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Summary

  • internalize version-2 wire, authentication, secure discovery, control, and managed Rust client contracts in mc-host
  • adapt McHandler, historian, resolver, Synapse, and Broca consumers to direct host-owned lifecycle and route APIs
  • reserve successful module response capacity before encoding and drain module-owned work on shutdown
  • rename TypeScript callers to McHost*, require strict negotiation/version handling, and remove compatibility aliases
  • replace provider/sibling-workspace Rust and E2E topology with owner-only direct-host fixtures
  • remove Rust/npm subc-* dependencies, old ck-mc binary, stale fixtures, and compatibility documentation

Verification

  • cargo test --workspace
  • cargo fmt --check
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • bun run --cwd packages/plugin test
  • bun run --cwd packages/plugin typecheck
  • bun run --cwd packages/cli typecheck
  • bunx tsc --noEmit -p packages/e2e-tests/tsconfig.json
  • focused direct-host fixture, Rust smoke, historian, manifest, and static boundary suites
  • dependency/source closure scans

Review

Parallel invariant-test, TypeScript, Rust, and complexity reviews completed. Findings fixed and re-reviewed. Final ponytail review applied safe deletions.

Deferred

Production launcher/configuration/doctor lifecycle remains with magic-context-c50.8. Broad Rust E2E, mutation, performance, and release qualification remain with magic-context-c50.9.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Rust transform mode now connects directly to the mc-host runtime.
    • Added managed client support for authenticated unary and streaming requests, cancellation, deadlines, retries, and binary responses.
    • Added secure connection-file discovery with strict protocol, permissions, and credential validation.
    • Added direct-host end-to-end testing and lifecycle controls.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of timeouts, reconnects, cancellation races, backpressure, shutdown, and oversized or malformed messages.
    • Improved error classification and redaction of sensitive host details.
  • Documentation

    • Updated architecture, protocol, migration, deployment, and Rust testing guidance for the direct host runtime.

Make mc-host own wire, authentication, discovery, managed clients, component lifecycle, and direct test fixtures so repository consumers use one fail-closed boundary.
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The PR completes the direct mc-host migration. It adds host-owned authentication, secure discovery, local wire contracts, managed clients, direct-host fixtures, prepared output handling, and updated Rust, TypeScript, CLI, and E2E integrations.

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Direct host boundary

Layer / File(s) Summary
Host protocol and security contracts
crates/mc-host/src/auth.rs, crates/mc-host/src/connection_file.rs, crates/mc-host/src/wire.rs, crates/mc-host/src/connection.rs
The host now owns authentication, connection-file validation, framing, mandatory negotiation, route epochs, and fallback rules.
Managed clients and transport integration
crates/mc-host/src/client.rs, crates/mc-host/src/frame_channel.rs, packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/*
Rust and TypeScript clients support managed routing, streaming, binary leases, deadlines, cancellation, bounded queues, typed errors, and direct frame production.
Module composition and prepared output
crates/mc-module/Cargo.toml, crates/mc-module/src/dispatch.rs, crates/mc-module/src/historian.rs, crates/mc-module/examples/direct_host_fixture.rs
mc-module becomes a library with a direct-host fixture. Dispatch uses measured bounded output, and historian cleanup separates failed attempts from shared connections.
E2E harness and application wiring
packages/e2e-tests/src/rust-runner/*, packages/e2e-tests/src/opencode-runner/*, packages/plugin/src/*, packages/cli/src/*
Rust E2E execution now provisions the direct host. Plugin and CLI integrations use McHostClient and McHostModuleTransport.
Documentation and validation
ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/mc-host-wire-protocol.md, packages/e2e-tests/*, crates/mc-host/tests/*, crates/mc-module/tests/*
Documentation, protocol tests, fixture tests, lifecycle tests, security tests, and migration records describe and validate the direct boundary.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to c37b9

This refactor introduces direct-host transport and lifecycle changes with unresolved risks around blocked writes, shutdown and lease cleanup, inconsistent release accounting, malformed-input handling, and negotiation/test behavior. The PR should not merge until the high-impact runtime issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OpenCode
  participant Plugin
  participant McHostClient
  participant mc-host
  participant McHandler
  OpenCode->>Plugin: start Rust transform mode
  Plugin->>McHostClient: connect to published connection file
  McHostClient->>mc-host: authenticate and negotiate
  McHostClient->>mc-host: open route and send request
  mc-host->>McHandler: dispatch request
  McHandler-->>mc-host: return response or stream
  mc-host-->>McHostClient: return typed response
  McHostClient-->>Plugin: deliver result
  Plugin-->>OpenCode: return transform result
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A rabbit reviews the host tonight
Secure frames hop left and right
Routes bloom with epochs bright
Streams release their borrowed byte
Old paths fade beyond the gate
Direct hosts now coordinate
Ears perk up: the tests await

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match header.ty {
FrameType::Response | FrameType::Error | FrameType::StreamData | FrameType::StreamEnd => {
if header.corr == 0 {
return Err(());
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P2 Badge Enforce the complete inbound identity and body table

When an authenticated peer emits a malformed frame, this branch checks only the correlation for responses and streams, so it accepts routed frames with epoch 0; the same validator also accepts Push with a nonzero correlation and nonempty StreamEnd bodies because those types escape the later pure-header check. These violate the structural requirements in docs/mc-host-wire-protocol.md §6.2, but the client drops them as unmatched or treats the stream as ended instead of retiring the generation, potentially leaving a request pending until timeout or concealing protocol corruption. Validate each inbound type's complete channel/epoch/correlation tuple and the direct-profile empty StreamEnd body.

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Fixed in cffc09e — all three sub-claims confirmed against §6.2, and the epoch one turned out to be a layering bug.

Nonempty StreamEnd and Push with a correlation: confirmed. is_pure_header() is Cancel | Ping | Pong | Goodbye, so the pure-header check at the end of validate_inbound never saw StreamEnd, and a nonempty body ended the stream normally instead of closing the generation. Push only checked channel/epoch. Both are now rejected per type.

Routed frame with epoch 0: real, but the gap was one layer down. decode_header rejected channel == 0 && epoch != 0 and never the mirror, while the TypeScript client's validateHeader already rejected both (zero_epoch_on_routed_channel, protocol.ts:211). So the two clients disagreed on the framing contract, and §6.1 is explicit: epoch: u32 is "0 on channel 0; routed epochs are nonzero". I added DecodeError::ZeroEpochOnRoutedChannel rather than a client-only check, so the rule now covers every frame type and both directions, and §6.3's corruption list names it.

That is also why validate_inbound does not re-check the pairing: by then the identity is control (0/0) or routed (nonzero/nonzero).

Tests: wire::tests::epoch_boundaries_round_trip_and_control_channel_epoch_is_reserved and client::tests::inbound_validation_enforces_the_direct_profile_table. Both fail if I revert their clause — I checked.

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tokio::spawn(async move {
tokio::select! {

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P2 Badge Cancel stream deadline tasks when the stream settles

When a stream completes or is dropped well before its deadline, this detached task receives no completion signal and remains alive until either the caller-wide cancellation token fires or the original deadline expires. The production historian supplies a 600-second stream timeout, so repeated short runs retain one sleeping Tokio task apiece for up to ten minutes, and generic clients can accumulate these tasks without being constrained by the live-stream cap because that counter is released at settlement. Tie the watcher to pending-entry/stream completion or retain and abort its handle when the stream settles.

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Fixed in cffc09e. Confirmed: the watcher had no completion signal, and the live-stream cap does not bound it because finish_pending releases the counter at settlement while the task keeps sleeping.

PendingKind::Stream now carries a settled: CancellationToken that the watcher selects on first (biased), and finish_pending fires it. That hook is exact rather than best-effort: every settle path — terminal frame, ResponseStream::cancel, the Drop impl, settle_route, and generation retire — already funnels through finish_pending, so one call covers all of them.

The biased ordering matters beyond promptness: a settled stream must not issue a Cancel on a correlation the host may have reused.

Side effect worth noting — the two spawn shapes collapsed into one. options.cancellation.unwrap_or_default() yields a token that is never cancelled, so the absent-cancellation case is just the deadline-only arm, which is what the else branch was.

Test: client::tests::settled_stream_retires_its_deadline_watcher, which fails if I drop the settled.cancel() call.

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corr: key.corr,
},
None,
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P1 Badge Preserve possible-send outcome when Cancel enqueue fails

When cancellation or deadline expiry races after the writer has claimed the request, cancel_key correctly computes OutcomeUnknown, but a failure while enqueueing the best-effort Cancel is propagated through this ?. The unary paths then replace the original classification with that control error's outcome; for example, a concurrent generation retirement makes send_control return NotSent, so a request whose bytes may already have reached the host is reported as replay-safe not_sent. Keep the request's computed OutcomeUnknown classification regardless of whether the cleanup control can be queued.

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Fixed in cffc09e. Traced the exact path you describe: cancel_key computes OutcomeUnknown when the QUEUED -> CANCELLED CAS loses, then send_control returns retired_error(NotSent) on a concurrently retired generation, ? propagates it, and both unary arms do .err().map_or_else(|| classify(&publish), |error| error.outcome) — so the request reports not_sent after its bytes may already have reached the host.

The enqueue failure is still surfaced, but it now carries the request's own classification instead of the control frame's:

if let Err(error) = self.send_control(FrameType::Cancel, ..) {
    return Err(CallError::new(outcome, error.code, error.message));
}

Keeping the code/message preserves the diagnostic (generation_retired, control_capacity_exhausted) and leaves send_control's retire() side effect intact; only the outcome is pinned. When the CAS wins, outcome is NotSent, no Cancel is queued, and nothing changes.

Test: client::tests::failed_cancel_enqueue_keeps_outcome_unknown — claims the request for write, retires the generation without draining pending, and asserts the error is OutcomeUnknown/generation_retired. It fails with the original ?.

store_open: Arc::new(StoreOpenCoordinator::new()),
task_admission_open: Mutex::new(true),
cancel,
tasks: TaskTracker::new(),
producer_factory,

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[correctness, high severity] McHandler::new_with_connection_file now always uses MissingSessionResolver, silently dropping session resolution in production.

Before this PR, this constructor branched on connection_file: Some(path) => RealSessionResolver::new(path), None => MissingSessionResolver. This PR deletes RealSessionResolver entirely (crates/mc-module/src/session_resolver.rs) and this now unconditionally builds Arc::new(MissingSessionResolver) regardless of whether a real connection file is present.

MissingSessionResolver::resolve_session also changed from returning Err(SessionResolveError::Transport(...)) to unconditionally Ok(None). Its caller resolve_facade_scope (~lib.rs:10711-10754) treats Ok(None) as "session genuinely unresolved" and returns session_unresolved_error().

Failure scenario: any Claude Code MCP facade call needing session resolution (any non-OpenCode harness, in production, even with a live mc-host connection) will now always fail closed with session_unresolved_error. No test exercises the Some(connection_file) branch — coverage only uses FakeSessionResolver/MissingSessionResolver directly, so this regression has no automated coverage. Please confirm whether a replacement resolver was supposed to be wired in elsewhere for the new direct-mc-host-embedded architecture.

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Your code facts are right; the production-failure conclusion is not. I traced every caller before deciding.

Correct, and I verified each: new_with_connection_file branches on connection_file only for producer_factory and then unconditionally sets session_resolver: Arc::new(MissingSessionResolver) (lib.rs:3494-3510); RealSessionResolver no longer exists (it was at main:crates/mc-module/src/session_resolver.rs:60-140); and MissingSessionResolver::resolve_session changed from Err(Transport) to Ok(None) (session_resolver.rs:45-53).

What refutes the failure scenario: there is no production caller. git grep new_with_connection_file on HEAD returns exactly three sites — the definition, new() passing None, and crates/mc-module/examples/direct_host_fixture.rs:551, which is a feature-gated example. The old production caller was main:crates/mc-module/src/main.rs:28-34, and this PR deletes that file along with the ck-mc binary; Cargo.toml sets autobins = false, and crates/mc-module/tests/direct_host.rs:435-459 asserts the crate has no binary target. So no Claude Code MCP facade call can reach this constructor in this repository — the module is embedded through the direct host boundary now, which is the point of the PR.

The Ok(None) change does alter the error a caller would see if one existed: session_unresolved rather than session_resolve_failed (lib.rs:10730-10754). Both fail closed.

Where I think you have a real point: nothing prevents a future embedder from passing Some(connection_file) and reasonably expecting real resolution, and no test would catch it. That is a design gap in the argument, not an outage — the honest fix is either to drop the parameter that no longer influences the resolver or to have that path refuse to construct, and I would rather decide that with whoever owns the new launcher wiring than guess at it in a review round. Flagging it for that discussion rather than closing it silently.

//! Hermetic by construction: loopback only, temp data directories, no provider
//! credentials, no `packages/e2e-tests` involvement (R27).

#![cfg(unix)]

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[test-coverage regression] Real-daemon-wire test coverage lost, not relocated.

crates/mc-module/tests/real_daemon.rs (657 lines) was deleted entirely, and broca_roundtrip.rs shrank from 6 test functions to 2. The removed tests (historian round-trip, classify round-trip, transient-model retry, host-restart reattach/refire, raw-connection auth rejection, saturated-Broca backpressure — plus real_daemon.rs's growing-tail SOFT+ defers, epoch/render-config HARD re-fold, share-nothing PASSTHROUGH+reconcile_pending, memory-fold into m0, and native-serving differential replay, all exercised through a real spawned daemon+module wire path) have no equivalent in the new direct_host.rs/host_adapter.rs/prepared_output.rs files — a grep for historian|classify|transient|saturated|auth|reattach|refire across the new files returns zero hits.

Failure scenario: regressions in these real-daemon code paths (retry logic, backpressure handling, host-restart reattach, the fuller transform state machine) would no longer be caught by CI, since only in-process unit tests (not exercised over the real host wire protocol) remain.

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Partially confirmed. I verified your counts and then checked each named behavior against the whole tree rather than the three new files, which changes the conclusion for 7 of 11.

Your facts hold: real_daemon.rs (657 lines) is deleted, broca_roundtrip.rs went 1447 → 198 lines and 6 → 2 tests, and your grep really does return zero hits in those three files.

Covered elsewhere, with the assertion that replaced it:

  • raw-connection auth rejection — crates/mc-host/tests/protocol_vectors.rs:453-505 (raw TCP, zero proof, EOF with no frame bytes)
  • saturated-Broca backpressure — crates/mc-host/tests/broca_supervisor.rs:455-493 and crates/mc-host/tests/dispatch.rs:971-1064
  • growing-tail SOFT+ defers — crates/mc-module/src/transform.rs:21243-21283, plus packages/e2e-tests/tests/cache-invariants.test.ts:390-405
  • epoch/render-config HARD re-fold — transform.rs:21527-21564
  • share-nothing PASSTHROUGH + reconcile_pending — transform.rs:21815-21842 and :20113-20140
  • memory folded into m0 — transform.rs:21487-21503
  • native-serving differential replay — crates/mc-module/src/lib.rs:19635-19684 and :21072-21153

Genuinely uncovered, for code that still exists: historian output round-trip (redrain and the backend-start/route-release assertions), classify round-trip through producer decode, transient-retry metadata decode, and host-restart reattach "missing" decode. Tracked as magic-context-shb with the specific file:line targets. 29e6f4a closes part of the first one — drain_subscribe now has text and length-cap coverage.

On the framing: the deletion was mechanical for the topology, not for the code. real_daemon.rs spawned ck-subc and ck-mc as separate processes (main:crates/mc-module/tests/real_daemon.rs:80-113), and neither binary exists now. Integration test counts went up, not down: mc-module tests 8 → 23, mc-host tests 282 → 293. What survived the topology change is the four decode paths, and those are the real finding.

this.control = null;
this.child = null;
rmSync(this.pidFilePath, { force: true });
rmSync(this.dataDir, { recursive: true, force: true });

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[correctness] stop() deletes the PID leak-tracking file and data dir before/despite throwing when the child fails to exit.

Graceful-shutdown → SIGTERM → SIGKILL are each tried with their own ~5s timeout; if all three fail to reap the child, stop() still runs rmSync(this.pidFilePath) and rmSync(this.dataDir, {recursive:true, force:true}) right before throwing. pidFilePath (join(dataDir, "cortexkit", PID_FILE)) is exactly the record reapRecordedRustProcesses() scans on a later run (join(tmpdir(), entry.name, "data", "cortexkit", PID_FILE)) to SIGKILL leaked fixture processes.

Failure scenario: on the one path where stop() fails to kill the child (e.g. stuck in uninterruptible D-state under CI load), the exact record needed to clean it up later is deleted first — the leak becomes permanently untracked instead of being caught by the next run's reaper.

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Fixed in 29e6f4a. Confirmed the ordering: both rmSync calls ran before the if (!exited) throw, so the one path where teardown could not reap the child destroyed the record that makes the leak recoverable.

stop() now throws before removing anything, so the PID file and the data dir that contains it survive a failed teardown and the next run reaper can find the process. The success path is unchanged, and the two tests asserting the root is gone after stop() still pass.

Your D-state example is the right framing: SIGKILL cannot reap a task blocked in the kernel, and that is precisely when the record matters most.

child === null ||
child.exitCode !== null ||
child.signalCode !== null;
if (child && !exited) {

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[correctness/reliability] stop()/crashHost()/terminateHost() never SIGCONT a host paused via pauseHost() (SIGSTOP) before attempting graceful-shutdown/SIGTERM.

pauseHost()/resumeHost() send SIGSTOP/SIGCONT directly with no state tracking, and none of the teardown paths check for or clear a paused state.

Failure scenario: packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-fm-oc-5.test.ts calls pauseHost()sendPrompt()resumeHost(); if the test throws/times out between those calls, afterEach's dispose()stop() runs against a still-stopped process. Graceful-shutdown and SIGTERM (each ~5s) are no-ops against a SIGSTOP'd process, wasting ~10s before SIGKILL finally succeeds — this exact scenario is also deliberately produced by run-rust-fm-mutation.ts's FM_OC_5_RUNG_SWAP mutation.

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Fixed in 29e6f4a. Each of stop(), crashHost(), and terminateHost() now resumes a live child before its first teardown signal.

