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feat(cloud): replace Convex with a Cloudflare Worker, D1 and Durable Objects - #147
Convex's free tier ran out of database I/O within ten days of the month. The cost came from polling: a 30-second machine heartbeat that rescanned queued jobs, five-minute cloud-scheduled job scans, and runner status polls. It grew with every connected Mac, and staying on Convex would have meant paying for traffic that mostly said "nothing changed".
This replaces the Convex backend with an event-driven Cloudflare Worker (apps/cloud):
Storage. D1 holds every durable row. Unique constraints and guarded updates replace check-then-insert, and a compare-and-swap batch keeps a queued job reserved by exactly one machine.
Presence. Each machine keeps one hibernating WebSocket to its own MachineHub Durable Object. Keep-alive pings are answered by the runtime without waking it, so an idle machine costs no requests or database writes.
Sync. The cloud signals changes over the socket. The host syncs once on connect, on each signal, and every 15 minutes as a safety net. Remote operations replay locally under the same idempotency keys.
Runner demand. Demand runs only on events: a webhook, a status change, or an operation finishing. A two-minute cron retries delays, expiries, scale-set cleanup and webhook redelivery. Missed-job scans moved to the host: on connect, then hourly.
Auth. Machines authenticate with an opaque bearer. The browser's /connect page calls the Worker directly with the Clerk session token. The site Worker keeps proxying GitHub callbacks, now through a service binding.
The Command and ControllerRequest contracts are unchanged. Machine and human routes are typed in packages/protocol/src/cloud.ts. Clients use one VECTIS_CLOUD_URL in place of the Convex URLs, so existing machines must pair again.
Running against a deployed Worker also surfaced two bugs that stubbed tests could not catch. Workers send no User-Agent, so GitHub answered every API call with 403. Workers also reject redirect: "error".
Verification:
pnpm check passes.
Local end to end with wrangler dev and a temporary home: pairing, remote query and command, signed webhooks, and reconnect after a restart. An idle machine made zero cloud requests over 75 seconds.
Deployed development Worker, measured with wrangler tail: hot paths use 2-9 ms CPU, job scans 13-36 ms, and migration previews 64-96 ms. The Worker therefore runs on Workers Paid.
Production Worker deployed: real GitHub webhook redeliveries and a Clerk test event were accepted.
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New Features
Cloud services support machine pairing, remote control, GitHub repository management, workflow jobs, and runner operations.
Account tools let you manage machines, controllers, GitHub accounts, and repository connections.
Machine status updates in real time, with automatic runner capacity management.
Updates
Runner demand checks respond to queued-job events and retry every two minutes; missed-job scans run on connection and hourly.
Cloud connections use VECTIS_CLOUD_URL; packaged apps require secure cloud URLs.
Documentation
Updated setup, self-hosting, configuration, and runner guides.
Bug Fixes
Improved cloud connection error handling and GitHub redirect handling.
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This PR replaces Convex with a Cloudflare Worker backed by D1 and Durable Objects. It adds cloud protocol contracts and Worker routes, migrates machine and web clients, updates deployment configuration, and removes Convex code and dependencies.
Changes: Cloud Worker backend migration
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Cloud protocol, storage, and routing packages/protocol/src/*, apps/cloud/migrations/*, apps/cloud/src/{env,db,context,errors,http,ids,index,auth/*,hub,notify,cron,retention}.ts, apps/cloud/{package.json,tsconfig.json,vitest.config.ts,wrangler.jsonc}
Defines cloud request and response schemas, D1 tables, Worker routing and authentication, and the per-machine Durable Object hub.
Account and machine operations apps/cloud/src/{account,machines,pairings,controllers,inspections,operations,sync}.ts, apps/cloud/test/{account,controllers,inspections,operations,pairings,sync}.test.ts
Adds account management, pairing and controller endpoints, machine inspections and operations, sync snapshots, and tests for these handlers.
Removes the Convex backend and its dependencies and generated API package entry.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 317d8
The inspected authorization paths remain owner-scoped, but runner cleanup can overtake an in-flight creation and leave remote resources behind after removal. This backend replacement also requires coordinated schema, service, and client deployment.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: Cleanup is immediately eligible even while scale-set creation is outstanding. During removal, cron can find no remote set and delete the durable cleanup row; the pending GitHub creation can then complete. Its checkpoint rejects the superseded generation, but the failure path neither deletes that set nor restores cleanup intent. This can leave App-created runner infrastructure after its local owner has been removed, weakening teardown containment. The base explicitly delayed cleanup for busy rows until outstanding effects could settle.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — Compromise of the cloud Worker or its D1 authority could expose tenant records and the deployment-wide GitHub App credentials. The identified cleanup race is narrower: it concerns remote scale sets in a previously authorized repository. No cross-tenant escalation or continued runner execution was established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — An authenticated machine opening an enabled scale-set binding can overlap owner-initiated removal. If cleanup discovers the repository before the pending create becomes visible, it can erase the only durable cleanup obligation. Subsequent checkpoint rejection prevents normal grant publication but does not remove the late-created set. The interleaving requires existing machine and repository authority; it is not an unauthenticated creation path.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Human routes derive ownership from verified Clerk identity. Machine credentials resolve to persisted owner-bound records, and controller credentials must resolve to non-revoked, unexpired records before owner-scoped dispatch. Inspected GitHub consumers additionally bind repository and installation identity to the authorized binding.
