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Part 3 of 3, following #160 . Stacked on parts 1 and 2 — the diff currently includes both; it shrinks to just ios/ once they land.

What changed

The phone half. A native iOS app that pairs with the sidecar, finds the computer by Bonjour or by typed address, and gives a bot the same conversation the desktop does: the fleet, a transcript, approvals, the bot's screen, and a reply that arrives as it is typed.

  • Sources/CompanionCore is everything that is not a view — wire types, SSE parser, client, and the fold that maintains state. It is a Swift package rather than app-target source so swift test runs it with no Xcode, no simulator and no signing.
  • The tests are the interesting part. Decoding runs against bytes the server actually sent, captured by scripts/capture-companion-fixtures.mjs — hand-written test JSON tests our idea of the API, and the risk in a two-language client is that our idea drifts without anything failing. The stream tests run against a real URLSession, because two bugs shipped past every other test in the few lines between "URLSession has bytes" and "the app has frames".
  • It assumes the harness is newer than it is. An unrecognised stream frame falls through rather than throwing, and so does an unrecognised message kind — kind is not optional, so without that a single new kind fails the decode of the whole thread page. A computer newer than the phone is the ordinary state of a companion app, not an edge case.
  • Replies render markdown, matching the desktop's split: bots get it, what you typed is shown as you typed it.
  • The mascot is the desktop's own silhouette, parsed from the same path data, and the app icon is generated from build/icon.svg by scripts/make-app-icon.mjs so it cannot drift from the thing it depicts.

ios/TESTING.md is the manual pass — the parts no automated test covers, including what each failure actually looks like on the phone. ios/README.md covers building it (XcodeGen, or an Xcode target by hand).

Why

Everything else in this stack exists so this can. The app is deliberately thin: it holds no transports of its own beyond one HTTP client and one SSE stream, mirroring how src/ relates to the harness.

No changes to server/, src/ or electron/ in this PR — it is additive, under ios/ plus two scripts.

How it was verified

  • pnpm typecheck and pnpm test (64 files, 542 passed, 8 skipped). This PR adds no Node code beyond the fixture-capture script, which is not on any hot path.
  • scripts/capture-companion-fixtures.mjs runs against a real harness on a temp HOME and regenerates the decoding fixtures. I ran it; it works. Nothing touches a real ~/.openmausbot, and the pairing token is redacted before it is written.
  • On a physical iPhone against a live harness over Tailscale: paired, browsed the fleet, chatted, watched a reply stream in, ran a tool call, and confirmed markdown rendering matches the desktop.

Not verified, stated plainly:

  • swift test in this environment. There is no Swift toolchain on the machine I develop on, so the Swift suite has been exercised by building and running the app, not by a green test run I can point at. It needs a macOS check before merge — that is the honest state of it.
  • Bonjour discovery on a LAN. Unit-tested over the wire format; my manual sessions were on a tailnet, where the browser correctly showed nothing.
  • Reconnect after a long sleep. The resumable-stream path (Last-Event-ID, ?since=) is covered by automated tests only; I have not slept a phone mid-turn and watched it catch up.
  • Push notifications are not in this PR at all — they need an Apple signing key.

Screenshots (UI changes)

Screenshot 2026-08-16 at 8 17 48 PM IMG_4210 IMG_4212

Checklist

  • pnpm typecheck and pnpm test pass locally
  • Server behavior changes come with tests — server/ is unchanged
  • No dist-server/ edits
  • macOS-only code is platform-gated; nothing breaks the packaged app — ios/ builds independently and is not part of any desktop build
  • No secrets in logs, responses, events, or argv — the pairing token lives in the Keychain
  • UI changes include before/after screenshots — add before opening

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an iOS companion app for discovering computers, pairing securely, browsing chats, sending messages, viewing streaming responses, approvals, Markdown, and screen activity.
    • Added desktop Companion settings to start or stop the service, display connection details, manage pairing, and revoke devices.
    • Added Bonjour and optional Tailscale connectivity for local and remote access.
    • Added chat search, bot creation, unread indicators, pagination, reconnection, and offline status handling.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup, architecture, testing, and troubleshooting guides for the companion experience.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an iOS companion app for browsing chats, messaging bots, approvals, streaming responses, screenshots, notifications, and Markdown.
    • Added secure device pairing, token-based access, device revocation, and reconnection support.
    • Added Bonjour and Tailscale discovery with manual connection options.
    • Added desktop Companion settings to manage the service, pairing, connection details, and devices.
    • Added packaged companion support for desktop installations.
  • Documentation

    • Added setup, architecture, security, testing, and troubleshooting guides.

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Walkthrough

This PR adds a companion sidecar, desktop lifecycle integration, LAN and Tailscale discovery, pairing and proxy security, mDNS advertisement, and a SwiftUI iOS client with resumable SSE, synchronized state, chat, and pairing flows. It also adds tests, fixtures, build configuration, packaging, and documentation.

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Companion connectivity stack

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pairing, authorization, and proxying
companion/src/{devices,routes,proxy,wire,state,control}.ts, companion/test/*
Adds pairing windows, hashed bearer tokens, route authorization, response scrubbing, loopback control endpoints, and restricted persistence.
Listeners, startup, and discovery
companion/src/{index,listener,mdns}.ts, companion/test/{mdns,ports}.test.ts
Validates ports, starts listeners, discovers LAN and Tailscale addresses, advertises Bonjour services, and shuts down cleanly.
Desktop lifecycle and packaging
electron/*, electron-builder.yml, src/components/*, package.json, tsconfig*.json, vite.config.ts
Starts and stops the sidecar, exposes IPC and settings controls, packages compiled output, and discovers companion tests.
iOS API, stream, and state core
ios/Sources/CompanionCore/*, ios/Tests/CompanionCoreTests/*
Adds API models, authenticated requests, pairing, SSE parsing, tolerant frame decoding, Markdown parsing, hydration, pagination, and synchronized state.
iOS pairing and companion UI
ios/App/*, ios/project.yml, ios/Package.swift
Adds Bonjour and manual pairing, session lifecycle handling, chat and computer views, settings, Markdown rendering, avatars, and Keychain storage.
Validation and documentation
companion/README.md, docs/ios-companion.md, ios/{README.md,TESTING.md}, scripts/*, ios/Tests/.../Fixtures/*
Adds architecture documentation, testing guidance, fixture capture, JSON fixtures, and an iOS icon generator.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to e049d

The PR adds the companion app and desktop controls, but unresolved current-head issues can leave a disabled sidecar reachable, prevent connections or reconnections, break IPv6 hosts, and continue screen streaming after the panel closes; documentation, test isolation, and pairing countdown behavior also need follow-up. These are concrete merge-readiness risks, so the PR should not merge until the higher-impact issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Desktop as Electron desktop
  participant Sidecar as Companion sidecar
  participant Control as Loopback control server
  participant Phone as iOS companion
  participant Harness as Harness
  Desktop->>Sidecar: start with harness and control ports
  Sidecar->>Control: expose local state and pairing controls
  Phone->>Sidecar: discover or connect to companion
  Phone->>Sidecar: submit pairing code
  Sidecar->>Control: redeem code and persist device
  Phone->>Sidecar: send authenticated API or SSE request
  Sidecar->>Harness: forward request over loopback
  Harness-->>Sidecar: return JSON or SSE data
  Sidecar-->>Phone: scrubbed response
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companion/src/devices.ts (2)

87-99: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Normalise loaded device records, not only id and tokenHash.

The filter admits a record with no name and no lastSeenAt. companion/src/control.ts line 175 then renders the string undefined as a device name, and ago(undefined) at line 129 renders NaN. Only this class writes the file, so this needs a hand-edited or older file. It is still cheap to close.

🛡️ Proposed fix: rebuild each record on load
       if (Array.isArray(parsed?.devices)) {
-        this.devices = parsed.devices.filter(
-          (d: unknown): d is DeviceRecord =>
-            typeof (d as DeviceRecord)?.id === "string" && typeof (d as DeviceRecord)?.tokenHash === "string",
-        );
+        this.devices = parsed.devices
+          .filter(
+            (d: unknown): d is DeviceRecord =>
+              typeof (d as DeviceRecord)?.id === "string" && typeof (d as DeviceRecord)?.tokenHash === "string",
+          )
+          .map((d: DeviceRecord) => ({
+            id: d.id,
+            name: cleanDeviceName(d.name),
+            tokenHash: d.tokenHash,
+            createdAt: Number.isFinite(d.createdAt) ? d.createdAt : Date.now(),
+            lastSeenAt: Number.isFinite(d.lastSeenAt) ? d.lastSeenAt : Date.now(),
+          }));
       }
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In `@companion/src/devices.ts` around lines 87 - 99, Update the device-record
loading logic in the constructor to normalize each accepted entry into a
complete DeviceRecord, supplying valid defaults for missing name and lastSeenAt
while preserving the existing id and tokenHash validation. Ensure downstream
consumers such as control rendering and ago receive defined values.

193-198: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use one case-insensitive bearer-token parser.

proxy.ts uses bearer, while bearerToken is only used by devices.test.ts. The parsers disagree for bearer omb_abc and BEARER omb_abc. Make bearerToken case-insensitive, use it in proxy.ts, and convert undefined to null at the authenticate boundary.

