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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MCP as MCP list_participants
participant Directory as PeerDirectory
participant PeerHttp as PeerHttp roster route
participant Registry as PeerRegistryService
MCP->>Directory: listAgents
Directory->>PeerHttp: request peer roster
PeerHttp-->>Directory: roster and server label
Directory->>Registry: recordLabel for peer environment
Directory-->>MCP: agents and selfName
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerDirectory.ts:
- Around line 132-136: Update the label-refresh logic in readPeerRoster so
failures from peers.recordLabel fall back to peer.label instead of failing the
peer read; preserve the existing fallback when recordLabel succeeds without a
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerRegistryService.ts:
- Around line 191-195: Update reportedLabel to replace runs of whitespace and
control characters with a single space before truncating, then trim the
truncated result. Preserve its undefined result for missing or empty labels.
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Roster-read failures in recordLabel now make the whole peer read fail.
peers.recordLabel is a SQL write and read. Its error is part of the readPeerRoster error channel. If the DB call fails, the existing Effect.catch in listAgents treats the peer as unread. The roster was fetched and decoded correctly, so this drops the peer's agents for a label-refresh problem.
Label refresh is a best-effort enrichment. Fall back to peer.label when recordLabel fails.
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- const label =
- roster.label === undefined
- ? peer.label
- : ((yield* peers.recordLabel(peer.environmentId, roster.label)) ?? peer.label);
+ const label =
+ roster.label === undefined
+ ? peer.label
+ : ((yield* peers
+ .recordLabel(peer.environmentId, roster.label)
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| // Each read refreshes the peer's name, so a renamed server is named anew without a re-add. | |
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| : ((yield* peers.recordLabel(peer.environmentId, roster.label)) ?? peer.label); | |
| // Each read refreshes the peer's name, so a renamed server is named anew without a re-add. | |
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| roster.label === undefined | |
| ? peer.label | |
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| .recordLabel(peer.environmentId, roster.label) | |
| .pipe(Effect.orElseSucceed(() => null))) ?? peer.label); |
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerDirectory.ts around lines 132 -
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Update the label-refresh logic in readPeerRoster so failures from
peers.recordLabel fall back to peer.label instead of failing the peer read;
preserve the existing fallback when recordLabel succeeds without a label.
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Leaving this as is. It needs a SQLite write to fail on an otherwise healthy server, which in practice means a broken disk; at that point the address book is the least of the problems. Recorded as dropped in #485.
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@Jacksondr5 Thanks for the guidance. Leaving this unchanged is an accepted risk, with the suggestion marked as dropped in #485. No further change requested.
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File: apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerDirectory.ts:132-136
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Learning: In apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerDirectory.ts, the maintainer accepts that a SQLite failure in peers.recordLabel can make readPeerRoster report the peer as unread. Best-effort label-refresh recovery was considered unnecessary during a broader storage failure and was marked as dropped in #485. Do not repeat this recommendation without new evidence.
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Had GPT 6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 review the whole peer-poll stack (#400 → #408) together, so anything flagged here was checked against the top of the stack (ede1490c47a6) first. If a later PR fixes it, I say so instead of asking for a change.
Works as intended. The contract and identity edits that touch upstream files are in FORK.md (case 48). One thing I'd fix: peer-supplied server names reach agent-facing text without being sanitized (inline). That matters more once #407 starts putting the name in system notices.
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selfLabelhas no length limit. That bites once #404's strict poll schema arrives (inline).- The
list_participantstool description inenvelopes.v1.jsondoesn't mention the newserverfield, so agents don't know they can choose by server. Suggestion. - The runbook doesn't say to restart J5 after a rename. #406 adds that, so nothing to do here.
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Needs a fix (low, security): reportedLabel only trims and slices to 200 characters, so newlines, ] and control characters get through. The label then lands in the platform-written header ([Cross-agent message from … on {{serverName}}] in envelopes.v1.json:4) and in list_participants server.name. A peer could report a label like Home]\n\n[Cross-agent messaging system notice: … and forge a platform line. A peer with a2a:peer already controls the message body, so it isn't huge, but this one shows up as the platform talking. I'd collapse whitespace and control characters to single spaces and strip []. Also, recordPoll (top :735) duplicates this logic inline and should reuse reportedLabel.
