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Neil 7b530f1eb5 fix(crash-reporting): record Orca-initiated tree kills so a killed renderer is decidable (#18367)
* fix(windows): refuse tree-kills of Orca's own Chromium pids and record the rest

G2 is 20 field reports that share only a symptom. It is at least four
fingerprints: ~15 Windows `reason=killed exitCode=1`, 3 POSIX SIGKILL under
memory pressure (G4-oom), 2 duplicate reports of one macOS V8 Proxy Resolver
SIGKILL, and 1 `0x80000003` install-dir ACL crash (G1; #17740 ships in
v1.4.196 only, not 1.4.195). Nothing here claims to fix all of them.

Two changes:

1. Behaviour. `classifyWindowsTreeKillTarget` returns `own` for any direct
   child of the main process — which our renderer, GPU and network-service
   utility all are — so PTY teardown could `taskkill /T /F` Orca's own UI
   (#10680). Both that classifier and `terminateWindowsProcessTree` now refuse
   any pid Electron is currently accounting for in `getAppMetrics()`.

2. Diagnosis. An Orca-issued kill and an external one are byte-identical in
   every field the crash report records today, so the cluster is undecidable.
   Every main-process force-kill choke point now records a durable
   `self_tree_kill` breadcrumb, and `process_gone` reports carry
   `selfInitiatedTreeKills` naming the pid and its offset from the death.
   A refused kill records `self_tree_kill_refused_own_chromium`, which is
   falsifiable: if it ever shows up in the field, we were the killer.

* fix(crash-reporting): coalesce self-kill breadcrumbs and scope the discriminator

Round-1 review remediation. Three blocking findings, all accepted.

1. Breadcrumb flood (accepted). recordSelfInitiatedTreeKill wrote an
   uncoalesced durable crumb from two routine teardown paths, and the
   reviewer reproduced 12 terminal closes x 3 process groups completely
   evicting the 30-slot ring — including this PR's own refusal crumb — plus a
   forced writeSync per killed group. It now uses the existing
   recordCoalescedDurableCrashBreadcrumb (5s window for pid-addressed
   taskkills, 60s for routine group/job teardown), so a burst costs one ring
   slot and one flush. The refusal crumb is coalesced per victim pid, so a
   retry loop cannot flood while a distinct pid always gets its own crumb.
   Regression test replays the reviewer's exact 12x3 reproduction and asserts
   the refusal crumb and a pre-existing gpu_process_crashed both survive.

2. Undifferentiated count (accepted). posix-process-group and win-pty-job are
   structurally incapable of reaching a Chromium process, and scope was absent
   from the persisted string. Scope is now in every entry
   (`<scope>/<site>/pid<N> +Nms`), and the count is split:
   selfInitiatedTreeKillCount now counts only pid-addressed taskkills — the
   kills that can land on a recycled pid that is now our renderer — with
   pty-scoped sweeps in selfInitiatedGroupKillCount. The list is renamed
   selfInitiatedKills because it carries both, and sorts pid-addressed kills
   first so truncation never drops the discriminating ones for teardown noise.
   The reviewer's repro (routine macOS terminal close + unrelated exit-133
   crash) now yields selfInitiatedTreeKillCount undefined.

3. Recording gaps and a false comment (accepted). New
   admitSelfInitiatedTreeKill gate: it refuses own-Chromium pids and records
   the rest, and all three main-process taskkill families now go through it —
   terminateWindowsProcessTree plus codex-accounts/service.ts and
   claude-accounts (which keep their own spawn lifetimes). The false "single
   taskkill choke point" comment is gone. The runProcess choke point the
   investigation asked for is instrumented via a
   setProcessTreeKillObserver seam in src/shared/child-process — shared code
   runs in the CLI and relay so it cannot import the main breadcrumb store —
   registered in main preflight. The codex app-server POSIX group teardowns
   and the claude POSIX branch record too. The module doc no longer claims
   absence is discriminating: it enumerates what is instrumented and names the
   direct process.kill(-pid) sites that are not.

Non-blocking, also fixed:
- Breadcrumb calls moved out of the try blocks whose catch is the ESRCH
  contract (posix-pty-process-groups, codex teardown, claude POSIX), so a
  throw from the diagnostic path can never be reported as a failed kill.
- Detail truncation now bounds the first entry too, matching its comment.
- own-chromium-tree-kill-refusal.test.ts renamed to
  own-chromium-tree-kill-guard.test.ts, colocated with the module it tests.

Not changed, with reasons:
- Date.now() vs performance.now(): kept. Offsets are computed against
  goneAt = Date.now() in process-gone-recorder; a monotonic clock here would
  make the offsets meaningless. The reviewer verified this and agreed it is
  not a defect.
- app.getAppMetrics() per force-kill remains unbenchmarked. It reads
  in-process browser state rather than enumerating the OS process table, and a
  TTL cache would let a recycled pid slip past the refusal, so it stays
  uncached.
- The ~15 remaining direct process.kill(-pid) sites (browser routes,
  notebooks, automation prechecks, ephemeral VM recipes) are not instrumented.
  Rather than claim coverage this PR does not have, the module doc names them.

claude-command-process.ts crossed the 300-line cap, so terminateClaudeProcess
moved to claude-login-process-termination.ts. No max-lines suppression added.

