fix(integrations): stop mount respawn-storm orphans + recipient inject-spam

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Why

pear was destabilizing when a Slack integration mount wedged and its configured agent had rotated out. Two compounding loops burned the host:

1. Event delivery to a vanished agent retried forever. A configured recipient (slack-communications) was no longer registered, so the broker returned agent_not_found and the Relaycast fallback also failed — yet the injected-confirmation retry treated it as transient and hammered the dead agent (3× + fallback) for every incident file written to the Slack thread:

   [integration-events] delivery injected retries exhausted {
     recipient: 'slack-communications', attempts: 3,
     error: 'Agent "slack-communications" not found and Relaycast publish failed: ... (agent_not_found)' }
   

2. relayfile-mount daemons orphaned across restarts. Mounts run detached (background: true) and the SDK stop() does not reliably reap them, so a crash / kill -9 / dev hot-reload left them running. Wedged ones kept spinning CPU and piled up (observed live: 6 stale relayfile-mount procs outliving their parent Electron main; load avg 5.3), while the reconcile watchdog kept force-restarting an unhealable mount.

What changed

Recipient inject-spam (integration-event-bridge.ts)

• Classify agent_not_found / not found as a permanent recipient failure (mirrors broker.ts isMissingAgentError). In confirmInjectedDeliveryWithRetry, permanent failures are warned once (aggregated) and suppressed — the dedupe key commits so duplicates don't re-attempt — instead of retrying.
• The empty-roster optimistic send is kept (it covers the legit broker-startup race where listAgents transiently returns []); it now fails closed quietly rather than storming.

Mount orphans / respawn-storm (integration-mounts.ts + new relayfile-mount-pids.ts)

• Persisted PID registry: capture each mount's pid from handle.status(), hard-kill it as a backstop in stopHandle (after stop()), and reap recorded orphans once at boot.
• Safety: only PIDs we recorded and that still resolve to a live relayfile-mount (via ps comm, guards against PID reuse) are killed — a user's manually relayfile start-ed mount is never touched.

User-visible escalation (integrations.ts)

• restart-cap-exceeded was emitted but silently dropped by the health observer. A mount that gave up after 5 restarts now drives the auth-recovery banner (re-auth is the documented remedy for a wedged integration mount) instead of cycling every reset window forever.

Note: the deeper root cause — the .integrations mount can't self-heal because its delegated credential expires with no auto-renewal — is cross-repo (relayfile/relayauth) and tracked in the mount-resilience handoff. This PR is the pear-side hardening so an unhealable mount + a missing agent can no longer torch the host.

Tests

• agent_not_found injected confirmation is suppressed without retry (no storm).
• PID-registry reap safety paths: skip-managed, recycled-pid (wrong exe), dead-pid, and the kill path; plus killMountPid.
• restart-cap-exceeded → auth-recovery escalation.

All green: 331 main-process vitest + 123 node __tests__ tests pass; typecheck + eslint clean.

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Verify Windows PIDs before killing them

On Windows this returns true for any live recorded PID, so reapOrphanedMountPids and killMountPid can terminate an unrelated process after PID reuse. This is exactly the stale-registry scenario the executable check is meant to guard against; after a crash and enough PID churn, a leftover mount-pids.json entry may now kill a user process because liveness alone is treated as proof that it is still relayfile-mount. Please verify the Windows executable/command line or skip killing when it cannot be verified.

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Reap orphans before auth-gated exits

Because this reaper runs after resolveCloudAuth() and getAccountWorkspaceId(), a restart with missing/expired cloud auth or a workspace lookup failure exits mount() before any recorded orphan PIDs are checked. That leaves the exact crash/hot-reload relayfile-mount processes this change is meant to clean up running during the user-action-required state, so a wedged mount can keep burning CPU until re-auth succeeds. Move the recorded-PID reap to a boot/auth-independent path or before these auth/workspace gates.

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Root-cause (cross-repo) tracked in AgentWorkforce/relayfile#330 — mount cred auto-renewal + supervision + watchdog. This PR is the pear-side hardening that keeps an unhealable mount from torching the host until that lands.

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Review: PR #385 — fix(integrations): stop mount respawn-storm orphans + recipient inject-spam

Summary

The PR has three logical changes, all consistent with the stated purpose:

1. New relayfile-mount-pids.ts — persisted PID registry to reap orphaned relayfile-mount daemons across restarts/crashes, plus a synchronous killMountPid backstop after stop().
2. integration-event-bridge.ts — classifies "recipient gone" failures (agent_not_found/no worker named/not found) as permanent, suppresses retry/Relaycast-spam, and commits the dedupe key so the ghost isn't re-attempted. Also falls back to configured targets when the live roster is transiently empty.
3. integrations.ts — surfaces restart-cap-exceeded mount alerts as user-actionable cloud-auth-required recovery instead of dropping them silently.