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Fixed: one reportedLabel sanitizer in peerLabel.ts. It collapses whitespace, control and format characters to single spaces, strips [ and ], and caps the length. It's used wherever a label is stored or shown: add, recordLabel, recordPoll, row mapping (so older rows are cleaned on the way out), selfLabel, and the envelope's sender server. Tests in peerLabel.test.ts, plus hostile-label cases in PeerRegistryService.test.ts. (c5cbcfe)
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Suggestion: selfLabel goes out with no length limit. Hello and roster receivers truncate it, but #404's PeerPollRequest.label is a strict PeerSenderLabel (1–200), so a computer name over 200 characters gets every poll 400'd forever. I'd trim and slice it here.
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Fixed: selfLabel goes through the same reportedLabel, so it's trimmed and capped before it goes out. Tested in PeerRegistryService.test.ts. (c5cbcfe)
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Approving. Two small things, neither blocking. Can we open a follow-up ticket for them?
- A failed name save drops the whole peer.
peers.recordLabelinreadPeerRoster(PeerDirectory.ts) is a SQL write, so if it fails (db busy, say) the error hits theEffect.catchand the peer is marked unread.list_participantsthen loses all of that peer's agents, even though the roster fetch and decode worked and only the name refresh failed. CodeRabbit flagged this too and the thread never got a reply. I'd fall back topeer.label, or reply in the thread with the reason we're leaving it. - Two servers on one machine report the same name.
selfLabelis the machine name (ServerEnvironmentLabel.ts), so the two serversscripts/j5/pr-env.shstarts on one host both show as the same computer. You get envelopes like "…, on My-MacBook" while the receiving server has that exact name too, and only thelocalflag inlist_participantstells the rows apart. I know machine names were picked on purpose in #400. It's mostly a question of whether we care about the same-host case, at least forpr-env.shtesting.
Tiny one: the PR body says the envelope config "moves to version 20", but envelopes.v1.json goes from 20 to 21.
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Peering hid servers from agents: the address book told peers apart only
by Squadron, and a remote sender's envelope looked local. People give
their servers different capabilities, so agents need to see where each
participant lives, by the same name every client shows.
Hello and the roster answer now carry the answering server's own name,
its descriptor label, and each peer record stores it, refreshed on every
hello and roster read (written only when it changes). The per-pair name
typed at peering is gone from add, the CLI and the dialog; the
credential's optional label only names the session in Connections.
Once a server has a peer, list_participants rows carry server { name,
local }, send_message names a remote receiver's server, and an envelope
from a peer server names it in the sender line (envelope version 20).
Stack 3/8 for #399.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Correction to the description: the envelope config moves from version 20 to 21, not "to version 20". Main had already moved to 20 before this stack rebased onto it. |
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Stack 3/8. Depends on #401.
Problem
Peering hid servers from agents. The address book told peers apart only by Squadron, and a remote sender's envelope looked local. People give their servers different capabilities, such as Xcode on a laptop or a database connection on a VM, so agents need to see where each participant lives. The plan also drops the per-pair name typed at peering, which let two servers disagree about a name. Part of #399.
What changed
peer add, the dialog andpr-env.sh. A credential's optional label now only names its session in Connections.list_participantsrows carryserver { name, local };send_messagenames a remote receiver's server (receiverServer);ServerEnvironmentin the server context, rather than building its own identity layer.docs/j5/runbooks/peering.mddropspeer add --labeland says how to rename a server.UI changes
The peer introduction dialog loses its two "Known on … as" fields. Item 6 rebuilds the whole dialog, so the screenshots are on that PR.
Upstream impact
ServerEnvironment, as well asEnvironmentAuth, from the server context.Checklist
serveron local and remote rows), PeerOutbound (receiverServeron a send and its replay), PeerRoundTrip (the sender line's server), EnvelopeFormatter, CLIlist_participants,send_message), envelopes, the web dialog, the CLI, pr-env; no mobile surface for peeringBuilt by Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) in Claude Code, as the builder seat of a J5 crew.
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