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Mobile push: contract and build spec
Tracking issue: stablyai/orca#8129. Design page: /tmp/orca-mobile-push/orca-mobile-push.html.
This document is the single contract every lane builds against. Do not deviate without updating it.
Summary
A small Orca-hosted push gateway (cloud/apps/push) holds the APNs key and FCM credentials and sends
to phones. The desktop host registers each paired phone's native push token with the gateway and asks
the gateway to push on every mobile notification it already fans out over the socket. The phone dedupes
by host, counter epoch, and notificationId#notificationSeq. Foreground pushes and socket events
share the same per-host delivery queue so a pending native schedule cannot produce a second banner. No ack gate, no generic mode, no staging gateway, one auth path for
signed-in and accountless hosts.
Identities
- Host public key: the desktop's existing X25519 E2EE public key (
src/main/runtime/e2ee-keypair.ts), 32 bytes, base64. The phone already stores it per host aspublicKeyB64. - hostFingerprint:
sha256(hostPublicKey)base64url, first 16 chars. Identical derivation toderiveRelayHostIdinsrc/main/runtime/relay/relay-http-client.ts. Both desktop and phone can compute it. - deviceId: the desktop's
DeviceEntry.deviceIdfor the paired phone. Opaque UUID. - registrationId: gateway-assigned opaque id for one (hostFingerprint, deviceId) pair.
Gateway HTTP API
Base URL: https://push.onorca.dev (dev override via env). JSON bodies, Content-Type: application/json.
All schemas are zod, .strict(), exported from cloud/packages/push-contract.
Host authentication: challenge, proof, session
The host keypair is X25519 (box), so it cannot sign. Reuse the relay's challenge shape.
POST /v1/host/challenge
{ "v": 1, "hostPublicKeyB64": "<32 bytes b64>" }
→ 200
{ "challengeId": "<opaque>", "gatewayEphemeralPublicKeyB64": "<32 b64>", "nonceB64": "<24 b64>",
"ciphertextB64": "<b64>", "expiresAt": <epoch ms> }
- Gateway generates an ephemeral box keypair per challenge, a 24-byte nonce, and a 32-byte secret.
plaintext = "orca-push-host-challenge/v1\0" || u32be(len(transcript)) || transcript || secret(32)ciphertext = nacl.box(plaintext, nonce, hostPublicKey, gatewayEphemeralSecretKey)- Transcript is the relay's length-prefixed field encoding (
field(name, value)= u32be(len(name)) || name || u32be(len(value)) || value), fields in this exact order:protocol="orca-push-host-proof/v1",version=0x01,gatewayOrigin,gatewayEphemeralPublicKey,challengeNonce,challengeId,issuedAt(u64be ms),expiresAt(u64be ms),hostFingerprint,hostPublicKey. - Challenge TTL 10 s, and 10 s is the whole window the gateway honours. The 30 s clock skew tolerance is the host's alone: it validates a timestamp the gateway chose, so it needs the allowance and the gateway does not. A gateway that subtracted the tolerance from its own check would run a 40 s TTL. Store challenge (id, secret hash, host fingerprint, host public key, expiry) in DB so any Cloud Run instance can verify. Expired rows are pruned 30 s late so a slow proof reads as expired rather than as an unknown challenge.
- Issuing a challenge writes no
push_hostsrow. It is unauthenticated, so apush_hostsrow would be a free permanent write for any caller. The row is upserted inPOST /v1/host/sessiononce the proof verifies, from the public key the challenge row carries.
POST /v1/host/session
{ "v": 1, "challengeId": "<opaque>", "proofB64": "<32 b64>" }
- Host opens the box with its secret key, validates every transcript field (same checks as
validateTranscriptinsrc/main/runtime/relay/relay-host-proof.ts, adapted to the push fields), and returnsproof = HMAC-SHA256(secret, "orca-push-host-proof/v1\0ack\0" || transcript). - Gateway verifies with
timingSafeEqual, consumes the challenge (single use), and returns
{ "sessionToken": "<opaque 32 b64url>", "expiresAt": <epoch ms>, "hostFingerprint": "<16 chars>" }
- Session TTL 24 h. Stored hashed (sha256) in DB. Bearer on every other call:
Authorization: Bearer <sessionToken>. 401 with{ "error": "session_expired" }on expiry; host re-runs the challenge.
