feat(macapp): remote hosts through a HostDriver: services, writes and terminal panes by joelmoss · Pull Request #237 · joelmoss/workroom

joelmoss · 2026-09-24T21:11:21Z

Fixes #229. Part of #154 (Phase 3).

The Mac app can now reach a remote wr-agent through a driver's byte stream. The stream is ssh host wr-agent relay, so VCS reads and writes, File, Status and Forward run against a remote host through the same connection, manager and router as a local agent.

Four feature commits, then three from review:

The driver and the stream.
SIGPIPE suppression on every agent socket.
Writes to a repository on a remote host.
Terminal panes through the driver.
swift-format (the app CI job's lint).
Review fixes: a remote exec's deadline allows 30s for the barrier wait, and closing a remote pane keeps the session registered as remote, so a second close never reaches the local helpers.
HostStream.failure() checks ssh has exited before reading its exit reason, which otherwise raises an uncatchable exception if ssh is still exiting.

What changes

HostDriver (Core/HostDriver.swift): the four methods (create, deriveFromBase, destroy, openStream) and the declared traits. Its doc requires every driver to authenticate its peer as strongly as a shell login.
ContainerHostDriver: the first driver, and the test fixture. openStream runs ssh -F <its own config> <host> wr-agent relay --socket <path> with an empty environment. The three provisioning methods throw "not implemented"; provisioning is Phase 4.
The ssh config it writes, passed with -F so nothing in ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config applies:
- It cannot prompt: BatchMode, and the pinned host key is the only known key under StrictHostKeyChecking.
- A mismatched key fails closed at once, with "Host key verification failed.".
- No Mac credential crosses: IdentitiesOnly, IdentityAgent none, ForwardAgent no, ClearAllForwardings.
- ServerAliveInterval 15 bounds a dead link, as Persistent remote agent: supervised serve, stdio relay and the container fixture #228 asked.
HostStream: one end of a socketpair, whose other end is ssh's stdin and stdout.
- The connection owns the stream and ends ssh when it closes.
- ssh exiting is the connection ending, so a lost link follows the same generation and fail-pending-calls rules as a dead local agent.
- A handshake that never completes surfaces as serviceUnavailable, carrying what ssh or the relay said (for example "no agent listening on …"). It is not connectionLost, which the local path answers by spawning an agent.
AgentVCSConnection.connect is split in two:
- connect(host:socketPath:) keeps the local behaviour, with a 2s handshake.
- connect(host:stream:) runs the same negotiation over a stream, with a 20s handshake to allow for ssh. The File probe uses the same timeout.
No Mac environment reaches a remote exec request. AgentCommandRunner.request sends a remote host only LC_ALL, GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT and GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS, plus host_environment: true.
- The agent builds the child's environment from its own (host_environment in vcs.rs, reusing the File service's scrub).
- It never sets GIT_SSH_COMMAND, which would override a repository's own core.sshCommand.
- Local requests are unchanged, and never carry the new field (older agents reject unknown fields).
Writes to a remote host (third commit). Every decision stays in CLIVCSWriter; two things move to the host:
- The failure classifier's disk. Its probes (parked rebase, leftover lock, last fetch) read a RepositoryDisk. That is this Mac's (LocalDisk, unchanged), or a snapshot the host's agent reports through a new stat request, read after the command it explains. A lock file on a host is not offered for Reveal in Finder.
- The jj working-copy barrier. The Mac can't flock a file on another host, so the exec request names the shared root (barrier_root) and the agent takes the barrier around that command. Reads that cannot snapshot, and network commands, skip it.
- The barrier is per command, where the local gate holds it for a whole operation. The design doc records that ceiling.
- Exec service version 3 carries host_environment, barrier_root and stat. The app refuses a remote write to an older agent.
Terminal panes (fourth commit). A pane is a process libghostty spawns on its own pty, so it doesn't use openStream.
- HostTerminalDriver.attachCommand gives the pane a command: ssh -t <host> 'env TERM=xterm-256color WORKROOM_SESSION_{ID,SOCKET,CWD}=… wr-agent attach --no-spawn [--no-create]'. The config also has EscapeChar none.
- --no-spawn: with no agent listening there, a shell rather than a spawned agent.
- --no-create, for a restored pane: the agent refuses a session it doesn't hold (CREATE=0, ignored by older agents). The pane becomes a shell saying the session ended. This is one atomic request, where locally the app asks first.
- A pane whose ssh exits 255 (lost link, sleep) reattaches as a restored pane, backing off to 30s. It stops after five quick failures and leaves the error on screen.
- A remote attach reports a session's own 255 as 254, so it never looks like a lost link.
- PersistentSessionService.registerRemoteSession routes a session to its driver. Its local helpers are never asked about a remote session, and its pane gets none of the local session variables. A host that can't be reached gets a pane that says so, never a plain shell on the Mac.
SIGPIPE suppression (second commit). AgentControlClient.transact and PersistentSessionControlClient.exchange now set SO_NOSIGPIPE before connect. A port forward drops a client that reset before accept, where the flag can no longer be set.
The design doc records three decisions:
- the host-key policy;
- auth resolution: host-resolved credentials, no forwarding;
- shell-grade peer authentication, required of every driver.
vcs/scripts/ssh-fixture/run.sh can run any command against the fixture, with WR_SSH_FIXTURE_* exported, including TEST_RUNNER_ copies for xcodebuild. The fixture's supervisor now starts the agent with env -i.

