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Jinwoo Hong 3cfb070294 feat(mobile): register the session page route (OTA phase C, C7.7) (#21977)
* feat(mobile): switch the session route to the shell, still unregistered (OTA phase C, C7.7)

The review switch's shape, for its reasons. The session screen becomes
`MobileSessionRouteScreen` in `src/session` because `useMobileSessionController` is 32 hooks
deep and opens the terminal, chat and tab subscriptions: at the switch's top level it would
open every one of them behind the page as well as in front of it, since hooks cannot be
conditional. As an element passed for `fallback` it is built and not mounted.

Four query params carried rather than re-derived, each omitted when empty: `name` is a label
the screen otherwise derives from the workspace, `created` is the create flow's one-shot flag,
`warning` is the host's own text, and `paneKey` is a notification tap. `paneKey` is the one the
screen writes back — `use-notification-pane-navigation.ts` rewrites it to empty once it has
switched, through `setParams` on the handoff, which inside the page is the document's own
router — so it has to arrive in the page for that to happen at all.

Inert on its own. A switched route renders the shell only once `MOBILE_WEB_PAGE_ROUTES` lists
it; until then the flag is the only thing that changes and it is off.

Three censuses red without their rows, measured on this tree:
- `shell-screen-route-census.test.ts` `walks the route tree and finds them` named
  `session/[worktreeId].tsx` as a ninth switch the list did not have.
- `mobile-web-shell-flag-census.test.ts` `reaches the switched routes through that hook and no
  others` reds without `SESSION_ROUTE` in `SWITCHED_ROUTES`.
- `mobile-web-app-web-overrides.test.mjs` `lists exactly the .web.* files on disk` named the
  new sibling.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): root the session parity family at the screen the route mounts (OTA phase C, C7.7)

The extraction parity pin walks from a root function in `app/h/[hostId]/session/[worktreeId].tsx`,
which is now the flag switch: the walk found no `SessionScreen`, and the runtime-string count went
534 -> 542 on the switch's own param names and path literals.

Rooted at `MobileSessionRouteScreen` instead, which is the function that calls the controller. The
switch's business is which of the two screens renders, not what the session screen does, and its
literals have no place in a hash about the extraction.

Every pinned hash is unchanged, which is what says the body moved and nothing else did: 275 hooks,
77 callbacks, 24 effects, 534 runtime strings, 124 host and 61 leaf JSX facts, 172 style
references, all at the same SHA-256 they had before the move.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* feat(mobile): give the page the session screen's stored preferences (OTA phase C, C7.7)

Ruling 7: nothing silently no-ops. The allowlist was one exact key and one prefix, so every
preference the session screen reads inside the page fell back to its default and kept working
outside it — a state the user cannot tell from a preference that does not exist.

The keys are derived from the route's own closure, not copied from design §6. Nine join the list:
`orca:terminal-accessory-layout`, `orca:custom-accessory-keys`, `orca:defaultSessionView`,
`orca:mobileStructuredSendOperations:v1`, the three terminal preferences ruling 7 names
(`orca:terminalTextScale`, `orca:terminalAutocompleteEnabled`, `orca:terminalLinkOpenMode`), and
two the design did not: `orca:hostDockWidth`, which `use-mobile-dock-resize.ts` drags on this
screen, and `orca:hostSidebarWidth`, which `app/h/_layout.tsx` reads above every page route and
which the manifest already names as the reason agent-history declares `storage` at all.

Two are per workspace, not per host. Design §6 has `orca:nativeChatTabs:<worktreeId>`; the module
builds `<prefix><enc(hostId)>:<enc(worktreeId)>`, and `orca:terminalLiveInputDisabled:` has the
same shape. So the narrowing goes one level in from C2.9's: `pageStorageKeysForRoute` and
`isPageStorageKeyForRoute` replace the host-scoped pair, and a session page opened on one workspace
can no more rewrite the tabs of the one beside it than it can another host's pins. Both sides read
the workspace off the route pathname, which is the one fact the shell and the page are each handed.

Every new key's writer notes the mirror before it persists, as `savePinnedIds` does: `init` is
built synchronously, so a write that only reached the store would be one `init` behind.

A refusal is a rejection, not a dropped write. The real AsyncStorage rejects when its store
refuses, and the caller that matters already catches: the durable send journal answers
"Message not sent" rather than putting a mutation on the wire with an operation id no store holds,
which after a crash would send the message twice. `PageStorageRefusedError` names the key and which
of the three refusals it was.

Measured on this tree, which is why the journal needed more than an allowlist entry: one journal
entry with no attachment serializes to 342 characters and 48 unsettled sends put the value past
`PAGE_STORAGE_MAX_VALUE_CHARS` (47 is under it), against a schema that admits 4,096. `init`'s own
`BridgeInitStorageSchema` refines on that bound, so handing the journal over whole refuses the
*frame* and the session screen never opens at all. `pageStorageEntriesForInit` drops such a value
and names it; the page reads a default, which is a degradation rather than a page that does not
start.

