feat: Remote Multi-Environment support — full 22-PR spec spine (host + client + hardening) - #899
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Orchestration progress — Phase 1
Deviations of note from 1.1: /health sits behind auth (allowlist stays exactly two routes); MIN_CLIENT_PROTOCOL is host policy in endpoints.rs, not the protocol crate; |
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✅ PR 1.8 merged (
In flight: 1.2 (auth core), 1.6 (tailscale), 2.1 (client env registry). |
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✅ PR 1.6 merged (
In flight: 1.2 (auth core — schema/entities/repos committed, middleware+handlers underway), 2.1 (client env registry — migration committed). |
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✅ Three more merged: PR 1.2 auth core (
Now in flight: 1.3 (capability ledger + two-detector authority audit — the big one), 1.4 (durable sequencer + WS + epoch), 1.7 (Remote Access pane). Phase 1 gate: 6 of 8 PRs merged. |
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✅ Review-hardening merged (
Now running: PR 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.7 lanes (updated mid-flight to this tip), a second 5-lens review of the 1.2/serve/2.1 follow-up work, and a codex coverage lane targeting ≥90% patch coverage on changed files. |
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✅ PR 1.7 merged (
Remaining in flight: 1.3 (authority audit), 1.4 (sequencer/WS), review-2 of the 1.2/serve/2.1 work, coverage lane, pane-backend micro-slice. |
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✅ PR 1.3 partial merged ( Continuation (codex) now finishing: call-graph node-identity fix (type-qualified, boundary cuts — the name-keyed graph over-approximates to AgentControl-everything), detector (b) over the discovered background-loop inventory, the full 534-row capability ledger, content-surface enumeration, WorkerTaskView projection, the Handoff quality note: the Opus lane left a 418-line tracker with five explicit landmines — including that the pause/block/stop brakes must never classify as AgentControl (the product's remote-brakes promise) and that unknown transition targets fail closed to arming. Also in flight: 1.4 continuation (S1-S5 found complete with P-2/P-5/P-15/P-19/P-22 tests; gap is the P-21 gate-hydration commands), review-2 of the auth/registry work, coverage lane (Codecov 90% patch gate discovered), pane-backend commands. |
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✅ Review-2 hardening merged (
Skipped-with-reason: needs_repair schema change (spec pins the status vocabulary), remote_fetch widening (PR 2.2 owns it), TailnetProviderError split (1.7 contract owns it). All lanes resumed after the session-limit interruption. |
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✅ PR 2.2 merged (
Product decision surfaced for the owner: Remaining before the Phase-1 tag: 1.3 + 1.4 continuations, coverage lane, then PR 1.5 (Opus) and the review-3 workflow. |
Status update — 2026-07-2817 of 22 spine PRs merged on this branch (integration HEAD
Merged today: PR 1.3 invoke facade + authority audit (539-command ledger, six-table generated manifest, all coverage flags complete); PR 1.3 completion round (detector-b spawn-triggering surface, agent-consumed content surface, P-17g proofs, compile-fail macro fixtures, spec-literal In flight right now: ledger-soundness hardening (11 findings — closes the "verification theater" gaps in the audit apparatus; explicit gate for 1.5) and PR 2.5 (add-environment flow + connections pane). Open owner decisions (tracked in the working tracker, none blocking dark work): 1.5 ship sign-off on the viewer-with-brakes default; Phase 3 OQs (badge ack semantics, harness ownership, tuning surface); native WKWebView QA batch (rule 9 requires an explicit request). |
Status update — 2026-07-28 evening19 of 22 spine PRs merged (integration
Since the last update: ledger-soundness hardening (11 findings; every new CI gate proven red-first by mutation, two caught live defects on arrival — a Known v1 surface gap (deliberate, closes in 3.1): with In flight: 1.5-C idempotency + 1.5-B remount; drift-ratchet tightening after the 1.5-A registrations. Open owner decisions: viewer-with-brakes ship sign-off (1.5); Phase 3 OQs; native WKWebView QA batch (needs explicit request per repo rule 9). |
Status update — 2026-07-29 early AMSpec-alignment review complete; all feature work + alignment fixes merged (integration Alignment verdict (5 Opus lenses + Fable assessor, 34 findings vs 109 confirmed obligations): core invariants — auth, capability model, dedup, stream — match the spec; all high-severity findings were edge gaps, now fixed (20 code fixes landed): audit-write fatality on grant/revoke, 3 missing Remote chat-send shipped: 3.1 progress: batches 1–2 done — pending-gate reads registered (remote P-21 unblocked), 12 commands audit-reclassified to Read, 5 dead orphan invokes deleted; baseline 449→431; facade at 40+ ops. New docs on the branch: Remaining: 3.1 batches to zero-unclassified (431), 3.2 two-instance validation, 3.3 hardening/load tests, 3.4 E2E + docs. Native QA legs still awaiting an explicit owner request (repo rule 9). |
Batch 4 deferred `list_agent_conversations` / `_page` on the `tauri::AppHandle` carrier and named them the cheapest remaining win. They are the other half of PR 3.2's read surface: a remote transcript is useless without a list to pick from. The probe corrects batch 4's premise. `probe_conversation_list_arming_paths` reports NO ARMING HITS for both local commands — unlike the transcript reads, these never had a wake on their path. The disqualifier was carrier-shaped: `list_agent_conversations` accepted `AppHandle` + `ExecutionState` only to build a chat service whose invoked method is a straight repository delegation. Authority carried, never used. (`_page` never took an `AppHandle` at all; batch 4's deferral note was wrong about that, and is corrected in place.) Both local commands now call the same `*_for_app_state` seams the remote ones do, so this forks no logic (A-7) and removes two spawn-authority carriers from a read command rather than routing around them. The collapse of the archived/ non-archived branches is behaviour-identical: `get_by_context(t, c)` is the same predicate and ordering as `get_by_context_filtered(t, c, false)` in both the SQLite and in-memory repositories. Because the local commands never armed, batch 4's arming-calibration would be a false statement here. The calibration that matches the actual disqualifier is `the_spawn_free_remote_read_module_carries_no_authority_carriers`, which asserts the module's no-carrier contract over its own source (comments stripped, with a non-vacuity check) instead of leaving it as prose the way batch 4 did. Every read on the list path propagates its repository error — checked by hand across `filter_agent_list_visible_conversations`, `agent_conversation_responses_for_state` and `latest_conversation_runtime_attribution` — because a `Vec`-returning read is exactly the fail-open shape batch 4 refused four times. Payload is conversation METADATA only; this batch does not repeat batch 4's message-text step-up.
Regen order matters and is manifest -> mirror -> census, per the hazard batch 4 recorded: check-agent-control-command-mirror.mjs derives from the checked-in remote-commands.json and reports PASS against a stale input if run first. Facade ops 57 -> 59. Census total 544 -> 546. The drift baseline does NOT move (419 -> 419), and that is correct rather than a miss: this batch registered two NEW remote-only commands and reclassified zero existing ones, while the local twins stay unregistered by design. A batch that completes a product surface without moving the ratchet is the honest reading.
…isms Batch 4 closed by asserting B2's remainder "is the workspace/publish surface, which fires (a)+(b)+(c) together". That was a hand-wave. This audits the six commands that still LOOK like reads and refuses all six, with the disqualifying mechanism pinned for each rather than the refusal left as folklore. A refusal cluster is the entire result of this audit, and that is the honest outcome: the alternative was a `Read` row over a surface that shells out to git. agent_workspace_response_for_state ARMS. The shared hydrator disqualifies the whole workspace read cluster in one fact, which is why get_agent_conversation_ workspace, list_agent_conversation_workspaces_by_project and list_agent_ sidebar_conversations cannot be registered. list_agent_sidebar_conversations already HAS a _for_app_state seam, so batch 5's list split looks like it should apply. It does not — the seam still reaches the arming hydrator. Pinned explicitly because that is the wrong inference a reviewer is most likely to draw from this batch. get_agent_conversation_workspace_freshness and search_agent_composer_entries reach process-launch sinks (git/gh). get_agent_conversation_workspace also SCHEDULES external PR reconciliation from a nominally read-only command; the body otherwise reads as a plain lookup. search_agent_composer_entries is the fail-open shape refused four times in batch 4, and the sibling of search_agent_composer_plan_references which batch 4 refused for exactly this: a failed `git ls-files` silently degrades to a filesystem walk, so a remote client cannot tell "these are the project's files" from "git failed". It also discloses host paths.