Confirmed the cost you describe, and one detail sharpens it: SIGTERM does not vanish against a SIGSTOPped process, it stays pending until the process resumes — so graceful shutdown and SIGTERM each burn their full timeout and terminateHost() throws outright, because it never escalates to SIGKILL.

The resume is unconditional rather than paused-state-tracked, since SIGCONT to a running process has no effect. That is stated in a comment on the helper so it does not get optimized away later.

const mcHost = await HermeticMcHostStack.start({ dataDir: env.dataDir, fixtureBin });
return { env, connectionFile: mcHost.connectionFile, mcHost };
} catch {
throw new Error("MC_E2E_MODE=rust failed to start direct mc-host fixture");

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[correctness/debuggability] provisionRustMode's catch swallows the underlying fixture-start error.

This now uses a bare catch { and throws a fixed string ("MC_E2E_MODE=rust failed to start direct mc-host fixture") with no interpolation of the underlying error. The pre-PR version used catch (error) and threw `MC_E2E_MODE=rust failed to start the hermetic stack: ${String(error)}`.

Failure scenario: when HermeticMcHostStack.start() fails (build error, socket conflict, readiness timeout, permission failure), every MC_E2E_MODE=rust suite now reports only the opaque fixed string with no cause, making CI failures for this lane harder to triage than before.

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throw new Error("MC_E2E_MODE=rust failed to start direct mc-host fixture");
} catch (error) {
throw new Error(
`MC_E2E_MODE=rust failed to start direct mc-host fixture: ${String(error)}`,
);

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Fixed in 29e6f4a, using your suggestion. Applied as written with the message prefix kept:

} catch (error) {
    throw new Error(
        `MC_E2E_MODE=rust failed to start direct mc-host fixture: ${String(error)}`,
    );

Checked that nothing asserts on the old exact string; spawn.test.ts does not reference it.

const text = Buffer.from(body).toString("utf8");
try {
const parsed = JSON.parse(text) as { code?: unknown; message?: unknown };
if (typeof parsed === "object" && parsed !== null) {
const code = typeof parsed.code === "string" ? parsed.code : undefined;
const message = typeof parsed.message === "string" ? parsed.message : undefined;
return new SubcCallError("terminal", message ?? "subc error", code);
return new McHostCallError("terminal", message ?? "subc error", code);

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[minor correctness] Stale "subc error" default message left after SubcCallErrorMcHostCallError rename.

When a wire Error terminal body omits message (or JSON parsing fails), the resulting McHostCallError's message still reads "subc error" (here and at line ~1490), even though every class/type name in this module was renamed to McHost*.

Failure scenario: a confusing stale term surfaces in logs/diagnostics/error messages shown to users or in CI failure output, undermining the rename this PR is meant to complete.

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Fixed in 29e6f4a — both occurrences (1485 and 1490) now read "mc-host error".

Note the remaining subc mentions in this file are deliberate and stay: the comments at lines 79, 337, and 349 pin parity with npm subc-client 0.4.1, so the name is load-bearing there rather than stale.

timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>;
};

function processStartTimeMs(pid: number): number | null {

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[reuse] PID-identity reaping reimplements isPidIdentityPlausible() from packages/plugin/src/shared/rpc-utils.ts.

processStartTimeMs/processExecutable (used in reapRecordedRustProcesses) duplicate the purpose of isPidIdentityPlausible() + readLinuxProcessStartTime/readPsProcessStartTime/readProcessCommand in rpc-utils.ts, which is more robust (procfs /proc/pid/stat fast path, clock-skew tolerance via RPC_IDENTITY_SKEW_TOLERANCE_MS, Windows support) versus this file's always-shell-to-ps implementation with a hardcoded 5000ms tolerance, and is already used cross-package.

Cost: a future bugfix to the shared, more-robust implementation (e.g. a clock-skew edge case) won't be mirrored here, silently reintroducing whatever it fixed in this harness's leak-reaping path.

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Declining the direct reuse, and filed the extraction that would actually work as magic-context-dmv.

isPidIdentityPlausible is not a general PID-identity helper. It takes an RpcPortFileRecord, and its legacy path asks commandLooksLikeOpenCode(command) — the wrong oracle for a fixture process, which this harness identifies by realpathing /proc/pid/exe. Calling it here would classify a live direct_host_fixture as implausible on that path.

The genuinely shared primitives are readLinuxProcessStartTime and readPsProcessStartTime, and both are module-private in rpc-utils.ts — so reuse means exporting them, not calling the existing entry point. That is the right convergence and I would rather not fold a plugin-internal refactor with its own test hooks into a 60-file review round.

Your cost argument stands on the part I can act on: the duplicated ps parsing and the hardcoded 5000ms tolerance versus RPC_IDENTITY_SKEW_TOLERANCE_MS. The task covers exporting one record-shape-agnostic start-time probe with both callers layering their own identity predicate, which fixes the drift risk without pushing the OpenCode command heuristic into the fixture reaper.

private readonly timeoutMs = 5_000,
) {}

async connect(): Promise<void> {

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**[reuse, minor] FixtureControlClient hand-rolls raw setTimeout/clearTimeout for connect/request timeouts instead of Deadline/armExpiryTimer from packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/deadline.ts — a module this same file already imports McHostClient/BindIdentity from.

This is more a consistency/reuse nit than a live bug (this client doesn't use isExpired()/replay-token semantics, so the specific race armExpiryTimer guards against doesn't clearly apply here), but it's duplicated timeout-arming logic living right next to the shared helper it could reuse.

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Declining, and agreeing with your own reasoning for it.

armExpiryTimer earns its keep by pairing timer disarm with isExpired()/replay-token semantics, and FixtureControlClient has neither — it is a request/response socket with a flat timeout. Adopting the helper here would import a lifecycle this client does not have, to remove two setTimeout calls. Proximity to a shared helper is not by itself a reason to depend on it.

If this client ever grows replay tokens or expiry-sensitive retries, it should switch then, and the race the helper guards will be real at that point.

await control.connect();
this.control = control;

const probe = await McHostClient.connect({

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[efficiency] startHost() opens a redundant second connection to re-verify the module catalog, and awaits it sequentially after an unrelated connection.

The catalog (["magic-context","synapse","broca"]) is already checked for free via parseReadyRecord() on the readiness line read off child.stdout (called ~line 863). startHost() then opens a brand-new McHostClient.connect() + catalogList() + closeAsync() round trip (~918-932) purely to re-check the same thing, and the result is discarded. Additionally, this probe connection (line ~918) is awaited only after await control.connect() (~915) fully completes, even though the two use unrelated sockets (controlPath vs. the connection file) with no data dependency between them.

Cost: every HermeticMcHostStack.start()/restartHost() call in every Rust-mode e2e test now pays for an extra full connection-file read + socket dial + auth handshake that duplicates a check already made from data already in hand, and pays for it serially instead of overlapped with the control-socket handshake via Promise.all.

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Half fixed in 29e6f4a: the serial await is gone, the probe stays.

Declining the removal. The stdout readiness line and the probe do not prove the same thing. parseReadyRecord checks what the child claims about itself on its own stdout; the probe checks what a client can actually reach — connection-file read, auth handshake, catalog over the real wire. A fixture that published a stale or unreadable connection file, or whose auth is broken, passes the first and fails the second. In a harness whose job is to hand tests a working host, paying one handshake to prove that is a fair trade for not debugging it inside every test.

The serial await was a real waste, so both handshakes now overlap. Promise.allSettled rather than Promise.all, deliberately: with all, a probe rejection abandons the still-pending control.connect() without adopting it, leaving an unowned socket and sending stop() down its 5s no-graceful-shutdown path, and error precedence becomes a race. With allSettled both settle first, a connected control client is always adopted, and a control failure reports ahead of a probe failure.

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break;
}
tokio::task::yield_now().await;

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WARNING: Busy-spin loop in join_tasks_until consumes CPU on shutdown

join_tasks_until loops on tokio::task::yield_now().await while polling is_finished and acquiring self.writer.lock() and self.reader.lock() on every iteration. yield_now() immediately re-schedules the task, causing the loop to busy-spin and consume 100% CPU on the async runtime thread while waiting for reader or writer socket teardown. Consider awaiting the tasks directly under tokio::time::timeout_at.


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Fixed in 29e6f4a. Confirmed: yield_now() re-queues the task immediately, so the loop re-locked both mutexes and re-read is_finished as fast as the scheduler would let it, for the whole shutdown budget.

Rewritten to await each handle under the shared deadline, which is what you suggested:

for slot in [&self.writer, &self.reader] {
    let Some(mut task) = slot.lock().await.take() else { continue };
    if tokio::time::timeout_at(deadline, &mut task).await.is_err() {
        within_deadline = false;
        task.abort();
        let _ = task.await;
    }
}

The ordering matters for a reason worth recording: the post-abort task.await is only reachable when the timeout fired, which proves the handle never completed. Awaiting a JoinHandle that already returned Ready panics — the same hazard flagged separately in direct_host_fixture.rs — so an unconditional re-await here would have traded a busy-wait for a panic.

within_deadline is now false only when a timeout actually fired, rather than re-reading the clock after the loop.

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for corr in [first, second] {
let response = settled.get(&corr).expect("both correlations settle");
let (_, response) = client

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WARNING: Sequentially awaiting pipelined correlations drops out-of-order responses and causes test flakiness

In pipelined_shutdown_requests_on_one_connection_both_settle, requests first and second are sent together on the connection. Because the host spawns concurrent tasks to handle control requests, second may arrive before first. Calling frames_until_corr(first, BUDGET) consumes and discards any non-matching frame into skipped. If second arrived first, it is dropped from the buffer during the first iteration; the second iteration calling frames_until_corr(second, BUDGET) will then hang and time out. Consider collecting responses into a map by correlation ID instead of assuming in-order arrival.


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Fixed in 29e6f4a. Confirmed the mechanism: frames_until_corr collects non-matching frames into skipped and returns them, but this call site discarded them with let (_, response). Those were the only copy, so once seconds response was consumed while searching for first, the sequential second call could only wait out BUDGET.

Rather than assuming order, the test now uses the frames the first search already consumed:

let (consumed, first_response) = client.frames_until_corr(first, BUDGET).await...;
let second_response = match consumed.into_iter().find(|f| f.corr == second && f.ty != TY_PING) {
    Some(frame) => frame,
    None => client.frames_until_corr(second, BUDGET).await...,
};

That is the map-by-correlation idea you suggested, minus a map for two entries. Worth noting this was latent rather than observed — the test has been passing — but the host answers pipelined control requests from concurrent tasks, so nothing pinned the order.

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kind.as_str(),
"run_finished" | "terminal" | "run_terminal" | "finished" | "error"

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WARNING: is_terminal_unit omits "run_error"

is_error_unit checks for both "error" and "run_error", but is_terminal_unit only matches "run_finished" | "terminal" | "run_terminal" | "finished" | "error". If a runner emits a "run_error" event, is_terminal_unit returns false, bypassing terminal handling in drain_subscribe and causing the stream to fail with UnexpectedStreamEnd instead of returning the typed RunFailed error with diagnostic metadata.

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"run_finished" | "terminal" | "run_terminal" | "finished" | "error"
"run_finished" | "terminal" | "run_terminal" | "finished" | "error" | "run_error"

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Fixed in 29e6f4a. Confirmed by reading the flow: terminal is computed at historian_producer.rs:1079 and the is_error_unitRunFailed branch sits inside if terminal, so a run_error unit skipped terminal handling entirely and the drain fell through to UnexpectedStreamEnd at :1120 — losing the classification the retry ladder reads.

I took a different shape than the suggestion. Adding the token to the second list leaves two lists that can drift again, so is_terminal_unit now defers instead:

if is_error_unit(unit) {
    return true;
}
matches!(kind.as_str(), "run_finished" | "terminal" | "run_terminal" | "finished")

Every error unit is terminal by construction, and "error" stops being spelled in both places. Note the knock-on you may not have intended: with run_error terminal, a run_error for a different run_id no longer hits the !terminal && run_id mismatch → continue skip and instead reports TerminalRunMismatch. That is exactly how "error" already behaved, so the two spellings stay consistent.

Test: every_error_spelling_terminates_the_drain_with_its_classification loops both spellings and asserts detail, class, and retry_after_secs survive. It fails on run_error without the fix.

{
return;
}
let _ = self.control(9_998, "graceful-shutdown");

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WARNING: Uncaught panics during FixtureProcess::drop trigger double-panic test runner aborts

FixtureProcess::drop calls self.control(9_998, "graceful-shutdown"), which delegates to control_raw. control_raw contains multiple assertions and panic! calls on socket connection or parsing failures. If a test fails and unwinds while the fixture child process has already crashed or stopped listening, control_raw panics during drop unwinding, triggering a fatal double panic (fatal runtime error: double panic) that aborts the test runner process and suppresses the test failure diagnostics. Shutdown during drop should perform best-effort, non-panicking I/O.


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Fixed in 29e6f4a. Confirmed — and let _ = was never protection here: it discards a return value, not a panic.

Drop now calls a try_graceful_shutdown that returns io::Result<()> and uses ? on connect, timeout, write, and read instead of panic!/expect. control_raw keeps its loud panics with the directory listing and captured stderr, which is exactly what you want from a test body and fatal in a destructor.

The failure mode was as you describe: a test fails, unwinding drops FixtureProcess, the child is already gone, control_raw panics on connect, and the double panic aborts the runner — so the diagnostics for the original failure never print.

repoRoot,
"target/debug/examples/direct_host_fixture",
);
let fixtureBin =

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WARNING: Pre-built workspace fixture binary is ignored when allowBuild is false

workspaceFixture is defined on line 116 pointing to target/debug/examples/direct_host_fixture, but fixtureBin only checks env.MC_E2E_DIRECT_HOST_FIXTURE_BIN. If the fixture has already been compiled in the workspace, calling detectRustPrerequisites({ allowBuild: false }) ignores the existing binary on disk and reports fixtureBin as undefined. fixtureBin should fall back to isExecutable(workspaceFixture) ? workspaceFixture : undefined.


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Fixed in 29e6f4a, as suggested. workspaceFixture was computed at line 116 and then only read inside the allowBuild branch, so allowBuild: false ignored a perfectly good binary on disk:

if (!fixtureBin && isExecutable(workspaceFixture)) fixtureBin = workspaceFixture;

The options.allowBuild && !fixtureBin branch now also skips a rebuild when a usable binary already exists, which is the same bug from the other direction.

Test added: resolves a pre-built workspace fixture without building in check-rust-prerequisites.test.ts, which builds a fake workspace with an executable at target/debug/examples/direct_host_fixture and asserts fixtureBin resolves under allowBuild: false. It fails without the fix (fixtureBin missing from the result).

return Ok(());
}
if host.is_finished() {
return match host.await? {

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WARNING: Polling completed JoinHandle to completion twice panics during early exit

In wait_for_publication, when host.is_finished() is true, line 510 awaits &mut host (return match host.await? { ... }). After wait_for_publication returns Err, run() continues to line 590 where let host_result = host.await?; is called on the already-awaited JoinHandle. Polling a completed JoinHandle a second time panics in Tokio, crashing run() before control socket cleanup (fs::remove_file(&control_path)) can run.


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Fixed in 29e6f4a. Traced it: wait_for_publication awaited &mut host at line 510 when host.is_finished(), and run awaits the same handle at what was line 590. JoinHandle panics when polled after completion, so the fixture died before fs::remove_file(&control_path), leaking the control socket into the next run.

wait_for_publication no longer consumes the handle — it just reports the early exit — and run keeps the single await.

One thing your report did not mention, which I had to fix alongside it: the old early-exit branch returned Err(Box::new(error)) carrying the real HostError, so simply dropping the await would have replaced a specific host error with the generic "host exited before readiness". run now checks host_result? before ready?, since a readiness failure is usually the symptom and the host error is the cause.

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crates/mc-host/src/client.rs 1238 Busy-spin loop in join_tasks_until consumes CPU on shutdown
crates/mc-host/tests/lifecycle.rs 1563 Sequentially awaiting pipelined correlations drops out-of-order responses and causes test flakiness
crates/mc-module/src/historian_producer.rs 1217 is_terminal_unit omits "run_error"
crates/mc-module/tests/support/direct_host.rs 305 Uncaught panics during FixtureProcess::drop trigger double-panic test runner aborts
packages/e2e-tests/scripts/check-rust-prerequisites.ts 120 Pre-built workspace fixture binary is ignored when allowBuild is false
crates/mc-module/examples/direct_host_fixture.rs 510 Polling completed JoinHandle to completion twice panics during early exit
Files Reviewed (143 files)
  • crates/mc-host/src/client.rs - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-host/tests/lifecycle.rs - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-module/src/historian_producer.rs - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-module/tests/support/direct_host.rs - 1 issue
  • packages/e2e-tests/scripts/check-rust-prerequisites.ts - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-module/examples/direct_host_fixture.rs - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-host/src/auth.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/config.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/connection.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/connection_file.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/control.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/dispatch.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/frame_channel.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/instance.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/lib.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/lifecycle.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/tcp_frame_channel.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/transport_negotiation.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/transport_provider.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/wire.rs
  • crates/mc-host/tests/client.rs
  • crates/mc-host/tests/host_roundtrip.rs
  • crates/mc-host/tests/instance_security.rs
  • crates/mc-host/tests/transport_negotiation.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/dispatch.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/historian.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/lib.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/prompt_surface.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/session_resolver.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/boundary_counter_durability.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/broca_roundtrip.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/direct_host.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/host_adapter.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/prepared_output.rs
  • packages/plugin/src/hooks/magic-context/module-transport.ts
  • packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/client.ts
  • packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/connection.ts
  • packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/connection-file.ts
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crates/mc-host/src/client.rs 1221 Busy-spin loop in join_tasks_until consumes CPU on shutdown
crates/mc-host/tests/lifecycle.rs 1563 Sequentially awaiting pipelined correlations drops out-of-order responses and causes test flakiness
crates/mc-module/src/historian_producer.rs 1217 is_terminal_unit omits "run_error"
crates/mc-module/tests/support/direct_host.rs 305 Uncaught panics during FixtureProcess::drop trigger double-panic test runner aborts
packages/e2e-tests/scripts/check-rust-prerequisites.ts 120 Pre-built workspace fixture binary is ignored when allowBuild is false
crates/mc-module/examples/direct_host_fixture.rs 510 Polling completed JoinHandle to completion twice panics during early exit
Files Reviewed (143 files)
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  • crates/mc-host/tests/lifecycle.rs - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-module/src/historian_producer.rs - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-module/tests/support/direct_host.rs - 1 issue
  • packages/e2e-tests/scripts/check-rust-prerequisites.ts - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-module/examples/direct_host_fixture.rs - 1 issue
  • crates/mc-host/src/auth.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/config.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/connection.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/connection_file.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/control.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/dispatch.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/frame_channel.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/instance.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/lib.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/lifecycle.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/tcp_frame_channel.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/transport_negotiation.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/transport_provider.rs
  • crates/mc-host/src/wire.rs
  • crates/mc-host/tests/client.rs
  • crates/mc-host/tests/host_roundtrip.rs
  • crates/mc-host/tests/instance_security.rs
  • crates/mc-host/tests/transport_negotiation.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/dispatch.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/historian.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/lib.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/prompt_surface.rs
  • crates/mc-module/src/session_resolver.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/boundary_counter_durability.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/broca_roundtrip.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/direct_host.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/host_adapter.rs
  • crates/mc-module/tests/prepared_output.rs
  • packages/plugin/src/hooks/magic-context/module-transport.ts
  • packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/client.ts
  • packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/connection.ts
  • packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/connection-file.ts
  • packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/tcp-frame-channel.ts
  • packages/plugin/src/shared/mc-host-client/transport-provider.ts
  • packages/e2e-tests/src/rust-runner/hermetic-mc-host.ts
  • packages/e2e-tests/src/opencode-runner/spawn.ts
  • packages/e2e-tests/src/rust-harness.ts
  • docs/mc-host-wire-protocol.md

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Reject a zero epoch on a routed channel at decode. Epoch 0 is reserved
for the control channel, so a routed frame without an epoch names no
bindable route. The TypeScript client already rejected this pairing in
validateHeader while the Rust decoder accepted it, which let a corrupt
routing identity through to be dropped as unmatched instead of closing
the generation. Both halves of the pairing are now structural on both
clients, and the wire document's corruption list names the rule.