observed — The exported retention function is reached through the scheduled handler and daily cron mapping, not the HTTP route maps. Its SQL identifiers and predicates are fixed in source. The supplied public-entrypoint classification therefore does not establish attacker-controlled retention invocation or SQL.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Generation checks and authority revalidation reject superseded scale-set checkpoints, and the open path attempts to delete a newly created session when publication fails. The overlap test exercises this fencing. These controls constrain stale grants, but they do not retain cleanup responsibility when a sweeper has already discarded the row before remote creation finishes.
observed — Stopping cleanup after eight failures and entering action_required predates this PR. Both implementations have that terminal behavior, so its presence alone is not classified as a newly introduced architecture concern.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Retain a generation-fenced cleanup obligation until outstanding external effects have settled, and reconcile late creations before discarding that obligation. Preserve the base's settling protection or provide an equivalent durable lifecycle mechanism.
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- Around line 75-82: Update the refresh callback to retain the latest overview
request error instead of swallowing failures, while keeping the generation check
so stale requests cannot update state; clear the error when the current request
succeeds. Expose the error through the Cloud context value, and update Dashboard
to show a failure notice with a retry action when overview is undefined.
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- Around line 389-392: Update the environment-acknowledgement handling in
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- Around line 216-228: Update cloud marker selection in sync so it matches the
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- Around line 15-20: Update the active-operation retrieval in the sync flow so
the relay can reconcile every active operation for a machine, not just a capped
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Major · Provision GitHub App state before cutover. · release.yml:48-56
.github/workflows/release.yml:48-56 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Provision GitHub App state before cutover.
If production D1 has no app credentials, this release does not transfer them from Convex. GitHub account linking fails, and deliveries sent to the new Worker return 503. Add a cutover step that provisions and checks the app state before routing users and deliveries to the Worker.
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/release.yml around lines 48 - 56:
Update the production release workflow between the D1 migration and Wrangler
deployment to provision the GitHub App state in production D1 and verify it is
present before the Worker receives users or deliveries. Use the established
provisioning source and mechanism; do not assume migrations transfer credentials
from Convex or invent a credential source.
Major · Migrate existing repository bindings during cutover. · 0001_init.sql:121-143
apps/cloud/migrations/0001_init.sql:121-143 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Migrate existing repository bindings during cutover.
When an installation upgrades to an empty D1 database, re-pairing does not restore its Convex bindings or their settings. Automatic demand runners stop until users reconnect the repositories and restore their settings. Migrate the bindings and their automatic, capacity, access, and cache settings as part of the cutover.
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Review comment at @apps/cloud/migrations/0001_init.sql around lines 121 - 143:
Update the installation cutover migration that populates repositoryBindings so
it imports existing Convex bindings and preserves their automatic, capacityMode,
accessJson, and cacheVolumeJson settings, along with the required binding
fields. Establish the source-to-column mapping for these settings and ensure
bindings are migrated before the cutover relies on the D1 database, rather than
requiring users to reconnect repositories.
Major · Continue retention sweeps when a batch is full. · retention.ts:1-25
apps/cloud/src/retention.ts:1-25 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Continue retention sweeps when a batch is full.
If more than 500 job rows expire each day, the daily sweep cannot keep up. Expired rows accumulate and remain beyond the documented 90-day window. Continue processing full batches across bounded invocations until the backlog is cleared.
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Review comment at @apps/cloud/src/retention.ts around lines 1 - 25:
Update sweepRetention to process expired rows in repeated batches rather than
deleting only 500 rows per table per invocation. Keep each batch bounded and
preserve the existing retention windows and filters; continue across invocations
while eligible rows remain until the backlog is cleared, using the established
mechanism for scheduling further sweeps.
If /machine/sync repeats an operation and omits another, the count assertion passes. The relay stores operations by ID, so it collapses the duplicate and cannot advance the omitted operation from that snapshot.
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Review comment at @apps/cloud/test/sync.test.ts at line 82:
Update the snapshot assertion in the sync test to verify the returned operation
IDs, not just the count; compare the sorted IDs against the expected set from
op0 through op99 so duplicates or omissions fail the test.