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In `@companion/src/devices.ts` around lines 193 - 198, Update bearerToken to
accept the Bearer scheme case-insensitively, then replace proxy.ts’s separate
bearer parsing with bearerToken. At the authenticate boundary, convert an
undefined parser result to null while preserving the existing token handling
behavior.
companion/src/index.ts (1)

115-143: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Check the two sidecar ports against each other, and keep an error handler on each server.

Two gaps in this startup path:

  • main compares each port to HARNESS_PORTS but never compares COMPANION_PORT to CONTROL_PORT. If both env vars name the same port, the second listen fails with EADDRINUSE. The hint at lines 122-124 then names OMB_COMPANION_PORT, because port === COMPANION_PORT is also true for the control listen. The user is sent to hunt for a second copy of the sidecar that does not exist. This is the same class of confusion the comment at lines 41-44 set out to remove.
  • onListening removes the error listener. After that point neither server has one, so a later server-level error is an uncaught exception in a process that is meant to survive network trouble.
♻️ Proposed fix
     const onListening = () => {
       server.removeListener("error", onError);
+      // Nothing else listens for 'error' after this, and an unhandled one is
+      // an uncaught exception in a process meant to outlive network trouble.
+      server.on("error", (error: Error) => console.error(`${port}: ${error.message}`));
       resolve();
     };
@@
 async function main(): Promise<void> {
   const clash =
     conflict("OMB_COMPANION_PORT", COMPANION_PORT) ?? conflict("OMB_CONTROL_PORT", CONTROL_PORT);
   if (clash) throw new Error(`${clash}. Pick another port.`);
+  if (COMPANION_PORT === CONTROL_PORT) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `OMB_COMPANION_PORT and OMB_CONTROL_PORT are both ${COMPANION_PORT}. They are different sockets — the device one and the loopback one — so pick another port for one of them.`,
+    );
+  }
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In `@companion/src/index.ts` around lines 115 - 143, Update main to reject when
COMPANION_PORT and CONTROL_PORT are equal, with an error identifying both
environment variables. In listen, keep the server error listener registered
after onListening resolves, while preserving cleanup of the listening listener
on startup failure and correct port-specific hints for EADDRINUSE.
companion/src/state.ts (1)

16-18: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Create the companion directory and its files with restrictive modes.

mkdirSync and openSync use the default modes here, which give 0755 on the directory and 0644 on the file after the usual umask. devices.json holds the paired fleet and its token hashes. On a multi-user machine every local account can read it. The hashes are not the tokens, so this is a posture gap rather than an exploit, and it is one argument each to close.

🔒 Proposed fix
 export function ensureDataDir(): void {
-  mkdirSync(DATA_DIR, { recursive: true });
+  mkdirSync(DATA_DIR, { recursive: true, mode: 0o700 });
 }
@@
-    fd = openSync(tmp, "w");
+    // The temp file becomes devices.json, so it is created with the mode
+    // that file has to end up with rather than fixed afterwards.
+    fd = openSync(tmp, "w", 0o600);

Also applies to: 30-39

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In `@companion/src/state.ts` around lines 16 - 18, Update ensureDataDir to create
DATA_DIR with restrictive owner-only permissions, and update the devices.json
creation path using openSync to create the file with owner-only permissions.
Preserve recursive directory creation and ensure existing files are not broadly
re-permissioned unless already handled by the surrounding logic.
companion/src/mdns.ts (1)

477-500: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Answer only queries that arrive from a directly attached link.

advertise binds this.port with no address, so on the default path the socket accepts UDP on 0.0.0.0:5353 from anywhere that can route to it. handle then answers any source, and for a source port other than 5353 it sends the reply straight back to from. Two consequences follow:

  • An off-link prober learns the machine name, the host record and the companion port from one packet.
  • A spoofed source address turns this into a small reflector, because the reply is larger than the query.

RFC 6762 §5.5 requires a responder to ignore queries whose source is not on a directly attached link. A home router normally drops inbound 5353, so this is a posture gap rather than an open hole. Compare from against the interface subnets before replying.

🔒 Proposed fix: drop packets from off-link sources
+/** True when `address` sits inside one of this machine's IPv4 subnets.
+ * RFC 6762 §5.5: a responder answers the link it is on, and nothing else.
+ * The socket is bound to every interface, so this is the only place the
+ * distinction gets made. */
+export function onAttachedLink(address: string, interfaces = networkInterfaces()): boolean {
+  const asInt = (ip: string): number | null => {
+    const octets = ip.split(".").map(Number);
+    if (octets.length !== 4 || octets.some((o) => !Number.isInteger(o) || o < 0 || o > 255)) return null;
+    return ((octets[0] << 24) | (octets[1] << 16) | (octets[2] << 8) | octets[3]) >>> 0;
+  };
+  const source = asInt(address);
+  if (source === null) return false;
+  for (const entries of Object.values(interfaces)) {
+    for (const entry of entries ?? []) {
+      if (entry.family !== "IPv4") continue;
+      const local = asInt(entry.address);
+      const mask = asInt(entry.netmask);
+      if (local === null || mask === null) continue;
+      if (((source ^ local) & mask) === 0) return true;
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
   private handle(buf: Buffer, from: string, fromPort: number) {
     if (!this.socket || !this.service) return;
+    // A test rig sends from loopback; anything else has to be on our link.
+    if (this.multicast && !onAttachedLink(from)) return;
     const message = decodeMessage(buf);
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In `@companion/src/mdns.ts` around lines 477 - 500, Update handle to validate that
from belongs to a directly attached local interface subnet before calling
answersFor or sending any response; immediately drop off-link sources, including
spoofed addresses. Reuse the existing interface/address or subnet utilities if
available, and preserve the current legacy-port and unicast handling for
accepted sources.
companion/src/listener.ts (2)

1-12: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the obsolete listener types and update stale documentation.

RemoteListener and RemoteState have no code callers, but docs/ios-companion.md still references RemoteState. Delete both types, update the header to describe the address and Tailscale helpers, and update the documentation reference.

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In `@companion/src/listener.ts` around lines 1 - 12, Remove the unused
RemoteListener and RemoteState type declarations, update the listener module
header to document the address and Tailscale helpers instead, and replace the
stale RemoteState reference in the iOS companion documentation with the current
API or terminology.

97-130: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Set an explicit maxBuffer for tailscale status --json.

The Peer map makes stdout grow with tailnet size. Node’s default 1 MiB limit terminates the child with ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER, and onAttempt reports only stdout maxBuffer length exceeded. Set a limit sized for supported tailnets, such as 16 MiB.

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In `@companion/src/listener.ts` around lines 97 - 130, Update the execFile options
in refreshTailnetName to set an explicit maxBuffer of 16 MiB for tailscale
status --json output, while preserving the existing timeout and environment
settings.
src/components/CompanionSection.tsx (1)

106-113: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Depend on a boolean so the countdown interval is not rebuilt every tick.

load() replaces the whole state object, so state.pairing gets a new identity on each poll. The effect dependency then changes every second, the interval is cleared and recreated, and its 1000 ms timer restarts before it ever completes a full period. The countdown drifts slower than real time.

♻️ Proposed change
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (!state?.pairing) return;
+  const pairingOpen = Boolean(state?.pairing);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!pairingOpen) return;
     const timer = window.setInterval(() => {
       setNow(Date.now());
       void load();
     }, 1000);
     return () => window.clearInterval(timer);
-  }, [state?.pairing, load]);
+  }, [pairingOpen, load]);
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In `@src/components/CompanionSection.tsx` around lines 106 - 113, Update the
countdown useEffect dependency in CompanionSection to depend on a stable boolean
indicating whether pairing is active, rather than the state.pairing object
identity. Keep the interval creation and cleanup tied to that boolean so
load-driven state replacements do not recreate the 1000 ms timer on every poll.
ios/Tests/CompanionCoreTests/StoreTests.swift (1)

317-322: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use the failable Data-to-String initializer.

SwiftLint reports optional_data_string_conversion on Line 319. String(bytes:encoding:) keeps the failure visible instead of substituting replacement characters.

♻️ Proposed change
-        XCTAssertEqual(good.data.map { String(decoding: $0, as: UTF8.self) }, "hello")
+        XCTAssertEqual(good.data.flatMap { String(bytes: $0, encoding: .utf8) }, "hello")

As per static analysis hints, the rule prefers the failable initializer when converting Data to String.

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In `@ios/Tests/CompanionCoreTests/StoreTests.swift` around lines 317 - 322, Update
the good-frame assertion in testBadBase64DecodesToNilRatherThanCrashing to use
the failable Data-to-String conversion initializer instead of
String(decoding:as:), while preserving the expected “hello” result and the
existing nil assertion for invalid Base64.

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ios/App/Keychain.swift (1)

15-32: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

A failed SecItemAdd leaves no token at all.

save deletes the existing item first, then adds the new one. If SecItemAdd fails, the previous token is already gone. The caller receives a KeychainError, but the connection now has no credential in the keychain, and the user must pair again.