Red first, measured here:
- 21 cases across three files on the host-scoped helpers being gone.
- `leaves out a value the page would refuse the whole frame over` reds with the filter bypassed.
- The journal case reds without the rejection, with the operation claimed against a store that
  never took it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* feat(mobile): register the session page route (OTA phase C, C7.7)

One entry in `MOBILE_WEB_PAGE_ROUTES` with ten grants, every one read off a call site in this
route's own closure rather than carried from design §1. Measured here:

  navigate                 7 handoff sites
  externalLink             6 openers
  haptics                 24 trigger sites
  native.clipboard.write   6 sites
  native.clipboard.read    3 sites
  native.media.*           2 sites, one seam (`useMediaPicker`)
  screencastBinary         1 site (`MobileBrowserPane.tsx`)
  storage                 10 exact keys and 2 workspace-scoped, the previous commit's

`pageRouteGrants` is derived from this list, so the row is a consequence of the entry and there is
no second table to edit. The design's list was exactly right; the counts are what say so.

The hop census goes 16 -> 23, measured. All seven new rows are `X -> /h/[hostId]/session/
[worktreeId]`, one from each other page route, and none goes the other way: the session's ten
grants are a strict superset of every other route's, so every hop into it is handed to the shell
and every one of its own targets stays in the document. That second half is asserted as grant
coverage rather than as the absence of seven rows — absent is also what an unregistered route
looks like, which is the shape C4 already had to correct once.

Two censuses gained the route and one is new:
- The haptics seam census, whose route-module map moves to
  `mobile-web-app-page-route-modules.mjs` so the new census below shares it rather than keeping a
  second copy that stops growing when the first one does.
- `page-served-back-control-a11y.test.ts`, which named two controls with no `accessibilityRole`:
  `MobileSessionHeader.tsx:64 role=none label=Back to worktrees` and
  `QuickCommandsSheet.tsx:160 role=none label=Back`. Both get the role. Inside the shell there is
  no native chrome behind them, so a bare Pressable is absent from the accessibility tree.
- `mobile-web-app-screencast-lane-grant.test.mjs` derives `screencastBinary` from the closures the
  way the haptics census derives its token. C6 could not write it: the pane is mounted by a route
  rather than registered as one, so there was no route to pin the grant against (C6 ruling 3).

The derivation census gains C6's half measured against this route rather than against a module
closure read on its own, which is the other half of C6 ruling 3. The composed row for the session
route's own families waits on C7.8's table, and on C4.5's split before it.

Numbers, both ends measured on this tree, never summed:
- Session route closure 4,328 -> 4,329 modules, 978 -> 979 local. The +1 is
  `MobileSessionRouteScreen.tsx`; the route file is one input either way, now the `.web.tsx`.
- Chunk count 65 before and 65 after, against the 72 the fence allows at 14 route keys. The fence
  is untouched: a `.web.tsx` sibling is not a new route key, and this route shared its split.
- Bundle 8,020,519 -> 8,022,202 bytes, 108 assets either side.

`mobile-web-app-route-chunk-closure.mjs` looked the route module up by its exact path, and
`resolveExtensions` puts `.web.tsx` first: the first route with a sibling to be asked for reached
"no output". It tries the sibling first now, which is what the build actually chunked.

Without the manifest entry these red on this tree: `pins every hop the handoff must take away from
the page`, `keeps every hop out of the session local`, `declares only routes the bundle has a
module for`, `reaches the built manifest`, `covers every page route and finds a control in each`,
both haptics-seam cases, and `declares the screencast lane on exactly the routes whose closure
asks for it`.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): render-check the session route, and quiet the two things it found (OTA phase C, C7.7)

The render check mounts the registered route in a real browser on the built bundle, under the
header the shells send. It asserts the session screen paints rather than the Unmatched route, that
the Back control reaches the accessibility tree as a real `<button>` with its name, that the
route's own chunk arrives on a client-side navigation, that nothing it paints leaves the origin or
logs a policy violation, and that the three reads the screen makes carry the workspace the route
named — the precondition the rest needs, since a screen that mounted and asked for nothing would
paint the same chrome.

It also asserts, strictly, that the page and console errors are `[]`, which is what found both
fixes here. Measured on this tree before them: two console lines and one uncaught rejection on
every mount of the route, none of them visible natively.

- `use-mobile-session-markdown-actions.ts` registered `BackHandler.addEventListener` with no
  platform guard, and the effect re-registers whenever the dirty-draft list changes. React Native
  Web answers "BackHandler is not supported on web and should not be used." and hands back an inert
  subscription, so the guard was never armed on the page anyway. Gated on `Platform.OS`, as the
  right drawer, the bottom drawer and the file preview already are. There is no hardware back in a
  WebView; the shell owns the phone's, and the page's Back control is where the prompt lives.
- `use-mobile-session-diff-comments.ts` ran `void loadDiffComments()` in an effect with no catch.
  The loader returns on a *refused* `worktree.show` and nothing caught a *rejected* one, so a host
  that will not answer produced `Uncaught (in promise)` on every session mount. Caught at the
  effect rather than inside the loader, whose promise the golden recorder awaits; notes that did
  not arrive leave the ones on screen as they were, which is the module's own policy for a refusal.