Acceptance criteria (#229)

The HostDriver protocol exists with the four methods and the declared traits, and the container driver implements openStream.
VCS (reads and writes), File, Status and Forward work through the ssh-stdio connection against the container (testEveryServiceAnswersThroughTheDriversStream). A failure there is classified from the host's disk (testARemoteCommitBlockedByALockNamesTheLockOnTheHost). A remote jj write waits on the barrier the agent takes (testARemoteJJCommitWaitsOnTheBarrierTheAgentTakes).
A terminal pane attaches to a remote session and survives a dropped transport: testARemotePaneSurvivesADroppedLinkAndReachesTheSameShell kills the pane's ssh, and the restored pane reaches the same shell pid and a variable set before the drop.
- App restart and laptop sleep are covered only at the process level, because this build has no remote workrooms to open a pane in (Phase 4).
- After a relaunch or a sleep, the app runs the same restored attach the test does. After sleep, the pane's reconnect on ssh's 255 triggers it; that path is unit-reviewed but not exercised in a live app.
Interchangeability services: port forwarding, terminal durability, wakefulness #208's remaining criterion: port forwarding reaches a process running in the container (its own sshd, whose banner comes back through the forward).
No Mac-side HOME, PATH or SSH_AUTH_SOCK reaches a remote exec request (testARemoteExecRequestCarriesNothingFromTheMacsEnvironment on the wire, and testARemoteCommandRunsInTheHostsEnvironmentNotTheMacs from the child itself). The auth decision is in the design doc.
Host-key verification cannot prompt, and a mismatched key fails closed (testAMismatchedHostKeyFailsClosedWithoutAPrompt, under a second).

Not in this PR

Remote workrooms in the UI (Phase 4). Nothing in the app creates a remote pane yet (registerRemoteSession has no production caller), so the pane routing and reconnect are exercised by tests, not by a user.
Ending a remote session when its pane closes. Nothing on the service connection can ask the host's agent to, so the session is left running and reported as not killed. That belongs with the host's lifecycle.
Known residuals:
- A jj commit tells "committed, then failed" from "failed" by whether the op head moved, and a snapshot moves it too. This already happens locally, and the per-command barrier widens the gap on a remote host. The fix is to compare @- for jj's .commit mode.
- An agent older than CREATE=0 ignores it, so a restored pane on such a host can still get a fresh shell. Agent hand-off: execve upgrade that keeps every shell, local Mac first #230 and Remote bootstrap: push the Linux agent on first connect, hand off on version mismatch #231 keep the host's agent current.
- The remote agent assumes no controlling terminal. A wr-agent serve run by hand from an interactive shell could let a remote ssh prompt there until the exec times out.
Degraded until Remote bootstrap: push the Linux agent on first connect, hand off on version mismatch #231: TERM is xterm-256color, and there is no shell integration on the host, so the title and footer don't follow the shell.