I verified the full diff against the current checkout and ran the canonical CI gates locally.

CI verification (all green with my edit in place)

• typecheck:node ✅ (failed before my fix — see below) | typecheck:web ✅
• npm test (node:test, 80 tests incl. the new agent_not_found suppression test) ✅
• npx vitest run (32 files / 459 tests, incl. new relayfile-mount-pids.test.ts and integrations.test.ts cases) ✅
• npm run lint ✅ | verify:mcp-resources-drift ✅

Mechanical fix applied

• src/main/relayfile-mount-pids.test.ts:116 — killSpy.mockImplementation((_pid, signal) => …) triggered TS7006: implicitly 'any' under tsconfig.node.json (noImplicitAny), failing typecheck:node (a BLOCKING CI step). Unlike the sibling vi.spyOn(process,'kill').mockImplementation(...) calls, this one is invoked on the widened killSpy variable, so the callback params aren't inferred. Added explicit annotations (_pid: number, signal?: string | number) matching process.kill's signature. This is a pure type annotation — no assertion was changed, weakened, or removed; the test still verifies killMountPid returns false for a dead pid.

Safety-critical areas — reviewed, NOT modified

The PR touches process-cleanup/reaper and delivery-dispatch code, which I treat as off-limits for auto-edits. I reviewed them and found the logic sound for the stated fix:

• The orphan reaper only kills a PID that is both recorded by this app and still resolves to a relayfile-mount comm (PID-reuse guard), excluding livePids. Fail-safe.
• Permanent-failure suppression commits the dedupe key intentionally (vanished agent → don't retry-storm). This is a deliberate behavior change, correctly tested, and is the point of the PR — left as-is.

Advisory Notes

• isPermanentRecipientError (integration-event-bridge.ts:1650) is documented as mirroring broker.ts isMissingAgentError, but it omits the getErrorStatus(err) === 404 branch that isMissingAgentError (broker.ts:677) also matches on. For injected-confirmation rejections the message-based regex likely suffices, but if a broker "recipient gone" error ever surfaces only as a 404 status with a generic message, it would be treated as retryable and re-spam. Not changing it (broker.ts is outside this PR's scope and getErrorStatus is a broker-local helper); flagging for the author to confirm the message form is always present on these errors.

Addressed comments

• No bot or human review comments were present in the provided PR metadata (.workforce/context.json contains only base/head SHAs and paths; no review threads). Nothing to address.

The only required fix was the mechanical typecheck error, which is resolved and verified end-to-end. No human-judgment decision remains blocking, so I am not printing READY — the working tree change (a type annotation) and the advisory note are for the author/CI to carry forward.

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Review: PR #385 — feat(login): add Cloud login (ai-hist login)

Summary

The PR adds a Cloud-bridge login path to ai-hist. Instead of the client handling a RelayAuth token, it shells to an already-authenticated agent-relay CLI (agent-relay cloud relayhistory-session --json --mode <mode>), parses the returned rth_* session JSON, and stores it 0600. The legacy --token/--base-url path is preserved but is now opt-in. Scope: two Rust files only (cloud.rs, main.rs); self-contained.

Verification

• cargo test --workspace — all pass (ai-hist: 19, ai-hist-core: 26), including the three new tests.
• cargo build -q -p ai-hist-cli — clean, no warnings.
• Traced both callers of cloud::login / login_via_cloud: only main.rs and tests. No external/doc/config callers depend on the changed Login arg shape (Python/TS/e2e tests don't invoke login). The required→optional change for base_url/token is backward-compatible at the CLI surface.
• Ran the generated subprocess command against a throwaway fake agent-relay fixture and confirmed runtime behavior end to end:
  • default (no flags) → cloud path, --mode sync; session stored, only the URL printed (no token leak).
  • --cloud --mode read --workspace ws9 → correct args forwarded.
  • --mode bogus → rejected before spawning the subprocess.
  • --token without --base-url → clear error.
  • --cloud --token … → cloud path wins (matches use_cloud || token.is_none()).

Observations (no changes required)

• Security posture is sound and correctly defaults fail-closed. On non-zero exit, only stderr is surfaced and stdout (token-bearing) is deliberately suppressed; the dedicated test guards this. Mode is validated to read|sync before spawning. The doc comment explains why the relayhistory target is server-configured (SSRF/exfil avoidance). I did not alter any of this.
• Dispatch semantics: --cloud together with --token silently takes the cloud path. This is intentional per the comment ("Cloud is the default") but is a mild UX sharp edge — a user passing both might expect legacy. Not a defect; noting only.

