attribution. Detection inspects only the value's
  shape, so it also fires when a macOS/Linux user forgets to quote, where
  PowerShell is not involved.

Verified against a Windows host, all six cases: both JSON flags fire on the
mangled shape and pass valid JSON through to the runtime; both non-JSON flags
now reach the runtime again; and the secret in `{token:hunter2}` appears zero
times in the error output.
2026-08-30 01:23:27 -07:00
Chen 07df4bf0be fix(orchestration): recover stripped task deps 2026-08-29 23:07:36 -07:00
Brennan Benson fd9125ea8c feat(native-chat): Codex structured native chat restructure (#16729)
* feat(native-chat): port structured Codex sessions from restructure-recovery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two proven blockers in the native Codex tab contract:

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

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

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

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

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

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

* chore: format remote wire compatibility guide

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

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

* docs(settings): disclose structured chat platform limits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* fix structured session journal durability

* fix structured tab active pointer after restart

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

* refactor(skills): extract install error messages

* fix(agent-session): harden recovery ownership

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* test(wire): make release checkouts race safe

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

* test(wire): harden release checkout lifecycle

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

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

* fix(native-chat): skip empty startup recovery
2026-08-28 16:45:58 -07:00
Brennan Benson 2c86d2a3bd fix(agent-hooks): stop test runs and secondary profiles deleting the user's agent hooks (STA-5679) (#16980)
* fix(agent-hooks): stop startup from deleting another instance's managed hooks (STA-5679)

Startup reconciliation removed the managed agent hooks whenever THIS profile had
the agent-status-hooks off switch set. The hook files it removes are user-global
(~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.cursor/hooks.json), so a second Orca profile with the
switch off deleted the hooks every other running instance depends on.

Cursor is the only agent with no title-derived status fallback: its native title is
deliberately parsed as status-less, so a hookless Cursor pane is floored at 'idle'
rather than showing a spinner. A global hook wipe therefore surfaces as "Cursor
loading status missing from the sidebar" while Claude and Codex still paint status
from their own titles, which is why this reads as a Cursor-only bug. Codex is
unaffected either way because its hooks live in an Orca-owned runtime home.

Honoring the off switch only requires skipping the install; removal stays on the
explicit Settings toggle, which is the user-initiated path that should own it.

Regression from #2778, which restored the destructive startup branch.

* fix(cli-tests): stop the deferral suite deleting the developer's real agent hooks

runtime-client-deferral.test.ts runs the REAL `main()` and feeds it
`agent hooks off`. It mocks only ./runtime/environments and ./runtime-client, so
the production handler ran end to end: updateEnabledOnDisk() wrote its state file
and applyAgentStatusHooksEnabled(false) called removeManagedAgentHooks() against
the developer's OWN ~/.claude/settings.json and ~/.cursor/hooks.json.

A green test run therefore deleted every Orca-managed hook on the machine. Agent
status then stopped reporting until the next Orca restart reinstalled them —
silently, because the hook POSTs still return 204 and Cursor has no title-derived
status fallback at all.

The byte-for-byte equivalence twin already refuses these exact tokens, commented
"MUTATING — writes outside ORCA_USER_DATA_PATH (`agent hooks off` parks the real
~/.claude hooks)". The vitest twin never got that guard.

Stub the hook-controls module rather than dropping the row: `agent hooks off` is
the only case in the table that reads ctx.client, so it carries the
null-vs-undefined coverage the other four cannot. All 23 tests still pass, and a
sandboxed HOME now keeps its hooks (5 -> 5) where it previously lost them (5 -> 0).

* fix(cli-tests): ratchet agent hook deferral safety

* fix(agent-hooks): keep startup reconciliation install-only
2026-08-28 11:33:14 -07:00
Neil 2b0ee06205 docs(env-recipes): warn that snapshotting a started runtime bakes its identity (#17001)
Snapshotting a VM on which `orca serve` has already run captures the
runtime's user-data dir into the image. Every VM booted from that image
then shares one pairing identity and one agent-session-authority key,
which defeats the per-device token design.