Enforce the rest of the direct-profile inbound table in the client. A
StreamEnd body is structural corruption, but StreamEnd is not a
pure-header frame at the framing layer, so the pure-header check never
saw it and a nonempty body ended the stream normally. Push is
unsolicited, so a correlation claims a pending request the frame cannot
answer.

Retire a stream's deadline watcher when the stream settles. The watcher
held no completion signal, so a stream that finished early left one
sleeping task per run for up to the caller's whole timeout - ten minutes
under the historian's stream timeout - and the live-stream cap did not
bound them because it is released at settlement. Settlement now fires a
token the watcher selects on first; every settle path already funnels
through finish_pending, so that is the single hook. The two spawn shapes
collapse into one because a default token is never cancelled.

Keep a cancelled request's OutcomeUnknown classification when its
best-effort Cancel cannot be queued. The enqueue failure was propagated
through `?`, and callers replace the request's classification with the
control error's outcome, so a concurrent generation retirement reported
a request whose bytes may already have reached the host as replay-safe
not_sent. The failure is still reported, now carrying the request's own
outcome.

Each fix has a test that fails without it.

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let mut stream = self
.connection
.request_stream(route, body, self.request_options(timeout))
.await?;

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P1 Badge Restore the producer-level subscribe timeout

When the stream reaches this timeout, ResponseStream::next returns a CallError with deadline_expired, which ManagedStream maps to HistorianProducerError::Call; this path no longer produces HistorianProducerError::TimedOut. The historian firing, reattachment, and classify flows only invoke their recovery redrain when they receive the TimedOut variant, so a long-running job that could finish during the recovery window is now cancelled or abandoned instead. Restoring the former whole-attempt timeout wrapper and translating its expiry to TimedOut also prevents route opening from consuming up to 30 seconds beyond the caller-supplied timeout.

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Fixed in d79c109. Confirmed against main, and both halves of your report hold.

main:crates/mc-module/src/historian_producer.rs:856-871 had exactly this wrapper, with a comment making the same argument:

match tokio::time::timeout(timeout, self.subscribe_and_drain(run_id)).await {
    Ok(result) => result,
    Err(_) => Err(HistorianProducerError::TimedOut),
}

Moving the timeout into RequestOptions dropped it, and I traced the consequence you name: ManagedStream::next maps the client error through map_call_error to HistorianProducerError::Call, and nothing anywhere converts deadline_expired to TimedOut — while historian.rs:1349 and historian.rs:1543 match the variant literally, so the recovery re-drain became unreachable on the timeout path. The second half is real too: ensure_subscribe_route runs before the stream request and carries CLIENT_ROUTE_OPEN_TIMEOUT (30s, client.rs:48), so an attempt could overshoot the caller budget by that margin with nothing above it.

subscribe_from_start now wraps subscribe_and_drain again and maps expiry to TimedOut; the per-request timeout stays as the transport bound underneath.

Test: an_attempt_that_outlives_its_budget_reports_timed_out stalls the subscription so only the attempt bound can end the wait. Worth noting how it fails without the fix — the fake connection does not honor RequestOptions, so the call never returns at all rather than returning the wrong variant. I gave the test an outer timeout so that regression fails in 5s with "the attempt s own bound must end the wait" instead of hanging the suite. Verified both directions.

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Terminate the producer drain on every error spelling. `is_error_unit`
accepts "error" and "run_error" while `is_terminal_unit` accepted only
"error", so a "run_error" unit fell through to stream end and surfaced as
`UnexpectedStreamEnd` instead of `RunFailed`, discarding the typed
classification the retry ladder reads. `is_terminal_unit` now defers to
`is_error_unit` so the two sets cannot drift again.

Stop the client's shutdown join from busy-spinning. `join_tasks_until`
polled `is_finished` behind two mutexes and called `yield_now`, which
re-queues immediately, so it spun a worker for the whole shutdown budget.
Each task is now awaited under the shared deadline, and only a task that
timed out is aborted and re-awaited, which is safe because it never
completed.

Stop the fixture from polling a completed `JoinHandle` twice. Early host
exit made `wait_for_publication` await the handle that `run` awaits
again, and the second poll panics before the control socket is removed.
The readiness probe now only reports the exit, `run` keeps the single
await, and the host's own error reports ahead of the readiness symptom.

Make the fixture's `Drop` shutdown non-panicking. It went through
`control_raw`, which panics loudly on purpose; during unwinding from a
failed test that aborts the runner and hides the failure that started the
unwind.

Match pipelined control responses by correlation. The host answers from
concurrent tasks, so the second response can arrive first, and
`frames_until_corr` discards the frames it consumed while searching -
the sequential second call would then wait out its budget.

Keep the leaked-fixture PID record when teardown fails to reap the child.
`stop()` removed the record and the data dir before throwing, destroying
the only identity the next run's reaper had for the surviving process.

Resume a paused fixture before signalling teardown. A SIGSTOPped child
runs no graceful shutdown and holds SIGTERM pending, so a test that threw
between `pauseHost` and `resumeHost` made every teardown path burn its
full timeout.

Honor a pre-built workspace fixture when building is forbidden, report
the cause of a fixture-start failure instead of a fixed string, overlap
the control and catalog handshakes that share no data, and finish the
`McHost*` rename in the terminal-error default message.
`Check (plugin)` has failed its Lint step since the first push on this
branch. Moving the client sources under `shared/mc-host-client/` left six
files with import order biome's assist rewrites, and two test files with
template literals it reflows now that the surrounding lines changed.

Formatting and import order only; `biome check --write` produced every
line. The same command on `main` reports five warnings and no errors,
which is why the step passed there.

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session_resolver,
session_resolver: Arc::new(MissingSessionResolver),

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P1 Badge Restore session resolution for facade routes

When a facade route carries a wrapper instance token—such as every Claude Code MCP route—this constructor now installs MissingSessionResolver even when a host connection file is available. That resolver always returns Ok(None), and resolve_facade_scope immediately converts it to session_unresolved, so ctx_memory, ctx_search, ctx_expand, and ctx_note cannot reach their handlers. Preserve a real direct-host resolver or otherwise provide the canonical session mapping before enabling these routes.

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Your code facts are right; the production conclusion is not, and I traced every caller before answering. This is the same finding claude[bot] raised separately, and my detailed reply is on that thread.

Confirmed: the constructor branches on connection_file only for producer_factory and then unconditionally installs MissingSessionResolver (lib.rs:3494-3510); RealSessionResolver is gone; and resolve_session changed from Err(Transport) to Ok(None), which resolve_facade_scope (lib.rs:10730-10754) turns into session_unresolved.

What refutes the failure scenario: no production caller of new_with_connection_file exists at this head. git grep finds three sites — the definition, new() passing None, and crates/mc-module/examples/direct_host_fixture.rs:551, a feature-gated example. The old production caller was main.rs, which this change deletes along with the ck-mc binary; Cargo.toml sets autobins = false, and crates/mc-module/tests/direct_host.rs:435-459 asserts the crate has no binary target. So no Claude Code MCP facade call can reach this constructor in this repository.

Where you have a real point: nothing stops a future embedder from passing Some(connection_file) and reasonably expecting real resolution, and no test would catch it. That is a design gap worth closing — either drop the parameter that no longer influences the resolver, or make that path refuse to construct — and I would rather settle it with whoever owns the new launcher wiring than guess in a review round. Flagged rather than closed.

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_ => return Err(()),
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if header.ty.is_pure_header() && (header.flags != pure_header_flags() || header.len != 0) {

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P2 Badge Preserve valid priority bits when answering Ping

When a conforming host sends a Ping with Interactive or Background priority, this equality check rejects it because pure_header_flags() always uses Passive priority, even though the wire contract permits any valid priority on pure-header frames. The reader therefore retires the generation instead of replying; moreover, the Ping dispatch path constructs Pong through the same fixed-flags helper rather than echoing the received flags. Validate only the mandated binary/last/admission bits and pass header.flags through to Pong so liveness works with every valid Ping.

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Fixed in 994e48c. Both halves confirmed, and the client was the outlier: tcp_frame_channel.rs:193-199 already checks binary, last, and admission Normal while leaving priority free — exactly what §6.1 says ("priority MAY be any valid value"). The client compared the whole flag byte instead, so a conforming Ping at Interactive or Background retired the generation.

validate_inbound now mirrors the framing layer:

if header.ty.is_pure_header()
    && (header.len != 0
        || header.flags.is_binary()
        || header.flags.is_last()
        || header.flags.admission_class() != Some(AdmissionClass::Normal))

The Pong half needed a signature change: send_control hardcoded pure_header_flags(), so even an accepted Ping got the wrong echo. It now takes flags explicitly, and the Ping arm passes header.flags through — V35 wants an exact echo, and making flags a parameter puts that decision at each control site instead of defaulting it.

Test: a_ping_at_any_valid_priority_is_answered_with_an_exact_flag_echo walks all three priorities, asserts the frame validates, and compares the Pong's flag byte to the Ping's — then checks binary and last are still rejected. Restoring the equality check fails it on the Interactive iteration.

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"session": identity.session
},
"consumer_capabilities": identity.consumer_capabilities,
"admission_facts": identity.admission_facts

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P2 Badge Omit absent admission facts from route.open

When callers set RouteIdentity.admission_facts to None—including the historian's normal route opens—json! serializes this member as an explicit "admission_facts": null. The host parser treats every present value, including JSON null, as Some(Value::Null), so the component bind callback observes facts as present even though the caller supplied none; handlers that gate admission behavior on Option::is_some() therefore make the wrong decision. Construct the request conditionally so this key is omitted for None.

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Fixed in 994e48c. Traced both sides: json! emits admission_facts as a present null for None, and control.rs:354 matches fields.get("admission_facts")Some(Value::Null) takes the Some(facts) arm and clones through to Some(Value::Null). So bind saw facts present, and a handler gating on is_some() decided on a value that means absence.

The key is now written only when the caller supplied facts, so absent stays absent on the wire.

I left the host parser alone deliberately: treating a present null as absent there would make the two spellings indistinguishable, and a client that sends an explicit null is stating something it should not. The client was the one making the false statement.

Test: absent_admission_facts_are_omitted_rather_than_sent_as_null decodes the route.open body and asserts the member is missing for None and exact for Some. It fails on the null member with the old construction.

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packages/e2e-tests/src/rust-harness.ts (1)

155-184: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Stop the mock provider when host startup fails.

mock.start() runs at line 158, before HermeticMcHostStack.start() at line 163. If host startup throws, mock.stop() never runs. In the spawnServe failure path at lines 180-184, a throw from mcHost.stop() also skips mock.stop(). A leaked Bun.serve listener holds its port and can keep the Bun test process alive instead of failing cleanly.

Wrap each teardown step so one failure does not skip the others.

🧹 Proposed fix for setup teardown
         const env = createIsolatedEnv();
-        const mcHost = await HermeticMcHostStack.start({
-            dataDir: env.dataDir,
-            fixtureBin,
-        });
+        let mcHost: HermeticMcHostStack;
+        try {
+            mcHost = await HermeticMcHostStack.start({
+                dataDir: env.dataDir,
+                fixtureBin,
+            });
+        } catch (error) {
+            await mock.stop().catch(() => {});
+            throw error;
+        }
@@
         } catch (error) {
-            await mcHost.stop();
-            await mock.stop();
+            await mcHost.stop().catch(() => {});
+            await mock.stop().catch(() => {});
             throw error;
         }
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In `@packages/e2e-tests/src/rust-harness.ts` around lines 155 - 184, Update the
setup and spawnServe failure cleanup around MockProvider, HermeticMcHostStack,
and RustTestHarness.spawnServe so mock.stop() always runs when host startup or
serving fails, even if another teardown step throws. Wrap each teardown
operation independently while preserving the original error propagation.
packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-fm-oc-3.test.ts (1)

43-53: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align the scenario description with the injected failure.

The file still describes a killed external module returning, but this path calls h.mcHost.crashHost() and h.mcHost.restartHost(). Update the description to name the mc-host crash and restart.

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In `@packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-fm-oc-3.test.ts` around lines 43 - 53, Update
the scenario description associated with the FM-OC-3 test to describe the
mc-host crash and subsequent restart performed by crashHost and restartHost,
replacing the outdated external-module recovery wording.
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crates/mc-module/src/historian.rs (1)

1239-1247: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bind the teardown_unconfirmed carve-out to a shared constant.

This predicate authorizes fallback, and fallback starts a second billable provider run. The carve-out that blocks it depends on matching the producer's error code by string literal.

If the producer renames or misspells that code, cancellation_confirmed_stopped returns true for an unconfirmed teardown. The firing then starts the next model while the previous provider descendant may still execute. The failure is silent: no type error, and the guard tests keep passing because they construct the same literal here in this file.

The surrounding code already avoids stringly-typed policy elsewhere in this module (CHAIN_EXHAUSTED_PERMANENT_PREFIX, AUTH_REQUIRED_PREFIX, UNKNOWN_ERROR_CLASS_PREFIX are named constants). Apply the same treatment, and export the constant from historian_producer so the producer and this consumer cannot drift.

♻️ Proposed change

In crates/mc-module/src/historian_producer.rs, publish the code next to the site that emits it:

/// The cancel path could not confirm the harness process group stopped.
/// `historian::cancellation_confirmed_stopped` refuses fallback on this code,
/// so renaming it here must not silently authorize a second billable run.
pub const TEARDOWN_UNCONFIRMED_CODE: &str = "teardown_unconfirmed";

Then consume it here:

 fn cancellation_confirmed_stopped(result: &Result<(), HistorianProducerError>) -> bool {
     match result {
         Ok(()) => true,
         Err(error) => {
             error.send_outcome() == Some(HistorianSendOutcome::Terminal)
-                && error.code() != Some("teardown_unconfirmed")
+                && error.code()
+                    != Some(crate::historian_producer::TEARDOWN_UNCONFIRMED_CODE)
         }
     }
 }

Update the test at lines 3533-3538 to build its tagged error from the same constant, so the test cannot pass against a stale literal.

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In `@crates/mc-module/src/historian.rs` around lines 1239 - 1247, Introduce and
publicly export TEARDOWN_UNCONFIRMED_CODE in historian_producer.rs alongside the
producer error emission, then update cancellation_confirmed_stopped to compare
against that shared constant instead of a string literal. Also update the
related guard test to construct its error code from TEARDOWN_UNCONFIRMED_CODE.
crates/mc-host/src/lifecycle.rs (1)

509-518: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The re-checks after validate() are unreachable.

ConnectionInfo::validate already rejects each of these conditions (crates/mc-host/src/connection_file.rs lines 77-92): it requires endpoints.first() to be present, host == "127.0.0.1", port != 0, key.len() == KEY_LEN, and a non-empty daemon_ver. After info.validate().ok()? returns, none of the four predicates in this if can be true.

Only the first() binding is still needed, because the summary reads endpoint.port. Keeping the duplicated predicates spreads one invariant across two files and hides which layer owns connection-file validation.

This is clarity only. There is no behavior change either way.

♻️ Proposed simplification
 fn publication_summary(bytes: &[u8]) -> Option<PublicationSummary> {
     let info: ConnectionInfo = serde_json::from_slice(bytes).ok()?;
+    // `validate` owns the schema, wire-version, endpoint, key-length, and
+    // daemon_ver checks; this only needs the port for the summary.
     info.validate().ok()?;
-
     let endpoint = info.endpoints.first()?;
-    if endpoint.host != "127.0.0.1"
-        || endpoint.port == 0
-        || info.daemon_ver.is_empty()
-        || info.key.len() != KEY_LEN
-    {
-        return None;
-    }
     Some(PublicationSummary {
         daemon_id: hex(&info.daemon_id),
         daemon_ver: info.daemon_ver,
         pid: info.pid,
         port: endpoint.port,
     })
 }

Removing the block also makes the KEY_LEN import on line 16 unused, so drop it from that use statement.

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In `@crates/mc-host/src/lifecycle.rs` around lines 509 - 518, Remove the redundant
endpoint, port, daemon version, and key-length checks after
ConnectionInfo::validate in the lifecycle flow, retaining only the
endpoint.first() binding needed for the summary. Also remove the now-unused
KEY_LEN import.
crates/mc-host/src/connection.rs (1)

619-622: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Reuse transport_ready here.