Add first, and fall back to delete-then-add only on errSecDuplicateItem.

♻️ Proposed change
-        // delete-then-add rather than SecItemUpdate: re-pairing replaces the
-        // token, and an update against a missing item is an error path with
-        // no upside here
-        remove(connectionId)
         let query: [String: Any] = [
             kSecClass as String: kSecClassGenericPassword,
             kSecAttrService as String: service,
             kSecAttrAccount as String: connectionId,
             kSecValueData as String: data,
             kSecAttrAccessible as String: kSecAttrAccessibleAfterFirstUnlockThisDeviceOnly,
         ]
-        let status = SecItemAdd(query as CFDictionary, nil)
+        // Add first. Only drop the stored token once the replacement is
+        // known to be storable, so a failure cannot leave the connection
+        // with no credential at all.
+        var status = SecItemAdd(query as CFDictionary, nil)
+        if status == errSecDuplicateItem {
+            remove(connectionId)
+            status = SecItemAdd(query as CFDictionary, nil)
+        }
         guard status == errSecSuccess else {
             throw KeychainError(status: status)
         }
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SecItemAdd before removing the existing credential, preserving the current token
when any non-duplicate add error occurs. If the add returns errSecDuplicateItem,
then perform remove(connectionId) and retry SecItemAdd with the same query,
propagating KeychainError for failures.
ios/Sources/CompanionCore/Store.swift (1)

161-166: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The delete paths leave live state behind.

Both delete cases remove messages and hasMore for the thread. They do not remove the matching entries in streaming, reasoning, or screens. If a bot is deleted while it is replying, or while ComputerView holds a frame for it, those entries stay in the state for the rest of the session.

Clear the live state on delete.

♻️ Proposed change
         case let .botDeleted(botId):
             if let index = bots.firstIndex(where: { $0.id == botId }) {
-                messages.removeValue(forKey: bots[index].threadId)
-                hasMore.removeValue(forKey: bots[index].threadId)
+                let threadId = bots[index].threadId
+                messages.removeValue(forKey: threadId)
+                hasMore.removeValue(forKey: threadId)
+                clearStream(threadId)
+                clearScreen(botId)
                 bots.remove(at: index)
             }
         case let .roomDeleted(groupId):
             if let index = rooms.firstIndex(where: { $0.id == groupId }) {
-                messages.removeValue(forKey: rooms[index].threadId)
-                hasMore.removeValue(forKey: rooms[index].threadId)
+                let threadId = rooms[index].threadId
+                messages.removeValue(forKey: threadId)
+                hasMore.removeValue(forKey: threadId)
+                clearStream(threadId)
                 rooms.remove(at: index)
             }

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In `@ios/Sources/CompanionCore/Store.swift` around lines 161 - 166, Update both
bot deletion cases in Store.swift, including the botDeleted handling, to remove
the deleted bot’s thread entries from streaming, reasoning, and screens in
addition to messages and hasMore. Use the matching bot threadId before removing
the bot, and preserve the existing behavior when no bot matches.
ios/Sources/CompanionCore/SSE.swift (1)

121-138: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Byte-at-a-time iteration is costly for screen frames.

for try await byte in bytes performs one asynchronous iteration step per byte. The file ios/App/ComputerView.swift states that a single screen frame is hundreds of kilobytes of base64. One frame therefore costs several hundred thousand suspension points, and the harness pushes a frame every few seconds while ComputerView is open.

The manual split is still required, because AsyncLineSequence drops the blank lines that terminate SSE events. Read chunks instead of single bytes and split each chunk on 0x0A. A URLSessionDataDelegate that forwards didReceive data: into the same parser gives the same result at chunk granularity.

Measure the current cost with screens enabled before you change this, so the benefit is known.

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In `@ios/Sources/CompanionCore/SSE.swift` around lines 121 - 138, Measure the
existing byte-at-a-time cost with screen frames enabled, then update the SSE
parsing loop around parser.line and continuation.yield to consume data in chunks
and split each chunk on newline bytes. Preserve partial lines across chunks,
CRLF trimming, and blank-line event termination so parsing behavior remains
unchanged while eliminating one async suspension per byte.
ios/App/ChatListView.swift (1)

57-57: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Pull-to-refresh gives no feedback.

.refreshable keeps the indicator visible until its async body returns. session.connect() returns immediately, so the indicator vanishes at once even though the stream is still opening. Await a state change instead, for example wait until session.status leaves .connecting.

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In `@ios/App/ChatListView.swift` at line 57, Update the .refreshable handler in
ChatListView so it awaits a session state transition rather than returning
immediately from session.connect(); keep the refresh indicator visible until
session.status leaves .connecting, then preserve the existing connection
behavior.
ios/App/ChatView.swift (1)

220-232: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

UIKit usage is unguarded while the import is conditional.

Lines 9-11 wrap import UIKit in #if canImport(UIKit), but Line 225 uses Color(uiColor:) and Line 415 uses UIImage without a guard. Any non-UIKit build fails to compile. Either drop the conditional import in this file, or guard the two usages, to keep one rule.

Also applies to: 413-436

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In `@ios/App/ChatView.swift` around lines 220 - 232, Make UIKit usage consistent
in ChatView by either making the UIKit import unconditional or guarding both the
Color(uiColor:) usage in the send Button and the UIImage usage in the related
image-handling code; ensure non-UIKit builds do not compile unguarded UIKit
symbols.
ios/App/MausAvatar.swift (1)

99-201: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Parse the silhouette once, not on every draw.

MausAvatar.body calls MausSilhouette.path(in:) inside Canvas. Canvas re-renders on every layout pass, scroll update, and state change, so each avatar re-tokenizes the 4KB path string and rebuilds the Bézier path each time. The chat list draws one avatar per row, so the cost scales with visible rows and with stream frame rate.

The parsed geometry is constant. Build it once in a static let, then apply only the affine transform per draw.

♻️ Proposed refactor
+    /// Parsed once: the artwork is a compile-time constant.
+    private static let parsed: Path = unnormalisedPath()
+
     /// Parse into a `Path` normalised to fill `rect`, preserving aspect.
     ///
     /// The desktop maps this through a `fit` transform into a 228.541-unit
     /// face box. That is not reproduced: normalising to the actual bounds is
     /// equivalent for a shape drawn on its own, and it does not go stale if
     /// the artwork's framing changes.
     static func path(in rect: CGRect) -> Path {
+        let raw = parsed
+        let bounds = raw.boundingRect
+        guard bounds.width > 0, bounds.height > 0 else { return raw }
+        let scale = min(rect.width / bounds.width, rect.height / bounds.height)
+        return raw.applying(
+            CGAffineTransform(translationX: -bounds.midX, y: -bounds.midY)
+                .concatenating(CGAffineTransform(scaleX: scale, y: scale))
+                .concatenating(CGAffineTransform(translationX: rect.midX, y: rect.midY))
+        )
+    }
+
+    private static func unnormalisedPath() -> Path {
         var raw = Path()

Then end unnormalisedPath() after the tokenizer with return raw, and delete the normalization block that currently follows Line 152.

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In `@ios/App/MausAvatar.swift` around lines 99 - 201, Refactor MausSilhouette so
the path string is tokenized and converted to raw Bézier geometry only once via
a static stored path. Move parsing into an unnormalized-path helper or
equivalent static initialization, remove per-call normalization, and have
path(in:) apply only the rect-dependent affine transform. Update MausAvatar.body
to reuse this cached geometry while preserving the existing rendering and sizing
behavior.
ios/App/Session.swift (1)

362-383: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Precompute chat-list metadata before sorting.

transcript(forThread:) returns the stored array without copying its elements. ChatListView still evaluates chats in both ForEach and the overlay. Each evaluation sorts all chats, and search also calls preview for every candidate. Cache lastActivity and preview per thread, or build the sort and filter keys once per evaluation.

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In `@ios/App/Session.swift` around lines 362 - 383, Update CompanionState.chats to
precompute each chat’s lastActivity and preview metadata once per evaluation,
then reuse those values for sorting and search/filtering instead of repeatedly
calling lastActivity, transcript(forThread:), or preview during comparisons.
Preserve pinned, unread, and hidden-bot ordering behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@companion/README.md`:
- Line 19: Update the fenced code blocks at the referenced README locations to
include the text language identifier, preserving their existing diagram and
command-output content.

In `@companion/src/control.ts`:
- Around line 56-63: Add an Origin validation guard alongside the Host check in
the control server handler. Parse the request’s Origin header and reject any
non-loopback origin, while allowing absent Origin values and the loopback
origins used by the served control page, including localhost, 127.0.0.1, and
IPv6 loopback. Return the existing 403 JSON response for rejected origins.

In `@companion/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 94-96: Update the TXT entry construction around machineName so
truncation is based on UTF-8 byte length rather than UTF-16 character count,
reserving space for the “name=” prefix and enforcing the 255-byte limit. Reuse
the existing byte-length truncation approach used by dnsLabel, while preserving
the advertised machine name behavior.

