feat(broker): add explicit local-only degraded operation - #1726
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds ChangesLocal-only broker operation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI
participant BrokerRuntime
participant LocalWorker
participant Journal
participant Relaycast
CLI->>BrokerRuntime: start with --local-only
BrokerRuntime->>LocalWorker: start without Relaycast credentials
LocalWorker->>BrokerRuntime: submit local delivery
BrokerRuntime->>Journal: persist queued record
BrokerRuntime-->>LocalWorker: return queued_local
Relaycast-->>BrokerRuntime: accept audit event after recovery
BrokerRuntime->>Journal: acknowledge reconciled record
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A supported local-only configuration can stop the broker after two minutes while work remains queued, so this should be fixed before merge. Padded loopback input can also prevent startup. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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tests/relayflows/cases/broker-local-only/run.mjs (1)
36-38: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRecord the request target while the outage is active.
The
!onlinebranch incrementsobservations.unavailableand returns 503 before any routing. It never records the method or URL. The broker runs local-only for the whole outage phase, so every fleet, presence, or remote-attach request it might issue during that phase is absorbed here. The assertion at line 232 then only proves that no unexpected traffic occurred afteronline = true, which is the shortest phase of the test.Record the target in the offline branch so the "no presence, fleet, message, or remote attach traffic" claim covers the outage window.
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+const allowed = (req) => + (req.method === 'POST' && req.url === '/v1/agents') || + (req.method === 'POST' && /^\/v1\/agents\/[^/]+\/events$/.test(req.url)); ... if (!online) { observations.unavailable++; + if (!allowed(req)) observations.unexpected.push(`${req.method} ${req.url}`); reply(503, { ok: false, error: { code: 'database_overloaded', message: 'deterministic test outage' } }); } else if (req.method === 'POST' && req.url === '/v1/agents') {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/api.rs`:
- Around line 555-563: Update the local_only task handling around the task
transformation so the degraded warning is prefixed only when task is Some;
preserve None as None and avoid synthesizing an initial task for idle
interactive agents. Keep the existing warning-plus-task formatting for supplied
tasks and the surrounding exit_after_task behavior unchanged.
In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/degraded.rs`:
- Around line 59-62: Update the outbox validation in the
destination-configuration flow around outbox.scope so any non-empty outbox
without an existing scope is rejected, while retaining the mismatch rejection
for scoped outboxes belonging to another destination; only assign outbox.scope
after both checks pass.
In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/delivery.rs`:
- Line 958: The delivery retry flow must preserve queued local deliveries when
their recipient is absent, even after reaching MAX_DELIVERY_RETRIES. In the
logic surrounding pending.delivery.event_id and the local_ prefix, check for an
absent local recipient before the retry-exhaustion removal, or otherwise exempt
that state from terminal failure so delivery reaches the reconnect path.
In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/init.rs`:
- Line 17: Update the API listener address construction near bind.is_loopback()
to correctly handle IPv6 literals such as ::1: create a SocketAddr or bracket
IPv6 hosts before passing the address to TcpListener::bind, while preserving
existing IPv4 and hostname binding behavior.
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In `@tests/relayflows/cases/broker-local-only/run.mjs`:
- Around line 36-38: Update the !online branch to record each incoming request’s
method and URL in observations before returning the 503 response, reusing the
existing request-target tracking structure used by the broker test. Preserve the
unavailable counter and deterministic outage response while ensuring traffic
during the outage window is included in later assertions.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 8: Rename the changelog heading from “[Unreleased - Minor]” to the exact
“[Unreleased]” heading required by the repository guideline.
In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/delivery.rs`:
- Around line 944-948: Update load_pending_deliveries to reset failed_attempts
for restored local_ deliveries regardless of whether the worker is already
registered, preventing the first retry from being treated as exhausted. Add a
test covering a worker registered before the first retry and verify the delivery
is enqueued rather than dead-lettered.
In `@crates/broker/src/worker.rs`:
- Line 1257: Update the local-only environment handling guarded by
AGENT_RELAY_LOCAL_ONLY in the worker spawn path to also remove RELAY_AGENT_NAME,
RELAY_AGENT_TYPE, RELAY_STRICT_AGENT_NAME, and AGENT_RELAY_ORIGIN_ACTOR
alongside the existing Relaycast variables, ensuring the child process receives
no Relaycast identity or telemetry variables.
In `@packages/cli/README.md`:
- Around line 73-74: Update the local queue retention documentation near the
broker retry and dead-letter description to state that pending local work
remains retained while waiting for a respawned recipient and is not
dead-lettered when retries are exhausted. Remove the claim that local work
follows the normal dead-letter lifecycle, while preserving the surrounding
restart-recovery and manual-flush behavior.
- Around line 105-107: Update the README recovery guidance to state that a
normal restart drains retained audit backlogs only when they have a configured,
digest-matching destination; preserve the surrounding instructions about
stopping the broker, starting without fleet-capability opt-in, and restarting
local workers.
