fix(herdr-core): leave another hc machine's terminals out of this PC by devswha · Pull Request #2795 · devswha/ovis

devswha · 2026-11-04T23:03:48Z

What

With OVIS_RUNTIME=herdr-core, a terminal on another machine the core reaches (hc machine add vps) was drawn as a workspace of this PC. hc lists and reports those terminals under the machine's name (vps/t14). groups() in server/herdr-core/snapshot.ts took every live terminal, so a labeled one whose herdr.space is not in this core's herdr-app document became a new workspace named from its where label (ubuntu). An unlabeled one landed under Other terminals.

Change

snapshot.ts: onOtherMachine(address) (an address with a /). groups() leaves those terminals out entirely: no workspace, tab or pane, whether they are labeled, placed in the document or neither.
adapter.ts:
- The events subscription drops hc events for those terminals and skips them in the initial records, so no pane.created, status or layout.updated frames go out for them.
- Events that name another machine (that machine's own herdr-app doc changes) are dropped too.
- Pane-addressed calls (pane_id, target) refuse such an address as pane_not_found (agent_not_found for agent.get), so nothing reads from or types into another machine's terminal through this PC.
pin-label.ts: the pin bridge skips those terminals as well. Otherwise the Agents list, which no longer shows them, would prune their pins and the bridge would unpin them on the other machine.

Showing hc machines as PCs of their own is left for later. This only stops the fake workspace.

Validation

Reproduced on origin/main (b2d9e5d) with two isolated hc 0.1.17 cores (own HC_SESSION and XDG dirs; core B added to core A with hc machine add --via). Core A's terminal.list returned vps/t1 labeled herdr.space=spcREMOTE, where=ubuntu / 1. buildSnapshot gave workspaces ["ubuntu", "Other terminals"] with pane vps/t1 in spcREMOTE. hc's event stream reports the same terminals as terminal: "vps/t2".
After the fix, the same cores give ["Other terminals"] with only the local t1.
New tests in snapshot.test.ts, adapter.test.ts and pin-label.test.ts (herdr-core: a terminal of another hc machine becomes a fabricated workspace of this PC #2768) fail without the change. The adapter's event assertions fail with only the terminal guard or only the machine guard removed.
Live: a doc.set on the other core reaches this one as {"type":"doc","machine":"vps"} with no terminal.
bun test server/herdr-core/: 149 pass, 8 skip (live hc tests need OVIS_TEST_HC_BIN).
bun run check fast: ok (workflow syntax, generated types/themes, typecheck, build, unit tests 11250 pass / 0 fail / 44 skip).

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coderabbitai · 2026-11-04T23:04:19Z

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Bug Fixes
- Terminals on machines added with hc machine add no longer appear as workspaces in the current PC’s sidebar. They remain hidden until those machines appear as PCs themselves.
- Remote terminals are treated as unavailable for pane actions, and their status and lifecycle events no longer appear on the current PC.

Machine-qualified terminals are now excluded from this PC’s snapshot and event stream. Adapter lookups reject remote terminal targets with the applicable missing-entity error. Tests cover snapshot contents, lookups, and event delivery.

Changes: Remote terminal isolation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Snapshot terminal filtering `server/herdr-core/snapshot.ts`, `server/herdr-core/snapshot.test.ts`, `changelog.d/hc-other-machine-terminals.md`	`onOtherMachine` identifies addresses containing `/`. Snapshot grouping excludes those terminals. Tests cover remote terminals and local terminals with remote parents. The changelog describes the sidebar behavior.
Adapter lookup and event filtering `server/herdr-core/adapter.ts`, `server/herdr-core/adapter.test.ts`	Pane and target lookups reject remote terminal addresses with the configured missing-entity error. Event handling ignores remote terminal events and excludes remote terminals from initial event-stream processing. Tests cover lookup errors and event delivery.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related issues

devswha/ovis#2497 — Proposes showing hc machines as separate PCs and identifies exclusion of machine-qualified terminals from the local snapshot and events as an interim behavior.