In `@companion/src/proxy.ts`:
- Around line 203-205: Update the upstream error handler in the proxy request
flow to check res.headersSent before responding; if headers were already sent,
destroy the response, otherwise retain the existing 502 JSON response via
sendJson. Apply this behavior to both streaming and buffered response paths.

In `@companion/src/wire.ts`:
- Around line 51-85: Update createSseScrubber and scrubEvent to support CRLF as
well as LF: recognize both event terminators so CRLF frames are emitted,
normalize or otherwise remove carriage returns when splitting lines, and ensure
data: lines remain scrubbed while non-data content is preserved.

In `@companion/test/ports.test.ts`:
- Around line 26-28: Update the child environment in the spawn call to begin
with process.env, then override the OMB_* values while retaining the existing
PATH behavior, so HOME and USERPROFILE continue pointing to the temporary test
home.

In `@docs/ios-companion.md`:
- Around line 121-172: Replace the retired server-listener guidance with the
current companion sidecar architecture: in docs/ios-companion.md lines 121-172,
document sidecar control, proxy, pairing, and discovery; in ios/README.md lines
108-125, replace remoteDenial() and URLSession.bytes.lines with the sidecar
route policy and raw-byte SSE implementation; in ios/TESTING.md lines 27-114,
update the branch, file checks, startup commands, control endpoint, and
validation commands for companion/ and Electron-managed lifecycle.

In `@electron/companion.mjs`:
- Around line 58-115: Serialize startCompanion startup by adding a module-scoped
startup promise that is assigned before forking the child process; concurrent
callers must return and await that same promise instead of creating additional
sidecars. Move the existing startup logic into the promise-backed flow, and
clear the promise only after startup succeeds or fails while preserving proc and
companionState handling.

In `@ios/App/ChatView.swift`:
- Around line 55-114: Update the messages change handler around messages.count
to key auto-scrolling on the newest message’s identity instead; preserve
scrolling to the latest message for newly appended messages, while ensuring
prepending via loadOlder does not trigger the bottom scroll and lets the saved
anchor remain visible.

In `@ios/App/CompanionApp.swift`:
- Around line 15-25: Update the RootView scene lifecycle in WindowGroup to
invoke session.connect() once when the view first appears, in addition to the
existing scenePhase handling. Use SwiftUI’s appearance callback and preserve the
existing connect/disconnect switch and refresh behavior.

In `@ios/App/ComputerView.swift`:
- Around line 15-17: Update ComputerView’s UIKit portability handling so the
UIImage.init(data:) usage is covered consistently: either make the UIKit import
unconditional or conditionally compile the image-related branch along with the
import, ensuring platforms without UIKit still compile.
- Around line 58-63: Replace the .task hook in the ComputerView lifecycle with
.onAppear so each session.watchScreen(of:) call is paired with the existing
.onDisappear stopWatchingScreen(of:) call, preventing watcher-count drift when
the view identity changes.

In `@ios/App/Discovery.swift`:
- Around line 121-132: Update ios/App/Discovery.swift lines 121-132 in plainHost
and its Connection creation to prefer a non-link-local address from currentPath,
remove any scope zone, and bracket IPv6 literals containing colons. Update
ios/App/PairingView.swift lines 195-204 to parse bracketed IPv6 with port, bare
IPv6 literals, and host/port input by splitting only at the last colon, then
store the host bracketed for IPv6; both sites must produce
URLComponents-compatible Connection.host values.

In `@ios/App/PairingView.swift`:
- Around line 195-204: Update parse to preserve IPv6 addresses by treating
bracketed hosts such as [::1] as a single host and splitting an optional port
only at the final colon; leave bare IPv6 literals without a port intact. Keep
the existing hostname validation and port range checks, and continue using the
default port when no explicit port is present.

In `@ios/App/Session.swift`:
- Around line 138-190: Update Session.run() to clear streamTask whenever it
exits, including unauthorized, cancellation, and normal loop termination. Before
clearing it, verify the stored task is the same task executing run(), so an
older task cannot erase the replacement installed by restartStream(); preserve
connect()’s ability to start a new stream afterward.

In `@ios/Sources/CompanionCore/Client.swift`:
- Around line 27-33: Update Client.baseURL to avoid sending the bearer token
over unprotected HTTP: use TLS with certificate pinning for the companion
connection, or explicitly enforce and document that cleartext is permitted only
on a trusted LAN, while preserving endpoint construction for host and port.
- Around line 266-272: Update events(since:screens:) to set
streamRequest.timeoutInterval to 90 seconds after makeRequest and before calling
eventStream, preserving the existing headers and streaming session behavior.

In `@ios/Sources/CompanionCore/Markdown.swift`:
- Around line 49-52: Normalize CRLF line endings in the Markdown parsing flow
before splitting source into lines, ensuring each CRLF sequence becomes a single
line boundary. Update the logic surrounding the lines collection in the relevant
Markdown parsing method while preserving existing paragraph and fenced-block
handling for LF input.

In `@ios/Sources/CompanionCore/SSE.swift`:
- Around line 131-137: Update the decode-failure path in the SSE parser around
StreamFrame and continuation.yield to log the discarded payload’s event kind
before continuing. Preserve dropping malformed frames and keeping the stream
alive, while making failures such as hello frames missing cursor visible in
console output.

In `@scripts/capture-companion-fixtures.mjs`:
- Line 87: Update the capture flow around the event fetch and related fixture
requests to start and pair the companion sidecar before capture, then route
stream and API fixture requests through the paired sidecar token instead of
directly through HARNESS. Retain direct HARNESS requests only for setup
operations unavailable to the phone, and preserve the sidecar response contract
including resumeCursors scrubbing.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@companion/src/devices.ts`:
- Around line 87-99: Update the device-record loading logic in the constructor
to normalize each accepted entry into a complete DeviceRecord, supplying valid
defaults for missing name and lastSeenAt while preserving the existing id and
tokenHash validation. Ensure downstream consumers such as control rendering and
ago receive defined values.
- Around line 193-198: Update bearerToken to accept the Bearer scheme
case-insensitively, then replace proxy.ts’s separate bearer parsing with
bearerToken. At the authenticate boundary, convert an undefined parser result to
null while preserving the existing token handling behavior.

In `@companion/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 115-143: Update main to reject when COMPANION_PORT and
CONTROL_PORT are equal, with an error identifying both environment variables. In
listen, keep the server error listener registered after onListening resolves,
while preserving cleanup of the listening listener on startup failure and
correct port-specific hints for EADDRINUSE.

In `@companion/src/listener.ts`:
- Around line 1-12: Remove the unused RemoteListener and RemoteState type
declarations, update the listener module header to document the address and
Tailscale helpers instead, and replace the stale RemoteState reference in the
iOS companion documentation with the current API or terminology.
- Around line 97-130: Update the execFile options in refreshTailnetName to set
an explicit maxBuffer of 16 MiB for tailscale status --json output, while
preserving the existing timeout and environment settings.

In `@companion/src/mdns.ts`:
- Around line 477-500: Update handle to validate that from belongs to a directly
attached local interface subnet before calling answersFor or sending any
response; immediately drop off-link sources, including spoofed addresses. Reuse
the existing interface/address or subnet utilities if available, and preserve
the current legacy-port and unicast handling for accepted sources.

In `@companion/src/state.ts`:
- Around line 16-18: Update ensureDataDir to create DATA_DIR with restrictive
owner-only permissions, and update the devices.json creation path using openSync
to create the file with owner-only permissions. Preserve recursive directory
creation and ensure existing files are not broadly re-permissioned unless
already handled by the surrounding logic.

In `@ios/App/ChatListView.swift`:
- Line 57: Update the .refreshable handler in ChatListView so it awaits a
session state transition rather than returning immediately from
session.connect(); keep the refresh indicator visible until session.status
leaves .connecting, then preserve the existing connection behavior.

In `@ios/App/ChatView.swift`:
- Around line 220-232: Make UIKit usage consistent in ChatView by either making
the UIKit import unconditional or guarding both the Color(uiColor:) usage in the
send Button and the UIImage usage in the related image-handling code; ensure
non-UIKit builds do not compile unguarded UIKit symbols.

In `@ios/App/Keychain.swift`:
- Around line 15-32: Update Keychain.save to attempt SecItemAdd before removing
the existing credential, preserving the current token when any non-duplicate add
error occurs. If the add returns errSecDuplicateItem, then perform
remove(connectionId) and retry SecItemAdd with the same query, propagating
KeychainError for failures.

In `@ios/App/MausAvatar.swift`:
- Around line 99-201: Refactor MausSilhouette so the path string is tokenized
and converted to raw Bézier geometry only once via a static stored path. Move
parsing into an unnormalized-path helper or equivalent static initialization,
remove per-call normalization, and have path(in:) apply only the rect-dependent
affine transform. Update MausAvatar.body to reuse this cached geometry while
preserving the existing rendering and sizing behavior.

In `@ios/App/Session.swift`:
- Around line 362-383: Update CompanionState.chats to precompute each chat’s
lastActivity and preview metadata once per evaluation, then reuse those values
for sorting and search/filtering instead of repeatedly calling lastActivity,
transcript(forThread:), or preview during comparisons. Preserve pinned, unread,
and hidden-bot ordering behavior.

