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2026-10-23 verification at e73e7aae47. Main was integrated while retaining stale-while-revalidate discovery and concurrent connection discovery. Focused launcher/WebSocket tests and scoped lint/format pass. The older telemetry CI/PID investigation below belongs to its linked revision; it is not a current-head failure report. The connection-flow direction still needs human approval.

Earlier validation counts, review verdicts, CI status and captures below refer to their original revisions; older “current head” wording refers to those revisions. These focused local checks do not certify the whole suite.

Model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5. Rebased onto current main with Claude Opus 5.5 on 2026-10-12.

Earlier verification and review status

Checked at ed5831a. No source changes or new commits were made during this follow-up.

• Test Server 1 fails three assertions in ResourceTelemetry.test.ts (history length 101 instead of 102, backend process starts 2 instead of 3, and backend process count 1 instead of 2). Aggregate Check is also red. Lint and Build/Typecheck pass. These failures remain unresolved in CI.
• Fresh focused execution on an exact-head source archive using existing dependencies: vp test run src/environment/staleWhileRevalidate.test.ts src/process/externalLauncher.test.ts src/environment/RemoteOpenTargets.test.ts src/environment/DirectEndpoints.test.ts src/ws.test.ts src/resourceTelemetry/ResourceTelemetry.test.ts from apps/server: 96 passed, 2 skipped across six suites. The telemetry suite separately passes 8/8 on comparison base 07cb902. The telemetry directory is byte-identical between base and head; no PR changes reach the failing test's telemetry imports.
• A diagnostic preload that sets the test process PID to 4242 reproduces all three CI failures exactly, with the other five telemetry tests passing. The fixture also uses 4242 for its fake child, so the samples collide and the PID-keyed map merges them. This demonstrates an existing fixture failure mode; the CI log does not expose the worker PID, so it does not prove which PID ran there. No telemetry code or test expectations were changed in this connection-discovery PR. No CI rerun was attempted: upstream workflow rerun access was previously denied for this account.
• CodeRabbit's update reports a review limit; it supplies no fresh review coverage. Its retained out-of-scope examples (desktop version handling, mobile configuration and AssetAccess) are absent from the current seven-file contribution. The older inline suggestions were already answered; no new inline finding was posted. Macroscope requires human approval for the default connection flow, cache freshness, background work and concurrent discovery.

The PR remains open and unmerged. The historical tests and review attribution below retain their original revisions and do not clear the current CI failure.

Problem

Every client connect builds the server config snapshot (loadServerConfig in apps/server/src/ws.ts). Building it runs editor discovery, then file-manager reveal discovery, then remote open target discovery (sshd and tailscale probes), then direct endpoint discovery, one after another, each with a 5 second timeout. On a loaded host the snapshot can wait up to 20 seconds on discovery alone, the client's whole connect budget. Editor discovery is cached for 60 seconds, but once that window ends the next connect waits on a fresh scan. File-manager and remote target discovery run on every connect. Fixes #14517.

Change

• New makeStaleWhileRevalidate (apps/server/src/environment/staleWhileRevalidate.ts):
  • Until a value exists, callers wait on one shared scan. The scan runs on its own fiber in the service scope, so a caller's timeout or disconnect cannot cancel it. This keeps the behaviour #13917 added for editors and extends it to the other discoveries.
  • After the first success, callers get the last good value immediately. Once it is older than the TTL, one background refresh replaces it.
  • Only successes are stored. A failed first scan lets the next caller start over.
  • Refreshes are capped at 30 seconds, so a hung probe cannot pin a stale value forever. Closing the scope interrupts any scan.
• Editor discovery, file-manager reveal discovery and remote open targets use it with a 60 second TTL. That is the existing editor TTL, so discovery runs no more often than today. It replaces the editor-only cache in ExternalLauncher.
• loadServerConfig runs the editors-then-file-manager chain, remote target discovery and direct endpoint discovery concurrently. Direct endpoints are not cached.

Result: a cold first connect waits at most 10 seconds on discovery instead of 20. After the first success, connects do not wait on editor, file-manager or SSH target discovery at all. A newly installed editor shows up within one TTL, as before.

Scope and approval

Fixes triaged bug #14517. Server-only: no contract or client changes. The snapshot shape is unchanged.