Device registration
POST /v1/devices (Bearer)
{ "v": 1, "deviceId": "<uuid>", "platform": "ios" | "android", "token": "<native token>",
"apnsEnvironment": "sandbox" | "production", // ios only, required for ios
"filter": { "sources": ["agent-task-complete", "terminal-bell", "plugin"],
"agentStates": ["needs-input", "finished"] } }
→ 200 { "registrationId": "<opaque>" }. Upsert keyed by (hostFingerprint, deviceId); a new token
replaces the old. deviceId is caller-chosen, so a host is capped at 64 registrations: the 65th
distinct deviceId → 409 { "error": "too_many_devices" }. Re-registering a deviceId the host
already owns is always accepted, and deleting a registration frees its slot. GET /v1/devices is
bounded at 1024 rows to match its response schema, which the per-host cap keeps well out of reach.
filter is stored but enforced by the host (see desktop); gateway stores it only so a
host restart can re-read it. iOS tokens are variable-length, hex-encoded byte strings; Android
tokens are FCM registration strings.
DELETE /v1/devices/:registrationId (Bearer) → 204. Only the owning host may delete.
GET /v1/devices (Bearer) → { "devices": [{ registrationId, deviceId, platform, dead: boolean }] }.
Send
POST /v1/send (Bearer)
{ "v": 1,
"registrationIds": ["<id>", "..."],
"notification": {
"notificationId": "<max 2048 chars, may be absent for terminal-bell>",
"notificationSeq": <int>, "notificationEpoch": "<uuid>",
"source": "agent-task-complete" | "terminal-bell" | "plugin",
"agentState": "needs-input" | "finished" | null,
"title": "<max 80 chars>", "body": "<max 180 chars>",
"worktreeId": "<max 2048 chars|absent>" } }
→ 200
{ "results": [{ "registrationId": "<id>", "status": "queued" | "dead" | "rate_limited" | "error" }] }
queuedmeans the logical event, recipient, and pending delivery payload have committed to SQL. A worker resumes pending work after restarts; provider acceptance is not proof of visible delivery.- Each host gets 300 logical alerts and, independently, 300 dismissals per rolling 15 minutes. Fanout
across phones counts the event once. There is no daily per-phone quota. Over quota returns
rate_limitedper result with HTTP 200; requests above 20 registration IDs return HTTP 400. - Optional notification
kindisalert(default) ordismiss; optionalexpiresAtis an absolute Unix-millisecond deadline capped at five minutes from first acceptance. These fields require the updated gateway; deploy the gateway before the updated desktop sender. - Notification JSON remains limited to 3000 UTF-8 bytes. Duplicate event identity with changed content is rejected. Retries retain the original deadline and do not spend additional quota.
- Event and recipient identities/outcomes remain for 24 hours; payloads are cleared at completion or expiry by minute-level cleanup. Quota reservation and enqueue share a per-host SQL transaction.
Request limits and unauthenticated abuse
- Every POST is capped at 16 KiB by a streaming body limit, not by
Content-Lengthalone: a chunked body declares no length. Over the cap → 413{ "error": "request_too_large" }. POST /v1/host/challengeandPOST /v1/host/sessionare the only unauthenticated routes. They share one token bucket per client IP, 30 requests per minute, refilling continuously. Over the bucket → 429{ "error": "rate_limited" }. The client IP is the lastx-forwarded-forhop, not the first: Cloud Run appends the connecting peer, so everything left of that value is caller-supplied and can be a fresh forgery on every request, which would hand a flood a new bucket each time.ORCA_PUSH_TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS(default 0) says how many appenders sit between the platform and the client, so a future load balancer sets it to 1. A header with fewer hops than that depth is not trusted at all. Falls back tox-real-ipand then to a single shared bucket. The bucket is per instance and in memory, so the effective cap scales with the instance count; it exists to blunt a flood, not to meter.- Authenticated routes use a per-host bucket of 600 requests/minute per instance, so normal usage by one desktop does not consume another desktop's budget behind the same office IP. Invalid bearers spend a separate 30/minute IP budget. Session lookups have bounded concurrent and waiting admission.
- The gateway cannot prove that a host owns the token it registers: any host with a session may register any well-formed token and send text to it, within its own quota. The phone drops such a push in the foreground because the fingerprint resolves to no paired host, and never routes a tap on it, but the OS banner shows while the app is backgrounded. Reaching it needs the victim's native token, which the gateway never returns and which only the phone and its host ever see.
