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* refactor(native-chat): remove the unused terminal handoff No client ever called agentSession.requestHandoff or mounted the handoff chrome. Delete the handoff coordinator, the terminal-owner runtime, the proof write path and the unmounted UI. Keep agentSession.handoffStatus, which released desktop clients read for worktree activation, and let records an older build left mid handoff reconcile through the ordinary restart and recovery paths. * fix(native-chat): never let the pre-stop snapshot hold a chat's stop Eviction now drains delivered events before quit's resume-offer snapshot. An unbounded wait there sits ahead of the provider stop, so a sink whose journal write stalls kept the child running until the step deadline aborted the eviction. The offer is advisory: bound the drain and stop the child regardless. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(native-chat): drop helpers only the terminal handoff called `claudeAuthEnvCarriedForward`, `isPathWithinDirectory` and `queryWindowsProcessRowsFresh` lost their last caller with the handoff. The fresh-scan tests now go through `queryWindowsProcessDescendants({ fresh: true })`, the teardown path that still depends on that contract. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(native-chat): stop citing the removed handoff in lifecycle comments Six comments still named the handoff coordinator, a handoff suspend, or a terminal-owned session as live participants in the flows they describe. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(native-chat): type the stalled snapshot drain without a cast Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(native-chat): pin that a start dead before proving owes no settlement The removed restart handoff test pinned this branch; nothing else did. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(native-chat): keep the owner-status read behind an in-flight attach The handoff removal dropped the per-session queue from `handoffStatus`, so a read landing mid-start reported the reservation (no owner) instead of the settled chat owner, and shipped desktop clients blocked worktree activation on it. The read is queued again, as it was before the removal. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(terminal): remove the agent-session PTY write gate The gate only refused a write when a PTY had been bound to a chat session, and the only code that ever bound one was the terminal handoff this branch removes. With it gone, every admit/readmit returned "admitted" unconditionally, so the checks on the renderer write path, the runtime controller backstop, terminal.send, agent prompts, preview input and orchestration pointers, the refusal fields on terminal.send and worker-start receipts, the plugin and CLI refusal copy, and the adopted-pane orchestration routing could no longer run. Ordinary writes take the same path in the same order as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(native-chat): drop the transcript helpers only the handoff called appendLegacyTranscriptMessages fed the terminal transcript catch-up and proveClaudeTranscriptBranch backed the terminal owner's exit proof. Both lost their last caller with the handoff. Their tests now go through the live entry points instead: the roster bounds through the legacy import, the pinned-read and growth tests through the ancestry replay the history window uses, and the marker rules through the string proof in their own file rather than the session-file resolver's. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(native-chat): stop calling a starting chat "mid-handoff" A send refused because the chat's owner is not settled showed "The session is mid-handoff (<stage>)." in the composer. With the handoff gone, the stages that reach it are a chat that is still starting, or one whose previous agent process has not yet been confirmed stopped. The message now says which of the two it is. The refusal code is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(native-chat): type the stand-in roster decoder without a cast Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(codex): name the pinned rollout lookup for what it does With the terminal handoff gone, the module named codex-tui-rollout-proof holds only the pinned rollout lookup that structured Codex launches use to resume a thread, so the name described code that no longer exists. Rename the module and its options type. Also drop a mobile allowlist assertion that pinned the removed agentSession.requestHandoff method, which no longer exists to allow. * refactor(native-chat): type the owner-status reply as the host sends it The handoffStatus reply type still listed the terminal handoff's fields and states (terminal placement, host label, proof retry, queued and waiting phases, the to-terminal direction). No host writes them any more and the only client reader parses the reply as unknown, so they described nothing. The reply on the wire is unchanged. * refactor(native-chat): normalize terminal-handoff lease values once at decode Nothing in this build writes a terminal owner (`runtimeKind: 'tui'`) or the handoff's `preparing` / `old-owner-stopped` stages, but the in-memory types still admitted them, so readers across the host kept branches for values no path produces and the compiler could not point at them. The store now validates the on-disk shape, which still accepts those values so an older record is not quarantined, and maps them once while parsing: - `preparing` and `old-owner-stopped` become `recovering` - a `tui` lease becomes `native`; when it records a process it also becomes `conflicted`, the claim every build probes but never stops. A plain native owner would be stopped by restart recovery, here and in older builds. Revisions are taken over the normalized state on both sides of every compare, and the mapped record reaches disk with the store's first transaction, the same way the tab-id backfill does. The in-memory types narrow to what this build writes, and the branches that existed only for the removed values go. Structured-worker identity keeps its verdict for a former terminal owner by refusing a conflicted claim rather than a non-native kind. * refactor(native-chat): stop threading the owner kind through a reservation A reservation only ever names a native owner now, so the request no longer carries a kind and the