Historical verification

• staleWhileRevalidate.test.ts (6 tests):
  • it computes once, then answers from memory until the TTL lapses;
  • it serves the stale value while one background refresh replaces it;
  • one first scan is shared, and an interrupted caller does not cancel it;
  • a failed first scan is not cached;
  • a hung refresh is abandoned, so a later call can start another;
  • closing the owning scope interrupts a background refresh.
• ws.test.ts "runs editor, remote open target and direct endpoint discovery side by side". Each discovery finishes only after the other two have started, so sequential discovery never resolves: forcing concurrency: 1 makes it time out.
• externalLauncher.test.ts:
  • The editor cache test now checks that a call after expiry still returns the cached editors immediately, while a background rescan runs.
  • #13917's "keeps scanning after the caller is interrupted and shares that scan" passes unchanged. It fails if the previous inline helper is restored.
  • #13917's late-editor tests in ws.test.ts pass unchanged.
• vp test run apps/server/src/environment/staleWhileRevalidate.test.ts apps/server/src/process/externalLauncher.test.ts apps/server/src/environment/RemoteOpenTargets.test.ts apps/server/src/environment/DirectEndpoints.test.ts apps/server/src/ws.test.ts on 37de6cbde6: 69 passed, 1 skipped. apps/server typecheck clean; lint and format clean on the changed files.
• Not measured against a live loaded host. The 20 s and 10 s figures are sums of the existing 5 s timeouts.

Implemented and tested by Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running inside T3 Code. Reviewed by GPT-6 Astra; the rebased change was reviewed independently by GPT-6.1 Sol.

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Verdict: Approved at 70cafeb

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Connection configuration now discovers capabilities concurrently and serves cached editor and SSH-target metadata during background refreshes. The effects are limited to latency and metadata freshness, without changing launch execution or access permissions.

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Bound the initial editor discovery scan and clear it after timeout.

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- Around line 47-52: Update firstScan to bound the initial discover operation;
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Walkthrough

The server adds stale-while-revalidate caches for editor, file-manager reveal-kind, and remote-open-target discovery. Server config loading now runs editor, remote-target, and direct-endpoint discovery concurrently, with a five-second timeout for each probe.

Changes: Server discovery and config

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stale-while-revalidate cache apps/server/src/environment/staleWhileRevalidate.ts, apps/server/src/environment/staleWhileRevalidate.test.ts	Adds a scoped cache that shares initial scans and returns cached values while one background refresh runs after expiry. Refreshes time out after 30 seconds. Tests cover cached values, refresh behavior, interrupted discovery, timeout, and scope closure.
Host discovery caches apps/server/src/environment/RemoteOpenTargets.ts, apps/server/src/process/externalLauncher.ts, apps/server/src/process/externalLauncher.test.ts	Uses 60-second stale-while-revalidate caches for remote-open targets, available editors, and file-manager reveal kind. The editor-cache test checks reuse before expiry and stale results during a background rescan.
Concurrent config discovery apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/ws.test.ts	Adds a resolver that concurrently runs editor, remote-target, and direct-endpoint discovery. It conditionally resolves file-manager reveal kind and returns the results for server config. Adds a test for concurrent discovery.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant loadServerConfig
  participant resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig
  participant ExternalLauncher
  participant RemoteOpenTargets
  participant DirectEndpointDiscovery
  loadServerConfig->>resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig: resolve discovery results
  par Editor discovery
    resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig->>ExternalLauncher: resolve editors
    ExternalLauncher-->>resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig: editor list
  and Remote-target discovery
    resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig->>RemoteOpenTargets: resolve targets
    RemoteOpenTargets-->>resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig: target list
  and Direct-endpoint discovery
    resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig->>DirectEndpointDiscovery: resolve endpoints
    DirectEndpointDiscovery-->>resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig: endpoint list
  end
  opt Editors include file-manager
    resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig->>ExternalLauncher: resolve reveal kind
    ExternalLauncher-->>resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig: reveal kind
  end
  resolveOpenDiscoveryForConfig-->>loadServerConfig: combined discovery results

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#26775: This change caches remote-open target discovery and runs it concurrently; the issue notes that direct-endpoint discovery remains uncached.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#26103: Changes Tailscale status caching in the same remote-target and direct-endpoint discovery paths.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26794: Changes Tailscale discovery and concurrent resolution in the same connection setup path.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26556: Adds background-refreshed caches to remote-target and direct-endpoint discovery.