Possibly related PRs

devswha/ovis#2783: Addresses machine-qualified terminals in snapshot grouping, lookups, and event delivery.
devswha/ovis#2442: Adds the herdr-core runtime paths modified by this PR.
devswha/ovis#2669: Adds parent-terminal placement in herdr-core snapshots, related to the remote-parent test case.

Suggested reviewers: nahwan-kim

Merge Risk: Low · up to 67ae2

Remote-terminal filtering is implemented, but its initial-subscription path lacks a regression assertion. Adding the observer assertion would improve confidence; no current runtime failure is established.

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Title check		The title "fix(herdr-core): leave another hc machine's terminals out of this PC" names the main change: terminals from another hc machine are excluded from this PC's snapshot. It matches the summarize…
Linked Issues check		Issue `#2768` requires machine-qualified terminals such as `vps/tN` to stay out of this PC's snapshot and events. `onOtherMachine()` detects addresses containing `/`. `groups()` excludes those terminals…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue `#2768`. Production changes prevent another machine's terminals from appearing in the local snapshot, event stream, and pane-addressed operations. The added tests verify th…
Description check		The description includes the issue reference, a detailed Change section, and a Validation section with commands, results, skipped live tests, reproduction details, and regression coverage. It does not…

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The title "fix(herdr-core): leave another hc machine's terminals out of this PC" names the main change: terminals from another hc machine are excluded from this PC's snapshot. It matches the summarized changes in snapshot.ts and adapter.ts and the linked issue objective. It is 68 characters, a single sentence, and uses a conventional fix scope.

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Issue #2768 requires machine-qualified terminals such as vps/tN to stay out of this PC's snapshot and events. onOtherMachine() detects addresses containing /. groups() excludes those terminals before workspace, tab, and pane placement. subscribe() filters remote initial records and drops remote events. Pane-addressed calls reject remote addresses with pane_not_found, and agent.get uses agent_not_found. The added snapshot and adapter tests cover placed, labeled, unlabeled, parented, event, and pane-send cases.

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The changes stay within issue #2768. Production changes prevent another machine's terminals from appearing in the local snapshot, event stream, and pane-addressed operations. The added tests verify that behavior. The changelog documents the same behavior. No unrelated feature implementation is present.

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Nitpick comments: 1

server/herdr-core/adapter.test.ts: 1
276-279: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Assert that the initial subscription record never reaches the observer.

The test sends a vps/t2 record in the events.subscribe response, but no assertion checks that the record is excluded. The initial-record filter at server/herdr-core/adapter.ts:776-781 could be removed without any current assertion failing. The remote record would then reach remember, which calls the SeenObserver at adapter.ts:668. Pass a spy to setup and assert that vps/t2 is never observed.
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     let channel = 0;
     const typed: unknown[] = [];
+    const observed: string[] = [];
     const { socket, cores } = await setup([terminal("t1"), terminal("vps/t2")], {
       "events.subscribe": () => {
         channel = cores.at(-1)!.channel();
         return { channel, seq: 1, terminals: [terminal("vps/t2", { status: { app: "codex", state: "idle" } })] };
       },
       "terminal.attach": (params) => { typed.push(params["terminal"]); return { channel: cores.at(-1)!.channel(), terminal: terminal("vps/t2") }; },
-    });
+    }, (address) => { observed.push(address); });
...
     expect(frames).toEqual([{ event: "pane.created", data: { type: "pane_created", pane_id: "t4" } }]);
+    expect(observed).not.toContain("vps/t2");
   });
This is a test-coverage gap for behavior that works today. The current implementation excludes the record, and the test passes. The gap lets a future change to the initial-record filter pass unnoticed.
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Review comment at @server/herdr-core/adapter.test.ts around lines 276 - 279:
Update the test around setup to pass a SeenObserver spy that records observed
addresses, then assert that “vps/t2” is never observed after processing the
initial subscription response. Preserve the existing assertions and exercise the
current initial-record filtering behavior.

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server/herdr-core/adapter.ts-685-686: 1

685-686: Minor · Potential issue · Quick win

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We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

The event filter checks only the optional envelope event.terminal, while the created branch independently remembers event.data.address. If forwarded remote creation events omit the envelope terminal or qualify only the embedded record, remote records still reach remember, observeSeen, and lifecycle emission.