**The terminal is not painted here and the file says so at both ends.** A terminal on screen needs
the host protocol handshake, a tab snapshot, a terminal inventory and a `terminal.subscribe`
stream — five hand-written fixtures against five Zod schemas inside a transport double, which is
what the harness's docstring refuses to become. Scripting `status.get` alone was measured here:
the protocol gate reads it and the page paints "Update Orca on your computer" instead of the
screen. What the terminal does under the shipped header is
`mobile-web-app-terminal-render.test.mjs`, on the same component and the same build options.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): refresh the session parity pins for the two seam edits (OTA phase C, C7.7)

The previous commit's two fixes are inside the parity family, so three pins moved. Both edits are
one token each and neither changes what a phone renders:

- `'web'`, the `Platform.OS` guard the Markdown actions' `BackHandler` registration gained.
- `"button"`, the accessibility role the session header's Back control gained.

Runtime strings 534 -> 536, with the effect hash and the host-JSX hash moving for the same two.
Everything else is unchanged: 275 hooks, 77 callbacks, 24 effects, 61 leaf JSX facts, 172 style
references, all at the SHA-256 they had before. A separate commit because a reported head does not
move by amend, and because the moved hashes are worth reading on their own.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): report the diff-notes rejection instead of catching it (OTA phase C, C7.7)

The `.catch` the previous commit added to `loadDiffComments` moved a golden, which is a finding
rather than something to record over: `matrix-session.diff-notes-worktree.show-1` certifies the
unhandled rejection as an effect of its loaded checkpoint, so the corpus says the app raises it
today and a fix is a re-record and a review event.

Reverted to `void loadDiffComments()`, with the defect written where a reader of that effect will
find it. `family-recordings.test.ts > session.diff-notes: reply partitions at worktree.show#1` is
green again; it was the one failure in an otherwise clean 8,699-test run.

The render check keeps the observation rather than losing it. Its error assertion is now the exact
list `['RenderCheckShellDouble: the render check answers no RPC']` instead of `[]`, so a second
error reds it and so does this one going away — which makes the file the place the fix is noticed
when someone lands it with the re-record.

The defect, for that PR: the loader returns on a *refused* `worktree.show` and nothing catches a
*rejected* one, so a host that will not answer raises an unhandled rejection on every session
mount. It is not a page fault — the shell's `fault` notify comes from the React boundary and
nothing reaches it — so the generation is not dropped and the screen works; the cost is a
document-level error on every mount.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): repin the session effect hash after the diff-notes revert (OTA phase C, C7.7)

The effect pin was refreshed while `loadDiffComments` carried a `.catch`; reverting that (the fix
moves a golden, so it is a finding rather than a line) moves the same hash back off it. Repinned on
the uncaught `void` call, which is what the tree holds and what the corpus certifies.

Count unchanged at 24 effects; nothing else in the family moved.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): reject a page storage write for size only, and log the rest (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

Ruling 33.4. `PageStorageRefusedError` was raised for all three refusals, and two of them have no
catcher: a page-closure writer of an unlisted key awaits `setItem` with nothing around it —
`notification-delivery-preferences.ts:39` plainly, `preferences.ts` in several places — so a key
the page was never allowed to keep became an unhandled rejection in the document. That is a worse
failure than the silent drop it replaced, and it is the one the page can least afford, because an
uncaught rejection there is a document-level error on a screen that is otherwise working.

Scope is now one refusal. `too-large` rejects, because the caller that needs it is written for it:
the durable send journal's composer catches it and answers "Message not sent" rather than sending a
mutation whose operation id was never written down (ruling 7). `not-allowed` and `not-delivered`
resolve and are logged as `[page-bridge] storage-write-dropped`, which is the old behaviour plus
the line a device log needs — a preference that did not stick looks identical to one nobody set.

A batch applies every pair it can, logs every drop, and rejects only if one of them was oversize.

Red first, measured here: seven cases in `page-async-storage.test.ts` red on the rejection, among
them a `notificationDeliveryPreferences` write resolving, another host's pins, another workspace's
chat tabs, and a write the shell would not take. The oversize case is unchanged and still asserts
`PageStorageRefusedError` with the key and the character bound in its message, so the narrowing is
visible as the difference between the two.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* docs(mobile): make every count in the session route say the same number (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

Ruling 33.5. Three numbers were stated more than once and two of them had drifted when the merge
took the grant list from ten to fourteen.

- Grants. `mobile-web-page-routes.mjs:100` and `mobile-web-page-route-hop-coverage.test.mjs:57`
  both still said ten. Fourteen in both, and the manifest comment now names the audio verbs beside
  the media ones as things only this route asks for.
- Keys. The manifest said `storage` covers "the ten exact keys and two workspace-scoped ones",
  which counts `orca:last-visited-worktree` — a key this route did not add. Nine exact plus the
  two workspace-scoped, which is what C7.7 put in `page-storage-keys.ts`.
- The journal entry. 342 and 343 are both real and answer different questions, which is exactly
  why one number had to win: an entry serializes to 342 characters on its own and costs 343 in the
  array, the difference being the comma that joins it. 343 is the one that drives the threshold,
  so it is the one stated, with the 342 kept beside it as its derivation. Re-measured here rather
  than carried: 47 entries are 16,140 characters and 48 are 16,483, against the 16,384 cap.