Suggested labels: bugfix, pr:needs-verification

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to 70caf

A stalled first editor scan can leave editor discovery unavailable until the server restarts. Bound that scan and allow a later attempt to retry; the remaining risk is narrow.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7b9e1

The changes are limited to host discovery and connection setup. Launch-time command checks remain separate from cached discovery, and direct connection endpoints remain live. Cached SSH names can outlast the conditions that produced them; end-to-end SSH destination identity controls were not verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed cache lifetime affects clients receiving configuration from the same constructed server services. Discovery uses server-owned filesystem, process and network capabilities, with one active scan per cache rather than one scan per caller. No caller-supplied destination or credential is added to these cache entries.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Credential-carrying direct HTTP routes remain outside the new cache. Their existing resolver filters addresses against the server's binding and private-network rules and probes configured Tailscale HTTPS routes before advertising them. Those controls are unchanged by the PR.
• observed — The inspected remote-editor consumer builds a deep link from the selected hostname and workspace path. The URL builder encodes the hostname and path components and restricts schemes to supported editors. This establishes URL-construction behavior, not verification of the eventual SSH peer's identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Only acquisition and scan startup are uninterruptible; waiting callers remain interruptible. Scan fibers are explicitly interruptible and owned by the constructing scope, preventing an individual timeout or disconnect from cancelling shared discovery while allowing scope closure to interrupt it. Background refreshes are capped at 30 seconds; initial scans are deliberately uncapped.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider a maximum stale age or explicit invalidation on hostname or tailnet identity changes for remote SSH targets. This would bound obsolete destination advertisement during prolonged refresh failures; it is a hardening option, not an established vulnerability.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "perf(server): connects no longer wait on editor and SSH target discovery" follows the conventional commit format and names the primary change. The changeset adds makeStaleWhileRevalidate an…
Description check		The description covers the required template sections. Problem and Change are complete and specific. Scope and approval links triaged issue #14517 and states the change is server-only. Verification li…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue [#14517] is closed and completed. It provides historical context only, so it does not add active coding requirements. The reviewed changes remain consistent with that context by …
Out of Scope Changes check		The reviewed changes are limited to server discovery code and its tests. The stale-while-revalidate helper, editor and file-manager caching, remote-target caching, concurrent config discovery, and foc…

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The title "perf(server): connects no longer wait on editor and SSH target discovery" follows the conventional commit format and names the primary change. The changeset adds makeStaleWhileRevalidate and applies it to editor, file-manager reveal, and remote open-target discovery. It also runs discovery concurrently in loadServerConfig, which reduces connect wait time. The title covers the main user-visible effect, though it does not mention the concurrency change or the new cache helper.

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The description covers the required template sections. Problem and Change are complete and specific. Scope and approval links triaged issue #14517 and states the change is server-only. Verification lists focused tests, typecheck, and lint/format results, and it notes what was not measured. The description has problems that reduce its quality. The top-of-body 2026-10-23 note and the 'Earlier verification' section contain stale or conflicting status: a current-head CI failure in ResourceTelemetry.test.ts is reported as unresolved, and historical verification refers to different commits. The template also asks for the model and harness, which the description provides. The description is mostly complete, so the check passes, but the mixed revision history makes the current verification status hard to confirm.

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Directly linked issue [#14517] is closed and completed. It provides historical context only, so it does not add active coding requirements. The reviewed changes remain consistent with that context by caching discovery and starting independent discovery concurrently.

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The reviewed changes are limited to server discovery code and its tests. The stale-while-revalidate helper, editor and file-manager caching, remote-target caching, concurrent config discovery, and focused tests support the historical scope of [#14517]. No unrelated desktop, mobile, or asset-path changes appear in the current seven-file contribution.

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apps/server/src/ws.ts (1)

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Use a neutral fallback helper for remote targets.

resolveAvailableEditorsForConfig is used here for remote open targets. It works because the helper only falls back to []. The name suggests editor-specific behavior. Call resolveDiscoveryForConfig(remoteOpenTargets.resolveTargets(), () => []) or add a resolveRemoteOpenTargetsForConfig helper.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/ws.ts at line 2057:
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Integrated main d36b7da2485bc889b320a285deea181f637d760a in 42c4fdd0ea2d4b3b144c24cda08bafcb44e68411 with a normal descendant push. Concurrent editor, remote-target, and endpoint discovery keeps the shared stale-while-revalidate caches, current Effect.fn tracing, and event-loop-stall metadata. The cache settlement helper now follows the current Effect.fn convention.

