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spaced: coordinate guest replacement through gated maintenance RPCs - #1729
Add a separate host–guest maintenance service for bounded staging, one-attempt activation, configuration, commit, abort, and restart. Customer dispatch shares a reversible admission hold. Normal restart refuses active work, retained results, retry records, filesystem work, and surviving workload descendants; explicit force terminates API workloads through systemd.
The candidate withholds readiness until its self-test and host-approved durable commit. Spaced-host preserves forwarding intent across guest restart and adopts surviving forwarding after host restart. A capture barrier quiesces metadata subscriptions before bridge invalidation; it does not own customer admission, so failed pause/suspend cannot strand legacy, pool or builder guests. Transient status-read errors preserve the live metadata stream, and status reports the same admission predicate used by customer dispatch. Legacy guests retain their existing startup behavior and report no update capability.
Host-only restarts adopt the first guest incarnation; transport EOF and manager reconnect do not close customer admission. A real observed incarnation change triggers reconfiguration. Shared owner validation reserves configuration IDs before ordinary operation admission, with independent rejection at the host operation RPC boundary, and the protocol owns the layered transfer budgets. Status and held activation use the same conservative workload blockers.
Capture status reads do not latch a generation hold for executions without configuration observers. Streaming and polled status share admission annotations; guest idleness uses the initialized workload cgroup placement. Forwarded connections refused during maintenance emit debug diagnostics.
Validation
All 47 host tests and 23 guest-protocol tests pass, including ten maintenance tests. Reconnect/first-observation regressions fail before the fixes and pass afterward; existing relay, status-read/backpressure and metadata-pause cases remain covered. Native and ARM64 Linux all-target lint and formatting pass.
Earlier runs on prior stack revisions covered guest Arm/Commit recovery, failed transfers, privileged staging, all 154 guest-execution tests, and full-stack seed/code-runtime canaries for update, forced restart, checkpoint and memory lifecycle recovery. Those deployment canaries were not rerun for the final admission/blocker corrections. Pinned Go protobuf regeneration, formatting, vet and tests passed before these Rust-only changes.
All 11 focused host maintenance tests pass, including capture reads preserving admission after a generation change. Linux guest all-target lint passes.
Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: new opt-in capability. Admission or recovery errors could temporarily reject customer requests; the manager in the next stack layer owns durable reconciliation. Forced restart intentionally kills in-flight API work. No independent recovery channel or systemd watchdog is added for a daemon hung after readiness. Guest metadata subscription establishment is bounded, and nested stage deadlines leave host verification margin. Short metadata reads and mutations serialize within the guest before taking the filesystem lock; transfer-time observations retain their cached-status fallback. Windows is unsupported by this slice; a separately qualified backend can implement the same logical protocol.
Stack
Depends on the bundle and selector foundation. Manager-owned authorization and lifecycle fencing arrive in the next PR; do not initiate updates through a direct host socket.
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The pull request adds a protobuf update API and guest and host services for update operations. The guest handles status, staging, configuration, arm, commit, abort, and restart requests. Execution admission and obligation checks gate maintenance operations and customer-facing work. The host coordinates update ownership, dispatch admission, status observation, suspend handling, and forwarding-port configuration.
Possibly related issues
perplexityai/SPACE#1726 — This PR adds guest update operations and maintenance paths. It does not add the manager-owned authorization and lifecycle fencing described in the issue.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1703 — PR #1703 removes or relocates common protocol files that this PR edits for update protobuf mapping and re-exports. Both PRs also change guest and host server dependencies.
Merge Risk: High · previous review bb170
The change alters when a guest accepts customer work and when it reports itself ready, because update holds can temporarily reject requests and delay readiness. Earlier review findings on staging, subscriptions, deadlines and ownership validation are fixed in the current code. Because admission and readiness behavior is changing, it should get careful validation, including real-cluster checks, before merge.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to bb170
The update path can replace executable code and interrupt workloads, making transition failures consequential. Access restrictions, identity checks and durable commit ordering provide meaningful controls. No introduced security violation was established, but cross-process recovery and deployment-level workload cleanup remain incompletely verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The new authority can affect the connected guest’s executable selection, future process environment, forwarding authorization and workload availability. Its direct entrypoints require an authorized host-control identity or access to the privileged guest bridge; no customer-workload route to maintenance was established in the inspected listener registrations.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The host control listener requires UDS peer credentials for root or the manager account. Guest bridge vsock accepts the host CID, while its UDS alternative uses mode 0600. These existing transport boundaries also protect the newly registered maintenance service.