Comments only; no behaviour and no assertion moved. The threshold case in
`mobile-structured-send-page-storage-refusal.test.ts` already asserted the boundary both ways and
still passes unchanged, which is what says the arithmetic above is the code's and not the prose's.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): red-first for a pane request over a re-sent init (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

Ruling 33.1's four cases plus the compatibility one, all red: `publishRoute`
is not a member of the host, `onRouteUpdate` is not a member of the page's
client, and `ready` carries no `accepts`.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* feat(mobile): deliver a pane request to the mounted page over a re-sent init (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

Ruling 33.1. The session switch keyed on the whole route, so a notification
tap for another pane of the session on screen either remounted the shell (a
bridge teardown and a page reload for a tab switch) or, for the pane already
showing, moved nothing at all: the page cleared `paneKey` on its own router
and the native param kept it, so `SET_PARAMS` wrote the value already there.

`paneKey` leaves the key and travels as a route update. The page declares
`accepts: ['route-update']` on `ready`; the shell re-sends `init` for a
same-path param change only to a page that declared it, and treats a second
`init` for the session the page already holds as a route update rather than a
replacement -- in-flight requests, subscriptions, the storage snapshot (the
same object, asserted) and the generation all stay. The screen reports
delivery and the switch clears the native param, so no later `init` replays a
spent tap. `use-notification-pane-navigation.web.ts` reads the request off a
standing listener; the native file is unchanged.

Wire-compatible both ways without a version bump: `accepts` is optional, an
older page is never sent a second `init`, and an older shell never sends one.
Both degrade to today's lost repeat tap. `BRIDGE_PROTOCOL_VERSION` and every
released native RPC are untouched.

Two files were at their line cap, so two modules came out at their own
boundaries rather than a cap bump: `bridge-init-route.ts` (the route half of
`init`, wanted by the switches, the host and the page) and `bridge-host-route.ts`
(one host's held route and what it may publish).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): the session switch and its hardware-back gate get their own tests (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

Ruling 33.2. `mobile-web-shell-session-route.test.tsx` mirrors the eight cases
the files switch has -- route built, native fallback while the flag settles,
repeated params, dot-segment refusal, segment encoding, flag off, remount on a
route change, remount on a param change -- plus the two pane cases: a repeat
tap for the same pane reaches the mounted page twice and a different pane
reaches it once, both with one mount in the lifecycle.

The `BackHandler` gate gets a unit test in the shape of its three siblings.
Reaching it meant the hook declaring the fourteen fields it reads instead of
taking all 268 of the session model, so a probe can render it without building
a session; `MobileSessionDiffCommentsModel` satisfies that by construction and
the one caller is unchanged. No pin in the session parity census moves.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(config): a call-site census for the six grants that had none (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

Ruling 33.3. `navigate`, `storage`, `externalLink`, the two clipboard verbs
and the media three were pinned only by the list they were copied from, so
striking any of them out of a manifest entry reddened nothing. Each is now
derived from the route's own closure by parsing the call sites -- a call, not
a mention in a comment or a string, and not an import the module never calls
-- and each row has a named control case driven over the session entry with
that row's grants struck out.

It found one thing. `app/h/_layout.tsx` wraps every `/h` route in
`HostProtocolGate`, whose wall offers an Update Orca link through
`openExternalLink`, and two routes reach that without declaring
`externalLink`: on them the link posts a notify the shell refuses. Recorded
exactly as `KNOWN_UNDECLARED` rather than exempted, because widening two other
routes' grants is a capability decision and this is pre-existing on main.

`notificationPaneTab` moves to its own module. A `.web.ts` sibling cannot
import its native neighbour by the plain path: the bundler's
`resolveExtensions` answers with the `.web.ts` file, so that import was the
file itself and esbuild refused the page bundle with a cycle. The mobile suite
does not bundle, so only the closure walk saw it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(config): make a struck-out grant red a case named after it (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

The first shape checked the whole manifest at once, so removing any one of
the eight reddened all seven cases and named none of them: the per-row control
read `session.grants` off the manifest the removal had just changed. Each row
now has its own manifest case, and each control is built from what the
session route's closure reaches rather than from what its entry declares, so
it stays green whatever the manifest says. Closures are memoised, which is
what pays for walking all eight once per row.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): hold the pane request in a ref, not in state (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

The changed-code quality gate's React Doctor found it:
`no-adjust-state-on-prop-change`. A tap can arrive before the terminals have
loaded, so the request has to wait; holding it in state meant the effect that
consumed it set state on a prop change, and the stale selection renders first.
The request waits in a ref now and a counter wakes the effect, so the effect
reads and clears rather than adjusting anything.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(config): re-measure the session closure and list the new web sibling (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

The full `config/scripts` suite found both. The closure reads 4,326 modules
and 984 local, two more than the merge, and the two are named rather than
counted: `notification-pane-tab.ts` and `bridge-init-route.ts`. The pane
hook's web sibling replaces the native file rather than joining it, so it
costs nothing -- but it is a `.web.ts`, so it needs its row in
`web-overrides.json` saying why the native one cannot run on the page.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): keep the page off a journal init could not carry (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 1)

Ruling 33.6, from pullfrog on `beda1cc384`. Dropping an over-cap value from
`init` did not revoke the page's write access to it: the key stays in
`pageStorageKeysForRoute`, so the page read no journal, `parseJournal(null)`
gave it an empty one, and its first send wrote a one-entry value over the
device's -- every native entry lost and a fresh `operationId` for an operation
the native journal already held, which is the duplicate send ruling 7 exists
to prevent.