Confirmed by booting two VMs from one such snapshot: both emitted
identical deviceToken and pairedDeviceId.

Adds the rule to the base-snapshot section and repeats it for the
agent-auth layer, which is the likelier place to start the runtime by
hand while smoke-testing. Says to delete the whole user-data dir rather
than a named file list, since that list drifts as Orca adds state.
2026-08-28 02:37:55 -07:00
Jinjing c4b39295c1 style: format codebase (#16935)
* style: format codebase

* style: format codebase

* refactor: extract skill install dialog footer and content

Extract footer and content sections from SkillInstallDialog and
SkillInstallManagementDialog into separate components for improved
maintainability and clarity of component responsibilities.
2026-08-28 00:59:21 -07:00
Neil 7ee8b5e1a6 Refactor lower max-lines modules (#16760) 2026-08-27 16:10:51 -07:00
Brennan Benson 419e3b4496 Fix terminal reads that flatten composer drafts into output (#16711)
* fix(terminal): separate composer drafts from read output

Rendered screen reads treated cursor-line suggestion overlays as PTY output. Detect composer-owned text from cell attributes and cursor context, remove it from tail, and expose it as structured draft metadata.

* fix(terminal): handle wrapped composer overlays

* fix(terminal): preserve draft wrapping and tail alignment

* fix(terminal): preserve composer wrap boundaries

* fix(terminal): preserve draft continuations with middle dots

* fix(terminal): recognize configurable Codex status lines
2026-08-27 15:28:09 -07:00
Brennan Benson 913509edeb fix(orchestration): prevent slow worker-start stalls (#16300)
* Extend orchestration agent submission timing budgets

* fix(orchestration): preserve mutation recovery identity

* fix(orchestration): preserve recovery executable identity

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

* test(orchestration): cover federated worker preflight

* fix(orchestration): harden mutation recovery

* fix(orchestration): redact dispatch recovery credentials

* chore: preserve upstream skill dialog formatting

* test(orchestration): stabilize agent prompt submit e2e

* fix(orchestration): validate federated start receipts

* perf(runtime): cache unchanged prompt verification tail

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

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

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

* fix(orchestration): normalize federated readiness timeout

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

* chore: preserve current-main orcad formatting

* chore: drop unrelated formatting carryover
2026-08-27 15:25:30 -07:00
Neil b241a68ae4 Fix worktree identity collisions across hosts (#16691)
* fix(workspaces): add collision-safe worktree identity

* fix(workspaces): read worktree metadata per host and repair ambiguous identities

The canonical identity store landed write-only: getWorktreeMetaForHost had no
production callers while setWorktreeMetaForHost kept the legacy projection only
for the first known owner, so a second host's edits persisted and were never
read back. Wire the listing paths through host-qualified reads.

An ambiguous alias was also unrecoverable — reads returned undefined and writes
threw forever, and the throw escaped the detected-worktree loop, emptying the
whole repo's sidebar. Fail open onto the most recently active instance instead.

- collapse ambiguous aliases deterministically and persist the repair
- reclaim identity rows in the metadata GC so they cannot outlive their locator
  or resurrect onto a worktree recreated at the same path
- drop every host's rows when a locator is removed outright, not just the owner's
- honour an explicit instanceId so the stale-lineage rotation guard still works
- scope a rename to the moving host; other hosts keep their own locator
- prefer the project host setup matching the repo's own execution host, so a
  repoId registered on two hosts no longer stamps the wrong one durably
- reject an unencoded `|` in a host id, the invariant the alias delimiter needs
- drop the never-populated hostGeneration from the canonical key