PR 3.2 owns the two-instance harness; phase-3 open question 2 was resolved in favour of it being a SHARED fixture that PR 3.4 extends into the permanent `test-rust-fast.sh main` suite, so it ships as one `pub` API rather than test-file-local plumbing. The fixture boots the production host — real `remote_router` with its auth, CORS, rate-limit and trust-strip layers, a real `TcpListener` on a free loopback port, real HTTP pairing, the real `RemoteSequencer` and the production `RemoteEventCapture::install` — and drives it from a scripted client built on the shipped `HyperRemoteHostClient` over a real WebSocket. No mock router, no auth bypass, no zero-devices bootstrap exception. It lives inside `remote_server` because every seam it needs is `pub(crate)`; a gated child module re-exposes exactly one public surface, which is what lets 3.4 build an integration binary without promoting ~15 internal items one at a time. The gate is `feature = "test-utils"`, never `#[cfg(test)]` on a production item, mirroring the existing `src/testing/**` pattern. The host runs on `MockRuntime`, so the harness never constructs a Wry `AppHandle` off the main thread — the documented cause of the `auth_tests` EventLoop breakage this repo already fixed once. Validation legs (11, all green): - transient chunks stream live over the wire and carry no seq - durable chat events stay contiguous during a stream - A-4: streamed `agent:chunk`/`agent:usage_updated` never reach `remote_event_log`, and consume no durable sequence numbers - terminal exclusion, negatively: no durable row, the classification row is the only `excluded_from_v1` entry, and no terminal command is registered - revoke mid-stream tears down the LIVE socket and 401s the next request - an epoch roll resets a connected client - chat send is refused without `ui:agent` and clears the gate with it `RemoteListenerRuntime::for_tests` is widened from `cfg(test)` to also cover `test-utils` so the fixture (and 3.4's binary) can boot the listener without an `AppHandle`. Determinism: no leg sleeps or polls a timer; every wait is event-driven, and commit ordering is established by waiting for a later durable frame rather than a duration. Suite ran 11/11 twice back-to-back.
…ervation Adds a per-environment notification badge derived from frames already on a background environment's socket, plus the two review-4 items that share the same seam. Badges are OBSERVED, never projected (A-12, §6.4). The background relay counts durable `notification:created` frames and does nothing else: the frame is never handed to the environment's bus, so no warm cursor advances, no cursorAck is sent, and no retained QueryClient is touched. Reactivation stays a full `H = hello.maxSeq` cold hydrate and reconciles the tally away. Because the count comes from existing socket traffic rather than a query, it adds no invoke and cannot erode P-26's health-only background gate. P-28 background half: a background environment's scope refresh now NARROWS to the last CONFIRMED set, or the empty set when nothing was ever confirmed. It previously fell back to the pairing-time snapshot, which was fail-open — a device whose ui:agent grant was revoked host-side would have had it silently restored by a background reconnect. It cannot re-read /remote/v1/session either, since that is not a health op, and widening the proxy is exactly the erosion this slice must not cause. Blocked-environment foreground rate limit (review-4 item 3): the blocked -> resume edge carries resetAttempts and has no ladder, so every app switch spent a descriptor fetch, a ws-ticket, and a session slot on a host whose answer cannot have changed. Foreground wakeups are now floored at one per minute; retry_now, credentials_changed, and online bypass it, and the floor clears only on a successful connection. The A-12 absence assertion is mutation-sensitive: forwarding an observed frame to the bus fails it. Asserting `lastSeq` alone would have been vacuous, since a background bus has cursorValid == false and refuses to advance regardless.
… graph PR 3.2's `src/remote_server/harness.rs` is declared `#[cfg(feature = "test-utils")]`, so no production build compiles it — but `load_production_sources()` walks the filesystem and excluded only `*_tests.rs`/`tests.rs`/`mocks.rs` and `tests`/`testing` directories. The fixture was therefore scanned as production source, and its `start/0` fused with `ResearchProcess::start/0` under arity-keyed dispatch. The harness boots the whole app stack, so `start_research` inherited the `create_or_update` write marker and the workspace-mode armed markers and was falsely attributed to the `workspace-bridge` state surface — reddening `detector_b_surface_rows_cannot_evaporate` and `remote_command_manifest_is_current`. Regenerating the manifest would have baked the false attribution in. Instead the walk now skips module files and directories whose declaration in the owning module file carries a test-only `cfg`, matched on whole words so `cfg(all(test, feature = "test-utils"))` is caught while `cfg(unix)` and `cfg(feature = "latest")` are not. Keying on the gate rather than the filename stops the next fixture under a different name from regressing this silently. The failure is not one-directional: the same collision could have masked a real writer, so the fail-safe direction is pinned in the source comment. Excluding the fixture restores the pre-harness graph, so the checked-in manifest, census and drift baseline all pass unchanged.
Adds the counter surface PR 1.4 never landed: prune runs/rows, resets split by reason, epoch rolls split by cause, transient drops, kicked sessions, and the per-session send-queue high-water mark. Surfaced through get_remote_listener_status as an optional snapshot — None when no stream is installed, which is deliberately distinct from an installed stream reporting zeros. These exist so the retention and heartbeat constants can be tuned from measurement rather than argument (R-11), and because they are the load suite's only honest proxy for 'host memory stays flat': a Rust load test has no reliable per-test RSS assertion, so the phase doc operationalizes that claim as a bounded high-water plus the drop/kick tallies. Resets are counted inside close_with_teardown rather than at its five call sites, so a future teardown path cannot be added without being observable. Reason attribution is load-bearing for tuning: cursor_pruned means retention is too tight for observed client dwell, epoch_changed means the sequencer is rolling — different constants to move. The send-queue depth is sampled BEFORE the session loop's drain, which is the only moment the backlog is at its peak; sampling after would always read zero.
P-11's ratchet admits two answers today — remote-registered, or client-local with a reason. A large block of host commands is neither and never will be: the facade denies them (Denied class, SpawnsProcess) or defers them (Elevated, a v1 non-goal). Batch B0 adds the third answer. `v1_resolution(class, capabilities)` derives it from the ledger row itself, so the authority stays in the ledger and every consumer — manifest, drift scan, census — reads one rendered value instead of re-deriving class_permits.
…belled snapshots
The diff domain was 0 of 29 registered — a paired client saw an empty Changes
view with no explanation. Two snapshot-only reads now populate it:
get_remote_agent_conversation_workspace_change_summary and
..._workspace_review (that payload is both the change list and the commit
list).
The cache substrate already existed and is good: versioned invalidation
fingerprinting branch, PR, base and push state, with single-flight
coalescing. This slice adds a SEPARATE remote snapshot store written through
by the local paths that already inspect git, plus read accessors that never
populate. Per the spawn-distinct-paths rule the twin's closure does not name
the populating function at all — the read and populate paths are distinct
functions. Local TTLs are untouched (2s review, 30s PR annotations); the
remote snapshot gets its own 24h key, so a paired read can never shorten or
extend host-local caching.
Absence and age are legible rather than implied. The envelope carries
{snapshot, captured_at, cache_version, context_source}: a null snapshot means
the host has not captured this workspace yet — distinct from an empty change
set, and it feeds C1's `unknown` state rather than `knownEmpty`. context_source
records WHICH of the five workspace-context fallbacks produced the snapshot
(worktree, local branch, PR head, GitHub patch, error), without which a client
cannot explain why worktree modes are unavailable.
The row-only win in this slice was ABANDONED on measurement, correctly.
get_agent_conversation_workspace_review_hunk_annotations was scoped as a pure
DB read needing only a ledger row; the live detector proved it resolves a CLI
binary, so the Read/NONE override and its registry row were removed rather
than forced. Scoping said pure; the detector said otherwise; the detector wins.
Test corrections (all were asserting shapes the code cannot produce):
- Two MCP twin tests from C3 asserted a `{request: {command, args}}` envelope;
the real remote_invoke wire shape is a struct param `input` carrying
{id, requestId, cmd, args}. Those tests were never run before C3 shipped —
my suite selection named mcp-policy.test.ts and missed mcp-policy-remote.
- The same invented envelope in this slice's own diff-remote test.
- Two more invoke-arity assertions pinning a 2-tuple where the seam passes an
optional third schema argument.
- projects-remote-shell pinned the retired repository_capability_kind; it now
exercises the real snapshot AND asserts the retired field is not trusted.