observed — Host operation RPCs validate the operation/execution owner before forwarding. Equal IDs are reserved for background configuration and rejected at ordinary operation gates. Release independently rechecks the owner after its asynchronous status read.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Production loopback forwarding installs execution admission before listeners start. Each accepted forwarded connection must acquire admission and retains its token for the connection task’s lifetime, extending maintenance accounting beyond process and filesystem RPCs. The supplied forwarding test helper passes no execution service and therefore does not exercise this control.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/guest/execution/src/idempotency.rs:
- Around line 40-44: Update IdempotencyStore::has_live_records to count only
records that still carry a retry obligation: exclude expired tombstones with no
in-progress generation, while retaining tombstones whose in-progress generation
may still run. Preserve the existing prune call and behavior for all other
record states.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/guest/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 368-401: Update the stage writer and transfer flow around
`sender`, `receiver`, `stage.finish()`, `writer`, and `transfer` so staging is
finalized only after the incoming stream reaches clean EOF, using an explicit
completion signal rather than channel closure. On an aborted or timed-out
transfer, let the writer stop without finishing; report a writer error first,
otherwise preserve and return the transfer error.
- Around line 368-373: Update the `begin_stage` flow in the `spawn_blocking`
writer so an identical Stage retry cannot overwrite the verified slot before the
new payload is complete and verified. Preserve the existing staged slot if the
retry fails or ends early; otherwise replace it atomically only after
verification succeeds.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 150-165: Update pause_observation so both timeout and
closed-semaphore errors clear the paused state through resume_observation before
returning the error, while preserving the existing success behavior. In
subscribe, bound the initial client.subscribe call with a deadline so a slow
guest cannot hold the subscriber permit indefinitely.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 450-452: Increase the timeout around transfer in the host stage
flow so it exceeds the guest’s full stage budget, including header, transfer,
finish/verification, and connection time; preserve the existing
deadline-exceeded behavior if that longer timeout still expires.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/guest/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 344-361: Replace the capacity-one channel’s `try_send` in the
guest update stream loop with an awaited send so backpressure does not end the
stream when a status is pending. Preserve shutdown and receiver-closure
cancellation paths, and keep exiting if the receiver closes while sending.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 443-455: Update the `forward` and `transfer` flow so host-side
failures cannot close the guest stream as a clean EOF: send an invalid
`StageRequest` before returning an `input.message()` error, and keep access to
`sender` outside the timed future so the timeout path can send the same poison
message. Also ensure `try_join!` cancellation cannot drop `forward` and close
the stream cleanly; preserve normal EOF behavior when the input stream completes
successfully.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update/tests.rs:
- Around line 36-59: Update unsuccessful_capture_barrier_restores_admission to
assert that update.admission.paused is false after each failed or cancelled
pause, before checking admit(); this verifies that the ObservationPause cleanup
restores the state it owns.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 214-216: Update forward_observation to wait for channel capacity
when forwarding each status instead of ending the stream when the bounded
channel is full. Preserve pause and shutdown cancellation handling and exit if
the receiver closes; let a pause received during the send take effect at the
next loop iteration.
- Around line 573-599: Make subscription setup interruptible in the subscribe
flow: while holding the subscriber permit, select between update_client and the
initial client.subscribe operation and self.inner.update.changed.notified();
when notified, recheck admission.paused and return failed_precondition if
paused, releasing the permit immediately. Preserve the existing setup deadlines
and error handling.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/guest/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 370-373: In the guest subscription loop around update_status and
send_status, handle transient status-read failures without sending them as
stream errors: log the failure and continue waiting for the next event. Keep
sending successful status values and preserve stream termination for actual
generation shutdown.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 367-368: Update the calculation of result.customer_admission_held
so it reflects admission holds from state.owner and state.configuring, not the
metadata-only state.paused flag. Add a regression test verifying that a retained
metadata pause does not report admission as held when customer dispatch remains
open.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 501-514: Update the `forward` task in the `transfer` flow so a
closed guest receiver while sending a `Message` or `Finish` ends forwarding
successfully, allowing `client.stage` to report the guest’s rejection status.