Lines 619-622 repeat the exact predicate that transport_ready (Line 785) implements. One helper keeps the admission rule in one place.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-    if !matches!(
-        setup.state,
-        TransportState::TcpCommitted | TransportState::ProviderActive
-    ) {
+    if !transport_ready(setup) {
         return ControlFlow::Close(ReadExit::Peer);
     }
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In `@crates/mc-host/src/connection.rs` around lines 619 - 622, In the connection
admission check, replace the duplicated TransportState predicate with the
existing transport_ready helper, preserving the current rejection behavior for
states that are not ready.
packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-park-self-heal.test.ts (1)

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Update the surrounding prose to the direct-host model.

Line 62 now calls h.mcHost.restartHost(), but lines 58-61 still describe "the daemon supervises" and "the plugin's subc client". Line 19 also states "against the same daemon + store". This PR removes the subc daemon, so the comments now misdescribe the fault-injection window.

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In `@packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-park-self-heal.test.ts` around lines 58 - 62,
Update the comments around restartHost and the test description to describe the
direct-host model, removing references to the subc daemon, daemon supervision,
and plugin subc client while preserving the intent that the host restarts
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Inline comments:
In @.beads/issues.jsonl:
- Line 43: Update the close reason for issue magic-context-c50.4 to remove the
claim that E2E verification is complete, since the full Rust-mode E2E suite
remains tracked by magic-context-c50.9. Keep the existing implementation and
other close-reason details unchanged.

Apply the same fix in @.beads/interactions.jsonl at line 73: The same
verification-scope correction applies to this closure reason.

In `@crates/mc-host/src/auth.rs`:
- Around line 584-627: Update committed_wire_vectors_pin_the_proof_construction
and the corresponding TypeScript auth.test.ts vectors to use identical
client/server nonces, daemon ID, and expected SERVER_PROOF_DOMAIN and
CLIENT_AUTH_DOMAIN digests. Preserve the existing proof construction and
assertions so both tests verify the same cross-language wire contract.

In `@crates/mc-host/src/client.rs`:
- Around line 1084-1089: Update the PendingKind::Stream handling in
read_active_frame so a missing charge retires the connection only for non-empty
StreamData bodies; allow zero-length stream items to continue without treating
them as response memory exhaustion. Preserve the existing retirement behavior
when payload data is present but no ByteCharge is available.

In `@crates/mc-host/tests/support/raw_client.rs`:
- Around line 405-408: Update negotiate_tcp’s skipped-frame validation to ignore
interleaved Ping frames and reject only skipped frames whose ty is not TY_PING,
matching control_response behavior. Preserve the existing error for unexpected
non-Ping frames.

In `@crates/mc-module/src/dispatch.rs`:
- Around line 404-409: Update CountingWriter::write to replace
io::ErrorKind::FileTooLarge with an error kind available in Rust 1.77, while
preserving the existing error message and propagation from add_len.

In `@crates/mc-module/tests/boundary_counter_durability.rs`:
- Around line 53-70: Update the store-readiness polling loop around request_json
to use the raw client request, matching wait_for_store in direct_host.rs, so
CallError responses with code store_unavailable are ignored and retried until
the store opens or the deadline expires; preserve existing assertions for
successful status responses and fail other errors normally.

In `@docs/mc-host-wire-protocol.md`:
- Around line 807-819: Clarify the timeout relationship between the
managed-client handshake budget and the host authentication deadline in the
“Managed Rust and TypeScript client defaults” section. Explicitly allocate
separate time for authentication and mandatory negotiation, or state that the
combined discovery/dial/authentication/negotiation deadline must exceed the
2-second host authentication deadline, while keeping Section 5.1 consistent.

In `@packages/cli/src/commands/doctor-authority.ts`:
- Line 138: Update the failure-path messages near McHostModuleTransport
construction to replace retired subc connectivity recovery instructions with the
current mc-host recovery action. Apply this consistently at the referenced
messages around the transport checks and preserve the existing diagnostics and
control flow.

In `@packages/e2e-tests/src/rust-scenario-support.ts`:
- Around line 36-45: Update FOLD_SKIP_REASON and DUPLICATE_ID_SKIP_REASON to
include the corresponding opt-in environment variables, MC_RUST_E2E_FOLD=1 and
MC_RUST_E2E_DUPLICATE_IDS=1, so skipped tests provide actionable enablement
guidance.

In `@packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-fm-oc-5.test.ts`:
- Around line 35-40: Update the pause/resume flow around
HermeticMcHostStack.pauseHost() and resumeHost() to wait for bounded
confirmation that the host is stopped before the first sendPrompt() and ready
again before the second. Preserve the existing prompts and assertions while
preventing signal-delivery races.

In `@packages/plugin/src/config/schema/magic-context.ts`:
- Line 676: Update the experimental direct mc-host runtime description near the
mode value to explicitly name the required user-level configuration key,
subc.connection_file, while preserving the existing TypeScript pipeline context.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@packages/e2e-tests/src/rust-harness.ts`:
- Around line 155-184: Update the setup and spawnServe failure cleanup around
MockProvider, HermeticMcHostStack, and RustTestHarness.spawnServe so mock.stop()
always runs when host startup or serving fails, even if another teardown step
throws. Wrap each teardown operation independently while preserving the original
error propagation.

In `@packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-fm-oc-3.test.ts`:
- Around line 43-53: Update the scenario description associated with the FM-OC-3
test to describe the mc-host crash and subsequent restart performed by crashHost
and restartHost, replacing the outdated external-module recovery wording.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/mc-host/src/connection.rs`:
- Around line 619-622: In the connection admission check, replace the duplicated
TransportState predicate with the existing transport_ready helper, preserving
the current rejection behavior for states that are not ready.

In `@crates/mc-host/src/lifecycle.rs`:
- Around line 509-518: Remove the redundant endpoint, port, daemon version, and
key-length checks after ConnectionInfo::validate in the lifecycle flow,
retaining only the endpoint.first() binding needed for the summary. Also remove
the now-unused KEY_LEN import.

In `@crates/mc-module/src/historian.rs`:
- Around line 1239-1247: Introduce and publicly export TEARDOWN_UNCONFIRMED_CODE
in historian_producer.rs alongside the producer error emission, then update
cancellation_confirmed_stopped to compare against that shared constant instead
of a string literal. Also update the related guard test to construct its error
code from TEARDOWN_UNCONFIRMED_CODE.

In `@packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-park-self-heal.test.ts`:
- Around line 58-62: Update the comments around restartHost and the test
description to describe the direct-host model, removing references to the subc
daemon, daemon supervision, and plugin subc client while preserving the intent
that the host restarts against the same store and the lease is re-acquired.
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let (skipped, frame) = self.frames_until_corr(corr, Duration::from_secs(5)).await?;
if !skipped.is_empty() {
return Err("unexpected frame before transport selection".to_owned());
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Allow interleaved Ping frames during TCP negotiation.

frames_until_corr stores preceding Ping frames in skipped, and negotiate_tcp rejects any non-empty skipped list. Therefore, bootstrap liveness Ping frames can make TestHost::client() fail at expect("negotiated connection"). Reject only skipped frames whose ty != TY_PING, as control_response does.

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In `@crates/mc-host/tests/support/raw_client.rs` around lines 405 - 408, Update
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reject only skipped frames whose ty is not TY_PING, matching control_response
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Reading this one as a latent hazard rather than an observed break, and leaving it.

Your analysis of the ordering is right: a negotiated RawClient can observe a bootstrap Ping interleaved with the frames a test is waiting for, and frames_until_corr consumes non-matching frames into its returned skipped list — which most call sites discard. That is the same shape as the pipelined-shutdown flake fixed in 29e6f4a, where the discarded frame was the other response the test still needed.

It differs here in what gets dropped: frames_until_corr already excludes TY_PING from matching, so a stray Ping is skipped rather than mistaken for a response, and no test asserts on the Pong it triggers. So there is no correlation a later call still needs — the frame is genuinely uninteresting, not lost work.

The durable fix is the same either way: stop discarding skipped. That is worth doing as a support-module change with every call site audited together, not as one more edit appended to this round. Flagging it rather than closing it.

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@ahrav, agreed. The narrow TY_PING change is not required here.

TY_PING does not represent deferred correlated work in this path. The durable fix is to retain skipped frames and audit every RawClient call site together.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for that support-module change?

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Learning: In `crates/mc-host/tests/support/raw_client.rs`, `RawClient::frames_until_corr` currently discards non-matching frames. A skipped `TY_PING` during TCP negotiation is not lost correlated work because later operations do not require that frame or assert on the resulting Pong. A durable fix, if scheduled, should retain skipped frames and audit every `RawClient` call site together rather than adding a local `negotiate_tcp` exception.

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Filed it as magic-context-1or in this repo's tracker (bd), so no GitHub issue needed — bd is where task state lives here.

Scoped it to the durable fix rather than the symptom: buffer the consumed non-matching frames on the client so a later frames_until_corr searches that buffer before reading the socket, and audit every call site in one pass. The acceptance criterion includes removing the local lookaside that 29e6f4a added to the pipelined-shutdown test, since a correct helper makes it unnecessary — per-site handling is exactly what let that flake exist.

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@ahrav, thanks for the clarification.

magic-context-1or tracks the correct scope. The fix must buffer non-matching frames in RawClient, search that buffer before socket reads, and audit all frames_until_corr call sites. The work must also remove the 29e6f4a1 pipelined-shutdown lookaside.

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Repo: ahrav/magic-context PR: 32
File: crates/mc-host/tests/support/raw_client.rs:405-408
Timestamp: 2026-08-25T09:35:30.165Z
Learning: In `crates/mc-host/tests/support/raw_client.rs`, `RawClient::frames_until_corr` currently discards non-matching frames. A skipped `TY_PING` during TCP negotiation is not lost correlated work because later operations do not require that frame or assert on the resulting Pong. A durable fix, if scheduled, should retain skipped frames and audit every `RawClient` call site together rather than adding a local `negotiate_tcp` exception.

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Moving the producer's subscribe timeout into `RequestOptions` dropped the
whole-attempt wrapper, and two properties went with it.

Expiry stopped being distinguishable. A per-request deadline surfaces as
`ResponseStream::next` returning `deadline_expired`, which maps to
`HistorianProducerError::Call`. Firing, reattachment, and classify grant
their recovery re-drain only on `TimedOut`, so a run that would have
finished inside the recovery window was cancelled and its output
discarded.

The bound stopped covering route opening. `ensure_subscribe_route` runs
before the stream request and carries the client's own 30-second
route-open timeout, so an attempt could overshoot the caller's budget by
that much and leave an outer cancel landing during `session.delete`.

`subscribe_from_start` wraps `subscribe_and_drain` again and maps expiry
to `TimedOut`; the per-request timeout stays as the transport bound.

The test stalls the subscription so only the attempt's own bound can end
the wait, and guards itself with an outer timeout: the fake connection
does not honor `RequestOptions`, so without the wrapper the call never
returns, and the guard turns that into a failure rather than a hung suite.
`storage-memory-claims-crash.test.ts` hashes the full bytes of the 31
paths in its `IMPLEMENTATION_FILES` manifest and compares that digest to
the checked-in evidence. One of those paths is
`packages/e2e-tests/src/opencode-runner/spawn.ts`, so interpolating the
fixture-start cause into its error moved the digest and the pinned value
went stale.

Regenerated with `UPDATE_CLAIMS_CRASH_EVIDENCE=1`, which reran the
campaign. Only `commitUnderTest` and `dirtyDiffDigest` changed; the
matrix, per-scenario semantic digests, summary, limits, runtimes, and
environment are byte-identical, so the recorded claim is the same
campaign result under a new manifest hash.

The failure was masked until now: the Lint step failed ahead of Test, so
CI never reached this assertion.

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let _ = tx.send(result);
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PendingKind::Stream { terminal, .. } => {

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P2 Badge Cancel the watcher on normal stream terminals

When a stream receives StreamEnd, Error, or an unexpected Response, this branch removes the pending entry and settles the caller directly, bypassing finish_pending, so the settled token hidden by .. is dropped without being cancelled. The detached deadline watcher retains its own token clone and therefore remains alive until the original deadline (600 seconds for the historian), recreating the sleeping-task accumulation that the earlier fix intended to remove. The fresh evidence in this revision is this normal-terminal dispatch path, which does not funnel through the claimed single settlement hook.

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You are right, and my previous reply was wrong on the specific claim it made. Fixed in 0f1c5ba.

I asserted every settle path funnels through finish_pending. It does not: the Response/Error/StreamEnd branch in dispatch (client.rs:1035-1049) destructures PendingKind::Stream { terminal, .. }, sends the terminal, and calls release_stream() directly — never finish_pending. So the explicit settled.cancel() covered cancel, drop, route settle, and retire, and missed the normal completion path, which is the common one and exactly the case the original finding described.

The fix stops relying on a convention. PendingKind::Stream now holds a DropGuard rather than a token, so the watcher is retired by dropping the entry:

_settled: DropGuard,

Every path that settles a stream already removes it from pending — that is what makes it a settle path — so this covers the branch you found, the four the explicit call covered, and any future one, without a new site having to remember.

Test: settled_stream_retires_its_deadline_watcher now loops both shapes, cancel_key and a dispatched StreamEnd. Against the previous design the None iteration passes and Some(StreamEnd) fails with "settling via Some(StreamEnd) must retire the watcher" — I reconstructed that shape to confirm it reproduces your finding, rather than trusting the reasoning twice.

Comment thread crates/mc-host/src/client.rs Outdated
Comment on lines +1169 to +1170
if outcome == SendOutcome::OutcomeUnknown {
let _ = self.send_control(

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P2 Badge Avoid flooding the control queue while settling a route

When a route has more than 32 requests whose writes may have started, settle_route synchronously enqueues one Cancel for each even though the control queue has only 32 slots. On a current-thread Tokio runtime the writer cannot drain that queue until this loop yields, so the 33rd send_control invokes retire("control_capacity_exhausted"); a route close or host route Goodbye then tears down the entire generation and fails unrelated routes. The route Goodbye already tells the host to settle or cancel all work on that route, so route settlement should not generate this per-correlation control-frame storm.

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Fixed in 0f1c5ba by removing the storm rather than bounding it. Confirmed the arithmetic and the blast radius: CLIENT_CONTROL_QUEUE_FRAMES is 32 (client.rs:62), settle_route is synchronous so the writer cannot drain between iterations, and send_control calls retire("control_capacity_exhausted") on try_send failure — so request 33 tears down the generation and fails every unrelated route.

Your remedy argument is the one the protocol already makes. §11.2: "Route close is pure-header Goodbye ... Host stops new dispatch, settles/cancels route work within its close budget, calls route-gone exactly once." Both entries into settle_route are already paired with that frame — close_route sends it immediately after settling, and the dispatch path is reacting to the host having sent it. Per-correlation Cancel therefore tells the host nothing it is not already obliged to do, while carrying the overflow risk. settle_all never emitted them either, so the two paths are now consistent.

Callers keep their exact outcomes: cancel_classification still assigns NotSent versus OutcomeUnknown per request, which is independent of whether a control frame goes out.

Test: route_settlement_never_floods_the_reserved_control_queue admits 33 requests on one route, claims each for write so every one classifies possibly-sent, settles the route, and asserts the generation survives with no control frame queued. Restoring the loop makes it fail on "route settlement must not retire the generation" — your predicted failure, observed.

Also worth noting the second-order hazard this removes: send_control retires on a queue_budget.charge failure too, so the storm could trip the same teardown below 32 frames under a tight budget.

@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ export const FALLBACK_REASONS = [
"unavailable",
"negotiation_version_mismatch",

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Fail-open on a reason the updated spec explicitly excludes from fallback evidence.

FALLBACK_REASONS still contains "negotiation_version_mismatch". This PR removed "connection_in_use" from this exact array in this same hunk, but left negotiation_version_mismatch in place — even though the wire doc this PR also updates (docs/mc-host-wire-protocol.md §7.7.3) now says: "Negotiation-version mismatch, unsupported_operation, connection_in_use, timeout, malformed content, ... are not fallback evidence and MUST fail closed without same-generation TCP continuation." The doc's closed table for §7.7.3 was also trimmed in this PR down to only unavailable and capability_version_mismatchnegotiation_version_mismatch was dropped from the table too, just not from the code.

Failure scenario: a host (rogue, misconfigured, or running an older/incompatible negotiation version) sends a TCP transport.negotiate response with "reason":"negotiation_version_mismatch". decodeNegotiateResponseisFallbackReason (line 86-88) still returns true, so the client silently accepts it as valid fallback evidence and commits to TCP instead of retiring the generation and failing closed — exactly the conformance vector (V53 in the same doc's new table) this PR claims to add. The existing test at transport-negotiation.test.ts:128-139 doesn't catch this because it just iterates over FALLBACK_REASONS itself rather than asserting against the doc's actual closed table.

Suggested fix: drop "negotiation_version_mismatch" from FALLBACK_REASONS to match the updated §7.7.3 table.

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Fixed in 35af65f — and the drift is worse than the TypeScript side. crates/mc-host/src/transport_negotiation.rs also still had FallbackReason::NegotiationVersionMismatch in both as_str and parse, so both implementations accepted a reason §7.7.3 excludes. Removed from the enum and from FALLBACK_REASONS.

Your reading of the doc is exact: the §7.7.3 table lists only unavailable and capability_version_mismatch, and the prose names negotiation-version mismatch among the outcomes that "are not fallback evidence and MUST fail closed without same-generation TCP continuation" — matching V53 against V54.

Your point about the test is the load-bearing one. Both suites iterated their own vocabulary (for (const reason of FALLBACK_REASONS) and the Rust closed-table loop), so each one only proved the code agrees with itself. Both now pin the doc's two literals directly:

expect([...FALLBACK_REASONS]).toEqual(["unavailable", "capability_version_mismatch"]);

and assert the excluded reasons are rejected — negotiation_version_mismatch, connection_in_use, unsupported_operation, plus an unknown token. On the Rust side the removed value moved from the accepted table into the rejected loop, which also asserts FallbackReason::parse returns None for it.

Nothing emitted the value: the only Rust reference outside the enum was that test's own accepted-table entry, so no host path was relying on it.

await stack.startHost();
return stack;
} catch (error) {
await stack.stop();

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Teardown failure masks the real startup error.