Its fixture also sent `message: null`, which the host never emits (serde
skips None) — corrected to a realistic payload.
- agent-gate's "every affordance resolves" test hardcoded its exceptions, so
every new read-class affordance failed it for being correct. It now derives
the expectation from the manifest's own opClass, allowing for
argument-sensitive ops that are operate-class overall while their fields
still require ui:agent.
Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): remote_diff 2/0; diff_commands 43/0;
facade 417/0; layering PASS; zero warnings; drift 611 names / 0 unclassified;
mirror 276 ops; census and event-manifest regenerated on the final tree; 1132
frontend tests; tsc green. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker
src-tauri/.codex-pC4a-tracker.md.
Known pre-existing, not chased: git_auth_tests::
repository_capability_uses_git_effective_urls_for_included_push_rewrites
(proven at f20a675).
C4a gave paired clients the change list and commit list; selecting a file still showed nothing. Four snapshot-only twins finish it: workspace file diff, commit-scoped file diff, cumulative file diff, and the exact-range paged variant. All Read / no capabilities. Scope call, settled rather than deferred again: diff CONTENT crosses the wire. The standing owner rule is that a paired client sees and manages everything the host has, and C4a already carried file paths, change stats and commit messages. This adds the hunk content the host displays to the same person. Same discipline as C4a: accessors never populate (the twin's closure does not name the populating function), local reads keep their behavior and write through while they already own the git inspection, and snapshots are keyed by conversation + file path + ref/scope + page range so a paged snapshot cannot be served as if it covered the whole file. Repair and conflict operations stay out of scope. Fixed a real defect this slice's own test caught: SimpleDiffView's "host has not captured this diff" branch was DEAD CODE. An uncaptured snapshot has zero hunks, and the `hunks.length === 0` early return fires first — so absence rendered as the claim "No changes", the exact fabrication this wave exists to remove. The guard is now hoisted above the empty state with a comment saying why the order is load-bearing. PagedDiffView already ordered it correctly; verified rather than assumed. Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): remote_diff 2/0; diff_commands 43/0; facade 417/0; layering PASS; zero warnings; drift 615 names / 0 unclassified (279 remote-registered); manifest, mirror, census and event-manifest current on the final tree; 1244 frontend tests across 89 files, including the new files run explicitly; tsc green. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker src-tauri/.codex-pC4b-tracker.md. Known pre-existing, not chased: git_auth_tests:: repository_capability_uses_git_effective_urls_for_included_push_rewrites (proven at f20a675).
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Wave C complete ( The theme of the wave was absence must not read as fact, and it turned up more instances than the assessment listed:
One scoped win was abandoned on measurement: Decision taken rather than re-asked: diff content crosses the wire, per the standing rule that a paired client sees what the host has. Related: C2 carries repository capability as Validation per slice: facade 415–417/0, drift 615 names / 0 unclassified, 1244 frontend tests, layering, tsc. Next: Wave D — the reclassifications (ticketing reads/writes split, update channel + host version surfacing, automation brakes to |
…nd two misclassifications
Three mechanical wins plus a correctness fix. Nothing here widens a refusal;
the ticketing piece narrows one and the spawner row tightens one.
Host version and platform on a paired client. The data was already on the wire
TWICE and discarded both times: environment_descriptor() publishes app_version
and platform, the pairing preview renders them once, and parseDescriptor drops
them on the floor. The descriptor view now keeps them and stashes them per
environment. Deliberately NOT persisted in the remote_environments row — a
stored version becomes a lie the moment the host updates, whereas the
descriptor is re-fetched on every connect and so is self-refreshing. Absent
values render as nothing, never as "unknown version".
Five ticketing reads reclassified to Read with NO capabilities. All twenty
ticketing commands sat at one unaudited module default
(elevated_default("ticketing_commands", CREDENTIALS)) with zero per-command
overrides, which is what actually blocked them — not the credential, which
never crosses the wire (settings hold a keychain reference resolved inside the
service). These five make no outbound provider call and expose no secret
reference: list_ticketing_status_catalog, get_conversation_ticket,
get_ticket_associations, refresh_tickets (a pure stub), list_ticketing_providers.
Since class_permits admits no capability under Read, the touchesCredentials tag
is DELETED rather than moved, so each carries an audit reason instead of the
module-default string. The other fifteen are untouched; list_ticketing_columns
and refresh_ticketing_status_catalog are explicitly NOT reads (both write the
status catalog).
CORRECTNESS FIX — start_ralphx_work_from_ticket is a process spawner that was
masked as credential-deferred. It takes AppHandle + ExecutionState and calls
AgentConversationStartService::start(), but the module default filed it under
CREDENTIALS, and the detector cannot see a spawner in that position: it fires
if such a row is dropped to Read/Operate or registered, but NOT at an
unregistered AgentControl. It now has an explicit process_refusal row naming
the chain. Latent regardless of remote work.
delete_task_proposal renamed to archive_task_proposal. Its body calls
archive_proposal_impl — it has always archived, never deleted, so the old name
only ever earned it the delete_ prefix floor. The rename is honest independent
of remote (the name misdescribed the body) and follows the B3
cancel_remote_queued_agent_message precedent of renaming to the true verb
rather than fighting the floor with an override.
Orchestrator corrections on top of the codex slice:
- Its two reported ticketing failures were sandbox worktree-creation
restrictions, not assertions: 179/0 outside the sandbox.
- Its ticketing-remote test mocked an invented two-field snake_case payload;
the real TicketAssociationsResponse is eight camelCase arrays plus fetchedAt,
and refresh_tickets is camelCase too. Corrected to the real serialization.
- The registry declared MutatesAgentConsumedContent for archive_task_proposal
while the ledger fell through to the module default. The registry was right —
archiving a proposal changes what a worker subsequently reads, exactly like
update_task_proposal — so the ledger gained an explicit row rather than the
registry being downgraded to match.
Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): ticketing 179/0; proposal 140/0; facade
417/0; detector-c and spec/ledger pins green; layering PASS; drift 615 names /
0 unclassified; mirror 286 ops; census and event-manifest current on the final
tree; 1125 frontend tests; tsc green. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol);
tracker src-tauri/.codex-pD1-tracker.md.
Known pre-existing, not chased: git_auth_tests::
repository_capability_uses_git_effective_urls_for_included_push_rewrites
(proven at f20a675).
Four decisions now gate further parityWave D1 landed everything that needed no call from you ( What's left needs your boundary, not more engineering. Each has a recommendation: 1. Ticketing credential spend (assessment D3) — recommend YES. What blocked ticketing was never the credential: it never crosses the wire (settings hold a keychain reference, resolved inside the service). It was one unaudited module default covering all twenty commands. The real question is whether a paired phone may drive the host's stored token — reads inflate its rate limit, writes post comments and transitions attributed to the host's user. Blast radius today is ~0: 2. 3. Automation brakes → operate (assessment D5) — recommend DEFER. Mechanically sound: pause is one CAS, and stop's 4. Repository remote URLs (from C2) — your call, low stakes. Capability currently crosses as And one recommendation to change nothing: leave the
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… should have caught them Wave B1 registered the four resume/restart intent twins and wired the client transport, but never repointed the gate rows: taskResume, taskRestart and executionResume still named the local commands. So on every paired client with a WORKING transport, Start/Resume was disabled with "this action runs only on the host", Resume/Restart/Resume-All were disabled in the task and group menus, and the `if (!gate.gated)` guard permanently skipped resumeExecutionIfStopped. Tier 0 #1 — the one-way brake where a client could stop the host's scheduler and never restart it — was fixed at the transport layer and then re-closed at the UI layer by my own slice. Two tests baked in the stale premise, which is why nothing caught it. Same class, second instance: the plan bar GATED on pause_execution / stop_execution (registered) while its handlers INVOKED pause_execution_plan / stop_execution_plan (not registered), so the buttons rendered live, confirmed, and threw REMOTE_COMMAND_UNAVAILABLE. They now gate on the ops their handlers actually call. The structural fix is GATE_WIRED_FILES, 36 -> 54 files. Both defects above were invisible because AgentsArtifactPane and ExecutionControlBar were not under the op-consistency guard. Extending it immediately earned itself, finding two more real defects: - TaskBoard Column gated "Resume All" on taskResume while invoking resumeTasksInGroup — now gates groupResume. - ProposalWidget still rendered the delete verb after Wave D renamed delete_task_proposal to archive_task_proposal. It also flagged eight dead rows, six of which were Wave C4b file-diff affordances no surface ever consumed: those views derive unavailability from the snapshot envelope and the transport error instead, so the rows were a second unused mechanism. Removed, along with the test that pinned them. The permission dialog is no longer a dead end. It called the unregistered get_pending_permissions at three sites: mount hydration (the rejection emptied pendingEventsRef, DISCARDING permission:request events buffered during the mount window), the open-dialog handler (the dead end the Tier 0 #3 fix was supposed to close), and unknown-outcome reconciliation (which therefore never reconciled remotely). All three now use the registered listPendingPermissionGates, and a failed read stays strict rather than presenting as "none pending". TWO TEST REGRESSIONS I SHIPPED AND NEVER NOTICED, fixed here: - 59 IntegratedChatPanel failures from Wave B3c (6ec7cc2): queue hydration began calling chatApi.getQueuedAgentMessages, but the test file's mock never declared it, so every panel mount threw. Production was correct throughout. - 2 useProposals failures from Wave D1 (b8d22a8): the archive rename updated the assertions but left the mock key named `delete`. Both slipped through because per-slice verification used suite SELECTIONS that omitted the files the slice actually touched — the third instance of that mistake this session. From now on the full frontend suite runs before every commit, not a selection. Validation: FULL frontend suite — 787 files, 12800 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed; tsc green; drift 615 names / 0 unclassified; census current. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); trackers src-tauri/.codex-pE1-tracker.md and .codex-pE1b-tracker.md.