Validation

HostStreamTests, 9, in CI. They cover the stream with no ssh: wr-agent relay carried over a socketpair.
- Mutation check: without the parent closing ssh's end of the pair, testACarrierThatDiesIsALostConnection fails.
RemoteHostIntegrationTests, 7, against the container over real ssh:
```
vcs/scripts/ssh-fixture/run.sh <aarch64 musl wr-agent> \
  make app-test APP_TEST_FLAGS=-only-testing:WorkroomAppTests/RemoteHostIntegrationTests
```
CI can't run these: the macOS runners have no Docker. CI covers the stream without ssh, and the ssh leg from Rust on the Linux runner.
Rust: a new host_environment test, and the full wr-agent suite, clippy (-D warnings) and rustfmt.
Full make app-test: 2943 passed, and make app-lint.
Mutation check on the panes. Without --no-create, a restored pane is handed a fresh session, and the ended-session test fails.
Mutation checks on the writes. Dropping barrier_root makes the jj barrier test fail (the commit took 0.17s instead of waiting). Dropping the host's stat makes the lock test fail (no path named).
A new SIGPIPE crash, found and fixed. The full suite first failed on testADroppedHandshakeStaysRecoverableRatherThanBecomingUnavailable. The test host was killed by SIGPIPE in about half its runs.
- Cause: the split moved SO_NOSIGPIPE after an async hop. On macOS, setsockopt fails once the peer has closed, so a peer that greeted and hung up first left the flag unset.
- Fix: the flag is now set when the socket is created. The test passed 6/6 on the old code and about 50% on the split before the fix.
An independent adversarial review was run, as macapp/CLAUDE.md requires, and a second pass verified the fixes. A third pass covered the writes and the SIGPIPE commit.
- Fixed from it: Reveal in Finder on a host's lock path; reads waiting on a long push's barrier; the barrier leaking into git's detached helpers; one bad path spoiling a whole stat; a debug trap; and wasted round trips.
- It confirmed with a C probe that only an already-reset client is dropped by the forward change.
- A fourth pass covered the panes. Fixed from it: ssh's escape character, the 255 ambiguity, a remote session id reaching local helpers on close, a failed remote attach opening a local shell, the create-check race, an unbounded reconnect loop, and a double reattach. It found no blocking defect on any path production reaches today. It found seven issues, all fixed here:
- std::env::vars() panics on a non-UTF-8 variable;
- the GIT_SSH_COMMAND override;
- a leaked stream if it was dropped before connecting;
- a shell startup banner surfacing as a raw protocol error;
- failure() racing ssh's stderr;
- HostKeyAlgorithms pinning SHA-1 ssh-rsa for an RSA key;
- the File probe's 2s timeout over ssh.
The second pass caught one bug the fixes introduced, a double close when ssh fails to launch, which is also fixed. It also confirmed the SIGPIPE cause with a C probe: setsockopt(SO_NOSIGPIPE) returns EINVAL once the peer has closed.

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New Features
- Added support for connecting to remote workrooms over SSH, including repository operations, file access, and terminal sessions.
- Remote commands use the host’s environment rather than inheriting settings from this Mac.
- SSH connections verify the host key provided for the remote host.
- Remote terminal sessions can reconnect after a dropped connection.
- Remote repository operations can report lock-file paths on the host.
Bug Fixes
- Restored terminal sessions that have ended now fall back to a shell instead of being recreated.
- Improved handling of disconnected connections to prevent app termination and stop forwarding when a connection safeguard cannot be set.