Coalescing (gateway)
Per registration, persist a three-second window and summarize bursts using the latest event's
routing fields and coalescedCount. Windows are shared across replicas. Single-alert collapse IDs
hash host and notification identity; summaries hash the host and their complete membership.
Each summary carries optional summaryMembers (ID, epoch, sequence), encoded as a JSON string
in FCM data. Admission splits bursts into independently leased batches of at most 32 members,
and reserves provider envelope space within the 4 KB payload limit. An event without a notification
identity stays individual. Batches that fill the membership/payload budget become immediately due;
quota accounting still counts logical alerts, not batches or recipients.
Four worker lanes per instance claim delivery batches with expiring, renewed SQL leases. Retry state is persistent, with exponential backoff and provider minimum delays. Retry-After is never shortened to fit event lifetime: expire instead. Device validity is checked before each attempt. Dismissals cancel pending matching alerts, bypass alert coalescing, and use silent provider messages. Mobile OS background execution remains best effort, particularly after force-quit on iOS.
Shutdown stops admission and work acquisition, waits for active work within the platform grace, and leaves unfinished batches recoverable after their leases expire. A provider acceptance followed by a crash before SQL completion can still cause a repeated send; collapse identity mitigates this without promising exactly-once delivery.
Provider payloads
APNs (HTTP/2, api.push.apple.com or api.sandbox.push.apple.com by apnsEnvironment; JWT auth
from key id + team id + .p8, token cached and refreshed every 50 min):
- headers:
apns-topic: com.stably.orca.mobile,apns-push-type: alert,apns-priority: 10,apns-expiration: fixed event deadline (at most five minutes),apns-collapse-id: <sha256(host + notification identity), or host:<fp>> - body:
{"aps":{"alert":{"title","body"},"sound":"default","thread-id":"<hostFingerprint>"}, "orca":{ hostFingerprint, worktreeId, notificationId, notificationSeq, notificationEpoch, source, agentState, coalescedCount }} - Dismissals use
apns-push-type: background, priority5, no collapse header, andaps: {"content-available": 1}withorca.kind: "dismiss". They carry no alert or sound. - Dead token: 410, or 400 with
BadDeviceToken/Unregistered/DeviceTokenNotForTopic.
FCM (V1 projects/onorca-cloud/messages:send, bearer from the runtime service account via the GCE
metadata server or GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS locally):
{"message":{"token","notification":{"title","body"},"android":{"priority":"HIGH","ttl":"<remaining event lifetime, at most 300s>", "collapse_key":"<sha256(collapseId) hex 32>","notification":{"channel_id":"orca-desktop","tag":"<collapseId>"}}, "data":{ all orca fields as strings }}}- Dismissals are data-only (
kind: "dismiss"); omit bothmessage.notificationandandroid.notification. No visible alert or sound is requested. - FCM notification messages are inherently collapsible while offline;
collapse_keydoes not preserve every alert. Androidtagcontrols replacement after delivery. On reconnect, the existing host notification replay recovers retained events; the tray is not an event log. - Dead token:
UNREGISTERED, orINVALID_ARGUMENTwhose message names the token.
Gateway storage (Postgres in prod, SQLite in tests, same pattern as cloud/apps/relay/src/database.ts)
push_hosts(host_fingerprint pk, host_public_key, created_at, last_seen_at), written only on a verified proof and pruned after 1 h of no contact when nopush_devicesrow still names the host. Nothing reads it, and any keypair mints a host for free, so it is not allowed to accumulate.push_sessionsholds one row per host, enforced by a unique index and transaction lock. Minting a session deletes the host's earlier one, since a desktop holds a single session and only re-proves once it is gone.push_challenges(challenge_id pk, host_fingerprint, host_public_key, secret_hash, transcript, expires_at, consumed_at)push_sessions(token_hash pk, host_fingerprint, expires_at, created_at)push_devices(registration_id pk, host_fingerprint, device_id, platform, token, apns_environment, filter_json, dead_at, created_at, updated_at, unique(host_fingerprint, device_id))push_eventsholds logical event identity, content fingerprint, quota timestamp, and expiry.push_event_recipientsrecords accepted event/phone pairs for idempotent fanout.push_delivery_batchesholds coalesced payloads, retry deadlines, and renewable worker leases.push_dismissed_eventsfences older alerts from replaying after dismissal.- Queue identities and dismissal fences are retained for 24 hours; completed payloads are cleared.