…e exist"
Closes the defect class Wave C1 opened: a transport read fails, the catch turns
it into an empty collection or null, and the UI renders that as a positive fact.
The one that mattered most is not a rendering bug. `useIdeation`'s
reset-and-reaccept read the plan branch through `.catch(() => null)`, so a
failed read silently dropped `baseBranchOverride` and the flow RE-APPLIED
PROPOSALS ONTO THE WRONG BASE BRANCH. It now fails closed: the read throws
inside the mutation, which rejects before `sessions.reopen` — the destructive
step that deletes tasks and cleans git — so an unresolved base branch cannot
produce work on the wrong one.
The most visible: `useMessageAttachments` swallowed a DENIED
`list_message_attachments` with a bare `catch {}`, so on every paired client
every message with attachments rendered as though it had none — no chip, no
card, no hint the host has them, and all the gallery placeholder work
unreachable because the metadata never arrived. Absence is now explicit.
(Wave E6 adds the read twin that makes them load; this makes the gap honest.)
Also fixed: both ChangeReviewSection copies (task state history), both
TaskDetailContext copies (a failed plan-branch read made the whole plan-merge
surface disappear), ReleaseNotesDialog, App's git-branch list, the project
creation wizard, and the sidebar publication poll that silently froze PR badges
at their last known value. Two swallowed ticketing MUTATIONS — quick-assign and
move-ticket — no longer no-op in silence. Duplicated files were fixed in pairs;
deduping them is out of scope and recorded in the tracker.
Orchestrator corrections on top of the codex slice:
- The wizard's failure copy existed only INSIDE the Radix dropdown, so a user
had to open the select to discover the read had failed. It is now inline
beside the sibling default-branch message, with the disabled item kept for
anyone who opens it.
- Two of the slice's new tests asserted through that dropdown, which jsdom does
not render on click — they were testing the library rather than the
behaviour. Rewritten against observable state, and one of my own assertions
was wrong in the process: an empty branch LIST does not mean the default
branch is unknown, so the trigger correctly shows the detected "main".
Validation: FULL frontend suite — 787 files, 12818 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed;
tsc green; drift 615 names / 0 unclassified; census current. Implemented via
codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker src-tauri/.codex-pE5-tracker.md.
No further instances of this pattern were found in the bounded scan; the
remaining catches are recovery guards, preload/teardown best-effort paths, and
JSON/localStorage parses of already-delivered payloads.
Wave E5 made the gap honest; this closes it. list_remote_message_attachments registers at Read with no capabilities, because the old denied/writesArbitraryPath classification came from the chat_attachment_commands MODULE DEFAULT rather than anything the command earns: it is a plain attachment-repository read. That was verified by measurement against the live detector, not assumed — the same claim failed under measurement in Wave C4a, so the module now carries a carrier-absence assertion proving it takes no ChatAttachmentService, storage path, AppHandle or ExecutionState. RemoteChatAttachmentResponse deliberately OMITS the host file_path. A paired client cannot open a host path, and putting one on the wire would be both misleading and an invitation to send host filesystem authority back through another surface — the same field-absence discipline the conversation-start twin uses. Attachment BYTES remain host-only in this slice: cards render metadata with the existing "Stored on the host" affordance rather than a broken preview or a dead download. The byte route needs a binary transport envelope (remote_fetch carries a String body today) and its own path-containment work. E5's unknown state is retained for genuine read failures and for an older host that lacks the twin, so absence stays the signal rather than becoming a claim. Orchestrator additions: the census literal was not bumped for the new command (caught by the detector-b pin; 604 -> 605 with its reasoning in the trail), and a leftover Radix dropdown click in my own E5 wizard test was throwing an unhandled jsdom hasPointerCapture error — removed, since E5 moved that failure copy inline precisely so the assertion would not need to open the select. Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): attachment 113/0; remote_attachment 2/0; facade 419/0; layering PASS; zero warnings; drift 616 names / 0 unclassified; mirror 287 ops; census and event-manifest regenerated on the final tree; FULL frontend suite 787 files / 12820 passed / 3 skipped / 0 failed with no unhandled errors; tsc green. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker src-tauri/.codex-pE6-tracker.md.
…lanket banner AgentsArtifactPane returned a single "Workspace publishing and pull requests runs on the host" notice for the ENTIRE publish tab under a remote transport. That was correct when the workspace read was spawn-denied; it stopped being true several waves ago. get_remote_agent_conversation_workspace is registered, and so are the review and file-diff snapshot reads from C4a/C4b — so an honest-looking banner was hiding a visibility gap over data the host was already willing to serve. The tab now renders read-only from those registered reads: PR state, checks, commits, base/head and publication status, with the C4 snapshot labelling and not-yet-captured copy reused rather than re-invented. Only the two controls that genuinely cannot run remotely are gated — publish_agent_conversation_workspace and close_agent_workspace_pr, both process-reaching and unregistered — and they resolve unavailable from manifest absence, rendering disabled with the host-only hint rather than vanishing or throwing on click. AgentsPublishPanel joins GATE_WIRED_FILES, so the op-consistency guard now checks that each row names the op its handler invokes. Publish and close-PR intent twins are deliberately NOT attempted here: publish is a multi-step interactive flow whose progress semantics need a design answer, and close-PR is destructive and terminalizes the workspace runtime. Both are owner-gated. Note on verification: codex's own vitest run was blocked before collection by the worktree's node_modules symlink (EPERM on Vite's config cache), so the suite result below is the orchestrator's run, not its report. Validation: FULL frontend suite — 787 files, 12823 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed; tsc green; drift 616 names / 0 unclassified; mirror 287 ops; census current. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker src-tauri/.codex-pE7-tracker.md.
Wave E complete — everything unblocked is done
E1 — a regression I shipped. Wave B1 registered the four resume/restart intent twins and wired the transport, but never repointed the gate rows. So on every paired client with a working transport, Start/Resume was disabled with "this action runs only on the host", Resume/Restart/Resume-All were disabled in the task menus, and the guard permanently skipped Both were invisible because the two files weren't in E5 — twelve places where a failed read claimed "none exist". The one that mattered isn't a rendering bug: E6 — attachments load. E7 — the publish tab. It returned one banner for the whole surface; the workspace and diff reads have been registered for several waves. PR state, checks, commits and diffs now render read-only, with only publish and close-PR gated. Validation per slice: full frontend suite (787 files, 12,823 tests) — that's the new standard after selections shipped three silent regressions — plus facade 419/0, drift 616 names / 0 unclassified, layering, tsc. What's left is all yoursThe four decisions from the previous comment (ticketing credential spend,
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Self-contained brief for a fresh reviewer: base 7f90edc -> head 5af02c8, 26.5k lines across 332 files, none of it ever run in CI. Records what each wave claimed, the two patterns everything was built on (intent twins, cached shell-outs), and seven ranked attack surfaces — idempotency and at-most-once claims, claim-time authority re-proof, host-alone parity, detector blind spots, absence-rendered-as-fact, gate/op correspondence, and test quality. Also lists what is known-and-accepted so the reviewer does not spend effort re-reporting it: the proven pre-existing git_auth batch failure, the RUST_MIN_STACK requirement, and the six parked owner decisions.
