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Fixes #2770

Problem

On herdr-core, an agent unpinned in Ovis whose terminal.label write failed came back pinned once its terminal returned as a shell and an agent ran there again. For a shell terminal whose label had not changed, heard only counted a pin in Ovis's list as Ovis's side, since the Agents list prunes a shell's row; it could not tell that prune from a real unpin whose write failed.

Fix

server/herdr-core/pin-label.ts now records a pending Ovis change per agreed terminal when its label write fails, kept on disk in herdr-core-pins.json (pending, next to shells). Such a terminal skips the shell rule, so it settles by the usual rule: a label changed since the agreement still wins (the Herdr app's change), otherwise Ovis's list does. The mark is cleared when an agreement is set (a write succeeds or both sides agree), and when the terminal goes away or is pruned.

Validation

• New test in server/herdr-core/pin-label.test.ts (the issue's steps): fails on origin/main (pins ends ["local:t1"]), passes with the fix.
• bun test server/herdr-core/: 139 pass, 0 fail.
• bun run check fast: passed (typecheck, build, unit tests 11221 pass / 0 fail / 44 skip).

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Summary

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• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where an agent could remain pinned in Ovis after being unpinned if its terminal label could not be updated. The unpin now remains in preferences when the agent returns.

The bridge now persists pending Ovis pin changes when a terminal-label write fails, excludes pending terminals from shell-side pin reconciliation, and clears pending state during agreement updates and terminal cleanup. A regression test covers an unpin across stream loss, shell return, and agent restart.

Changes: Pin reconciliation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Persist pending pin state server/herdr-core/pin-label.ts	The agreement document now stores pending terminal keys. The bridge loads only valid pending keys that are also present in the agreed-pin map, and saves changes when pending state is added or cleared.
Reconcile failed writes and returning shells server/herdr-core/pin-label.ts, server/herdr-core/pin-label.test.ts, changelog.d/herdr-core-failed-unpin-shell.md	A failed label write marks an agreed terminal as pending. The shell-side pin check skips pending terminals. Terminal removal and snapshot pruning clear pending keys. The regression test covers the failed-unpin sequence across stream loss and agent restart; the changelog records the fix.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• devswha/ovis#2749: It changes the same bridgePins reconciliation state for terminals that return as shells.
• devswha/ovis#2694: It introduces bridgePins and persisted agreed-pin state, which this change extends with pending state.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 81f81

An unpin can still be lost after a disk-write failure followed by restart before another successful save. This bounded persistence gap warrants a small fix; otherwise the change addresses the intended reconnection scenario.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the herdr-core fix and the failed label-write scenario after a terminal returns as a shell.
Description check		The description explains the problem, fix, linked issue, regression test, and validation results. It does not use the template's exact "## Change" heading or list skipped checks, but the required info…
Linked Issues check		Issue #2770 requires persistent tracking of an Ovis change when a terminal-label write fails, shell-rule bypass on return, clearing after agreement or terminal removal, and a regression test. `pin-lab…
Out of Scope Changes check		The implementation changes, regression test, and changelog entry all directly support issue #2770. The diff contains no demonstrated unrelated behavior or files.

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The description explains the problem, fix, linked issue, regression test, and validation results. It does not use the template's exact "## Change" heading or list skipped checks, but the required information is mostly complete.

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Issue #2770 requires persistent tracking of an Ovis change when a terminal-label write fails, shell-rule bypass on return, clearing after agreement or terminal removal, and a regression test. pin-label.ts persists pending, marks an agreed terminal after a failed write, excludes it from the shell rule, and clears it on agreement, removal, or snapshot pruning. The new pin-label.test.ts test covers the failed unpin, agent exit, reconnect as shell, and agent return sequence. It verifies that Ovis remains unpinned and that the label write is retried.

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Review round 1 (omo at 81f815c: BLOCK; Codex Terra 6.1 xhigh) and how each finding was resolved:

Fixed (each with a test that failed first):

• A write that landed (its labels event was heard) but whose RPC answer was lost no longer marks the terminal pending (omo Observe mode, held-input draft, and status push for every pane #1 / Codex fix(server): cancel an attach whose client leaves before the pty is ready #3).
• A failed write that a newer change in Ovis's list took back (unpin, then pin again before the unpin failed) no longer marks the terminal pending (omo fix(server): share one pty when clients attach the same pane concurrently #2).
• A pin change made in the Herdr app after Ovis's failed write (seen while the terminal was a shell) clears pending, so the app's later change wins (Codex Observe mode, held-input draft, and status push for every pane #1).