reserved lease records `native` directly. The attach params keep `runtimeKind`: agentSession.ensure and create accept it, and the operation fingerprint stored in the ledger covers it. * test(native-chat): pin the legacy-lease rewrite with a transaction that changes nothing else Hiding a tab also committed the visibility index, so the no-op transaction wrote the file even when its open-time revision was wrong. Committing the index first leaves the pending rewrite as the only reason to write. * fix(native-chat): name a chat write by its target, not the owner generation A write carried the fence of the last frame the pane read, and the host refused it unless that fence was still current. An idle release and the restart after it each move the fence, and the release publishes nothing, so a send after a release was refused "Expected runtime fence 1; the session is at 3", and a Stop queued behind a cold start was refused as stale. Every write already names what it acts on: a send its conversation, a cancel its turn, a prompt answer its item revision, a rewind its epoch; an option is last-writer-wins. So admission stops comparing the client's fence, and the rebase that papered over one restart (admitAtResumedFence, resumedFromFence) goes with it. The writer-lease check stays, and so does the attach's compare-and-swap. Frames now stamp the fence read when each frame is sent instead of a copy each subscriber kept, which went stale on the same release. * fix(native-chat): every journal append reaches the chats that are open A journal write and its delivery to open readers were two calls, and some writers made only the first. A failed start whose lease could not be handed back, a provider revision with no frame behind it, and eviction's settlement were all journaled without reaching an open chat. A journal handle now reports every durable change, and the host's session map binds that report to the session's readers when the handle is set. Writers no longer publish what they append; the per-writer publish calls are deleted. * test(native-chat): an epoch replacement reaches the open chat * test(native-chat): each row reaches an open chat once, and a live handle enters only through the map * test(native-chat): give the legacy-lease store test a tab id so the backfill cannot supply its rewrite The seeded record had no surface tab id, so the next open backfilled one and that rewrite alone made the no-op transaction write. The test passed with the legacy-lease rewrite signal removed. * test(worktree-activation): restore the OMP surfaced-agent resume test The handoff removal deleted it alongside the terminal-owner tests, but it covers the surfaced-PTY block that still guards resume, including an agent whose ownership is unknown. * perf(native-chat): a publish behind a delivered commit reads nothing Each commit now delivers itself, so the publish a provider frame still sends afterwards found every reader caught up but still read rows and rebuilt the timeline for each one. A caught-up reader now skips the read. * test(native-chat): state why the teardown test's fake journal is safe to cast * docs(native-chat): say mutation admission checks only the writer lease * docs(native-chat): drop the send rebase from comments that still described it * fix(native-chat): a message is accepted, then delivered A send to a chat with no running agent restarted the agent inside the send call, before the message was recorded, so the client waited for the whole start and a failed restart refused the message. Claude held prompts sent during startup, and those could settle as "unconfirmed". A send is now accepted inside the session's serialized queue: one ledger row and one submission row marked handoverRecorded, published, answered pending. A per-session delivery loop exists while a message is queued. It starts the agent through the same serialized attach a hold uses, waits outside the queue for a Claude child to prove its start, and hands the oldest queued message over as its own serialized step, writing dispatch{pending} before the adapter call. A start it needed and did not get writes one error-tone row and rejects every queued message with the same words; a start Stop cancelled writes none. Settlement follows from the rows. A queued message is provably unwritten, so a close, an eviction or an exit rejects it. A handed-over message stays in doubt. A queued row at or below the sequence a handle found when it opened was left by an earlier process and is rejected at open, with no latch. Stop withdraws queued messages with no writer lease and no fence. An attach failure keeps the conversation open, and the attach adopts its journal. Owed work counts the loop and queued rows. A compaction or rewind found prepared when a conversation opens was started under a child this process no longer has, so the open settles it rather than leaving it to refuse every send until a view attaches. The open cursor is scoped to its epoch, because sequences restart when an epoch is replaced. Deleted: restart-before-admission, recordFailedRestart, the fence rebase, Claude's startup gate, the attach's forget on failure and its own crash boundary. Clients without agent-session.accepted-send.v1 get their reply held until the handover; the desktop and paired desktop lists advertise it. * fix(native-chat): settle queued messages only for the child that ended A child that proved its start and then exited before its message was handed over left the message queued: the exit settlement returned early when nothing else was in flight. Delivery then started another child for it, and a child that died the same way started another, without end and without a row. A retried settlement for an earlier generation, run by the attach that delivery started, did the opposite: with that generation's turn unfinished it rejected the message queued for the child being attached. The settlement now takes the rejection for queued messages from its caller. The unexpected exit and the eviction pass one, and it applies even with no other work in flight; the retry for an earlier generation passes none. * fix(native-chat): an adoption that fails to import keeps the conversation open The attach now writes into the conversation's own open journal, but a failed transcript import still closed it as if it were the attach's provisional one. The conversation stayed indexed with a closed journal, so every