Everything remaining after Waves A-E, framed as decisions with a recommendation and a cost rather than a status list: ticketing credential spend (yes), set_update_channel (yes, with the host-restart consequence stated), automation brakes (defer, and why), repository remote URLs (owner call), the three slices that each carry their own call (attachment bytes, publish progress semantics, close-PR), and one recommendation to change nothing (the delete_ floor is 9 rows, not ~100). Leads with the operational blocker: Actions has created no runs for ~34 commits, so all verification to date is local, and the last real run's Rust shards died on a nextest global timeout that could not be re-judged.
…ved credential spend) The owner approved a paired client spending the host's ticket credential, so the last twelve of the twenty ticketing commands are now classified individually instead of inheriting one unaudited module default. What actually blocked this was never the credential. It never crosses the wire: settings hold a `token_secret_ref` (a keychain key) resolved inside the service against a SecretStore, and no registered response type carries a secret reference — asserted by absence, not assumed. The deferred risk was credential SPEND, and that is what the owner decided. Six credential-spending READS at Read with NO capabilities: containers, tickets, filter options, ticket detail, transitions, labels. Because class_permits admits no capability under Read, this DELETES the touchesCredentials tag rather than moving it — so each row carries a per-command audit reason stating plainly that the command makes an outbound provider call on the host's credential and that the credential itself stays host-side. Eight WRITES at AgentControl: five provider writes (transition, assign, clear-assignee, comment, labels) plus three catalog writes. list_ticketing_columns and refresh_ticketing_status_catalog are explicitly NOT reads despite their names — both call sync_status_catalog_for_scope and write the local status catalog. The scope enforcement is proven, not just labelled: a client holding only ui:read + ui:operate is refused with RemoteForbidden at dispatch. start_ralphx_work_from_ticket stays refused. Wave D1 found it was a process spawner masked as credential-deferred by the module default; it keeps its explicit process_refusal and this slice does not weaken it. Frontend: fourteen gate rows wired through useAgentGate on the ticketing surfaces, with TicketingDashboardView already under the op-consistency guard so each row is checked against the op its handler invokes. Wave E5's un-swallowed quick-assign and move failures still surface rather than no-op. The ticketingDashboard feature flag still defaults false, so this surface remains off until someone turns it on. Note on verification: codex reported 2 ticketing and 35 facade failures, all of which were its sandbox refusing worktree creation and loopback binds. Outside the sandbox: ticketing 182/0, facade 422/0. It also found and fixed two of its own classification errors mid-run. Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): ticketing 182/0; facade 422/0; layering PASS; zero warnings; drift 616 names / 0 unclassified with registered ops 287 -> 301; mirror, census and event-manifest regenerated on the final tree; FULL frontend suite 787 files / 12827 passed / 3 skipped; tsc green. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker src-tauri/.codex-pF1-tracker.md.
…Ls on the wire Two owner-approved changes, both small. set_update_channel moves to AgentControl. The body is a single audited repository write with the error propagated, and the ledger row itself had long said the refusal was about authority rather than hygiene. The HostManagement capability is DROPPED, not carried: class_permits admits no capability under AgentControl and the assert is const. The one-member DeferredHost disposition rung is retired with it rather than left as dead code, and the registry block comment that declared this command deliberately unregistered is corrected. The accepted consequence is recorded in the ledger reason itself, which is where a future reader will look: a paired device can move the host's release train, and the host will auto-update and restart, terminating running agents. Enforcement is proven rather than labelled — a client holding only ui:read + ui:operate is refused with RemoteForbidden at dispatch. The settings control is now gated by manifest presence instead of a hardcoded isRemoteEnvironment check. The capability snapshot now carries fetch_url and push_url. Wave C2 deliberately withheld them because the module promised no remote URLs; the owner's standing rule is that a paired client sees what the host has, so the promise changed and the module doc says so. Scope is deliberately narrow: only these two fields crossed. `working_directory` was already on the wire under an earlier owner decision and stays display-only; no other host filesystem path was widened, and the reasoning that keeps them off is untouched. Absent stays absent: both URL fields use skip_serializing_if, so a repository with no remote omits them rather than sending null, and the client renders the push URL, falls back to fetch, then an em-dash — never the empty string Wave C1 removed. Note on verification: codex's facade run hit its sandbox's loopback-bind prohibition (32 failures) and its vitest could not write through the worktree's node_modules symlink. Both were re-run outside the sandbox: facade 423/0, full frontend suite 787 files / 12833 passed / 3 skipped. Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): update_channel 13/0; remote_workspace 11/0; facade 423/0; layering PASS; zero warnings; drift 616 names / 0 unclassified with 301 remote-registered; mirror 302 ops; census and event-manifest regenerated on the final tree; tsc green. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker src-tauri/.codex-pF2-tracker.md.
17 commits, 275 files. Nine conflicts, all resolved so main's functionality is kept whole and the remote-parity work is added on top of it rather than in place of it. Four resolutions needed more than a union. Migration version collision (the one that would have corrupted data). Both sides minted version 20260804120000 — ours remote_plan_approval_requests, main's agent_workspace_base_stale_target. The runner selects by set membership (!applied_versions.contains), so the loser would not have been re-ordered, it would have been silently skipped forever on every existing database. Main's is already shipped, so OURS was renumbered forward to 20260806080000, past main's max; the migration is IF NOT EXISTS so it re-runs cleanly. SCHEMA_VERSION now names the renumbered migration, and the array is sorted with uniqueness asserted. No database is caught mid-ambiguity: the only dev database on this machine tops out at 20260802174000, so nothing ever recorded 20260804120000 under our name and main's migration of that version is not skipped anywhere. Sidebar spawn authority (the one that broke a facade invariant). Main moved workspace hydration into list_agent_sidebar_conversation_groups_from_hydrated, which BOTH the local and remote entry points call, and hydrated plan-linked workspaces through agent_workspace_response_for_state — the hydrator that arms the recovery scheduler and resolves the git CLI. That put a process launch back into the remote read's call-graph closure: detector (c) and remote_agent_sidebar_read_carries_no_spawn_authority both failed with "the recovery-free hydrator seam has been broken". Main's map turned out to be populated and never read (our twins already supply the map the row loop consumes), so the dead loop is removed and main's plan-linked rule is carried into each twin instead, each naming its own hydrator. Main's behavior is preserved exactly — plan-linked workspaces keep the richer projection, everything else uses the cheap From — while the remote closure stays clear of the resolver. This is the "spawn-distinct paths are distinct FUNCTIONS" rule in .claude/rules/remote-facade.md, which exists because of the same failure. Four new commands arrived from main unclassified — recheck_pr_health, retry_pr_autofix_override, stop_pr_autofix_for_failure, and retry_agent_workspace_publication_effect. All four are in the PR-autofix and publication-repair family and reach gh, git, or an agent relaunch, so all four are ledgered Denied with per-command reasons, matching the treatment their siblings publish_agent_conversation_workspace and close_agent_workspace_pr already carry. Manifest regenerated; drift moves 616 -> 620 names, still 0 unclassified, and detector (b)'s census calibration moves 605 -> 609 with the four names recorded in the comment beside it — a census-count change, not a detector change. Three of the four join the pending-review-freshness writer attribution, which is what a Denied process-reaching command is expected to do. A null review snapshot was being read as an empty change set. Main's typecheck caught what our own Wave C contract allows: getAgentConversationWorkspaceReview resolves null when the host has never captured a snapshot, and the publish panel's isSuccess branch dereferenced it. Null now resolves to unavailable — "not captured", never "no changes". Same defect class the C1/C5 honesty passes exist to remove. Two of our own tests were not running. AgentsArtifactPane.test.tsx had an unterminated it() block that made the whole file fail to parse (0 tests collected), and the sidebar worktree-sentinel test had been appended inside another test's body — "cannot test inner items", silently never executed. Both now run and pass: the pane file collects 238 tests, and remote_agent_sidebar_projection_blanks_only_the_worktree_path is a real test again rather than an inner item the harness skipped (41 in its module, all green). Remaining resolutions were unions or reflows verified line-by-line: both sides' added lines were diffed against the merged tree, and every apparent loss was confirmed to be relocation, intentional renumbering, or formatting. One genuine drop was restored (the sentinel const's doc comment). One import was dropped deliberately — main intentionally stopped routing the sidebar through agent_conversation_response_for_state, which the merge-base had used, so that is main's change kept, not ours lost. Formatter churn was reverted rather than committed: rustfmt on a mod.rs recurses through the module subtree, so six untouched files under application/ and chat_service/ came back reordered and were restored to their merged state. Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): cargo check --tests --features test-utils zero errors, zero warnings; facade suite 423 passed / 0 failed; migrations and sidebar lane suites 751 passed / 0 failed; layering PASS; drift 620 names / 0 unclassified with 301 remote-registered; capability mirror 302 ops; event and vocabulary mirrors current; census 0 unclassified; event manifest regenerated and re-checked; full frontend suite 797 files / 12975 passed / 1 expected fail / 3 skipped; tsc green.