`pageStorageEntriesForInit` now reports `oversize` beside `dropped`: only the
value-cap drops, because an entry-cap drop is a key that fits and the page's
own write of it is the size the shell would have carried anyway. The shell
sends those names as `init.storageOversize`, and a page write to one of them
rejects with `PageStorageRefusedError` under the size contract of 33.4, which
the composer already shows as "Message not sent". The native journal is
untouched until the user is back on native or it drains.

`storageOversize` is optional in both directions: an older shell sends none
and an older page ignores it, which is exactly today's behaviour. No version
bump; omitted rather than sent empty, so no golden moves.

Red first, with the two states replaced by ones the shell produces. The 47/48
case drives `pageStorageEntriesForInit` rather than publishing a journal value
the shell strips before `publishPageStorage` ever sees it, and the case that
used to assert a successful write now asserts the native entries survive: it
was the clobber, recorded as success.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): deliver a route update only when a param moved, and only after init went out (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

Round 2, findings 1 and 2, both red first.

`onRouteUpdate` fired on every re-sent `init` for the session the page holds,
not only on one whose route moved. The shell answers every `ready` with the
route it holds and the page re-asks on its own backoff and again after a
refused `state` frame, so one tap reached the pane hook as `['', 'pane-1']`.
Both ends now read one definition of moved, `bridgeRouteMoved`, which is the
page's own `shellScreenRouteKey`: the host will not send an `init` for a route
that did not move and the page will not publish one it was sent anyway. The
`.web.ts` hook keeps its empty-pane guard and its comment now says why it is
load-bearing rather than defensive -- the shell's own clear arrives as a move.

`onRouteDelivered` ran on the `ready` path without checking that an `init` had
gone out. A refused route answers the ask with nothing, so the caller would
clear a one-shot param the page never received. `sendInit` reports whether a
frame left and `onPageReady` carries it. Unreachable from the session switch,
which parses the route before it mounts the shell; the prop's contract says it
anyway, and the publish path already honoured it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* docs(mobile): attach the init-storage doc to its type, keep the overrides escape (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

Round 2, findings 4 and 5, neither a behaviour change.

The block describing `pageStorageEntriesForInit` had `PageStorageForInit` and
its own one-line doc between it and the function, so it documented neither.
The type moves above it and the block sits on the function it describes.

`web-overrides.json` had an escaped em dash re-encoded as a literal one when
this branch added its rows through a JSON round trip, on a line about the
keyboard stub that has nothing to do with C7.7. Main's `—` is restored;
`oxfmt --check` accepts the file either way, so this is main's spelling kept
rather than a formatter's demand.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): catch the custom-key save the page store refuses (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

Round 2 addendum. `addKey` awaited `saveCustomKeys` with no catch and both of
its callers are `void addKey(...)`, so the rejection had nowhere to go.
`orca:custom-accessory-keys` is in the session route's page allowlist and a
page write over `PAGE_STORAGE_MAX_VALUE_CHARS` rejects rather than drops (the
size contract of 33.4, extended by 33.6 to a key `init` could not carry), so
past ~16 KB of accessory keys this surfaced as an unhandled rejection in the
page -- which the fault boundary reports and which drops the generation.
Every other allowlisted writer in this closure already catches: the two write
chains in `TerminalShortcutSettings`, the live-input save and the session-view
preference.

Caught at the boundary and logged, and the drawer neither announces the key
nor closes: a row on the accessory bar that no store holds, gone at the next
load, is the failure the allowlist exists to avoid. Red first -- the case saw
the refusal escape with the page's own message -- and the control reds again
when the catch rethrows.

Belongs in `8b4c559e90` by the brief; it is its own commit because that one
was already made and amending is forbidden.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): reject a batch of oversize writes once, not once per pair (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

CodeRabbit and pullfrog, same site. `settleBatch` called `settle` per refusal
and kept the first rejected promise, so a `multiSet` or `multiRemove` with two
over-cap pairs built a second rejected promise nobody held -- an unhandled
rejection in the page, the outcome ruling 33.4's rejection scope exists to
avoid. Two oversize keys is all it takes, and `storageOversize` made a second
way to reach it.

A refusal is now an error or nothing, and only the caller's one rejection ever
becomes a promise. Red first under an `unhandledRejection` listener with two
over-cap pairs: one orphan before, none after, and the caller still hears
about the first key.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): record a route key only once a frame carried it (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

CodeRabbit on `MobileWebShellScreen.tsx:271`. The effect recorded the route's
key and then published, so a publish the hook refused for having no host was
remembered as though it had gone out. `publishRoute` is now keyed on
everything the host is built from rather than on the session alone, so the
render that brings the host re-runs the effect, and the key is written only
after a frame has left.