later send answered "could not be recorded" and every attach failed again until the app restarted. The import now closes only a journal the attach opened for itself. * perf(native-chat): the recovering open reads the journal once Every conversation open now goes through the recovering open, including the read restore of every chat at startup, which used to replay its journal once. The recovering open replayed it twice: once to probe it and again inside the open. The probe is now handed to the open as its load. * fix(native-chat): an attach that fails after indexing its child leaves no child behind A failed attach now keeps the conversation open, but a failure after `onAttached` indexed the child (the rewind or compaction recovery, or the attach's own success record) left that entry claiming a child the failure path had already released. The next send found the phantom, skipped the start, and wrote at a fence the journal had moved past, so the message stayed queued for good. The entry now drops the released child and its event sink, and follows the record's fence, as a failure before indexing already did. * fix(native-chat): a withdrawn message shows no error, and a rejection outlasts the send's answer The error strip for a message the host accepted and then did not deliver matched the entry before the outbox reconciled, so a Stop's withdrawal, which the reconcile drops, showed "Orca could not send your message" with nothing to retry. It now reads the reconciled entry. A rejection the journal records before the send's own pending answer lands is final as well: that answer no longer puts the entry back to dispatching with no Retry. * fix(orchestration): a structured worker whose agent outlasts the preamble wait is left unknown, not torn down The preamble waits for its submission to be delivered while the worker's agent starts. When that wait ran out it threw operation_unknown, and the failed-start teardown then closed the session, which rejected the very preamble the host was about to deliver. It now reports a turn start nobody observed yet: the worker is start-unknown with its session kept, the host delivers the preamble when the agent starts, and the worker's report settles the dispatch as for any unobserved start. The receipt no longer suggests reading a screen a structured worker lacks. * fix(native-chat): a message rejected while its chat was closed reads as not sent A remount reads an entry it left dispatching as unconfirmed. When the journal had rejected it meanwhile, as a failed start or a quit now does, the reconcile left it unconfirmed: it blocked every later message behind a Retry and no reason, and the delivery probe, seeing the journal already answered, never ran. The reconcile now settles it as rejected like a dispatching one. * test(orchestration): name why the readiness settlement fakes are cast * fix(native-chat): keep each pane's own fence on frames so a failed restart is not resent * docs(native-chat): drop the fence from the admission the send effects run behind * docs(native-chat): give the fence move on release the reason that still holds * docs(native-chat): stop citing a write fence check in launch and mailbox comments Three places still gave the removed fence check as a reason: the launch replay said admission puts the ledger ahead of the fence, the launch surface said a send must name the lease it was admitted against, and the direct-mailbox path said the lease fence decides whether delivery is safe. Admission now checks only the writer lease. * refactor(native-chat): the provider child is its own record A conversation now outlives any number of provider children, so the child is one record on the conversation's entry instead of five loose fields beside its journal. It is written in one place: indexed only once an attach has fully succeeded, and ended through one function that an exit, a failed re-attach, a Stop and an eviction all share, matched on the child's generation and fence. - A failed attach writes no child, so there is nothing to unwind: the field unwind and the fence patch after it are gone. - Conversation writes read the record's fence, the way mutation admission already does; a child's own writes use its fence. The four stored-fence patches, and the settlement retry's overwrite of the conversation's fence, are gone. - The owed wind-down is its own tombstone, carrying the child it is owed for, and is no longer dropped when an attach replaced the whole entry. - Stop on a child still proving its start stops only the child: its lease goes back and the chat is told it is idle, but the journal, the holders and the readers stay. Close is that stop plus the conversation's close. - The settlement retry uses the conversation's own journal, opened through the host's one open. * fix(native-chat): the delivery loop alone settles a message its start or child failed A queued message was settled by whichever path happened to end the child first: the loop, the unexpected exit, eviction's work settlement, the open's leftover rule, and the startup branch that rejected every pending row. That gave two failure rows with different tones for one start, a loop that could hand over to a different child than the one it waited on, and a Claude start that died while starting reading unlike every other failed start. - The loop remembers the child it waited on. At handover, if that child is gone or replaced, it reads how it ended: a Stop continues; anything else writes one failure row and rejects every queued message with the same words, then stops. A child still starting whose start the adapter says did not land fails the same way. The exit, eviction and the settlement retry only settle the handed-over and legacy rows of the child that ended. - One failure row, always an error, keyed by the start. A start a view began that dies with nothing queued writes the same row through the same builder, so a second report revises it. - The open no longer rejects leftovers; the loop's first step does, and the open wakes it. - `awaitStarted` answers why a start did not land, so the row says it even when the loop sees the failure before the exit is processed. - Quit closes every conversation the way closing a chat does: what is still queued is rejected as closed, with or without a child, and a start the loop already has in flight is waited for so the child it produces is stopped rather than left