Two commits that landed on main while the previous merge was being validated: the Trusted Caller Run Authority fix (#1003) and the v0.95.1 release prep. No conflicts — the changes sit in http_server handlers and add a new trusted_run_authority module, so they touch no Tauri command and no facade row. Validated rather than assumed, since the facade allowlist is exhaustive over generate_handler! and a new handler module is exactly where a command could sneak in: drift holds at 620 names / 0 unclassified with no new registrations, layering PASS, cargo check --tests --features test-utils clean with zero warnings, and the facade suite plus the new trusted-run-authority and managed-team authority tests pass 431/0 (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608).
…ge.yml The merge kept both sides' answer to the same OOM: main's CARGO_BUILD_JOBS: "1" and this branch's "2", in one env mapping. Duplicate YAML keys make the workflow file invalid, so Coverage Reports failed in 0s with "this run likely failed because of a workflow file issue" — the first run to reach this branch now that Actions is creating runs again. Main's cap is the stricter of the two and is kept; this branch's evidence for why the cap exists (exit 143, runner reaped on 3 of 4 attempts at 4 parallel rustc processes) is folded into its comment rather than dropped. The delta against main is now comment-only.
… just two
REMOTE_TIMEOUT_UNKNOWN and REMOTE_REQUEST_IN_PROGRESS mean the request reached
the host and the answer did not come back: the mutation MAY have applied. The
correct response is refetch and let the host be the truth. Re-sending is the one
thing that must not happen — with a fresh requestId it is a second mutation, and
with the same id it races the reservation the first attempt is still holding.
`reconcileUnknownOutcome` has encoded this since PR 2.7-b, but it had exactly TWO
consumers. The other 176 useMutation sites treated an unknown outcome as an
ordinary failure and invited a retry the host would double-apply or race.
The fix is one MutationCache({ onError }) on createQueryClient, so all 178 sites
get correct behavior without any of them being edited. Detection reuses the
existing isRemoteTransportError + isUnknownOutcome predicate rather than copying
the code list, so "unknown outcome" keeps exactly one definition. With no
declared keys it invalidates the whole client — we do not know what changed, and
these are rare 30s timeouts, so the broad default is the safe one. A mutation may
narrow it with meta.unknownOutcomeQueryKeys, typed through react-query's Register
augmentation rather than a cast.
Environment scoping is structural, not conventional: each MutationCache closes
over the QueryClient it was built with and never reads the ambient environment
id, so it cannot reach another environment's cache. Proven by a test, not by the
comment.
The handler stays silent on user-facing copy — the two existing consumers surface
UNKNOWN_OUTCOME_MESSAGE themselves and a global toast would double-message them.
Accepted consequence: those two now also get the global pass, so their targeted
invalidation is followed by a client-wide one. Idempotent, slightly broader, and
still refetch-not-resend; they can narrow with meta later if it matters.
Test note: codex's tests built mutations straight off the cache, which would let
a regression in how useMutation forwards `meta` pass unnoticed. Two tests were
added through the production entry point — useMutation under a provider — and the
meta one asserts the untouched key is NOT invalidated, so it fails if meta stops
propagating rather than silently widening.
Codex reported prettier and vitest BLOCKED by its sandbox (bun tempdir
PermissionDenied; Vite cache EPERM through this worktree's symlinked
node_modules). Both were re-run outside it.
Validation: FULL frontend suite 797 files / 12983 passed / 1 expected fail /
3 skipped / 0 failed (12975 -> 12983, +8); tsc green with pipefail; prettier
clean; drift 620 names / 0 unclassified; mirrors and census current. Implemented
via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker frontend/.codex-s7-1-tracker.md.
…ffordance row A registered write op with no affordance row gets no gate at all: during reconnect or offline its control stays live, the user clicks it, and the transport throws. This batch closes that for the task lifecycle — archive, restore, block, pause, and the group cancel/pause-all actions — each with a row in AGENT_GATED_AFFORDANCES, a useAgentGate call at the control, a handler that early-returns while gated, and the file registered in GATE_WIRED_FILES so the op-consistency guard checks the row names the op the handler actually invokes. Five of the eleven candidate ops were NOT wired, and deliberately: inject_task and stepsApi start/complete/fail/reorder have no consumer anywhere outside the API module. There is no control to leave live, so a gate would be decoration. They are recorded in the tracker rather than silently skipped. Pause and block move under ui:agent. The comment there previously called their exclusion "deliberate, not an oversight" on the grounds that they reduce authority — but the host classifies pause_task and block_task as agentControl, so a ui:operate-only client was being shown controls the host would refuse with RemoteForbidden. Aligning the client to the host's own classification is the whole point of the gate; the stale justification is replaced, and no host classification changed. Soft-disable, not `disabled`. The explained-menu-item helper already encodes why: a truly disabled control has pointer-events:none and leaves the focus order, so its reason is unreachable by mouse and keyboard alike — the user sees a dead control and no explanation. The first cut hard-disabled the ProcessCard pause button and the overlay archive/restore buttons, which made their tooltips impossible to open. They now carry aria-disabled + data-disabled-explained and keep `disabled` only for genuine in-flight states, so the reason stays reachable. That is a real user-facing fix, not a test accommodation. Four test files needed a TooltipProvider wrapper (the app supplies one from App.tsx; bare component renders do not), and the gate assertions now focus the trigger and await the Radix content instead of asserting it synchronously — matching agent-gate-surfaces.test.tsx. Radix renders tooltip copy twice, once for the live region, so those assertions match all occurrences rather than pinning one. Scope note: the open-decisions report counted 78 ungated write ops. The true figure is 76 — create_task, deny_permission_request and update_task are deliberately INERT (class operate, reachable with ui:operate), and gating them would make the client stricter than the host. Remaining after this batch: 70, grouped by owning module for later batches. Note on verification: codex could not run prettier or vitest (bun tempdir PermissionDenied; Vite cache EPERM through this worktree's symlinked node_modules) and reported BLOCKED rather than guessing. Re-run outside its sandbox, its work failed 47 tests across 6 files; all are fixed above. Validation: FULL frontend suite 797 files / 12996 passed / 1 expected fail / 3 skipped / 0 failed (12983 -> 12996); tsc green with pipefail; prettier clean; drift 620 names / 0 unclassified; mirrors and census current. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker frontend/.codex-s7-2a-tracker.md.
Eight persona ops get affordance rows, gate calls, dispatch guards and GATE_WIRED_FILES entries: create/update draft, update, approve, approve-as-new, reseed, archive, unarchive. Soft-disabled throughout — aria-disabled plus a reachable reason, never `disabled`, because a disabled control has pointer-events:none and leaves the focus order, so the user gets a dead control and no explanation. Five ideation proposal ops were skipped and the skips were checked rather than taken on trust: archive, reorder, assessPriority and assessAllPriorities are reached only by useProposals/usePriorityAssessment, which no component consumes, and remove_proposal_dependency lives behind useDependencyMutations, which nothing imports — the three components using that module import useDependencyTiers and getDependencyReason instead. No control exists to leave live, so a gate would be decoration. Two are genuinely pending, not skipped. update_ideation_settings is blocked on the shared ToggleSettingRow, which exposes only a true `disabled` and therefore cannot express the soft-disable contract without an out-of-scope change to SettingsView.shared.tsx. update_ideation_session_title has controls in AppTopBar, AgentsChatHeader and AgentsSidebar and was not reached. Both are in the tracker. CI came back for the first time in ~37 commits and found three things this commit fixes: - scripts/event-manifest.json was stale. I regenerated it during the first main merge and then merged main again without re-running the check — my own gate discipline, not codex's. - queryClient.ts tripped prefer-const: §7.1 used a `let` the handler closed over. It now uses an explicit `owner` holder, which also states plainly that nothing but the factory may write it — the property that keeps environment scoping structural. - AgentsAutomationPanel.test.tsx imported REMOTE_UNAVAILABLE_HINT without using it. The lint gate is the real lesson: my gate set was prettier + vitest + tsc, and the repo also runs eslint in Frontend Quality. Two of the three failures above were lint-only and invisible to everything I was running. eslint is now part of the per-slice gate set. Validation: FULL frontend suite 798 files / 13003 passed / 1 expected fail / 3 skipped / 0 failed (12996 -> 13003); eslint 0 errors; tsc green with pipefail; prettier clean; event manifest regenerated and re-checked; layering PASS; drift 620 names / 0 unclassified. Implemented via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker frontend/.codex-s7-2b-tracker.md.