Logging: aggregate counters only. Never log tokens, titles, bodies, or raw fingerprints (log the first 4 chars of a fingerprint at most).
Gateway env
PORT, ORCA_PUSH_PUBLIC_URL, ORCA_PUSH_DATABASE_URL (absent → SQLite under ORCA_PUSH_DATA_DIR),
ORCA_PUSH_APNS_KEY (PEM text), ORCA_PUSH_APNS_KEY_ID, ORCA_PUSH_APPLE_TEAM_ID,
ORCA_PUSH_APNS_TOPIC (default com.stably.orca.mobile), ORCA_PUSH_FCM_PROJECT_ID (default
onorca-cloud), ORCA_PUSH_COALESCE_MS (default 3000), ORCA_PUSH_TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS (default 0,
proxies appending to x-forwarded-for after the client).
Secret Manager names (already exist in onorca-cloud): orca-cloud-push-apns-key,
orca-cloud-push-apns-key-id, orca-cloud-push-apple-team-id. Runtime SA:
orca-cloud-push@onorca-cloud.iam.gserviceaccount.com (already has FCM admin + secret accessor).
Desktop (src/main, src/shared)
- Capability
NOTIFICATIONS_REMOTE_PUSH_RUNTIME_CAPABILITY = 'notifications.remote-push.v1'insrc/shared/protocol-version.ts, advertised statically. - RPC
notifications.registerPushparams{ platform, token, apnsEnvironment?, filter }(same shapes as the gatewayPOST /v1/devicesminus deviceId, which comes fromctx.pairedDeviceId). Returns{ registered: true, registrationId } | { registered: false, reason: 'gateway_unreachable' | 'gateway_rejected' | 'not_mobile' | 'registration_storage_failed' | 'throttled' }. A device may register at most 10 times per minute (throttledbeyond that, its earlier registration untouched): each call is a gateway write plus a synchronous registry write on the main thread, and a paired phone could otherwise loop it. The unregister RPC is not throttled, since with nothing registered it is a lookup and with something registered it can only run once per successful register. The params schema is strict, so a caller-supplieddeviceIdis an error, not a key silently dropped. PersistspushRegistration: { registrationId, platform, filter, registeredAt }onDeviceEntryindevice-registry.ts(new optional field, tolerated by old registries). When the gateway accepted the token but the host could not store it — the device left mobile scope mid-call (not_mobile) or the registry write threw (registration_storage_failed) — the host queues the gateway delete in the unregister outbox rather than leaking a registration nothing will ever push to. Registration, unregister, and outbox deletes are serialized per device; re-registration first settles earlier cleanup. Authentication failure never drops a durable delete. Stale send responses only clear the exact local registration observed, while provider dead-token updates match the token/platform/environment that was sent. Phones must treat anyregistered: falseas "retry later", so an unknown reason string is safe to add. - RPC
notifications.unregisterPushparams null →{ unregistered: boolean }. Removes the field and enqueues a gateway delete in a durable outbox (src/main/runtime/push/push-unregister-outbox.ts, modelled onrelay-revoke-outbox.ts). Unpair/revoke (revokeMobileDevice) enqueues the same. The drain re-reads the queue as it goes, so a delete queued mid-drain lands in the same pass, and a pass that leaves retryable items schedules an unref'd backoff retry (30 s, doubling, capped at 10 min) instead of waiting for the next launch. - Both RPCs added to
runtime-rpc-mobile-method-allowlist.ts. - Push client
src/main/runtime/push/push-gateway-client.ts: challenge/proof/session with token cache, register, delete, send. Nodefetch. Gateway URL fromprofile-cloud-auth-config.ts(pushGatewayUrl, defaulthttps://push.onorca.dev, env overrideORCA_PUSH_GATEWAY_URL). - Host proof answering: new
src/main/runtime/push/push-host-proof.ts, a copy of the relay'sanswerRelayHostChallengewith the push transcript fields. Shared code with the relay proof is welcome if it stays a pure refactor. - Dispatch hook: in
RuntimeMobileNotificationController.dispatch, after the socket fan-out, callpushDispatcher.enqueue(eventWithSeq). The dispatcher applies each device'sfilter, skipsdismissevents, mapsagentStatetoneeds-input | finished(blocked/waiting → needs-input, else finished), batches matching registrationIds intoPOST /v1/sendrequests of at most 20 registrations each (the gateway's per-request cap; extra devices get their own request rather than being dropped), and drops unchanged registrations the gateway reportsdead. Failure categories are counted without payload values and logged at most once per minute (with a final flush on shutdown). Fire-and-forget with one retry after 2 s per request; never throws into dispatch. - Add
agentStatetoMobileNotificationDispatchEventand set it insrc/main/ipc/notifications.tsfromargs.agentState. FixbuildAgentTaskCompleteNotificationOptionssoworking|running|busynever yields "finished" (title says "working" and the dispatcher treats it as not-final, i.e. no push). - Headless serve: no renderer means no
notifications:dispatch. Document indocs/reference/headless-linux-server.md; do not fix here.