The first half of #229: the app's services reach a remote wr-agent through `ssh host wr-agent relay`, with the same connection, manager and router as a local agent. - HostDriver: create, deriveFromBase, destroy, openStream, plus the declared traits. Every driver must authenticate its peer to shell grade. - ContainerHostDriver: the first driver and the test fixture. openStream runs ssh with its own -F config and an empty environment: BatchMode, the pinned host key as the only known key, no agent or port forwarding, and ServerAliveInterval to bound a dead link. - HostStream: a socketpair whose other end is ssh's stdin and stdout. The connection owns it and ends ssh when it closes, and ssh exiting is the connection ending. A handshake that never completes is serviceUnavailable with what ssh or the relay said, not connectionLost. - AgentVCSConnection.connect splits into socket and stream paths. SO_NOSIGPIPE is now set when the socket is created: after the split's async hop, setsockopt failed on a peer that had already hung up, and the hello's send raised SIGPIPE. - No Mac environment reaches a remote exec request: it carries only policy pins and host_environment, and the agent builds the child's environment from its own, never setting GIT_SSH_COMMAND over a repository's core.sshCommand. - Writes to a remote host are refused by name until they have host-side failure probes and an agent-held jj barrier. - run.sh runs any command against the fixture, which now starts its agent with env -i. The design doc records the host-key policy, auth resolution and the shell-grade requirement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Three more sockets could raise SIGPIPE and kill the app when the peer hung up first, the same shape as the handshake crash fixed in the previous commit: - AgentControlClient.transact never set SO_NOSIGPIPE. - PersistentSessionControlClient.exchange wrote with no suppression at all. - A port forward set it after accept, and on a client that had already reset, setsockopt fails with EINVAL. The pump's first write then raised SIGPIPE. The two clients now set it right after socket(), before connect. The forward checks the setsockopt result and drops a client that is already gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Remote writes were refused because two parts of the write path were local-only. Both now reach the host, and every decision stays in the Swift writer (CLIVCSWriter). - The failure classifier's disk: it reads a repository's git directory to tell a parked rebase, a leftover lock or the last fetch. Its probes now read a RepositoryDisk: this Mac's (LocalDisk, as before) or a snapshot the host's agent reports through a new `stat` request, read after the command it explains. A lock file on a host is no longer offered for Reveal in Finder on the Mac. - The jj working-copy barrier: a Mac cannot flock a file on another host, so an exec request names the shared root (`barrier_root`) and the agent takes the barrier around that command, handing it to the child as it does for snapshots. It is per command, where the local gate holds it per operation; the design doc records that ceiling. Reads that cannot snapshot and network commands skip it. The write gate keys a remote repository by its remote location, and BoundLocalWriter binds a remote context only to a host-aware writer. Exec service version 3 carries host_environment, barrier_root and stat, and the app refuses a remote write to an older agent. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The second half of #229. A pane is a process libghostty spawns on its own pty, so it cannot use openStream's socketpair. A HostTerminalDriver hands it a command instead: for ssh, `ssh -t <host> 'env TERM=xterm-256color WORKROOM_SESSION_{ID,SOCKET,CWD}=... wr-agent attach --no-spawn [--no-create]'`, with EscapeChar none so `~.` is the user's. wr-agent attach: - --no-spawn: with no agent listening, a shell rather than a spawned agent. Only the supervisor starts one on a remote host. - --no-create (a restored pane): the attach request carries CREATE=0, and the agent refuses a session it does not hold instead of creating one. The client reads that answer before raw mode and its relay threads, and becomes a shell saying the session ended. One request, so the answer cannot go stale the way a separate ownership probe could. - A remote attach reports a session's own exit 255 as 254, so that 255 means ssh lost the link. App: - PersistentSessionService.registerRemoteSession routes a session to its driver: no local helper is probed about it or asked to kill it, and its pane carries no local session variables. A host that cannot be reached gets a pane that says so, not a shell on the Mac. - A remote pane whose ssh exits 255 reattaches as a restored pane, backing off to 30s and stopping after five quick failures so a permanent error stays on screen. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The change adds SSH-based remote host transport for app services and terminal panes. It adds remote VCS execution with host-side disk facts and JJ barriers, remote session attachment and reconnect handling, and integration tests using an SSH fixture.

