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| // Only the desktop process holds the write end, so EOF means it is gone. | ||
| // A crash or SIGKILL skips its backend shutdown and would leave this | ||
| // server orphaned on the port the next launch expects. | ||
| Effect.andThen(options.onDesktopGone ?? terminateOrphanedBackend), |
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🟠 High resourceTelemetry/DesktopTelemetryReceiver.ts:567
A malformed trailing NDJSON fragment makes Stream.runForEach fail before the Effect.andThen at line 567, so onDesktopGone is skipped and the backend remains running after the desktop dies. Use Effect.ensuring so the callback runs on both successful EOF and stream failure.
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In file @apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/DesktopTelemetryReceiver.ts around line 567:
A malformed trailing NDJSON fragment makes `Stream.runForEach` fail before the `Effect.andThen` at line 567, so `onDesktopGone` is skipped and the backend remains running after the desktop dies. Use `Effect.ensuring` so the callback runs on both successful EOF and stream failure.
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Confirmed and fixed in 71d4c11dc. Both new regression tests fail on the previous commit and pass now.
The reader no longer closes fd 4 when it stops (closeOnDone: false). After the message reader finishes or fails, the receiver drains any unread bytes and waits for the descriptor's real end before calling the shutdown hook. This covers a desktop that dies mid-message and a malformed line followed by desktop death.
I did not use Effect.ensuring, because it would also run the hook in two cases where the desktop is still alive:
- on interruption during a normal shutdown;
- on a mid-stream decode error while the desktop keeps running, which would kill a healthy backend.
The added test "waits for the desktop to die after a malformed message" asserts that the hook has not fired while the desktop is still alive.
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This is superseded by 40a98c2. Following the triage on #13747, the PR no longer changes DesktopTelemetryReceiver or depends on fd 4. The desktop now passes a dedicated lifetime pipe on fd 6, and apps/server/src/desktopLifetime.ts shuts the backend down through the SIGTERM handler when that pipe reaches EOF. Telemetry decoding no longer affects shutdown, and the path is graceful on Windows.
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds an always-on cross-process lifetime watcher that propagates fd 6 through desktop startup and terminates the backend when the desktop exits, creating a new production shutdown path. It also adds explicit static-analysis diagnostic suppressions, while the supplied unresolved High-severity finding remains above the repository threshold even though it targets a superseded telemetry path. Not approved because:
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe desktop now passes a lifetime pipe descriptor to the backend. The server watches the descriptor and runs its desktop-exit effect when it reaches EOF. Configuration and tests cover descriptor propagation and watcher behavior. ChangesDesktop lifetime handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DesktopProcess
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DesktopProcess->>BackendProcess: Pass lifetime pipe descriptor
DesktopProcess->>DesktopLifetimeWatch: Exit causes pipe EOF
DesktopLifetimeWatch->>onDesktopExit: Run desktop-exit effect
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The shutdown behavior appears mergeable, but the regression test could pass while the backend remains running. Extend it to verify backend exit. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new lifetime pipe appears limited to desktop-launched backends, with no identified remote way to trigger shutdown. The remaining risk is whether shutdown and cleanup work as intended when the pipe fails or the desktop exits unexpectedly. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/DesktopTelemetryReceiver.test.ts (1)
116-163: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCover the default EOF action separately.
This test always supplies
onDesktopGone, so it never executesterminateOrphanedBackendor assertsprocess.kill(process.pid, "SIGTERM"). A regression in the default branch can therefore pass while the callback test remains green. Add a companion FIFO test that omitsonDesktopGoneand stubsprocess.killto assert the SIGTERM call.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/DesktopTelemetryReceiver.ts`:
- Line 567: Update the stream pipeline around Ndjson.decode and Effect.andThen
so descriptor EOF triggers options.onDesktopGone ?? terminateOrphanedBackend
even when decoding the final partial line fails; run shutdown from cleanup that
covers stream failures while preserving degraded-health recording.
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In `@apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/DesktopTelemetryReceiver.test.ts`:
- Around line 116-163: Add a companion FIFO test alongside the test around make
that omits the onDesktopGone callback, allowing the default
terminateOrphanedBackend path to run when the desktop exits. Stub process.kill
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In `@apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/DesktopTelemetryReceiver.ts`:
- Line 590: Update DesktopTelemetryReceiver.make so native Windows uses the
existing graceful shutdown path through onDesktopGone when the desktop telemetry
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apps/server/src/resourceTelemetry/DesktopTelemetryReceiver.test.ts (1)
151-156: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a no-override EOF test for the default shutdown.