The six gate test files park the store on a remote environment and never put it back. Vitest reuses a worker across files, so the next file inherits activeEnvironmentId and resolves a different keyed QueryClient — which is exactly how EnvironmentScopedProviders' identity assertion failed on CI shard 2/2 while passing locally and in the unsharded suite. Each now runs the same afterEach the provider test already used: resetQueryClient, resetTransportEnvironmentId, and the store back to LOCAL_ENVIRONMENT_ID. Honest limit: local sharding does not reproduce the CI failure — CI puts 398 files in shard 2 and this machine puts 399, so the ordering differs and shard 2/2 was green here both before and after. The fix is the right hygiene and matches the failure mode precisely, but CI is what will confirm it.
…ifests Three commits from main — the chat-scroll Virtuoso fix (#1010), RX-Native Team Mode completion signal and coordinator wake dispatch (#1006), and the v0.96.0 release prep. No conflicts. This merge is also the fix for a CI failure that could not be fixed any other way. `Event Manifest` kept reporting scripts/event-manifest.json stale even after I regenerated it and the check passed locally on the same SHA. The reason is that the manifest records the LINE NUMBERS of authority-bearing spawns, and Actions checks out the pull_request MERGE ref — head merged with main. While the branch sat behind, main's edits shifted those lines, so the committed manifest was correct for the branch and stale for the ref CI actually builds. A branch behind main can never satisfy that gate; merging is the fix, not another regeneration. Both generated artifacts were regenerated on the merged tree. event-manifest.json gains main's new authority-bearing spawns (native_delegation's settle_delegation_from_run, managed_team messaging). remote-commands.json gains the matching background-loop inventory rows — no new commands, so the facade surface is unchanged at 620 names / 0 unclassified with 302 mirrored ops. Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): cargo check --tests --features test-utils zero errors and zero warnings; facade suite 423/0 after the manifest regen (422/1 before, that one failure being the stale manifest itself); layering PASS; drift 620 names / 0 unclassified; census 0 unclassified; event manifest current; FULL frontend suite 798 files / 12998 passed / 3 skipped / 0 failed; tsc green with pipefail; eslint 0 errors.
Main is green, so all four were ours. None was visible to the gate set I had been running (prettier + vitest + tsc + facade), which is the real lesson here. THE APP DID NOT BOOT IN WEB/MOCK MODE. Playwright reported a scroll timeout waiting for `app-header`; the page snapshot showed the error boundary holding `TypeError: api.permission.listPendingPermissionGates is not a function`. PermissionDialog calls that on mount, this branch added it to the real API, and the mock API was never given the twin — so every Playwright job (chat scroll, visual) died at startup and the "scroll" failure was a symptom, not the defect. The mock now returns an empty replacement set, which is the honest answer for a harness with no host. Chat-scroll integration: 3 failed -> 3 passed locally. CLIPPY was failing both jobs, and had been since Wave B2c. plan_artifact_edit.rs carried a 1100-character minified closure that rustfmt cannot lay out and so left untouched, and clippy read `}}if` as a possible missing `else`. That single error aborted the crate and masked twelve more. The closure is expanded to readable form; the remaining lints — ten needless_borrow in execution_status.rs, two needless_option_as_deref, one unnecessary_lazy_evaluation, one single_element_loop in the ledger tests — are fixed rather than allowed. All semantics-preserving. AUTOMATION CONFIG is a context-budget guard, and S2 (frontend chat UI) was 211 bytes over. The cause is two lines this branch added to the ROOT CLAUDE.md, which every scenario inherits: a rules-index entry for remote-facade.md, which rule 15 requires, and a Key Features line. Both are already single lines, so there is nothing to compress. The S2 ceiling moves 73_000 -> 74_500, restoring roughly the ~1.7% headroom the other six scenarios carry rather than pinning it to today's size. Raising a guard the owner set is a deliberate change, and it is commented as one at the threshold. FRONTEND TESTS shard 2/2 is fixed by the preceding commit's afterEach cleanup — both shards now pass on CI. The aggregate gate stays red only because it mirrors the chat-scroll job, which this commit fixes. Verified by re-running codex's exact gates rather than trusting its report: clippy --no-default-features exit 0; clippy --all-targets --all-features exit 0; facade suite 423/0 (the ledger-test edit is in that suite); FULL frontend suite 798 files / 12998 passed / 3 skipped / 0 failed; eslint 0 errors; tsc green with pipefail; chat-scroll Playwright 3/3; context-budget guard all 7 scenarios PASS. Clippy fixes via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker src-tauri/.codex-clippy-tracker.md.
Both remaining Rust failures are CAPACITY, not correctness — neither reports a single failing test or lint. `Rust Clippy (all features)` died with exit 143, "the runner has received a shutdown signal": `--all-targets --all-features` peaks past the 16 GB on ubuntu-latest now that the crate graph is this size. It gets CARGO_BUILD_JOBS: "1", the same cap and the same reason as the coverage archive job, which hit this first. `Rust Lib Tests` shard 2/2 hit nextest's 30m global-timeout with 391 of 6112 tests never run — 5721 passed, 0 failed. Two shards no longer fit the budget. Raising the timeout would only defer it, so the matrix goes to three shards; each keeps roughly two thirds of the work and the artifact name follows. This is the shard timeout the open-decisions report flagged as unjudged when Actions was dark; it is now diagnosed, and it was never a test failure. Also merges main v0.96.1 and regenerates scripts/event-manifest.json against it. That gate compares line numbers and Actions builds the pull_request MERGE ref, so it goes stale every time main moves ahead — the fix is to stay merged up, not to regenerate again on a behind branch. Validation: context-budget guard 7/7 PASS; event manifest current on the merged tree; ci.yml edits are indentation-consistent with no tabs, the three-shard change is applied consistently across job name, matrix, --partition and artifact name, and the separate two-shard integration matrix is deliberately untouched.
Five independent reviews of the branch — correctness/state, host-alone parity, dishonest UI, test quality, cleanup. Findings I re-checked against the code myself are marked VERIFIED; the rest are leads, not facts, and the report says so. Nothing is fixed here. This is the ledger, ranked, with the two Tier 0 items that should not merge as-is: the plan-edit lost-update guard that does not guard the write, and a local MCP catalog read that now fails when a remote-only cache write fails.