Preserve errors from `input.message()` and add a host relay test covering an
early guest rejection.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:
- Around line 602-606: Update restart and update_owner to call
Owner::validate_operation with the parsed owner’s operation and execution before
require_owner, rejecting the reserved configuration encoding at both operation
entry points while preserving existing ownership checks.
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crates/l40_api/spaced/guest/server/src/port_forward/forward.rs:101-104 — while maintenance admission is held, forwarded connections are accepted and then dropped without a log line.
If admit_external_operation() refuses, the loop does continue, which drops the accepted stream, so the client gets a reset. The comment just below it says this loop exists to avoid "completing the TCP handshake and immediately resetting clients". The window is every maintenance hold: Arm, the whole trial until Commit, committed Configure and forced restart. Customers see unexplained resets on every forwarded port. Wait for admission before accept(), so the kernel backlog applies backpressure, or at least trace the refusal. If you queue, note that a long hold turns resets into client timeouts, so the choice is resets-now against timeouts-later.
crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:63-70, :483 — any observed incarnation change latches configuring = true, and only Release clears it.
For ordinary sandboxes the next PR's observer recovers this with Hold → Configure → Release. That observer skips pool templates and Builder/TemplateManager owners (guest_update/observation.rs:25 in the next PR), but those VMs still reach observe_incarnation through PrepareSuspend on the memory-snapshot path. If spaced-guest restarts on its own inside one of them, the next snapshot preparation latches the hold. admit() then refuses every host dispatch for the life of the host process, and nothing releases it. Either don't latch from the PrepareSuspend read for owners the observer won't reconfigure, or have the observer cover them.
crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/meta.rs:180-194 — on selector-capable guests, PrepareSuspend now fails on any update-status error other than Unimplemented.
Legacy guests are safe: both host and guest return Unimplemented there. On a LinuxV1 selector seed, though, suspend or checkpoint fails when the 5 s maintenance connect deadline fires (update.rs:350-354), when journal()/descriptor()/running_selection() returns an I/O error mapped to Internal (guest/server/src/update.rs:213-216), or on Busy before any status is cached (:238). Every PrepareSuspend also pays an extra vsock connect plus GetStatus. Failing closed is defensible, because failing open allows a capture mid-trial. It does make suspend depend on the health of the maintenance subsystem, though, so state that trade-off in the code and consider a cached last-known phase for transient read errors.
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crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:516-623 — only Stage (:497) and PrepareSuspend take the transition permit. Arm, Restart, Configure, Commit, Abort and Hold check only the owner and active, not paused. In the full stack the manager holds the per-sandbox capture lock for the whole driver run, so capture and Arm/Restart can't overlap through the manager. The host layer's own capture barrier covers only Stage, though. Either enforce it for the mutating RPCs or say in the code that the manager owns that exclusion.
crates/l40_api/spaced/host/server/src/update.rs:263-272 — forward_observation doesn't add DeferReason::Operations for in-flight host dispatches, while guest_update_status does (:379-383). The two status paths therefore disagree. It also re-inlines customer_admission_held() at :270.
crates/l40_api/spaced/guest/server/src/update.rs:300 — the workloads cgroup path is a literal that duplicates cgroup.rs:195-219 (CGROUP_ROOT, USER_SLICE, WORKLOADS_UNIT, Leaf::Workloads). If cgroup setup falls back to the in-unit layout on a selector seed, every non-force Arm reports Descendants. Use the resolved placement from cgroup.rs. Nit: the seed unit comment that READY=1 arrives "well under a second" after start (rootfs-builder.sh:701) no longer holds on the trial path.
Checked and dropped: remember_port recording Failed/BindConflict ports (replace_ports re-arms them via open(port, Some(Duration::ZERO)) and accepts WaitingForListener, port_forward/mod.rs:266-271), the systemd start timeout killing a trial (selector seeds set TimeoutStartSec=45, and the journal caps the trial at 30 s), Stage's permit refusing suspend (the next PR's manager cancels staging when capture asks), and validate_operation never being called (the next PR calls it at both manager entry points, and the latest push adds it to the host update_owner and restart paths too).
Verified against the PR head as of this comment, including the push that landed during the review (host-side validate_operation plus its test), read together with the next PR in the stack. Nothing was executed for this layer. Every finding comes from reading the code at the cited lines.