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Around line 48-56: Update the production release workflow between the D1
migration and Wrangler deployment to provision the GitHub App state in
production D1 and verify it is present before the Worker receives users or
deliveries. Use the established provisioning source and mechanism; do not assume
migrations transfer credentials from Convex or invent a credential source.
Review comments at @apps/cloud/migrations/0001_init.sql:
- Around line 121-143: Update the installation cutover migration that populates
repositoryBindings so it imports existing Convex bindings and preserves their
automatic, capacityMode, accessJson, and cacheVolumeJson settings, along with
the required binding fields. Establish the source-to-column mapping for these
settings and ensure bindings are migrated before the cutover relies on the D1
database, rather than requiring users to reconnect repositories.
Review comments at @apps/cloud/src/retention.ts:
- Around line 1-25: Update sweepRetention to process expired rows in repeated
batches rather than deleting only 500 rows per table per invocation. Keep each
batch bounded and preserve the existing retention windows and filters; continue
across invocations while eligible rows remain until the backlog is cleared,
using the established mechanism for scheduling further sweeps.
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Review comments at @apps/cloud/test/sync.test.ts:
- Line 82: Update the snapshot assertion in the sync test to verify the returned
operation IDs, not just the count; compare the sorted IDs against the expected
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On the three outside-diff comments in review 5847401121:
Retention sweeps: fixed in 317d8e2. Tables whose batch was full are swept again within the same run, up to 20 rounds (10,000 rows per table per day). A test clears a backlog of 1,201 rows in one run.
GitHub App state before cutover: not changed. This is a one-time cutover, not a recurring release step. The production D1 row was copied from Convex and checked before the webhook moved. A signed GitHub redelivery to the new Worker returned 202. Later releases keep the row.
Migrating repository bindings: not changed on purpose. This is a deliberate hard cutover. Machines pair again and reconnect their repositories against the new cloud, so there are no Convex bindings to carry over.
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Major · Make terminal scale-set cleanup recoverable. · scale-sets-github.ts:283-295
apps/cloud/src/runners/scale-sets-github.ts:283-295 Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Make terminal scale-set cleanup recoverable.
If deletion fails eight times after machine or account removal, sweepScaleSets stops retrying. The deleted binding cannot reach the existing cleanup marker through an application route. The GitHub scale set can remain until an operator intervenes directly in D1. Provide a reachable retry path for these rows.
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Make terminal cleanup rows recoverable by adding a reachable application retry
path for scale sets marked action_required by sweepScaleSets. Have the path
requeue eligible rows for cleanup while preserving the existing generation and
phase safeguards, so operators do not need to modify D1 directly.
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- Around line 283-295: Make terminal cleanup rows recoverable by adding a
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sweepScaleSets. Have the path requeue eligible rows for cleanup while preserving
the existing generation and phase safeguards, so operators do not need to modify
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On the outside-diff comment about terminal scale-set cleanup (review 5847602566): not changed in this PR. The port keeps the previous Convex behavior exactly. githubScaleSets.cleanup retried up to attempt 7 with the same backoff, then cleanupFailed set action_required. This PR moves the backend and does not change that policy. A user-reachable retry for orphaned scale sets is a separate improvement.
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Convex's free tier ran out of database I/O within ten days of the month. The cost came from polling: a 30-second machine heartbeat that rescanned queued jobs, five-minute cloud-scheduled job scans, and runner status polls. It grew with every connected Mac, and staying on Convex would have meant paying for traffic that mostly said "nothing changed".
This replaces the Convex backend with an event-driven Cloudflare Worker (
apps/cloud):MachineHubDurable Object. Keep-alive pings are answered by the runtime without waking it, so an idle machine costs no requests or database writes./connectpage calls the Worker directly with the Clerk session token. The site Worker keeps proxying GitHub callbacks, now through a service binding.The
CommandandControllerRequestcontracts are unchanged. Machine and human routes are typed inpackages/protocol/src/cloud.ts. Clients use oneVECTIS_CLOUD_URLin place of the Convex URLs, so existing machines must pair again.Running against a deployed Worker also surfaced two bugs that stubbed tests could not catch. Workers send no
User-Agent, so GitHub answered every API call with 403. Workers also rejectredirect: "error".Verification:
pnpm checkpasses.wrangler devand a temporary home: pairing, remote query and command, signed webhooks, and reconnect after a restart. An idle machine made zero cloud requests over 75 seconds.wrangler tail: hot paths use 2-9 ms CPU, job scans 13-36 ms, and migration previews 64-96 ms. The Worker therefore runs on Workers Paid.Summary by CodeRabbit
VECTIS_CLOUD_URL; packaged apps require secure cloud URLs.