Reported honestly: this does not repair a lost tap, and the case beside it
says so. The host is built from the route the render holds, so a route that
moved before it existed rides the first `init` either way and `publishRoute`
then answers "did not move". What the change removes is a key recorded for a
frame nobody sent -- the same contract finding 2 fixed on the `ready` path.
The case pins the delivery count across the gap: nothing reported while there
is no host, nothing reported once there is one and it has sent nothing, and
exactly one report when the `init` answering the page's ask carries the route.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): refuse an oversize-dropped key at the shell, not only at the page (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

pullfrog's rollout gap on ruling 33.6. `storageOversize` is honoured by a page
built with it, and the page is served from the desktop: a document from an
older bundle ignores the field and writes the key whole, which for the send
journal replaces every entry the device holds. The shell is the half that
updates with the app, so the shell is where the refusal has to live.

The host now refuses a `storage` notify for a key it could not hand the page,
answering it as the drop it already answers an unlisted key with. The page's
own rejection stays as the fast path -- it reaches the composer as
"Message not sent" with no round trip -- and the schema comment says the field
is advisory and the shell enforces it.

Red first: a host holding the journal as oversize received a page write for it
and posted it to native storage; now it posts nothing and the entries survive,
while a key it did hand over is still writable.

The three refusals became one predicate in `page-storage-keys.ts`, where the
keys are, because inlining the third put `bridge-host.ts` over its line cap.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): the page's pane hook gets its own test (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

pullfrog: `use-notification-pane-navigation.web.ts` had no cover. The native
file's test mounts the native file, and `bridge-route-update.test.ts` stops at
the client, so the half that turns a route update into a tab switch was
untested.

Seven cases: the seed from the route the page was opened on, a request held
until the terminals load, a repeat tap on the pane already showing, a
different pane, the clear the shell posts after each delivery, a pane that has
since closed, and a page opened on no pane at all.

Two controls, so the cases are not all satisfied by one behaviour. Dropping
the seed reds the two that read the first `init`. Deduplicating by value
instead of counting deliveries reds the repeat tap, which is the case the
counter exists for.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): roll the custom-keys mirror back when the store refuses (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

CodeRabbit. `saveCustomKeys` notes the write in the mirror before it persists,
because a reader is answered from the map rather than from the store and the
shell builds `init` synchronously from that map. On a refused write the note
stood: the page's next `init` carried the value native had rejected, and every
native reader of the key saw it too.

The previous mirrored value is captured and put back on the failure path, and
the error still goes to the caller so `addKey` keeps withholding the key.

Red first: with the store refusing, the mirror held the rejected value where
the pre-save value belonged.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): report a route delivered only after its frame was posted (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

CodeRabbit on the send path. `sendInit` answered "sent" the moment it handed
the JSON to `post`, and a rejected post was reported a turn later as a
diagnostic -- so the screen spent the one-shot `paneKey` on a frame the page
never received, cleared the native param, and the tap was gone. `publishRoute`
was fire-and-forget the same way.

Delivery is a promise now, settled after `options.post` resolves and false on
either throw or reject. Readiness stays separate: `onPageReady` fires on the
ask, as the shell's wait needs, and carries the delivery promise beside it.
The screen records the route key and calls `onRouteDelivered` only when that
promise answers true, and a refusal leaves nothing recorded so the next render
that can carry the route tries again.

Red first: with the view refusing what it was handed, the frame was built and
posted and the screen reported delivery anyway. Now it reports none while the
page's ask is still reported, and a host-level case pins the same split.

`bridge-host.ts` was at 299 of 300 lines, so the send half came out as
`bridge-host-frames.ts` rather than growing it; the file now measures 280.
The screen's own test harness never attached the view handle, so every post in
it rejected unobserved -- it attaches one now, which is what let the case see
the frame at all.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* docs(mobile): fold two doc blocks back onto what they describe (OTA phase C, C7.7 round 2)

pullfrog's two nits, no behaviour change. `page-async-storage.ts` kept the old
`settle` block above `refusalError` when the function it described moved down
with a one-liner of its own; the orphan goes. `bridge-host.ts` had two stacked
blocks on `sendInit` after it grew a return value; they are one, and it now
says the frame is still built synchronously and only the post is awaited --
which is the property the golden recorder depends on.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): let the host own a pending route until its frame lands

A route the page has not received is now the host's, not the screen's. `publish` keeps it
pending until a post resolves true, marks it delivered only then, and reports that through a
callback registered once per host. Movement is measured against what a frame actually reached
the page with rather than against what the host holds, so a refused frame leaves the route owed
instead of reading as one that did not move.

Three things the old shape lost, each a case here: a frame the view refused was never retried,
because only another render could try and a mounted page has none coming; a render while a post
was in flight cancelled the report the switch spends to clear the param; and a repeat tap for
the same pane was held, because the host had already moved its held route on the attempt that
failed. The retries are the moments delivery becomes possible again — the next `ready`, and a
view handle the host regains — and one frame goes out at a time.

Also folds round 4's doc nits: the stale delivery comment the screen no longer has a ref for,
and a leftover `an` in the `ready` branch.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): roll the journal mirror back when persistence fails

`writeEntries` noted the mirror before the store took it, which is what keeps an `init` built in
the same turn current — but it kept the note when the store refused. The page then received a
journal the device never wrote and resumed operations nothing was holding.

Restored on the error path, the same shape as the custom-keys save, and on both halves: the
removal that empties the journal had the same gap as the write that fills it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): keep publishing until the held route is the delivered one

Two halves of the same gap, both found by the bots on `fba8cb3f3d`.