@the-gigi-pplx — reviewed and absorbed into bb170174d870.
Reviewed all six findings; dispositions in the updated protocol commit:
Accepted diagnostics; retained refusal semantics. Maintenance refusals on forwarded connections now emit debug diagnostics, and the runbook states that these connections are reset rather than queued across replacement. Holding an admission permit while awaiting a new connection would itself obstruct idle maintenance; introducing a separate notification/queue contract is unnecessary for this fix.
Accepted. PrepareSuspend uses a read-only status check that does not observe/latch incarnation changes. Pool and builder executions therefore cannot acquire an unreleasable configuration hold through capture preparation. The regression covers a changed incarnation with capture versus ordinary observation.
Accepted the documentation request; retained fail-closed capture. Fresh maintenance status is required to exclude a live trial. A cached stable phase cannot prove that a transition did not occur afterward. The code and runbook explain the maintenance-health dependency explicitly.
Accepted the ownership clarification. The capture check documents that sandbox-manager's artifact lock excludes Arm/Restart/Commit; the host barrier drains staging and metadata observation. Node-root remains a trusted administrator and must route lifecycle mutations through the manager.
Accepted. Polled and streamed status use the same annotation helper, including Operations for active host dispatch and the shared admission predicate.
Accepted. Idleness reads cgroup.events from the placement established by cgroup setup, including its fallback layout. Missing placement remains a conservative blocker. The seed's READY comment now distinguishes trial confirmation from ordinary initialization.
Validation: all 11 focused host maintenance tests pass; native and ARM64 Linux all-target lint pass for the affected code. No wire changes.
## Summary
Add a separate host–guest maintenance service for bounded staging, one-attempt activation, configuration, commit, abort, and restart. Customer dispatch shares a reversible admission hold. Normal restart refuses active work, retained results, retry records, filesystem work, and surviving workload descendants; explicit force terminates API workloads through systemd.
The candidate withholds readiness until its self-test and host-approved durable commit. Spaced-host preserves forwarding intent across guest restart and adopts surviving forwarding after host restart. A capture barrier quiesces metadata subscriptions before bridge invalidation; it does not own customer admission, so failed pause/suspend cannot strand legacy, pool or builder guests. Transient status-read errors preserve the live metadata stream, and status reports the same admission predicate used by customer dispatch. Legacy guests retain their existing startup behavior and report no update capability.
Host-only restarts adopt the first guest incarnation; transport EOF and manager reconnect do not close customer admission. A real observed incarnation change triggers reconfiguration. Shared owner validation reserves configuration IDs before ordinary operation admission, with independent rejection at the host operation RPC boundary, and the protocol owns the layered transfer budgets. Status and held activation use the same conservative workload blockers.
Capture status reads do not latch a generation hold for executions without configuration observers. Streaming and polled status share admission annotations; guest idleness uses the initialized workload cgroup placement. Forwarded connections refused during maintenance emit debug diagnostics.
## Validation
All 47 host tests and 23 guest-protocol tests pass, including ten maintenance tests. Reconnect/first-observation regressions fail before the fixes and pass afterward; existing relay, status-read/backpressure and metadata-pause cases remain covered. Native and ARM64 Linux all-target lint and formatting pass.
Earlier runs on prior stack revisions covered guest Arm/Commit recovery, failed transfers, privileged staging, all 154 guest-execution tests, and full-stack seed/code-runtime canaries for update, forced restart, checkpoint and memory lifecycle recovery. Those deployment canaries were not rerun for the final admission/blocker corrections. Pinned Go protobuf regeneration, formatting, vet and tests passed before these Rust-only changes.
All 11 focused host maintenance tests pass, including capture reads preserving admission after a generation change. Linux guest all-target lint passes.
## Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: new opt-in capability. Admission or recovery errors could temporarily reject customer requests; the manager in the next stack layer owns durable reconciliation. Forced restart intentionally kills in-flight API work. No independent recovery channel or systemd watchdog is added for a daemon hung after readiness. Guest metadata subscription establishment is bounded, and nested stage deadlines leave host verification margin. Short metadata reads and mutations serialize within the guest before taking the filesystem lock; transfer-time observations retain their cached-status fallback. Windows is unsupported by this slice; a separately qualified backend can implement the same logical protocol.
