Jinwoo Hong
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* feat(relay): report a post-wave health verdict on each same-cap cell, without gating on it After a same-cap cell finishes rolling, an operator reads five things by hand before dispatching the next cell: director 503s against the same clock hour a day and two days earlier, whether the cell's new container announced its listener and has stayed up, the cell's own pool pressure, the asia-east2 pool trio, and Cloud SQL FATALs. This runs those same reads automatically and records PASS / WARN / WOULD_BLOCK with its numbers, so its calls can be compared with the operator's over a full roll before it is ever allowed to stop one. It cannot fail a cell in this change. The script exits 0 on every verdict, and the step is continue-on-error, so even a crash stays off the job's outcome and the failure failsafe cannot fire on anything it observes. It also runs after the restore, so no cell waits on it to go back into admission. Cloud Logging returns only --limit entries and says nothing when it truncates, so every count is split into sub-windows of ten minutes and a sub-window that comes back at the limit is reported unverified rather than as a count. Windows are always explicitly bounded: --freshness does not bind on these logs. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/session/ced32ebb-7155-4413-adad-1eccd14c2010 * fix(relay): bound the shadow gate's cell reads at the apply start and cap every read Four fixes from review, all in the report-only shadow health gate. The boot search opened at apply-completed-at, which is stamped after `terraform apply` and `wait-until --stable`. The new container announces its listener while the MIG is still converging, so that bound is already past the announcement it looks for and a healthy roll read as would-block. The job now stamps apply-started-at immediately before the apply, and the boot search opens there; apply-completed-at is kept, recorded rather than judged, so an operator comparing verdicts can see apply time next to boot time. The crash query started at the newest listener timestamp, which erased any crash before it. A crash-restart loop ends with an announcement that looks like a clean boot, so that is exactly the case it hid: against production, the 2026-09-20 c28 crash at 20:18:10 was dropped because the listener landed at 20:18:27. It now runs from the apply start, still scoped to the instance id the listener identified, and that crash is counted. A runtime-metrics read that came back at its 500-entry limit fed judgePool as though it were a complete sample run. A truncated run has holes and the consecutive-sample rule reads a hole as a recovery, so it now reports unverified. gcloud reads had no timeout. continue-on-error bounds the job's outcome but not its clock, so a stalled read could have spent the rollout's remaining minutes. Each read now gets 60 s and a timed-out read is just a failed read. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/session/ced32ebb-7155-4413-adad-1eccd14c2010 * test(relay): require each shadow-gate stamp's presence before asserting its order The ordering assertion used indexOf, which answers -1 for an absent stamp, and -1 precedes every real offset. Deleting the apply-started-at line left the test green, so the census could not see the fix it was written to pin. Each stamp's presence is now asserted first, with a message naming the stamp and the step, and presence is judged inside the step that owns the stamp rather than anywhere in the file: a stamp written into a neighbouring step records the wrong instant but would satisfy a whole-file match. Control-run against a scratch copy of the job. Deleting drain-started-at, apply-started-at, or apply-completed-at each reds with its own message, and moving apply-started-at after terraform apply reds on the ordering assertion, so presence and order both fail independently. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/session/ced32ebb-7155-4413-adad-1eccd14c2010
Orca Relay
The relay that connects the Orca mobile app to a desktop host. Phones and desktops never talk to each other directly: each opens an outbound WebSocket to a relay cell, the relay pairs the two sessions, and it splices frames between them. A director assigns hosts to cells and coordinates migrations; cells carry the user connections.
This directory is an independent pnpm workspace inside the Orca monorepo. Run
its commands from cloud/, not the repository root. The source is covered by
the repository's root MIT license.
Packages
packages/relay-contract: the wire contract shared by the relay, the desktop app, and the mobile app (frame shapes, close codes, admission budgets, splice state machine).apps/relay: the relay server. The same image runs as a director or a cell depending onORCA_RELAY_ROLE.apps/relay-fence-broker: a private, IAM-only service that owns the durable mutation lease, the Terraform checkout, and the narrow Compute mutation used when a registered target is superseded. The workflow that calls it holds read and invoke rights only, never those mutation permissions.apps/relay-ops: the relay operations console and the incident monitor behindpnpm ops:relay,pnpm incident:relay, andpnpm incident:relay-preflight.apps/pushandpackages/push-contract: the mobile push gateway that holds the APNs key and sends to phones through APNs and FCM, and its wire contract. It is deployed and operated from here but is not part of the relay data path; see docs/push-gateway.md.