* fix(crash-reporting): scope the self-kill guard to its real host topology

Round-2 review findings on the own-Chromium tree-kill guard.

BLOCKING 1 — "the own-Chromium refusal is a no-op in the process that issues
the pty-descendant-sweep taskkill". Correct on the mechanism, wrong on the
consequence; REBUTTED in part and documented in full.

Confirmed: the only non-test `setAppEnvironment` installs are
main-process-preflight.ts:177 (Electron) and orcad-entry.ts:84 (Node, whose
`getAppMetrics()` is `[]`); daemon-init-fresh-import.ts is a test harness. So
in the standalone daemon `readOrcaChromiumProcessPids()` is empty and
`admitSelfInitiatedTreeKill` always admits.

But that is not a live hazard. `killWithDescendantSweep` reaches
`terminateWindowsProcessTree` only when `verifyWindowsTreeKillTarget` returns
`own`, and that walks ancestry back to `deps.ownerPid ?? process.pid` — the
KILLING process's pid. In the daemon that is the daemon's pid. Orca's Chromium
processes are children of Electron main, a sibling of the daemon, so their
chain never reaches it: hop 0 lands on main, and within MAX_ANCESTOR_HOPS the
walk dead-ends and returns `foreign`. The reviewer's probe passes
`ownerPid: 1000` with the renderer as a direct child of 1000 — that is the
Electron-main topology, where the AppEnvironment IS installed and the guard DOES
fire, not the daemon's. On an orcad/SSH host there is no Chromium on the box at
all, so `[]` is accurate rather than degraded.

Locked in as tests rather than prose (own-chromium-tree-kill-guard.test.ts):
a renderer classifies `foreign` from a daemon ownerPid with an empty pid set,
and `own` from main's ownerPid with an empty set — the falsifiable pair showing
the pid set is load-bearing in main and nowhere else. Documented the host
coverage in orca-chromium-process-pids.ts and own-chromium-tree-kill-guard.ts.

One genuine hole the finding exposes: `signalProcessTree`'s `taskkillTree` is a
fourth pid-addressed taskkill family (non-blocking item 2), it runs in the
daemon/relay/CLI where the guard cannot run, and it guarded only on
`!child.pid`. Reusing the predicate the codex login teardown already uses, the
win32 branch now refuses a reaped child and falls back to `killRoot` — the same
shape as the existing `!child.pid` branch. That closes the reaped-then-recycled
pid path in every host.

BLOCKING 2 — module doc overstates coverage. Rewritten: the ring is per-process
and its only reader lives in Electron main, so a count on a `render-process-gone`
covers main-issued kills only. Sites are now split into main-only, main-and-
other-hosts (runProcess choke point, POSIX PTY group sweep, Windows Job Object —
which record into a ring nothing reads when they run in the daemon or relay),
and never-instrumented, with the note that a daemon/relay omission is a
diagnostics gap, not a missed suspect, per the topology argument above.

BLOCKING 3 — the three out-of-main instrumentation sites were untested. Added
regression coverage: the runProcess seam on both branches plus the reaped-child
refusal (process-tree-termination.test.ts), the group sweep recording only
groups it actually signalled and skipping an ESRCH group
(posix-pty-process-groups.test.ts), and the Job Object recording the shell pid
only on `terminated` (windows-pty-job.test.ts). Verified red: reverting the
three production files to origin/main fails 7 of the new tests.

BLOCKING 4 — the Windows evidence validates a single-process model. Accepted.
The main2.js arms exercise `pty-descendant-sweep` inside one Electron process;
that models the in-process/degraded daemon and the local PTY provider, not the
standalone daemon. Arm C's "the 449351d6 shape is not producible with the guard"
holds for main-issued kills only. In the daemon the shape is blocked one layer
earlier, by the ancestry check, which the arms do not exercise.

NON-BLOCKING taken: `recordSelfInitiatedTreeKill` moved outside the native
`terminateJob` try in windows-pty-job.ts, so a diagnostics throw can no longer
downgrade a real termination to `unavailable` and escalate callers to a broader
kill; covered by a test. The "all three families" parenthetical is gone with the
doc rewrite. `pnpm build:relay` run: exit 0, all seven targets built.

NON-BLOCKING declined: codex-accounts/service.ts records before the spawn
because a refusal must prevent the spawn — the crumb means "we were about to
kill this pid", which is the artifact worth having; the existing comment already
says so. `app.getAppMetrics()` perf is unbenchmarked and unchanged by this round.

Verification: pnpm tc clean; oxlint clean on touched paths;
check:code-quality:changed 0 new findings; oxfmt applied. 730 tests pass across
shared/child-process, main/crash-reporting, main/pty, main/windows and the guard
and descendant-sweep suites. The 4 failures in providers/git/codex-integration
reproduce on HEAD without these changes.

* fix(crash-reporting): keep the reaped-pid skip from flipping the termination barrier

The win32 hasExited short-circuit correctly avoids taskkill on a pid Windows
may have reissued, but it resolved `true` — verified tree termination. A
taskkill against a reaped pid already resolved `false`, and run-process turns
`true` into barrierTerminationVerified + terminationReporter.report(), which
releases the git admission grant on root exit instead of on `close`. That
admits the next git command while a descendant holding the inherited pipes is
still writing the repo. Resolve `false` so the skip changes only which process
we refuse to signal, not what the barrier claims.
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