behind. * refactor(native-chat): a stopped child ends on the one reading of its stop The eviction step reads a stop's result through `stopAgentSessionProviderRoot` and hands that verdict to the child's ending, so the host never forms a second view of whether the root is gone. Every ending carries it: a stop's comes from that reading, an exit's root is gone by definition, and a failed re-attach passes what its release saw. The end-of-child record can therefore also carry a stop whose root was not seen to go, which nothing ends on yet. * feat(native-chat): the host says it accepts a send before any agent has it The host now lists agent-session.accepted-send.v1 among its own runtime capabilities, the same string capable clients already send. A client can then tell a host that answers a send at acceptance, and admits a Stop with no writer before a turn starts, from an older one that still restarts the agent inside the send. Additive: an older client ignores a capability it does not know. * refactor(native-chat): an attach never opens a journal of its own The attach adopts the conversation's open journal, which outlives it, so it no longer opens one for a direct caller either. That leaves nothing for a failed adopted import to close, and the flag that told the two cases apart is gone. Tests that attach without a host open the conversation the way a host does. * fix(native-chat): a moved fence resends nothing on a host that accepts first The outbox treated any fence change as a new owner: it dropped the answer of a send in flight, queued that send to go out again under the same id, and unblocked a refused head. On an older host that is how a send the restart refused, unrecorded, gets another try. On a host that records every send before it starts an agent, a fence moves because that start ran, so the same rule resent into every failed start. With a fence stamped on every frame, that became a loop. The outbox now reacts to a fence change only when the host has not advertised that it accepts a send before any agent has it. On such a host, only a Retry or a new send goes out, and a failed start reaches the client as a rejected message it keeps with its Retry. Against an older host, or before one has answered, the outbox behaves as it did. Desktop and paired web share this hook. * refactor(native-chat): a child's end says whether the user or the host stopped it The end-of-child record's cause now tells a user's Stop from the host stopping the child for a cause of its own: `user-stop` and `host-stop` replace `stop`. The delivery loop goes on after a user's Stop, as before, and fails the start it was waiting on after a host stop, with the one error row and every queued message rejected, in the stop's reason when it gave one. The reason stays description only. Stop passes `user-stop`; nothing passes `host-stop` yet. * fix(native-chat): a chat whose only work is a queued message is not offered for resume A message accepted while the agent was starting counts as working in the chat, and quit rejects it as never sent. The teardown snapshot read the same working rule, so a relaunch offered to resume a chat whose agent never had the message. The snapshot now reads only what was handed over. * fix(native-chat): the conversation outlives its agent Opening a chat no longer starts its agent. A conversation is reached through one host accessor that opens its journal at rest, and a send is what starts the agent, through the delivery loop. One idle sweep, every five minutes, stops an agent that has been quiet for thirty minutes and owes no work, then drops an open journal handle that is only a cache. Its record, tab, status row and readers stay. - hold and release are no-ops; hold still builds the host for shipped mobile builds. - The holders, the holds, the release clock and the exit respawn are deleted. - Options, the model list, the goal and the context meter answer at rest; a model pick at rest is recorded as intent for the next start. - Compact, rewind, clear and goal changes start the agent first. A send does too when a rewind is still in doubt after the conversation opens. - Orchestration routes mail and group addresses on ownership (the record plus the chat tab), not on whether the process runs. An open dispatch keeps its worker running. - The restart continuation is a send; Resume all holds each slot until the message is handed over or rejected. - A read error never replaces a loaded transcript, and shows the host's own words. * test(native-chat): type the queued-message fixtures in the resume-offer tests * fix(native-chat): a start that dies while a message waits on it is that message's failed start Opening a chat's tab starts an agent for the view, and a send accepted meanwhile waits on it. When that start died, its exit wrote the start's error row and left the message queued, so the delivery loop started a second agent into the same failure and wrote a second row. A child's end now records where the conversation's journal stood, and the loop settles a message accepted before a failed start ended with that start: one row, under its key, and no second start. A message sent after the failure still gets a fresh start. * docs(native-chat): say what an attach's open conversation and unconfirmed ids are now * test(native-chat): pin what a failed start settles, and what a resume offer names A view's child that dies while a sent message waits settles that message only when it died starting and no child has taken its place: a proven child's crash, or a second start since, gets the message delivered. The resume offer names the handed-over message, never a newer one still queued. * test(native-chat): the failed-start pins fail on what the message became, not on a timeout * fix(native-chat): a restart offer ends when the chat's agent starts again The offer used to end only when the chat's newest user message changed, because opening a chat started its agent and that start could not be told apart from real activity. Opening a chat starts nothing now, so the host reads the fact it already publishes: a chat's status row goes from not host-owned to host-owned exactly when its agent is started. At that edge the offer and any failure record for the chat are withdrawn, unless the start is a resume action's own (its continuation is the oldest undelivered message). A continuation and a message racing to be first are decided at acceptance: the continuation is refused, quietly and with nothing filed, when any other message was accepted since the restart. A failed continuation start leaves the offer retryable, and each resume action sends its own message id. Deleted: the newest-user-message comparison, its journal reader, the continuation filter, and the failure ledger's own "answered by the chat" check. The marker still carries its message id for one release, so the previous build can read it. * fix(runtime): end a transcript stream when its client unsubscribes Desktop: the IPC subscription controller was dropped as soon as the streaming handler returned, which for most streams is right after it binds. A later runtime:unsubscribe then found nothing to abort, so the host kept the subscriber and derived and sent every publish to a channel no one listened to. The controller now lives until the renderer unsubscribes, resubscribes the same id, or goes away. Mobile: disposing an agentSession.subscribe stream now sends agentSession.unsubscribe with the stream's frame id, so the host ends that subscriber and leaves a sibling stream on the same socket running. The direct path now passes the frame id the relay path already passed. * test(orchestration): the preamble's host stub is typed, not cast The preamble send now takes only what it reads of the host, the send, the settlement wait and the record's fence, so its test builds that host with real types instead of `as never`. * fix(native-chat): one fact ends a restart offer: the chat moved on since the restart The offer is live while no other message has been accepted in the chat since the restart and its agent has not proved a start since. The offer list, the resume's reservation check and the continuation's acceptance check all read that one fact, so a message whose start then failed withdraws the offer too, and a stale click finds nothing to act on. The fact is read off the conversation's open handle, which the restart closed, so it is retired durably whenever it may have changed: a message accepted, a start proven. A close and reopen within the same run therefore cannot bring the offer back. A continuation rejected before it reached the agent does not count, so a retry after a failed start still runs. Deleted: the quit-time gate on withdrawal, which changed nothing because the withdrawal and the quit's own offer write share one queue; the per-action "withdrawn" flag and the separate acceptance check it paired with. * test(native-chat): an older build reads the restart offer this build records The offer lives in a file the previous release reads after a downgrade. Pin that against the pinned release's own capsule, and run the lane when the marker or the capsule changes. * fix(native-chat): read a restart offer against where the journal stood when it was taken "Since the restart" was read off the conversation's open handle, which the idle sweep closes: after a reopen, a message the user had already sent looked older than the handle and the withdrawn offer came back. The offer now records the journal position (epoch and sequence) at the moment it is taken, and a message accepted after that position, or a journal on another epoch, means the chat moved on. That is derived from the journal, so it holds across any number of closes and reopens. An older build's offer has no position; only a start withdraws it. Because the message half is now durable, the offer is no longer rewritten in the recovery file on every accepted message; a proven start still writes it, since only the host that saw the start knows of it. * test(native-chat): wait for the listing's retire write before reading the recovery file * fix(native-chat): keep the terminal-backed chat's read error over its local echoes Messages winning over a read error is right for the structured chat, whose read retries and whose messages came from the transcript. The terminal-backed view assembles its list from local echoes too (a launch prompt, a pending send), so a failed read there showed only those bubbles and no error. Only the structured pane now keeps messages over an error. * fix(native-chat): a start retries the exit settlement a failed journal write left owed An agent exit whose journal settlement write failed releases the lease latched until a retry lands. Reopening the chat used to be that retry; with reveal now only opening the journal, nothing retried it before the next app launch, and every send was refused. The start the send needs now runs the retry first, where the attach would. * perf(native-chat): answer the owner check without opening the chat Worktree activation calls agentSession.handoffStatus for every chat tab in the worktree, and the answer comes from the session record alone. Reaching it through the accessor opened each resting chat's journal (a full read, the crash-boundary write and a restored status publish), then kept it open for the idle window. It now checks the record and the adapter's support, as before this series, and opens nothing. * fix(native-chat): a read waiting on the session lock opens nothing once quit began The accessor checked for quit before queueing the open, so a read queued behind a session task ran its open after teardown had begun and indexed a journal no teardown step would close. The check now runs at the open itself. * fix(native-chat): read a failed resume's chat before calling it retryable Whether a failed resume is retryable is the offer's own rule: the chat has not moved on since the restart, read from its journal. The failure list read it only for a chat already open, so once the idle sweep closed a chat the user had moved on in, its failure showed Retry again, and the click did nothing. The list now opens the failed chats first, as the offer list does. * test(native-chat): type the provider event sink the settlement test reaches for * fix(native-chat): say the structured read keeps trying only where it does The structured pane's "Orca keeps trying to load it" line never showed: the view state filled in an untranslated fallback whenever the read error had no text, and the empty state prefers any message. The view state now leaves the message out, so the structured pane shows that line and the terminal-backed pane its own translated one. Mobile's structured lane does not resubscribe after an error frame, so it no longer makes the claim. * test(native-chat): await the send's settlement instead