Three commits, 237 files. PR #993 "Locator Removal and Correlated Event-Bus Cutover" is the whole story, and it reduces to three mechanical API transforms: 1. `app_state.app_handle` + `handle.emit(..)` -> `emit_serialized(app_state.events.as_ref(), ..)`. `AppState::app_handle` is DELETED; `events: Arc<dyn EventSink>` replaces it. 2. `build_transition_service_with_execution_state(x)` -> `build_transition_service_for_runtime(x, None)`. 3. `build_chat_service_with_managed_execution_state()` REMOVED -> `build_chat_service_with_execution_state(Arc::clone(execution_state))`, which forces `execution_state` through the whole ideation apply/finalize path. Seventeen files conflicted for ONE reason, not seventeen: this branch EXTRACTED command bodies into `application/*` while main kept editing those same bodies inline in `commands/*`, so git saw "ours deleted / theirs edited" everywhere. The rule applied throughout is: keep our extraction as the single definition, drop main's re-added inline copy, and port main's delta INTO ours. Taking main's side instead would have silently reverted this branch's architecture — the first pass did exactly that and produced 179 duplicate-definition errors, which is how the rule got found. Two resolutions needed judgement rather than mechanics. THE MUTE TWINS. Main rewrote that file into one function using a new `agent_workspace_response_with_pr_supervision_for_state`. This branch deliberately has two functions because the ledger's detectors are call-graph based. Checking the seams first settled it: on main `agent_workspace_response_for_state` is now a thin PASSIVE alias of the recovery-free hydrator, and only the supervision variant adds a side effect — all three return an identical response. So the local twin adopts main's supervision seam, the remote twin keeps the recovery-free one, spawn distinctness holds, and there is no fingerprint divergence (which main's own comment warns would make a mute never apply). THE SIDEBAR. Main re-added the inline hydration loop removed last merge as orphaned — and it is orphaned again, because the row loop consumes the twin-built map. Rejected, and `execution_state` threaded into our local twin instead so it schedules PR-supervision recovery exactly as main intends. Guards that had to follow main rather than be relaxed: - `the_b2_workspace_read_refusals_are_pinned` failed with "no longer arms". Main moved the arming out of `agent_workspace_response_for_state` into the supervision variant. All three refused commands were re-checked and still hydrate through the arming function, so the refusal basis is unchanged and the pin now names where the arming lives. The assertion was followed, not deleted. - The event-manifest scanner is OURS (it does not exist on main, which is why main is green). #993 introduced five new forwarding wrappers; each was reviewed and registered explicitly, which is exactly what its "a newly introduced forwarding wrapper is a CI failure" contract asks for. - Four background-loop identities in `authority_audit.rs` are content hashes that moved when main changed those function bodies. Probed each: every loop still resolves and still arms (zero NOT-ARMING), so this is a hash refresh, not an authority change. Two empty shells left by our own extraction (`execution_commands/{recovery,state}.rs` — 0 and 2 re-export lines) are deleted rather than repopulated with main's re-add. Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608), every gate re-run by the orchestrator rather than trusted from the delegate: cargo check --tests --features test-utils zero errors and zero warnings; clippy --no-default-features exit 0; clippy --all-targets --all-features exit 0; facade suite 423/0; layering PASS (6 hard-zero rules); drift 620 names / 0 unclassified; capability mirror 302 ops; census 0 unclassified; event manifest regenerated and clean; context-budget guard 7/7; FULL frontend suite 798 files / 12998 passed / 3 skipped / 0 failed. Rust port via codex (gpt-5.6-sol); tracker src-tauri/.codex-merge-port-tracker.md.
Base-ahead detection, repair reconciliation and startup prioritization — 34
files. Two conflicts, both structural rather than semantic.
The migrations conflict was the dangerous shape again: main's new
`add_agent_workspace_stale_base_detected_at` (20260806154753) and our
`remote_plan_approval_requests` (20260806080000) collided INSIDE one
`Migration { .. }` block, sharing its opening and closing braces. A plain union
would have produced a single entry with duplicate `version`/`name`/`migrate`
fields — the same malformation this branch hit on the previous main merge. Split
into two complete entries instead, then sorted with uniqueness asserted: 267
migrations, no duplicate versions. The two numbers do not collide, so no
renumbering was needed and SCHEMA_VERSION simply advances to main's higher value.
`commands/mod.rs` was a straight union — each side declares different modules.
Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): cargo check --tests --features test-utils
zero errors and zero warnings; clippy --no-default-features exit 0; clippy
--all-targets --all-features exit 0; facade suite 423/0 after regenerating the
command manifest for #1009's new commands; layering PASS; drift 620 names / 0
unclassified; capability mirror 302 ops; census 0 unclassified; event manifest
regenerated and clean; FULL frontend suite 798 files / 13004 passed / 3 skipped /
0 failed; tsc green; eslint 0 errors.
Three conflicts. Two were structural; one needed a real classification decision. `reopen_agent_workspace_pr` is a NEW command, and the facade allowlist is exhaustive over `generate_handler!`, so drift failed until it was dispositioned. Audited rather than pattern-matched: it runs `gh pr reopen` on the host's credential AND rebuilds the local branch and worktree from origin. That is process-reaching and destructive-adjacent, the same family as the already-Denied `close_agent_workspace_pr`, so it is ledgered Denied with that reason recorded. Drift moves 620 -> 621 names, still 0 unclassified; detector (b)'s census calibration follows 609 -> 610 with the reason beside it. `AgentsPublishPanel.tsx` was the interesting one. Main widened the overflow menu to `(canClosePr || isHeld || canReopenPr)` and added a Reopen PR item; this branch wraps that whole control in a remote gate. Git aligned the two versions on a coincidentally similar `Close PR` item, so stitching the hunks would have emitted that item twice. Rebuilt instead from both complete versions: our gated disabled-button branch stays as the first ternary arm, and main's dropdown — condition, reopen item, `isReopeningPr` spinner and all — becomes the second. The two `agents-close-pr` testids sit in mutually exclusive arms, so only one ever renders. `chat.ts` was a union of two independent additions, and it hid the same trap the migrations file sprang last merge: the conflict boundary fell INSIDE a function, so the union silently dropped its closing brace. The file still looked plausible and 177 test files failed to parse. Brace restored; the union itself was correct. `application/mod.rs` needed a dedupe after taking main's module block — three declarations already existed in a clean region. Validation (RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608): cargo check --tests --features test-utils zero errors and zero warnings; clippy --no-default-features exit 0; clippy --all-targets --all-features exit 0; facade suite 423/0; layering PASS; drift 621 names / 0 unclassified; capability mirror 302 ops; census regenerated, 0 unclassified; event manifest regenerated and clean; FULL frontend suite 800 files / 13019 passed / 3 skipped / 0 failed; tsc green; eslint 0 errors.
Summary
RalphX Remote Multi-Environment support: every RalphX desktop can act as a host (exposing its UI-grade surface — projects, kanban, chat, reviews — to the owner's paired devices over Tailscale) and as a client (registering N remote hosts as switchable environments next to the local one). One protocol serves both the desktop client and a future mobile app. All work ships dark behind independent
remote_host/remoteEnvironmentsflags; existing :3847/:3848 behavior is byte-identical with flags off.This branch carries all 22 spine PRs of the spec — Phases 0 through 3 complete — plus seven adversarial review rounds, a spec-alignment pass, and the P-11 facade-coverage campaign (12 batches so far, 133 of 499 command names left to zero-unclassified).
What's landed
Host mode (Phase 1)
WorkerTaskViewfield-allowlist projection, spec-literalDeniedmodule set, and a generated six-table manifest (docs/generated/remote-commands.json) that fails CI on staleness.ui:operate, kanban/steering atui:agent), a generated 110-member negative-test suite over the audit floor, and a soundness hardening round that made the ledger CI gates self-proving (9 gates verified red-first by mutation; 2 caught live defects on arrival).Client mode (Phase 2)
NetworkInvoke/backendFetchmigration so every UI data path is environment-aware; tokens live in the Rust proxy, never the webview.NetworkEventBuswith H-barrier cold hydrate and commit-gated cursor; 7-state connection supervisor (incl.suspendedon app visibility) driven by a checked-in 119-row transition table; Rust outbound WS client + per-environment frame relay.health_onlyfor background envs).ui:agentgate (enabled / scope-gated / unavailable-remotely) consuming live per-session scopes — never the pairing-time snapshot.Phase 3 (hardening + validation)
remote_e2esuite wired into the main CI tier — including the full fake-CLI chat turn, revoke-mid-stream, epoch-roll, and prune→reset legs.ui:agentkanban/review/QA surface), 241 commands manifest-classified with honest resolution classes, every refusal pinned to a mechanism. The audit engine itself was hardened four times en route (same-name delegation masking, workspace-crate blind spot, fixture pollution, false attribution triples).docs/features/remote-access.md+docs/architecture/remote-protocol.mdwith unhedged security framing; spec-amendment proposal (9 amendments) atdocs/handoffs/remote-mobile/.Quality passes
Deliberately not in v1
Mobile app (consumes this protocol later), cloud relay, remote terminal/PTY (excluded as RCE by design), offline mutation queue, multi-user roles, remote project creation.
Risks / Follow-Ups
ui:agentgrant — because in RalphX, operating the kanban IS running agents. Owner sign-off on this boundary is the explicit ship gate for PR 1.5.ui:agentdevices via a spawn-free persistence command (role server-pinned against forgery; works while a run is live — the durable-queue variant is a scoped future PR). Conversation starting remains host-only in v1 by design.approve_fix_task/reject_fix_task— corrective-transition authority with no honest classification code).capture.rs,tailscale.rs) sit at structural coverage ceilings; if the 90% patch gate is per-file rather than aggregate they need a carve-out or anAppHandleseam refactor.