} catch (error) {
    await stack.stop();
    throw error;
}

stack.stop() (lines 778-815) itself throws "direct mc-host fixture did not exit during teardown" when the child doesn't exit within the SIGTERM/SIGKILL escalation windows. Since await stack.stop() isn't wrapped in its own try/catch, if it throws, that new exception replaces the original error from startHost() — the real root cause (e.g. a readiness timeout or catalog-probe failure) is silently discarded and the test only reports the much-less-useful teardown-timeout message.

Failure scenario: the fixture binary hangs during startup (readiness timeout fires) and, because it's wedged, also fails to respond to SIGKILL within the 5s window (e.g. stuck in D state under CI load) — the actual "readiness timed out" error never reaches the test output, only "did not exit during teardown."

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Fixed in 35af65f. Confirmed: stop() throws "direct mc-host fixture did not exit during teardown" on its own escalation failure, and an unguarded await stack.stop() in the catch replaces the startup cause with that.

The cleanup call can no longer replace the original error, which is rethrown unchanged so callers matching on its identity still work.

On discarding the teardown error rather than attaching it as cause: it is not the only record of the leak. stop() deliberately keeps the PID file and data dir on disk when the child survives, so the next run reaper still finds the process — that is the other half of the fix you already flagged on stop().

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});
} catch (error) {
await subc.stop();
await mcHost.stop();

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Same error-masking pattern as HermeticMcHostStack.start, plus a resource leak.

} catch (error) {
    await mcHost.stop();
    await mock.stop();
    throw error;
}

If spawnServe() throws and mcHost.stop() also throws (per the teardown-timeout path in hermetic-mc-host.ts), mock.stop() on the next line is never reached: the MockProvider's HTTP server (Bun.serve, opened in mock.start()) is left listening, and the original spawn error is replaced by the stop() failure. Contrast with dispose() (lines 704+) in this same file, which independently try/catches each teardown step for exactly this reason — create()'s error path doesn't follow that pattern.

Failure scenario: spawnServe fails (e.g. opencode binary crashes on boot) at the same time the mc-host fixture is unresponsive to termination signals — the mock HTTP server process leaks across test runs and the real spawn failure is hidden behind a teardown-timeout error.

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Fixed in 35af65f. Both halves confirmed: a throwing mcHost.stop() skipped mock.stop(), so the MockProvider Bun.serve listener outlived the failure, and the spawn error was replaced by the teardown error.

Each teardown step is now independent, matching the dispose() pattern you pointed at in the same file — every step runs and none can replace the error being reported.

for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(resolvedOpts.extraEnv ?? {})) {
childEnv[key] = value;
}
const resources = rustMode && !opts.userMcHostConnectionFile ? await provision() : null;

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Temp directories leak when direct-host provisioning fails.

const resources = rustMode && !opts.userMcHostConnectionFile ? await provision() : null;

provision (== provisionRustMode, lines 330-347) calls createIsolatedEnv() at line 338, which creates configDir/dataDir/cacheDir/workdir under tmpdir()/opencode-e2e-* (lines 101-112), before entering the surrounding try block of spawnOpencodeWithProvision (the try only starts at line 383). If HermeticMcHostStack.start() throws inside provisionRustMode, the function rethrows a wrapped error without removing any of those directories, and the cleanup() closure defined at line 361 (which is the only thing that calls resources?.mcHost.stop()) never even runs for this failure path — nothing attempts cleanup at all.

Failure scenario: the fixture build or readiness check fails intermittently on a loaded CI runner — every such failure leaves an orphaned opencode-e2e-<ts>-<rand> directory tree in /tmp that nothing reaps (the only reaper, reapRecordedRustProcesses(), only kills stale processes recorded in a pid file, and only runs on the next HermeticMcHostStack.start() call — it doesn't clean directory litter from a call that never got that far).

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Fixed in 35af65f. Confirmed the ordering: createIsolatedEnv() mkdirs the tree inside provisionRustMode, which runs before the caller try, so cleanup() never sees it and the reaper only kills recorded PIDs — directory litter had no owner.

provisionRustMode now removes the tree it created before rethrowing, and the removal is itself non-throwing so it cannot mask the startup failure.

One deliberate refinement over the obvious fix: removal is skipped when dataDir still exists. stop() removes dataDir last and only once the child is gone, so a surviving dataDir is teardown reporting a child it could not reap — and reapRecordedRustProcesses finds that child by scanning exactly tmpdir()/opencode-e2e-*/data/cortexkit/rust-e2e-pids.json. An unconditional rmSync would delete the only handle on a leaked fixture process, trading directory litter for an unkillable one.

@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ export const FALLBACK_REASONS = [
"unavailable",
"negotiation_version_mismatch",

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Correctness/security: stale fallback reason lets a host force insecure TCP downgrade

FALLBACK_REASONS still includes "negotiation_version_mismatch". This PR's own updated docs/mc-host-wire-protocol.md §7.7.3 moved this value out of the closed fallback vocabulary (now only unavailable and capability_version_mismatch are valid) and explicitly states: "Negotiation-version mismatch, ... are not fallback evidence and MUST fail closed without same-generation TCP continuation." The PR did remove the sibling "connection_in_use" entry from this same array for the identical reason, but left "negotiation_version_mismatch" in place.

decodeNegotiateResponse (line ~637) accepts it via isFallbackReason, and client.ts's ensureConnection (line ~744, conn.fallbackReason = selection.reason) commits to the plain TCP connection for any decoded fallback reason without special-casing which one it is.

Failure scenario: a client offers a non-TCP transport candidate (e.g. a secure local socket) alongside TCP. A buggy or malicious host replies {kind:"tcp", reason:"negotiation_version_mismatch"}. The client accepts this as valid fallback evidence and silently commits to the unauthenticated/insecure TCP path instead of retiring the generation and failing closed, exactly the class of bug this PR's "strict negotiation" hardening was meant to close.

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Fixed in 35af65f — and the drift is worse than the TypeScript side. crates/mc-host/src/transport_negotiation.rs also still had FallbackReason::NegotiationVersionMismatch in both as_str and parse, so both implementations accepted a reason §7.7.3 excludes. Removed from the enum and from FALLBACK_REASONS.

Your reading of the doc is exact: the §7.7.3 table lists only unavailable and capability_version_mismatch, and the prose names negotiation-version mismatch among the outcomes that "are not fallback evidence and MUST fail closed without same-generation TCP continuation" — matching V53 against V54.

Your point about the test is the load-bearing one. Both suites iterated their own vocabulary (for (const reason of FALLBACK_REASONS) and the Rust closed-table loop), so each one only proved the code agrees with itself. Both now pin the doc's two literals directly:

expect([...FALLBACK_REASONS]).toEqual(["unavailable", "capability_version_mismatch"]);

and assert the excluded reasons are rejected — negotiation_version_mismatch, connection_in_use, unsupported_operation, plus an unknown token. On the Rust side the removed value moved from the accepted table into the rejected loop, which also asserts FallbackReason::parse returns None for it.

Nothing emitted the value: the only Rust reference outside the enum was that test's own accepted-table entry, so no host path was relying on it.

/// replay preserved across a redrain, a length-cap unit whose finish metadata
/// survives to `ProducerOutput`, both routes closed, and no retained
/// subscriber (R25, AE15, AE13).
#[tokio::test]

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Several Broca integration scenarios were dropped in the port to the direct-host boundary, with no replacement.

The old version of this file (1547 lines, 6 #[tokio::test]s against a real mc-host + real wire framing) is now 198 lines with only 2 tests (real_broca_success_block_release_failure_and_counters, real_broca_cancel_shutdown_and_full_route_handle_cleanup). Removed with no equivalent end-to-end coverage found elsewhere in the new suite (direct_host.rs, host_adapter.rs):

  • host_restart_reports_missing_and_reattach_becomes_refire_eligible — proved that after a host restart, in-flight Broca runs are correctly reported missing and become refire-eligible on reattach, through the real wire/store/host stack (not just the unit-level historian.rs reattach logic).
  • rejected_connections_and_binds_start_no_backend — proved a rejected bind/connection never triggers a backend LLM execution (no spurious run / resource leak on rejected auth).
  • saturated_broca_reserves_do_not_block_magic_context_echo — proved exhausting Broca's reserved capacity doesn't starve the sibling magic-context component sharing the same host.
  • transient_first_model_advances_session_and_keeps_retry_metadata — proved transient-failure model-chain advancement through the real classify dispatch/session/store path (only the retry-math itself survives as a historian.rs unit test).

Failure scenario: a future regression in any of these specific wirings (host-restart→reattach plumbing, bind-rejection→no-backend-start, Broca-saturation→cross-component starvation) would go undetected — the underlying unit-level logic is still tested in isolation, but the integration wiring between components is not.

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Verified independently and it is partly right: four of the named scenarios lost coverage, three did not.

Covered elsewhere, with the assertion that replaced each:

  • rejected_connections_and_binds_start_no_backendcrates/mc-host/tests/protocol_vectors.rs:453-505 opens raw unauthenticated TCP, sends a zero proof, and asserts EOF with no frame bytes and no dispatch.
  • saturated_broca_reserves_do_not_block_magic_context_echocrates/mc-host/tests/broca_supervisor.rs:455-493 for the queue_full application terminal, and crates/mc-host/tests/dispatch.rs:971-1064 for Broca reserves not blocking Magic Context.
  • transient_first_model_advances_session_and_keeps_retry_metadata — the model-chain advance and retry math are covered at crates/mc-module/src/lib.rs:27396-27462, and host-side typed metadata at crates/mc-host/tests/broca_subprocess.rs:1533-1544.

Genuinely uncovered, and tracked as magic-context-shb: producer-side decoding of the concrete wire values. Specifically "missing" for the restart-reattach transition, the transient metadata that feeds the retry ladder, and historian output redrain — the downstream transitions are unit-tested with injected states, but the decode that produces those states from bytes is not. 0f1c5ba and d79c109 closed part of it (drain terminal handling for every error spelling, and the TimedOut variant the recovery re-drain matches on).

On the framing: integration counts went up, not down — mc-module tests 8 to 23, mc-host 282 to 293. real_daemon.rs spawned ck-subc and ck-mc as separate processes and neither binary exists now, so that deletion is mechanical. The four decode paths are the real finding.

await stack.startHost();
return stack;
} catch (error) {
await stack.stop();

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Teardown failure masks the real startup error

} catch (error) {
    await stack.stop();
    throw error;
}

stack.stop() (below, stop() at ~line 809) itself throws "direct mc-host fixture did not exit during teardown" when the child doesn't exit within its SIGTERM/SIGKILL escalation windows. That call isn't wrapped in its own try/catch, so if it throws, that new exception replaces the original error from startHost() — the real root cause (e.g. a readiness timeout or catalog-probe failure) is discarded.

Failure scenario: the fixture binary hangs on startup (readiness timeout fires) and, being wedged, also fails to respond to SIGKILL within its window under CI load. The test failure only reports "did not exit during teardown," and the actual readiness-timeout diagnostic is lost.

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Fixed in 35af65f. Confirmed: stop() throws "direct mc-host fixture did not exit during teardown" on its own escalation failure, and an unguarded await stack.stop() in the catch replaces the startup cause with that.

The cleanup call can no longer replace the original error, which is rethrown unchanged so callers matching on its identity still work.

On discarding the teardown error rather than attaching it as cause: it is not the only record of the leak. stop() deliberately keeps the PID file and data dir on disk when the child survives, so the next run reaper still finds the process — that is the other half of the fix you already flagged on stop().

`release_blocked` treated a successful `oneshot::Sender::send` as consumption, but
that only proves the receiver still existed. The blocked run's select is `biased`
toward shutdown and cancellation, so a release handed over at that instant is
never taken: the run counted itself cancelled while the releaser had already
counted it released, leaving one invocation in both buckets with `completed`
unchanged and `release-blocked-call` answered `accepted: true` for a run that
never resumed.

The release branch is now the only place a release is counted, and it
acknowledges consumption back to the releaser after updating the counters. A
release that lost the race is offered to the next waiting invocation instead of
being counted, so `accepted` means the run actually resumed.
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let charge = self.queue_budget.charge(bytes.len()).ok_or_else(|| {
self.retire("control_capacity_exhausted");
CallError::local(
SendOutcome::Terminal,
"control_capacity_exhausted",
"reserved control admission exhausted",
)
})?;

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Shared byte budget lets legitimate data traffic kill the whole connection via a starved control frame.

send_control and encode_data_frame (line 1982) both charge against the same shared queue_budget pool (CLIENT_QUEUED_BYTES, ~65 MiB), but they react to exhaustion very differently:

  • A data admission that can't get a charge just returns a local queued_byte_capacity error to that one caller (line 1982-1988).
  • A control frame (Pong, Cancel, Goodbye) that can't get a charge calls self.retire("control_capacity_exhausted") here, tearing down the entire connection generation — every other in-flight request/route on the connection fails as a side effect.

Concrete scenario: several legitimate concurrent requests have queued bodies that add up to near the shared cap (e.g. a couple of large ~30 MiB bodies, or many mid-size ones), and the writer is briefly stalled behind normal TCP backpressure. While that backlog sits queued, the reader gets a keepalive Ping and tries to answer with a Pong, or a stream deadline/cancel watcher tries to send Cancel. The 21-byte control charge fails because the shared pool is saturated by ordinary data traffic, and the client responds by retiring the whole generation — a self-inflicted DoS triggered by normal heavy usage, not a protocol violation.

Neither existing test seems to cover this combination: data_capacity_spares_control_reserve_and_does_not_burn_correlation fills the 256-slot data channel with near-empty bodies (so the shared byte pool stays nearly empty), and control_exhaustion_retires_and_releases_all_queued_bytes exhausts the 32-slot control channel by frame count, not the byte pool via data traffic.

Worth considering either a reserved byte budget carved out for control frames (mirroring the separate control_tx channel's frame-count reservation), or making control-frame budget exhaustion fail soft (drop/skip the Pong, or fail only that Cancel) rather than retiring the generation.

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Fixed in 539d731. This is a real bug and the asymmetry you identified is the whole of it: encode_data_frame treats a failed charge as one caller's local queued_byte_capacity/NotSent error, while send_control calls retire("control_capacity_exhausted") — and both drew on the same queue_budget. A control frame is header-only, so it needs 21 bytes; leaving fewer than 21 free in a 65 MiB pool is entirely reachable with ordinary bodies sitting behind writer backpressure. Legitimate heavy use, connection-wide teardown.

Your test analysis is also correct, which is why neither caught it: data_capacity_spares_control_reserve_and_does_not_burn_correlation admits CLIENT_DATA_QUEUE_FRAMES empty bodies, so it exhausts the data channel by frame count while the byte pool stays near-empty; control_exhaustion_retires_and_releases_all_queued_bytes exhausts the 32-slot control channel by count against a full-size pool. Nothing filled the pool with data bytes and then sent a control frame.

I took the reserved-budget option rather than fail-soft, because the design already expresses this reservation one layer up — control_tx is a separate 32-slot channel described as "Reserved pure-header Pong, Cancel, and Goodbye slots" — and the byte budget simply failed to mirror it. Fail-soft would also be a behaviour change with its own hazards: silently dropping a Pong invites a liveness timeout, and skipping a Cancel leaves host-side work running.

CLIENT_CONTROL_QUEUED_BYTES is CLIENT_CONTROL_QUEUE_FRAMES * HEADER_LEN — 672 bytes, sized to exactly the channel it protects. That sizing is deliberate: a byte charge can now only fail once 32 control frames are already queued, which is precisely the condition the try_send immediately below already retires on. So retiring stays the correct response to genuine control exhaustion while becoming unreachable from data pressure, and I did not have to weaken it.

data_and_control_charge_one_shared_byte_cap asserted the shared-pool invariant that caused this, so it is replaced by data_saturation_never_starves_a_control_frame: saturate the data pool, send a Pong, assert it queues, that retired is still false, and that the charge landed on the reserved pool. 1763 tests pass, fmt and clippy clean.

`send_control` and `encode_data_frame` charged the same 65 MiB queued-byte pool,
but they treat exhaustion in opposite ways: a data charge that fails is one
caller's local `queued_byte_capacity` error, while a control charge that fails
retires the whole generation. Ordinary large request bodies waiting behind writer
backpressure could therefore leave fewer than 21 bytes free, and the next
keepalive Pong or deadline Cancel would tear down every unrelated route on the
connection — a self-inflicted teardown from legitimate traffic rather than any
protocol violation.

Control frames now draw on their own reservation, sized to exactly the reserved
control channel they share a purpose with: every control frame is header-only, so
`CLIENT_CONTROL_QUEUE_FRAMES * HEADER_LEN` covers the whole channel and a byte
charge can only fail once that channel is already full — the same condition the
following `try_send` already retires on. Retiring therefore stays correct while
becoming unreachable from data pressure.

`data_and_control_charge_one_shared_byte_cap` asserted the shared-pool behaviour
that caused this, so it is replaced by `data_saturation_never_starves_a_control_frame`,
which saturates the data pool and proves a control frame still queues with the
generation intact.

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error.send_outcome() == Some(HistorianSendOutcome::Terminal)
&& error.code() != Some("teardown_unconfirmed")

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P1 Badge Require cancellation-specific proof before starting fallback

When run.cancel receives any terminal application error other than teardown_unconfirmed, this treats the failed run as stopped and starts the next model. However, Broca's Supervisor::cancel can return a terminal queue_full before calling run.cancel.cancel() when its command semaphore is saturated, so the original provider run remains active while fallback starts a second potentially billable run. Only cancellation success or an explicit terminal code that proves the run is already stopped should authorize fallback.

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Fixed in 248e92c. Confirmed at the source: Supervisor::cancel opens with let _command = self.command_permit()?; and only reaches run.cancel.cancel() afterwards, so a saturated command semaphore returns terminal queue_full with the provider run still executing — and the deny-list passed it straight through to fallback.

The comment above the call site already stated the right rule ("Fallback requires typed proof that the failed attempt is over"); the implementation was a deny-list of one code where the rule needs an allow-list.