## Stack
Depends on the bundle and selector foundation. Manager-owned authorization and lifecycle fencing arrive in the next PR; do not initiate updates through a direct host socket.
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## Summary
Consolidate guest implementations into `pplx-space-spaced-guest-server`, with explicit `platform::linux`, `platform::macos`, and `platform::windows` backends. Linux and macOS share Unix mechanisms; neither is the implicit crate default. Remove the separate Windows crate and select dependencies by target OS. Existing root exports remain available to embedding callers. macOS retains development capabilities, not qualified guest-image support.
Build both native Windows agent payloads and prepare their bundle descriptors. The Windows `spaced.exe` CLI reports the workspace version or queries the installed service’s SCM state without start/stop privileges. Unix commands are preserved in a platform-specific module; Windows CI now compiles the CLI too. `--platform windows` reads `spaced-svc.exe` and `spaced.exe` and records a distinct recovery contract, restricted to the existing x86-64 Windows backend. Linux remains the default and produces identical descriptor bytes. The schema, logical payload roles, protobufs and SQLite tables are unchanged.
This is CLI and packaging groundwork, not working Windows self-update. The existing host policy still refuses Windows bundles. The Windows runbook records the recovery, storage, workload and CH lifecycle qualification boundaries before admission can be enabled.
## Validation
All five `pplx-space-spaced-update` library tests pass, including the real Python publisher feeding the Rust descriptor reader for both targets with distinct service/CLI payloads. Native and Windows GNU all-target Clippy and formatting pass. Both Windows executables cross-build successfully; the Unix CLI help command still exposes its existing commands. A disposable comparison confirms byte-identical default Linux output against the parent publisher; Windows ARM64 is rejected before accessing payloads.
Native Windows execution, SCM status queries, NTFS recovery and Cloud Hypervisor lifecycle have not been exercised by this change. Cross-compilation does not provide that runtime qualification.
The consolidation passes native macOS, ARM64 Linux musl and Windows GNU all-target/all-feature Clippy for the guest server, service and CLI; native host-server consumer Clippy also passes. All 41 native guest-server library tests pass, both Windows executables cross-build, and architecture checking reports zero required violations. Full workspace and native Windows validation remain with CI. Updated the Guide source link for the moved cgroup implementation; the old link caused both documentation builds to fail.
## Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: development groundwork. An incorrect target flag can describe the wrong intended recovery ABI; existing host policy continues to reject unsupported contracts. This does not install or start a Windows candidate. Module moves change tracing targets: guest-server module targets gain `platform::unix`, and `pplx_space_spaced_guest_windows` targets become `pplx_space_spaced_guest_server::platform::windows`. Adjust exact-target log filters accordingly. No protobuf, SQL or on-disk update-contract change is introduced.
## Stack
Rebased onto main after #1728, #1729 and #1730 merged. The Windows recovery supervisor, maintenance RPC implementation and runtime qualification remain subsequent implementation work.
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## Summary
Consolidate guest implementations into `pplx-space-spaced-guest-server`, with explicit `platform::linux`, `platform::macos`, and `platform::windows` backends. Linux and macOS share Unix mechanisms; neither is the implicit crate default. Remove the separate Windows crate and select dependencies by target OS. Existing root exports remain available to embedding callers. macOS retains development capabilities, not qualified guest-image support.
Build both native Windows agent payloads and prepare their bundle descriptors. The Windows `spaced.exe` CLI reports the workspace version or queries the installed service’s SCM state without start/stop privileges. Unix commands are preserved in a platform-specific module; Windows CI now compiles the CLI too. `--platform windows` reads `spaced-svc.exe` and `spaced.exe` and records a distinct recovery contract, restricted to the existing x86-64 Windows backend. Linux remains the default and produces identical descriptor bytes. The schema, logical payload roles, protobufs and SQLite tables are unchanged.
This is CLI and packaging groundwork, not working Windows self-update. The existing host policy still refuses Windows bundles. The Windows runbook records the recovery, storage, workload and CH lifecycle qualification boundaries before admission can be enabled.
## Validation
All five `pplx-space-spaced-update` library tests pass, including the real Python publisher feeding the Rust descriptor reader for both targets with distinct service/CLI payloads. Native and Windows GNU all-target Clippy and formatting pass. Both Windows executables cross-build successfully; the Unix CLI help command still exposes its existing commands. A disposable comparison confirms byte-identical default Linux output against the parent publisher; Windows ARM64 is rejected before accessing payloads.