* fix(workspaces): close remaining identity review gaps

* fix(workspaces): close remaining review gaps

* fix(workspaces): address review and CI regressions

* test(workspaces): update host-qualified metadata expectations

* fix(workspaces): preserve ambiguous identity records

* fix(workspaces): snapshot metadata during listing

* test(workspaces): mirror listing metadata snapshot in windows fixture

* fix(workspaces): preserve identity routing for metadata writes

* fix(workspaces): scope stale metadata cleanup by host

* fix(workspaces): rekey identities on SSH readoption

* fix(workspaces): fail closed for ambiguous board ids

* perf(workspaces): snapshot metadata across catalog listing

* fix(workspaces): retain neighboring manual order updates

* test(workspaces): cover ambiguous board id index

* fix(persistence): harden host-qualified worktree metadata

* refactor(shared): split project host setup lookup

* refactor(workspaces): simplify host-qualified metadata
2026-08-27 15:08:40 -07:00
Brennan Benson 3558cf943f fix(codex): heal WSL hooks before typed launches (#16535)
* fix(codex): heal WSL hooks before typed launches

* test(codex): keep launcher fixture type-safe on Windows

* fix(build): list codex-home-wsl-env in the CLI typecheck project

`managed-home-shell-preflight.ts` is already in the CLI project's include list and now imports
`wslCodexRuntimeHomeForGuestHome` from `src/main/pty/codex-home-wsl-env.ts`, which the list did not
cover — TS6307, so the CLI typecheck failed on every push.

Added the single module rather than a `src/main/pty/**` glob: it is a 31-line leaf with no imports
of its own, so it does not widen what the CLI bundle can reach.

* fix(codex): converge the two WSL hook install lanes onto one writer

Two independent readiness reviews agreed the Orca-terminal boundary holds, but Codex Sol found a
P1 the other rated P2: the new just-in-time repair raced the existing relay installer and the two
produced DIFFERENT hook and trust representations for the same managed home. Two unserialized
writers emitting different formats is worse than the bug this PR fixes, because it fails
intermittently rather than cleanly — a pane works or does not depending on which lane won.

- Relay Codex installs now delegate to the runtime-home writer, so there is one canonical
  representation instead of two. Redirected scripts use the runtime path, the readable wrapper,
  and the prepended group.
- `installForRuntimeHomeSerialized` puts every asynchronous WSL caller for a given home on one
  queue (`wslInstallQueues`), so concurrent panes cannot interleave writes.

Also rewrites the stale pin test the new `-x` guard broke. It asserted the defect —
"would run the impostor if the preflight carried an unqualified command name", expecting the
hijack marker to exist. The guard is a security improvement, so the test now asserts the contract:
an unqualified preflight is skipped and the marker is never written. Rewritten to the new
behavior, not loosened or deleted.

818 tests pass across the affected suites; typecheck clean. The changed-file quality gate could
not run locally — its pnpm engine-warning JSON parser fails under Node 26 — so CI covers it.

The boundary both reviews verified is untouched: paired/relay/mobile clients stay hard-blocked
from the RPC, params remain shape-locked to the managed home suffix with traversal rejection,
nothing is written outside the managed home, and macOS/Linux stay inert.

* fix(codex): serialize resolved WSL hook homes

* fix(codex): recover managed WSL homes after restart

* fix(wsl): translate Codex preflight through WSLENV

* fix(cli): cover bounded WSL Codex repair

* fix(codex): coalesce duplicate WSL hook repairs

* fix(codex): verify reconstructed WSL homes
2026-08-27 13:05:12 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 0f522c35e5 fix(remote): gate empty session inventory on host authority (#16546) 2026-08-26 22:30:48 -07:00
Neil 26721bd632 fix(codex): stop blocking the main thread on trust grants (#16441) (#16594)
* fix(codex): stop blocking the main thread on trust grants (#16441)

Codex hook trust was granted by blocking the Electron main thread on
`spawnSync` of a bundled ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE entry for the whole
app-server deadline: 15s native, 35s WSL, ~45s on the real-home path
(rebase inspect + repair + grant). Cold start and every Codex pane
launch showed "Not Responding"; the reported event-loop gap was
15,049 ms.

The subprocess only ever existed to donate an event loop to a
deliberately blocked parent — `runCodexHookTrustGrantSession` was
already the real async implementation. Make the callers async and the
fork is unnecessary, so the bridge, the forked entry and its envelope
are deleted along with their build/knip/tsconfig registrations. The CLI
`agent hooks prepare-codex` handler is already async, so it awaits the
in-process session and saves a process spawn per managed-home shell.