Only Ok(()) authorizes fallback now. I went looking for a terminal code that would qualify and there isn't one: the codes run.cancel can actually return are queue_full (proves nothing — the run was never touched), closed, and teardown_unconfirmed (explicitly documented as not proving a stop). Ok(()) covers both provable cases, since the supervisor returns it when it cancelled the run and when the run is already absent from the index.

Worth flagging that this deleted a test rather than adding one:
terminal_cancel_response_allows_fallback asserted fallback was allowed after a terminal cancel, using code run_already_terminal — which rg finds nowhere outside that test. It pinned a contract no host emits, and it is exactly what would have made this bug look intentional. It is replaced by a_terminal_cancel_error_never_authorizes_fallback, parameterised over the three reachable codes and asserting one start each.

The tradeoff is deliberate: a transient queue_full on cancel now ends the chain instead of trying the next model. Losing a fallback attempt is recoverable; double-billing a provider run is not.

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const cargo = spawnSync("cargo", ["--version"], { stdio: "ignore" });
if (cargo.error || cargo.status !== 0) {
return { ok: false, skipReason: "cargo is not available on PATH" };
}
return { ok: true };

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P2 Badge Verify the Cargo workspace before enabling Rust suites

On Linux with cargo installed but an incomplete checkout, this reports the Rust prerequisites as available even though the fixture cannot be built. In particular, the workspace still has mandatory ../commons path dependencies, so a checkout without that sibling passes this check, bypasses every suite's skipIf, and then fails in buildDirectHostFixture; run cargo metadata (as the dedicated prerequisite script already does) or validate the required paths before returning ok: true.

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Fixed in 248e92c. Confirmed: the workspace root Cargo.toml carries four mandatory ../commons path dependencies (cortexkit-cache-core, cortexkit-store, cortexkit-store-types, cortexkit-lease), so existsSync(Cargo.toml) plus a working cargo --version proves nothing about resolvability — the checkout passed, skipIf was bypassed, and it failed in buildDirectHostFixture.

Took your suggestion of reusing the dedicated script's approach rather than inventing a second one: detectRustModePrereqs now runs cargo metadata --no-deps --format-version 1 --manifest-path <root>/Cargo.toml and confirms the mc-module package exposes a direct_host_fixture target of kind example — the same two checks scripts/check-rust-prerequisites.ts performs. A workspace that does not resolve and a workspace missing the fixture target now get distinct skip reasons, so the skip says which one happened.

This pairs with c37b9bc from earlier in this round: that one stopped non-Linux platforms from claiming the prerequisites, this one stops an incomplete checkout from doing the same. Both were the same failure shape — reporting ok: true and then failing at build time instead of skipping.

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fn resources(&self) -> ResourceDeclaration {
ResourceDeclaration::default()
}

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P1 Badge Declare the primary component's retained cache budget

When transform traffic fills the primary handler's bounded caches, this zero declaration causes the host to reserve no resident bytes for them even though McHandler can retain up to the 768 MiB combined transform-serving cache budget, plus snapshot, boundary-token, and staging state. The runtime therefore leaves those same bytes available to ingress while the caches remain resident, so HostLimits.max_resident_bytes no longer bounds the direct-host process and normal cache growth can push it far beyond its configured memory envelope; declare the retained maxima here and size/validate the host limit accordingly.

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Confirmed, and not fixed in this round — I need a decision from @ahrav first, because the honest fix cannot land in mc-module alone without risking startup failures.

The finding is accurate. McHandler::resources() returns ResourceDeclaration::default(), so retained_resident_bytes is 0, and that field's own doc names the pattern being skipped: "Resident bytes this module retains for its own bounded state (for example Broca's 64 MiB replay budget). An accounting reservation subtracted from ingress." Broca follows it with DECLARED_RETAINED_RESIDENT_BYTES = MAX_RETAINED_BYTES + ROUTE_IDENTITY_HEADROOM + BACKEND_CAPTURE_HEADROOM + DELETION_TOMBSTONE_HEADROOM + ENV_SNAPSHOT_HEADROOM. McHandler declares nothing while holding, from constants in-tree:

  • TRANSFORM_SERVE_CACHE_COMBINED_BUDGET_BYTES = 768 MiB (with a const assert proving its three sub-caches fit under it)
  • BOUNDARY_TOKEN_CACHE_BUDGET_BYTES = 16 MiB
  • transform::TAG_BASELINE_CACHE_BUDGET_BYTES = 64 MiB
  • transform::TAG_MINT_FRONTIER_CACHE_BUDGET_BYTES = 64 MiB

That is already ≥ 912 MiB of bounded-but-undeclared retention, before the snapshot and staging state you mention. So max_resident_bytes does not bound this process, exactly as described.

Here is why I stopped. runtime.rs sums every declaration into reservations.retained_bytes and startup fails when max_resident_bytes is below the resulting floor plus one maximum ingress body. The default absorbed Broca's declaration deliberately — max_resident_bytes: 256 MiB + broca::config::DECLARED_RETAINED_RESIDENT_BYTES, commented "to preserve the former ingress headroom". But mc-host cannot reference an mc-module constant, since mc-module depends on mc-host, so the host default cannot self-adjust for an external handler. Declaring ~912 MiB truthfully, on its own, converts today's silent overshoot into "the host refuses to start" for every embedder that has not raised its limit — including the fixture and the Rust E2E suites.

So the complete change is coordinated: declare the constant in mc-module, and raise max_resident_bytes at every composition site by the same amount. Two things I do not want to guess at:

  1. The number. Should snapshot, boundary-token, and staging state get explicit headroom classes the way Broca's four do, so the declaration is auditable rather than one opaque total?
  2. The blast radius. Land it here, or as its own change where the limit bump and the declaration move together and the E2E startup path can be validated?

Happy to implement either shape on your word. I did not want to either leave this unremarked or unilaterally reshape the host's memory envelope at the tail of a review cycle.

if let Err(outcome) = enforce_request_byte_cap(ctx.body.as_slice()) {
return settle_prepared(&ctx, outcome).await;
}
let request = serde_json::from_slice::<Value>(ctx.body.as_slice()).unwrap_or(Value::Null);

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P1 Badge Reserve parser scratch before materializing request JSON

When a legal transform request approaches the 32 MiB body cap, this parses the body into a second, potentially much larger serde_json::Value while the charged InputBuffer is still retained, without acquiring any charge from RequestCtx's scratch budget. A large flat JSON array can expand to hundreds of MiB of Value allocations, and concurrent requests bypass the host's resident-byte semaphore entirely; reserve a conservative parse/owned-value bound before decoding (and expose the reservation API to external handler crates if necessary).

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Confirmed, and also not fixed in this round — it needs a new host API, so I would like @ahrav to pick the shape.

Verified the path: handle runs enforce_request_byte_cap(ctx.body.as_slice()), then serde_json::from_slice::<Value>(ctx.body.as_slice()), while the charged InputBuffer is still retained, and takes no charge for the Value. RequestCtx exposes reserve_output(max_len) and nothing for parse scratch, so there is currently no API this handler could call even if it wanted to.

The expansion is real: a flat JSON array of small integers is a few bytes per element on the wire and a full serde_json::Value enum plus Vec slot per element in memory, so a body near the 32 MiB cap can land in the hundreds of MiB — and since nothing is charged, concurrent requests multiply it outside the resident-byte semaphore entirely.

Worth noting this is the mirror of a P1 already fixed in this PR. #3854473672 flagged the same class on the output side — measure() materialising up to 64 MiB into an uncharged Vec before reserve_output — and c72b797 fixed it by making measurement count-only so nothing is retained outside the reservation. This is the input side of the identical problem, and the fact that the output side was treated as a genuine P1 is why I think you will want this one too.

Two open decisions I do not want to make unilaterally:

  1. The API. Your parenthetical is the crux — a scratch reservation has to be reachable from external handler crates, so this adds public surface to RequestCtx (something like reserve_scratch(bytes) -> Result<ScratchCharge, _>, RAII-released). That is a host contract change affecting every out-of-tree handler, not a local mc-module edit.
  2. The bound. "Conservative" needs a number. A defensible worst case for Value against a flat small-scalar array is roughly an order of magnitude over the wire bytes, but I would rather pin it to a measured figure for this codebase's own shapes than assert a multiplier and have it be wrong in the direction that matters.

A cheaper interim option, if you would rather not add API in this PR: lower the transform request cap for Value-parsed bodies so the worst-case expansion fits inside a charge the handler already holds. That trades a capability for a bound and is reversible once the reservation API exists.

Tell me which and I will implement it.

producer_factory,
session_resolver,
session_resolver: Arc::new(MissingSessionResolver),

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[correctness] session_resolver is hardcoded to MissingSessionResolver even when a connection file is supplied

new_with_connection_file branches on connection_file to build producer_factory (a few lines above) but always sets session_resolver: Arc::new(MissingSessionResolver) — the path/connection_file value is never used to build a session resolver. RealSessionResolver was deleted from session_resolver.rs in this PR with no replacement built on the new mc_host::Client boundary (unlike RealHistorianProducerFactory, which was correctly migrated).

Failure scenario: In production, with a valid connection file configured, every facade/MCP call that needs session.resolve now gets Ok(None) from the resolver, which resolve_facade_scope turns into session_unresolved_error() — session resolution is unconditionally broken, not just in some edge case.

Confirmed independently by three separate review passes (line-by-line scan, cross-file call tracing, and efficiency/altitude review) — high confidence this is a real regression, not a stylistic nit.

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Declining this one — the deletion is deliberate, and rebuilding the resolver would reintroduce the exact bug it was deleted to fix.

git diff origin/main...HEAD -- docs/mc-host-wire-protocol.md shows §7.2 replacing this paragraph:

This exclusion has one known in-repo casualty: RealSessionResolver ... constructed whenever McHandler receives a connection file, unconditionally opens a management_surface route to module thalamus, and the linked manifest consumes that service. Against a conforming direct host that route.open receives terminal unknown_module (the kind is recognized but no static module named thalamus exists), so stateful facade calls that resolve sessions fail at route-open. This contract deliberately does not add a thalamus-compatible route; magic-context-c50.4 owns replacing or disabling that resolver path (for example, a host-served session-resolve equivalent or the existing MissingSessionResolver fallback) before mc-module runs against this profile.

with:

The direct component exposes no thalamus resolver route. A facade request without an explicit or route-bound session returns the existing typed session_unresolved result locally and opens no resolver transport route. Bound OpenCode sessions retain their proven direct path.

So this PR closes tracked task magic-context-c50.4 by taking the second option the old paragraph names. RealSessionResolver is not an un-migrated casualty of the mc_host::Client move — it is the thing the direct profile has no route for. Wiring it back in would make every stateful facade call open a route to a module that does not exist and take terminal unknown_module, which is strictly worse than the local typed result.

The asymmetry you spotted with producer_factory is real but expected: Broca is in the catalog, so the historian has a route to open and the connection file is load-bearing for it. There is no thalamus in the catalog, so the resolver has nothing to dial with that same file.

OPENCODE_HARNESS sessions the module already knows bypass the resolver entirely at the call site, which is the "bound OpenCode sessions retain their proven direct path" clause — so the profile is not left without working session scoping.

I want to flag the confidence signal, since it is the useful part: "independently rediscovered by 3 separate review passes — highest-confidence finding". Three passes agreeing raised confidence without adding evidence, because all three read the same two files and none read §7.2 or the tracker. Convergence across passes that share an evidence set is not independent confirmation.

Separately, you have found something real underneath this: ~60 unit tests inject FakeSessionResolver with FakeResolve::Hit, exercising a resolution path production can no longer take. That is a coverage-validity problem worth fixing, and the honest fix is to delete the now-single-implementation SessionResolver trait and re-point those tests at the surviving direct path. I am treating that as its own change rather than folding a ~60-test refactor into this round.

Some(other) => Err(SessionResolveError::InvalidResponse(format!(
"session_id must be string or null, got {other}"
))),
Ok(None)

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[correctness] MissingSessionResolver now returns Ok(None) instead of a distinct error, collapsing a diagnostic

Before this PR, MissingSessionResolver::resolve_session returned Err(SessionResolveError::Transport("mc-module was started without a subc connection file".to_string())). It now returns Ok(None), the same value a resolver returns for a legitimate "session not found."

Failure scenario: Combined with the sibling bug where new_with_connection_file always wires up MissingSessionResolver regardless of whether a connection file is present (see lib.rs:3510), callers/operators can no longer distinguish "misconfigured, no resolver available" from "resolver ran and genuinely found no session" — both look identical (session_unresolved_error()), making the underlying regression harder to diagnose from logs/errors alone.

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Declining, for the same §7.2 reason as the sibling comment — with one concession.

Ok(None) is the specified result, not a collapsed diagnostic: §7.2 requires a facade request without an explicit or route-bound session to return "the existing typed session_unresolved result locally". At the call site, Ok(None) maps to exactly session_unresolved_error(). Restoring Err(Transport(...)) would map to session_resolve_failed instead and contradict the contract this PR just wrote.

The old Err was correct for the world it lived in: back then MissingSessionResolver was the fallback for a misconfiguration, so "no connection file" was an error worth distinguishing. In the direct profile it is the only resolver there is, so there is no second cause to tell it apart from — the ambiguity you describe between "misconfigured" and "genuinely not found" has only one possible cause here.

The concession: MissingSessionResolver is now a misleading name. Nothing is missing; the profile resolves nothing remotely by design. That is a legibility problem and it is what made this look like a regression to three separate passes, which is evidence enough that the name is doing harm. I am fixing it as part of removing the trait altogether — a one-implementation trait whose only impl returns a constant is dead abstraction, and deleting it makes the local result obvious at the call site instead of hidden behind a polymorphic hop. Tracking that with the ~60-test re-point from the sibling thread rather than renaming something I am about to delete.

const childEnv: Record<string, string> = {};
for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(process.env)) {
if (value === undefined) continue;
if (key === "OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD") continue;

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[correctness] Child-env build loop dropped stripping of SUBC_MODULE_ID/SUBC_LAUNCH_NONCE

The old env-building code explicitly stripped SUBC_MODULE_ID and SUBC_LAUNCH_NONCE (with a comment explaining this prevents a supervised launch identity from leaking into the spawned opencode serve process). The refactored loop here only strips OPENCODE_SERVER_PASSWORD, OPENCODE_SERVER_USERNAME, and NODE_ENV — a repo-wide grep for SUBC_MODULE_ID/SUBC_LAUNCH_NONCE (or renamed equivalents) in this file returns zero matches.

Failure scenario: When this harness is invoked from a supervised/CI environment where the parent process itself has SUBC_MODULE_ID/SUBC_LAUNCH_NONCE set, that identity now leaks into the spawned opencode serve child, which can get it rejected by the hermetic/direct-host fixture that expects an owner-only, unsupervised launch.

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Fixed in a743fb6. Confirmed the drop against origin/main: the old loop carried if (key === "SUBC_MODULE_ID") continue; and if (key === "SUBC_LAUNCH_NONCE") continue; with a comment about an AFT worktree setting SUBC_MODULE_ID=aft, and the refactored loop kept only the three unrelated strips.

Also confirmed the names are still live rather than renamed leftovers: mc_host::wire defines SUBC_MODULE_ID_ENV/SUBC_LAUNCH_NONCE_ENV as exactly those strings, historian_producer reads both into consumer_module_id/consumer_launch_nonce on every route identity, and broca::subprocess sets them for spawned harnesses. So the leak path is intact: inherit them, and the plugin presents a supervised identity the hermetic host rejects.

Both strips are restored with the reasoning stated in terms of the current symbols, so the next refactor of this loop can see why they are there.

/// terminal unreadable, which the reader could only report by retiring the whole
/// generation. One reader task decodes one frame at a time, so this is a
/// per-connection ceiling, not a per-frame multiplier.
pub const CLIENT_INBOUND_FRAME_BYTES: usize = MAX_BODY_LEN as usize;

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[efficiency/altitude] Process-wide 4-permit discovery semaphore is now shared by every in-process module, not just mc-host's own clients

CLIENT_DISCOVERY_SLOTS = 4 backs a single process-wide Semaphore acquired unconditionally inside Client::connect. This PR moves mc-host from a dev-dependency of mc-module into a normal dependency and removes mc-module's standalone binary, so mc-module now runs in-process with mc-host and calls mc_host::Client::connect (e.g. from historian_producer.rs's ManagedConnector::connect/reconnect) for its own connections — through the very same 4-permit pool mc-host's own external clients use.

Failure scenario: A burst of concurrent reconnects (e.g. many historian producers reconnecting after a daemon restart, alongside mc-host's own client activity) now serializes on 4 shared permits where before each subprocess had independent capacity, risking stalls against CLIENT_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT under load that wouldn't previously have contended.

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Fixed in 066debe. You are right that this changed underfoot, and it is my own addition from earlier in this round — I sized it for mc-host-only clients and did not account for mc-module now linking this crate and dialing through the same process-wide pool.

Raised 4 → 64. The reasoning I should have written down the first time: the cap exists to bound how many blocking workers a wedged mount can strand, not to throttle healthy discovery. A snapshot on a responsive filesystem completes in microseconds, so contention only appears when the mount is already the problem — but 4 was tight enough that a reconnect burst after a daemon restart could serialize against CLIENT_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT for no good reason. 64 is comfortably above the connects a process makes at once and still far below Tokio's default 512-thread blocking pool, so a wedged mount cannot starve unrelated blocking work.

I kept it process-wide rather than per-connection-file: the resource being protected is the process blocking pool, so the bound belongs at process scope. Scoping per path would let N distinct wedged paths strand N×cap workers, which is the failure this exists to prevent.

/// durable reattach path turns that into the refire-eligible abandon without
/// any Broca persistence or new backend start.
#[tokio::test]
async fn host_restart_reports_missing_and_reattach_becomes_refire_eligible() {

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[test-coverage] Real-host-restart / live-reconnect integration coverage deleted with no replacement

This rewrite (-1547/+149 net) deletes host_restart_reports_missing_and_reattach_becomes_refire_eligible (spun up two real RoundTripHost processes and drove reattach_historian_producer over a live wire connection to assert RefireEligible) along with the full wire round-trip tests classify_round_trip_applies_seeded_ids_and_deletes_attempt_sessions / transient_first_model_advances_session_and_keeps_retry_metadata. Neither direct_host.rs nor host_adapter.rs (both new in this PR) references RefireEligible/reattach_historian_producer/HistorianReattachRequest at all.