of polling for the start The at-rest send tests polled for the provider start with vi.waitFor's one-second default, which a loaded machine outran. They now await the host's own settlement of the message. * fix(native-chat): a restart offer resumes any time after the quit, and knows its own continuations The continuation's message id was dated by the quit, and the ledger refuses a new id dated more than a day back, so Resume or Retry a day after quitting was always refused (on main too). It is now dated by the resume action. Telling a rejected continuation from the user's own message read the operation ledger, whose rows expire after about a day; after that a failed resume stopped being retryable. The offer now records the continuation each action sends on its own capsule entry, bounded to the newest 16, so the ids end with the offer. The ledger read is deleted. * fix(orchestration): route no mail to a structured worker its orchestration released A structured worker is routed on ownership, and a resting worker's lease is released, so ownership held while its chat tab stayed listed. A worker the coordinator abandoned and then released, found at rest by the release, therefore still took peer mail and @worktree: broadcasts, and each one restarted its agent. Routing now also reads the orchestration's own resource row: once it is released, direct mail, group addressing and worker-show's addressable answer drop the worker, as they would a terminal worker whose terminal closed. The chat tab stays, and nothing new is stored. * fix(native-chat): a failed retry names the user's prompt, not Orca's continuation A resume's continuation is written to the chat before its start, so after a failed attempt the chat's newest user message is that rejected continuation. A second failure then showed Orca's own restart text as the chat's prompt. A retry now keeps the prompt its first failure named. * fix(orchestration): read the released row optionally, as the authority does worker-show's observation called the row lookup directly, which a runtime double without it threw on and failed the structured tab-retirement release. * fix(native-chat): the status bar drops a restart offer the chat moved on from The renderer re-read the host's restart offer only when a failed chat showed activity, so after a message withdrew a pending offer the host answered no chats while the status bar kept counting one, and clicking it opened nothing. The same watch now covers pending offers: a status change in an offered chat asks the host again, once. * test(native-chat): a roster of idle or finished children does not keep an agent awake The sweep reads owed background work through the shared child-work liveness that upstream's release clock adopted; a child that went idle or finished is not work the agent still owes. * fix(orchestration): a task dispatched into a resting structured worker keeps it running The sweep's open-dispatch check read only the worker-start dispatch that owns the worker's terminal resource, so a task later dispatched to the same worker (orchestration dispatch --to, which writes a dispatch with no worker row) did not count: after thirty quiet minutes the worker was stopped while that task was open, and its coordinator read exited. Any unsettled dispatch addressed to the worker's process incarnation now counts, derived from the existing rows. * docs(native-chat): comments stop describing the hold this PR removed Eight comments still justified orderings and teardown choices by a viewer or dispatch hold that pinned the provider child. Nothing holds any more; the orderings stand for the binding's redrive subscription and parked mail, and a chat's agent runs from a send until the idle sweep rests it. Comment-only. * fix(native-chat): a restart offer keeps the start its own continuation made Whose start ended an offer was decided at read time, from whether the offer's continuation was still the queued message. Once the provider refused that continuation, the child it had started read as someone else's start, so the offer ended and its failure showed no Retry. The delivery loop now records which queued message a start is for on the in-memory child, and the child's end carries it; the offer counts a start as its own when that message is one of its continuations. * fix(native-chat): an agent gets a full idle window after its owed work ends The sweep measured quiet only from the last journal row, so once a subagent, command, monitor or dispatch that had outlived the window ended, the agent was stopped at the next tick. A child can read done before the lead's wake-up turn writes anything, and stopping in that gap loses the wake-up. The sweep now counts owed work it observes as activity, which gives the agent the full window afterwards, as the release clock it replaced did. * test(claude): the options-read fixture runs a live child The fixture marked its conversation running with a hasProviderChild field the session type does not have, so the read took the at-rest path and refused a session with no record. It now carries a child, which is what the read checks. * test(native-chat): host tests reach its collaborators through a typed seam The rest-test rig and three test files read the host's private members with Reflect.get and cast the result. The host now exposes one test-only accessor, collaboratorsForTests(), and the subscribers class a subscriberCountForTests() beside its existing retainedActivityCountForTests(), so the tests are checked against the real types and the casts are gone. * refactor(orchestration): one owner answers a structured worker's custody Routing, group addressing, worker-show and the idle sweep each composed their own reading of whether orchestration still holds a structured worker, so each new obligation or retirement state had to be added to every reader. structured-worker-custody now derives both answers from the worker-terminal list state coordinators see in worker-list: addressable is owned and not released, and owed work is an active custody or an unsettled task dispatched to the same incarnation. The owner's state is read through the remote dispatch attachment too, as the terminal transfer lookup already does. Behaviour is unchanged; a settled worker awaiting its coordinator still rests. * refactor(orchestration): owed work is an open dispatch on the worker's incarnation A supervised worker's own