Mobile (mobile/)
- Commit
google-services.json(from/tmp/orca-mobile-push/google-services.json) atmobile/and set"android": { "googleServicesFile": "./google-services.json" }inapp.json. Add"expo-notifications"topluginsso prebuild writes theaps-environmententitlement. - Token:
Notifications.getDevicePushTokenAsync();datais the APNs hex or FCM string. iOSapnsEnvironment:__DEV__ ? 'sandbox' : 'production'(dev-client builds are debug, TestFlight and App Store are release). Listen withaddPushTokenListenerand re-register on change. - Settings (
mobile/app/notifications.tsx): one default-off Enable notifications switch controls connected and background delivery. Hint: “Get agent alerts even when the app is closed. Delivered through Orca’s push service and Apple or Google.” Source controls remain visible, indented and disabled while Use desktop settings is on. Phone sound and focus controls remain independent. Only when away from desktop defaults on (180 seconds of OS input idle, or locked). Unknown/headless presence does not suppress; it is never inferred from remote CPU activity. The detailed payload disclosure remains in the notification documentation. notifications.delivery-policy.v1advertises the away and mobile-inactivity lease policy. Filter flags are optional and ignored by older hosts; the UI identifies paired hosts requiring an update. New hosts preserve old phones’ existing policy when these flags are absent.- Registrations with
expireAfterInactivityreceive a persisted seven-dayexpiresAton the paired desktop. Delivery and transport retries exclude expired registrations. Only foreground mobile registration renews it: on connection, foreground return, and every 15 minutes while active. Background sockets, desktop use and notification delivery never renew a phone lease. Opening mobile and reconnecting restores delivery without replaying expired push sends. - Registration: on switch-on (after OS permission), and on every host reaching
connectedwhile the switch is on, callnotifications.registerPushon that host if it advertises the capability. On switch-off callnotifications.unregisterPushon every connected host and remember to retry on hosts that were offline. On host removal, best-effort unregister before deleting credentials. - Receive:
addNotificationReceivedListener(foreground) checksdata.orca.notificationId+notificationSeqagainst the host session seen set innotification-reconnect-catchup.ts; if seen, suppress viasetNotificationHandlerreturning no banner; otherwise show and mark seen. Background and killed: OS shows it. - Tap:
data.orca.hostFingerprint→ hostId by computing the same sha256/base64url/16 derivation over each stored host'spublicKeyB64; then existinggetNotificationNavigationTarget+useOpenNotificationRoute. - Reopen: existing replay catch-up runs unchanged. Dismiss events also
dismissNotificationAsyncany presented notification whosedata.orca.notificationIdmatches. - Old host without the capability: nothing changes.
Infra (cloud/infra/terraform, .github/workflows)
- Cloud Run service
orca-cloud-push, regionus-central1, project from the environment tfvars, runtime SAorca-cloud-push@<project>.iam.gserviceaccount.com(exists in prod; declare and import), the three secrets mounted as env (exist; declare and import), Cloud SQL connector to the dedicated HA PostgreSQL instance with its own databaseorca_push, min instances 1, max 2 in production, concurrency 80, ingress all, unauthenticated invoke. - IAM:
roles/firebasecloudmessaging.adminandroles/serviceusage.serviceUsageConsumeron the runtime SA (exist in prod; declare and import). Secret accessor per secret. - Hostname
push.onorca.dev. The DNS zone lives in the apps root instablyai/orca-cloud; add the Cloud Run domain mapping here and leave a TODO comment naming the record the other repo must add. - Workflow
.github/workflows/cloud-push-deploy.yml: gated onvars.ORCA_CLOUD_OPERATIONS_ENABLED, Workload Identity likecloud-relay-*, builds a reviewed fullsource_sha, deploys with--no-traffic, probes the new revision's/readyand a validate-only FCM send, then shifts 100% traffic. Uses.github/actions/cloud-sql-rollout-leasearound the schema step. - Add the new root files to
cloud/dev/contractsandcloud/dev/fixturespartitions soterraform-root-partition.test.mjsandCloud Verifypass.