Failure scenario: The only surviving RefireEligible coverage is a pre-existing in-process unit test in src/historian.rs that calls the function directly — a real host-restart-during-live-connection regression in the reattach path would no longer be caught by any test that exercises the actual wire/process boundary.

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Confirmed, and not fixed in this round — I want to flag it as a real gap rather than close it with a thin test.

Verified your claim directly: rg for RefireEligible, reattach_historian_producer, and HistorianReattachRequest across crates/ and packages/ returns matches only in crates/mc-module/src/historian.rs (24) and crates/mc-module/src/lib.rs (5) — production code plus in-process unit tests. Nothing in tests/, nothing in the TS suites. So the reattach path has no coverage that crosses a process or wire boundary, exactly as you describe.

That matters more than a typical deleted test, because the property under test is inherently cross-process: "a restarted host reports old run IDs as strict missing, and the module turns that into RefireEligible" cannot fail in a way an in-process test would notice — the in-process test hands missing to the function directly, so it proves the mapping and not the observation.

The replacement shape is available: direct_host.rs and the fixture's control socket can start a host, drive a run, restart the host against the same data dir, and assert the module observes missing and reports RefireEligible. That is a new test against the new boundary rather than a restoration of the RoundTripHost one, since the two-process subc topology it used no longer exists.

I would rather write that deliberately than bolt on something that passes. Happy to do it as the next piece of work if you want it in this PR; say the word and I will.

let e = call(
&consumer,
json!({
"session_id": "spine", "render_config": "cfg1",

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[test-coverage] PASSTHROUGH degrade / growing-tail / pass_trace coverage lost when this file was deleted

real_daemon.rs is deleted in full by this PR. It exercised the PASSTHROUGH degrade-on-share-nothing-revert transition, the growing-tail defer loop, and pass_trace counters over a real wire connection to a live daemon+module process pair. The replacement direct_host.rs (5 tests) has no PASSTHROUGH/pass_trace/growing-tail-loop assertions, and no TS harness in packages/e2e-tests covers it either.

Failure scenario: This logic is now exercised only via in-process unit tests in crates/mc-module/src/transform.rs/lib.rs. A regression that only manifests through the real IPC/wire path (e.g. serialization of the PASSTHROUGH decision, or timing of the growing-tail defer loop over the wire) would no longer be caught by any test in the suite.

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Confirmed, same disposition as the reattach gap: real, and I am not closing it with a hasty test.

Verified: PASSTHROUGH and pass_trace now appear only in crates/mc-module/src/lib.rs, crates/mc-module/src/transform.rs, crates/mc-store/src/lib.rs, a cache-parity-baseline.ts script, and one plugin unit test (rust-mode-transform.test.ts). Nothing exercises them across a real connection, and direct_host.rs has no assertions on either.

The part I agree is genuinely lost is narrower than the whole file, and worth naming so the follow-up targets it: the in-process tests cover the decision (when PASSTHROUGH is chosen, how the growing tail defers), while the deleted file covered the serialization and timing of that decision over the wire — a PASSTHROUGH that decides correctly but encodes wrongly, or a growing-tail defer loop whose timing only misbehaves against real IPC latency, is invisible to the surviving tests.

Both are reproducible against the direct-host fixture; it is new-test work on the new boundary, not a restoration, since real_daemon.rs drove the removed two-process daemon topology.

Tell me if you want this in this PR and I will write it properly rather than approximately.

const beforeFailure = h.subc.producerRequestCount();
h.subc.killProducer();
await h.subc.waitForProducerDeath();
it("records a typed backend failure without killing a provider process", async () => {

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[test-coverage] "Broca-only process death while module/daemon stay healthy" scenario removed, not replaced

This test used to kill the separate Broca process (h.subc.killProducer()) while asserting the module/daemon stayed healthy. It's now replaced by "records a typed backend failure without killing a provider process" — the new test's own name concedes the process-death scenario is gone. This follows from Broca now being compiled in-process with the module rather than being a separately-killable process, so the scenario is structurally harder to reproduce — but it means an OS-level crash/kill of the Broca component specifically (as opposed to an injected typed failure) is no longer covered anywhere in the suite.

Failure scenario: A regression in how the module handles a genuine process-level Broca crash (signal handling, partial-write detection, OS-level socket teardown) rather than a clean typed-error injection would not be caught by this suite.

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Agreeing with your diagnosis and declining the implied restoration, because the scenario no longer exists to test.

You already named the reason: Broca is compiled into the host process now. There is no separate Broca process to kill, so killProducer() has no referent — the nearest equivalent is killing the host, which is a different scenario with a different blast radius (it takes Synapse and the primary component with it). Restoring the old test would mean restoring the separate Broca process, which is the topology this PR removes.

Where I think your comment is still pointing at something real: the risk did not vanish with the process, it moved. "Broca dies at the OS level mid-run" is now "the host dies mid-run", and the properties worth asserting are the ones you list — that the module detects it rather than hanging, and that a restarted host reports the old run as missing rather than resurrecting it. The harness already has the primitives for that (SIGKILL on the host child, plus pauseHost/resumeHost via SIGSTOP/SIGCONT).

That is the same gap as the reattach thread, so I would rather cover it once, deliberately, as host-death-mid-run against the direct-host fixture, than restore a test for a process that is gone. Tracking it with that one.

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inner.retire("eof");
break;
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[reuse] Frame-reading logic duplicates tcp_frame_channel.rs

read_active_frame/read_exact_until/read_body_until/drain_until (here, client.rs:1742-1865) are near line-for-line copies of read_frame/read_exact_deadline/read_body_deadline/drain_declared_body in tcp_frame_channel.rs:148-320 — same header-split/version-check/deadline-loop/drain logic, differing mainly in error type. The comment at client.rs:1761 even cross-references tcp_frame_channel::read_frame explicitly.

Cost: The wire-framing rules (size caps, drain-on-oversize, EOF/timeout classification) are now encoded twice in the same crate. A future protocol fix applied to one copy and not the other silently reintroduces the exact class of bug the in-line comments describe, with nothing in the type system forcing them to stay in sync.

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Fixed in 1dbeb52. Confirmed the overlap: read_exact_until/read_body_until/drain_until in client.rs and read_exact_deadline/read_body_deadline/drain_declared_body in tcp_frame_channel.rs were the same three loops with a different error type.

Extracted the mechanics into frame_read, which is where the load-bearing details were duplicated — the biased select that prefers cancellation over issuing another read, treating a zero-length read as end-of-stream rather than looping, and the take that caps the body read at the frame boundary so a pipelined next header is never swallowed as body. That last one is the bug class your comment points at: it is invisible until traffic is pipelined, and it was written twice.

It reports why a read stopped (cancelled / EOF / deadline / I/O) rather than a finished error, because the classification is the part that legitimately differs. The host distinguishes a stop inside a frame from one while draining an oversize body so the close reason names the phase; the client collapses every stop, because it resynchronizes by reconnecting and never by guessing where the next header starts.

I deliberately did not merge read_frame and read_active_frame themselves. They disagree on policy, not mechanics: which lengths are legal, what an oversize channel-zero body means (ReadEvent::OversizeControl versus a plain failure), and which budget charges the body — the client now splits a read reservation from queue retention, which the host has no analogue for. Folding those would have meant parameterizing policy, which is how the flag-argument version of this problem starts.

The cross-reference comment at the old client.rs:1761 is still accurate and now points at genuinely shared code rather than at a copy.

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pub async fn authenticate_server<S>(

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[simplification] authenticate_server/authenticate_client wrappers are structurally duplicated

authenticate_server (here) and authenticate_client (auth.rs:264) are structurally identical six-line wrappers — compute Deadline::starting_now, call the respective _inner, and on error do a best-effort stream.shutdown() under the remaining deadline — differing only in which _inner function they call. (The _inner functions themselves are legitimately different — opposite handshake message order — so only this thin wrapper layer is duplicated.)

Cost: If the error-teardown policy changes (e.g. bounding shutdown differently, or adding failure-stage logging), it must be edited in both wrappers ~70 lines apart; a partial update leaves server- and client-side authentication with inconsistent teardown behavior on the error path.

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Partly fixed in 066debe, and I want to be straight about what I did not do.

The teardown policy is now single-sourced as teardown_failed_handshake: bounding shutdown by the same absolute deadline as the handshake, which is the thing that must not diverge between server and client and is what your "bounding shutdown differently" example points at.

The four lines of scaffolding around it stayed duplicated. I tried sharing the whole wrapper and backed out: passing the _inner call as a closure that borrows stream needs a higher-ranked bound Rust will not infer here. Both FnOnce(&mut S, Deadline) -> Fut and AsyncFnOnce(&mut S, Deadline) fail the same way — the closure must implement the bound for any lifetime, but implements it only for one specific lifetime, so authenticate_*_inner cannot be handed the borrowed stream through it.

The workarounds cost more type-system complexity than four lines of shape are worth, and shape is not what drifts. If the wrapper grows real logic — failure-stage logging, say — that calculus changes and it should be revisited then.

(Correcting a mangled quote in the previous revision of this comment: a shell-escaping slip ate the lifetime names.)

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fn open_parent(path: &Path) -> Result<(OwnedFd, OsString), ConnectionFileError> {

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Duplicated security-critical directory-traversal hardening

open_parent() reimplements the same symlink-free, TOCTOU-hardened anchor-and-walk logic that already exists as instance.rs::secure_runtime_dir(): open an anchor (/ or .), fstat it, check is_safe_ancestor, then walk path components with openat(..., NOFOLLOW) while rejecting anything that isn't Component::Normal/RootDir/CurDir.

Having two independent copies of this logic means a future fix to the traversal/ancestor-safety rules (a newly discovered race, a missed Component variant, etc.) can be applied to one copy and forgotten in the other, silently reopening the path-traversal hole both are designed to close. Worth factoring into a single shared helper both callers use.

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Fixed in b4f3f32, though not by merging the two functions — the shared part turned out to be narrower and more important than the whole walk.

First, the most security-critical piece was already single-sourced: is_safe_ancestor has exactly one definition in instance.rs and both callers use it, so the ancestor-safety predicate could not drift.

What was genuinely duplicated is the hardening around it, and that is now shared:

  • HARDENED_DIR_FLAGSDIRECTORY | NOFOLLOW | RDONLY | CLOEXEC, previously spelled out in both.
  • open_safe_anchor — opens / or . and proves the anchor is not replaceable. Both copies had this, including the subtle part your comment implies: for a relative path the anchor is the process working directory, which another principal may control.
  • normal_components — the single rule for which Component variants may be walked. This is where your "a missed Component variant" risk actually lived, and the two copies had already diverged in spelling: secure_runtime_dir matched all four variants explicitly, while open_parent rejected non-Normal by falling through a guard. Same effective rule, two encodings, nothing to notice if one changed.

I did not merge the walks themselves, because they are different jobs rather than two copies of one: secure_runtime_dir creates missing directories, chmods around umask, tightens the final component to 0700, and treats intermediates differently from the final; open_parent is read-only discovery that validates every component and applies a private-mode check to the last. Unifying them would have meant "create or not" and "tighten or not" flag parameters threaded through security-critical code — more ways to get it wrong, not fewer. The rules are shared; the policies stay separate and legible.

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store_open: Arc<StoreOpenCoordinator>,
task_admission_open: Mutex<bool>,

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Shutdown state split across two hand-synchronized primitives

Shutdown is tracked via two independent fields — task_admission_open: Mutex<bool> and cancel: CancellationToken — that both need to be flipped together. Today both the Drop impl (~line 12399) and CompositeComponent::shutdown (~line 12463) do so in the same order (admission off → close tasks → cancel), but nothing enforces that invariant at the type level. A future shutdown path (or an edit to one of these two existing ones) that sets only one of the pair could admit a task after cancellation was signaled, or cancel outstanding work while new tasks still slip through the admission gate. Consider folding admission-gating into the cancellation token (e.g. check cancel.is_cancelled() for admission) so there's a single source of truth.

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Fixed in 066debe, and your suggested direction is what I took.

The token is now the single source of truth: spawn_tracked_task and begin_store_open both test self.cancel.is_cancelled(), and the boolean is gone. Your framing was right that nothing enforced the pairing — both existing paths agreed by convention only.

One thing worth recording, because it is why the mutex did not disappear entirely: the lock was not just guarding the boolean, it was making "check admission, then tasks.spawn" atomic against "close admission, then tasks.close()". Deriving admission from the token alone would have let a spawn pass the check, then a shutdown cancel and close the tracker, then the spawn land in a tracker wait had stopped watching. So what remains is spawn_gate: Mutex<()> — a critical section holding no state, documented as such. One thing to set, and the ordering it existed for is preserved.

Drop needs no gate at all, since &mut self already excludes a concurrent spawn; it now just cancels and closes in the same order as shutdown.

The source-shape test in host_adapter.rs that pinned task_admission_open is updated to assert the inverse — spawn_gate present, and no task_admission_open — so a future reintroduction of a second admission flag fails the suite instead of passing it.

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let bytes = u32::try_from(max_len + subc_protocol::HEADER_LEN).map_err(|_| StreamClosed)?;
let bytes = u32::try_from(max_len + HEADER_LEN).map_err(|_| StreamClosed)?;
let deadline = self.gen.writer.admission_deadline();
let charge = tokio::select! {

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Charge/cancel-on-timeout block copy-pasted 5x in this file

The pattern select! { biased; _ = gen.token.cancelled() => ...; timeout_at(deadline, budget.charge(bytes)) => match { Ok => charge, Err => { gen.token.cancel(); return Err } } } appears near-identically here, and at charged_error_body (~line 130), emit_frame (~line 203), StreamSink::reserve_direct (~line 483), and handle_host_shutdown (~line 640). A correctness fix to the charge/timeout/cancel interaction (e.g. avoiding a spurious cancel, or fixing a race between cancellation and charge completion) has to be applied identically in all five places; missing one leaves unary responses, error terminals, stream sends, and the shutdown ack with inconsistent cancellation semantics. Worth extracting into one charge_or_cancel(&gen, &budget, bytes, deadline) helper.

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Fixed in b4f3f32. Extracted charge_frame_or_cancel and replaced all five sites — charged_error_body, emit_frame, StreamSink::reserve, reserve_direct, and handle_host_shutdown.

Writing it once made me state something the five copies left implicit: the two failure paths are not the same event. A cancellation means the generation is already going away, so the frame is simply abandoned; an admission timeout proves the writer is not draining, so the generation must be cancelled rather than left accumulating waiters behind a stalled socket. That asymmetry is exactly what a partial fix would have gotten wrong in one path and not another.

The signature carries the one real variation, also_cancelled, because the stream paths watch a request-scoped token alongside the generation's while the others have only the generation's. Callers map None to their own error type, so the ()/StreamClosed/unit differences stay at the call sites where they belong instead of becoming a generic parameter.

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Review summary

Reviewed this large refactor (149 files, +16604/-8339) for correctness, security, and code quality. 13 inline comments posted; highlights below.

Correctness (highest priority)

  • crates/mc-module/src/lib.rs:3510McHandler::new_with_connection_file always installs MissingSessionResolver, even when a real connection file is supplied. RealSessionResolver was deleted from session_resolver.rs and never rewired onto the new mc_host::Client boundary, so session.resolve unconditionally returns Ok(None) in production, breaking facade/MCP session resolution. This was independently rediscovered by 3 separate review passes — highest-confidence finding in this review.
  • packages/e2e-tests/src/opencode-runner/spawn.ts:447 — the refactored child-env build loop drops the stripping of SUBC_MODULE_ID/SUBC_LAUNCH_NONCE, which previously prevented a supervised launch identity from leaking into the spawned opencode serve process.
  • crates/mc-host/src/client.rs:88CLIENT_DISCOVERY_SLOTS is a process-wide 4-permit semaphore now shared by every in-process module's Client::connect (since mc-module links mc-host directly and lost its standalone binary), where each subprocess previously had independent capacity.

Test coverage removed with no replacement

  • crates/mc-module/tests/broca_roundtrip.rs — the real host-restart/live-reconnect integration test was deleted; only an in-process unit test remains for RefireEligible.
  • crates/mc-module/tests/real_daemon.rs — deleting this file removes the only coverage of PASSTHROUGH degrade, growing-tail defer, and pass_trace counters over a real wire connection.
  • packages/e2e-tests/tests/rust-historian-producer.test.ts — the "Broca-only process death" test was replaced by a typed-failure-injection test that kills no process, per its own new name.

Security-relevant duplication

  • crates/mc-host/src/connection_file.rs:233open_parent() reimplements the same symlink-free, TOCTOU-hardened directory-anchor-and-walk logic that already exists as instance.rs::secure_runtime_dir(). A future fix to the traversal-hardening rules could be applied to one copy and missed in the other.

Reuse/simplification

Several duplicated implementations worth consolidating: client.rs hand-rolls frame read/write logic already provided by TcpFrameChannel; auth.rs has two near-identical timeout wrappers; a 5x-copy-pasted charge/cancel-on-timeout block in mc-host/src/dispatch.rs; and a dual-flag (Mutex<bool> + CancellationToken) shutdown-state pattern in mc-module/src/lib.rs that must be hand-synchronized at every call site. See inline comments for details.

Docs

  • docs/rust-mode-transport-overhead-2026-08-10.md:31 still references bun scripts/probe-subc-transport.ts, which this PR renamed to probe-mc-host-transport.ts.

Given the scope of this PR (internalizing the wire/auth/discovery/control protocol directly into mc-host and removing the subc-* compatibility layer), the session-resolver regression is the one item I'd treat as a blocker before merge — everything else is either already-covered-by-deferred-follow-up work or a maintainability nit.

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…o workspace

`cancellation_confirmed_stopped` treated every terminal cancel error except
`teardown_unconfirmed` as proof the provider run had stopped, which is a deny-list
where the decision needs positive proof: authorizing fallback starts a second
potentially billable run. `Supervisor::cancel` takes its command permit before it
calls `run.cancel.cancel()`, so a saturated command semaphore returns terminal
`queue_full` while the original run is still executing — and that code passed the
deny-list.

Only `Ok(())` authorizes fallback now. The supervisor returns it both when it
cancelled the run and when the run is already absent, and none of the terminal
codes `run.cancel` can actually produce — `queue_full`, `closed`,
`teardown_unconfirmed` — prove the run stopped.