`resolveCodexTrustGrantHost` is async too; the WSL identity probe moves
from `execFileSync` to `runProcess`, dropping that file from the
child-process import allowlist. Status reads keep a synchronous
native-only stamp path.

Two invariants that held only because the lane blocked:

- Overlapping capability probes were impossible by construction.
  `GitCapabilityCache`'s dedupe engine is extracted to a shared
  `CapabilityProbeCache` and `CodexAppServerCapabilityCache` now
  inherits it, so concurrent launches against a cold host share one
  app-server session instead of one each.
- Two grants on one `config.toml` could not interleave capture and
  restore. A reentrant per-file lane now serializes the whole install
  sequence (managed, WSL runtime, real-home ensure, legacy sweep) and
  the grant and rebase inside it.

Cold-start work moves off the critical path: retained-home
reconciliation (N sequential sessions) is fire-and-forget behind the
daemon provider, and the startup real-home ensure chains into managed
hook reconciliation instead of blocking app init.

Every preserved semantic is unchanged: never throws, the
ORCA_DISABLE_CODEX_TRUST_RPC kill switch, ledger hits, backfill-pending
and cooldown fallbacks, config rollback on every failure path,
pre-grant self-computed trust removal, the verify-failure taxonomy,
diagnostics and telemetry.

* fix(codex): widen the trust-config lane to every config.toml writer

Review follow-ups on #16441's async trust grant:

- `markCodexProjectTrusted` now runs inside the runtime+system config.toml
  lanes, so a project-trust write can no longer land inside a hook grant's
  capture->restore window and be silently reverted. Its callers await it.
- `install`/`refreshRuntimeUserHooks`/`remove` hold the system config.toml
  lane as well as the runtime one — they promote approvals into
  ~/.codex/config.toml and mirror it back. Lock order is runtime-before-system
  everywhere.
- The real-home ensure chain resumes after a rejection instead of returning
  the same rejected promise to every later pane launch, and resolving the real
  home is now inside the module's never-throws boundary.
- `buildSpawnEnv` awaits inside a cancelable pending-spawn registration, so
  shutdown during the (now long) env build stops the PTY from launching.
  `prepareLocalPtySpawn` generalizes into `awaitCancelableLocalPtySpawn`.
- CapabilityProbeCache drops the test-only `nowMs` passthrough; its probe
  backstop comment now describes what it actually guards.
- Preflight is a plain async function; the trust dispatch in orca-runtime
  collapses into one `markWorkspaceTrustedForAgent`.

* test(codex): exercise the trust-config lane under real concurrency

The async grant makes two pane launches overlap for the first time. These
drive the real modules end to end on real files: a rollback swallowing a
sibling's grant, a markCodexProjectTrusted write landing inside a capture
-> restore window, shared capability-probe dedupe on a cold host, the
host-scoped transient cooldown, and reentrancy from inside an installer.

Each was verified to fail against a deliberately broken implementation
(lane removed, dedupe disabled, cooldown made global, reentrancy pass-
through disabled).

* test(codex): stop hook-service suites spawning the developer's real codex

The forked grant bundle never existed under vitest, so the RPC lane was
unreachable in tests on main. Running it in-process makes these suites
spawn a real `codex app-server` when one is installed: 38 spawns and two
failures in hook-service-runtime-trust-repair on a machine with codex,
green in CI where there is none. Stand in for the missing binary so both
environments exercise the same fallback lane.

* docs(codex): scope the trust-RPC kill switch comment to what it actually gates

The comment read as though the flag forces the fallback lane everywhere. It
gates the managed grant only: the real-home rebase still runs its own
inspect/repair app-server sessions when Orca's insertion shifts a user's hook
positions, and never reads the flag.

Verified by exercise, not by reading — with the flag set, both
inspect-user-hook-trust and repair-user-hook-trust still ran. Pre-existing:
main has no check there either, it just blocked the main thread while doing it.

Widening the flag to cover the rebase is a follow-up; this only stops the
comment promising something the constant does not do.
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