Non-goals for this release
Ack gate, generic-alert mode, staging gateway, iOS Notification Service Extension, Android data-only alert messages, Live Activities, account-based quota tiers.
Device delivery preferences
The desktop advertises notifications.delivery-preferences.v1. Completion detection remains
active when desktop notifications are off; semantic validity checks still precede delivery.
IPC publishes desktopAllowed: false for terminal events disabled by the desktop master or
source switch. Desktop focus and native authorization remain desktop-only delivery gates.
notifications.subscribe and notifications.getMissedSince accept optional
includeDesktopSuppressed: true. Only opted-in callers receive those events, including replay;
legacy callers keep the old filtered stream. A new phone against an older host can narrow the
available events but cannot recover events that host never published.
The phone defaults to following each host. filter.followDesktop is optional: absent retains
legacy desktop gating; explicit false permits independent event choices. The desktop persists
it with the paired registration and evaluates it for every send, so desktop preference changes
work while the phone is disconnected. This flag is host-local and is not sent to the gateway.
The phone uses the same shared event predicate for socket/replay delivery as the push dispatcher.
Optional emittedAt carries the event time for per-device five-second burst suppression after
source filtering. Desktop eligibility, source, and agent state use separate upstream cooldown
buckets so filtered events cannot suppress the next eligible event. Legacy RPC callers retain
workspace-wide burst suppression on the host.
filter.sound is also host-local. False groups that device's requests separately and adds
optional notification.sound: false to gateway sends. The gateway omits APNs aps.sound and
uses Android's orca-desktop-silent channel. Missing sound preserves existing audible delivery.
Deploy the updated gateway before distributing hosts that send the optional sound field: older
gateways strictly reject unknown notification fields. No token or database migration is needed.
The phone's master switch disables background registration as well as local scheduling. Sound and viewing preferences belong to the receiving phone. The phone suppresses a banner for its currently viewed host/workspace only while active; it never assumes desktop focus means the phone is viewing that workspace. Changes to an offline host's persisted filter take effect on reconnection. No live APNs/FCM delivery is implied by simulator notification injection.
For a phone registered for background push, socket notification delivery waits while the app is inactive. On foreground, it checks the native push tray before scheduling a local fallback, so a still-connected background socket cannot duplicate APNs/FCM delivery. Unsubscribing cancels the wait without claiming delivery. Hosts without push registration keep local delivery.
Native notification readers accept Expo's iOS request.trigger.payload as well as
request.content.data. APNs custom fields can exist only in the former; foreground deduplication,
tray replay suppression, dismissal, and tap routing all use the same reader.
Dismissal recovery and desktop presence
Automatic acknowledgement of a visible agent pane requires confirmed desktop presence from the same three-minute native idle check used for push delivery. A focused window alone is insufficient. Trusted input in the renderer confirms the user has returned. Unknown presence preserves unread attention; explicit mark-read actions remain available, including in browser clients.
The runtime persists notification identities and dismissal sequence fences in its own user-data
directory before fanout. History is bounded to 4,096 records retained for seven days. It stores no
notification text or push tokens. On reconnect, mobile optionally includes up to 256 deliveredPushes
identities in notifications.getMissedSince; updated hosts return optional dismissedPushes for
confirmed handled identities. This recovers dismissals after event replay eviction or host restart
within retained history. Unknown IDs, newer sequences and different epochs are preserved. Older
hosts ignore the optional request field, and older clients ignore the additional response field.
No new RPC method or stream opcode is required.
On iOS, a local Expo module handles silent dismissals directly through the native notification center, independent of JavaScript initialization. Native and JavaScript dismissal paths use the same host/epoch/sequence fences; native watermarks retain up to 512 entries for 24 hours. Older native shells and Android retain the JavaScript implementation. A native callback test proves processing only when invoked: iOS background push delivery remains best-effort, including while suspended or force-quit. Summaries with complete membership are removed only when every member is covered by a matching host/epoch/sequence dismissal fence. Partial, malformed and legacy summaries without membership remain preserved. Reconciliation inspects up to 2,048 represented identities, sending pages of 256 without repeating historical replay. A first connection without a saved watermark reconciles the tray without replaying old alerts.