Advisory Notes

• The module-level doc comment (cloud.rs:9) still says "Token bootstrap: /v1/cli/login … for real use" — now that Cloud is the default real-use path, this header could be updated for accuracy. This is a doc-only nicety outside the diff's lines; left unchanged to keep the PR scoped. (Not auto-edited because it's a judgment call on wording, not a mechanical typo.)

Addressed comments

• No bot or reviewer comments were present. context.json contains no comments/review threads, and .workforce/ holds only pr.diff, changed-files.txt, and context.json. Nothing to address.

Disposition

No mechanical fixes were warranted (no lint/format/typo/import issues found), and no semantic/safety-critical changes are appropriate for me to make. The working tree is unchanged (the only dirty file, memory/workspace/.relay/state.json, was already modified before this review and is unrelated to the PR). The PR builds clean, the full workspace test suite passes, callers are consistent, and the security-sensitive token-handling logic is correct and well-tested.

This PR still requires a human merge decision (and any judgment on the advisory doc note above), and I cannot confirm CI status or mergeability from here, so I am not declaring it complete.

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PR #385 Review — fix/mount-storm-and-event-recipient-spam

Summary

Two related reliability fixes:

1. Event bridge — agent_not_found/missing-recipient injected-confirmation failures are now treated as permanent and suppressed (aggregated warn), instead of being retried into a "retries exhausted" storm against a vanished agent. Empty live roster is treated as a transient broker-startup race (falls back to configured targets).
2. Mounts — a persisted PID registry (relayfile-mount-pids.ts) lets the app hard-kill detached mount daemons that stop() doesn't reap, and reap orphans from a prior crashed instance at boot. A restart-cap-exceeded mount alert is now surfaced as user-actionable auth recovery instead of dropping silently.

CI verification (ran the full canonical pipeline end-to-end)

• verify:mcp-resources-drift — in sync
• npm run lint — clean
• npm run typecheck:web + typecheck:node — found 1 failure, fixed (below); now clean
• npm test (node --test) — 123 pass (incl. new agent_not_found suppression test)
• npx vitest run — 459 pass / 32 files (incl. new relayfile-mount-pids.test.ts + integrations.test.ts restart-cap test)
• npm run build — succeeds

Fix applied (mechanical, non-semantic)

CI typecheck (tsc -p tsconfig.node.json) was failing — the only red check:

src/main/relayfile-mount-pids.test.ts(116,33): error TS7006: Parameter '_pid' implicitly has an 'any' type.
src/main/relayfile-mount-pids.test.ts(116,39): error TS7006: Parameter 'signal' implicitly has an 'any' type.

Root cause: at line 116 the callback is passed to killSpy.mockImplementation(...) where killSpy is typed as the widened ReturnType<typeof vi.spyOn> (declared at the top of the describe block), which doesn't carry process.kill's parameter signature — so the params infer as implicit any under noImplicitAny. The sibling inline vi.spyOn(process, 'kill').mockImplementation(...) calls don't error because they infer from the spy target directly.

Fixed in src/main/relayfile-mount-pids.test.ts:116 by annotating the params to match process.kill: (_pid: number, signal?: string | number). This is a type annotation only — it does not alter the test body, its inputs, or its assertions, so it neither weakens the test nor changes runtime behavior.

Notes on safety-critical code (review-only, not edited)

The mount reaper / hard-kill paths (relayfile-mount-pids.ts, stopHandle, boot-time reapOrphanedMountPids) are process-cleanup/lifecycle code. I reviewed but deliberately did not modify them. They look correct and well-guarded:

• isLiveRelayfileMount requires both liveness (kill(pid,0)) and a ps comm match on relayfile-mount before any SIGKILL — solid PID-reuse defense; never kills a user's manual mount.
• reapOrphanedMountPids correctly excludes livePids this instance manages and only re-writes those back to the registry.
• The event-bridge "treat permanent failures as resolved → return" is an intentional stop-retrying decision (the whole point of the fix), not a fail-open default flip.

Advisory Notes

• isPermanentRecipientError uses /agent_not_found|no worker named|not found/i. The /not found/i arm is broad and could match unrelated transient errors whose message happens to contain "not found", causing a real delivery to be silently suppressed rather than retried. This mirrors broker.ts isMissingAgentError (line 676) for consistency, and broker additionally gates on a 404 status — so the bridge is strictly looser. Out of scope to change here; flagging for a possible future tightening (e.g. anchor to the relaycast error shape) so the two stay in sync intentionally rather than by coincidence.