A route that moved while a frame was out was held for the turn and then had nothing to wake it:
the post settling only cleared the in-flight flag, and on a mounted page no `ready`, handle or
tap need ever come along. A landing is now itself a moment to publish again, while what the host
holds is not what the page has. Only on a landing — a refused post that re-attempted itself
would spin, and that one still waits for whatever makes delivery possible again.

And the report carries the route a frame reached the page with, which the session switch was
ignoring: the older pane landing wiped the `paneKey` naming the newer one, so the page stayed
where it was and the second tap was gone. The switch now spends the param only for the pane that
was delivered.

The delivery cases render through one helper rather than six copies of the same setup, which is
what keeps the file under its cap.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* docs(mobile): drop the second block describing a parameter onPageReady no longer takes

The field is documented by the block above it; this one still described the `delivered` promise
the handler was handed before the host took ownership of the pending route.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* feat(mobile): let the page erase the route param it was handed

Ruling 34, step one: one page-to-shell frame that asks the shell to clear a one-shot route param,
naming the value the page applied.

Closed at both ends. The param is an enum of what the shell hands over, so a page cannot edit a
route it was never given; the notify name is a member of the closed union, so it gets a row in
the grant table by compilation rather than by memory, and rides no grant because it can only
spend something this shell put there. The shell declares it in `init`, the mirror of
`ready.accepts`: no shipped shell serves a page, so nothing needs negotiating today and the
page's check exists from the first version that can post one.

The comparison belongs to whoever holds the param, which is the session switch: a tap that moved
on while the page was applying the one before it leaves a newer key, and a clear naming the older
one is not for it.

`bridge-envelope.ts` went over its cap, so the page-to-shell union moved to
`bridge-notify-envelope.ts` and the fields both halves spell to `bridge-frame-fields.ts`, which
the envelope re-exports. No cap was raised.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* refactor(mobile): re-send init on a route change and track nothing else

Ruling 34, step two: the tracked handoff is gone. Deleted, not patched — the pending route, the
delivered route, the in-flight flag, the landing callback, `retryPendingRoute`, the delivery
promise `onPageReady` used to carry, and the `onRouteDelivered` that ran from the host through
the hook and the screen to the switch.

What is left is the rule in one line: `publish` sends one `init` when the route moved and the
page said it takes one, and every `ready` is answered with the route the shell holds then. A
frame the view refused is repaired by the next ask, not by a retry; the request it carried is
spent by the page.

The cases that tested the deleted mechanism go with it. The outcomes they protected are pinned
where they now live: one frame per move and none for a render that moved nothing, a lost frame
repaired by the next ask, no second `init` to a page that never said it takes one, and the
repeat tap measured through the page's erase rather than through a delivery report.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* feat(mobile): the page applies a pane and erases the request that carried it

Ruling 34, step three. The page hook applies the pane an `init` names and asks the shell to erase
the param it came on, naming what it applied.

Two rules, and both are the page's because the shell has none. The erase is asked for on every
`init` that carries a pane rather than only on the one that changed something: a clear that never
reached the shell leaves the param in place, and the next frame carrying it is the repair. The
switch happens once per value: a re-asked `ready` is answered with the route the shell still
holds, and applying that again would drag the page off a tab the user has since moved to.

A repeat tap for the same pane still arrives as a request, because the erase went through in
between and the tap wrote the param back. The client refuses to post the frame to a shell that
did not declare it takes one, which is every shell older than the field.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): keep the page bundle's readers pointed at the module that declares each name

The envelope split left three source-text readers and one import pointed at a file that now
re-exports what they read.

`shell-screen-route.ts` read the route schema back through the envelope, which reaches that file
again through the page-to-shell union: a cycle esbuild resolves to `undefined`, so every page
route mounted onto a schema that was not there yet and the browser render suite failed on twelve
files with a TypeError rather than on a build error. It reads the declaring module now.

The render harness read `BRIDGE_PROTOCOL_VERSION` and `BRIDGE_FAULT_GRANT` out of the envelope by
regex; both moved, and a regex over a re-export answers for whichever file the last split left
them in. Both point at `bridge-frame-fields.ts`, and the throw names it.

The session route's page closure is re-measured on this tree at 4,330 / 988 and the four new
modules are named, not inferred: the two halves of the split envelope, and the route-update
module and route-key reader the page-to-shell union now reaches through it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): count posted inits with the page's own reader, not a cast

The changed-code quality gate refuses a type assertion, and it is right to here: a frame the
page's reader would refuse is not an `init` the page ever saw, so a case counting them must not
count one either.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* refactor(mobile): put every mirrored write on one path that notes what the store took

Ruling 35. Fourteen call sites in six files noted the shell's mirror before persisting, and on
the page a persist can be refused: twelve left the map holding a value no store had taken, and
the next `init` handed the page exactly that. Two undid it by hand.

`persistMirrored` is the one path now, and it seats the map from what the store holds after the
write rather than from what it was handed. That is what makes the note follow acceptance without
a second opinion about it: the page's adapter resolves a `not-allowed` write and logs it, so a
rejection is not the only refusal there is, and reading back is the only answer that covers both.
The cost is one store read per mirrored write on the device, where the store refuses nothing.