The FIFO tests pass
onDesktopGone, so they only verify the injected callback. They do not verifyterminateOrphanedBackend. TheResourceTelemetry.test.tsandserver.test.tspaths useDesktopTelemetryReceiver.layerTest, which does not create a live descriptor. A no-op default shutdown could therefore leave these tests green.Add a focused live-descriptor test that reaches EOF without
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- Around line 151-156: Add a focused test in DesktopTelemetryReceiver.test.ts
that creates a live descriptor, reaches EOF without supplying onDesktopGone, and
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When the desktop main process died without running its shutdown (SIGKILL, SIGTRAP, native crash), the backend it spawned was reparented and kept listening on its port. The next launch then found the port taken and moved to the next one, breaking paired remotes and saved MCP URLs. The desktop now passes the primary backend a lifetime pipe on fd 6, which it never writes to or closes, so the OS closes it only when the desktop process exits. The backend watches it and, on EOF, runs its SIGTERM shutdown handler, the same shutdown a normal quit triggers. Emitting the event instead of signalling keeps that graceful on Windows too. Headless, CLI, and WSL servers never receive the descriptor and are unaffected. Fixes pingdotgg#13747 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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apps/server/src/desktopLifetime.test.ts (1)
75-89: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRun the fixture through the server shutdown path and wait for backend exit.
The fixture currently passes a log-only callback to
watch. The test can therefore pass while the backend remains alive. The production path usesDesktopLifetime.layerandNodeRuntime.runMain, so launch that layer withdesktopLifetimeFd: 6and assert an exit marker emitted by the backend process.Suggested fix
const BACKEND_SCRIPT = ` import * as Effect from "effect/Effect"; -import * as Fiber from "effect/Fiber"; -const { watch } = await import(process.env.T3_TEST_DESKTOP_LIFETIME_MODULE); -const onDesktopExit = Effect.sync(() => console.log("desktop exited")); -await Effect.runPromise(Effect.scoped(Effect.flatMap(watch(6, onDesktopExit), Fiber.join))); +import * as Layer from "effect/Layer"; +import * as NodeRuntime from "`@effect/platform-node/NodeRuntime`"; +const lifetimeModuleUrl = process.env.T3_TEST_DESKTOP_LIFETIME_MODULE; +const { layer } = await import(lifetimeModuleUrl); +const { ServerConfig } = await import(new URL("./config.ts", lifetimeModuleUrl)); +process.once("exit", () => console.log("backend exited")); +NodeRuntime.runMain( + Layer.launch(layer).pipe( + Effect.provideService(ServerConfig, { desktopLifetimeFd: 6 }), + ), +); `; ... desktop.kill("SIGKILL"); - expect(yield* takeLineMatching(lines, (line) => line === "desktop exited")).toBe( - "desktop exited", + expect(yield* takeLineMatching(lines, (line) => line === "backend exited")).toBe( + "backend exited", );🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/server/src/desktopLifetime.test.ts`:
- Around line 75-89: Update the backend fixture in the test to run the
production shutdown path through DesktopLifetime.layer and NodeRuntime.runMain,
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What Changed
The desktop now passes its primary backend a dedicated lifetime pipe on fd 6 and never writes to it or closes it. The OS closes that pipe only when the desktop process exits. The backend watches the pipe, and on EOF it runs its
SIGTERMshutdown handler, the same shutdown a normal desktop quit triggers.packages/contracts: optionaldesktopLifetimeFdin the desktop bootstrap.apps/desktop: the primary backend config setsdesktopLifetimeFd: 6, andrunBackendProcessopens it as an input pipe with no stream.apps/server: the value is passed throughServerConfig, and the newdesktopLifetime.tslayer (modeled onHeapSnapshot.layer) watches the pipe.Fixes #13747
Why
As the triage on #13747 describes, a native crash (
SIGTRAP,SIGKILL) never reaches the desktop's shutdown path, and nothing in the backend notices that its parent is gone. The orphan keeps 3773, and the relaunch walks to the next free port.This follows the direction in that triage: an equivalent lifetime fd that is not fd 4. Telemetry and lifetime stay decoupled, so the telemetry pipe can close or change without ever stopping the backend.
process.emit("SIGTERM"), which runsNodeRuntime.runMain's handler, so scoped finalizers run. On Windows, a realSIGTERMwould end the process without running any handler. A real signal is used only if no handler is registered.stopAllPoolInstances()still sendsSIGTERMwith the 5 s grace. If both paths fire, the second one only interrupts a shutdown that is already in progress.net.Socket, notfs.createReadStream, so it never holds a libuv threadpool thread.t3 serve), WSL backends, and older desktops never setdesktopLifetimeFd, so nothing changes for them. A descriptor that cannot be watched is logged and ignored.UI Changes
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desktopLifetime.test.ts:DesktopBackendManagerdoes. The desktop is then SIGKILLed, and the backend must report the exit. No FIFO is involved, so this also runs on Windows CI.apps/server/src/bin.ts --bootstrap-fd 3with fds 3–6, spawned like the desktop, then the desktop is SIGKILLed):main, the backend was still alive 60 seconds later. With this PR, it exited about 1 second later with exit code 130 (graceful path), and the port was free.main, the backend was still alive 10 seconds later withppid=1and still listening. With this PR, it exited within 1 second with exit code 130, and the port was free.apps/server,apps/desktop, andpackages/contractstypecheck passed. Lint, formatting,knip:check, andgit diff --checkpassed. 66 server tests (lifetime, CLI config, resource telemetry) and 46 desktop backend tests passed.SIGTRAP. The fix depends only on the OS closing the pipe when the process dies, so any cause of death behaves the same.Checklist
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