Focused tests: 88 passed | 4 skipped (92); exit 0. Targeted lint exit 0. Focused typecheck exit 1. Diagnostics: packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts(1334,29): error TS2339: Property 'signal' does not exist on type 'AcpProcessExitedError'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts(1334,68): error TS2339: Property 'signal' does not exist on type 'AcpProcessExitedError'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(3302,49): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4449,32): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4450,40): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'.; packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts(4451,30): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type '{ readonly sessionUpdate: "state_update"; readonly state: "idle"; readonly stopReason?: string | null; readonly usage?: Usage | null; readonly _meta?: Meta; }'. No browser/device verification was run.

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Bound the initial editor discovery scan and clear it after timeout.

firstScan has no timeout, and every Scanning caller awaits the same Deferred. Editor discovery reaches withPathDirectoryListings, whose FileSystem.stat calls have no timeout. The existing interruption test demonstrates that a pending filesystem lookup survives the first caller’s interruption and is shared by the next caller.

The config timeout only returns its fallback. withLateEditorConfig waits on the cached discovery without that timeout, so it can remain blocked.

On first-scan timeout, reset the cache to Empty and complete current waiters with the cache-specific fallback ([] or undefined). Do not store that fallback as Ready; the next caller must be able to retry. The remote-target path has bounded listener and Tailscale probes, so this finding should not claim that remote-target discovery can hang indefinitely.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/environment/staleWhileRevalidate.ts around
lines 47 - 52:
Update firstScan to bound the initial discover operation; on timeout, reset the
cache to Empty and complete its current Deferred waiters with the cache-specific
fallback ([] or undefined), without storing that fallback as Ready, so a later
caller can retry.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified as-is at 70cafebe6a73e4c75f7ce6295de1eb008573e0ac on a disposable linux vm. no source changes or pushes.

• ran github/main (15fe283272) in a separate worktree first, then the exact pr head, installing each with vp i. stopped main before starting the pr. used isolated empty dev state, no mocks or seeded data.
• drove the actual web app with repository playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. paired each client, added the real repository through the project picker, selected codex gpt-6.1-sol, and completed real provider turns. provider events show successful pwd and git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree commands. a follow-up turn and its messages survived reconnects.
• reproduced repeated ssh/tailscale discovery on three consecutive main reconnects. real server spans show editor discovery finishing before remote-target and direct-endpoint discovery begin. on the pr, cold discovery overlaps and warm reconnects skip ssh/tailscale probes. a reconnect after the 60-second expiry starts a background refresh while returning cached metadata. direct endpoint discovery still runs per config.
• editor availability, files reveal kind, and the mDNS ssh target remained present. clicked open in files through both clients and checked successful server launch/RPC completion.
• installed a real vs code distribution on PATH. a later reconnect showed vs code in the editor menu. the first expired-cache reconnect can retain the old list; background refresh does not immediately notify an existing subscription. this verifies eventual refresh, not a visible-within-one-ttl guarantee.
• five existing discovery/launcher/websocket suites through blacksmith-check: 56 tests passed. the head also has 33 successful ci contexts.

short server transcript:

main cold editors:    18:35:34.952 -> 18:35:35.967 UTC
main remote targets:  18:35:35.971 -> 18:35:36.021
main endpoints:       18:35:36.022 -> 18:35:36.023
pr cold targets:      18:40:41.510 -> 18:40:41.560
pr cold editors:      18:40:41.513 -> 18:40:42.477
main ssh on reload:   18:39:16.103, 18:39:18.886, 18:39:21.851
pr ssh then refresh:  18:40:41.528, 18:42:18.416
pr warm reloads between those probes returned the same metadata.

full sanitized command transcript

Not verified

• the reported 20-second loaded-host timeout and hung filesystem probes were not reproduced. live evidence proves discovery ordering and caching; it does not establish general latency gains on loaded hosts.
• native electron, ios/android, macos/windows/wsl, relay/tunnel and multi-device paths were not exercised on this linux web setup.
• tailscale is absent. unavailable-command fallback was exercised, but real tailscale networking and remote ssh editor launch were not.
• the existing unbounded cold editor scan remains outside this verification. newly installed editors may need another reconnect after background refresh.