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crates/broker/src/runtime/init.rs (2)
428-432: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSecurity Misconfiguration
Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive InformationEnforce HTTPS for credentialed reconciliation.
DegradedState::startaccepts a configurableRELAYCAST_BASE_URLand authenticates with the workspace key. Reject non-HTTPS endpoints beforeAuthClient::startup_session_set_with_identityruns. Restrict redirects to prevent credentials from reaching another origin.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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151-152: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winTrim
cmd.api_bindbefore constructingapi_host.Local-only validation trims the value, but
api_hostdoes not. For" [::1] ", validation accepts::1, whilebind_addrcontains whitespace andTcpListener::bindcan fail. The same untrimmed value also enters the connection URL.callback_host_for_urlalready trims the value.Proposed fix
-let api_host = bracket_ipv6_host(unbracket_ipv6(&cmd.api_bind)); +let api_host = bracket_ipv6_host(unbracket_ipv6(cmd.api_bind.trim()));🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In @.agentworkforce/trajectories/compacted/pr1726-followup-review.md:
- Line 13: Record this review task in the trajectory system by resolving the
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/init.rs`:
- Around line 9-10: Update the owner lease duration logic in the runtime
initialization flow to use the effective persistence mode from paths.persist
rather than cmd.persist, so --state-dir-only startup receives the durable lease
duration and does not expire with pending durable deliveries.
In `@tests/relayflows/cases/broker-local-only/run.mjs`:
- Line 207: Extend the environment-variable rejection loop in the local-only
worker test to also check AGENT_RELAY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED, DO_NOT_TRACK, and
AGENT_RELAY_NO_DEBUG_FILES, while preserving the existing failure and
clean-proof behavior.
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In `@crates/broker/src/runtime/init.rs`:
- Around line 428-432: Update DegradedState::start to validate the configured
RELAYCAST_BASE_URL before invoking
AuthClient::startup_session_set_with_identity, rejecting any non-HTTPS endpoint;
also configure the request client to disallow redirects to a different origin so
workspace credentials cannot be forwarded elsewhere.
- Around line 151-152: Trim cmd.api_bind before deriving api_host, then use the
trimmed host when constructing bind_addr and the connection URL. Keep
callback_host_for_url’s existing trimming behavior and preserve validation
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When Relaycast degrades, a fleet machine currently cannot start a broker at all, so it cannot run agents against its own local repositories. On 2026-09-08/09 that left one machine hosting nothing for a full day:
A local broker running local agents on local code should not be stopped by a remote shared service being slow.
Why the current behaviour exists, and why this is not simply a revert
AGENT_RELAY_DISABLE_RELAYCASTused to allow this and was turned into a hard failure in PR #415, commit0a53aec5a, 2026-02-13, first released in v2.2.21. An investigation into that change found:So this is not "put the old flag back". #415's implicit intent — that a broker should not silently pretend to be fully functional — is worth preserving.
What this adds
Explicit local-only degraded operation: spawn, attach and queue locally, with cross-machine routing, presence and remote delivery disabled.
The design constraint that matters: degraded must be visibly degraded. The reduced capability is surfaced at startup and in status output, so nobody mistakes a local-only broker for a healthy one. That is the difference between this and the flag that was removed.
Why it matters beyond one machine
Relaycast is currently a single point of failure for the whole fleet: one shared multi-tenant D1, one executor, and every broker hard-depends on it. Today its roster read has been bimodal — a ~2s floor and a failure mode of tens of seconds — which has blocked broker startup, timed out spawns, and stranded
agent releasecalls. This does not fix that (tracked in relaycast#389); it stops that from meaning no work happens anywhere.Review focus
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Changes broker startup, message delivery persistence, credential handling, and audit upload paths—core runtime behavior with security-sensitive reconciliation and identity rules.
Overview
Adds explicit local-only degraded operation so brokers can start during Relaycast outages without pretending to be fully healthy.
agent-relay node up --local-only(orAGENT_RELAY_LOCAL_ONLY=1) skips Relaycast session setup, requires loopback API bind and durable state, and surfaces DEGRADED / local_only in startup logs,/health,/api/session,/api/status, and CLIstatus.Local spawn, attach, and durable on-broker delivery stay enabled; fleet node control, remote routing, workspace auth, Relaycast MCP injection, and manual-flush delivery return explicit capability_disabled errors. Local sends persist before acceptance, survive restarts, wait for absent recipients instead of dead-lettering, and reset transport retry budgets for
local_*deliveries. A newdegradedruntime module journals queued work to a destination-pinned audit outbox (HTTPS-only, no redirects) and reconcileslocal.delivery.queuedevents without re-sending DMs; normal restarts may drain a matching backlog in the background but never auto-enable fleet mode.CLI
upskips cloud enrollment, capability providers, and node-delivery gating for auto-spawn in this mode. Workers strip Relaycast identity env vars while keeping privacy opt-outs. Documentation, changelog, unit/integration tests, and a RelayFlowbroker-local-onlyred/green process proof cover outage vs fixed behavior.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 7d194f2. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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