Left as is (MEDIUM, not regressions of this fix):

• Codex fix(server): share one pty when clients attach the same pane concurrently #2: an Agents-list prune made while the bridge's stream was down and the terminal still counted as an agent, whose label write then failed, is indistinguishable from a real unpin in Ovis. Taking it as Ovis's change is the behaviour herdr-core: an Ovis unpin whose label write failed comes back after the terminal returns as a shell #2770 asks for.
• Codex feat: web push alerts with the app closed #4: a failed pin in Ovis whose row the Agents list later prunes as a shell is still lost; pending records no wanted value. Same as on main before this PR; a follow-up if it shows up in practice.

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Nitpick comments: 1

server/herdr-core/pin-label.test.ts: 1

353-357: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Restart the bridge in the failed-unpin test so it covers the persisted pending mark.

The test runs on one live bridge and checks only in-memory state. An implementation that keeps the pending mark only in memory, or stops saving or loading it, still passes. Restarting the bridge on the same state directory makes the assertions depend on the saved mark.

Suggested test change

     await core.drop();
     await pins.idle();
-    core.state.failing = false;
-    core.tell({ type: "status", terminal: "t1", data: { status: AGENT } });
-    await pins.idle();
-    expect(preferences.get().pins).toEqual([]);
+    pins.stop();
+    const restarted = new PreferenceStore(dir);
+    const reopened = fakeCore(terminals);
+    const again = bridge(reopened, restarted, dir);
+    await reopened.opened();
+    await again.idle();
+    reopened.tell({ type: "status", terminal: "t1", data: { status: AGENT } });
+    await again.idle();
+    expect(restarted.get().pins).toEqual([]);
     expect(terminals[0]!.labels).toEqual({});
-    expect(core.written).toEqual([{ terminal: "t1", labels: { "herdr.pinned": "" } }]);
+    expect(reopened.written).toEqual([{ terminal: "t1", labels: { "herdr.pinned": "" } }]);

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Review comment at @server/herdr-core/pin-label.test.ts around lines 353 - 357:
Update the failed-unpin test to stop the current bridge and reopen it using the
same state directory before sending the status update. Assert the resulting pin
state and label write through the reopened bridge and its fresh PreferenceStore,
so the test verifies the pending mark survives persistence and restart.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @server/herdr-core/pin-label.ts:
- Line 153: On each failed label write, update the failure handler to call
saveAgreed() whenever agreed contains the key, even if pending already contains
it; keep adding the key to pending idempotently so repeated failures persist the
mark.

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Review comments at @server/herdr-core/pin-label.test.ts:
- Around line 353-357: Update the failed-unpin test to stop the current bridge
and reopen it using the same state directory before sending the status update.
Assert the resulting pin state and label write through the reopened bridge and
its fresh PreferenceStore, so the test verifies the pending mark survives
persistence and restart.

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Review round 2 (omo at 3785341: BLOCK; Codex Terra 6.1 xhigh) and how each finding was resolved:

Fixed (test failed first):

• omo Observe mode, held-input draft, and status push for every pane #1 / Codex Observe mode, held-input draft, and status push for every pane #1 (MEDIUM, reproduced): a failed unpin's pending outlived a later re-pin in Ovis when the retry also failed while the agent quit, so a later prune of the shell's row unpinned the label. pending now means "Ovis's list differs from what was agreed": a failed write that was not heard sets it or clears it from the list as it is then.

Left for follow-up (not reproduced, narrow races; per the one-extra-round rule):

• omo fix(server): share one pty when clients attach the same pane concurrently #2 / Codex fix(server): share one pty when clients attach the same pane concurrently #2 (LOW/MEDIUM, unreproduced): a write held in flight across a stream reconnect, while the app unpins and re-pins the shell before the write fails, can still mark pending.
• omo fix(server): cancel an attach whose client leaves before the pty is ready #3 (LOW): a terminal record told again with a changed pin label (record sets live before heard) does not clear pending.
• Codex fix(server): cancel an attach whose client leaves before the pty is ready #3 (MEDIUM): a failed pin in Ovis whose shell row is later pruned is still lost; same as on main before this PR.

[devswha]

Merge note: merged on the omo review (CLEAR at e0a1f0a after the final fix round), Codex Terra (reproduced findings fixed with failing-first tests) and green required checks. The remaining reproduced MEDIUM, also on main, is tracked in #2787.