In `@ios/Sources/CompanionCore/SSE.swift`:
- Around line 121-138: Measure the existing byte-at-a-time cost with screen
frames enabled, then update the SSE parsing loop around parser.line and
continuation.yield to consume data in chunks and split each chunk on newline
bytes. Preserve partial lines across chunks, CRLF trimming, and blank-line event
termination so parsing behavior remains unchanged while eliminating one async
suspension per byte.

In `@ios/Sources/CompanionCore/Store.swift`:
- Around line 161-166: Update both bot deletion cases in Store.swift, including
the botDeleted handling, to remove the deleted bot’s thread entries from
streaming, reasoning, and screens in addition to messages and hasMore. Use the
matching bot threadId before removing the bot, and preserve the existing
behavior when no bot matches.

In `@ios/Tests/CompanionCoreTests/StoreTests.swift`:
- Around line 317-322: Update the good-frame assertion in
testBadBase64DecodesToNilRatherThanCrashing to use the failable Data-to-String
conversion initializer instead of String(decoding:as:), while preserving the
expected “hello” result and the existing nil assertion for invalid Base64.

In `@src/components/CompanionSection.tsx`:
- Around line 106-113: Update the countdown useEffect dependency in
CompanionSection to depend on a stable boolean indicating whether pairing is
active, rather than the state.pairing object identity. Keep the interval
creation and cleanup tied to that boolean so load-driven state replacements do
not recreate the 1000 ms timer on every poll.
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mnthr7 and others added 3 commits August 17, 2026 00:49
The sidecar is a separate process, and the first version of that meant a
terminal command and a browser tab to pair in. That was a bad trade for
something the rest of the app does in a panel, and it did not have to be
one: the app already forks the harness as a child process, so forking one
more is a thing it knows how to do.

Settings → Companion turns it on, shows the address to type into the phone,
opens a pairing window, lists paired devices and revokes them. Turning it
off stops the process, which is still the honest off switch — there is no
flag left behind claiming a listener that is not there.

- `electron/companion.mjs` owns the lifecycle: `utilityProcess.fork`, and it
  waits for the control port to answer before reporting success rather than
  assuming the fork worked. A missing `dist-companion/index.js` reports what
  to run instead of failing as a timeout.
- The renderer never talks to the control port. Everything goes through
  `ipcMain.handle`, which keeps the UI on one origin, avoids CORS, and puts
  the narrow list of things the renderer may ask for in one file rather than
  implying it from whatever the control server happens to serve.
- Packaging stages the compiled sidecar beside the harness, and
  `package:prepare` builds it, so a packaged app has it and a dev checkout
  gets told to run `pnpm build:companion`.

The panel reports rather than guesses. When there is no MagicDNS name it
says which Tailscale CLI paths were tried and what each said, because
telling someone to turn on MagicDNS when they already have it on is worse
than saying nothing.

Depends on the previous change, which adds `companion/`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A phone cannot reach the harness, and should not be able to. The loopback
gate refuses any request whose Host is not local, which is exactly right for
a process holding provider keys and an approval switch — the guarantee is
structural, and weakening it to let a phone in would weaken it for everyone.

So this does not weaken it. `companion/` is a separate process that speaks to
the harness as this machine, over loopback, exactly as the desktop window
does. The harness needs no changes and does not know the sidecar exists.

  phone ──LAN/tailnet──▶ companion :8810 ──loopback──▶ harness :8799

Three sockets, and the split between them is the security model:

  :8810  0.0.0.0    devices — token required, allowlisted, scrubbed
  :8811  127.0.0.1  you — pairing and revocation, never off-machine
  :8799  127.0.0.1  the harness, unmodified

- **Pairing** is a six-digit code shown on the computer and typed into the
  phone, redeemed once, inside a window, for a token. A token is per-device
  and revocable, and revocation is loopback-only: losing the phone must not
  mean losing the ability to lock it out.
- **The allowlist is default deny**, per method and path — the list is every
  request the app makes, and nothing else. A route the harness gains later is
  closed to devices until someone adds it here on purpose. Anything else gets
  "no route", which keeps a stolen token from enumerating the API.
- **A browser is refused before the token is read.** A native app sends no
  Origin; anything that does has found this port and has no business on it.
- **Responses are scrubbed** of the harness's own bookkeeping, on JSON and on
  the SSE stream alike. The SSE transform emits an event the moment it is
  complete and never touches the blank-line terminator or the `id:` line —
  both of which have silently broken this project before.
- **Ports stay clear of the harness**, which owns two: itself, and the
  webhook receiver one above it. Overlap is refused by name before anything
  binds, rather than raced for and lost by whoever started second.
- **Discovery** is a zero-dependency mDNS responder, so the phone finds the
  computer by name on a LAN. Failing is not an error anyone has to fix —
  pairing by typed address still works, and the page says so.

Tests boot a real harness and drive it through a real proxy, because every
bug this design can have lives in the seam between them and none are visible
to a unit test: SSE arriving but never terminating an event, a cursor
dropped in transit, the loopback gate rejecting a proxied request. The
allowlist is tested directly, including that a route it has never heard of
is denied.

Nothing here is wired into the app — `pnpm companion` runs it, and running it
is the opt-in. The Settings toggle is a separate change.

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The phone half. A native iOS app that pairs with the sidecar, finds the
computer by Bonjour or by typed address, and gives a bot the same
conversation the desktop does: the fleet, a transcript, approvals, the
bot's screen, and a reply that arrives as it is typed.

- `Sources/CompanionCore` is everything that is not a view — the wire types,
  the SSE parser, the client, and the fold that maintains state. It is a
  Swift package rather than app-target source so `swift test` runs it with
  no Xcode, no simulator and no signing, which is also what lets the
  decoding tests run against fixtures captured from a real harness.
- **The tests are the interesting part.** Decoding runs against bytes the
  server actually sent, captured by `scripts/capture-companion-fixtures.mjs`
  — hand-written test JSON tests our idea of the API, and the risk in a
  two-language client is that our idea drifts without anything failing. The
  stream tests run against a real URLSession, because two bugs shipped past
  every other test in the few lines between "URLSession has bytes" and "the
  app has frames".
- **It assumes the harness is newer than it is.** An unrecognised stream
  frame falls through rather than throwing, and so does an unrecognised
  message kind — `kind` is not optional, so without that a single new kind
  fails the decode of the whole thread page. A computer newer than the phone
  is the ordinary state of a companion app, not an edge case.
- Replies render markdown, matching the desktop's split: bots get it, what
  you typed is shown as you typed it. The streaming bubble uses the same
  renderer so the handover to the settled message is invisible.
- The mascot is the desktop's own silhouette, parsed from the same path
  data, and the app icon is generated from `build/icon.svg` by
  `scripts/make-app-icon.mjs` so it cannot drift from the thing it depicts.

`ios/TESTING.md` is the manual pass — the parts no automated test covers,
including what each failure actually looks like on the phone.

Depends on the two previous changes, which add `companion/` and the toggle.

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CI went red on ubuntu-latest with an EACCES from rmSync in the afterAll of
server/index.test.ts — every assertion in the file had passed. The suite
died cleaning up after itself, which is the least informative way a run can
fail.

Two races, one symptom. The teardown asked the child to die and then
immediately deleted the directory it was writing into:

    setTimeout(() => (child.kill("SIGKILL"), resolve()), 5_000)

That resolve() fires in the same tick as the kill, so rmSync could start
while the process was still alive. And rmSync had no retry, so the first
transient EACCES failed the file — even though a temp directory that
outlives a test says nothing about the code under test.

server/testing/setup.ts had already met this and grown a retry-and-warn
loop for it. That fix just never reached the two suites that spawn a real
harness. Lift it into server/testing/cleanup.ts alongside a waitForExit
that escalates to SIGKILL only after a grace period and then keeps waiting
for close, and use both from all three teardowns.

companion/test/proxy.test.ts carried the same copy of the racing teardown,
so it gets the same fix before it can fail the same way.

Verified: an undeletable path warns and returns instead of throwing; a
child that ignores SIGTERM is waited out through the escalation rather
than raced; a clean exit still resolves promptly instead of stalling for
the full grace period. Full suite green — 64 files, 542 passed, 8 skipped.

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@mnthr7 mnthr7 changed the title Upstreaming/9 ios app Add ios/: the SwiftUI companion app Aug 17, 2026
claude added 11 commits August 17, 2026 01:43
The proxy prepared every JSON body under one try/catch:

    try {
      text = JSON.stringify(scrub(JSON.parse(body)));
    } catch {
      /* not JSON after all — send what we were given */
    }

The comment describes one failure. The block covers three, and they do not
mean the same thing. A body that will not parse was never JSON and there is
nothing in it to redact, so forwarding it verbatim is right. A body that
parses but will not scrub is the opposite: it is structured, and scrub is
the only thing keeping resume cursors off the wire to a device. Falling back
to the raw body there sends exactly what the scrubber exists to withhold.

Not a hypothetical. scrub recurses once per level, so a body nested a few
thousand deep throws RangeError while JSON.parse handles it without
complaint — at depth 5000 on this runtime, parse succeeds and scrub throws.
The old code caught that as "not JSON after all" and forwarded the original.