Addressed comments

• No human reviews or bot comments were present in the provided PR metadata (.workforce/context.json contains no review/comment threads, and no comments file was supplied). Nothing to reconcile.

The only blocking issue (CI typecheck) is resolved with a verified mechanical fix, and the full CI command set passes locally with the edit in place. The PR touches safety-critical lifecycle code that warrants a human's sign-off, and the broad not found matcher is an intentional behavior decision worth a maintainer's eye.

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Review: PR #385 — fix/mount-storm-and-event-recipient-spam

Summary

The PR addresses two production issues:

1. Recipient inject-spam — when the broker reports a recipient as nonexistent (agent_not_found / no worker named / not found), confirmInjectedDeliveryWithRetry now treats it as a permanent failure: it's dropped from the retry set, warned once (aggregated), and the dedupe key commits so duplicates don't re-attempt. Retryable failures still retry/throw as before.
2. Mount respawn-storm orphans — a new persisted PID registry (relayfile-mount-pids.ts) lets the next boot reap detached relayfile-mount daemons a prior instance orphaned, and stopHandle hard-kills a lingering pid stop() left detached. A restart-cap-exceeded mount alert is now surfaced to the user as actionable auth recovery.

Verification performed

I validated the diff against the current checkout (it matches; no stale review state to reconcile):

• isRecord (src/main/guards.ts:10) and toErrorMessage (src/main/errors.ts:12) exist — new file imports resolve.
• isPermanentRecipientError regex mirrors broker.ts:677 isMissingAgentError (string portion); the broker's extra 404 status check is N/A here since these are string errors. Consistent.
• MountHealthAlert union (integration-mounts.ts:79-99) includes restart-cap-exceeded with remotePath/attempts/reason; the observer in integrations.ts:936 consumes exactly those fields. reconcile-stalled still correctly falls through and is ignored.
• failureClass?: string (integrations.ts:120) accepts 'mount-recovery-exhausted'; 'cloud-auth-required' is a valid reason. setAuthRecoveryState(reason, failureClass, message) arg order matches the call.
• New test in integrations.test.ts:719 uses the same new IntegrationsManager() + setHealthObserver.mock.calls.at(-1) pattern as the existing sibling test; mockClear() in beforeEach doesn't interfere because the constructor re-registers in the test body.
• spec.localDir exists and feeds recordMountPid(pid, spec.localDir) (integration-mounts.ts:733).

The retry-set narrowing (failed → retryable) is applied consistently across all five loops and both throw sites — no path still references the old failed array after the split.

Could NOT run CI commands

This sandbox cannot materialize npm package contents: npm ci creates the directory tree but extracts no files (node_modules is ~136K, @relayfile/sdk and typescript/lib are empty). So typecheck:node, npm test, and npx vitest run cannot execute here. I made no code edits, so nothing unverified was left in the working tree (no git restore needed). My findings are from manual cross-reference against the current checkout.

Findings

No auto-fixable mechanical issues found (the diff is clean: no lint/format/typo/import-order problems).

No blocking logic defects found. Two observations, left as comments (not edited) because they touch process-cleanup / safety semantics, which I do not modify:

• integration-event-bridge.ts:1653 — broad not found substring. isPermanentRecipientError matches any error containing not found (case-insensitive). A transient infra error whose message happens to contain "not found" (e.g. a 404 from an unrelated dependency, "endpoint not found", "route not found") would be misclassified as permanent and silently suppressed instead of retried, dropping a real delivery. This mirrors the existing broker.ts:677 behavior, so it's not a regression introduced here, and the broker pairs it with a 404 status check that this copy omits. Worth a human decision on whether to tighten to the broker's combined check; I'm not changing it because turning a suppress (fail-quiet) path stricter is a semantic/safety call.

• relayfile-mount-pids.ts reaper / killMountPid — process-cleanup & reaper code. Logic reviewed and looks sound (kills only recorded PIDs that still resolve to a live relayfile-mount via ps comm, excludes livePids, atomic temp-file write). I am explicitly not editing this area per safety policy; flagging only that it is the safety-critical surface of this PR and merits human eyes on the kill path.

Advisory Notes

• The ps -p <pid> -o comm= guard (relayfile-mount-pids.ts:75) truncates the command name on some platforms; relayfile-mount could appear truncated. Current regex is a substring match so it tolerates a trailing truncation, but a name longer than the comm field that truncates before the full token would not match (causing a missed reap, the safe direction). No change recommended within this PR's scope.

Addressed comments

• No bot or human review comments were present in .workforce/context.json or the provided PR metadata, so there are no external threads to account for. The PR has no existing review/approval recorded.

