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fix(connect): stop at once when a live probe cannot identify the session - #1967
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The installer's readiness check polled /setup/status and only accepted ok:true. A probe answers every route with not_a_relay_session when it cannot tie the caller to a live Claude Code or Codex session, so a working probe looked dead: the installer waited 60 s, killed it, removed the pointer, and printed only a timeout. A live probe that rejects the caller now counts as running, and the session route reports the cause in about a second. Timeouts name the probe's last answer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`connect install` returned "ready" for a probe that rejected the caller, whose version cannot be read, so an old macOS probe below the 2026.10.5 minimum escaped the update. Install now stops with exit 6 and says to run it from the agent's own shell (or `!` in Claude Code), where the version can be checked. Join is unchanged: it still fails fast with the session reason. Adds the [Unreleased - Patch] changelog entry for this fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Scope the agent-shell instruction to not_a_relay_session. · README.md:15-20
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not_a_relay_session.The README applies “Run it from the agent's own shell tool” to every probe that cannot identify the session. For
session_file_unreadable, the CLI instead uses the probe-provided explanation or tells the user to resume the session and retry. Update the wording to distinguish these responses.Suggested fix
-A probe that answers but cannot tie the command to a live -Claude Code or Codex session counts as running: the command stops at once with -that error instead of waiting or installing another probe. Run it from the -agent's own shell tool. When no eligible probe is available, it +A probe that answers with `not_a_relay_session` counts as running: the command +stops at once instead of waiting or installing another probe. Run it from the +agent's own shell tool. If the probe returns `session_file_unreadable`, follow +the probe-provided explanation, or resume the session and retry. When no eligible +probe is available, it🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- it('keeps a fresh Linux install whose probe answers but cannot identify the caller', async () => { + it.each([['not_a_relay_session'], ['session_file_unreadable']] as const)( + 'keeps a fresh Linux install for %s', + async (rejectionCode) => { ... - check: async () => ({ ok: false, error: { code: 'not_a_relay_session' } }), + check: async () => ({ ok: false, error: { code: rejectionCode } }), ... - }); + } + );🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Describe `session_file_unreadable` separately: follow the probe-provided
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Customer symptom. A guest on macOS (no app installed, so the standalone-probe path) got
Timed out waiting for the Agent Relay probe after 60000 ms. Afterwards there was no pointer and no probe process, andheadless.logwas empty.Root cause.
GET /setup/statusand accepts onlyok:true./setup/statusincluded, with403 not_a_relay_sessionwhen it cannot tie the calling process to a live Claude Code or Codex session (relay-desktopoutbound.rssetup_route→identify).headless.logis empty on a successful start too, so the empty log meant nothing.Reproduced with the published v2026.10.31 macOS arm64 probe tarball and a fresh HOME. It was ready in 2 s and wrote its pointer, and
/setup/statusanswerednot_a_relay_session.Fix.
not_a_relay_sessionorsession_file_unreadablenow counts as live, in bothfindLiveSocketandwaitForLiveSocket. Its version can't be read in that state.not_a_relay_sessionmessage now says the probe is running and that the command must run from the agent's own shell tool.session_file_unreadablepasses the probe's own explanation through. It was previously "Relay Connect request failed (session_file_unreadable)".headless.log.connect installrun from a plain terminal no longer times out against a live probe.Unchanged.
/setup/statusanswersok:truewith that version.Tests (54 pass). Six are new, and all six fail on
main:waitForLiveSocketreturns on the firstnot_a_relay_sessionanswer, with no sleep.findLiveSocketreturns a caller-rejecting probe as live instead ofnull.403 not_a_relay_session.connect joinexits 6 with the inline message in under 5 s, and onlyGET /setup/statusandPOST /connect/joinare requested. Onmain, the old code instead waits through recovery and starts an install.session_file_unreadableprints the probe's message.mainthis hits the 60 s timeout and rolls back.This is a separate fix from the Node-relay design (#1966). We still need to learn why Julian's session was not identified; questions are out to him.
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Overview
Fixes a case where
@agent-relay/connectjoin (and install) could sit for 60 seconds, tear down a healthy probe, and only report a generic timeout when the probe was up but returnednot_a_relay_sessionorsession_file_unreadableon/setup/status.Probe discovery now treats those responses as proof the socket is live:
findLiveSocketandwaitForLiveSocketreturn immediately withsessionRejectedinstead of polling until timeout or rolling back a fresh Linux install. Readiness timeouts include the probe’s last answer (or a pointer toheadless.log).CLI behavior surfaces the real session errors in ~1s—clearer copy for
not_a_relay_session, probe text forsession_file_unreadable, andconnect installusesrequireVerifiedProbeso a running but unverifiable probe is not reported “ready” from an outside terminal.Docs and changelog describe running connect from the agent’s shell; six new tests cover the fast-fail and install-keep paths.
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