Split the two: parse failure still passes through, scrub or stringify
failure answers 502 and sends nothing. Response re-framing moves into a
local `forward` so both paths share it — which also fixes it honouring the
upstream status rather than hardcoding the captured one.

The new test asserts the invariant rather than the mechanism: whatever comes
back, it is never a 200 carrying the field the scrubber removes. That holds
on any stack size. Against the previous code it fails on exactly that line.

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Both transitions guard with a check and then await, which is not a guard at
all once two of them overlap. Three ways it goes wrong, all ending with the
toggle and reality disagreeing:

  - two concurrent starts both pass `if (proc)` and fork two sidecars
  - a start that fails overwrites the `proc` a start that succeeded just set
  - a stop issued during startup finds `proc` still null, so it kills
    nothing — and the start it raced then publishes a sidecar the user has
    already switched off

The last one is the one a user would actually hit, by double-clicking the
toggle, and it leaves a process listening off-machine after the UI says it
is off.

Queue every transition on a promise chain so one finishes before the next
begins. The chain absorbs rejections rather than propagating them, or a
single failed start would poison every transition after it.

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Binding loopback is not a defence against a browser. Any page on the
internet can aim a form POST at http://127.0.0.1:8811/pairing, and the Host
header on that request is the loopback one this server already approves. A
form POST needs no preflight, so nothing stops it leaving.

Same-origin policy hides the reply, so the attacker never reads the pairing
code. That is not the whole harm: the window still opens, and a six-digit
code is then sitting on the victim's screen waiting to be talked out of
them.

Require a loopback Origin, or none, for anything that is not GET or HEAD.
Absence is the Electron main process and the phone's own client — not
browsers, and not what a CSRF check is aimed at. The literal string "null",
which a sandboxed iframe and a file:// page both send, is refused: treating
it as absent would hand the hole straight back. Safe methods are untouched,
since the SOP already stops a foreign page reading a reply and this server
sets no CORS headers to weaken that.

proxy.ts already refuses any Origin outright. The control plane should not
have been the laxer of the two.

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authenticate() refreshes a "last seen" timestamp and persists it. The write
was unguarded, so a full disk or a read-only home turned a decoration in a
settings panel into a thrown exception on the authentication path — every
request, for every paired device, with nothing in the failure that points at
the real cause.

Catch it. The token is still valid; the timestamp can be stale.

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mdns: the garbage-on-the-socket test fired three datagrams without waiting
and closed the socket underneath them. Closing with sends still queued can
drop them, which would leave the assertion afterwards proving the responder
survived garbage it was never sent — and an unhandled 'error' on a dgram
socket is an uncaught exception that surfaces as some other file failing.
Await each send, attach an error listener, await the close.

ports: the spawned sidecar inherited PATH and nothing else, so with no HOME
or USERPROFILE it fell back to the account running the suite. DeviceRegistry
is constructed at module scope, before the port check these tests are about,
and reads its device file from homedir() — so the child was reading whatever
real paired fleet the developer has. Read-only, so nothing was damaged, but
the suite's throwaway home is already on process.env and should travel.

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mdns's advertisableAddresses() was a second copy of listener's
lanAddresses(), filter for filter. Duplication that stays correct until one
side learns about a new interface type and the other does not — and the
failure then is a phone that discovers the computer but cannot reach it.
Keep the name, which says why mDNS wants the list, and call the one
implementation.

package.json points bin at src/index.ts, which had no shebang and was
tracked 100644, so POSIX execution could not start Node. Add the shebang and
the executable bit.

The README said running the process is the opt-in and there is no toggle to
forget. There is one now — this PR adds it. Describe the loopback page as
the standalone surface and Settings → Companion as the normal desktop path.

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Four things that all end the same way — this process holding memory or a
socket that nothing will ever free.

An upstream with no deadline: a harness that accepts the connection and then
says nothing is not the same as one that is down, and only the second has an
error to report. Without a timer the first pins the device's request open
forever. 30s, set on the request so it covers connect and first byte alike,
and explicitly lifted for SSE — an idle stream is a healthy stream, and this
timer would kill every one of them. The two outcomes now say different
things, because "not running" and "not answering" want different responses
from the person reading them.

SSE ignoring backpressure: res.write()'s return value was discarded, so a
phone that has walked out of wifi — connected, not reading — leaves every
unwritten frame queued in this process while the harness keeps producing.
Pause the upstream and resume on drain, which lets the backpressure reach
the harness instead of stopping here.

An SSE buffer with no bound: the scrubber accumulates until it sees "\n\n",
which never arrives on a CRLF-framed stream or on something that is not SSE
at all despite the content-type. Cap it, and drop rather than trim — a
partial event is not recoverable, so losing the frame and staying live is
the honest outcome.

sendJson writing to a response already begun: the upstream error handler can
fire long after the SSE headers were flushed, and writeHead then throws
ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT from inside an error handler. Destroy the socket
instead; the device already knows how to reconnect from a dropped stream.

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enable() checks this.server and then awaits a bind, so two overlapping calls
both see null, both bind the same port, and the loser is left listening with
no reference to it anywhere — a socket open on the network that nothing can
close short of ending the process. disable() racing enable() is the mirror:
it clears a field the in-flight enable is about to set, and the port stays
open while the state says it is off.

Queue both through one transition chain, the same shape used for the
sidecar's own lifecycle in electron/companion.mjs.

Separately, the bind used a bare once("error"), which is spent the first
time it fires. Anything the server emitted afterwards — during the close in
the failure path, or from a socket that dies after a successful bind —
reached a server with no error listener, and an unhandled 'error' is an
uncaught exception that takes the sidecar down. Attach one for the server's
whole life and layer the bind-specific handler on top.

The tests assert the leak directly rather than through the object's own
account of itself: after disable, the port must be bindable again. An
orphaned server fails that no matter what state() claims.

RemoteListener has no callers yet — index.ts builds its listener directly —
so this is ahead of its use rather than fixing a live bug.

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The sidecar had two Authorization parsers that disagreed. proxy.ts accepted
a case-insensitive "bearer ", devices.ts required exactly "Bearer " — so
whether a header authenticated depended on which code path met it. RFC 7235
§2.1 makes the scheme case-insensitive, which means the strict one was the
wrong one to keep. Relax it, and have the proxy call it rather than carry a
second copy.

redeem() pushed the device and then persisted. A throw there left it paired
in memory and absent from disk: working until the next restart, then not,
with the phone holding a token that stops working for no reason it can show.
Roll the push back and return the failure, so the user retries now.

That is the opposite call from the lastSeenAt write, deliberately. A
timestamp is worth losing to keep a working phone working; a pairing is not
worth pretending to have saved.

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Startup treated any answer on the control port as proof the fork worked. A
sidecar started by hand, or left behind by a previous run, answers exactly
the same — and gets adopted. The toggle then drives a process it does not
own, and stopping it does nothing the user can see. The control state now
carries the sidecar's pid and startup matches it against the child it forked.

stop() called kill() and returned. kill asks; it does not wait. The next
start then raced a sidecar still holding the port and failed for a reason
that had already stopped being true. Wait for the exit, bounded, so a wedged
child cannot leave Settings stuck either.

Both panels polled on the wrong schedule. Settings → Companion only polled
while a pairing code was on screen, so a sidecar that exited on its own —
port taken, crash, a stop from the standalone page — left the panel showing
a companion that had not existed for hours. The loopback page had the
opposite problem: a fixed one-second poll for as long as the tab stayed
open. Both now run at one second while pairing and ten otherwise, and the
page's is self-scheduling so a slow reply cannot stack another poll behind
it.

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The docstring gate reads 56% against an 80% threshold, and the gap is real:
whole files of exported functions with nothing saying what they are for.

Says what each one is and, where it is not obvious, why it exists — the
compression pointers in the mDNS encoder, the dedupe key that deliberately
excludes TTL, which of the two registry write paths swallows a failure and
which does not.

No behavior change.

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claude added 3 commits August 17, 2026 02:23
CI went red again on ubuntu, the same shape as before and a different file:
ENOTEMPTY from rmSync in the afterAll of server/comms.test.ts, every
assertion passed. comms.test.ts held the same copy-pasted teardown I fixed
in index.test.ts and proxy.test.ts — kill, resolve in the same tick, then
delete the directory the process is still writing into.

Fixing the two files that had failed and stopping there was the mistake. The
pattern was in five files, so this sweeps for it instead of waiting to be
told about the next one:

  - comms, unattended, branching: the exact child-process teardown, now
    waitForExit + removeTempDir. Every "SIGKILL then resolve() alongside it"
    in the repo is gone.
  - env-path, and the acp/claude/codex/opencode-go driver tests: no such
    race, but they delete scratch directories that a spawned CLI was using
    moments earlier, which is the same hazard one step removed. They get the
    retrying remove.

Left alone: fifteen rmSync calls that clear an in-process DATA_DIR or
EVENTS_DIR with no child anywhere near them. Nothing to race, and rewriting
them would be churn rather than a fix.

