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Jinwoo HongandE2E Test 20fc7af557 test(relay): drill a memory cell through a database outage, and pin phone renewal (#30666)
* feat(relay): add the per-cell phonePath switch, effective only in reserve mode

Step 6 of the relay redesign keys every phone-path change on this switch. The cell
reports the effective value in runtime status, and the flag tool refuses phonePath=memory
unless the cell is reserve, and a reserve flip that would turn phones over unnamed.

* feat(relay): resume paired phones from one device read on memory cells

With phonePath=memory in reserve mode, a phone resume is admitted from one device
read and the cell's own seat, and takes no activity leases. A refused device closes
4401, a failed read 4503, and only a missing device row falls through to the invite
path. A phone whose host has no seat gets one assignment read: 4409 when the row
names another cell or the read fails, otherwise 4404.

* feat(relay): keep a memory resume's basis in the cell and confirm it from one read

A phone resumed on the memory path keeps its connection basis in the cell, not in
relay_connection_bases. Its confirm rereads the device row once, renews it only when
less than 29 days remain, and always answers a current-version confirm renewed:true
with the expiry the database holds. Confirms route by where their basis lives, so a
flip between accept and confirm completes either way. Retries answer from a 10-min
in-memory result map.

* test(relay): roll a memory phone cell back with confirms in flight

Flipping back by admitMode=db, phonePath=db or a dead-man trip leaves in-flight
confirms to finish on their memory basis, writes no phone lease and leaks none, and
evacuation still refuses the cell while Postgres records it as reserve.

* feat(relay): batch a memory cell's resume-confirmed audit rows

Memory confirms buffer their audit rows and the cell writes them as one multi-row
insert every 5 s or 500 rows, idempotent by a per-event id. The buffer holds at most
5,000 rows and drops a row older than 10 minutes rather than retrying it, counting
and logging both kinds of drop.

* feat(relay): count and log phone-path failures, and every attach deadline

The runtime metrics line gains phone refusals by close code, attach deadlines, accept
database errors, resume confirm failures by code, completed accepts by phone path and
the resume audit drop total. Every attach-deadline 4404 now logs what the cell knew of
the desktop's control (pong age, ping outstanding, control age and round trip), so a
half-open control can be told from a slow data dial.

* feat(relay): close an attach-deadline 4404 with the attach-timeout reason

The phone close reason from #30607 now rides the close frame of the 4404 a cell
sends when the desktop's data leg misses the attach deadline, so OTA phones can
redial the same cell once instead of waiting out the host-offline delay. The failed
relay-hello frame is unchanged, and old phones ignore the reason.

* test(relay): drill a memory cell through a database outage, and pin phone renewal

A blocked database leaves splices forwarding, closes new resumes 4503 and fails
confirms cleanly, lets an in-flight confirm finish on its memory basis after a flip
back, and drops audit rows past 10 minutes instead of writing them late. On the phone,
a relay-only session lives 31 days under the once-a-day renewal rule, and would not
if a not-due confirm answered renewed:false.

* fix(relay-ops): store phonePath=db as no key, so old images keep taking writes

An explicit phonePath=db left in the switch file would make the flag tool refuse every
later write after an image rollback, including a watcher's admitMode=db flip back.

* fix(relay): log a failed no-seat read, recheck the switch after the device read

A failed assignment read for a phone with no seat now logs a rate-limited line before
its 4409. A switch that turned off during the device read sends the phone down today's
path. resolveResume reuses the one-read lookup, so the expiry and grace rules have one copy.

* fix(relay): log a failed memory renewal; test flips, replays and basis cleanup

A renewal write that fails still answers the stored expiry, but now logs a rate-limited
line so a persistently failing update is visible before phones age toward re-pairing.

* test(relay): assert a rolled-back memory splice issues no statement when it closes

* fix(relay): flush resume audit early only on crossing the batch size, drop the shutdown flush

A failing database no longer takes a 500-row insert per confirm; retries wait for the
5 s timer. The shutdown flush raced the pool closing, so it is gone and the at most 5 s
loss is documented. A stopped buffer no longer re-arms its timer.

* test(relay): assert the aged audit rows were dropped, not written

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Co-authored-by: E2E Test <e2e@test.local>
2026-10-19 13:24:18 -04:00
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Orca Mobile

React Native companion app for Orca. Monitor worktrees, view terminal output, and send commands from your phone.

Local development uses two processes:

  • Orca desktop/Electron from the repo root. This hosts the mobile WebSocket RPC server on port 6768.
  • Expo Metro from mobile/. This serves the React Native app on port 8081.