dispatch context stays open exactly while the worker is active, so the separate active-custody branch only repeated it. Owed work is now one fact, which also states the policy that a worker awaiting its coordinator's decision may rest, and both custody decisions are written once at the top of the module. * fix(native-chat): a restart offer knows its continuations by a tag in their id The offer recorded each continuation id in a list on its capsule entry, capped at 16, and a running action's id in memory. Both could disagree with the journal: past the cap an old rejected continuation read as the chat moving on, and a crash during a retry restored the failure's older entry, which lacked the retry's id. Each continuation id now carries a tag derived from the offer (its teardown and chat), then the action's own part, so any continuation of this offer, queued or rejected, is recognised from the journal row and the marker alone. The persisted list, its cap and the in-memory action map are deleted; the agent-start withdrawal keeps an offer whose own continuation the start was for, read against the stored marker. * test(runtime): the legacy-worker reveal test judges its stale snapshot inside the wait The tui-idle probe reads through readTerminal, which now awaits the structured worker check before the PTY read, so the probe's snapshot request starts a microtask later. vi.waitFor missed it on its first check and polled again at 50 ms, the same moment the wait's own 50 ms timeout fired. The stale snapshot then resolved after the wait had already timed out, so the test passed without judging it, and the rejection landed before any handler was attached. Vitest reported that as an unhandled error and failed the shard. Polling every 1 ms sees the request within a few ms, so the snapshot is judged while the wait is still pending. * fix(native-chat): a view never restarts a chat whose last start failed A Claude chat whose CLI exits during startup left one red row per start, and every time a view bound to it (the chat opening right after its create died, or the user switching back to it) the hold started the CLI again, so the same launch-failure row repeated. Only a send retries a failed start now, the same rule provider-exit recovery already applied; the rule lives in one predicate the hold, exit recovery and the delivery loop share. * fix(native-chat): the idle sweep reads owed work every tick Owed work counted as activity, but the sweep read it only once the idle window had elapsed, so it refreshed the clock at most once a window. Work that ended just before the next read left the agent to be stopped at that read, moments after the work ended, which is the gap the refresh was meant to cover. The sweep now reads owed work on every tick for a started agent, so the window always runs from the last tick that saw work owed. * fix(native-chat): a continuation handed to the agent stays sent The offer read its own continuation as not reaching the agent while its dispatch was pending, which also covered one already handed over and still unanswered. When the wait for that answer ended first, the failure it filed read as retryable, and a retry sent a second continuation to an agent that may have acted on the first. Only a continuation still queued, or rejected, is now read as unsent. * test(native-chat): start the child the loop waits on with an attach, not a second view A view no longer starts a child whose last start failed, so the R2 case that waits on a child started since the failure now gets that child from a client attach, the one non-send starter left. * fix(native-chat): settle a gone generation's turn wherever a conversation opens A send that opens a chat this process had not read yet (after a crash, from a phone or the CLI) went through the delivery open, which never settled what the dead generation left running; only the read restore and a successful acquire did. When the send's start then failed, the turn stayed running for every reader. The settlement now runs in the one journal open, at the crash boundary, for every opener except an acquisition, which settles from the evidence it read before its reserve; the read restore's separate step is gone. * test(native-chat): prove the next child's start settles the turn an earlier child left The R1 case lost its only settlement assertion when the latch it checked was deleted. It now seeds the running turn the earlier child left and asserts it ends at the exit's receipt, with the exit's row, before the message is handed to the new child. * test(native-chat): count a failed start's rows by row, not by text Comparing the set of texts passed when two different rows carried the same words, which is the duplicate the test exists to catch. * test(native-chat): give the failed-start and stale-turn waits a loaded runner's budget * test(native-chat): the interrupted create's own retry continues again The merge of main's lease-latch fix replaced that test's retry of the interrupted create, under its own operation id, with a fresh start whose result nothing read. That fresh start passes with the released-reservation continuation deleted, so the case the fix exists for went untested. The retry and its assertion are main's again. * docs(native-chat): three comments that still had views starting agents A start with nothing queued now comes from a command, goal change or rewind; an interrupted compaction left alone would refuse every send, so no agent would ever start to finish it; and a current host raises the unattached read refusal only once quit began, with the attach window belonging to an older host. * test(native-chat): pin the open's and the send's start and row counts, however the view binds Opening a fresh chat whose starts fail makes one start and one row, with two views bound before or after the create's child died; one send makes one more of each. * test(native-chat): a reader's open settles the turn a failed exit settlement left running An exit whose settlement write failed leaves its turn running in the open journal. PR 1's open now settles it, and this pins the two reads that reach it here: a reader reopening a chat the idle sweep closed, and a read that opens the chat before the restart restore reaches it. * test(native-chat): the view-start test's starting window outlasts two subscriptions on a loaded runner A subscription reads the conversation before it returns, so