Verified: full suite twice, clean both times, with no EACCES/ENOTEMPTY/EPERM
in either log — 67 files, 561 passed, 8 skipped. typecheck, check:electron,
build:companion and the production UI build all pass.

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Four remaining comments, none of them behaviour changes to the sidecar
itself.

waitForExit now takes the signal to send. Every caller was writing
kill("SIGTERM") and then waiting out a grace period that had already started
counting from the call before it — one argument makes "stop it, and know
that it stopped" a single operation, and removes the chance of waiting on a
child nobody signalled. The old numeric second argument still works.

proxy.test.ts probed for its ports instead of guessing. It needs three: the
harness, the webhook receiver the harness quietly opens one above itself,
and the sidecar ten above that. A blind random base is fine until a second
suite runs at the same time, and then the loser fails at a bind it never
checked — which reports as anything except "that port was taken". The new
helper asks for the exact offsets, since the set a suite needs is rarely
contiguous. It is a probe and not a reservation, and says so.

The pairing-expiry test moves the clock rather than the object. Ageing the
window returned by openPairing() only works while that object is the
registry's own; the contract is that expiry is evaluated on read against the
wall clock, so the clock is the thing to control. It now also checks the
tick before the TTL, so the assertion is about expiry rather than about
pairing being broken outright.

Three README code fences were untagged (markdownlint MD040) — a diagram,
sample output and a file listing, all `text`.

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Seven fixes from the review of milind-soni#159, each one a case the original handled
by assuming it would not happen.

**The control plane was open to any page you were reading.** Host is checked,
which stops DNS rebinding, and stops nothing else: 127.0.0.1 is a real
address to a browser, a POST to it carries a correct Host, and a simple
request is never preflighted — so CORS never gets a say. The page cannot read
the reply and does not need to: `POST /pairing` opens a pairing window and
`DELETE /devices/:id` revokes a phone, both on the way in. Origin separates
the two callers, and the control page's own writes carry this server's
origin, so it is matched against Host rather than refused outright. A blanket
refusal is what the device port can afford — there, no legitimate client is a
browser. Here exactly one is.

**A quiet harness held the phone forever.** `http.request` has no deadline
for the headers phase, so a harness that accepted the socket and then said
nothing left the device's request open until somebody killed something.
Thirty seconds on the headers only: once they arrive the clock is off, which
is what an SSE stream — a response that deliberately never ends — requires.

**Two ways to grow memory without a bound**, both reachable by a device just
being slow or an upstream just being broken: the SSE relay ignored what
`res.write` returned, so a phone reading slower than the harness writes put
the difference in this process; and the scrubber buffered to a frame
boundary, which is bounded only by the sender sending one. Backpressure now
pauses the harness, and the event buffer has a ceiling. Passing it drops the
stream — there is no safe way to flush half an event, since unterminated
corrupts it and unscrubbed defeats the file.

**`isJson` missed `+json`.** One RFC 9457 error response and `resumeCursors`
reaches a phone unscrubbed.

**The sidecar's own two ports could be set to the same number**, which bound
in order and failed with an EADDRINUSE naming a port the person can see
nothing on. Refused by name, like the harness's ports already were.

**A bound socket still emits `error`** — EMFILE on accept, which is what a
phone reconnecting a stream in a loop eventually causes. The bind handler was
removed on `listening`, so that became an uncaught exception: the sidecar
dies and every paired phone loses the machine over one refused connection.
In `RemoteListener` the same throw lands inside the harness itself.

**0700 and 0600 on the data directory.** What it holds is one hash per paired
phone rather than a token, so this is posture rather than a hole — but the
default published to every account on the machine which phones someone owns
and when they last used them.

Tests cover each: cross-origin write refused and same-origin admitted, the
quiet harness answered 504 rather than hung, an unterminated event ending the
stream instead of growing it, the `+json` suffix, and the port collision.

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claude added 6 commits August 17, 2026 03:19
The remainder of milind-soni#159's review, plus the findings the first round of fixes
attracted. Grouped by what they are rather than by who raised them.

**Cleanup that never happened.** A device that walks out of range mid-request
left the harness talking to nobody: the SSE path hung up on its upstream, and
the other two did not — a piped download kept being produced, and a JSON
response kept being buffered. Both now go through one rule, placed where it
covers the case neither branch could: a phone that disappears *before* the
harness has answered at all. Guarded on `writableEnded` so an ordinary
finished response does not tear down a keep-alive socket on its way out. The
request direction gets the same treatment.

While there: that JSON buffer had no ceiling. It is the size of the response,
and nothing upstream promises that is small.

**`[::1]` is loopback.** `Host: [::1]:8811` split on its first colon is `[`,
which matches no allowlist — so the sidecar refused the address the browser
was handed. Bracketed literals are unwrapped, and only a port may follow the
bracket: without that, `[::1].evil.example` unwraps to `::1` and the parser
becomes the hole rather than the fix.

**A full fleet answered a wrong code with "too many paired devices."** The
limit was checked before the code was, so a guesser learned something about
the machine and paid none of their five attempts for it. Order swapped. The
window survives a full fleet, so removing a phone and retyping the same code
still works.

**Records loaded from disk are normalised.** `id` and `tokenHash` decide
whether a record is a device at all; the rest is display, and a phone that
works is not worth discarding over a missing field. What the missing field
used to produce was a list entry called "undefined", last seen "NaN min ago".

**mDNS: three.** The goodbye datagram was fired and the socket closed in the
same tick, which discards it — so the records it withdraws sat in caches for
75 minutes pointing at a computer that had stopped answering. Announcements
went to the bind port rather than to 5353, which is a port nobody listens on
and throws outright when the bind was ephemeral. And the responder answered
queries from any source, which is a reflector: the answer is larger than the
question, so a spoofed address turns the socket into an amplifier (RFC 6762
§5.5, §11).

**Seven Tailscale probes at five seconds each** is thirty-five seconds of
startup when several hang — and they hang together, since the reason is
usually the same one. One budget for the loop; the rest are reported skipped
rather than silently dropped.

**`RemoteListener` is gone.** A socket lifecycle with no callers, left behind
when the companion moved out of the harness. Deleting it answers the race
that was found in it, on the grounds that the fastest correct version of
unused code is no code.

**And the small ones:** the `bin` entry pointed at a `.ts` file with no
shebang that Node will not execute; the README documented a default for
`OMB_COMPANION_NAME` that the code does not use and omitted `OMB_WEBHOOK_PORT`
entirely; the proxy test picked its ports at random from a 3000-wide range,
which collides with whatever else is running and reads as a failure of the
code under test; the pairing test revoked `devices[0]` rather than the device
it had just paired; and the suite now names `OMB_COMPANION_DIR` explicitly
rather than relying on a redirected HOME two files away — the device tests
delete that directory, and a delete should not stand on that footing.

Docstrings on the exported surface throughout, which the coverage gate wants
and which the file-level comments were carrying alone.

`pnpm typecheck` clean, 550 passing.

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CI went red on macOS and Windows and stayed green on Linux, which is the
shape of a mistake in the previous commit rather than of a flake.

That commit replaced the proxy test's randomly-chosen harness port with
`listen(0)`, on the reasoning that a port the kernel picks is a port that is
definitely free. It is — for as long as you hold it. The probe then closes so
the harness can bind it, and `listen(0)` allocates from the operating system's
*ephemeral* range: 49152+ on macOS and Windows, the range every outbound
socket draws from. Between the probe closing and the harness binding, anything
on the machine can take that port, and on those two runners something did.
Linux allocates from higher up and quieter, so it passed, which is the worst
possible outcome for noticing.

Verified-free was the right half of that idea; ephemeral was the wrong half.
Candidates now come from a fixed range below every platform's dynamic range,
each still verified by binding it, and retried when taken.

The failure also took forty seconds to say nothing. Three reasons, all fixed,
because the next boot problem should be legible on the first read:

- The sidecar's own `listen` had no error path, so a bind failure emitted
  `error`, never called back, and hung the hook to its timeout.
- The health-check `fetch` had no timeout, so a port where something accepts
  without answering hangs the loop past its own deadline.
- The boot deadline assumed laptop speed. Forty-five seconds now, in a hook
  that allows ninety — a cold Windows runner starting a type-stripping Node
  process is not a laptop.

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The disconnect test aborts once the request has reached the upstream — which
it established by sleeping 250ms and assuming. That is a bet on how fast the
machine is, and the commit before last lost exactly that bet on two of three
CI platforms.

On a runner slow enough to miss the window, the stub's handler has not run
when the abort lands, so the response it was going to close never exists, and
the test waits on a promise nothing will resolve. The stub now says when it
has the request, and the abort waits for that.

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Ubuntu went red on `rmSync(home)` in server/index.test.ts with EACCES — a
test this branch does not touch, failing for a reason this repository has
already diagnosed once.

`server/testing/setup.ts` carries the diagnosis in a comment: a signal is a
request, not an event. `kill` returns when the signal is delivered, not when
the process is gone, and a process that is still alive is still creating
files under its home. Resolving in the same tick as SIGKILL starts the delete
against a live writer. A laptop wins that race every time and a loaded runner
loses it, which is why it reads as a phantom rather than as a bug — and why
it surfaced here as a permissions error in a suite that had nothing to do
with whatever was slow that day.