Unless a command says otherwise, run mobile app commands from the mobile/ directory.

The Node commands pnpm rpc:diff and pnpm rpc:record use a development dependency linked to ../src/packages/process-host. Mobile's install supplies the link, and tsx runs its source with the orca-source condition, so these command wrappers do not require a desktop install or package build. Keep that source directory in sparse checkouts. The recording suites still need root dependencies when they exercise desktop modules. The React Native app does not import this host package.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 24+
  • pnpm
  • Xcode and/or Android Studio tooling for simulator or device builds
  • Expo Go on your phone, or a development client build when native modules are needed
  • Phone and desktop on the same LAN when testing a physical phone

Start Desktop Orca

From the repository root:

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Confirm the mobile RPC server is listening:

lsof -nP -iTCP:6768 -sTCP:LISTEN

Restart pnpm dev after changing Electron main-process code. Metro hot reload only applies to the mobile JavaScript bundle.

Start The Mobile App

cd mobile
pnpm install
pnpm start

Scan the Expo QR code with your phone's camera on iOS, or Expo Go on Android.

For a native dev-client build:

pnpm exec expo run:android
pnpm exec expo run:ios
pnpm start --dev-client

Pair With Desktop Orca

  1. Open Orca desktop.
  2. Go to Settings > Mobile.
  3. Scan the pairing QR code from the mobile app.
  4. Confirm the mobile host endpoint is ws://<desktop-ip>:6768.

For the Android emulator, use ws://10.0.2.2:6768. For a physical phone, use the desktop LAN IP, for example ws://192.168.0.179:6768.

If the phone has a stale host entry, remove it from the app and pair again.

Development Paths

Android Phone

  1. Install Expo Go from Google Play
  2. Run pnpm start, scan QR with Expo Go
  3. For native modules: pnpm exec expo run:android
  4. Run with pnpm start --dev-client

iOS Simulator

  1. Install Xcode from the App Store
  2. Run pnpm start --ios to open in iOS Simulator

Physical Phone Debugging

The phone can be inspected through the connected device tooling:

orca snapshot --json
orca click --element @e3 --json
orca fill --element @e1 --value "ls" --json
orca screenshot --json

Use snapshot first to find the current element refs, then click/fill those refs. After mobile file edits, Metro usually hot reloads automatically, but navigating out of and back into the session screen can be useful because it re-runs terminal.subscribe.

Terminal Streaming Repro Without A Phone

Use this when terminal output does not render on device and you need to split server streaming bugs from WebView/UI bugs:

cd mobile
ORCA_MOBILE_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:6768 pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64>

You can pass a worktree selector as the third argument:

pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "id:<worktreeId>"
pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "path:/absolute/worktree/path"
pnpm exec tsx scripts/test-subscribe.ts <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "name:my-worktree"

The expected result includes:

streamSawMarker: true
readSawMarker: true

If this repro fails, debug the desktop runtime/PTY path before the mobile WebView. If it passes but the phone is blank, debug the session screen or TerminalWebView readiness/queueing path.

Terminal Color Repro Without A Phone

Use this when terminal colors disappear after switching tabs. Open a Claude Code terminal and at least one other terminal in the target worktree, then run:

cd mobile
ORCA_MOBILE_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:6768 pnpm exec tsx scripts/repro-terminal-colors.ts \
  <deviceToken> <serverPublicKeyB64> "id:<worktreeId>"

The script captures terminal.subscribe snapshots in an A → B → A sequence and writes raw snapshots to mobile/terminal-color-repro/. If the two A snapshots have different sgrColor counts, the desktop snapshot changed during the switch. If they match, the ANSI color data is still present and the bug is in mobile replay/rendering.

Validation

Run these checks before committing mobile terminal changes:

cd mobile
pnpm exec tsc --noEmit
pnpm run check:tests-typecheck
pnpm lint
cd ..
pnpm typecheck:node

tsc --noEmit reads tsconfig.json, which excludes test files so Metro never bundles them. tsconfig.test.json puts them back, and pnpm run typecheck:tests shows their errors in full. check:tests-typecheck is the gate over it: a ratchet against tests-typecheck-baseline.txt, the 127 test files that do not typecheck yet. It fails when a file that checks today stops checking, and when a baseline entry starts checking (prune it with node scripts/check-tests-typecheck-ratchet.mjs --prune). The list may only shrink.

The same gate censuses the program first: every *.test.ts(x) on disk must be in it, or named in the script's TESTS_OUTSIDE_PROGRAM with a reason. Without that, a test excluded from tsconfig.test.json — or a Foo.test.tsx shadowed by a Foo.test.ts beside it, which a wildcard include drops for the higher-priority extension — would leave the ratchet silently.