Remote-terminal creation could leak into this PC's event stream and remote records could reach the seen-state observer.

This can occur when: hc delivers a creation event with data.address equal to vps/t3 and an absent or unqualified envelope terminal.

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Review comments at @server/herdr-core/adapter.test.ts:
- Around line 276-279: Update the test around setup to pass a SeenObserver spy
that records observed addresses, then assert that “vps/t2” is never observed
after processing the initial subscription response. Preserve the existing
assertions and exercise the current initial-record filtering behavior.

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devswha · 2026-11-04T23:10:45Z

Review round (omo + Codex Terra xhigh) on 67ae272, resolved in ba98ae3:

MEDIUM (both reviewers, reproduced): hiding a remote agent let a local pin change unpin it on the other machine. bridgePins still took vps/* terminals from hc's stream and listed local:vps/t2. The Agents list then pruned that row it could not see, and the bridge wrote herdr.pinned="" on vps/t2. Fixed: pin-label.ts skips other-machine addresses in the subscribe snapshot and in events, so they never enter live and no label is written for them. New test: pin-label.test.ts "leaves another hc machine's terminals alone" fails on 67ae272 (local:vps/t2, local:vps/t3 were listed).
LOW (Codex), confirmed live and fixed: another machine's herdr-app doc change emitted a local layout.updated. Against two isolated hc 0.1.17 cores, a doc.set on the other core reaches this one as {"type":"doc","machine":"vps"} with no terminal. The adapter now drops any event that names a machine. Local events carry no machine field. The adapter test covers it and fails without the guard.
LOW (omo), no change: attach and seen-label call hc with the address they are given. Direct attach resolves the pane through the (now filtered) session snapshot first (server/core/terminal-process.ts terminalInfoFor), so a vps/... id answers pane_not_found. observeSeen is only fed from the adapter's subscription, which now skips other machines' records and events.
LOW (omo), no change: onOtherMachine relies on hc's address grammar. hc 0.1.17 makes local addresses t<n> and names go through check_name. Only machine-qualified addresses contain /, as the doc comment says.

devswha · 2026-11-04T23:17:14Z

Re-review on ba98ae3: omo CLEAR, and Codex Terra (xhigh) reported no findings. Two unreproduced LOWs are left as notes, with no change:

onOtherMachine (snapshot.ts) reads any address with a / as another machine's. That holds while hc keeps local addresses bare (t7, as in hc 0.1.17). When machines become PCs of their own, prefer an explicit machine field from hc if it offers one.
The adapter drops every event that carries a machine field. Today only another machine's events carry it (verified live: {"type":"doc","machine":"vps"}), and this core's own events have none. If hc ever tags local events with it, revisit this.

devswha · 2026-11-05T00:25:37Z

Merge note: merged on the omo review (CLEAR at this head), Codex Terra (no HIGH; reproduced findings fixed, the rest in the PR comments or follow-up issues) and green required checks. CodeRabbit did not review this head.