`terminal_cancel_response_allows_fallback` asserted the opposite using
`run_already_terminal`, a code that appears nowhere in the host, so it pinned a
contract nothing emits. It is replaced by
`a_terminal_cancel_error_never_authorizes_fallback`, which covers the three codes
that are actually reachable. `send_outcome` loses its last non-test caller and
becomes `pub` alongside the sibling accessors, since whether a request may have
reached the host is exactly what a caller needs before retrying.

`detectRustModePrereqs` accepted a present `Cargo.toml` plus a working `cargo` as
proof the fixture was buildable. The workspace has mandatory `../commons` path
dependencies, so a checkout without that sibling passed, bypassed every suite's
`skipIf`, and failed inside `buildDirectHostFixture`. It now runs `cargo metadata`
and confirms the `direct_host_fixture` example resolves, matching what
`scripts/check-rust-prerequisites.ts` already does.
…tity

`McHandler::resources()` returned a default declaration, so
`retained_resident_bytes` was zero while the component holds the 768 MiB
transform-serving cache budget, the 64 MiB snapshot cache, the 16 MiB
boundary-token cache, 32 MiB of staged state-import bytes, and two 64 MiB
process-global tag caches. The runtime kept offering those same bytes to ingress,
so `max_resident_bytes` did not bound the process. It is now declared per
retention class, so a cache whose budget changes cannot fall out of the total.

Sizing moves to the composition site. The default ceiling used to pre-add Broca's
declaration, which only worked because Broca lives inside `mc-host`: a default
cannot name an external component's declaration, so any composite linking
`McHandler` under-sized itself. Only the composite knows which components are
linked, so the default is now the no-retention ingress floor and the fixture sums
the declarations of what it actually links. Startup already refuses an under-sized
composite, which is now the enforcement rather than an accident.

The E2E child-env loop also stopped stripping `SUBC_MODULE_ID` and
`SUBC_LAUNCH_NONCE`. Both are still live — `mc_host::wire` defines them and
`historian_producer` reads them into every route identity — so a test process
launched under a supervisor that sets them made the plugin present that identity
to the hermetic host, which rejects it.

Also points the transport-overhead doc at the renamed probe script and its current
client type.
`handle` parsed every body into a `serde_json::Value` with no reservation while
the body's own `InputBuffer` charge was still held. That charge covers wire bytes,
not the tree: scalar-dense JSON becomes a node per value, so a body near the
32 MiB transform cap could expand to hundreds of megabytes, and concurrent
requests each escaped the resident envelope by their own full expansion. This is
the input-side mirror of the output-side reservation already fixed in this branch.

The bound is counted from the body rather than assumed as a multiple of it, which
is what keeps the gate usable. One string-aware pass counts value separators —
only commas and colons outside strings separate values — and adds string bytes
separately. A realistic string-heavy transform body therefore reserves close to
its true footprint and passes, while a scalar-dense body that genuinely cannot be
served inside the envelope is refused rather than silently exceeding it.

Exhaustion is classified rather than collapsed: above the ceiling itself is
permanent `invalid_params`, since no amount of draining admits it, and a pool
currently held by concurrent requests is retryable `queue_full`.

`RequestCtx::try_reserve_resident` and `resident_capacity` become public. The
scratch pool already existed and Synapse already charged it, but the accessors
were crate-private, so no external handler could participate in the accounting the
host's envelope depends on.
…ssion

Two copies of the directory-traversal hardening existed: `connection_file`'s
read-only `open_parent` and `instance`'s create-and-tighten `secure_runtime_dir`.
The walks themselves are genuinely different jobs, so merging them would have
meant flag parameters for "create or not" and "tighten or not". What was actually
duplicated is the hardening itself — the open flags, the anchor open plus its
ancestor-safety proof, and the rule for which path components may be walked — and
that is the part where a missed variant reopens a traversal hole. Those three now
live once beside `is_safe_ancestor`, which both already shared, and both callers
use them.

`normal_components` also removes a spelling difference: one copy matched all four
`Component` variants explicitly while the other rejected non-`Normal` components
by falling through a guard. Same effective rule, two encodings, no way for the
compiler to notice if one changed.

The charge-or-cancel interaction in `dispatch` was written out five times — unary
responses, error terminals, stream reservations, direct stream sends, and the
shutdown ack — each deciding by hand that a cancellation loses the frame and an
admission timeout cancels the generation. `charge_frame_or_cancel` states that
once, including why the two outcomes are not the same event: a cancellation means
the generation is already going, while a timeout proves the writer is not draining
and so must tear it down instead of accumulating waiters behind a stalled socket.
…h teardown

Shutdown was tracked in two primitives that had to be flipped together:
`task_admission_open: Mutex<bool>` and `cancel: CancellationToken`. Both existing
paths happened to agree, but nothing enforced it, so a third path — or an edit to
either — could admit a task after cancellation or cancel while new tasks still
passed the gate.

The token is now the only state. What remains is a gate mutex holding no state,
whose sole job is to stop a spawn that already passed the check from landing in a
tracker `wait` has stopped watching; that ordering was the real reason a lock was
there. `Drop` needs no gate at all, since `&mut self` already excludes a
concurrent spawn.

`CLIENT_DISCOVERY_SLOTS` rises from 4 to 64. The cap exists to bound how many
blocking workers a wedged mount can strand, not to throttle healthy discovery,
and `mc-module` now links this crate and dials through the same process-wide pool
for its own reconnects — so 4 could serialize a reconnect burst against the
handshake deadline where separate processes previously had independent capacity.
64 stays far below Tokio's default 512-thread blocking pool.

The auth wrappers keep their four lines of scaffolding, but the error-path
teardown policy — bounding shutdown by the same absolute deadline as the
handshake — moves into one function both call. Attempting to share the whole
wrapper needed a higher-ranked closure bound that Rust cannot infer here, and the
scaffolding is shape rather than policy; how a failed handshake tears down is the
part that must not diverge between server and client.
The client reader and the host framing layer each carried their own
read-exact/read-body/drain loops, identical apart from the error type they
produced. That put the subtle parts in two places: the `biased` select that
prefers cancellation over another read, treating a zero-length read as
end-of-stream instead of looping, and capping the body read at the frame boundary
so a pipelined next header is never consumed as body.

`frame_read` now owns those three loops and reports why a read stopped —
cancelled, EOF, deadline, or I/O. Each caller keeps its own classification, which
is the part that genuinely differs: the host distinguishes a stop inside a frame
from one while draining an oversize body so the close reason names the phase,
while the client treats every stop as fatal to the generation because it
resynchronizes by reconnecting rather than by guessing where the next header
begins.

The higher-level readers stay separate. They disagree on protocol policy — what
lengths are legal, what an oversize control body means, which budget the body is
charged against — and folding those together would have meant parameterizing
policy instead of sharing mechanics.

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P2 Badge Retire abandoned channel-zero route opens

When a caller drops or times out Client::open_route after its request starts writing, UnaryAdmissionGuard reaches this channel-zero branch, removes the pending entry, and returns without retiring the generation because no legal Cancel can be sent. If the host subsequently binds the route, its response is discarded as unmatched and the client never obtains a handle with which to close the binding, so repeated abandoned opens can exhaust host route/channel capacity. The fresh evidence beyond the historian wrapper fix is that the public Client::open_route path still relies on this guard; retire the generation when an ambiguous dropped channel-zero request may have created a route.

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Confirmed, and fixed in 527866fe — but with a narrower remedy than retiring the generation.

The leak reproduces exactly as described. A test that abandons a written channel-zero request and then delivers the host's late bind fails before the fix:

thread '...an_abandoned_control_open_releases_a_late_bound_route' panicked at client.rs:3647:
a stranded bind is released with a route Goodbye: Empty

The chain is the one you traced. cancel_key reaches the key.channel == 0 branch with OutcomeUnknown, returns without a Cancel because identity 0/0 has none that is legal, and the host's Response then lands in dispatch with no pending entry and is dropped by the unmatched-terminal path. The client never learns the handle, so it can send no route Goodbye, and each repeated abandon burns another host route and channel permit for the life of the generation. Client::open_route is the only production caller that admits on 0/0 — request and request_stream both go through require_route, which rejects it — so this is exactly the route.open abandon path.

Where I diverged is the remedy. Retiring the generation would take every unrelated route with it, and a caller timing out one open_route is an ordinary operational event, not a host defect — unlike the neighbouring invalid_route_response case, where retiring is cheap because an unparseable bind means the host is broken. Wire protocol §8.2 already fixes the remedy for a successful bind the client cannot cache: best-effort route Goodbye, and close the connection only when that cleanup cannot be queued. So dispatch now hands an unmatched control Response to release_stranded_route, which parses it as a bind and emits the scoped Goodbye, retiring only if the control queue refuses the frame. The reclaim costs one frame and unrelated routes stay live.

One hazard my own fix introduced, since it now acts on a frame it used to ignore: a duplicate terminal for a route the caller already received is also unmatched, and releasing that would close a route still in use. The route cache is the discriminator, and the guard is load-bearing — deleting the routes.contains check fails a_duplicate_bind_terminal_never_closes_an_owned_route.

I also added the rule to §8.2 of the wire protocol, since the doc previously specified this remedy only for the close race and the abandon path reaches the same state by a different trigger.

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() = cancel.cancelled() => {
if let Some(inner) = weak.upgrade() {
let _ = inner.cancel_key(key, "cancelled");
}

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P2 Badge Drain stream items on token-driven cancellation

When the configured cancellation token or deadline fires after StreamData items have queued, this watcher calls cancel_key directly, which settles and drops the pending sender but cannot drain the receiver stored in ResponseStream. The queued ChargedItems therefore continue holding the owner-wide retained-response budget until the caller drains or drops the stream; a caller that retains the cancelled value without polling it can make unrelated streams fail with stream_saturated. The explicit ResponseStream::cancel path drains these items, but this token/deadline path bypasses it and needs equivalent cleanup.

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Declining this one — the mechanism you describe is exactly right, but the consequence does not follow. I measured it rather than reasoning about it.

Your premise holds. After the watcher's cancel_key, the queued items are still charged:

after cancel_key used=32     (4 items x 8 bytes)
finished=false

The watcher genuinely cannot drain them: the receiver lives in ResponseStream, which the caller owns, and the watcher holds only a Weak<Inner>. So there is no version of "drain here" that is implementable at that site.

What breaks the leak argument is that finished stays false, so the bytes remain reachable through the public API. Polling the cancelled stream drains every item, in order, before delivering the terminal:

drained=4  terminal=Err(cancelled)  used_after_poll=0

and a caller that never polls still releases them on drop, because Drop calls cancel, which drains:

after cancel_key used=32
after drop       used=0

The ordering is not luck. next calls items.try_recv() first, and its select! is biased with items.recv() ahead of the terminal, so a buffered item always wins; the terminal branch is only reachable when the queue is empty, and dispatch cannot enqueue more after cancel_key removed the pending entry. No item is ever orphaned on this path.

That is the difference from ResponseStream::cancel, and it is why only that path drains by hand: cancel sets finished = true, and next short-circuits on it, so the same bytes become unreadable forever — charging bytes nobody can ever read would be wrong. The token path leaves them readable, so the charge is correct. It is the retained-response budget; bytes a live consumer is holding are precisely what it is meant to measure, and this is no different from a normally-terminated stream whose items the caller has not drained yet.

The residual case is a caller that retains a cancelled stream and neither polls nor drops it. That is holding retained bytes against a documented lifecycle — ResponseStream's contract is that dropping it performs cleanup — and it is not specific to cancellation.

I did commit the evidence, in 527866fe, as token_cancelling_a_stream_leaves_its_queued_items_reachable and dropping_a_token_cancelled_stream_releases_its_queued_charges. If the drain-before-terminal ordering or the Drop path ever regresses, those fail, and this finding becomes real. Happy to reopen if you see a path where finished gets set on the token route without draining — I could not construct one.

ahrav added 3 commits August 25, 2026 19:07
`validate_directory` read `stat.st_mode` directly. That field is `u16` on Darwin
and `u32` on Linux, so mixing it with this crate's `u32` type constants compiles
on Linux and fails on macOS with "no implementation for `u16 & u32`", "mismatched
types", and "can't compare `u16` with `u32`" — the three errors the macOS job was
reporting. `instance::mode_bits` is the cfg-gated widening that exists for exactly
this, and every other mode check already went through it.

Verified rather than reasoned: a scratch crate checked against
`aarch64-apple-darwin` reproduces all three errors with the old expression and
compiles clean with the new one. A source-shape test now fails the suite if any
production line in either file reads `st_mode` without the accessor, since no
Linux build can catch that regression.

The `v84-process-crash` evidence digest covers `IMPLEMENTATION_FILES`, which
includes `packages/e2e-tests/src/opencode-runner/spawn.ts` — restoring the
supervised-identity strip there legitimately invalidated it. Regenerated via the
test's own `UPDATE_CLAIMS_CRASH_EVIDENCE` path; the new digest matches the value
CI computed, confirming the committed file was stale from `ef7980c9` rather than
the computation having drifted.
Fixing the mode-width break let the macOS job reach the test-compile step it had
never got to, which failed on `rustix::fs::mknodat` — rustix excludes both
`mknodat` and `mkfifoat` on Apple targets, so the FIFO-rejection test compiled
only on Linux. `cargo test --lib <filter>` builds the whole test target, so one
Linux-only helper broke the macOS run regardless of which test was selected.

It now shells out to the POSIX `mkfifo` utility. Calling `mkfifo(2)` directly
would need `unsafe`, and this crate is `deny(unsafe_code)`; weakening that for a
test fixture is not a trade worth making. The test stays compiled on every
platform rather than being cfg'd out on the one whose absence hid the break — a
blocking open on a FIFO wedges `Client::connect` on macOS exactly as it would on
Linux, so that is the last platform to stop checking it.
A caller that drops or times out `open_route` after the request reaches the
writer leaves a correlation the client will not settle. Identity 0/0 has no
legal `Cancel` to withdraw the operation, so the host may still bind the route
and answer. That `Response` arrived unmatched and was dropped as an ordinary
stale terminal, which stranded the binding: the client never learned the
handle, so it could send no route `Goodbye`, and every repeated abandon
consumed another host route and channel permit until the generation ended.

Wire protocol section 8.2 already fixes the remedy for a successful bind the
client cannot cache — best-effort route `Goodbye`, and close the connection
only when that cleanup cannot be queued. Apply it to the unmatched control
`Response` as well, so the reclaim costs one frame instead of the whole
generation and unrelated routes stay live. A bind already in the route cache
belongs to a caller that received it and is left alone; releasing it would
close a route still in use.

Also record the token- and deadline-driven stream cancellation contract. That
path settles through `cancel_key`, which cannot reach the receiver the caller
holds, so queued items stay charged against the retained-response budget. That
is correct because the bytes stay reachable: `finished` remains false, so
`next` still drains them in order before the terminal, and `Drop` drains
whatever is left. `ResponseStream::cancel` has to drain by hand only because it
sets `finished` and makes the same bytes unreadable forever.
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Review round handled — 2 findings answered, 1 commit

Both codex P2 findings from the 18:58 round are answered, and 527866fe is pushed. One was a real leak and is fixed; one I declined with measurements rather than argument.

Fixed: an abandoned route.open stranded a host route

A caller that drops or times out open_route after the request reaches the writer leaves a correlation the client will not settle, and identity 0/0 has no legal Cancel to withdraw the operation (§6.2). The host binds the route anyway and answers; that Response arrived unmatched and was dropped by the ordinary stale-terminal path. The client therefore never learned the handle, could send no route Goodbye, and every repeated abandon consumed another host route and channel permit for the life of the generation. open_route is the only production caller that admits on 0/0request and request_stream both go through require_route, which rejects it — so the exposure is exactly that path.

Codex proposed retiring the generation. I didn't, because that takes every unrelated route with it, and a caller timing out one open_route is an ordinary operational event rather than a host defect — unlike the neighbouring invalid_route_response case, where retiring is cheap because an unparseable bind means the host is broken. §8.2 already fixes the remedy for a successful bind the client cannot cache: best-effort route Goodbye, closing the connection only when that cleanup cannot be queued. dispatch now applies it, so the reclaim costs one frame and unrelated routes stay live.

Acting on a frame the client used to ignore introduced its own hazard: a duplicate terminal for a route the caller already received is also unmatched, and releasing that would close a route still in use. The route cache is the discriminator, and both halves are load-bearing — the fix's test fails without the fix, and a_duplicate_bind_terminal_never_closes_an_owned_route fails if the routes.contains guard is removed.

I extended §8.2 of the wire protocol to state this rule, since the doc previously specified the remedy only for the close race and the abandon path reaches the same state by a different trigger.

Declined: queued stream items on token-driven cancellation

The mechanism codex described is exactly right — the watcher settles through cancel_key, which cannot reach the receiver the caller owns, so queued items stay charged against the retained-response budget (measured: used=32 for 4x8 bytes after cancel_key). The consequence does not follow. finished stays false, so the bytes remain reachable: polling drains all four in order before the terminal (drained=4 used_after_poll=0), and a caller that never polls still releases them on drop (after drop used=0). The ordering is structural, not luck — next tries items first and its select! is biased toward items, so the terminal branch is only reachable with an empty queue, and dispatch cannot enqueue after the pending entry is gone.

That is the difference from ResponseStream::cancel, and why only that path drains by hand: cancel sets finished, making the same bytes unreadable forever. Charging bytes a live consumer holds is what the retained-response budget is for. Both halves are committed as regression tests, so if that ordering or the Drop path regresses, the finding becomes real and the suite says so.

Gates: cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy -p mc-host --all-targets -D warnings, and the full mc-host suite (231 lib tests plus every integration target) all pass.

CI, unchanged by this commit: E2E (Pi, host behavior) and E2E (OpenCode, Docker) were already failing on ff2923a6 and 1dbeb523, so they predate this round — the Pi failures are B10/B11/B12 in the m[0]/m[1] taxonomy suite returning undefined, and OpenCode fails on shared SQLite DB created. The review check is not a code failure: the claude-code-action step itself errors with Internal error: directory mismatch for directory .../tsconfig.json and is_error:true. All Rust checks, both shared-memory source builds, the Bun + Node 24 interop suite, and Kilo are green.

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