Protocol Version Compatibility

Mobile and desktop talk over a versioned protocol. Because mobile updates lag desktop by 24-48h via the App Store, both sides exchange version numbers on status.get so a genuinely incompatible combo can hard-block instead of silently misbehaving.

Constants live in two files (Metro can't resolve outside mobile/):

  • src/shared/protocol-version.ts — DESKTOP_PROTOCOL_VERSION, MIN_COMPATIBLE_MOBILE_VERSION
  • mobile/src/transport/protocol-version.ts — MOBILE_PROTOCOL_VERSION, MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION

Today all four are set so evaluateCompat always returns { kind: 'ok' } — nothing blocks. The wire format is in place to flip a switch when needed.

When to bump

Bump DESKTOP_PROTOCOL_VERSION (and the mobile mirror MOBILE_PROTOCOL_VERSION when relevant) for breaking changes:

  • Removed RPC method or required parameter that mobile uses
  • Changed meaning (units, nullability) of an existing field mobile reads
  • Changed encryption, framing, or auth handshake

Do not bump for additive changes:

  • New RPC methods
  • New optional fields on existing methods
  • New event types in terminal.subscribe

Set MIN_COMPATIBLE_MOBILE_VERSION (kill-switch) when desktop ships a change that requires a minimum mobile version to function safely. Same for MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION from the mobile side.

When a verdict is blocked, mobile/src/components/ProtocolBlockScreen.tsx renders a screen pointing the user at the update that clears it. When mobile is too old it opens the newest release if the installed app's update check knows one, otherwise the App Store (iOS) or GitHub Releases (Android). When desktop is too old it opens GitHub Releases.

To exercise the block screen locally: set MIN_COMPATIBLE_DESKTOP_VERSION = 999 in mobile/src/transport/protocol-version.ts, rebuild, pair to any desktop. Revert before merging.

Mock Server

Develop the mobile app without a running Orca desktop instance:

pnpm mock-server           # starts mock WebSocket server on port 6768

Connect from the app using endpoint ws://localhost:6768 and token mock-device-token.

Environment variables

  • MOCK_NATIVE_CHAT=1 — serve the native-chat scenario (one live agent tab, empty transcript, image upload) instead of the default terminal fixtures.
  • MOCK_CHAT_AGENT=omp — with MOCK_NATIVE_CHAT=1, present an OMP tab and four decoded transcript messages, including a tool call and result, instead of the default Claude scenario. It deliberately omits transcriptPath to exercise legacy-hook readability discovery; current OMP hooks may report a path.
  • MOCK_SERVER_KEY_FILE — persist the server keypair across restarts so a paired device keeps its public-key pin. A missing or invalid file is re-keyed with a warning, which forces a re-pair.

Scenario control files

Read on every request, so behaviour can be flipped mid-session without a restart (a restart would re-key E2EE and force a re-pair). Write the mode into the file, or delete it for the default.

  • MOCK_SEND_MODE_FILE (default orca-mock-send-mode in the system temporary directory) — accept (default) accepts the send, error fails it with mobile_input_floor_unavailable, anything else reports the send as rejected.
  • MOCK_TERMINAL_LIST_MODE_FILE (default orca-mock-terminal-list-mode in the system temporary directory) — omit returns an empty terminal list, other returns a list that omits the chat handle, anything else lists it.
  • MOCK_TERMINAL_STREAM_MODE_FILE (default orca-mock-terminal-stream-mode in the system temporary directory) — dead answers a subscribe with subscribed then end (a gone PTY), which is what exercises the rearm bound and terminal prune; anything else streams normally.

Connecting to Real Orca

  1. Start Orca desktop with WebSocket transport enabled
  2. In Orca, go to Settings > Mobile and scan the QR code with this app
  3. The QR encodes the connection endpoint, device token, and TLS fingerprint

Project Structure

mobile/
├── app/                   # Expo Router screens (file-based routing)
│   ├── _layout.tsx        # Root layout with navigation stack
│   ├── index.tsx          # Home screen — paired hosts list
│   └── pair-scan.tsx      # QR code scanning screen
├── src/
│   ├── terminal/          # Terminal WebView and xterm bridge
│   └── transport/         # WebSocket RPC client
├── scripts/
│   ├── test-subscribe.ts  # Desktop streaming repro without a phone
│   └── mock-server.ts     # Standalone mock WebSocket server
└── assets/                # App icons and splash screen