under load the two views took longer than the create child's 300 ms start, which then exited before the test checked that it had not. The child now takes a second to fail. * fix(native-chat): settle a gone generation's turn at every open but an acquisition's The journal open skipped the settlement whenever the lease read reserved or live, to leave an acquisition's own open to the acquisition. But a lease a crashed process left in recovery also reads live, until the next acquire resolves it. A send that opened such a chat, from a phone or the CLI after a crash on a host that could not prove the old owner gone, skipped the settlement; when its start then failed, the dead turn stayed running for every reader. The acquisition now says it is the opener, and every other open settles, whatever the lease still claims. * test(native-chat): hold the create's start open until the views bind The "view binds while the create is still starting" case gave the create a 300 ms head start and asserted the views bound before it died. On a loaded runner the holds took longer, the create's exit landed first, and the case failed its own precondition. The create's initialize now waits on a gate the test releases once the views are bound. * test(native-chat): a read that reaches a crashed chat before the startup reconcile settles its turn On desktop the chat on screen at relaunch reads before startup reconciles the leases, while the dead process's lease still reads live. The open settles the turn it left running anyway, and the restore that follows finds it settled. * refactor(native-chat): drop the composer's second error formatter After the merge with main, every chat write in the composer path reports its failure as a typed outcome worded by the refusal-notice table, so the send's catch sees only a local throw. The {code, message} formatter this branch added for it has no payload left to format, and its claim to be the one way a chat words a failure is no longer true. The composer send is main's again. * test(native-chat): pin the reason on a message rejected while its chat was closed The reopen test checked only that the message reads as not sent; it now also checks the Retry row carries the host's reason. * docs(native-chat): drop the removed dispatch hold from six comments A worker's session no longer takes a dispatch hold, and no release clock rests a chat by visibility; the agent-launch comments, the abandon test, the teardown test and the refusal census still said so. * test(native-chat): rest the owner-status chat through the idle sweep, not a hold The activation-gate test from #22808 put its chat at rest by holding and releasing it, and passed the release-clock grace. This branch deleted both, so the case threw before it reached its assertions. It now moves the host's clock past the idle window and lets the sweep stop the agent and close the conversation, then asserts the same owner answer and activation gate. * fix(native-chat): show the structured pane's retrying line when a read fails The read transport always hands the pane the host's words, so the error state's "Orca keeps trying to load it" line, which showed only when there were none, was never seen: the pane showed the host's text twice, as its subtitle and on the status line under it. The structured pane now always says its read keeps retrying, and the host's text stays on the status line. The terminal-backed chat is unchanged. * test(native-chat): wait for a send's background start before the refusal oracle removes its store An accepted send wakes the delivery loop, which starts the agent in the background. The oracle's teardown disposed the loop but did not wait for that start, so its lease write could create a temp file in the store directory while the directory was being removed, failing the test with ENOTEMPTY about one run in four. The teardown now drains tracked starts before it closes the journals. * fix(native-chat): a start a message waited on gets one failure row, the delivery loop's When a queued message's start failed, two writers could report it under the same row: the delivery loop, when the adapter settled the start without proving it, and the exit settlement, when the child's exit landed. The last one won, so the chat's row could name a different cause than the one the message was rejected with, or be written twice. The exit settlement now writes the start's row only when no message is queued and the loop has not already recorded that start. A start for a command, goal change or rewind, with nothing queued, still gets its row from the exit. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 port8081.
Unless a command says otherwise, run mobile app commands from the mobile/ directory.
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
- Open Orca desktop.
- Go to Settings > Mobile.
- Scan the pairing QR code from the mobile app.
- 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
- Install Expo Go from Google Play
- Run
pnpm start, scan QR with Expo Go - For native modules:
pnpm exec expo run:android - Run with
pnpm start --dev-client
iOS Simulator
- Install Xcode from the App Store
- Run
pnpm start --iosto 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_VERSIONmobile/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 either the App Store (mobile too old) or GitHub Releases (desktop too old).
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— withMOCK_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 omitstranscriptPathto 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(defaultorca-mock-send-modein the system temporary directory) —accept(default) accepts the send,errorfails it withmobile_input_floor_unavailable, anything else reports the send as rejected.MOCK_TERMINAL_LIST_MODE_FILE(defaultorca-mock-terminal-list-modein the system temporary directory) —omitreturns an empty terminal list,otherreturns a list that omits the chat handle, anything else lists it.MOCK_TERMINAL_STREAM_MODE_FILE(defaultorca-mock-terminal-stream-modein the system temporary directory) —deadanswers a subscribe withsubscribedthenend(a gone PTY), which is what exercises the rearm bound and terminal prune; anything else streams normally.
Connecting to Real Orca
- Start Orca desktop with WebSocket transport enabled
- In Orca, go to Settings > Mobile and scan the QR code with this app
- 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