Mobile push gateway
apps/push is a separate Cloud Run service from the relay. Phones never hold an
Orca credential for it: the desktop host authenticates with the same X25519
key it uses for the relay, answering an encrypted challenge to mint a 24 hour
session, then registers each paired phone's native push token and asks the
gateway to push. The gateway queues each event as its own notification,
enforces per-host quotas and request limits, and retires a
registration as soon as Apple or Google reports the token unregistered.
Provider push is the only ordinary mobile OS-banner path. The notification
socket is retained only for live dismissal and reconnect tray reconciliation;
it never creates or recovers banners. Desktop notification categories remain
authoritative.
Each delivery is persisted as one notification event. Before deploying an
incompatible queue format, stop all older push gateway revisions and clear only
unpublished push delivery fixtures; no queue preservation or migration is required.
FCM notification messages are inherently collapsible while offline and have a
small concurrent collapse-key budget, so every pending alert is not guaranteed.
Storage follows the relay pattern: PostgreSQL in production, SQLite for tests
and local development. Configure it with ORCA_PUSH_PUBLIC_URL, ORCA_PUSH_FCM_PROJECT_ID,
ORCA_PUSH_DATABASE_URL, the three APNs variables (ORCA_PUSH_APNS_KEY,
ORCA_PUSH_APNS_KEY_ID, ORCA_PUSH_APPLE_TEAM_ID, all three or none), and
optionally ORCA_PUSH_APNS_TOPIC. The FCM credential comes from
the runtime service account, so no key material is configured for Android. See
push gateway operations for deployment and recovery.
Logging is aggregate counters only. Tokens, notification titles, notification bodies, and full host fingerprints never reach a log line.
Infrastructure and operations
infra/terraform: the relay Terraform root. It owns the cells, the director, the shared Cloud SQL instance, DNS, observability, and every GitHub Workload Identity provider the relay workflows authenticate through.backend/holds the per-environment backend configuration andenvironments/the tfvars. Drive it throughpnpm infra:init,pnpm infra:plan, andpnpm infra:apply.dev/scripts: the deploy, capacity, admission, rehome, monitoring, and load scripts the workflows call, plus the contract tests that pin each workflow and Terraform surface. Run them withpnpm test.dev/contractsanddev/fixtures: the checked-in data those contract tests read, including the Terraform root partition.docs/: the relay runbooks, capacity-testing guide, incident-monitor reference, the workflow variable reference indocs/relay-workflows.md, and the push gateway runbook indocs/push-gateway.md.
Workflows
The 25 .github/workflows/cloud-*.yml workflows are the deploy and operate
surface: publish and deploy the director, roll GCE cell capacity, operate Asia
admission and regional rehoming, prove staging capacity, monitor production,
power staging up and down, and deploy the mobile push gateway.
.github/actions/cloud-sql-rollout-lease is the compare-and-swap lease that
serializes rollouts against the shared Cloud SQL instance. Push reuses that
action with its own lease object and deployment concurrency group.
Every one of them is inert. Each top-level job is gated on
vars.ORCA_CLOUD_OPERATIONS_ENABLED == 'true', a repository variable that is
unset here, so the two scheduled triggers and every manual dispatch skip
without running a step. Only the repository owner, holding the GCP identities
these workflows authenticate as, can turn them on.
Cloud Verify is not gated. It builds, typechecks, lints, tests, secret-scans,
and validates the relay Terraform on every change under cloud/, and it runs
on fork pull requests, so it configures no backend and holds no credential.
What is not here
The terraform-foundation and terraform-apps roots and the API and auth
services live in the private stablyai/orca-cloud repository. Scripts and
tests that spanned both trees were narrowed to the relay side rather than
carrying a dangling reference.
Local development
cd cloud
pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm test
pnpm test runs the SQLite-backed suites. Tests that need PostgreSQL run only
when ORCA_RELAY_TEST_POSTGRES_URL points at a disposable PostgreSQL 16 or 17
database, for example:
docker run --rm -d --name orca-relay-pg -e POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust \
-e POSTGRES_DB=orca_relay_test -p 55440:5432 postgres:16-alpine
ORCA_RELAY_TEST_POSTGRES_URL=postgres://postgres@127.0.0.1:55440/orca_relay_test \
pnpm --filter @orca-cloud/relay test
docker rm -f orca-relay-pg
Configuration is read from environment variables validated in
apps/relay/src/config.ts. ORCA_RELAY_ASSIGNMENT_SIGNING_KEY (at least 32
bytes) is the only required value; everything else has a local default.