The PR could not have its CI checks verified in this sandbox (dependency install is non-functional here), so I cannot confirm checks are green or that the PR is mergeable. I am therefore not declaring it ready.

[agent-relay-code]

ℹ️ pr-reviewer: review only — no file changes were applied to the PR (nothing to commit after review). The notes below are advisory and were not pushed.

Review: PR #385 — fix mount respawn-storm orphans + recipient inject-spam

Summary

This PR addresses two distinct production issues:

1. Mount respawn-storm orphans — adds a persisted PID registry (relayfile-mount-pids.ts) so detached relayfile-mount daemons left orphaned by a hard kill/crash/hot-reload get reaped on next boot, plus a synchronous backstop kill in stopHandle, plus surfacing a restart-cap-exceeded mount as user-actionable auth recovery.
2. Recipient inject-spam — in integration-event-bridge.ts, treats agent_not_found/"no worker named"/"not found" delivery failures as permanent (suppress + commit dedupe key) instead of retry-storming a vanished agent, and treats an empty live roster as a transient broker-startup race (fall back to configured targets).

Verification (ran the full CI gate locally with the diff applied)

• npm run lint (changed files) — pass
• npm run typecheck:node — pass
• npm run typecheck:web — pass
• npm test (node:test runner, includes new agent_not_found test) — 123 pass / 0 fail
• npx vitest run (full suite, includes new relayfile-mount-pids.test.ts + integrations.test.ts cases) — 459 pass / 0 fail

No mechanical fixes were needed — lint/format/imports/types are all clean. I made no file edits: the substantive changes here live in process-cleanup/reaper and delivery-retry safety paths, which require human judgment and are out of scope for auto-editing. Findings below are advisory.

Correctness notes (validated against current checkout, all benign)

• isPermanentRecipientError in integration-event-bridge.ts:1650 calls toErrorMessage, which in this file is an alias for describeError (import { describeError as toErrorMessage } at line 3). For Error instances this still returns the .message, so the agent_not_found regex matches correctly. The "Mirrors broker.ts isMissingAgentError" comment is accurate in effect (broker uses the real toErrorMessage, but both surface the message). Not a bug.
• The empty-roster fallback at integration-event-bridge.ts:3416 correctly fails safe: it widens delivery to configured targets only when the live roster is empty AND configured targets exist, and a truly-vanished agent then hits the new permanent-suppression path rather than retry-storming. Self-consistent and tested.
• Registry read-modify-write in recordMountPid/forgetMountPid/reapOrphanedMountPids is only ever invoked from the sequential (for...of await) mount loop and stopHandle, so there is no in-process concurrent-write lost-update; cross-process safety is handled by the tmp-write + atomic rename. No issue.
• restart-cap-exceeded alert type, setAuthRecoveryState(reason, failureClass, message), and the failureClass: 'mount-recovery-exhausted' value all typecheck against existing definitions in integration-mounts.ts:79 and integrations.ts:120.

Addressed comments

• No bot or human review comments were present in the provided PR metadata (.workforce/ contains only pr.diff, changed-files.txt, context.json; no comment/review files). Nothing to reconcile.

Advisory Notes

These are observations for the human author; none were changed (safety-critical reaper/delivery code, out of auto-edit scope):

• isLiveRelayfileMount (relayfile-mount-pids.ts:66) shells out to ps -p <pid> -o comm= per probe via execFileSync. On macOS/BSD comm truncates to ~15 chars; relayfile-mount is 15 chars so it matches, but if the binary is ever renamed longer this regex could silently stop matching and orphans would survive. Consider a fixture-backed test against real ps output, or -o command= if the full path is needed. (Advisory — current tests mock execFileSync, so they don't exercise real truncation behavior.)
• killMountPid/reapOrphanedMountPids use SIGKILL directly with no SIGTERM grace. Given these target wedged/orphaned daemons that ignored stop(), that's defensible, but worth a human confirming SIGKILL is acceptable for the mount daemon's own crash-consistency (state.json writes).
• The permanent-failure path commits the dedupe key for that event (return after suppression). If an agent transiently reports not found during its own startup race and the roster wasn't empty, that single event would be dropped for it. The empty-roster fallback covers the common race, but a non-empty-but-stale roster reporting not found is the remaining edge. Human judgment call on whether that's acceptable vs. the spam it prevents.

The PR is internally consistent, fully green on the canonical CI build/test/typecheck/lint commands, and the test additions genuinely guard the new behavior. The remaining decisions (SIGKILL policy, dedupe-on-permanent-failure semantics, comm truncation robustness) are design judgment calls for the author/maintainer, not blockers I can mechanically resolve.