`writeMirroredStorage` keeps its note-then-persist order and loses every caller but one: the
shell taking a value the page has already applied, into the device store, which has no allowlist
and no frame cap to refuse against. It builds the next `init` synchronously in the same turn, so
noting on the store's reply there would hand the page back the value it just changed. The
last-visited key moved off it, because that module is in the page's own closure.

Both rollbacks are gone with the notes that needed them, and `noteMirroredWrite` is private. A
source-scanning census holds each writer to the path by name.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* refactor(mobile): answer a page batch write at the first pair it cannot take

Ruling 35's other half. `settleBatch` collected a refusal per pair, logged each, and rejected
with the first that could reject while the rest of the batch went in anyway — one promise
describing a call where some pairs landed and some did not, which is not something a caller can
act on.

A batch is one call with one answer now: every pair before the refusal is applied, the refusal is
the answer, and nothing after it is attempted. No page-closure writer calls `multiSet` or
`multiRemove` today, so this is the rule for whoever writes the first one rather than a change to
anyone's behaviour; both directions are pinned, including the refused first pair that stops the
rest.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* style(mobile): format the mirrored write path's census and journal writer

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* test(mobile): count the note-first callers the mirror module says are held to one

Two gaps pullfrog found in the census. The last-visited key moved onto `persistMirrored` with no
row naming it, so removing its write path reddened nothing; and `mirrored-storage-keys.ts` says
the census holds `writeMirroredStorage` to one caller while nothing counted them.

Counted now, over every module under `mobile/src` rather than over a list of files a new caller
could sit outside of: a second one is either a writer that wants note-then-persist without the
store that earns it, or a page-reachable module that would note a refusal as an accepted write.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* docs(mobile): fold sendInit's doc onto the function it now describes

It still described an awaited post that answered whether the page received the frame, which
ruling 34 deleted: it fires the frame and answers nothing, a refused route sends nothing at all,
and a post the view would not take is one diagnostic and no further attempt.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): let the page own a frame it received and could not handle

Ruling 34's addendum. On iOS the host's post is `callAsyncJavaScript`, which rejects when the
page's synchronous `onmessage` throws — with the document still mounted. The shell reads that as
a frame that never arrived, and it tracks nothing about posts, so nothing would ever send it
again. It is not a lost frame either: the page had it, one of its own listeners failed, and a
retry would fail the same way.

`receive` catches it and reports `inbound-listener-threw`, so the delivery is the channel's and
the handling is the page's. Nothing is swallowed and nothing is retried.

Two cases pinned the throw escaping and now pin it being reported: the ack that a listener bug
must not wedge, and the bootstrap stamp a tree that throws still leaves behind.

With that path closed, a post is refused only when no document holds the view, and the comments
on both halves of the route seam say so instead of naming a backoff that is stopped by then. The
repair is pinned rather than described: a tap that arrives while the view is gone is carried to
the next document's `ready`, because the held route advances on `hold` as well as on `send`.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* refactor(mobile): move the page's held session out of the client, which was at its cap

The listener catch put `bridge-rpc-client.ts` at 305 counted lines against a cap of 300, so this
splits rather than bumps.

The session is the one piece of the client with a lifecycle rather than a value: a second `init`
for the same session updates it in place, a different one replaces it and takes the requests and
streams of the session before it, and each case has its own listeners to fire in its own order.
The client keeps the frames and the ports; `bridge-client-shell-session.ts` keeps what they are
for, and the client's three members delegate to it.

The client measures 277 counted lines after the move. The session route's page closure is
unchanged at 4,330 / 988: the page reaches its client from the entry, not from the route module.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb
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Orca Mobile

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

Local development uses two processes:

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

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

Prerequisites

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

Start Desktop Orca

From the repository root:

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Confirm the mobile RPC server is listening:

lsof -nP -iTCP:6768 -sTCP:LISTEN

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

Start The Mobile App

cd mobile
pnpm install
pnpm start

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

For a native dev-client build:

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

Pair With Desktop Orca

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

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

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

Development Paths

Android Phone

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

iOS Simulator

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

Physical Phone Debugging

The phone can be inspected through the connected device tooling:

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

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

Terminal Streaming Repro Without A Phone

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

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

You can pass a worktree selector as the third argument:

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

The expected result includes:

streamSawMarker: true
readSawMarker: true

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

Terminal Color Repro Without A Phone

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

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

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

Validation

Run these checks before committing mobile terminal changes:

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

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

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

Protocol Version Compatibility

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

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

  • src/shared/protocol-version.tsDESKTOP_PROTOCOL_VERSION, MIN_COMPATIBLE_MOBILE_VERSION
  • mobile/src/transport/protocol-version.tsMOBILE_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 — with MOCK_NATIVE_CHAT=1, present an OMP tab and four decoded transcript messages, including a tool call and result, instead of the default Claude scenario. It deliberately omits transcriptPath to exercise legacy-hook readability discovery; current OMP hooks may report a path.
  • MOCK_SERVER_KEY_FILE — persist the server keypair across restarts so a paired device keeps its public-key pin. A missing or invalid file is re-keyed with a warning, which forces a re-pair.

Scenario control files

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

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

Connecting to Real Orca

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

Project Structure

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