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Remote host transport and sessions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SSH stream transport and host driver `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/HostDriver.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/ContainerHostDriver.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentVCSConnection.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentPortForwarding.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Session/`, `macapp/WorkroomAppTests/HostStreamTests.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomAppTests/RemoteHostIntegrationTests.swift`, `vcs/scripts/ssh-fixture/`, `docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md`	Adds host-driver contracts and an SSH-backed `ContainerHostDriver`. `HostStream` manages the relay process and socketpair; `AgentVCSConnection` negotiates services over that stream and ends its carrier on connection failure. The driver writes SSH configuration with a pinned host key and disables prompts and forwarding. Fixture tests cover service traffic, port forwarding, host-key rejection, and relay failures.
Remote VCS execution and disk facts `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentCommandRunner.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentVCSConnection.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/RepositoryDisk.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/RepositoryServices.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/StatusCommandRunner.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/VCSWriting.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/VCSSyncPresentation.swift`, `vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/{file.rs,vcs.rs}`, `macapp/WorkroomAppTests/{AgentVCSIntegrationTests.swift,AgentVCSProtocolTests.swift,RemoteHostIntegrationTests.swift,VCSSyncPresentationTests.swift}`, `docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md`	Remote exec requests use selected environment values and can include a JJ barrier root. The agent adds host-derived environment handling and a `stat` request. VCS classification reads local or remote disk facts, and lock-file presentation distinguishes host-side paths. Tests cover request encoding, barriers, remote VCS operations, and remote lock reporting.
Remote terminal session attachment `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/ContainerHostDriver.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/GhosttySurfaceView.swift`, `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Session/PersistentSessionService.swift`, `vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/{main.rs,serve.rs}`, `vcs/crates/wr-agent/tests/attach_falls_back_to_a_shell.rs`, `macapp/WorkroomAppTests/{HostStreamTests.swift,RemoteHostIntegrationTests.swift}`, `docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md`	Remote sessions delegate attachment to their host driver. The agent supports attachment without creating a missing session and without spawning an agent. The app retries remote SSH exits with code `255` using bounded backoff. Tests cover fallback shells, restored sessions, and reconnects.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant App
  participant ContainerHostDriver
  participant HostStream
  participant AgentVCSConnection
  participant wr-agent
  App->>ContainerHostDriver: Request remote service stream
  ContainerHostDriver->>HostStream: Start SSH relay
  HostStream->>AgentVCSConnection: Provide stream descriptor
  AgentVCSConnection->>wr-agent: Negotiate services
  wr-agent-->>AgentVCSConnection: Return service responses

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Issue #229 requires a terminal pane to survive transport loss, app restart, and laptop sleep while preserving the same child process and repainting the screen. The PR adds ContainerHostDriver, SSH-stdio services, host-environment isolation, pinned non-interactive host-key verification, forwarding, and reconnect handling. testARemotePaneSurvivesADroppedLinkAndReachesTheSameShell verifies the same shell after the link process is killed. The reviewed changes do not add automated app-restart or laptop-sleep coverage. The PR summary limits those paths to process-level coverage.

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🟡 Minor · State that a remote lock file must be removed on the host. · VCSSyncPresentation.swift:662-676

macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/VCSSyncPresentation.swift:662-676
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State that a remote lock file must be removed on the host.

This change hides lockPath for a lock file with isOnThisMac == false. explain(_:now:) does not check that flag. It still says "deleting the file is safe" and prints rm "<path>". commitRemedy(for:) has the same wording at Lines 780-788.

The tooltip and dialog present the command as one to run on this Mac. The design supports a remote repository and a local repository at the same path (see testSamePathRemoteHostsCannotSubstituteConnections). For a remote lock, a user can therefore run rm on the Mac and delete a live lock in a local repository. Add a host-qualified sentence when file.isOnThisMac is false, in both places.
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   static func explain(_ failure: VCSRemoteFailure, now: Date) -> String {
     guard case .locked(let file) = failure, let file else { return describe(failure) }
     let age = fullFormatter.localizedString(for: file.modifiedAt, relativeTo: now)
+    let removal =
+      file.isOnThisMac
+      ? "deleting the file is safe:\n\nrm \"\(file.path)\""
+      : "deleting it ON THE REMOTE HOST is safe. The path names nothing on this Mac."
     return """
       A leftover lock file is blocking git.
 
       \(file.path)
       Created \(age).
 
       A git command that was force-stopped leaves this behind. If no git command is running for this \
-      repository, deleting the file is safe:
-
-      rm "\(file.path)"
+      repository, \(removal)
       """
   }
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In `@macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/VCSSyncPresentation.swift` around lines 662 - 676,
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In `@macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/HostDriver.swift`:
- Around line 196-199: In the failure path, check `process.isRunning` and return
the timeout message before reading `process.terminationReason` or
`process.terminationStatus`; only evaluate `stoppedByUs` after the process has
stopped, then preserve the existing timeout and exit-status behavior.

In `@macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Session/PersistentSessionService.swift`:
- Around line 527-531: Update endSession to check whether sessionID is in
remoteSessions without removing its entry when the remote session remains
running; keep it registered so retries and attachCommand continue using remote
routing.