Native Windows execution, SCM status queries, NTFS recovery and Cloud Hypervisor lifecycle have not been exercised by this change. Cross-compilation does not provide that runtime qualification.
The consolidation passes native macOS, ARM64 Linux musl and Windows GNU all-target/all-feature Clippy for the guest server, service and CLI; native host-server consumer Clippy also passes. All 41 native guest-server library tests pass, both Windows executables cross-build, and architecture checking reports zero required violations. Full workspace and native Windows validation remain with CI. Updated the Guide source link for the moved cgroup implementation; the old link caused both documentation builds to fail. Updated the isolated signal test’s exact child-test selector after the module move; the stale selector ran no child test and timed out waiting for readiness. The corrected SIGINT/SIGTERM subprocess test passes in an ARM64 Linux container.
## Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: development groundwork. An incorrect target flag can describe the wrong intended recovery ABI; existing host policy continues to reject unsupported contracts. This does not install or start a Windows candidate. Module moves change tracing targets: guest-server module targets gain `platform::unix`, and `pplx_space_spaced_guest_windows` targets become `pplx_space_spaced_guest_server::platform::windows`. Adjust exact-target log filters accordingly. No protobuf, SQL or on-disk update-contract change is introduced.
## Stack
Rebased onto main after #1728, #1729 and #1730 merged. The Windows recovery supervisor, maintenance RPC implementation and runtime qualification remain subsequent implementation work.
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Summary
Add a separate host–guest maintenance service for bounded staging, one-attempt activation, configuration, commit, abort, and restart. Customer dispatch shares a reversible admission hold. Normal restart refuses active work, retained results, retry records, filesystem work, and surviving workload descendants; explicit force terminates API workloads through systemd.
The candidate withholds readiness until its self-test and host-approved durable commit. Spaced-host preserves forwarding intent across guest restart and adopts surviving forwarding after host restart. A capture barrier quiesces metadata subscriptions before bridge invalidation; it does not own customer admission, so failed pause/suspend cannot strand legacy, pool or builder guests. Transient status-read errors preserve the live metadata stream, and status reports the same admission predicate used by customer dispatch. Legacy guests retain their existing startup behavior and report no update capability.
Host-only restarts adopt the first guest incarnation; transport EOF and manager reconnect do not close customer admission. A real observed incarnation change triggers reconfiguration. Shared owner validation reserves configuration IDs before ordinary operation admission, with independent rejection at the host operation RPC boundary, and the protocol owns the layered transfer budgets. Status and held activation use the same conservative workload blockers.
Capture status reads do not latch a generation hold for executions without configuration observers. Streaming and polled status share admission annotations; guest idleness uses the initialized workload cgroup placement. Forwarded connections refused during maintenance emit debug diagnostics.
Validation
All 47 host tests and 23 guest-protocol tests pass, including ten maintenance tests. Reconnect/first-observation regressions fail before the fixes and pass afterward; existing relay, status-read/backpressure and metadata-pause cases remain covered. Native and ARM64 Linux all-target lint and formatting pass.
Earlier runs on prior stack revisions covered guest Arm/Commit recovery, failed transfers, privileged staging, all 154 guest-execution tests, and full-stack seed/code-runtime canaries for update, forced restart, checkpoint and memory lifecycle recovery. Those deployment canaries were not rerun for the final admission/blocker corrections. Pinned Go protobuf regeneration, formatting, vet and tests passed before these Rust-only changes.
All 11 focused host maintenance tests pass, including capture reads preserving admission after a generation change. Linux guest all-target lint passes.
Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: new opt-in capability. Admission or recovery errors could temporarily reject customer requests; the manager in the next stack layer owns durable reconciliation. Forced restart intentionally kills in-flight API work. No independent recovery channel or systemd watchdog is added for a daemon hung after readiness. Guest metadata subscription establishment is bounded, and nested stage deadlines leave host verification margin. Short metadata reads and mutations serialize within the guest before taking the filesystem lock; transfer-time observations retain their cached-status fallback. Windows is unsupported by this slice; a separately qualified backend can implement the same logical protocol.
Stack
Depends on the bundle and selector foundation. Manager-owned authorization and lifecycle fencing arrive in the next PR; do not initiate updates through a direct host socket.
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