The fix was applied to `setup.ts` and nowhere else. Four spawning tests still
had the original: index, unattended, branching, comms. It is the same twenty
lines each time, so it is one function now — wait for `close` with a floor
under it, then retry the delete briefly, and never fail a green suite over a
temp directory.

Found while confirming the macOS and Windows fix in the previous commit
landed. It did: both platforms pass, and this is what was underneath.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJjRfjb48qJdxJzfKSPoAa
Both of these were checks that looked like checks and stopped short of being
ones.

**The Tailscale budget only asked.** `execFile`'s timeout sends SIGTERM, and
a wedged CLI is free to ignore it — so the deadline that the previous commit
described as bounding startup bounded a polite request to stop, and nothing
else. SIGKILL is not a request. And `status --json` describes the whole
tailnet against a default 1 MiB cap: a large enough tailnet failed the probe
with ENOBUFS, which is indistinguishable from "Tailscale is not installed" in
everything the user sees. Explicit and generous, but still a bound — the
alternative is a subprocess deciding how much memory this process uses.

**An unparseable Host skipped the loopback check.** The guard read
`if (host && host !== "127.0.0.1" && …)`, so a Host that parsed to nothing
was waved through — and `::1` and `:8811` both parse to nothing, being
malformed: an IPv6 literal has to be bracketed, and a port needs a host in
front of it. The check declined to have an opinion in exactly the cases it
should have refused. Only an *absent* Host skips now, which is HTTP/1.0 and
predates the attack; anything present and unrecognised is refused, that being
the only safe direction for a check whose job is to say no.

Neither is a way into this server on its own — it binds 127.0.0.1, and the
Origin check added earlier is what actually stops a browser. Both are the
belt this file claims to be wearing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJjRfjb48qJdxJzfKSPoAa
`freePorts` verifies a port by binding it and then releases it, so the real
listener can take it. That makes two calls to it non-independent in the one
direction that matters: by the time the second runs, the first call's ports
are free again, and free is exactly what it goes looking for. It could hand
back a port already spoken for — a one-in-a-few-thousand collision, and
precisely the collision this helper was added to rule out.

Three consecutive ports, asked for once: the harness, its webhook receiver
one above it, and the sidecar above that.

Third time this file's port handling has been wrong, and each time the bug
was in the gap between "this port is free" and "this port is still free when
something binds it".

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJjRfjb48qJdxJzfKSPoAa
claude and others added 14 commits August 17, 2026 16:46
One commit landed upstream since the last sync: milind-soni#190, which adds an oxlint
"anti-slop" ruleset, deletes the checked-in dist-server/ build output, and
gitignores it.

The only conflict was .gitignore — this branch ignores dist-companion,
upstream now ignores dist-server. Keep both. The dist-server/ deletions
ride along in the merge, which incidentally satisfies this PR's own
checklist line about never editing that directory.

Note for later: `pnpm lint` is not wired into CI and the existing server/
code does not pass it either, so this merge takes the ruleset as-is without
attempting to lint the companion code against it.

Verified on the merged tree: typecheck, full suite (73 files, 622 passed,
8 skipped), check:electron, build:companion, production UI build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ACfMX71nKJyzHU5Z3by3dd
Two conflicts, both the shape of parallel evolution rather than
disagreement:

- server/index.test.ts: upstream added a bounded rmSync retry for the
  Linux scratch-cleanup failure — the same symptom this branch had already
  root-caused. Kept this branch's stopAndClean, which also waits out the
  same-tick-SIGKILL race that makes the retry necessary in the first place.
- .gitignore: both sides appended at the same spot; dist-companion and
  dist-server both stay.

The stdin error listener in spawnCli and the shared teardown both survive
the merge, alongside upstream's model-picker, community-team, and
boundary-validation work. 768 tests pass on the result.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJjRfjb48qJdxJzfKSPoAa
Fifteen commits since the last sync. One conflict, and it is the good
kind: upstream's f66d30f fixed the Linux scratch-cleanup flake in
server/index.test.ts with an inline retry loop — the same flake this
branch fixed at the root two syncs ago. Their loop still resolves in the
same tick as the SIGKILL, which is the race itself, so the resolution
keeps this branch's waitForExit + removeTempDir and notes that it carries
upstream's intent.

Everything else merged clean, including upstream's own churn in
env-path.test.ts and store.tsx landing over this branch's edits.

Verified on the merged tree: typecheck, full suite — now 84 files, 789
passed, 8 skipped, upstream's new suites included — check:electron,
build:companion, production UI build. No teardown errors in the log.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ACfMX71nKJyzHU5Z3by3dd
Both sides added a build-output ignore — dist-companion here, dist-server
upstream (milind-soni#190, which also stopped tracking it) — so .gitignore takes both.
Everything else merged clean.
Stage 0 pointed at a retired branch and at server/devices.ts, which moved
to companion/src/ when the companion left the harness; the stage-2 curl
probed /api/remote, an endpoint that no longer exists — the control plane
answers on 8811/state now. The Tailscale note told people to restart the
harness to pick up the CLI, but it is the sidecar that asks, once, at
startup. And two entries on the not-built list — streaming replies and the
computer panel — have shipped, so the list said less than the app does.
The sidecar was reviewed three times in parallel — on its own PR, under the
toggle PR, and under the iOS PR — and each line fixed what its review found.
This folds all three into one, keeping the strongest version wherever two
lines fixed the same thing differently:

From the iOS line: CRLF/bare-CR-tolerant SSE framing; the mDNS on-link check
derived from interface netmasks rather than an RFC 1918 prefix guess, plus
byte-budget clamping for TXT names; device-record normalization that rejects
zero and negative timestamps; named state-file modes; the byte-pipe branch
destroying the response when the harness dies mid-image; a 16 MiB ceiling on
`tailscale status` output.

From the toggle line: fail-closed scrubbing — a response that parses but
cannot be scrubbed is a 502, never forwarded raw; pairing that rolls back and
reports when the write fails, and a lastSeenAt write failure that no longer
signs a phone out; `originIsLoopback` on the control plane; a runnable bin
(shebang, exec bit, restored bin entry); the self-scheduling control-page
poll.

Kept from this line where others regressed it: `+json` structured-suffix
scrubbing; the fail-closed SSE ceiling (the toggle line's cap silently
dropped a frame); the goodbye-datagram flush; the headers-phase deadline
with its 504/502 distinction; the pairing code checked before the device
cap, so a wrong guess cannot probe fleet state.

One bearer parser everywhere, case-insensitive per RFC 7235.
The coverage each review round produced, folded into one suite: the CRLF
framing trio and the on-link and byte-clamp suites from the iOS line; the
control-plane suite, the fail-closed response suite, and the failing-disk
device cases from the toggle line; this line's verified-free-port harness
kept as the skeleton throughout.

Two assertions changed meaning on purpose, both because the reconciled
control plane keeps the strictest of the three origin policies — only the
exact addressed authority passes. A cross-origin GET is now refused (a
safe-method list is a list that goes stale the day a read starts leaking),
and a loopback origin on any other port is refused with it.

The toggle line's RemoteListener suite is deliberately absent: the class it
tests was deleted with its last caller.

9 files, 113 tests.
The toggle layer lands on top of the unioned companion/ from the sidecar
branch, which already folds in every fix this line made to the sidecar —
its own copies resolve wholesale to the union.

Kept from this line: the electron toggle itself, the Companion settings
section, and the newer test teardown primitives (waitForExit and
removeTempDir), which all four spawning suites now use; the sidecar
branch's stopAndClean and teardown.ts retire in their favour. Kept from
the sidecar branch: the explicit OMB_COMPANION_DIR redirect in test setup,
and the Windows dying-stdin guard in procs.ts.

The RemoteListener suite goes with the class it tested — deleted with its
last caller. The README regains the Settings → Companion paragraph, which
belongs at this layer where the toggle exists.
The iOS layer now sits on the reconciled sidecar and toggle layers, so
every companion/ and toggle-layer file resolves wholesale to the layer
that owns it — the fixes this line carried for those layers are all in
the union below, and its own copies retire. What this layer keeps is what
is genuinely its own: ios/, the fixture capture script, the testing
runbook, and the companion docs.
testDecodesThePagedFleet unwraps a group with three messages and a page
boundary, and the capture script never created one — the committed fixture's
room was an accident of whichever harness the fixtures were last captured
against, and the first regeneration on a clean machine failed the test.

The script now creates the room itself: directly on the harness, because
room creation is deliberately not on the sidecar's allowlist and so is setup
the phone cannot perform — then five messages through the sidecar, captured
at messages=3, which is what makes the pinned count and hasMore=true
properties of the capture rather than of history.
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Kudos to this, This addition is going to be great. reviewing and merging shortly

milind-soni added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
Reviewed and integrated from #161, updated for the SQLite-backed server, hardened at the paired-device boundary, and verified on desktop CI plus an iOS simulator build.
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milind-soni merged commit 2753d0b into milind-soni:main Aug 17, 2026
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