In `@vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/serve.rs`:
- Around line 388-396: In the attach flow, read `sessions.contains(id)` once and
reuse that result for both the `AttachRequest::existing_only` refusal and the
`attach()` versus `create_then` decision. This ensures an existing-only request
cannot fall through to creating a new session if the session ends between
checks.

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In `@macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/VCSSyncPresentation.swift`:
- Around line 662-676: Update explain(_:now:) and commitRemedy(for:) to
distinguish remote lock files from local ones: when file.isOnThisMac is false,
clearly state that removal must happen on the remote host and that the path does
not identify a file on this Mac; retain the existing local-removal guidance for
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docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentCommandRunner.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentPortForwarding.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentVCSConnection.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/ContainerHostDriver.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/GhosttySurfaceView.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/HostDriver.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/RepositoryDisk.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/RepositoryServices.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Session/AgentControlClient.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Session/PersistentSessionControlClient.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Session/PersistentSessionService.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/StatusCommandRunner.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/VCSSyncPresentation.swift
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/VCSWriting.swift
macapp/WorkroomAppTests/AgentVCSIntegrationTests.swift
macapp/WorkroomAppTests/AgentVCSProtocolTests.swift
macapp/WorkroomAppTests/HostStreamTests.swift
macapp/WorkroomAppTests/RemoteHostIntegrationTests.swift
macapp/WorkroomAppTests/VCSSyncPresentationTests.swift
vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/file.rs
vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/main.rs
vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/serve.rs
vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/vcs.rs
vcs/crates/wr-agent/tests/attach_falls_back_to_a_shell.rs
vcs/scripts/ssh-fixture/entrypoint.sh
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The PR adds an SSH-backed host driver that carries agent services and remote repository writes, plus remote terminal attachment and reconnection. It also adds host-side disk probes and a jj write barrier. The change since the previous review guards access to a carrier process’s termination status. The previous session-routing finding is resolved: remote registration remains in place after endSession.

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flowchart LR
  App[Mac app] --> Driver[HostDriver]
  Driver --> SSH[SSH stream]
  SSH --> Agent[Remote wr-agent]
  Agent --> Services[VCS, File, Status, Forward]
  Agent --> Disk[Host disk and jj barrier]
  App --> Pane[Terminal pane]
  Pane --> Attach[SSH attach]
  Attach --> Agent

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`make app-lint` (the CI gate) flagged line lengths and wrapping in three files that per-file lint runs had passed. Formatter output only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- A remote jj command's request deadline now covers the up-to-30s barrier wait the agent does before starting it, so a slow barrier cannot turn a finished command into an unknown outcome. - Ending a remote session keeps its registration: the session still runs on its host, and without it a retry went to the local agent and a reattach opened a new session on the Mac. - The agent reads `sessions.contains` once for an attach, so a session that exits between the `--no-create` check and the choice to create cannot be created. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

HostStream.failure() read terminationReason before checking isRunning. Foundation raises an Objective-C exception for a process not yet reaped, which Swift cannot catch, so a carrier still exiting when the wait gave up would crash the app. From review on #237. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- A remote jj command's request deadline now covers the up-to-30s barrier wait the agent does before starting it, so a slow barrier cannot turn a finished command into an unknown outcome. - Ending a remote session keeps its registration: the session still runs on its host, and without it a retry went to the local agent and a reattach opened a new session on the Mac. - The agent reads `sessions.contains` once for an attach, so a session that exits between the `--no-create` check and the choice to create cannot be created. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…raw-mode test Since #237 the attach client enters raw mode only after the agent answers its attach, which is after the session registers. The test wrote `echo ready` in that window, the still-cooked terminal echoed it locally, and `ready` matched that echo, so the ECHO/ICANON/ISIG flags were read before raw mode was entered. Failed master CI on Linux (f1951d9). The marker is now `$((1+1))`-computed, so only the shell can print it, and the shell receives the line only once the client relays stdin, which it starts after entering raw mode. Proven with a temporary 500 ms delay before `RawMode::enter`: the old test fails at the same assertion, the new one passes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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style(macapp): swift-format the remote host changes

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`make app-lint` (the CI gate) flagged line lengths and wrapping in three files that per-file lint runs had passed. Formatter output only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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