…2955) Fixes #2497 ## What With `OVIS_RUNTIME=herdr-core`, every other machine the core reaches (`hc machine add vps`, or added in the Herdr app) is now a PC of its own in the sidebar, reached through this PC's core. Nothing of Ovis is installed on that machine. Before, those machines did not show at all (since #2795 their terminals were only kept out of this PC). A PC of the core shows: - its workspaces and tabs, as its own `herdr-app` document lays them out (`doc.get { on }`), or as Ovis's labels and `ovis-layout` document there; - its live terminals, typing, screen reads, status and alerts; - new workspaces, tabs and splits, started there (`terminal.run { on }`). ## How The server already shows a remote PC through an endpoint `{ url, token }` that serves herdr's API (an SSH bridge, or the relay forward since #2829). A machine of the core gets the same thing, run locally: - `server/herdr-core/machine-scope.ts`: `MachineScopedConnection`, an `HcConnection` that shows the core as that machine sees itself. Only `lab/…` terminals are listed, without the prefix (`parent` too). Every address goes back with the prefix. `terminal.run`, `doc.get` and `doc.set` get `on: lab`. The event stream keeps only that machine's events, including its `doc` events (`machine: "lab"`). The adapter, the attach and the `herdr.seen` marker therefore run unchanged. - `server/herdr-core/machine-entry.ts`: a server per machine (`createServer({ bridgeOnly: true })`) on loopback with a random token, over that connection. `OVIS_HC_MACHINE` selects the scoped connection in `runtime.ts`. - `server/herdr-core/machine-bridge.ts`: `listHcMachines` (`machine.list`, temporary machines left out) and `startMachineBridge`, which starts that server as a child. The child runs with an empty home folder of its own and only the program and core-finding variables. This PC's agent transcripts and processes are not that machine's, so none can be taken for one of its panes. For the same reason, `pane.process_info` gives no pids for another machine, and `worktree.*` is refused there, because git would run here. The child ends when this server's stdin pipe to it closes. - `server/machines.ts`: a new PC kind, `hc`, read from `machine.list` every 5 s. Its id is `hc-<machine id>`, which is stable across renames. A rename restarts its server under the new name, because addresses change. A machine that is not connected shows hc's reason. hc PCs are never saved to `machines.json`, and rename, remove and setup are refused ("add, rename or remove it with `hc machine` or in the Herdr app"). In the sidebar, the PC's manage panel says the same instead of offering those buttons. Answers to the issue's open questions: 1. SSH and relay PCs stay listed beside the core's machines. 2. The PC id is the hc machine's permanent id. Safety (from the review round, each reproduced first with three isolated cores, one in its own mount namespace): - hc names a machine by a name another machine can take (`hc machine rename`). Every scoped call goes to hc under the machine's permanent id (`<id>/t3`, `on: <id>`), which hc takes wherever it takes the name, so no call can reach another machine. The current name, looked up by id first, is used only to filter what hc lists and reports by name. Before this, input to the old `lab` landed on `vps` after `lab→lab2`, `vps→lab`; after it, the call is refused and nothing reaches `vps`. - The machine's server (`localFiles: false`) refuses the routes that read or write this disk for its panes: `/api/fs/*`, `pane/files`, `pane/image`, `workspace/diff/*`, `workspace/directories`, `workspace/pr*` (gh and git run there). Before this, it served a file only this PC has and could not see a file only that machine has. A new workspace's folder goes to that machine unchecked: a folder that exists only there now works. - Its adapter socket sits in a short temp folder, so a long state folder cannot push it past the unix socket limit. A scoped event line past 4 MiB is passed whole to the adapter's reader, which refuses it. Known limits (in docs/guide.md): - Chat history of agents on that machine is not read: their transcripts are there. - That machine's files are not reachable yet (refused, not guessed). The client still offers those entry points and shows the refusal. - Pins and "seen" are not shared with the Herdr app on that machine. - Each machine costs one more Bun process on this PC. ## Validation - `bun run check fast`: pass on the merged head (11959 pass, 0 fail; typecheck, build, generated types fresh). - `bun test server/herdr-core/ server/hc-machines.test.ts`: pass. The new scoped-adapter tests and the manager tests go red when their owner is broken: `on` dropped, another machine's terminals kept, pids kept, hc PCs saved, no restart on rename, no id check, disk routes served. - `OVIS_TEST_HC_BIN=<hc 0.1.14> bun test ./server/herdr-core/live.test.ts` and the same with hc 0.1.17: pass. The new live test starts two isolated cores, adds the second with `hc machine add --via`, then starts, types into and reads a terminal there through the scoped adapter. - Manual: a real server on an isolated core holding machine `lab` (another isolated core). `lab` appears as a connected PC with its own workspaces. Its live terminal attaches with history, and typing in the browser reached `lab`'s shell (`hc read` there showed it). Workspace create, input and read through `/api/machines/hc-…/` all work. The local PC shows only its own terminal. Stopping the server ended the per-machine child. - Screenshots of the manage panel, dark and light at 1280 and 390, are in the comment below.

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